Evening star., 1898-05-25
INCREASE OF FACILITIES
HaVenner Baking Company to Erect an Ad-
dltional Building.
Total Frontage Of Two Hundred and
Thirty Feet-GrOwth of Wash.
fngtOn Industries.

Workmen are engaged in removing four
OLD buildings on the south side of street
between 4la and 9th streets northwest, and
on the site it is proposed by the Havenner
Baking Company to erect a large building
in order to furnish additional accommoda-
tions for their business of making bread
and crackers.
The property, which was recently pur-
chased by the Havenner Company from
the Kimnel estate, has frontage Of $50
feet on street by an average depth of
135 feet. The price paid was $35, 200, which
is at the rate of about 81. so per square foot.
Adjoining on the west is the large three
story building, which is now occupied by
the business carried on by this company.
1t is proposed to erect on the new site a
structure similar in height and design to
that of the present building, so that when
the work is completed the company will
have business house with a total 'front.'
age of 23O feet. 1t will be one of the larg-
est, 1t not the largest, manufacturing es-
tablishment in the city, and Is the result of
policy of expansion which has been kept
steadily in view by the members of the
firm, which Is composed of Mr.. Edward
Graves and Mr.. Benjamin s. Graves.
The Cracker Department..
1t is the intention to remove the bread
making part Of the business into the new
vote the whole of the present structure
to the manufacture of crackers or biscuit,
as it is generally termed in the trade.
Already the company supplies a large
proportion of the local trade In crackers,
and in addition their product is sold in
various parts of the country. Owing in
part to the development Of this part of
their trade, and in order to obtain the
needed facilities for meeting the increas-
ing demands, the addition to the present
establishment was decided upon.
1t may not be uninteresting to know that
this company is supplying the bread and
hardtack which is being used at Camp
Alger. Recently it sent out to the camp
six tons of hard tack and are daily sup
plying some 5000 loaves of bread.
Manufacture of Flags.
1t was not long ago noted in The Star
that the flags used by ths army Of the
United States at all the posts throughout
this country, as we'll as at the front, are
made by the firm Of M. G. Copeland & Co.
of this city, while much of the leather ac-
coutrements of the soldiers of the army is
made in this city at the shops of ]. S. Top
ham.
In the opinion of many citizens these and
other instances which might be mentioned
show that there is in progress marked de-
yelopment of the manufacturing interests
of the city, and that there is every likeli-
lines. A great many people who nave given
this subject considerable thought believe
there is no phase OF the material interests
of the city as important as the growth Of
its manufactures. 1t is believed in this way
there will not only be a substantial increase
in the population, but that the resources Of
the city will be placed on firmer basis.
Former Police Court.
In connection with the announcement
made above of the removal of the four old
buildings c street to make room for the
new structure for the of the Havenner
Baking Company, it will be recalled by the
cider residents of the city that one of these
buildings was occupied for some time by
the Police Court, and there the late Judge
Smell administered justice to petty offenders
ing. which is a foLr-story structure, was
used for hotel purposes and was managed
by old Mr.. Kimmel, in whose estate the
property has remained until the recent
transfer.
1t is also a matter of history that the
founder of the Havenner Company started
in business more than three-quarters of
century ago in a small building which occu-
plsd a portion of the site upon which the
present establishment stands. This was
thomas Havenner, a native of Prince
Georges county, Md, who came here when
the city was in its infancy and established
the business which has remained in the
family ever since, and is now carried on by
two of the nephewS