The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1902-03-20
TYLER s. SIMPSON BUILDING.
Great Wholesale Grocery Establish.
nent Win Modern Equipments.

ment win Modern Equipments.
The new stone building recently
built between the Choctaw. Oklahoms
q Gulf and Santa Fe right Of ways,
by Tyler & Simpson and occupied by
them e. giant In Ardmore's CONNER.
cial world. The walls of the building
are twenty inches thick and built
solidly OF stone The upper story is
supported by massive timbers whose
strength proudly defy any load that
may be placed upon them. In its H..
500 feet OF floor space the building
has ample room for this firms inn
mense stock.
The floor OF the ground story Is az
ideal one for a wholesale house, be
ing a cement floor OF seven inches
thickness. In the second story is plac
ed the greater part of the light mer-
chandlse. Here are also located the
packing rooms. one unique feature OF
the upper department is the immense
iron cistern which affords water for
an individual system OF water works
constructed throughout the building
The cistern has a capacity of three
thousand gallons and is on the inside
Of the building where no danger 80
feared from freezing weather.
The room especially constructed fog
the storage OF meat is located in the
rear of the building on the lower
floor. The room is kept closed espec.
tally so during the summer months
aud is always dark thus insuring the
absence of flies and dust and repre-
sents the best method Of keeping
meats as well preserved as when turn
cd out from the packing houses Tho
floor of this room being Of Genet pre-.
vents it from being grease-soaked and
TO make cleanliness perfect is proyid-
ed with a waste-way and hose for
cleaning with water.
The entire house presents a busy
scene The employees, consisting OF ar
adequate Office force, shipping clerks.
men in the packing department and
from six to eight colored porters, each
understands their duty perfectly and,
all day long, regular as clock work
the great business OF wholesaleing
goes on according to the most mod.
ern method.
The loading platform on the north
of the building measures fifteen by
lseventy-fve feet and was designed es-
pecially for the loading of wagons
Along the east side Is another plat
form extending to the Santa Fe track
age which is sufficient for the ac-
commudation of a half dozen cars.
ChoctaN switches will run near the
west side. and this trackage viii also
be used by the A. z c.. cars. So
convenient and complete Is the loca-
ton of the building that Il has ample
room for the loading of wagons and
has the trackage facilities of three
railroads In the construction of this
modern Wholesale house every detail
has been looked after closely and
every piece of wood work is placed
so accurately as to bear the imprint
of the master mechanic.
Tyler & Simpson is a firm not un.
known to the trade of the Indian Terri.
tori. They have sold goods to our
merchants for years from the Gaines
VILE house but when their shrewd bus
mess judgment foretold to them that
within a brief period Ardmore woulJ
take rank ahead of some of the older
towns as a distributing point and to
hold the trade they already had and
for the purpose of extending their
trade into new and lucrative fields
they established their house here.
Along with the other wholesalers they
have contributed to Ardmore's pros.
perity and merit the immense business
they are doing.