The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-06-23
WESTERN ELECTRIC
HEREIN RICHMOND
Company That Selects
Big Richmond as Its
Distributing Point.
MANY MEN TO BE
EMPLOYED HERE
Big Shop That Comes to Rich
mond From the Far West.
Western Electric Company
to Do Big Business
Right in the
City.

Richmond Is always .4pturing some
thing that is good and ii is not doing
1t BY any chicanery or by any tricks
known to the dubious trade. but by
It's own well known fneats as COM
mereial centre and distributing
Icint
IN" Chamber OF Commerce. the
Business Mems club. this Advertisers
Association, the Industrial Section Of
The Times-Dispatch ana the good eI
toFts OF some private CITIZENS have all
cone great deal TO let the world
kHov that Richmond is the real dis
tiibuting point for tho whole south.
the gateway. IT may be said. TO all that
Is worth having down in DiAie.
just want To show by u real .prac-
tcal Gemonstration how this thInS
may sometimes work The Western
Electric Company IS ono OF the big
scst concerns ia the world. Il doubt
{ there is anything on the world 3
mp that is any bigge. from COM
mercial view. 1t has factories ana Of
iees all over the earth and employs
more than 10000 people. The West
1rn Electric Company was in search
81 goodly southern distributing
point, point from whica the conipa ny
could send it's goods GU, to "a large
~outhern territory Af.oi due consid-
grafton tho company decided that
Hichmond was the distributing depot
u was looking for and mere it came.
They Cnmr MA Saw.
Representatives OF the big company
came to Richmond TO View the land
they liked IT, and they decided tina,
:he little Office they had been main
lining IN another Virginia town was
not just tn. thing that was wanted.
Nhst was wanted was a big central
tii'ce and warehouse, coneregsting
Snd assembling point tcom which all
oi tn, products OF this great electrl-
cal manufacturing company may be
Distributed all over gCodly Southern
territory.
The big warehouse at the corner OF
Sixth and Cary Streets was leased tor
a long term of years. 1t was once a
lcbacco factory. II is now a megn!-
;icent ofice building. and there the
Western Electric Company, one OF the
Sigges, industrial concerns OF the
"ar,h has it's principal Southern of
fee
II ". Hall, the general manager 81
the Virginia southwest department OF
u" work. told me the other day that
he thinks this Richmond Office and
headquarters Of the business win be a
big thing lie intimates that since
the company found II wse TO invade
the South 1t has had mighty good
prohis, There is no reason TO sup
pose that the Virginia and North
Carolina pronts Of the next few years
WA in any way reduce the record.
Richmond 5 10 be congratulated that
IL has captured one OF the biggest
concerns on the ropes.
What About II.
This Western Electric company is a
very large concern handling perhaps
more money than any organized stock
company IN the United States Its
Richmond branch. Just established.
viii be one OF twenty-eight branch
houses in tho United state, from
which the electrical products Of tho
enormous faoiories at Hawthorne. ILL.,.
New York, and some other points will
be distributed
comparatively new in the world and
II was something that had to grow
very fast and grow under and with
the nerve OF men who believed in new
things. a few people out in the wild
west State OF Illinois organized ,he
years ago. New York CAPITALISTS
came 10 the front later on. and now
! reckon vcrybody in the world would
IKE 10 have some of the stock OF thu
Western Electric. for it is mighty
good paying paper. Richmond is to
De congratulated that a plant OF this
company has been located here Tbe
In New York ana the manufacturers
plant that supplies to all OF the dis
tributing plants in the country and in
'the world is located just on the out
skirts of Chicago in a beautiful subur
ban town called Hawthorne
Richmond Looms Up.
The company has established fac.
tories for the manufacture of electrical!
goods in many cities Of this country
and distributing and wholesaling ware
houses in very many more While
looking for the best distributing point
OF the best part of all the South, there
naturally doomed up before the ewes
Of the officials the great town of Rich
mond. Richmond got there all right
and the directors of the company were
not long in deciding that this good
city on the James was the logical
distributing point TOR Virginia ana
North Carolina.
Last fall the company came hero
and leased for loEg term Of years
the splendid building al the corner
of Sixth and Cary street, and there
they have made vast improvements
and arranged splendid offices for the
complete conduct of the big business
that is on ahead for Their. in this
good country
The Men mt the Helm.
Richmond Is 10 DE congratulated
end of the big business of the West
ern Electrical Company Just how
Richmond captured this big enter
prise, one that will distribute not
less than two ana ii qtAfrter million
dollars per year I'm fhe town, is a
question In dispute. and none or the
disputants are goi3t to fight abou.
It. Two years or more ago j. w.
{, Crews, the man of the Bell Telephone
& Company, had an intmation that tho