The Baraboo news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1884-1911, 1909-02-25
Business Of philadelphia
d. Fl. Dresv r ecountS Conditions and Particulars
oft6e Great Manufacturing City.

To the Baraboo News: Philadelphia
is pre-eminently manufacturing city
In fact, in all its varied products, it is
the second manufacturing city in the
world; in some particular branches il
leads the world. It is also known as 8
city of homes. And the homes are moi
novels nor beehives, but substantial
two and three story brick houses
Neither do the occupants have TO ride
five or six miles to their work. Theil
homes are situated reasonably near to
their places of employment. Seventy
years ago the Building and Loan asso-
Citations of Philadelphia gave the me-
chanics and operatives of that city the
means and chance to build and occupy
homes of their own. This accounts for
the slow growth of this city compared
with some others. Where a dozen
families are packed together in one
tenement, like sardines in box, num-
bers count up fast. ;Slums and ghettoes
add vastly to population.
Manufactures
In manufacturing, the following /,
cleaned from reliable statistics, wilt
show why Philadelphia has been call
ed the manufacturing metropolis of
the country. Within her limits are
located $4,000 industries, representing
capital investment of$5O0, 900, 900 and
employing 275, 900 wage earners. The
Baldwin Locomotive works, the shops
Of which take up front of nearly
three squares, and where eight loco
motives are made and completed each
working day, is the largest of the kind
in the world. In Cramps ship yards,
many of the battle ships and
cruisers of the U. S. Navy have been
built, and whence some of the largest
merchantmen have been launched.
Philadelphia is the seat of hat making;
4,8OO, 900 hats are made here annually,
and if set end to end would reach from
that city to st. Louis. Twelve million
dozen hose are made here each year,
enough to allow two pairs for each
man, woman and child in the coun-
try. In underwear the output of the
city is "a, 100000 garments, while 34,-
100000 yards of worsted goods are
turned out each year; 2S,00O,0OO yards
of other woolen goods, and 100000
yards of cotton goods go to swell the
annual product of the mills of Phila.
delphia. In the manufacture of car
pets and rugs that city leads the
world; the yearly output, one yard
wide, would encircle the world.
Other Business.
In wholesale and jobbing the city
contains 1000 firms, whose annual
business amounts to upwards of $780,
100000. The jobber of Philadelhia
has decided advantage over the job
ber of any other city in the fact that
nearly every line of goods carried is
made right in the city. The retail
stores of Philadelphia are, IN size, inn
mense and in the business done, more
so. The stores of Wanamaker, Straw
bridge and Clothier, Gimbel Brothers,
Lit Brothers and Snellenburgs, are on
ly five of the great department stores,
but they alone employ nearly 10000
people. Wanamaker's store is IL
stories in height, fronting half
square, but when the addition, the
foundation of which is now being laid,
as completed it will occupy the whole
square in front, running from Market
to Chestnut streets, and, from an estl-
mate, 1 suppose, some three hundred
feet deep. There are thirty six .eieVat->
ors in the building, the placing of
which cost a million dollars. Gimbel
Brothers establishment occupies, in
frontage, the Whole of one square, but I
is not so tall as that of Wanamaker.
Goods are delivered in wagons TO all
parts of the city, which sometimes
means a jaunt of six or eight miles;
and the wagons of all the stores are
painted and gilded like circus vans.
At one time / counted no less than !
twenty delivery wagons in front OF
Wanamake'rs store.
The market houses of Philadelphia
are immense buildings of brick and
glass, with marble top stalls, and con-
crete floors. There, meat, vegetables
and fruit are to be had as soon as 1t is
light enough to see. No butcher sells
two kinds of meat. One deals in beef,
another in mutton, another in pork,
and all that pertains to pork, etc. The
SionS above the stalls indicate the |