The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-13

modate his growing business. The
room will be used for optical parlor
and to display Victor talking machines
and records New cases for jewelry'
hand painted china and silverware'
have been added to the Morehouse
equipment and furnishings during the
past few months and today he has one
of the best equipped and stocked Jew
elry stores in Topeka.
1t requires more than guess and
good luck to build a business pur-
chased for $500 seven years ago to a
$4,000 establishment today
Honesty is the best policy is
paying proposition, always worth par
and usually pays the possessor a
handsome profit, is the way one OF
Seven years ago Mr.. Morehouse
moved from Emporia to Topeka and
purchased the store and stock then
owned by H. S. Montgomery, the gen
eral watch inspector for the Santa Fe
Mr.. Montgomery appointed Mr.. More
house inspector for the SANTA re LOT
the Topeka division
Mr.. Morehouse was connected for
three years with the firm of d. ID.
Williams & Co., the local watch In
spector for the Santa Fe at Emporia,
which fitted him to fill a similar po-
sition with the railroad company mere.
He was appointed inspector seven
years ago and has held the place con-
tinuously since.
There is no snap, however, in be-
ing the watch inspector for an army
of railroad men of a large railroad
system. MorehouSe can not set the
time pieces of the train men and the
engine men with his eyes blindfolded
and his hands muffied. 1t requires &C
curacy and skill to attend TO thls I'M
portant work.
Morehouse works with precious sec
onds A few seconds off one way or
the other with the engineers watch
means life and death with his fellow
men.
None But Standard Watches.
Quite reasonable it seems that none
but the standard makes of watches
are to be found at the Morehouse
store. The Elgin, the Walthar, the
Hamilton and the Howard all find just
recognition with the little jeweler.
1t is interesting to see the manner
in which Morehouse leases and tor
lures those watches before they are
placed in active service. AS the new
watches arrive from the factory back
East to the layman, they are accur-
ate enough for luncheon purposes
When they are sold to a railroader il
is a different proposition. The new
watch is given a trial run for three
days and in as many different posi-
tions.
During that three days test the lit
tie tickers must not vary more thar
six seconds. When this degree of eff
fciency has been reached the work:
are placed in gold or silvereen case!
and are ready for the leather thong
and the jacket pocket of the man who
rides the engine or the coach.
There is greater demand fol
nineteen jeweled watches than an.
other number" said Mr.. Morehous'
as he receipted for an express pack
age containing Hamilton watches. an(
all sold before they arrived
Almost every minute in the da.
stalwart trainmens stop at $40 Eas
Fourth street to compare time AM
get "set right before going out oil
their runs. Trainmen are not alon
in the habit. Street car men, offic
men. business men, everyday men an
Sunday men, depend alike on More
house to keep them right with tn
standard time.
The MOrehouse Stock.
While Morehouse deals seriousl
with golden moments, time pieces ar
not his only line, far from it. Tha
little store is crowded from threshol
70 ceiling with useful articles manu-
featured and designed to gladden. tn
heart of maid. man or married folk
A new silverware case with fou
shelves on the right as one enters tn
door. is filled with silver sets an