Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1917-02-03
KIRK ADDS TO fame OF
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 8. Kirk & Company occupies
position in the business world
where its name and product is as
well known on the other side Of the
world as It is within a 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 a 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 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 q change q.
great as between England ant
Cathay. The change IL not SO mucf
in men as in mind, in methods more
than in products. The soaps manu-
featured in the tiny factory nearl!
four score years ago were as good II
cleansing power, as pure in their con
stituent parts. as any Kirk product o
this year of grace. But how far tn,
cry between the methods Of that earl!
} day and the vast machinery whicl
hastens and controls with automatic
precision the Kirk products now! I
Is safe to say that not single man
woman or child in America able I,
read either English or any Of the mod
ern tongues, but has become &C
quainted with the fact that Kirk
soaps are good soaps. Familiar witt
the name, they have tried the prod
uct, and, finding 1t all right. they con
tinued to buy ever after.
Products Known Everywhere.
It Is not chance which has wrough
; this tremendous industrial success
It Is no lucky stroke which ha
> brought the name and fame Of tn
American Family Soap or Jap RIOS
to the attention OF the civilize
world. There IL the meritorius proc
uct, which IL the basis OF growth, q
in every industrial success through
out all time, and there Is the pei
sonality, the real active presence q
the man behind. This suggestiv
phrase, which sticks in the mind wit
: porsistency suggestive Of its funds
mental truth, answers the eterps
question, "Why this success?" by pi,
turing the driving force. impellin
the hundreds and thousands of loyo
: employees to their best efforts all tn
4 time.
Mr.. Hoiioway's Fine Record.
= To Edwin G. Holloway, presideu
of the James 8. Kirk Company. ma
be credited very largely the new or
! In the business. Twenty.seven year
ago Mr.. Holloway, then young en-
grant Just from England. started
the packing room of the Kirk estal
, 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 ho'
business was routed through tn
plant, came to understand the unde
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. b
asked to be transferred to the chem