The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-11-03
r,.ctric Service Supplies Company
viii Remove it's Plant to Phila-
delphia the First of
Next Year.
HERE EIGHTEEN YEARS
Entire New Building to be Completed
First of 1911 Now Being Con
structed in the
East.

The Electric Service Supplies
Company, one of Keokuk's largest
manufacturing cor Germs will move 20
Philadelphia. Pa, to consolidate
with the wholesale headquarters of
the establishm mt with the manufac-
turing portion of the extensive plant.
1t is not probable that the Keokuk
ulant will be moved until after the
spring business of 1911 is at an end.
The announcement was made today
BY G. w. Cox, manager of the Elec-
tric Company which is located at
9e9 Main street and is more familiar
Unknown locally as the Garton-Dan
iels Company In an interview with
Manager Cox this morning, the rea-
son given for the removal of the
manufacturing interests of the com
pany from this city, is to establish
the entire business in one large
plant in North Philadelphia, a suburb
Of the city Of Philadelphia
AT the present time about forty
men are employed by the Electric
Service Supplies Company here. At
present is thought that only fiji
| ie.. or twenty of these skilled work
me. and several office employees will
20 to Philadelphia some time the first
Of next year. to continue in their po-
sitions.
Will Move in Several Months.
1t is possible that the Electric Sup
| plies company Will not move from
| Keokuk for five or six months, Mr.
Cox stating this morning that the
busiest months Of the year for the
manufacturing plant was during the
spring months of March, April and
May. 1t is not an improbability there
lore that the establishment will re-
hain a Keoliuk business enterprise
until the warm months Of next year
arrive.
Building Complete First Of Year.
At North Philadelphia, where the
Wholesale establishment of the
Electric Service Supplies house is TO
be built, a new all concrete, six-story
Structure is now being built. Two
floors of this structure when complet-
ed would about hold the KeokulS
Plant at Third and Main streets. The
new building in the east will be COM
peted about January first, and imme-
diately the wholesale department now
located in the city of Philadelphia
at 1920 Fflbert street will be moved
into this new structure.
1t is for the purpose of having the
entire concern in one large building
Of its own and to save the expense OF
transportation from manufacturing to
selling place of over thousand miles
that the merger of making and dis
pensing departments is to be con-
summated in the course of a few
months
In keokuk Eighteen Years.
In 1906, the Garton-Daniei Com
pany of this city became a part OF
ue Electric Service supplies Com
pany whose headquarters were in
Philadelphia. The Keokuls concern
vas the oldest of three consolidating
a that time, there being the Mayre-
tnglund Company of Philadelphia,
forter and Burg of Chicago and the
local concern, the name of which
was changed about four years ago.
Inc Garton-Laniel company has been
part of the manufacturing life Of
Aeokuk for nearly eighteen years.
Another branch of the selling de-
Mftment is located in Chicago, and
mat will remain there to handle the
seslern end Of the business of the
electric people.
ABOUT a million and half dollars
worth of business is done by the