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SOUTH BROADWAY
MERCHANTS ASSOCIATION
-
A GREAT FACTOR IN NEW
ST. LOUIS.
THIS YEARS PARADE WILL Ex-
GEL ALL OTHERS IN
GRANDEUR.
South st. Louis Merchants Can Well
Be Proud of the Success of Their
Association.

The South Broadway Merchants Assn-
citation is rapidly increasing its power and
influence for the good Of st. Louis 1t
was originally formed by the merchants
of South Broadway for the purpose of
giving a grand parade during Fair week.
The first parade was grand success The
entire city realized that the South Broad
way merchants were an important fac
tor when organized and that they were
capable Of doing great things. The sue
ceeding parades were still finer, and in
creased the power and influence OF the
association. and to-day it has wide in
f1uence over the entire city
The association has been particularly
strict In making stringent rules prevent
ing Misrepresentation. and the integ-
rity of the business men of South St.
Louis is equal to that Of any set of mer-
chants. The South St Louis people are
fulness. of their statements. and, for their
reliability and honesty. The association
is now drafting law against misrepre-
sentation, based upon the New York
upon the business of the entire city.
Most of the members of the South
Broadway Association are Germans and
tion differs from other. business as
sociations In the fact that they Oft
en- meet for pleasure, as well as busi-
ness. and they have social gatherings,
when they throw aside all business cares
and have Jolly good time. This year
they gave grand picnic, at which the
tended, and s It was @ the &c most nc uts snecessful
affair of the kind ever given. Games.
dancing, public speaking. singing of So
cieties and all kinds of healthy amuse-
ments were indulged in, and all classes
had good time
The parade this year will excel in
gradeur any of the previous displays
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LECTRICSUPPLIES
T. LOUIS DISTRIBUTING MAR
KET FOR WEST AND SOUTH.
he LARGE EXPORT BUSINESS
RAPIDLY GROWING.
veral Large Houses Located Here
Find It Central Point for Reach
. ing the Worlds Demand in This
Line.

II Louis is rapidly becoming a great
" In eisctrical matters. 1t has five or
large houses in the electrical supply
sineSs, and all are growing fast. St
:. uis is the great distributing market
the West and South, and besides the
ular j0bbng houses. every large elec-
teal supply house In America has Of
8 here.
t.Louisscan [. boast of having the great
house In America for selling all kinds
electrical apparatus. lighting, railway,
Use goods. fixtures and telephone sup
.-es.a They do an immense business. that
growing with most wonderful rapidity
sy have travelling men in forty of our
1 New York and all intervening large
rnhis house Is one Of the enterprising
Uses of the country. It does a very
&c export business to Cuba, Mexico.
da.ith America, Spain. Australia and
la. 1t Is able to do this because 1t
att the best men In the world represent
lies them in the. East who sell other
ple's goods In their own territory. They
goods manufactured in New York
sell then to New Workers. 1t buys
DIS In such immense quantities that 1t
~ sell New York goods cheaper In New
help OF an immense illustrated cata-
ie OF 1,060 folio pages, which they send
electric dealers all over the world.
get large orders from every coun-
on the globe, which are filled by their
York representatives.
Tiis house is known all over the world
ana Sta Louis house, and has advertised
name of this city in every large town
| oLurope, Asia and Africa.
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Worlds Fair Will Greatly Increase
This Industry.

Besides doing the large amount of print
ing incident to every metropolitan city,
st. Louis is noted as being the city from
which more literature concerning Pre-
prietary medicines IS distributed than
any other. St. Louis is the great cen
ter of proprietary medicines. who send
out vast quantities of literature. Many
large medical magazines are published
here, one of which has the largest cir
culation of any medical periodical in the
world, and it is published BY the largest
st. Louis printing establishment.
The ST. Louis printing houses do a
more diversified business than any other,
and one house, which employs 700 men
and has sixty cylinder presses. has fifteen
different departments. each department
being under n separate management. II
makes a speciality of manufacturing fine
art calendars, and has agents in every
State in the Union, selling beautiful
art calendars even in the New England
States.
St. Louis does large amount of rail-
road printing for the many roads that
branch out from ST. Louis, and also a
large business in engraving on steel and
in photo-engraving and lithographing.
The Worlds Fair will especially in
crease the printing business of st. Louis,
all the mercantile houses will advertise
more, vast amount of literature will
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MISSOURI GRANITE.
Inexhaustib1e in Quantity and Un-
surpassed in Quality.

Missouri granite Is known all over this
country. Most OF the so-called Scotch
granite, imported from Scotland. is really
SUR Missouri granite which is just as hard
rs any other granite. and looks Just as
beautiful as any other; either when pol
ished or plain.
Our granite quarries are not surpassed
in extent or quality. in one place on the
globe. The largest one is at GranitevilIe
In Iron County. 1t has the best railroad
facilities. and 1T is inexhaustible. Any
stone that can be handled. no matter how
large, can easily be cut from the quar-
ries.
The two large granite companies, whose
Offices are in. St Louis, and which are
aged by st. Louis citizens. have their
quarries at Graniteville, adjoining one
another. where there is enough Of. the
best granite to supply the two Americas.
One of these companies which still
bears the name of the original Missouri
citizen, who conducted the first granite
first granite stone on a st. Louis street,
and the first. piece of granite in a st,
Louis house, is still yearly increasing It's
business, both in. volume, and extent Of
territory. 1t has furnished Missouri gran
ite for the large public buildings of san
Francisco and New Orleans. 1t has done
and new City Hall of ST. Louis, for the
State house at Springfield, Ill, for the
new rubble granite stone on all the new
Washington University buildings west of
Forest Park and they. even send Mis-
souri, granite to New York. This Oldest
Missouri company quarries the granite
from the ground. cuts it for paving
blocks, for building stones. spr rubble
ms sonry ike that at Washington Unver-
sity, for crushed, granitoid sidewalks and
cutters. 1t could easily furnish a cut
column of solid granite of fifty feet If it
could only be handled, which can deliver
cut by thu hest workmen in America.
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cry Is assured. When the iron table,
which is the center Of the lubrica ting
system, Is started 1t requires no attention
from those in charge, as governors con
tloi the pumps, no matter now much or
how little is used. If no oil is used the
pumps stop of their own accord.
This business has already grown to
such vast proportions that the company
is compelled to erect a tive-story building
of most modern construction and equip
ments. capable of carrying any amount
OF machinery.
The automatic lubricating machines
save a vast amount of money that was
paid In labor, and lessen the danger to
employees from accidents.
This new industry covers the entire
United States and many foreign coun-
tries. 1t is now used by the Honolulu
Rapid Transit and Land Company of the
Hawaiian Islands, the Havana Electric
Railway Company of Cuba, and the
great DeBeers Consolidated Diamond
Company of South Africa. In st. Louis
it is used to great advantage in all the
larger steam plants as in the three pow
err houses of the St Louis Transit Com
pany, and the Missouri Edison. Laclede
and Imperial electric lighting plants.
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STREET LIGHTING OF ST. LOUIS
The Welsbach System Makes st.
Louis Streets the Best Lighted
in America.

The streets of St. Louis were never so
we'll lighted as they are to-day. And the
cost of lighting the many miles of streets
Is now less than it ever was. After hav-
ing tried electricity for many years. the
people were amazed to learn that cleo
tricity was to be given UP. and that or
dinary gas. made from coal, was to take
its place.
People who had Travelled had already
seen the wonderful effect OF the Wells
bach light on the boulevards of Paris and
in the large Eastern cities. The ordi-
nary Welsbach light Is several times
brighter than the 16-candle-power fncan-
descent electric light. 1t has no shadow,
never fiickers. and is the Softest, stead
lest and most delightful light that has
ever been invented, and resembles the
sunlight more than any other: 1t reaches
a long distance, makes everything beauti-
full. and our citizens now realize that we
try. Not only ere the streets lighted by
the Welsbach light in which the mantei
that gives the light is heated by ord-
nary gas. but the parks in st. Louis are
also lighted Where there are no gas
mains naptha is used to heat the man
tells, and their appearance and service Is
SO similar that 1t calls for skilled eye
to detect whether gas or naptha Is used.
The Welsbach light Is near the ground,
is stationed at frequent intervals, is soft
and steady. and lights the surface OF the
street so well that the smallest obstacle
can be seen when driving at night, and Is
a marked Improvement to tho old arc
light, which was high up in the air, and
had such a large shadow that 1t was al
most useless to any one in q vehicle.
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AUT0M0 0BILES.
A st. Louis House Famous for Its
Electric Machines.

The importance of the automobile bnsi-
ness is increasing every day. Through
out the country the factories are behind
hand in their orders.
Tn st. Louis two companies manufact-
ure automobiles. One makes machines
run by gasoline and the otner makes ma
chimes that run by electricity. Both COM
panies are selling all they can manufact-
ure.
There are also several branches OF great
Eastern companies who make steam ma
chimes. The steam machine Is the most
popular in St. Louis, but the two broth
ers. who make the electric machine. ex-
pect 1t to be the machine of the future
They have patented machine, run by
electricity. which they have been expert
menting on fer more than ten years.
and which will run for fifty miles with
out being racharged AS there are no
charging stations near st. Louis, and
very few IN the city,, the electric ma
chine Is less popular hhr,, than In the
East, where charging stations are very
numerous.
The electric machines, made by the st.
Louis firm are excelled by none in Amer
lea. and are probably the best The two
brothers. who are the practical men Of
the concern. have been experimenting for
ten years. and they now havs patents on
an electric machine that will run longer
without being .recharged than any In the
country, and 1t Is the simplest in con-
struction and the most practical. The
steam machine often needs repairs, and
is complicated. like steam engine. The
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LEADS THE WORLD IN
THE MANUFACTURE
OF Saddlery and Harness-Cannot
Supply the Demand.

While St. Louis leads In so many kinds
of business as distributor OF goods
manufactured in other cities,tt is as a man.
ufacturer of goods made here that She
leads. thanks to Ter natural location, the
cities of the United States In sad
dlery and harness making, and she is
gaining ground every day. Her eight large
manufacturing houses. without includ-
ing innunCcahle small concerns or 'buck-
eyes" employ 1000 men. and sell four mil
lion dollars worth Of goods each year,
with an invested capital of over three
million dollars, They sell goods as far
East as PENNSYLVANIA, ard go as far West
as Colorado and Utah, and the only rea-
son they do not now as they formerly did,
sell goods on the Pacific slope, is because
they csnnot make enough goods TO supply
the demand. Every manufacturing house
in 81. Louis is behind in their orders, and
they could sell twice the goods IL they
could get the men to do the work, but the
National Association has made rule
that all houses in the union can only en-
ploy two boys, as apprentices, and al
though, the skilled mechanics employed in
the saddlery and harness houses get un-
usually good wages, 1t Is impossible to
obtain enough men to do the work.
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STEEL.
Every Machine Run by an Electric
Motor.

Motor.
There Is only one cast steel industry
on this side of the river, although there
ara three on the eastern side.
The one on this side of the river has
the very latest and the most modern APP
plances. The furnaces are built on the
most approved plan. with many very
late and new improvements, which were
made by the companys own engineers
The furnaces are run by gas which is
made In the place, and there Is no smoke
The entire machinery is worked by
electricity. and every machine has Its
own motor
The company has been working to its
full capacity. and so rapidly are the or
ders coming in that IL will soon build an
addition. which will double its capacity.
Most of the steel turned out by this
company is for railroads, such as wheels
for locomotives, couplers and holsters.
The superior quality of their steel is
known all over this land, including
Hawaii and the Philippine Islands. Their
steel is noted for it's strong clongation
very great tensile strength and its elas-
tic Limit Is very great. 1T is stronger and
lighter than anH other steel
This company has tho finest location
for great plant In the country. 1t owns
SIS acres of land on either side of the
River des Peres, with the Missouri Pa
cific Railroad on one side and the Frisco
on the other, with switches to both and
room enough to increase their plant to
any extent.
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No ,ANDEsCENT
ELECTRIC LAMPS.

ENs. Best Light, Uses Least Electric
Louis Company Supplies
le City Of Glasgow-The Best
or ompany Makes Its Own Machines
Requires the Highest Degree of
echnical Skill.
/. AGie one great incandescent electric
p company of ST. Louis enjoys the
lnction Of having defeated the Edison
lndescent Lamp Company. after ex-
i've litigation, throwing the market
open, SO that ANYBODY can make
a. They also enjoy the distinction
being the only incandescent electric
company in St. Louis that has not
! a. -panies have failed is because it re-
hoe.-es the highest degree of teclnirai
to make them successfully. II is a
,herous business for any new Begin
which has generally resulted in fail
Q best lamps are the cheapest. be-
se II takes less. coal 20 make the
.ricity. In America we have central
Ions" or the great companies, which
Isl ish the electric light to supply the
ric lamp to the customer. The best
-, uses, the, smallest amount of fuel
lake the electricity. and these great
oanies only buy the best lamps on the
: cket, regardless of price Therefore,
II Wfew companies succeed. and it is be-
tHS ot. lJUui5 tuilpHIly IikeS It
that has no. superior on the globe;
i doss a business all over the world.
they ship lamps to Europe In the
or the foreign countries. 1t is be-
Q the American lamp and the st.
lamp is so much superior to any
gn lamp that the model City of
gov buys the st, Louis ncandescent
ric lamp. This Is also the reason
IN the City of Mexico the st. Louis
so., sells for twice the price of the
Vim nan and French lamps. In America
pay double the price for labor and
Z Viouble the price even in foreign coun-
+ lie reason why the English, German
French electric lamps are inferior
he American lamp is because each i'm
dual In Europe buys whatever lamp
plenses at the grocery store, but In
erica The Ereat companies furnish the
h FS ps, and by their superior skill they
what is the best and they know the
= Is the cheapest.
Q finest scientlfic workmen are neces-
to make these lamps. The manu-
urer must always he improving ana
te does not improve somebody else
y come along with better and cheaper
n. 1anical improvements and he able to
rsell him The best machines can
be bought, the manufacturer must
elf make the machines that make the
and this is why SO few concerns
succeeded.
ST, Louis lamp IS sold all over the
-. The american lamp Is far SUI
r. to any foreign lamp. and the St.
RS laryp stands as high. If not little
--4r. than any, and their wonderful
'ss Is the best evidence of this.
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WASHING MACHINES.
More Made Here Than in Any Other
City.

Among the many things manufactured
mere in which ST. Louis leads the colin-
Try is that of washing machines. Two
large houses turn out eighty thou
sand washing machines every year,
and one of these concerns also has a
factory a Davenport, To-, which makes
forty thousand more. The machines man
nfactured at Davenport are all OF one
style. being rotary machine, which
works with a fyvheel. while the other
kind works with a lever.
There are. therefore. more washing ma
chimes made here than In any other city.
They are made for family use only, and
are rapidly coming into general use. The
st. Louis houses sell all over the coun-
try--in the East even more than In the
West.-from San Francisco to New York
and Boston.
Anything that can be washed by hand
cail be washed by these machines. They
are. easier on the goods do the work
with less fatigue in much less time, easy
OF operation. and do not require the skill
eG washerwoman, and the st. Louis ma
chimes are known everywhere as being
durable, compact and easy to keep clean.
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PLANNING MILLS.
A Factor in the Large Contracts of
of the United States.


This is one Of the great industries of st.
Louis. We have twenty-six mills doing
business here. AT lest S5.0O0,OO0 is invested
In plants. real estate, equipment and ma
chinery, and at least s2,oo00O0 worth OF
lumber is always kept in stock.
The local trade Is enormous, and the
stock that enters into all the buildings
put UP and repaired in st. Louis comes
from the local mills.
st. Louis is recognized as a factor
III the large contracts of the United
States. The larger mills ship from the
Atlantic to the Pacific coast, and the
shipments to the South are particularly
great. The larger houses are now figuring
on some tremendous contracts with the
English Government The volume of bus
mess amounts u about S., ftsG}a d year
ard 25c0 men are employed by the TWEEN
ty-six milling plants.
sfhe planning mill business of this city
has been rapidly increasing during the
past few years, and we now have the ca :
pacity and facilities for twice the present
output.
The white pine umbe.. Is obtained from
the North. and tile yellow pine and cy-
press, as well as most of the hardwood
comes from the South.
Ninety per cent Of the capital Ia rep
resented in an organization known as
the Mill Mems Association. which handles
all matters of interest to the industry.
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lTOGRAPHlc DRY PLATES.
sthe Three Largest Houses in the
United States.

Louis is the dry plate center OF the
J. 1t has the three largest dry plate
rms in the United States, and st.
5 dry plates are the best in the
], and they get the highest prices.
! have made the name of st. Louis
ably known all over Europe. and
europeans acknowledge them to be
nest and pay a higher price for the
toufs dry plate than they do for
own THIS is especially true in
ANY.
ST. Louis houses sell dry plates all
this country, but the majority 10
d They have more statesmen in the
England States than in any other
or the country. The ST. Louis dry
are 50 decidedly the best that they
(lythe best of the Eastern make.
pisrly Zach photographer had to
the kensitive plate. which. when
ca ~ light. makes the picture. II
veL auq had to be used almost inn
telyssHN1 1th the dry plate the ANA
III t4Xe gross with him around
uriH .9il use them when he wants.
i.isj iiss1jH2s.*5,;drade has grown enormously.
sct laIsSx mouse in the country has
M ,nPtnods, which are a secret. It
'es tneN best experts ta get good
n. hnqA Inc only reason why the
ouls FEY plate is the best and most
s'FSAn the world is that at the st.
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RAILWAY CAR
TRANSFERRING cos.
Steel Barges Towed by Steam
Tugs

The great Mississippi River makes the
problem of transferring railroad cars from
East ST. Louis to ST. Louis great one
Three hundred thousand freight cars
alone are transferred every year. We have
three great companies organized for this
purpose. The two great bridges will carry
al least sixty per cent of these cars, but
the question Of convenience and delay has
made it necessary TO bring a large amount
of these freight ears over i'll some kind of
boats Until few years ago one great
company had a virtual monopoly of this
mode OF transfer. hGt In the past few
years new concern has entered this field
and has made rapid advance in their bust
ness, They carried over on their steel
harges more than half as many cars in
1860 as they did in 1899 1t has the best APP
pointed and the most modern equipped
system Of transferring cars across large
rivers that can be found anywhere. In
stead of using the old-time ferry boat,
the company has enormous steel harges,
with four tracks, capable of carrying 30
cars, which are towed across the river by
tugs. Cars brought across the river in
boats are not brought to the crowded
switches near the Union Station, but are
quickly and conveniently taken north or
south by the belt line along the river.
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COLD STORAGE WARE
HOUSES, ICE PLANTS
AND PIPE LINES.
Best Appointed and Most Modernly
i !. L

Best Appointed and Most Modernly
Equipped in the Country.
Perhaps the greatest development of
modern times is to be found in the now
perfected system Of cold storage of per-
ishable products--meats, fruits, eggs
etc.-and their preservation In an abso-
lutely uncontaminated condition for any
required time. Millions of cases of eggs
are now in cold storage awaiting the
coming of the holiday trade; hundreds
OF tons of meat and poultry are at this
instant IN process of transportation. nm
der refrigeration from cold storage ware
houses, while fruits are rapidly being
conveyed to far-away markets.
This city is. perhaps. better located,
geographically, than any other city in
the United States for great cold stor-
ago plant.
1t is the metropolis of the entire Mis-
sissippi Valley; the center OF the wealth.
lest agricultural district on the conti-
nent. and including within It's borders a
greater production of commodities adapt
ed for preservation in cold storage than
can elsewhere be found.
1t is natural that it should have the
best appointed and the most moderny
equipped as well as one of the largest,
In the world-a plant that is a unique
one. in that it is virtually three lines of
business consolidated in one viz: A cold
pipe line. In construction, no expense
has been spared 10 secure the best re-
shis III economical na1ldl1nS, railroad
facilities, perfect Insulation, lowest in
surance and most approved methods.
No ammonia is used in this enormous
warehouse. the cooling agent being eX-
ciusively clouds Of calcium brine, thus
preventing all contamination from leak
ing pipes. Another valuable feature is
that each of tine rooms has it's own cool.
ing pipe chamber. with no connection
with any other. The apartments are ab-
solutely isolated. the system of piping is
independent. the walls, floors and ceilings
imperyious to the escape admission of
any odor, while the magnitude of the
building permits storage of different
classes in separate apartments.
The pipe line extends from the plant
distance of two miles, with numerous
lateral branches. thus supplying with re-
frigeration the produce and commission
men along the route, as we'll as markets,
hotels and restaurants.
The warehouse and ice plant are To-
Gated on the st. Louis Transfer Rail-
road tracks, connecting with ever. road
coming into and gc!as c;;e of st. tso-ia.
i,ies sssTfs ths railroad facilities for shipping
or receiving unexcel'ed in this country. If,
indeed. they are equaled anywhere.