Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-12-17
Lennox Furnace Company Adds
Steel Range Department to
Its Factory
EMPLOYMENT FOR SIXTY MEN
"Torrid Zone" Range Made in Mar.
shalltown Will Make Its Debut This
Month If company's Hopes Are
Realized 1t VIII Add New Factory
Equal 20 Pottery Plant.

| Marshalltown is to have new fac
tory within an old one. This city is to
become the seat Of the stove foundry
| business of the west, II the hopes OF
the proprietors of the Lennox Furnace
company are to be realized from the
plans they now have. This company
will begin with the first OF the year
manufacturing steel ranges for the
housewives of North America to use
| in their modern kitchens.
| It is expected by the company that
after the first year their stove depart
ment will furnish employment in Mar
shalltown for at least sixty additional
men. This company employs an aver
age Of 14O men, with the pay roll run
ming up to IFS in the busy season.
| The Torrid Zone range will make its
debut in Marshalltown this month.
Pattern makers have been busy upon
it for several months and distributing
| connections have already been made
which call for the delivery Of finished
ranges to the trade in January.
1t will be a high grade steel range
Of the same superior quality among
steel ranges that the Torrid Zone fur
mace holds among furnaces 1t will be
built of extra heavy material and ex-
ceedingly we'll built owing to the
equipment of special machinery owned
by the factory.
The Torrid Zone range will possess
certain valuable features Of individ-
uality which are expected to make 1t
rapid seller. The reservoir, for in
stance, will be a contact reservoir,
coming directly in contact with the fire
instead of requiring the fire to pass
under and around it, where SCOT is
bound to collect. The contact reservoir
is always free from SCOT accumulations
and the water is always hot even with
slow fire in the stove.
The oven door will be an improved
balanced door in which weights make
it easy to open or shut the door and
prevent the danger Of breaking from
slamming. The company is considering
the use of malleable door, which will
be decided innovation in steel ranges
if it is finally used.
1t is also the intention to use stove
lids made Of pressed steel, quick to
heat and nom breakable, while the cast
lids will be used too, giving the stove
trade its choice.
The Lennox Furnace company finds
that the equipment of special machin-
cry and foundry which it uses in the
manufacture of steel furnaces, is adj
mirably adapted to the making Of steel
ranges, and that in many instances
both furnaces and ranges can be sold
to the same dealer by one salesman.
For these reasons it has been the
intention of the company to begin the
manufacture Of steel ranges as soon as
it could get sufficient capital and ex-
perience combined in the business to
make 1t an entirely safe venture for
the investors.
BY the first Of the year, only few
weeks away, Marshalltown will have
the only steel range factory in Iowa
BY New Years day, one year hence, it
is hoped that :Marshalltown will have
a stove factory as big as the pottery
works and. perhaps, half as big as the
packing house. Beyond that there is
still a f11turo