The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-12-08
ITS PULSE IS STRONG
LOCAL JoBBING TRADE HAS FULL
ARTERIES AND A GOOD
MOVEMENT.
DEMAND ON LOCAL HOUSES
CONTINUES STRONG, ALTHOUGH
THE SPRING TRADE IS NOT
YET DUE.
FACTORIES ARE ENLARGING.
A Number of Local Concerns Plan
Additions to Their Plants
Imme diateIy.
DEMAND ON LOCAL HOUSES
ARE ENLARGING.
FACTORIES


of the wholesale and manufacturing
business of ST. Paul at present Is the
general report Of the jobbers that Or
ders continue coming in in way sur
prising and almost unprecedented at
this season of the year. The orders for
spring goods have not yet fairly open
ed, yet they come in such volume that
the manufacturers and jobbers in some
lines are rushed to fill them.
AS illustrative of this, George w.
Freeman. of Gotzian & Co., reports
that that concern usually shuts down
it's factory or runs it on small force
for a few weeks or month at TINS
season of the year, but this fall it has
been running steadily and will continue
to do so with the exception of a couple
of days next week when it will slow
down to take inventory. The spring
orders are coming in at an unprece-
dented rate.
Guiterman Bros say that they have
now fully recovered from the effects of
their recent fire, which caused them to
shut down for two weeks making neces-
sary repairs, and they are now run
ming with full force again, having
started UP in all departments Mon
day. They expect to continue without
further interruption through the win
ter.
J. II. Arthur, of Arthur & Sternberg,
announces that they are charging their
factory to take on other lines, having
concluded to manufacture their own
pants, overalls, duck coats, shirts, etc,
all of which garments will bear their
well known trademark, THE Leader"
1t was only last January that Arthur
& Sternberg decided to start a factory
and the project met with such success
that they were obliged to increase
their force twice during the year to
keep up with orders.
c. H. Kellogg, of Kellogg, Johnson &
Co., reports that their trade is better
than for several years past; in fact.
the demand is better than it has been
since 1881, while in some lines, notably
rubber goods and warm goods, trade
has never eQualed that of the past few
months Their concern is now putting
IN a neW-the Plant line-of women's
goods for next season. There will be
some changes in styles by next spring.
but not radical departures: the CHANGES
are not so abrupt as they were q few
years ago, for which the retailer is
duly thankful. Probably one cause as
much as any other for the failures of
couple OF years ago was because of
thls; dealer would order q LOT Of
Soods which would not move rapidly.
and the first thing he knew his shelves
would be filled with an unsaIeahIa
stock. VIC
Z. j. Towle, OF the Towle Svr,,n
In pdHE' say that the orders continue
20 isS, milng IN for their famous Log Cab
~ ~ HdpIe syrup. They have been ad-
Ver'1slbg 1t liberal y through the nress
by exhibits at all the state Fairs and
ticed. - Ho-
Ire wholesale millinery firm OF Rob
inson, Strauss G, Co. are about to 70
move from their old quarters on Third
street to the splendid store building
a. -L'.2L' ha"t ourth street. formerly
OCCUPIED by kuhl & Cummings. TIE
exterior has bean nicely renovated ana
handsome and effective The interior
i!turgs viii some be in place, and wter.
Lalfly removed and settled, Robinson
strauss & Co. Will possess the fire +
wholesale millinery store in the North
west
Cider apples are coming in slowly"
was the comment Of S. G. Gray. The
tlouble is that the apples are sci ing too
y16
Pie care to convert them into cider.
there is bound to be a change. however
WITHIN very few weeks. for a number
OF carloads which were shipped in here
late were caught by the frost and will
In time be brought to the cider press
In the meantime business is rather
dull"
The name of Fairbanks, Morse G. Co.
IS instantly suggested with scales, for
1t was with this commodity that the
concern became famous, starting in a
small way down at St Johnsbury. VT.
number Of years ago Capt. Faux
ner, the manager Of the st. Panl
branch, informed a Globe reporter
yesterday that the scale MANUFACTURES
is but small portion of the business
of the company now; their six factor
les, located in different parts of the
country, turn out engines, windmills.
water tanks, standpipes, waterwork
outfits, electric lighting plants. railway
baggage trucks, etc. The St. Paul
branch has done a thriving business
the past summer in the building of
WateIworks, among them being tie
ones at Franklin, Adams, Glencoe, Ma
bel. Cottonwood. Wadena, Sleepy Eve
and Delavan. Within the past two Or
three weeks the contracts have also
been secured for waterworks at Fair
mont and Mountain Ircn. From four to
eight crews have been kept out all sum-
mer, and although the season is draw
ing to close there are seven crews
out now.
ANOTHER WOMAN ASSAULTED.
Mrs. w. III. Smith, of Pleasant Ave-