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PROPERTY OF THE
IIBRARY OF C0.XG1LESS
Joliet in Photographs
GIVING A REPORT OF POSSESSION AND PRESENT CONDITIONS
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OPULATION a little over fifty thousand. — Four trunk line railway syflems. —Two
coal and belt lines of railway, bringing in over thirty trunk lines. — In the Chicago
diSlricl, suburban fares. ~ Freight rates the same without Chicago conge^ion. — An
Interurban Five Spoke eiedric sySlem. — The Illinois and Michigan canal. —The
Lakes to Gulf deep water way. — The Wilmington coal fields in the suburbs.
— Joliet, in power, water or fuel; in transportation, water, ^eam or eledlric, has
been made the center of the earth.
^ It's many and large indu^ries. — A pay roll of $9,000 daily. — Four national banks, resources
$5,750,000.00, make it a splendid town for business.
^ A Township High School sending its graduates through the be^ colleges in two years. — Twenty-nine
grade and denominational schools give every child a seat; attendance compulsory. — A public library
costing $196,000.00 and two club libraries give every inhabitant the books. — Six hundred and
fifteen acres in free parks. — A Commercial club for public business. — A Social Club for fun. — A
Working Men's Club for rest. — A Young Men's Club for exercise. — A Woman's Business Club
for lunches. — A Country Club for golf. — A wide awake and public spirited people with good health
and miles of streets paved makes Joliet a good town to live in.
fl The Trunk Lines are elevating their tracks— one-half the retaining walls completed. — One hund-
red and twenty-five miles of the Five-spoke Interurban in full operation. When completed giving
two fast lines to Chicago, one to St. Louis via Peoria, (another via Bloomington and Springfield),
another to Princeton. One spoke connects with the Wisconsin System, and another with the Indi-
ana. — The deep water way built from Lake Michigan to Joliet, on its way to the Mississippi, with
52,000 electric horse power developed will give Joliet a total of 89,000 electric h. p. makes Joliet
a good town this year, A. D. 1909.
^ in freight and passengers, dollars and cents, Joliet is the best town on The Great Rock Island
System between Chicago and Kansas City; on the Alton System, excepting Chicago, St. Louis and
Kansas City; on the Santa Fe between Chicago and Kansas City; on the Michigan Central, leaving
out Chicago, Detroit and Buffalo; and the best on the two belt and two Interurban systems. Thus
Joliet is a good business city every year. A good town to live in any year, and all the years.
Supplement to The Joliet News. 1909
Celebrating our thirty-second hinlKlav
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The News Building
The All'Car Corner, Ottawa and Van Buren Streets
THE Daily News Parted April 9, 1 877; purchased by the present management Sept. 30th
the same year; incorporated January 1 9, 1 883. Independent in politics and an exponent
of all good things always. Employees 147. Expenditures average $60,000.00
annually. James H. Ferriss, president; H. E. Baldwin, secretary and treasurer; George F.
Seely, business manager.
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LIVING ROOM
The Commercial Club
THESE quarters are nearly outgrown. Especially is this noticeable at the luncheon hour.
The club has a membership above 400 and will probably have 500 before the cnci
of the present year. Their rooms are the heaclquarters for the business people ancj the
business activities of this section. ^ C. W. Jordan, Prest.; W. O. Hodgdon, Industrial Agent.
^ The Union Club, of equal importance, is purely a social club, with rooms at the Masonic
Temple, and a country club with 80 acres of ground upon the Manhattan line. ^ No liquor
is sold at these clubs. Liquor is not a favorite here in business or society.
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ARCHITECT'S DRAWING
PLANT OF WESTERN UNITED GAS COMPANY
-The Western United Gas Company -
OLD plants have been purchased and rebuilt and new ones erected in more than thirty
cities and villages in this part of the state by the Western United Gas Company.
These plants are connected by 1 1 8 miles of pipe line, and the system is to be sup-
plemented with a modern central plant here this season at the Dellwood dam, present terminal
of deep water navigation. ^ Here the coal of Pennsylvania and West Virginia will be un-
loaded by gravity from the boats upon an elevated railway switch, and again delivered in turn
by gravity to the hoppers of the coal bins. ^ There will be two units of manufacture, each
with a capacity of 3,000,000 cubic feet daily. Also a 500 h. p. electric plant, installed in
duplicate. Traveling cranes will handle all outgoing or incoming material, and all machinery
and heavy work will be performed by power.
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fl Joliet is a cheap gas town, with prices adjusted by arbitration every five years. Duplicate
lines of mains supply the loop in which Plainfield, Aurora, Naperville, Downers Grove, Hins-
dale, La Grange, Summit, Willow Springs, Lemont and Lockport are situated. The farmers
also have the advantages of cheap gas, and clamor continually for an extension of the mains.
fl The company has laid 320 miles of mains and has over 600 employees; 28,031 service
connections, and during the summer months of the past year had out 28,221 meters. Cooking
by gas has become the fashion, fl New offices are now being erected upon Ottawa street, half
a block north of the News building. President - Ira Copley, Aurora; District Manager - H.
J. Mitchell. Joliet
MAINS LEADING OUT FROM THE JOLIET PLANT
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HARPER PhUTOS
ABOVE THE DAM
St. Joseph's Church in the background
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Economy Ligh
THE water power at Jackson street, utilized by the Econc
In its power house of an eighth of a mile in length, a
From this plant the electric railways running to Chicago
more than eighty per cent of the machinery in Joliet is driven I
field. New Lenox and Rockdale are lighted, fj Near Jacksc
capable of producing 2,500 h. p. fj The Economy Light i
from Joliet to its mouth, embraced in which are two water poi
at the mouth of the Desplaines river capable of producing 25,
JOLIET OFFICE
ECONOMY LIGHT & POWER CO.
(A Nighl View.)
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ENERATOR ROOMS
JACKSON STREET DAM
Power Company
it & Power Co., is one of the great water powers of the country.
led thirty-four 66-inch water turbines, which furnish 1 0,000 h. p.
I and Chicago Heights derive their power. The Steel Mills and
ic power, fl From this plant the cities of Joliet, Lemont, Plain-
in the City of Joliet, the company owns a steam turbine station,
r Co. owns thirty miles of riparian rights on the Desplaines river,
e at Hickory Creek, capable of producing 15,000 h. p., and one
1. The water power at this latter location is now under development.
THE CHANNEL
Throuah solid limestone; 40 feel deep. 160 feel wide
Water 24 feet in depth
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POWER HOUSE AND LOCK, LOCKPORT
The Sanitary District of Chicago
THE power plant at Lockporl (Dellwood station) develops 42,000 horse power. Dam
number one, the property of the state, has 1 0,000 horse power. The improvement of
the Hickory creek fall in Joliet will develop 22.000 h. p.; at Dresden Hills 1 5,000 h.
p. (dam under construction); a total of 89,000 h. p. in the Joliet stretch of the channel — a
distance of sixteen miles, tj The channel through the rock between Chicago and Joliet has
been excavated to a depth of 24 feet, measured on the lock miter sill, and I 60 feet in width
at the bottom. In the clay 1 4 feet in depth. ^ Below Dresden Hills dams will also be
constructed at Ottawa and Utica.
BEAR TRAP DAM. ABOVE
BEAR TRAP DAM. BELOW
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JOLIET has four national banks and one private bank, conducted by home business men and bankers, possessing the
full confidence of the people. One has 80 stockholders and two others are not far behind in this respect. They
have never known trouble. In the last New York flurry cashier's checks, without further security than the cashier's
signature, were cheerfully accepted in both Joliet and Chicago. Business was not interrupted here by that disturbance.
In truth the disturbance did not hit Joliet. All of the bank construction illustrated here was built in the past two years.
They seem good enough for any city.
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Will
County National Bank -
Ottawa and J^-tlctson Streets
•-pHE Will County is
the second oldest national bank in this city;
chartered
1871;
capital
J[ and surplus.
$360,000.00.
The building was completely remodeled in
1908,
and at
Ottawa an
d Jefferson streets has one of the best corners ir
1 the city.
Present re- 1
sources $1,823,::
50.83.
Chas.
H. Talcott, Prest.; J. W. Folk,
Vice-Prest.; H
;nry J.
Weber, Cashier.
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Woodruff Safe Deposit Building
Leased by The First National Bank
IN classical architecture, this is the most perfect example in our city. Both the interior and
outer decorations are in excellent taste, applied with a liberal hand, and in our day a credit
to any city. The building was erected the past season for the use of The First National.
This is our oldest bank — established in 1 85 7; chartered as a national bank in 1 864 (No. 5 I 2).
Present resources $1,483,965.44. George Woodruff, president; A. H. Wagner, cashier;
John K. Bush. Assistant Cashier.
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— The Citizens National Bank
Barber Building. Chicago Street
THE Citizens is the youngest of the four
national banks of this city. It was organ-
ized in 1902, with a capital of $100,-
000.00. A savings department was added
later to meet the convenience of small deposi-
tors. Total resources to date $940,000.00.
Robert Pilcher, President; Fred Bennitt, Vice-
President; Geo. Erb, Cashier; F. W. Wood-
ruff, Assistant Cashier.
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Joliet National Bank Building
Chicaao and Clinton Slrct-ts
THIS office building, fireproof throughout, will be ready for tenants the coming month.
Every room is separated from all others by fire-proof joints and material. The Joliet
National Bank, owners of the building, will occupy the northwest corner, first floor and
basement, with offices above. Chartered in 1 89 1 ; stock increased to $ 1 50,000.00 April,
1 909; present resources. $ 1 ,80 1 ,292.
T. A. Muon. Proidcnl; Geo. M. Campbell. V. PrM.; Roberl T. Kelly. Caihicr: C. H. Sawyei and C. G. Peaice, Ajs'l. Cashieis
M. F. LousKtan. J. O. Barrett. S. B. Pease. Edwin S. Munroe.
in the Diieclorv
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American Refractories Company
BUILT within the last two years. Upon the second anniversary of breaking ground by
enlarging the plant its capacity was increased fifty per cent and 90,000 brick are now
manufactured daily. The product consists principally of a brick 98 per cent pure silica.
Other classes of high grade refractory material are made from imported clays and minerals.
350 men are employed. E. M. Allen, Vice Prest. H. A. Sechrist, Gen'l Manager.
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Joliet Forge Company
THE Joliet Forge Company is
one of the best of its class.
Many large forgings of high
grade are made here for manufac-
turers of machinery in distant parts
of the union and in foreign countries.
Peter Sharpe, a specialist, is presi-
dent and treasurer.
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OFFICE BUILDING AND MACHINE SHOPS
The Bates Machine Company
THE Bates Corliss engine is famous in the South African gold fields, and in many other
countries than our own. These engines are manufactured here from 50 to 5,000 horse
power, and there are many other lines also bearing the Bates stamp, viz.: complete power
plants, general transmission machinery, high speed automatic and gas engines, pumps and pump-
ing machinery, purification plants, mining machinery, etc. Wholly a Joliet enterprise. Three
hundred men are employed, with a yearly output of $300,000.00. \V. O. Bates, president
and general manager.
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FOUNDRY
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FEET
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Jas. G. Heggie Boiler Works
ONE of our large factories, starting here from small beginnings, seventeen years ago. One
of these buildings is 85x250 feet; the other, 60x250 and 60 feet in height, was
built the past season. Twenty-ton cranes reach any portion of the buildings. Equip-
ment the latest and best in boiler making. Heavy boiler plate construction is shipped from
here to Mexico, Canada and all parts of the Union. The Roosevelt dam in Arizona is a
present day customer.
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^ Our cover design is a photograph of the bust of Louis Joliett placed above the main entrance
to the Joliet High School. It is the work of Will La Favor, a graduate of the Joliet public
schools, and it is a pleasure to announce that this is the best portrait of the great explorer.
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Joliet Railroad Supply Co.
ORMERLY Perry Side Bearing Co., manufacturing brake beams, side bearings and
other railroad specialties. Building 1 60x60, two stories; machinery of the latest and
best patterns. Col. Fred Bennitt, Prest.' E. A. Laughlin, Manager.
Franklin Steel Company ■
THE factory located here in 1903, now neatly decorated with vines and shrubbery, and
is considered one of our neatest factories— manufacture toe calks in 200 sizes and shapes,
of open hearth steel for the territory west of the Ohio. The process of manufacture is
principally machine work and twenty-five men are employed. Eastern factory, Cambridge,
Mass. f-". W. Pitcher, President; W. F. Pitcher, Treasurer and Manager.
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Joliet Steel Car Manufacturing Co,
ORGANIZED in 1 9U8 for the manufacture of a special ^eel car and general line of
steel car building and repairing; works located upon the Joliet belt line. The fir^ of
six units, herewith illustrated, one building 80x800, the other 80x400, costing, com-
pleted, $381,435.00. ConSruction will be Waited the present month. Capacity 3,000 cars
per year. Robert B. Campbell, President; Victor R. Browning, Cleveland, Vice President.
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DRAWING
The Joliet Bridge and Iron Co.
ORGANIZED 1896, new building now under con^ruction, by their own workmen.
Over 4,000 contracts in bridge work and fleet buildings have been finished by this
firm. Some of their customers were:
The American Can Co., Elgin National Watch Co , Deere-Mansur Co., Moline; Challenge Wind Mill Co.,
Batavia; Commonwealth Steel Co., St. Louis; Board of Education, Chicago; Memphis Street Railway
Co., Memphis; Roaring Fork Plaster Co., Colo.; Chicago and Joliet Electric R. R. Co.; Sanitary
District ol Chicago; Helena Posloffice, Helena, Mont.; Union Labor Temple, Los Angeles, Cal.; Peer-
less Portland Cement Co., Union City, Mich.; Auditorium Building. Saginaw, Mich.
The new building at the right is I 60x320 feet, and their traveling cranes will reach every
space of the flooring. To this there will be a wing 80x I 20 feet. The capacity of the plant
will be quadrupled by this new structure. R. C. Morrison, President and Treasurer.
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COKE OVENS
Illinois Steel Company
THE Illinois Steel Company erected these four batteries of by-product coke ovens, consist-
ing of 280 ovens at their plant here in 1 908. it is the only plant of its character in
America, and has been a great success. The coal and tar and ammonia are sold
for shipment. The coke is used in the blast furnaces at the plant, and the surplus gas,
1 7,500,000 cubic feet daily, is consumed for power at the rod mills.
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STACKS OK THE ROD MILL
THE INGOT MOLDS
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Illinois
A PHOTOGRAPH taken from the walls of the Penit
Water Way; Rod Mill ^acks in the center; Converter
Sleel plant was located in Joliet early in the Seventies by
it is one of the largeft mills of the great United States Steel Corpc
inventions that revolutionized steel making had their origin, and w
sists of four blast furnaces with a combined capacity of 540,000
in ingots of 700,000 tons per annum; three rod mills with a c
60,000 tons per annum; one billet mill with a capacity of 600, 0(
bolt and nut fadlory, 240,000 kegs per annum; one rail fastening
roll shops, foundries and other construction and repair departme
the pay roll for 1908 was $2,725,000. Two hundred and sig
ELEVATED BILLET
CARRIER. FROM THE
BILLET MILL TO
THE ROD MILL
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Company
Two groups of blaA furnaces to the right, on the bank of the Deep
jackground; Merchant Mill and Offices at the left. — This Bessemer
/leeker & Co. A number of changes in ownership occurred and now
A well managed plant, it has grown steadily. Here many of the great
;w years its capacity has been largely increased. — The plant now con-
pig iron per annum; three 1 0-ton Bessemer converters, with a capacity
jf 330,000 tons per annum; one merchant iron mill with a capacity of
af billets per annum; one spike fa(5tory, 900,000 kegs per annum; one
I 30,000 tons per annum. — To these are added the machine shops,
ated for the company's own use. ~ The employees number 3,600 and
• ovens were put in operation the past season.
l^iUiliL
THE BLAST FURNACES
AS SEEN FROM
THE
DEEP WATERWAY
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SCOTT STREET PLANT
American Steel & Wire Company
WIRE fencing is made in Joliet of Bessemer soft steel. Between the American Steel &
Wire Company and the Illinois Steel Company the whole process, from coking the
coal and smelting the ores to the finished galvanized nails and fencing is carried on at
this point. The Scott street plant, formerly the Lambert & Bishop mill, like its twin mill at
Rockdale, has been greatly enlarged year by year, and both are known as big plants in their
classification. These are again being enlarged the present season. A photograph gives but a
portion of any of these great plants. ^ Frank J. Whitgrove, superintendent at Scott street.
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ROCKDALE PLANT
American Steel & Wire Company
THE invention of barb wire fencing aided greatly in tfie development of tfie we^, and a
number of weAem cities entered into tfie movement with energy. At one time Joliet
had over twenty manufa<5luring concerns making as many kinds of barb wire. These
were gathered into the great American Steel and Wire Company, now manufadluring nails and
about all of the wire products - fencing and galvanized wire continuing as the leading lines.
In Joliet there are two plants, and these in 1907 employed ! 503 men with a pay roll of
$1,075,702. Their produa was 196,094 tons in that year. The Rockdale plant was
formerly known as the Enterprise Mill. Fred Ingraham, Superintendent.
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THE GALVANIZING BATTERY
BARB WIRE FENCING
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SHOPS OF THE ELGIN. JOLIET & EASTERN RAILWAY. MAPLE STREET
Elgin, Joliet & Eastern
( Chicago Outtr Bell )
COMMENCING at the left, blacksmith building; machine shop; woodworking shop right of
round house; 200,000 gallon tank for fire prote(5lion; new Morehouse, in foreground at the
right. Steel car repair fhop, sugar warehouse, icing plant and other buildings not shown.
•J The height handled by the belt roads through Joliet is enormous. In this resped, the Michigan
Central line into the city is something of that nature. The Chicago- Milwaukee, Gary,
completed from Rockford to Momence, and building to Milwaukee and Gary, is a belt road in
fad. The Elgin, Joliet and Ea^ern, built from Waukegan to the coal fields and Joliet, and the
Chicago, Lake Shore and EaSern, from Joliet to Gary, operated much as one, makes another
complete belt for Joliet, and also for Chicago. Same freight rates as Chicago. Robt. B.
Campbell, Joliet, General Manager.
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CHICAGO. LAKE SHORE AND EASTERN RAILROAD YARDS AT THE GARY TERMINUS
Chicago, Lake Shore & Eastern
THIS road has I 65 miles of trackage, and at the Gary terminus Storage room for I 5,000
cars. ^ Over the road for the year ending June 30, 1 907, a normal year, 2,849,287
tons of coal, stone, ore and miscellaneous freight were received, and 1 ,420,709 tons, or
40,777 cars, forwarded. The number of loaded cars passing through Joiiet over this road for
the same period was 18,199, or 629,685 tons. ^ The road owns 6,532 freight cars, 41
freight locomotives, 84 switch locomotives. The average number of men employed is 5 32,
with an annual pay-roll of $365,000.00. Robt. B. Campbell, General Manager, Joiiet.
Pholoin'apH made for Federal CemenI Tile Co.. of Chicago
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UNION STATION
Chicago & Alton Railroad Company
THE Only Way, " the familiar trademark of this leading road, connedls Joliet with the
coal fields of Central Illinois, which reach the famous Braidwood -Wilmington mines on
the Alton in this County but 1 5 miles distant, while the Coal City branch commencing
at Joliet taps the coal distri(5l in Grundy County, insuring cheap fuel and plenty of it for
Joliet. Coal famines are not known here. ^ The block south of the present site of the Alton
passenger station has been chosen for the new $90,000.00 union depot, illustrated upon this
page, included in the plans for track elevation. The tracks for the trunk lines are being
raised by mutual agreement between the city, county and railway companies. The Alton
joins with the Santa Fe in the north and south line through the city. ^ Commencing at Joliet,
with Joliet promoters, builders and managers, and much Joliet good will this is now the great
Chicago, St. Louis and Kansas City road, with Springfield, Bloomington and Peoria in between.
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TRACK ELEVATION. C R. 1. «< P « «•
Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway -
111- ^ TV, is arpat svstem made its commence-
A MOTHER compk ol e..ly JoW =»l«P.~. Th,. ^"'J'' ^ ,„,j
.y>,™,. giving Joli« P'™P> "•« '» *' r , , Nllk. Mi.n.»>la .nJ .he D.U...
,L.. K...... M„,co .„d C.I,.o,.„ anJ new.., '"^t ™, JSl dooUe ,U „.ckag..
lines svere completed the past season.
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CHANNAHON
BRIDGE
ON THE
DU PAGE RIVER
Joliet Steel Construction Company
ONE of the numerous art bridges of this vicinity. The spans, 80 feet in the clear, make it the longest single span con-
crete bridge in the state. Built by the Joliet Steel Construction Company, over the Du Page between Joliet and
Channahon. CJ Here, with an unlimited supply of magnesian limestone, concrete has one of its greatest points of
vantage. ^| This company eredted the auditoriums at Dellwood and Ele<5lric Parks, also Riverview Park, Aurora, and
many of the large concrete and steel fadtory buildings in this vicinity, and a number of states. <J| They also manufadture
over 50 different articles of concrete specialties. The plant on Washington street is a modern stru(5ture. The company
is composed of the Mateer Brothers, Fred D. Mateer, president and general manager.
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BUILDING
The Gerlach-Barklow Co., Art Calendars for Advertising
ORGANIZED June, 1907. One of four great calendar houses of the highest class, and not the least of
the four, with a product distributed exceedingly pleasing and creditable to our city. In six months the entire
organization was under headway and the first season made a remarkable success. The second has more than
doubled the business, and the capacity of the building is now being increased threefold. ♦! The above gives a view of
the completed structure, Washington street front, 300 feet. John Lambert, President; Theodore Gerlach, Vice Presi-
dent; E. J. Barklow, General Manager; K. H. Gerlach, Secretary; Dr. J. C. Flowers, Treasurer; all of Joliet.
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^HE churches of Joliet are forty-one in number. vOne of
these is an institutional church (the Central Presbyterian)
with gymnasium; another (Ottawa St. M. E.) now building.
Chriit's Church and Retf^ory (Episcopalian). Van Buren Street. Young
Men's Club not included in the view. Rev, T. W. MacLean. PaStot.
Central Presbyterian. Richards Street. Rev. Robt. ^'o^, Paslor.
St. Mary's Irish Roman Catholic. Ottawa St.. Rev.W. J. McNamee. PaStor.
CHRIST'S CHURCH AND RECTORY
The Churches of Joliet
CENTRAL PRESBYTERIAN
ST. MARY'S
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THE OLD STONE BRID
THE CANYON
Dellwood Lake, Chicago;
A NATURAL scenic park of 70 acres, on the Lockport road I
buildings IS constructed permanently of concrete, with tile roofl;
this section meet here and with double tracks are handled per '
the many healthful amusements and excellent entertainments have addt
amusement park so far completed in the West. All sorts of peopif
$300,000, and the expenditure was made wisely and in good taste a;
large number of the churches, benevolent societies and other organizati
railway equipment consists of 56 cars, 20 miles of trackage in Joliet, an
American Railways Company of Philadelphia, J. R. Blackball, resider
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AND DELL WOOD LAKE
Joliet Electric Railway
"he Chautauqua building seats 5,000 people, and including all other
nd in the mission style of architecture. ^ The largest gatherings of
No liquor is sold. The base ball and athletic field, scenic railway,
ally to the enjoyment of Joliet people, and they believe it is the best
t here, but the order has been perfect, f^ The enterprise cost about
le landscape, improvements and the convenience to the public. A
f Chicago and vicinity hold their regular annual picnics here. ^ The
of double trackage to Chicago, total 80 miles. ^ Operated by the
leral manager.
CHAUTAUQUA LAKE
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P.AVILION AND COTTAGE. WEST PARK
THE FERN ISLAND. WEST PARK
F,
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Lockport
road;
Eledlric
Du Page river;
Rock R
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Illinois
& Michi
gan
of Arden
and H
ghland,
4ickory creek; W
efl
Park,
B
lish Run; McKir
ley
and Richards, Hickory creek;
a tota
of 615
acres.
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HICKORY CREEK. HIGHLAND PARK
THE SPRING HOUSE. WEST PARK
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ELECTRIC PARK
Joliet Southern Interurban
A DELIGHTFUL summer resort with Chautauqua grounds, on the Du Page river
r^ A clean stream for boatmg, fishing and bathing, pure air and restfulness the features
The pay,l.on. seatmg 3,500 people, contains a pipe organ, and the Will County
Chautuaqua holds „s meetings here. Liquors are prohibited. Family cottages, equipped with
gas. elednc l.ghts and water. The M. E. camp meeting ground at New Lenox is also s.tuated
on this hne. ^Th. company is conned.ng up the lll.no.s valley system from Pnnceton and
Peona; the Rockford, DeKalb and Wisconsin Imes at Aurora; the Springfield and St. Louis
mterurban Imes from Bloomington and the Kankakee line at Chicago Heights with Chicago
q Now m operation from Joliet to Aurora 11 m.les, and to Chicago Heights 25 m.les, and from
Uw,ght to Pont.ac 3d m.les. General offices News Building, Joliet. H. A. Fisher President
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Joliet Township High School
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A COLLEGE preparatory school. Pupils graduating here finish their college course in
two years. One thousand pupils are now attending. The auditorium seating capacity
is one thousand, five hundred. J. Stanley Brown, principal.
SHERIDAN has a cily block for a play ground.
Mc KINLEY has a park of seventeen acres.
FARRAGUT has ihree acres in plant nursery and play ground.
RICHARDS has twenty acres.
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Joliet Grade Schools
JOLIET has five thousand, two hundred and sixty-three pupils m public grade schools; two
thousand, four hundred and nine in parochial, and about one thousand in the high school,
making a total of eight thousand, six hundred and seventy two. The city has twenty-nine
grade school buildings, one high school, one manual and domestic training school. Eight of
these are parochial schools.
BROADWAY has about one acre in playground. MORAN has a lawn and plant nursery of [our acres.
RIDGEWOOD has live and one half acres in native forest trees. WOODLAND has five acres in native forest.
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RIDGEWOOD
WOODLAND
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CENTRAL SCHOOL
The Central School
THIS building of sixteen rooms, on Webster Street, is given up entirely for the eightfi grade
pupils. It is equipped with fan ventilation, swimming pool, shower baths, and with the
best modern conveniences throughout. Construded of cream pressed brick with Bed-
ford stone trimmings, 1 908.
John H. Barnes. Joliet. Architect
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Federal Building
lliuMlatcd hcrrwilh
L^ RECTED for the pofloffice and inter-
■'— ' nal revenue office. Co^ $126,000.
There are five business letter deliveries here
daily, two for residence diftrids; 32 mails
dispatched, 38 received. Receipts for 1908
$97,078.33. John T. Clyne, Po^master;
John A. Grant, deputy revenue colledlor.
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Public Library
Illustrated helovv
LJUILT by the city of Joliet, sub^antial and in splendid ta^e throughout. Total co^
■*— ^ $196,000. The shelves contain 33,000 volumes. Statue of Louis Joliet, the explorer,
in the foreground. Mrs. Rcna M. Barickman, Librarian.
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CHICAGO TELEPHONE BUILDING
Chicago Telephone Company
Offices. Clinton Street
A PERMANENT and splendidly equipped building for the sole use of Joliet "Central,"
and this exchange stands at the head of the exchanges of the state of Illinois, outside
of Chicago. All wires under ground in the business district. Joliet service is com-
pletely satisfactory; splendid. ^ From this exchange 4,400 telephones can be utilized without
payment of toll, and there is also another company here. The Chicago reaches every manu-
fa(5luring establishment, every industry, nearly every store and office and most of the homes of
the city and vicinity. Washerwomen and day laborers have their own phones. They employ
75 people at Joliet, and their daily telephone business exceeds that of any other city in the
state. As to toll lines, it forms a complete network of Chicago and 1 0 surrounding counties,
and connects with the American Telephone & Telegraph Company, whose wires reach all
important points in the 34 states east of the Rockies.
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RECEPTION ROOM
HALL
READING ROOM
BILLIARDS
The Steel Works Club
ERECTED by The Illinois Steel Company at a cost of $65,000. Membership com-
prised of the employees of The Illinois Steel Company, The American Steel and Wire
Company, the E. J. & E. R. R. and the C. L. S. & E. R. R. Companies, fl The
hall seats 800 people. The library revised and brought up to date, contains 7000 volumes.
There are nine billiard tables, a bowling alley, swimming pool and baths (22,000 baths were
taken in 1 908). Membership 1 ,200. The entertainment and lecture courses tax the capacity
of the building, and many of the best discussions, banquets and lectures of Joliet are given here.
F. M. Savage, Superintendent; Miss Maud Parsons, Librarian.
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Star Wall Paper Mills
NEW industry, entering the field in a small way, that has become one of large dimen-
sions. The new factory, built in 1908, on the Joliet Belt Railroad, has 3 floors 300x66.
Wail paper is the sole product. Frank J. Kelly, President; S. R. Knott, Manager.
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Adam's Steel and Wire Works
THE Adam's Company manufactures prison and jail fixtures largely. They have recently
built new cells for the penitentiaries at Michigan City, Ind., Waupun, Wis., Bismarck,
N. D , and Elmira, N. Y. They also build ornamental fencing and that class of steel
and wire specialties. William J. Adam, Prest.
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Phoenix Horseshoe Company
THE Phoenix Horseshoe Company, of Poughkeepsie and Joliet, is the largest manufac-
turer of horseshoes in the world. They manufacture all classes of horseshoes, having
over 225 patterns. Four hundred men are employed in Joliet. J. W. Kiser, presi-
dent: Thos. F. Hotchkiss, general manager.
Wm. E. Pratt Manufacturing Company
ENGRAVING
THE Wm. E. Pratt Company, having a melting capacity of seventy-five tons daily, manu-
factures the principal lines of malleable iron hardware, japanning, coppering, tinning and
galvanizing the same. Works at Manning avenue on Hickory creek. Six hundred
men are employed. Wm. E. Pratt, president.
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— Barrett Hardware Co.
BUSINESS houses here are well to
the front. The Barrett Hardware
Company, established about 1850,
has the reputation of being the most com-
plete in the state. Following a fire, they
are rebuilding on Ottawa street, second
door south of the News Building, and
will occupy the entire structure, five floors
66x150 feet. J. O. Barrett, President.
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THE AUDITORIUM BLOCK
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SALESROOM FEAGANS' JEWELRY HOUSE
The Auditorium
Chicauo and Clinlon Streets
THE Feagans wholesale and retail Jewelry House, Lonnie G. Feagans, Manager, and the
Stillman Pharmacy, H. A. Stillman, Manager, also old and settled houses here, occupy
the Auditorium. Their business, as to enterprise and completeness, is conducted along
the same lines with the preceding, and they have equally as wide a reputation over the state.
The building is owned and the second story is occupied by the St. John's Universalis! Church
society. Rev. Harry Westbrook Reed, Pastor.
Errata
The litle lines under the interior views on this page
should be reversed. The upper view is that o( Stillman s
Pharmacy; the lower one is that of the Feagans Jewelry
House. The similarity ol the views caused their Itansposi-
lion, which was not detected until printing and binding was
completed. The Publishers.
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SALESROOM STILLMAN PHARMACY
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HILSIDE RESIDENCE OF DR. HARRY COPLEY
Cass Street
RESIDENCE OF CHAS. BARBER
Fifth Avenue and Sherman Street
Joliet Homes
MODERN homes here date from the early
eighties. Since then they have grown
rapidly under the guidance of excellent
architects, and there are now many beautiful
residence streets in this city, with dwellings cod-
ing from five to fifty thousand.
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HOME OF ROBERT PILCHER
Raynor Boulevard
RESIDENCE OF D. R. ANDENSON
Western Avenue
RESIDENCE OF MRS. ANNA W. ROWELL
Western Avenue
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Joliet Homes
OLD ENGLISH HOME OF H. E. BALDWIN
W«i P.ck
BUNGALOW OF CHAS. CUTTING
Oneida Sireet
RESIDENCE OF O. B. BENSON
Eastern Avenue
HOME OF L. A, RAUB
Raynor Boule%'ard
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J. D. Thompson Carnation Company
JOLIET is one of the great carnation cities. There are three large firms here. Two of these grow
carnations principally, and roses and chrysanthemums incidentally for the general trade, and are known
to be among the foremost in the nation for volume of business and their prize winners. The Madam
Lawson, Enchantress and other famous bloomers were disseminated from Joliet. The Thompson Company
has nine houses, with 90,000 feet of glass. Chas. M. Fish, president and general manager.
Higinbotham Park
A TRACT of native timber, 400 acres, owned
by Harlow N. Higinbotham and maintained
as a semi-public botanical park to which
collections of trees and shrubbery have been added
in their scientific order. Negotiations are now
under way to purchase this tract by the city for
an arboretum and public park.
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The Joliet Gateway
THIS birthday souvenir has been compiled in the rush hours of newspaper duties, and as
the rule goes with busy people we are also sorry the work is not better — sorry that not
all of the beautiful views, great factories and splendid buildings of Joliet are included.
These given are but samples, and -- as to the homes — not the best, and we now find that our
hotels, two splendid hospitals with a capacity for 150 patients, two orphan asylums, and a
penitentiary with capacity for 1,700 patients, have been overlooked.
Joliet township has a little over 50,000 in population. To the north it is built up solidly
against Lockport, a village of 5,000, and then it is nearly solidly built up on to Chicago, and
then on and on to Milwaukee. There are some who dream of a wonderful population during
their lifetime upon this old Indian trail bordering the rivers of the Illinois and Desplaines and
the west coast of the lake.
The pictures give a hint of present day conditions. Joliet is a gateway, or freight and
passenger schedule point between the east and west, known for convenience in inter-state
commerce terms as the "Joliet Gateway". Shippers have all the trunk lines entering Chicago
brought to their door by the Joliet or outer Chicago belt lines. The Chicago freight rates,
the yard facilities and transfer conveniences here together with water transportation make this
probably the best shipping point on the continent. It is near the consumer and near the supply.
People proud of their city are ever glad to recite its glories and to entertain their guests.
It is so here. Further information may be had by addressing the Commercial Club, or the
News. Both have officials elected for the purpose, and chosen for their accommodating
natures. The 1 00,000 Club, the Citizens' Alliance, and two other daily papers also have
officials of a similar character.
A Recent Report
AT the monthly banquet of the Commercial Club, Joliet, Illinois, held Wednesday even-
ing, March 1 7, 1909, A. F. Banks, of Chicago, president of the E., J. & E. "Outer
Belt" system, spoke in part as follows:
"It is a great pleasure to be with you this evening. It is a pleasure to be with men who
are fully alive to the advantages of their own city and who are unselfish enough to want to
share those advantages with others not so fortunately located, by extending to them through
their business organization an invitation to bring their industries to Joliet and share in the ad-
vantages this city enjoys in having a first-class climate in which to live, good schools, none
better, good homes, good labor, and last, but not least, good transportation facilities.
"Business throughout the United States for the past year has been very dull, many manu-
facturing plants having been closed; railroads have curtailed their improvements and their ex-
penditures of money, but the dull times have been felt less in Joliet than any other city of its
size in the United States, so far as I have been able to learn of the situation.
"The Illinois Steel Company has worked a larger percentage of its capacity during this dull
period than at any other of its plants, it has gone right ahead with its improvements and has
built during the past year its large by-product coke ovens and has made many other important
improvements in its Joliet plant. The various other industries of Joliet have curtailed their out-
put less than similar plants m many other cities.
"So far as our own road, the Elgin, Joliet & Eastern railway, is concerned, we have kept
our shops on practically full time and with about our usual complement of workers employed.
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"1 he outlook for business is belter and I think we can all look forward to better business
throughout the country during this and the following year, and as the business of the country
improves Joliet will, without doubt, be able to obtain its share of the general prosperity."
"1 do not know that there has ever been any serious complaint that the transportation in-
terests that serve your city have not served you well and given to your city a fair adjustment of
rates. The natural advantages of Joliet as a manufacturing city, in my opinion, are unexcelled
in the West. The Rock Island Road was, I believe, the first road to give to Joliet rail trans-
portation. It opened its lines between Joliet and Chicago for traffic in 1852. Today that
system affords to the merchants and the manufacturers of Joliet for the distribution of their
products about 1 5,000 miles of its own and controlled rail lines.
"Since the building of the Rock Island Road to Joliet, other roads have built their lines
into your city, and today you have all of the vast territory of the New York Central Lines
open to your merchants and manufacturers on the same basis of rates and facilities as are en-
joyed by your sister city, Chicago. You have the Chicago & Alton Railway and its allied
lines reaching to the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers; the Santa Fe, with its thousands of miles
of tracks, reaching to the Pacific Ocean and spreading over the West, South and Southwest-
ern states.
"Your last addition to your transportation facilities, the Chicago, Milwaukee & Gary Rail-
way, brings Joliet into closer relation with Rockford, DeKalb, and other of the growing manu-
facturing cities of Illinois: and last, but I trust not the least in importance to your business inter-
ests of Joliet, is our own road, the Elgin, Joliet & Eastern, which affords to the Joint shipper
all of the facilities enjoyed by any one shipper located on any one road in Chicago. When I
say all the transportation facilities, I mean that the E., J. & E. Ry., having joint tariff rates
with all of the roads entering Chicago, gives to a shipper at Joliet the same rate as each of the
railroads entering Chicago gives to a shipper located upon its own lines, so that, through the
medium of the E., J. & E. as a Belt Line, Joliet is being served by every railroad entering
the city of Chicago.
"Speaking of belt lines, Joliet has its own belt line. When the E., J. & E. built its tracks
into Rockdale, it completed a belt line around the city of Joliet, with the exception of a bridge
over the river at Rockdale. This Joliet belt line opens up a large territory suitable for manu-
facturing purposes, a territory included m your scheme for a greater Joliet, and I predict that
the f ull-together spirit that is so pronounced in the business men of Joliet will result in enlarg-
ing the present industries of Joliet, and the bringing to Joliet of new industries, until the belt
line around Joliet will be lined with live manufacturing institutions, furnishing employment to
thousands of working men.
"I have said that i believe Joliet is an ideal city for manufacturing purposes on account of
its superior transportation facilities. It is also, in my opinion, ideal for manufacturing purposes
on account of its superior school facilities. The people of Joliet may well feel proud of their
beautiful school buildings and wonderful educational facilities.
"A manufacturing city that is a success must afford to the children of its workingmen good
educational facilities. Every man who toils as a day laborer or as a working man is looking
to the future of his children, and is anxious that they may have the advantages of an education
that perchance were denied to him, and so I believe that the good schools help to make good
workmen and to better the business atmosphere.
"Joliet, possessing these things, is truly an ideal manufacturing city."
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Joliet Manufacturers
The figures indicate the number of people employed. Other large employers, except those
engaged m the home retail trade, are included:
American Can Co., Mound — Detinning plant — idle, legal complications
Adam Steel & Wire Co., McDonough street — steel plant — 50.
American Steel & Wire Co., Rockdale — Steel and Wire. |
American Steel & Wire Co., N. Scott street— Steel and Wire \ ^^"^
American Refractories Co., Rockdale — Manufacturers Brick — 200.
American McKenna Process Co., 1600 E. Jackson St — Steel Plant — 175
Brown, J. B., Crowley avenue — Boiler Works — 10
Buildmg Supply Co.. 510-516 S. Center st. — Building Materials and
Supplies — 15.
Bates Machine Co., Henderson and Jackson — Corliss Engines, etc — 385
Buckeye Engine & Foundry Co., Rockdale — Engines, etc — 50
Buchanan-Lawrence Co., Joliet and Benton Sts. — Felt Insoles — 30
Carrier-Lowe Co., Stryker Ave.. Rockdale — Paper Boxes — 100
Chicago Carnation Co., 1001 Cass street — Florists — 20
Champion Machinery Co.. 450 S. Center St.. — Bakers' Machinery — 85
Chicago Gravel Co., 1600 E. Washington St. — Gravel — 63
Commercial Stone Co., N. Broadway — Stone Quarry — 23
Chicago & Joliet, Elec. Ry. Co.,.N. Ottawa St. — Street Car Lines — 207
Chicago Telephone Co., Clinton StreeL — Telephone Exchange — 73
Chicago & Alton Railway Co. — 65
Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific— 155
Chicago, Lake Shore & Eastern Railroad — 306
Ditto,' G. M., 113 Spruce Slip — Feed Grinders — 5
Elgin, Joliet & Eastern, E. Joliet — Car Shops — 600
Economy Motor Buggy Co.. on Rock Island, East of Manning Ave.
— 150. (Just started.)
Economy Light & Power Co., 308-312 Van Buren St. — Electric
Power — 115
E. J. & E. R. R.. (railroad men) — 600
Franklin Steel Works. Midland Avenue — Toe Calks, etc. — 25
Fisher Construction Co.. 123-125 N. Ottawa St — Railroad Construct-
ion— 100
Flint Sanitary Milk Co.. 408 N. Collins St. — Dairy Products — 29
Flowers, Dr. J. C. Jackson and Eastern a-enue — Mfg. Chemists — 75
Gerlach-Barklow Calendar Co., Washington St. — Art Calendars — 160
Great Western Cereal Co., Jasper & Railroad Sts. — Cereal Mills — 75
Groth. Adam & Son. 1317 Cass St. — Contractors— 40
Grief Bros., 31-32 Young Building— Cooperage — 160
Heggie Boiler Works. 1712 Jackson St. — Boiler Makers — 60
Henry, E. E., 110 N. Chicago St. — Electro Plater — 10
Humphrey & Sons, 209-219 S. Ottawa St — Founders & Machinists~125
Hacker. C. & Co., 100 Collins St. — Sash, Doors, Blinds, etc. — 60
Holsworth, Ed. A.. So. Railroad St. — Foundry — 16
Heggie-Woodruff Co.. East Joliet — Pressed Steel — 15
Illinois Match Co., N. Broadway — Matches — 133
Illinois Steel Co., N. Collins St.— Steel Plant— 3,600
Interstate Telephone Co., N. Chicago St. — Tel. Exchange — 41
Joliet Manufacturing Co., E. Cass St: — Agricultural Implements — 100
Joliet Bridge & Iron Co., N. Collins St. — Bridge Builders— 200
Joliet Pure Ice Co., 1310 E. Cass St. — Coal and Ice — 35
Joliet Quarries Co., Rowell Avenue — Stone — 40
Joliet Flux Co., 6 Auditorium Building — Crushed Stone — 100
Joliet Steam Forge Co., Irving and Franklin Sts. — -Forging — 14
Joliet Machinery Co., 209 Washington St. — Bakers' Machinery, etc — 15
Joliet Artificial Stone Co., Railroad St. — 15
Joliet Sand & Gravel Co., S. W. of Joliet — 21
Joliet Iron Products Co., East Joliet — Merchant Iron — 100
Joliet & Southern Traction Co.. Ottawa St. — Street Car Lines — 42
Joliet Mound Drain Tile Co., Rockdale — 30
Joliet Wheel Manufacturing Co., Ingalls Park — 100
Joliet Nurseries, Troy Road — 10
Leach Windmill Co., 714 S. Center St.— 10
Mateer Bros., 1711 E. Washington St. — Concrete Products — 75
Moore Bros. Co., Benton St. — .Stove Manufacturers — 375
Michigan Central Ry. Co., (Railroad men) — 134
Patterson Estate, 305 BluiT St. — Lime — 10
Pratt Manufacturing Co., Henderson Ave. — Malleable Castings — 600
Phoenix Horseshoe Co.. E. Broadway — 400
Perry Side-Bearing Co., 1708 Washington St. — Railway Supplies — 50
Pizarro Piano Co.. Manning Ave. — 40
Ross & Curtis Stone Co., 510 Jefferson St. — Contractors — 100
Silas Shaw Brick Co.. E. Cass St. — 35
Superior Chemical Co., N. Broadway — 20
Sweet, Orr & Co. .417-421 N. Chicago St. — Overall Manufacturers— 275
Star Wall Paper Co., 1314-1318 Benton St.— Wall Paper
Santa Fe Railway Co., (Railroad men) — 95
Taylor Husker & Shredder Co., E. Collins St. — Corn Pickers — 10
Thompson Carnation Co., E. Cass St. — Florists — 11
United Stone Co., East Cass St. — Quarry — 12
Van Fleet Manufacturing Co.. Henderson Avenue — Foundry, etc.
Vanguard Manufacturing Co., 100 Cass St. — Auto Supplies — 30
Western United Gas & Electric Co., 124 N. Chicago St. — Gas and
Coke— 135
Western Stone Co., 1001 S. Richards St. — Quarry
In factories supplying local consumers largely, are: 103 in the ice cream factories, 125 in cigar making, 65 job printers,
75 brewers, 25 florists, 20 granite works, 43 carriage works, 64 in planing mills, with the other usual industries in proportion.
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