,|iiiiiill!ii'i!'iiiiili!;!iiiiii!:!:R''^ LIBRARY OF CONGRESS DD01S033^7b 0^ .^^l'. ^ V ?'•-'- C ^<. '"•' ^^ % ^ ^<^ , ^ .^ ^' .^^ o " = -^^ ,.'^0^ ^^^'*»To'*\/^ "V^'^'^^" "v'^^^^'V "V ■Co ^V -. II n '>' '^*' ^ % -a:^:- .^^ -^ -m^i . ' % -Am^i / o *■ ,0- ,.<^ J, * " -Kiir^. • ■ay C\ •■ ?^^<^ 1 ^^ ■0^ v^ ^^-V .Ma,h vjith Ihr ClRKUIT CAMERA Manufactured by Century Camera Co., Rochester, N.Y. A Part o( tile \\ ater I'ouer of tlie Genesee River o^ ^^(i1 Rochester 1906 ROCHESTER CHAMBER of COMMERCE 'Publishers Compiled b y JOHN M. IVES SECRETARY President Rochester Chamber of Commerce « igo6 DEC 14 1906 U. ul- U. BIINDEX TO TOPICS %sf^ f- _^^ -i^^ Rochester Today .... Rochester's Pleasure Resorts Moral and Religious Activity Hospitals and Schools Rochester's Steam and F^lectric Service Rochester's Prominent Industries Shoe Industry .... Nurseries and Milling Machinery ..... Clothing ...... Pianos ...... Furniture ...... Perfumery, Real Estate, Banks and Post Office Buttons, Stoves, Furnaces and Picture Frames Rochester's Optical Industry A Retrospect of Rochester's Dry (ioods Industry Rochester the City Hon. James G. Cutler, Mayor What to See in Rochester More Facts About Rochester ft Sibley, Lindsay & Curr Co. Let Us Be Fair .... Burke, Fitz Simons, Hone & Co. Rochester and Lake Ontario Water Co. By-Laws of the Chamber Officers for 1906 .... Standing Committees for 1906 Members of Chamber of Commerce In Memoriam .... Page 9 11 17 19 y 21 27 29 31 33 35 37 39 41 43 45 49 51 52 55 57 59-61 61-63 65-67 68 69 75 76 78 SB President Rochester Chamber of Commerce « 190^ Frontispiece — A Part ol Rochester s Water Power Page Portrait of President R. A. Badger ..... 2 Portrait of e.\-President Clinton Rogers .... 4 Chamber of Commerce Building ..... 8 Upper Falls of the Genesee River . .10 Snmmerville, Lake Ontario ...... 12 Yacht Iroquois ........ 14 St. Bernard's Seminary ...... 16 City, Municipal and St. Mary's Hospitals . . .18 Homeopathic Hospital ....... 20 The Beautiful Irondequoit Country .... .20 Lehigh Valley Station ; Highland Park Reservoir . . .22 General Office Building, Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburgh Ry. . 24 Views at Kodak Park ....... 26 General Offices, Eastman Kodak Co. .26 Looking South from Granite Building . . .28 Looking East from Powers Building . . . .28 Summer House, Grounds of Benjamin E. Chase . . 30 High Water in the Genesee . . . . .32 Upper and Lower Falls . . . . . .34 Looking Northeast and .Southeast from Powers Building . 36 The Aqueduct; The Hiram Sibley Block . . .38 The Four Corners ; Main Street Looking Easi .40 Franklin Park . . . . -. . . .42 Propo-sed Schiller Monument . . .44 The New West High School ...... 46 New West Side Department Store . . . .48 To Hanford's Landing ...... 50 Hon. James G. Cutler ...... 52 New Buildings on Site of Big Fire, February 26, 1!K)4 . . 54 The President Anderson Monument . . . .56 Sibley, Lindsay & Curr's New Department Store . . .58 Evolution of the Street Car ..... 61-62-63 New West Avenue M. E. Church . . ■ .64 Views in Seneca and Genesee Vallev Park . . .66 .zHa^lNllEA. VOma^ mmBBsmmm Abstract Guarantee Co., The Alliance Bank American Fruit Product Co. Archer Manufacturing Co. Barker & Jordan Barnard & Simonds Co. . Bausch & Lomb Optical Co. Bell Telephone Co. . Bonbright & Hibbard Brewers Exchange, The Brewer, H. S. Brewster, Crittenden & Co. Brewster, Gordon & Co. . Brooks & Murphy Brown Brothers Co. . Buell, George C. & Co. Buffalo, Roch. &- Pittsburgh Ry Central Bank, The Chamber of Commerce City Realty Co. Clark, Milton Co. Cluett, Peabody & Co. Commercial Bank Co-Operative Foundry Co. Cunningham, James, Son & Co Curtice Brothers Co. Cutler Manufacturing Co. Donoghue Importing Co. Dufty INIalt Whiskey Co. Eastman Kodak Co. East Side Savings Bank Edwards Store, The Ellwanger & Barry Ernst, Louis &- Sons Fidelity Trust Co., The Ford, C. P. & Co. Page 106 Ford & Enos 97 Foster-Armstrong Co. 138 Furlong, Henry M. 148 Garfield, C. F., Real Estate Co 158 Genesee Valley Trust Co. 92 Gottry, Sam, Carting Co. 150 Graves, H. B. 152 Ham, C. T., Manufacturing Co 108 Haskins & Co. 126 Higgins, Edward F., "49 138 Howe &' Rogers Co. 94 Hubbard & Eldredge Co. 143 Huther Bros. 108 Ingmire & Thompson 161 Jeft'reys 126 Jones Stoker, The 152 Knowlton, M. D. Co. 99 Langslow, Fowler Co. 178 Likly, Henry & Co. . 114 Lisk Mfg Co., Ltd., The 165 Mandeville &• King 129 Mathews & Boucher 127 McCurdy & Norwell Co. 89 McGreal Bros. 92 Mechanics Savings Bank 109 Merchants Bank 135 Mohawk Condensed Milk Co. 166 Monroe County Savings Bank 144 Moore, John C. Corporation 113 Morse Lumber Co., Wm. B. 177 Murphy Automatic Smokeless 155 Furnace . . . . . 148 National Bank of Rochester, The 124 National Bank of Commerce, The 101 National Casket Co. 147 N. Y. Hydraulic Press Brick Co. Page 138 153 90 133 103 162 111 117 158 102 98 120 168 110 178 145 104 149 115 134 176 116 107 176 137 173 128 93 152 108 139 171 175 131 140 ROCHESTER 1906 Index to Aavertisements — Continued Old Colony Chair Co. Powers Hotel, The Present, Philip Puddington Fuel Economizer Pullman Mfg. Co. Reed, E. P. cV Co. . Reed Manufacturing Co. Rochester Box and Lumber Co Rochester Button Co., The Rochester Carting Co., Rochester Distilling Co. Rochester (rerman Insurance Co Rochester Railway and Light Co Rochester Savings Bank Rochester Stamping Co. Rochester Telephone Co. Roch. Trust & Safe Deposit Co Rolfe Electric Co. Ross, Lewis P. . Schlegel Mfg. Co., Tlie Schwikert, Frank v^^i ^ \^ki^f'^Stl -■'c:J»3S \fe:;^Si !,!=-'»» / o ■oti U .5 ROCHESTER 1906 25 There are windows on all sides and vestibule and porte cochere entrance. The general waiting room is twenty-nine feet by forty- eight feet. There is a covered trainshed running from Court Street and also in the rear of the station running to the express building. The express building has a frontage of fifty feet on Court Street and is twenty-eight feet deep. The station is supported by steel girders on the piers of stone which have been standing in view of the public for years. All the platforms are of concrete and are covered. Pipe rail- ings extend along all the platforms. The trainshed is three hundred and sixty-five feet long, covered by an umbrella canopy for three hun- dred and five feet. The driveway or court yard is sixty feet by seventy feet and paved in asphalt on a concrete base. The new station is of a dark mottled hufi in color. It will prove a great convenience to the public and bring much business activity to that already busy section of Rochester. The building of this handsome station at a cost of $50,000 exclusive of the cost of the stone piers, is another evidence of the rapid progress our city is making. The new Buffalo, Rochester and Pittsburgh Railroad office building nearing completion at the southwest corner of Main Street West and Washington Street will be one of the handsomest and most imposing buildings in the city, materially enhancing the value of property in the immediate vicinity. Besides the offices of the Railroad Company, the offices of the Rochester & Pittsburgh Coal and Iron Company will be located here. The building consists of a basement and five stories. The basement and first story will be of cut stone. Around the top is an ornamental cornice of terra cotta. There are two main entrances one on Main Street West and the other on Washington Street. The building has a frontage of ninety-nine feet on Main Street and one hundred and sixty-one feet on Washingtont Street. It is L shaped with a corner taken out of the southwest side. From Main Street the building extends back seventy-two feet and from Washington the depth is sixty feet. The entrances on Main Street and Washington Streets lead into a corridor which extends through the building where are two electric elevators besides a freight elevator used for handling supplies. Another step towards increasing the importance of Rochester as a railroad center is the building and operating a car ferry service between Charlotte and Port Hope, Canada. The company to operate this ser- vice is composed jointly of officials of the Grand Trunk and Buffalo, Rochester and Pittsburgh Railroads, the one operated by Canadian capitalists, the other an American road with its head office in Rochester. The location of the Rochester end of the ferry will be in the Genesee River about a mile and a half from Charlotte at what are now known as the Genesee docks. The ferry will operate winter and summer and will carry passengers. The cargo will consist of cars of coal and general freight according to the requirements of the service. In speak- ing of this important enterprise, President A. G. Yates of the B. R. & P. R. R. said : "The Company is Canadian and its directorate is made up equally of officials of our road and of the Grand Trunk system. The plan has been under consideration for a long time and the details have been carefully worked out. We hope to be in running order by August ist, 1906. 1 Kodak Park 2 Luncheon Hour 3 Lake Avenue 4 General Offices, Eastman Kodak Co. ItocDesteri n^nentrw Tndti^trks^gllllll (^CHESTER has more the appearance of a metropohs than an up-state city of 200,000 inhabitants. It is becoming renowned for its sky-scrapers and its colossal factories. Its banking houses may now take rank as among the most imposing in the Empire State. The new granite structure at the "Four Corners" erected by the Rochester Trust Company and the eleven story, stone, brick and marble structure adjoining the Roch- ester German Insurance Company arrest the attention of even the most unobservant. Their interiors in point of decoration and finish are as superb and dignified as any financial institution in the country. Most of the Rochester banks have of late years been remodeled, enlarged and elegantly fitted and all of them rank among the most solid and prosperous financial institutions in the Union. Among the great industrial plants of Rochester, the Eastman Kodak Company stands foremost in world-wide fame. Its main plant is a community in itself being situated in Kodak Park on the boulevard. Fronting the great group of buildings containing the many scientific and construction departments of the colossal photographic appliance industry is the park ; which famous landscape artists have rendered exquisite by their skill. In the great plant hundreds of operators find congenial and remunerative employment. The other factories of this famous corporation and the main office are situated on State Street where hundreds of people are daily engaged in supplying the world's needs for kodaks and the multifarious requirements for all branches of the photographic profession. Another industry of world wide import which has so greatly ex- tended Rochester's reputation as a manufacturing center, is the Bausch <5: Lomb Optical Company occupying several acres of ground on St. Paul Street. This great establishment ships to all parts of the civilized world everything in the optical line such as telescopes, microscopes, field and opera glasses, spectacles, eye-glasses, lenses, etc., requiring in their manufacture skilled labor and scientific knowledge of the highest character. Another colossal manufacturing plant is the Stromberg-Carlson, now a part of the United States Telephone Co., which produces all the necessary appliances for telephones and like the Eastman and Optical industries require skilled operatives of a high order. Among other indus- tries which are extending the reputation of Rochester may be mentioned the Rochester Lens Company ; the Taylor Thermometer Works ; The Curtice Brothers (Preserving) Co. ; various piano factories ; the five big breweries: the Pfaudler Co., glass lined tanks; The General Railway Signal Co. ; The American Fruit Product Co. ; The New York and Kentucky Distilling Co. ; the great Cunningham Carriage factory, and -^ •■i 1 > • • < * " ■ ■- - H.' % ROCHESTER 1906 29 other carriage factories ; the three largest button factories in the world ; the three plants for the manufacture of all kinds of gearing ; the three big foundries manufacturing stoves, ranges and furnaces ; the Clement's and other plants for the construction of wood working machinery; three big plants for the manufacture of chairs, for which Rochester is head- quarters ; circular and carpenter's saws ; coach laces ; edge tools : files ; locks ; steam engines ; whips ; blank books ; automobiles ; bicycles ; silver plate ; boats ; office furniture and devices ; desks ; trunks and traveling bags ; household furniture ; articles in brass and copper ; wire work ; lead work ; screws and bolts ; factories for the production of lanterns ; japanned goods ; electro-plating in silver and gold ; nickel plating ; elec- trotyping ; novelty goods in wood and metal ; knit goods ; underwear ; neckwear including scarfs and ties ; agricultural machinery ; celluloid goods ; perfumery ; chewing gums ; confectionery ; biscuits and many minor industries, and supplementing these are Rochester's great cloth- ing and shoe factories ; the wholesale grocery firms ; the wholesale dry goods establishments ; wholesale drug houses and chemical works ; the producers of rubber goods ; wholesale millinery houses ; manufactures of paper and wholesale paper dealers ; box factories both in paper and wood ; the colossal works of the National Casket Co, ; the Cluett & Peabody collar and cufif industry, now occupying the big Kimball factory; plants for the manufacture of tobacco, cigars and cigarettes and the big flour mills which have made Rochester famous in the days gone by as the Flour City and the big nurseries which in more recent times have changed the sobriquet of "Flour" to the Flower" city. Rochester s Snoe Industry Since January 1905 the grand total of more than $12,000,000 worth of shoes were manufactured in Rochester, which is an increase over the previous year's output of between 10 and 12 per cent. Some manufacturers say this total should be increased by three million dollars. There are between sixty and seventy shoe factories in this city. Four factories alone make shoes in value in excess of $5,000,000 annually. During the past two years two of these factories have been greatly enlarged and next year their capacities will be doubled. Others also have plans for enlargement. In addition to the trade proper the leather findings and other inciden- tal lines bring the total sales in Rochester to about $15,000,000 annually. Shoe blacking to the value of $1,000,000 is made in Rochester every year and shoes are jobbed to the amount of $2,000,000. The retail business amounts to $8,000,000 annually. Rochester is a center for the manufacture of trunks, traveling bags, etc., besides heels, top lifts, shanks, box toes and shoe laces are manufactured here. Never in the history of Rochester's shoe trade were the prospects brighter than they are now. Many manufacturers have increased their business 25 per cent, and none have fallen behind in their sales of late. Because they are sold on their merits, the demand for Rochester's shoes is increasing rapidly. This city stands very high as the center for women's, misses' and children's shoes. Our big heel industries, top- lift factories, the largest in the world, and other special lines make Rochester a very important center in the shoe and leather world. ROCHESTER 1906 31 Rochester s Nurseries For more than half a century Rochester has been famous, not only throughout the United States but all Europe, as a nursery center. For many years it was the only locality for nurseries in this country. The first fruit trees sent to California in 1849 and 1850 were from Rochester Nurseries and were shipped across the Isthmus of Panama on the backs of mules. Trees were also sent to Oregon and for many years past California has sent its fruit all over the United States and Europe. Rochester nurseries have supplied Japan, Australia, New Zea- land, South America and nearly every part of the globe where trees can be grown with many varieties of fruits and ornamental trees. Through many years of testing and experimenting the discovery was made that seeds propagated in the climate of Rochester are remarkably hardy and prolific. This accounts for the rapid rise into fame of this city as a nurs- ery center and for the splendid success which followed the planting of our trees in all parts of the world. As our readers know the pioneer nurserymen of Rochester were George Ellwanger and Patrick Barry who established themselves in Rochester in 1838. They were followed by Brown Brothers, Chase Brothers, Irving Rouse, Glen Bros., and others through whose progressive and enterprising ventures this city has become widely known as a nursery center. The magnitude of the nursery business here has assumed tremen- dous proportions engaging an immense capital and employing thousands of workers in various departments. It should be a source of pride to Rochester to know that in so many parts of the world the superb trees that adorn public and private grounds are growths from the products of Rochester nurseries and that the trees which produce such superior fruits to supply foreign markets proceed from the plants sent many years ago from this vicinity. It may be truly said that Rochester has been and still is the nursery to a large extent for the fruit production of the world. Rochester s Milling Industry Rochester gained its sobriquet as the 'Tlour City" early in its history from the fact of its being a great center for the production of fine flour. The magnificent water power at this point induced enterprising millers to build big mills over half a century ago and as time progressed newest machinery was adopted by the various firms and in the course of time Rochester became famous for the production of the finest brands of fiour in the world, and notwithstanding the fact that in the distant north west great mills were established on the borders of the big wheat growing belts, supplying the world with enormous quantities of flour, Rochester always held its trade from the fact that its flour was of such sterling quality as to command respect and confidence, while its near- ness to tide water gave advantage in freights not obtainable by cities where flour was ground from wheat produced in the more distance west. The output of flour from this city has assumed enormous proportions and some of the finest and most elaborately equipped mills in the world are running day and night in supplying superior brands of flour. m m> c^ .■2f f Xi- ROCHESTEK 1906 33 Rocnester s Machinery Industries Rochester has achieved much of its celebrity throughout the union and in foreign countries by means of its extensive industry in the manu- facture of machines. No city in the world can compete with ours in the production of what may be considered the very heart of universal machinery and that is gears of various descriptions such as spur gears, spur core wheels, miter gears, miter core wheels, bevel gears, bevel core wheels, hobs, gear planers, automatic planers for bevel gears, planers for bevel and spur gears, etc. The production of these requires mechanical and mathe- matical skill of the very highest order. Everything in the industry call- ing for the most exacting calculation. To such perfection has the making of gears been achieved in Rochester that foreign corporations have time and time again sent agents here to try and discover some of the methods in manufacture pursued by Rochester experts. Young English mechanics have been sent with a view to their obtaining em- ployment here for the purpose of gaining information. But the secrets of the process have never been allowed to leave our city. Orders from all parts of the world are sent here for gears and sometimes emergency orders from breakdowns abroad have to be shipped by express at enor- mous expense. The expressage of an emergency order recently cost $1,500. This Rochester industry is increasing at an enormous ratio. The same may be said of the industry devoted to the manufacture of governors for every description of engine. Our city produces the best and most reliable governors in the world. Rochester has long been famed for its manufacture of wood-working machinery and there is scarcely any part of the civilized globe where Rochester machines are not in operation. The great demand for these wonderful implements is due to the care and skill exercised in their production. Every woodworking machine shipped from Rochester can be relied upon to do its work well. Another industry which has gained for our city much credit is the manufacture of all kinds of saws from those used by carpenters with the hand to the great circular saws used in the big saw mills through- out the world. It is a great and growing industry giving employment to many. The manufacture of mechanics' tools and implements of every description is also a thriving business in Rochester. Every tool and mechanical device known to workers in wood and metal are produced in our city. It should be remembered that everything in the line of machinery can be obtained in Rochester so that it is not necessary for purchasers to divide their orders among various cities but have ever}'- thing they require shipped from Rochester. Billiard Tables Rochester contains factories for the manufacture of all styles of billiard tables, the reputation for which is spreading throughout the country. Many of our most superb residences as well as more modest homes contain one or more billiard tables made in Rochester. Upper Falls of the Genesee River — 95 Feet High Lower Falls of the Genesee River — 96 Feet High ROCHESTER 1906 35 Rocliester s Clothing Industry The history of Rochester's clothing industry if entered into with detail would read more like an industrial romance than the matter of fact story of commercial development. The industry had its begin- ning in the small coat and vest shop of Meyer Greentree so far back as 1840. It was situated in what was then Rochester's best business center in Front street. There the proprietor, with his assistants, sat tailor fashion, plying the needle with busy fingers. Mr. Greentree's goods were so much in demand that others, seeing his prosperity, soon emulated his enterprise. The first firm was that of Greentree & Wile, composed of Meyer Greentree and Joseph Wile, and from connections of this firm other factories were established in State and Mill streets, and Rochester, even in those early days, achieved a reputation for producing well made clothing. One can imagine the "one-horse" method then in vogue of producing pants and vests and ultimately coats for the wholesale trade. The little stuffy shops with scanty conveniences and ill ventilated offer a great contrast to the great, airy, well lighted and elegant factories which to-day hum with the revolving machinery run by steam and electricity. And how different are the operatives of today compared with those of 1840. Meyer Green- tree little dreamed that his infantile industry was destined to spread and grow to the present dimensions of Rochester's clothing industry. He never imagined that in future years St. Paul street would be composed as it now is of a succession of big blocks and buildings devoted to the manufacture of the highest as well as the less expensive grades of men's clothing, and that in the uttermost parts of the world — in every civilized land — the brand of Rochester made clothing would place our city in the ranks of the greatest manufacturing centers of the globe. The clothing industry of Rochester has done very much to advertise and build up our city. The industry has made millionaires of some of its manufacturers and made others engaged in the trade rich beyond ex- pectation. A remarkable feature in connection with Rochester's clothing industry is the fact that many merchants residing in cities throughout the United States and in foreign countries have also grown rich by handling Rochester made clothing during many years. The reason is obvious. Those who wear the clothing are so satisfied with its quality and style that they always call for it in replenishing their wardrobes. The annual output of the Rochester clothing factories amounts to over twenty million dollars. In this Rochester is surpassed by but three cities in the United States — New York, Philadelphia and Chicago. But in the matter of quality and style Rochester stands hrst and practically alone, because the styles in clothing emanate from this city to a large extent and because on Rochester clothing more thought and pains and money are expended in workmanship, quality of fabrics and furnishings, than upon the productions of any other clothes manufacturing estab- lishment in the world. In the great factories the most thorough precautions are taken to insure the health and comfort of the operatives and to keep the textures and materials used in manufacture free from every kind of impurity, due to ill ventilation or other bad conditions of stock rooms. So perfect are these precautions to insure cleanliness and purity that people visiting these factories are deeply and agreeably impressed. Looking Nortk-East {rom Powers Building Looking SoutK-East from Powers Building ROCHESTER 1906 37 Rocnester s Piano Industry A familiar landmark, to Rochesterians is the drum which is sus- pended over the entrance to the music establishment of J. W. Martin anr The New Store Corner Main and Clinton Streets Site of the New Store Previous to 1905 ROCHESTER 1906 61 Let Us Be Fair IT has become a common occurrence for certain persons having abso- lutely no knowledge of the facts to attack the street car company's service. It is, therefore, a pleasure to one who is conversant with the untiring efforts of the local street car officials for the betterment of the service to give some detailed information as to the true conditions which obtain. To begin with, anyone who has ever approached the subject in an impartial frame of mind or who from an unprejudiced view-point has compared the service in Rochester with that received by other cities, can- not but admit that the street car traffic in these confines is conducted upon a higher plane, and with a greater regard for the comfort and con- venience of patrons than in any other municipality of its size in the United States. This comparison might be extended so as to include many of the larger cities with the same favorable results to the local company. This article is being penned at a point from which the writer can observe the preparations made for the carrying of an unusually large number of passengers whose destination is one of Rochester's magnificent parks. Actual timing bears witness to the frequency of trips and reveals the fact that the time elapsing between the cars does not extend over a period of three minutes. The mind naturally reverts to the advantages which accrue to the city's residents through the policy which animates the Rochester Street Railway Company. Designate it a "selfish motive " or by any other term that you will, yet, it cannot be denied that the company has made splendid recreation grounds with which the city abounds accessible to " all sorts and contlitions "" of its inhabitants in wliatever section thev be located. 62 ROCHESTER 1906 It has enabled a multitude of artisans to reside far removed from the cit.\'s center in parts where pure air and healthful environment guarantee salutary residential conditions for themselves and families. It has enhanced the values of properties in the outskirts, and has opened up large tracts of land for the accommodation of our fast growing population. In the past year the company has placed a positive order for the acquisition of one hundred new modern cars. This increase to its rolling stock means an outlay of over $400,000, and it can be safely stated that no other institution in Rochester has made an investment of such pro- portions in one of its departments in the same period of time. The secret of building up and increasing any business, be it mercantile or otherwise, lies in the strict adherence to "value given for value received," and close attention to the wants and necessities of patrons. That the spirit with which the company is imbued has been appreciated by the public is evidenced by the following table showing the increase in the number of passengers carried between the year 1888 and the present time: 1888 — 9,244,174 passengers 1891 — 12,786,315 1900 — 22,958,316 1905 — 45,239,698 I go6 — 60 , 000 , 000 The last item being estimated from reports from Jan. 1st, 1905, to date. In these times when all corporations are popularly supposed to be "devoid of soul" it is gratifying to say a word in behalf of one that is doing its utmost to faithfully fulfill the obligations imposed upon it. Let us be fair. ROCHESTER 1906 63 Evolution On page sixt\-one is an illustration of the first horse car that tra- versed Rochester. The line over which it ran was placed in operation in the year 1863, and extended from Exchange street to Ambrose street on Lake avenue. When Air. Joseph Hicks, the present Superintendent of Transportation, first became associated with the railway company, the equipment consisted of but a few^ cars, seventy-eight horses and a working force of but thirty men. In 1891 the change was made to electrical power, the first car so equipped being No. 114, a photograph of which is also reproduced. Increase improvement in service has ever been the watchword of the company, until the apex of perfection in street railway cars was reached by the acquisition of what is known as the "400 series," a picture of one of these splendid cars being also shown. It is a far cry from the horse car with its tinkling bell, the straw covered floor, the cold interior, and the irregular schedule to Rochester's magnificent system of to-day, which embraces three hundred cars running over 150 miles of track, and requiring an army of 1050 employes in order that the city's residents ma\' enjo\- quick and efficient transportation. The same degree of comparison between the cars of the period, when, as an old time railroad ofHcial put it, " The horses ate the straw out of each others' collars," and the excellent equipment of the present time, appropri- ately applies to the crude methods of conducting street car advertising in the past as against the present progressive, business-bringing systems of the ELECTRIC RAILROAD ADVERTISING COMPANY ROCHESTER 1906 65 Burke, Fitz Simons, Hone & Co. * 1 '\ ^ RKE'S" has been a by-word among Rochesterians for over half 1^ a century, and is still used nowadays when referring to the well-known dry goods firm of Burke, Fitz Simons, Hone & Co., which is the oldest and best known store in Western New York. Like many other industries which have been contemporary with the growth of Rochester this house had a very modest beginning. It was in the early days of 1849 when the late Owen Gaf^ney opened a dry goods store at 53 Main Street East, his floor space including only the ground floor and basement. Later on other parties became interested with Mr. Ciaf^ney and in 1853 the firm of Gaf^ney, Burke ^' Co. was organized, which two years afterwards became Burke, Gafif- ney ne& <"o.. Wholesale and Retail Dry Goods 122 Main St. K. lUirr .*t Starkweather .Agricultural Implement.';. ... 43 Stone St. Butts J. DeWitt 420 Livingston Bldg. (.'alder. Robert Tin, Copper t*c Sheet Iron. . . .sti Exchange St. ("■arson. Wm. Sz Chas. H Stone Contractors ',4 Plymouth Ave. Castle. Wilmot Co Sheet Metal .Specialties 17 Elm St Central Rank Benjamin E. Chase, Pres. . . Wilder Bldg. Chapin. Louis S Leaded Gla.ss Worker 3.S Exchange St. Chase Brothers Co Nurserymen 1 Pitkin St. c^hristy Engraving Co till Central Bldg. City Realty Co c. C. Clark. President r^i N. Fitzhugh St. Clark :\lilton Co Insurance Agents 407 Chamber qf Com. Bldg. Clark. A\'. X. i*i Co Canned Goods. Preserves, Etc. Hollenbeck St. Claik. C. S Pres. Commercial Corres- liondenee Schools 2 7 Church St. Cluni ,s:- .\ikinson Ihass Fotmdry olo Lyell Ave. Cohn. H. C. & Co Neckties 210 Andrews St. Commercial Bank ("has. H. Babcock. Pres 47 Main St. E. Cooley, William H Patent Solicitor S12 Powers Bldg. Coon, Willis H Attorney and Counsellor 16 State St. Co-Operative Foundry Co. . .Stoves and Furnaces 1.5 Hill St. Crouch, (.'has. T. & Son Co.. Lumber, Doors, Sash, Etc... 99 West St. Cross Bros. Co Belting-leather, Saddlery. Hardware. Etc 114 Mill St. (^urtice Bros. Co Canned Goods, Preserves. Etc. Curtice St. Curtis ,^t ("'urtis Lawyers 16 State St. Culler Manufacturing Co. . . .Mail Chutes ("utler Bldg. D. Dake Drug (\i W. w. Dake. President 217-221 Main St. E. Davis. W. P. .Machine Co .... .Machinery & Machine Tools. 130 :\Iill St. Davis, J. C. Co .M. F. Bristol. Treas.: Granite Flouring Mills.... Foot of Piatt St. Davy. Cassius C Lawyer 2 East Side Savings Bk. Bldg. Day. Harper R Real Estate 31 State St. 80 ROCHESTER 1906 Delninger Bros Bakers 392 North St. Denniston & Co General Contractors 600-603 E. & B. Bldg. DeForest, Ailing- S Landscape Architect 223-225 Sibley Blk. Donovan, P. J Plumber 705 Lake Ave. Doyle, Michael & Co Evaporated Fruits 26-32 White St. Dresser, George B Broker 107 Ellwanger &- Barry Bldg. Drew-Allis Co., The Directory Publishers 729 Powers Bldg. Dugan & Hudson Co Shoe Manufacturers 85 Allen St. Dunn, T. B. Co F^erf umers and Manfr.'^. of Sen-Sen Ill N. Water St. Dun, R. G. & Co Mercantile Agency 75 State St. D-Zerta Food Co O. E. Gliddon, Pres.. Manfr-s. Food Products. ... 410-420 X. Goodman St. E. Eastman Kodak Co Kodak, Cameras and Photographic Materials ... .343 State St. East Side Savings Bank Benjamin E. Chase, Pre.s . . . .Main St. E. & Clinton Ave. S. Eastwood, Wm. & Son Co. . . .Boots and Shoes 176 Main St. E. Edwards, E. W. & Son Department Store 132-142 Main St. E. Elliott, L. B General Advertising 707 Chamber of Com. Bldg. Ellwanger & Barry Nurserymen 286 Mt. Hope Ave. Engert, George & Co Coal 306 Exchange St. Erie Foundry Co Iron Pounders 330 Lyell Ave. Erie Railroad Co A. M. Chamberlain, Division Freight Agent. . . . :^5 Court St. Ernst, Louis & Sons Hardware and Cutlery 129-131 Main St. E. Everest, Chas. M First V.-Pres., Vacuum Oil Co. Granite Bldg. F. Fee Bros. Co Importers, Rectifiers; Whole- sale Wines and Liquors. . . .21-27 N. Water St. Fidelity Trust Co J. C. Powers, Secretary 2 Main St. W. Firman & Webb Insurance 110 Wilder Bldg. Fish & Horton Co Electrical Contractors 123 Mill St. Pishbaugh, F. L Real Estate 407 Powers Blk. Fisher, Edwin A City Engineer 52 City Hall. Fisk, Chauncey M Merchant Tailor 35 East Ave. Ford, C. P. & Co Shoe Manufacturers 12 Commercial St. Foster-Armstrong Co Piano Manufacturers 348 Main St. E. Fry, E. R Flori.st 7 4 Cottage St. Fritzsche, Frank & Son Hides and Skins 62-66 Front St. Friederich, A. & Sons Co . . . .Masons 207 Ellwanger & Barry Bldg. Fulton, Newell C Clerk Appellate Court Court House. Furlong, Henry M .Broker 117 Powers Bldg. G. Galusha Stove Co Manfrs. of Stoves 167 Court St. Gallagher, George F The Gallagher Improved Furnace for Steam Boilei-s.455 Lake Ave. Gander, Louis Night Lunch Cafe 22 Cady St. Garson, D. M. & Co Clothing 123 Main St. E. ROCHESTER 1906 81 Garfield, C. F. Real Estate Co I Exchange St. Genesee Valley Trust Co 21 Exchange St. Genesee Brewing- Co Brewers and BotLler.s :i4.5 St. Paul St. Gillies Lithographic and Printing Co., The 46 Stone St. Gibbs, Charles S Harness and Horse Furnishing Goods 9 3 State St. Glen Bros Nursei^men 117 Cutler Bldg. Gordon & Madden Architects 3 00 Sibley Blk. Gottry, Sam. Carting Co. ... Freight Deliveries and Furniture Movers. ... Powers Bldg. Graves, H. B Furniture, Etc 7S State St. Graeser, Wm. V. & Co :\Ianfrs. of Fine Furs 31 Clinton Ave. S. Graham, J. S., Postmaster .. .Pres. Rochester Gas Engine Co.; John Leary, V.-Pres.; W. J. Graham, Sec.-Treas. .707 Driving Park Ave. Griesheimer, Louis & Steefel.. Clothing 134 Main St. E. H. Hagen, A. T., Co IManfrs. Laundry Machinery.. 5.5 North St. Haines, J. D Agent Pennsylvania Ry 81 West Ave. Ham, C. T. Mfg. Co Lanterns, Etc 731 Oak St. Hamil, B. P Resident Manager Remington Typewriter Co.. 4 2 Main St. W. Hamlin, F. H Vice-President Genesee Valley Trust Co. . . 21 Exchange St. Hammill, John P. . ., Contractor and Builder 5 Bauer St. Hamilton, R. A Propr. The Semple Grocery. ..44 Main St. E. Hart, A. Vernon Automobiles; Auto Garage. . .Carlton St. Hathaway & Gordon Ale Brewers 93 N. Water St. Harned, B. C Restaurant, Bakery, Caterer, Etc 157 Main St. E. Hebbard, Delbert C Judge Municipal Ct)urt 35 City Hall. Henry, J. P Agent Wells, Fargo & Co . . . . 4 7 S(a(c St. Hershey, S. B Pres. and Mgr. American Lyceum Union 22S South Ave. Hickey & Freeman Co Clothiers 143 St. Paul St. Higgins, Edward F Boarding & Livery Stable. . .84-90 N. Fitzhugh St. Higgins, E. M. Co Liquors 18 Main St. W. Hinds, J. A. & Co Corona Flour Mill; W. H. Duffett, Pres Murray St. Hollister Lumber Co Lumber and Coal 316 X. Goodman St. Holtz, Louis & Sons Clothing 82 St. Paul St. Hotchkiss, James L County Clerk Court House. Howe tmrint (S. (Eurlirr, ifrbruaru 7, 1905 3. iHiUrr SvrUy. ifrimtaru 14, 1905 Jf^rriiprtrk (Ennk, ifriTuani 17, 1905 SMuarti A. ^lal|lbrniit, ifpitmarii 24, 1905 i£. 1^. i>rrantmn, A^ni 13, 1905 JFrriirnrU 5^. Allen, iWaii 3, 1905 iFrank iFrttgsrlir. 3fHn«arii 2, 1906 mark iran IKnnUtUnn. iiarrii 2, 1906 V !.(, If s- ooLi:^ ^ FROM A CATALOGUE DESIGNED, ENGRAVED. PRINTED AND EMBOSSED BY THE Union and Advertiser Co. Union and Advertiser Co ROCHESTER, N. Y. PRI NTERS PUBLISHERS DESIGNERS ENGRAVERS WE COMPILE, ILLUSTRATE AND ISSUE CATALOGUES AMD DESCRIPTIVE BOOKLETS OF WHICH THIS IS BUT ONE OF MANY EXAMPLES. IN FACT WE ARE EQUIPPED TO FUR- NISH ANYTHING IN THE PRINTING LINE. The Red Cross Princess Range IN EITHER THE REGULAR CONSTRUCTION OR COMBINATION GAS AND COAL Made by the most skillful artisans and of the finest planished steel t) N K OF ROCHESTER'S NOTABLE PRODUCTIONS rsT/* INW Manufactured by the Co-Operative Foundry Co. FOR SALE BY H. LESTER. 156 West Main St., cor. Washington H. B. GRAVES, 74-76-78 State St., cor. Market F. J. BRAVER. 705 Jay St. cor, Childs ROCHESTER ROOFING & HEATING CO., J5 Ambrose W, A. Mccormick, 528 state street KRAUSNECK, YAUCHZI & CO.. 307 Lake Avenue C, L, CLOSE & CO., 86 Reynolds Street C. ¥. RICHARDS, 177 West Avenue KENNEDY & CO,, 11 South Avenue J. H. BROWN, 571 North Street, cor. Woodward WM , ROHR, First Street, cor. Central Park L. J. MARCHAND, 488 Main Street East CHARLES SHULTZ. 672 Clinton Avenue North A, GOLDMAN, 175 Joseph Avenue JAMES CROMBIE, 555 North Goodman Street CHAS. MORTHORST, 124 Portland Avenue 89 Henry M. Furlong Banker & Broker ESTABLISHED 1892 116, 117 & 118 Powers Building Rochester, N. Y. CORRESPON DENTS ! J. F. Oliver & Co. Members New York Consolidated Stock Exchange J. R. Heintz & Co. Members New York Consolidated Stock Exchange and New York Produce Exchange L. G. Quinlin & Co. Members Chicago Board of Trade and New York Produce Exchange Ticker in Ladies Department Both Phones 1547 90 Rochester Savings Bank INCORPORATED 1831 nil RESOURCES JULY 1, 1905 $21,602,259.55 SURPLUS JULY 1, 1905 $1,860,264.99 i^ Money loaned on bond and mortgage. Deposits made on or liefore the third day of any month draw interest from the first of the month. RuFus A. Sibley Gr.-vnger a. Hollister | OFFICERS 1905 HoBART F. Atkinson, President I Edward Harris, Attorney Vice-Presidents Henry S. Hankord, Treasurer Thomas H. Husband, Secretary TRUSTEES Edward Harris Granger A. Hollister Albert H. Harris Harold B. Brewster Hobart F. Atkinson Halbert S. Greenleaf Erickson Perkins George Eastman Rufus A. Sibley James S. Watson Josiah Anstice James G. Cutler Hiram \V. Siblev Thomas W. Finucane Barnard S? Simonds Co. Vm-' ROCHESTER, NEW YORK MAKERS OF Fine Chairs DINING OFFICE CHAMBER HALL LADIES' DESK SLIPPER CHAIRS ROCKERS SUPERIOR IN STYLE. CONSTRUCTION AND FINISH James Cunningham, Son ^Co. BUILDERS OF FINE HEARSES, CASKET WAGONS, AMBULANCES, COACHES, LANDAUS, BROUGHAMS AND CABRIOLETS WE HAVE A NUMBER OF SECOND-HAND HEARSES AND CARRIAGES WHICH WE ARE OFFERING AT REASON- ABLE PRICES. CORRESPONDENCE SOLICITED. PHOTOGRAPHS AND DESCRIPTIONS MAILED ON APPLICATION REPOSITORIES : CHICAGO, ILL. ST. LOUIS, MO. BOSTON. MASS. NEW YORK CITY. FACTORY : ROCHESTER, N. Y. 92 Monroe County Savings Bank 33 AND 35 State Street Rochester, New York INCORPORATED 1850 RESOURCES, July 1, 1905, $17,561,355.26 SURPLUS, - - - 1,617,812.68 OFFICERS FOR 1905 James E. Booth, President RuFUS K. Dryer, Vice-President David Hovt, Secretary and Treasurer Alexander M. Lindsay, Vice-President Wm. B. Lee, Attorney TRUSTEES George EUwanger Cyrus F. Paine James E. Booth Alex. M. Lindsay Rufus K. Dryer Eugene T. Curtis Marvin A. Culver Elias S. Ettenheimcr Henry A. Strong William Hamilton Thomas J. Devine Wm. B. Lee Edward W. Peck Pharcellus \'. Crittenden Edward Bausch Joseph Michaels William Carson 93 p. V. Crittenden Chas. p. Kingston Brewster, Crittenden & Co. IMPORTERS, WHOLESALE GROCERS, AND DEALERS IN FIELD SEEDS 44. 46, 48 AND 50 ST. PAUL STREET ROCHESTER, N. Y. p. V. Crittenden Charles P. Kingston BOTH TELEPHONES 912. Robert Tait BREWSTER, CRITTENDEN COLD STORAGE CO. Wholesale Commission Merchants and Jobbers in BUTTER AND EGGS COLD STORAGE WAREHOUSE AND SALESROOM, 288 EXCHANGE STREET ROCHESTER. N. Y. 94 United States, State and City Depositary Traders National Bank Rochester, New York 43 i3 4S State Street CAPITAL, $500,000.00 SURPLUS, $500,000.00 OFFICERS HENRY C. BREWSTER, President CHARLES H. PALMER, Vice-President DARRELL D. SULLY, Vice-President CARROLL E. BOWEN, Cashier. HENRY F. MARKS | Assistant Cashiers WTLLIAM J. TRLVIBLE i DIRECTORS Henry C. Brewster, president John F. Alden Charles H. Palmer American Bridge Company Vice-Pres't Genesee Valley Trust Co. George C. Buell Clinton Rogers George C. Buell & Co., Wholesale Grocers Howe & Rogers Co., Carpets Charles P. Ford D. D. Sully C. p. Ford & Co., Shoe Manufacturers Attorney at Law Frederick C. Loebs James E. Wolcott President .\merican Brewing Co. Director Genesee Valley Trust Co. Safe Deposit Vaults ^«\",^™,\™or' Exceptionally large and secure, with ample accompanying conveniences for box renters. Boxes $2.50 and Upwards, Per Annum. Secure storage for papers or more bulky valuables at reasonable rates. EDWARD D. CHAPIN, Supt Safe Deposit Vaults. Thoroughly equipped for prompt and efficient service in every depart- ment of Banking Business. Interest paid upon Special Deposits. Inquiry invited from those seeking new or additional banking facilities. 95 ROCHESTER CARTING COMPANY [ROfHLSlIRC'U?Jlv;fo SAFE BOILETR.MACHINERY FREIGHTakoFURNITURE MOVERS G. F. ROTH, Prest. H. A. ZIMMER, Vice-Prest. CHAS. W. WEIS, Secy, and Treas. Our new Electric Automobile Trucks are at your service. The moving of heavy machinery a specialty. Our Trucking service is unsurpassed. Freight, Safes, House- hold Goods, etc., moved. Storage facilities of the best. Prices moderate. Offices 162-164 Andrews St., and 24-48 N. Washington St. Bel! Phones 205 A. 205 D Stables. 728 - Rochester Phones 205, 2205 Stables 820 STORAGE WAREHOUSE No. 1, 162 ANDREWS ST. STORAGE WAREHOUSE No. 2, Mt. HOPE AND SOUTH AVES. Rocfi. Phone 5994 The Yates Coal Company Coal and Coke General Office First Floor Elwood Building, ROCHESTER, NEW YORK Telephones 311 96 Alliance Bank CAPITAL, $275,000 SURPLUS, $225,000 RESOURCES, $7,000,000 INTEREST PAID ON SPECIAL DEPOSITS AND SAVINGS ACCOUNTS AT PREVAILING RATES OFFICERS HoBART F. Atkinson, President James G. Cutler, Vice-President Albert O. Fenn, Vice-Pres't and Cashier John P. Palmer, First Assistant Cashier Charles L. Barton. Assistant Cashier Thomas E. Lannin, Assistant Cashier Hobart F. Atkinson James G. Cutler Hiram W. Sibley DIRECTORS ?fK»Tr?''^^"'^" Fernando E. Rogers Thomas W. Finucane Albert O Fenn Abram J. Katz Walter S. Hubbell Charles E Angle James S. Watson Henrv A. Strong John C. Woodburv Alexander M. Lindsav 97 Established 1857 Howe & Rogers Co, ilmpnrtrrs WlinlrsalrrB Srtatlrrs CARPETS RUGS DRAPERIES Largest store of its kind m the state outside of Greater New York The Central Bank OF ROCHESTER OFFICE, WILDER BUILDINQ Bank Open from io a. m. to 4 p. m. Saturdays Close at 12 CAPITAL, ----- $200,000 SURPLUS and UNDIVIDED PROFITS, 205,000 OFFICERS BENJAMIN E. CHASE, President GEORGE WILDER, Vice-President JOHN H. GREGORY, - Cashier H. H. CLAPP, - Assistant Cashier Benjamin E. Chase Charles E. Hoyt Erickson Perkins Johnson I. Robins W. H. Mathews DIRECTORS Harold P. Brewster William A. Sutherland George Wilder Wm. R. Peters William Pitkin Bernard Dunn John P. Bowman John H. Gregory Edward G. Miner Wm. E. Sloan New York Correspondents : Fourth National and NatiOxNal Park Banks Metropolitan Trust Company Foreign Drafts issued on all parts of the world. Letters of Credit available for foreign travel. Interest allowed on special deposits. We respectfully solicit the accounts of Corporations, Firms and Individuals, and are prepared always to furnish such depositors with business facilities consistent with their balances and standing. SPECIAL department FOR LADIES 99 i&. i^m Slam 9Am is±ml4^ o 0,0: a Q^ ■=35 tt: Will ItlO a: >-. Q k O Ui is: Tke Fidelity Trust Company POWERS BUILDING CAPITAL $200,000.00 SURPLUS $200,000.00 TRANSACTS A GENERAL TRUST COMPANY BUSINESS LEWIS P. ROSS, President JOHN CRAIG POWERS, Secretary lames E. Booth Walter W. Powers L. I.. Williams J. B. I'erlfins J. J. I-. Friedericli DIRECTORS Abram J. Katz Chas. H. Babcock A. B. Hone W. R. Seward L. P. Ross jcjhn Craig Powers Arthur T. Hagen Joseph Michaels George J. Keyes Gustav Erbe Edward Bausch Walter S. Hubbell A. O. Fenn Louis J. Ernst 101 H a < OJ >. z 5-H -M G 0) E u >- J ^ -M J J. O < CvJ H ' cfi (« G [IJ • f-H rn •Oii •01^ ex • i«H < ffi J a: I H . o - t, i: 4j h ^^ M g "75 o o O C O o tH ^ '^ "^ ^ - 3: c ca ij _/ c H h i h Genesee Valley Trust Company '2\ Exchange Street CAPITAL, $300,000.00 SURPLUS, $120,000.00 Accepts and Administers all Manner of Trusts Pciys Interest FOUR PER CENT. Even Months (WHETHER OVER OR UNDER $8oo) Solicits Accounts of Individuals, Trustees, Guardians, Executors and Administrators. Every courtesy and attention extended to depositors who do tiieir banking by mail. HENRY C. BREWSTER, President FRANK H. HAMLIN, CHARLES H. PALMER, Vice-Presidents CHARLES H. PALMER, Sec'y. HERBERT C. HOWLETT, Asst. Sec'y DI RECTO RS JOHN F. ALDEN .American Bridge Company LEO BLOCH Stein-Blocli Company, Wholesale Clothing CARROLL E. BOWEX Cashier Traders National Bank HENRY C. BREWSTER Pres. Traders National Bank GEORGE C. BUELL George C. Buell & Co., Wholesale Grocers R. TITUS COAN Cashier Citizens National Bank of Albion, N. Y. WILLIAM DEININGER Ocininger Bros.. Manufacturers THOMAS B. DL'NN President T. B. Dunn Co., Mfrs. Perfumes, etc. CHAS. P. FORD C. P Ford & Co., Inc., Shoe Manufacturers JAMES S. GRAHAM Postmaster of Rochester WILLIAM B. HALE President Lawyers Co-Operative Publishing Co Trustee Mechanics Savings Bank FRANK H. HAMLIN President Canandaigua National Bank. Canandaigua ALEX. B. LAMBERTON Vice-President East Side Savings Bank FREDERICK C. LOEBS President American Brewing Co. WILLIAM S. MORSE Vicr-Pre>^ident W. B. ,Morsc Lumber Co. W. HENRY MATHEWS President Rochester Printing Co Director Central Bank Vice-President East Side Savings Bank THOMAS M. OSBORNE President D. M. Osborne & Co., Manufacturers Mayor of Auburn, N. Y. CHAS. H. PALMER Vice-President Traders National Bank CHAS. E. RIDER Manufacturer CLINTON ROGFRS Howe & Rogers Co., Carpets and Draperies President Chamber of Commerce M. S. SANDFORD Vice-President and Cashier Geneva National Bank Geneva. N. Y. JOHN S. SHEPPARD Capitalist, Penn Yan. N. Y. FRANK A. STECHER President Stecher Lith. Co. DARRELL D. SULLY Attorney Vice-President Traders National Bank VALENTINE F. WHITMORE Whitmore. Rauber &- Vicinus, Contractors Director Merchants Bank JAMES E. WOLCOTT Capitalist WILLIS E. WO(M)BURY Merchant 103 I! PAPER BO;^ MACHINERY. ^STAVING MATERIAL. M. D. Knowlton Company Manufacturers of Paper Box Machinery Mam OHice and Works : 29-35 ELIZABETH STREET, ROCHESTER. N. Y. 23 GOSWELL ROAD, LONDON 203 and 205 Wooster Street NEW YORK CITY 80 and 86 W. Jackson Boulevard CHICAGO 104 Union Trust Company OF ROCHESTER. N. Y. Located In their Own Building, 25 State St. Capital $ 200,000 Surplus and Undivided Profits . . . 125,000 Deposits 3,500,000 OFFICERS FRANK TAYLOR . President GEORGE WELDON . ist Vice-President ALLAN B. ERASER ad Vice-President FREDERICK W. ZOLLER Secretary DIRECTORS C. Walter Smith, President Smith, Perkins & ^- ^- Van Biskikk, Publisher. Co., Wholesale Grocers. Frank Taylor, President. G. Eluert Taylor, President Taylor Bros Co., Elbridge L. Adams, Attorney-at-Law. Manufacturers of I hermometers. Adomh Si'iEHLER, Manufacturer of Perfumes. James D. Casey, Casey & Murray, Contractors. William S. Ely, Physician. Erickson Perkins, Member New York Stock E.xchang^e. Allan H. Fraser, Banker and Merchant, Hil- ton, N. V. Geori.e W. Archer, President Archer Mfg. Co. Director Merchants Rank. J. E. McKelvey, I'resident American Wo■ c/-. S ^i' n > c« ^ W K) f * v-n "-< O o V> -^ , n o '— : n o M o 3 < 0! — . ►1 n or O ■^ o w o ^ o a Q- '^ rt m < O fH m rt C- m G C a rt ~^ "i ^ ?o ;:^ ^ o ^ w =r ^ y' ^ <^ r T ^w EJ ^i C- ^ 5' ^ K ^'^ ^ >q c_ ' x c^ ;^ s:^ ::t ,'^>N^ ^ H n r ^ ^ n r^- ^ ^ a. O ^ *T^ •«S4 2 ^i ^ rT 3 ^ 2- §^ n ^5 :j' ?5i o > rt ^ S 3 S^ ^ Eo '^^ . n ^ T ^ P S5 or 5o' 3- 3 ni D 125 GEORGE C. BUELL A. BYRON SMITH JOHN H. CHll.DS WILLIAM A. PEIAS Established 1 844 GEORGE C. BUELL & CO. IMPORrERS AND Wholesale Grocers 37-39 EXCHANGE STREET and 30-32 IRVING PLACE Rochester, New York l^ Auburn, New York Warehouse — Erie Canal Corner South Washington Street. Branch House— 25 and 27 Water Street, Aulnirn, N. Y THE BREWERS' EXCHANGE of Rochester, New York 307 Ellwanger Gf Barry Building HENRY B. HATHAWAY, President MATHIAS KONDOLF, Vice-PreMdent JOHN C. ENDERS, Treasurer JAMES M ALLEY, Secretary Executive Coiiimittee J. Mii.i.KR Kelly John Bradley John F. Bartels 126 Commercial Bank 47 Main Street East RocKester, N. Y. Office Hours. 10 A. M. to 4 P. M. CAPITAL, $200,000 SURPLUS, $200,000 Commercial Bank, April 187; Commercial National Bank, Juno 1S76 Commercial Bank, May, iSyi OFFICERS Chas. H. Babcock, President Lewis P. Ross, Vice-President Thomas J. Swanton Cashier Robert Bannard, Ass't Casliier DIRECTORS H. W. Davis R. M. Myers Josiah Anstice C. H. Babcock L, P. Ross Henry Willis Edgar N. Curtice Charles J. Brown T. J. Swanton Frederick A. Slierwood N. Y. CORRESPONDENT, AMERICAN EXCHANGE NAl'IONAL BANK Interest Allowed on Special Deposits Foreign Drafts Issued on all Parts of the World 127 ROCHESTER HOME OF THE CELEBRATED BRANDS OF Pure Condensed Milk AND i>ui0et Qllou^r llrani PREPARED BY Mohawk Condensed Milk Co. ROCHESTER, N. Y., U. S. A. 128 03 n rD &: :3 o- o > O ^ '-t 02 ^ n H n o n a M o m 3 l~~* H Hi H 'AJ ^ o CD 2 3- > ^ Cfi ^ ^ m > .^ n ? o w c ^ 3 fD f-t- Qo C 3 ^ n 3 cr. re CI- p 2 2 V. O o I— ' • cn 129 SMIl'H, BEIR '^^IK & GORMLY WHOl.ESAI.i; RS ONI. V OF «^f^\ DRY GOODS NOTIONS AN D MEN'S FURNISHINGS -^^^1 pi 1 SpI i^ 1; S B * 5 _: 37 AND 39 St. Paul Street 1 ^yijNiiiiii'^ ROCHESTER, N. Y. .. J. Hunjj^erford Smith Company 410-420 North Goodman Street Rochester, N. Y. The largest factory in the world devoted exclusively to the manufacture of "uJntr iiffnnt" §>iiita Jnmttaiu §^1^1^.11x^0 Includinir, Concentrated Friu't Syrups, Crushed and Whole Fruits, Flavorinii Extracts, Soluble Extracts for Bottlers, etc. Hig'Hest Aivard at All tHe Great Expositions. Soi,D RV Al.I. THE LeAUIN(; WlKJl.ESAI.E DRUGGISTS AND WHOLESALE CoNE ECTIONE RS. 130 National Casket Company ROCHESTER N. Y. BENJ. E. CHASE, Treasurer 22 Distributing Depots ALBANY, X. V. ALLEGHENY, PA. BALTIMORE, MD. BOSTON, NLASS. BUFFALO, N. Y. BROOKLYN, N. Y. CHICAGO, ILL. (2) NASHVILLE, TENN. HOBOKEN, N.J. HARLEM, N. Y. INDIANAPOLIS. IND. LOUISVILLE. KY. NEW YORK. N. Y. NEW HAVEN, CONN. ONEIDA, N. Y. PHILADELPHIA, PA. PITTSBURGH, PA. WILLIAMSBURG, N. Y ROCHESTER, N. Y. SCRANTON, PA. SYRACUSE, N. Y. 131 Rochester N.Y Factories Canad^ian Factories' Newmarket Oniario Factories of the Yawman & Erbe Manufacturing Co. Y and E' Y and E' Y and E Y and E ^ Y and E' Executive Offices, Rochester, N. Y. Makers of " Y and E " Office Filing Systems INCLUDING Sectional Filing Cabinets Vertical System of Filing Card Index Systems Card Ledger Systems Commercial Report Systems Genuine Shannon System of Filing " Y and E " Check Filing Systems " Y and E " Legal Blank Systems " Y and E " Document Filing Systems " Y and E " Rapid Roller Letter Copier and other High-Grade Labor-Saving Office Devices 132 P" iiiiiyiipwililillMllliWtUMItlllliilll I M .?r= NEXT CORNER MAIN ST. Rochester is a splendid field for the investor. We manage many prop- erties which average over \0% net annuallv. Rochester Real Estate SOLD RENTED BOUGHT AUCTIONED EXCHANGED Property Managed Rents Collected LANDS AND BUILDINCiS APPRAISED FIRE INSURANCE Manufacturing Buildings and Sites on Railroads, Canal, River, Etc. Houses and Flats to Rent from $8 Month Upwards. Houses For Sale from $i,ooo for Six-Room Cottage, and $i,8oo Upwards for Two-Story House with improvements. Terms $'50 to $500 down, balance easy monthly, quarterly or semi-annual payments. C'F- Garfield Real estate Company. I EXCMANCEST-CARFIEIDBLDC. 133 > < D O < Q Z < 2 < o d '■ J L. .5 M " f? « ' d ' h- u C i s z D C < s E 2 « Z) •«• h <2 o < ti- «• D ^ Z 4i« •• < I ^^// 0) J UJ I h CUTLER BUILDINGS EAST AVENUE, MAIN STREET EAST AND STILLSON STREET For Space Apply at the Office, Room No. 216 East Avenue Entrance, Cutler Buildings GENERAL OFFICES OF THE Cutler Manufacturing Company Sole Makers and Patentees of THE CUTLER MAILING SYSTEM It should be specified by name where the Standard Authorized Mail Chute Equip- ment is desired. Circulars, with specification form, detail showing space occupied, illustra- tions of various styles of special U. S. Mail Boxes, etc., will be sent freely on application. lo5 Modern Lightin OUR FIXTURE DEPARTMENT embraces the latest de- signs of the leading manufacturers in every- thing pertaining to Gas, Electric and Combina- tion Fixtures, Bronzes, Mosaic, Art and Cut Shades. OUR WIRING DEPARTMENT is prepared at all times to estimate on Electric Light and Power Con- struction, Bell and Telephone Systems, and Automobile Charging Stations. OUR MOTOR DEPARTMENT is fully equipped with the most modern ma- chinery for rewinding armatures, refilling and turning commutators, repairs to motors, etc. Representatives of the General Electric Co. OUR STE.^DY GROWTH FOR THE LAST FIVE VE.ARS IS EVIDENCE OF F.'MR TRE.i\TMENT IN M.l. OEPART.MENTS. A CORNER OF Ot'R SHOW ROOM 57-59 ST. PAUL STREET Wheeler-Green Electric Co ELECTRICAL CONTRACTORS Rochester, N. V. 136 Mechanics Savings Bank 18 Exchange St., Rochester, N. Y. Interest allowed on accounts of $i,ooo and under at the rate of 4 percent, per annur On accounts exceeding $1,000, 3-2 percent, on whole account. Money Loaned on Bond and Mortgage OFFICERS Charles M. Everest, President J. J. Bausch, ist Vice-President S. G. Hoi.lister, Sec'y and Treas., Pro tern. Wii.i.iAM R. Sewaro. 2d Vice-President Fedor Willimek, Cashier Hale &c Bronk, Attorneys TRUSTEES Wm. R. Seward S. G. Hollistcr Jerome Keyes John J. Bausch Jas. H. Boucher A. H. Little Charles M. Ever W. J. Curtis Wm. E. Sloan George Weldon Louis J. Ernst Wm. B. Hale William Karle Charles C. Beahan 137 American Fruit Product Company Controlling Leading Brands of Cid er Cider Vinegar Apple Products EXECUTIVE OFFICES 81 Lake Avenue ROCHESTER, N. Y. Factory Sites and "Business Property A SPECIALTY H. S. BREWER IRcal Estate National Theater Building Rochester, N. Y. Rochester Phones ( Office 399 ' Residence 468 FORD & ENOS Bankers and Brokers High Grade ^onds 201-203 Wilder Building Rochester, N. Y. TELEPHONES Rochester 995 Bell 995 Main 138 Stop Smoking and Save M oney I ECONOMY I CAPACITY WE GUARANTEE [ durability j AND SMOKELESSNESS .. ...., "^««--^-ijfiinm«iTrllr Murphy Automatic bmokeless rurnace Will burn cheap slack and show results usually obtained with expensive coal. C, Adaptable to any type of boiler, and units of any size. €L A comprehensive catalogue of our product is to be found in "Sweet's Index" in the office of every architect. MADE BY MURPHY IRON WORKS 3 WALKER STREET DETROIT. MICHIGAN 139 New York Hydraulic-Press Brick Co. FACING BRICKS OF EVER\" DESCRIPTION HOLLOW BLOCKS & TERRA COTTA Only factory in the state using fire clay in its products. Works : NORTH STREET Canandaigua, N. v. Sales Office : 27 ST. PAUL STREET Rochester, N. V. RocHester Distilling Company DISTILLERS RECTIFIERS IMPORTERS ?1!UILI_ iii ill j >> ff Offices and Warehouse LaKe Avenue and "Vf^Kite Street, RocHester. N. Y. 140 Security Trust Corapany Capital, $200,000 Surplus, $385,000 Resources, $10,800,000 This Company Is autKonzed to act as Executor, Trustee, Administrator, or Assignee, transacts a general Banking Business, and solicits tne accounts of firms and individuals. Allows interest on deposits subject to check. Loans money on Bond and Mortgage and Approved Securities SAFES TO RENT IN SAFE DEPOSIT DEPARTMENT. $5.00 A YEAR AND UPWARDS Special Department for Women Foreign Exchange and Letters of Credit at Lowest Rates OFFICERS EDWARD HARRIS, President JAMES S. WATSON. Vice-President ALEX. M. LINDSAY. V,ce-Pres,dent JULIUS M. WILE. V,ce-Pres,dent FRANK M. ELLERY, Secretary GEO. p. CULP. Assistant Secretary HARRIS & HARRIS. Counsel TRUSTEES Edward Harris Hiram W. Sibley Alexander M. Lindsay James S. Watson Henry A. Strong GeoriJe Eastman Rufiis K. Dryer Albert H. Harris Rufus A. Sibley Julius M. Wile Albert 0. Fenn J. Warren Cutler Granger A. Holliste Wm. E. Werner Joseph T. Ailing Thomas W. Finucan Morley A. Stern Geo. W. Ham E. S. Ettenbeir Charles Stern Charles M. Ev Carl F. Lomb Business established by Zebulon Hebard in 1851 JOHN P. WESTON CO. Erected by John P. Weston Co., in Medina, N. Y. ■BUILDERS OF Mausoleums, Monuments, Headstones DESIGNERS OF MANTELS AND WORKERS IN TILE, MARBLE INTERIORS, SLATE, BRONZE, ETC. Agents for the Famous Grueby Tile Office, 912-914 Granite Building Works, 766 Mount Hope Avenue ROCHESTER, N. Y. 142 Brewster, Gordon & Co. ESTABLISHED 1873 JVholesale Grocers & Importers 1—! C rt 7^,' M a P CO ~ Q iJ :r' 2 '^ C/l < ° ^ ^ - r. CQ J 2 ^ — ; < o Ci a P U " H -^ W c ^j ^ cc k c ^y ^ ^ — n t- o /-N re ^_^ a ROCHESTER, NEW YORK 143 DUFFY'S Pure Malt Whiskey Medicine for All Mankma At all Druggists ana Dealers, $1.00 per Bottle DUFFY MALT WHISKEY COMPANY Rochester, New York F. E. ROGERS, President A. R. HELMER. Secreta ORGANIZED 1834 INCORPORATED 1901 Snow Wire Works Company 76-84 EXCHANGE STREET Artistic Metal TVork in Brass^ Bronze and Wronght Iron Some of Our Recent Contracts Alliance Bank Merchants Bank Cutler Building, Elevator Car and Enclosure Powers Hotel, Elevator Cars and Fronts „ ^ ^lu- r-i . r^ jc Croston Building, Elevator Car and Fronts Burke, Fitz Simons, Hone & Co., Eleva- tor Car, Wired Glass and Wrought Cornwall Apartments, Wrought Iron Iron Enclosure and Railing Fronts and Doors 144 Stops Smoke >aves Fuel )aves Money THE JONES STOKER "An Investment — not an Expense Some Rochester Boiler Plants We Have Equipped Bausch & Lomb Optical Co. ( 2 orders I Stecher Lithographic Co. Rochester Athenaeum and Mechanics In- stitute Stromberg-Carlson Telephone Mfg. Co. (4 orders I Eastman Kodak Co. (2 orders) Sibley, Lindsay & Curr Co. (2 orders) Home Laundry I F. J. Hafner) The Hayden Co. Monroe County Buildings Cutler Mfg. Co. Buildings Burke, Fitz Simons, Hone & Co. University of Rochester M. B. Shantz Co. American Fruit Product Co. Sibley Estate, Main Street Building Powers Hotel Powers Commercial Fire Proof Building Co. Rochester German Insurance Building Van Bergh Silver Plate Co. Pritchard- Strong Co. Rochester Laundry Co. Vacuum Oil Co. National Casket Co. B. R. & P. Ry. I 2 orders) Office Building and Lincoln Park Shops D. Armstrong Co. A REPRESENTATIVE LIST??? The Under-Feed Stoker Company OF AMERICA 836-847 Marquette Building CHICAGO 145 c. p. tori & Company MANUFACTURERS AND KXPORTKRS OF Ladies , Misses and Children's Fine Shoes Rochester .". .'. New York, U. S. A. We Are Doing Business With the World C P. Ford H: Company's export business reaches around the world. Its agencies penetrate all sections of the globe. A constantly enlarging foreign trade has made widely known the Ford name as a type of high-class Rochester-made foot-wear for women. Wherever clean-built and designed shoes for women's wear are sought, there is known the FORD product. A world-wide repute sends daih' unsolicited orders to us. Tne Reason ! WE HAVE THE RIGHT GOODS. WE KNOW HOW. The export shoe business calls for remarkable attention to detail if the customer is not to be subjected to serious difficulty in the receipt and dis- position of his wares. A long period of experience and careful study has especially qualified us to handle expeditously and without error all orders, small or large in volume. This of itself is an item of value to the foreign buyer. The .solidity and permanence of the Ford standing among leading shoemakers and consumers at home are verified and augmented by the sterling, growing reputation abroad. Foreign Oflices of C. P, Ford & Company LONDON, ENGLAND BERLIN, GERMANY AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND PARIS, FRANCE SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA 147 T rees FRUIT TREES, SMALL FRUITS, including GRAPES; ORNAMENTAL TREES, EVERGREENS and FLOWERING SHRUBS for Public and Private Grounds; SHADE TREES for Streets; HARDY ROSES, HARDY PLANTS, CLIMBERS, Etc. C Our beautifully illustrated catalogue contains accurate and trustworthy descriptions of the choicest varieties, and is replete with practical hints indispensable to planters; it will be mailed FREE on application. Ellwanger Of Barry MT. HOPE NURSERIES Established Over 60 Years ROCHESTER, N. Y. Archer Manufacturing Company PATENT BARBER, DENTIST & SURGEON Manufacturer, ot" PIANO STOOLS, ETC. CHAIRS Our New Pedestal Barber CHair The ROCHESTER No. 50 Revolving and Reclining Movements. Revolving, Reclining, Ball Bearing with Extension Footrest, Raising and Lowering Mechanical De Special Styles of MIRROR C.\SES, latest and best designs. Our New Dental Chair, No. lo '„",:[ .\!1 the latest iuiiiroveiuents {ir/^c[^a^1^t,.ce ROCHESTER, N. Y. Branch OHice 332 Eighth .4ve.. New York City. U. S. A. S. C. LANGSLOW Pres. P. A. FOWLER Vice-Pres. C. R. WOODWARD Sec'y. and Treas. Langslow, Fowler Co. -'^''•""f^j'""-" JFauni iSurUrra auiJ fHorriH CCbatrs Office and Factors 63, 65, 67, 69, 71, 73, 75 South Avenue and 47 and 49 South Water Street Rochester, New York 149 Bauscli & Lomb Optical Co. MANUFACTURERS Microscopes Field Cilasses Microtomes Eyeglasses and Lenses Ckemicals Laboratory Supplies Pnotograpnic Lenses and Snutters ROCHESTER, N. Y. BR ANC HES : NEW YORK BOSTON CHICAGO SAN FRANCISCO WASHINGTON FRANKFURT a/M. GERMANY LONDON, ENGLAND Bausch, Lomb, Saegmuller Co MANUFACTURERS Astronomical, Engineering, and other Instruments of Precision WASHINGTON, D. C. ROCHESTER, N. Y. 150 ROLFE CURLI NG IRON HEATER ATTAC H E D AND D ETAC H E D TO I N C A N DESCE NT LAM P ROLFE Wireless Curling Iron Heater YOU CAN USE IT WHETHER YOU KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT ELECTRICITY OR NOT No electrical connections — simply aujust the heater to the incandes- cent lamp and the electric current does the heating. The heater hoias the curling iron, thus saving time. NO DANGER FROM FIRE Price, $1.00 Net Further Particulars on Application ADDRESS Rolie Electric Company 295-297 State St. Rochester, N. Y., U. S. A. Moore s Modern Methods Of Loose Leaf Book-Keeping DON'T COST MONEY — THEY SAVE IT Manulactured and Sold Only by the JOHN C. MOORE CORPORATION C Printers and Makers of everything in the line of Blank Books, Loose Leaf Ledgers, Post Binders, Clutch Binders and "Expan- sion" Back Books. Factories and Office BOTH PHONES-SS J^ gg ,^ ^j ^^^^^ g^^.^^^ ESTABLISHED 1839 ROCHESTER. N. Y. All the Luxuries of Modern Railway Travel Are Afforded by the Through Trains of the Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburgh Ry. 'Between ROCHESTER and PITTSBURG Day trains, equipped with CAFE-OBSERVATION PARLOR CARS (Meals served a-la-carte), leave ROCHESTER 7:30 A. M., week days; 8:15 A. M., Sundays; and night trains, with BUFFET SLEEPERS, at 9:15 P. M. daily. City Ticket Office, 35 Exchange St. Station, West Ave. and Oak St. ROCHESTER, N. Y. W. T. NOONAN. EDWARD C. LAPEY, General Superintendent General Passenger Agent 152 Foster-Armstrong Company C ,'\ .■.•\ A^ •W' 1 i ! 1 1 [ 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 SIDE SECTION AND ELEVATION Puddington Fuel Economizer Supplementary Gas Fuel lor Perfecting the Smokeless Combustion of Coal m Hand Fired Furnaces Effects Complete Con.bustion of Waste Fuel Gases — Highest Possible Etficiency Entirely Automatic, Simple and Durable. Easily Applied to Any Type ot Boiler Furnace. A List i>{ Plants Equipped and Terms will be Supplied on Application THE PUDDINGTON FUEL ECONOMIZER CO. CLEVELAND, OHIO WRIGHT & ALEXANDER CO.. Rochester Ajients 156 ^ rv < m <^ c ^ z 7C y< S C H > < ?o cr "7^ 70 ^ 1?^ 5>'' :^ ^ ki> ^3- 2" t^ L-H 03 Lewis P. Ross Manulacturer and W h Dealer in olesale Boots, Shoes, Rubbers Of l:'mclmgs Rocnester, New York |S)^5^*^v,'fa TRUvST you will associate my face with the ^j^- -===jiC^G making of Art Glass in leatl, zinc and cop- T)A I mA per finish. Leaded tjlass has many uses ; for VfV i _^ "^ ?W staircase windows, parlor, library and dininy; iS^fii)(i£K^:^^ room transoms, for entrances in the place of curtains or lace, for bathroom and lavatory instead of blinds or shades, bookcase, china closet doors and lamp shades. Prisms in throwing light into dark parts; also church win- dows Twelve years experience and constant growth, glass in 200 churches and 2000 homes. .Special water color sketches submitted upon receipt of sizes and particulars. All work warranted. Visitors welcome. Call, write or phone (Either 1207) Haskins & Co., ^^^,^^T.?^;> ^^ Rochester, N. Y. Barker Of Jordan brokers Home Phone — 5715 428 and 430 Powers Building Bell Phone— 4017 Main Rocliester, N. Y. 15o Chas, Vocf.l, Prcfidcni. Kredk S. Rogers, Sec. and Treas. Theodore J. Vogel, Vice-Pres. and Supt. The John Siddons Company Roofin iiilte^iii d^M^a STEEL CEILINGS COPPER AND GALVANIZED IRON CORNICE WORKS Nos. ()1, 63 and 65 North Water Street Rochester, N. Y. Paironize Your H(j.me Institution Beidre Insuring with Foreign Companies Til e Rocnester German Insurance c ompany OFFICE Co.Ml'.AXY'S HUILDIXG, M.AIX STREET \V^ EST CORNER IR^"1XG Pl.ACE statement. JANUARY 1. 1906 Cash Capital ...... Reserve for Re-Insurance ----- Reserve for Unpaid Losses and other Liabilities NET SURPLUS - - - - Gross Assets . . - . - - $ 200,000.00 892,943.49 60,280.71 528,408.60 $1,681,632.80 OFFICERS EUGENE SATTERLEE, President AI.BRECHT VOGT, Vice-President J. FLETCHER C.AMF H. F. ATVVOOD, Secretary H. R. MUTSCHLER. . .Asst. Secretary Aist. Secretary The "Powers Hotel ABSOLUTELY FIRE-PROOF. THE ONLY FIRST-CLASS HOTEL IN ROCHESTER. Remodeled, Redecorated and Refurnished through- out under the New Man- agement. Has now 350 Rooms (an addition of 125) with 200 Baths and Showers. EUROPEAN AND AMERICAN PLANS Cuisine and Service First-Class. MESSNER ^ SWENSON, Proprietors 160 Brown Brotkers Company Qlnuttu^utal Nurseries ROCHESTER, NEW YORK. U. S. A. A Complete Line o£ Fruit and Ornamental Trees HARDY FLOWERING SHRUBS, VINES, Etc. Landscape Work a Specialty NEW GROUNDS LAID OUT AND OLD ONES REMODELED Agents Wanted Everywhere 1 W [l^^iWHj^ll'%-41. ^tf* 161 Furniture Movers Piano Movers Freight Deliverer ^ SAM GOTTRY CARTING COMPANY POWERS BUILDING, STATE STREET ENTRANCE Both Phones Telephones In Rochester ON MARCH 1. 1906 OUR SUBSCRIBERS STATIONS NUMBERED OVER 9000 Growing Rapidly ; Prompt Service'; Toll Lines Every- where ; Long Distance Connections to New York, Chicago, PHiladelaphia, Boston, Etc. BELL TELEPHONE CO, 162 Whipple s Housefurnishing Establishment Complete Furnishings K,^^^^^^^_^^_^^ tor the -^^^ Home and Office i Special Attention Given to the Furnishing of Hotels and Halls We lurnisn at a very small margin oi pront goods specially ordered. It will pront you to consult us if m need of anything irom a single piece to a complete outfit. This is the "Home of Whipple's Gold Bond Trading Stamps" Tnese stamps are the best co-operative advertising system in tnis vicinity. If interested drop a card, and our represent- ative will call and explain the value of these stamps. ^^^^^_^______ Given by a Large Number ^ of Merchants in Rochester GEO. C. WHIPPLE CO. INCORPORATED 136, 138, 140, 142, 144, 146, Main Street, West. Rochester, N. Y. A Minute Wiilk from the Center of the City 164 Insure with the OLD LINE STOCK COMPANIES REPRESENTED BY Milton Clark Co. MiLTUN Clark, Prfsident OVER $99,000,000.00 Assets Companies' Cash Assets New Hampshire Ins. Co. of N. H. Westchester Ins. Co. of N. Y. London and Lancashire Ins. Co. of England Hanover Ins. Co. of N. Y. American Ins. Co. of N. J. Williamsburgh City Ins. Co. of NY. Northern Assurance Co. of England German Ins. Co. of 111. Prussian National Ins. Co. of Germany Farmers Ins. Co. of Pa. Orient Ins. Co. of Conn. Assurance Co. of America Aetna Life Ins. Co. (Liability Department) $3,779 3,300 2,746. 3,795, 4,455, 2,390, 3,423, 4,184, .930, 824. 2,110, 608 59,609, 570.00 ,598.00 ,215.00 ,167.00 ,064.00 ,737.00 ,231.00 360.00 372.00 252.00 ,911.00 ,395.00 691,00 Offices: 405, 407, 409, 411 Chamber of Commerce Bldg. Rochester, N. Y. 165 Sole Agents Pullman Mfg. For Inglenook Vineyards, California Company The Donoghue Importing Co. Hardware Specialties Importers and Whulesale Dealers in r JFines, Liquors . Rochester, N. Y. and Cordials U. S. A. 237-239 Main Street, East Rochester, N. Y. OX AND LUMBER m I 166 lectric Po\ver No department of Electrical Science has Advanced the art of manufacture in its many branches to the same extent as the introduction and de- velopment of Electric Motors Advice and suggestions on application Rochester Rail\\ ay and Light Co. 24-40 Clinton Avenue North 167 \V. B. HLTHER A. E. HLTHER HUTHER BROS. Saw Ma n ufa ctur ers ^ • Mnnufuctur,rs of Huther Bros. Patent Groover or Dado Head 234 Mill St., Rochester, N. Y. TELEPHONE 2002 C. IV. Trotter & Sons Refrigerators FURNACES <^ RANGES 7 EAST AVENU Rochester, N. Y. ESTABLISHED 1855 The C. B. Woodworth Sons Co. Manufacturers of Fine Perfumes and Toilet Articles VIOLETS OF SICILY BLUE LILIES NINA VIOLET VIOLETS OF SICILY TALCUM POWDER RICE POWDER ARABIAN BOUQUET ROSES OF SICILY Imperishable Perfumes Ixocliester Irust Of Daie Deposit Co. Corner Main and Exchange Streets OLDEST & LARGEST TRUST COMPANY IN THE STATE OUTSIDE OF GREATER NEW YORK Capital $200,000 Surplus $1,000,000 Resources $20,000,000 Legal Depository for Court and Trust Funds. Authorized to act as Executor, Administrator, Guardian and Trustee. Safes Rented. Burglar Proof Vaults. INTEREST ALLOWED ON DEPOSITS OFFICERS President Vice-Presidents Secretary Asst. Secretary .1. MoREAu Smith \ George Ei.lw anger ( Wm. C. Barry V. MoRE.\u Smith Rout. C W.\tson \o'^ Scrantom, Wetmore & Co, CRANTOM, WETMORE & CO., established in 1868 ^ have grown with the growth of Rochester until to-day the firm controls the largest and most complete Book and Stationery Establishment between New York and Chicago occupying more than 17,000 square feet of space. The concern also does a large and constantly growing whole- sale business. Located in the heart of Rochester's business district in the Powers Building, with entrances on both Main and State Streets, it forms an arcade daily taken advantage of by hundreds of visitors and residents of the Flower City. Besides the complete Book Section there are departments of Sta- tionery, Leather Goods, Pictures and Frames, School Supplies, Office Supplies, Games and Sporting Goods, presided over by competent men and women. The firm also operates a plant of its own for the production of Society and Commercial Engraving, the output being second to none in quality, taste and workmanship. Scrantom, Wetmore & Co., also conduct a Reading Club Library which is to-day the most up-to-date and satisfactory Circulating Library in Rochester for the reasons that there are no membership dues ; no one is compelled to buy a book or make a deposit ; new books are added as soon as published and none but capable librarians are em- ployed : while remarkable as it may seem, the cost of this fine library to the user does not exceed two cents per day. Scrantom, Wetmore & Co., also take subscriptions for any publi- cation issued in the United States or foreign countries at the best rates and will save money to anybody patronizing them. In a word, Scrantom, Wetmore & Co., have the confidence of the public because they do exactly as they agree. They continue to make new friends while retaining their old ones, because it has always been the policy of the house to perfectly satisfy everybody honoring them with their custom. If a new or old book is wanted and it is not in stock, it will, if possible, be found and delivered at the lowest price obtainable. Painstaking, courteous and honest en- deavor has made this house worthy of the success which has so gen- erously followed it from its beginning. 170 THE NATIONAL BANK OF ROCHESTER HAS A CAPITAL OF $800,000-00- A SURPLUS OF $800,000-00 AND DE- POSITS EXCEEDING $8,000,000-00- IT OFFERS INDIVIDUALS, FIRMS, AND CORPORATIONS EVERY FACILITY AND ACCOMMODATION CONSISTENT WITH SOUND BANKING. INTEREST IS PAID UPON SPECIAL ACCOUNTS- OFFICERS Eugene Satterlee, president Walter B. Duffy, vice-presidi AlSRECHT VOGT, Vice-Presideni Edward Bausch, vice-president Peter A. Va>, asst cashier William B. Farnham, asst cash 171 WEIS & FISHER CO Housekold Outfitters 50-54 State Street 445 Clinton Ave., North ROCHESTER, NEW YORK U. S. A. 172 Merchants Bank or Rocnester MAIN ST. EAST, COR. SOUTH AVE. Capital and Surplus, $230,000 Resources, $2,750,000 A convenient bank in the heart of the retail district. We guarantee courteous treatment and give special attention to the needs of oui" customers. Officers PERCY R. McPHAIL. President THOMAS J. DEVINE. Vice-President JOHN C. RODENBECK, Cashier GEORGE WELDON, Vice-President Directors George W. Archer V. F. Whitmore Nathan Levi Thomas J. Devine George Weldon Adolph Spiehler William N. Cogswell George H. Perkins P. R. McPhail V. Moreau Smith Frank A. Ward 173 ,y(4^yiAy^^tye^t^^ The Wisner Building THE HOME OF Fine Chin a Rare indeed is our collection of Sterling Silver, Cut Glass, French Bronzes, Italian Marbles, German Hall Clocks, Brie -a- Brae, Lamps, Limoges China Dinnerware, Russian Brass Goods, English Plates, Etc., Etc. A View 111 Our Salesrooms Henry C. Wisner Company State and Church Streets. Rochester, N. Y. 174 An Experienced and Capable Management Fortified by the judgment and active direction of well-known and successful business men, vouches for The National Bank of Commerce 34 STATE STREET mmmmmwiKtKi .j^aw --8 >yitfa«Bi> m^ m . . p i-i'ii ' Capital $500,000 Surplus $50,000 I'he Accounts of Individ- uals, Corporations and Institutions Respect- fully Solicited 4% Paid on Interest Accounts Banking Hours 9:30 A. M. to 4 P. M. priv Ladies' Department Every facility is offered the ladies to transact their banking business. Pleasant ate offices and obliging clerks to attend their wants. ROBERT M. MYERS. President WILLIAM nEININGER. Vice Presfilent OFFICERS WILLIAM H. nUNN. \'icePresident THOMAS. J. SWANTOX. \'ice-Presicient and Cashi DIRECTORS iam Deinineer Charles F. Garfield Thomas J. Swanton Henry B. Hathaway Marion F. Van Buskirk iani H. Dunn Robert M. Myers Frank A. Brownell William S. Hale Martin E. Wollf Ik A. Maselli James D. Casey Albert J. Bolton Loren D. Eldredge Grit! D. Palmer Lowenthal Joseph W. Pressey William E. Dugan Frank .\. Kelly 175 Mandeville & King Company Commission Seedsmen FLOWER SEEDS EXCLUSIVELY Office and Warerooms : 187 Main St. East Rochester, N. Y. McGREAL BROTHERS CO Wi Importers and Jobbers nes Li iquors ana Brandies 457-459 Main Street East ROCHESTER, N. Y. 25 North Street 176 Absolute Security ! "DEAL PROSPERITY ol tKe individual depends not so mucH on what He makes as on what he saves. There is no reason- able excuse why a well-paid wage earner should be just even with the world financially, especially during such prosperous times as the present. Many persons have had deluded ideas to the effect that wealth is accumulated rapidly; this is erroneous, as m practically all cases it is a slow process and financial independence is attained only by saving. The subject of thrift and economy with the people generally is a very important one. When a well regulated institution, such as the East Side Savings Bank, offers to depositors sound banking facilities, it is safe to say that there is no better investment than an account with such a concern. In our city this bank is known as a thoroughly reliable banking house and the officers and trustees from president down have always been willing to aid in any movement tending to further the interests of the wage earners generally. We respectfully invite your business. One dollar will start an account. Open every Monday and Saturday evenings from 7 to 9 o clock to receive deposits. The East Side Savings Bank COR. MAIN AND CLINTON STS. 177 F. Schwikert & Son M A M ■ I'ACir K 1':K S ( )I'" BILLIARDS AND POOL TABLES, ROCHESTER, N.Y. 1 49 South Ave. Cor. Court St. FOR over forty years I have been en- gaged in the manufacture of Bil- liard and Pool Tables, which to-day enables me to produce the best tables in the market, and at prices never before offered. The Schwikert Cushion is QUICK and LONG LASTING, mak- ing it one of the most desirable cushions ever placed before the public. Its excellence is attested by the fact that it has been placed upon tables now in use in all of the principal hotel and club billiard rooms in Rochester. F. Schwikert c^ Son 149 South Avenue Corner Court Street Do YOU Belong to the Chamber of Commerce? If not, WHY Not? ESTABLISHED 1854 JEFFREYS Bntitrtabcrs 33 CHESTNUT ST. Rochester, N. Y. 178 PRESS OF INION AND ADVERTISER CO. ROCHESTER, N. Y. HK196-7^ O w o . V ,^ . , . ,* .^^"^ '^^. A -<* .*' J" % ^'^^^1.^/ '^^^^ "-^ -X^ ^^'^<^, ^.* /" \ ^^ ■•ii>a % o A <^. 'b V . ,.0«« -iv^ . •0.' ■<<» %' ^%.«* *S:- \/ y-.T> ".■. ^^-n^, V •0^ . 'b V V sr^ ... A^ .-J^^ A -^^o^ o V ~'m N. MANCHESTER, INDIANA .U'^^ -r - ' " •'. iHi ism! i> it ;> l4.(';Hiiii»i!liiiiii