Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-11-07
Handsome in Appearance, Plant Embodies Best
 Efficiency Ideas.
ENTIRELY OF METAL
 CONCRETE, GLASS
xo 1nflammable Material Used in Con. struction of Twenty First Century Hardware Establishment, Which
 Will Defy Fire and Time.

IVY ITH the occupation by WV the Fox Brothers
 Hardware company of the handsome fire-proof build ing, just completed at 8 cost of s5O,OOO. this firm comes into possession of facilities for the economical and prompt transac- ton of business that places it in the front rank of progressive hardware concerns in the coun- try.
 The steadily increasing volume of business, due to successful business methods and the grow ing popularity of Pine Bluff as market for supplies in all lines for South Arkansas, created some time ago the necessity for larger storage space and better office facilities for business in- stitution. Without haste, and with considerable forethought and some travel, for the inspec- ton of plants of similar con- arns in other cities, the plans and details of the new Fox brothers. building were evolved, with the result that the building embodies in it's construction, ar rangement and appliances the most modern ideas for a struc- ture particularly adapted to the methods employed in the opera tion of a twenty-first century wholesale hardware business. While to the architect, Mitchell Selligman, and his assistants credit is due for the external ap- pearance and the modern struc tural features of the building, and to the contractors, Galbraith ( Royse, for the successful ex- ecution of the contract, it was the intimate knowledge of the details of the business and ideas for increasing efficiency possess ed by the owners that made pos- slble the results achieved in the arrangement of the different de- partments and facilities. It is truly Fox brothers building In creation as we'll as ownership.
 A Really Fireproof Building.
 The building covers a space of !l5 feet on Fifth avenue and 98 feet on State street. It has no basement. because a basement mas no value in this business. The building is thoroughly fireproof ana carries an extremely low rate on insurance. The construction is or reinforced concrete girders m carry the walls of each story a maoependent of the other stories. me concrete columns are .ex- posed on the exterior and inter- lor races and the brick curtain walls ill in the spaces between me columns and from the gird.. els to the under side of the steel wMdow frames which, in most eases, are set up high from the .Uor line to permit the wall space uaoer them for storage and shel- sms. By exposing the concrete s.,uctural features, such as the IsSulumns and girders. and bv the tUelai use of stone trimming on a e.e exterior faces. the monotony M tne usual warehouse walls are iilAinated si and this building re- BY as becomes an ornament in it's environment.
 !. The geenral offices are located
 me southeast corner of the hatn aSs Ilioor, with entrances from s;tn ta rlfth and State street, and S sI access to directors room, ss.ay rooms and shipping de-
 nes snsnt. It contains a fire
 M ', vault of unusual size for
 aales. The directors room is
 Test of the office on the
 venue side md to the
 EIls room il e