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 DEALERS IN 
 
 Foreign and Domestic Dry Goods. 
 
 AGENTS FOR BUTTERICK'S PATTERNS. 
 
 MANUFACTURERS AND REPAIRERS OF UMBRELLAS. 
 
 Nos. 359 to 365 Main Street. 
 
 TN the diy-goods trade special enterprise and ability always tell. Competition in this branch of business is particularly keen — the 
 more so in a city of the size and importance of Hartford. The goods themselves are so often dependent upon the whims 01 
 fashion that none but a wide-awake dealer is able to keep abreast of the times. But what seems exceedingly difficult to one 
 is easily accomplished by another who sets about it in the right way. Messrs. Cook & Hills have found no difficulty in meeting 
 the discriminating requirements of the people of Hartford. With a very intimate knowledge of the dry-goods trade in all its branches, 
 and prepared by long experience and special aptitude for meeting all competition, it is not at all surprising that, during the years in 
 which they have been in business in this city they should have taken a place in the front rank of the responsible and representative 
 business men of Hartford. This is the oldest dry-goods establishment in this city, having been founded seventy-two years ago by- 
 Mr. Reuben Langdon, who was succeeded by his son under the firm name of Joseph Langdon & Co. The present firm, consisting of Messrs. 
 C. W. Cook and C. S. Hills, having grown up in the business, succeeded to the control about twelve years ago. The prei"' 
 occupied are located at Nos. 359-365 Main Street, and comprise a fine store 70 x 120 feet in size with basements. Kin- 
 given to fifty experienced assistants, and a well-selected and extensive assortment of foreign and domestic dry goods if 
 are also manufacturers and repairers of umbrellas. Their prices are very reasonable, and bargains may be obtai'- 
 Both members of the firm are natives of Hartford, and widely and favorably known. 
 
MAIN AND PRATTS STREETS. 
 
Brown, Thomson & Company, 
 
 DRY GOODS, 
 
 380, 398, 400, 402 Main Street. 
 
 * I ^HIS leading house "has been established for a quarter of a century, and although one of the original partners, Mr. Brown, is 
 -*- deceased, the name of the firm has been unchanged from the start. The present partners are Messrs. Jas. M. Thomson, 
 George A. Gay, William Campbell and Harry B. Strong. The new store premises are undoubtedly the most elegant and modernly 
 equipped of the kind in the State, allowing an extremely large amount of space on the ground floor, consisting of the entire first 
 story of the Cheney Building, at 3S0, 398, 400 and 402 Main Street, with a frontage on Main Street of 90 feet, and extending back 
 150 feet. It affords a half of an acre for the immense displays of new goods handled by this house. The Cheney Block with its 
 magnificent frontage and facades of red Connecticut sandstone is too familiar a landmark on Main Street to need any elaborate 
 description. The constant expansion of the business required the addition of an "Annex" in 1890, 70x200 feet in dimensions, 
 and in the spring of 1894 they came into possession of the famous Bee Hive store, which they connected with their annex by a 
 further addition of 50 x 50 feet, comprising four floors. A very attractive feature of the main store is that the immense stock is all 
 displayed on one floor, and is thus exceptionally convenient for examination and purchase. The firm handle a very extensive retail 
 trade, undoubtedly the largest in this part of the State, and with few rivals in New England. They are large importers, and are 
 constantly receiving new and elegant goods. They have made low prices a part of their business, and have the well-earned reputation 
 of offering a larger amount for the money than can be obtained this side of New York. Besides the general dry-goods stock, they 
 handle cloaks and suits, ladies' and children's shoes, millinery, carpets, furniture, boys' clothing, gent's furnishings, cut flowers 
 and candies. They have also special lines of household goods, baby carriages, toys and novelties at prices which command the 
 popular trade. In the balcony of their annex building is a spacious restaurant where a lunch can be had at any hour of the day. 
 This, with the advantages of pleasant waiting and toilet rooms, makes their big store a delightful place for the shoppers, and the 
 sensible housewives of this section of the State make regular pilgrimages to this Mecca of all retail purchasers, and the highest 
 testimony to the superiority of the store will be given by its thousands of regular customers. Mr. Jas. Thomson, the senior member 
 of the firm, is one of the oldest merchants of Hartford, and has been closely associated with its important interests throughout the 
 most progressive period in its history. 
 
MAIN STREET. 
 
 
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 ^!e/fc£222, 224&22&S7?UrS7: 
 
 "LTARTFORD has long been noted as the commercial centre of the beautiful and prosperous 
 Connecticut Valley, and the command of capital and well-defined energy and enterprise 
 of her merchants have enabled her to maintain this supremacy successfully and perma- 
 nently. One of the leading and representative business men of the city is Mr. Joseph G. Lane, 
 who controls a large and growing trade as a wholesale dealer in liquors of both domestic and 
 
 foreign production. As a boy he entered the employ of Mr. J. W. Danforth, who began business 
 
 in 1834, and was one of the most prominent merchants of his time. By energy and marked 
 
 ability Mr. Lane won his way to the highest position in the house, eventually being admitted to 
 
 partnership with the founder under the firm name of J. W. Danforth & Co. After the death of 
 
 Mr. Danforth Mr. Lane assumed full control of the business, and the great prosperity it has 
 
 enjoyed during the past twenty years is the direct result of his individual efforts, his ability as a 
 
 merchant and his popularity as a man. The premises occupied at Nos. 222, 224 and 226 State 
 
 Street have a frontage of thirty feet and a depth of one hundred feet, four floors being utilized. 
 
 An immense stock of choice liquors, wines, brandies, etc., is carried — a specialty being made of 
 
 case goods, among which figure prominently "Old Crow," "Old Pepper," "Hermitage," "Belle 
 
 of Nelson" and other famous whiskeys. The house employs four assistants, Major Frank Cowles, 
 
 who has represented it on the road for the past thirty-one years, being popularly known throughout 
 
 the length and breadth of New England. This house is noted for the length of time its employees 
 
 stay — among whom we would mention Geo. S. Haskell, bookkeeper, twenty-eight years; Dennis 
 
 McAuliffe, porter, thirty years, and John Lynch, twenty-five years. 
 
D. H. BUNNT& CO., Jewelers; Watch and Jewelry Re- 
 pairing; No. 175 Asylum Street. — It is annoying to lose your watch, but that 
 is the end of it. If you keep your watch, and your watch does uot keep time, 
 the annoyance stays right with you, and the only way to get rid of it is to take 
 the recalcitrant tirHepiece to somebody who knows how to put it in proper 
 order. Messrs. D. H. Blinn & Co., the well-known jewelers, of No. 175 Asylum 
 Street, make the repairing of watches a special aud important part of their 
 business. Their work is always conscientiously done, and can always be 
 depended upon, and their prices are most reasonable. They repair every kind 
 of watch, but make a feature of fine and complicated timepieces. The firm 
 are old-established, and enjoy a high reputation, not only because of the char- 
 acter of their work in the repairing of watches aud jewelry, but from the 
 superior quality and reliability of the stock they carry. They make a specialty 
 of watches and diamonds, and particularly of the quick-train Rockford watch, 
 which is especially adapted to the requirements of railroad men and travelers. 
 Their establishment at No. 175 Asylum Street is handsomely fitted and well 
 stocked, the space occupied being 20x50 feet in extent. 
 
 A. R. HUI,I,, Dealer in' All Kinds of iMeat, Poultry, Game, 
 Vegetables, Fruit, Fish, Oysters, Clams, Lobsters, Etc., No. 61 Market Street, 
 Opposite Foot of Kinsley Street. — The commercial advantages of Hartford have 
 brought men of enterprise and capital to establish themselves in our midst, and 
 nearly every branch of industry is here carried on vigorously. The establish- 
 ment located at No. 61 Market Street, opposite the foot of Kinsley Street, is 
 one of the oldest in the city, aud is now under the able management of Mr. A. 
 R. Hull, who has a thorough and practical knowledge of all its details, to which 
 he devotes his close personal attention, thus ensuring his customers every pos- 
 sible advantage to be obtained in the city. This market comprises one floor, 
 25x80 feet in size, which is well stocked with a choice selection of meats, 
 poultry, game, vegetables, fruit, fish, oysters, clams, lobsters, etc. The exten- 
 sive retail trade of this house requires the employment of a large force of 
 experienced assistants, and orders receive prompt attention, and goods are 
 delivered to all parts of the city. Popular prices prevail, and a very large trade 
 is catered to. Mr. Hull is well known, not only as a liberal buyer, but as a man 
 with whom business relations prove not only profitable, but pleasant and lasting. 
 
 H. F. CORNING & CO., Manufacturers of All Kinds of 
 Harness ; Sole Agents for Fennell's Kentucky Horse Boots'; No. 83 Asylum 
 Street. — Economy is a virtue that is too apt to be practiced in the breach 
 rather than in the observance, the average buyer of goods of whatever descrip- 
 tion seeming to be possessed of the idea that in buying cheaply he is being 
 economical. Nothing could be further from the truth in most cases, since nine 
 times out of ten the cheapest goods are the poorest goods. Striking.examples 
 of this fact are to be found in harness, for, while good harness may at times be 
 cheap, cheap harness is never good. This seeming paradox is capable of ready 
 explanation. Good harness is cheap when it is sold at reasonable prices, while 
 no matter how cheap poor goods may be they are dear at any price. One of 
 the oldest and largest harness firms in Hartford, dealing ou both a wholesale 
 and retail scale, has made the high reputation it sustains through selling only 
 first-class goods at moderate prices. We refer to Messrs. H. F. Corning & Co., 
 of No. 83 Asylum Street, manufacturers of, and wholesale and retail dealers in, 
 all kinds of harness. The present firm was organized in 1869, and succeeded 
 to the business established by Mr. Ralph Goodwin in 1S12, aud is therefore 
 entitled to the distinction of being the oldest house in its line in the city. They 
 have a large and convenient store, occupying two floors, each 30x110 feet in 
 dimensions, and carry an immense high-grade stock of horse goods of every 
 description, their average force of employees numbering eight. They have a 
 large trade in the New England States generally, and a particularly prosperous 
 local business. Their harness is all hand-made from pure oak leather, and 
 every other article in their stock is of equally high quality. Messrs. Corning 
 & Co. are sole agents for Fennell's celebrated Kentucky horse boots, and handle 
 the equally celebrated Burlington blanket, which is claimed to be the only 
 "stay-on" blanket in the market. 
 
 S. B. BOSWORTH, Granite Salt-Glazed Sewer-Pipe, Flue 
 Linings, Chimney Tops, Etc.; Manufacturer of Stone and Earthenware; Fac- 
 tory, Nos. 38, 40 and 42 Front Street. — The question of drainage is now regarded 
 as by far the most important affecting our modern city life, and must become 
 increasingly so with our steady advauce in population. A business house which 
 has for over a century been the pioneer and leader in this department of New 
 England and national trade is that conducted by Mr. S. B. Bosworth, of Hart- 
 ford, whose extensive plant is situated at Nos. 38-42 Front Street, in immediate 
 connection with railroad and river. These works and their output represent 
 the very highest development of manufacture in their lines. The business was 
 established in 17S0, and has been conducted without interruption since that 
 time. Mr. S. B. Bosworth has had entire control for the past twenty years. 
 The main building is 125 x 150 feet iu dimensions, three stories high. There is 
 a second building, 70x160 feet (three stories), with several others adjoining; 
 thirty-five large kilns and very extensive drying aud storage yards, covering 
 about two acres. The great specialty for which this plant is famous is the 
 grauite salt-glazed sewer-pipe, beyond question the most enduring and reliable 
 made in this country. The methods of manufacture have been long and care- 
 fully perfected, and this pipe is used by leading engineers and experts through- 
 out the United States. It is sold at liberal wholesale figures, and, considering 
 service, is much the cheapest in the market. Mr. Bosworth also manufactures 
 flue linings, chimney tops, etc., and stone and earthenware of every kind. The 
 material used and superior process enable him to supply the highest grade of 
 goods at very low figures. He carries a very extensive and complete stock, 
 with first-class facilities for prompt shipment by rail or water. The trade is 
 chiefly through New England, but large consignments are shipped to many 
 other points. 
 
Payne, Cornwall & Co. 
 
 Nos. 405 & 407 Allyn Street. 
 
 . . . Wholesale Dealers in . . . 
 
 Flour, Butter, Cheese, Lard, 
 Salt, Beans and Provisions. 
 
 '~pHE wholesale house 
 -*- of Payne, Cornwall 
 & Co. was organized 
 March, 1 891, by Edward 
 S. Payne, Lester L. Pot- 
 ter and D. W. Cornwall, 
 and almost from the start 
 sprang into a large and 
 profitable trade. 
 
 In these days of sleep- 
 less, untiring competition 
 it was no small undertak- 
 ing to establish a whole- 
 sale business in the midst 
 of old and very wealthy 
 houses, and with men of 
 less determination and 
 ability the attempt would 
 undoubtedly have been 
 followed by failure. 
 
 The history of this firm 
 is an exceedingly remark- 
 able one. In three years 
 they have twice doubled 
 the volume of their busi- 
 ness, and have pushed 
 forward into the very 
 front rank of New Eng- 
 land merchants. Their 
 Hartford offices are at 
 Nos. 405 to 407 Allyn 
 
 TAVNE, CORNWALL & CO., HARTFORD, CONN., U. S. A. 
 
 Street, where they occupy 
 two floors in a handsome 
 modern building. Their 
 stock of goods in Hart- 
 ford is a large one, but 
 they also hire storehouses 
 in a large number of 
 cities throughout Connec- 
 ticut and Western Massa- 
 chusetts, their method of 
 business being to ship 
 cars from Western and 
 importing points direct to 
 central places, from which 
 distribution is made to 
 the smaller towns. By 
 this method they save 
 the expense of one freight. 
 The energy and skill 
 with which Payne, Corn- 
 wall & Co. have steadily 
 built up and extended 
 their business, increasing 
 their territory from time 
 to time, until now they 
 cover almost all parts of 
 Connecticut and Western 
 Massachusetts, is com- 
 pletely evidenced by su- 
 perior standards and un- 
 varying success. One of 
 
 their most successful specialties is flour, which they handle in large quantities, and have perfected their shipping facilities so as to make the most extensive 
 consignments on short notice. Payne, Cornwall & Co. have the reputation of being good judges of credit and sharp collectors, but this fact is more than 
 balanced by prices which are invariably level with the very lowest quotations and by goods of superior quality. 
 
 In their lines of fresh creamery butter, cheese, lard, salt and provisions, they handle a trade which have few rivals. Recently they have added a paper 
 department, in which they keep all grades of wrapping paper, butchers' straw and waterproof, paper bags and flour sacks. 
 
 In their Hartford store are to be found the goods which bakers use, not only flour of every kind, but chocolate, cocoanut, jelly, and pie preparations. 
 Their bakers' department is in fact a very important part of their business. 
 
 This article has spoken of their shrewdness and tact, but one very important reason for their success has been that their entire force of office help, sales- 
 men, shippers and truckmen are taught to work by the constant, persistent energy of the partners, who are always at business. The principle that "nothing 
 succeeds like success " have some limitations, but it receives a very large and forceful illustration in the history of Payne, Cornwall & Co. 
 
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THE CAPITOL AND MEMORIAL ARCH. 
 
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 COOPERATIVE COAL COMPANY, 
 
 80 STATE STREET. 
 
 THE co-operative principle as applied to the conduct of business enterprises is growing in favor. Co-operative establishments are becoming more and more 
 numerous in all parts of the country, and the uniform success attending their operations indicates that they appeal directly to the intelligence and com- 
 mon sense of the community. One of the latest important commercial undertakings based on this principle is the Co-operative Coal Company of Hart- 
 ford, which was organized in January, 1S94, to conduct a retail business in coal. It has a capital stock of $20,000, and is officered by men of marked ability 
 and high standing in this community. The President of the company is Mr. J. F. Swords, and its Treasurer is Mr. H. G. Kellogg, both long residents of this 
 city and prominent business men. The business of the company is conducted solely in the interest of its stockholders, and the measure of success already 
 obtained is conclusive evidence that the company affords one safe, certain and profitable field for investment. In a city such as Hartford, the natural 
 source of supply of a large manufacturing centre, the consumption of coal is enormous, and the business of supplying the demand thus created, if prosecuted 
 with the intelligence and ability which mark the conduct of the affairs of the Co-operative Coal Company, must of necessity bring continually large returns. 
 Moreover, such a company presents decided advantages to the consumer, since its expenses being reduced to a minimum, and its large facilities presenting 
 special advantages in obtaining supplies, it is in a position to accept lower prices than the majority of its competitors. The Co-operative Coal Compauy has 
 well-appointed offices at No. 80 State Street, and employs an ample force of competent assistants, insuring prompt and satisfactory service on all occasions. 
 
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 WNCOIyN, SEYMS & CO. (Successors to Allyn & 
 Blanchard Co.), Nos. 34, 36, 38 and 40 Market Street.— Each year the standards 
 of taste and correspondingly the standards of trade in New England and other 
 
 sections are making constant progress, and to keep in the van of the best 
 demands of the trade requires a very large amount of enterprise and wide ex- 
 perience. A leading and successful business house in all matters pertaining to 
 its department of trade is that of Messrs. Lincoln, Seyms & Co., Nos. 34, 36, 38 
 and 40 Market Street. The business has been established here since 1865, and 
 the firm under its present organization since 1891. They are the successors of 
 the old house of Allyn & Blanchard Co. The large modern store occupied 
 comprises five floors (60x95 feet in dimensions), and the firm also operate a 
 steam grinding and packing mill of three floors (30 x1s feet), and one floor 
 (30x50 feet). Their stock includes every kind of first-class grocers' supplies 
 at good wholesale prices. They are extensive importers of coffee, teas and 
 spices, preparing and packing the same in the best modern manner. Their 
 trade reaches throughout New England and parts of New York State. The 
 stamp of this house has been for years the mark of the very best quality and 
 condition of goods. Their prices are maintained on a liberal basis, and satis- 
 faction guaranteed to all purchasers. The requirements of the business demand 
 the constant employment of thirty people, and there is no house in the State 
 doing a more extensive and thoroughly successful trade than this reliable firm. 
 
 BERNHARD WEIGEI/T & SON, Tin, Copper and 
 Sheet-Iron Workeis, Stoves, Ranges, Furnaces, Etc., No. 136 Main Street. — 
 The purchase of a stove, range or furnace is one not to be lightly undertaken, 
 for if the best results are to be obtained the utmost care must be exercised in 
 the selection. There are many good makes of cooking and heating apparatus 
 on the market, but there is a still larger number that, if not absolutely worth- 
 less, are the next thing to it, and there is no lack of dealers to aid in the work 
 of deceiving the buyer. The first essential in the purchase of a stove or furnace 
 is to find a dealer whose reputation assures you that you will receive full value 
 for your money. The firm of Messrs. Bernhard Weigelt & Son, of this city, 
 cannot be too highly recommended in this regard. Their business, like their 
 reputation, is one of long standing, and they never make a representation that 
 may not be fully relied upon. Mr. Bernhard Weigelt founded the establish- 
 ment thirteen years ago, though he has been a resident of Hartford since 1861. 
 His son, Mr. W. P. Weigelt, was admitted to partnership three years ago, at 
 which time the present firm name was adopted. Their specialty is the 
 "Herald" range, though the}- carry a full stock of stoves, ranges, furnaces, tin- 
 ware, &c, at their store, No. 136 Main Street. They also have an extensive 
 business as tin, copper and sheet-iron workers, making a specialty of tin roofing 
 and repairing. Their working force averages nine skilled hands, and they are 
 always in a position to promptly execute all orders in their line at the most 
 moderate charges. 
 
WII,I/IAM BROWN, No. 552 Main Street.— With a 
 thorough knowledge of the business, the proprietor of the above-named house 
 established business twenty-six years ago under the style of William Brown, 
 and at present conducts one of the most popular harness-manufacturing estab- 
 lishments in the city. He occupies premises located at No. 552 Main Street, 
 covering an area of 25 x 100 feet, where he carries a full line of trunks, traveling 
 bags, harness and horse goods of all kinds. The retail trade of this house re- 
 quires the services of four capable assistants, and the details of the entire busi- 
 ness are under the direct personal supervision of the proprietor. Mr. Brown is 
 a native of New York, and has been a Councilman for four different terms. 
 The trade of this house, as may be inferred, is a large one, and ranges through- 
 out the trade radius of the city. A visit to this establishment will prove profit- 
 able to all who require goods in this particular line. This establishment is 
 perhaps as widely and favorably known as any in the city in its specialties, and 
 offers inducements to purchasers not easily duplicated. 
 
 THE CO-OPERATIVE SAVINGS SOCIETY OF 
 
 CONNECTICUT, No. 49 Pearl Street.— The Co-operative Savings Society of 
 Connecticut, incorporated in 1893, has already taken its place among the 
 strongest and most successful institutious of its kind in the country. The 
 broad and sound foundations on which it was laid, the unparalleled strength 
 of its management, and the very liberal plans instituted, have given it 
 within the first year a volume of solid business unequaled by any other co-oper- 
 ative savings society in New England. There are now over 1,200 shareholders, 
 with 9,000 shares of stock issued, in Connecticut, reaching to every part of the 
 State ; for it is the plan of the management to make it a strictly State institution 
 with the exceptional facilities concentrated at the State capital. The careful 
 and reliable methods, devised by widely experienced business men after 
 thorough study of all the savings society and building loan association 
 methods in operation, have well earned for this Society the title of "a Gibraltar 
 among savings institutions." The plan on which it operates combines greater 
 safety and more liberality than is afforded by the ordinary savings banks, as it 
 loans only on first mortgages very carefully selected on improved town and city 
 property in Connecticut, the same being non-negotiable by its charter, thus 
 furnishing absolute protection for investors. It is also protected against runs, 
 which ofteu wreck ordinary savings banks. Being purely mutual and co-oper- 
 ative, the investor or shareholder becomes at once a full participant in its 
 management, so that the interests of every depositor are one with the organi- 
 zation, and a more thorough management is secured than is possible in any 
 other way. By the added feature of installment payments on building loans, 
 the Society is made thoroughly modern in every feature. To the investor of 
 small means its plans of monthly savings present beyond question the most 
 remunerative and most reliable channel of investment that can be secured. 
 Earnings of 12 per cent, for the first year on sums even as low as $1 per 
 month is something without rival for the workiugmen of this section and State. 
 To larger investors, the Society's 6 per cent, and 7 per cent, coupon stock 
 
 affords a very attractive investment upon a basis which, for solidity, cannot be 
 surpassed. The most important feature of all is that whereby it secures to its 
 shareholders, large or small, the privilege of paying for and possessing their 
 own homes with the same money which would be otherwise spent for rent. 
 When one makes careful examination of this combination of strength and 
 liberality, he must be convinced that along these lines must be developed the 
 new and greatest financial institutions of the future. The officers and directors 
 of the Society are as follows : 
 
 GEORGE POPE, President. 
 Jos. O. Goodwin, Secretary. Hon. Ernest Cady, 1st Vice-President. 
 
 C B. Leach, Treasurer. Frank Midler, 2d Vice-President. 
 
 Austin Brainard, Attorney. A. R. Crittenden, 3d Vice-President. 
 
 Francis A. Crum, Manager Agency Department. 
 
 DIRECTORS AND TRUSTEES. 
 
 Chas. M. Jarvis. 
 
 Hon. D. W. Williams. 
 
 Hon. John M. Douglas, Middletown. 
 
 Arthur B. Ryan. 
 
 Henry Roberts. 
 
 Amos Whitney. 
 
 Chas. F. Hurd. 
 
 S. Loewith. 
 
 George T. Meech. 
 
 A. E. Kilbourne. 
 
 A. R. Crittenden. 
 
 Hon. Chas. L. Upham. 
 
 Hon. Herbert E. Benton. 
 
 Francis A. Crum. 
 
 Samuel H. Read. 
 
 Francis E. Hunn. 
 
 Hon. Zalmon Goodsell. 
 
 Hon. Jno. M. Hall. 
 
 Geo. L. Ellsbree. 
 
 Hon. Chas. E. House. 
 
 Hon. J. Addison Porter. 
 
 Hon. D. N. Camp. 
 
 George Pope. 
 
 Frank Miller. 
 
 Jos. O. Goodwin. 
 
 Hon. Wm. H. Marigold. 
 
 Hon. Ernest Cady. 
 
 James Youngs. 
 
 I. L. Holt. 
 
 Hon. Isaac E. Palmer. 
 
 Hon. L. S. Forbes. 
 
 Charles Reynolds. 
 
 Austin Brainard. 
 
 C B. Leach. 
 
 Hon. Frank L. Wilcox. 
 
 Dr. Chas. C. Godfrey. 
 
 Hon. L. B. Plimpton. 
 
 Hon. N. D. Sperry. 
 
 Hon. Morgan G. Bulkeley. 
 
 W. H. Elliott. 
 
 Warren L. Hall. 
 
 Edward Dexter. 
 
 E. B. Cowles. 
 
 George H. Clowes. 
 
 CONNECTICUT TRUST & SAFE DEPOSIT COMPANY, 
 
 hartford, 
 
 Depository and Trustee. 
 
 These gentlemen are men of the highest standing throughout Connecticut, 
 whose names are so well known that reference to them is alone required to 
 show the great resources and pre-eminently representative character of the 
 Society as a State savings institution. A careful examination of the various 
 plans and opportunities presented by this Society will prove of extreme interest 
 and value to every one of our readers. 
 
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CHARTER OAK MARBLE AND GRANITE 
 
 WORKS, Karl J. Beij, Proprietor, No. 93 Charter Oak Avenue. — From the 
 earliest days of which there is record men have desired to perpetuate their 
 memory by sculptured marbles and immemorial stone. It answers a great 
 craving of human sympathy, and will doubtless continue to do so as long as 
 society contains anything that is beautiful or worthy. A well-known and 
 reliable establishment in this department of local work is that conducted by 
 Mr. Karl J. Beij, and known throughout this part of the State as the " Charter 
 Oak Marble and Granite Works." It is located at No. 93 Charter Oak Avenue 
 and has been iu successful operation here for years. Mr. Beij is a long- 
 experienced and thorough master of every form of marble and granite sculptur- 
 ing. He has made a special study of memorial work, and his facilities for 
 artistic execution and durable results are unsurpassed in this section. He 
 carries a large stock of monuments, gravestones and all kinds of cemetery 
 stonework iu marble and granite. He can also execute special designs to order 
 with prompt and thorough accuracy. His prices will be found uniformly fair 
 and reasonable. A special feature is made of cleaning and engraving old 
 monuments, and this is a line of service which has been much appreciated. 
 Mr. Beij employs four reliable and expert assistants. He can afford very 
 superior facilities in this line, and our readers can be assured of receiving at the 
 Charter Oak Marble and Granite Works most courteous and satisfactory treat- 
 ment at all times. 
 
 STATE MUTUAL FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY, 
 
 Isaac Cross, Jr., President and Treasurer; F. H. Daniels, Secretary; Telephone 
 Call 144-4. — No New England city has a more distinctive business character 
 than Hartford, and a line in which it has long and eminently excelled is that 
 of insurance. The State Mutual Fire Insurance Company has its offices situated 
 here, and is known throughout the country as a representative institution in its 
 department. The management of the company since it was incorporated 
 twenty-seven years ago has been marked by conservative and reliable methods, 
 so that its reputation for fair and liberal dealings is of the very highest kind. 
 The resources have been accumulated by a long period of solid growth, and no 
 company is more prompt and exact in meeting all just claims. The president 
 and treasurer, Isaac Cross, Jr., has been connected with the company since its 
 organization, and now holds the first insurance agency established here, being 
 more than fifty years ago, comprising the following old reliable companies : 
 Girard, of Philadelphia, $1,580,336.11; Glens Falls, of N. Y., $1,980,713.37; 
 Williamsburg City, $1,527,173.21 ; Sun Insurance Co., London, established 1710, 
 $2,671,250.50; Westchester, N. Y., $1,685,591.31. Mutual companies : Merch- 
 ants' and Farmers', Holyoke, Fitchburg, paying 25, 50 and 70 per cent, 
 dividend to policy holders. Mr. F. H. Daniels, Secretary, has been associated 
 with the company and insurance business for a number of years. Their facilities 
 will be found most reliable and first class by our readers desiring the best 
 satisfaction in this department. 
 
 HENRY D. FROST, Fine Family Groceries, No. 595 
 Main Street. — We take especial pleasure in making favorable and prominent 
 mention of such an establishment as is carried on by Mr. Henry D. Frost, for 
 he is a dealer in fine family groceries who has the disposition, the ability and 
 the facilities to render first-class service to the public at fair prices, so that he 
 may justly be called a public benefactor, although he is in the business to make 
 money, and has never claimed that he was carrying on a sort of a charitable 
 institution, as is in effect claimed by dealers who are always selling "below- 
 cost," and, iu fact, almost giving things away — that is, if you can believe what 
 they say. But Mr. Henry Frost is well prepared to sell "as low as the lowest," 
 quality considered, and he does it, too, as is indicated by the magnitude of his 
 business. Premises at No. 595 Main Street are occupied which measure 20 x 50 
 feet in size, and a very fine stock is constantly carried, comprising groceries in 
 almost endless variety, including a very full line of choice teas and coffees, 
 standard brands of family flour, superior canned goods, and fresh butter, eggs, 
 etc., in general. Two competent assistants are employed, and the facilities for 
 calling for and delivering orders are such as to assure prompt and reliable 
 service, no pains being spared to furnish as satisfactory goods, when filling 
 house orders, as could be obtained by customers personally visiting the store. 
 Mr. Frost succeeded Mr. H. O. Case four years ago. He is a native of Hart- 
 ford, and very well known. 
 
 HUBE BROS., Family Bakery ; Bread, Cakes and Pies 
 
 Fresh Every Day; Orders Promptly Attended To; No. 466 Main Street. — A first- 
 class bakery is a great public convenience, so, when we state that Messrs. Hube 
 Bros, carry on an establishment comprising a bakery equal to the best in every 
 respect, it is unnecessary to add that their enterprise is worthy of hearty public 
 support, and it is gratifying to be able to say that it receives such support, it 
 being one of the most popular bakeries in the city. The premises utilized are 
 located at No. 466 Main Street, and have an area of 2,500 square feet. They 
 are very completely fitted up, among the facilities being the latest and most 
 improved type of bakery apparatus. Messrs. Hube Bros, do an extensive retail 
 business in bread, cakes and pies of all kinds, their productions, being in very 
 active demand, as they are uniformly excellent in quality and are furnished iu 
 quantities to suit at the lowest market rates. The business was established by 
 Mr. R. P. Judsou, succeeded about four years ago by the preseut firm, which is 
 composed of Messrs. Henry C. and John L. Hube, both natives of the State, 
 where they learned their trade. The premises are divided as follows : Store in 
 front, behind which is a nicely fitted up luuch-room for ladies "and gentlemen. 
 The bakery is in the basement, and, although out of sight, presents a neatness 
 and cleanliness which a good housewife would appreciate. Both gentlemen 
 give the business close personal supervision, and are determined to steadily 
 maintain the service at the highest possible standard of efficiency. 
 
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 ENTRANCE TO CEDAR HILE CEMETERY. 
 
Thome Typesetting Machine Company. 
 
 TEN years ago Joseph Thorne commenced building the first 
 Thorne typesetting machine in this city, occupying a 
 small space in the west end of Colt's Armory, and em- 
 ploying five men. From that small beginning has grown the 
 Thorne Typesetting Machine Company, with its large plant of 
 machinery, occupying a floor space of fourteen thousand 
 square feet, and employing over one hundred men. 
 
 The general offices and manufactory of the company are 
 located at No. 581 Capitol Avenue, with branches in New York, 
 Chicago, San Francisco and London. 
 
 The officers of the company residing in Hartford are : 
 R. W. Nelson, President ; E. F. Linke, Treasurer ; and E. J. 
 Andrews, Secretary. 
 
 The Thorne Company manufactures and completes a 
 machine every other day. These expensive and valuable 
 machines sell for one thousand eight hundred dollars each, and 
 are designed for setting and distributing type for books and 
 newspapers. 
 
 These machines are being shipped to all parts of this 
 country and Europe, and two hundred and fifty Thorne 
 machines are now in use. 
 
 The only great industry which was not years ago trans- 
 formed from hand work to machine work was typesetting, but 
 this has at last yielded through the perfection of the typeset- 
 ting machine. 
 
 Years of time and millions of money have been spent by 
 investors and capitalists in trying to solve the problem of 
 setting type by machinery, and the first machine to prove 
 itself a practical and profitable investment was the Thorne, and 
 from the small beginning of ten years ago has grown one of 
 the large manufacturing industries of Hartford. 
 
 Among the publications set by the Thorne are the ' 'Forum, ' ' 
 the "Churchman" and the "Evangelist" of New York, the 
 "Christian Register" of Boston, the "Interior" of Chicago, 
 and dailies like the " Post " and " Mail and Express " of New 
 York, the "Post" of Hartford, the "Union and Palladium" 
 of New Haven, the "Post" of Bridgeport, the "Press" of 
 Portland, Maine, the "Journal" of Atlanta, Ga., the "Daily 
 Guardian" of Manchester, England, the " Observer " of 
 Bradford, England, etc., etc. 
 
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H. W. GRANT & CO., Meats and Provisions, No. 484 
 Asylum Street. — Among the various popular and growing enterprises of the 
 City of Hartford which bear the marks of increasing prosperity is the establish- 
 ment of Messrs. Grant & Co., located at No. 484 Asylum Street. The business 
 was established ten years ago in Market Street by Messrs. Ross & Convers ; 
 three years ago, however, the firm dissolved, and Mr. I. A. Convers moved to 
 the present location, where the new company will continue the business. The 
 premises occupied for the business measure 25 x 40 feet in size, and a complete 
 stock is carried of choice meats and provisions of all kinds. Employment is 
 given to a sufficient force of capable assistants, who wait upon customers atten- 
 tively and fill orders promptly. The greatest care is exercised by Messrs. Grant 
 & Co. in the selection of their stock, which is highly esteemed by the com- 
 munity for its freshness and reasonable price. Goods are delivered to any part 
 of the city, and every facility is at hand for prosecuting a large and successful 
 busiuess. The present firm will spare no pains in selecting their stock, which 
 will suit the most fastidious. 
 
 HUGO REUSS, Designer and Engraver on Jewelry and Metals 
 
 - of Every Description ; Die Sinking, Stamp Cutting and Patterns for Casting ; 
 No. 333 Main Street, Hill's Block, Room 20. — Prominent among the engravers 
 in Hartford who are recognized as especially skilled in their calling is Mr. 
 Hugo Reuss, who occupies small but well-arranged quarters in Hill's Block, 
 No. 333 Maiu Street, Room 20. Born in Germany, Mr. Reuss wisely determined 
 to find a better field for the remunerative exercise of his skill and genius, came 
 to America and found employment in Hartford at Colt's Armory for five years, 
 after which he started in business for himself, having established his present 
 enterprise six years ago, during which time his talents have gained him a large 
 and influential patronage. Specimens of Mr. Reuss' workmanship show him 
 to be an engraver of the most versatile gifts and accomplished attainments. 
 He seems equally successful in every branch of the business, from the daintiest 
 to the largest and most elaborate plates. Mr. Reuss is a designer and engraver 
 on jewelry and metals of every description, is also prepared to execute orders 
 for die sinking, stamp cutting and patterns for casting, and makes a specialty 
 of new designs, which are particularly artistic and original. Mr. Reuss 
 guarantees first-class work in every instance, while his charges for the same 
 are very reasonable, and prompt attention is given to all orders, whether large 
 or small. 
 
 ADAMS GRANITE AND MARBLE WORKS, Estab- 
 lished 1838; Monuments and Gravestones of Red Swede, Westerly, Barre and 
 Quincy Granites and Marble at lowest prices and of the best material ; Corner 
 Pearl and Ford Streets, opposite the Park. — There are certain articles of 
 commerce which are less subject to fluctuation in price than most other com- 
 modities, and many people are therefore led to believe that it is unnecessary to 
 
 exercise care in the selection of a dealer, on the assumption that prices are as 
 low in one place as in another. Among such articles are granite and marble. 
 While it may be true that the prices of the various dealers in this line may 
 deviate but little, there are other considerations to influence buyers, of as great 
 if not greater importance ; namely, promptness in the execution of orders and 
 reliability as to quality. When the stone is manufactured into monumental or 
 decorative articles it becomes the more necessary to put your orders in the 
 hands of a concern upon whom you can implicitly rely and trust, and, as here 
 cost largely enters into consideration, one whose prices are reasonable and 
 whose work is first-class — everything guaranteed. The Adams Granite Works, 
 the old reliable, are kept busy constantly with their increasing business. This 
 concern has fine quarters on the corner of Pearl and Ford Streets, and fitted 
 to handle all grades of work, such as granite, marble, etc. The members of 
 this company devote all their time and energy to this business, and from 
 appearance of things around their establishment one can easily imagine they 
 are prepared to execute the finest grades of work, and can do it at close 
 margins. For the past fifty-six years this house has been doing business in 
 Hartford, the original proprietor and owner being Thomas Adams. The 
 present quarters are in the old wooden building corner of Pearl and Ford 
 Streets, opposite the Park and Young Men's Christian Association Building, 
 where there are many assistants to look after the wants of its patrons. All 
 orders receive the earliest attention, satisfactory work being guaranteed in 
 every instance by this old reliable house of fifty-six years' standing. 
 
 EDWARD E. ClyAUSSEN, M.E., Engineer and Expert, 
 No. 370 Asylum Street. — The entire basis of our civilization rests upon the 
 marvelous development of mechanical appliances during the past century or 
 two. Education and refinement on the extensive scale now enjoyed would be 
 impossible without the wealth-producing power of these myriad-handed help- 
 meets which men have devised. In the economy of our industrial life the 
 mechanical and consulting engineer therefore occupies a most important place 
 which had hardly a parallel in earlier times. Among the best-known local 
 experts in this department Mr. Edward E. Claussen, of No. 370 Asylum Street, 
 has taken established rank. His office was opened at this point in 1S89. He has 
 enjoyed the most thorough technical training as well as long and practical ex- 
 perience in the various lines comprehended by the term "mechanical engineer." 
 His office is modernly equipped and contains every facility for the prompt and 
 thorough handling of work in this line. Mr. Claussen makes a specialty of 
 executing designs of machinery and of patent drawings for inventors and 
 exhibitors. His success at this branch has been most marked and widely 
 attested. The importance of having work of this sort most artistically exe- 
 cuted will be evident to all having the slightest acquaintance with the nature 
 of the requirements, and the best modern service at unexcelled terms is assured 
 by consultation with Mr. Claussen and employment of his carefully perfected 
 facilities. 
 
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BII/I/ BROTHERS, Carmen and General Forwarders, 
 Office, No. 46 Ann Street. — Expedition and economy of time are leading 
 characteristics of modern business, and are in very large measure responsible 
 for the immense progress made in all lines of commerce. A leading firm in its 
 department, and one which for many years has furnished valuable service to 
 the business interests of the city, is that of Messrs. Bill Brothers, whose office 
 is at No. 46 Ann Street. The business has been established since 1850, and 
 under capable and energetic management from the first. The two members of 
 the firm, Francis P. & Fred. R. Bill, are thoroughly experienced and well- 
 known business men, whose ability in handling their large and important 
 business is universally recognized. Their office and warehouse premises cover 
 six floors, 46XS0 feet in dimensions, and they employ on an average thirty 
 experienced men. They have a full equipment of heavy and light freight 
 wagons, express teams, derricks, and a complete line of apparatus for moving 
 safes and heavy machinery. Their business requires the constant use of thirty- 
 six horses. Freight and baggage are delivered to and from cars or boat or any 
 part of the city. Special attention also given to moving furniture, pianos, 
 safes, machinery and heavy freight of all kinds. The most careful and 
 reliable handling is guaranteed, while the rates are no higher than those often 
 paid for inferior service. The firm also carry special lines of fireproof safes, 
 by leading manufacturers, and at bottom prices. Both new and second-hand 
 safes for every business purpose constantly kept in stock. A very important 
 feature is the new "Storage Warehouse," comprising " Loomis' Block," at 
 46 and 48 Ann Street. It covers over 22,000 square feet of floor space, is 
 provided with elevators and every modern equipment. Separate apartments 
 are furnished at moderate figures, and the best storage facilities afforded 
 anywhere in this section for general merchandise, furniture, baggage, pianos, 
 stoves, etc. In every department of business handled by this firm the very 
 best modern service can be relied upon at all times. 
 
 COMMERCIAL HOUSE, Opposite Allyn House, No. 165 
 
 Asylum Street ; G. F. Johnson, Proprietor. — The large and varied commercial 
 and manufacturing interests of Hartford naturally attract a large floating 
 population to the city, and as a result the demand for comfortable and con- 
 venient hotel accommodations is constantly on the increase. Among the 
 excellent hotels located here none enjoys a higher or more justly merited 
 reputation, in respect to the conveniences it presents, than the Commercial 
 House. It is located at No. 165 Asylum Street, in close proximity to the busi- 
 ness heart of the city, and but two minutes' walk from the railroad depot, with 
 which frequent communication is also had by horse-cars passing the door. It 
 is indeed a "good home for commercial men," as the proprietor, Mr. C. F. 
 Johnson, announces, there being none better in the city. It is not a large 
 house, the number of sleeping-rooms being limited to twenty-two, but there 
 are the best accommodations to be had here — excellent sample-rooms, superior 
 
 service, the best that is to be had in the way of well-cooked and well-served 
 food ; in fact, everything that could be desired by the most exacting guest. 
 The Commercial House has been under Mr. Johnson's management since 1886. 
 He is a hotel-man of long experience, and well knows how to provide for and 
 maintain the comfort of his guests. 
 
 I/. R. GANS, Dealer in Groceries and Meats, Corner of 
 Capeu and Clark Streets. — Among the various dealers in food supplies doing 
 business in this city Mr. L. R. Gaus should be given prominent mention, for 
 he is very successful in catering to all classes of trade, and makes it an invari- 
 able rule to sell goods strictly on their merits, being convinced that such a 
 policy is for his own interests as well as for those of his patrons. Judging from 
 the present extent and the steadily increasing magnitude of his trade, his 
 methods are appreciated by the residents of this section, and it is certainly 
 pleasant to note a success won by the employment of such a legitimate and 
 liberal policy. Mr. Gans' store is located at the corner of Capen and Clark 
 Streets, it being a small, one-story building, 76S square feet in area, which was 
 built by him especially for his business, and contains a choice stock of groceries 
 and meats, the assortment being so varied that all purses as well as all tastes 
 can easily be suited, while the proprietor is prepared to supply these very desir- 
 able articles in any quantity that may be ordered. An intelligent and courteous 
 assistant is employed, and every customer assured immediate attention. Mr. 
 Gans is a native of Hartford, and is fast gaining a high rank among our most 
 reliable and energetic business men. 
 
 H. E. PATTEN, Dye Works ; Carpet-Beating and Cleansing 
 Establishment; Office and Works, No. 37 Wells Street. — These well-known 
 and successful dye works were established by Mr. Patten in 1855, and handle a 
 business second to none in the State of its kind. The facilities and equipment 
 of the plant have been carefully perfected for many years and are modern in 
 every respect. The standard of workmanship is equal to the best, the house 
 guaranteeing superior results at a very moderate cost. Only the finest dve- 
 stuffs are used, and such as long experience has demonstrated to be perfectlv 
 reliable. Every kind of garment fabric and wearing apparel can be changed 
 in color and handsomely renovated, special attention being given to fine and 
 delicate goods. Lace curtains, draperies and upholstery furnishings thoroughly 
 cleaned and dyed, and feathers carefully renovated. Much money otherwise 
 spent on new material and work can be saved by employing a little judgment. 
 The facilities have also been completely equipped for carpet-beating and laying 
 of the same at the best figures in the city. Prompt, thorough and reliable serv- 
 ice can always be secured at these well-known works. Both express and mail 
 orders receive careful attention and good work is guaranteed. Our readers will 
 consult their own interests by dealing with this old and reliable establishment, 
 as this is a department of work where it always pays to get the best. 
 
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STEPHEN GOODRICH & CO. (Curtis P. Gladding), 
 Druggists and Pharmacists and Dealers in Surgical Instruments and Physicians' 
 Supplies, No. 605 Main Street. — When having physicians' prescriptions com- 
 pounded it is important to patronize an establishment where the stock of drugs 
 and medicines is not only complete, but is so frequently renewed as always to 
 be made up of fresh and well-selected articles, and for this reason, if no other, 
 it is well worth while to entrust the compounding of prescriptions to Messrs. 
 Stephen Goodrich & Co. at No. 605 Main Street. They are druggists and phar- 
 macists and dealers in surgical instruments, trusses, supporters, shoulder braces, 
 elastic stockings and crutches, and carry on operations on so large a scale that 
 the process of renewing their assortment of drugs, etc., is constantly going on. 
 Every facility is at hand for the filling of such orders without delay and in the 
 most accurate manner, while the charges made are uniformly moderate. This 
 business was founded about forty years ago by Mr. S. G. Moses. He was suc- 
 ceeded by S. G. Moses & Co., the Co. being Mr. Stephen Goodrich. It was 
 then changed to Goodrich & Rapelye ; then to S. Goodrich & Co. This firm 
 dissolved and the firm of S. Goodrich & Co. was reorganized, the members 
 being Messrs. S. Goodrich and C. P. Gladding. On the death of Mr. S. Good- 
 rich, one year ago, the business came under the entire management of the 
 junior partner, Mr. Gladding, who has retained the same firm name in the 
 interests of the family. Mr. Gladding is a native of Centre Brook, Conn., and 
 is Vice-President of the Connecticut Pharmaceutical Association. He employs 
 four capable clerks and utilizes premises 25 x 90 feet in dimensions with a base- 
 ment the same size. The business is principally retail, although some jobbing 
 is done. A specialty is made of physicians' supplies, of which he carries a very 
 large stock. 
 
 DANIEL E. GREENE, Tin, Copper and Sheet -Iron 
 
 Worker; Plumbing and Gas-fitting; No. 4 Ford Street. — Mr. Daniel E. Greene 
 does a very extensive business, and it is not at all surprising that he does, for 
 the people of Hartford know that the best is most emphatically the cheapest 
 when placing orders for tin, copper and sheet-iron work, etc., and they know 
 that work done by Mr. Greene is sure to be done not only thoroughly and 
 skillfully, but in accordance with the latest approved scientific methods. An- 
 other thing that makes this shop popular is the fact that all orders, whether 
 large or small, are assured prompt attention. Mr. Greene is also prepared to 
 repair and paint roofs, repair ranges and stoves, and to do general jobbing at 
 fair prices. A specialty is made of furnace work, and plumbing and gas-fitting 
 will be done in a satisfactory manner. Very spacious and well-equipped prem- 
 ises, located at No. 4 Ford Street, are occupied, which measure 20 x 60 feet in 
 size, and employment is given to six competent assistants. Mr. Greene is a 
 native of Hartford, and established his present business in 1892. He is very 
 well known throughout the city, and thoroughly understands the many details 
 of his business. His motto is "Good work at a fair price," and he desires all 
 to give him a call and be convinced. 
 
 ROSWEU, FOWLER, Grocer, No. 5 Ford Street.— This 
 business has been established many years, the present proprietor succeeding Mr. 
 Pease in 1893. Appreciating the need for a store where dependable groceries 
 could be bought at the lowest market rates, Mr. Fowler made a cash business 
 of the enterprise upon assuming control. His store is located at No. 5 Ford 
 Street. As all housekeepers well know without being told that the only way to 
 get full value for their money is to pay cash for their goods, they will certainly 
 appreciate this establishment. All the goods are fresh and new, and Mr. Fowler 
 particularly calls the attention of the residents of Hartford to the fine grades of 
 teas, coffees and spices which he constantly carries in stock. The premises 
 utilized are conveniently located, and all customers are waited upon promptly 
 and intelligently. Mr. Fowler's object is to please the public, and he only 
 asks a trial of the facilities he offers, feeling that that will be sufficient to prove 
 what he claims is the truth ; namely, that buying for cash has a most important 
 bearing on the cost of living. He caters especially to family trade, and spares 
 no pains to furnish goods that will satisfy the most fastidious. 
 
 SIIyAS CHAPMAN, Jr., Insurance Agent, No. 55 Trumbull 
 Street; also, Licensed Broker to procure Insurance in Companies not admitted 
 into Connecticut. — The advantages of fire insurance have attained such general 
 recognition that the question at the present time is not, " Shall I insure ? " but 
 rather, "Where shall I place my insurance?" This is also rapidly becoming 
 true of life insurance as well, for ten men have their lives insured to-day where 
 but one did a score of years ago. There seems to be no question but that the 
 insurance of the future will be placed exclusively through agents, or at least 
 very nearly so, for a larger proportion is placed in this way every year, and the 
 practice entails so many solid advantages that it is bound to continue to grow 
 in popularity. Every agency which has been in operation a year or more must 
 have some sort of a local reputation, which will naturally aid the public in 
 deciding whether it is best to patronize it or not ; and here is one powerful reason 
 for the popularity noted, for it is much easier to investigate the standing of a local 
 agency- than to look up the records of several far-away insurance companies, 
 and it goes without saying that agents who have a high reputation for prompt- 
 ness and reliability will represent none but first-class companies. We doubt it 
 a better-known insurance agent than Mr. Silas Chapman, Jr., can be found in 
 this country, and we are positive that not one has a more enviable record to 
 refer inquirers to. This enterprise was founded by Mr. B. R. Allen many 
 years ago, he being succeeded in 1S92 by the present proprietor. He is a 
 native of this town and very well known, being a prominent Mason (32-degree), 
 Clerk of First Baptist Society since 1S73, a Director in Charter Oak Bank, also 
 in the Billings & Spencer Manufacturing Co. and Talland & Middlesex Co., 
 also Mutual Fire Insurance Co. Mr. Chapman's office is at No. 55 Trumbull 
 Street, and he is local agent for Hartford and Orient Companies, Firemen's 
 Fund of San Francisco, and licensed broker to procure insurance in compauies 
 uot admitted into Connecticut. Six clerks are kept busy all the time. 
 
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J. R. BARI/OW, Dealer in Books, Stationery, Magazines, 
 Newspapers, Fancy Goods, Etc., No. 232 Asylum Street. — Millions of capital 
 and thousands of men are employed in the collection of news, but the liberality 
 and enterprise displayed in this most important department of the newspaper 
 business would be of but little practical use were they not supplemented by 
 equal enterprise and liberality in the distributing department, for it would 
 obviously be of no avail to get news into type at the earliest possible moment 
 if long delay was inevitable before the papers could be distributed among their 
 hundreds of thousands of readers. Mr. J. R. Barlow does much to enable 
 Hartford readers to get their favorite journals as soon as possible after publi- 
 cation, for he does a very extensive news business and offers a service unsur- 
 passed for promptness and reliability. The premises occupied are located at 
 No. 232 Asylum Street and comprise two floors 25 by 40 feet in size, giving 
 ample room for the carrying of a large and varied stock of books, stationery, 
 magazines, newspapers, fancy goods, etc. Mr. Barlow began operations in 
 1880, and his policy from the first has been to spare no pains to satisfy every 
 reasonable customer, and the success thus far attained is but the legitimate 
 result of hard and intelligent work. All the leading papers and magazines are 
 always well represented in his stock, while the prices are always reasonable, 
 and two competent clerks are employed. 
 
 THE SIGOURNEY TOOL COMPANY, No. 9 Sigour- 
 
 ney Street. — The visitor to " Machinery Hall" at the great Exposition of 1S93 
 could realize the fact that the immense reach of modern mechanical triumphs 
 is hardly to be comprehended save by the specially trained and expert intelli- 
 gence. Columbus' discovery of America would have made nothing like the 
 difference it has to men had it not been for the great mechanical discoveries 
 making possible the utilization of the marvelous resources of the New World. 
 Among the representative New England companies which have been widely 
 influential in this great sphere of modern activity the Sigourney Tool Com- 
 pany, of Hartford, has long held a recognized place. Under the progressive 
 management of well-known Hartford business men it has made its goods a very- 
 important factor in the progress of American machinery and trade leaders in all 
 parts of the world. The manufacturing plant, with office, at No. 9 Sigourney 
 Street, consists of two large brick buildings — one 75x146 feet, the other 67x129 
 feet in dimensions, and fitted up with one of the most complete and thoroughly 
 modern machine equipments in the country. The engine has a capacity of 
 40-horse power and the boiler of 50-horse power. The working corps of the 
 plant averages seventy-five men. The great specialty for the manufacture of 
 which this company has become a recognized New England centre is that of 
 interchangeable machinery. There is no feature of modern work and invention 
 in this department which has not been adopted and very carefully improved. 
 The company have special facilities which enable them to execute a superior 
 grade of work at very low figures. They also manufacture drill-presses, auto- 
 matic gear-cutters, typewriters, book-sewing machinery, electrical goods, dies, 
 
 punches, drill-jigs and general machinists' tools of highest grade. Special 
 designs in all kinds of machines and tools are made to order at the lowest rates. 
 The very best degree of service and reliability is assured with this established 
 and successful company. The officers are as follows : G. Wells Root, President; 
 Erastus S. Root, Treasurer ; F. D. Taylor, Secretary. These gentlemen are 
 well-known business men of Hartford who have been engaged in active busi- 
 ness here for many years, and stand for what is best and most progressive in 
 their department of New England trade. The business extends throughout 
 the United States, also to England, Canada and many other foreign points. 
 
 E. M. PAI/MER, Commission Dealer, Groceries, Meat, Fish, 
 Notions, Hardware, Etc., Nos. 124 & 130 Albany Avenue. — What people want 
 nowadays is solid reliable merit in goods. A select and first-class trade can 
 only be built up on the basis of goods which stand through everydav tests and 
 prove by long use to consist of the purest and freshest ingredients. This com- 
 mercial fact is true of the grocery trade above others, and nowhere in this 
 section more forcibly illustrated than by the valuable trade so quickly built up 
 by Mr. E. M. Palmer. His trade is strictly retail, and his stock includes 
 groceries, meat, fish, notions, hardware, etc. A large and finely equipped store 
 is occupied at Nos. 124 and 130 Albany Avenue, the same being 50x50 feet in 
 dimensions, and completely stocked at all times. Business was established by 
 Mr. Palmer about a year ago, occupying at that time but one store ; at the end 
 of six mouths his trade had so rapidly increased that he was obliged to take in 
 the adjoining store, and he now occupies an entire floor. Five skilled assistants 
 are on hand to wait upon customers and orders are filled promptly. 
 
 P. GARVAN, Dealer in Paper and Paper Stock. — The manu- 
 facture of paper is one of the most important in the entire range of New Eng- 
 land enterprise, and the stock bearing the mark of the best New England 
 manufacturers is successfully sold in all parts of the world. One of the largest 
 and best-known houses of Connecticut in this line is that conducted by Mr. P. 
 Garvau, of Hartford. His business has been in successful operation here since 
 1864, and under the most energetic management has taken a very prominent 
 place in the New England trade. His jobbing business extends throughout 
 Connecticut, Massachusetts and Rhode Island. The large modern store is four 
 stories high and 50 x 100 feet in ground dimensions. A very extensive line of 
 high-grade papers and paper stock is carried here by Mr. Garvau, and is one 
 representative of all the best American mills. He also is interested in a large 
 paper mill at Versailles, with a capacity often tons daily. In the extent of his 
 stock and range of liberal prices, there is no question but that Mr. Garvau can 
 afford his patrons advantages not equaled this side of New York, and some of 
 them not even there. Mr. Garvau is a resident of East Hartford, and as a 
 representative citizen he holds a well-earned and honorable position among 
 Hartford's leading men. 
 
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WADSWORTH ATHENEUM. 
 
WEBSTER & BURNES, Carriage Repairing, &c, No. 
 
 lS?}4 Main Street. — A few hints on the care of carriages and vehicles of every 
 description would prove invaluable to many owners, for there is no class of 
 property that better repays the care devoted to it, or that sooner succumbs to 
 neglect. In spite of the best treatment, however, the time must come when 
 some part will have outlived its usefulness and must be replaced, and the sooner 
 such work is done the less becomes the danger that the entire vehicle will be 
 made useless. The loss of a bolt or screw, the weakening of a spring, the start- 
 ing of a spoke, may be the beginning of serious damage, unless immediate 
 attention is given to the damaged part. In such cases, or in any repair work of 
 whatever character, the job should be entrusted to none but the most skilled 
 and experienced workmen, or it may prove doubly expensive in the end. A 
 firm whose claims to recognition in the department of carriage and wagon 
 repairs are founded upon the longest and best experience are Messrs. Webster 
 & Burnes, of No. 187 < : Main Street. They are both thoroughly practical men, 
 and since the inauguration of their enterprise in 1S90 have more than proved 
 their efficiency and the reliability of their work. They have a finely equipped 
 shop and every facility for doing repairs, painting or retrimming, &c, at shortest 
 notice and in the most workmanlike manner, while their charges are very low. 
 
 PIERCE'S STEAM LAUNDRY AND CARPET- 
 
 CI/EANING WORKS, Nos. 540, 542 and 544 Main Street.— Among the 
 many and varied industries which give employment to many of our people is 
 the laundry business, and prominent in that business in Hartford is Pierce's 
 Steam Laundry, conducted by Mrs. M. E. Pierce at Nos. 540, 542 and 544 Main 
 Street. This establishment was founded about eight years ago by Mr. W. E. 
 Pierce, and, during his absence from town, is now being ably conducted by his 
 wife. The premises utilized comprise a brick building two stories in height and 
 40x60 feet in dimensions. Employment is given to twenty-one capable assist- 
 ants, and work is called for and delivered free. The prices will be found as low 
 as any in the city, and satisfaction will be guaranteed in every instance. Carpet 
 cleaning is also done at short notice and in a thoroughly first-class manner. 
 The carpet-cleaning department is upstairs, while the laundry occupies the 
 ground floor, and the basement is used for the boilers, washers, etc. A specialty 
 is made of hotel work, which is executed promptly and at reasonable prices. 
 This laundry has several agencies throughout this section, one being on South 
 Main Street and three in East Hartford. Every department is systematically 
 arranged, and the utmost care is taken in assorting and returning the clothes 
 so that none shall be lost or miscarried. 
 
 HOTEI/ CAPITOI,, Main Street and Capitol Avenue.— 
 One of the finest hotels in Hartford is the Hotel Capitol, situated at the corner 
 of Main Street and Capitol Avenue. Its substantial appearance and air of com- 
 fort impress the stranger most favorably at the first glance, and it may be said 
 in passing that this impression becomes a fixed opinion before the guest has 
 been long in the house. It is the favorite stopping-place of all prominent 
 visitors to the State's capital, of whom it may well be inferred there is a large 
 number at all times, and it enjoys the largest and best class of patronage of auy 
 hotel in the city. Its proximity to the busiuess heart of the city and its easy 
 access to the Union Depot and all places of importance or prominence in Hart- 
 ford make it the hotel par excellence for the general traveling public, and 
 particularly that large and influential portion of it, the commercial travellers. 
 For the convenience of the latter the Hotel Capitol presents every facility, and 
 it is with them a most popular house. As a family hotel it offers the greatest 
 advantage, combining the comforts of a home with the larger conveniences 
 that are to be found nowhere else. The Hotel Capitol was first opened in 1S75, 
 and under the management of its proprietor, Mr. A. E- Holcomb, its fame has 
 been widely spread. It is a particularly favorite hostelry with the theatrical 
 profession, for whose accommodation the best arrangements are provided and 
 special rates made. The Hotel Capilol is thoroughly modern in all its appoint- 
 ments. Every improvement contributing to the comfort and convenience of 
 guests has been introduced, including steam-heat in every room, electric lights 
 and bells, a large passenger elevator, etc. There is an office of the Western 
 Union Telegraph Company on the premises. Rooms may be had en suite, if 
 desired, with or without bath. The rates are most reasonable. 
 
 AMERICAN CYCI.E REPAIR CO., Cycle Repairing 
 and Builders of Special Wheels; Enameling and Nickeling a Specialty; Eawn. 
 Mower Repairing and Sharpening; Key Fitting, Gun, and all kinds of light 
 work solicited ; Estimates made on all Bicycle Work. — No one looking at the 
 clumsy velocipedes of a quarter of a century ago could possibly have imagined 
 their evolution into the graceful, light and easy -working bicycles of the present 
 day, and who can tell what further developments are possible in this direction. 
 Coming from the field of conjecture to the solid plane of fact, it may be said 
 that the average wheelman is less concerned with what the future may produce 
 than with the possibilities of the present. These include not only the obtaining 
 of bicycles that answer every present requirement, but the very important 
 matter of repairs, and in this connection they will learn with satisfaction that 
 there is in Hartford a concern which makes a specialty of this branch. Most 
 of our readers are already familiar with the facilities and capabilities of the 
 American Cycle Repair Company in the repairing of bicycles, and are also 
 aware that this company have a high reputation as builders of special wheels. 
 The firm consists of Messrs. E. L. Wheeler and J. H. Beech, both of whom are 
 natives of the State, and have been identified with the busiuess of Hartford for 
 the past quarter of a century. Their present enterprise was started three years 
 ago, and has been a decided success from the beginning. Every description of 
 repairing is done in a thorough manner at their well-equipped shops, a specialty 
 being made of nickeling and enameling. They are also practical lock and gun- 
 smiths, aud do all manner of light machinist work, including lawn-mower 
 repairing and sharpening. They are prepared to make estimates on all bicycle 
 work, aud execute orders at short notice. 
 
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K. NUSSBAUM, Dealer in Choice Beef, Mutton, Lamb, 
 Sausages, Game, Vegetables, Etc., No. 150 Main Street. — Such of our readers 
 as are foud of good liviug, aud wish to know where to purchase good food 
 supplies to the best advantage, should make an early call at the establishment 
 conducted by Mr. K. Nussbaum at No. 150 Main Street, for this gentleman 
 carries one of the most carefully selected stocks to be found in this section of 
 the city, aud whether you want meats or vegetables he is prepared to furnish 
 first-class goods at the lowest market rates. Mr. Nussbaum is a native of 
 Germany, and has been in business in Hartford for fifteen years. The store is 
 25 X55 feet in dimensions, and no room is wasted, for each department of the 
 stock on hand is kept well supplied, aud as a consequence all orders can be 
 promptly filled. Choice beef, mutton, lamb, sausages, game and vegetables 
 may be bought here in any desired quantity at bottom prices, and choice cuts 
 are made a specialty, Mr. Nussbaum being prepared to suit the most fastidious 
 customers. Employment is given to five experienced assistants, and two 
 wagons are utilized for the deliver}' of goods. Customers are assured polite 
 attention, and all goods may be depended upon to prove as represented. 
 
 DAVID LOW, Merchant Tailor ; Scotch and English Woolens 
 a Specialty; No. 60 Asylum Street. — The art of tailoring has reached a high 
 state of development in this country, the best intelligence and skill being 
 directed toward bringing it to the point of greatest perfection. At the same 
 time healthy rivalry aud competition have brought the prices of even the best 
 work down to such low figures that there are few men nowadays who may not 
 avail themselves of the advantages presented by wearing custom-made clothing. 
 Such leading merchant tailors as Mr. David Low are prepared to execute the 
 best and most satisfactory work at the most moderate prices, aud those who are 
 numbered among the customers of this gentleman speak in words of highest 
 praise of the quality of workmanship and material he puts into his garments. 
 Mr. Low is one of the oldest-established merchant tailors in Hartford, aud has 
 occupied his present excellent location at No. 60 Asylum Street for the past 
 fifteen years. He presents an unusually fine stock of Scotch and English 
 woolens, aud also carries a superior line of domestic fabrics, allowing customers 
 a wide range of choice. His office, show and work rooms occupy a floor at the 
 above address, the space utilized being 20 x 50 feet in extent. 
 
 ANDREWS & PECK, Manufacturers, Wholesale and 
 Retail Dealers in Doors, Windows and Blinds, and Akron Sewer Pipe, No. 88 
 Market Street. — A progressive firm which has "taken a leading place in its 
 department of local and State trade for the past ten years is that of Messrs. 
 Andrews & Peck, manufacturers, wholesale and retail dealers in doors, win- 
 dows, blinds and general builders' materials. They were established in 1S84, 
 and have continued under the same management without change. At their 
 warehouse and storage premises at No. 88 Market Street, covering 20,000 square 
 feet of floor space, they carry a heavy and first-class stock, which has few 
 equals in Connecticut either in extent, high standard or price. Their leading 
 specialties are finished doors, windows and blinds in a great variety of styles 
 and sizes. They also do a very large business in the Akron Sewer Pipe, which 
 has shown its superior value for service by practical use throughout the 
 country. Mr. Peck, of the firm, is interested in a leading Western plant, em- 
 ploying seventy-five to one hundred men, and manufacturing 80,000 doors per 
 annum. He is also interested in a large lumbering business at Waterbury, 
 Connecticut. The firm enjoys very wide and first-class trade connections. At 
 the Hartford plaut they employ from twenty-five to thirty men and handle 
 a trade reaching to all parts of the State and New England. Their facilities in 
 the special departments mentioned are unrivaled in this section, and this is 
 evidenced by the manner in which each year the firm steadily distance com- 
 petition in their lines. Their pjrices are uniformly low and reliable. They 
 handle the very best class of goods on the market, in both hard and soft woods, 
 and the styles carried are adapted for every sort of building from the humblest 
 to the largest. When in search of the best at good bargain prices, the contractor 
 and dealer will do well to make a careful examination of the stock of this lead- 
 ing aud successful house. 
 
 HARTFORD CARPET COMPANY, No. 10 Market 
 
 Street. — Since the establishment of carpet making in America, this well-known 
 and representative New England Company has maintained a position at the 
 very front of the American trade. The business was incorporated in 1S54, 
 succeeding to the firm of the Thompsonville Carpet Manufacturing Company, 
 which reached back to 182S. The mills of the company are located at Thomp- 
 sonville, Connecticut, and give employment to more than 1,600 people. The 
 capital of the company is $1, 500,000. There are only two plants in the 
 country which have a larger annual output, aud not one whose goods 
 enjoy a higher or more universal repute for excellence and reliability. The 
 standard lines manufactured are wiltons, moquettes, berlins, body-brussels, 
 imperial, 3-plys and extra supers. The goods are noted for their superior 
 material and close-woven texture, which give them exceptional durability. 
 Many novel and attractive designs are constantly being introduced by the 
 company, who employ special artists for this purpose. The prices also are 
 scaled down to a basis in accord with the times, and represent unusually high 
 quality for the figure charged. There should be no need for resort to cheap 
 goods while the lines made by this leading Company can be obtained at such 
 liberal figures. The officers are as follows : John L. Houston, Secretary 
 and Treasurer ; Henry Keney, Vice-President ; George Roberts, Secretary. 
 Directors : Henry Keney, J. B. Bunce, Roland Mather, John L. Houston, 
 C. M. Beach, J. J. Goodwin, George Roberts. The General Sales Agents are 
 Messrs. Reune, Martin & Sons, Nos. 114-116 Worth Street, New York. The 
 product of the Hartford Carpet Company's mills is handled by leading stores 
 in all sections of the United States and Canada. Our readers will find it to 
 great advantage when purchasing goods in this department to make careful 
 inspection of the superior grades made by this old aud leading house. 
 
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FRED. C. CI/APP, Plumbing, Steam and Hot-Water Heat- 
 ing ; Agent for Le Bosquet Bros.' Steam Heaters ; No. 24 Church Street. — Practi- 
 cally all dwelling-houses of the better class, as well as all factories, stores and 
 public buildings in general, constructed nowadays, are equipped with steam- 
 heating apparatus, as this affords by far the most economical and manageable 
 method of supplying artificial heat ; but it sometimes happens that the 
 efficiency of the plant is seriously interfered with by its being improperly set 
 up, and, therefore, it is well to entrust such work only to those who make a 
 specialty of it, and are known to be skillful and reliable. Mr. Fred. C. Clapp 
 has an unsurpassed reputation in this respect, and has all necessary facilities 
 to enable him to fill orders promptly and satisfactorily at moderate rates. This 
 business was established about twenty years ago by the father of the present 
 proprietor, Mr. F. C. Clapp assuming full control of affairs at the time of his 
 father's death, which occurred in 1S92. He is a practical plumber, steam and 
 hot-water fitter, and is agent for L,e Bosquet Bros.' steam-heaters. Mr. Clapp 
 occupies premises at No. 24 Church Street, where he has every facility at hand 
 to enable him to fill all orders promptly. He is well known throughout Hart- 
 ford, having fitted up many first-class buildings in the city. Mr. Clapp is 
 thoroughly conversant with his business in every detail, and warrants that all 
 orders entrusted to him will be executed to the satisfaction of the most critical. 
 
 THE MATHER ELECTRIC CO. (Chas. N. Knox, 
 
 Agent), No. 210 Pearl Street. — It is hard to realize that the electric light was 
 commercially unknown in this country a decade ago, but such is the fact, for 
 the practical utilization of the electric light in America dated from the 
 Mechanics Fair, held in Boston, September, 1881. Some few stores and fac- 
 tories had used the light before that time, but it was the exhibit then made by 
 several "Electric Companies" that called the attention of the public to the 
 mauy advantages of the new illuminant. Many important improvements have 
 since been made; and electricity is now so generally utilized for lighting pur- 
 poses that few towns or cities making any pretensions to enterprise are content 
 to dispense with an electric plant. The residents of Hartford are evidently 
 aware of the convenience of a well-equipped lighting system, for Mr. Chas. N. 
 Knox, the electric contractor, has been established in this city since 1SS4, and 
 is the sole agent in Hartford for "The Mather Electric Co.," and makes a 
 specialty of installing isolated electric lights of the most improved tvpe, every 
 precaution being taken to ensure absolute safety under the most adverse con- 
 ditions, and the result is that patrons are supplied with the safest, most pleasant, 
 most easily managed and most healthful light that science has thus far pro- 
 duced. It is a fact that geueral business has increased in every town and city 
 whose stores are lighted by electricity, and there is no doubt but that Hartford's 
 establishments have become more attractive, and consequently more popular, 
 since the introduction of the new illuminant. The light is furnished at very 
 reasonable rates, and no store or hotel keeper can afford to dispense with the 
 advantages gained by its use, for besides its convenience it affords one of the 
 
 most effective forms of advertisement yet devised. Mr. Knox is a native of 
 Manchester, Connecticut, and well known in Hartford, where he occupies 
 premises at No. 210 Pearl Street. He employs able assistants and is working 
 hard to develop his resources and to increase his facilities, and every public- 
 spirited citizen is directly interested in the success of the enterprise with which 
 he is identified. 
 
 WEBB & SHEDD, Carmen; Office, No. 71 Asylum Street. 
 — In very mauy lines of business the amount of trucking to be done is hardly- 
 large enough to warrant the maintenance of a team and driver, jet it is im- 
 peratively necessary that the merchant or manufacturer should always have at 
 command the services of a carman who can be relied upon to promptly and 
 efficiently execute work in this department. Among those who make a spe- 
 cialty of this class of work, as well as trucking of all kinds, light or heavy, we 
 know of none more worthy of confidence than the firm of Messrs. Webb & 
 Shedd. It is one of the oldest-established businesses in this line, having been 
 founded in 1859 by Messrs. Webb Bros., who were succeeded by the present 
 firm in 18S1. Messrs. Webb & Shedd have eight teams and employ eight men, 
 their exceptional facilities enabling them to do all kinds of trucking at the 
 shortest notice and in a manner calculated to give the highest satisfaction to 
 their patrons. Their services are always in demand, and their reputation as 
 careful, painstaking carmen is scarcely approached by that of any other firm 
 or individual engaged in the same line of business. The firm, which consists 
 of Mr. Myron Webb and Mr. J. N. Shedd, has its office at No. 71 Asylum 
 Street, and is ready at all times to execute orders promptly and in the most 
 thorough manner. 
 
 J. S. AI/DERMAN, Dealer in Groceries, Meats and Provisions, 
 No. 954 Main Street. — The establishment carried on by the well-known gentle- 
 man whose card we print above is a noteworthy one in many respects, and is 
 so managed as to make it one of the most popular enterprises of the kind in 
 this vicinity. Business was begun eight years ago by the present proprietor, 
 Mr. J. S. Alderman, building the premises he now occupies, located at No. 954 
 Main Street, and moving into them about two years ago. This gentleman 
 spares no pains in improving the efficiency of his service, and as a consequence 
 not only carries on one of the most liberally-managed establishments in this 
 section of Hartford, but is constantly adding to the claim he already has on the 
 patronage and cordial support of the public. Employment is afforded to two 
 competent and polite assistants, and orders are filled promptly and satisfactorily 
 in every instance. First-class groceries, choice meats and provisions of all 
 kinds are kept constantly on hand at prices as low as can be found anywhere. 
 A fine corner store is utilized with a basement, the former being 22 by 45 feet 
 in size; and, as Mr. Alderman carries on almost entirely a cash business, he is 
 enabled to quote the very lowest prices to his many customers. 
 
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STRICKLAND & SHEA, Scroll Sawing, Turning, Carving, 
 Ornamental Woodwork ; Every Description of Moulding on Hand or Made to 
 Order; Church Work and Mantels a Specialty; Jobbing and Repairing; No. 20 
 Potter Street. — The history of wood-carving and turning-work reaches back to 
 the very earliest days of human industry. It has always occupied an important 
 place since men first left their aboriginal tents, and still to-day flourishes among 
 the most valuable and useful of the practical arts. The well-known firm of 
 Messrs. Stricklaud & Shea has for the past two decades been the representative 
 and leader in this field of local industry. Established in 1875, they have made 
 steady and solid progress without change in management since that time. 
 They occupy a thorough modern establishment, comprising two floors, 50 x 100 
 feet in dimensions, and employ an average corps of twenty experienced work- 
 men. They have a large and model equipment of new machinery, operated 
 by an engine of twenty-horse power. In range of facilities, high standard of 
 work and attractive prices quoted, they hold the very first position in the trade 
 of this city and section. Scroll sawing, turning, carving and ornamental wood- 
 work of every sort are executed promptly to order in the most artistic and 
 modern styles. They carry a general stock of mouldings, unexcelled in 
 character and prices. One of their leading specialties is the making of church 
 fixtures and mantels of all kinds. They have also superior facilities for fine 
 office, bank and general interior hardwood finish work. Estimates furnished 
 at any time, and our readers can rely upon the most thorough satisfaction in 
 dealing with this established and reliable firm. 
 
 R. P. KENYON & CO., Manufacturers and Jobbers in 
 Hats, Caps, Furs and Men's Furnishings, Hill's Block, No. 337 Main Street. — 
 It would of course be an excellent thing if all of us had so large an income as 
 to render it entirely unnecessary to practice the close economy which is now 
 the rule rather than the exception ; but, as this desirable condition of affairs is 
 out of the question, the next best thing is to manage so as to make our present 
 income go as far as possible. So far as the purchase of hats, caps, furs and 
 men's furnishings is concerned, this may be brought about by placing orders 
 with Messrs. R. P. Kenyon & Co., doing business at No. 337 Main Street, for 
 they carry a large and varied stock of such goods, and quote the very lowest 
 market rates on them at all times. This enterprise was established in 1S74 by 
 the present proprietor. The premises occupied are located as above named, and 
 comprise a fine store, 20 x 92 feet in dimensions, with a basement, affording 
 ample room for the display of the heavy stock carried, making the selection 
 both easy and agreeable. Mr. R. P. Kenyon is a native of Plainfield, Conn., 
 and served in the navy about two years and a half as paymaster's clerk. Mr. 
 Kenyon employs from eight to ten polite and experienced clerks, and in the 
 winter, when manufacturing furs, about forty assistants are given employment. 
 He is thoroughly posted as to the details of his business, to which he gives 
 close personal supervision. 
 
 J. A. KENNEDY, Dealer in Meats, Groceries and Pro- 
 visions, No. 47 Albany Avenue. — Among the prominent establishments located in 
 Hartford that conducted by Mr. J. A. Kennedy must be given favorable men- 
 tion, for the enterprise carried on by this gentleman has gradually but steadily 
 developed, until it now ranks with the important stores of the kind in this 
 locality. An extensive business has been built up, and the establishment has 
 been under the management of its present able proprietor for the past year, 
 although it was founded forty years ago by Mr. John Delany. Mr. Kennedy 
 is a native of Hartford, and is thoroughly conversant with all the details of his 
 business. The premises occupied are well arranged for the business, com- 
 prising a store 25x35 feet in size. Mr. Kennedy's store is located at No. 47 
 Albany Avenue, where is carried a large and choice stock of groceries of all 
 kinds, especially adapted to family trade, and which is offered at the lowest 
 market prices ; choice meats and provisions are also carried. Employment is 
 given to competent assistants, so that despite the magnitude of the business 
 every order is assured immediate and careful attention. In view of the facts 
 already mentioned, it becomes almost unnecessary to add that Mr. Kennedy is 
 in a position to quote the very lowest prices, and that he does a good business. 
 
 E. P. DUNHAM, Agent and Commission Broker, Hartford 
 Trust Co. Building. — In no department of modern business are the services of a 
 trained specialist more essential to success than in that of investment and com- 
 mission brokerage. It requires thorough acquaintance with a very wide range 
 of interests, and that judgment, only derived by long experience, which can 
 estimate with accuracy all coming developments of the market. The business 
 conducted by Mr. E. P. Dunham, of Hartford, has established its claim to a 
 leading rank in this sphere of local finance and commerce from the unvarying 
 and reliable service which it has rendered for the past three years. Mr. Dunham 
 has had a very wide and thorough business experience. He was formerly in 
 the ice business at Lake Champlain, shipping ice to the Hartford Ice Co., and 
 was also sole proprietor of the Ives & Judd Match Co., the oldest match con- 
 cern in the United States, with factories at West Cheshire, Conn. Its parlor 
 and sulphur matches, match splints and match machinery enjoy the very 
 highest reputation in this department. The offices now occupied by Mr. Dun- 
 ham at the Hartford Trust Co. Building are equipped with the most complete 
 modern facilities. The Stock and Produce Boards indicate each business hour 
 of the day the exact prices aud quotations at the different centres of the 
 country. Mr. Dunham has a direct private wire to both New York and 
 Chicago, his special correspondents being C. D. Wadsworth, of the New York 
 Stock and Produce Exchanges, and Lewis G. Tewkesbury, of the New York 
 Stock Exchange and Chicago Board of Trade. Stocks, bonds, grain and pro- 
 visions are bought for cash or carried on margin. It would be extremely 
 illogical for our readers to make unguided experiments in this important but 
 complex sphere of finance when they can enjoy at a nominal rate facilities 
 equal to the best in the country at this reliable brokerage office. 
 
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CHARTER OAK CITY SHIRT, No. 336 Asylum Street ; 
 
 Geo. H. Reany, Proprietor. — This well-known business, now conducted by 
 Mr. Reany, enjoys several important distinctions, one being the fact that it has 
 been successfully running for nearly half a century (founded in 1S50), and 
 another its association with the Charter Oak, for which Connecticut is famous 
 throughout the world. Mr. Reany took charge of the busiue is during the 
 present year, and has maintained its previously high reputation. He was con- 
 nected also for years with the old firm, and is a thorough expert in every detail 
 of the business. It will, therefore, be a source of gratification to very many of 
 our readers that the old and popular Charter Oak City shirts will continue to 
 be made with the same degree of skill and perfection as hitherto. The business 
 occupies well-equipped premises (25 x 40 feet in dimensions), and a corps of four 
 expert workmen is employed. The trade is both wholesale and retail, extend- 
 ing to all parts of this State and Western Massachusetts. A specialty is made 
 of fine custom-made dress shirts, and the liberal figures at which these are now 
 made deserve the careful attention of every male reader of these lines. So long 
 as it shall remain fashionable for men to wear dress or neglige shirts there can 
 be no question of the success of Mr. Reany's goods, as they furnish a very 
 exceptional degree of satisfaction at a moderate and attractive price. 
 
 PATRICK I/OUGHMAN, Dealer in Groceries and Pro- 
 visions, Teas, Coffees, Spices, Canned Goods, Etc., No. 82 Albany Aveuue. — 
 A most reliable house, and one specially deserving of mention in this connection 
 as a brilliant example of what push, perseverance and devotion to principle can 
 accomplish in gaining business success, is the store conducted by Mr. Patrick 
 Loughmau at No. S2 Albany Avenue. He moved to his present location about 
 one year ago. The stock of fine groceries and provisions carried is sold at 
 most reasonable prices. Mr. Loughmau also carries a fine assortment of choice 
 teas, coffees, spices, canned goods, etc., and makes a specialty of choice butter. 
 The premises utilized measure 20 x 45 feet in dimensions, and are well adapted 
 for the business. Mr. Loughman is ably assisted in his business by his wife, 
 and he caters to a very extensive trade. The public are assured of receiving 
 only first-class goods at the lowest market rates. We commend this establish- 
 ment to our many readers who reside in this section as a most desirable place 
 to trade. 
 
 W. F. MAGINN, Merchant Tailor, No. 371 Main Street, 
 Room 2. — "The very finest work at moderate prices; careful and skillful atten- 
 tion to the filling of orders," — such is a summarized but correct outline of the 
 policy pursued by the establishment whose card we print above — a policy which 
 has been consistently followed since the founding of the business by Mr. 
 W. F. Maginn about a year ago, and which has naturally resulted iu the 
 development of an extensive aud very select patronage. The proprietor is a 
 native of Massachusetts, and has lived in Hartford since 1S77, aud is thoroughly 
 familiar with every detail of the fine tailoring business — a fact which has an 
 
 important bearing upon the uniform superiority of the work produced and the 
 ability of this gentleman to quote comparatively low prices on garments 
 unexceptionable in material, style, fit, trimming and general workmanship. 
 His chambers at No. 371 Main Street, Room 2, are very conveniently fitted up, 
 and one may always find here a choice assortment of the latest novelties in 
 foreign and domestic fabrics for gentlemen's wear, together with the best 
 tailor's trimmings the market affords. Personal attention is given to the 
 cutting of every garment, and perfection of fit and desirability of style may be 
 confidently expected by every customer. 
 
 HET2EI, & HESS, Marble Works, No. 141 Market Street. 
 
 — Good aud honest work is always sure to fiud a market, and so, although it may 
 have seemed, when Messrs. Hetzel & Hess began operations in 1S93, as if there 
 was no opening for their productions on accouut of the numerous competing 
 establishments already founded, a large and growing trade has already been 
 built up. The firm is constituted of Messrs. George M. Hetzel aud F. J. Hess. 
 One floor is occupied, 20x30 feet in dimensions, and the manufacture of monu- 
 ments, headstones, grave marks, posts, etc , is carried on at No. 141 Market 
 Street. Both iu design and execution it is hard to match the work turned out 
 at this establishment, for the firm have not only exceptionable taste in the 
 choice and origination of designs, but have had a practical experience in 
 putting them into shape and form. The best of material is used, and attention 
 is given to the durability of the work as well as to its appearance when new, 
 which is a very important point when the exposure to which stonework is sub- 
 jected is considered. Orders by mail will be promptly attended to, and special 
 attention is giveu to lettering, cleaning and resetting, first-class work and 
 reasonable prices being guaranteed. Those wishing any work of this kind 
 should not fail to visit this house aud inspect the fine assortment on hand. 
 
 BEHNER & NORTON (formerly with Charles King), 
 
 Practical Tin, Sheet-Iron and Sheet-Copper Workers ; Furnace Work and 
 General Jobbing ; No. 530 Main Street. — The enterprise conducted by Messrs. 
 Behner & Norton was founded two years ago. These gentlemen are thoroughly 
 conversant with every detail of their business, aud enjoy such favorable rela- 
 tions with manufacturers as to be iu a position to give their customers many 
 advantages. They are practical tin, sheet-iron and sheet-copper workers, aud 
 also pay particular attention to furnace work aud general jobbing. They 
 occupy a store at No. 530 Main Street, which measures 25 x 40 feet in dimen- 
 sions, utilizing a basement besides of the same size. Employment is giveu to 
 three experienced assistants, and all orders are promptly attended to iu a first- 
 class manner, aud at reasonable prices. The firm is composed of Messrs. F. F^. 
 Behner and G. W. Norton, both being formerly with Mr. Charles King. Mr. 
 Behner is a native of Hartford aud Mr. Norton of Springfield. Both are well- 
 known aud highly-respected business men. One of the latest contracts com- 
 pleted was 17,000 sheets of tiu-roofing for Colt's Armory. 
 
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 CITY HALL. 
 
I/. PEASE & CO., Wholesale and Retail Dealers in Office 
 and School Stationery, Wrapping Paper, Paper Bags, Twine, Etc., Blank Books, 
 Job Printing, 287 Asylum Street. — Of the many stationers of this city, the firm 
 of L. Pease & Co. is among the best known and most highly regarded. It was 
 founded in 18S8, and has been under its present management from the first. 
 The premises occupied comprise one floor, 30 x 90 feet in dimensions. Employ- 
 ment is afforded to five assistants, and both a wholesale and retail business is 
 done throughout the State. A very clean and desirable stock of office and 
 school stationery is on hand, comprising all the standard articles in these lines 
 as well as many novelties. Wrapping paper, paper bags, twine, etc., are also 
 extensively dealt in, as well as all kinds of blank books at reasonable prices. 
 Job printing is also carried on in connection with the establishment, and the 
 firm are prepared to fill extensive orders in this line in a first-class manner and 
 at short notice, using first-class stock in every instance, and charging reasonable 
 prices. This store is located at No. 2S7 Asylum Street, and is largely patronized 
 by the residents of Hartford and vicinity. The proprietors are well and favor- 
 ably known, and justly deserve the success they have attained, having an 
 intimate knowledge of the business in all its many details that have served 
 them excellently in their intelligent and successful efforts to extend the opera- 
 tions of their house. 
 
 E. W. WHITE, Dealer in Ranges, Stoves and Tinware of 
 all descriptions ; also a large variety of Stove Repairs ; Tin Roofing and Job 
 Work done in the best manner by experienced workmen ; No. 538 Main Street. — 
 One of the articles to which the experienced and careful housekeeper gives the 
 most thought and care in selecting is the stove, especially if it be intended for 
 cooking purposes, for few things are at once so trying to the temper and the 
 pocketbook as is a badly constructed or designed range or cooking stove. It is 
 the poorest possible economy to try to save a few dollars on the purchase price 
 of a stove by choosing one of old style or flimsy construction ; for poorly 
 cooked food is neither nutritious nor appetizing, and the laws of health require 
 it to be both if the greatest good is to be attained. The establishment of Mr. 
 F. W. White, which is located at No. 538 Main street, has one of the largest 
 and most desirable stocks of ranges, stoves and tinware of all descriptions in the 
 city, and the prices asked are as low as is frequently quoted on inferior goods 
 elsewhere. The premises occupied are 30x90 feet in size, with a basement. 
 Employment is given a number of skilled assistants. Business was begun in 
 1840, and has been under Mr. White's control for the past twenty-five years. 
 Orders for tin roofing and job work of all kinds are done in the best manner by 
 experienced workmen. A large variety of stove repairs is carried. Mr. White 
 is a native of Massachusetts, and very widely known. 
 
 DAVID W. BROOKS, Florist ; Funeral Work a Specialty ; 
 Store, No. 53 Farmingtou Avenue; Greenhouse, No. 3 Fairfield Avenue; Repre- 
 sented by H. D. Brooks. — The great increase in the demand for flowers of late 
 years is one of the most noticeable indications of the pronounced gain in culture 
 which is so evident on every side, and which is so astonishing to foreign critics 
 of this country, who are unable to understand how culture can be so general in 
 a land where practically every one works for a living and there is no recognized 
 aristocracy. Flowers are now in demand for all occasions, whether for joy or 
 for sorrow, and every one who goes into society at all will find it very useful to 
 know where appropriate floral designs can be obtained without delay at moder- 
 ate prices. Many residents of Hartford are already acquainted with the estab- 
 lishment of Mr. David W. Brooks, whose office and salesroom is located at No. 
 53 Farmingtou Avenue, for this enterprise was started some twenty years ago, 
 and has long held a leading position among other establishments of the kind in 
 this vicinity, and it is but fair to say that the enviable reputation of the under- 
 taking is fully maintained at the present day. Five spacious and well-equipped 
 greenhouses, heated by steam and water, are utilized at No. 3 Fairfield Avenue, 
 cultivating four acres. The greenhouse block is 150 x 1 10 feet in size, aud cut 
 flowers, floral emblems, wedding bouquets, funeral designs, etc. (the latter is a 
 specialty), are offered in great variety aud at the lowest prevailing prices, while 
 the facilities are so extensive that the largest orders can be filled at very short 
 notice. Mr. Brooks is a native of New Brunswick, Canada, but very well and 
 favorably known in this city, and the success of his business is due to the just 
 and honest dealings pursued by him since he began operations. 
 
 
 
 
 Particular attention 
 is called to 
 
 CHARLES M. GAINES, 
 
 Printing, 
 Embossing, 
 
 C our ant Building, 
 Hartford. 
 
 
 The 
 
 Embossing 
 On Cover of 
 This Book 
 
 AS A SAMPLE OF OUR WORK IN THIS LINE. 
 WE WILL GUARANTEE THAT ALL WORK DONE 
 BY US WILL MEET WITH YOUR APPROBATION. 
 
 
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H. H. HART, Carriages and Sleighs, Nos. 39-43 Albany 
 Avenue. — The carriage business conducted by the Harts for over sixty years is 
 one of the oldest aud most widely-known establishments of its kind in this 
 section of the country, having been founded in 1833 by Mr. S. N. Hart, father 
 of the present proprietor. This house has enjoyed an enviable reputation for 
 building vehicles which for durability, gracefulness of design and fineness of 
 finish have been second to none. Mr. H. Hart, the present proprietor, who suc- 
 ceeded to the business in March, 1891, is a practical carriage man, learning the 
 trade of and being with his father about eight years. He is a particular and 
 painstaking business man, and under his intelligent and experienced direction 
 the business has been successfuly conducted for the past three years. The 
 premises occupied on Albany Avenue have a frontage of about 60 feet, and 
 extend back over 100 feet, and three floors are entirely utilized in the business, 
 which gives employment to a large number of mechanics. The several depart- 
 ments are most complete, and are furnished with every appliance and facility 
 for the execution of first-class work. Mr. Hart manufactures anything in the 
 line of carriages, wagons and sleighs, and also handles the work of other 
 makers. An important department of his business is repairing and painting, 
 such work being done in the most thorough and satisfactory manner. 
 
 THE TROUT BROOK ICE AND FEED COMPANY, 
 
 Offices, No. 278 Asylum Street, Hartford ; Farmiugton Avenue, West Hartford ; 
 E. H. Arnold & Son, Proprietors. — In olden days the use of ice in the summer 
 was reserved for kings and high dignitaries, but now it is brought within the 
 reach of all. One of the largest and most successful companies of the entire 
 State engaged in this line is the Trout Brook Ice and Feed Company of Hart- 
 ford — office, No. 278 Asylum Street, with additional offices and storage plant 
 on Farmington Avenue, West Hartford, also East Hartford aud New Hartford. 
 The proprietors are Messrs. E. H. Arnold & Son, the business having been 
 established by them and under their energetic management since 1S81. Their 
 storage plant has a capacity for 18,000 tons, and they carry a large stock 
 throughout the year. They ship to different parts of the State on wholesale 
 rates and also maintain a first-class local trade, both wholesale and retail. 
 Their hotel and family trade is the largest aud best in the city. Their system 
 of wagon delivery has been carefully perfected, and no pains are spared to 
 insure the most complete aud uniform satisfaction to patrons. The rates are 
 the lowest on the market, aud the quality of the Trout Brook ice is too well 
 known to need any extended eulogy. An average corps of forty men is 
 employed, with ten delivery wagons. The service is guaranteed regular and 
 exact. The company also handle a good business in feed and grain, carrying a 
 large stock from Western producers of the best grade and at very attractive 
 prices. They also run a large blacksmith shop, and manufacture and repair 
 wagons. Our readers will need but slight attention to convince themselves 
 that they can gain exceptional satisfaction by dealing with this old aud reliable 
 company. 
 
 GEORGE AVERY, Dealer in Meats, Provisions, Groceries, 
 
 Etc., No. 614 Capitol Avenue. — The quality of success in American business life 
 is closely associated with all that makes up the finest part of our civilization ; 
 for, if we are to enjoy comfortable and satisfactory living, we certainly must 
 have first-class stores. An admirable representative of our American enterprise 
 and progress is the modern store conducted by Mr. George Avery at No. 614 
 Capitol Avenue, this city. The business has long been a recognized leader in 
 its departments of local trade. The store is situated at a central and command- 
 ing .point, being the most successful and prominent with the best retail trade of 
 the city. The premises are spacious and handsomely fitted up, comprising two 
 floors, each 40 x 60 feet in dimensions. The stock carried is of the finest and 
 most reliable character. It includes all kinds of choice meats, canned goods 
 aud provisions, vegetables, flour, butter, eggs, and a general line of select family 
 groceries. Fish, oysters and poultry are also carried in season. The most 
 careful judgment is applied in the selection of the goods, and to purchase here 
 is a sure equivalent of the very best. The prices are moderate ; and, considering 
 the very high degree of satisfaction and thorough reliability secured, this can 
 safely be called the cheapest store in the city. There is no effort to make fancy 
 prices, although the store makes a specialty of carrying nothing but the best, 
 and is well known throughout the city as doing so. The service has been 
 thoroughly perfected so as to secure prompt and careful delivery of all orders. 
 In the long run there is nothing so conducive to good business satisfaction as 
 to trade with a store whose standard and reliability can be perfectly depended 
 upon, and our readers can easily prove this fact by dealing with Mr. George 
 Avery's successful and first-class store. 
 
 WALTER STARKIE, Sanitary Plumber and Gas Fitter, 
 No. 20 Church Street. — It is far better to have no plumbing at all in a house 
 than to have what plumbing there is improperly done, aud the same thing 
 may be said concerning gas fitting and electrical apparatus. This is no theory 
 of ours, but has been repeatedly proved by practical experience, so we say to 
 our readers : " Have no plumbing of any kind done unless you can have it done 
 right." Fortunately, there is no trouble in having such work properly done if 
 you reside in Hartford aud vicinity, it being necessary only to place the order 
 with Mr. Walter Starkie, doing business at No. 20 Church Street, for he has 
 had many years of varied experience and has unequaled facilities for filling 
 the largest orders at short notice, satisfaction being guaranteed to every 
 customer. Mr. Starkie started in business for himself in 1891. He is a sanitary 
 plumber and gas fitter, also an electrician, and since starting for himself has 
 done work for many large houses, such as the Standard Manufacturing Co. and 
 others, also erected the electric works at Windsor, Conn. Mr. Starkie makes a 
 specialty of remedying defective plumbing aud introducing the latest improve- 
 ments. Jobbing will be promptly attended to, and small and large orders are 
 given equal attention, competent and reliable assistants being constantly 
 employed, and bottom prices being quoted in every instance. 
 
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A. L. FOSTER & CO., 
 
 CLOTHIERS AND HATTERS, 
 
 Nos. 45, 47, 49, 51, 53 and 55 ASYLUM STREET. 
 
 ONE could scarcely be accused of exaggeration in saying that there is relatively more ability and enterprise employed in the 
 clothing trade than in any other branch of commercial activity. Competition in this field appears to be keener than in an- 
 other, and the merchant who makes and holds a commanding position in the clothing trade has need of talents and abilities 
 of a rare order. It may not be generally known that the vast retail clothing trade of New England is largely controlled by a 
 
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syndicate embracing the largest ex- 
 perience and ability in this branch 
 of business, which is known as the 
 "Besse Syndicate." This great or- 
 ganization controls and operates 
 twenty-seven stores in the leading 
 cities of the New England States, 
 among which one of the largest is 
 the firm of A. L,. Foster & Co. of 
 Hartford, wholesale and retail cloth- 
 iers and hatters. This house was 
 organized in 18S4, and heads the 
 list of establishments controlled by 
 the Besse Syndicate. Its large con- 
 nections with the trade throughout 
 this section give it unrivaled facili- 
 ties and advantages in the handling 
 
 of a superior line of clothing, hats, etc., at the very lowest prices. 
 Messrs. A. L- Foster & Co. have the largest store of its kind in Hart- 
 ford, it having a frontage of fifty-six feet and a depth of one hundred 
 and fifteen feet, with a height of ceiling of twenty feet. It is said by 
 gentlemen who have traveled extensively that this is, without excep- 
 tion, the handsomest clothing store in America, which is equivalent 
 to saying that it is the finest in the world. The sheets of plate-glass 
 in their mammoth show windows are said to be the largest in the 
 country, being ten feet wide by fifteen feet in height. Above this 
 are large and handsome panels of beveled plate-glass, presenting one 
 of the handsomest fronts we have ever seen. Messrs. A. L,. Foster & 
 Co. not only have a large and elegant store at Nos. 45, 47, 49, 51, 
 53 and 55 Asylum Street, but they do the largest clothing business 
 
 in New England, and carry an immense and unusually fine stock of clothing. They employ :an average of twenty-four competent and 
 
 experienced salesmen, who give courteous and careful attention to the requirements of every caller. 
 
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FRAYER & FOSTER, Dealers in Best Qualities of Coal ; 
 Office, No. 446 Asylum Street ; Yards, Garden aud Walnut Streets. — Ever since 
 the introduction of steam aud the coincident advance of modern civilization, 
 the coal industry has occupied a place in the maintenance of the race unex- 
 celled by any other. On the quantity and excellence of the coal supply 
 depeud not only the management aud support of our great commercial and 
 manufacturing enterprises, but also, in reality, the life of the world, for the 
 onward march of progress has swept away the great forests of civilized coun- 
 tries. In the light of these facts, it is easy to perceive the important position 
 which a leading coal house occupies in any community. Such a representative 
 house is that of Messrs. Frayer & Foster of this city, which succeeded in 1886 
 to the established business of Mr. Frayer, this gentleman having founded it in 
 1883. The business is distinguished for the superior grades of coal dealt in as 
 well as its prompt delivery, large shipments of coal being constantly received 
 and disposed of to retail consumers at rates unexcelled in moderation. A 
 large force of men is employed in the execution of the business, and a yard of 
 about 2,000 tons capacity, conveniently located near the railroad, is used for 
 storing the extensive and valuable stock. The office is located at No. 446 
 Asylum Street, where orders are received and promptly filled at short notice. 
 The yards are at Garden and Walnut Streets. We are confident that those who 
 make trial of the dealings and stock of this house will concur in the approba- 
 tion and appreciation which have attended its efforts, and be sure to return 
 again. 
 
 HENRY E. YEOMANS, Uvery Stable, No. 51 Farming- 
 ton Avenue, adjoining Farmington Avenue Hotel ; Telephone Call, 146-3. — 
 There is of course a market price for horse-hire as there is for flour, for sugar, 
 or for any other standard commodity, and those who think to obtain teams at 
 from one-third to one-half off the regular rates only deceive themselves, unless, 
 of course, they are in a position to make special contracts, or unless certain 
 circumstances combine to favor them ; but still there is such a thing as paying 
 fancy prices for livery service, and those who do this get no better accommoda- 
 tions than those furnished by Mr. Henry E. Yeomans, who makes it a point to 
 quote the lowest market rates aud to fully meet all honorable competition, not 
 only as regards prices, but as regards the quality of the turnouts supplied as 
 well. Mr. Yeomans is a native of Connecticut, and began operations here in 
 1890, having succeeded the former proprietor, who had established this stable 
 many years previously. This livery stable is located at No. 51 Farmington 
 Avenue, adjoining the hotel. Employment is given to six assistants, and there 
 are seventeen horses and five nice hacks, coupes, etc., for livery purposes. An 
 extensive hacking, boarding aud livery stable business is also done, fine-appear- 
 ing carriages and experienced drivers being furnished at short notice and 
 special attention being given to boarders and transients. The stable is of brick, 
 and one of the best ventilated in this State, with healthy surroundings for the 
 horses. There are forty good, airy stalls. All orders are assured prompt and 
 painstaking attention, while telephone connection enables them to be sent 
 without trouble from any point in this vicinity. 
 
 MULCAHY, THE OUTFITTER, the Leading Hartford 
 
 Klothier and Hatter, Nos. 33 to 41 Asylum Street. — It goes without saying that the 
 most popular and prosperous merchant is he who uses discriminating judgment 
 in the selection of his stock with reference to the requirements of the com- 
 munity to which he caters, and this fact finds no better exemplification than in 
 the clothing and outfitting trade. It is because Mr. Mulcahy has closely 
 observed this leading principle during his long business career that he is to-day 
 one of the most popular clothiers and outfitters in Hartford, aud has one of the 
 largest and finest establishments in the city. Mr. Mulcahy- began business here 
 in 1876, and few men can point to such a continuously prosperous career as he 
 has eujoyed in the intervening years. He has made it a point to carry a stock 
 that would fully satisfy the requirements of the most exacting buyer, and by 
 invariably naming low prices has made and held custom in the face of the 
 sharpest competition. Straightforward methods and guaranteed transactions 
 could have no other result. Mr. Mulcahy has a fine establishment on Asylum 
 Street, the numbers of the store running from 33 to 41, aud giving a width of 
 51 by a depth of 125 feet. In addition he has a store-room 30x30 feet, while 
 the well-appointed work-room measures 40x30 feet. A large and attractive 
 stock of clothing and men's furnishing goods, hats, shoes and trunks is carried, 
 and a fine class of custom work is done at short notice, an average force of ten 
 hands being employed. 
 
 THE DAIRY I,UNCH ROOM, No. 189 Asylum Street.— 
 
 The first matter occupying the attention of one who has gained employment in 
 a large city is: ''Where can good and palatable meals be had at reasonable 
 prices? " For the average man, boarding at a hotel is out of the question, even 
 if it were desirable to do so, for the better grade of houses are obliged to put 
 their rates so high that one's whole wages would have to go for board if such 
 were occupied, aud the cheap hotels, with a few honorable exceptions, possess 
 neither the convenience of a first-class house nor the comforts of a good 
 lodging-house. Therefore, as the subject is of so much importance, we offeruo 
 apology for bringing to the favorable atteution of our readers the establishment 
 conducted as the "Dairy Lunch Room," and located at No. 189 Asylum Street. 
 This business was established in 1891 ; and although undertaking what is 
 undoubtedly the hardest possible task, to satisfy regular boarders, we feel justified 
 in stating that the result of their labors have been highly satisfactory to all 
 parties concerned. The premises utilized measure 30XS0 feet in dimensions, 
 aud employment is given to seven skilled assistants. Meals are served at all 
 hours, while the prices are very reasonable. Tables are reserved for ladies, and, 
 being centrally located, the Dairy Lunch Room is largely patronized. The 
 many articles of food served at this lunch room are all first class, but special 
 attention is given to oysters in every style, waffles, wheat cakes, old-fashioneu 
 buckwheat cakes, coffee, tea aud chocolate. 
 
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I,. G. WII/EY, Fine Printing at Bottom Prices ; All Orders 
 Will Receive Careful and Prompt Attention ; No. 156 Pearl Street. — The great- 
 est of all revolutions, that wrought by the introduction of the printing press, 
 not only affects the sphere of ideas, but also every detail of modern business life. 
 The facility and speed with which its great operations are carried on would be 
 impossible without the convenience afforded by the experienced business printer. 
 A leading and first-class house in this department of local business is that con- 
 ducted by Mr. I,. G. Wiley at No. 156 Pearl Street, City. It was established in 
 1S90 by Mr. A. W. I<ang, and has been under its present active management 
 since 1S92. Mr. L. G. Wiley is a native of Hartford, well and favorably known 
 in both its business and social circles. He has devoted a long period to a 
 thorough mastery of every detail in this line, and is prepared to furnish the very 
 best grade of modern service. The premises occupied at above address comprise 
 three floors, 22 x 50 feet in dimensions. They are equipped with modern presses 
 and the latest improved machinery throughout, the same being operated by 
 electric power. Eight experienced and reliable workmen are regularly em- 
 ployed. Mr. Wiley carries a large stock of printers' and stationery supplies. His 
 materials are uniformly of the best grade, and his special lines of type are of the 
 most artistic and attractive character. All orders receive prompt and care- 
 ful attention, satisfaction being guaranteed at the very lowest rates which 
 can be obtained anywhere. No matter what line of printing is desired by our 
 readers, they will be sure to obtain the best results at this reliable and progressive 
 establishment. 
 
 GEO. D. BARTI,]3TT, Merchant Tailor, No. 25 Asylum 
 Street. — An accepted authority in matters of dress has proclaimed that "material 
 is nothing; fit is everything." While this, like most general statements, is not 
 to be given a too-literal interpretation, the main idea conveyed by it is one that 
 appeals directly to all men who would be well dressed. The finest material 
 cannot be made even presentable when made up unless it has passed.through 
 the hands of a skillful cutter and has been fashioned by an expert; while, on 
 the contrary, the poorest fabric may, through such agency, be made attractive 
 and effective. The combination of good material and superior workmanship 
 produces the result which we all desire, and the only way to secure this is to 
 have clothing made by a merchant tailor who is a thorough master of the art 
 sartorial, who employs the best materials, is an artist in designing and cutting, 
 and who has none but finished workmen in his shop. Such a tailor we have no 
 hesitation in saying is Mr. Geo. D. Bartlett of No. 25 Asylum Street, a man 
 who is widely and popularly known, and a merchant of long and high standing. 
 His business was established in 1870, and has grown and prospered as only such 
 enterprises can when intelligence and ability guide their affairs. Mr. Bartlett 
 has one of the finest custom-tailoring establishments in the city, a full floor of 
 20x30 feet in the Post Building being occupied. He employs twelve hands, 
 and each man is a finished workman. Mr. Bartlett always carries a full and 
 well-selected line of the best domestic and foreign woolens, giving his customers 
 a wide range of choice. This stock contains the most desirable shapes and the 
 freshest novelties in designs and patterns. 
 
 C. H. CASE & CO. (Established 1867), Diamonds, Watches 
 and Jewelry, No. 335 Main Street. — Although one of the most prominent char- 
 acteristics of the establishment conducted by Messrs. C. H. Case & Co. is its 
 reliability, it would be incorrect to offer this as the explanation of the great 
 popularity the store enjoys, for many other reliable jewelry stores can be found 
 in the city ; but the truth of the matter is the public like to do business with a 
 firm that is not ouly reliable but enterprising; that not only gives full value for 
 money received but gives its patrons an opportunity to choose from the very 
 latest fashionable novelties in all the various lines of goods it handles. Messrs. 
 C. H. Case & Co. carry 011 a business which was established in 1867, the present 
 firm having had control for the past six years. The partners are Messrs. C. H. 
 Case and M. H. Miller, both natives of Connecticut. Premises located at No. 
 335 Main Street are occupied, they having an area of over 1,200 square feet and 
 being very completely fitted up. The stock of diamonds, watches, jewelry, etc., 
 is displayed to excellent advantage. Messrs. C. H. Case & Co. are sole agents for 
 the celebrated Patek Philippe watch. Every facility is at hand for the repairing 
 of watches and jewelrjrin a superior manner, and, as employment is given to seven 
 assistants, orders can be filled without delay. Moderate prices are quoted in 
 every department of the business, and no trouble is spared to thoroughly satisfy 
 every customer. They are also prepared to manufacture jewelry to order in a 
 superior manner. Mr. Case served in the army for four years as a member of 
 the 10th Connecticut and 14th U. S. Infantry. He has also been commander of 
 Putnam Phalanx. Mr. Miller has been associated in the business about five years. 
 
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PRESTON BROTHERS, Jobbers and Dealers in Meats, 
 Etc., No. 4S Front Street. — The skill required in the handling and preparing for 
 sale of the best meats is not surpassed in its importance by any other line of trade. 
 This is readily seen when we consider that the health of every member of the 
 community is daily dependent upon the same. A leading and substantial house 
 in this department of Hartford business is that of Messrs. Preston Brothers at 
 No. 4S Front Street this city. They began business in 1SS1, and have made 
 steady upward progress from that time on. Their facilities have been perfected 
 to meet every demand, and few houses in this line of the entire State handle so 
 successful and large a business at the present time. The store premises occupied 
 consist of two floors 30 by 45 feet. Their refrigerating plant is one of the 
 largest and best in the city, being fitted up in complete modern style. The 
 stock carried includes all lines of fresh meats and provisions, Chicago dressed 
 beef and mutton, poultry, game in season and canned goods. They guarantee 
 reliable quality and lowest current prices. The delivery system has been 
 carefully perfected, and two teams are now kept busily engaged in this depart- 
 ment. The firm are large jobbers in these lines, supplying many first-class 
 stores, and also conduct a good family and hotel trade. Their facilities enable 
 them to constantly offer special bargains as well as a uniform first-class service 
 at all times. Since this is a line of trade in which it is wise to take no risk 
 whatever, our readers will do well in trading with a careful and reliable house 
 like that of Preston Brothers. 
 
 GEO. H. WEEKS, Jobber of Cigars, Tobacco, Cigarettes and 
 Smokers' Articles, No. 449 Main Street. — No resident of Hartford at all familiar 
 with the town would consider our sketch of its history complete did we not 
 make extended mention of the establishment conducted by Mr. Geo. H. Weeks, 
 which can be found at No. 449 Main Street. The business in question was 
 inaugurated by this gentleman fourteen years ago, and he is a jobber of cigars, 
 tobacco, cigarettes and smokers' articles, and is a manufacturer of the following 
 noted brands of domestic cigars: "The Pilgrim," "Electric," "Youngster" and 
 " Puritan; " also, "G. H. Weeks' Dime Smoke," a fine grade of plug smoking 
 tobacco. Mr. Weeks is a native of Hartford and served in the army during 
 our late war, being a member of the Twenty-second Connecticut Regiment. 
 The premises utilized comprise a fine store 20 x 65 feet in dimensions, employ- 
 ment being given to a number of competent assistants. Mr. Weeks does some 
 retail trade, although he is principally in the jobbing business, carrying a large 
 stock of tobaccos and cigars. His special brands of cigars, on which he has 
 built up such a trade, continue to be in popular demand. "The Princess 
 Nicotine" is Mr. Week's latest brand of cigars, and is giving good satisfaction, 
 being a blend of the finest Havana tobacco grown in the West Indies. "The 
 Princess Nicotine" is recommended to all lovers of a cool, sweet smoke, and 
 will assuredly please them. Mr. Weeks' sou, Mr. H. S. Weeks, is the firm's 
 salesman, and has a large growing trade, which is fast extending beyond a local 
 character. 
 
 SAMUEI, DAVIS, Merchant Tailor ; Clothes Made to Order ; 
 No. no Trumbull Street. — The idea that economy consists of paying as low a 
 price as possible for everything that is purchased is a very mistaken one, and 
 there are few who have had any experience in buying who entertain it. There 
 are many other things to be taken into consideration besides the first cost, 
 especially in the buying of clothing, for, in the selection of garments, style, 
 neatness and durability should all be provided for. There are some few who 
 can get a good fit in ready-made clothing and are perfectly satisfied with such 
 garments, but the large majority would have their clothing made to order if 
 they thought they could afford it; and we are convinced that more can afford 
 it than now believe they can, as a call at the store of Mr. Samuel Davis 
 will prove. First-class custom clothing can now be obtained at but little more 
 than is asked for dependable ready-made garments, and the superior wearing 
 qualities of the former more than compensate for the slight difference in price. 
 Mr. Davis has carried on his present business since 1S92, and should certainly 
 be in a position to satisfy the most critical, both as regards price and workman- 
 ship. He carries a fine and varied stock of foreign and domestic fabrics, and 
 a visit to his establishment, No. no Trumbull Street, will show that all tastes 
 and ages can be suited. A perfect fit is guaranteed, and every garment is cut 
 ill the latest style. Five competent assistants are employed, and all orders are 
 assured immediate and satisfactory attention, and can be delivered at short 
 notice. Mr. Davis is a native of Hartford, and began his present enterprise in 
 1892. 
 
 O. D. WOODRUFF & CO., Manufacturing Hatters and 
 Furriers, No. 355 Main Street. — It is an excellent rule to buy direct from the 
 manufacturers whenever possible, and it is not only possible but easy for the 
 residents of Hartford and vicinity to buy hats and furs from the manufacturers, 
 for Messrs O. D. Woodruff & Co. are makers of, as well as dealers in, hats and 
 furs, and their store is so conveniently located at No. 355 Main Street that there 
 is no excuse for not at least investigating the advantages they offer. The 
 business was established seventy years ago, the present proprietor beginning in 
 this store as an employee in 1S35 ; in 1846 the firm of Strong & Woodruff was 
 formed, aud they continued the business for about thirty-three years. Mr. 
 Strong retiring, the present firm was formed ; Mr. Woodruff's son constituting 
 the company. Since the decease of his son, which occurred about a year ago, 
 Mr. Woodruff, senior, has continued the business alone, without making any 
 change in the firm name. Spacious and well-appointed premises are occupied, 
 and the stock on hand include, not only a carefully chosen assortment of hats, 
 but also furs, etc. Special attention is paid to making fur garments to order, 
 fifteen or twenty skilled assistants being employed in this department. Fur 
 garments will also be repaired and altered, being made over in accordance with 
 the latest styles at short notice. Moderate prices are quoted in every depart- 
 ment of the business, and we are confident that those having dealings with this 
 house will have reason to thank us for calling attention to their facilities. The 
 premises occupied consist of a store 25 by 160 feet and a basement 25 by 100 
 feet in dimensions. 
 
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 POST OFFICE. 
 
CHAS. A. BlvAKE & CO., Receivers and Shippers; 
 Wholesale and Retail Dealers in Flour, Hay, Straw, Grain, Mill Feed and Salt ; 
 Nos. 634 to 638 North Main Street ; Local and Long-Distance Telephone Con- 
 nection.— This progressive and leading house was established in 1888, the 
 present firm of Cbas. A. Blake & Co. being successors to the old firm ofWm. 
 B. Smith & Son. They occupy well-equipped aud modern salesrooms at Nos. 
 6j4 t° 638 North Main Street, carrying a complete line of hay, straw, grain and 
 feed for both wholesale and retail buyers. They are large shippers by the car- 
 load from leading Western and New England points, their stock being in every 
 respect up to date. Prices will be found uniformly based upon the lowest mar- 
 ket figures. The firm have always believed in a high standard, reliable cash 
 business, and have pursued this policy steadily from the first, so that they are 
 now enabled to afford their patrons many exceptional and attractive bargains. 
 A specialty is made of baled hay and straw by the car or fractional carload. 
 They are always prompt, reliable shippers, and guarantee all goods to be 
 received in good condition. Their wholesale business extends throughout New- 
 
 England, over all the leading railroads, and also to Canada. They enjoy the 
 very best of trade connections, the successful establishment of which has been 
 secured only by long and patient attention to all the best features of this line 
 of trade. Their regular corps of assistants consists of six trained clerks and 
 salesmen. Whenever desiring Ai service, goods and quotations, our readers 
 will show judgment in dealing with this reliable and first-class house. 
 
 P. "W. BACKES, Wholesale and Retail Vienna Bakery, Lunch 
 Room and Ice-Cream Parlors, Nos. 167 and 169 Asylum Street, opposite Allyu 
 House. — The Vienna bakery conducted by Mr. F. W. Backes at Nos. 167 and 
 
 169 Asylum Street (in the fine block owned by 
 Mr. Backes), opposite the Allyu House, is among 
 the most reliable iu Hartford, and deserves hon- 
 orable mention. The business is both whole- 
 sale and retail, and au extensive and first-class 
 trade is catered to. Mr. Backes is a thorough 
 master of everything pertaining to the busiuess, 
 and has built up a trade upon a sound and 
 permanent basis. He occupies commodious 
 premises, part of which are fitted up as a dining- 
 room and ice-cream parlor. A specialty is made 
 of serving dinners, where none better can be 
 had iu the city. The location is central and 
 near the depot. These departments, as well as 
 the bakery, are well-equipped with the latest 
 modern and improved machinery for facilitating 
 the business. Mr. Backes has made it an invari- 
 able rule to use nothing but absolutely pure material, and upon this substantial 
 basis in all his dealings he has won a wide reputation and instant appreciation 
 from all who buy his goods. He has developed a fiue retail trade. Orders for 
 cake for weddings and parties will be promptly attended to and delivered. 
 Mr. Backes has had many years' experience iu the business, and is a practical, 
 popular and successful baker. 
 
 J. M. BISSELL, 
 
 PACKER AND DEALER IN 
 
 Leaf . Tobacco, 
 
 No. 220 STATE STREET. 
 
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THE PERKINS ELECTRIC-SWITCH MANUFAC- 
 
 TURING CO., No. 302 Asylum Street. — The development of electrical appli- 
 ances is by all odds the most significant feature of the closing century. The 
 revolution wrought in the economy of industries and the control of nature is 
 but yet barely realized. The Perkins Electric-Switch Manufacturing Co. of 
 Hartford is one of the representative houses of New England in this line. Its 
 ofEces and workshops are situated at No. 302 Asylum Street this city ; and, 
 though incorporated in 1890, it already controls a very large and successful 
 business. Their well-known "switches" are manufactured under various 
 patents issued to C. G. Perkins from 1881 to 1890, and are acknowledged by all 
 competent judges to be unequaled in excellence of mechanical construction. 
 They are made in a variety of styles with a fine porcelain base and nickel cover, 
 and with a capacity ranging from 5 to 150 amperes on a continuous current of 
 120 volts. Every instrument is fully guaranteed, and the universal success 
 with which they have met is the best testimony to their value. Another 
 specialty made by this company is the "Dovetail Ceiling Cut-Out," for cleat, 
 concealed and moulding work. Among its advantages are its easy adjustment, 
 porcelain protecting lugs, the firm dovetail contacts, and freedom from possible 
 accidental disjunction. It is undoubtedly superior to any other on the market. 
 Their new No. 3 Socket also combines the advantages of all the best sockets, 
 and is fitted for the standard bases of lamps. The energy and judgment shown 
 in the development of this company have made it a very important factor in 
 New England and national electrical affairs. Their works and offices cover 
 two floors 25 x 90 feet, three floors 23 x 75 feet and office 30 x 25 feet, and they 
 employ an average corps of forty-five men. Their goods are well known 
 throughout the country, and are also shipped in large quantities to foreign 
 countries. They manufacture also at above address the well-known Waterhouse, 
 Gamble & Co. Arc Lamp, which for incandescent currents has numerous points 
 of excellence, placing it in many respects at the top among lamps of its class. 
 The Gibbs Switch, which they manufacture, was patented March 27, 1894, is 
 double-pole, double-brake. Its absolute interchaugeability, simplicity and 
 durability will recommend this switch to those who have been annoyed by the 
 breaking and inability to replace parts of many otherwise good switches. The 
 parts are all strong and not liable to give out ; but, iu case of breakage, the 
 switch is so simple in its construction that any part may be replaced in a 
 moment. This switch is giving fine satisfaction, and is becoming very popular 
 iu the trade. 
 
 TTJTTI,E & MATHER, Expressmen, Carmen and 
 
 Transferring ; Theatre Work a Specialty ; Special Attention Given to Moving 
 Furniture; No. 2 American Row. — There is no need of enlarging upon 
 the usefulness of a thoroughly reliable, prompt and frequent express service, 
 for the value of such a service is too apparent to require demonstration and 
 fully justifies us in making prominent mention of Messrs. Tuttle & Mather, 
 
 expressmen and carmen, in this review of the most important and notable 
 enterprises of the city, it being generally conceded that no express running out 
 of Hartford renders a more comprehensive and thoroughly satisfactory service 
 than the one in question. This business was established some twenty years ago 
 by Mr. Edson Sissions, who was bought out by Mr. T. S. Mather in 1889. 
 Mr. C. E. Tuttle was already engaged in the express business, and combining 
 his with that of Mr. Mather made the present strong firm and large business. 
 Messrs. Tuttle & Mather are well-known expressmen and carmen, making a 
 specialty of theatre work and furniture moving. Their business has steadily 
 developed until now eight trucks and express wagons are required in handling 
 the business transacted. They do business for such large concerns as Cal- 
 houn's Printing Co., Squires & Son, Atlantic Screw Works, Jacobs, Avery & 
 Jacobs, Storrs & Candee, the theatrical business, and a large percentage of the 
 wharfage trucking. Goods transported by this express are assured careful 
 handling and prompt delivery, and as the charges on all classes of freight from 
 light packages to heavy bundles, machinery, etc., are uniformly moderate, it is 
 no wonder that very general use should be made of the facilities offered. All 
 orders addressed to No. 2 American Row are assured prompt attention and 
 satisfactory execution. 
 
 HARDING & HOLBROOK (Atlantic Fish Market), Whole- 
 sale and Retail Dealers in All Kinds of Fresh, Salt, Smoked and Pickled Fish, 
 Oysters, Clams, Lobsters, &c, No. 567 Main Street. — Those who have done 
 business with Messrs. Harding & Holbrook long enough to become familiar 
 with their methods and the excellence of their service need not be advised to 
 patronize their establishment in the future ; but, as there are doubtless many 
 among our readers who have not had this experience, we think it will be both 
 pleasant and well advised for us to call attention to some of the many advan- 
 tages they have to offer. To begin with, the business was established by Mr. 
 Paine about thirty years ago. He was succeeded by Messrs. Daniels & Hol- 
 brook, and they in turn by the present proprietors about seven years ago. Mr. 
 S. E. Harding is a native of Wellfleet, Mass., and Mr. W. J. Holbrook is from 
 the same town. Both are widely known and highly esteemed in Hartford, 
 where they occupy premises located at No. 567 Main Street, and popularly 
 known as the Atlantic Fish Market, and which are very completely fitted up 
 for the carrying on of the business in the best possible manner. Dealing as 
 they do in such perishable commodities as fish, Messrs. Harding & Holbrook 
 have spared no pains to provide the most approved means for the preservation 
 of the same when the weather is warm or otherwise unfavorable, and they have 
 found their reward in the character of their patronage, for no one likes to pur- 
 chase food which has been improperly cared for. They are wholesale and 
 retail dealers in fresh, salt, smoked and pickled fish, oysters, clams, lobsters, 
 etc. Three well-informed assistants are constantly employed, and orders are 
 promptly delivered to any part of the city. 
 
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The Keating Wheel 
 
 THE STRONGEST LIGHT WHEEL IN THE WORLD. 
 Beautifully finished ; graceful, easy-running. A wheel upon which you can 
 take solid comfort. Though not made in Hartford, the State Agency is held by 
 
 A. H. POMEROY, No. 98 Asylum Street. 
 
 You should certainly give it a trial before buying a wheel. 
 
 WOOU,EY'S HACK, UVERY AND BOARDING 
 
 STABLES, No. 108 Main Street.— There is no disputing the fact that 
 Woolley's Hack, Livery and Boarding Stables occupy a leading position 
 among similar establishments of the kind in Hartford; and it is perfectly 
 natural that such should be the case, for their proprietor is one of the most 
 experienced stable keepers in the city and spares no expense to afford his 
 customers every accommodation. The enterprise uuder his charge he founded 
 twenty-five years ago, and he was also for many years an undertaker here. Mr. 
 W. P. Woolley is ably assisted in the management of these stables by his son, 
 Mr. F. P. Woolley, who is a very popular young man. These stables are 
 located at No. 108 Main Street, and are neat and commodious in every respect. 
 Sixty horses and thirty carriages are kept in first-class condition for livery 
 purposes, and fifteen experienced assistants are employed. Mr. Woolley caters 
 to a very fine and extensive patronage, the Governor being among his patrons. 
 We can assure those who have not yet made trial of Mr. Woolley's facilities 
 that they are equal to the best, and are in fact superior to those of the average 
 livery stable, while his prices are low and equitable. Hacks will be furnished 
 for all occasions at short notice. 
 
 A. D. COOKE, Retail Dealer in Groceries and Provisions ; 
 
 Fresh, Salt and Canned Fish ; No. 56 Market Street. — The age and importance 
 of the grocery trade entitle it to a leading position among the most influential 
 industries of the world, and its representatives in this State and vicinity are not 
 surpassed for reliable dealings or business enterprise by any of their confreres. 
 Prominent among the leading grocers and provision dealers of this section ot 
 the State Mr. A. D. Cooke has long been recognized as an honorable anil pro- 
 gressive merchant. He established his business here in 1S86 and has since met 
 with continuous and deserved success. He employs regularly three assistants, 
 and commands one of the finest retail trades in this section of the city. His stock 
 of groceries and provisions, fresh, salt and canned fish, is first-class and reliable 
 in every respect, and rated at prices considerably below the average. A specialty 
 is made of the fish department. The premises utilized comprise two floors 30x60 
 feet in dimensions, and are located at No. 56 Market Street. This store is a 
 model of neatness and care in the keeping of the stock, and in the tasteful 
 display of the goods. 
 
 NIMS, WHITNEY & CO. (Successors to J. H. Goodell, 
 Formerly with H. R. Gridley, Now with the Above), Manufacturers of and 
 Dealers in Doors, Windows and Blinds, No. 572 Main Street. — Although there 
 has been a steady advance all along the line in the various trades and industries 
 of the country during the past quarter century, there is hardly a department 
 which has made such appreciable and rapid progress as that concerned with 
 house-building supplies and artistic wood manufacturing. The inventive spirit 
 of New England has been concentrated as never before in this special line, and 
 the result is seen in a wide variety of beautiful and important improvements. 
 An establishment which represents the latest and best ideas in this field, having 
 a trade equaled by few in New England, is that of Messrs. Nims, Whitney .S; 
 Co., whose Hartford branch is situated at No. 572 Main Street, and uuder the 
 mauagemeut of Mr. N. C. Wardwell. The factories of this house at Keene. 
 N. H, have been in operation for over thirty years. Their Hartford store and 
 warehouse, uuder the charge of Mr. Wardwell since 1S90, has at once taken a 
 leading position in its line, owing to the very large modern facilities at its com- 
 mand. The stock includes every line of doors, windows, sash, blinds, plate 
 and window glass, putty, etc., at the lowest figures on the market. Very tine 
 specialties in hardwood-work, inside shutters and blinds are made to order. 
 Constant large consignments are received, and the stock of this house will 
 always be found up to the very largest aud best demands of the trade. The lead- 
 ing builders and contractors of this section have shown by their action that the 
 work furnished by this house is first-class. The most careful attention is paid 
 to special orders, and the facilities of the house are uuexcelled for retail as well 
 as wholesale trade. Mr. N. C. Wardwell, the efficient local representative, is a 
 native of Greenfield, Mass., widely aud favorably known to the trade in this 
 important department. 
 
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DANIELS, THE PRINTER, No. 284 Asylum Street, 
 Room 4; Commercial Printing at Lowest Prices. — In this age of enlighten- 
 ment and progress, old-fashioned methods have no chance, and there is no line 
 
 of business in which this fact is so forcibly 
 demonstrated as in printing. People want 
 good work and modern work, and it is be- 
 cause he is so well able to fill these require- 
 ments that Daniels, the Printer, has made 
 such a large success of his business, and 
 enjoys such widespread popularity. He 
 began business in Hartford in 1S73, and 
 has always exhibited the greatest enter- 
 prise, keeping fully abreast of the times 
 and improvements of the age, and meet- 
 ing with the most flattering success in 
 every department of work. Mr. Daniels 
 makes a specialty of commercial printing 
 at low prices, and possesses most excellent 
 facilities for the execution of any descrip- 
 tion of work in this line, from a simple 
 business card to an illustrated trade catalogue. His establishment occupies 
 two floors of the building, No. 284 Asylum Street, each floor having an area 
 of 30x40 feet. The plant is complete in every detail, being furnished with 
 four large presses of the latest and most approved make, and all other appli- 
 ances of a first-class modern printing house, including the latest and best styles 
 of type. Mr. Daniels is himself a thoroughly practical printer, and employs 
 none but the most competent men, his working force averaging six. 
 
 E. GATEI/Y & CO., Installment Dealers; Furniture, Car- 
 pets, Bedding, and General Household Furnishings; No. 2S8 Asylum Street. — 
 There is not, probably, a business firm in Hartford which needs less introduction 
 than Messrs. E. Gately & Co. In 1878 the present enterprise was started by 
 them, and a long practical experience in the furniture business has been 
 enjoyed. The premises occupied, and located at No. 288 Asylum Street, com- 
 prise one floor 20x100 feet in dimensions, with basement and second story. 
 Twelve competent assistants are employed. The stock carried is large and 
 varied, and embraces all kinds of furniture, carpets, bedding and general house- 
 hold furnishings, as all tastes are catered to. Many new novelties, makes and 
 designs are always being shown in furniture, and no pains are spared to please 
 the most fastidious customers, while everything sold here will be found to 
 prove just as represented in every particular. The business is ably managed 
 by Mr. E. G. Carter, who is very well and favorably known throughout Hart- 
 ford. Messrs. Gately & Co. sell on the installment plan, thus enabling all to 
 furnish their homes at a small outlay. They make most favorable inducements 
 to their patrons, and guarantee to sell as low as any one engaged in the same 
 line of trade. 
 
 W. J. MAY, Dealer in Fine Groceries, Foreign and Domestic 
 Fruits, No. 61 Farmingtou Avenue, Asylum Hill; All Orders by Telephone 
 Promptly Executed. — Should a person thoroughly acquainted with the com- 
 parative standing of the various business houses of this town be asked to name 
 half a dozen of the leading grocery houses of Hartford, he would unquestion- 
 ably include W. J. May in the list, for this concern has long held its present 
 high position, and is generally conceded to have few if any rivals in its par- 
 ticular line of business. The reasons for this favorable judgment are not 
 difficult to learn, for no one can visit this establishment without being im- 
 pressed by the magnitude and variety of the stock carried, the dependable 
 character of the goods and the low prices quoted on the same, while the prompt 
 and courteous attention extended to every caller is of itself enough to entitle 
 this representative concern to particularly favorable mention. This enterprise 
 was founded a quarter of a century ago by Messrs. Sumner & Smith, and, after 
 some changes, in 1879 the present proprietor assumed control. He is a native 
 of Pennsylvania, and well known in this town and vicinity. The premises 
 utilized are located at No. 61 Farmington Avenue, on Asylum Hill; they com- 
 prise one floor aud basement, 20 x 70 feet .in dimensions. Two teams and four 
 competent assistants are employed. Fine groceries, foreign and domestic 
 fruits, flour, sugar, teas, coffees, pure spices, etc., are dealt in, and all orders 
 are accurately filled at short notice. 
 
 HENRY C. BURGESS, Dealer in Lehigh and Free-Burn- 
 ing All-Rail Coal, No. 15 Albany Avenue. — It is needless to expatiate on the 
 supreme value of coal, but a matter which concerns every one of our readers 
 is where this indispensable article can be purchased on the very best terms. 
 An answer to their complete satisfaction can be made by trial of the superior 
 facilities afforded by Mr. Henry C. Burgess at No. 15 Albany Avenue, the lead- 
 ing Hartford merchant in this line. The business was established in 1SS6 by 
 Mr. J. C. Taft, whose experienced oversight as Weigher aud Superintendent 
 is still enjoyed by the house. For the past six years it has been under the gen- 
 eral management of Mr. H. C. Burgess, than whom there is no more experienced 
 or widely-conversant dealer of coal in this part of New England. The 
 premises occupied — immediately adjacent to the railroad, at above address — 
 comprise more than an acre of ground, and are fitted up with the finest class of 
 storage-sheds, coal-pockets, general weighing and shipping facilities. A spe- 
 cialty is made of the Ai retail trade, though there are some very large regular 
 customers of the house. The stock carried is not excelled, either in size or high 
 standard, anywhere in this section. The leading specialties are Lehigh and 
 free-burning coals, in all the standard forms and sizes; the stock also includes 
 favorite kinds of anthracite and stove coals from other sections of the East. 
 Its high character can be judged from the fact that it is entirely shipped by 
 rail directly from the mines— a course which would be impossible with iuferior 
 grades. Quick, reliable service and liberal prices have placed the business of 
 this house at the very front of local trade. 
 
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E. N. & N. O. KEI/I/OGG, Wool, No. 373 Asylum Street. 
 — From various causes the subject of wool has been of extreme iuterest to the 
 entire American people for some years past. When it is considered that three- 
 fourths of all the clothing worn must be derived from this source, the reason 
 for this interest is not difficult to fathom. Whatever may be the rating of tariff 
 schedules, it is certain that the leading wool trade of this part of the country 
 will continue under the management of the house of E. N. & N. O. Kellogg, as 
 it has for the past fifty years or more. The reason for this is simply that this 
 house has invariably offered the best of service and goods. A very large propor- 
 tion of Hartford's commercial life has been built up since this old reliable house 
 was established. Mr. E. N. Kellogg, the pioneer wool merchant of this part of 
 the State, was also one of the first Councilmen at the incorporation of Hartford 
 as a city. By the slow and steady growth of many years the firm have created 
 a very wide, complete range of trade facilities and connections. They were 
 extensive importers in the county twenty years ago of the finest European and 
 Australian wools, also handling all the leading American brands. Their com- 
 mission and jobbing trade extends to all parts of New England, supplying many 
 of the largest mills in this and other States. One of their prominent specialties 
 is "scoured wool," a marked favorite for high-grade cloths. The high standing 
 and reputation of the house area most complete guarantee of liberal dealings and 
 the very best wholesale rates. Their influence has been felt in the elevation of 
 the New England wool trade from its earliest period to the present time. 
 
 J. SAMUEI/S & CO., New England Boot and .Shoe House, 
 No. 354 Main Street, Corner Kinsley, Hartford, and No. 23 Colony Street, 
 Meriden. — One of the reasons why so much dissatisfaction exists in the matter 
 of footwear is that less judgment is displayed in the purchase of these articles 
 than in any other line of wearing apparel. But in this as in every other depart- 
 ment of life the progressive spirit of the age is making itself felt, and the 
 erroneous impression that a tight fit is a good fit is rapidly disappearing, and 
 with it the tendency of shoes to lose their shape and disintegrate under ordinary 
 wear. Somebody has said that more trouble has been caused in this world by 
 misfit shoes than by bad hearts, and he was about right. The best results in 
 buying shoes are sure to be obtained by relying upon the judgment of such re- 
 sponsible dealers as Messrs. J. Samuels & Co., of the New England Boot and 
 Shoe House, No. 354 Main Street. They have a handsome corner store, 25 x 100 
 feet in dimensions, which is one of the finest shoe emporiums in the State. The 
 character and importance of the business may be inferred from the fact that the 
 annual sales of the house aggregate between $85,000 and $90,000. This store 
 was first opened in 1876 by Mr. Samuels, who came from Boston, where he had 
 previously been in the business for a number of years. The firm employ six 
 assistants here, and also have a fine branch store at Meriden, Conn. Mr. Samuels 
 is a courteous and obliging gentleman, and customers at his store receive the 
 most satisfactory and polite attention from him and his alert and well-trained 
 assistants. 
 
 JOHN McCLARY (Wood-Working Company), Office and 
 Factory, Nos. 65, 67 and 69 Front Street, and Nos. 85, 87, 89 and 91 Grove Street. 
 — The union of art and mechanical skill in the field of wood-working machinery 
 has produced results in recent years more beautiful than were ever obtained 
 before. This is seen in the interior wood finish, hardwood mouldings, etc., 
 which adorn our most beautiful and important buildings. A business enterprise 
 which has taken a marked and influential position in this department is that 
 conducted by Mr. John McClary at Nos. 65-69 Front Street and Nos. S5-91 Grove 
 Street, Hartford. It was established by Mr. McClary in 1S8S and has continued 
 under his management without change. The business premises occupied afford 
 about 16,000 feet square floor space, and are admirably equipped with every 
 modern line of machinery. Thirty-five men are employed on the average, and 
 a large annual output made of all kinds of wood-working and turned goods. 
 This includes special fixtures for banks, drug-stores, church seats, pulpits, 
 altars, offices, saloons, mantels, sideboards, wainscotings, ceilings, floor-work, 
 etc., at very low and attractive rates. Mr. McClary executes special designs to 
 order and also carries a large general stock of wood-fittings and fixtures. 
 Estimates are carefully furnished and can be most thoroughly relied upon. As 
 nothing adds so much to the interior effect of a business, public or private 
 edifice as fine woodwork, it should prove of value and iuterest for all our 
 readers to make a careful examination of the facilities of this successful and 
 leading house in its line. 
 
 JOSEPH HAGARTY, Dealer in Groceries and Provisions, 
 No. 75 Front Street. — One of the recently-established and at the same time one 
 of the most reliable enterprises carried on in this sectiou of Hartford is that 
 conducted by Mr. Joseph Hagarty at No. 75 Front Street, for the proprietor is 
 well and favorably known throughout this vicinity, and has had sufficient 
 experience in his present line of business to be thoroughly familiar with it in 
 every detail. Mr. Hagarty is a native of Hartford, and as before stated is well 
 known throughout the city. He is Financial Secretary of the A. O. H., Second 
 Division, and was formerly Financial Secretary of the United Irish Society, and 
 also a member of the Foresters. The store occupied by him is very conveniently 
 fitted up, the space available being sufficiently extensive to admit of the 
 carrying of a large and varied stock, comprising selected family groceries and 
 provisions of all kinds. This stock is new, fresh and "clean" in every depart- 
 ment, and therefore Mr. Hagarty has no undesirable goods to "work off," but is 
 in a position to supply articles that will satisfy the most fastidious. Orders are 
 filled at short notice, and every caller may safely depend upou receiving 
 courteous and painstaking attention. This establishment was founded in 1891, 
 and has been under the able management of its present proprietor from its 
 inception. Those giving Mr. Hagarty's establishment a trial will find him 
 prepared to fill either large or small orders without delay, and at the lowest 
 market rates. 
 
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 BIRD'S-EYE VIEW. 
 
BOUCHER & CORNWEU,, Domestic Laundry; Shirts, 
 Collars and Cuffs a Specialty; Goods Collected and Delivered Free of Charge; 
 No. 15 Church Street. — One need not be very old to remember the storm of 
 opposition which hailed the advent of the first public laundries, or rather the 
 first machine laundries; for the introduction of the washing machinery now in 
 general use is of comparatively recent date, and few industries have developed 
 as rapidly as the laundry business during the past ten or twelve years. The 
 public were warned that the machinery would rip clothes to pieces ; that fine 
 linen would be burned beyond repair; the strongest materials would be rotted 
 by chemicals, and havoc and ruin generally would result from patronizing these 
 establishments; but still they were supported so liberally that their number 
 has increased with phenomenal rapidity, and this increase is still going on — so 
 the natural presumption is that the service they afford is efficient and satis- 
 factory. The Domestic Laundry, located at No. 15 Church Street, may be 
 cited as a representative establishment of this kind, for it is one of the most 
 liberally-patronized laundries in this section of the State, and offers a service 
 unsurpassed for reliability and general efficiency. The proprietress, Mrs. L. A. 
 Cornwell, came from New York and founded the Domestic Laundry in 1883. 
 The premises utilized by her cover an area of some 2,400 square feet, and are fitted 
 up with a complete plant of the most improved machinery. Employment is 
 given to ten assistants, and the various duties and responsibilities are so defi- 
 nitely placed that the greatest possible accuracy is attained. A specialty is made 
 of shirts, collars and cuffs, and all work will be called for and delivered free 
 of charge to any part of the city, and the charges will compare favorably with 
 any quoted by other laundries turning out equally-desirable work. 
 
 J. D. FISKE & CO., Leather and Findings; Boot and Shoe 
 Uppers and Shoe-Store Supplies; No. 278 Asylum Street. — The immense scope 
 of trade and industry necessary for the complete manufacture of a modern shoe 
 is hardly realized by those who have not given the subject careful attention. 
 There is probably no other line into which so many channels of invention 
 and manufacture converge as this. This fact is very clearly illustrated by 
 the extensive business and stock handled by the well-known firm of Messrs. 
 J. D. Fiske & Co., No. 278 Asylum Street, Hartford. It has now been in 
 successful operation for the past fifteen years and is a recognized leader in its 
 department throughout the State. A large modern store is occupied, 26x100 
 feet iu dimensions, and completely stocked at all times. The trade is largely- 
 wholesale, but a first-class grade of retail business is also handled. Iu addition 
 to full lines of finished and dressed leather, morocco, kid, etc., and boot and 
 shoe uppers for local manufacturers, the following comprises a partial list of the 
 slu-e findings carried in stock : Beeswax, button-hooks, burnish ink, blackings, 
 fasteners, boot-web, bound cork soles, calf-patches, crimping tacks, cut soles, 
 emery paper, eyelets and hooks, hotel brushes, heel-ball and staves, heel plates, 
 stiffeuers and protectors, kit-lamps, lamb's-wool soles, lap irons, machine silk, 
 measure straps, peg-cutters and awls, rubber soling, patching and cement ; 
 
 Russia bristles, russet linings, standards and lasts, goriugs, steel nippers, 
 pinchers, sand paper, shoe brushes, knives, dressings, daubers, buttons, pegs, 
 hammers, lifts, buffers, laces, tacks, nails, shank-irons, strip awls, sandstones, 
 stitch wheels, toe stretchers, top-pieces, welt knives and trimmers, Yankee key 
 wheels, French calf, oak calf and kip, French chalk, German rasps, shoe thread 
 and steel nails. It can thus be seen that every article and material needed by 
 manufacturers or dealers in this line can be procured at this store, and its 
 reputation for fair and liberal dealings is a guarantee of the very best modern 
 service at all times. Mr. J. D. Fiske, the sole proprietor of this establishment, 
 is a native of the "Green Mountain State." His grandfather, Judge Jonathan 
 Fiske, was Justice of the Peace and Town Clerk in Williamstown, Vt. , also 
 Judge of Probate in his district for over forty years,, also represented the town 
 in the State Legislature for thirty years in succession, and afterwards at various 
 times. Mr. Fiske spent his early years of business life iu Maloue, N. Y., as 
 telegraph operator, clerk and proprietor of a country store ; was also Town Clerk 
 for ten years. In 1859 he went to New York City and for nine years was a 
 salesman, and for a further span of eleven years was a partner in the well- 
 known wholesale boot aud shoe house of Nathaniel Fisher & Co. While living 
 in New York City he was an active member of "The American Institute," and 
 is now an honorary member of the same. He is a member of the Board of 
 Trade and Merchants' Exchange, aud is a Mason. 
 
 SCHROEDER'S Ice-Cream and Candy Manufactory, No. 373 
 
 Main Street. — In this age of adulteration it is difficult to tell from appearances 
 whether confectionery is absolutely pure or has been subjected to some of the 
 many methods of sophistication in the process of manufacture. However, it is 
 unnecessary for buyers of confectionery iu Hartford to trouble themselves on 
 this point if they confine their patronage to such reputable manufacturers as 
 Mr. F. Schroeder. His motto is not "How cheap!" but " How good!" and with 
 this always prominently in view he uses none but the purest sugars, flavoring 
 extracts, vegetable colors or other ingredients in the composition of his delicious 
 aud wholesome candies, while the processes employed are of the most advanced 
 aud scientific sort. His reputation as a manufacturer of ice cream is second to 
 none, and his product has a larger sale than that of any other maker in the city. 
 Mr. Schroeder began business here in 1873, aud in the intervening twenty-one 
 years has built up a large and flourishing trade in his dainty specialties aud gen- 
 eral products. His store at No. 373 Main Street is one of the most popular in the 
 city. Two floors, each 25 x6o feet in extent, are needed for the accommodation 
 of his large retail candy and ice-cream trade, a part of this space being utilized 
 for the ice-cream mauufacturiug department. The caudy manufactory is at No. 
 14 Morgan Street, and occupies two floors 23x40 feet in dimensions, and about 
 800 square feet of storage room. Mr. Schroeder has an extensive wholesale as 
 well as retail trade, supplying many of the other stores in the city with confec- 
 tionery and ice cream. He employs ten hands and keeps two delivery teams in 
 constant service. 
 
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THE LEAGUE CYCLE CO., Manufacturers of the 
 "League Wheel" (Chaiuless), No. 30 Union Place. — Scientific terms are now 
 being used for old proverbs, especially in business matters. We used to say : 
 "Practice makes perfect." Now, it is "natural selection " and the "evolution 
 of higher types." However phrased, it is undeniably the fact that the 
 "League Wheel" made by The League Cycle Co. of Hartford represents the 
 highest and best development yet attained in this very popular aud influential 
 field. The company was incorporated in 1S92 for the purpose of manufactur- 
 ing this special wheel, and the wide success with which it has met fully justi- 
 fied the foresight of the prominent business and professional men who united 
 to add another great triumph to Hartford's commercial history. The great and 
 salient feature of the "League Wheel" is the added simplicity, lightness and 
 ease of operation afforded by its being free from the cumbersome chain attach- 
 ment. It was for some years supposed that the chain was essential to the 
 Safety Wheel and ensured the best multiplication of force. This company has 
 solved the problem of a simple mechanical arrangement, affording even better 
 speed to the wheel, which is, of course, the supreme factor, and at the same 
 time doing away with several pounds of weight. They control the patent on 
 chaiuless cycles, and their superior machines are steadily driving the older 
 forms out of the market. The manufacturing plant occupied at No. 30 Union 
 Place has been equipped in the most modern and thorough manner. It com- 
 prises an entire building of four stories, 100 x 35 feet in dimensions. The corps 
 of trained workmen employed averages one hundred aud twenty. Every detail 
 of the machine receives most expert and careful attention, the steel frames aud 
 bars, saddle, handles, pneumatic tires, etc., being each of the finest material 
 and workmanship, aud in their proportional arrangement they afford a perfec- 
 tion of rapid and steady service which places the "League Wheel" at the very 
 head of the procession. The ideas of some of the most famous riders of the 
 c untry are embodied both iu its detail and general form. For racing or riding 
 
 of every kind it cannot be matched, and none of those who have tried it would 
 exchange for any older style. The officers of The League Cycle Co. are : Hon. 
 Henry C. Dwight (Ex-Mayor of Hartford), President; Arthur H. Parker, Vice- 
 President and Manager; Andrew F. Gates, Treasurer; Samuel G. Mowry, 
 Secretary. Each improvement in the cycle has resulted in a very large ex- 
 tension of its use, and we have no doubt that the general introduction of the 
 "chaiuless wheels" will show the same result. 
 
 KENEY, ROBERTS & CO., Mill Agents; Wholesale 
 Grocers and Flour Merchants; No. 700 Main Street.— In the last resort, the 
 standing and civilization of every country fall back upon its food supply. 
 The unprecedented progress of the past thirty years of national history can be 
 largely traced to this source. An establishment, therefore, which stands as an 
 important factor in our civilization, as well as an unquestioned leader in its 
 department of trade, is that of Messrs. Keney, Roberts & Co. at No. 700 Main 
 Street. The business was established in 1S30 by the firm of H. W. 
 Keney & Co., which continued without change until 1S55. In that year 
 the new partnership of Keney, Roberts & Goodwin was formed, which 
 on the death of Mr. Goodwin became Keney & Roberts. The only change 
 since was the admission in 1S89 of Messrs. Wm. Tucker and H. H. Goodwin as 
 members of the firm. The senior partner, Mr. Henry Keney, now eighty-eight 
 years of age, has been at the head of the firm from the first day to the present. 
 As one of the oldest active merchants in the State, he has witnessed the large 
 and far-reaching changes of more than sixty years of commercial progress. 
 Mr. Ebenezer Roberts has been a partner for nearly forty years, and the 
 younger members of the firm have also been associated with it for nearly 
 twenty years. In all that is implied by long experience and trained service 
 this house is entitled to a prominent place among those which have made New 
 England a great centre of the world's trade. The firm still occupy the original 
 store building at No. 700 Main Street, and in addition a large modern ware- 
 house at No. 116 Commerce Street, comprising four floors, 50 x 100 feet in 
 dimensions. They carry a very extensive and reliable stock, including the 
 finest grades of Western flour and general wholesale grocers' supplies. The 
 
 character of their stock and trade is 
 sufficiently indicated by the fact that 
 they are the special mill agents for 
 this section of the Washburn-Crosby 
 Co.'s Superlative Flour, of Minneap- 
 olis. Their jobbing trade extends 
 throughout Connecticut aud Western 
 Massachusetts, relations having been 
 maintained for many years with the 
 largest and best stores iu this part of 
 New England. The house is thor- 
 oughly representative of the best 
 standards and most liberal dealings 
 of the city and State trade. 
 
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AMERICAN HOUSE (W. H. Miner, Proprietor; Formerly 
 of Miner's Restaurant), Corner American Row and State Street; Special Rates 
 to Theatrical and Commercial People. — Hotels, like individuals, soon establish 
 a character of their own in a community, and as the American House has been 
 in operation many years its reputation has long since been definitely fixed. 
 Mr. W. H. Miner, the present proprietor, has been connected with the American 
 House for the past seven years. He formerly conducted Miner's Restaurant and 
 is popularly known here. In fact, he ranks with the best-known hotel pro- 
 prietors iu this vicinity; and, as "practice makes perfect," it may safely be 
 assumed that he has little to learn in connection with the business. Indeed, 
 the American House is now considered by experienced travelers, especially 
 theatrical people, as one of the best-managed hotels iu this section of the State, 
 and it is often remarked that its proprietor has successfully solved the difficult 
 problem of making guests feel perfectly at home without sacrificing dignity or 
 propriety in the slighest degree. The house contains sixty large and pleasant 
 rooms, well furnished, while the terms are reasonable. The cuisine is excellent 
 and the service all that can be desired; in fact, everything possible is done for 
 the comfort of the guests. The American House is located at the corner of 
 American Row and State Street. Special rates are made to theatrical and 
 commercial people. 
 
 GEO. P. BISSEJvI/ & CO., Bankers, No. 307 Main Street. 
 — No city of its size in the United States is provided with better banking 
 facilities than Hartford has had almost from the beginning of its advance to a 
 position of an important commercial and industrial centre. The exigencies of 
 its vast business interests demand the possession of facilities of the largest and 
 most complete description, and, as has been said, these have been amply provided, 
 and they are controlled by men of the widest experience and most advanced 
 ideas. Among the oldest banking houses in Hartford, or even iu New England, 
 is that of Messrs. Geo. P. Bissell & Co. The founder, and for many years the 
 active head of the business, Mr. Geo. P. Bissell, died three years ago, and since 
 that time the house has been carried on by Mr. Albert H. Olmsted, who was 
 associated with him for a number of years as partner in the business, and Mr. 
 Chas. H. Coit, who had some fifteen years' experience in banking in Litchfield, 
 Conn. They hold a leading position among the progressive bankers of the 
 country, and do a large business, making special features of local stocks and 
 bonds, and are extensive dealers in all securities dealt in on the New York, Boston 
 and Philadelphia Exchanges, doing both a commission and cash sale business. 
 They do not however deal iu margins, confining their attention strictly to the 
 regular departments of business in which a high-toned banking house may 
 engage. Interest is allowed on deposit, subject to check, and letters of credit 
 furnished to travelers in foreign parts, through Messrs. Drexel, Morgan & Co., 
 or Messrs. Brown Bros, of New York. They also buy and sell sterling exchange. 
 Safe-deposit boxes for the storage of valuable papers, plate, jewelry and other 
 personal property are provided at moderate rentals, and every facility for 
 privacy is offered to those who wish to avail themselves of them. 
 
 I/. D. PIERCE, Electro-Plater, Grinding, Polishing and 
 Finishing of Metals, Colt's Armory Building, Third Floor; Residence, No. 126 
 Huntington Street. — One of the greatest applications of chemistry to the 
 mechanical arts made during the present century is that of electro-plating. It 
 secures results of the most durable and artistic character at an expense formerly 
 unthought of. A successful and well-known business in this department has 
 been conducted in Hartford for the past nine years by Mr. L. D. Pierce. His 
 workshop is situated on the third floor in the Colt Armory Building, and for 
 that celebrated arms company he does a very large amount of work, which is 
 the highest possible testimony to its thoroughness and value. He employs 
 seven regular assistants, all experienced and first-class workmen. His facilities 
 for all kinds of electro-plating, grinding, polishing and finishing of metals are 
 unsurpassed. He can handle large contracts with dispatch and thorough suc- 
 cess, his prices being equal to the best that can be obtained anywhere. A special 
 feature is made of burnishing and polishing old materials, making them in 
 every respect equal to new. Mr. Pierce employs only the best material, and 
 guarantees uniform first-class work. His trade iu the city and surrounding 
 section has been steadily increasing, and is now unexcelled by an}' other either 
 in extent or value. Our readers can rely upon the most complete satisfaction 
 in entrusting work to his experienced care. 
 
 STODDARD & CORKINS, No. 283 Sheldon Street, Cor- 
 ner Union. — The subject of building a house which will meet all modern re- 
 quirements has become in recent years a much more complex and extensive a 
 problem than was the case even ten years ago. It must not only have good 
 architectural form as regards external design and interior finish, but even more 
 important, if possible, are those multiform arrangements for sanitation, com- 
 fort and elegance which only the experienced hand can add. The well-known 
 firm of Stoddard & Corkins has for over fifteen years taken a leading part in 
 the advance of local ideas and interests in this department. Their workshops 
 and office at No. 283 Sheldon Street, corner of Union, are very thoroughly 
 equipped and provided with every convenience for prompt and careful execu- 
 tion of building and carpentering work. Their large business requires the con- 
 stant employment of thirty experienced workmen. Their facilities also for 
 architectural work, furnishing plans complete in ever}" modern feature, are of 
 the very best type. Many of the largest and most beautiful edifices in the city 
 and section have been erected by this progressive firm. They handle both large 
 and small contracts with equal thoroughness, guaranteeing in all cases the most 
 complete satisfaction. The best of attentiou afforded to repairs and special 
 jobbing work of every sort. The prices and terms of this firm are unexcelled 
 in fairness and liberality. Our readers can be certain of obtaining the best 
 results in dealing with them, and their success is thoroughly in accord with 
 that high degree of excellence which has made Hartford one of the most beauti- 
 ful cities in the country, both as regards its public aud private residences. 
 Some of the beautiful buildings they have recently built are the library at the 
 Theological Seminary aud Mr. P. Garvin's new house, and several others. 
 
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ASSEMBLY HALL, CAPITOL. 
 
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WM. G. BAXTER, Wall Papers, Decorations, Room 
 Mouldings, Metal Ceilings, No. 231 Asylum Street. — It is an undoubted fact 
 that such an important trade centre in this part of the country as Hartford 
 should be supplied with houses engaged in all the prominent branches of busi- 
 ness. Perhaps few cities of its size are as well off in this particular as Hartford, 
 not only on account of the number of business enterprises successfully carried 
 on in her midst, but for the superior excellence which is manifest in a great 
 many of them. Forming one of this class of houses, and maintaining a prom- 
 inent position among the business interests of this city, is the establishment 
 conducted by Mr. Win. G. Baxter, the decorator and dealer in wall papers, 
 decorations, room mouldings, fresco and metal ceilings. There is fashion in 
 home-beautifying as in most other things, but the dictates of fashion are not 
 always in the best taste and they soon change. Therefore, in decorating with 
 an important article like wall paper it is well to apply to persons who are thor- 
 oughly experienced in handling it, and we take pleasure in recommending as 
 such Mr. Baxter, who has had an experience of fifteen years in fine goods and 
 decorations. His office and store, located at No. 231 Asylum Street, occupies 
 two floors 30x50 feet in size, where everything pertaining to interior decora- 
 tion may be found, not the least being artistic wall paper, the patterns and color- 
 ing of which will be found exceedingly beautiful, and the prices reasonable. 
 
 "His work in interior decoration has placed him as the leader in fine 
 work. His work speaks for itself." — Hartford Evening Times. 
 
 ARTISTIC DESIGNING. 
 EMBOSSING PLATES. 
 
 THE HARTFORD ENGRAVING CO., 
 
 No. 66 State Street, 
 
 i COURANT BriLDIXG. 
 
 Ske Front Cover oh this Book. 
 
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D. A. CI/ARK, Groceries, Meats and Fish, No. 525 Main 
 Street. — One's first impression on examining the stock carried by Mr. D. A. 
 Clark is that it is decidedly superior to the average in quality and will compare 
 favorably in point of size, and this impression will be confirmed by a more 
 extended investigation, for this firm takes pains to handle goods that will suit 
 the most fastidious, and to offer a sufficient variety to enable all tastes to be 
 suited and all orders to be filled without delay. This establishment was founded 
 in January, 1S94, by the present proprietor, who is a native of Broad Brook, Conn. 
 The premises utilized are located at No. 525 Main Street and measure 25x50 
 feet in dimensions, affording excellent opportunity for the accommodation of a 
 complete assortment of staple and fancy groceries, meats, fish, etc., the stock 
 being so arranged as to aid materially in the prompt and accurate filling of 
 orders. Mr. Clark gives close personal attention to his business and employs 
 four competent assistants, neglecting no means to full}' deserve the exceptional 
 popularity his establishment has now. This popularity is of course due to the 
 promptness and courtesy of the service to a great extent, but even more to the 
 fact that every article will prove precisely as represented. 
 
 EDWARD SHEI/TON, Hartford Real Estate Exchange ; 
 Real Estate, Loans, Insurance and Investment Broker; Manager of Estates; 
 Conveyancer and Notary ; Negotiate Eastern aud Western Mortgages ; Sell or 
 
 Exchange Properties; Examine Titles; 
 Make Appraisals : Let Properties, and 
 Attend to the Collection of Rents ; 
 Personal Property, Western Lands, 
 and Patents a Specialty ; Correspond- 
 ence Solicited ; Courant Building, 
 Room 6. — Few, if any, of those en- 
 gaged in semi-professional vocations 
 in Hartford are better known or stand 
 higher in public esteem than Mr. Ed- 
 ward Shelton, whose office is in the 
 Courant Building, Room 6. As a real 
 estate and insurance broker he has had 
 a longer experience, probably, than 
 any other man in the same line of 
 business located here. The inception 
 of the fine business he now controls 
 dates from 187 1, in which year the 
 firm of Messrs. Day, Goddard & Co., 
 of which he was an active member, 
 was organized. This firm continued 
 until 1877, when its interests passed exclusively into the hands of Mr. Shelton. 
 No man has a wider or more accurate knowledge of real-estate values in Hart- 
 ford and its vicinity than he, and his services to both buyers and sellers have 
 
 been of the most valuable character. In insurance matters he is equally an 
 authority, and as an investment broker and manager of estates his services and 
 experience are in large requisition. He has on his books some of the most 
 desirable residential and business properties. In the negotiation of Eastern 
 and Western mortgages he possesses exceptional facilities, which are invaluable 
 to investors and those desiring to secure loans on valuable properties. Mr. 
 Shelton examines titles, makes appraisals, lets properties aud attends to the 
 collection of rents, and makes a specialty of transactions in personal property. 
 Western lands and patents. He is a conveyancer and notary. The Hartford 
 Real Estate Exchange, which name has been chosen to distinguish his business, 
 is known far and near. 
 
 H. S. HOUSE & CO., Manufacturer of Mouldings, Inside 
 Finish, Window Frames ; Saw and Planing Mill ; Cabinet Work, Store Fixtures, 
 Turning, Band Sawing; also Fine Piano Cases and Cabinet Work; No. 21 
 Union Street, between Sheldon Street and Charter Oak Avenue.— In the details 
 of house-building the greatest importance attaches to the various parts of the 
 framework, for upon these the durability and substantial character of the 
 building largely depend. Next, and probably of as great importance in 
 another direction, are the interior woodwork and finish, including trim, etc. It 
 is highly important, therefore, that these materials should be obtained from the 
 most reliable source. It is well known to the builder that no man in the trade 
 holds a higher reputation in this respect than Mr. H. S. House, of this city. 
 Four years ago the foundations of the fine business now conducted by H. S. 
 House & Co. were laid in this city. Mr. House learned his trade in this city; 
 and, having acquired an intimate knowledge of the requirements of builders 
 and others making use of the material produced in that department, he has 
 taken particular pains to meet them in the most acceptable mauuer, with the 
 result that, although a young man, he is at the head of a good-sized plant. 
 The space occupied at No. 21 Union Street, between Sheldon Street aud Charter 
 Oak Avenue, contains about 15,000 square feet, upon which they have erected 
 a large saw and planing mill, two stories high and 60 x 45 feet ground measure- 
 ment, a fine kiln-drying house, lumber sheds and other buildings required by 
 their business. Power is supplied by a twenty-five horse-power engine, and the 
 machinery and other equipments are of the latest and most approved kind. 
 H. S. House & Co. are extensive manufacturers of mouldings, inside finish, 
 window frames, and all the products of a saw and planing mill, including 
 cabinet work, store fixtures, turning, band-sawing, etc. Their prices are bot- 
 tom rates, while the work is invariably of the best description. The magnifi- 
 cent Ballerstein Building, ou Main Street, was finished by them, and other fine 
 work of the same description may be seen in the city. In connection with 
 their other lines they make a specialty of fine, highly -polished rosewood, 
 walnut or mahogany piano cases and cabinet work. Particular attention is 
 given to the securing of the highest surface finish and delicate work, their 
 orders coming from the leading piano makers of the country. 
 
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PITKIN BROS. & CO., Steam Engineers and Contractors, 
 No. 152 State Street. — The immense manufacturing interests centered in the 
 Connecticut Valley, and particularly in Hartford, naturally attract to this city 
 the enterprises producing and dealing in machinery, of which, as the founda- 
 tion of all modern mechanical processes, the steam engine and its inseparable 
 companion, the steam boiler, figure most prominently. Among the leading 
 firms of steam engineers and contractors which make this city their headquarters 
 are the Messrs. Pitkin Bros. & Co. It is a very old-established business that 
 they coutrol, its foundations being laid in 1849 hy the Pitkin Brothers. The 
 surviving partner, Mr. Norman T. Pitkin, now conducts the business, retaining, 
 however, the old firm name. The factory occupied is situated at No. 152 State 
 Street, and consists of a large store, machine shop, pattern shop, boiler shop, 
 blacksmith shop — over 7,000 square feet of floor surface being utilized — all fitted 
 with the most approved appliances for carrying on the business of manu- 
 facturing steam engines, boilers and all descriptions of plate work, steam, water 
 and gas pipe and fittings. A large force of experienced mechanics is employed 
 in the shops, and a complete stock is carried at all times. Mr. Pitkin is the 
 inventor of the "Pitkin Vertical Domed-Head Steam Boiler," which is one of 
 the greatest improvements in steam boilers at the present time, being con- 
 structed in sizes from two to five hundred horse-power. 
 
 JOSEPH STREET & SON, Stair Builders, No. 24 Potter 
 
 Street. — One of the most important features of every house is its stairs, for if 
 these be poorly constructed the integrity of the whole building is affected, and, 
 at the same time, there is no part of the house which is put to more constant 
 and hard use. Sensible householders and builders alike will therefore be very 
 careful in the selection of this line of building-work. One of the oldest and 
 best-known establishments of Hartford in this department is that conducted by 
 Mr. Joseph Street at No. 24 Potter Street this city. It has now been in successful 
 operation here for years, and under Mr. Street's thorough and careful manage- 
 ment has built up a very good business. He is an experienced master-builder, 
 who has long devoted special attention to this line, and the result is seen in a 
 high-standard, uniform grade of work which cannot be surpassed in this or any 
 other section. He occupies a thoroughly-equipped shop at above address with 
 2,500 square feet of working and storage space. An average of eight skilled 
 workmen are employed. Every kind of special stair-work is executed to order 
 with despatch and at lowest current prices. He also carries a large general 
 stock, and can fill extensive contracts at short notice. Repairing and jobbing 
 'work a specialty. To secure the very best service and prices in this line our 
 readers will do well to use the facilities afforded by Messrs. Street & Son's 
 reliable establishment. 
 
 JOHN C. McMANUS, Stoves and Furnaces, No. 102 Main 
 Street ; Established 1S69. — When a man makes a specialty of a certain line of 
 business, devoting his whole time and all of his talents to its development, it 
 may be taken for granted that those who require such services as he performs 
 will be well served if they call upon him. Mr. John C. McManus is such a 
 man, and in his department of business he is without a superior. In enumer- 
 ating the leading industries of Hartford, a conspicuous place must be given to 
 his enterprise, which, since its establishment in 1869, has experienced steady 
 growth under the ability which has characterized its management. Mr. McManus 
 was born in Hartford. Here he entered into business as a dealer in stoves, 
 ranges and furnaces, and a tin, copper and sheet-iron worker. By industry and 
 ability he soon worked his way to the front, and is now one of the principal 
 men in his line in the city. He has a fine store at No. 102 Main Street, where 
 he carries a large and well-selected stock of stoves, ranges and furnaces. His 
 specialties are the Fuller, Warren & Co. 's celebrated hot-air furuaces and the 
 equally popular Kernan furnaces. Mr. McManus is a hot-air expert, and has 
 done some of the largest and best jobs in the city in this line. In stoves he 
 makes a leading specialty of the "Model," which, as its name implies, is one 
 of the best in the market. A large line of gas and oil stoves is also in stock. 
 Mr. McManus has also a large business in copper, tin and iron work, employing 
 an average of thirteen men in this department. Mr. McManus takes a live 
 interest in the affairs of the city, and the esteem in which he is held is shown 
 by the fact that he has been elected to important public positions, including 
 the offices of Fire Commissioner and Citv Couucilman. 
 
 N. E. TYPEWRITER EXCHANGE (E. C. Down, 
 
 Manager), No. 333 Main Street. — Fifteen years ago stenography was a pro- 
 fession whose field was limited chiefly to the newspaper offices and the court 
 room. Typewriting machines were little known, and their use was largely of 
 an experimental character. Now, no business office finds it possible to dis- 
 pense with the services of the shorthand amanuensis, and the typewriter is as 
 necessary an adjunct of the place as the cashier's desk, or any other indispens- 
 able fixture. It may not be that the typewriting machine will ever entirely 
 supersede the pen, but that its use is extending more and more there is no 
 denyiug. The large and constantly increasing use of this most valuable piece 
 of mechanism in Hartford may he largely attributed to the efforts of the New 
 England Typewriter Exchange, which has acquired prominence in recent years 
 through the able and efficient management of Mr. E. C. Down. He is himself 
 a finished stenographer and typewriter of high standing, serving in thatcapacitv 
 the Travelers' Insurance Company of this city, in addition to his other duties, 
 and for six years has been identified with the business of handling typewriter 
 supplies. Mr. Down is a native of New York, but has long been a resident of 
 Hartford, and is most widely known and highly esteemed here as a business 
 and professional man. At the New England Typewriter Exchange, No. 333 
 Main Street, he carries a large stock of supplies, including the latest improved 
 typewriting machines — such as the celebrated Remington, the Yost, the Dens- 
 more, the Smith Premier, and the Hammond. He also acts as agent for the 
 sale of the Conde Typewriter and Desk, and the Edison Mimeograph. 
 
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 "ARMSMEAR." RESIDENCE OF MRS. COLT. 
 
TRACY & ROBINSON, 
 
 WHOLESALE AND RETAIL 
 DEALERS IN 
 
 Wooden Ware and 
 Builders' and Manufacturers' Supplies, 
 
 ...Hardware, 
 
 Nos. 78 and 80 Asylum Street. 
 
 The hardware trade is one very vitally connected with the best 
 interests of the State and country. A leading aud successful house of 
 Hartford in this line is that of Messrs. Tracy & Robinson, Nos. 7S and 80 
 Asylum Street. Their business was established in 1S35 by Mr. H. C. Porter, 
 and has always maintained a leading position. The present firm was organized 
 in 1892, and have thoroughly sustained the reputation of the house. They 
 occupy a large aud handsome store at above address, comprising five floors, 
 25 x 100 feet in dimensions. Their trade, both wholesale and retail, extends 
 throughout the State and to different parts of New England, requiring a large 
 force of employees regularly to handle it. Iu addition to their store they also 
 use a large warehouse — 40 x 60 feet, three floors — for the storage of their stock. 
 This includes every kind of builders' and manufacturers' hardware; also tin and 
 wooden ware and special household utensils. They carry the most complete 
 line of builders' supplies, mechanics' tools and manufacturers' supplies of any 
 house in the city. Their prices are uniformly on the lowest market basis, and 
 the name of the firm is equivalent to standard Ai quality. They represent 
 well-known manufacturers in all parts of the United States. Among their reg- 
 ular patrons are some of the largest mills in New England, aud they have 
 special facilities for the handling of large contracts. Builders throughout the 
 county make this store the leading headquarters iu their line of supplies. 
 
 WM. WANDER & SONS, Dealers in First-Class Pianos, 
 Organs and Musical Merchandise; Sole Agents for Steinway Pianos, J. & C. 
 Fischer Pianos aud Steading Pianos; Warerooms, Nos. 239, 241 and 243 Asylum 
 Street. — An establishment which is familiar to the music-lovers of Hartford 
 and vicinity is the one so successfully conducted by Messrs. Wm. Wander & 
 Sons at Nos. 239, 241 and 243 Asylum Street. This busiuess was established in 
 1850, aud has increased to a trade of imposing proportions. They carry what 
 is probably the largest and most complete stock of pianos aud organs in the 
 State. The premises occupied consist of a block (which they own), five stories 
 in height aud 40 x 90 feet in dimensious. Their show-rooms are very beauti- 
 fully fitted up, and the building contains an elevator running to the top floor. 
 Employment is given to twelve experienced assistants, aud customers receive 
 the greatest attention. Messrs. Wander & Sons deal iu the productions of the 
 most successful and reliable manufacturers, and an instrument warranted by 
 them may be purchased in the full assurance that it will prove to be precisely 
 as represented. They are sole agents for the celebrated Steinway pianos, 
 J. & C. Fischer pianos, and the Stearling pianos. They also carry a carefulh- 
 selected assortment of musical merchandise, which they sell at reasonable 
 prices. All in search of a first-class musical instrument should certainly visit 
 this old and reliable establishment before purchasing elsewhere. 
 
 WM. WESTPHAI,, Dealer in Havana aud Seed-Leat 
 
 Tobacco and Cuttings; Tobacco Resweating Establishment; No. 229 State 
 Street. — The extensive leaf tobacco trade of this city is among its most impor- 
 tant iudustries, aud the merchants engaged in it are among the most energetic 
 and progressive of Hartford's business men. Among those who are especially 
 conspicuous in this branch of trade by reason of the extent and scope of their 
 operations is Mr. William Westphal, who conducts a large and most prosperous 
 busiuess at No. 229 State Street. His warehouse is a four-story building, with 
 a froutage of twenty-five feet and a depth of one hundred feet, affording ample 
 accommodation for the large stock he carries at all times. The business was 
 started in 1859 by Mr. Westphal, who came from Germany to the United States 
 when -a young man, and began his busiuess career as a cigar-maker. The 
 knowledge he acquired while at that busiuess has beeu of inestimable benefit 
 to him, aud it may be said that there is not iu the city to-day a better judge of 
 the intrinsic merit of each variety of leaf tobacco than he. Mr. Westphal 
 confines his operations chiefly to Connecticut and other domestic tobaccos, 
 although handling to some extent imported leaf. He also makes a specialty of 
 resweating, having for this purpose a sweating room, the temperature of which 
 ranges from 125 to 130 degrees above zero. The tobacco is first dampened and 
 placed in the sweating-room, where the sweating process is forced by the ex- 
 cessive heat, thus preventing the deterioration of quality likely to result from 
 slow natural sweatiug. Mr. Westphal employs an average of five assistants 
 throughout the year, and is always iu position to fill the largest and most 
 urgent orders. 
 
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 ASYLUM STREET. 
 
E. A. & W. P. FUELER (Successors to Arthur G. Pome- 
 
 rov), Packers and Dealers in Connecticut Seed-Leaf Tobacco, No. 236 State 
 Street. — Connecticut has long enjoyed the distinction of being the only State 
 north of Mason and Dixon's line in which tobacco is grown to any extent, and 
 it naturally follows that Hartford, her capital city and metropolis, should be the 
 chief centre of the great leaf-tobacco trade of the State, a trade whoce value is 
 estimated by millions. Connecticut seed-leaf tobacco has a national reputation, 
 and of hardly less renown is the firm of Messrs. E. A. & W. F. Fuller, prom- 
 inent packers and dealers in the valuable weed. This firm are the successors 
 of Mr. Arthur G. Pomeroy, who was one of the pioneers in the trade, and 
 whose business they took ten years ago. They have an immense trade in the 
 leaf, shipping to all parts of the United States. Their offices and warehouse are 
 at No. 236 State Street, and consist of a four-story building, with a frontage of 
 twenty-five feet and a depth of eighty feet. They employ an ample force of 
 competent assistants, and are always in a position to promptly execute the 
 largest orders at the lowest market rates. Both members of the firm are natives 
 of Connecticut and prominent citizens of Hartford, Mr. E. A. Fuller, the senior 
 member, being one of the Directors of the National Exchange Bank. 
 
 SMITH, THE HORSESHOER, No. 337 Allyn Street — 
 The importance for domestic service of careful attention to the shoeing of the 
 trained beasts of burden is evidenced by the fact that the term "Smith " is one of 
 the oldest in the language of men, and is mentioned among the very earliest 
 records. Indeed, there is no question but that this line was carefully perfected 
 eveu before this was accomplished in the same field for men themselves. One of 
 the oldest and best-known local centres for this line of work is Smith's Horseshoe- 
 ing House at No. 337 Allyn Street. The premises are equipped in modern style, 
 covering 1,200 square feet, and with first-class accommodations for from 15 to 20 
 horses. No pains are spared to secure for all patrons the finest class of service, 
 and that this is true is evidenced by the fact that the regular customers here 
 have long been among the most intelligent and influential in the city. Every 
 piece of work which leaves this shop is guaranteed of the very best standard, 
 and the terms are no higher than at many inferior places. Special attention is 
 given to lame, balky or nervous horses, and the facilities for handling delicate 
 work are unsurpassed. Our readers can make no mistake in patronizing this 
 reliable and first-class establishment. 
 
 THE MANSUY CARRIAGE MANUFACTURING 
 
 COMPANY, Manufacturers of and Dealers in Carriages, Wagons and 
 Sleighs, Nos. 17, 19 and 21 Elm Street. — No State in the Union enjoys a higher 
 reputation for excellence and large interests engaged in the manufacture of 
 carriages than Connecticut. In fact, its products of this kind have long been 
 regarded as the best in the American market. An old-established and leading 
 house in this department is the Mansuy Carriage Manufacturing Company at 
 
 Nos. 17, 19 and 21 Elm Street, Hartford. The business was established in 1841 
 and incorporated in 1S79, having been under the same progressive management 
 for many years. The President and Manager of the company is Mr. George 
 Best, and the Secretary Mr. J. J. Gates. Both are widely-known and expe- 
 rienced business men, whose authority in all matters bearing on their depart- 
 ment of trade is accepted throughout the State. The manufacturing premises 
 are large and moderuly equipped, 80 x 80 feet 1'three floors). The company 
 employs from twenty to twenty-five men on the average, and manufactures a 
 superior grade of goods. They also carry a general stock of carriages, wagons 
 and sleighs of every description, thoroughly guaranteed and at the lowest cur- 
 rent prices. Their facilities are exceptionally complete for manufacturing 
 special styles and designs to order, also for repairing work, carriage black- 
 smithing and general jobbing of every sort. Prompt and thorough attention at 
 reasonable rates is assured at this leading establishment. One of the most 
 successful specialties handled by this company is the Cushing tire and ball- 
 bearing for wagons and carriages, which has afforded universally the highest 
 satisfaction, and is without a rival in its line both for economy and good 
 service. To obtain the best range of selection, complete reliance on first-class 
 work and fair prices, our readers will find it to their interest to deal with this 
 old-established and successful house. Their horseshoeing department, estab- 
 lished a year ago, calls for special mention and attention, employing constantly 
 four skilled men, satisfaction being given to a growing business in this line. 
 
 THE BOSWORTH HEATING AND SUPPLY CO., 
 
 Contractors for Steam and Hot-Water Heating Apparatus, No. 253 Asylum 
 Street. — It may well be questioned whether the application of the results of 
 scientific investigation and discovery has benefited mankind generally in a 
 more direct and vital manner than when it has touched the department of 
 domestic economy. The notable advancement in methods of heating, for in- 
 stance, has without doubt contributed as greatly to general healthfulness as it 
 has to the physical comfort of the world at large ; and it may well be said that 
 no greater boon has been conferred upon mankind than that resulting from 
 the introduction of steam and hot-water methods of heating. A concern that 
 has held a high position among those who have led this advance is the 
 Bosworth Heating and Supply Company of this city. The foundations of 
 its vast business were laid in 1882 by Mr. N. A. Bosworth, who remained its 
 sole proprietor until 1893, when the company was organized. They are among 
 the largest contractors for steam and hot-water heating apparatus in the 
 country — their system being acknowledged to be one of the best in use. The 
 company has a splendidly equipped establishment at No. 253 Asylum Street, 
 where it occupies two floors, each 35 x 90 feet in dimensions. They employ a 
 full force of competent assistants, and are always in a position to execute orders 
 on short notice. The Bosworth Heating and Supply Company also deal exten- 
 sively, on both a wholesale and retail scale, in pipe, fittings, valves, boilers, 
 pumps, injectors, tools and engineers' supplies, generally carrying a large and 
 full stock of the most approved appliances in these various lines. 
 
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THE BIRKERY MFG. CO., Manufacturers of High- 
 Pressure Ball Cocks, and Plumber's Specialties, No. 33 Wells Street. — Although 
 not always recognized, the principles of evolution apply just as rigidly in the 
 field of business and mechanical invention as everywhere else. Inferior forms 
 are gradually succeeded by more perfect on the plain basis of survival of the 
 fittest. The very best development in its special line yet reached is represented 
 by the Birkery Patented High-Pressure Ball Cock made by The Birkery Mfg. 
 Co. of Hartford. This company was incorporated in 1891, and has at once 
 taken a leading rank owing to the unquestioned superiority of the line of goods 
 manufactured. They have commanded a very large sale throughout the 
 country, being handled by all leading dealers. By the testimony of thousands 
 of competent judges the Birkery Patented High-Pressure Ball Cock is the best, 
 cheapest and most perfect in action of any ever offered to the public. It is 
 made for bottom, top or end supply, aud is manufactured under the direct 
 supervision of the patentee. The best material and perfect workmanship are 
 guaranteed. When once used its superiority to all others will be manifest. It 
 is cheaper because least liable to repairs, and works perfectly under the heaviest 
 pressure. This company also manufacture a superior flush tank aud a general 
 stock of plumbers' specialties. At a liberal price, their goods will be found to 
 give a very high degree of satisfaction. They are sold in every part of the 
 United States, and also in foreign countries. They occupy a large and 
 modernly-equipped manufacturing plant at No. 33 Wells Street, this city, em- 
 ploying from twenty to twenty-five men. 
 
 THE HARTFORD COAL CO., Wholesale and Retail 
 Dealers in Anthracite aud Bitumiuous Coal, No. 27S Main Street and No. 10S 
 Commerce Street. — The old saying, "An ounce of fact is worth a ton of 
 theory," is as true as it is old, and cases come up daily to prove that this 
 is correct. Some people say that coal can be bought to as much advantage of 
 one dealer as of another, when similar quantities are ordered. This, perhaps, 
 may be theoretically true — practically, the reverse is the case. It does not 
 require a very extended experience to convince any person that more genuine 
 satisfaction is to be had from placing orders with some houses than with others; 
 and, when coal is wanted, there is no establishment in Hartford that is more 
 profitable to patronize than that conducted by the Hartford Coal Co. This 
 company has an office at No. 278 Main Street, and their extensive yards are 
 located on Commerce Street. This business was incorporated in 1883, with a 
 capital of $io,ooo, Mr. Chas. R. Belden being President and Mr. John R. Hills 
 Secretary and Treasurer. They handle coal very extensively, doing a whole- 
 sale and retail business, and employing a large force of assistants, while the 
 lowest market rates are always quoted by them. The quality of the coal fur- 
 nished is strictly reliable, and, as consumers appreciate good coal, good weight 
 and good service, it is not to be wondered at that this is one of the most largely 
 patronized enterprises of this kind in this vicinity. Mr. Hills is Director in 
 several insurance companies and banks, aud is also a builder. 
 
 CHURCH OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD. 
 
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SOUTH PARK DRUG STORE (A. A. McCollum), No. 
 
 31 Main Street, Corner Park.— The "mind cure" is but seldom heard of now- 
 adays; but still, like many other fads which were popular for a time, it had 
 some points about it entitled to respectful consideration, aud it remains as true 
 to-day as ever that the mind has an immense influence over the body in health 
 aud in disease. Let the patient be convinced that the medicines he is using 
 are obtained from an entirely reliable source, and they will be much more likely 
 to benefit him than they would under different circumstances. And right here 
 is a powerful argument in favor of having prescriptions compounded at the 
 South Park Drug Store, conducted by Mr. A. A. McCollum at No. 31 Main 
 Street, corner Park, for he is an experienced pharmacist and has an extensive 
 business. Mr. McCollum is a native of New York, and has carried on this 
 enterprise since 1S93, when he succeeded Mr. Sawtell, the founder, who estab- 
 lished it in 1874. The premises occupied are 22x45 f eet >u size, and contain 
 a fine soda fountain, drugs, sundries and toilet articles, which are offered at 
 low prices. Mr. McCollum employs one reliable assistant, and all patrons 
 are assured prompt attention. 
 
 I,YMAN A. CHAPIN, Newsdealer and Bookseller; 
 Special Agent New York Suuday Newspapers ; Also, Periodicals and Magazines ; 
 No. 347 Main Street. — A newspaper delivery system that is not prompt, ac- 
 curate aud absolutely reliable is little better than an aggravation, for it is a con- 
 tinual source of bother and had best be dispensed with altogether. But a thor- 
 oughly satisfactory service is a most valuable and decided accommodation, and 
 hence there is abundant reason for the pronounced popularity of that rendered 
 by Mr. Lyman A. Chapin, for it is thoroughly satisfactory in every respect. 
 About nine years ago Mr. Chapin established a wholesale agency for the New 
 York Sunday newspapers, which he has conducted with such success that his 
 trade now extends over a large section of Connecticut and Massachusetts, aud 
 probably is the largest of its kind in New England. A year ago he opened a 
 retail store at No. 347 Main Street, where the New York and Boston daily and 
 Suuday papers are furnished by the day, week or month at uniformly moderate 
 rates. Magazines and periodicals of all kinds are also supplied, and subscrip- 
 tions received at publisher's rates. All the new and popular books are received 
 as soon as issued and sold at very reasonable prices. A profitable trade has 
 been developed already in this department, and the prospect for the future is 
 decidedly bright and promising. 
 
 JOHN ALEXANDER, Electro-Plater in Silver, Gold, 
 Nickel aud Copper ; All Kinds of Polishing ; No. 39 Trumbull Street. — To 
 secure the best service nowadays sensible people always go to a trained specialist 
 whose reputation stands for all that is latest and best in the special line. The 
 business conducted by Mr. John Alexander at No. 39 Trumbull Street, Hartford, 
 has established a thorough right to its position as a leader in all matters related 
 to electro-plating, brass and metal finish work. Mr. Alexander, who is a native 
 
 of Scotland, and a thoroughly-expert electro-plater, succeeded to the business 
 of Mr. Hill at the present location in 1891. His well-equipped shop on the 
 second floor of the Case, Lockwood & Brainard Co.'s Building has every facility 
 for prompt thorough work iu this line. He handles special contracts for leading 
 manufacturers of this section, aud guarantees uniformly the highest standard of 
 work. General silver, gold, nickel and copper electro-plating, polishing of all 
 kinds, brass finish and pattern-making are among the special lines handled in 
 the best manner. Old goods are renovated and made equal to new and also 
 repair work at very lowest prices. A specialty is made of harness trimmings to 
 order, aud those goods have met with wide success. For careful and prompt 
 attention, superior workmanship and liberal prices our readers will find this 
 reliable establishment most worthy of patronage at all times. 
 
 N. P. DANIEI/S, 25 Asylum Street; Mercantile Job 
 Printing. — As representative of the high perfection to which the art of printing 
 has attained, the printing establishments of Hartford will bear the closest com- 
 parison with those of any leading American city. Here every branch of the 
 business is well represented, and every class of work is done iu the most accept- 
 able manner. Among these progressive houses that of Mr. N. P. Daniels 
 stands out prominently as truly representative of the advanced methods and 
 high state of perfection of the modern printing establishment. Mr. Daniels 
 began business in this city in 1885, but had previously had a long and valuable 
 practical experience as a printer of the new school. Consequently he came 
 immediately into notice, aud at once secured the recognition due to such 
 services as he extends. He has an unusually well-fitted office at No. 25 Asylum 
 Street, the equipments and appliances being all of the latest and best designs, 
 and he is, therefore, in a position to perform quick and thoroughly satisfactory 
 work. His office is on the second floor of the Post Building, and contains 
 about six hundred square feet of space. He makes a specialty of neat and 
 attractive mercantile jobwork, programme printing, etc. His prices are as low 
 as fine work and good material will admit, and he is prepared to furnish esti- 
 mates on short notice, guaranteeing prompt service and perfect satisfaction. 
 
 FINE HALF-TONE WORK. 
 
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 THE HARTFORD ENGRAVING CO., 
 No. 66 State Street, 
 Courant Building. 
 
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BEACH & CO., Dyes, Dye Stuffs ; Importers and Commission 
 
 Merchants; Nos. 372-4 Atlantic Avenue, Boston. — Among the substantial business 
 houses which have been most influential during the past half-century in advancing 
 the business prosperity of Hartford special mention should be made of the old 
 reliable house of Messrs. Beach & Co., importers and commission merchants. 
 They were established in 1S36, and for nearly sixty years no other house has 
 been so influential in the progress of the trade in dye stuffs and extracts 
 throughout this section. The home office is at Hartford, but they have also an 
 office and large importing warehouse at 372-374 Atlantic Avenue, Boston. 
 Their wholesale and jobbing trade exends to all parts of New England, also to 
 Canada and the West. The firm consists of Messrs. George Beach, Charles M. 
 Beach, T. Belknap Beach and George W. Beach. Mr. Charles M. Beach is 
 Treasurer of the Broad Brook Mills, and Mr. George W. Beach, President of 
 the Beach Manufacturing Co. at Beacon Falls, Hartford. Besides their own 
 extensive product iu dyes and dye stuffs, they are also very heavy importers in 
 dye woods, indigo extracts and other goods in this line. They are American 
 agents for the British Alizarine Co.. the Atlas Works Aniline Dyes, Mucklow's 
 Elton Fold Dyeing Extracts, and have received for years the great bulk of 
 cochineal consumed in this country, the same bearing their brand name of 
 "J. R. G." In the volume of their trade and the high standard of their goods, 
 maintained for two geuerations, they stand at the head and front of this branch 
 of industry in the United States. Their trade connections and importing 
 facilities reach to every part of the world. 
 
 IN CORRIDOR, CAPITOI. 
 
 THE HARTFORD DUMBER CO., No. 17 Albany 
 
 Avenue. — One of the best and most favorably known firms in its line of busi- 
 ness in this State is The Hartford Lumber Co. at No. 17 Albany Avenue. And 
 this house ought to be well known, for not only are its transactions immense 
 and its trade of great importance, but it has also been far-sighted enough to 
 keep its name before the public by a system of judicious advertising, which has 
 doubtless had much to do with its success. It was founded thirty-five years 
 ago by Messrs. J. W. Starkweather & Co., who were succeeded by the present 
 firm six years ago. The officers of this company are as follows : Thomas A- 
 Lake, President ; Everett A. Lake, Secretary ; Geo. W. Hill, Treasurer. Their 
 spacious yards cover three acres of ground, and a very heavy stock of the 
 various goods dealt in is at all times on hand. All orders will receive prompt 
 and careful attention, and will be filled with the best goods at the lowest 
 market rates. Mr. Thomas Lake, President of this company, also owns a 
 lumber yard at Rockville, Conn., and his goods are shipped all over Connect- 
 icut, Massachusetts and Rhode Island. Mr. Everett A. Lake, the younger 
 member of the firm, has recently graduated from Harvard College. Mr. 
 Thomas A. Lake was a member of the Legislature at one time, and Mr. Geo. 
 W. Hill was formerly in the lumber business at Burlington, Vt. Employment 
 is given to from fifteen to twenty capable assistants, and an extensive trade is 
 successfully handled. 
 
 OFFICES BOARD OF EDUCATION, CAPITOL. 
 
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EDWARD P. FORBES, Signs and Banners, No. 321 Main 
 Street. — Sign paintiug has developed into an art in recent years, or rather it has 
 resumed its place among the arts, since in the olden time a signboard was a 
 creation requiring a great amount of talent and artistic ability in its production, 
 whereas for a long period and until a comparatively recent date the severely 
 practical almost entirely took the place of the decorative and attractive in sign- 
 writing. Men wanted merely an announcement of their names and the charac- 
 ter of their business, caring little in what shape it was put so that it was legible 
 and not actually uncouth. Many examples of these are still to be found side by 
 side with the artistic creations of the modern school of sign writers, and the 
 contrast certainly makes the attractiveness of the latter the more pronounced. 
 Those who are familiar with the work done by Mr. Edward P. Forbes, the lead- 
 ing sign writer of Hartford, cannot have failed to note the striking difference 
 between his production and those of an earlier day. Mr. Forbes has been located 
 in Hartford for the past fifteen years, and during that time he has done his part 
 toward working a revolution in the character and quality of the signboards of 
 the city. He does not, however, devote his attention exclusively to this branch, 
 for as a decorator he has a very large and appreciative patronage in Hartford 
 and vicinity. He also excels as a designer and painter of advertising, political 
 and variety banners, in the making of flags of all nations, shields, eagles, coats 
 of arms, &c, carrying a large stock at all times, for sale or to rent, for decorating 
 public and private halls and buildings. This stock is new and first-class in every 
 particular. Mr. Forbes also makes a specialty of standard American bunting 
 aud silk flags, Sunday-school banners, &c, making special designs in the latter 
 to order. Old flags may also be left to be repaired at his establishment, No. 321 
 Main Street, where the services of six expert workmen are always at the com- 
 mand of customers. 
 
 PRATT & WHITNEY CO., Manufacturers of Machinery 
 and Tools. — Among the representative manufacturing enterprises of this city 
 that conducted by the Pratt & Whitney Company enjoys a reputation that is 
 scarcely equaled by that of any other house devoted to the same line of trade 
 in the country. The company is among the largest and most notable manu- 
 facturers of machinery and tools in the United States, its products being found 
 in every market on the continent and enjoying an extensive sale in foreign 
 countries. The Pratt & Whitney Company was organized in 1869 with a capital 
 stock of $350,000, since increased to $500,000 by the demands of its large and 
 constantly-extending business. There are so many special lines made by the 
 firm, and each of them possesses such superior merit, that it is impossible within 
 the limitations of our space to make even an enumeration of them. It may 
 be said generally that they embrace planing and drilling machines, engine and 
 monitor lathes, reaming and grinding machines, bolt cutters and die sinkers, 
 band-sawing machines, drop hammers, punching pressers, cutters for teeth of 
 gear wheels, and in fact a great variety of standard and special metal-working 
 machinery and tools of all descriptions. Their plant includes a four-story 
 brick building, 225 feet by 45 feet, with a combined floor area of 40,500 square 
 feet ; another building, also of brick, three stories high and 146 feet long by 
 42 feet deep, which was erected in 1S81 for heavy machine work ; a third brick 
 building, four stories high, which was finished in iSSS, and is used for storage 
 purposes, and a two-story brick building erected in iSgi to provide additional 
 manufacturing facilities. Four engines of a combined horse-power of two 
 hundred are required to operate the plant, and an average force of 950 men, 
 including many experts and specialists, is employed. The plant is heated 
 throughout by steam and lighted by electricity or gas. The officers of the 
 company are among the most representative men of Hartford, the President 
 being Mr. F. A. Pratt; the Vice-President and Superintendent, Mr. Amos 
 Whitney; the Secretary, Mr. R. F. Blodgett, and the Treasurer, Mr. Geo. W. M. 
 Reed. 
 
 E. H. BETTS, Wholesale Dealer in Salt and Salt Fish, 
 Cheese, Lard and Brooms ; Agent for the Genesee Salt ; No. 216 State Street. — 
 From its commanding central location Hartford possesses advantages and facil- 
 ities for the collection and distribution of produce. Its provision business is 
 among its most important wholesale commercial interests, aud the houses 
 engaged in it are among the most prominent in the Eastern States. A well- 
 known merchant in this field of mercantile enterprise is Mr. E. H. Betts, who 
 carries on a large and steadily-growing business, making specialties of salt, 
 salt fish, cheese, lard and brooms. His offices and warehouse are at No. 216 
 State Street. Mr. Betts has controlled this important enterprise for the past 
 ten years, and the business itself is one of the earliest established in the Con- 
 necticut Valley, its beginning dating back to 1812. Mr. Betts is agent for the 
 celebrated Genesee Salt, and has a very large trade in this commodity, as well as 
 in salt fish, canned meats, aud the other important products above enumerated. 
 
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RETREAT FOR THE INSANE. 
 
 
 SOUTH ANNEX— RETREAT FOR THE. INSANE. 
 
 THE COTTAGES— RETREAT FOR THE INSANE. 
 
JONES & UTTI,E, Pattern and Model Makers, No. 33 
 Wells Street.— A class of work calling for the highest skill and wide mechan- 
 ical experience and knowledge is that of the pattern and model maker; and in 
 such a city as Hartford, where manufacturing interests are numerous and varied, 
 the services of the expert in this field are in large and constant demand. None 
 but the most skillful and finished workman can hope to succeed here, and the 
 prosperity which has attended the enterprise of Messrs. Jones & Little is 
 therefore the best evidence that could be adduced in proof of their superiority 
 and competence as makers of patterns and models. The firm is one of long 
 and high standing, the foundations of its splendid business having been laid in 
 1873. Their establishment at No. 33 Wells Street is equipped in the best man- 
 ner for the execution of all work in their line, their facilities enabling them to 
 undertake the most intricate patterns or most difficult models. They employ 
 twelve skilled workmen and do a large shop-jobbing business. They make all 
 descriptions of patterns in a first-class manner, employing only kiln-dried 
 lumber. A specialty is made of cutting blocks of all kinds from the best sea- 
 soned maple for the use of envelope manufacturers, cloth cutters, etc. ; they 
 also give special attention to gear patterns and cogging. Messrs. Jones & Little 
 have a most extensive trade throughout the United States and Canada, and are 
 the recognized leaders in their line. 
 
 MURRAY BROS., Practical Plumbers and Gasfitters, No. 
 1 19 1 . Main Street, Between Buckingham and Capitol Avenue. — The public has 
 heard and read so much on the subject of sanitary plumbing in recent years 
 that it cannot fail to appreciate the great importance of the subject in its prac- 
 tical aspect, and the plumber who does not keep fully abreast of the times in 
 this manner of sanitation is nowhere in the race for popular favor. Messrs. 
 Murray Bros, of No. nc/Ji' Main Street (The Linden Building), knowing that 
 the public demands thorough and perfect work in this direction, have prepared 
 themselves in the most practical manner to meet the requirements for scientific 
 work in their department of industry. They have been established in Hartford 
 about seven years, and have occupied their present quarters for some twelve 
 months. Their establishment is well-equipped in every respect, and those who 
 entrust work to them may rest assured that it will receive prompt attention and 
 be executed in a highly-satisfactory manner. The firm, which consists of 
 Messrs. Charles and John F. Murray, are thoroughly practical plumbers and 
 gasfitters. They carry at all times a complete stock of boilers, bath tubs, 
 closets, sinks, etc., the latest improved devices in these lines having a conspicu- 
 ous place in the stock. 
 
 C. W. PRATT, Ladies' Furnishings, Cloaks and Suits, Nos. 
 403 to 407 Main Street. — One of the most enterprising business houses in this 
 part of the State, and one in whose history and business methods are brilliantly 
 set forth the sure results of energetic, honorable and persevering work, is the 
 well-known establishment represented and conducted by C. W. Pratt. The 
 
 present proprietor assumed control of the business in 1S89 and has since carried 
 it forward with great ability and merited success. The premises occupied at 
 Nos. 403 to 407 Main Street comprise two connecting stores, 45 x 85 feet in size. 
 The stock includes ladies' furnishings, cloaks and suits, a specialty being made 
 of the latter. One may find here very stylish cloaks of all kinds, and suits, the 
 style of which are the very latest and the prices the very lowest that can be 
 named, especially when one considers the time saved in buying such garments 
 ready-made. Ten competent assistants are constantly employed to meet the 
 growing demands of the trade. Mr. Pratt is a native of Saybrook, Conn., and 
 is very well known throughout this city and State. His undertaking has long 
 held a leading position among other establishments of its kind in this vicinity, 
 and it is but fair to say that its enviable reputation is fully maintained to the 
 present day. All are invited to call and inspect the many bargains constantly 
 offered here whether they desire to purchase or not. 
 
 Book and 
 
 Catalogue Work. 
 
 THE HARTFORD ENGRAVING CO., 
 ■ No. 66 State Street, 
 
 Courant Building. 
 
 JOSEPH KASHMANN, Dealer in Meats, Poultry. Fish and 
 Vegetables, No. 26 Mulberry Street. — Among the many houses in Hartford that 
 carry a superior grade of meats, poultry, fish and vegetables, that of Mr. Joseph 
 Kashmann, located at No. 26 Mulberry Street, deserves special mention. The 
 store, which is 25 x 40 feet in dimensions, is admirably arranged for the trade, 
 having all necessary facilities for carrying on the business. Three courteous 
 and obliging assistants are constantly employed, while the stock comprises all 
 kinds of the choicest cuts of meats, fine poultry and fresh fish and vegetables 
 in their season. Mr. Kashmann has had a long experience in the business to 
 which he devotes his close personal attention, thus ensuring perfect satisfaction 
 in all respects to his numerous patrons. His prices will be found as reasonable 
 for the quality of goods dealt in as any in this section, while particular attention 
 is given to the careful filling of all orders and their prompt delivery. Mr. 
 Kashmanu's market is located at No. 26 Mulberry Street, and is well patronized 
 and very popular throughout the city. We can recommend it to our many 
 readers as a reliable place at which to trade. The proprietor is very well and 
 favorably known, and well deserves the success attained. 
 
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HARTFORD OPTICAL COMPANY; Spectacles, Eye- 
 
 Glasses and Optical Goods ; Prescriptions for Glasses Promptly Attended To ; 
 Allyn House Block, No. 144 Asylum Street. — Among the important professions 
 there are none of greater consequence than that of the oculist, and hardly of 
 secondary importance is the calling of the optician. Whatever the cause, 
 cases of defective vision are largely on the increase in all parts of the United 
 States, and it is a matter of great moment that effective means for correcting 
 these difficulties should be always available. There are no more celebrated and 
 skilled specialists in the diseases of the eye than Hartford possesses, and they 
 are ably seconded in their work by such houses as the Hartford Optical Com- 
 pany, who are extensive and noted dealers in spectacles, eye-glass and optical 
 goods generally. Their office and store is in the Allyn House Block, No. 144 
 Asylum Street, and here will be found a very large and complete stock of these 
 goods, including those already mentioned, and opera-glasses, field-glasses, 
 stereoscopes and views, eye-shades, reading and magnifying glasses, grapho- 
 scopes, microscopes, compasses, magic lanterns and slides, thermometers, 
 barometers and hydrometers, artificial eyes in large variety, etc. They carry a 
 particularly fine line of spectacles and eye-glasses in gold, silver, steel, rubber, 
 celluloid and frameless mountings, and make a specialty of carefully and ac- 
 curately filling oculists' prescriptions. They also give particular attention to 
 making repairs. The Hartford Optical Company was organized in 1881, with 
 W. T. Steven as Manager. 
 
 ALBERT ENTRESS, Architectural Sculptor; Statuary 
 Work, Plaster Models for Stucco and Other Purposes, Stone and Wood Carv- 
 ing; No. iS7^ Main Street. — The adornment of the home is one of the oldest 
 and most important of the applied arts. Although constant improvements are 
 being made to suit the demands of our modern life, there are many to whom 
 nothing is so satisfactory as antique and classic styles. The establishment of 
 Mr. Albert Entress, No. 187^ Main Street, by reason of his long and care- 
 ful study in decorative art, is able to successfully meet every variety of taste 
 in this department. It was established in 1874, and has thus been under 
 Mr. Entress' careful and thorough management for the past twenty years. He 
 occupies a neatly-equipped store and work-room, 30x75 feet in dimensions, 
 and employs none but most competent assistants. He executes special designs 
 and order-work with promptness and artistic skill. He is also an expert archi- 
 tectural sculptor, able to furnish every kind of statuary work, plaster models 
 for stucco and other purposes, and general stone and wood carving. His facili- 
 ties are complete for successfully executing every kind of external and interior 
 ornamentation of wood or stone buildings, and also for completely furnishing 
 them with furniture, fine mouldings and cabinet work. His prices will be 
 found exceptionally attractive for this grade of work, and deserving the care- 
 ful attention of all our readers. Mr. Entress executed the stone statuary work 
 of Hartford's celebrated Memorial Arch, and also many of the city's promi- 
 nent buildings. 
 
 SOUTH CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH, BUCKINGHAM STREET. 
 
 Photo -Engraving of All Kinds. 
 
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 THE HARTFORD ENGRAVING CO., 
 
 No. 66 State Street, 
 Courant Building. 
 
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SENATE CHAMBER, CAPITOL. 
 
THE HARTFORD COFFEE HOUSE CO., No. 8 
 
 Central Row, was formed to do a work of philanthropy on a business basis, and 
 is an outcome of the temperance work of Mr. Thos. E. Murphy in the spring 
 
 of 1893. It was at the start an experiment, and sought to give men trying to 
 break away from the saloon influence a place for social intercourse with one 
 another with the freedom of the club or saloon and in a pure, moral atmosphere. 
 The purpose was to have it non-partisan, non-sectarian, yet controlled by high 
 standards of morality and Christian purpose. The social and pool rooms occupy 
 the entire second floor of the fine, commodious building at No. 8 Central Row, 
 30 feet wide by 150 feet deep. The rooms have a large variety of reading 
 matter, piano, game and pool tables, the finest in the city. The restaurant is 
 on the main floor, comprising a very attractive suite of rooms, where for a 
 reasonable price the very best food is served in an inviting manner. The man- 
 ager, Mr. George S. Ayer, has with him a competent chef and able corps of 
 assistants, and his efficient management has established an excellent and in- 
 creasing patronage, so that the permanency of the business is assured. The 
 whole enterprise, in both departments, has the hearty support of all because of 
 its meritorious service and the object of the establishment. The company has 
 a paid-up capital of $5,000 (in shares of $25 each), and is controlled by the fol- 
 lowing Board of Directors: James M. Thomson, firm of Brown, Thomson & 
 Co.; George L. Chase, President Hartford Fire Insurance Co.; Rufus N. Pratt, 
 President Pratt & Cady Co.; Amos Whitney,. Superintendent Pratt & Whitney 
 Co.; Jacob L. Greene, President Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Co.; Gil- 
 bert W. Chapin, Actuary Society for Savings; Ellis G. Richards, Secretary 
 National Fire Insurance Co. ; Wm. H. Watrous, President Wm. Rogers Mfg. 
 Co. ; Chas. E. Billings, President Billings & Spencer Co. ; Rev. Henry Ferguson, 
 Professor, Trinity College ; Justus P. Lewis, Superintendent Pratt & Cady Co. ; 
 James Ahern, Rev. Francis Goodwin, Mrs. B. M. Parsons, Mrs. B. E. Hooker. 
 The officers are: Rufus N. Pratt, President; Ellis G. Richards, Secretary; 
 Gilbert W. Chapin, Treasurer. 
 
 HENRY J. ZWEYGARTT, Connecticut Seed -Leaf 
 Tobacco, No. 221 State Street.— The business of packing and shipping leaf 
 tobacco of Connecticut growth is one of the largest consequence in this city, 
 involving the investment of large capital and the exercise of enterprise and 
 abilities of a high order. In fact it may be said that this is one of Hartford's 
 chief industries, giving employment to an army of men and adding much to 
 the commercial greatness of the city. A prominent factor in this business is 
 Mr. Henry J. Zweygartt, whose large warehouse is located at No. 221 State 
 Street. Although born in Germany, Mr. Zweygartt came to this country as a 
 boy, and his earliest recollections of the United States are connected with the 
 tobacco trade. He worked at the business as a boy, and when he had attained 
 to the years of manhood he embarked in business on his own account as a retail 
 dealer in cigars and tobacco. His enterprise thrived, and in course of time he 
 branched out as a wholesale merchant, being now one of the largest and most 
 successful in the city. He has now been identified with the trade for forty 
 years. His establishment at the above address has a frontage of 25 feet and a 
 depth of 100 feet. His business is that of a packer, no sorting being done in 
 his establishment. A force of six competent assistants is employed. 
 
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J. B. MERROW & SONS, No. 133 Sheldon Street, in this 
 City, are engaged principally in manufacturing special machinery for finishing 
 the edges of fabrics. The original house, founded in 1838, was the pioneer in 
 the knitting industry of this country, its knitting factory, built where the Village 
 of Merrow has since sprung up, being the first knitting mill erected and operated 
 in the United States. The Merrow System of Crocheting Machinery and 
 Methods was originated by Mr. J. M. Merrow, a member of the present firm, 
 and the machines at first adapted to limited uses were used in the knitting mill 
 at Merrow, but have since been continuously developed and improved until at 
 the present time the firm is building more than thirty varieties of machines 
 especially adapted to as many different purposes, some of which are far removed 
 from the knitting industry. This firm abandoned the knitting business upon 
 the destruction of their knitting mill by fire, since which time their careful and 
 concentrated attention has been devoted to the development and manufacture 
 of their line of machinery, unique in its methods and purposes. Since locating 
 in Hartford, this firm has established a department devoted to building fine 
 machinery to order. 
 
 DE WITT C. POND, Bookseller and Stationer; Dealer in 
 Newspapers and Periodicals ; No. 301 Main Street, Phceuix Bank Building. — It 
 is said that a lady may be known by her gloves and her boots, and a gentleman 
 by his linen, the idea being, of course, that good breeding is manifested more 
 especially in minor details of the toilet than in the wearing of expensive 
 garments, and the same principle applies to the stationery used in social 
 correspondence, for as a rule the best-bred persons are the most careful to avoid 
 anything cheap or commercial appearing in the paper and envelopes they use. 
 Showy and gaudy stationery is to be shuuned of course, but it is easy to secure 
 appropriate writing-paper and envelopes by patronizing a store where a specialty 
 is made of fashionable stationery, and such a store may be found at No. 301 
 Main Street, in the Phcenix Bank Building, Mr. De Witt C. Pond being 
 proprietor. He is a native of Vermont, has been a member of the Council for 
 two years; and for six years thereafter a member of the Board of Aldermen, and 
 President of the same for two years ; member of the Auditing Committee for 
 seven years, and Chairman of the same for six. The business was established 
 thirty-five years ago by Messrs. Gier 6c Pond, but since 1884 has been under the 
 sole control of Mr. Pond. The store occupied measures 70x30 feet in size, and 
 the finest line of stationery in Hartford will be found here. Mr. Pond deals 
 in books of all kinds, also newspapers and periodicals. Employment is given 
 to four polite assistants, and prompt and careful attention is thus secured to 
 every caller. 
 
 NEWTON, ROBERTSON & CO., Dealers in Fancy 
 
 Groceries and Fruits, Nos. 338-342 Asylum Street. — The standards of trade in 
 our progressive country are constantly advancing, and intelligent people now 
 demand much more from the best stores than was the case even ten years ago. 
 An establishment which has demonstrated its ability to meet the very best and 
 
 widest demands of the trade in its line is that of Messrs. Newton, Robertson & 
 Co., dealers in fine groceries and fruits, Nos. 338-342 Asylum Street, Hartford. 
 The firm began business at their present store in 18S6, and the only change has 
 been the admission of Mr. H. H. Dickinson as a partner iu 1893. The two 
 original members, Mr. J. P. Newton and Mr. W. P. Robertson have had charge 
 of the business from the first, and their wide and thorough acquaintance with 
 the trade is demonstrated by the success which has made this the largest and 
 best store of its kind in the city. The firm occupy a handsomely-equipped 
 store building 50 x 100 feet in dimensions, and are provided with the most com- 
 plete refrigerating and delivery facilities. Their large trade requires eighteen 
 regular employees and seven delivery teams. Their stock of fine family 
 groceries includes all the standard lines of the very best quality and at lowest 
 current prices. A very extensive business is handled in foreign and domestic 
 fruits, direct from the producers, and the reputation gained by the house in 
 this as well as other lines is of the very highest type. In extent of stock and 
 trade, both wholesale and retail, they rank among the very first in the State, 
 and their facilities naturally make them able to secure exceptional bargains for 
 their patrons. The unvarying high standard maintained and uniform liberal 
 dealings fully explain the commanding position which has been won by this 
 well-known house. 
 
 STEPHEN MASIyEN, Monuments, No. 352 Asylum 
 Street. — The taste and appreciation for artistic work in all directions has been 
 steadily increasing during the past few decades, and one of the most important 
 ways in which this has been shown is that of sculptured and monumental stone 
 work. An establishment of this kind which for many years has maintained 
 the first position at this centre. of the State is that of Mr. Stephen Maslen, No. 
 352 Asylum Street. The business was established by Mr. Maslen in 1870, and 
 has been under his charge without change from the first. Complete and 
 modernly-equipped warerooms, comprising two floors 30 x 125 feet, are occupied 
 at the above address, and the stone-working and carving shops in connection 
 are the most extensive of their kind in the State. Mr. Maslen also owns and 
 operates a valuable quarry in Vermont, and employs, all told, an average of 
 sixty men. The extensive variety of monuments and gravestones kept on 
 hand will compare most favorably from the standpoint of art and of price with 
 the largest displays in cities like New York and Boston. He can not only fill 
 orders of this kind at short notice and in the most satisfactory manner, but his 
 facilities also include fine architectural stone-work, facades, entablatures, etc.; 
 in fact, everything in the way of sculptured stone, his services being constantly 
 sought by leading architects, both for executing their owu and to furnish 
 original designs. Situated, as he is, near the State Capitol (for which, by the 
 way, he furnished some special aud beautiful work), Mr. Masleu's establish- 
 ment is familiar to prominent people throughout the State, and fine specimens 
 of his workmanship extend an honorable and well-earned fame to all parts of it 
 as well as to adjoining States. Our readers can rely upon obtaining the very 
 best service and fair treatment at this leading and important representative of 
 Hartford's solid institutions. 
 
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ASYLUM STREET. 
 
 
promptly attended to. Mr. Brooks' figures will be found uniformly reasonable 
 and fair. His guarantee of fine grade and reliable workmanship in every detail, 
 as well as first-class material, will be found, as it has been for years, to stand for 
 the very best standards in this department of local trade. 
 
 AI.LYN MEMORIAL, SPRING GROVE CEMETERY. 
 
 P. A. BROOKS, Carpenter and Builder; All Jobbing 
 Promptly Attended To; Shop, No. 114 Grove Street; Residence, No. 366 
 Maple Avenue. — Hartford is renowned throughout New England and the 
 country in general for the exceptionally fine character of its public and private 
 buildings. It is, therefore, evident that it enjoys a superior line of service in 
 this department. Among the best-known and successful carpenters and build- 
 ers of Hartford, Mr. P. A. Brooks has for the past twelve years held a recog- 
 nized place. Since 1SS2 he has carried this business steadily forward here, and 
 has made it second to none in this section, either in high standard of workman- 
 ship or large volume of trade executed. His well-equipped shop at No. 1 14 Grove 
 Street (30x65 feet) is fitted out with every convenience and facility in this line. 
 He employs, on the average, twenty reliable men. Complete estimates, plans 
 and specifications are furnished for every kind of modern edifice, a specialty 
 being made of fine residences. He has handled many important contracts, and 
 left the best of evidence as to his ability and skill on some of the very hand- 
 somest and largest buildings in the city. Jobbing and repair work of all kinds 
 
 P. & J. BESSE, Caterers; French Pastry, Confectionery, Etc.; 
 No. 239 Main Street, Hartford; No. 167 Tremont Street, Boston; Telephone 
 Connection. — It would be difficult to name a more popular establishment in the 
 City of Hartford, or perhaps one that is quite as popular, as that of Messrs. P. & 
 J. Besse, the prominent caterers of 239 Main Street. A finer store is not to be 
 found in the city, and it is a fitting container for the superior and delicate 
 products of this celebrated firm. The Messrs. Besse were born in Switzerland, 
 but became citizens of the United States twenty-two years ago. Eleven years 
 since they embarked in their present enterprise and have made of it one of the 
 most prosperous businesses of its kind in this section of the country. As 
 caterers the3' have a large and valuable patronage which comes largely from the 
 elite of the city, and they are prepared to furnish the most desirable menus, 
 service, &c. for weddings, receptions and other private entertainments. The 
 most delicious ice creams, both American and French, are made by the Messrs. 
 Besse, and they are highly celebrated for their choice French pastry, confection- 
 ery, Sic. At their store on Main Street, which is 20x 72 feet in dimensions, thev 
 employ an average of fourteen assistants, and keep three delivery wagons in 
 commissions. They have a similar and equally-popular establishment at No. 
 167 Tremont Street, Boston. 
 
 P. S. AMIDON, Manufacturer of Wire Door and Window- 
 Screens, No. 26 Union Place. — It is a regrettable fact that insect life is more 
 prolific on the sea coast and neighboring sections than in the interior, and that 
 the winged portion of the insect kingdom is so persistent in seeking entrance to 
 our domiciles. But man has proved himself in this, as in all cases where he has 
 been brought into conflict with nature, fully equal to the emergency, with the 
 result that no one need suffer the torment which flies aud mosquitoes are capable 
 of inflicting, save from choice. In comparatively recent years Yankee ingenuity 
 has devised an effectual and practically permanent barrier to the ingress of 
 these ubiquitous pests, in the shape of a wire successor to the old-fashioned 
 "mosquito bars." Everybody knows it, and nobody who cares for peace and 
 comfort has failed to avail himself of it. But everybody in Hartford may not 
 know the best place to get their wire door and window screens, and it is our 
 purpose to tell them. At No. 26 Union Place Mr. F. S. Amidou has for the 
 past eleven years conducted a factory for the manufacture of these indispensable 
 adjuncts to comfort, having moved there from Sheldon Street where he began his 
 business in 1S77. The premises occupied are in a building 30 x 60 feet in ground 
 measurement, aud he has additional room in the rear for his paint shop and other 
 purposes. He employs an average of five hands, and turns out everything in 
 the shape of door and window screens at low prices. 
 
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MAGICAI, DEPOT, Importers and Dealers in Magical 
 Apparatus for Parlor aud Stage, No. 2S4 Asylum Street, Room 3, Second Floor ; 
 Call, or send Stamps for Catalogue. — It is one curious development of modern 
 science that while it has destroyed most of our faith in things magical it has at 
 the same time perfected our facilities for reproducing these old illusions. An 
 establishment which well illustrates this fact is the Magical Depot at No. 284 
 Asylum Street, Hartford, with its varied and extremely-interesting stock of 
 goods in this line. The same is by all odds the largest and best of this sort 
 between Boston and New York. The house are large importers and dealers, 
 carrying a complete line of magical apparatus for the parlor and stage. This 
 includes every kind of stage illusion, mechanical automata, electrical tricks, 
 anti-spiritualistic wonders, conjuring tables, juggling apparatus, ventriloquial 
 figures, novelties, games and handbooks on magic. Entertainments in these 
 departments are also furnished for evening parties, schools, lodges, etc., by 
 competent performers. The manager is a well-known and thoroughly-reliable 
 business man. 
 
 JOHN PEPION & CO., House and Sign Painters; Paper 
 Hanging, Graining, Glazing, Etc. ; No. 25 Church Street. — With the growth of 
 our country and the increasing artistic development of the people, interior 
 decoration has ceased to be looked upou as a luxury unattainable and 
 unappreciated except by the comparatively few. Year by year the demand is 
 greater for tasteful adornment of our homes, which all are eager to beautify as 
 far as their means will permit. The firm whose card heads this article are 
 acknowledged by all who have seen their work to be in the foremost rank as 
 regards skill and ability. In this connection we may fittingly call attention to 
 the facilities possessed by Messrs. John Pepion & Co. for the execution of all 
 orders for house and sign painting, also paper hanging, graining, glazing, etc., 
 for such work is done the most cheaply where it is done the most skillfully, and 
 the results attained by the above-named gentlemen will bear the closest 
 examination and the most severe comparison with the work of any competent 
 painter, for they use good stock, spare no pains to apply it to the best advantage, 
 and make no exorbitant charges, their terms being as low as is consistent with 
 the methods employed. Mr. John Pepion founded his present business twenty- 
 five years ago. Mr. Pepion is a native of Hartford, and a prominent member of 
 the Knights of Pythias, Odd Fellows, Red Men, Firemen's Benevolent Society, 
 and other orders, and has been an active member and Foreman of the Volunteer 
 Fire Department, doing his duty aud giving his services to the citizens on many 
 occasions. Mr. Pepion owns fine business property located at Nos. 17, 19, 23 
 and 25 Church Street. No. 25 and the yards of Nos. 17, 19 and 25 are utilized 
 for his own business, which is very extensive. He deals in paints, oils, varnishes, 
 also brushes, glass, etc. Employment is given to twenty competent men, and 
 orders will be filled at short notice, and we have no hesitation in assuring com- 
 plete satisfaction to all who may avail themselves of their service both as 
 regards the quality of the work and the cost and merit of the goods dealt in. 
 
 MAIN STREET. 
 
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BI,AIR & COXETER, Manufacturing Jewelers ; Diamond 
 Setting, Repairing; No. 321 Main Street.— There are many houses in the 
 jewelry trade that profess to be manufacturers, but there are very few in this 
 city, at least, which possess the facilities for manufacturing, their only title to 
 the claim being based on the fact that they produce a few specialties, generally 
 of an unimportant character. For that reason the firm of Messrs. Blair & 
 Coxeter stand out prominently in the jewelry trade of Hartford, their opera- 
 tions as manufacturers being couducted on an extensive scale and embracing 
 a large variety of goods. They give particular attention to special work for 
 the trade, having the best and largest facilities for executing prompt and thor- 
 oughly satisfactory work. The firm, which consists of Messrs. Robert C. Blair 
 and William G. Coxeter, was established three years ago, and immediately 
 sprang into notice as conscientious, capable and experienced manufacturers. 
 They number among their customers such houses as Messrs. Hansel, Sloan & 
 Co., Mr. David Mayer, Messrs. Schmidt & Fox, and many others in Hartford 
 and other Connecticut cities. They have a finely-equipped shop at No. 321 
 Main Street, the space occupied being 25 x 60 feet in dimensions, and they em- 
 ploy an average of four skilled assistants. They manufacture everything in 
 the line of jewelry, and make a specialty of fine work. 
 
 H. MAERCKI,EIN, Upholsterer; Furniture Made to Order, 
 and Repairing a Specialty; Inventor and Manufacturer of the " Simplicity " 
 Sofa and Lounge Bed; Nos. 92 to 98 Asylum Street (Second Floor). — It cannot 
 be denied that there are many very decided advantages to b^ gained by placing 
 orders for any kind of work in the hands of thoroughly reliable and experienced 
 men, who make a specialty of that particular class of work. This is especially 
 true of upholstery, in which the very best results are obtained by having your 
 work done by a man who is a specialist in the line, such as Mr. H. Maerckleiu, 
 the well-known upholsterer of Nos. 92 to 98 Asylum Street. He has been promi- 
 nent in this department of business since the beginning of his enterprise here in 
 1872, and in the intervening twenty-two years he has built up a very large and 
 lucrative trade through his skill and ability. Mr. Maerckleiu is the inventor 
 and manufacturer of the celebrated "Simplicity" sofa and lounge bed, which 
 has a very large sale. His store and workrooms occupy a space of 40 x 60 feet, 
 and are well-equipped with appliances and tools for the prompt execution of 
 first-class work. His specialties, besides those above mentioned, are the mak- 
 ing of furniture to order and repairing. Mr. Maerckleiu has a long experience 
 in first-class artistic drapery work. All work is done promptly and satisfaction 
 is guaranteed. 
 
 .rETNA STAMP WORKS, No, 25 Asylum Street.— The 
 success of the .Etna Stamp Works in establishing a successful and continually- 
 growing business in Hartford demonstrates their marked ability in the manu- 
 facture and sale of rubber stamps aud accessories, cellutypes (printing plates 
 made of celluloid ) and stereotypes (type metal printing plates). The reasons 
 for this success are long experience, skill and originality in design, both in style 
 and mechanical combinations to produce desired results. When they com- 
 menced business they purchased all material and machinery new and of the most 
 recent aud improved designs. Within three years they increased their facilities 
 by adding the largest-made aud only steam-boiler stamp machine in Hartford. 
 To the original intent of the duplicating of printers' type, borders, orna- 
 ments and cuts in rubber they have added the duplication of it in type metal, 
 and also celluloid — which has all the sharpness of electrotypes and wears twice 
 as long. Ten years ago there were only two stamp makers in Connecticut. 
 Since then the business has been revolutionized. Now there are four in Hartford, 
 and about every large town has at least one, composed usually of printers who 
 use their type both for printing aud stamp making. (Printers' type is a soft 
 metal, composed of lead, tin and antimony, and wears quickly when printed 
 from.) The ^Etna Stamp Works have held firmly to the original decision to 
 never use their new type to print from, and consequently they are now the only 
 duplicators in Hartford of .all new printers' type never used to print from. 
 However much the standard quality of rubber stamps has generally deteriorated, 
 with the new machinery and increased facilities it has continually risen with 
 the .Etna Stamp Works, and they now make a better stamp than ever before 
 could be obtained in the State. 
 
 R. S. PECK & CO., Printers, Engravers, Embossers, No. 
 14 Ford Street. — The gradual extension of art to the widest practical service is 
 nowhere more clearly seen than in the printing and engraving trades. A house 
 which has for some time taken recognized leadership in this department of 
 local business is that under the management of R. S. Peck & Co. at No. 14 
 Ford Street. It was established in 1S77, and first known as the Star Printing 
 Company. After some minor changes, it passed under its present energetic 
 control in 1891, and much of its progress has been made since that time. Mr. 
 R. S. Peck is a native of the State, aud a thorough master of all matters relat- 
 ing to printing, engraving and embossing work. The establishment has been 
 entirely refitted, and is now one of the largest and best in Connecticut. It 
 covers three floors of a modern brick structure, 50x110 feet in dimensions. 
 There are eight large presses, operated by electric power, and the corps of em- 
 ployees averages thirty-five. Each department has been carefully brought to 
 the best modern standard of efficiency and artistic thoroughness. The finest 
 class of commercial and social printing done in this section, and equal to that 
 of the best New York houses, is handled here at figures deserving the careful 
 attention of all our readers. Artistic office stationery, cards, circulars and cata- 
 logues, also social forms, invitations and programmes are among the specialties 
 in which the highest satisfaction is guaranteed. Special designs in steel and 
 copper-plate, and the most delicate embossing work, are executed in a great 
 variety of styles. Many of our readers in the central part of the State may not 
 be aware that they can secure the most refined aud artistic work in this depart- 
 ment here at home without sending to New York, in which case they will do well 
 to try the first-class facilities of this house, saviug thereby both time and money. 
 
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CITY HOSPITAL. 
 
 
 
THE AI,I,YN HOUSE (Robert Allyn, Proprietor), Corner 
 Asylum and Trumbull Streets. — No information is of higher value to the travel- 
 ing public, and none is more eagerly sought, than that relating to the hotels 
 afforded by the various cities on their route. In view of its importance as the 
 capital city of the State, and the centre of great manufacturing and commercial 
 interests, Hartford always has a large floating population, and to those who 
 may at any time have occasion to visit the city as well as to those who 
 may be permanently located here, and prefer the comforts and conveniences of 
 hotel residence, some information concerning the leading hotel of the city will 
 be most welcome. The Allyn House, the hotel referred to, is an old-established 
 and most popular hostelry, of which Mr. Robert Allyn is the founder and pro- 
 prietor. It is conducted ou the most advanced lines, and in every department 
 the most intelligent care for the comfort of guests is displayed. Mr. Allyn is 
 a hotel man of ripe experience, and knows thoroughly how to promote the 
 well-being and contentment of those who live under his roof, temporarily or 
 permanently. The Allyn House is located at the corner of Asylum and Trum- 
 bull Streets, close to the principal business centres and but two blocks from the 
 railroad depots, horse-cars to and from which pass the door of the hotel every 
 three minutes. The Allyn House is a handsome five-story building with a 
 frontage of 400 feet ou Asylum Street, and a depth of 500 feet. It is provided 
 with every modern convenience, including elevators, electric light, telephone 
 and telegraph, and is furnished in a most comfortable and elegant manner. 
 Rooms may be had singly or en suite, with bath if desired. A fine new cafe 1 is 
 attached, and the dining-room is one of the largest and handsomest in the city, 
 its dimensions being 50 x 100 feet. Fifty people are employed in various 
 capacities, and no better or more desirable service is to be had in the country. 
 The Allyn House offers special attractions to commercial men, not only on 
 account of the excellence as a hotel, but because of the special accommodations 
 provided for them in the well-appointed sample rooms placed at their disposal. 
 The Allyn House rates are $3, #3.50 and $4 per day, according to location of 
 
 N. B. BUXI, & SON, Sole Agents for Boynton Hot-Air 
 and Hot-Water Furnaces, Wiuthrop B Ranges, and Dealers in Cooking Ranges, 
 Stoves and Tinware ; Tin Roofing, Job Work, Plumbing and Gas Fitting ; Nos. 
 189 and 191 Main Street. — In this climate loo much attention cannot be given 
 to the matter of the heating and ventilation of private residences and public 
 buildings. Such a great advance has been made in recent years in the methods 
 and appliances for heating that the problem has been reduced to a very simple 
 proposition, which concerns not the question of the desirability of heaters over 
 ordinary stoves, but the best kind of heater to employ. It requires very little 
 investigation to ascertain that the Boynton Hot-Air and Hot-Water Heaters 
 possess many points which commend them at once to the house owner or to 
 buildiug contractors. In Hartford these celebrated furnaces are to be found at 
 
 the establishment of Messrs. N. B. Bull & Son, Nos. 189 and 191 Main Street, 
 who are sole agents for the manufacturers. This enterpising firm does a most 
 extensive business in heating apparatus of all descriptions, including cooking 
 ranges and stoves, and they are also large dealers in tinware, etc. A most 
 important part of their business relates to tin roofing, job work, plumbing and 
 gas fitting. They occupy four floors at the above address, each floor containing 
 about 2, Soo square feet of space, or a combined floor space of over 1 1 ,000 square 
 feet. An average force of sixteen hands is employed in the different depart- 
 ments, and all business is executed with dispatch. The business was established 
 forty years ago by Mr. Bassett, and after several changes passed into the hands 
 of the present proprietors about four years since. Mr. N. B. Bull is a native of 
 the State, and his son, Mr. G. S. Bull, was born in Meriden. They are active 
 progressive business men, and the high reputation they have attained has 
 been well earned. Messrs. Bull & Son are sole agents for the celebrated 
 Winthrop B Range in all sizes and styles, which is without a superior in the 
 market. 
 
 J. B. BURR & CO., Publishers and Printers; Manufacturers 
 of Memorandum Books, Tablets, Prescription Blanks. — The great secret of 
 commercial success is closely allied with the scientific principle of natural 
 selection, namely, in the elimination of every feature not essential and the 
 most complete adaptation of all the facilities at hand in the given line of trade. 
 There is no important business house of Hartford which more strikingly illus- 
 trates this great principle than that of J. B. Burr & Co., publishers, printers 
 and manufacturers of special trade stationery. Established in 1S56, and carried 
 steadily forward since without interruption, this house necessarily possesses a 
 familiar command and thorough acquaintance with every detail of this line 
 of American trade, which would be impossible to one with less extended expe- 
 rience and success. The main office and workrooms of the company cover 
 two floors of a modernly-constructed building (60 x 100 feet), and are equipped 
 with a costly and thoroughly-perfected plant of steam presses, binders, cutters 
 and similar machines. Its average working corps consists of twenty people, 
 and it also has traveling salesmen reaching to all parts of the United States as 
 well as to Canada. In addition to its general line of publishing and printing — 
 the same being universally recognized as of the best New England standard — it 
 also makes a special feature of the manufacture of memorandum books, tab- 
 lets, prescription blanks and similar trade stationery. Its pads and tablets are 
 widely known for their superior grade of paper, the house using the very best 
 in the market, including the Faufulas, Worouoco bond in assorted colors, and 
 the finest quality of American and imported linens. They also manufacture a 
 larger amount of prescription blanks than any other house in New England, 
 their prices being exceptionally liberal. Dealers can place the most complete 
 reliance on all goods bearing the mark of this old and leading house, and will 
 find them unsurpassed for quick and steady sales by any in the American 
 market. 
 
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ALLYN HOUSE, CORNER ASYLUM AND TRUMBULL STREETS. 
 
 
A. F. TII/TON, Merchant Tailor; A Fine Assortment of 
 Foreign and Domestic Goods; No. 237 Main Street. — Though clothes do not 
 make the man, there is no doubt that wearing apparel plays a very conspicuous 
 part in determining his place in the community. The well-dressed man, no 
 matter what his attainments, possesses a very decided advantage over his shabby 
 brother iu every walk of life, though the latter may have qualifications of the 
 highest order. We are led to the consideration of this fact by noting the 
 results of the sartorial work of Mr. A. F. Tilton, the prominent merchant 
 tailor of No. 237 Main Street. The most prosperous and the best-dressed men 
 of this city are numbered among his customers ; and, although he has been 
 engaged iu the business for only two years, he has attracted and is able to hold 
 the best class of patronage. Every garment that comes from his establishment 
 is cut by his own hand, aud it must be admitted that there is not a better cutter 
 in the business. His finely-fitted store contains a floor space of about 600 
 square feet, aud is well adapted to the requirements of his business. All the 
 work, save the cutting, is doue outside of these premises, and only the most 
 competent hands are employed, while promptness characterizes the execution 
 of all orders. Mr. Tilton always carries a fine and varied assortment of foreign 
 and domestic suitings, giving his customers the widest range of choice. His 
 prices are very low, considering the excellence of the work and the superior 
 quality of the material employed. 
 
 F. R. CORDlyEY & CO. (Harold C. Sears, Manager)' 
 Bankers and Brokers, Phoenix Bauk Building; Telephone No. II. — The rapidity 
 with which wealth is accumulated in this country is to be accounted for by the 
 fact that not only are Americans as a class better business men, and more inde- 
 fatigable workers in every field of industry, but that they exercise a greater 
 intelligence in the making of investments. There is a constant and ever-in- 
 creasing demand for good investment securities, and fortunately the facilities 
 for meeting it keep full pace with the demand. In comparatively recent vears 
 this demand has become so marked in the City of Hartford that old methods 
 of dealing through banking and brokerage firms in Boston and New York have 
 become inadequate, and progressive houses have found it more than expedient 
 to locate branch offices here. Among the most prominent of these firms is 
 that of Messrs. F. R. Cordley & Co., a leading banking and brokerage house of 
 New York, Boston and Chicago. Their headquarters are in Boston, but they 
 carry on operations iu the Stock Exchanges of the three cities, being members 
 of each. Their Hartford office, which is under the able management of Mr. 
 Harold C. Sears, is in the Phoenix Bank Building, a most convenient and cen- 
 tral location, and is connected with private wires direct to Boston, New York. 
 Chicago and Philadelphia. All commissions are promptly and faithfully con- 
 ducted on the exchanges of these cities at the lowest rates allowed to be 
 charged by the various boards. 
 
 A. COHN & CO., Importers and Packers of Leaf Tobacco, 
 No. 142 Water Street, New York. — It is not necessary to request our readers to 
 wade through a mass of dry statistics in order to demoustrate the fact that the 
 leaf-tobacco trade of this country is one of the largest of its principal commer- 
 cial industries. Those who have a taste for figures may satisfy themselves on 
 this point by reference to readily accessible statistics, while it is unnecessary 
 to remind those who are familiar with the trade through direct dealings of its 
 magnitude and importance. It is to the latter class of readers that this article 
 is particularly addressed, its immediate purpose being to call attention to the 
 facilities enjoyed by the firm of Messrs. A. Cohn & Co. This is one of the 
 largest concerns in the trade, its headquarters being at No. 142 Water Street, 
 New York, while it has an important branch at Hartford. The firm was 
 organized in 1869 and at once assumed a leading position in the trade, not only 
 as packers but as importers of leaf tobacco. They do a heavy business in 
 domestic and imported leaf, carrying an immense stock at their warehouses in 
 New York and Hartford, and shipping to all parts of the United States. The 
 Hartford house at No. 231 State Street is under the management of Mr. Henry 
 Palmer, one of the best-posted men in the business. It occupies a four-story 
 building which has a frontage of twenty-five feet and a depth of one hundred, 
 provided with every facility for the prompt dispatch of business. A force of 
 twenty-five men is employed by the firm. Mr. Palmer is an expert judge of 
 leaf tobocco, having been for many years identified with the business, and as a 
 buyer he has no superior. 
 
 RANSOM N. FIT£ GERALD, Commission Merchant, 
 
 No. 142 State Street. — A house that contributes its full share to the importance 
 of the City of Hartford as a commercial centre is that controlled by Mr. Ransom 
 N. Fitz Gerald, the well-known aud prosperous commission merchant of No? 
 142 State Street. The history of this house is one of continuous growth from 
 the date of its inception in 1S72 to the present time, the ability and energy that 
 have been brought to bear in its management being of the character which 
 invariably achieves success. The original firm was Messrs. Bronson S; Fitz 
 Gerald, but siuce 1893 it has been conducted by Mr. Fitz Gerald alone and 
 with even more marked success than had previously attended its career. Mr. 
 Fitz Gerald does an exclusively wholesale and commission business, handling 
 on a large scale salt, salt fish and canned goods, poultry, game, Connecticut 
 River shad, and Block Island fish, making leading specialties of the latter. At 
 one time the firm controlled over three-fourths of the Couuecticut River shad 
 catch ; but, owing to the growing scarcity of this once plentiful fish in these 
 waters, Mr. Fitz Gerald now gives comparatively little attention to that branch 
 of trade. His business extends throughout New England, three traveling sales- 
 men representing the house on the road. The establishment occupies five 
 floors, each 25 x 125 feet iu dimensions, and they are all heavily stocked. Mr- 
 Fitz Gerald has been a member of the Common Council, and at present is a 
 member of the Board of Fire Commissioners, is a 32d Degree Mason, and is at 
 the head of the Scottish Rite bodies in this city. 
 
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 BUILDING OF NATIONAL MACHINE CO. AND THORNE TYPE-SETTING MACHINE CO. 
 
FIvORAI, BAZAAR (C. C. Munsell, Proprietor). Cut Flowers, 
 No. 87 Trumbull Street.— The business carried on by Mr. C. C. Munsell, and 
 known as the "Floral Bazaar," at No. 87 Trumbull Street, was established in 
 1890 by him. He is a native of this town and served one year in the Twenty- 
 second Regiment, C. V., is also a member of the Grand Army of the Republic, 
 and is well known not only in this section but among florists and flower lovers 
 and gardeners throughout the country, having been in this same kind of busi- 
 ness for the past twenty years. Mr. Munsell is a dealer in cut flowers, making 
 a specialty of floral designs. Choice seasonable cut flowers can be furnished in 
 practically any desired quantities at very short notice, together with table, 
 house and church decorations, artistic, appropriate and novel designs for 
 weddings, balls and parties, funeral emblems; and, in short, designs especially 
 adapted to any of the innumerable uses to which flowers are now put. Mr. 
 Munsell has the best of facilities, carries a large and varied stock of flowers, 
 employs skilled assistants, and has had such experience as to fully qualify him to 
 place his work in competition with the very best in the land. Orders are filled 
 promptly in the latest styles and at reasonable prices, and a fairly comprehensive 
 trial order will convince the most skeptical that Mr. Munsell is prepared to 
 furnish a service second to none in the country. Choice singing birds and 
 cages can also be bought here. 
 
 A. I,. BREWSTER, Dealer in Cut Soles, Leather and Find- 
 ings, French and American Calfskins, No. 186 Pearl Street. — Among the oldest 
 and most reliable establishments which have built up for Hartford its wide 
 prestige as a business centre, special attention is merited by the large successful 
 trade conducted by Mr. A. L. Brewster at No. 186 Pearl Street. — The business 
 was established by Mr. Wiley thirty-five years ago, and after a number of 
 transfers it passed to its present energetic control in 1S88. A high standard of 
 reliability and enterprise has been maintained from the first. The store prem- 
 ises occupied are equipped in the most thorough manner, being 26 x 50 feet in 
 general dimensions. A large first-class stock is kept on hand, including every 
 variety of cut soles, heels, taps and leather findings ; also morocco, kids, 
 French and American calfskin of the best brands and at bottom prices. The 
 trade is chiefly wholesale and retail. The facilities for prompt careful ship- 
 ment are unsurpassed, and special bargains and lots are constantly being 
 offered to the trade. Mr. Brewster is a native of this city, and holds a well- 
 earned position among its most careful and progressive merchants. All 
 demands upon his store and stock can be met in the most thorough and satis- 
 factory manner. Our readers interested in this line of trade should not fail to 
 make a trial of his facilities, if desirous of keeping in line with the constant 
 developments of the market. 
 
 I,. S. RISJyEY, Ph. G., Pharmacist, No. 385 Capitol Avenue. 
 — It is very natural that particular confidence should be placed in a druggist 
 who is thoroughly educated in his business, for, although we are happy to say 
 that the large majority of our Hartford pharmacists are educated, competent 
 and reliable men, still there is a prevailing impression that he who fills such a 
 responsible and exacting position as that held by a dispenser of drugs and 
 medicines to the public cannot know too much concerning the properties and 
 effects of the agents he handles. Consequently, the popularity of the establish- 
 ment conducted by Mr. L. S. Risley at No. 3S5 Capitol Avenue is not to be 
 wondered at in the least, for Mr. Risley is a graduate of the Philadelphia 
 College of Pharmacy, and a master of his profession. He is a native of Con- 
 necticut and has been widely and favorably known among the Hartford 
 pharmacists since 18S9, founding his present establishment in June, 1893. The 
 premises now occupied are very attractive in appearance, being finished in 
 white-china gloss painting, with white-marble soda fountain, and mirror 
 prescription counter, etc., and contain a large and varied stock made up of 
 drugs, medicines, chemicals, toilet articles, and the usual line of selected fancy 
 goods to be found iu a druggist's store. The compounding of physicians' 
 prescriptions is given the most careful personal attention, and some of his 
 widely-known specialties are Risley 's Pulmonic Syrup, Risley's Nursery Powder, 
 Risley's Headache Powder, etc. We need hardly say that no trouble is spared 
 to avoid the least possible error in any department of the business, while the 
 charges made are very moderate. Careful and intelligent assistants are employed 
 and polite attention is given to every caller. 
 
 THE HARTFORD ENGRAVING CO., Photo -Engrav- 
 ing, Half-Tone and Line; Embossing Plates; No. 66 State Street, Courant 
 Building. — Although the art of engraving is the growth of several centuries, its 
 greatest development has been noted within the past twenty-five years. This 
 development is not so much iu the line of improvement in the capacity of the 
 engraver as in the methods of reproduction now employed, the results of which 
 are immensely superior to the old-style work, greatly as it was admired in 
 its day. The increased facilities and improvement in processes have greatly 
 diminished the cost of production, with the result that engraving is now in 
 more general use than ever before in the history of the art. The convenience 
 of having close at hand the facilities presented by a fully-equipped establishment 
 is one that is highly appreciated by publishers, merchants and others to whom 
 quick work is a necessity. Formerl)' those whose business necessitated the 
 employment of the engraver's assistance were compelled to go to New York or 
 Boston to have their orders executed ; now they may have all such work done 
 at home as well, if not better, by the Hartford Engraving Company. This 
 concern at No. 66 State Street, in the Courant Building, is complete in every 
 detail, and provided with the most approved apparatus for photo-engraving, 
 half-tone and line work. This company makes a specialty of producing fine 
 half-tone plates on hard-rolled copper, and all its work is guaranteed to give 
 thorough satisfaction, while its charges are as low as those of any New York 
 house for work of similar quality. They have a large and competent force of 
 assistants, and all orders are executed promptly. 
 
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UNITED STATES HOTEL AND POST OFFICE, STATE STREET. 
 
 
FURLONG & HOWARD, Dealers in Groceries, Teas, 
 
 Coffees, Spices; Fresh and Salt Meats; Vegetables in their Season ; Nos. SiS & 
 S22 Main Street, Corner Canton.- — Among the old business houses of this city, 
 which may well be called the corner stones upon which her commercial great- 
 ness has been reared, and to whose honorable record and enterprising manage- 
 ment and business methods the extensive grocery trade of Hartford is largely 
 due, an important position must be accorded to the house of Messrs Furlong & 
 Howard. The foundation of this extensive and prosperous establishment was 
 laid thirty years ago by Messrs. Douglass & Watrous, who were succeeded by 
 various concerns until the year 18S7, when the present firm assumed control. 
 They have successfully continued the business at the old stand, Nos. 81S & 822 
 Main Street, Corner of Canton, where will be found an extensive stock of choice 
 groceries, teas, coffees, spices, fresh and salt meats, and vegetables in their 
 season. The premises utilized by this firm consist of a double store 60x60 feet 
 in size, and the extensive retail trade of this house requires the services of six 
 competent clerks, and all orders are promptly attended to, and goods delivered 
 to any part of the city. The firm is composed of Mr. F. P. Furlong, a native of 
 Hartford, and Mr. D. C. Howard, a native of Connecticut. The reputation of 
 this house for enterprise and liberality is not excelled by any contemporaneous 
 concern here or elsewhere, while the facilities at command of the firm make it 
 one of the most desirable houses in the city with which to establish pleasant and 
 profitable relations. 
 
 T. CRONIN, Livery, Hack and Boarding Stables, No. 12 
 Wells Street. — The success that the livery and boarding stables conducted by Mr. 
 T. Croniu and located at No. 12 Wells Street have attained entitles them to 
 prominent mention among the representative business concerns of Hartford. 
 During the years he has catered to the people of this city, Mr. Cronin has per- 
 formed the most efficient service, and his is easily one of the most popular 
 establishments of its kind in Hartford. Mr. Cronin takes particular pains to 
 suit all customers, and his turnouts include some of the most stylish rigs, while 
 there is no better stock than the horses he has on hire by the hour, day or week. 
 Employment is given to an efficient staff of assistants, and orders are filled 
 with the utmost promptness and care, such as is not always exercised by livery- 
 men, as most of us know to our cost. Mr. Cronin recognizes the fact that to 
 attract and hold the best class of trade he must be able to furnish the most 
 stylish turnouts, and those who are numbered among his patrons can bear 
 testimony to the fact that he fully meets this requirement in all cases. His 
 stables are conveniently located just off of Main Street, and offer particular 
 attractious to those not having facilities of their own who desire good board for 
 their horses. The best of care is given to such animals, aud they are provided 
 with comfortable, well-ventilated and clean quarters, and furnished with the 
 finest feed. Mr. Cronin makes the most reasonable charges for livery or 
 boarding, and can supply at all hours any style of vehicle required, or fine 
 saddle horses if desired. 
 
 CITIZENS BUTTER STORE, Butter and Poultry Mar- 
 ket; Eggs, Cheese, Poultry and Bakery; No. 159 Ayslum Street. — The average 
 housewife finds it a difficult matter to procure at all times really choice butter, 
 or even a fairly-good grade, and this fact has been the source of more trouble 
 between buyer aud seller than all other causes of disagreement. It is the same 
 with eggs, which too often fail to sustain the reputation for freshness ascribed 
 to them by the seller. Dealers who desire to avoid complaints — and we take it 
 that none willingly lay themselves liable in this respect — will consult their best 
 iuterests by securiug supplies from the Citizens Butter Store (conducted by Mr. 
 A. W. Yates, the proprietor), which not only does a very extensive retail trade, 
 but makes a specialty of supplying dealers with choice stock at low prices. It 
 is an old-established enterprise, and has long held first place in the estimation 
 of discriminating buyers. It carries a line of butters that is not excelled in 
 quality or flavor by that of any house in the trade, its specialties being the cel- 
 ebrated East Grauby creamery and the widely-reputed Vermont creamery 
 butters. It is not excelled as a purveyor of fresh eggs, its supplies being 
 obtained direct from farmers, and there is no question as to their freshness. 
 This establishment also deals extensively in fine poultry and makes a specialty 
 of fresh fruit. It has also a superior stock of cheese and is noted as well for 
 the products of its bakery. The Citizens Butter Store is located at No. 159 
 Asylum Street, where it has large and convenient quarters and employs an 
 ample staff of capable and obliging assistants. 
 
 HAI,F-DIME LUNCH (D. M. Lawlor) ; Five Cents Each 
 for All Dishes Served ; Prompt Attention, No Waiting; Open from 5.30 A. M. 
 to 11 p.m. ; Bread aud Pastry All Home-Made; Best Coffee aud Tea a Specialty ; 
 Everything Neat and Clean ; No. 375 Asylum Street. — In a busy, bustling com- 
 munity like the business section of Hartford, facilities for obtaining a quick 
 lunch of wholesome food well prepared aud promptly served are a great desid- 
 eratum, and whenever they are offered they are sure to be taken full advantage 
 of. It does not require much keenness of perception to ascertain that the 
 "Half-Dime launch" fills a most important need, for the patronage bestowed 
 upon it is such as would overwhelm any establishment not so well equipped to 
 provide for it. The feature of this popular lunch room, as its name indicates, 
 is that all dishes served cost but five cents each, while the bill of fare is as long 
 and as varied as that presented at restaurants where the prices are four or five 
 times higher. Every one receives prompt attention ; there is no waiting, and 
 everything is neat and clean. The bill includes soups of all kinds, roast and 
 boiled meats, stews, and in fact about everything that the average man could 
 want from which to make a selection. The place is bright and attractive, and 
 ample room is provided for a large number of guests, as the luuch room 
 occupies an entire floor, at No. 375 Asylum Street, the dimensions of which 
 are 30 x 50 feet. It should be promineutly mentioned that the proprietor, Mr. 
 D. M. Lawlor, makes a specialty of superior coffee and tea, and that all bread 
 and pastry served are home-made. 
 
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 WASHINGTON STREET. 
 
THE COWXES-COUCH CO., Plumbing and Gas- Fitting, 
 
 No. 116 State Street.— The earlier settlers of the Connecticut Valley, who 
 shivered through the long winters — longer in those days than of recent years — 
 could never in their wildest dreams of luxury, convenience and comfort have 
 conceived of half the many comforts now enjoyed by their descendants, and 
 taken by all in these times as a matter of course and almost necessity. Fore- 
 most among the many comforts and luxuries of a comparatively few years' 
 standing may be mentioned the heating of houses, blocks, etc., by steam and 
 hot-water systems. Among the many boilers now in use for heating by hot 
 water there are none that possess the qualities of durability, efficiency and 
 economy in the use of fuel to a greater degree than the Gurney Hot- Water 
 Heater. This heater is sold and set in place, connected with a complete line of 
 pipes and radiators, ready for heating any size house or block, and guaranteed 
 to give perfect satisfaction in every respect, by The Cowles-Couch Co., suc- 
 cessors to the two old firms, The L. W. Cowles Co. and G. M. Couch & Co., 
 both of which firms are of many years' standing in Hartford. Mr. Austin 
 Braiuerd, the President, is one of Hartford's rising lawyers and business men ; 
 Mr. Benjamin E. Cowles, the Manager, has been in the plumbing, steam and 
 gas fitting business for many years, and is a man of large experience in that line 
 and a thoroughly practical man ; Mr. George M. Couch, the Treasurer, has had 
 many years of practical experience in tin, sheet-iron and copper work, as also 
 healing by hot air, and is thoroughly posted in these branches of the business. 
 The company's headquarters are at No. 116 State Street, where they have a 
 store 125 feet long and 25 feet wide filled with a well-selected stock of goods in 
 their line. They also have a shop at No. 40 State Street fully equipped with 
 all the latest tools and machines for prosecuting the several branches of their 
 business. In addition to the above, this company has a branch store aud shop 
 at No. 59 Church Street, New Britain, Conn., which is under the immediate 
 supervision of Mr. Frank L. Cowles, a man of many years' practical experience 
 in plumbing, steam and gas fitting in both Hartford and New Britain, and well 
 aud favorably known in both places. This company employ a large force of 
 competent assistants during the season, and are prepared to attend to all orders, 
 great or small, with promptness and dispatch. 
 
 THE NATIONAL MACHINE CO. (C. E.Billings, Presi- 
 dent ; S. M. Bronson, Treasurer and Secretary ; H. C. Baker, Vice-President 
 and General Manager), Mechanical Engineers, and Manufacturers of Special 
 Machinery and Tools, No. 581 Capitol Avenue. — The important manufacturing 
 interests centered in Hartford embrace a number of special lines connected with 
 the manufacture of the tools and machinery used in the great industrial enter- 
 prises located in the city or its vicinity, the magnitude and scope of which are 
 not exceeded in extent by those presented in any other field of industrial 
 activity. Among the most notable concerns iu this department is the National 
 Machine Company, whose business embraces every division of mechanical 
 engineering aud the manufacture of special machinery aud tools. The com- 
 
 pany was incorporated in 1891, and under the able management of such pro- 
 gressive men as the President, Mr. C. E. Billings ; the Treasurer and Secretary, 
 Mr. S. M. Bronson ; Vice-President and General Manager, Mr. H. C. Baker, 
 and the Assistant Secretary, Mr. Wm. F. Loomis, has assumed a most import- 
 ant position among the leading manufacturing enterprises of New England. 
 Notable among its special "productions is the M. Gaily Improved Universal 
 Printing Press, nine of which were exhibited at the Columbian World's Fair in 
 Chicago, and wereawarded every prize. The Gaily Universal Press is one of the 
 best for jobwork yet put on the market, it being provided with attachments for 
 cutting, creasing, embossing, stamping, etc. Further improvements are about 
 to be added, patents for which are now pending, and the Gaily Universal will 
 then be the strongest, fastest and most complete job press ever produced. The 
 National Envelope Company has had specially built for it by the National 
 Machine Company thirty wonderful machines, whose capacity is about 75,000 
 a day, or fully 20,000 more than any other, doing the cutting, gumming, count- 
 ing aud separating into lots of one hundred. Another valuable device made by 
 this company is the Collum Candy Cooler, than which there is no more perfect 
 time and labor saving machine in the market. Among other important devices 
 which deserve more than passing notice is the Daimber Motor, adapted to 
 marine or stationary use, and which is one of the cheapest, most complete and 
 powerful motors to be found. It is a German invention, patented in this 
 country and manufactured by the National Machine Company. It is made in 
 sizes from one to twelve horse-power, and there is no heat, smell or smoke 
 emitted by it. The offices and shops of the National Machine Company are at 
 No. 581 Capitol Avenue. 
 
 NEWTON & BURNET, Dealers in Best Quality of Meat, 
 
 Poultry, Game and Vegetables; Fish and Oysters a Specialty; Nos. 341 aud 347 
 Asylum Street. — The firm of Newton & Burnet are widely known and honored 
 as thoroughly reliable dealers in the choicest cuts of meats, etc., and the goods 
 dealt in by the house are guaranteed fresh, it being their constant and wise 
 purpose to always render full return for value received. As a result, though 
 the firm has ouly been established about a year, having succeeded to the busi- 
 ness in 1893 (it having been established in 1S721, they have already gained a 
 wide and increasing custom and au honorable name of which any house might 
 well feel proud. They occupy a store 35 x 90 feet in dimensions, it being one 
 of the largest in the city, aud employ nineteen clerks. A first-class and very 
 extensive stock of meats, poultry, game and vegetables is constantly kept on 
 hand to supply the best retail trade, and every exertion is made to obtain the 
 rarest and freshest goods at the most moderate prices. A specialty is made of 
 fish and oysters, aud these commodities may always be obtained here fresh and 
 of first-class quality. Premises located at Nos. 341 and 347 Asylum Street are 
 utilized, and orders a.e promptly filled and delivered at the time promised. 
 The firm is composed of Messrs. E. A. Newton and J. G. Burnet (who has been 
 connected with the business nineteen years), both prominent among our most 
 enterprising and reliable business men. 
 
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CHARTER OAK PARK. 
 
HARTFORD BUSINESS COU,EGE (T. W. Hannum 
 
 and E. H. Morse, Principals and Proprietors), No. 370 Asylum Street. — The 
 supreme importance of a business education needs but slight emphasis in these 
 
 practical days. It is merely a question 
 of how to secure the most thorough 
 and exact business equipment upon a 
 liberal and reliable basis. To those 
 considering this important question 
 we can most pertinently suggest an 
 examination of the advantages afforded by that well-known institution — the 
 Hartford Business College, at the corner of High and Asylum Streets. It has 
 now been organized and successfully at work for over eighteen years, and there 
 is not a feature of modern business education and practice which is not 
 adequately represented. It occupies commodious and attractive quarters on the 
 second floor of the Batterson Building, which are fitted up with refereuce to 
 practical work in the more prominent fields of modern trade, with the addition 
 of banking, commission and transportation departments. The faculty is com- 
 posed of five well-known teachers, and the annual enrollment is about three 
 hundred and fifty pupils. The scope of the curriculum includes both theory 
 and practice from elementary to the most advanced branches of commercial 
 transactions — viz., commercial arithmetic and spelling, penmanship, book- 
 keeping, commercial law, actual business practice and higher office work ; also, 
 for amanuensis training — and an exceptionally satisfactory system of shorthand 
 and practical typewriting. Many details of work gleaned from practical ex- 
 perience are introduced, which are of extreme value to the students in this field. 
 An important feature added in recent years is that represented by the Inter- 
 national Business Practice Association, which is composed of the leading busi- 
 ness colleges of the United States and Canada, and by which a system of business 
 correspondence involving features of banking, shipping, orders, etc., of great 
 practical value, has been developed and carefully perfected. The Hartford 
 Business College is the only Connecticut college enjoying this advantage. 
 There are other special features which will be found well worth the careful 
 attention of those desiring the best results in this line. The terms of tuition 
 have been placed from the first on a liberal basis, and the high position now- 
 occupied by this institution has been won as the result of the most thorough 
 and scientific work in this important field of commercial progress. 
 
 EDWIN CRARY, Apothecary, Established 1876, No. 206 
 Park Street, opposite Squire Street. — Should the various mercantile establish- 
 ments located in Hartford and vicinity be mentioned in the order of their com- 
 parative usefulness, that conducted by Mr. Edwin Crary would be clearly entitled 
 to a leading position in the list, for on the whole no retail establishment is more 
 useful than a well-managed drug store, and that of which Mr. Crary is pro- 
 prietor is well managed in the full seuse of the term. He is a native of 
 Hartford and has carried on his present enterprise since 1S76. Mr. Crary 
 
 is thoroughly familiar with every detail of his business. He employs two 
 competent clerks; and, as he gives personal attention to all details, the service 
 is as reliable as it is prompt and obliging. The premises occupied comprise a 
 handsomely-equipped store located at No. 206 Park Street, opposite Squire 
 Street, where a full assortment of drugs, medicines and chemicals is constantly 
 carried, enabling physicians' prescriptions to be compounded without delay. 
 Every facility is at hand to insure absolute accuracy in every detail of this 
 department of the business, and the ingredients used are obtained from the 
 most reliable sources, and may be depended upon for freshness and purity. 
 Uniformly moderate charges are made, and no trouble is spared to fully main- 
 tain the high reputation so long held in connection with the service. Mr. 
 Crary deals in toilet articles, druggists' sundries and other goods usually found 
 in a first-class pharmacy, and quotes the lowest market rates on all commodities 
 handled. Mr. Crary is a member of the Connecticut State Pharmaceutical 
 Association, also of the Licensed Pharmacists, and the following list of pro- 
 prietary articles are a few of many which are manufactured and sold by him to 
 all the druggists in the surrounding country as well as to a large retail trade : 
 Crary's Cough Elixir, Crary's (small) Bilious Pills, Crary's Corn Salve, Crary's 
 Sarsaparilla. 
 
 BIBEAU & SCHREPFER, Bakers and Confectioners, 
 No. 372 Asylum Street. — The food we eat makes us largely what we are, and 
 an ill-nourished body seldom contains an alert, able mind. It is, therefore, of 
 the highest consequence that we exercise care in the selection of food, and that 
 we should be assured that those from whom we obtain it are worthy of the 
 confidence bestowed upon them. No greater responsibility rests upon any 
 purveyor of food than that which the baker must bear, and unless he be a man 
 of high integrity he is not fit to be trusted. Wholesome bread is one of the 
 absolute necessities of life, and it is only to be made of the best ingredients. 
 Be sure that your baker is not of the class which uses spoiled or inferior flour, 
 hiding its deficiencies by employing chemicals; and, to make assurance doubly 
 sure, patronize only such men as Messrs. Bibeau & Schrepfer, whose standing 
 in the community is of the highest, and who are celebrated not only for the ex- 
 cellence of their bread and rolls, but for the superiority of their cake, pastry and 
 confectionery. They are extensive producers of all these, their establishment 
 being one of the largest and best of the kind in the city. Their store is at No. 
 372 Asylum Street, and comprises two floors 25 x 45 feet in dimensions. The 
 large and always fresh stock is composed of a very choice assortment of plain 
 anil fancy cakes, bread, rolls, buns, and, in fact, everything that is made by a 
 first-class bakery. A specialty is made of family and wedding supplies, all 
 orders being given prompt attention. Messrs. Bibeau & Schrepfer established 
 this busiuess in 1892, and conduct both a wholesale and retail trade, employment 
 being giveu to nine experienced assistants. In the back of the store are pleasant 
 cafe and ice-cream parlors, while the cream served is unexcelled for purity and 
 delicacy of flavor. All the goods used by the firm are manufactured in their 
 own bakerv, thus enabling them to guarantee satisfaction in every instance. 
 
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 ASYLUM STREET. 
 
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THE STATES MACHINE CO., No. 490 Capitol Avenue. 
 
 — For securing the necessary supplies for steam-power plants the manufacturers 
 of Hartford and vicinity are fortunate in possessing facilities that are unexcelled 
 and which have in a measure contributed to the development of the industrial 
 resources and enterprises of this section. Among the constructors of engines 
 and pump machinery, etc., a prominent place must be given to the States 
 Machine Company, which during the four years it has been located here has 
 acquired a most extensive domestic and foreign trade in its specialties, and a 
 reputation that is the envy of all competitors. The company manufactures a 
 line of special machinery which is without a superior in the market, and in 
 many cases not approached by the products of other makers. Their Worron's 
 hi;,'h speed compound engine and four plunger pumps are such pieces of 
 mechanism. It is a model of perfection, and leads everything in the line of the 
 latest improved engines. They have also a wide celebrity for their Vanderbeek 
 Universal Boring and Milling engine, which heads the list of the superior mill 
 machinery manufactured by the company. They make universal and plain 
 milling machines of heavy, medium and small sizes, Vanderbeek's four-spindle 
 drill press, circular and vertical milling attachments, and the " handy " vise. 
 They have also introduced a self-oiling countershaft, with new friction and self- 
 oiling loose pulley, both of which sprung into immediate popularity. The 
 company's shops are most complete in equipment. The offices are at No. 490 
 Capitol Avenue. 
 
 ALFRED T. RICKER, Hartford Moulding Works; 
 Mouldings; No. 26 Potter Street. — The field of household architecture and 
 wood-decoration is one which moves with rapid advances along the current of 
 our modern civilization. An establishment in touch with all the latest im- 
 provements and a recognized leader in this line is the Hartford Moulding 
 Works at No. 26 Potter Street, under the able and experienced management of 
 Mr. Alfred T. Ricker. The carefully-perfected facilities of many years enable 
 Mr. Rjeker to afford a very high grade of service and goods at the most 
 liberal prices. The factory premises comprise S,ooo square feet of floor space, 
 and are equipped with the latest improved machinery. Fourteen experienced 
 workmen are employed on an average. Motive force is supplied by a 100 
 horse-power engine and 125 horse-power boiler, with a new and model exhaust 
 blow-pipe. These complete facilities are constantly engaged in meeting the 
 large demand for the popular and reliable goods made here. Mr. Ricker 
 carries a heavy stock of every sort of material for inside work, with special 
 lines of kiln-dried lumber of the best quality. He guarantees A 1 reliable 
 stock and workmanship on everything leaving these works. Special work and 
 designs executed promptly, and a large variety of first-class mouldings kept 
 always on hand. The works are a leading centre of supply for the best con- 
 tractors and builders in this part of the State, and are admirably adapted to 
 meet the most extensive and modern demands. 
 
 CHARGES A. RAPEI/YE, Pharmacist, No. 325 Main 
 Street. — Although, perhaps, by the year 2,000 the use of drugs will be out- 
 grown, and the "faith cure" or some other equally agreeable means of regain- 
 ing health will have been adopted, the people of to-day must make use of the 
 methods of to-day, and these methods are such that a well-appointed and well- 
 managed establishment like the one carried on by Mr. Charles A. Rapelye is of 
 the greatest benefit to a community. This enterprise was inaugurated eight 
 years ago by the present proprietor, who is a native of New Britain and Presi- 
 dent of the State Board of Pharmacy. The premises occupied are located at 
 No. 325 Main Street, and consist of a finely fitted-up store 15 -^60 feet in size, 
 and a large basement 15 x 30 feet, while the stock contained therein is both 
 large and varied, being complete in every department and comprising an 
 assortment of pure drugs, medicine and chemicals which would not suffer by 
 comparison with the stock carried in many a city pharmacy which ranks in 
 the first class. The supply of druggists' sundries, toilet articles, etc., is also 
 full and varied, but Mr. Rapelye gives special attention to the handling of 
 drugs and prescriptions, which be offers at low prices and short notice. He 
 gives employment to seven efficient assistants, and precautions are taken so as 
 to render errors almost impossible, so that a large retail business is done. In 
 view of the facts already mentioned, it becomes unnecessary to add that Mr. 
 Rapelye is in a position to quote the very lowest market rates. 
 
 KEI/LY BROS., Steam Stone Works ; Dealers in All Kinds 
 of Building, Cut-Stone Work ; No. 93 Charter Oak Avenue.— The rapid growth 
 of American cities and the accompanying increase of wealth, together with a 
 desire for greater permanency in structures intended either for residence or 
 business purposes, has made of stone the most important building material, 
 and brought the mason and stonecutter prominently to the front. The demand 
 for expert skill in the fashioning of this universal material to its purposes 
 grows ever}- day, and none but finished artisans in this line can hope to acquire 
 permanent success in this field. The Messrs. Kelly Bros, are leading exponents 
 of the results of special abilities and experience in their business of stone cutters. 
 They are the proprietors of the steam stone works at No. 93 Charter Oak 
 Avenue, and have long been prominent in this important line of work. Their 
 saw-room, which is equipped with the most modern appliances, is 25 x 60 feet 
 in size and has a very large capacity. In the rear are sheds and yards for the 
 storage of rough and finished stone, etc., and they always have a heavy stock 
 on hand, as they are large dealers as well as cutters. This stock includes all 
 kinds of building, cut-stone work — such as house-trimming and material for 
 church and bridge work. They are prepared to furnish estimates on all kinds 
 of stonework and make deliveries at any rail or water point. They employ an 
 average of fifteen hands, and all orders are executed with the utmost prompt- 
 ness. The firm consists of Mr. J. Kelly and Mr. M. Kelly, and their offices and 
 vards are at above address. 
 
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 A. I,. THOMAS (Tunnel Park Market), Dealer in Meats, 
 Vegetables, Fish anil Oysters, No. 717 Main Street. — The average housekeeper 
 will surely agree with us when we say that an unusual amount of trouble, 
 bother and time. may be saved by dealing with a firm that fills orders just as 
 they are given and furnishes goods which prove as satisfactory as if picked out 
 in person, for it is an open secret that the reason why so many persons take 
 the trouble to do their own marketing iu person is because they fear that other- 
 wise they will be supplied with goods that other people leave ; or, in other words, 
 those that no experienced buyer would accept of his own choice. Without 
 stating whether or not that fear is well grounded in the majority of cases, we 
 can assure our readers that there is no foundation for it so far as the "Tunnel 
 Park Market," conducted by Mr. A. L. Thomas, is concerned, for he makes a 
 specialty of furnishing goods that he believes will fully suit the customers 
 ordering them. It is comparatively easy to do this, as he carries a very large 
 and varied stock, including choice cuts of beef, mutton, pork, smoked meats, 
 poultry, game, vegetables, canned goods, fish and oysters, and keeps it con- 
 stantly complete in every department. Premises are utilized measuring 20 x 50 
 feet and located at No. 717 Main Street. Mr. Thomas established this business 
 about three years ago. He employs two competent assistants and utilizes two 
 delivery wagons, and all orders are delivered promptly. Mr. A. h. Thomas is 
 a native of Hartford and very well known. He is ably assisted iu the manage- 
 ment of the business by Mr. D. W. Thomas. 
 
 JOHN SI^OANE & CO., Wholesale and Retail Dealers in 
 
 Produce, Fruit, Woodenware Etc.; Eggs a Specialty; General Agents for 
 Dutch Salad ; No. 319 Asylum Street. — The writer who said that "children are 
 healthiest where the most flowers grow, and people live longest where our 
 common fruits ripen best," might have added that the people of that region 
 gave evidences of the most refined and happy life where foreign and domestic 
 fruits found the greatest consumption. With the progress of civilization and 
 culture there has necessarily resulted an increased development of the great 
 fruit industry, and the prosperity of the houses iu this line are significant indices 
 of the condition of the people. No house has contributed more by the procuring 
 of fine and rare fruits in the best condition to supply the universal demand for 
 them than the firm of Messrs. John Sloane & Co., and none have enjoyed a 
 more deserved success. The business was established very many years ago. 
 Besides dealing in fruits they are also dealers iu produce, woodenware, etc., 
 making a specialty of eggs, and being general agents for Dutch salad. The 
 speedy recognition and appreciation which met their enterprising efforts testify 
 much better than words can do to the reliability and experienced wisdom of 
 this house. Two floors of a spacious warehouse, 30 x 125 feet, are taken up by 
 their valuable stock, and four assistants are constantly needed in the transaction 
 of their extensive wholesale and retail business, which extends throughout this 
 section, and gives good promise of increasing yet more in the future. The 
 premises occupied are located at No. 319 Asylum Street. 
 
 CHARGES T. STUART, Photographist, Nos. 269 and 271 
 Main Street. — Although what we now know as "photographic action" was 
 discovered at least two centuries ago, it was not made the subject of scientific 
 study until about 1770. Comparatively little progress was made in the develop- 
 ment of the art until the last fifty years, and it has remained for modern genius 
 to bring it to a high state of perfection. The photographer of to-day must be 
 a scientist and a constant student of developments in his profession if he 
 expects to keep fully abreast of the times. It is thus that Mr. Charles T. Stuart, 
 the well-known photographist of Nos. 269 and 271 Main Street, has gained his 
 eminence in the profession, and why the products of his studios possess merits 
 in truthfulness of likeness to the original and beauty of finish that others find 
 it difficult if not impossible to duplicate. Thirty-five years ago the establish- 
 ment which he now controls was founded by Mr. S. H. Waite, who was suc- 
 ceeded by Mr. Stuart about fifteen years since. It has been during this period 
 that some of the most remarkable developments in photography have occurred ; 
 and with the splendid facilities and equipments at his command, in connection 
 with his large experience and abilities, Mr. Stuart has more than kept pace 
 with them. His studios occupy nearly 8,ooo square feet of space, and include 
 a handsome reception room, a well-appointed and finely-equipped operating 
 room, dark room, framing department, etc.; in all, four large floors being 
 utilized. Mr. Stuart has a large staff of assistants, and employs the most com- 
 petent artists foi portrait paiuting and crayon work. 
 
 BDRBD W. CI/ARK, Manufacturer of Rubber Moulds, 
 Presses and Tubing Machinery, No. 31 Wells Street.— New England enjoys, as 
 a leading distinction, the credit of having developed the use and manufacture 
 of rubber goods to a much higher point than that ever before attained. A 
 leading establishment in this department of local and State business has for 
 some years been conducted by Mr. Edred W. Clark at No. 31 Wells Street, as 
 manufacturer of rubber moulds, presses and tubing machinery. He estab- 
 lished the business here in 1SS1, and has from the first manufactured a very 
 successful and high-grade class of work. His works are equipped with the 
 latest and best machinery in this line, and he employs a competent corps of 
 workmen. His specialties are well known to the trade, being sold in all parts 
 of New England, and also other States. They are of the very best material, 
 and unsurpassed for the purposes designed, the test of approval being given by 
 prominent manufacturers of rubber goods. The facilities for general repair of 
 machinery of this kind are exceptionally complete. Mr. Clark's prices will be 
 found invariably fair and reasonable. He guarantees the highest standard of 
 work and uniform satisfaction. In these days of unceasing progress, the only 
 way to secure first-class results is to obtain the services of special experts, and 
 such, by long experience and wide success, Mr. Clark has been most clearly 
 demonstrated to be. Our readers can make no mistake in entrusting all work 
 of this kind to his care. Special orders handled with dispatch, and shipped to 
 any point without delay. 
 
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A. CATKIN, Jr., Cotton Broker, No. 210 Pearl Street.— 
 
 A few years are considered ample time in these days for the acquirement of any 
 trade. Some people learn to be skillful in a short time, others do not; but when 
 a man has carried on a certain line of business for nearly twenty years his 
 absolute proficiency in it is almost a certainty. This is the case with Mr. A. 
 Catlin, Jr., of Hartford, Conn., who is a cotton broker, and has pursued his 
 present industry in this city since 1875. He makes a specialty of supplying 
 raw cotton to mills and manufacturers, and a carefully arranged system of 
 receiving and filling orders is in operation, and all confusion is avoided, car- 
 loads or any quantity being sold by sample ; the consequence being that all 
 orders are sure to be delivered promptly when promised. Mr. Catlin's office is 
 located at No. 210 Pearl Street, and he makes it his sole business to see that 
 his patrons are well, and, above all, honestly, supplied with the goods they have 
 ordered in the line we have referred to. Mr. Catlin is a native of Connecticut, 
 and has carried on business in this city long enough, and in so honorable and 
 enterprising a manner, as to have gained a high and well-deserved reputation 
 among the manufacturers in this State. All orders are quickly attended to, 
 and care is taken to give no cause for complaint. 
 
 MAPES FORMULA AND PERUVIAN GUANO CO., 
 
 H. H. Stafford, Manager Hartford Office. — Fertilization of the soil where such 
 exhaustive crops as tobacco are grown was a most serious consideration until 
 the introduction of Peruvian guano and chemical fertilizers. These have by 
 long and thorough practical experience proved so completely efficacious in 
 restoring the needed elements of plant food to the soil, that they have entirely 
 removed the difficulty of securing good continuous crops from the same piece 
 of land. Among the largest producers of such fertilizers in this country is the 
 Mapes Formula and Peruvian Guano Company of New York, whose branch 
 office in Hartford, under the efficient management of Mr. H. H. Stafford, was 
 first opened fifteen years ago, and has come to be considered a headquarters of 
 the fertilizer trade of this section. The company does an extensive business in 
 all parts of the United States, Canada, Mexico, Central America, the West 
 Indies and South America, and also ships goods to Cape Town, South Africa. 
 Their mammoth works are located at Newark, N. J., and their central offices 
 are at No. 143 Liberty Street, the Central Building, New York City. They 
 employ several hundred hands in their different departments. Prof. J. J. 
 Mapes was the enlightened agriculturist who first set the world to thinking on 
 the subject of enriching the soil scientifically, and was the founder of the great 
 business that has grown out of the propagation of his ideas. The Mapes 
 Formula and Peruvian Guano Company are manufacturers of the Mapes com- 
 plete and special crop manures, high and low-grade super-phosphates, ground 
 bone, etc., and importers and dealers in Peruvian guano, nitrate of soda, sul- 
 phate of ammonia, sulphate and muriate of potash, etc. The President of the 
 Company is Mr. P. Van Zant Lane, Mr. Charles V. Mapes is Vice-President 
 and General Manager, and the Treasurer is Mr. Edward V. Z. Lane. 
 
 P. A. SYKES, Fancy and Domestic Baker and Confectioner, 
 No. 185 Main Street; Five-Cent Lunch Room; Orders Solicited; Telephone 
 Connection. — The modern bakery is a very different institution from the bake- 
 shop of a generation since, and the methods employed are quite as different. 
 Baking has been reduced to an exact science with a very decided gain to the 
 healthfulness of the world at large. Not only is the bread of the present day 
 better baked, but it is composed of far superior materials to those used in the 
 kind our fathers used to eat. In the improvement that has taken place in these 
 respects during the past forty years Mr. F. A. Sykes has had an active part. It 
 was as long ago as that that he first embarked in the business, although he 
 remained in Hartford but seven years after the date of his initial venture. Six 
 years ago he returned to Hartford, having in the meantime conducted the busi- 
 ness at various other places, always with success. He now has a fine establish- 
 ment here at No. 185 Main Street, where the best bread and the finest cake and 
 pastry are always to be found. He employs six hands, and has work for two 
 teams in the delivering of orders. In connection with the bakery Mr. Sykes 
 conducts a popular five-cent lunch counter and has a large run of custom in 
 this department. His products are always in demand, for they are of a superior 
 kind, and fully meet the popular taste. 
 
 MARRIAGE. 
 
 The wedding bells rang loud and long, 
 
 And this is what they said : — 
 "There's nothing baked on earth can beat 
 
 Sykes' Good Bread." 
 
 HONEYMOON. 
 
 They billed and coo'd from morn 'till night, 
 
 And through the country sped, 
 They lived on love, and never ate 
 
 Sykes' Good Bread. 
 
 reality. 
 
 The Honeymoon was over 
 
 And the oven wouldn't bake, 
 The " staff of life " and sweetmeats 
 
 No better than the cake. 
 Her Husband growled and scolded, 
 
 For he wanted to be fed, 
 And his wife must to the grocers 
 
 For Sykes' Good Bread. 
 
 MORAL. 
 
 Young ladies, ere you're married. 
 
 And to the altar led, 
 Don't paralyze your sweethearts 
 
 With Home-made Bread ! 
 And when you've signed the contract, 
 
 If these lines are rightly read, 
 You'll always ask your grocer 
 
 For Sykes' Good Bread. 
 
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 MAIN STREET, LOOKING NORTH FROM ASYLUM. 
 
H. P. BROOKS (Successor to Charles King), Dealer in 
 Stoves, Ranges, Furnaces, Refrigerators, Oil Stoves, House-Furnishing Goods ; 
 Tin Roofing and Jobbing; Nos. 497 and 499 Main Street. — Everybody wants to 
 have good reliable stoves and ranges, as the necessary service which they per- 
 form affects the domestic economy and comfort every day in the year. To 
 obtain the best it is of course necessary to patronize only the most reliable and 
 modern stoves. None in this section can afford a better class of service in this 
 line than that secured with the old reliable establishment now conducted by 
 Mr. H. P. Brooks and located at Nos. 497 and 499 Main Street. His stock is 
 unexcelled anywhere in this city for its large variety and the genuiue bargains 
 constantly offered by it. This successful business was established sixty-three 
 years ago by Messrs. D. S. Brooks & Son. Upon the death of Mr. D. S. Brooks 
 the business came into the hands of his son, Mr. H. P. Brooks, the present pro- 
 prietor. Mr. Brooks handles a large and first-class trade, every feature of the 
 business being conducted with thorough and careful supervision. He employs 
 eight men, and the store occupied measures 30 x 150 feet in dimensions, with a 
 basement of the same size, and is fitted up in the best style. The stock includes 
 stoves, ranges, furnaces, refrigerators, oil stoves, house-furnishing goods, etc., 
 together with agate wares at both wholesale and retail ; orders for tin roofing 
 and jobbing of all kinds will receive prompt attention. Mr. Brooks, senior, 
 conducted the business in a store in the old Talcott Building two years ago. 
 The present proprietor bought out Charles King (engaged in the same line), 
 and moved to his present location, and retained Mr. William M. Rogers, who 
 had been a salesman for Mr. King for many years. The service will be found 
 by our readers to equal in reliability and fair terms the best that can be obtained 
 anywhere. 
 
 NO YES & MORRIS, Die Sinking, Drop Forgings, Etc., 
 
 No. 134 Sheldon Street. — The enterprise which has made Hartford a thriving 
 business centre has been especially displayed in those lines connected with 
 machinery and mechanical invention. A firm which for the past decade has 
 held a leading rank in its department of city and State industry is that of 
 Messrs. Noyes & Morris at No. 134 Sheldon Street, manufacturers of die-sinking 
 and drop-forging supplies of all kinds. The firm occupy a large and modernly- 
 equipped machine shop with the latest improved machinery, and a large corps 
 of reliable workmen. Their drop-hammers are of very recent style and the 
 most efficient of any yet made. They carry a large stock of special hardware 
 supplies which are sold at lowest wholesale rates. They also manufacture to 
 special order, and guarantee in all cases Ai reliable goods and workmanship. 
 The work of this firm has maintained a very high reputation and is used by 
 prominent manufacturers in all parts of the State. Their facilities for special 
 repairing and machine work will also be found unsurpassed. No effort has been 
 spared to place the plant upon the very highest standard of efficiency, and the 
 large success achieved is alike creditable to the firm and to the city. 
 
 GEORGE MARCHANT, Manufacturer and Dealer in Har- 
 ness, Saddles, Bridles, &c. ; Fine Carriage and Road Harness of the Best 
 Material; No. iigj-z Main Street. — Every man cannot be an expert judge of 
 the quality of the goods he buys, but every man can at least exercise intelligent 
 discretion in placing his orders with reputable dealers, and thus avoid the possi- 
 bility of imposition. In the buying of harness it is imperative that the dealer 
 selected should be one who enjoys a reputation for handling only reliable goods 
 at reasonable prices. Such a reputation belongs to Mr. George Marchaut, who 
 for the past twenty-eight years has been identified with the harness and 
 saddlery business in Hartford, of which city he is a native. His present esta- 
 blishment at No. 119K Main Street has been in operation for about a year, and 
 is one of the best patronized in the city. Buyers know that they can always 
 rely upon Mr. Marchant's representations, and that the goods they buy from 
 him invariably give satisfaction. He carries a select and full stock of harness, 
 saddles, bridles, &c. , making a specialty of fine road and carriage harness of 
 the best materials and workmanship. Harness of every description is made to 
 order, if desired, at low prices. 
 
 HARTFORD ONE-PRICE CLOTHING COMPANY, 
 
 Manufacturers, Jobbers and Retailers of Men's, Youths' and Boys' Clothing, 
 Nos. 114 and 116 Asylum Street. — Competition in the clothing trade is keener 
 than in any other branch of business, and the wonder is that, even in spite of the 
 immense consumption, so many houses should continue to thrive. It can only 
 be accounted for on the hypothesis that the keenness of the competition has 
 resulted in a vast improvement in the quality and workmanship of the goods, 
 and so brought about an immense increase of their popularity with wearers. 
 While this may answer as a general explanation, there is something more than 
 this behind the prosperity of the Hartford One-Price Clothing Company, of 
 Nos. 114 and 116 Asylum Street, manufacturers, jobbers and retailers of men's, 
 youths' and boys' clothing. Experience and intelligence of the highest order 
 contribute to their success, which is produced in the first instance by thorough 
 reliability. Every representation made by this house can be depended upon, 
 for, as they make and handle none but the best- quality goods, they have no 
 hesitation in guaranteeing their wearing properties, the quality of the work- 
 manship employed in their construction or any other feature contributing to 
 their superiority. The Hartford Clothing Company was organized in 187S, and 
 consists of men who have had a large and thoroughly practical. experience in 
 this line of business. They have a large and fine establishment of two floors, 
 each containing 4,000 square feet of space. The store on the main floor is one 
 of the finest devoted to the clothing business, and is brilliantly lighted with arc 
 electric lights. A fine stock is attractively and conveniently displayed, while 
 low prices govern the sale of each article. An average of six alert and 
 thoroughly competent assistants is employed, and prompt and satisfactory 
 service is a feature of the establishment 
 
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TRAVELERS INSURANCE CO. BUILDING. 
 
WIUJAM H. KEI/SEY & CO., Merchant Tailors and 
 Boys' Outfitters, No. 251 Main Street. — Clothing well made from good materials 
 costs comparatively little nowadays, and even the poorest of us can always ap- 
 pear well dressed. We may go a little further than appearances, however, and 
 always have good clothing, unexcelled in cut, fit and finish, as well as in dura- 
 bility, if we know where to buy to the best advantage. This is not a difficult 
 matter to ascertain in Hartford, for the merchant tailoring firm of Messrs. 
 William H. Kelsey & Co. is so generally known that no one need be told that 
 they offer the best inducements to buyers. It is an old and reliable house, and 
 has a most enviable reputation for the superior quality and style of the gar- 
 ments it produces. Mr. William H. Kelsey founded the business iu 1S52, sub- 
 sequently admitting his son, Mr. William H. Kelsey, Jr. to partnership, 
 adopting the firm style at present in use. Mr. Kelsey, Sr., died in 1891, after a 
 long and honorable career, and the son has since conducted the business alone 
 with the same degree of success and continued popularity as characterized the 
 efforts of the firm in the past. His well-appointed store is located at No. 251 
 Main Street, where a floor space 25x156 feet is utilized for the display of a 
 large and choice stock. The departments consist of custom clothing, boys' 
 outfitters, gentlemen's furnishings, and girls' outside garments. 
 
 H. FRANK BECK, Practical Plumber, Steam and Gas 
 Fitter, No. 516 Main Street (formerly No. 16 Temple Street). — We take pleasure 
 in calling attention to the enterprise conducted by Mr. H. Frank Beck, for a 
 house that does strictly first-class plumbing at the lowest possible rates, that 
 employs thoroughly competent and reliable help, that gives prompt and careful 
 attention to large and small orders, and that does practical plumbing that is 
 practical in the full sense of that much-abused word is a decided benefit to a 
 community, and that is just what is done by Mr. Beck. Operations were begun 
 about two years ago, moving to the present location, No. 516 Main Street, a few 
 months since. The premises utilized measure 15 x 50 feet in dimensions, and 
 three skilled assistants are employed. Orders, either in person or by mail, will 
 receive prompt and satisfactory attention. Mr. Beck is also prepared to execute 
 orders for steam and gas fitting. The prices charged in all departments of the 
 business are very low, and work will be found to give satisfaction in every 
 respect. Mr. Beck is a native of Germany and very well known. 
 
 G. E. MYERS, Druggist and Apothecary, No. 121}^ Main 
 Street. — Native talent is more generally appreciated than that of foreign origin, 
 and the young man who embarks in an}' line of business iu the city of his birth 
 is more certain of prompt recognition and support than one who is a stranger 
 in the place. This is particularly true of the druggist, confidence in whom 
 springs from personal knowledge of the man, and without such confidence 
 success is not to be attained, or, at the best, is a plant of very short growth. 
 About a year ago Mr. G. E. Myers opened a pharmacy in this city. He is a 
 native of Hartford, and having grown up iu the business, so to speak, he knows 
 
 it thoroughly. From the inception of his enterprise he has received the recog- 
 nition due to energy and ability, and many older druggists might well envy him 
 the success he is making in his chosen profession. He has a fine store, 18x75 
 feet in dimensions, at 121 }4 Main Street, among its handsome fixtures an elegant 
 soda fountain holding a conspicuous position. A full stock of fresh drugs and 
 chemicals, pharmaceutical preparations, etc., is carried, and prescriptions are 
 compounded in a most careful manner. Low prices prevail in all departments. 
 
 E. M. SII/I/, Art Studies, Birth Announcements, Tally 
 Cards, Invitation Cards and Novelties; also, Books, Periodicals, and Circulating 
 Library ; No. 89 Trumbull Street. — The business carried on by Mrs. E. M. Sill 
 at No. 89 Trumbull Street was started by this lady about three years ago. Mrs. 
 Sill deals in metaphysical and occult literature. Iu this class of literature her 
 stock is second to none in the country. She also carries a most complete line 
 of all the newspapers, magazines and periodicals of the day. Another branch 
 of the business includes full lines of art studies, birth announcements, tally 
 cards, invitation cards and many novelties too numerous to mention. A very 
 popular feature of this unique establishment is a flourishing circulating library, 
 to which the newest books are constantly being added. Mrs. Sill employs a 
 competent assistant, who with herself make it their constant study to meet and 
 supply the wants of their many customers and give prompt and courteous 
 attention to all, while the prices quoted on all goods offered are as low as can 
 be found at any place in the city. Hartford has long needed an enterprising 
 firm in this line of business, and this store, under the management of its able 
 proprietress, seems destined to become one of the most popular and attractive 
 business houses in the city. 
 
 BUCKLEY BROS. & CO., House Painters, No. 10 Ford 
 Street. — The advantages gained by placing orders for painting with a responsible 
 firm that not only does such work in a first-class manner, but also at reasonable 
 prices, are so obvious that there is no need of mentioning them iu detail ; and 
 conclusive evidence that the people appreciate them is afforded by the success 
 of the enterprise carried on by Messrs. Buckley Bros. & Co., for they are 
 painters and paperhangers, and they do a business so large as to require the 
 employment of fifteen to twenty assistants. The enterprise was inaugurated 
 twenty years ago by the present firm, which is composed of W. O., C. H. and 
 W. O. Buckley, Jr. The premises utilized are located at No. 10 Ford Street, 
 and comprise one floor 50 x 23 feet in dimensions. A very large trade is done, 
 all orders being executed with neatness and dispatch, and personal attention is 
 given in every instance. Estimates on the exterior and interior painting and 
 decorating of houses will be cheerfully made on application, and the facilities 
 are such that commissions can be executed at short notice, all work being 
 carefully supervised and no pains spared to attain the best possible results. 
 Messrs. W. O. and C. H. Buckley are natives of East Hartford, and W. O., Jr., 
 of Hartford. The senior members of the firm served iu the late war. 
 
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M. M. BACON, Bottling Establishment and Soda-Water 
 Manufactory, No. 13 Morris Street. — Few people not directly connected with 
 the business have anything like an adequate idea of the vastness of the bottling 
 trade of this country, and those who are able to make an approximate estimate 
 of its extent are surprised to find that it reaches such enormous proportions. 
 Competition in this line is particularly keen, but those who make it a practice 
 to handle none but the best goods have little difficulty in finding a ready market 
 for their output at reasonably profitable figures. Mr. M. M. Bacon of this city 
 is one of these. In fact, even with his large and fine facilities, he finds it diffi- 
 cult to keep pace with the demand created by the excellence of his products. 
 His is one of the oldest establishments of its kind in this section, its inception 
 dating back to 1845. Since 1S74 the business has been in Mr. Bacon's hands, 
 and through his enterprise and ability its extent and scope have been enormously 
 developed. His plant at No. 13 Morris Street is one of the best in the business, 
 being fitted with the latest and most improved bottling machinery and appli- 
 ances. He has constantly on hand a superior stock of bottled ale, porter, 
 cider and soda water, specialties being made of tonic, lemon and orange phos- 
 phate and the celebrated Henry Elias' prize-medal bottled lager beer. Special 
 attention is given to bottling for families, and the manufacture of soda water is 
 carried on on a most extensive scale. Mr. Bacon employs an average of twenty 
 hands, and is always in a position to execute the largest general or special 
 orders. 
 
 DAVIS & FOSTER, Dealers in All Kinds of Meat, Fish 
 and Vegetables ; Choice Family Groceries ; Game in its Season ; Fresh Country 
 Eggs and Butter a Specialty; Nos. 308 and 310 Asylum Street. — The meat and 
 vegetable market at Nos. 30S and 310 Asylum Street is very popular among 
 those who appreciate reliable goods, fair prices and careful service, for the 
 simple reason that Messrs. Davis & Foster, its proprietors, so manage it that 
 all the things we have mentioned are assured to those who do business at this 
 store. Mistakes happen sometimes of course ; the saying is that "accidents 
 happen in the best-regulated families," and a store is harder to govern than the 
 biggest or worst-regulated family, but no mistakes are made "on purpose" at this 
 place ; and when attention is called to any that happen to be made they are 
 corrected if possible and "squared up," anyway. Messrs. Davis & Foster's 
 stock includes all kinds of meats, fish and vegetables, also choice family gro- 
 ceries, game in its season, fresh country eggs and butter being a specialty of 
 this house ; and although they do not accomplish the wonderful feat of keeping 
 it "constantly complete in every department," as some provision dealers do (or 
 at least say they do), still you are pretty sure to find at their store everything 
 seasonable iu the way of provisions, and you can depend upon having your 
 orders filled accurately and promptly, employment being given to four compe- 
 tent assistants. Messrs. Davis & Foster succeeded Mr. Alexander Allen in 
 1893. The individual members of the firm are Messrs. G. F. Davis and William 
 E. Foster, both well and favorably known throughout Hartford and vicinity. 
 
 G. & H. I. CONANT RUBBER CO., Nos. 26 and 28 
 
 Asylum Street. — As a source of supply of every description of manufactured 
 goods, Hartford possesses every advantage that could be desired. Constant 
 additions are being made to her already numerous and varied commercial en- 
 terprises, and the facilities presented are equal if not superior to those afforded 
 by other American cities of her size. A consideration of these facts are sug- 
 gested by the contemplation of the advantages offered to consumers of rubber 
 goods of every description by the Conant Rubber Company of this city, a mer- 
 cantile concern of the highest standing, and one with an enviable and well- 
 established reputation in its particular field of enterprise. The Conant Rubber 
 Company was organized eleven years ago, and is a Boston corporation, the 
 establishment here being a branch of the parent concern, but one of scarcely 
 secondary importance to the original. The members of the company are 
 Messrs. G. and H. I. Conant, who give close personal attention to every detail 
 of the business. The Hartford store at Nos. 26 and 28 Asylum Street occupies 
 two floors, 25x60 feet in dimensions, and carries an immense stock :of every 
 description of rubber goods for domestic, mechanical and scientific use, even a 
 partial enumeratiou of which would be impossible in the space at our disposal. 
 They employ an average force of five competent clerks and assistants, insuring 
 the prompt execution of all orders received either by messenger, mail or tele- 
 phone. The business is essentially wholesale in character, though some retail- 
 ing is done. 
 
 THE NEW YORK TEA STORE (P. S. Kennedy, Pro- 
 prietor), Wholesale and Retail Dealers in Teas, Coffees and General Groceries ; 
 Meats, Poultry and Vegetables ; No. 474 Main Street, Corner Morgan ; Tele- 
 phone Call 132-3. — Were we asked to name half a dozen of the most prominent 
 grocery houses in this section, one of the first places we would mention would 
 be that conducted by The New York Tea Store (Mr. P. S. Kennedy, proprietor), 
 for it was inaugurated fully fifteen years ago, and has long been looked upon 
 as a representative undertaking of its kind, both as regards the methods em- 
 ployed in its management and its popularity throughout the community. The 
 proprietor is very well known iu this section, and has been a member of the 
 Common Council for four years. The premises utilized are located at No. 474 
 Main Street, corner of Morgan, and measure 100 x 25 feet in size, the meat 
 market being in the rear and finely equipped with ice boxes, etc. Mr. Kennedy 
 is a wholesale and retail dealer in teas, coffees, spices and general groceries ; 
 also, choice meats, poultry and vegetables. As Mr. Kennedy buys in large 
 quantities he is enabled to give his customers the benefit of his experience and 
 buying by naming the very lowest prices on all the goods he handles ; and as 
 employment is given to eleven assistants, and fourteen delivery wagons are 
 utilized, orders are promptly filled and delivered at the time promised. The 
 stock is as exceptional iu quality as it is in magnitude, and it is generally con- 
 ceded among consumers that goods obtained at this establishment are sure to 
 prove entirely satisfactory. 
 
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Dr. W. H. LAW, 
 
 ...Dentist,... 
 
 No. 382 MAIN STREET. 
 
 The care of the teeth receives far more attention at the present time 
 than ever before in the history of the race, more widespread knowledge con- 
 cerning the causes contributing to health and longevity having produced 
 this most desirable result. The perfection of dental science is an even greater 
 impelling cause of the enlightenment of the people as to the high impor- 
 tance of preserving the teeth ; and as the efforts of all modern dentists are 
 directed towards restoring defective teeth to their normal usefulness, rather 
 than, as was formerly the case, removing the injured members, the result 
 cannot but be productive of general healthfulness. In this connection it is 
 interesting to note the high position in the profession of dentistry that has 
 been attained by Dr. W. H. Law during the seventeen years he has been 
 practicing in this city. Dr. Law is a graduate of the Baltimore Dental College, 
 one of the oldest and most thorough of such institutions in the country, and 
 is a complete master of both the operating and mechanical branches of the 
 profession. He is a member of the old family of his name, which came 
 from Scotland in 182S and settled at Enfield, Conn. Dr. Law's office is at 
 No. 382 Main Street, Cheney Block (see opposite page), and consists of a 
 finely-appointed reception room, and an operating room equipped with the 
 most modern appliances of dentistry. 
 
 THE NEW ENGLAND HOME PRINTING CO., 
 
 General Newspaper, Book and Job Printers; Mercantile Work, Catalogue Work, 
 Publishers of " The New England Home," the Popular Family Weekly ; Main 
 Office, No. 302 Asylum Street. — The science and art of printing since the days 
 of old Ben Franklin have held an honored place in New England business life. 
 They have necessarily been intimately related to the great advance made in 
 educational and literary fields. One of the largest publishing and printing 
 houses of Connecticut is the New England Home Printing Company, whose 
 main office is located at No. 302 Asylum Street, Hartford. The company was 
 incorporated under present management in 1S90, and has met with steady 
 success from the start. They are the publishers of the "New England Home," 
 a popular weekly, with a guaranteed average circulation larger than any other 
 weekly newspaper in the State. Its literary and art-illustrative standard is in 
 thorough keeping with the best New England spirit, and it has a large influence 
 throughout the New England States. As a medium of advertisement there is 
 no more effective way of reaching the homes of the people. The company are 
 also general newspaper, book and job printers, having a complete modern 
 equipment for every class of work in this line. They occupy the second floor 
 of Boardman Building, No. 302 Asylum Street, run by electric power, and their 
 presses are kept in constant operation. A specialty is made of catalogue work, 
 and their facilities for every sort of commercial printing are unexcelled in the 
 city or section. They quote very liberal and attractive figures for the finest 
 grades of work. 
 
 E. TUCKER'S SONS, Wholesale and Retail Dealers in 
 Papers, Twines and Strawboards, Paper Bags, Glue, Etc., No. 100 Trumbull 
 Street. — Among the substantial business houses which have done most to build 
 up and extend the commercial prestige of the city that of E. Tucker's Sons 
 deserves honorable and prominent mention. It was established in 1849 by Mr. 
 Erastus Tucker, and the same general name and management have been pre- 
 served from the first. For a considerable period the business has been under 
 the sole management of Messrs. John D. Tucker aud James E. Tucker, the son 
 and grandson of the original proprietor. A large aud moderuly-equipped store 
 building is occupied at No. 100 Trumbull Street, comprising three floors, 
 75 x 25 feet in dimensions. A large jobbing trade is handled, extending 
 through this State and Massachusetts, the same requiring the employment of 
 six regular salesmen. The stock includes a full assortment of papers and paper 
 stock, twines, strawboards, paper bags, glue and similar goods of the best 
 grades. The quality is guaranteed and the liberal prices of this house 
 are equal to the best in the American market. Many leading manufacturers 
 aud dealers are among the regular customers of the house, aud it has also a 
 large retail trade. It can afford a range and high standard of service in all 
 matters bearing on this department which will not be equaled elsewhere in 
 this section. Mr. John D. Tucker, the surviving partner, is a veteran of the 
 Governor's Foot Guards, and also a member of the Hartford Board of Trade. 
 
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MAIN STREET. 
 
X,. N. WII/EY, D. D.S., Dental Rooms, Nos. 69 Ballerstein 
 Building and 275 Main Street, over Boston Branch. — The practice of dentistry 
 in the present day calls into play the highest abilities of the operator, for the 
 profession has within comparatively few years made such great progress that 
 even the most advanced ideas of the last decade are antiquated and valueless to 
 the practitioner of to-day. Dental surgery is a term conveying but an inadequate 
 idea to the lay mind of the scope and importance of this field of professional 
 endeavor, but its results are so marked in comparison with those achieved in 
 former years as to leave no doubt as to the advancement made. There is in 
 Hartford probably a no more advanced exponent of modern dentistry than Dr. 
 L. N. Wiley, who holds a leading and well-deserved position among doctors of 
 dental surgery in this city. He is a native of Hartford and a young man of the 
 most sterling character and high attainments. He has had a most valuable 
 experience in the offices of such celebrated dentists as Drs. Fanning and 
 Hitchcock of this city, and is a graduate of one of the best schools of dental 
 surgery in the country — the Philadelphia Dental College — having also taken a 
 two-years' course in the Medico-Chirurgical Hospital of that city. Although at 
 the time he embarked in business here, four years ago, Hartford already had 
 the service of between twenty-five and thirty dentists, all of more or less note, 
 his abilities received immediate recognition, and he at once entered on a large 
 and lucrative practice. Dr. Wiley has very tastefully fitted-up rooms in the 
 Ballerstein Building, which are supplied with the latest aud most valuable 
 appliances of his profession. 
 
 H. W. CONKUN, Insurance and Real-Estate Agent, No. 9 
 Central Row. — One of the most active and best known of Hartford's business 
 men is Mr. H. W. Conklin, whose office is at No. 9 Central Row, aud who is in 
 a position to reuder valuable assistance to those wishing to buy, sell, exchange 
 or rent real estate, or to place fire insurance in large or small amounts. Mr. 
 Conklin is thoroughly well informed concerning real estate in Hartford and 
 vicinity, and he always has on his books a great variety of desirable property 
 of that kind, so that time aud trouble may be saved by making use of the 
 facilities he offers. An extensive insurance business is also done, it including 
 the writing of policies on dwelling houses, stables, factories, stores and buildings 
 in general, the following leading companies being represented: Atlas, of London; 
 North American, of Boston; Mercantile Fire & Marine Insurance Co.; Granite 
 State Fire Insurance Co., of New Hampshire; Agricultural, of Waterbury, Conn.; 
 Norwich Union, of England ; Merchants, of Providence, etc. Mr. Conklin estab- 
 lished this business thirty-five years ago. He is very widely and favorably 
 known throughout Hartford and vicinity in both real-estate and insurance 
 business circles. Mr. Conklin thoroughly understands the principles underly- 
 ing insurance, is well informed on financial methods, and hence is well qualified 
 to explain the several policies issued by the companies he represents, to judge 
 as to which is best suited to individual cases, and to make the reasons for his 
 judgments clear to those affected thereby. 
 
 Ransom N. Fitz Gerald, EsTABMSHED l872 ' 
 
 Wholesale and 
 - — ....^"'''"'J ""Commission Merchant, 
 
 Salt, Salt-Fish and Canned Goods, Poultry, Game, Connecticut 
 River Shad and Block Island Fish Specialties. 
 
 No. 142 STATE STREET 
 
 GALI/UP & MET2GER, Pianos, Organs, Sheet Music 
 and Musical Merchandise, Nos. 201, 203 and 205 Asylum Street, Corner 
 Haynes. — There is not as much difference in pianos as in the dealers who 
 handle them, but unfortunately the buyer seldom ascertains this fact until after 
 the transaction is completed, and he then has an experience that is of little use 
 to him thereafter. It should not be inferred, aud of course nobody believes, 
 that all pianos are alike in tone and other essential qualities, any more than 
 that all dealers are disposed to consult the interests of the buyer equally with 
 their own. But as few people buy more than one piano in a life-time, and the 
 purchase is oue that involves a considerable money outlay, it is desirable that 
 they should make it where they may be sure that they will not be imposed 
 upon in the slightest particular. Messrs. Gallup & Metzger have the reputa- 
 tion of being most straightforward and reliable dealers. They handle none 
 but the best makes, and can therefore conscientiously recommend the instru- 
 ments they sell in the full assurance that they will turn out to be exactly as 
 represented. The firm began business herein 1881, and has acquired a large 
 and valuable trade iu pianos, organs, sheet music and musical merchandise 
 generally. Their establishment is at Nos. 201, 203 aud 205 Asylum Street, and 
 is one of the largest of its kind in the State. Two large floors, 40 x 80 feet in 
 dimensions, are occupied, and a large and most valuable stock is carried. 
 They make a leading specialty of the celebrated Knabe pianos, and also 
 handle extensively the fine instruments bearing the name of Vose, Pease aud 
 other leading makers. They also sell the Estey Vocalian organ, oue of the 
 finest instruments of its kind in the market. Their stock of sheet-music is the 
 largest and best outside of New York or Boston. Messrs. Gallup & Metzger 
 are also sole agents for the Electric Piano, a new aud unique instrument that is 
 acquiring great popularity. They are the only house in the State .handling 
 church orgaus. Their business is both wholesale and retail in character, and 
 they require the services of a strong force of clerks, including ;a_number of 
 traveling salesmen. 
 
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ASYLUM STREET. 
 
SCHMIDT & FOX, Watches, Diamonds and Jewelry, No. 
 19 Pearl Street, near Main. — Although one of the most prominent character- 
 istics of the establishment conducted by Messrs. Schmidt & Fox is its reliability, 
 it would be incorrect to offer this as the explanation of the great popularity the 
 store enjoys, for many other reliable jewelry stores can be found in the city ; 
 but the truth of the matter is the public like to do business with a firm that is 
 not only reliable but enterprising ; that not only gives full value for money 
 received, but gives its patrons an opportuuity to choose from the very latest 
 fashionable novelties in all the various lines of goods it handles. The business 
 carried on by Messrs. Schmidt & Fox was founded in 1SS8 by Mr. Schmidt, the 
 present firm being formed in 1S91. The partners are Messrs. A. H. Schmidt, a 
 native of Germany, and Jacob Fox, of Hungary. Premises located at No. 19 Pearl 
 Street are occupied and very completely fitted up, the stock of watches, 
 diamonds, jewelry, etc., being displayed to excellent advantage. Every 
 facility is at hand for the repairing of watches, jewelry, etc., in a superior 
 manner ; and, as employment is given to a competent assistant, orders can be 
 filled without delay. Moderate prices are quoted in every department of the 
 business, and no trouble is spared to thoroughly satisfy every customer. 
 
 JAMES AHERN, Plumbers', Steam and Gas-Fitters' 
 Supplies; Gas and Electric Light Fixtures; Electric Light Supplies; Construc- 
 tion Work for All Systems ; Electric Lighting, Plumbing, Steam and Gas 
 Fitting; Also, Hot-Water Heating; No. 2S0 Asylum Street. — The establishment 
 of Mr. James Ahem, situated at No. 2S0 Asylum Street, is probably one of the 
 finest and most completely stocked of any of its kind in New England, and is 
 the headquarters of a very extensive business. Mr. Ahern began business in 
 Hartford in 186S, locating himself at No. 272 Main Street, where he remained 
 until May 1, 1882, when the demands of his growing business compelled his 
 removal to the elegant and roomy premises he now occupies. The volume of 
 business transacted by Mr. Ahern requires the assistance of from thirty to forty-five 
 workmen, the latter number being largely augmented in the busy season. The 
 premises occupied by this business consist of a lofty ceiled store and workshop, 
 extending from Asylum Street through to a small street in the rear, where all 
 goods are received and shipped. The store, including the workshop, has a 
 frontage of twenty-five feet by a depth of ninety feet, and is stocked with a full 
 line of plumbers' and gas-fitters' materials, pipe, fixtures, etc., besides a large 
 and elegant assortment of the latest designs in gas fixtures from the manufactory 
 of Mitchell, Vance & Co. of New York, for which house Mr. Ahern is sole 
 agent in Hartford Count)'. One room is fitted up to show patrons — -architects, 
 builders, house owners, and those intending to become house owners — the latest 
 improvements in scientific sanitary plumbing. The art has now reached such 
 a point of perfection that every fixture — every closet — is self-ventilating, and it 
 is impossible for bad and noxious odors to escape into the room. It is a liberal 
 education in scientific plumbing merely to go into this room and look about. 
 In adjoining rooms are displayed all appliances for electric and for gas lighting. 
 
 In the workshop — a model of its kind — there is to be found everything in the 
 way of materials and tools that is required for any part of the plumbers' and 
 gas-fitters' business. Neatly arranged along the sides are numberless compart- 
 ment-shelves, containing every kind and size of fittings for gas and water known 
 to the trade, while on the benches may be found a complete assortment of fine 
 tools of ever}' description used in the business. In the centre of the shop 
 stands a machine driven by steam power, and used for cutting and threading 
 iron pipe. This machine saves much time and labor, and is so absolutely 
 accurate in its operation that the tightness of the joints made by it can be relied 
 on with perfect assurance. In the basement there are stored immense quan- 
 tities of cast and wrought iron pipe, fittings, etc., and there is no contract so 
 large or varied in its nature that Mr. Ahern is not prepared to fill from his 
 immediate stock. The trade of this house is not confined to Hartford, but 
 extends to other portions of the State, many of the finer residences outside the 
 city having been fitted by Mr. Ahern. This extent of business is due in great 
 measure to the fact that Mr. Ahern is one of the few in his line not content with 
 being merely a "practical " workman, but who has studied the scientific aspects 
 of the trade to such advantage and with such earnestness of purpose that he is 
 recognized not only as the leading plumber in Hartford, but as a scientific sani- 
 tarian who uses his knowledge in his work and for his customers' benefit. Mr. 
 Ahern, although not a native of America, can be justly regarded as a represen- 
 tative American, having lived in this country since his boyhood, most of the 
 time in Hartford, where he has won for himself an enviable place among the 
 business fraternity and the good-will of a great number of personal friends and 
 acquaintances. He is a progressive businessman, a desirable citizen, and enjoys 
 the very honorable distinction of being a "self-made man." 
 
 AI/EEN BROTHERS, Dealers in Choice Groceries, Fruits, 
 Etc., No. 132 Main Street, Corner Sheldon. — The stock carried at the establish- 
 ment conducted by Messrs. Allen Brothers can hardly be better described than 
 by the single word " clean, " for this is the trade term for any assortment of 
 goods which contains nothing unsalable or superfluous, and that is just the 
 condition of the stock to which we have reference. Not that it is small and 
 without variety ; on the contrary, it comprises full lines of staple and fancy 
 groceries, fruits, eggs, etc., which are offered at low prices. The business was 
 established in 1SS0 by the present proprietors, Messrs. A. L. and I. W. Allen, 
 who are natives of this State. They give employment to five competent assist- 
 ants, who assure all callers prompt attention. All orders are promptly and 
 carefully filled and delivered quickly. The premises occupied are 25 x 60 feet 
 in dimensions, and consist of a fine store, with storeroom in the rear. Messrs. 
 Allen Brothers cater to the best class of trade, and the quality of every article 
 sold, whether it be a barrel of flour or a yeastcake, is guaranteed to prove 
 exactly as represented, and it is owing to the faithful carrying out of this policy 
 from the first that this establishment stands so high in the confidence of the 
 public. 
 
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JAMES MUIyHAI/L, Real Estate Broker and Appraiser, 
 No. 29 Pearl Street, Second Floor, Room No. 1. — Among the many real-estate 
 brokers and appraisers in this vicinity one of the best known and most highly 
 respected is Mr. James Mulhall. He has been a resident of Hartford for the 
 past fort) - years, and established his present business some eighteen years ago. 
 Mr. Mulhall occupies an office at No. 29 Pearl Street, Room No. 1, where he 
 is prepared to transact any dealings in the real-estate brokerage and appraising 
 line at as moderate rates as any agent in the neighborhood. His intimate 
 knowledge of the value of property in this section of the State makes his 
 advice of the utmost value to all persons desiring real estate, and who have 
 little or no opportunity to study into the details of this complex business. Mr. 
 Mulhall is agent for many banks, and also the State School Fund, in Hartford. 
 He gives special attention to renting and collecting rents on real estate ; all 
 business in this line entrusted to him being promptly and faithfully attended 
 to. Mr. Mulhall is very well known throughout Hartford and vicinity, and 
 was a member of the old Fire Department. His business has steadily developed 
 under the stimulus afforded by hard, intelligent and persevering work and con- 
 stant devotion to the interests of his clients; and those wishing to consult 
 with Mr. Mulhall in a professional way will find him courteously ready. 
 
 PREISSNER BROTHERS, Cake and Bread Bakery, No. 
 59 Sheldon Street. — We are desirous of calling the attention of our readers to 
 the well-known bakery located at No. 59 Sheldon Street, Hartford, which has 
 been from its inception successful in building up an extensive trade in bread, 
 cake and pastry. This establishment was started in 1S91 by its present pro- 
 prietors, the Messrs. Preissner Brothers. Both members, John and August, are 
 natives of Germany, and members of St. Stephen's Benefit Society. The store 
 occupied is 25 x 25 feet in dimensions, is fully equipped with all the necessary 
 requirements for the successful conduct of the business, the extent of which 
 gives employment to thoroughly experienced assistants. These gentlemen 
 carry a fine stock in all branches of their business, and are prepared to supply 
 customers at short notice with any goods in their line, and perfect satisfaction 
 is guaranteed both as to quality and price. This establishment is largely pat- 
 ronized by families throughout the town who appreciate first-class bread, cake 
 and pastry of all kinds. Preissner Brothers are well known throughout Hart- 
 ford and vicinity. They are men of excellent business qualifications, and in 
 their special line offer inducements to purchasers not easily duplicated, as their 
 prices are as low as can be quoted on first-class goods, and will compare favor- 
 ably with those named by other bakers. 
 
 ALFRED WII/I/IAMS & SON, Manufacturing Furriers; 
 Seal Garments a Specialty; Nos. 41, 43 and 45 Pratt Street. — The many advan- 
 tages of fur garments, especially for ladies' use, create so extensive a demand as 
 to make the fur business one of national importance ; but it is safe to say there 
 is not a concern in this country having a higher reputation in connection with 
 the furnishing of fine furs at low prices than that of Messrs. Alfred Williams & 
 Son, located at Nos. 41, 43 and 45 Pratt Street. This business was originally 
 entered into in 1843 by Mr. Alfred Williams, in London, England, who came 
 to Hartford, where he was for many years foreman at Strong & Woodruffs. 
 His sou, Mr. A. C. J. Williams, who had learned the business of his father, was 
 admitted to partnership in 1SS9, and since the death of his father has been the 
 sole manager of the business, which is constantly and rapidly increasing. The 
 firm manufacture fine furs in general, making a specialty of sealskin garments 
 and fur goods of every kind, and one very important factor in their success is 
 the fact that they make all their own goods and sell direct to the consumer, 
 thus saving him the paying of at least one profit and enabling the firm to quote 
 positively bottom prices on strictly first-class goods and workmanship. A 
 large force of experienced assistants is employed, and orders can gener- 
 ally be filled at comparatively short notice and in a manner which cannot fail 
 to satisfy the most fastidious customers. Furs are stored and insured for the 
 summer against moth and fire. Mr. A. C. J. Williams is well known in social 
 circles of Hartford, he being a member of St. John's Lodge of Masons; Wash- 
 ington Commandery, K. T. , Midian Encampment, and of Connecticut Lodge 
 of Odd Fellows ; also, ex-Captain of the Foot Guard Veteran Corps, and a mem- 
 ber of many secret orders, and is one of the city's progressive business men. 
 
 THE WARNER & WII,I,ARD CO., Manufacturers of 
 and Wholesale Dealers in Ready-Made Clothing, Nos. 108 and no Asylum 
 Street. — One of the most notable houses, and one of the most successful as 
 well, that have acquired prominence in comparatively recent years as manufact- _ 
 urers of and wholesale dealers in ready-made clothing, is The Warner & Willard 
 Co., of this city. This important concern was organized in 1S94 as the suc- 
 cessors of the well-known firm of Messrs. F. W. Warner & Co., who began 
 business here as long ago as 18S0, and who during their existence as a firm 
 always held a commanding position in the wholesale clothing trade of New 
 England. One of their representatives on the road, and member of the old 
 firm, Mr. W. L. Willard, is now prominently identified with the new com- 
 pany, as the conspicuous place held by his name in its title indicates. He is 
 its President, while Mr. F. W. Warner, of the original firm of Warner & Co., 
 is its Secretary and Treasurer. The Willard & Warner Company are extensive 
 manufacturers of clothing, using the best foreign and domestic materials in the 
 construction of their widely-celebrated products. They have a prosperous and 
 steadily-growing wholesale trade in all parts of New England, keeping two 
 traveling men constantly on the road, while in the business department at 
 Nos. 108 and no Asylum Street they have a force of eight clerks. In the 
 manufacturing department of their large establishment they employ an average 
 of thirty-four skilled hands. The premises occupied consist of two floors 
 25 x ico feet each, provided with a most perfect equipment for manufacturing 
 and with ample space for the display of a large and fine stock. The company 
 also has a wide reputation as custom tailors and extensive dealers in furnishing 
 goods of every description. 
 
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CENTENNIAL AMERICAN TEA CO., No. 223 Main 
 
 Street. — If you accept the word of the average grocer as authority, you will 
 believe that it is impossible for anyone to sell the best grades of teas and 
 coffees at lower prices than he charges and at the same time make the pur- 
 chaser of a certain quantity a useful and valuable present. It would be better 
 to investigate for yourself, for experience proves that the Centennial American 
 Tea Co. does just the thing your grocer would have you believe it cannot do, 
 and that, moreover, it gives much better value than most grocers can afford at 
 the same price. If this were not the fact the Centennial American Tea Co. 
 would not be in a position to point to a highly-successful career in this line of 
 trade extending over a period of eighteen years. The reason it can undersell 
 competitors and present its patrons with articles of chinaware, bric-a-brac, etc., 
 is that it possesses much larger facilities in securing goods in the primary mar- 
 kets than other dealers have, and is a direct importer of teas and coffees. Mr. 
 William Stewart, who acted as manager for the company when it began opera- 
 tions in 1876, is still with it. He occupies a fine store 25x40 feet in floor 
 dimensions at No. 223 Main Street, and gives employment to three competent 
 clerks. 
 
 THE HARTFORD BUILDING AND LOAN 
 
 ASSOCIATION; R. P. Chapman, President; Geo: Stronach, Vice- 
 President; A. S. Howe, Secretary and General Agent; Room 5, No. 370 
 Asylum Street.— The principle of the building and loan association is one of 
 the most beneficial and distinct financial triumphs of the present century. It 
 is but a legitimate application of American ideas of broad equality and co-opera- 
 tion to a most important field of banking ; namely, loans on real property and 
 for purposes of construction or improvement. Its universal and phenomenal 
 success simply shows how intimately it is allied with the spirit of our institu- 
 tions and people. The Hartford Building and Loan Association, whose home 
 office is situated at Room 5 Batterson Building, No. 370 Asylum Street, this 
 city, is one of the best New England representatives of its type. The field 
 having been in part pre-empted by the old-style savings banks, the movement 
 did not spread at once and so widely among our more conservative people as in 
 some other sections of the country. But, as the main features of it have become 
 better known in recent years, their broad fairness has given it a very wide pop- 
 ularity and influence. The Hartford Building and Loan Association was 
 organized in 1S89, and incorporated in 1893 under a special charter, and has 
 done a steadily-increasing business throughout the State since its organization. 
 One very important feature is that each stockholder has one vote, and no more, 
 irrespective of the number of shares, which makes it exceptionally safe as a 
 channel for investment to the man of small or moderate means, and most truly 
 co-operative. Its rate of interest on all amounts paid in is a very liberal one, 
 though not of the excessive character promised by some of the mushroom 
 organizations. It has proved far more effective than any other type of organi- 
 zation in encouraging savings among the working people, as the returns are 
 
 estimated and allotted on the most equitable and square basis to all from the 
 exact time of payment. It also secures to its members the opportunity for 
 erecting and owning their homes, and also for making valuable and necessary 
 improvements. The small weekly payments are adapted to the pocket-book of 
 every sensible person, and secure advantages which cannot possibly be obtained 
 in any other way. Mr. A. S. Howe, the Secretary and General Agent, is a well- 
 known, reliable business man, and has been associated with the steady advance 
 of this organization from the first. We advise all our readers to give the ad- 
 vantages presented by this method of saving and loaning a most careful exam- 
 ination, if they appreciate the value of living in their own homes. 
 
 M. S. SMITH, New and Second-Hand Furniture Bought and 
 Sold, Nos. 558 to 564 Main Street. — When seeking to purchase furniture of 
 any kind, it is always best to gp where a large and complete stock may be 
 inspected ; for these articles are so extensive in number and variety that only 
 by personal examination can it be satisfactorily determined just what is the 
 most applicable to the end it is desired to serve. A Hartford house handling 
 an immense variety of articles of this description is that conducted by Mr. M. 
 S. Smith at No. 564 Main Street. It was founded about seven years ago by the 
 present proprietor, who is a native of Vermont, and a well-known business 
 man. The premises occupy a store 3OXS0 feet in size, with two basements for 
 storage. New and second-hand furniture is bought and sold, also house- 
 furnishing goods of all kinds. Chamber, parlor and kitchen furniture is shown 
 in all the latest designs, and some of the chamber-sets shown in ash and 
 antique are not only of fashionable style and the best workmanship, but are 
 offered at surprisingly low figures. Goods are sold on the instalment plan at 
 cash prices, and the assistants who are in attendance assure all customers of 
 prompt and polite service. 
 
 E. S. ClyARK, Dealer in and Packer of Seed- Leaf Tobacco, 
 
 Nos. 225 and 227 State Street. — That important industry, the leaf-tobacco trade, 
 to which Hartford owes a large share of its greatness as a manufacturing centre, 
 has many long-established representatives, of which there is none more promi- 
 nent than Mr. E. S. Clark. He has been engaged in this branch of business for 
 the past forty years, not only as a dealer and packer of seed-leaf tobacco, but 
 as a grower, having large plantations at Poquonac and at Bloomfield in this 
 State. He averages forty to fifty acres in tobacco each year, and during the 
 harvest time employs some fifty hands. His Hartford establishment is one of 
 the largest as well as one of the oldest in the city, the warehouse being four 
 stories in height, with a frontage of twenty-five feet, including both Nos. 225 
 and 227 State Street, and a depth of one hundred feet. A large staff of compe- 
 tent assistants is employed here, and all orders are executed with the utmost 
 dispatch. Mr. Clark ships to all parts of the United States, and is prepared to 
 execute the largest orders from any quarter at short notice. 
 
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TRINITY COLLEGE. 
 
BERNARD McGURK, Dealer in Meats, Poultry, Vegetables, 
 Game, Eggs, Etc., No. 553 Main Street. — It is easy enough for a man to state 
 the kind of service he wants to find in a market, for practically every one of 
 us knows that the market he is looking for is one where the goods are varied 
 in kind, reliable in quality, and low in price ; where the service is prompt, in- 
 telligent and efficient, and where a man is just as sure to get what he wants if 
 he orders it as it would be if he picked it out himself. It is evident that many 
 residents of Hartford think that the market conducted by Mr. Bernard McGurk 
 at No. 553 Main Street "fills that bill" pretty well; at all events, they surely 
 consider it to be one of the best markets in town, for they buy all their meats, 
 poultry, vegetables, etc., at Mr. McGurk's, and they tell their friends to do the 
 same thing if they wish to save money and to make sure of getting just what 
 they pay for. The premises utilized measure 15x50 feet in dimensions, and 
 are stocked with a choice selection of meats of all kinds, poultry, vegetables, 
 game, eggs, etc.; and, as the stock is constantly being renewed in all of its 
 departments, it is always fresh, attractive and complete enough to admit of 
 even the most fastidious tastes being suited. The proprietor gives close per- 
 sonal attention to the supervision of affairs, and employs two competent 
 assistants, so the service is prompt, accurate and accommodating. Mr. McGurk 
 succeeded Mr. A. Wilcox about seven years ago. 
 
 CHAREES A. POST, Fine Groceries and Flour, No. 709 
 Main Street. — Thirty years is a very long time to carry on a business, and it is 
 especially noteworthy in the case of that carried on by Mr. Charles A. Post, for 
 he has been identified with it from the very first, being the sole proprietor and 
 succeeding Messrs. O. & O. Johnson. He is a native of Connecticut, and of 
 course is almost universally known in this viciuity, not only on account of the 
 length of his business career, but also by reason of the character of his business, 
 for, as a dealer in fine groceries and flour, he caters especially to family trade. 
 The premises utilized by Mr. Post are located at No. 709 Main Street, and com- 
 prise a fine store and basement each 25 x 65 feet in dimensions, this large 
 amount of space being very completely availed of as an extremely large and 
 varied stock is carried. It comprises an exceptionally complete line of staple 
 and fancy groceries, and also an assortment of articles which are by no meaus 
 always to be found in even the best. stocked grocery stores, among Mr. Post's 
 specialties beingWashburn, Crosby & Co.'s Superlative Flour. Although "quality 
 before price " may be said to be the governing principle of this establishment, 
 still no " fancy prices " are quoted ; on the contrary, as Mr. Post does a strictly 
 cash business, goods are furnished at the very lowest prices, quality of course 
 being considered. Employment is given to four efficient assistants, and two 
 teams are utilized, and orders are assured prompt attention and accurate delivery. 
 
 THE CUSHMAN CHUCK CO., Manufacturers of Im- 
 proved Lathe and Drill Chucks, No. 30 Cushman Street. — No period in the 
 history of the world has been so fertile in the production of superior mechanical 
 devices as the past thirty years. Machines which were considered admirable at 
 the beginning of this period are now considered as useless as though made two 
 hundred years ago. A leading and successful house which has kept steadily in 
 the van of the lines connected with its work is the Cushman Chuck Co. of 
 Hartford, Coun. It was established in 1862 and incorporated in 1SS5, having 
 been under the same active and careful management from the first. The 
 officers are Mr. A. F. Cushman (President) and Mr. E. L. Cushman (Secretary 
 and Treasurer). They manufacture the highest grade of improved lathe aud 
 drill chucks for all mechanical purposes. Their manufacturing plant consists 
 of three connecting buildings, covering about one-third of an acre. It is 
 equipped throughout with the latest and best machinery. Motive force is 
 supplied by an engine of 75-horse and boiler of 100-horse power. The company 
 employs on an average seventy-five first-class workmen. Their goods are sold 
 in all parts of the world, and are admittedly the best in the market for the 
 special purposes designed. In variety of styles, reliability and liberal prices 
 this house is far the best of its kind in the State, if not in New England. Great 
 ingenuity has been given to the perfection of detail and elaborate facilities pro- 
 vided for making special styles, so that it can uniformly afford the very highest 
 degree of service in this department at figures which cannot be readily dupli- 
 cated. Its descriptive catalogue and special circulars will prove of value to all 
 interested in this department of business. 
 
 THE ERNST SCHAEE CO. (Ernst Schall, J. R. Stevens, 
 J. J. Cloouan, F. D. Mann), Jewelers, Silversmiths, Diamond Merchants, Main 
 Street, Corner Asylum Street. — One of the most enterprising and attractive of 
 the many fine business establishments of Hartford is that conducted by the 
 Ernst Schall Company as jewelers, silversmiths aud diamond merchants. It is 
 one of the oldest business houses in the city, its founder being Mr. Ernst Schall, 
 who is still at the head of the business, and who began operations here over 
 thirty-two years ago. The change in the firm style was made two years since, 
 the following-named gentlemen being associated in the control of the business, 
 under the title of "The Ernst Schall Co.": Messrs. Ernst Schall, J. R. Stevens, 
 J. J. Cloonan and F. D. Mauu. Mr. Stevens, who is a native of Hartford, has 
 held a commission of lieutenant in the First C. N. G.; Mr. Cloonan also claims 
 Hartford as his birthplace ; while Mr. Mann, who is in charge of the watch 
 department, is a native of Germany ; Mr. Schall, the founder of the house, is a 
 New Yorker. Their handsome store has a frontage on Main Street, corner of 
 Asylum Street, and extends back forty feet on Asylum, having entrances also 
 on that street, while upstairs are the workrooms, where the manufacturing and 
 repairing are done. The firm do an extensive and valuable business, and carry 
 a very large stock of fine jewelry, diamonds and other precious stones, watches 
 and clocks of the best makes, Dresdenware, cut glass, silverware, optical goods 
 of every description, bric-a-brac and fine stationery — making a specialty of 
 wedding invitations. They employ five clerks, who extend prompt aud courteous 
 attention to all callers. A specialty is made of repairing fine watches and 
 clocks, jewelry, etc. 
 
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ASYLUM STREET. 
 
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 ST. JOSEPH'S CATHKHK 
 
 DE WOlyF & WHEEI/OCK, Groceries and Provisions, 
 Nos. 918 and 920 Main Street. — One of the most popular and largely-patronized 
 grocery and provision stores in Hartford, where so many excellent establish- 
 ments of this kind exist, is that carried on at No. 91S Main Street by Messrs. 
 De Wolf & Wheelock. This business was established twenty-two years ago, 
 and after several changes came into the hands of De Wolf & Johnson about one 
 year ago. Mr. Johnson continued in the firm but a short time, and it was 
 carried on by Mr. De Wolf until May 1, 1894, when the present firm assumed 
 control. Both these gentlemen are natives of Connecticut, and utilize a double 
 store 60x70 feet in dimensions, one side being devoted to the sale of groceries 
 and the other to meats, etc. The premises are well supplied with facilities for 
 carrying on a first-class business, three assistants being at hand to assure 
 customers prompt and courteous treatment. A very fine and complete assort- 
 ment of provisions and groceries of all kinds is carried, and pains are taken to 
 provide for all tastes and all purses by furnishing goods of sufficient variety to 
 satisfy every want. Orders will be promptly and accurately delivered, and are 
 filled at the lowest market rates. 
 
 W. N. PEI/TON & CO., Wholesale Dealers in Dry Goods 
 and Notions, Nos. 40 and 42 Union Place. — The different stages of business are 
 just as essential to one another as the layers of stone in a foundation or the 
 relative parts of an organic body. In order that there shall be wise and careful 
 distribution of goods the experienced wholesale merchant has to apply principles 
 of trade which could never have been grasped save by long and thorough 
 training. A business house which for the better part of a quarter of a century 
 has experienced a wide and deep influence upon city and State business affairs 
 is that of Messrs. W. N. Peltou & Co. at Nos. 40 and 42 Union Place. With 
 the steady advance of local trade it has afforded facilities and resources in its 
 well-managed business of very great value both to the merchants and consumers 
 throughout this section of the State. The firm occupy two floors of a large 
 modernly-equipped building 90 x 50 feet in dimensions. It is at a very conven- 
 ient location, opposite the New York, New Haven and Hartford Depot, and its 
 facilities for prompt shipment of goods are exceptionally complete. They 
 have experienced salesmen employed in handling their trade. The firm are 
 importers, and carry a large stock of dry goods and notions of even' kind. 
 Special bargains and lots are carried at all seasons, and the prices are invariably 
 at the lowest market basis. Dress goods, linens, ginghams, calicoes, and general 
 white and colored goods from the leading mills of the country, are always on 
 hand. The special novelties for extending trade constantly being introduced 
 will be found among the first at this old-established yet progressive house. 
 They make a specialty of their hosiery and notion department. The firm 
 consists of Messrs. W. N. Peltou and S. W. Clark. Mr. Pelton has been 
 identified with the trade for the past thirty years, and Mr. Clark for fifteen 
 years. Both are representatives of the most substantial and important trade 
 interests of the State. 
 
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C. A. DENNING, Baker; Bread, Pastry, Etc.; No. 615 
 Main Street. — The modern bakery of the first class is as different from the bake- 
 shop of our boyhood's days as the East is from the West. In fact baking has 
 been reduced to an exact science, with what gain to the world at large any one 
 who is at all observant can judge. Not only is the bread of this generation 
 better baked than that which our fathers were compelled to eat, but the ingre- 
 dients composing it are far superior. The flour is of the finest, and great care 
 and skill are exercised in adjusting and mixing the proportions that the result- 
 ant product is uot only a most wholesome and nourishing article of food, but is 
 delightful to the taste and pleasing to the eye. In the making of cake and 
 pastry, even greater progress has been made by the leading bakers in recent 
 years. The variety is much greater, and the products themselves are more 
 palatable and dainty. This is particularly true of the delightful things that 
 come from the establishment of Mr. C. A. Denning, No. 615 Main Street. 
 During the six years he has been in business in Hartford he has won the ' 
 confidence and esteem of the residents of the city by the uniform excellence 
 and high grade of the goods he places before them. He occupies small but 
 well-equipped premises, and carries a fine assortment of bread, cake, pastry, etc. 
 Competent assistants are employed in both the store and bakeshop. Mr. 
 Denning is a native of Massachusetts, and very well known. 
 
 FRANCIS R. COOIyEY, Banker and Broker, No. 4 Cen- 
 tral Row. — The events of the past few years have demonstrated the extreme 
 importance of knowing exactly the nature of investments and securities in 
 which one has or desires an interest. The advice of an experienced and reliabe 
 broker in this department is undoubtedly of the highest importance. The firm 
 of Wilson & Cooley, which had been a recognized and prominent broking 
 house, was dissolved by expiration of partnership in 1891, and Mr. Francis R. 
 Cooley has since continued to extend the business of the house and now con- 
 trols some very large and important interests. His office, at No. 4 Central 
 Row, is modernly equipped and has every facility for the quickest handling 
 and intelligence in the important lines of trade. The prominent feature in 
 Mr. Cooley 's banking business is the very large and reliable operations in local 
 securities, such as the new East Hartford (4"„) bonds, Hartford, New Britain 
 and other town bonds, Connecticut State, all the leading New England rail- 
 roads, prominent banks and insurance companies, and the best industrial cor- 
 porations in the State. Mr. Cooley publishes monthly quotation lists of this 
 line of securities, and also of the many others handled. He also makes a 
 feature of Blair & Co.'s foreign and domestic letters of credit and general 
 foreign drafts. He is a member of the Hartford Stock Exchange and in con- 
 nection with New York, Boston and Chicago, handling all lines of stocks and 
 bonds bought and sold in those cities. Complete and uniform reliance can be 
 placed upon the facilities at his command, and his trained, expert judgment is 
 at the service of his many patrons, including prominent people of this and other 
 cities of the State. 
 
 ST. JOSEPH'S CATHEDRAL— INTERIOR. 
 
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-ETNA NATIONAL BANK. 
 
 ^TNA NATIONAL BANK OF HARTFORD (A. G. 
 
 Loomis, President; A. Spencer, Jr., Cashier), No. 214 Main Street. — The .-Etna 
 National Bank of Hartford was organized as a State institution in 1857, and re- 
 organized under the national banking laws in 1S65. Its paid-up capital at first 
 was $525,600, and changed to the present amount under the national charter. 
 During its long and important history the -Etna has been associated with many 
 of the greatest fiuaucial movements of the State. 
 
 It has had as presidents such notable men as Judge E. A. Bulkeley, father 
 of ex-Governor Bulkeley (a present Director) ; O. G. Ferry, a prominent mer- 
 chant; Hon. Wm. R. Cone (of Hungerford & Cone), eminent as a lawyer, and 
 A. R. Hillyer. The dominant spirit has therefore been in thorough accord 
 with all the most conservative and best interests of the State. 
 
 The bank is one of the largest in the State, and has always been a staunch 
 bulwark in local finance and commerce. 
 
 The last statement, appended herewith, gives a thorough idea of its strength 
 and extensive resources : 
 
 FEBRUARY 2S, 1894. 
 
 RESOURCES. 
 
 Loans and Discounts 
 
 Overdrafts, secured and unsecured 
 
 U. S. Bonds, to secure circulation 
 
 Stocks, Securities, etc 
 
 Due from National Banks (not reserve agents)... 
 
 Due from State Banks and Bankers 
 
 Due from Approved Reserve Agents 
 
 Checks and other Cash Items 
 
 Exchanges for Clearing-House 
 
 Notes of other National Banks 
 
 Fractional Paper Currency, nickels and cents 
 
 Lawful Money Reserve in Bank, viz.: 
 
 Specie I10S.307.65 
 
 Legal Tender Notes 29,714.00 
 
 Redemption Fuud with U. S. Treas. (5",, of cir.) 
 
 Total 
 
 LIABILITIES. 
 
 Capital Stock paid in 
 
 Surplus Fund... 
 
 Undivided Profits, less expenses and taxes paid.. 
 
 National Bank Notes outstanding 
 
 Due to other National Banks 
 
 Due to State Banks and Bankers 
 
 Dividends unpaid 
 
 Individual Deposits subject to check 
 
 11,657,582.25 
 
 8-33 
 
 50,000.00 
 
 212,806.76 
 
 46,891.74 
 
 5.189.95 
 
 853.5i2-'7 
 
 3.00 
 
 4,280.15 
 
 4,136.00 
 
 95-44 
 
 13S.021.65 
 2.250.00 
 
 |2,974. 777-44 
 
 Total.. 
 
 $525,000.00 
 
 250,000.00 
 
 103,894.12 
 
 43.335-0O 
 
 22,201.40 
 
 62.72 
 
 237-5° 
 
 2,030,046. 70 
 
 *2,974,777-44 
 
 The business quarters occupied in the .Etna Life Insurance Co. Building 
 are most handsomely and thoroughly equipped, as regards architecture, 
 convenience and security. A general banking busiuess is handled, the facilities 
 for exchange, collections and discounts being very complete, and prompt serv- 
 ice is guaranteed. This is a favorite bank of this section for merchants' and 
 trustees' accounts, as the exceptionally high standard of security serves as an 
 elemeut of credit in every line of busiuess. The most marked feature in the 
 history of the .Etna National Bank has been the very able and sound character 
 of its management. The officers at the present time are : A. G. Loomis, Presi- 
 dent ; A. Spencer, Jr. , Cashier. Directors: Leverett Brainard, President of Case, 
 Lockwood & Brainard Co. (present Mayor of Hartford); Joseph Merriman, 
 East Hartford ; Robert E. Day, President Security Company ; Morgan G. 
 Bulkeley (ex-Governor State of Conuecticut), President .Etna Life Insurance 
 Co. ; Appleton R. Hillyer, formerly President of this Bank ; A. G. Loomis, 
 President. For the purposes of sound and energetic management a small 
 board of the highest character is always most effective, and a glance at these 
 names will give the best of evidence to our readers as to the leadership acquired 
 and maintained by the -Etna National of Hartford. 
 
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J. WII,KIE REID, Costumer and Fashionable Tailor, No. 
 602 Main Street. — Owing to the attention given to the tailor's trade and the 
 employment of skilled labor, the functions of the tailor have within recent 
 years steadily developed to the plane of a fine art. The garments must be fitted 
 and cut with accuracy, and in a manner becoming to the wearer, and finished 
 in a style of art entirely unknown a few years ago. We would in this connec- 
 tion refer to Mr. J. Wilkie Reid, located at No. 602 Main Street, as among the 
 prominent tailors in Hartford. This business was established by Mr. Reid 
 twenty-five years ago, moving to his present location nine years ago, and he has 
 from the first successfully continued it, adding to his patrons year by year. 
 The trade now being large affords employment to several very skilled and 
 experienced assistants. The premises are neat and convenient and measure 
 40 x 15 feet in size. Mr. Reid is also a costumer, and is prepared to make 
 costumes for balls in or out of the city. Costumes may also be obtained here 
 for masquerade balls and theatricals, also dress suits for weddings, receptions, 
 etc. Costumes will be made to order if desired, or they may be bought, sold 
 or exchanged. Mr. Reid is a native of Scotlaud, and is a gentleman of unques- 
 tionable skill, being an expert and reliable cutter, and merits his extensive 
 patronage. 
 
 UNITED STATES HOTEI/ (D. A. Rood, Proprietor), City 
 Hall Square. — Every visitor to Hartford is familiar with the United States 
 Hotel, and as this city is the political and social centre of State life it is fair to 
 say that no other hotel in it exercises a wider or more important influence than 
 that of this well-known and leading house. The United States has been estab- 
 lished for more than fifty years, and under the able management of its present 
 owner and proprietor, Mr. D. A. Rood, for the past forty. He is widely honored 
 as a leading representative of the hotel fraternity of the United States, and, as is 
 true of his house, enjoys a thoroughly national reputation. Mr. A. W. Rood 
 son of the proprietor, is the active manager of the house, being assisted by Mr. 
 H. W. Tones, Day Clerk, and Mr. T. P. Skinner, Night Clerk. The hotel build- 
 ing occupies a prominent position on City Hall Square and is a substantial 
 structure 140X 170 feet in ground dimensions, and four stories in height. There 
 are 165 guest rooms handsomely furnished and equipped with every modern 
 convenience of light, heat and sanitation. The offices, dining-room and parlors 
 are famed for their elaborate aud recherche^ decoration. There is an admirably 
 conducted cafe and billiard parlor in connection. The cuisine of the United 
 States is too well known to need reference, being in every way in keeping with 
 the highest standards. The service is of the most courteous and efficient type. 
 These facts, combined with liberal rates (varying from $2.50 to $3 per day, 
 American plan), have rendered the United States the leading favorite with the 
 traveling public, aud it does a very large business throughout the year. ' Its 
 facilities are thoroughly appreciated by commercial travelers, who invariably 
 stop here, aud many leading legislators and public men are constantly num- 
 bered among its guests. It would be a mistake to visit Hartford without 
 utilizing the superior aud first-class facilities afforded by the United States Hotel. 
 
 W. E. BECKER, Architect, Room 7 Batterson Building.— 
 The visitor to Hartford is at once impressed with the unusual aud refined 
 elegance both of the business blocks and private residences. There js not 
 another city in New England, or, for that matter, in the United States, of its 
 size, that is its peer in the uniform high standard and beauty of its architecture. 
 One of the well-known and prominent experts in this department of Hartford 
 affairs is Mr. W. E. Becker, whose office is located at No. 7 Batterson Building. 
 He has been established here since 18S0, and has built up a wide and influential 
 clientele. The imprint of his skill and artistic judgment is clearly seen on 
 some of the very handsomest and most modern buildings both in the city and 
 suburbs. His office is well equipped, and a corps of well-trained assistants, 
 averaging four, is maintained. He executes every kind of plans, draughts and 
 estimates for buildings, making a specialty of the sanitation and fire-proof 
 character. He will be found thoroughly posted on all the latest modern details 
 for comfort and elegance of exterior and interior finish. He also gives general 
 supervision to the construction of buildings, aud insures accuracy in the slight- 
 est details. His terms will be found fair and moderate in all respects. Among 
 the many buildings of which he was the architect might be mentioned the 
 "Casino," and the clubhouse for the Neighborhood Club Co. 
 
 WM. BOARDMAN & SONS, Wholesale Dealers in Teas, 
 Coffees, Spices, Tobaccos, Cigars and Grocers' Sundries ; Office and Warehouse, 
 No. 304 Asylum Street. — There is no more certain mark of a first-class whole- 
 sale grocery store than the quality of its teas aud coffees. Experienced busi- 
 ness men need but slight reminder that the utmost importance in the develop- 
 ment of a good trade is involved in obtaining the very best goods in this 
 department. The house of Wm. Boardman & Sons has been running for more 
 than fifty years, and has never failed to command the very best trade in its 
 lines. It was established in 1841 by Mr. Wm. Boardman, and for the past 
 three years has been under the management of his son, Mr. T. J., and grand- 
 sou, Mr. H. F. Boardman. They occupy a haudsome modern store at above 
 address, comprising two stories 25 x 100 feet, and also have a special warehouse 
 aud manufacturing department, three floors 30 x 45 feet in dimensions. They 
 are very extensive importers, and carry the heaviest stock of the kind in the 
 city. Many of their goods are prepared under their own thorough and careful 
 inspection. The wholesale and jobbing business extends through the southern 
 part of New England, aud requires the employment of sixteen clerks and 
 salesmen. Among the most important lines handled are the best grades of 
 coffees, teas and spices, ground and packed to order; oatmeal, rice, farina and 
 all standard cereals ; broma, cocoa, chocolate, baking powders, bird food, con- 
 densed milk, cigars and tobaccos, smokers' goods of all kinds, hops, gelatine, 
 starch, stove polishes and blacking, soda, soaps, twine, tacks, aud a complete 
 assortment of grocers' sundries. Many recent novelties are carried, aud the 
 stock is in every way up to date. Our readers can rely upon the most uniform 
 and complete satisfaction in dealing with this old-established house, both as 
 regards quality and liberal prices. 
 
JOHN MOODY, Dealer in Groceries, Provisions, Canned 
 Goods, Meats, Etc., No. 120 Albany Aveuue. — One of the leading merchants in 
 this locality is Mr. John Moody, who carries the finest class line of goods at 
 moderate prices within the reach of all. The business of Mr. John Moody has 
 for the past six years maintained a position in its department of local trade. 
 The premises occupied are located at No. 120 Albany Avenue, and measure 
 25 x 60 feet in dimensions. A large and complete stock of groceries, provisions, 
 canned goods, meats, etc., are kept always on hand. Three experienced clerks 
 and assistants are needed to handle the extensive and select retail trade, and 
 the prices of this store are well known for their uniform liberality and fairness. 
 As half or more of the value of groceries depends upon their purity and freedom 
 from adulterations, our readers will consult their own interests very largely by 
 examining and making trial of the high class of goods kept at this store. Orders 
 are promptly filled and delivered when promised, two teams being in use for 
 that purpose. This position which this house has attained is solely the result 
 of its liberal dealings. 
 
 SIDNEY F. SOUTH, Merchant Tailor, No. 265 Main 
 Street. — Americans have the reputation of being the best-dressed people in the 
 world, and this undeniable fact is directly attributable to the excellence of the 
 workmanship and materials placed at their disposal by American tailors. Here 
 we have the combined ability and experience in sartorial art represented by the 
 best tailors of all nationalities, with the results shown in the well-fitting and 
 well-made garments displayed upon all occasions and in all places where men 
 congregate. One of the most popular — and it therefore follows, one of the 
 most competent — merchant tailors in Hartford is Mr. Sidney F. South, of No. 
 265 Main Street. A native of Euglaud, Mr. South came to New York many 
 years ago, previous to which time he had several years' experience in the same 
 line in London and Paris. For about twenty years he has been actively engaged 
 in business in this city. One reason why the garments made at his establish- 
 ment look well and fit well is that he does all the cutting himself. He occupies 
 a finely-appointed front parlor at the address indicated. A most desirable line 
 of the finest foreign and domestic woolens, embracing the latest patterns and 
 shades, is presented to his customers, while all orders are promptly executed, 
 and at the most reasonable prices. 
 
 THE CHAS. E. REICHE, Billiard-Table Warerooms, 
 No. 23 Mulberry Street. — The popularity of billiards as a game of skill has 
 largely increased in recent years, interest in it having been quickened by the 
 great improvements made in the appliances of the game, notably the tables, 
 which have not only made billiards more .interesting to amateurs, but have 
 given a new zest to the professional game. Of the manufacturers who have 
 acquired a high reputation for their tables Mr. Chas. E. Reiche, of Hartford, is 
 entitled to take first rank. The Reiche billiard tables constantly grow in 
 
 popular favor, and are given the preference by professionals as well as amateurs. 
 The business of manufacturing these superior tables was begun in 1879, and 
 continued with ever-increasing success, The Chas. E. Reiche Billiard-Table 
 Warerooms at No. 23 Mulberry Street now occupying two floors, each 16 x no 
 feet in dimensions. The Reiche tables are made in regular or special sizes, of 
 the very best materials and at most reasonable prices. Second-hand tables, in 
 first-class condition, may also be obtained here, and repairs of all descriptions 
 receive prompt attention. A stock of new balls, cues and all kinds of billiard 
 materials is kept constantly on hand, and the prices charged are lower than 
 those usually named by even the largest dealers. 
 
 T. H. LANGDON, Plumber, Steam and Gas Fitter, Xo. 
 228 Pearl Street. — There are some kinds of work which may be done in a "good 
 enough" fashion without any bad results, but when it comes to plumbing and 
 gas-fitting it is simply foolish to be satisfied with anything but the best, for 
 inferior work in this line is dangerous, troublesome and expensive, to say 
 nothing of its not answering the purpose for which it was designed. It is easy 
 enough to have first-class plumbing done if you apply to the proper party, and 
 certainly no wiser course can be taken than to leave your order with Mr. T. H. 
 Langdon at No. 228 Pearl Street, for he is a thoroughly-competent plumber, 
 steam and gas fitter. He has the facilities and the men to enable him to 
 execute all commissions at short notice and in the most approved and satis- 
 factory manner, the best of materials being used. He is uniformly moderate in 
 his charges, and as he gives close personal attention to his business he is in a 
 position to keep the service up to a very high standard of efficiency and to 
 guarantee complete satisfaction to his patrons. Mr. Langdon makes a specialty 
 of Rider Ericsson's hot-air pumping engines for country and seaside resi- 
 dences where there is no water supply. The store covers an area of 1,200 
 square feet, and is stocked with a full assortment of such goods as are usually 
 handled by a first-class plumber, steam and gas fitter. Mr. Langdon is a native 
 of Hartford, and is a successor to Mr. Geo. Robinson, who founded the business 
 forty years ago. Mr. Langdon employs from eight to fourteen competent 
 workmen, and can be relied upon to fill all orders in a most satisfactory and 
 scientific maimer. 
 
 HORACE H. KING, Dealer in Boots, Shoes and Rubbers, 
 No. 495 Main Street. — Although there are many who say they "know a good 
 shoe when they see it," the fact is that it is by no means easy to judge of the 
 value of such an article simply by examination, for inferior stock can be so 
 prepared as to look all right to any one but an expert, and the same may be 
 said of the workmanship, or at least so much of it as shows on the outside. 
 The way to get a reliable shoe at a fair price is to patronize an experienced and 
 reputable dealer, and we know of none in Hartford who gives better value than 
 Mr. Horace H. King, so that those wanting anything in the line of footwear 
 would do well to give him a call. He carries a good stock, and warrants every 
 
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article he sells to prove just as represented. Mr. King is a native of Lyme, 
 Conn., and is very well known throughout this locality as an enterprising 
 business man. He established his present business fifty years ago, moving to 
 his present location forty-eight years since. The store utilized is located at 
 No. 495 Main Street, and measures 24 x 70 feet in dimensions, with a basement 
 of the same size for storage. These premises are well stocked with a large and 
 varied assortment of all kinds of boots, shoes and rubbers. The service is 
 prompt and reliable, while Mr. King assures every caller courteous and intelli- 
 gent attention. 
 
 J. H. WII/I/ES, Art Store ; Pictures, Frames, Engravings, 
 Etchings, Artists' Materials, China for Decorating, Etc.; Picture Frames to 
 Order; No. 451 Main Street. — The "Art Store" is, as its name indicates, devoted 
 expressly to the handling of art goods ; and, as its stock is large, varied and very 
 skillfully chosen, it is one of the most attractive establishments in the city, 
 especially to those of artistic tastes, for here may always be found a select 
 assortment of pictures, frames, engravings, etchings, artists' materials, china 
 for decorating, etc. The business was founded about eighteen years ago by its 
 present proprietor, Mr. J. H. Willes, who is a native of Connecticut and is 
 widely known in this vicinity. Particular attention is given to the making of 
 picture frames of all descriptions, any style from the most simple to the most 
 elaborate being made to order at short notice in the most skillful manner, and 
 at moderate rates, also china firing attended to. A full line of mouldings, 
 including the very latest novelties, is kept in stock, and the most extensive 
 commissions can be executed without delay. The store is located at No. 451 
 Main Street, and measures 30x60 feet in dimensions, together with a room at 
 the side devoted to the display of pictures, and all interested in art are cordially 
 invited to visit it and look over the many beautiful engravings, etchings, etc., 
 here displayed. Mr. Willes employs several competent assistants, and customers 
 are waited upon promptly and attentively. 
 
 their stock, and makes it desirable for consumers to inspect their supplies and 
 prices before purchasing elsewhere. The very lowest market rates prevail, and 
 the quality and character of the goods maybe depended upon to be just as 
 represented. 
 
 THE "HII,I," MARKET (Burns & Christie, Proprietors), 
 
 First-Class Meat, Fish and Vegetable Market, No. 544 Asylum Street. — Prom- 
 inent among the many flourishing business houses in Hartford devoted to the 
 meat and fish business is The "Hill" Market conducted by Messrs. Burns & 
 Christie at No. 544 Asylum Street. This house was established three years ago 
 by Crane & Gould, and succeeded by Burns & Christie. The premises occu- 
 pied comprise a fine store 25 X45 feet in dimensions, well-arranged and fitted-up 
 for the transaction of its business. The stock of goods carried here is large, 
 comprehensive and well-selected, and embraces everything in the way of meats, 
 fish and vegetables. Employment is given to four prompt and reliable clerks, 
 who are courteous and polite to all patrons. Orders are promptly filled and 
 goods delivered to any part of the city. The individual members of the firm 
 are Mr. W. J. Burns, a native of Connecticut, and Mr. F. D. Christie, of West 
 Hartford. Their experience in the business gives them advantages in securing 
 
 PARK DRUG CO.'S PHARMACY, No. 376 Asylum 
 
 Street, Corner High Street, One Block from Union Depot. — It is a fact, though 
 few appear to realize it, that whatever credit attaches to the healing of the sick 
 is due in almost as great measure to the pharmacist as to the physician. The 
 pharmacy laws of Connecticut require the most intimate knowledge on the 
 part of the would-be druggist with every detail of the profession, and years of 
 study and training are requisite to fit a man for the practice of the profession. 
 When to all this is added a long practical experience, it will be seen at once 
 that druggists who have been through such a course are hardly second to the 
 doctor in all cases of illness. The proprietors of the "Park Drug Company" 
 at No. 376 Asylum Street, corner of High Street, are such men as we have 
 described. They established their present enterprise in 1871, and it is one of 
 the oldest and most reliable pharmacies in Hartford. The premises occupied 
 are very eligibly located oue block from the Union Depot, and measure 25 x 40 
 feet in size. They employ eight careful assistants, and for quality, variety and 
 fair price the stock carried cannot be excelled. It comprises drugs, chemicals, 
 fancy goods, toilet and manicure requisites, homoeopathic medicines, holiday, 
 birthday and wedding gifts, fine colognes, toilet waters and handkerchief 
 extracts — Lazell's, Wright's, Woodworth's, Lubin's and Roger & Gallet's being 
 constantly on hand. 
 
 A. H. SMITH, New and Second-hand Furniture, No. 83 
 
 Trumbull Street. — In buying furuiture it is always well to remember that 
 durability is at least as important as appearance, and the only way to get 
 durable as well as handsome goods is to patronize a dealer who not only guar- 
 antees his articles to prove as represented, but whose guarantee is worth some- 
 thing. No one can successfully deny that Mr. A. H. Smith "fills the bill" in 
 both these respects, for such a denial would need no stronger refutation than 
 that offered by the record this gentleman has made during the many years that 
 he has carried on business here. The establishment in question was founded 
 by Mr. Pomeroy, who was succeeded in 1890 by the present proprietor, who 
 occupies premises 30 x 65 feet in dimensions at No. 83 Trumbull Street. Mr. 
 Smith is a dealer iu uew and second-hand furniture, of which he carries a large 
 stock, and the latest novelties, as well as a full line of staple articles, are always 
 to be had here at the lowest market prices. Oue competent assistant is con- 
 stantly in attendance, and all customers are served iu a polite and intelligent 
 manner, and every order is assured prompt and painstaking attention. Mr. 
 Smith is a native of New York, and has a large circle of friends iu this vicinity, 
 while his business is increasing steadily, and it is pleasant to note a success so 
 honestly won. 
 
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T. K. STARR, Dentist, Room 16, Cheney Building.— We 
 cannot quite rid ourselves of the nervous feeling which seizes us when the 
 necessity for visiting the dentist arises, although we recognize it as the sur- 
 vival of the feeling of dread which was warranted by the experiences of long 
 ago. That there is little reason for its existence at the present day, when 
 dentistry has been reduced to a science, and has been almost entirely robbed of 
 painful features by the extreme skill and ability of dental operators, appears to 
 make no difference to the majority of us, and it will probably linger with us 
 for the remainder of our lives. All such feelings immediately disappear when 
 the visitor is once ensconced in the operating chair of Dr. T. K. Starr, the well- 
 known dental surgeon, whose handsome offices are located in the Cheney 
 Building, Room 16. Dr. Starr has always made excellent provision for his 
 patients' comfort, and has stopped at no expense in securing the latest and 
 most approved appliances of his profession. He ranks with the foremost 
 dentists of the city, having been actively in practice here for the past fifteen 
 years. Dr. Starr is a member of the old family of that name who were among 
 the original settlers of Webster, Mass. He is a young and popular man, and 
 stands high in the Masonic order. 
 
 W. B. HOGAN & BRO., Plumbers and Gas-Fitters, Dealers 
 in Plumbing Materials and Sanitary Appliances, No. 81 Trumbull Street. — Iu 
 no branch of the building line has there been such a vast improvement as in the 
 furnishings and supplies connected with plumbing, and not alone has the 
 development affected the aesthetic qualities, but side by side has gone the 
 regard for health. There is no question connected with plumbing and sewerage 
 more important than is the question of ventilating and trapping; it is an 
 unquestionable fact that sewer gas and fumes generated from decomposition of 
 vegetable and animal matter are dangerous to health. This is no theory of ours, 
 but has been repeatedly proved by practical experience, so we say to our readers, 
 "Have no plumbing, steam or gas fitting done unless you can have it done 
 right." Fortunately, there is no trouble in having such work properly done if 
 you reside in Hartford or vicinity, it being necessary only to place the order 
 with Messrs. YV. B. Hogan and Bro., doing business at No. 81 Trumbull Street, 
 for they have had twelve years of varied experience, and have unequaled 
 facilities for the filling of the very largest orders at short notice, satisfaction 
 being guaranteed to every customer. The individual members are W. B. and 
 T. M. Hogan, both natives of this town. They are plumbers and gas fitters, 
 making a specialty of sauitary appliances. They are also dealers in plumbing 
 materials. The premises occupied comprise a well-stocked store 30x75 feet in 
 dimensions. Small and large orders are given equally careful attention, and 
 five skilled assistants are kept constantly employed. 
 
 SAI/I/ & MelfAUGHIvIN, Dealers in Groceries, Provisions, 
 Meats, Fish, Vegetables, Etc., No. 290 Park Street. — It is a very heavy and 
 varied stock that is offered by Messrs. Sail & McLaughlin ; and as they deal 
 in such indispensable commodities as groceries, provisions, meats, fish, vege- 
 tables, etc., and make a specialty of Swedish delicatessens, such as anchovies, 
 herring, cheese, Swedish drinks, raspberry juice, etc., also Swedish snuff, it is 
 natural that a very extensive business should be done, especially as the goods 
 uniformly prove as represented, and are sold at the lowest market rates. Mr. 
 J. A. Sail was born in Sweden, but has lived in this country since his boyhood ; 
 Mr. J. J. McLaughlin is a native of Connecticut. They have been associated 
 in business since 1887, and during the seven years since elapsed have made 
 their establishment one of the most generally and favorably known of the 
 kind in Hartford. The premises made use of are located at No. 290 Park 
 Street, being well stocked with the goods already mentioned, and which are 
 specially adapted for family use. The service at this popular store is remark- 
 ably prompt and efficient, much more so than that offered at many establish- 
 ments doing a much smaller business, for employment is given to nine assist- 
 ants and three wagons, while no trouble is spared to insure immediate and 
 careful attention to every caller, orders being accurately delivered at short 
 notice. 
 
 G. W. WOOJvIvEY & SON, Manufacturers and Jobbers 
 in Coffins, Caskets and Undertakers' Sundries, No. 164 Main Street. — Modern 
 taste demands, even in funeral arrangements, the presence of aesthetic and 
 beautiful surroundings, and the fuueral director is called upon to exercise the 
 most discriminating care in these matters. The facilities placed at his com- 
 mand, in the discharge of his exacting duties, by the firm of Messrs. G. W. 
 Woolley & Son are not exceeded in scope and value by those presented by 
 any other house. Their long experience in this important branch of trade 
 eminently fits them for their position of leading manufacturers and jobbers of 
 this class of goods. In a volume of this description it is impossible to go into 
 the details of each item presented for consideration, but it may be said that 
 this firm is one of the highest standing, and that its products are without 
 superiors in elegance of design and finish. Mr. G. W. Woolley, senior member 
 of the firm, founded the business in 1843, and some years since his son, Mr. G. 
 H. Woolley, was admitted to partnership, the present firm name being then 
 adopted. Both gentlemen are natives of the State and long residents of this 
 city, and are widely esteemed as manufacturers and merchants. Their estab- 
 lishment, which includes offices, sample rooms and factory, covers a space 
 69 x 200 feet, and occupies several stories and a large and well-stocked 
 lumber yard. 
 
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 PEARL STREET. 
 
J. J. BRADY, Dealer in Fine Groceries, Teas, Coffees, 
 Fruits, Etc., No. 526 Asylum Street. — One of the most important grocery esta- 
 blishments in this section of the city is that of Mr. J. J. Brady, located at No. 
 526 Asylum Street. This is an enterprising house, and the store is admirably 
 adapted to the business and covers an area of 15 X40 feet. The stock carried 
 comprises fine groceries, teas, coffees, fruits, etc. An excellent trade is done in 
 the vicinity, the proprietor being alive to the wants of the public. Customers 
 are attended to with politeness and dispatch, and goods are delivered promptly. 
 The business was originally established five years ago by the present proprietor, 
 who has been very successful from the start. Mr. Brady is a native of Hartford 
 and an active business man who has gained the entire respect of the commun- 
 ity, both for business ability and integrity. The entire stock carried by Mr. 
 Brady is neat, fresh and clean, and is offered at rates that insure its constant 
 renewal. All adulterations and worthless, falsely-called cheap goods are 
 rigorously rejected, and all customers are guaranteed that the goods sold by the 
 house shall be eminently satisfactory and in every respect all that they are 
 claimed to be. 
 
 T. SISSON & CO., Wholesale Druggists, No. 259 Main 
 Street. — Little attention is given by the public in general to the vast extent and 
 importance of the wholesale drug trade of this country, and for that reason this 
 article is addressed to retail druggists, chemists and others who have a direct 
 interest in the matter. Hartford has the distinction of containing one of the 
 oldest and most prominent of the wholesale drug houses of the United States 
 in the firm of Messrs. T. Sisson & Co. This firm is the direct descendant of the 
 founder, Mr. D. P. Hopkins, who began business in the latter part of 1700. 
 Subsequently, the firm of Lee, Hopkins & Butler was formed, and they were 
 succeeded by Lee, Sisson & Co. The next change was to Sisson & Butler, and 
 then came the present firm, which was organized in 1880, and consists of Messrs. 
 Thos. Sisson, Geo. P. Chandler and Fred. H. Chapin. Mr. Sisson is a native of 
 Hartford, and has been identified with the interests of the house in a proprietary 
 sense for nearly forty years. Mr. Chandler was born in Vermont, and Mr. 
 Chapin is an Indianian by birth. The facilities enjoyed by Messrs. Sisson & Co. 
 as importing and jobbing druggists are not exceeded by those of any other 
 house in the business, and they have long controlled a large and valuable trade 
 which extends throughout this section. The firm has a large establishment at 
 No. 259 Main Street — the main building — which has a ground measurement of 
 forty by sixty feet, being one of the old time-honored structures in which this 
 city abounds. There are four floors, each of which is fully occupied by the 
 various departments, which embrace the sales and counting rooms on the store 
 floor, and the crude drug, chemical, druggist's sundries departments, etc., above. 
 In addition there is a large yard at the rear in which are several buildings used 
 for storage purposes, for packing, shipping, etc. The large business done by 
 the firm necessitates the employment of eighteen clerks and assistants, and it is 
 notable that this force consists of only the most competent men. Back of the 
 salesrooms on the first floor is a laboratory in which stands the old-fashioned, 
 
 broad, open fireplace, provided with crane and kettle, which are used in the 
 preparation of various remedial specialties for which this house is celebrated. 
 The stock carried by this house is a very full and complete one, embracing 
 every variety of staple drugs and chemicals, from the crude roots, leaves and 
 barks to the fine products of the most celebrated laboratories of the world. 
 All the latest additions to materia medica, whatever form they take, are included 
 in this stock. Their line of elegant pharmaceutical preparations, proprietary 
 goods, druggist's sundries, perfumery, essential oils, etc., is most complete. 
 
 GEO. F. ABF,I*S, Furniture Warerooms, No. 459 Main 
 Street. — There are many careful housekeepers to be found in Hartford and 
 vicinity, and not a few of them have discovered that the establishment con- 
 ducted by Mr. George F. Abels at No. 459 Main Street is a most excellent one 
 to visit when anything in the shape of furniture is wanted. This enterprise 
 was founded about fifteen years ago by the present proprietor, who is a native 
 of Hartford and is well known here. Employment is given to two reliable 
 assistants, who assure all customers prompt and courteous attention. The 
 premises utilized are 35 x 100 feet in size, and consist of three floors that display 
 to advantage the elegant stock of furniture here sold. The prices placed upon 
 these goods are very low, yet every article is guaranteed to prove exactly as is 
 represented in every respect. The goods are all carefully selected, a specialty 
 being made of furniture for local trade, and, being offered at low prices, they 
 meet a quick and ready sale. Hence, it is not surprising that Mr. Abels has 
 customers of very long standing. 
 
 LAWRENCE DAI/Y, Dealer in Glenwood Stoves, Ranges 
 and Furnaces, No. 106 Main Street. — No better illustration of the perfection 
 which has been attained in the manufacture of stoves, ranges and furnaces can 
 be found than by an inspection of the stock of Mr. Lawrence Daly, whose 
 establishment was founded about seven years ago, and which has ever since its 
 inception been recognized as among the leading ones in the stove trade of 
 Hartford. This house was established by the present proprietor, who is a native 
 of Massachusetts. At his store, which is located at No. 106 Maiu Street, may 
 be found everything needed in the line of stoves, ranges and furnaces. He 
 makes a specialty of the Glenwood stoves, ranges and furnaces, and also of the 
 Utica Standard Furnace. He is also prepared to fill orders for tin, copper and 
 sheet-iron work ; tin roofing being a specialty. The premises utilized for this 
 extensive trade comprise a store 25 x 50 feet in dimensions. Four assistants are 
 required in the various departments of the business, and a large trade is trans- 
 acted. Mr. Daly served in the Fire Department for six years, assisting in the 
 saving of much property to citizens of Hartford. He will be found worthy of 
 the extended patronage he enjoys; and, therefore, we commend his house 
 to all. 
 
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WETHERSFIELD AVENUE. 
 
T. A. HONISS, Wholesale and Retail Dealer in Open and 
 
 Shell Oysters, Round and Long Claras ; Soft Crabs a Specialty ; No. 30 State 
 Street, under United States Hotel j Telephone Call, 703-5 ; Orders for Fish of 
 All Kinds for Honiss & Abbe, No. 1S3 State Street, Attended To.— The oyster is 
 one of the most popular articles of food we have, and its praises have been sung 
 far and wide. The most fastidious epicure gives to the oyster first place as a 
 most delectable dish. No banquet or feast is complete without it. Many are 
 the varieties of serving it to the popular taste by the imagination and creation 
 of the artistic chef. In every dish its popularity is never destroyed, as it always 
 retains the seductive flavor of the same delicious oyster. The only disadvan- 
 tage connected with the use of it is that it must be perfectly fresh in order to be 
 palatable and nutritious, and there is no difficulty in obtaining perfectly fresh 
 oysters in all their many varieties at the wholesale oyster depot of Mr. T. A. 
 Honiss, No. 30 State Street, under the United States Hotel. He is the only 
 exclusive jobber of oysters in Hartford, and to this fact is due the reliability of 
 obtaining any kind, and, of course, in dealing in such quantities, they are always 
 sure to be fresh. He has been located at above address for nineteen years, deal- 
 ing in open and shell oysters, round and long clams, making a specialty of soft 
 crabs. He also makes a specialty of supplying families out of town as well as 
 in the city. He has an extensive trade throughout the State, not to speak of 
 the City of Hartford and its immediate vicinity. He is also head of the firm of 
 Messrs. Honiss & Abbe, wholesale dealers and shippers of all kinds of fish, 
 oysters, claras, etc., at Nos. 1S3 and 1S5 State Street, which firm carry a heavy 
 stock of fish, both wholesale and retail, and supply anything in their line at 
 the lowest market prices. Mr. Honiss is a native of Connecticut, and has been 
 Councilman of the city, and is widely and popularly known for many years in 
 social and business circles of Hartford. 
 
 H. J. WIERS, M. D. (Successor to the Late I. J. Sperry, 
 
 M. D. ), No. 10 Mulberry Street. — Few proprietary medicinal preparations are 
 possessed of the virtues ascribed to them. Their chief fault lies in the fact that 
 they are put forward as panaceas, or cure-alls ; and, though they may have some 
 value as remedies in specific cases, it is seldom they reach the diseases they are 
 advertised to cure. Having these facts in mind, the reader will better under- 
 stand the beneficent nature of the various preparations which bear the well- 
 known aud honored names of Drs. I. J. Sperry and H. J. Wiers. They are 
 specifics designed for the cure of certain disorders and diseases, the root of 
 which they reach, and there is no claim made that they will cure any and all 
 forms of illness. Their efficacy in their respective spheres of usefulness has 
 been repeatedly and amply proved during the many years they have been 
 before the public. The list of these valuable specific remedies includes Dr. 
 Sperry's Sarsaparilla Syrup, the highly-salutary effects of which in all disorders 
 resulting from impurities of the blood are thoroughly established by an experi- 
 ence of over fifty years. It is a purely vegetable compound. Dr. Sperry's 
 Cinnamon Cordial is the best-known remedy for the cure of dysentery, cholera, 
 
 cholera-rnorbus, cholera-infantum, diarrhoea, pains in the stomach and bowels, 
 colic, cramps, spasms, difficult teething, etc. The sole right to prepare this 
 invaluable remedy was conferred upon Dr. H. J. Wiers. Sperry's Cough and 
 Croup Syrup is without an equal in whooping-cough, colds, irritation of the 
 lungs, and is especially valuable in the earlier stages of consumption. It con- 
 tains no anodyne, but cures by removing the cause of irritation. Dr. Sperry's 
 Rheumatic or Hot Drops, Columbo Bitters, Unicorn Bitters and Spice Bitters 
 are too well known to need special commendation, while Sperry's Vegetable 
 Composition is one of the best family medicines for the use of young or old in 
 all cases of headache, pains in the limbs, stomach or bowels, cold hands or feet, 
 and female complaints caused by cold. Dr. Wiers' Neutralizing Mixture is 
 without a peer in cases of flatulency in children, diarrhcea, vitiated secretion, 
 cholera-infantum, etc., and a particularly valuable remedy is the "3d Preparation 
 of No. 1 " for suspended animation, lock-jaw aud hydrophobia, or for an emetic. 
 The business of compounding and selling these invaluable preparations has 
 been established for fifty years. The late Dr. Sperry was a physician of note 
 and a chemist of the highest standing. Since his death the business has been 
 carried on by his widow with the competent assistance of chemists thoroughly 
 versed in the methods of compounding these remedies. The business has for 
 many years been carried on at No. 10 Mulberry Street, and is still located there. 
 
 PARK KNITTING WORKS, Manufacturers of Medium 
 and Fine Woolen and Worsted Gloves and Mittens, No. 336 Asylum Street. — 
 Inventive genius has made many brilliant discoveries in the immediate past, 
 but men have yet failed to find any substitute whatever which could serve as 
 well the purposes for which knitted worsted goods have been used for hundreds 
 of years. The Park Knitting Works of Hartford (No. 336 Asylum Street) have 
 for the past fifteen years maintained a recognized and leading position in this 
 department of local trade. The proprietors are Messrs. C. C. Plaisted & Co., 
 and the business has been under their active management since its first estab- 
 lishment in 1S79. They manufacture a general line of medium and fine 
 woolen and worsted gloves, mittens, bicycle hose and seamless sweaters of a 
 fine grade, which have proven uniformly and widely successful. Among their 
 leading specialties are bright silk mittens, bicycle hose, and seamless sweaters 
 in white and special colors ; these are made from the best long Australian wool 
 and give exceptional satisfaction in the matter of durability and solid wear. 
 Their trade extends to all parts of the country and has been increasing each 
 year. This is a natural result of the reliable first-class material, high grade of 
 work, and liberal prices maintained. It will be difficult to find on the American 
 market a line of goods which can give equally good results for the money, and 
 with the steadily increasing intelligence of the people a fact of this sort is 
 bound to tell. Dealers should not fail to make a thorough trial of the reliable 
 goods of the Park Kuittiug Works, and they will find them to more than equal 
 expectation. 
 
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BRIDGE IN BUSHNELL PARK. 
 
P. H. DUNN, Dealer in Hardwood and Slate Mantels, 
 Grates and Brass Goods, No. 21S Pearl Street. — The art of woodworking and 
 stonecutting has reached such a high degree of excellence that to say a dealer 
 carries a line of such goods that are equal to the best is to give them unqualified 
 and unreserved endorsement but this is just what may truthfully and reasonably 
 be said of the goods handled by Mr. P. H. Dunn ; and, hence, all who place 
 orders with him are sure of having them filled in a thoroughly artistic and 
 satisfactory manner. Mr. Dunn has been located at his present address since 
 iSgt, and is doubtless one of the most widely-known of our resident business 
 men. Mr. Dunn is a dealer in hardwood and slate mantels, grates and brass 
 goods of all kinds; also, art tiles for fireplaces, bathrooms and wainscoting, as 
 well as monuments, headstones and slate urinals. The premises utilized are 
 located at No. 218 Pearl Street, comprising two floors, each 2,250 square feet in 
 dimensions, which contain a large and varied assortment of the goods named 
 above. Four competent assistants are employed, and prompt attention is given 
 to every order, special attention being given to the laying of marble and mosaic 
 floors, work being executed in all parts of the State. Mr. Dunn, who is a 
 native of Connecticut, is welt known throughout this vicinity. He does a large 
 business, and it is very natural that he should, for he offers unsurpassed 
 inducements, and both as regards prices for and quality of work can safely 
 challenge competition. 
 
 THE ELDREDGE CO., Manufacturers of Fine Casket 
 Hardware, No. 1 10 Commerce Street ; H. G. Kellogg, President ; Geo. L. R. 
 Eldredge, Manager; E.J. Eldredge, Treasurer. — It is undeniable that there is 
 great advantage in buying from a growing concern, not only because of the 
 greater variety in the stock presented, but, what is of still greater consequence, 
 for such a house, as a result of its large connection and the wide scope of its 
 transactions, is in a position to quote closer prices than smaller competitors find 
 it possible to meet. It is for this reason that The Eldredge Company, of this 
 city, is able to maintain a leading position among houses in its branch of trade, 
 and command the largest and best class of patronage. The company, of which 
 Mr. H. G. Kellogg is President, Mr. E. J. Eldredge is Treasurer, and Mr. Geo. 
 L. R. Eldredge is Manager, have been prominent for many years as manufact- 
 urers of fine casket hardware, having formerly been located at South Glaston- 
 bury, in this State. They removed their plant to this city some two years ago, 
 in order that they might have better facilities for shipping, etc. Their trade 
 extends throughout the United States, and is annually extending. Their 
 factory building is 70 x 100 feet, and is divided into a moulding room, buffing 
 or finishing room, plating room and shipping department, the equipment of 
 the plant being perfect in every detail. They employ an average force of 
 twenty skilled hands, and are always prepared to fill the largest orders 
 promptly. The company's offices are at No. no Commerce Street. 
 
 H. E. BUSINGS, Asphalt and Concrete Pavements ; Chim- 
 ney Flue Linings ; Extension Tops ; No. 154 Charter Oak, Corner Van Dyke, 
 Avenue. — Americans have the reputation of being a loug-suffering people, 
 particularly in those matters which affect the community as a whole rather than 
 the individual, and one of the most astonishing evidences of this apparent 
 apathy to the public comfort and convenience, as viewed by a foreigner, is the 
 manner in which we put up with the rough and unsightly paving of city streets- 
 It is notable, however, that American cities have greatly improved of recent years 
 in respect to their pavements. Smooth, level highways have taken the place of 
 the jolting and everyway miserable cobbles of former times, and miles of asphalt 
 streets have been laid in nearly all of our cities and towns. For paving this 
 material is coming into wide favor, for reasons which must be apparent to every 
 one who has ridden or walked over it. Among the representative houses 
 making a specialty of this description of paving is that which was established in 
 1S84 by Mr. H. E. Billings, and still conducted by him at No. 154 Charter Oak 
 Avenue, corner of Van Dyke. He has an extensive business in the laying of 
 concrete and asphalt pavements, but this is only one part of his extensive 
 enterprise, his business including the setting and selling of North River and 
 Pennsylvania flagging, coping, etc., Glastonbury and Haddam granite curb, 
 gutter and cross-walk, and chimney flue linings and extension tops. He also 
 deals largely in Rosendale and Portland cements, J. B. King's Windsor cement 
 and dry mortar, Massachusetts and Canaan limes, plaster, hair, mortar, colors, 
 sea sand, drain tile, etc. 
 
 FRED. R. lyOYDON, State Agent for The United States 
 Mutual Accident Association, No. 73 Pearl Street. — Mr. Fred R. Loydon has 
 conducted the Connecticut agencies of The United States Mutual Accident 
 Association since 1S92, and is therefore widely known and highly esteemed 
 throughout Connecticut. This association was formed for the purpose of fur- 
 nishing thoroughly dependable accident insurance at the lowest cost consistent 
 with equity, and it is but simple justice to say that it has fully justified the 
 claims of its founders, and has proved that their announced determination to 
 build up an association that shall be an honor to the officers, a credit to the 
 United States, and a certain protection to the insured, was made in good faith, 
 and has been, and is still being, executed with most commendable ability and 
 zeal. All just claims are paid promptly and in full, and the liberality of the 
 policy and excellence of the management are proved by the fact that the asso- 
 ciation pays more benefits than any other company without increasing the cost. 
 The indemnities are offered at remarkably low rates ; in short, the advantages 
 offered are such that no man can afford to remain in ignorance of them, and 
 there is certainly no excuse for doing so, for application blanks, rates and full 
 information will be cheerfully given on application, in person or by letter, to 
 Mr. Fred. R. Loydon, the agent located at No. 73 Pearl Street, or to the New- 
 York office at Nos. 320, 322 and 324 Broadway. Remember, the cost of insur- 
 ance in the United States Accident Association is within the means of all, while 
 the benefits derived, in case of death or total or partial disability, may make all 
 the difference between comfort and destitution, 
 

 ASYLUM STREET. 
 
C. H. SMITH, Jr., Investment Securities; Stocks, Bonds, 
 Real-Estate Loans; .Etna Insurance Co. 's Building. — Among the representa- 
 tive men in the stock-brokerage business in Hartford, special mention should 
 be made of Mr. C. H. Smith, Jr., who for many years has occupied a prominent 
 position in this important department of finance. The business which he now 
 controls was formerly exclusively confined to loans on approved Western 
 mortgages, but in recent years its scope has been greatly enlarged and now 
 comprehends operations in stocks, bonds, real-estate loans, and securities gen- 
 erally, only the best and most desirable lines being handled. The business 
 was established in 1870 by Mr. E. D. Tiffany, who was succeeded by Messrs. 
 C. H. Smith & Co., the senior member of that firm being the father of the 
 present head of the house. Mr. C. H. Smith, Sr., is a member of the Board of 
 Directors of the Phoenix Insurance Company, and holds a similar position in 
 the Smyth Manufacturing Co. and the Connecticut Trust and Safe Deposit Co. 
 Mr. C. H. Smith, Jr., is a man of large experience in his special line, and one 
 of the most successful. His facilities for obtaining the most reliable infor- 
 mation as to the tendency of the market are of the most perfect kind, and he 
 is therefore well situated to execute orders for stock, bonds or other securities, 
 either for investment or speculative purposes. Mr. Smith occupies fine offices 
 on the ground floor of the yEtua Insurance Co. 's building, where every facility 
 is presented to customers to obtain all desirable information. 
 
 JOHN S. RUSSEI/I/, Fine Groceries, Wines, Etc., Nos. 640 
 to 646 Main Street. — It is a matter of history that more than half a century ago 
 one of the centrally located business stands in the then village of Hartford was 
 the general store of Chester Adams, the site of the present store of Mr. John S. 
 Russell, the subject of this sketch. Generation after generation have "bar- 
 tered " at this stand. The original building in course of time has given way to 
 more modern conveniences, and the reputation of the house still holds good. 
 The successor to Chester Adams was James M. Adams, who continued from the 
 year 1S63 to 1869, when Hiram W. Adams conducted the business, he selling 
 out to Mr. Byron P. Soper. In 1S72 Mr. Hiram W. Adams again resumed the 
 business, he again selling out to Mr. Byron P. Soper, who afterwards sold out 
 to Messrs. Russell & Barns, who conducted the business until November 1, 
 1882, when Mr. John S. Russell assumed the business, purchasing the interest 
 of his partner. The store, Nos. 640 to 646 Main Street, is 50 x 100 feet in 
 dimensions, with an extension of 20 feet used for storing purposes, also a large 
 cellar extending underneath the entire store, giving ample room for his busi- 
 ness, and is thoroughly stocked with a very comprehensive and well-selected 
 stock of everything in the way of fancy and staple groceries, and embraces pure 
 and fresh teas, coffees, spices, sugars, foreign and domestic fruits, canned goods 
 of the highest standard, select brands of flour, provisions, smoked and salt 
 meats, and fish. Mr. Russell makes a particular specialty of teas and coffees, 
 also of pure and fresh creamery butter, the latter being received from the best 
 dairies in the country. He also makes a specialty of foreign and domestic 
 
 wines, liquors, cigars, ales and cider, which can be purchased in any quantity 
 desired, and for the accommodation of patrons a well fitted-up sample room is in 
 the rear of his store. The goods of this establishment are noted for their fresh- 
 ness and absolute purity, and customers can always have the complete satisfac- 
 tion of knowing that nothing inferior or adulterated will be sold to them. 
 Polite attendance is given to patrons, and the utmost care and diligence is 
 given to the fulfillment of their orders, while the store is a model of neatness 
 and cleanliness. Mr. Russell is a native of Cromwell, this State, and from 
 there he moved to Middletown, Conn., residing there until 1863, when he 
 moved to Hartford, entering the employ of Jas. M. Adams, and remaining with 
 the house through its successive changes until he became sole proprietor. He 
 is a wide-awake, pushing and energetic business man, honorable and popular, 
 and enjoys the confidence of the entire community. 
 
 THE SINGER MANUFACTURING COMPANY; 
 
 Hartford Office No. 5 Allyn House Block, Asylum Street. — It has long been 
 a matter of debate as to which is the best of the various makes of sewing 
 machines now on the market. Those who have used the world-famous Singer 
 have but one opinion on that subject, and it would be a most difficult if not an 
 impossible task to induce them to change in favor of another machine. While 
 most of the other machines on the market have many points in common, and 
 good ones at that it must be admitted, the Singer sewing machine holds a place 
 distinctively alone as different from that of the others, as its mechanism, its 
 durability and its capacity for work of every description differ from theirs. 
 For family use the Singer is without an equal, and it is preferred by tailors, 
 shoe manufacturers and other industrial concerns, for whose use it is made in 
 special forms, particularly adapted to the class of work on which they are 
 engaged. The Singer is the oldest and most reliable machine made, and it is 
 used by hundreds of thousands of people in all parts of the world (nearly 
 twelve million machines have been made by the company), being as favorably 
 known in Europe as it is on this continent. The company received the first 
 premium at the World's Columbian Exposition, and fifty-four first awards, the 
 largest number of awards obtained by any exhibitor, more than double the 
 number received by all the other sewing-machine companies. The headquart- 
 ers of The Singer Manufacturing Company in Hartford is at No. 5 Allyn House 
 Block (having occupied the same store continuously for 36 years), and is under 
 the able management of Mr. J. W. Osborn, who has had a long practical expe- 
 rience in this department of business. Three floors, each 30 x 60 feet in extent, 
 are occupied, and every style of the Singer Machine is on exhibition. A large 
 amount of business is done at the Hartford office, the City Department alone 
 employing four bookkeepers, sixteen salesmen and operators, and three expert 
 machinists to attend to necessary repairs and the fitting up of factories with power 
 tables and machines for every variety of work, they being always in attendance 
 to show and explain the operation of the machine. This, however, may be 
 seen almost at a glance, for one of the many good points of the Singer is its 
 extreme simplicity, and its freedom from liability to get out of order. 
 
SOUTH SCHOOL. 
 
GEMMILI,, BURNHAM & CO., Merchant Tailors, Man- 
 ufacturers and Retailers of Fine Ready-Made Clothing, Nos. 64, 66 and 6S 
 Asylum Street. — The triteness of the saying that the best is the cheapest takes 
 nothing from its force, particularly in its application to clothing, nor is that 
 equally trite aphorism, "It pays to buy the best," to be despised by the buyer 
 of wearing apparel. The best in this sense does not mean that which is the 
 highest priced, but substantial, well-made and handsomely-fitting garments, 
 such as are found in profusion at the well-kept and widely-known establish- 
 ment of Messrs. Gemmill, Burnham & Co., at Nos. 64, 66 and 68 Asylum Street. 
 This firm has a reputation for reliability and for their moderate charges — a 
 reputation based on many years of straightforward methods and honorable 
 dealings. They laid the foundations of their prosperous business in 1871, and 
 have continued to thrive and grow as do only those houses which command the 
 confidence of the public. The firm have been located at their present stand 
 since 18S2, and are known far and near as leading merchant tailors, manufact- 
 urers and retailers of fine ready-made clothing. They occupy three floors of 
 the fine building on Asylum Street, the space covered by which is 40X 120 feet. 
 In their manufacturing department they employ an average of forty skilled 
 hands, in addition to three expert cutters, and in the retail store they have 
 fifteen clerks and salesmen. The advantages of buying of the manufacturer are 
 so apparent that it is unnecessary to go into that subject here. The members 
 of the firm are popular and prominent men, Mr. Burnham having held a seat 
 in the Board of Aldermen for four years and in the City Council for a year, 
 while Mr. Gemmill served for three years in the 16th Connecticut Regiment, 
 and is now Captain of the City Guard of Veterans. Messrs. Gemmill, 
 Burnham & Co., carry a very large line of men's, boys' and children's clothing 
 of the best materials and workmanship. Their custom department is one of 
 the largest in the city, and their work in this line is not surpassed by that of 
 any other house in the trade, not excepting those who make a specialty of 
 custom tailoring. 
 
 THE I,OVEU, & TRACY CO., Manufacturers of Cylin- 
 der Lubricating Oils and Axle and Shafting Grease ; Axleine ; C. A. Lovell, 
 President ; S. G. Tracy, Secretary and Treasurer ; Office, No. 71 Asylum Street ; 
 Manufactories, Nos. 75, 77 and 79 Ferry Street and No. 243 State Street. — The 
 immense and important manufacturing interests of the section of the country 
 for which Hartford is the natural depot of supplies demand the largest and 
 most varied facilities for procuring these supplies in the most prompt and satis- 
 factory manner, and has resulted in the building up and maintenance of a com- 
 mercial community the magnitude aud scope of which are not exceeded by any 
 business district of similar extent in the country. In the whole range of com- 
 modities covered by this great field there are none of higher consequence than 
 those coming under the head of mill supplies, and there are few that equal in 
 importance the lubricants which are used in such a variety of forms and in such 
 vast quantities by the great industrial establishments of this section. Therefore, 
 
 the facilities presented by The Lovell & Tracy Co. are of a character that is 
 thoroughly appreciated by manufacturers and consumers generally, as is 
 attested by the large and constantly-increasing business done by the firm. 
 They are manufacturers of cylinder lubricating oils and axle and shafting 
 grease, their celebrated Axleine having a very large sale as one of the best 
 and cheapest lubricants known. The firm was established in 1882, and have 
 always been large manufacturers and dealers, the extent of their business being 
 indicated by the fact that the}' have a large number of traveling salesmen 
 throughout the United States, their trade extending from New England to 
 Texas and California. They handle extensively the animal oils used by woolen 
 and other textile manufacturers, leather men, etc., and also naphtha and burn- 
 ing oils. They make special brands of harness oil and harness soap which are 
 extremely popular, and a superior furniture polish which has a wide sale. At 
 Nos. 75, 77 aud 79 Ferry Street, and No. 243 State Street, they occupy two large 
 buildings for manufacturing and storage purposes, their offices being at No. 71 
 Asylum Street. 
 
 E. SIMONS & CO., Dealers in and Restorers of Antique 
 Furniture, No. 174 Pearl Street. — Although a great deal of the "newspaper 
 talk" concerning the alleged manufacture of "antique" furniture is so exag- 
 gerated as to be unworthy of credence, it still has sufficient foundation in fact 
 to make it worth while to use careful discrimination in the placing of orders for 
 such goods, as there is unquestionably much furniture sold at fancy prices as 
 "genuine antique" which is only antique in name. Of course, the making of 
 furniture in antique styles is a perfectly legitimate industry, but it should be 
 sold on its own intrinsic merits and not be given a fictitious value by being 
 represented to be many years old. Messrs. E. Simons S: Co. have gained an 
 enviable reputation as widely-informed and thoroughly-trustworthy dealers in 
 antique furniture during the four years that they have carried on that business 
 in Hartford, and as their stock is always large and desirable, and their prices 
 uniformly moderate, our readers would do well to call at their store, No. 174 
 Pearl Street, before purchasing elsewhere. They deal in and restore antique 
 furniture, buying it and cleaning it up for sale, and are very successful in 
 obtaining rare and artistic specimens of such goods, and have some nice old 
 curiosities in the above-named lines, including several "grandfather clocks." 
 Messrs. Simons & Co. maintain a well-equipped establishment, a part of which 
 is utilized as a cabinet shop, where first-class repairing is done to order and at 
 reasonable rates, a specialty being made of the repairing of hall clocks, re- 
 gilding mirror frames, etc. Employment is given to a number of skilled 
 assistants, and no trouble is spared to ensure complete satisfaction to every 
 customer. Mr. E. Simons is a native of Connecticut, aud Mr. Patrick Stevens 
 of Canada, and both are too well known among the reliable business men of 
 Hartford to require any personal comments from us; therefore, we will only 
 add, in conclusion, that all who desire to obtain bargains in genuine antique 
 furniture should visit their establishment. 
 
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MAIN STREET. 
 
J. P. MARTIN, Choice Family Groceries; Best Teas, Coffees, 
 Spices, Etc.; Flour, Butter, Eggs, Etc.; No. 125 Charter Oak Street. — A store of 
 the character and appearance of that conducted by Mr. J. P. Martin at No. 125 
 Charter Oak Street is a credit to any community, and this fact seems to be 
 fully appreciated by the people of this vicinity, who show their appreciation 
 by a liberal and sustained patronage. Appearances, however, might count for 
 little with discriminating buyers were they not supported by something more 
 substantial, and it is evident from a glance at the stock presented at Mr. 
 Martin's establishment why he enjoys such a large and prosperous trade. 
 From the beginning of his enterprise he has made it an invariable rule to handle 
 none but first-class goods, and by so doing he has been able to attract and hold 
 the most desirable class of patronage. It may be said that a better or more 
 complete stock of choice family groceries is not to be found anywhere in the 
 city. The finest brands of flour have a conspicuous place in it, and those who 
 are judges of good teas and coffees pronounce Mr. Martin's stock unsurpassed. 
 Pure spices are another most notable feature of the stock, considering that in 
 these days it is next to impossible to obtain any of the condiments free from 
 adulteration. In fact, all of the staples are of the very best quality, and sold 
 at prices that defy competition. Mr. Martin is an energetic, progressive man, 
 and well deserves the popularity he has gained. 
 
 IDEAI, RESTAURANT (C. W. Johnson, Proprietor), No. 
 250 Asylum Street. — It might seem at first thought easy enough to manage a 
 restaurant, bnt there is no person who has had much occasion to patronize 
 these places but what will say that the really good ones are a small minority. 
 Why, is not for us to state. We have our own theories on the subject, but our 
 readers want facts rather than theories, and are naturally more interested in 
 learning of one good dining-room than in hearing the reasons why a half-a- 
 dozen are not good. Therefore, we will hasten to call their attention to the 
 "Ideal Restaurant" conducted by Mr. C. W. Johnson at No. 250 Asylum 
 Street, for this gentleman is one of the few who know how things should be 
 doue, and spares neither time nor money in attaining satisfactory results. Mr. 
 Johnson opened his present place of business in 1S93, and rightly named it the 
 "Ideal Restaurant." The premises comprise a fine store 20x50 feet in size, and 
 can accommodate quite a number of guests, being nicely fitted up with all the 
 necessary conveniences. But, after all, the main point to be considered in an 
 establishment of this kind is the food, and here Mr. Johnson comes out strong, 
 for he supplies his customers with the best that the market affords, and takes 
 measures to see that it is properly cooked, and promptly and courteously 
 served. Employment is given to seven competent assistants, and the comfort 
 and convenience of patrons are looked out for on every hand. The prices here 
 are very moderate, a hot dinner being served from 11:30 A. M. to 2:30 p. M. for 
 twenty-five cents, and meals are also cooked to order, the restaurant being 
 open on week days from 6 a.m. to 8 p.m., and on Sundays from 8 a.m. to 5 P.M. 
 A specialty is made of regular board and meal tickets, the prices of which are 
 very reasonable. 
 
 EAGLE DYE-HOUSE (George Rohrtnayer, Proprietor) ; 
 Ladies' and Gentlemen's Garments of Every Description Cleansed and Dyed ; 
 No. it Wells Street and No. SS Trumbull Street. — For twenty years a leading and 
 successful house in its department of local trade has been conducted by Mr. 
 George Rohrmayer of this city. The Eagle Dye- Works, at No. 11 Wells 
 Street and No. 88 Trumbull Street, are known far and wide through this part of 
 the State as affording a very superior and reliable class of work at unexcelled 
 terms and prices. They were established by Mr. Rohrmayer in 1874, and have 
 been under his careful, thorough management from the first. Neatly and well- 
 equipped business premises are occupied at above address, and a corps of seven 
 trained assistants regularly employed. Every kind of ladies' and gentlemen's 
 garments is .cleansed, dyed and repaired in the very best manner. The prices 
 are fully equal to those obtained in the large city establishments, and the serv- 
 ice is invariably of the most reliable kind. Delicate work, lace curtains, 
 feathers, etc., are handled with the best of care, and satisfaction guaranteed on 
 all work. Another popular feature is the prompt delivery which can always be 
 relied upon with this leading house. When in search of the best results in 
 this line, where great economy can often be secured by good judgment, our 
 readers will do well to use the superior facilities of the well-known Eagle Dye- 
 House. 
 
 ROBERT WALKER & CO., Painters' Supplies, Paints, 
 Oils, Glass; Painting and Decorating Executed Promptly; Wall Papers, Decora- 
 tions, Window Shades, Curtain Poles, Artists' Materials; No. 389 Main Street. — 
 One of the most complete establishments of its kind in Hartford is that of 
 Messrs. Robert Walker & Co., who since 1870 have held a prominent place 
 among the decorators of this city, and the position they hold has been earned 
 by the force of ability and square dealing. All of their work bears evidence of 
 painstaking care and a desire to give their patrons the best that is attainable 
 in return for their confidence in them. They use nothing but the best material, 
 whether the work be interior decorating, paper-hanging or house-painting, and, 
 as they employ only the most competent workmen, whatever they undertake in 
 their line is sure to be well done. Besides the practical department of their 
 business, they carry an extensive line of wall papers, decorations, window 
 shades, curtain poles, artist materials, painters' supplies, paints, oils, glass, etc., 
 at their store, No. 3S9 Main Street. The premises utilized comprise three 
 floors 2ox 160 feet in size, and a shop in the rear, besides a storehouse at 
 another location. During the busy season employment is given to about forty 
 men, thirty of whom are employed on outside work and ten in the store. 
 Estimates for all work in their various departments will be promptly and 
 cheerfully given, and orders entrusted to them will be executed with the 
 greatest dispatch. The business was established in 1870 by Robert Walker. 
 Theylmoved to their present store in 1S82. Mr. Warren R. Marsh, after being 
 employed in the store for many years, was admitted as a partner in 1SS8. Mr. 
 Walker is a native of Scotland aud has been in this countrv for thirty-five 
 years. Mr. Marsh is a native of Plaiufield, N. J. 
 
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 MAIN STREET. 
 
ROBERT GARVIE (Successor to Wm. A. Garvie), Practical 
 
 Plumber and Gas-Fitter; Gas Fixtures a Specialty ; Dealer in Water Closets, 
 Marble Slabs, Bath-Tubs, Hydrants, Sheet- Lead, Lead-Pipe, Plain and Galvan- 
 ized Iron Pipe, Hydraulic Rams, Copper Boilers and Galvanized Boilers; No. 
 12 Mulberry Street. — So much has been written and said of late years on the 
 subject of sanitary plumbing that it may be assumed that the average house- 
 owner or householder is fully alive to the importance of this matter. It does 
 not follow, however, that he or they are as well posted regarding the qualifica- 
 tions of the various men who may bid for the plumbing work they may have to 
 dispense. For the benefit of those who may not already be apprised of the fact, 
 we would say that there is no firm in Hartford better equipped for the most 
 modern and advanced work in this line than is Mr. Robert Garvie. This gen- 
 tleman has sustained a high reputation as a progressive man and thoroughly 
 practical plumber and gas-fitter for the past twenty-five years. Mr. Garvie was 
 born in Scotland, but was brought to this country while an infant. He learned 
 his trade in Hartford, and has long made this city his home. His place of 
 business at No. 12 Mulberry Street is provided with an elegant show-room 
 25 x 25 feet in dimensions, where are displayed the finest examples of baths, 
 wash-stands, etc., and the latest sanitary improvements. Mr. Garvie has done 
 work for many of the representative people of this city. He did the plumbing 
 in the Waverly Building, the Henblien Hotel, the State Prison, the residences 
 of Mark Twain, Mr. C. R. Forrest, Mr. L. Fisk, Mr. J. J. Goodwin and many 
 others. The number of his assistants varies from six to twenty, according to 
 the season. In addition to his business as a practical plumber aud gas-fitter, 
 Mr. Garvie deals in plumbing supplies, including water-closets, marble slabs, 
 bath-tubs, hydrants, sheet-lead, lead-pipe, plain and galvanized iron pipe, 
 hydraulic rams, copper and galvanized-iron boilers. He makes a specialty of 
 gas fixtures. For two terms Mr. Garvie represented his ward in the Board of 
 Aldermen. 
 
 H . K . 1/ E E , Mechanical Engineer ; Sales Agent for the 
 Buckeye Engine; Mill Gearing, Pulleys, Hangers and Shafting; Office and 
 Works, No. 223 State Street ; P. O. Box 780.— Mr. Lee has had a large experi- 
 ence during the past fifteen years 
 in the erection of engines in all 
 parts of the country. Nine-tenths 
 of the marvelous progress made in 
 the nineteenth century is due to 
 the knowledge and skill of the 
 mechanical engineer. This state- 
 ment may be questioned; but when 
 it is considered how much of our 
 greatness is the direct result of the improved machinery — the application of 
 forces hitherto little understood aud less utilized — the assertion does not appear 
 to be too bold. The hamperiug influences which in all ages have prevented 
 
 the rapid spread of ideas have been removed by the invention of improvements 
 and additions to the printing press, cheapening the cost of books and periodi- 
 cals, and placing them promptly at the disposal of the masses. Here we have 
 the fundamental principle of all progress, and we need not go further in ex- 
 patiating on those other means of'rapid communication — the railroad, the tele- 
 graph, the telephone — all the product of the genius of mechanical engineers. In 
 the department of steam the greatest developments are to be noted, and in this 
 connection Mr. H. K. Lee's services to the people of Hartford are worthy of 
 mention. Mr. Lee has been in business on his own account for the past ten 
 years, but had previously had a long experience as a mechanical engineer. He 
 makes a specialty of steam-engineering, and is an expert builder of steam- 
 engines. He was formerly associated with the Hartford Engineering Co., 
 which built the famous and world-famed Buckeye engine, of which some 5,000 
 have been shipped to all parts of the world. Mr. Lee now has the business of 
 the late Hartford Engineering Co., and is pushing the interests of the Buckeye 
 Engine Co. He is a member of the Engineers' Club of Philadelphia, and is 
 prominent in engineering circles generally. 
 
 DRUG STORE, Goodwin Building, No. 214 Pearl Street; 
 Dr. Cressy's Office is in the store, where he can be found for consultation and 
 advice. — When purchasing goods of any kind it is, of course, well to use some 
 discrimination iu the placing of the order; but when buying drugs, either for 
 human beings or animals, careful judgment becomes an absolute duty, for it is 
 of the first importance that the articles obtained shall be pure and reasonably 
 fresh, and it is a notorious fact that by no means all the drugs in the market 
 are of this character. Doubtless many of our readers (and certaiuly a large 
 proportion of those residing in Hartford) have satisfactorily solved the problem 
 of where to get reliable drugs at fair prices, by placing all their orders with 
 Dr. Noah Cressy, doing business in the Goodwin Building at No. 214 Pearl 
 Street, for not only is he prepared to furnish such commodities of standard 
 quality at reasonable rates, but he shows great enterprise in acquaiuting the 
 public with the fact, and hence his facilities are as well known as they are ex- 
 tensive. Dr. Cressy was born in Massachusetts, and has been identified with 
 his present business since 1881. The store utilized by him is 25 x 60 feet iu 
 dimensions, and contains a large and varied stock comprising drugs and medi- 
 cines for both human beings and animals, but a specialty is made of those 
 adapted for horses and cattle, the great variety on hand including distemper 
 powders, and those for cough, worms, garget, as well as tonic and skin pow- 
 ders, liniments, hoof ointment, salves, colic medicines, mange lotion, etc., all 
 of which are prepared from the best drugs in the market, both foreign and 
 domestic. Dr. Cressy's office is in his store, where he can be consulted, and no 
 trouble is spared to ensure the best advice in even the most trivial cases. Em- 
 ployment is given to a thoroughly competent assistant, and all callers are 
 assured immediate and careful attention. 
 
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OLD PEOPLE'S HOME 
 
HURD, MEU/EN & HEWES, Importers, Wholesale 
 and Retail Dealers in China, Glassware, Lamps, Barstow Stoves and Ranges, 
 No. 255 Main Street. — The modern housewife hardly appreciates the advantages 
 
 she possesses in the matter of 
 a profusion of household uten- 
 sils; not alone in those indis- 
 pensable articles of kitchen 
 use, but in furnishings for the 
 dining room, and, in fact, every 
 portion of the domestic man- 
 agement. She not only has 
 a much greater variety of these 
 things, but their cost is very 
 much less, particularly when 
 the)- are purchased at such an 
 establishment as that of Messrs. 
 Hurd, Mellen & Hewes. This 
 well-known firm of importers, 
 wholesale and retail dealers in 
 china, glassware, lamps, stoves 
 and house furnishings gener- 
 ally, have a widespread reputation for the excellence of their goods and the 
 low prices charged in all departments. Their pronounced success is the result 
 of hard work directed by unusual intelligence, and the firm have the satisfaction 
 of knowing that their efforts are fully appreciated by the general public. Theirs 
 is one of the oldest stands in the city, its beginning dating back sixty years, 
 when Mr. E. S. Kendall started the business on a rather modest scale. The 
 present firm consists of Mr. C. F. Hurd, a native of Connecticut; Mr. M. 
 Mellen, who was born in Massachusetts and served with distinction in the 44th 
 Regiment of that State during the late war, and Mr. D. N. Hewes, who is a 
 native of Connecticut. The firm occupies commodious quarters at No. 255 
 Main Street, their well-equipped store having a frontage of 25 feet and a depth 
 of 185 feet, while the basement, which is utilized for storage purposes, measures 
 25 x 200 feet. The firm does an extensive wholesale and retail business, aud 
 carries a very full stock, including china aud glassware of every description ; 
 lamps in great variety, including the celebrated Rochester and Miller ; lanterns, 
 lamp chimneys, etc.; the popular Barstow stoves and ranges; oil stoves, 
 refrigerators of the most approved makes; fruit jars, agate ironware, kitchen 
 furnishings, etc. The pay-roll of the firm contains an average of eighteen 
 names, and only the most competent aud experienced men are employed. 
 
 C. S. BREWER. & CO. 
 
 # Wholesale Fruit Dealers and 
 
 # Commission Merchants, 
 
 FLORIDA ORANGES 
 
 A SPECIALTY. *~ ~^v 
 
 Nos. 23S and 240 ASYLUM STREET. 
 
 The commission house of Messrs. C. S. Brewer & Co. was inaugurated 
 by them in 1870, and the success it has met with and the liberal patronage 
 which it has received makes it worthy of an establishment of much longer 
 standing. There is so much competition nowadays in the fruit aud produce 
 busiuess that they who succeed in it must be pretty well informed, and know 
 how to buy judiciously and sell reasonably. Messrs. Brewer & Co. are equal to 
 any and all emergencies which may arise, however; so they have launched 
 themselves in the surging sea of competition, and intend to run their chances 
 in the great race for wealth. We prognosticate, from present appearances, that 
 fortune has aud will contiuue to smile upon their efforts, for their busiuess 
 methods are honorable and their integrity is unimpeachable. They are whole- 
 sale fruit dealers and commission merchants, aud make a specialty of Florida 
 oranges. The premises are located at Nos. 238 and 240 Asylum Street, and 
 measure 25 x 125 feet in dimensions, so there is room enough to carry a large 
 stock. The prices quoted are the lowest in the market, the goods are Ai in 
 quality and come straight from the producers. Employment is given to ten 
 assistants in the winter aud twenty in summer, besides four traveling men, thus 
 enabliug all orders to be immediately taken as well as accurately filled aud 
 promptly delivered. The firm is composed of Messrs. C. S. Brewer and R. M. 
 Burdick, both well known in business and social circles. 
 
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LIBRARY IN STATE HOUSE. 
 
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 THE HUB (Chas. A. Rennacker, Managing Partner), 
 Clothiers, Furnishers and Hatters, Nos. 139 and 141 Asylum Street. — To be 
 well-dressed nowadays does not necessitate a very great draft upon the average 
 income, provided proper discrimination is exercised in the selection of a 
 clothier. There are numerous clothing houses that claim to give the buyer un- 
 usual value in every purchase, but there are comparatively few that can make 
 good this assertion, as those who have relied upon representations made through 
 advertisements and otherwise have good reason to know. Still, there is no 
 lack of enterprise and honorable dealing in the clothing trade of Hartford, and 
 the buyer can get the full worth of his money if he knows the right place in 
 which to spend it. One of the best houses in this respect, and one where the 
 utmost satisfaction is guaranteed to all customers, while the prices charged are 
 most moderate, is The Hub, Nos. 139 and 141 Asylum Street. This business, 
 which was founded in 1875, has recently passed into the hands of men of the 
 greatest enterprise and thoroughly experienced and reliable as clothiers, fur- 
 nishers and hatters. The establishment, which covers a large floor 40x125 
 feet in measurement, has been thoroughly renovated and refitted, while the old 
 stock has been entirely cleaned out and has been replaced by a most complete 
 Hue of fine clothing in the latest and most approved styles, and an elegant 
 stock of men's furnishing goods, hats, canes and umbrellas, etc. They manu- 
 facture all of their clothiug, using only the best materials and employing none 
 but skilled workmen, and their guarantee, therefore, means much more than 
 that which usually accompanies a sale of clothing in the average store. Their 
 boys' department is one of the most complete in the city, and nowhere else 
 can more durable, stylish and well-made clothing be found at as low prices. 
 It is a model store in every respect and well-entitled to the commanding 
 position it holds in the trade. The management is vested in the capable hands 
 of Mr. Chas. A. Rennacker, the managing partner, who is assisted by a staff of 
 seven clerks and salesmen. 
 
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 Abels, Geo. F 106 
 
 Adams Granite and Marble Works 17 
 
 vEtna National Bank of Hartford 100 
 
 .Etna Stamp Works 66 
 
 Ahem, James 92 
 
 Alderman, J. S 24 
 
 Alexander, John 54 
 
 Allen, Bros 92 
 
 Allyn House, The 68 
 
 American Cycle Repair Co 22 
 
 American House 44 
 
 Amidon, F. S 64 
 
 Andrews & Peck 23 
 
 Avery, George 29 
 
 B 
 
 Bacon, M. M 87 
 
 Backes, F. W 3 6 
 
 Barlow, J. R 20 
 
 Bartlett, Geo. D 33 
 
 Baxter, Wm. G 46 
 
 Beach &Co 55 
 
 Beck, Frank H S6 
 
 Becker, W. E ">i 
 
 Behner & Norton 26 
 
 Bernard, Weigelt & Son 12 
 
 Besse, P. &J 64 
 
 Betts, E. H 56 
 
 Bibeau & Schreffer 78 
 
 Bill Bros 18 
 
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 Billings, H. E no 
 
 Birkery Manufacturing Co 53 
 
 Bissell, Geo. P., & Co 44 
 
 Bissell, J. M 36 
 
 Blair & Coxeter 66 
 
 Blake, Chas. A., & Co 36 
 
 Blinn, D. H., & Co 7 
 
 Boardman, Wm., & Sons 101 
 
 Buckley Bros. & Co S6 
 
 Bosworth, S. B 7 
 
 Boucher & Cornwell 42 
 
 Brady, J. J 106 
 
 Brewer, C. S. & Co 120 
 
 Brewster, A. L 72 
 
 Brooks, David W 2S 
 
 Brooks, H. P 84 
 
 Brooks, P. A 64 
 
 Brown, Thompson & Co 4 
 
 Brown, William 13 
 
 Buckley Bros. & Co 86 
 
 Bull, N. B., &Son 6S 
 
 Burgess, Henry C 39 
 
 Burr, J. B., & Co 6S 
 
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 Case, C. H, & Co 33 
 
 Catlin, A., Jr 82 
 
 Centennial American Tea Co 94 
 
 Chapin, Lyman A 54 
 
 Chapman, Silas, Jr 19 
 
 Charter Oak City Shirt 26 
 
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 Charter Oak Marble and Granite Works 14 
 
 Citizens' Butter Store 74 
 
 Clapp, Fred. C 24 
 
 Clark, D. A 47 
 
 Clark, Edred 81 
 
 Clark, E. S 94 
 
 Claussen, Edward E 17 
 
 Cohn, A., & Co 70 
 
 Commercial House 18 
 
 Conant Rubber Co., G. & H. 1 88 
 
 Conklin, H. W 90 
 
 Cooley, Francis R 99 
 
 Cook, A. D 3S 
 
 Cook & Hills 2 
 
 Co-operative Coal Co 10 
 
 Co-operative Savings Society of Conn., The... 13 
 
 Cordley, F. R., & Co 70 
 
 Corning, H. F., & Co 7 
 
 Cowles Couch Co., The 76 
 
 Crary, Edwin ... 7S 
 
 Cressy, Noah, M. D 118 
 
 Cronin, T 74 
 
 Cushman Chuck Co., The 96 
 
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 Dairy Lunch Room 32 
 
 Daly, Lawrence 106 
 
 Daniels, The Printer 39 
 
 Daniels, N. P 54 
 
 Davis & Foster 87 
 
 Davis, Samuel 34 
 
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 Denning, C. A 99 
 
 De Wolf & Wheelock 98 
 
 Dunham, E. P 25 
 
 Dunn, P. H no 
 
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 Eagle Dye House 116 
 
 Entress, Albert 59 
 
 Eldredge Co., The no 
 
 F 
 
 Fiske, J. D., & Co 42 
 
 Fitz Gerald, Ransom N 70,90 
 
 Floral Bazaar 72 
 
 Forbes, Edward P 56 
 
 Foster, A. L. & Co 30-31 
 
 Fowler, Roswell 19 
 
 Frayer & Foster 32 
 
 Frost, Henry D ... 14 
 
 Fuller, E. A. & W. F ' 52 
 
 Furlong & Howard 74 
 
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 Gaines, Charles M... 28 
 
 Gallup & Metzger 90 
 
 Gans, L. R 18 
 
 Garvan, P 20 
 
 Garvie, Robert 118 
 
 Gately, E., & Co 39 
 
 Gemmill, Burnham & Co 114 
 
 Goodrich, Stephen, & Co 19 
 
 Grant, H. W., & Co 17 
 
 Greene, Daniel E 19 
 
 H 
 
 Hagarty, Joseph 40 
 
 Half-Dime Luuch 74 
 
 Harding & Holbrook 37 
 
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 Hart, H. H 29 
 
 Hartford Building and Loan Association 94 
 
 Hartford Business College 7S 
 
 Hartford Carpet Company 23 
 
 Hartford Coal Company, The 53 
 
 Hartford Coffee House Company 61 
 
 Hartford Engraving Company 46, 54, 58, 59, 72 
 
 Hartford Lumber Company, The 55 
 
 Hartford One-Price Clothing Company 84 
 
 Hartford Optical Company 59 
 
 Hetzel & Hess 26 
 
 "Hill" Market, The 103 
 
 Hogan, W. B., & Bro 104 
 
 Honiss, T. A 108 
 
 Hotel Capitol 22 
 
 House, H. S., & Co 47 
 
 Hub, The 122 
 
 Hube Bros 14 
 
 Hull, A. R 7 
 
 Hurd, Mellen & Hewes 120 
 
 Ideal Restaurant 116 
 
 Jones&Little 58 
 
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 Kashmann, Joseph... 58 
 
 Kelly Bros 80 
 
 Kellogg, E. N. & N. 40 
 
 Kelsey, Wm. H., & Co 86 
 
 Keney, Roberts & Co 43 
 
 Kennedy, J. A 25 
 
 Kenyon, R. P., & Co 25 
 
 King, Horace H 102 
 
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 Lane, Joseph G 6 
 
 Langdon, T. H 102 
 
 Law, Dr. W. H 88 
 
 League Cycle Co., The 43 
 
 Lee, H. K 11S 
 
 Lincoln, Seyms & Co 12 
 
 Loughman, Patrick 26 
 
 Low, David 23 
 
 Loydon, Fred R no 
 
 Lovell & Tracy Co., The 114 
 
 M 
 
 Maercklein, H 66 
 
 Magical Depot 65 
 
 Maginn, W. F 26 
 
 Mansuy Carriage Manufacturing Co., The 52 
 
 Mapes Formula & Peruvian Guano Co 82 
 
 Marchant, George 84 
 
 Martin, J. P 116 
 
 Maslen, Stephen .. 62 
 
 Mather Electric Co., The 24 
 
 May, W. J 39 
 
 McClary, John 40 
 
 McGurk, Bernard 96 
 
 McMauus, John C 4S 
 
 Merrow, J. B., & Sons 62 
 
 Moody, John 102 
 
 Mulcahy, The Outfitter 32 
 
 Mulhall, James 93 
 
 Murray Bros 58 
 
 Myers, G. E S6 
 
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 National Machine Co., The 76 
 
 New England Home Printing Co., The S8 
 
 New England Typewriter Exchange 48 
 
 Newton, Robertson S: Co 62 
 
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 Newton & Burnet 76 
 
 New York Tea Store, The 87 
 
 Nims, Whitney & Co 38 
 
 Noyes & Morris 84 
 
 Nussbaum, K 23 
 
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 Palmer, E. M . 20 
 
 Park Drug Company's Pharmacy 103 
 
 Park Knitting Works 108 
 
 Patten, H. E 18 
 
 Payne, Cornwall & Co 8 
 
 Pease, L., & Co 28 
 
 Peck, R. S., & Co 66 
 
 Pelton, W. N., & Co 98 
 
 Pepion, John, & Co 65 
 
 Perkins Electric Switch Manufacturing Co 37 
 
 Pierce, L. D 44 
 
 Pierce's Steam Laundry and Carpet Cleaning 
 
 Works 22 
 
 Pitkin Bros. & Co 48 
 
 Pomeroy, A. H 38 
 
 Pond, De WittC 62 
 
 Post, Charles A 96 
 
 Pratt, C. W 5S 
 
 Pratt & Whitney Co 56 
 
 Preissner Bros 93 
 
 Preston Bros 34 
 
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 Rapelye, Charles A 80 
 
 Reiche, Charles E 102 
 
 Reid, J. Wilkie 101 
 
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 Reuss, Hugo 17 
 
 Ricker, Alfred T 80 
 
 Risley, L. S 72 
 
 Russell, John S 112 
 
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 Sail & McLaughlin 104 
 
 Samuels, J., & Co 40 
 
 Schall Co., The Ernst 96 
 
 Schmidt & Fox 92 
 
 Schroeder, F 42 
 
 Shelton, Edward 47 
 
 Sigourney Tool Company, The 20 
 
 Sill, E. M 86 
 
 Simons, E., & Co 114 
 
 Singer Manufacturing Company, The 112 
 
 Sisson, T., & Co 106 
 
 State Mutual Fire Insurance Company 14 
 
 Sloane, John, & Co Si 
 
 Smith, A. H 103 
 
 Smith, C. H., Jr 112 
 
 Smith, M. S 94 
 
 Smith, The Horseshoer 52 
 
 South Park Drug Store 54 
 
 South, Sidney F 102 
 
 Starkie, Walter 29 
 
 Starr, T. K 104 
 
 States Machine Co., The So 
 
 Stoddard & Corkins 44 
 
 Street, Joseph, & Son 48 
 
 Stuart, Chas. T 81 
 
 Strickland & Shea 25 
 
 Sykes.F. A S2 
 
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 Thomas, A. L 81 
 
 Thorne Typesetting Machine Co 16 
 
 Tilton, A. F 70 
 
 Tracy & Robinson 50 
 
 Trout Brook, Ice & Feed Company, The 29 
 
 Tucker's Sons, E 88 
 
 Tuttle & Mather 37 
 
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 United States Hotel 101 
 
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 Walker, Robert, & Co 116 
 
 Wander, Wm., & Sons 50 
 
 Warner & Willard Co., The 93 
 
 Webb & Shedd 24 
 
 Webster & Burnes 22 
 
 Weeks, Geo. H 34 
 
 Westphall, Wm 50 
 
 Wiers, H. J., M. D 108 
 
 Wiley, L. G 33 
 
 Wiley, L. N, D. D. S 90 
 
 Willes, J. H 103 
 
 Williams, Alfred, & Son 93 
 
 Woodruff, O. D., & Co 34 
 
 Wooley's Hack, Livery and Boarding Stables 38 
 
 Woolley, G. W., & Son 104 
 
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 Yeomans, Henry E 32 
 
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 Zweygartt, Henry J 61