The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-09
CROSBY BROS. COMP ANY.
The Big Department Store Incorpo-
rates It's Concern

Crosby Brothers Company is the
striking new name of the great mer-
camille establishment of Crosby
Brothers which filed incorporation
papers with the secretary of state to-
day.
The directors named in the charter
are w. T. Crosby, E. H. Crosby, Will
liam Connors, Earl Williams and c.
B. Crosby. The capitalization is
100000 of which 100000 is
paid in.
The officers of the company are w.
t. Crosby, president; William Con-
nors, vice president, and E. H. Crosby,
secretary and treasurer.
This is another step forward in the
marvellous progress made by this en-
terprising concern since it was started
in Topeka in 1880 by w. T. and E. H.
Crosby. At the beginning there were
only three people employed and the
entire floor capacity was but little
larger than the space now used for
their offices.
William Connors is at the head of
the furniture and carpet departm ent
and has long been associated with the
firm. Earl Williams is nephew of
the Crosby Brothers and for many
years has been floor manager and in
charge of the dress goods department.
c. B. Crosby is a son of E. H. and is
has been with the concern in various
capacities, for the last year or more in
charge of the department including G
ladies' furnishing goods, gloves, UNI
brellas, underwear, notions, etc.
There is no more progressive nor
enterprising concern in Topeka than
the Crosby department store. There
is nearly always something doing
there in the way of expansion of inter-
ests, increase of facilities and a con-
IN hn h1IS no
store now includes four floors with a
frontage of fifty feet on Kansas ave-
nue. and 10 feet on Jackson street, in
addition to the forty-fve feet of jack
days ago by the firm and the three
story building owned by Crosby Bros.
and occupied by the wholesale house
of L. Beard & Son.
There are on the pay roll of the
Crosby Brothers company from 135 to
$50 people. Sixty-f1ve others are en-
ployed in the dressmaking and millin-
cry departments allied with the con-
Germ and doing business under the
same roof.
bought out the big Stevenson & Peck
ham store at III and 719 Kansas ave-
nue. and since that time have been ad
ding new departments and new space
till they have acquired their present
mammoth quarters with modern equip
ment, fine facilities and standing of the
highest order.
The brothers have both been fore
most in matters pertaining to the city's
growth and welfare and are continually
doing with their money and personali-
ties the things which make Topeka a
greater commercial center and a beau
tiful city of homes and culture. They
are large owners of the two woolen
mills here and are at present increas-
ing the capacities of these factories to
turn out new products and employ
more people. Mr.. E. H. Crosby is vice
president of the Capital National bank
and one of the most active members
of the Topeka Commercial club.
The Incorporation of Crosby Brothers
gives the firm the added Importance and
weight of the more vital. personal in
terests of several heads of departments,
long identified with the concerns
growth and prosperity. and will be ia
ken as another one of the many mile
stone in the expansion of store of
which Topeka is proud, and of a city
of which the Crosby Brothers company
is proud.
The company does not intend to sell
any stock to any one outside of the
esta bhshment.