The Washington herald., 1912-08-31
House of Duparquet
M0ves to New Home
Immense Business Grows Out of Firm with an
Old World Connection Storeroom
and Factory Located at I22OH
Street Northwest

VI UseIISSk
hotel and restaurant equipments are
shown. Just as neat and clean and
convenient. these big pots and pans and
stewers and ovens and skillets seem like
the furnishings Of . giants kitchen.
Ovens in which Is baked the bread OF
hundreds Of people at a great hotel or
Is roasted their meats; boilers of bur-
nished copper wherein soups and stews
and broths for almost multitude simmer
and bubble and boil: siivery steam ia
tles. some day to shine and simmer in
the hungry incoming Of bustlins dairy
lunch or in the midst of a mighty hos
telry: griIls and toasters and warmers
and bread pans-aH these stand sturdiiy
about the room. fanked with the tre-
mendous hoods which are to hover above
the cooking pots.
| Third Floor for stock.
There is a stock room on the third
floor. and 1t, too. Is reached by an easy
fight Of stairs-or by an electric elevator.
In the stock room are stored in great
quantity the utensils and implements of
which generous samples are displayed
below.
While the house OF Duparquet, Huot 4
Moneuse Co. is to manufacture goods un-
der its own roof it is going to keep
ahead Of the trade all the time. and al
ways have above plenty Of the things
thev show and sell below.
| On the fourth floor is the place where
Mr.. Hammond houses his greatest home
idea-the workshop where Duparquet
goods will really be Washington made"
| 1t is a roomy workshop with no lost
space. either. In the rear is a forge. its
Goals fercely aglow under the breath
of a powerful electric fan. taking the
place OF the ancient bellows. In its red
and green and blue flames steel and cop
per and bronze soften to be worked un-
der the pliers and hammer at the anvil
hard by.
| Close at hand are vises-mechanical
vises-and work benches. with ranks of
files, punches. hacksaws. soldering irons.
rules. calipers. and mallets above them.
In the main room, from which the Du-
parquet smith is shut of for sake of
comfort. are more benches and more
tools. Jobs" In all degree OF compile
ton. are visible as the signs Of activity.
Here Is a hood for an oven in one Of
| Washington's finest houses. a chef, au-
gust In his authority and holiday attire,
Is here even now to say the final word
| about this part Of the engine he is master
| OF. There is a tremendous coffee urn
| to do service in one of the biggest and
busiest dairy lunches of Washington.
Here again is a meat platter to take its
J place in the equipment of one of the
fine Avenue hotels. There again are small
boilers and pots and pans for the real
homes Of Washington. the homes where
| the people of the District of Columbia
live, and move and have their being.
Furnish Any Kitchen.
For to the house of Duparquet a cooks
cook for a that and a. that, whether
| cook is masculine or feminine gender.
imported or domestic. mother or a sis
! ter Of the household. or merely help"
and the house of Duparquet makes It a
pleasurable business-and withaI profit
able-to see to it that cooks engine is
in good running order.
"A clean and complete kitchen helps
the housekeeper, soothes the home
maker" is the motto OF the house of
Duparquet, as Mr.. Hammond has local
lied" It.
I'VE can furnish any kitchen" Mr..
Hammond stated. but We wish to fur
nish the home kitchens of Washington.
We want home trade. and while we have
had a very generous share of II in the
past. we are going to specialize on It.
I'VE are thoroughly prepared for it.
We have the necessary stock and We
have the necessary facilities for manu-
facture and repair. We have a shop
here that think appeals to the women
and believe that the future will show
that we have builded wisely and well, and
that we have not overestimated the need
the people feel for our shop.
"Our business is not only in a new
store. but 1t has new facilities for the
comfort and convenience Of patrons and
ourselves. 1t has novel features, but I
believe that none Of the features Is
newer than the desire Of our people for
constantly newer and better things that
make the household a more perfect
home"
Mr.. Hammond. who lives at the Marl-
boro. became connected with the Dupar-
quet. Huot q Moneuse Company In 1894
He las at the New York quarters, 4s
and Is Wooster Street. until 1887. when
he came to Washington. He has since
lived here. His residence has been at
the Marlboro ever since that house was
completed.