The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1906-11-22
a HusTLING PLACE.
Wonderful Growth and Development Of
Smith & Cummings Market.

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Whether city Is live, hustling,
booming town or not, is judged by any
observer according as its business con-
Germs are growing, enlarging, branching
out and having a thrifty appearance
The reputation Of Barre for being a
wonderfully hustling place is due to the
fact that there are so many wide awake
business firms here. One Of these, which
during its year and half Of existense
has helped our city's reputation greatly,
is Smith a Cummings, the market men
who began business in July, 1905, in
the Brown building on North Main
street. Their business has grown so con-
stantly and rapidly that they have add
cd to their establishment several times.
But their greatest improvement has
been in progress for the past few months
and is now complete, and Smith & Cum
ings now have store which il the equal
Of any well equipped provision house
in the state
The building where the store ID locat-
cd has been completely remodelled and
greatly enlarged. BY this change Smith
Y Cummings have been enabled to nearly
double their floor space. About ten feet
has been added on the front and at the
side the whole of the space formerly
occupied by barber shop and pool room
has been added. Two large display win.
doWs have been put I'm, one on each side
of the double entrance
The store occupies three floors, includ-
ing the basement, an elevator In sthe
back part Of the store running to all
three floors. On the ground Aoor the
meat department occupies the northerly
side while the remainder OF the front
part is taken up by groceries. The other
two floors are also filled with groceries
and provisions. In the meat depart
ment are all the appliances with which
the most modern markets are equipped
Their refrigerator is an exceptionally
fine one A meat carrying track ex,
tends from the driveway back of the
store into the refrigerator. A section
Of this track is equipped with patent
scales so that beves, pork, etc, may
be weighed easily as they are being
taken from the team to the refrigerator
a Sterling slicer (the only one IN Yer
mont at pTesent) has Just been installed
for slicing dried beef, hams, etc. Al
two-horse power motor has been put
in and their sausage machine runs By
electricity so that none Of their nine
clerks is worn out IN grinding meat bg
hand for their large trade in Green
Mountain Brand sausage Their coffee
mill and several other machines con-
nected with the establishment are also
run by this motor
Shelves built around the posts in the
middle of the store and along the sides,
as well as tables and showcases, give
plenty of display room for fancy grocer.
les. In the evening the ground floor
Az brilliantly lighted by large gas lamps,
The back part Of the ground floor
is taken up BY meat cutting table,
sausage factory, fresh fish refrigerator,
and elevator
The basement il used as a store room
for groceries and vegetables. there being
bins here for thousand bushels OF po.
tstees.
The front part Of the top floor Is
filed with -four and similar bulky gro
ceries. Part OF the back portion is nsed
as store room and part has been
built over into rooms for fish cleaning
and beef drying. Smith 4 Cummings are
the only market men in this section
who have dried beef of their own cur
ing.
The office is located in the central
part Of the store and is fitted with 4
cash carrier system, McCaskey account
register and National cash register.
In the rear Of the store are their am
pie smoke house and lard house, where
the Green Mountain Brand hams, shoul-
ders and lard are prepared In the
rear OF the store, also, is a space where
their patrons may hitch their horses.
The members Of this up-to-date firm
are William s. Smith and Earl c. Cum
ings. Besides Messrs. Smith and Cum
ings there are nine clerks IN the store
and cashier. Their delivery teams
cover the whole city.
People who do business with them
are sure Of being treated in gentle
manly, businesslike way.