Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1900-07-04
company handles from $4,000 to $4,000

their stock OF glazed and unglazed
window sash, glazed and paneled doors
Of all descriptions, all of which they
carry an imense stock. On this floor,
too, we find full stock Of garden and
farm tools, also their surplus stock OF
house furnishing goods and tinware.
This floor has altogether 2,400 square
feet floor space.
Now we will mount to the floor
above. This is their sales and show
room for cooking and heating stoves,
steel ranges and gas ranges, gas and
gasoline summer stoves. In fact ev-
erything in the wav of stoves. We
are told by Mr.. Hagan that since the
Introduction OF natural gas into Ma
rletta, which was about 1889, that
they have sold about 1,100 heating
stoves and 900 Reliable Gas Ranges.
This record can't be beaten. Here al
so they show full line of "New
Home" sewing machines,also others of
cheaper grade. They give manu-
facturer's twenty-five year guarantee
with every New Home sold. A full
line of high grade refrigerators is al
so kept on this floor and many fine
patterns of linoleum.
Now let's board the elevator and
drop to the basement. Here we find
stack upon stack of glass as far as the
eye can see almost. Glass in small
sizes, glass in large sizes, glass cut to
your order in any size. Then there is
white lead and oil, ropes and pumps
(their sale of pumps Is enormously,
bar iron and steel, fire brick and fire
clay, horse shoes and stove castings,
nails of all sizes and even milk bottles
(by the way, you would be surprised
to know how many of these milk
bottles they sell. We can't tell you
just the number, but know it to be
enormously Then there's a little cor
ner in this basement, fitted up as a
shop for gas fitting. They couple up
all their own gas ranges, and many
more besides.
Now we will Cup stairs and cross
through covered way to the bicycle
repair shop, in the annex. Here at
one end is an enormous 80 horse pow
er boiler, which furnishes them
steam for their engine, steam heat fol
their entire establishment, and will
soon furnish heat for the new Masonic
Building. The engine Is 25 horse
horse power Westinghouse, which be-
side furnishing power for all their ma
chinery, also runs dynamo, which
furnishes the lighting for the entire
establishment, both arc and incandes
cent. Right here we wish to mentor
a rather unique air pump, which
pumps air through a long tube to thu
front of the building, where it is OF
tap for anyone wishing to initiate hi!
bicycle tires. The bicycle repair shop
a room 20 by GA feet under the fore
manship of Norvill Morris, is supplied
with all modern conveniences and ma
chinery for the repairing of bicycles
The rest of this floor is taken up will
their metal working shop, of whi a
Chas. Hagan is foreman. Here the!
work up out of tin, iron and cope
almost anything one sees fit to order
They make specially OF roofing an
spouting, also cornice work, they hav
ing the largest cornice break in thi
section OF the country. This room
20 by go feet. Right off from it
their enameling oven, for the enamel
ing OF bicycles and castings.
In the lower floor we find thei
paint shop and room for storage O
surplus stock, also a full line G
barbed, plain and woven fence wire
poultry wire and galvanized scree
wire. Here also they keep a lare
stock of spouting, having recently re
l ceiyed $4,000 feet in one shipmen
r They have complete line of step lac
ders ON this floor also.
Aside from this main establishmer
they recently erected on Third stree
warehouse for farming machiner
y and surplus stock. This is a thre'
d story frame structure 25 feet o
e Third street and extending back II
feet. The basement floor of tn
building is used for the storage
American and German Portland C
ment, plaster of paris and surpl'
), stock of window sash and doors. I'll
h main floor is used partly for stablir
their delivery teams,the remainder b
ing devoted to the display OF Cham
ion binders and mowers, for Whit
they are the distributing agents +
: this section. They also handle Il
l. Perfection Chilled Plow.