The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1904-07-31
MAKING OF
STOVES ! + ) in
RICHMOND.
Immense Manufactures
in Operation Here.
|BUSIN NESS ANNUALLY
ALMOST "a MILLION.
Richmond Stove Company and
Southern Stove Works
Leading Plants.
ri 0NEERS I'M MATTER OF
WICK LESS OIL COOKERS.
They Are Great Consumers Of.
Pig Iron and Large En-
ployers 81 Skilled Labor.
The Whole Earth Is
Their Terri-
~ tory
iONEERS IN MATTER oF
s5 WICkLESSS OIL COOKERS

What Il Richmond doing Z IN some.
lines she is doing a great deal more
than her own people know OF. Take the
manufacture and sale Of stoves, for In
stance, and let's see what this live and
iii every wa U p-to-da ate city is doing
along that line IT he two stove factories
in this city re the largest and best.
equipped Establishments Of their kind In
the South, perhaps. the largest and best
equipped iii the United States, outside
OF l,ennyy iyania, the y natural home Of
M ost things mad Of iron.
RI Richmond has been making stoves In
one way and another for a half q len
.turys or more. The Richmond Stove
sCompuny of to-day Is something more
Sthan@forty years OLE. Il and 1T grew out of
gfoundrIcs and iron shops that; lived and
8n,pved and had being for many years be-
sforo This company uni nfurled Its 4 banner
to the breeze as a great modern manu-
factory. Il In fact, there are documents
to show that tEES found dries and earthenS
ware Il sinanufacto Il exist ed Il along the
RJamesss sRiver nea & to and about Rich
sn1ond iii colonial l days These ancient
and |ci,ide shops made and put on sal
ovens, stoves and ma ny curious shaped
implements for oking Il and warming
purposes. These implements were inl-
proved u i'll one way and other from
time to time until the dern cooking
range ana the modern heater came as a,
natural developme ant 4Ss &
The Richmond Stove G Company.
Away back in the early forties. per-
ihaps In tie thlrties. a little foundry on
Clay Street commenced to make a cook
stove an5 sold not q few Of them. q Later
Eon, the old Asa Snyder Iron ~ orking
Company absorbed a this foundry and
made many imp IN Y the tput
.of stoves. The Snyder Company not
only manufactured cook stoves, but com
smenced to put heaters and S"comforters"
on tile market. Stove making was only
a branch of the iron nufacturing bus
mess condu:ted by the Snyder Company,
and In the course Of time this depart
sment Of the business was sold to some
energetic young men who organized the
Richmond Stove Company, which is to-
,doy one Of the larshst and most active
OF Richmond's $ manufacturing establish
irnent Is. At their mammoth plant on East
Main Street, on both sides OF fsit. in fact,
the Richmond Stove Company manu-
factures al! styles of cooking and heat
SlOSSSiS ~ iio
3rompanys foundrles and iron hops are
supplied with NIL the necessary modern
necessary to put them ght
3insline VII tn any enp-to ida to iron working
establishment in the United States. 81
The company justly feels proud OF its
reputation for putting out only sllbstan--. Z.
.tinl and long lasting goods. ! n this CON
nection 1t would not be o,lt of place to
rotate here8nn interesting story that has
reached the8reportorial3e ear. 1Nle Rev.
;I,r. j. M. Pitcher. a prominent Baptist
residing In Petersburg, has In
his possession and In daily use a cook
stove that was made by this company
thlrty-ninca years age. q.
al was among the first stoves put out
by the companyiin 1865. immedi Lately ter
lie Civil War. and DR.. pitcher Is author
ity for the statement that ~ has been III,
constant use ever since 1t was bought.
.rhe company keeps track Of this stove, Be
cause it is OF a peculiar. attern, and
about once a year DIR. ri ltchers shows up
to get new fire bricks for 1t, b Il S
The Richmond Stove Company, 1, which.
sells goods all over Virginia and I. the
Ssutt, and as far North AS Pennsylvania,
and as fariWest as the NJ isslssippl River,
has d number OF noted stoves and ranges
mat are known by name, but their lead
ing brand Is the Lee, This name on