The Washington herald., 1912-08-31

Henry Hammond has made Of Du-
rarquet. Huot & Moneuse Co.. manufac-
turers OF the famous Duparquet kitchen
equipments. very washingtonian and
homelike firm.
The reason OF his success Is no further
to seek than the distance that lies be-
tween the seeker and the now Duparquet.
Fzuot & Moneuse store at 1,eo II Street
Northwest, for almost the first glance
into that airy, CHEEKY lightsome build
ing is ar explanation of how Mr.. Ham
mond has developed the local idea.
OF course, 1t is far more easily ex-
rlained than II was done. When Mr..
Hammond talked about the problem and
endeavors of twenty years Of labor and
ingenuity and care were needed TO make
a Washington store out of an immense
business with original Old World con-
nections and a name that only Mr.. Ham
mond and the French Ambassador can
pronounce glibly.
Tn our new place here" Mr.. Hammond
said, I'VE can perfect-I might say. I
think, that We have perfected-the plans
to make of our business a Washington
business, a home concern.
New BUILDING Needed.
ITO do this. we have needed a build
ipE exactly suited to the purpose, and
to have such a building We had to build
one. This lot is just what we wanted for
a site, and developed plans for what
We wanted in the way Of a house.
II designed with this primary idea:
That while our business, which had
steadily increased from the time We
opened at 143o Pennsylvania Avenue, was
already thoroughly known to the people
Of Washington. to make It essentially
home business we must do our manu-
facturing-or at least a good part of it
in our building; and also that our manu-
featuring department must not in any
way interfere with the neatness and con-
venience OF our salesrooms in which
the women of Washington had come to
feel at home.
Our experience in Pennsylvania Ave-
nue. was of great assistance. When we
opened there We had only an ONCE and
a basement. We were little more than
an agency of the New York headquar-
tiers and the purchasing department In
Paris.
But our business grew from the first,
and the Office and the business in little
while were overcrowded and We had TO
have more space. We leased adjoining
properties. one after another, and spread
up and down and out both sides. until at
last we had no more room to spread.
"In our development we worked out
the best plans for convenience and
economy in space. and those plans We
have used here.
Wood. Dom & Deming were our
architects, and 1 worked with them and
with the contractor, William Spence.
The building we Lave put together of
brick and stone and steel is the strong
est building in Washington as well as
the best adapted to its purposes. and its
heating and ventilation and lighting are
the best to be had"
Use Home Materials.
Besides using home talent for build
ing his store, Mr.. Hammond used home
materials in construction The brick on
the front OF the building is made in the
District and is called washington mot
tie" 1t is iisht in color, to match the
Indiana limestone.
The new store doesn't look like the
old place, though IT holds much the same
sort Of goods. The double entrance is
into wide, high salesroom for house.
hold furnishing goods. On tables and
on shelves convenient for both sales
man and purchaser are Duparquet goods
pots and pans and boilers Of tin and
copper and patent ware: big pots and
little ones. strong and serviceable, yet
OF home daintiness SO bright they are
among equally bright kettles, with never
a suggestion that the one utensil might
call the other black or anything but
clean as Duparquet."
Between them are ranked all sorts of
cooking engines. There are large family
stoves and ranges. and wafie cookers
and bread warmers and bakers, and
water heaters and boilers, and dozens of
other pieces Of modern equipment for
the kitchen.
Shown with them are the attach |
ments" for water. gas, and oil. and the |
patent appliances that make the gentle |
art Of cookery partake of mechanical |
science to q point Of leisurely conven-
ience.
An easy flight of stairs-aLd an eieva- |
tor. too-leads from this household de-
partment to the next floor. where the