The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-01-03
TO-DAY IN ST. LOUIS
 Ideals to New Standards of Industrial Supremacy.

which embodies everything that is fat- est ana best
 OFFICES. LOBBY AND sALEsRooMs
 The general Cffices, lobby and sales the first floor. are handsomely fitted up with English oak fixtures and desks to match, with plate glass and brass griiles and trimmings The foor or 1f the the TERLoCKING RUBBER TILE. which probably is the handsomest and best floor in use today. The walls are wains- sas eatsd Np Ti5n wk pnFE ENAMsISb BRIcK
 The interior arrangement through out serves the double purpose of spa cious and connections general office Headquarters with view to pleasant not for moment forgetting the wise economy of rapid easy business accessi- bility and the value of time in handling smoothly nns,, the enormous s trade @ which si, day long.
 SHIPPING DEPARTMENT.
 The shipping department occupies nearly one-half of the first-fioor space.
 is ona of he n saded se sePas building. for the entire space is ar ranged like that of a first-class freight depot, with what are called "Jackknffe" doors, eight in number, built along the entire St. Charles Street side of the building.
 The goods routed for certain rail- roads are piled inside of Specific doors, so the drivers of the. shipping wagons always understand where they will re- ceive freight for the various roads, The sidewalk constructed on St. Charles street Is such that the wagons may drive close alongside of the building and the doors raised out of the way for the freight handlers; thus the cases can be easily loaded on wagons without having to be trucked and piled on a platform or sidewalk, as Is now tho general custom. This means economy and dispatch in the. shipment of goods.
 Ship immediately" T need the goods right now; am waiting for them." the cry from many of the 1s.000 cus- toners of the Brown Shoe Company: has now lost it's terror for the shipping clerks and freight handlers of the big concern.
 The years 1903, 1904, 1905 have each shown a gain in shipments of one mil- Hon dollars over each preceding year and for 1906 the usual annual million gain has been surpassed by good amount, regardless of the Interruption in shipping on account of moving op- erations during the last ten days of
 It is not much wonder then that these stupendous strides in growth and the unceasing activity of a superb sales live representatives has not only neces- sitated the construction. of new facto- ries, but has produced the reality of the finest distributing house in the whole history of the shoe business of the country.
 All the world loves a winner, and 1t is now an established fact that the sales force of the Brown Shoe Company is sweeping the country with good shoes from ocean to ocean, from Bos- ton to San Francisco, with their argu- ment of quality value and price, that is as true as 1t is important. The perfect system of the Brown Shoe Company in-. sures first-class service to dealers, and coincidentally the greatest possible shoe value to the consumer.
 The White House" is equipped with a private individual telephone central station. All the factories will be di- rectlys connected with this building by its private individual wires. Te1e-