Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1917-01-13
KIRK ADDS TO FAME OF
CITY
Manufacturer Has Made Chicago
Products Household Word
the World Over.

On the site of the first house erect.
ed in Chicago today stands the most
famous soap factory in the world.
For 1t is not too much to say that
James s. Kirk C Company occupies
a position in the business world
well known on the other side of the
world as 1t is within stones throw
of the factory doors.
II was in 1889 that the soap manu-.
featuring business of the great Ameri.
can house of Kirk was founded in
Chicago. Since then three genera.
tions of Kinks have developed the
business until It has become one Of
the modern giants of industry, call
ing to its aid the sciences of chemis.
try, botany and geology, and combin-
ing in coherent whole elements Of
success which have made Kirk prod
ucts household names in millions Of
| homes.
Progress Has Been Rapid.
From 1889 to 1914, though but q
step in older communities, is a far
stride in Chicago, where progress IL
being made at rate the old world
has never seen. From the struggling
line of shanties, which lined the low
marshes, to the magnificent skyline
of world capital, there is separa.
ton of far more than seventy.five
years. From the pioneer days to the
bustling present there Is change as
great as between England and
Cathay. The change Is not so much
in men as in mind, in methods more
than in products. The soaps manu-
featured in the tiny factory nearly
four score years ago were as good In
cleansing power, as pure in their con
stituent parts. as any Kirk product OF
this year of grace. But how far the
cry between the methods of that early
day and the vast machinery which
hastens and controls with automatic
precision the Kirk products now! II
is safe to say that not a single man
woman or child In America able t
read either English or any of the mod
ern tongues, but has become &C
quainted with the fact that Kinks
soaps are good soaps. Familiar will
the name, they have tried the prod
uct, and, finding 10 all right. they con
tinued to buy ever after.
Products known Everywhere.
1t is not chance which has wrough
this tremendous Industrial success
II is no lucky s'srir' which ha
brought the nssH, and fame OF TIT
American Family Soap or Jap Ros,
to the attention OF the civilize,
world. There Is the mcritorius prod
uct, which il the basis OF growth, q,
in every industrial success through
out all time, and there Is the per
sonality, the real active presence o
the man behind. This suggestive,
phrase, which sticks in the mind witt
. a persistency suggestive of its funda
mental truth, answers the eterpa
question, "Why this SUGGEST" by pic
turing the driving force, impellinl
the hundreds and thousands of loya
employees to their best efforts all tn
. time.
Mr.. HoIioway's Fine Record.
: To Edwin G. Holloway, presiden
of the James s. Kirk Company, ma
be credited very largely the new err
In the business. Twenty-seven year
ago Mr.. Holloway, then a young EN-
grant just from England. started 4
the packing room of the Kirk estat
lishment as clerk. He noted, learned
watched and studied until, havin
mastered the mysteries of the pacl
= ing room, he was transferred to othe
departments, learned the why an
wherefore of their being, saw no,
business was routed through tn
plant, came to understand the undel
lying principles Of the industry, an
found out that there we're processe
= he could better learn without tina
within the factory.
Having been thoroughly grounde
in the principles of chemistry, h
asked to be transferred to the chem
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