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BANKS And
TRUST COS
SOLID AND CONSERVATIVE
ONE HUNDRED MILLIONS IN
\ CREASE CLEARlNGS FOR THE
I YEAR.
A REMARKABLE ADVANCE IN
BANK AND TRUST COMPANY
STOCKS AND LARGE INCREASE
IN CAPITAL.

The banks of st. Louis are widely known
as being the most solid financial institu-
tions in the United States In periods Of
financial depression they have been firm
and safe, and even in the great panic of
1898 none OF them gave any indication of
weakness, nor did any of their customers
lose confidence in them.
In banking and financial matters no one
other city In the world has had so great
a growth as has St. Louis during the
past few years. No other country has
grown so rapidly as has the United States
since our war with Spain. and no other
city has made such progress in financial
matters as has st. Louis. We never knew
until the last few years how many rich
men there were in st. Louis. In the last
few years we have found that st. Louis
has among her citizens gentlemen who
were capitalists, such, as they only have
in financial centers like New. York, Lon
don and Paris. whose entire time is taken
up with investing their money in great
enterprises
Until the past few years every bank
in St. Louis has either added largely to
its capital or has accumulated an enor-
NOUS surplus. Some banks have con-
more powerful than the two older ones.
Every bank in st. Louis has not only
paid a good dividend. but has added to
sts surRius The stock Of IF bank IT
a single exception. Investments in every
bank have been profitable, and in the
largest bank IN st. Louis, which is sc
conservative that it ought to increase
steadpyS the stock has gone UP. with o
rapidity that would seem impossible.
In 1894 the clearings, as shown by tht
report of Manager Stoddart of the St
Louis Clearing House Association, wa:
81, To2, ,906. In 1900 the clearings were
81, ,6SS.s49. .494, which was an increase o.
about one hundred millions every year.
st. Louis has nineteen banks and sever
trust companies, and they have to-day
paid-up capital of over s25,000,00o, and ;
surplus of more than s1I,0oo,000
st. Louis has seven large trust com
panies, and they have been even NOR
successful than the banks. The stool
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shipment to the western and southwest

shipment to the Western and Southwest
ern territory.
Not only is this distributing market
for rough and ribbed glass. but we also
have here one of the largest manufac-
tories in the country Of rough and ribbed
glass. as we'll as colored glass.
OF bottle factories we have several. and
their annual output is very large we
have three or four factories which make
looking glasses, and one of them silvers
in the old way by the use of mercury,
which Is more expensive. but better. ana
It is the only factory in the country whlch
uses the old way of silvering glass by
mercury.
There is also company that manufac-
lures ornamental glass of every descrip-
| ton, and glass for memorial and antique
| figure windows. and also makes spe-
| cialty of sand-blasting shipping, acld
work, wheel-cutting, heveling. coloring
plate-g glass and flocentne rough and art
= stained glass
| The glass business has steadily grown
| in recent years. and 1t is now one OF the
| great distributing centers of the country.
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DRY GOODS
FIVE MAMMOTH ESTABLISH
MENTS IN ST. LOUIS.
SALES AMOUNT TO FIFTY MIL
LION A YEAR.
A Market for the Product of South
ern Cotton-An Open Market Free
From Combinations to Hold
Prices.

The FIVE large iobbng dry goods houses
of st. Louis, with capital of fifteen mil
lions, sold fifty millions dollars worth of
goods in 1900, shipping these goods to ev-
cry State and Territory in the United
States except the extreme Eastern cities
and making this city one of the three
largest distribution points in the world
These five houses are noted for the enor-
nous amount of stock always cacried by
them. and equal to that carried anywhere
No order for dry goods from the retailers
of this country Is ever So large that 1t
cannot be promptly filled.
ST. Louis is essentially market for the
products of Southern cotton goods. The
Southern cotton mills look to st. Louis as
q market for their goods and no one of
them ever came here who could not sell
their goods. Our merchants always take
them. and are always ready to give lit
tie more than elsewhere.
Notwithstanding the large number of
dry goods drummers on the road St.
Louis dry goods men are not dependent
on the road for sales. and the bulk of
these sales is made to customers who
come direct to the market. These pur-
chasers come here in droves in the fall
and spring: and they are close-calculating
sharp traders. who come to this city be
cause they can get better terms than else.
where. These men know that St. Louis is
an open market. free from any combina.
! lion or agreement by the jobhers to hole
| prices. They know that each and every
| jobber is in competition with the other
and that the buyers get the benefit.
| For fifteen years, in bad times as wei
as good times, there has been sure anC
steady increase in the dry goods sales o
| this city, and the general prospects of 1870
promises an equally steady but more rapit
| increase
| One year and a half ago a new DIR!
goods house started. 1t was not composed
Of men outside OF St. Louis, but was th
| natural outgrowth of existing conditions
This new house made the marvellous rec
ord of selling six and one-half millions o
goods in the first year of its existence
and vet the other four jobbing houses ais
showed a steady increase. and were Il
no wise dismayed by the addition of sucl
a vigorous compettor. This new hons
had an increase for the first six month
of 1901 of over a million dollars in sale
over the first six months of 1900 and We
the older houses continued to make tn
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MILLIONS OF GALLONS IN OIL.
st. Louis the Fountain Head for the
Distribution of Oil.

The location of S., Louis makes it the
fountain head from which is distributed
shipped to the West and Southwest, and
one large oil concern here has large
plants for storing and shipping in maay
cities Of Old Mexico.
The amount Of oil shipped from St.
Louis is almost beyond belief And the
millions Of gallons of oil shipped from
ST. Louis goes 20 the numerous small
towns in the West, Southwest and Old
Mexico. wnere thsy are stored and dis
tributed on smaller scale, just as is done
at the fountain head in st. Louis.
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PICKLES AND
PRESERVED
The Manufacture Of Pickle
st. Louis Industry

The five lacge wholesale
deal In pickles and vinegar al
fruits, have developed quite
for the unusual excellence OF
st. Louis Is an enormous mar
les. There is one large house
amount to many a million de-
1t buys the raw material f
of Missouri and Illinois. an
tures them here. The bus.~
house has grown most rapid
few years, and now 1t has
plant with up-to-date ma
electric plant. Its bushes
every State and Territory q
and it is remarkable that II i
market in Chicago. New No-
pnia and Baltimore. The
large quantities to Mexico, Al
traveller who covers South ~
The pickles, preserved ifdlt
gar made by the large $ i
sale firms are a credit II \:
their goods are a credit l
and all who handle them, Eh
are noted for the fair de Y
Louis-made pickles and pls-
are famous for their quall
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dies the raw material and the consumer.
This new line of business which manu-
features wooden clothing. handling the
various processes of manufacture until
1t reaches the mans back is chiefly rep
resented here by large company which
has recently come here from Kentucky.
and which has recently been reorganized
with a capital of $l200,O00, and incor
porated under the laws of Missouri, and
from the marvellous success of this COM
pany we can confidently expect that It
will no; long remain the only house in
st. Louis in this line of business.
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STEEL AND IRON JAILS.
st. Louis Makes Jails for Canada and
Mexico.

An industry that has made the city Of
st. Louis known In every city IN 'he
United States is the manufacture OF steel
and iron iails. st. Louis was the hrst
place in the manufacturing OF steel and
iron cells, and II still leads the world
in this line It sells Jails throughout
the United States and in Canada ana
Mexico. 80. a,
which the cells were made of steel and
iron. that the increase in this business
has been very rapid, st. Louis built the
institution that confines criminals near
the 6ity Of Mexico. It has also built the
penitentiary at Atlanta, Ca. and filled
many orders for Federal institutions
St Louis has a large concern tnat
makes a speciality Of steel ana ron celis'
constructlng the ertire building II desired,
and It has no side branch to this indus
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A MARKET FOB Shoe,
THE'LARGEST SHOE MANUfbC
TURING CITY IN THE
WORLD.
TWENTY LARGE CONCERN
HAVE FROM ONE TO THREE \
FACTORIES EACH.
New Houses Spring UP Every Fear
Unexcelled for Wearing ou4li-
ties as Well as Style and
Finish.

Unquestionably this Is the large 1
manufacturing city in the world. Two
large houses, whose sales amour Il
$4,000 to s6,000,000 year. sell $1,000
worth of shoes to every country IN
world, and besides these twenty Ia
houses, who all belong to the st T.r
Shoe Clearing House. there are e,
many small factories. One tf3ls
travelling men travel and sell ST II
made shoes In every country on Aal
and one house employs a man who
we have more than ten million ioI
invested in the shoe manufacturlng b
ness, and every one OF the twenty Ia
concerns have from one to three er
nous factories. employing more tran
900 people.
The Increase in the manufacture
shoes here is simply enormous. We
going ahead at a rate which Is approa
ed by no other city. The Increase in
sales of goods In 1901 has been an
crease of 80 1-3 per cent on the sales
1900 to the present rate. New houses
enormous size have sprung UP In tha ;
two or three years, and these new hol
do not represent people from other "
but they are owned and CONTROLS
men who have left other st. Louis ho.I
they have literally sprung UP. 81
taneously, in our midst, showing ths
limited opportunities offered here IN
| line of business.
These large houses are contl-I
| building new factories. Several inHj
| manufacturing establishments hau
/ Gently been completed. and to-day Il
are five large plants in the couMl
1t is easy to see why this is sui
| great shoe city. The shoe merchall
| st. Louis, knowing that shey haW'
unrlvalled location and marvellous
| road facilities, have unanimously
! bined to make this city the shoe h
ket Of the world. They work togett4
| make st. Louis a market withow
| narrow-mi or the display n
many petty jealousies shown by
business people. Their aim Is to hi
world know that the brand, ~r II
"made In st. Louis will be a sF
excellency and good wear, and they
agreed that In all their ADVERTISE
the words made in st. Louis" sh
most prominent.
The shoe people of st. Louis ady{
more than any other set of peopf
they advertise st. Louis as well al
Individual firms. They show q 4
spirit and pride in their city and aH
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rearer controlling the output of Southern
lumber than any other lumber marker, l,,,,
Probably no year ever opened UP Will WIZ.
as bright prospects as does 1901. Ihe
Fair is an assured fact for 1903, and hg-
uring on building which has been IN apey-
srce until this question was settled, nas
already begiIn An immense amount OF
locai construction has been planned for
tie coming year, and st. Louis VIII un.
dtrgo a material growth during the next
three years.
st, Louis leads the world In the mat
ter of systematic hardwood lumber IN,
spection. The St Louis Hardwood anG
Lumber Marufa cturers' Exchange mas
evolved a system of impartial inspec-
ton which is so thorough and COM
prehensive in Its character that other
cities and lumber organizations are fol-
lowing In its footsteps.
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THREE MILLION POUNDS
OF PRINTING INK.
The Highest Grades Manufactured

The manufacture of printing and litho-
graphic inks and varnishes is an enormous
Industry in the Worlds Fair City. There
is one concern that manufactures three
million pounds of ink every year, which,
at eight pounds to the gallon. would
make 100000 gallons, and which has just
completed a new factory equipped with
the latest and most improved machinery
obtainable. and the output Of which is
only equaled by two other factories in
this country. The st. Louis manufact-
urers of printing and photographic ink
cover everything west to the Pacific
coast and thoroughly work every part
OF the country except the New England
States.
They make speciality of high-grade
inks, the prices ranging from 1 cents to
S32 pound.
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PATENT BREAK BEAMS.
st. Louis the Great Distributing
Point for the West and
Southwest

Within the past five years the brake
beam industry has increased, until now
ST. Louis is the great distributing point
beams are made in St. Louis by a ST..
Louis concern. and the brake beams
made by people of St. Louis are vir-
tually the only ones used in the West
and Southwest This is due to the loca-
tion of this city. The freight on brake
beams made in other cities is so great
that they cannot compete with those
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W00LEN MILLS.
From Sleeps Back to Mans Back.

TIE wooden mills industry Is a new one
in st. Louis that is rapidly developing.
The large woolen mills In Louisville and
Mayfied. KY are now. being moved TO
this city, and when that is completed
we shall have the largest and most thriv-
ing establishment OF the kind in the
country. There will then be concern
the cloth. finish IT. and make general
line of clothing, which will be unique, and
virtually without competition, furnishing
exclusive patterns and fabrics. and oc-
will occupy an entire block. The raw
material enters one door and the finished
goods comes out another. to be distributed
in every State In the Union, and having
but one man between the one who ham
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BIG GLASS BUSINESS.
Great Distributing Market for Plate
Glass.

for both plate and window glass and for
rough and ribbed glass, and for looking
glasses. No window glass is made in ST
Louis, but plateg is made close to ST
Louis, at Crystal City, where the present
production Is over one million and half
feet of plate glass every year This plant
IS g. branch Of the largest plate-glass con-
dIstributins @ M warehouss use In ST tn fn9is I2t9os fos
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same steady and sure increase of former
years.
The buildings occupied by these large
dry goods concerns are in keeping with
the extent of theie business. and are
among the most magnificent on Washing
| ton avenue, and in these mammouth mer-
camille establishments one meets buyers
| from Utah. from Ohio from North Da-
4 kota and from Texas
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sarily made It one of tEe great primary
grain markets Of the world ST Louis
els of corn, wheat and oats 10 Europe
every year, making this the greatest ex-
porting industry in ST Louis, and max
ing st. Louis grain famous all over the
continent of FIroDe.
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CIGARS.
The Greatest Distributing
the West.

st. Louis is the creates
point for cigars IN the W 81
sold over forty million cisa
three other large concerns
as many. All the Eastera.'
that go to the West and ~
sold by st. Louis firms.
Two OF the four largest ~
have factories for maxim
certain of their brands have
wide and lasting reputation
several hundred small coneaF
together, employ about W.
whom belong to the. Cigar
ion, and who do an immellll'se,, NJ,
But it is chiefly as dis trllu. !,
out the West and Souti"D
made in the East that mar
so prominent III the cigsr y y
while it is impossible 10 &c, &c
amount, the number OF elei ei
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is perfectly enormous.
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made In st. Louis Besides. the superior
quality of the patent and the excellence
OF the work, make the St, Louis product
the favorte brake beam with the rail-
road and car companies.
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rap,dIy growing in the past three years.
THE older concerns have built new iac.
tories, and In the past year another hrse
factory has been built by new hrIh'
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Evening journal., 1901-12-20
RRAINs IN ADVERTIsING

We don't ordinarily take valuable
space to talk about ourselves. but a
word may not be amiss today. We
greet you with an edition OF fourteen
pages, and it might have been stretch
ed, with little effort TO twenty. We
do not believe in corpulency, when it
consists in mere blubber, but solid flesh
and bono Is another matter. We have
made no strenuous appeal to adver-
tisers; we have not wasted paper and
ink in begging the merchants 10 re-
gard their salvation, and incidentally
our own, by taking space with ms. They
seem to have certain ideas on the sub
ject. and we are glad TO notice ulat
they include advertising in the Even
ing Journal as a necessary factor in
their progress. We haven't any stale
ccck-and-bull story of how this paper
reacnes all the people who buy goods,
or that it should be used as a medium
to the exclusion OF other papers. just
as the honest merchant desires TO see
his neighbor thrive, so we wish to wit
ness the prosperity of our rivals in the
newspaper business. All the buyers
cannot be reached by one paper, but
they can be reached by less number
than eight, It Is merely a business
proposition to say ahat three or four
papers In the city cover the whole field;
and perhaps a broad, general scheme Of
advertising should not comprehend a
field less in extent. But it may not be
amiss to say 10 our merchants That
many of them spend considerable
sum annually which brings no adequate
returns. and this is charged to The ac-
count that goes to discredit newspaper
advertising. This is worthy of Thought
in making plans for the new year Tho
Evening Journal in its advertising de
sires TO give value received, and the
persistent advertising Of our leading
merchants is an evidence that we ar,
doing This.
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QUO VADIs9

Some of these days after the Street
and Sewer Commissioners get the mat
ter of their bonds Strengthened out.
and have a leisure moment during
which they may long for something to
do, we recommend That they consider
the matter Of proper signs to mark the
streets of our city. Perhaps there Is
no great need for hurry in the mat
ter, but il is well to remember That
this is a city practically without this
mark Of progress.
There are nailed to certain walls the
rusty and crumbling remains of those
tin labels which a few years ago were
scanned by the stranger within our
gates but now each of these retains,
at best. one or two defacol letters to
puzzle the traveller. and cause him to
wonder whether these were ever new.
or were found when the city was first
laid ouh OF course, if it Is held that
street signs are not needed then will
mlngton may rejoice that She is eX-
empt from the contractor who engages
in this kind of work But II, on the
other hand, these are deemed neces-
sary in well-regulated modern city,
then at the leisure moment indicated,
the matter should receive due atten-
tion. It may be said that it has not
been long since a considerable sum was
expended for this purpose; well, the
man who buys a cheap suit OF clothes.
and it wears out is compelled to getan-
olher. And so 1t may be with these
signs.
In towns where There are two streets
this and "the other" and where
we are directed to the first house from
the Methodist church just around the
corner, street signs are luxury. But
we are getting to be a large city. and
in few years-perhaps within the
next decade-we shall reach the 100.
600 mark. For the convenience OF the
stranger, and often of the native. There
should be permanent signs at all
crossings, and these should be of sucH
nature that they may be easily read
at night AT the proper time. and af
ter the bonds are found, or new one.
given, let this matter have attention.
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HoLInAY SHOPPING

There is no surer indication of the
state Of general prosperity than the
holiday shopping. There are several
more days during which there will be
heavy purchasing. but the sales to the
present moment Indicate that the total
holiday trade will exceed that of any
previous year There are very few
families in the city which will feel to
any great degree the pinch Of want
during this season OF rejoicing, as al
most everyone of industrious habits
has remunerative employment.
IL is an old rule applicable TO the
most Of humanity that what we make
we spend, and almost every dollar that
the shops. the mills and the stores nav
out for labor goes Immediately into
circulation and Is turned over again
and again. What we need is not a
greater sum per capita. but a nimble
dollar. that passes from hand to hand
and pays a dozen debts. when il might
rest in some vault. becoming discol-
ored for want OF use. For a man ao
keep bright and be useful. he must
keep active, and the same is true OF a
coin. Our merchants may rejoice
then' that labor, generally. has em-
pioyment at a fair wage. and il Is IN
the interest Of everyone that the mills
and factories should be increased. The
cities of the West are offering great in.
ducomcnts to enterprises which en-
pioy labor. and it would De we'll for the
Beard Of Trade. which has done such
excellent work. to consider whether II
IS nod advisable to make greater con
cossions in the way of inducements IN
new enterprises.
IL mas come TO our attention i'm the
last few DAYS that one OF our vo,np
business men, prominently identified
WIKI the manufacturing interests of
our city has become Interested in q
great manufacturing enterprise in the
central West The city in which the
plant is to be located has about the
same population as Wilmington. Their,
the new company is induced to locate
partly because of the liberal induce
ments onerod. A fine sto is glver
without charge; the company is ex
empted from taxation for term @
years. and there have been liberal con
tri5utions to the stock Of the concern
Is is important that every effort shal
be exhausted TO create trade. but ou
merchants for years have been con
Evening journal., 1901-12-20

Every day now we read OF some vic
tim OF uhe lockjaw whose Mfe has been
saved by reason of a missing tooth,
thus enabling the physicians to intro
duce liquid nourishment Meanwhile
those with a full set of incisors die OF
starvation. Some Of these days a
scientist wil arise who, in such cases,
will remove a tooth with a tack
hammer, and science Will hail the dis
coverer. Until HE arrives it might be
wei. for each person TO see That a tooth
is removed in anticipation of the
dread disease.