Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1899-03-30
ESTABLISHED IN 1852.
The Largest Paint Factory in the
World.

The largest Paint Manufacturing
Company in the world is F. W. Devoe
Il Co. of New York and Chicago.
This great Paint firm is also the old
est Mercantile firm in America being
established in l752-One Hundred
and Forty six years ago. While their
great offices and sale rooms are in
New York and Chicago. they occu-
py a very large five story building
consisting Of eighteen regular sized
store rooms on the ground floor in
Brooklyn, where they have their
Mixed Paints, Dry Colors, and Whit
ing Factory. In New York they occu-
large fine story building consisting
Of Fifteen store rooms on the ground
floor where they manufacture Paint
Brushes Of all kinds and all kinds Of
artists materials. Their large warm
ish factory is located in Newark, Nd,
and also another large Paint factory
in Chicago. This well known firm
does an immense business amounting
to many millions Of dollars annually.
They manufacture nothing but strict
ly first class goods, and warrant every
article that leaves their factories, any
body seeing an article of this line
with the name Of +. W. Devoe n Go.
on it may rest assured that the arti-
Gle is all right and that responsible
firm is back Of it.
They guarantee every article
that bears the name of +. W. Devoe
4 Co. In their Paint department,
they manufacture every article that
goes in it from the crude state, so they
know what their paints contain and
in this way are not imposed upon by
other factories, who might possibly
furnish them an inferior or adulter-
ated article.
Their fine tube paints are acknowl-
ed by the best artists in the world as
superior to any other manufacture,
also their complete line OF all artists
materials. Many complaints have
|sbeos made>by artists Of the thin con-
dition OF many tube paints made by
foreign makers. All Of this trouble
has been overcome by Deyoe.& Co. so
that now they enjoy the fruits of
their many years Of labor and careful
study in this regard and have produc-
ed paint, which by their system is
acknowledged by the best artists that
for its firm consistency and iineness
Of texture surpasses that Of any other
manufacture.
Their output Of Prepared House
Paints is enormous and on every
can there is painted guarantee
which reads: "If you have any fault
whatever to find with this paint at
any time, either now in the painting
or after in the wearing tell your deal
ers about it. We authorize him to
do what is right at our expense. But
do yourself and us the justice to fol-
low instructions. They surely have
great confidence in their house Paints
to make guarantee Of this kind as
their paints are handled by thousands
OF merchants thousands Of miles from
the factories.
on their large list ofdiiierent colors
Of house paints it would require quite
large capital to handle all Of them
and also quite large building.
So to provide against this they
have telegraph code which places
every one Of their dealers in close
communication with their factories
or warehouses that they may draw
on their immense stock without any
delay, as there are several shades OF
each color, each color is numbered.
For instance, a dealer wishes but one
gallon Of a straw yellow color he
would step in the nearest telegraph
office and send this message. "Ycast