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 A BUSINESS TOUR OF CHICAGO. 
 
 ~d SEMI-CENTENNIAL REVIEW. >> 
 
 IFTY years ago Chicago was first in- 
 corporated as one of the border 
 towns of the public domain. Today 
 it is the commercial metropolis of 
 the great west, and is the third city 
 in size in the United States. Though 
 an infant in years, and situated in the center of a conti- 
 nent, its fame has gone forth to the ends of the earth. 
 The activity, enterprise and prosperity of its business 
 men, as well as their judgment, solidity and liberal- 
 ity, have become a proverb. The dash and bright- 
 ness of its population, the beauty of its streets and 
 edifices, the magnitude of its public improvements, 
 its unequaled transportation facilities, its enormous 
 trade, are things that fire the dullest imagination. 
 Chicago is more distinctively than any other city 
 the embodiment of all that is most characteristic of 
 the American people a people who have within the 
 limits of a single century risen from poverty and 
 obscurity to a foremost place among the nations. 
 M In a large sense it is typical of the age in which we 
 o live the age of steam and electricity. The rapidity 
 H of Chicago's development has been without a par- 
 allel in ancient or modern times, and the brilliancy 
 of its past is equaled by the promise of its future. 
 
 CHICAGO'S SITUATION DESCRIBED. 
 
 Chicago is situated in Cook county, Illinois, on 
 
 the west shore of Lake Michigan, 960 miles by rail 
 
 from New York. Dearborn observatory, three and 
 
 one-half miles south and three-quarters of a mile 
 
 east from the Chicago court-house, is in 41: 50: 1 
 
 N. latitude, and 87: 34: 8 W. longitude. The sur- 
 
 ^rounding country is prairie land, with a loam soil, 
 
 v "and a ridge runs north and south two miles or more 
 
 x > west from the lake. The city is at an elevation of 
 
 , nearly six hundred feet above the level of the sea, 
 
 but only fourteen feet above the lake. When it was 
 
 originally settled, the elevation above the lake was 
 
 v^ not more than seven feet. 
 
 4 EARLY HISTORY. 
 
 As early as 1672, the French Jesuits had explored 
 and mapped the whole of Lake Superior and the 
 
 upper portion of Lake Michigan then known as 
 Lac des Illinois as far south as Green bay. They 
 had established themselves at various points, among 
 which were the Mission de Ste. Marie de Sault; the 
 Mission du St. Esprit, at La Pointe; the Mission de 
 St. Fr. Xavier, at the head of Green bay; and the 
 Mission de St.Ignace, at the outlet of Lake Michigan, 
 nearly opposite Mackinac, on the north shore of the 
 lake. At that time the English colonists skirted the 
 Atlantic coast from Florida to Nova Scotia, without 
 penetrating far into the interior. Elliot, in his 
 missionary zeal, had explored only so far as Natick, 
 six miles out of Boston; the Connecticut valley was 
 still unoccupied. 
 
 THE GOOD PERE MARQUETTE. 
 
 The first white occupant of Chicago was Father 
 Marquette, one of the Jesuit missionaries, whose 
 name will always occupy a conspicuous and honor- 
 able place in the history of the northwest. He was 
 attached to the mission of St. Ignace. On the 17th 
 of May, 1673, accompanied by the Sieur Joliet, with 
 two canoes and five voyageurs, he embarked on a 
 voyage of exploration, his objective point being the 
 great stream far to the west, which the Indians 
 called by the" impressive name of Mississippi, or 
 Father of Waters. Coasting along Green bay to its 
 head, then ascending the Fox river and descending 
 the Wisconsin, one month after starting, he beheld 
 the mighty current of the Mississippi, on which he 
 floated as far south as Arkansas. In returning, he 
 paused at the mouth of the Illinois, and, instead of 
 proceeding on to the Wisconsin, ascended the latter 
 stream, taking the Des Plaines branch, by which he 
 passed by an easy portage to the Chicago river. 
 Having reached Lake Michigan, he coasted along 
 the west shore, and thus reached, after a canoe voy- 
 age of over 2,500 miles, the point of his embark- 
 ation. 
 
 So cordial had been the reception of the good 
 father among the tribes inhabiting the valley of the 
 Illinois that he resolved to return and erect among 
 them the standard of the Cross ; and the next 
 
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 A BUSINESS TOUR OF CHICAGO. 
 
 autumn (1674) he arranged to carry out his design. 
 It was late in October when, with a canoe and two 
 voyageurs, he embarked. Reaching the mouth of 
 the Chicago river, he ascended that stream for about 
 two leagues, where he built a hut and passed the 
 winter. It was on this voyage that the good father 
 contracted the consumptive disease that caused his 
 death early in the following spring. La Salle fol- 
 lowed in the footsteps of Marquette. On one of his 
 voyages, as early. as 1670, he passed the mouth of 
 the Chicago river, and in the fall of 1681, he passed 
 by the Chicago portage, en route to the Mississippi. 
 This portage was repeatedly used by his followers. 
 but they made no permanent settlement at the 
 mouth of the river. 
 
 THE FIRST SETTLEMENT. 
 
 By the treaty of Fontainebleau, in 1762, the vast 
 territory east of the 
 Mississippi passed 
 into the possession 
 of the British gov- 
 ernment ; and the 
 result of the Decla- 
 ration of Indepen- 
 dence, July 4, 1776, 
 transferred this 
 country to the 
 United States. In 
 1800, the Territory 
 of Indiana was 
 organized, with Illi- 
 nois as one of its 
 counties. In 1809, 
 Illinois county was 
 made a Territory, A BUSINESS TOUR OF ci 
 
 and in 1818, it was 
 
 erected into a State. In 1804, the government es- 
 tablished a military post, with the title of Fort 
 Dearborn, at the mouth of the Chicago. The fort 
 was garrisoned by a single company of infantry. In 
 1812, on the declaration of war with Great Britain, 
 the Indians gathered about the fort and made dem- 
 onstrations of hostility. Captain Heald, who was 
 in command, foreseeing that his supplies might be 
 cut off, and availing himself of discretionary orders, 
 undertook to retreat with his little command to De- 
 troit. 300 miles distant ; but he had proceeded less 
 than two miles along the lake shore when he was 
 ambuscaded, and only three of his party escaped 
 massacre. In 1816, the fort was rebuilt and gar- 
 risoned by two companies of infantry. It was not 
 until the close of the Black Hawk war, in 1832, that 
 the region of southern Wisconsin and northern Illi- 
 nois was thrown open to settlement. Emigration 
 soon began to flow in with a surging tide, which has 
 
 continued up to the present hour. A hamlet clus- 
 tered around Fort Dearborn, which took the na*rie 
 of Chicago. As late as 1837, the year of its incor- 
 poration, flour was shipped from Ohio to supply the 
 infant settlement. 
 
 BEGINNING TO GROW. 
 
 The first impulse communicated to the growth of 
 Chicago was the passage, by the State legislature, 
 of an act, January 18, 1825, for the construction of 
 the Illinois and Michigan canal, and, in aid thereof, 
 of the passage of an act of congress, March 2, 1827, 
 granting to the State alternate sections of the public 
 lands embracing a strip of six miles wide on either 
 side of the projected canal ; but it was not until 
 1836 that the work was entered upon, nor was it 
 completed until 1848. 
 
 In 1831, Cook county, embracing Chicago, was 
 organized. In the 
 spring of 1833, 
 congress made an 
 appropriation of 
 $30,000 for improv- 
 ing the harbor; and 
 that same year a 
 postoffice was 
 established, John 
 S. C. Hogan, who 
 occupied a "variety 
 store" on South 
 Water street, being 
 the first postmas- 
 ter. The mail was 
 brought weekly, on 
 horseback, from 
 icAGo ITS SITE IN 1833. Niles, Michigan. 
 
 That same year 
 
 witnessed the cession of all the lands in northern 
 Illinois, amounting to about 20,000,000 acres, by the 
 Pottawatamies, who removed farther westward. 
 Chicago was incorporated as a town by a nearly 
 unanimous vote; and to show the number of voters 
 it may be said that twelve were in favor of and 
 only one against the proposed measure. In ex- 
 planation of the perverse action of the man 
 who voted in the minority, it is to be stated 
 that his residence was outside the proposed cor- 
 porate limits. 
 
 In 1834 the poll list of citizens amounted to one 
 hundred and eleven, and the amount of taxes 
 reached $48.90; but this being inadequate for mu- 
 nicipal purposes, the trustees resolved to borrow 
 $60 for the opening and improyement of streets. 
 The next year, however, grown bolder by the suc- 
 cess of the former loan, the treasurer, " on the faith 
 of the president and trustees," was authorized to
 
 A BUSINESS TOUR OF CHICAGO. 
 
 borrow $2,000, at a rate of interest not exceeding 
 ten per cent., and payable in twelve months. 
 
 INCORPORATION OF THE CITY. 
 In 1837, Chicago became incorporated as a city, 
 and William B. Ogden was chosen as its first mayor. 
 The population in July of that year numbered 4,170 
 souls. The panic of 1837, which prostrated the busi- 
 ness of other parts of the country, exerted for a 
 time a discouraging influence on the infant city of 
 Chicago. Speculation in lots, which had been 
 wrought up to a fever heat, experienced a sudden 
 check. Notes went to protest on every hand, and, 
 to use an expressive phrase, the bottom fell out of 
 business in general. Many men who had acquired 
 
 large interests in the new city saw all their posses- 
 sions slip away from them, and they were forced to 
 begin life anew. But the depression was only tem- 
 porary, and in 1840 everything was booming again. 
 
 IMPROVING TRANSPORTATION FACILITIES. 
 The early history of the trade and commerce of 
 Chicago appears to have differed but little from that 
 of most other western settlements, consisting at 
 first of a small Indian traffic, but gradually growing 
 as civilization began to advance into the then 
 almost trackless prairie. Early settlement in Illi- 
 nois, as in other western States, was confined almost 
 exclusively to localities in proximity to rivers which 
 could be made available for transportation. Hence, 
 what trade there was went 
 most wholly to such markets 
 as it could be floated to. 
 Chicago was not one of 
 these, for while nature had 
 provided a grand and free 
 highway for commerce from 
 Chicago to the eastward, 
 there were no avenues for it 
 penetrating to the interior 
 until they were artificially 
 created under the pressure of 
 necessity. 
 
 For the first eighteen years 
 of its settlement, the only 
 trade of Chicago was such as 
 it drew from the immediate- 
 ly surrounding country, with 
 a limited traffic in such 
 commodities of actual and 
 pressing necessity as were 
 demanded by the settlers 
 within a distance of one 
 hundred mjles. All farm 
 products were sold, when 
 sold at all, at comparatively 
 low prices; and the entire 
 product of a wagon-load of 
 the most available surplus of 
 the farmer, when converted 
 into such articles as he must 
 buy, was scarcely sufficient 
 to reward him for the time 
 spent in effecting the ex- 
 change, to say nothing of 
 the labor and capital em- 
 ployed upon his farm in its 
 production. But notwith- 
 standing the difficulties and 
 embarrassments of both the 
 producer and the merchant,
 
 FIFTY YEARS' PROGRESS.
 
 8 
 
 A BUSINESS TOUR OF CHICAGO. 
 
 the city had in 1848 increased in population to 
 20,000, and the taxable value of its real and personal 
 estate, which in 1840 was less than $1,000,000, had 
 risen to $6,300,000. Numerous wholesale establish- 
 ments, for the sale of all kinds of merchandise, 
 were in successful operation, and already the trade 
 in cereals had grown to respectable proportions. 
 THE ILLINOIS AND MICHIGAN CANAL. 
 
 An important factor in Chicago's material devel- 
 opment was the construction of the Illinois and 
 Michigan canal, an artificial water-way connecting 
 the city with La 
 Salle, the head of 
 steamboat naviga- 
 tion on the Illinois 
 river. Work on this 
 improvement was 
 begun in 1836. 
 Liberal appropria- 
 tions of public lands 
 were made by the 
 general government 
 in aid of the work. 
 After protracted 
 delays, incident 
 to the embarrassed 
 financial condition 
 of the State, the 
 canal was complet- 
 ed and opened for 
 traffic in the spring 
 of 1848. 
 
 A new era in the 
 commercial pros- 
 perity of the young 
 city now dawned 
 upon it; and with 
 the rapid settling 
 and development 
 of the territory con- 
 tiguous to this new line of transit, and the facilities 
 it gave for communication with the whole Missis- 
 sippi valley, there sprang up a greatly enlarged trade, 
 and an increased confidence in the stability and 
 future greatness of the city. With the cheapened 
 inland transportation was inaugurated on a largely 
 increased scale the trade in lumber, which has from 
 then until now exhibited a uniformity of growth 
 scarcely less marked and noticeable than that in 
 breadstuffs and provisions. 
 
 THE FIRST RAILROAD. 
 
 The introduction of railroads, at a later, but not 
 distant day, was the next great step in the city's 
 progress, and placed her on the solid foundation on 
 which her subsequent wonderful development has 
 
 been chiefly based. The first projected line the 
 original Galena and Chicago Union railroad, now 
 a part of the consolidated Chicago and Northwest- 
 ern railway was in its inception and during all its 
 separate corporate existence under the control, in 
 all respects, of citizens of Chicago, and although 
 financial aid in its construction and equipment was 
 sought and obtained of eastern capitalists, it was 
 always essentially a monument to the enterprise 
 and faith of a few of Chicago's early citizens. This 
 line was, after hard struggles, opened to the Fox 
 river, some forty 
 miles from the city, 
 in 1850; and, al- 
 though poorly 
 equipped, it soon 
 demonstrated the 
 fact that although 
 not furnishing as 
 cheap a means of 
 transit as water 
 routes, it required 
 but the construc- 
 tion of sufficient 
 lines of railroad to 
 make the great 
 State of Illinois a 
 very garden for pro- 
 duction, and the 
 home of a dense 
 population. Other 
 lines were speedily 
 projected and built, 
 until, within a mar- 
 velously short space 
 of time, the city 
 found itself the cen- 
 ter of a system of 
 railways diverging 
 in every direction, 
 all doing a prosperous and increasing business. 
 
 It is worthy of remark, that although every 
 principal railway line centering in Chicago has been 
 built with special reference to Chicago's trade, and 
 has brought with it increased commerce to the city, 
 it has not been necessary to pledge the municipal 
 credit or tax the body politic one dollar in aid of 
 their construction, nor has the accumulated capital 
 of the citizens been drawn on to any great extent 
 for their establishment. Chicago lines of railway 
 have, in view of the wonderful, vast and prospect- 
 ive growth of their traffic, been so eminently profit- 
 able that capital from abroad has been ever ready 
 to embark in their construction, sometimes even 
 when her own citizens could not comprehend the
 
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 A BUSINESS TOUR OF CHICAGO. 
 
 necessity nor prospective profit of the investment. 
 The fact that no drain has been entailed upon them 
 by the building of railroads has left the citizens free 
 to invest in mercantile or other enterprises of a 
 local character, and has enabled them to meet mu- 
 nicipal taxation for the extraordinary improvements 
 necessary in a city requiring so much expenditure 
 to make it convenient and enjoyable, without being 
 oppressively burdened. 
 
 CHICAGO'S LAKE COMMERCE. 
 
 Whatever may be said of the advantages to the 
 trade and commerce of Chicago resulting from her 
 other means of communication with the world, the 
 importance of the great highway provided by nature 
 for the free passage of her shipping on the great 
 chain of lakes must not be forgotten. Without the 
 aid of this means of transportation, her warehouses 
 would become over-burdened and choked, and her 
 railroads could not be relieved of their enormous 
 tonnage; in fact, but for this natural highway, no 
 city would exist where now is so much of com- 
 mercial life and varied industrial activity. 
 
 One of Chicago's historians, who wrote shortly 
 after the great fire, and whose work has been among 
 
 those laid under contribution in the preparation 
 of this sketch, remarked, "But few, even of our 
 commercial community, are fully aware of the ex- 
 j tent of our lake commerce, and many will be 
 surprised at the statement that our custom-house 
 returns show very much the largest marine business 
 of any in the country. The comparative statement 
 of the different customs districts is not now at 
 hand, but such was an official statement promulgated 
 within the last few months. The number of en- 
 tries of arrivals at our custom-house during the 
 season of navigation for 1870, was 12,739 vessels; 
 and of clearances during the same time, 12,433 
 vessels. The navigation of the lakes, though run- 
 ning through but about seven months of the year, 
 is the grand safety-valve by which all rates of trans- 
 portation eastward are regulated, and by means of 
 it nearly all our lumber and vastly the largest share 
 of our farm products are moved, the former to and 
 the latter from the city." Since the above was 
 written the comparative magnitude of the city's 
 railroad commerce has increased, but her lake com- 
 merce has undergone no diminution, and it will al- 
 ways be of immense importance.
 
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 THE GREAT FIRE. 
 
 In 1871 Chicago had grown to be a city of 350,- 
 000 inhabitants. Its material progress in nearly 
 every direction had kept pace with this enormous 
 numerical growth. In respect of the average in- 
 dividual prosperity of its citizens it was, perhaps, 
 without a compeer upon the globe. In every city 
 whose origin goes back to centuries, many quarters 
 will be found to be rebuilt. What was good enough 
 for the day when the struggle for existence per- 
 haps was going on is not good enough when mercan- 
 
 tile First National Bank building, the Union build- 
 ing, the Chamber of Commerce, the Merchant's 
 Insurance building, Drake's block, Honore's block, 
 the Pacific Hotel, the Palmer House, the Booksell- 
 er's Row, the great station-houses of the Michigan 
 Southern and the Illinois Central railroads, and other 
 structures which might be cited, were models of 
 architectural beauty. Many of the private resi- 
 dences on the North side, and o'n Michigan and 
 Wabash avenues, attracted attention by reason of 
 their good taste and appropriate surroundings. It 
 
 SIXF.SS TOUR OF CHICAGO FOUNTAIN AT LINCOLN PARK. 
 
 tile pre eminence has been secured, and a large 
 number of members of the population have risen 
 to opulence. It was the boast of an emperor of 
 Rome that he found the imperial city brick, and he 
 left it marble. This process had been entered upon 
 in Chicago, and the structures in the business part 
 of the city, for the most part, were of enduring ma- 
 terials and almost faultless in architectural arrange- 
 ment. Field, Leiter & Go's store, for instance, was 
 a more imposing structure than Stewart's, on Broad- 
 way, New York; the Tribune building was one of 
 the best-appointed newspaper offices in the world; 
 
 is not meant to say, however, that Chicago, as a 
 whole, was as solidly built as other cities of equal 
 size which had been more plodding and common- 
 place in their development. This, indeed, would 
 have been too much to expect. One of the insepa : 
 rable conditions of such rapid growth as has been 
 noted would naturally be the existence of many 
 buildings of a makeshift character; many primitive 
 buildings, good enough for the exigencies of their 
 owners, would also naturally remain in use for a 
 long time after they had ceased to be in conformity 
 with the current styles as to either construction or
 
 FIFTY YEARS' PROGRESS. 
 
 13 
 
 durability. Side by side with such structures were yards, coal-yards, planing mills, sash factories, and 
 
 to be seen others which would fail to ornament an other combustible structures. 
 
 insignificant country village. With the best flagging Theinflammablecharacterof many of the buildings 
 
 stone on the line of the canal, and readily accessible of the western metropolis furnished one of the 
 
 to the city, yet there were miles upon miles of pine important conditions of the terrible disaster which 
 
 JESS TOfR OF CHICAGO JEFFERSON 
 
 sidewalks. The tallest buildings, and of compar- 
 atively incombustible materials, were decorated with 
 heavy wooden cornices, and roofed with shingles or 
 a coal-tar covering. The river, winding through the 
 
 overtook the city in 1871 the great fire, which was 
 immeasurably the most destructive conflagration of 
 modern times. The fire was started by the accident- 
 al overturning of a lamp, in a barn, near the corner 
 
 heart of the city, was lined with immense lumber- of DeKoven and Jefferson streets, in a district built
 
 14 
 
 A BUSINESS TOUR OF CHICAGO. 
 
 almost exclusively of wood. This accident occurred 
 at about 9 o'clock on the evening of Sunday, Octo- 
 ber 8, 1871. The fire continued through that night 
 and the greater part of the next day, lapping up great 
 blocks of houses, and growing by what it fed on. It 
 was finally checked by explosions of gunpowder in 
 a line of houses on the south of the fire, and ex- 
 hausted itself on the north by burning all there was 
 to ignite. 
 
 The area burned over in each division of the city 
 was as follows: West division (in which the fire 
 originated), 194 acres; South division, 460 acres; 
 North division, 1,470 acres. The total area burned 
 was 2,124 acres, or nearly three and one-half square 
 
 flames sought refuge in the lake, and remained 
 standing in the water for hours as the only means 
 of preservation against the intense heat and the 
 shower of sparks and cinders. 
 
 Among the buildings destroyed were the custom- 
 house, postoffice, court-house, Chamber of Com- 
 merce, and nearly all the churches, railway stations, 
 hotels, banks, theaters, newspaper offices, and build- 
 ings of a quasi-public character. 
 
 It is estimated that 73 miles frontage of streets was 
 burned over, most of which had been improved with 
 wood block pavements. These were partially de- 
 stroyed. 
 
 The total loss has been estimated at $196,000,000, 
 
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 miles, about four miles in length, and from one to 
 one and one-half miles in width. 
 
 The season had been excessively dry; the rainfall 
 in Chicago for the summer had been only 28^ per 
 cent, of the average. There was a strong southwest 
 wind, made a sirocco by the heat, and taking irregu- 
 lar, fantastic and uncontrollable offshoots and eddies, 
 which spread the fire in all directions except west. 
 The city fire department, though large and efficient, 
 had been exhausted by an unusually extended fire 
 the Saturday preceding, and the flames had their 
 own way. Wooden buildings were scattered 
 throughout the entire city, acting as brands to 
 spread the conflagration. These were the main 
 conditions of the fire. 
 
 The total number of buildings destroyed was 
 17,450, and 98.860 people were rendered homeless. 
 Of the latter 250 perished in the flames or lost their 
 lives from exposure. Thousands flying before the 
 
 of which $53,000,000 represented the value of the 
 buildings destroyed, $58,710,000 the personal effects, 
 and the remainder business stocks, produce and 
 manufactures of every description. On the losses 
 there was an insurance of $88,634,122, of which 
 about one-half was recovered. 
 
 A vast system of relief was organized, which re- 
 ceived the most generous aid from all parts of the 
 world. The money contributions from the various 
 States and from' abroad were $4,996,782. Of 
 this England contributed nearly $500,000. These 
 funds, which were over and above the contributions 
 of food, clothing and supplies, were made to last, 
 under the careful and honest administration of a so- 
 ciety of citizens, till the close of the year 1876. 
 Out of them, temporary homes were provided for 
 nearly 40,000 people; barracks and shelter-houses 
 were erected, workmen were supplied with tools, 
 and women with sewing-machines; the sick were
 
 FIFTY YEARS' PROGRESS. 
 
 16 
 
 cared for, and the dead buried ; and the poorer 
 classes of Chicago were probably never so comfort- 
 able as within the two or three years immediately 
 succeeding the fire, while this colossal relief fund 
 was being distributed. 
 
 The work of rebuilding the city was accomplished 
 \vith marvelous rapidity. Immediately after the 
 fire, the most sanguine persons predicted that it 
 would require at least ten years to restore thebuild- 
 
 A BUSINESS TOU 
 
 AGO HUMBOLDT PARK. 
 
 ings that had been destroyed. But within three 
 years the city was provided with buildings equal in 
 capacity, and of two-fold value. The work was 
 begun before the cinders were cold, and the popu- 
 lation seemed to gain new ambition and new energy 
 from the disaster, 
 
 The "fire limits" were extended so as to exclude 
 the erection of other than stone, brick or iron build- 
 ings within a large area, and subsequently this pro- 
 hibition was applied to the entire city. The result 
 has been to make the new Chicago the most beauti- 
 ful city in America, in its business centers. 
 
 The business and population continued to increase 
 in spite of the disaster; indeed, the ratio of growth 
 became larger. The solidity and permanence of this 
 prosperity were confirmed during the panic of 1873, 
 when the Chicago banks alone, among those of all 
 the large cities of the country, were not compelled 
 to issue certificates of deposit, but continued steadi- 
 ly to pay out current funds. There were few mer- 
 cantile failures, and the business of the year follow- 
 ing the panic still showed an increase. 
 
 THE CONFLAGRATION OF 1874. 
 
 July 14, 1874, another fire broke out in the heart 
 of the city and swept over eighteen blocks, consum- 
 
 ing 600 houses, and leaving blackened ruins in its 
 path. Fortunately, the area ravaged by the de- 
 structive element was occupied mainly by wooden 
 structures, and the loss was light compared with that 
 of the previous conflagration, aggregating only about 
 $4,000,000. 
 
 THE GROWTH OF POPULATION. 
 The following is a table showing the growth of 
 Chicago's population : 
 
 Date of Census. Taken by Population. 
 
 July, 1837 _City 4,170 
 
 July, 1840 U.S 4,47!l 
 
 July, 1843 City 7,f,80 
 
 July, 1845 _ ..State 12,083 
 
 September, 1846 City 14,1C9 
 
 October, 1847 City 16,859 
 
 September, 1848 City 20,02;'. 
 
 August, 1849 City 23,047 
 
 August, 1850 U.S 29,963 
 
 December, 1853 City __. 59,130 
 
 June, 1855 State 80,000 
 
 August, 1856 City 84,113 
 
 August, 1860 U. S .109,206 
 
 October, 1862 City 138,186 
 
 October, 1864. .City 169,353 
 
 October, 1865 State 178,492 
 
 October, 1866 City 200,418 
 
 October, 1868 City 252,054 
 
 August, 1870 U. S 306,605 
 
 October, 1872 City 
 
 October, 1874 City 
 
 June, 1880 _.U/S 503,185 
 
 June, 1886 City 750,000 
 
 June, 1887 Estimated 800,000 
 
 THE GROWTH OF WEALTH. 
 
 The material wealth of the city has kept pace 
 with the population. Starting with a taxable valu- 
 ation in 1837 of $236,842, which fell off in conse- 
 quence of a panic to something over $94,000 in 
 1839-40, and made an astounding jump from $151,- 
 342 in 1842 to $1,441,314 in 1843, again doubling 
 itself the succeeding year, the increase has since 
 been rapid and steady. The total valuation was $7,- 
 220,249 in 1850; $37,053,512 in 1860, and $275,986,- 
 550 in 1870. In October, 1871, the great fire con- 
 sumed close upon $200,000,000 of property, yet, 
 notwithstanding this enormous loss, the taxable 
 valuation in May, 1872, only a few months after the 
 fire, was $284,197,430, and it rose in the next two 
 years to $303,705,140. Then the legislature passed 
 a law transferring the duty of assessing and levying 
 the taxes to the county authorities, their valuation 
 being subject to revision by the State Board of 
 Equalization. The result was a contest between 
 the counties in the reduction of their tax lists, and 
 the total valuation in Chicago, in 1875, was cut 
 down to only $173,764,246, or something over one- 
 half that of the preceding year. In 1880 the total 
 taxable valuation was only $117,133,643, or less than 
 one-half that of the year after the losses of 1871,
 
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 A BUSINESS TOUR OF CHICAGO. 
 
 although the actual values had been multiplied by 
 improvements. In 1883 the figures were $133,230,- 
 504. The revenues of the city were further restricted 
 in 1879 by a law prohibiting the levy for municipal 
 purposes from being raised above 2 per cent, on the 
 valuation. The tax rate for all purposes is $3.41 
 on $100, but as that figure is considerably less than 
 2 per cent, on the actual value of property, one 
 result of the present system is to give Chicago, 
 which really enjoys a very light taxation compared 
 with other cities, a most undesirable advertisement 
 as a heavily tax-burdened city. The bonded in- 
 debtedness is $12,751,500, having undergone a 
 gradual reduction from $14,103,000 in 1871, when 
 it reached the highest point ever attained. 
 REAL ESTATE VALUES. 
 
 The comparative value of Chicago real estate 
 affords an interesting illustration of the city's rapid 
 growth. One example which may be cited is that 
 of a piece of ground in an outlying district which 
 sold in 1868 for $50 an acre, and was resold in 1873 
 for $1,500 an acre. Land obtained forty-five years 
 ago from the government at $ 1.25 an acre is now 
 worth $ 10,000 an acre. Business property, which 
 was sold in 1865 for $250 a foot front, with a depth 
 of 125 feet, was resold in 1875 for $1,500 a foot 
 front. Another piece of property, which was valued 
 at $3,845 in 1866, was sold in 1872 for $100,000. 
 These instances are not exceptional, but fairly 
 represent the increase of values. 
 
 IMPROVEMENTS IN TOPOGRAPHY. 
 
 Nothing could have been more uninviting than 
 the original site of the city. Ridges of shifting 
 sands bordered the lake shore, while inland, and 
 stretching beyond the range of vision, was a morass 
 supporting a rank growth of blue-joint grass, with 
 here and there a clump of jack oaks. Through this 
 morass wound a sluggish river only flushed by the 
 spring and fall freshets; and adjacent to its banks 
 were pools of water, which were the resort of wild 
 fowl. The river's mouth was barred by shifting 
 sands, but the bar once passed, deep water was 
 found within. For a mile its course was east and 
 west, when it branched into two forks, running 
 northerly and southerly. This stream, so uninvit- 
 ing, forms the present harbor of Chicago, and 
 separates the city into three divisions the North, 
 South, and West. The watershed between Lake 
 Michigan and the Des Plaines river a tributary of 
 the Illinois was less than eight feet in height; and 
 during flood time, communication could be made in 
 a canoe without disembarking. 
 
 Such were the topographical features of Chicago 
 fifty-six years ago. How wonderfully have they 
 
 been transformed ! The city commenced its growth 
 upon the original surface; and so saturated was the 
 soil with water that cellars and basements were 
 from necessity dispensed with. The streets in many 
 places presented an oozy mass of mud, and here 
 poles were thrust down bearing placards "no 
 bottom." The more frequented thoroughfares were 
 planked; and when driven over, the planks were sub- 
 jected to a churning motion, which caused the ooze 
 to spurt up through the crevices. The gutters at 
 the sides were filled with stagnant water, whose sur- 
 face was covered with a green scum, the appropriate 
 nidus of the cholera and other pestilential diseases. 
 LIFTING A CITY ON JACKSCREWS. 
 
 A series of public improvements was devised and 
 executed, mainly under the direction of Mr. Ches- 
 brough, as city engineer, which made Chicago one 
 of the pleasantest and healthiest cities in the Union. 
 A system of sewage was established for underground 
 drainage, which required that the original surface in 
 many places be raised eight feet. This change of 
 grade involved the necessity of raising many of the 
 largest structures in the streets adjacent to the river. 
 Great brick blocks and hotels were thus raised, no 
 portion of the business usually carried on within 
 them being suspended on account of the raising, and 
 no injury being done the structures. Under one 
 great building there were placed no less than five 
 hundred jackscrews, and for each jackscrew there 
 was a man. Whenever the foreman fired a pistol, 
 each of the five hundred men gave a twist on his 
 screw, and in this way the whole mass, weighing 
 many thousands of tons, was lifted as easily and uni- 
 formly as a steam crane hoists a building stone. 
 Before many of the buildings were raised, the 
 streets in front of them were filled up to the new 
 grade, causing the first stories to be little better than 
 basements; and it was the peculiar appearance of 
 these buildings that led one of those wise English- 
 men who used to spend a few days looking 
 at this country for the purpose of writing a book 
 about it to send word back to England that a man 
 would be foolish to invest any of his money in 
 Chicago real estate, for the city was likely to dis- 
 appear any day, and that already many of the houses 
 had sunk so low in the mud as to force the streets 
 up in front of them. Meantime, however, the gi- 
 gantic work of improvement went steadily on, and as 
 it progressed the city become thoroughly drained, 
 the houses admitted of cellars, and the streets be- 
 came dry and solid. 
 
 CHICAGO AS IT IS. 
 
 The area of the city at the present day comprises 
 23,000 acres, and extends over seven miles north and
 
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 17 
 
 south along the lake shore, and five miles east and 
 west. There were 226,000 building lots of twenty- 
 five by one hundred and twenty-five feet in 1875. 
 The streets intersect each other at right angles. 
 There is an inlet called the Chicago river, which 
 runs from the lake nearly a mile west, then sepa- 
 rates into two branches, one running northwest, the 
 other southwest, thus separating the city into three 
 divisions, which are connected by thirty-six bridges, 
 and by two tunnels running under the bed of the 
 river. This river gave the city its name. It was 
 called by the Indians the Chacaqua, after the Indian 
 god of thunder. 
 
 THE RIVER IMPROVEMENT. 
 
 The mouth of the river, in 1816, according to 
 Colonel Long, of the topographical engineers, was 
 at Madison street. It was a rippling stream, ten 
 or fifteen yards wide, and only a few inches deep, 
 flowing over a bed of sand. In the summer of 1833, 
 the government entered upon the improvement of 
 the harbor, or rather commenced the construction of 
 one. The north pier was extended a short distance 
 lakeward, a lighthouse was established, and an em- 
 bankment was thrown across the old channel so as 
 to divert the water to the new course. An unusual 
 freshet during the next spring tore out the sand 
 and left a practicable channel into the river. The 
 pier has from time to time been extended, until now 
 it reaches a distance of about three thousand feet. 
 
 Originally the river emptied into the lake, but a 
 remarkable piece of engineering caused it to change 
 its course, and, so to speak, "run up hill." The 
 Illinois and Michigan canal, with which the main 
 branch of the river is connected, was so deepened 
 as to draw the water out from the lake. The canal 
 empties into the Illinois river, and the Illinois river 
 into the Mississippi river, so that since the improve- 
 ment was made a portion of the water of Lake 
 Michigan has flowed into the Gulf of Mexico. The 
 Chicago river has been so deepened that the largest 
 vessels may be towed into any of its branches, which 
 are supplied with docks and water slips, affording a 
 dockage capacity of nearly forty miles, more than 
 twenty of which are already in use. The dock line 
 is seven and one-half feet above low watermark. 
 
 The tideless river and an almost level plain afford 
 almost unequaled facilities for receiving and dis- 
 tributing the immense freights that accumulate at 
 Chicago. 
 
 THE WATER-WORKS SYSTEM. 
 
 To supply the city with pure water, Lake Mich- 
 igan was resorted to as an unfailing reservoir. In 
 the old works, established on the North side, the 
 water was taken out near the shore. There were 
 times when the current of the river, reeking with 
 
 sewage, was borne against this portion of the shore. 
 Besides, during the winter multitudes of small fishes 
 collected about the strainers and gained admission to 
 the pipes. A violent northeaster would so roil the 
 water that it became necessary to filter it. To obvi- 
 ate all these inconveniences the plan was conceived 
 of drawing the water through a tunnel from the lake, 
 two miles distant from the shore. A shaft was sunk 
 on the land side to the depth of twenty-six feet, and 
 a " crib," pentagonal in form, forty feet in height, 
 
 and ninety and one-half feet in diameter, was floated 
 to the site in the lake and there anchored. It was 
 then filled with stone and made to settle to its bed. 
 An iron cylinder, nine feet in diameter, occupies the 
 center of the structure, and penetrates from the 
 water line to a depth of sixty-four feet, and thirty-one 
 feet below the lake bed, where the tunnel com- 
 mences. This is all the way excavated in a tough, 
 blue clay, which offered no serious obstacles in the 
 progress of the work. Its dimensions are five feet 
 two inches in height, by five feet wide; and it is 
 lined with two courses of brick laid in cement. Its 
 capacity is 57,000,000 gallons daily. A tower, 130 
 feet in height, contains an iron cylinder, three feet 
 in diameter, through which the water is forced by 
 powerful machinery, and thence by its own pressure 
 is distributed through the mains to the different 
 parts of the city. These works, situated at the foot 
 of Chicago avenue, and generally known as the 
 North side water-works, are the main works of the 
 system, and for a time furnished the entire supply. 
 When the city's needs became greater, a second and 
 similar tunnel was constructed, from the crib to the 
 new pumping-works which were established on the 
 West side, at the corner of Ashland and Blue Island 
 avenues. This tunnel runs in a southwesterly di- 
 rection under the city, passing twice under the bed
 
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 A BUSINESS TOUR OF CHICAGO. 
 
 of the river, and is two miles in length. The water- 
 works system as a whole is conceded to be a triumph 
 of modern engineering, and is capable of furnishing 
 the city with 104,000,000 gallons of water daily, 
 through over 500 miles of mains and distributing 
 pipes. It has been perfected at an expense of about 
 $10,000,000. 
 
 CHICAGO'S STREETS. 
 
 The streets of Chicago were for the most part laid 
 out on a liberal plan, which admitted of sidewalks 
 ten feet wide then of a grass-plat in front of the 
 residences, for the planting of trees and shrubbery, 
 
 have been generally used in the business portion of 
 the city. Macadam is used on the boulevards and 
 on some of the streets. Outside of the business 
 portion, however, the material used is largely cedar 
 blocks, which, with the improved method of laying 
 them, is giving very satisfactory results. Asphalt 
 has been employed to some extent, but so far not 
 with much success. The entire length of the streets 
 of the city is upwards of six hundred and fifty 
 miles, about two hundred and fifty miles of which 
 are paved. 
 
 The city is laid out in rectangular lines, with the 
 
 ESS TOUR OF CHICAGO CABLE CARS AND STREET SCENE, CORNEF 
 
 with ample space for vehicles in the center. Twenty 
 years ago, to a stranger from an eastern city, they 
 seemed unnecessarily wide; but it was fortunate that 
 this plan had been adopted, for on the introduction 
 of street cars the people's mode of conveyance it 
 was found that on either side of the track there was 
 room for two teams to pass. In the improvement 
 of the streets, the original surface was found to be 
 ill-adapted to roadways; the soil was either sand or 
 mud. Plank was first resorted to, and in 1854 
 twenty-seven miles had thus been laid; but it was 
 found that with a mortar foundation and the churn- 
 ing process performed by each loaded vehicle in pass- 
 ing over, the planks soon formed a barrier to easy and 
 safe locomotion. As far back as 1856 the intro- 
 duction of Nicholson pavement began, and in the 
 years between the war and the great fire it had a 
 large run. Within the past five years granite blocks 
 
 exception of several streets, which were constructed 
 on the routes of the old plank-roads, and which con- 
 sequently radiate to the northwest and southwest. 
 The principal business streets of the city lie on the 
 South side, where are congregated, within a space of 
 about ten blocks square, nearly all the wholesale 
 business of the city, and a large portion of the retail 
 trade. This area contains the palatial business 
 houses, hotels and public buildings whose magnitude 
 and architectural beauty have added so largely to 
 the fame of Chicago. In the residence quarters of 
 the city are numerous palatial mansions. Red 
 pressed brick is much used as a building material, 
 but stone is the favorite. Of the latter there are 
 many kinds, all varying in color, so that there is no- 
 where any sameness in the character of the coloring. 
 There is equal diversity in the forms of the houses, 
 there being but very little block building; each
 
 FIFTY YEARS' PROGRESS. 
 
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 house, as a rule, is wholly independent in material, 
 size, form and decoration. Joliet limestone, which 
 is milky white at first, and after exposure becomes a 
 rich, soft cream color, is in large demand. A deep, 
 rich brown sandstone from Lake Superior is also 
 much used. There is the dark gray, close-grained 
 sandstone of the Buena Vista quarries, and a dozen 
 other kinds of material, including the cream-colored 
 pressed brick from Milwaukee, all of which affords 
 an infinite variety of pleasing effects. The churches 
 are generally constructed of rough-dressed limestone 
 of a dark gray, which is a color eminently in har- 
 mony with their purpose. The winds, blowing al- 
 
 A BUSINESS TOUR OF CHICAGO OLD WABASH AVENUE 
 
 BAPTIST CHURCH, BURNED DURING THE 
 
 GREAT FIRE OF 1871. 
 
 ternately from the lake and from the land, are 
 sufficient to keep the city free from smoke, with the 
 result that these richly-colored building materials 
 are rarely obscured by stains. 
 
 THE STREET RAILWAYS. 
 
 The street railways of Chicago start from the 
 business center, and radiate in all directions. The 
 fare is universally five cents. The number of cars 
 and the time-tables are arranged with due regard 
 for public convenience. The first street railway 
 in the city was laid along State street, and was 
 commenced in the fall of 18f>8. The railways are 
 operated by three companies, and comprise three 
 systems, which correspond with the three divisions 
 of the city. 
 
 The oldest of the three companies is the Chicago 
 City Railway company, whose lines constitute the 
 railway system of the South side. Within the past 
 four years this company has largely substituted the 
 cable plan of traction in place of horses. Its cable 
 lines have an aggregate length of over twenty miles, 
 
 and employ upwards of one hundred "grip-cars," 
 which do the work of two thousand five hundred 
 horses, and run an average of nine miles per hour, 
 conveying one hundred thousand passengers daily. 
 The total number of miles of track operated by the 
 company is seventy-seven; number of cars, four 
 hundred; average distance traversed daily, twenty- 
 five thousand miles; average number of passengers 
 carried daily, one hundred and twenty thousand. 
 The powerful engines which operate the cable 
 system of this company are located at the corner of 
 State and Twenty-first streets. The North Chicago 
 City Railway company operates the North side 
 system of street railways. It was organized in 1859. 
 The capital stock of the company is $500,000; 
 number of miles of track, thirty-four; number of 
 cars, two hundred and fifty-one; average distance 
 traversed daily, nine thousand six hundred miles; 
 average number of passengers carried daily, sixty 
 thousand. The Chicago West Division Railway 
 company was incorporated in 1863, succeeding to 
 the franchises held by the Chicago City Railway 
 company on the West side, and now oparates the 
 lines in that division. The capital stock of the 
 company is $1,250,000; number of miles of track, 
 ninety-seven ; number of cars owned, six hundred 
 and thirty-four; average distance traversed daily, 
 21,620 miles. 
 
 BRIDGES AND TUNNELS. 
 
 The bridges over the Chicago river and its 
 branches within the city limits number thirty-six. 
 They are mostly built of iron and lighted by elec- 
 tricity. One of the most recent improvements in 
 swinging bridges which has been adopted is ma- 
 chinery operated by steam,. 
 
 The tunnels under the Chicago river are two in 
 number. One at LaSalle street connects the South 
 side with the North side. The other, at Washington 
 street, connects the West side with the South side. 
 The Washington street tunnel was finished and 
 formally opened to the public January 1, 1869, 
 at a cost of $512,707. The La Salle street tunnel 
 was completed and opened July 1, 1871, and cost 
 $566,276. The Washington street tunnel is 1,608 
 feet in length. The length of the La Salle street 
 tunnel is 1,854 feet. Each of the tunnels has a 
 double driveway and a separate footway on one side, 
 which is reached by stairs. The tunnels are wide, 
 lofty, well lighted and ventilated, and each is fairly 
 drained by means of a sub-tunnel five feet in di- 
 ameter, which is connected with a steam-pump at 
 one end. 
 
 FOUR HUNDRED MILES OF SEWERS. 
 
 The sewerage system of Chicago is extensive, 
 well arranged and efficient, despite the engineering
 
 A BUSINESS TOUR OF CHICAGO. 
 
 difficulties presented by the almost level character 
 of the surface. Brick or pipe is used, according to 
 
 CHICAGO'S RAILWAY SYSTEM. 
 A glance at any good railway map will show the 
 
 the character of the drainage required and the soil immense network of railway lines pointing directly 
 through which the sewer runs. The total length of to Chicago, or so connecting with other lines point- 
 the sewers of Chicago is four hundred miles. Their ing here as to be fully available for traffic to or from 
 
 aggregate cost has been nearly six and a quarter 
 million of dollars, or an average of $15,493 per mile. 
 The cost of keeping them in repair averages $107.65 
 per year for each mile. There are about 13,000 
 catch basins and 15,000 man-holes. 
 
 this city. The manifold ramifications of these 
 lines all extending into territory more or less de- 
 pendent upon Chicago as a market for its products 
 or as a source of needed supplies are so vast that it 
 would be no exaggeration to say that every railway
 
 FIFTY YEARS' PROGRESS. 
 
 21 
 
 line in the country has an interest in catering to 
 some extent to the commercial interests of Chicago. 
 The city has long held undisputed title to rank as 
 the greatest railway center on the globe, not less than 
 forty-three thousand miles of track having their 
 focus here. 
 
 The leading line entering Chicago is the Chicago, 
 Milwaukee and St. Paul railroad. This magnificent 
 corporation, the history of whose development 
 would form an epitomized history of the north- 
 west, has a capital of $150,000,000, and owns and 
 operates 5,201 miles of road. Extensions aggre- 
 gating several hundred miles are in course of con- 
 
 WASHIXGTOX I'ARK. 
 
 struction. The road knits Chicago to all sections 
 of the north and northwest. It crosses the great 
 states of Wisconsin, Minnesota and Iowa twice, 
 and also taps Dakota by two lines. It controls 
 important lines in northern Illinois, and numerous 
 feeders in every direction. By an extension which 
 it is now building to Kansas City, it will tap the 
 business of the great southwest. As regards equip- 
 ment it is one of the most complete railroads in the 
 country, and in every respect it stands prominently 
 forth as one of the great railroad systems of the 
 world. 
 
 The Chicago and Northwestern is another great 
 line which helps to bring the products of the north 
 and northwest into the lap of Chicago. 
 
 The Illinois Central railroad has been one of the 
 most important factors in the development of 
 Chicago and the west. It was one of the first roads 
 built, and has been the commercial backbone of 
 Illinois, making its products marketable, and in- 
 creasing its growth and wealth. It now covers 
 fifteen degrees of latitude, and connects Chicago 
 with the Missouri river and the Gulf of Mexico. 
 The Illinois Central was the first railroad to intro- 
 duce suburban trains, having commenced running 
 them as early as 1856. To its management is 
 largely due the development and growth of the 
 beautiful suburbs south of the city, as its frequent 
 trains made them even more accessible than some 
 of the resident portions of Chicago that are reached 
 only by the street cars. Upward of three million 
 people are carried annually upon these suburban 
 trains, and the number that go to South Park and 
 Pullman sometimes reaches thousands per day. 
 
 The Pennsylvania railroad system has Chicago 
 for its chief western terminus. Its eastern termini 
 are at Philadelphia, New York and Washington; 
 and it extends through New Jersey and Delaware, 
 into Maryland, and as far south as Richmond, Va. 
 It traverses Pennsylvania, Ohio and Indiana, en 
 route to Chicago. Its tracks also go into Michigan, 
 and through Illinois to St. Louis. The Pittsburg, 
 Fort Wayne and Chicago is one of the principal 
 trunk lines of this system. 
 
 The Chicago, Burlington and Quincy is another 
 of the great railway systems centering in Chicago. 
 Its main lines and branches stretch through Illinois, 
 Missouri, Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska and Colorado. 
 
 The Michigan Central railroad is the great central 
 highway of Michigan, which it ramifies in every di- 
 rection, and brings tributary to Chicago the vast 
 and fertile region bordered by Lakes Michigan, Erie 
 and Huron. It operates upward of 1,500 miles of 
 road. 
 
 The Lake Shore and Michigan Southern railway 
 is another of the east and west trunk lines terminat- 
 ing in Chicago. Its main line, which is double- 
 tracked, runs from Chicago to Buffalo, via Cleveland. 
 Altogether it operates about 1,500 miles of railroad. 
 
 The Chicago, Burlington and Quincy railroad 
 stretches from Chicago to Denver, and has 3,500 
 miles of road in Illinois, Iowa, Nebraska, Colorado 
 Missouri and Kansas. 
 
 The Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific railway was 
 the first railroad to reach the Mississippi from 
 Chicago. It was opened to that river in 1854. It 
 has absorbed a number of contiguous roads, and 
 now operates 1,800 miles. Among its chief terminal 
 points are Chicago, Peoria, Kansas City, Rock Island, 
 Council Bluffs, Atchison, Davenport, Des Moines,
 
 A BUSINESS TOUR OF CHICAGO. 
 
 Leavenworth and Keokuk, Minneapolis and St. 
 Paul. It reaches the two latter points on a leased 
 line. 
 
 The Chicago and Alton railroad, with its leased 
 lines, forms a grand trunk system, spanning the 
 
 Michigan and Canada, to Portland, Maine, and the 
 Atlantic coast, embracing, with branches and aux- 
 iliary lines, a total of 3,330 miles. 
 
 The Wabash, St. Louis and Pacific railway is a 
 vast system of connecting lines, traversing the rich- 
 
 States of Illinois and Missouri. The total length of est sections of the States of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, 
 
 lines which it operates is about 1,100 miles. 
 
 The Chicago and Grand Trunk railway forms the 
 western extension of the Grand Trunk railway, of 
 Canada, by which it is operated, and with which 
 it forms a continuous line from Chicago, through 
 
 Iowa and Missouri, with a network of tracks aggre- 
 gating 3,700 miles. 
 
 The Cincinnati, Indianapolis, St. Louis and Chi- 
 cago railway, popularly known as the "Big Four," 
 or the " Kankakee Route," constitutes a through
 
 FIFTY YEARS' PROGRESS. 
 
 line between Chicago, Indianapolis, Louisville and 
 Cincinnati, and at the last two places forms through 
 connections for all points in the south. It operates 
 about 400 miles of road. 
 
 The New York, Chicago and St. Louis railway, 
 better known as the "Nickel Plate," runs parallel 
 with the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern, a few 
 miles to the south. It extends from Chicago to 
 Buffalo, via Fort Wayne, a distance of 513.28 miles. 
 
 The Baltimore and Ohio and Chicago railroad 
 forms a part of the great Baltimore and Ohio 
 system. It extends from Chicago Junction, Ohio, 
 to Parkside Junction, 111., from which point it en- 
 ters the city on the tracks of the Illinois Central. 
 
 The Chicago and Atlantic railroad runs across the 
 northern portion of Indiana, south of the "Fort 
 Wayne Route," to a junction with the 
 New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio rail- 
 road, at Marion, Ohio, in connection 
 with which it is operated, forming an 
 additional through line to the Atlantic 
 coast. 
 
 The Wisconsin Central railroad is the 
 latest great trunk line which has come 
 into Chicago. It runs north and south 
 through the entire length of Wiscon- 
 sin, and has a line to St. Paul and 
 Minneapolis, running east and west 
 through the middle of the State after- 
 which it is named. It is the southern 
 and eastern outlet for the Northern 
 Pacific railroad. Its principal terminal 
 points are Chicago, Milwaukee, Ash- 
 land, St. Paul and Minneapolis, and 
 
 Porta g e - A BUSIN 
 
 The Chicago, St. Louis and Pitts- 
 burgh railroad has a total of 580 miles. The Penn- 
 sylvania company operates it. 
 
 The Louisville, New Albany and Chicago railway, 
 better known as the " Monon Route," traverses the 
 State of Indiana from north to south, and has for its 
 termini Chicago, Louisville, Indianapolis and Mich- 
 igan City. 
 
 The Chicago and West Michigan railway has a 
 total of 410 miles. The Chicago and Western 
 Indiana railroad owns a total of only about 52 miles, 
 but is a valuable property. 
 
 The Chicago and Western railroad is a local line 
 for switching purposes. 
 
 The Belt Railway company has a line beginning 
 at South Chicago, and extending west about 11 
 miles, thence north about 11 miles, to a connection 
 with the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul railway, 
 and connecting between those terminal points with 
 all railroads entering the city. This road does a 
 
 general transfer or switching business between the 
 various railroads, and to and from the industries lo- 
 cated on its own line. 
 
 CHICAGO'S WATER-WAYS THE GREAT LAKES. 
 Chicago is the greatest fresh-water port in the 
 world, and her list of entrances and clearances of ves- 
 sels annually dwarfs that of many of the great sea- 
 board towns. The chain of great lakes, on the shore 
 of one of which she stands, are the avenues of a 
 splendid commerce, extending to Manitoba in the 
 far northwest, and to the St. Lawrence on the east, 
 giving direct communication with Milwaukee, Erie, 
 Buffalo, Cleveland, Detroit, and other important 
 points, and access, via the Erie and Welland canals, 
 to the Atlantic seaboard and European ports. 
 
 Over the lakes pass a large percentage of the direct 
 imports of the city, which amounted in 1841 to 
 $1,848,362, and in 1883 to $13,647.551, exclusive of 
 duty. The lakes also provide a cheap route to the 
 coal fields of Pennsylvania and the lumber regions 
 of the north, and have made Chicago the distrib- 
 uting point for these commodities for the great 
 northwest, and the greatest lumber market in the 
 world. 
 
 The first vessel that arrived at Chicago was the 
 schooner Tracy, which came in 1803, bringing 
 soldiers and supplies for the fort. Until 1833 there 
 was no harbor, and a sandbar prevented access to 
 the mouth of the river. Vessels anchored off shore 
 and were loaded and unloaded by lighters. In 1833 
 congress made the first appropriation for the im- 
 provement of the harbor $25,000 and by the fol- 
 lowing spring vessels were enabled to enter the river. 
 Lighthouses were built, but found ineffective, and
 
 A BUSINESS TOUR OF CHICAGO. 
 
 the harbor was unprotected until 1870, when the 
 present breakwater, stretching across the inlet, and 
 enclosing the spacious inner harbor, with its light- 
 house, was begun. In 1835 upwards of two hundred 
 vessels arrived in port. In 1839 the first regular 
 line of steamboats running out of Chicago was 
 established. The boats plied between this city and 
 Buffalo. The first clearance for Europe direct was 
 made in 1856, by the steamer Dean Richmond. 
 The first direct arrival from abroad occurred in 
 1857. The following table shows the arrivals of 
 vessels in the Chicago district (including South 
 
 aded by a sandbar. The first vessel to enter the 
 waters of the river was the Westward Ho, which 
 was hauled over the bar by a team of oxen in 1833. 
 This was the year in which the government began 
 the improvement of the harbor. Before the close of 
 1834, the north and south piers had been pushed 
 out five hundred feet, making a straight channel. 
 In the spring of the latter year, and before the piers 
 were completed to the length mentioned above, a 
 freshet deepened the channel in the new mouth of 
 the river so that vessels of heavy burden were en- 
 abled to enter. The government continued to 
 
 Chicago and Michigan City) during the year 1886: 
 Coast 
 trade. 
 Steamers, No ___________________________ 4,484 
 
 Steamers, tonnage ________ ....... ________ 2,246,072 
 
 Sail, No -------- ...... . ...... . ..... _____ 6,429 
 
 Sail, tonnage .._ ........ __________ ...... 1,545,877 
 
 The corresponding clearances were: 
 Coast 
 trade. 
 Steamers, No _____ ...................... 4,487 
 
 Steamers, tonnage ________ ....... . ...... 2,250,823 
 
 Sail.No...: ____________ ....... __________ 6,211 
 
 Sail, tonnage .. ........ _________ 1,629,465 
 
 Foreign 
 trade. 
 
 58 
 
 23,915 
 
 186 
 
 60,454 
 
 35,705 
 
 424 
 
 134,769 
 
 CHICAGO RIVER. 
 
 The Chicago river is an internal water-way of the 
 city intimately connected with the lake, and form- 
 ing an essential part of the harbor. Its shores are 
 lined with docks bordered by mammoth ware- 
 houses, elevators, coal-yards, lumber-yards, etc., 
 and it gives anchorage to the multitude of vessels 
 plying in the lake. The original bed of the 
 river was narrow and shallow. Near its mouth, it 
 turned, abruptly southward, entering the lake by a 
 crooked channel, which, as above noted, was block- 
 
 steadily improve the harbor entrance for many years, 
 and expended large sums of money on the work. 
 In 1857 there were six miles of dock along the banks 
 of the river. Today there are twelve miles of slips 
 and basins, and twenty-nine miles of river front, 
 mostly docked. 
 
 THE ILLINOIS AND MICHIGAN CANAL. 
 The Illinois and Michigan canal taps the Chicago 
 river at Bridgeport, four miles south of its mouth, 
 and extends ninety-six miles, to La Salle, where it 
 forms a junction with the Illinois river, and, by 
 reason of the improvement of the latter stream, 
 gives access to the Mississippi. Congress granted 
 the right of way for this canal in 1822, and gave 
 284,000 acres of land in 1827. Work was begun in 
 1836, and the canal was completed for light-draught 
 boats in 1848, the improvements having cost $1,848,- 
 150. In 1869, the work of deepening the canal to 
 nine and one-half feet, which was completed at a 
 cost of $11,000,000, was begun. The pumping- 
 works, which are an auxiliary of the canal, were
 
 FIFTY YEARS' PROGRESS. 
 
 enlarged in 1880 to a capacity of 60,000 cubic feet 
 per minute. In 1882 the people of the State adopted 
 a constitutional amendment, ceding the canal to the 
 United States on condition that the government 
 shall enlarge it to a ship canal, extend it to the 
 Mississippi river, and maintain it free of tolls. 
 ORGANIZED TRADE BODIES. 
 
 Apart from the immense advantages derived from 
 her natural position and unrivaled transportation 
 facilities, Chicago owes her marvelous growth as a 
 commercial center to the restless enterprise of her 
 business men. No commercial community in the 
 world has gained the credit for advanced and modern 
 methods of doing business that attaches to the busi- 
 ness men of this metropolis as a class. Any sketch 
 of the history of Chicago which neglected to out- 
 line the development of its trade organizations would 
 be obviously incomplete. 
 
 The most important of the various bodies coming 
 under this head is the Board of Trade. Rufus 
 Blanchard's work on Chicago and the Northwest 
 contains a history of this organization, which is 
 freely drawn upon in the following sketch: 
 THE CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE. 
 
 At a comparatively early day in the history of 
 Chicago as a commercial center, its then small num- 
 ber of merchants deemed it for their common in- 
 terest to organize a board of trade. Whether or not 
 the accomplishment of any special object was at 
 that time had in view does not appear from any 
 record now in existence. It is certain, however, 
 that the eighty-two names, which, in April, 1848, 
 were first enrolled as members of the board, were 
 eminently representative of the general commercial 
 interests of the city, then containing less than 20,000 
 inhabitants./ Chicago, at that time had no public 
 means of communication with the interior except by 
 the stage coach and the "prairie schooner," but its 
 favorable location at the head of lake navigation had 
 already drawn to it a considerable volume of agri- 
 cultural products, which were there exchanged for 
 such needed supplies as could be procured only from 
 the east. A brilliant future was, however, now be- 
 lieved to be dawning upon the infant city. The 
 Illinois and Michigan canal, connecting the lakes, at 
 this point, with the waters of the Illinois and Missis- 
 sippi rivers, which had been in process of construc- 
 tion since 1836, was about to be completed, and 
 doubtless the anticipation of important results to 
 flow from this great achievement, as well as the pros- 
 pective advantages of a railway system, which had 
 then begun to assume tangible form, had more or 
 less to do with the preparation of the merchants of 
 the city for a united effort to meet the new and in- 
 
 spiring prospects of trade. 'Whatever may have 
 been the object and expectations of the originators 
 of the enterprise, it is certain that for several years 
 it failed to accomplish very much of practical result, 
 and its membership, in spite of the growth of the 
 city, actually declined to but little more than one- 
 half of its original number. / In addition to occa- 
 sional meetings for conversation on questions of a 
 generally public character, there seems to have been 
 an early attempt to establish a daily exchange. 
 This, however, met with but poor success, and for 
 several years various and sometimes novel expedients 
 were resorted to for the purpose of securing the at- 
 tendance of members at those daily meetings. The 
 promoters of the organization, although discouraged 
 by these fruitless efforts, clung to the idea that such 
 a body ought to be sustained, and so kept it alive 
 until its necessity became more apparent to others. 
 / By 1854 the influence of railroads as contributors to 
 the development of the interior, and of the business 
 of the city, became so marked in the increase of the 
 grain and provision trade, which could be more ad- 
 vantageously conducted in a general meeting of 
 buyers and sellers than in private offices, that the 
 daily meetings on 'change begun to assume a new 
 importance, since which there has been no ground 
 of complaint as to the indifference of members en- 
 gaged in those branches, in respect to their attend- 
 ance. 
 
 In 1850, the board, originally a voluntary organi- 
 zation, became incorporated under a general law of 
 the State, and in 1859 a special act of incorporation 
 was obtained from the legislature, which has since 
 remained the basis of the organization. Its general 
 objects, as expressed in the preamble to its rules 
 and by-laws, are "to maintain a commercial ex- 
 change; to promote uniformity in the customs and 
 usages of merchants; to inculcate principles of jus- 
 tice and equity in trade; to facilitate the speedy ad- 
 justment of business disputes; to acquire and dis- 
 seminate valuable commercial and economic infor- 
 mation; and, generally, to secure to its members the 
 benefits of co-operation in the furtherance of their 
 legitimate pursuits." In order to promote these 
 objects, an elaborate code of rules and by-laws has 
 been adopted, these being amended or modified 
 from time to time, as necessity or experience may 
 seem to require. These rules and by-laws, while 
 covering matters touching the government of the 
 corporation, extend to detailed and specific regula- 
 tions for the conduct of trade, especially that in 
 flour, grain and provisions, in which a large per- 
 centage of the members are engaged, although 
 among the members are representatives of almost 
 every branch of trade in the city.
 
 A BUSINESS TOUR OF CHICAGO. 
 
 The business transacted on 'change has grown to 
 enormous proportions, and includes not only the 
 sales of the vast amount of agricultural products 
 seeking the Chicago market by the receiver from 
 the interior to the shipper eastward, but also a 
 
 are other than on commission orders; and these 
 frequently aggregate many millions of dollars daily, 
 the same property being re-sold again and again. 
 
 During its early years, the board was migratory, 
 changing its quarters with the changing center of 
 
 volume of speculation in these products unequaled business in the city, but always, until 1865, clinging 
 
 in any other city in the world. The facility with 
 which this class of property is handled, and the fact 
 
 near to the river banks. In 1859 a building, at the 
 time deemed ample in its accommodations for many 
 
 that almost any conceivable quantity can find a 
 purchaser for cash on any day in the year, renders 
 the market an exceedingly inviting one for specu- 
 lative operations; and they are engaged in, through 
 the members of the board acting as commission 
 merchants or brokers, by almost all classes of per- 
 sons, not only residents of the city, but also those 
 residing at remote points throughout the country, 
 the latter far outnumbering the former. A very 
 small per cent of the transactions made on 'change 
 
 years, was erected for the use of the board; this was 
 occupied early in 1860; at that time the member- 
 ship had increased to about six hundred. /With the 
 impetus given to the business of the members of 
 the board during the civil war, 1861-5 both in the 
 volume of products seeking a market in Chicago, 
 and in operations of a speculative character, which, 
 although previously inaugurated, were greatly stimu- 
 lated and increased during these years, the member- 
 ship more than doubled, and its new quarters,
 
 FIFTY YEARS' PROGRESS. 
 
 27 
 
 although enlarged since first constructed, were 
 found entirely inadequate to the necessities and 
 comfort of those in daily attendance on 'change./ 
 As early as 1863, the question of enlarged accom- 
 modations again began to be seriously discussed, 
 resulting finally, in February, 1804, in the con- 
 summation of an arrangement by which the mem- 
 bers and others desiring to co-operate organized a 
 building association, under an existing charter grant- 
 ed to the Chamber of Commerce some years previ- 
 ously, but which had never been actively organized. 
 This charter was well adapted to the purposes of 
 such an organization, and its stock of $500,000 was 
 promptly subscribed, and the building contemplated 
 was rapidly pushed to completion. At the outset 
 of the enterprise, the Board of Trade contracted to 
 lease so much of the building as its necessities re- 
 quired for the term of ninety-nine years, the rental 
 being subsequently fixed at $20,000 per annum. 
 The new building was occupied by the board in 
 August, 1865, the membership numbering at that 
 time over 1,400. The new building and exchange 
 hall, at the time of its construction, was by far the 
 largest and finest of any used for such a purpose in 
 the country, and sufficed for all the needs of the 
 board until it was destroyed by the great fire of Oc- 
 tober, 1871. Previous to the location of the board 
 in its new quarters on the corner of Washington 
 and La Salle streets, that portion of the city had 
 been occupied as residence property, very little of 
 any kind of business being carried on south of Ran- 
 dolph street. No sooner, however, had the location 
 of the board been decided upon than the surround- 
 ing property began to appreciate in value, and busi- 
 ness blocks rapidly supplanted dwellings, so that 
 by the time the building was ready for occupation, 
 it was surrounded by banks and business offices, 
 entirely transforming the quiet streets of former 
 days to the busy thoroughfares that have since 
 remained. 
 
 The fire of 1871 found the affairs of the board in 
 a most prosperous condition, the business trans- 
 acted under its auspices being much larger than 
 ever before. The shock produced by this great 
 catastrophe was, for the moment, staggering; and 
 as the members saw the results of their labor and 
 effort thrown away in the wild scenes of those few 
 brief hours, the feeling of despair was well-nigh 
 overwhelming. The situation, however, was one 
 that demanded action, prompt and effective. Tem- 
 porary quarters were secured near the margin of the 
 burnt district hours before the conflagration was 
 stayed, and, rallying at this point, the members ad- 
 dressed themselves first to relieving the friendless, 
 homeless multitudes, they for two days taking 
 
 charge of the generous supplies sent from other 
 cities and villages, distributing to the needy, and 
 gathering together the scattered households. This 
 duty being assumed by other organizations, the 
 members turned their attention to business affairs, 
 speedily adjusting outstanding engagements, and 
 preparing for the proper care of the business that 
 had scarcely ceased to flow in its accustomed vol- 
 ume. The receipts of grain in the city from Octo- 
 ber 9th to 31st aggregated over 3,750,000 bushels, 
 notwithstanding the ability to care for such a busi- 
 ness was greatly impaired. Among the first official 
 acts of the board was its determination to re-occupy 
 its old quarters as soon as they could be rebuilt, 
 and the Chamber of Commerce having been formally 
 advised to that effect, the latter corporation pre- 
 pared at once for the reconstruction of the building, 
 but on a much more substantial and elegant design 
 than the one destroyed. The new structure was 
 vigorously pushed to completion, and was formally 
 occupied by the board October 9, 1872, just one 
 year from the date of the destruction of its prede- 
 cessor. 
 
 Within the building opened in 1872 were fought 
 some of the greatest commercial battles in the his- 
 tory of trade. But even this arena became too 
 small for the constantly expanding demands that 
 were made upon it. The ninety-nine years' lease 
 under which it was held was canceled, and a new, 
 larger, and more elegant structure, located at the 
 corner of Jackson and La Salle streets, was taken 
 possession of in April, 1885. The new building has 
 ground dimensions of 173^x225 feet. The rear 
 portion, which contains 160 offices, is 160 feet in 
 height. The front part, containing the exchange 
 hall, is 140 feet high, and is surmounted by a tower 
 rising 304 feet above the ground. This is the tall- 
 est tower in the city. The structure is of Fox 
 island granite. Its cost was $1,500,000. Four 
 powerful elevators give easy access to all parts of 
 the building. The exchange hall, which is ap- 
 proached by two flights of granite stairways leading 
 from the Jackson street entrance, is 152x161 feet 
 in floor dimensions, and 80 feet high. All its ap- 
 pointments are ornate and substantial, and it has 
 been pronounced the most magnificent exchange 
 hall in the world. 
 
 One of the brightest pages in the history of the 
 board was the unwavering support it gave the 
 country in the hour of its greatest need. With the 
 echo of the first gun fired at the national life in 
 1861, the members of the board rallied to the sup- 
 port of the government, taking the most active 
 measures to organize, inspire, and place in the field, 
 those men who bared their breasts to the fury of
 
 A BUSINESS TOUR OF CHICAGO. 
 
 battle, and finally achieved a victory, the fruits of 
 which may be enjoyed by generations yet unborn. 
 Many of the members gave emphasis to their patri- 
 otic emotions by personally joining with the "boys 
 in blue," and sharing in the hardships and dangers 
 of active military operations. Others contributed 
 freely of their means to supply the needs of the 
 soldier in camp, and of his family left behind. 
 Three regiments of infantry and a battery of ar- 
 tillery were organized under the 
 auspices of and bore the name of 
 the Board of Trade, during three 
 years of active service. Over these 
 the board kept special watch, that 
 they should not suffer for lack of 
 anything that money or attention 
 could supply, and on their account, 
 together with contributions to others 
 in the field, not less than $150,000 
 was raised and distributed by mem- 
 bers of the board. 
 
 In other fields of benevolence the 
 members of the board have heartily 
 tendered their contributions of ma- 
 terial aid. The devastations of fire, 
 storm, pestilence and famine ever 
 find them willing to lend a helping 
 hand to the distressed, and assist as 
 best the}' can to lighten the burden 
 which these casualties from time to 
 time place on some portion of their 
 fellow-men. 
 
 That the men composing this 
 body are, in general, possessed of 
 unusual business ability, are remark- 
 able for their quick perception of 
 business possibilities, and are of un- 
 tiring devotion to business affairs, 
 will, perhaps, be freely conceded by 
 all acquainted with their habits and 
 modes of conducting those affairs. 
 The best indication of their true manhood, how- 
 ever, is to be found in their generous treatment 
 of the unfortunate, whether of their own numbers 
 or of distressed humanity throughout the world. 
 OTHER TRADE BODIES. 
 
 The Produce exchange, which was incorporated 
 June 11, 1874, has quarters at the corner of Lake 
 and Clark streets, which are kept open from 8 A. M. 
 to 5 P. M., daily. 'Change hours are from 2 to 3 
 P. M. The members, numbering about 500, are per- 
 sons interested in the trade in butter, cheese, eggs, 
 potatoes, flour, fruits, vegetables, and all kinds of 
 country produce. 
 
 The Chicago Mining exchange was started in 
 1882. It has upward of 100 members, who meet 
 daily between 11 A. M. and 2 P. M., at room 24, 
 Portland block. 
 
 The Lumbermen's exchange is a strong trade or- 
 ganization, which has 'rooms at 252 South Water 
 street. 
 
 The Drug, Paint and Oil exchange was organized 
 in 1877. Its members are leading jobbers in and 
 
 ENT, AT THIRTY-FIFTH 
 
 manufacturers of the lines to which it is devoted. 
 Its headquarters are at 51 Wabash avenue. 'Change 
 hours, 11:30 A. M. to 12 M. 
 
 The Commercial exchange is an organization 
 which facilitates transactions in groceries, and its 
 membership is limited to residents of Chicago en- 
 gaged in lines of trade identified with the grocery 
 business. The exchange was incorporated in 1882. 
 It is in a flourishing condition. 
 
 The Chicago Stock exchange was established in 
 1882. It has nearly eight hundred names on its roll 
 of members. Its headquarters are 126 Washington 
 street. It makes two calls daily, one for the sale of
 
 FIFTY YEARS' PROGRESS. 
 
 29 
 
 stocks, and the other for the sale of bonds. It 
 grows in importance annually. 
 
 The Chicago Real-Estate board was incorporated 
 in 1883, under another name, and took out fresh 
 articles of incorporation, under its present name, in 
 1884. Its daily call-board sessions are held from 12 
 M. to 1 P. M. 
 
 The Builders' and Traders' exchange was organized 
 in 1884. It has about five hundred members, com- 
 posed of mechanics, manufacturers and traders 
 whose vocations connect them with the building 
 trades. The exchange rooms are at 159 La Salle 
 street. 
 
 The principal trade associations, other than ex- 
 changes, are as follows: The Anthracite Coal as- 
 sociation, Board of Marine Underwriters, Boss 
 Horse-shoers' Protective association, Chicago Board 
 of Underwriters, Chicago Boot, Shoe and Leather 
 association, Chicago Brick-makers' association, 
 Chicago Drapers' and Tailors' exchange, Chicago 
 Jewelers' association, Chicago Liverymen's as- 
 sociation, Chicago Master Masons' and Builders' 
 association, Chicago Master Plumbers' association, 
 Chicago Retail Coal Dealers' association, Chicago 
 Vessel Owners' association, Chicago Cigar Manu- 
 facturers' and Dealers' association, Custom Cutters' 
 association, Lumber Manufacturers' Association of 
 the Northwest, National Association of Lumber 
 Dealers, Pork Packers' association, Railway exchange, 
 State Protective association (liquor dealers), Un- 
 derwriters' exchange, Watchmakers' and Jewelers' 
 association, and Western Railroad association. 
 
 The Lumber Manufacturers' Association of the 
 Northwest, organized in 1873, aims to further the 
 interests of its members by united action among 
 them in everything pertaining to the lumber trade 
 of Chicago and the northwest. It collects and 
 publishes annually statistics of prices, sales, produc- 
 tion and consumption of lumber, etc. 
 
 The Chicago Clearing House association was 
 organized in 1865 and incorporated in 1882, its ob- 
 ject being to substitute a safer and more convenient 
 system of making collections than the old-time sys- 
 tem of messengers. Many private banks make their 
 clearings through members of the Clearing House 
 association, and $7,500,000 changes hands at every 
 day's proceedings. 
 
 THE UNION STOCK YARDS. 
 
 The great Union Stock Yards and the city of pack- 
 ing-houses connected therewith have long been prom- 
 inent show-places of Chicago, and to the practical 
 man constitute one of the wonders of the modern 
 world. The yards are owned and managed by the 
 Union Stock Yards and Transit company. The 
 first stock yard founded in Chicago that attracted 
 eastern capitalists to this market as a live-stock 
 
 supply point was managed by John B. Sherman, 
 who was the chief spirit in organizing the pres- 
 ent Union Stock Yards, and has been actively 
 identified with their management ever since. These 
 yards were constructed in the year 1865, and were 
 opened for business December 25 of the same year. 
 The company now owns about a section of land, and 
 over one hundred miles of railroad track, making a 
 transit through the city, and running around and 
 through different parts of the yards, all laid with 
 steel rails, connecting with all the railroads center- 
 ing in Chicago. Within an enclosure of three hun- 
 dred and sixty acres is constructed the Transit 
 House at a cost of $250,000, which is furnished first- 
 class, and is kept second to none in the country, 
 charges to stockmen being only $2 per day, or fifty 
 cents per meal. In the center of the yards is a 
 large two-story-and-a-half building, sixty by three 
 hundred and eighty feet, with large wings extend- 
 ing south from either end, doubling the capacity 
 of the main building. This is known as the Ex- 
 change building, and is divided up as follows : 
 The large Board of Trade hall, main offices for 
 Stock Yards' company, superintendent's, secretary's 
 and treasurer's offices, telegraph and telephone 
 offices, post office, restaurant 60x80, spacious saloon, 
 packers' offices, offices for eastern shippers, barber 
 shop, news stand, fruit stand, and about 150 offices 
 for commission merchants, who take charge of and 
 sell stock consigned to them; the Union Stock 
 Yards National bank building, 40x60; twenty large 
 hay barns, as many more large corn-cribs, twenty 
 scale-houses, each containing one of Fairbanks' im- 
 proved scales, with a capacity for weighing three or 
 four car-loads of cattle or hogs at a draft; machine 
 shops, depot building, printing office, and two 
 dozen other buildings used to transact business 
 pertaining to the receiving and shipping live stock, 
 including the grand new horse sales stables and 
 the experimental fat-stock barn. The water sup- 
 ply is furnished through the regular water-works 
 a half-dozen artesian wells, a standpipe, surrounded 
 by a tower 150 feet high, into which the water is 
 forced by a powerful engine and pumps on the spot. 
 Cable and telegraphic market reports from Lon- 
 don, Liverpool, New York, Boston, Philadelphia, 
 Baltimore, Cincinnati, Buffalo, East Liberty, Al- 
 bany, and other markets, both east and west, are 
 received here, and reports of this market are tele- 
 graphed each day to all eastern cities, Europe, and 
 through commission firms to all parts of the western 
 States and territories. 
 
 Over 250 acres of land are under plank and con- 
 structed as follows: About 150 acres are in cattle 
 yards, and about 100 acres of covered hog and 
 sheep pens; 2,000 cattle pens, sufficient to yard
 
 A BUSINESS TOUR OF CHICAGO. 
 
 25,000 cattle; 1,500 hog pens, sufficient to hold 
 200,000 hogs; 300 sheep pens that will accommodate 
 15,000 sheep; stabling for 2,500 horses; 2,000 car 
 loads of stock can be unloaded and taken care of 
 daily; over 20 miles of macadamized streets run 
 through different parts of the yards, and over 50 
 miles of water and drainage pipes, forming a perfect 
 network, run underneath the yards. There are 
 about 10 miles of viaducts and elevated roadway. 
 Nearly 1,000 men are con- 
 stantly employed throughout 
 the different departments. 
 
 The magnitude of the live- 
 stock business conducted at 
 the stock yards far exceeds 
 what a casual glance at an 
 aggregation of figures can 
 possibly convey a correct idea 
 of. A constant stream of cat- 
 tle passing into these yards 
 averaging ten per minute, of 
 hogs averaging thirty per min- 
 ute, and of sheep averaging 
 four per minute for ten hours 
 of every working day of the 
 year, is a volume of animals 
 that would, if it could all be 
 seen, astonish even the best 
 posted man in the trade, and 
 yet such an array would fall 
 short of the actual numbers 
 brought to this great market 
 for sale, slaughter, or distribu- 
 tion. The number of head 
 of stock of all kinds received 
 during the past year amount- 
 ed to 8,314,934. The capital 
 of the Stock Yards company 
 is $1,000,000. The buildings 
 are, of their kind, the finest 
 in the country, and the ar- 
 rangement of the yards is 
 perfect in every detail. 
 CHICAGO AS A BUSINESS CENTER THE CITY'S 
 
 TRIBUTARY TERRITORY. 
 
 Any review of the trade and commerce of 
 Chicago, however hasty and imperfect, would be 
 essentially incomplete without some reference to 
 the basis of that trade, and the reasons that may 
 be adduced for its rapid growth and development. 
 First of all may be noted the broad expanse of 
 matchless agricultural territory, dotted with farm- 
 houses, villages, and cities, stretching hundreds of 
 miles northward, westward, and southward, all more 
 or less (and the major part of it entirely) dependent 
 
 upon the city, both as a market for its surplus pro- 
 ductions and a source of supply for- those neces- 
 saries and luxuries that tend to make life enjoyable, 
 and that are produced or manufactured in other 
 portions of this or of foreign countries. But 
 scarcely less important than supply and demand, 
 because by it only can either exist, is the means of 
 speedy transportation demanded by an extended 
 commerce; and this nature and art have supplied 
 
 USINESS TOUR OF CHICAGO ALLEN'S ACADEMY, TWENTY-SECOND STREET, 
 
 for Chicago to a degree unequaled by any interior 
 city in the land; so that, with lines by water or by 
 rail, the city has come to be a center from which 
 diverge in all directions ample avenues for conduct- 
 ing an almost limitless traffic, and through the 
 influence of which the commerce of this city has 
 been nourished and built up, and by means of which 
 the great northwest has become populous, and the 
 hitherto cheerless prairie has been converted into a 
 paradise of happiness, prosperity and substantial 
 wealth. 
 
 The States most intimately connected with Chica- 
 go, whose products, in a large degree, find a market 
 here, and whose wants are here principally supplied,
 
 A BUSINESS TOUR OF CHICAGO. 
 
 are Illinois, Missouri, Iowa, Wisconsin, Kansas, Ne- 
 braska and Minnesota, with 470,170 square miles of 
 territory, or 300,909,064 acres, which contained in 
 1880 a population of 10,415,634, being about the 
 same as the population of the States of New York, 
 Ohio, New Hampshire and Massachusetts together, 
 upon a territory of 104,052 square miles. When we 
 add to this list of States the territory of Dakota, 
 with her 150,932 square miles, and the great State of 
 Colorado, with her 104,500 square miles of magnifi- 
 cent arable lands, and reflect, even for a moment, 
 upon the productive power of all this vast domain, 
 and, moreover, that it has as yet scarcely begun to 
 be peopled, we must stand amazed at the future 
 which is spread out before this favored city, leaving 
 out of the calculation the important trade of Chicago 
 with the southwest, which is growing every year. 
 
 THE GRAIN TRADE. 
 
 Passing from theories of causes touching the won- 
 derful growth of the trade and commerce of the city, 
 and the means by which these have been developed, 
 a brief reference to figures, setting forth what Chica- 
 go has done and is doing as a commercial center, 
 will be interesting. Recognizing the agricultural in- 
 terests of the west as the basis of all our commercial 
 importance and prosperity, the trade in the products 
 of the farm will be first alluded to. The first ship- 
 ment of grain eastward from Chicago occurred in 
 1838, and consisted of seventy-eight bushels of 
 wheat. This shipment was somewhat experimental 
 in its character, and no more was forwarded until 
 the next season. For several years subsequent, 
 large quantities of flour were received in the city 
 from New York State and Ohio, for local consump- 
 tion, so that probably not until 1842 was there any 
 balance of trade in favor of Chicago. In 1845 the 
 shipments of wheat, and flour reduced to wheat (and 
 in all the figures following, flour will be treated as 
 reduced to wheat), exceeded 1,000,000 bushels. In 
 1848, the year of the opening of the Illinois and 
 Michigan canal, the grain shipments exceeded 
 3,000,000 bushels. In 1852, when the influence of 
 advancing lines of railroad began to be felt, the 
 shipments reached nearly 6,000,000 bushels. From 
 this time forward the traffic assumed most remarka- 
 ble proportions, reaching in 1856 an aggregate ship- 
 ment of over 21,000,000 bushels; and in 1860, the 
 year preceding the outbreak of civil war, the grain 
 shipments of Chicago exceeded 31,000,000 bushels. 
 In 1880 they reached the enormous aggregate of 
 154,337,115 bushels, a point which has not been 
 touched since, partly owing to the development of 
 new channels of shipment. In 1885, the aggregate 
 grain shipments were 135,587,921 bushels. In 1886, 
 they were 129,636,678 bushels. The slight apparent 
 
 tendency towards retrogradation which the ship- 
 ments since 1880 have exhibited occasions no 
 alarm, because its causes are understood, and it is 
 known to be apparent rather than real. The mills 
 of Minneapolis are all the time extending their in- 
 fluence with the old world, the port of Duluth is 
 striving for the control of as much of the wheat 
 trade of the northwest as escapes the flouring-mills, 
 and the cut-off lines farther south are doing their 
 utmost to obtain a diversion of the produce move- 
 ment eastward in that direction. But this city has 
 really been the market for it all, and never demon- 
 strated her ability to care for and control the pro- 
 duce business of the great west better than during 
 the recent years whose figures show the apparent 
 falling off which has been noted. Chicago has car- 
 ried the whole of the visible supply of wheat and 
 other cereals, and our moneyed men have furnished 
 the capital required to hold the greater part of it. 
 The extent to which Chicago acts as a factor in pro- 
 duce is well illustrated by the wool movement of 
 last year. The quantity passing through this city 
 was actually smaller in 1886 than in 1885, and yet it 
 is well known that the merchants of this city practi- 
 cally controlled the entire clip of the west, forcing 
 the manufacturers and speculators of the seaboard 
 to come here when they wanted to buy. It was 
 handled here as much as are the goods of the grocer 
 in his office, though a single barrel of sugar or mo- 
 lasses may never enter its door. 
 
 THE TRADE IN LIVE STOCK. 
 
 Next in rank of importance to cereals, in the pro- 
 ducts of the farm that find a market in Chicago, 
 may be noted the trade in live stock. No reliable 
 record of receipts and shipments in this branch of 
 trade appears to have been kept until 1857, though 
 for several years previous a considerable business 
 had been conducted; and as a point for the packing 
 of both cattle and hogs, Chicago had taken a respect- 
 able rank as early as 1850. The receipts of cattle in 
 1857 amounted to 48,524 head, increasing the follow- 
 ing year to 140,534 ; and thenceforward the growth 
 of the trade was steady and rapid. Last year's 
 (1886) receipts of cattle amounted to 1,963,900 head, 
 being the greatest in the history of the trade. The 
 receipts of live hogs, which in 1857 amounted to a 
 little over 200,000, have increased much more rapid- 
 ly, though with not the same regularity as those of 
 cattle. In 1880, the receipts amounted to 7,059,355. 
 This was the greatest number of live hogs ever re- 
 ceived in a single year. In 1885 the receipts were 
 6,937,535, and in 1886, 6,718,761. The number of 
 dressed hogs shipped to this market in 1886 was 
 24,864. In the account of the stock yards, given in 
 an earlier portion of this sketch, the magnitude of
 
 FIFTY YEARS' PROGRESS. 
 
 Chicago's packing industry is hinted at. The fol- 
 lowing table exhibits the number of cattle and hogs 
 packed in Chicago for the last twenty-three years, 
 from March 1 to March 1. The figures of cattle 
 packing for the last eleven years include city con- 
 sumption. 
 
 Season No. of Cat- 
 
 tle Packed. 
 
 1880-1 511,711 
 
 1881-2 575,924 
 
 1883-4 ... 1,182,905 
 
 1884-5 1,319,115 
 
 1885-6 1,402,613 
 
 
 STATISTICS OF PACKING. 
 
 1863-4... 
 1864-5... 
 1865-6... 
 1866-7... 
 1867-8 .. 
 
 27,172 
 
 ar,;9G 
 
 35.348 
 26,950 
 11,963 
 21,254 
 16,080 
 15.75.-; 
 
 1870-1 
 
 1871-2 
 
 1872-3 _ 
 
 1873-4 21,712 
 
 1874-5 41,192 
 
 1875-6 63,783 
 
 1876-7- 324,898 
 
 1877-8 810,456 
 
 1878-9 391,500 
 
 1879-80 486,537 
 
 904,659 
 
 760,514 
 
 507,355 
 
 639,332 
 
 796,226 
 
 r>!7,954 
 
 688,140 
 
 919,197 
 
 1,225,236 
 
 1,456,650 
 
 1,826,560 
 
 2,136,716 
 
 2,320,846 
 
 2,933,4S6 
 
 4,009,311 
 
 4,960,956 
 
 4,680,637 
 
 5,752,191 
 5,100,484 
 4,222,780 
 3,911,792 
 4,228,205 
 4,928,730 
 4,425,941 
 
 SOME OTHER LINES OF TRADE. 
 The city's trade in other produce 
 amounts to an enormous aggregate. 
 In 1886 the receipts of pork meats 
 were 164,823,557 pounds; of lard, 
 88,454,118 pounds; of butter, 108,- 
 122,119 pounds; of wool, 34,781,587 
 pounds ; of hides, 85,980,953 pounds ; 
 of flaxseed, 7,092,573 pounds; of 
 other seeds, 61,577,117 pounds. 
 
 The trade in coal, salt, and many 
 other leading articles is in propor- 
 tion to the demands of a country so 
 dependent as is the northwest for the 
 importation of these articles. The 
 receipts of coal in 1886 were 4,056,- 
 018 tons, and the shipi lents 906,205 
 tons. The receipts oi salt for the 
 same year were 1,274,203 barrels, and 
 the shipments, 1,240,175 barrels. 
 
 THE LUMBER TRADE. 
 Chicago has for many years been 
 the greatest lumber market in the 
 world, and its trade in this line is 
 still increasing. The business is 
 conducted by upwards of 250 firms. 
 The pine yards number 107, and 
 there are 32 exclusive hardwood 
 yards. The capital of the lumber 
 trade of this city is estimated at 
 $18,000,000, and the value of the 
 total product handled at $40,000,000. 
 The receipts during 1886 were 1,700,- 
 000,000 feet of lumber, 800,000,000 
 CLARK STREETS. shin g ]es> 50,000,000 lath and 3,500,- 
 000 cedar posts, added to which there were about 
 30,000 cords of wood, 1,000,000 railway ties (chiefly 
 cedar), 31,000 cords of slabs, 20,000 cords of bark, 
 50,000 telegraph poles, and 2,000 piles. The ship- 
 ments and sales for the year approximated 1,646,- 
 022,896 feet of lumber, and 714,770,000 shingles. 
 
 THE IMPORTS INTO CHICAGO. 
 The articles imported at Chicago during 1886 in- 
 cluded ale, beer, and porter, 5,856 packages; bran- 
 dy, 1,001 packages; caustic soda, 14,309 drums; 
 champagne, 941 cases; china and glass ware, 266 
 packages; coffee, 955 bags; dry goods, 17,559 pack- 
 ages; g' n > 1.245 packages; fancy groceries, 7,145
 
 A BUSINESS TOUR OF CHICAGO. 
 
 packages; pig iron, 1,087 tons; Japanese goods, 
 1,894 packages ; musical goods, 1,554 cases; cedar 
 posts, 640,165; telegraph poles, 13,097; pickles, 
 2,749 packages; clay pipes, 1,302 cases; salt, 181,740 
 sacks; salt in bulk, 7,755 tons; stone, 5,526 tons; 
 tea, 159,166 packages; railroad ties, 726,122; tin 
 plate, 208,487 boxes ; tobacco, 3,308 bales; whisky, 
 2,354 packages ; wine, 10,191 packages. The value 
 of imported merchandise entered for consumption, 
 and the duties collected thereon at Chicago during 
 1886, were, respectively, $11,574,449 and $4,349,237. 
 WHOLESALE TRADE IN MERCHANDISE. 
 
 Following is a careful estimate of Chicago's whole- 
 sale trade in other leading articles of merchandise 
 during 1886: 
 
 ____ $58,800,000 
 2,850,000 
 
 Groceries and confections 
 Dried and California fruits 
 Dried fish 
 Fresh-water fish 
 Oysters ______________ 
 
 Canned salmon 
 Wooden and willow ware 
 
 ........ 2,000,000 
 
 ...... 565,000 
 
 2,250,000 
 725,000 
 
 _____ 2,500,000 
 
 Dry goodb, etc ----------------- ....... ... 65,750,000 
 
 Carpetings ____ ........ ___________ ...... __ 5,300,000 
 
 Millinery, etc --------------------- ....... 6,000,000 
 
 Clothing ________________________ ........ 23,000,000 
 
 Hats and caps _________________ ........ ... 8,000,000 
 
 Furs ---- ....... -------- ..... ____________ 1,750,000 
 
 Boots and shoes ____________________ ...... 19,500,000 
 
 Leather and findings ........ ____ .......... 2,250,000 
 
 Drugs and chemicals ........... . ..... ____ 6,250,000 
 
 Crockery and glassware __________________ 4,000,000 
 
 Coal-oils ....... . ....... _________ ........ 5,500,000 
 
 Books ........ --------------------------- 12,325,000 
 
 Paper ...... _____________________________ 20,425,000 
 
 Paper stock ____________ ..... _____________ 4,950,000 
 
 Wall-paper -------------------- ..... _____ 1,252,000 
 
 Pianos ------------------ ......... _______ 2,300,COO 
 
 Reed organs _____________________________ 1,500,000 
 
 Other musical instruments ________________ 800,000 
 
 Musical stationery, etc _______ ............. 400,000 
 
 Liquors, etc ------------------------------ 10,760,000 
 
 Carriages _______________________________ 1485,000 
 
 Iron ore ------------- ...... ______________ 2,700,000 
 
 Pig iron __________________ ..... . ....... .. 14,000,000 
 
 Pig lead _________________________________ 3,870,000 
 
 Coal ---------------- ........ ____________ 22,675,000 
 
 Lumber _________________________________ 40000,000 
 
 Tobacco ____________ ....... ... ..... ______ 14,800,000 
 
 13,000,000 
 18,000,000 
 
 _______ 4,000,000 
 
 . ..... 9,278,000 
 
 Jewelry 
 
 Iron, manufactured 
 Building materials.. 
 Miscellaneous 
 
 Total $416,000,000 
 
 THE RETAIL BUSINESS. 
 
 The retail business of Chicago is on a par with 
 her wholesale trade. No city in the world has finer 
 stores, or merchants who better understand the 
 wants of the trading public, or who display a more 
 liberal spirit in catering to the comfort of their cus- 
 tomers. 
 
 The aggregate clearings of Chicago for 1886 were 
 $2,604,762,912.35, and for 1885, $2,318,579,003. 
 
 The clearings at the board of trade clearing 
 house aggregated $100,665.007 in 1886, and $100,- 
 059,537 in 1885. The total receipts of the Chicago 
 
 post-office during 1886 were $2,132,058.19, and the 
 total expenses, $806,404.23. The average number 
 of mails dispatched daily was 90, and the aver- 
 age number received, 95. The average number of 
 letters, postal cards, etc., received and delivered was 
 315,754. This does not include newspapers, circu- 
 lars, books, merchandise, etc. 
 
 The collections of internal revenue in the 
 first district of Illinois for 1886 were as follows: 
 On lists, $7,932; beer stamps, $1,045,558; spirit 
 stamps, $5,765,614; cigars and cigarets, $394,881; 
 'snuff. $1,166; tobacco, $440,949; special tax, $247,- 
 264; oleomargarine, $78,641; total, $7,452.588; in- 
 crease over 1885, $529,418. 
 
 The transactions in Chicago real estate during 
 1886 numbered 14,626, and the amount involved was 
 $75,275,697. The corresponding figures for 1885 
 were 11,027 and $47,806,687. Following is a table 
 showing the building operations in Chicago for five 
 years past : 
 
 ...3,113 
 ...4,086 
 ...4,169 
 
 Frontage. Cost. 
 
 78,161 $15,842,800 
 
 85,588 17.500,000 
 
 98,782 20,689,600 
 
 108,952 19,624,100 
 
 112,302 21,324,400 
 
 CHICAGO MANUFACTURES THE IRON INDUSTRY. 
 
 The growth of Chicago as a manufacturing center 
 has been very great during recent years. One of the 
 largest steel plants in the Union, comprising seven 
 departments, covers an area of twenty-nine acres 
 on the south branch of the Chicago river, with blast 
 furnaces having a daily capacity of 330 tons, or an 
 output of nearly 125,000 tons of pig iron annually. 
 Following is a statement of the number of Chicago 
 iron-works of various kinds in operation during 1886, 
 the capital employed, the number of workmen en- 
 gaged in each, and the value of the product: 
 
 Iron Manufactures. No. Capital. Workers. Product. 
 
 Rolling-mills 6 $11,450,000 7,940 $12,100,000 
 
 Foundries 40 2,825,000 3,900 8,500,000 
 
 Machinery, malleable Iron, 
 
 etc "---. 58 2,050,000 2,660 6,7.->o.ooo 
 
 Boiler shops 20 500,000 600 l.-ir.o. 
 
 Car-wheel works 4 1,050,000 1,465 4,650.000 
 
 Stove manufactures Steam 11 1,335,000 1,050 2,450.000 
 
 fitting and heating 6 200,000 400 600,000 
 
 Galvanized iron, tin, and 
 
 slate roofing, 30 350,000 700 1,500.000 
 
 Furnaces and ranges, 10 150,000 140 275.000 
 
 Barbed wire 4 250,000 250 l.UOo.ooo 
 
 Wire-works 18 210,000 240 3S5.0CO 
 
 Miscellaneous.. 33 2,511,000 2,288 6,230,000 
 
 Totals 240 $22,881,000 21,633 $46,790,000 
 
 Totals, 1886.. 246 21,918,500 19,180 38,393,000 
 
 The total amount of wages paid to iron and steel 
 workers in Chicago for 1886 footed up $12,543,000, 
 as compared with $8,734,000 for 1885.
 
 FIFTY YEARS' PROGRESS. 
 
 BRASS AND COPPER, ETC. 
 
 Following is a detailed statement of the brass and 
 copper manufactures of Chicago for 1886 
 
 Brass, Copper, etc. No. Capital. Workers. Product. 
 
 Brass, copper and plumb- 
 ers' supplies 21 $ 620,000 1,088 $ 2,200,000 
 
 Tin, stamped and sheet met- 
 al ware 30 1,500,000 2,000 4,000,000 
 
 Jewelry manufacturers 12 300,000 320 1,200,000 
 
 Watch cases and tools 8 250,000 380 1,380,000 
 
 Optical goods 2 50,000 40 160,000 
 
 Telegraph and electrical 
 
 supplies . 4 710,000 570 2,030,000 
 
 Smelting and refining and 
 
 iron and brass works 4 170,000 280 3,250,000 
 
 Miscellaneous.... 28 522,000 571 1,985,000 
 
 Totals... 109 $4,122,000 5,249 $16,205,000 
 
 Totals, 1885 109 3,961,000 4,240 12,765,000 
 
 The estimated amount paid for wages is $3,202,- 
 750, against $2,380,000 in 1885. 
 
 IRON AND WOOD. 
 
 In manufactures using iron and wood combined, 
 the business done in 1886 was as exhibited below: 
 
 Iron and Wood Combined No. Capital Workers. Product 
 
 Wagons and carriages 60 $ 1,000,000 1,650 $ 2,750,000 
 
 ultural implements 3 5,000,000 3,700 11,850,000 
 
 Car and bridge builders 4 3,575,000 3,630 10,725,000 
 
 Agr 
 
 895,000 795 2,252,000 
 415,000 423 920,000 
 
 Elevators 9 
 
 Sewing machines and cases... 5 
 
 Totals.. 81 $10,885,000 10,198 $28,497,000 
 
 Totals, 1885. 85 10,000,000 9,950 26,000,000 
 
 The wages paid are estimated at $6,902,000, as 
 against $6,000,000 in 1885. 
 
 MANUFACTURES OF WOOD. 
 
 The furniture trade and its 'allied manufactures 
 are increasing in Chicago at a rate which point to 
 this city soon being recognized as the head of this 
 branch of industry in the United States. The lar- 
 gest manufacturing firm in this line in the country is 
 located here, with a capital of $1,000,000 and several 
 factories, giving employment to a force of 700 men. 
 Following is an exhibit in detail of the work which 
 was done in manufactures of wood in Chicago dur- 
 ing 1886: 
 
 Manufactures of Wood. No. Capital. Workers. Product. 
 Planing-mills, sash, doors, 
 
 moldings, boxes, etc 70 $3,350,000 4,500 $10,000,000 
 
 Cooperage 30 220,000 600 1,200,000 
 
 Furniture 200 4,000,00010,000 15,000,000 
 
 Picture-frames and looking- 
 glasses 52 400,000 1,000 1,000,000 
 
 Pianos and organs 9 450,000 850 1,675,000 
 
 Billiard tables 5 300,000 400 1,200.<XH) 
 
 Miscellaneous.. 22 ' 635,000 650 l/.l'o.nno 
 
 Totals 388 $9,355,000 18,000 $31,595.000 
 
 Totals, 1885 386 8,817,000 16.475 29,970,000 
 
 The wages in 1886 made an estimated total of 
 $8,817.000, as against $8,035,000 for 1885. 
 BRICK, STONE, ETC. 
 
 The production of brick at the Chicago yards is 
 given as 388,000,000 for 1886, against 335,000,000 in 
 1885, showing an increase of 53,000,000. The fol- 
 
 lowing table gives the statistics of the brick and 
 stone industry of Chicago for 1886: 
 
 Brick ami Stone. No. Capital. Workers. Product. 
 
 Brickyards.. 67 $ 400,000 3,000 $2,716,000 
 
 Cut-stone contractor! 24 1,000,0001,200 2,500,000 
 
 Marble and granite works 30 750,000 500 2,2:.< >,(><>(> 
 
 Gravel-roofers 26 175,000 400 750,000 
 
 Limekilns 5 200,000 350 375,000 
 
 Terracotta.-. 1 100,000 350 600,000 
 
 Stained-glass 8 200,000 250 750,000 
 
 161 $2,825,000 6,050 $9,841,000 
 
 156 2,750,000 5,840 9,103,000 
 
 The total of wages is estimated at $2,545,000, as 
 against $2,480,000 for 1885. 
 
 BUlLDINGc 
 
 The permits issued by the city building depart- 
 ment for the year 1886 numbered 3,497, for the erec- 
 tion of 4,664 structures. The frontage covers 112,- 
 302 feet, and the cost of buildings is given as $21,- 
 324,400. This includes the erection of 1,703 sheds, 
 the cost of which is not covered by the above 
 sum. 
 
 BREWING, DISTILLING, TOBACCO. 
 
 The beer, liquor and tobacco interests of Chicago 
 are of enormous proportions. The estimates for 
 1886 are as follows: 
 
 Brewing, etc. No. Capital. Workers. Product. 
 
 Breweries 38 $3,750,000 1,000 $ 6,585,000 
 
 Malt-houses 23 2,000,000 400 3,500,000 
 
 Distillers and rectifiers 79 1,300,000 950 7,817,000 
 
 Tobacco and snuff 4 650,000 600 2,000,000 
 
 Cigars and cigarettes 430 1.250,000 1,750 5,350,000 
 
 574 $8,950,000 4,700 $25,2r,2,OOO 
 
 Totals, 1885... 570 8,850,000 4,840 25,345,000 
 
 The wages are estimated at $2,870,000, as against 
 $2,850,000 in 1885. 
 
 CHEMICAL WORKS, ETC. 
 
 The establishments coming under this head are 
 annually growing in importance. The soda and 
 mineral waters and bottling business of Chicago is 
 rapidly becoming an important branch of industry, 
 and is fast driving out foreign products. The esti- 
 mates are as follows: 
 
 Chemical works, etc. 
 
 Chemical works 
 
 White lead and paint manuf: 
 
 turers -14 1,100,000 350 
 
 White lead corroding works.. 2 750,000 200 
 
 Linseed oil and cake mills 7 1,250,000 135 
 
 Varnish 6 250,000 100 
 
 Glue and axle grease 6 450,000 500 
 
 Soap and candles 15 1,600,000 960 
 
 Soda, mineral waters and bot- 
 tling 18 500,000 550 
 
 o. Capital. Workers. Product. 
 6 $ 600,000 160 $ 1,000,000 
 
 3,350,000 
 1,000,000 
 1,700,000 
 800,000 
 1,000,000 
 6,000,000 
 
 1,450,000 
 
 Totals 73 $6,500,000 2,955 $16.300,000 
 
 Totals, 1885 70 6,450,000 2,855 15,675,000 
 
 The total of wages was $1,535,000, as against 
 $1,411,000 in 1885. 
 
 LEATHER MANUFACTURES. 
 The leather manufactories of Chicago and the
 
 A BUSINESS TOUR OF CHICAGO. 
 
 business which they did in 1886 are shown in the 
 following: 
 
 Leather. No. Capital. Workers. Product. 
 
 Tanners and curriers 19 $3,500,000 1,600 $ 5,500,000 
 
 Boot, shoe and slipper manu- 
 facturers 46 3,500,000 4,200 8,850,000 
 
 Saddle and harness manufac- 
 turers ... .6 200,000 260 1,000,000 
 
 Trunkmakers 9 225,000 320 800,000 
 
 Hose and leather belting 3 272,000 120 475,000 
 
 Totals 82 $7,700,000 6,400 $16,575,000 
 
 Totals, 1885 79 7,475,000 6,240 15,530,000 
 
 The wages paid foot up $4,225,000, as against 
 $3,450,000 in 1885. 
 
 TEXTILE MANUFACTURES. 
 
 Another important branch of Chicago's industries 
 is the manufacture of textile figures, as the follow- 
 ing exhibit for 1886 will show : 
 
 Textiles. No. Capital. Workers. Product. 
 
 Men's and boys' clothing 42 $ 7,000,000 12,550 $17,500,000 
 
 Colored shirts, overalls, etc.. 18 1,250,000 1,700 2,500,000 
 
 Men's neckwear 6 250,000 650 850,000 
 
 White shirts 36 300,000 800 1,250,000 
 
 Furs 3 300,000 250 600,000 
 
 Cloaks, suitings, etc., 16 1,300,000 3,800 3,850,000 
 
 Lace goods, fringes, dress 
 
 trimmings, etc... 6 250,000 700. 750,000 
 
 Millinery 8 275,000 1,000 900,000 
 
 Cotton mill . 1 60,000 100 100,000 
 
 Totals 136 $10,975,000 21,500 $28,300,000 
 
 Totals, 1885 ...135 10,295,000 21,140 26,250,000 
 
 The estimated amount of wages paid was $7,100,- 
 000, as against $6,325,000 in 1885. 
 
 PRINTING, ETC. 
 
 In manufactures connected with the "art pre- 
 servative," an immense business is done in Chicago. 
 Following is the statement for 1886: 
 
 Printing. No. Capital. Workers. Product. 
 Printing, binding, lithography, 
 
 newspapers, etc 215 $ 2,600,000 1,950 $ 8,500,000 
 
 Bookbinding and pamphlets. . 20 500,000 800 1,250,000 
 
 Electrotype and stereotype-.. 12 175,000 320 525,000 
 
 Type founders ." 4 500,000 500 925,000 
 
 Printing and writing inks 4 100,000 190 335,000 
 
 Totals .255 $3,875,000 3,760 $11,535,000 
 
 Totals, 1885. 253 3,360,0003,600 9",945,000 
 
 The wages make a total of $2,460,000, against 
 $2,200,000 in 1885. 
 
 ALIMENTS. 
 
 The year 1886, for which the following statement 
 was made, was not a favorable one for some branches 
 of the industries enumerated, notably, the flour in- 
 dustry. Nevertheless the showing made is a striking 
 one: 
 
 Aliments. No. Capital. Workers. Product. 
 
 Principal bakeries .30$ 600,000 890 $4,890,000 
 
 Flour mills - 3 400,000 120 2,124,000 
 
 Meal and feed mills 5 275,000 120 1,700,000 
 
 Coffee and spice mills _.ll 1,000,000 700 5,000.000 
 
 Bakingpowder, extracts, etc-- 5 650,000 250 1,650.000 
 
 Confectionery 8 750,000 1,000 3,000,000 
 
 Preserves, canned goods, etc.. 10 250,000 420 l.OOO.ooo 
 
 Vinegar and pickles 17 310,000 300 1,000.000 
 
 Sugar refinery... 1 300,000 250 1,700,000 
 
 Totals.. 
 
 Totals, 1885 
 
 90 $4,535,000 4,050 $22,064,000 
 89 4,375,000 3,730 20,777,500 
 
 The aggregate amount of wages paid foot up 
 $2,105,000, as against $1,865,000 in 1885. 
 
 MEAT-PACKING, ETC. 
 
 Following is a statement of the meat-packing and 
 allied industries of Chicago for 1886: 
 
 Meat productions. No. Capital. Workers. Product. 
 
 Hog-packing ____ . _________ 44 $ 7,000,000 10,000 $ 48,000,000 
 
 Beef-canning 
 
 Refined lard, lard-oil, stea 
 ine ...... 
 
 Butterine ____ ....... 
 
 Sausage ________ ........ . 
 
 3 3,500,000 5,350 23,750,000 
 
 3,000,000 3,000 14,000,000 
 
 1,000,000 750 4,000,000 
 
 350,000 250 1,300,000 
 
 80 $14,850,000 19,340 $91,050,000 
 79 12,800,000 18,500 95,240,000 
 
 Totals 
 
 Totals, 1885 ... 
 
 The aggregate amount of wages for 1886 was 
 $12,000,000, against $11,000,000, for 1885. 
 MISCELLANEOUS. 
 
 A number of industries which could go appro- 
 priately under any of the above headings are grouped 
 in the following table, the showing, as in preceding 
 tables, being for the year 1886: 
 
 Miscellaneous. No. Capital. Workers. Product. 
 
 Toy factories 5 $ 400,000 400$ 750,000 
 
 Signmakers 12 80,000 100 400,000 
 
 Brushes and brooms .12 250,000 280 5i!(),0(K) 
 
 Feather dusters 6 80,000 250 200,000 
 
 Showcases 11 65,000 110 225,000 
 
 Glass. - 1 250,000 150 1,000,000 
 
 Corks 2 40,000 80 120,000 
 
 Paper boxes 9 150,000 700 600,000 
 
 Sails, awnings 12 300,000 325 1,000,000 
 
 Ship-yards.... .. 2 300,000 200 250,000 
 
 Totals 72 $1,915,000 2,595 $5,075,000 
 
 Totals, 1885 70 1,300,0001,935 3,415,000 
 
 The wages approximated $1,412,500, against 
 and $1,000,000 in 1885. 
 
 RECAPITULATION. 
 
 The manufacturing business of Chicago for 1886 
 and 1885 compares as follows: 
 
 1886. 1885. 
 
 Number of firms 2,341 2,526 
 
 Capital used $109,368,000 $101,651,500 
 
 Number of workers 126,430 119,025 
 
 Wages paid $ 67,717,250 $67,780,000 
 
 Value of product $349,079,000 $328,408,500 
 
 The last line shows a gain of $20,670,000 over the 
 total for 1885, being about 6.3 per cent
 
 FIFTY YEARS' PROGRESS. 
 
 37 
 
 SOME PERTINENT FACTS. 
 
 The business of the past year has fully met all 
 reasonable expectations, and the city is true to her 
 record in all that pertains to permanent gains and 
 substantial wealth. While progressing in all de- 
 partments of mercantile activity, she is constantly 
 solidifying in those elements which in older com- 
 munities constitute the substratum of commercial 
 credit; not that the year has been free from periods 
 of comparative dullness or exempt from disturbances. 
 
 The course of business of late years and its 
 activity ushered in a period of prosperity, only to 
 
 meet with untoward events and forebodings calcu- 
 lated to arrest enterprise and create alarm. In spite 
 of these disturbances, caused by a feverish state of 
 European affairs, and by their sometimes hostile 
 attitude, and notwithstanding serious outbreaks in 
 our midst of impetuous and misguided laborers, 
 frenzied by specious and criminally inflammatory 
 appeals, the mercantile history of the past year is an 
 exceedingly gratifying one. Had the labor troubles, 
 which came like an epidemic and burst upon us with 
 a murderous horror in the month of May, not oc- 
 curred, labor would have been in increased demand, 
 
 wages advanced, and that substantial prosperity, so 
 long desired, would not have been delayed. All 
 honor to the heroic police force, which, in that dark 
 hour on the 4th of May, 1886, stood undismayed in 
 Haymarket square like a wall of adamant for the 
 public safety! But for that heroism, the terrors of 
 that night would have been increased beyond the 
 power of words to portray. Seven hearts were 
 stilled. The red tide was stayed. Justice waits. 
 
 This tumultuous onslaught, so determinedly re- 
 sisted and so emphatically condemned, will not be 
 repeated. The people, tolerant of the largest lib- 
 erty underthe regulation of law, will not permit its 
 excess to the detriment of good order or beyond 
 constitutional limitations. 
 
 The stock yards strike, occurring in October 
 last, was controlled with remarkable ability by the 
 great packing firms of this city, composed of gen- 
 tlemen of the highest integrity and utmost fairness. 
 That all grievances of their employes, when prop- 
 erly presented, will receive their respectful and 
 charitable consideration, cannot be doubted; that 
 all attempts to obtain redress for alleged injustice, 
 by violence or threats of persecution, will be sum- 
 marily suppressed, is equally assured. 
 
 During the year 4,664 buildings have been con- 
 structed upon a frontage of 112,302 feet, at an esti- 
 mated cost of $21,332,000; showing a very material 
 increase in the number of buildings and in the val- 
 uation over the corresponding statement of 1885. 
 In no other year have sp many costly and elegant 
 structures been erected. 
 
 Our coastwke and foreign trade, as a totality, 
 makes an exhibit the extent of which may be re- 
 alized by the following statement and comparisons 
 obtained from the superintending special agent of 
 the secretary of the treasury. The arrivals and 
 clearances, foreign and coastwise, at this port, for 
 the year ended June 30, last, are 22,096, which is 
 869 more than at the ports of Baltimore, Boston, 
 New Orleans, Philadelphia, Portland and Falmouth 
 and San Francisco combined; and 315 more than 
 at New York, New Orleans, Portland, Falmouth 
 and San Francisco ; and 100 more than at New 
 York, Baltimore, Portland and Falmouth. 
 
 When the agricultural and mining wealth con- 
 tained in the vast regions lying north and west of 
 this metropolis is thoughtfully considered ; and when 
 it is borne in mind that an immense population is 
 destined to occupy those fields, and that unequaled 
 facilities for transportation are provided by the 
 great lakes, it is plainly seen that the foregoing facts, 
 impressive as they are, will be dwarfed by the his- 
 tory of future years.
 
 A BUSINESS TOUR OF CHICAGO. 
 
 CHICAGO'S ESTHETIC FEATURES BEAUTY OF THE 
 
 CITY AND ITS ENVIRONS. 
 
 The attractions of Chicago are manifold. The 
 boundless prairie on three sides and the waters of 
 Lake Michigan on the fourth are its surroundings. 
 The streets, blocks, drives, avenues and boulevards 
 are as well defined and as regular in general as the 
 squares of a checker-board. The streets are wide 
 and roomy, and cross each other at right angles, and 
 with mathematical exactness. Having sprung into 
 existence almost intantaneously, nothing complex in 
 the arrangements of the city mar its beauty or con- 
 venience. It is as level as a garden. Skillful engineers 
 have succeeded in successfully draining the city by 
 an excellent sewerage system. The climate is health- 
 
 iancy of the Chicago atmosphere makes this vision 
 of shining waters, white sails, distant spires, and 
 green shaded drives highly fascinating. The huge 
 elevators, looming up along the river front, the great 
 wholesale stores, the imposing hotels and depots, 
 suggest the enormous business interests of the city. 
 The bridges that span the river are black with teams 
 and carriages and people, and the intense vitality 
 and movement of the scene can hardly be described 
 in adequate words. 
 
 The suburbs are not less picturesquely attrac- 
 tive. Evanston, twelve miles distant, has the pecu- 
 liar advantage of being situated on a natural knoll 
 of rising ground, which forms the semblance of 
 bluffs on the borders of the lake. The place con- 
 
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 ful and invigorating, and the city is kept singularly 
 free of all forms of malaria by the prevailing winds. 
 The average death-rate for several years was 23.1 
 per thousand inhabitants, as compared with 25.3 in 
 Philadelphia, 32.6 in New York, and 30.8 in Boston. 
 The harbor is the best on the great lakes, and is 
 quite picturesque as seen from the deck of an ap- 
 proaching vessel. The city and its surroundings, 
 viewed from the water tower or the roof of a tall 
 building, present a panorama of beauty. In one di- 
 rection the eye takes in the miles of great business 
 streets with their multitudes of people moving in 
 seemingly inextricable confusion, and in another 
 the green sweep of the parks and boulevards, built 
 down to the very water's edge with stately mansions 
 and trimly-kept villas. On a pleasant day the brill- 
 
 tains a population of about 10,000, and is worthy of 
 a visit by those who desire to see the elegance of 
 retired life. Highland Park, Glencoe, Lake Forest, 
 Irving Park, Englewood, Hyde Park and Chelten- 
 ham are the names of only a few of many dozens of 
 other charming suburbs, each having peculiar and 
 varied attractions of its own, and all within reach 
 by grand boulevards and by rail. No description of 
 the suburbs of Chicago would be complete without 
 some account of Pullman, a new city owned by the 
 Pullman Land association. Contiguous to and 
 really a part of Chicago, to which it owes its wonder- 
 ful growth, it possesses features of interest to all 
 visitors. Although only commenced in 1880, it has 
 now a population of over twenty-five thousand, with 
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 tel, market-house, schools, churches, library, etc. 
 One of the special features of Pullman is that no 
 liquor saloons are allowed within its environment, 
 although the place is exclusively devoted to manufac- 
 turing. The green sward and leafy glades of Evans- 
 ton remind the traveler of the green lanes of Kent. 
 The gleaming waters of the lake and the gentle un- 
 dulations dotted with mansions and villas present a 
 landscape of natural beauty with which it would be 
 impossible to compare the suburbs of any other city 
 in the Union. 
 
 CHICAGO'S PARKS. 
 
 The parks, in many of which music is furnished 
 during summer evenings, are among the most de- 
 lightful of the attractions of Chicago. They are ex- 
 
 besides magnificent flower gardens, displays of birds, 
 beasts and fishes, etc. 
 
 THE BOULEVARD SYSTEM. 
 
 The boulevard system of Chicago is a notable 
 feature in the attractions of the city. Michigan 
 avenue boulevard, 100 feet in width and three and 
 a quarter miles in length, runs through a rich residence 
 section on the South side, and is one of the finest 
 drives in the United States. At its south end com- 
 mences Thirty-fifth street boulevard, which connects 
 with Grand boulevard. The latter leads to Wash- 
 ington park. Grand boulevard is 198 feet wide, and 
 has a broad" central driveway which runs between 
 wide grass strips bearing double rows of trees. Out- 
 side of these are roadways, thirty-three feet wide, 
 
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 T, LOOKING SOUTH FROM MONROE. 
 
 tensive, well planned, and beautiful, though many 
 of them are yet in infancy. The principal parks 
 are Washington and Jackson on the South side, con- 
 sisting of two hundred and eighty-seven and eighty- 
 four acres respectively, and including thirteen acres of 
 artificial lakes. The drives and boulevards leading to 
 these parks are superbly beautiful, the way for miles 
 being lined with lawns, groves, flower-beds, etc. On 
 the West side the Garfield park contains one hun- 
 dred and eighty-five acres, the Humboldt park two 
 hundred acres, Douglas park one hundred and 
 eighty acres. On the North side Lincoln park has 
 y frontage of about two and a half miles on the lake, 
 and contains threehundred and ten acres. This park, 
 like the others, is provided with an artificial lake, 
 
 one for traffic and the other for equestrians. 
 Along the outer borders of the roadways are strips 
 of grass bearing single rows of trees, and outside of 
 these are the footways with a line of trees along the 
 outer borders of each. Countless handsome resi- 
 dences line the magnificent thoroughfare on both 
 sides. Oakwood boulevard, 100 feet wide, connects 
 Grand boulevard with Drexel boulevard. The latter 
 is considered the gem of the boulevard system. It is 
 200 feet in width, and a mile and a half in length. 
 There is a broad central strip throughout its entire 
 length planted with trees and shrubbery, and orna- 
 mented with windingwalks, grassplats, and beds and 
 borders of flowers and foliage plants. Drexel fountain, 
 presented by the Messrs. Drexel, of Philadelphia, is
 
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 one of the prominent ornaments of the boulevard, 
 and gave it its name. Garfield boulevard, Western 
 avenue boulevard, Douglas boulevard, Central bou- 
 levard, Humboldt boulevard and Washington boule- 
 
 vard, all have their special attactions. Lake Shore 
 drive is a handsome part of the boulevard system, 
 which, taken as a whole, is not surpassed, if equaled, 
 by any system of drives in any other great city in 
 the world. 
 
 SOME OF THE NOTABLE BUILDINGS. 
 
 Chicago's public buildings include a large number 
 of edifices which would do credit to any city in the 
 world. The county court-house and city hall, 
 which occupies the square bounded by Clark, La 
 Salle, Washington and Randolph streets, is a nota- 
 ble structure, by reason of its cost and size, as well 
 as of its tastefulness of design. Its east and west 
 frontage is 340 feet, and its north and south front- 
 age 280 feet. The style of architecture is modern 
 French renaissance. The material is principally 
 limestone, from the quarries on the Desplaines river. 
 The columns, pilasters and pedestals are of Maine 
 granite. The building is fire-proof. It was begun 
 in 1877. Its total cost was about $6,000,000. 
 
 The federal building, which includes the post- 
 office and custom-house, occupies the square bound- 
 ed by Dearborn, Clark, Adams and Jackson streets, 
 and also cost about $6,000,000. Its dimensions at 
 Jhe base are 342 x 210 feet. Its style of architec- 
 ture is Romanesque, with Venetian treatment. The 
 building is constructed almost entirely of stone and 
 
 iron, and is fire-proof throughout. The finish of the 
 interior is very rich. 
 
 The Exposition building, on the lake front, at the 
 foot of Adams street, is noted for its size and the 
 ingenuity of its construction. It was built by the 
 Inter-State Exposition company. The building is 
 240 feet wide, nearly 800 feet long, and 110 feet 
 high. It is surmounted by three towers, with orna- 
 mental domes, and has a broad gallery entirely 
 around its interior. The arched roof, of glass, in a 
 framework of iron, is the largest clear span roof in 
 the world. The building was opened in the fall of 
 1877, with the first of a series of expositions of the 
 products of art and industry, which have annually 
 attracted thousands of visitors to the city. 
 MAGNIFICENT HOTELS. 
 
 Several of the Chicago hotels are magnificent ex- 
 amples of modern architecture. The Palmer house, 
 at the corner of State and Monroe streets, is a fire- 
 proof structure, which was erected at a cost of 
 $2,000,000. Over half a million was expended in 
 furnishing it. It is six stories in height above the 
 basement, and has a frontage on State street of 281 
 feet and on Monroe street of 253 feet, and an L 131 
 
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 feet in width, extending through to Wabash avenue. 
 The fronts are of stone. The hotel was opened in 
 1873. An additional story was added in 1884. The 
 structure contains 815 rooms. The wainscoting of
 
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 the grand hall contains thirty-four kinds and colors Quincy, Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul, Chicago 
 of marble. and Alton, Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne and Chicago, 
 
 The Grand Pacific hotel covers half a square of_ and Chicago, St. Louis and Pittsburgh, 
 ground, and fronts on Clark, Jackson, La Salle and 
 Quincy streets. It is six stories high above the 
 basement. The three main fronts are of stone. 
 There are over 500 rooms in the house. It cost 
 $1,300,000, the furniture costing $360,000 more. 
 The Grand Pacific was opened in 1873. Like the 
 
 Palmer house, it stands on the site of another hotel 
 of the same name, which was destroyed in the great 
 fire. 
 
 OF CHICAGO THE TREMON'T HOUS 
 
 The Tremont house, on the corner of Dearborn 
 and Lake streets ; the Leland hotel, on Michigan 
 boulevard and Jackson street; the Sherman house, 
 corner of Clark and Randolph streets ; and McCoy's 
 New European hotel, corner of Clark and Van Bu- 
 ren streets, are all substantial and handsome edifices. 
 FINE DEPOTS. 
 
 The passenger depot at the corner of Fourth ave- 
 nue and Polk street is a spacious and sightly struc- 
 ture, admirably adapted to the purpose for which it 
 was built. The railroads which use it are Chicago 
 and Grand Trunk, Chicago and Atlantic, Chicago 
 and Eastern Illinois, Louisville, New Albany and 
 Chicago, and Wabash, St. Louis and Pacific. 
 
 The Union depot, on Canal street, between Mad- 
 ison and Adams streets, has a less striking exterior, 
 but its internal appointments are costly, tasteful and 
 convenient, and favorably impress visitors with 
 the wealth and taste of the city, of which it is one 
 of the thresholds. The railroads which use the 
 Union depot are the Chicago, Burlington and 
 
 A MONSTER OFFICE BUILDING. 
 The Pullman building, Michigan avenue and 
 Jackson street, is nine stories in height and fire T 
 proof throughout, and is said to be the finest office 
 building in the world. It is a dual structure, a 
 court between the two parts assisting in the ventikv 
 tion and lighting. 
 
 HANDSOME CHURCHES. 
 Many of the churches of Chicago 
 are notable for their costliness and 
 architectural taste. St. James' church 
 (Episcopal), at the corner of Cass and 
 Huron streets, is the oldest of its de- 
 nomination in Chicago. The hand- 
 some stone edifice owned by the con- 
 gregation in 1871 cost $200,000. It 
 was destroyed in the great fire. The 
 present- church was erected in 1873. 
 It is a sightly structure. The width of 
 the transept is 109 feet, and the depth 
 of the nave 173 feet. In the vestibule 
 is a beautiful monument to the mem- 
 ory of members of the parish who died 
 in. the war. There are handsome win- 
 dows and mural brasses, and in the 
 tower is a fine chime of bells. 
 
 Union Park Congregational church, 
 at the corner of Ashland avenue and 
 Washington boulevard, is one of the 
 largest church edifices in the city. It 
 was completed in 1871 and cost upward 
 of $200,000. It is Gothic in style, and built of 
 rough-dressed stone. 
 
 The New England church (Congregational), at 
 the corner of Dearborn avenue and Delaware place, 
 stands on the site of the place of worship built by 
 the congregation in 1865 and destroyed in the great 
 fire. The present building was completed late in 
 1875, at a cost of $150,000. 
 
 The First Baptist church, at the corner of South 
 Park avenue and Thirty-first street, is a fine stone 
 edifice, which cost $80,000. It was erected in 1876. 
 The church society was organized in 1833. By the 
 destructive Chicago fire of 1874, the society lost a 
 church edifice which cost $175,000. 
 
 The Second Baptist Church, corner of Monroe 
 and Morgan streets, is one of the largest churches 
 of this denomination in the country. It is a sub- 
 stantial brick edifice, with more pretensions to com- 
 fort than to appearance. 
 
 Immanuel Baptist Church, on Michigan avenue 
 near Twenty-third street, is a handsome stone build-
 
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 FIFTY YEARS' PROGRESS. 
 
 ing, in fifteenth century Gothic style. The spire is 
 216 feet high. The cost of the structure was 
 $70,000. 
 
 Central church, in Central Music hall, is one of 
 the notable religious institutions of Chicago. Its 
 pastor is the learned, eloquent and progressive Rev. 
 Dr. David Swing. 
 
 Chicago Avenue church is another of the inde- 
 pendent churches of Chicago. Its place of worship, 
 which is at the corner of Chicago and La Salle ave- 
 nues, is a red brick edifice with stone trimmings. It 
 seats two thousand people. The cost of the struc- 
 ture was $70,000. 
 
 The oldest church organization in Chicago is the 
 First Methodist Episcopal church, which is the line- 
 al descendant of a congregation formed in June, 1831. 
 Since 1857 the church has followed the plan of de- 
 voting the lower story of its place of worship to 
 commercial purposes, renting it out as stores and 
 using the revenue in support of the church, and of 
 other churches of the same denomination. Up to 
 the time of the great fire over $70,000 had been con- 
 tributed to other churches from this source. Since 
 that time over $120,000 more has been distributed 
 in the same way.. The large four-story stone front 
 building, at the corner of Clark and Washington 
 streets, known as the Methodist Church block, is its 
 place of worship. It cost $120,000. It has seven 
 stores on the ground floor, and about fifteen rooms 
 for offices above. The portion reserved for church 
 purposes is on the third floor. 
 
 The Centenary M. E. church, on West Monroe 
 street, near Morgan street, is one of the leading 
 churches of Chica'go. The church is an imposing 
 stone structure, Gothic in style, ornamented with 
 minarets, and cost $75,000. 
 
 Grace M. E. church, corner of La Salle avenue 
 and White street, cost $100,000. It is a plain Gothic 
 structure with gable front, and will comfortably seat 
 twelve hundred people. 
 
 Trinity M. E. church, Indiana avenue near Twen- 
 ty-fourth street, is one of the handsomest church 
 edifices in the city. Its cost, including ground, was 
 $142,540. 
 
 The First Presbyterian church, at the corner of 
 Indiana avenue and Twenty-first street, is a hand- 
 some brick structure, with a spire 260 feet high, the 
 tallest spire in the city. It is finished throughout 
 in hard woods, principally black walnut, and has a 
 seating capacity of 1,100. Its cost, including ground, 
 was $165,000. * 
 
 The Second Presbyterian church, corner of Mich- 
 igan avenue and Twentieth street, is a massive stone 
 building, in English Gothic style, with a stone tower 
 and spire two hundred feet high. The tower is 
 
 known as the Armour Memorial tower, and was 
 built by Mrs. Barbara Armour, widow of the late 
 George Armour, as a memorial of her deceased hus- 
 band. In the spacious belfry is a cathedral-toned 
 bell, weighing, with its mountings, three tons. The 
 bell was given to the church by the children of Mr. 
 Armour. The interior of the church is elegantly 
 finished. The main audience room seats 1,500 
 people. 
 
 The Third Presbyterian church, at the corner of 
 Ashland and Ogden avenues, is said to be the third 
 largest Protestant church in the country. The two 
 which surpass .it are Plymouth church, Brooklyn, 
 and Brooklyn tabernacle. It has nearly 2.200 mem- 
 bers, and has established three churches out of the 
 congregation, Re-Union, Westminster and Campbell 
 park. 
 
 The Fourth Presbyterian church, corner of Rush 
 and Superior streets, is a stone edifice, in Gothic 
 style, finished and furnished in a very comfortable 
 manner. 
 
 St. Mary's church, Wabash avenue and Eldridge 
 court, is the oldest Catholic church in the city. It 
 was organized in 1833. The present church build- 
 ing is a substantial stone structure, comfortably and 
 durably finished and furnished. 
 
 The Cathedral of the Holy Name (Catholic), at 
 the corner of North State and Superior streets, was 
 completed in 1882, at a cost of $200,000. It is a 
 stone structure, of the Gothic order, and seats 1,800 
 people. The interior furnishings are rich and in ex- 
 quisite taste, and the organ is probably the most 
 powerful in the city. 
 
 The Church of the Holy Name (Catholic), corner 
 of West Twelfth and May streets, is a large and 
 handsome brick structure, having seating capacity 
 for 2,000 people. Its superb stained-glass windows, 
 its numerous fine statues and its massive bell-tower 
 and spire are worthy of note. 
 
 St James' church (Catholic), corner of Wabash ave- 
 nue and Thirtieth street, is a Gothic structure, of 
 stone, with a seating capacity of 1,600. It is account- 
 ed one of the finest church structures in the city. 
 
 St. John's church (Catholic), corner of Eighteenth 
 and Clark streets, is a Gothic structure, of stone, 
 strikingly handsome both in its exterior and interior. 
 It seats 1,600 people. 
 
 Sinai temple, corner of Indiana avenue and 
 Twenty-first street, is the leading church of the 
 Jewish faith in the west. The building and ground 
 cost $100,000. The membership includes about one 
 hundred and fifty families, and is Reformed Jewish 
 in faith. 
 
 St. Paul's church (Universalist), Wabash avenue, 
 between Sixteenth and Eighteenth streets, is a fine
 
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 stone structure of mingled Gothic and Romanesque 
 architecture. 
 
 The Church of the Messiah (Unitarian), Michigan 
 avenue and Twenty-third streets, is a sightly struc- 
 ture of stone. It seats 750 people. In the rear of 
 the church is a fine two-story memorial structure, 
 called " Mary Collier chapel." It contains the pas- 
 tor's study and par- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ 
 lor, and a chapel for 
 Sunday-school uses. 
 
 Unity church 
 Dearborn avenue, 
 opposite Washing- 
 ton square, is the 
 largest of the Unita- 
 rian organizations in 
 the city. The place 
 of worship is of 
 rough-dressed, stone, 
 renaissance Gothic 
 in its architecture. 
 An industrial school 
 for girls, in which 
 sewing and house- 
 keeping duties are 
 taught, has been sup- 
 ported by the church 
 for a number of 
 years. A fine build- 
 ing for the school 
 was erected at a 
 cost of $20,000, from 
 a fund bequeathed 
 for the purpose by 
 the late Eli Bates. 
 
 There are alto- 
 gether nearly 300 
 churches in Chicago, 
 of which 40 are 
 Methodist Episcopal, 
 35 Catholic, 33 Evan- 
 gelical Lutheran, 25 
 Congregational, 24 
 Baptist, 16 Episcopal, 16 Presbyterian and 14 Jew- 
 ish. 
 
 THE BIBLE SOCIETY AND THE Y. M. C. A. 
 
 The Chicago Bible society, a branch of the Ameri- 
 can Bible society, has its depository at 150 Madison 
 street. Its field is confined to Cook county, in 
 which there are thirty-seven auxiliary societies. It 
 employs about one hundred and fifty local agents in 
 canvassing the city and county, and over half a mil- 
 lion copies of the Bible have been circulated through 
 its efforts. 
 
 The Chicago Young Men's Christian association 
 has been in existence since 1858, and has upward 
 
 SKETCHES FROM WASHINGTON PARK. 
 
 of 3,000 members. It has a handsome and substan- 
 tial building, at 148 and 150' Madison street, which, 
 with the ground on which it stands, is valued at 
 $250,000. The library contains 3,600 volumes, and 
 is free to all members. Handsome parlors, a read- 
 ing-room, excellent baths and a well-equipped gym- 
 nasium are maintained. Sociables, lectures, and 
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ other popular enter- 
 tainments are given. 
 Railroad branches of 
 the Y. M. C. A. are 
 maintained at 4645 
 State street and 141 
 Stewart avenue. 
 There is also an em- 
 ployment depart- 
 ment, which is doing 
 excellent work. 
 EDUCATIONAL INSTI- 
 TUTIONS. 
 
 Chicago takes rank 
 as one of the great 
 educational centers 
 of the country. Its 
 public schools are 
 numerous and ad- 
 mirable. It is the 
 focus of a system of 
 universities, theolog- 
 ical schools and 
 medical colleges un- 
 equaled elsewhere in 
 the west. There are 
 three public high 
 schools, one in each 
 division of the city, 
 with altogether 1,500 
 pupils. The average 
 cost of educating 
 each pupil in the 
 high school is about 
 $48.25 per annum. 
 The free primary 
 schools and grammar schools, numbering about 
 seventy odd buildings, are scattered throughout the 
 city. They have an average aggregate daily attend- 
 ance of upward of 60,000 pupils. The management 
 of the schools is vested in a board of education ap- 
 pointed by the mayor and confirmed by the city 
 council. There are fifteen members in the board. 
 The total value of the school sites and buildings is 
 nearly $4,000,000. The income of the public school 
 system consists of the school tax from the State and 
 city, and the income of the fund derived from rent- 
 als and sales of school lands, and from several special 
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 45 
 
 The Northwestern university occupies a group 
 of buildings at Evanston. The main structure, Uni- 
 versity hall, cost $110,000. The entire property of 
 the university is valued at $1,500,000. The library 
 contains 26,000 volumes and 8,000 pamphlets. It is 
 especially rich in Greek and Latin classical literature. 
 There is a valuable museum, a gymnasium, etc. The 
 university embraces a college of liberal arts, provid- 
 ing classical, Latin and scientific courses, a course in 
 modern literature and art, and special and elective 
 courses; a college of medicine (Chicago Medical 
 college), a college of laws (Union College of Law), 
 a preparatory school, school of elocution, conserva- 
 tory of music, department of art. The university 
 is under the control of the Methodist denomination, 
 but is unsectarian; 
 
 Cook County Normal and Training school, Nor- 
 malville, Stewart avenue and Sixty-seventh street, 
 was established by Cook county for the purpose of 
 furnishing competent teachers for the public schools. 
 Tuition is free to residents of the- county. Non- 
 residents are required to pay $30 per year. 
 
 The Union College of Law was organized in 1859 
 as the law department of the University of Chicago. 
 About twelve years ago the Northwestern university 
 was admitted to an equal interest and joint manage- 
 ment in the school. The college occupies rooms at 
 80 and 82 Dearborn street. 
 
 St. Ignatius college, 413 West Twelfth street, is 
 conducted by the fathers of the Society of Jesus. 
 It embraces academic, collegiate, commercial and 
 preparatory departments. In addition to the col- 
 legiate studies, the students are instructed in the 
 doctrine and evidences of the Catholic religion. 
 The college buildings are handsome and well ar- 
 ranged. 
 
 St. Xavier's academy, conducted by the Sisters of 
 Mercy, is a boarding school for young ladies. It oc- 
 cupies a very handsome and commodious building 
 on the corner of Wabash avenue and Twenty-ninth 
 street. 
 
 St. Mary's Training school for boys is a Catholic 
 educational institution at Feehanville, Cook county. 
 The inmates are principally neglected youths. They 
 are given practical instruction in the mechanical 
 arts and the cultivation of the soil. 
 
 The Illinois Industrial School for Girls is located 
 at South Evanston, in the old Soldiers' Home build- 
 ing, which was enlarged and remodeled for the pur- 
 pose. It is managed by a board of directors, com- 
 posed of gentlemen and ladies from different parts 
 of the State. It is a training school for neglected 
 and dependent girls under 18 years of age. 
 
 The Chicago Manual Training school, Michigan 
 avenue and Twelfth street, originated with an asso- 
 ciation of gentlemen connected with the Com- 
 mercial club, and was incorporated in 1883, and 
 opened in the following year. It has a building 
 which cost $50,000, and will accommodate about 
 300 pupils. The school furnishes instruction in 
 mathematics, drawing, and the English branches of 
 a high school course, and in the use of tools in shop- 
 work of all kinds. 
 
 The Illinois Training School for Nurses occupies 
 the wards in the county hospital. Pupils are re- 
 quired to undergo training for two years. The 
 building and grounds known as the nurses' home, 
 at 304 Honore street, are the property of the society 
 under whose auspices the training school is con- 
 ducted. The institution is supported by contribu- 
 tions, annual subscriptions, services to the hospital, 
 private nursing and membership fees. 
 
 The Chicago Athenaeum occupies the three upper 
 stories of Nos. 48 to 54 Dearborn street. It pro- 
 vides facilities for intellectual and physical training, 
 which are taken advantage of by upward of 1,000 
 persons every year. It is in charge of a board of 
 directors, composed of sixteen prominent merchants 
 and lawyers. There are day and evening classes in 
 drawing, music, penmanship, elocution, mathematics, 
 Latin, English and American literature, book-keep- 
 ing, shorthand, type-writing, French and German. 
 There is also a day grammar school, and a business 
 school open to both sexes. The only condition of 
 membership in the Athenaeum is good moral charac- 
 ter. 
 
 MEDICAL COLLEGES. 
 
 Rush Medical college has been in existence since 
 1836, and is the oldest medical college in Chicago. 
 The college property is worth about $125,000. Its 
 building is at the corner of Wood and Harrison 
 streets, and is one of the most complete institutions 
 of its kind on the continent. It has two lecture 
 rooms, each with a seating capacity of 500, and 
 thoroughly equipped. There are anatomical, physio- 
 logical, clinical and chemical departments. The Cen-
 
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 tral Free dispensary is connected with the clinical 
 department, and 2,000 cases are treated annually in 
 the county hospital. 
 
 Hahnemann Medical college was incorporated n 
 1855, and is the oldest homoeopathic college in the 
 northwest. The college building is at 2813 Cottage 
 Grove avenue. It is a three-story and basement 
 brick edifice. The hospital is a block away. 
 
 The Chicago Medical college is at the corner of 
 Prairie avenue and Twenty-sixth street. The labor- 
 atories are well equipped, and the museum is an ex- 
 ceptionally large and fine one. The college was one 
 of the first in the United States to adopt a full 
 graded system of medical instruction, and one of 
 the first to require a fair standard of general educa- 
 tion in persons desiring to enter its portals. 
 
 The Bennett College of Eclectic Medicine and 
 Surgery has a building at 511 and 513 State street, 
 with accommodations for 250 students. Bennett 
 hospital adjoins the college building in the rear. 
 
 The Woman's Medical College of Chicago is lo- 
 cated at 337 and 339 Lincoln street, opposite the 
 county hospital. It owns the brick building which 
 it occupies. It is allopathic in its teachings, and is 
 the only medical college in the west exclusively for 
 women. 
 
 The Chicago College of Pharmacy has quarters at 
 415 and 417 State street, in a handsome brick struc- 
 ture that has a lecture room which will seat 400 per- 
 sons. The college is admirably equipped for its 
 work. In point of attendance it is the third in the 
 United States. 
 
 The Chicago College of Physicians and Surgeons 
 (allopathic) occupies a stone, four-story structure, 
 with a tower 100 feet high, at the corner of Harri- 
 son and Honore streets. The architecture is Queen 
 Anne style. 
 
 THEOLOGICAL COLLEGES. 
 
 The theological colleges of Chicago are numerous. 
 They comprise the Chicago Theological seminary 
 (Congregational), corner of Ashland and Warren 
 avenues ; the Presbyterian Theological Seminary of 
 the Northwest, North Halsted street and Fullerton 
 avenue; the Baptist Theological seminary, Morgan 
 Park ; the Garrett Biblical institute (Methodist Epis- 
 copal), on the grounds of the Northwestern univer- 
 sity, and the Swedish Theological seminary (Metho- 
 dist Episcopal). 
 
 CHICAGO'S LIBRARIES. 
 
 The Chicago public library, supported as a mu- 
 nicipal institution, and free to all, has headquarters 
 at the city hall, Washington, La Salle and Ran- 
 dolph streets, and branches in all parts of the city. 
 The library has nearly 125,000 volumes, and circu- 
 lates 500,000 per year. The nucleus of the library 
 
 was presented to the city soon after the great fire, 
 by Englishmen who were desirous of doing some- 
 thing to serve as a monument of English sympathy 
 with Chicago in her great affliction. 
 
 The Chicago Historical society, which has been in 
 existence since 1856, had, at the time of the great 
 fire, a library of 100,000 volumes, and a large and 
 valuable collection of pamphlets. Much of this 
 material can never be replaced. All of it was de- 
 stroyed in the conflagration. The library now 
 comprises 10,000 volumes and 30,000 pamphlets. 
 The society has a building at 140 and 142 Dearborn 
 avenue. 
 
 The Chicago Law institute library comprises 
 17,000 volumes, and is one of the finest collections 
 of legal works in the United States. 
 
 The Union Catholic library and the Young Men's 
 Christian Association library, each comprises about 
 3,000 books, of a general character. Several of the 
 public schools, and nearly all the private educational 
 institutions, have good libraries, and the private 
 libraries of many of the citizens of Chicago take 
 rank among the finest book collections of their class 
 in the country. 
 
 INSTITUTIONS OF ART AND SCIENCE. 
 The Art institute is an incorporated institution 
 occupying a handsome brick building of its own, at 
 the corner of Michigan avenue and Van Buren 
 street. Nearly all the art societies in the city occu- 
 py rooms in the building or in some way make it 
 their headquarters. The objects of the association 
 are to maintain schools of art and design, form art 
 collections and promote art culture generally. An- 
 nual loan exhibitions of painting, statuary, etc., are 
 given. The initiation fees and annual dues of mem- 
 bers of the association go a large way towards de- 
 fraying the expenses of the institute. Connected 
 with it is a school of instruction in drawing and 
 painting, which is self-supporting. The Chicago 
 Society of Decorative Art, the Chicago Art league 
 and the Bohemian Art club, are among the organi- 
 zations having rooms in the building. 
 
 The Illinois Art association holds annual exhibi- 
 tions of works of art, and owns a number of fine 
 paintings. 
 
 The musical societies of Chicago have done much 
 toward the aesthetic development of the northwest. 
 Among them are the Apollo Musical club, with a 
 chorus of about two hundred voices and five hundred 
 associate members ; the Mozart club, the Germania 
 maennerchor, the Orpheus maennerchor, the Chicago 
 Musical club, and the Schweizer maennerchor. 
 THE PERMANENT EXHIBIT OF BUILDING MATERIALS. 
 The permanent exhibit of building materials and 
 improvements, open free to the public, at 15 East
 
 FIFTY YEARS' PROGRESS. 
 
 Washington street, is an enterprise characteristic of 
 the progressive and utilitarian spirit of Chicago. 
 The management has no financial interest or consid- 
 eration in the sale of any material shown, and the 
 institution is supported solely by the rental of space 
 to exhibitors. For those who build, this exhibit is 
 a free repository of building intelligence. Being 
 permanently established it is always at command 
 and meets all requirements as they may occur. It 
 gives an opportunity for comparisons of similar in- 
 ventions and materials of a like kind. For those 
 who are inexperienced and have but slight informa- 
 tion of building improvements, this institution is an 
 educator, and by the concentration of so much that 
 
 CRIMINAL COURT AND COUNTY JAIL. 
 
 relates to building it gives an opportunity for inspec- 
 tion of a great variety of subjects in a minimum 
 quantity of time. 
 
 LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC CLUBS. 
 
 Among the flourishing associations which exist 
 for the study and encouragement of different 
 branches of science are the Philosophical society, 
 the Illinois Social Science association, the State Mi- 
 croscopical society, the Chicago Electrical society, 
 the American Electrical association, the Western 
 Society of Engineers, and the Chicago Numismatic 
 and Archaeological society. The Chicago Literary 
 club is an organization which includes in its mem- 
 bership some of the brightest intellectual lights in 
 the country. The Fortnightly is a literary organiza- 
 tion composed exclusively of ladies. 
 
 The Chicago Woman's club has done a great deal 
 of practical work looking toward the amelioration 
 of woman's condition and the higher civilization of 
 humanity. 
 
 SOCIAL ORGANIZATIONS. 
 
 The social clubs of Chicago are among the leading 
 organizations of their kind in the United States. 
 The Calumet club is the largest. Its building, at 
 the corner of Michigan avenue and Twentieth street, 
 
 is a palatial structure, covering an area of 81 x 183^ 
 feet, and five stories in height. The Chicago club 
 has a well-appointed building on Monroe street op- 
 posite the Palmer house. It is one of the oldest and 
 most fashionable clubs in the city. The Union club 
 is another aristocratic organization. It has a hand- 
 some and costly brownstone edifice, at the corner 
 of Dearborn avenue and Washington place. The 
 Union League club, the Illinois club, the West Side 
 club, the Lakeside club, the Standard club, the 
 Heather club, the Commercial club, the Bankers' 
 club and the Press club are all flourishing social 
 organizations. The Washington Park club main- 
 tains a fine race-course as well as a club-house, near 
 Washington park. Its grounds are worth 
 half a million of dollars. 
 
 The Chicago theaters and other public 
 places of amusement are among the finest* 
 on the continent. Central Music hall, at 
 the corner of State and Randolph streets, 
 is particularly deserving of mention. 
 The building covers 125 x 151 feet of 
 ground, and is seven stories in height. 
 It is of stone, and cost $215,000. 
 
 At Wabash avenue, Congress street and 
 Michigan avenue, large gangs of men 
 and teams are now making excavations 
 for a building of truly mammoth pro- 
 portions. This is the Chicago Auditorium, 
 for which a number of wealthy men have 
 raised $2,000,000. The structure will be 361 x 187 
 feet in ground dimensions, and ten stories in height, 
 surmounted by a tower, rising 225 feet from the 
 ground. The Auditorium is to have a vast opera hall 
 containing 5,000 chairs, and with a total capacity, in 
 such emergencies as a national convention, of 9,000 
 seats. This makes it the largest assembly room on 
 the continent, and the largest one in the world 
 available for miscellaneous public uses, as this is 
 to be. Aside from the great hall the building will 
 contain a hotel of 400 rooms. 
 
 CHICAGO AS A CITY OF CONVENTIONS. 
 On account of its lake breezes, its railway facili- 
 ties, and its admirable hotels, Chicago has long been 
 a favorite place for summer conventions. For this 
 purpose It possesses a special advantage in having, 
 in the main hall of the Exposition building, the 
 largest place of assembly in the country, if not in 
 the world. Chicago entertained the convention 
 which nominated Lincoln in 1860, also the Na- 
 tional Democratic convention of 1864, which nomi- 
 nated McClellan. Garfield was nominated here in 
 1880. Elaine was nominated in the National Re- 
 publican convention, held in Exposition hall, in 
 June, 1884, and two weeks later Cleveland was nomi-
 
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 A BUSINESS TOUR OF CHICAGO. 
 
 nated by the National Democratic convention, held 
 in the same place. Many of the denominational 
 conventions make this city their place of meeting ; 
 and in the case of no national assemblage, political, 
 religious, social or otherwise, has there ever been 
 found any difficulty in caring for all who came, irre- 
 spective of numbers, and without inconvenience to 
 other transient visitors. 
 
 CHICAGO'S NEWSPAPER PRESS. 
 
 The newspapers of Chicago have an individuality 
 and enterprise that have made a reputation for them 
 throughout the length and breadth of the land. At 
 the head of the list are the Tribune and the Times. 
 The Times was founded by the late Wilbur F. Storey. 
 It occupies a handsome fire-proof building at the 
 corner of Washington street and Fifth avenue, 
 which cost $600,000, and is one of the best 
 .equipped printing-offices in the United States. 
 The paper is independent in politics, with a 
 strong democratic leaning. The Chicago Tri- 4 
 bune is the leading republican paper of the 
 northwest. It has a handsome fire-proof 
 building at the corner of Dearborn and Madi- 
 son streets, and is completely equipped with all 
 the paraphernalia of a first-class modern news- 
 paper. The Chicago Evening Journal is the 
 lineal descendant of the first daily paper pub- 
 lished in the city, and has flourished under its 
 present title since 1844. It is a conservative 
 family newspaper, in politics republican. The 
 Times and Tribune are morning papers. 
 The Journal is published in the afternoon. 
 The Inter Ocean is a stalwart and influential 
 Republican morning daily. The News is a 
 flourishing journal which collects all the news 
 of the world, and publishes a number of editions 
 daily. The Chicago Herald is a handsome morn- 
 ing daily, bright in appearance, and newsy and 
 entertaining in contents. The Illinois Staats- 
 Zeitung is a newspaper published in the Ger- 
 man language, and is the principal organ of the Ger- 
 man-Americans in the northwest. There are nearly 
 a dozen other daily papers, all of them enterprising 
 and flourishing. Including the dailies, weeklies bi- 
 weeklies, semi-weeklies and monthlies, the periodi- 
 cal press of Chicago has nearly 300 representatives. 
 THE CHARITIES OF CHICAGO. 
 
 The list of Chicago's charitable institutions is a 
 long and creditable one. Mercy hospital, at the 
 corner of Calumet avenue and Twenty-sixth street, 
 was founded in 1848, by the Sisters of Mercy. It 
 lias a capacity for one hundred patients. Thirty- 
 four sisters manage it. Its annual expenses are 
 $26,000. The property of the hospital is valued at 
 $260,000, but it is not free from debt. 
 
 Cook county hospital occupies an entire block, 
 embracing twelve acres, bounded by Wood, Harri- 
 son, Lincoln and Polk streets. The buildings are 
 all of red brick, trimmed with stone, built in pavilion 
 style, with courts between, and well-lighted corri- 
 dors connecting the four main structures. All the 
 appointments of the institution are complete and 
 modern. It has accommodations for upwards of 
 five hundred patients, 
 
 The United States Marine hospital, on the lake 
 shore, six miles north of the city, is a handsome 
 four-story building, of granite, with ground dimen- 
 sions of 300x75 feet, and accommodations for 150 
 patients. Its grounds are ten acres in extent. The 
 hospital cost $450,000. Its maintenance is provided 
 
 for by a tax on the tonnage of all vessels. All 
 American seamen are entitled to admission free of 
 charge, and foreigners upon the payment of a small 
 sum. There is a city office of the hospital, at 
 room 20, post-office building, where applicants for 
 admission can be examined. 
 
 The Presbyterian hospital adjoins Rush Medical 
 college, on Wood street. It is a substantial struc- 
 ture of red brick. A board of twenty-eight man- 
 agers directs the affairs of the institution. The 
 doors of the hospital are open to patients of all 
 creeds and nationalities, and the charges for board 
 and treatment are nominal. 
 
 The Chicago Hospital for Women and Children, 
 at the corner of Paulina and West Adams streets, 
 affords a home for women and children among the 
 respectable poor in need of medical and surgical 
 aid; treats the same classes at home by an assistant 
 physician; trains competent nurses, and maintains 
 a free dispensary for the same class of patients. It 
 is conducted wholly by women.
 
 FIFTY YEARS' PROGRESS. 
 
 2813 Groveland avenue, 
 Hahnemann Medical col- 
 
 Hahnemann hospital, 
 is the chemical annex to 
 lege. 
 
 Bennett hospital is a four-story brick building, in 
 the rear of Bennett Medical college. It has accom- 
 modations for fifty patients, and is owned and man- 
 aged by the college. 
 
 St. Joseph's hospital, 360 Garfield avenue, is con- 
 ducted by the Sisters of Charity. Patients who are 
 able to pay for the treatment furnished are expected 
 to do so. Others are received free. 
 
 St. Luke's Free hospital, at the corner of Indiana 
 avenue and Fourteenth street, is under Episcopalian 
 management, but admits patients without regard to 
 their creed or nationality. Generous donations have 
 
 placed it upon a solid financial foundation. The 
 property is valued at $190,000, and the manage- 
 ment have a handsome sum at interest. 
 
 The Woman's Hospital of Chicago is specially de- 
 voted to the treatment of the diseases and accidents 
 peculiar to women. Patients are treated in the hos- 
 pital and outside, and the expenses are met by the 
 fees of paying patients and by donations. 
 
 The Maurice Porter Memorial hospital, at the 
 corner of Fullerton avenue and Orchard street, 
 was founded in 1882, by Mrs. Julia Porter, in mem- 
 ory of her dead son. Its object is the care of sick 
 
 The Michael Reese hospital, at the corner of 
 Twenty-ninth street and Groveland avenue, is a 
 handsome building, which was erected in accordance 
 with the provisions of the will of the late Michael 
 Reese, who left $90,000 for building and endowing 
 the institution. The hospital is managed by the 
 Hebrew Relief association, but patients are admit- 
 ted without respect to the religious faith which they 
 profess. 
 
 The Home for Incurables admits all classes of in- 
 curable patients who have resided in Cook county 
 for twelve months or more. Those unable to pay are 
 cared for without charge. The institution is located 
 at the corner of Racine and Fullerton avenues. 
 It is supported mainly by voluntary contributions. 
 Other charitable institutions in 
 Chicago are the Old People's home, 
 the Foundlings' home, the Servite 
 Sisters' Industrial Home for Girls, 
 St. Joseph's Home for the Friend- 
 less and Industrial School for Girls, 
 the Chicago Home for the Friend- 
 less, the Burr mission, the House 
 of the Good Shepherd, the Orphan 
 Asylum of the Guardian Angel, the 
 Chicago Orphan asylum, Ulich Evan- 
 gelical Orphan asylum, St. Joseph's 
 Orphan asylum, St. Vincent's asylum, 
 the Chicago Nursery and Half- 
 Orphan asylum, the Home for the 
 Aged of the Little Sisters of the 
 Poor. 
 
 The Chicago Relief and Aid soci- 
 ety is an organization which has 
 disbursed hundreds of thousands of dollars in 
 charity. 
 
 The Newsboys' and Bootblacks' association main- 
 tains a home for indigent boys disposed to earn 
 their own living. It conducts day and evening 
 schools and a Sunday school. 
 
 The Washingtonian home, on Madison street, is 
 a reformatory and asylum for inebriates. Most of 
 the patients pay a small charge for board and attend- 
 ance. The Martha Washington home is a similar 
 institution for the care of women inebriates. 
 
 The Illinois Charitable Eye and Ear infirmary has 
 
 and injured children, for whom it has accommoda- a building at the corner of West Adams and Peoria 
 
 tions to the number of ten. The cost is all borne 
 by Mrs. Porter. 
 
 The hospital of the Alexian Brothers is at 569 
 North Market street. Its building was erected at a 
 cost of $45,000, and will accommodate one hundred. 
 Only men are admitted, but there is a dispensary 
 connected with it which is open to the sick and 
 
 streets. About three thousand patients annually 
 are treated in this institution. 
 
 There are numerous other charitable and benevo- 
 lent institutions and associations in Chicago, all 
 doing noble work in their respective fields. 
 THE CITY GOVERNMENT. 
 
 The city government consists of a mayor and 
 
 needy of both sexes. The expenses are met by sub- common council, elected once every two years by a 
 scriptions, solicited by one of the brothers, popular vote. There are, as in other American
 
 A BUSINESS TOUR OF CHICAGO. 
 
 cities, political districts called wards, each of which 
 elects two members to the council. The council is 
 vested with plenary powers as to taxes, appropria- 
 tions, contracts, etc., but the bonded debt is limited 
 by a provision in the constitution of the State to 
 5 per cent on the taxable valuation of all the prop- 
 erty. The city government closed the year 1886 
 with every debt paid or provided for, and with a 
 large surplus in bank. The following statements, 
 compiled from the records of the various offices, give 
 a comprehensive view of the work done by the city 
 authorities during the year, and are interesting as 
 showing the magnitude of the affairs of the great 
 municipality: 
 
 For building, repairing and maintaining bridges 
 and viaducts during the year, and maintaining the 
 river tunnels, the canal pumping-works, etc., the 
 Board of Public Works expended $384,100. In addi- 
 tion to this, during the twelve months, forty-three 
 miles of streets were substantially paved, twenty- 
 nine and one-half miles of which were new and im- 
 proved streets, the remainder old streets. During 
 the same period 3,331^ miles of streets were cleaned 
 and kept in comparatively good condition. Nine- 
 teen and a half miles of new sewers were laid, at a 
 cost of about $200,000, and fully that amount 
 of water-pipe was laid during the same period. 
 
 The city treasurer's receipts during eleven months 
 of the year, from general taxes and other sources, 
 were $10,998,271.92. 
 
 The report of the fire marshal for 1886 shows the 
 following interesting tabulations: Total number of 
 fires during the year, 1,519; false alarms, 92; false 
 still alarms, 153; second alarms, 50; second and 
 third alarms, 3; third alarms, 10; special calls, 11; 
 fires outside of the city, 41 ; buildings collapsed, 2. 
 Total, 1,881. The losses and insurance on the same 
 were as follows: Loss on buildings, $321,772; loss 
 on contents, $1,131,130; total loss, $1,443,102; total 
 insurance, $22,299,569. 
 
 The following is an approximation of the work 
 done by the police department during the year: 
 Number of cases prosecuted, 44,000; increase over 
 1885, 3,000. Amount of fines imposed, $200,000; 
 less than 1885, $2,000. Largest monthly arrests, 
 August, 4, 949; least monthly arrests, January, 2,622. 
 Arrests made by signal service, 20,000, being, over 
 45 per cent of all arrests made. 
 
 The labor performed by the law department may 
 be judged of from the fact that on January 1, 1886, 
 there were two hundred cases pending against the 
 city, seventy-three of which had been commenced 
 during the preceding year. 
 
 The collections made by the city collector during 
 the year aggregated $6,664,226, of which sum 
 
 $2,051,330 represented the amount of licenses col- 
 lected. Of the latter, $1,849,942 was derived from 
 the single item of saloon licenses. 
 
 The health department reported the factory and 
 tenement inspections made during the year as fol- 
 lows: Houses examined, 27,983, including 236,929 
 rooms, sheltering 56,113 families, comprising 258,477 
 persons, of whom 132,401 were males and 126,076 
 females. Of these persons, 51,677 were boys under 
 15 years of age, and 50,055 were girls under 15. 
 Twelve thousand one hundred and nine notices were 
 sent. There were 9,727 factories inspected, 20,872 
 stores, and 10,903 miscellaneous buildings. The 
 number of persons employed in these stores and 
 factories was 313,181, of whom 263,164 were males, 
 50,017 females, 4,313 boys under 15, and 1,528 girls 
 under 15. The whole number of abatements made 
 of nuisances and violations of law was 12,517. 
 
 The receipts of the water department for the year 
 were $1,374,910. 
 
 CHICAGO'S CEMETERIES. 
 
 The resting places of Chicago's dead take rank 
 among the most beautiful cemeteries in the world. 
 Rose Hill cemetery, situated six and a half miles 
 north of the city hall, is the largest. It comprises 
 about five hundred acres of rolling upland. The 
 main entrance to the cemetery is through an im- 
 pressive, castellated stone structure, which contains 
 a mortuary chapel. The grounds are beautifully 
 laid out, and contain a number of artificial lakes, fed 
 by an artesian well. The winding walks and car- 
 riage ways are macadamized. Innumerable costly 
 and beautiful monuments of marble and granite 
 rise above the turfy mounds, in pleasing contrast 
 with the beautiful green of the ornamental trees and 
 shrubbery. In summer time well-kept flower-beds 
 add to the adornment of the place. 
 
 Graceland cemetery, which lies north of .he city, 
 about two miles from Lincoln park, comprises 125 
 acres of land. It is a park-like, beautiful place. 
 Many of Chicago's distinguished citizens of the 
 past sleep their last sleep within its peaceful bor- 
 ders, and many monuments, notable for their 
 cost as well as their artistic features, mark the 
 graves. 
 
 Calvary cemetery is the principal Catholic ceme- 
 tery. It is on the lake shore, ten miles north of 
 the city hall. Mount Olivet, south of the city, is 
 another cemetery of the same denomination. 
 
 There are several Jewish cemeteries, owned by the 
 Jewish congregations. Among the other cemeteries 
 are Mount Greenwood cemetery, Waldheim ceme- 
 tery, St. Boniface cemetery, Concordia cemetery, 
 Forest Home cemetery and the Evangelical Lu- 
 theran cemetery.
 
 A COMPENDIUM 
 
 OF THE 
 
 Prominent Wholesale v Retail t Manufacturing Interests 
 
 OF 
 
 CHICAGO IN HER FIFTIETH YEAR. 
 
 C. M. Henderson & Co. 
 
 Manufacturers and Jobbers of Boots and Shoes, Corner of 
 
 Adams and Market Streets. 
 
 The inevitable conclusion of all human 'effort, 
 whether in the domain of arts, science or commerce, 
 is that some individual or coterie must and will hold 
 the highest place, and possibly no class of men do 
 more generously accord to an actual leader in trade 
 his real position than gentlemen engaged in manu- 
 facturing and mercantile pursuits. The boot and 
 shoe trade of this country need not be told that the 
 house of C. M. Henderson & Co., of this city, have 
 reached that representative 
 position, since their status, is 
 well recognized in the busi- 
 ness world. The business, from 
 which has been developed this 
 really great house, was estab- 
 lished originally in 1851, by 
 Mr. C. N. Henderson, who, 
 however, lived only long 
 enough to place it in a sub- 
 stantial position, and upon his 
 decease in 1859 the entire 
 management devolved upon 
 Mr. Charles M. Henderson, 
 nephew of the founder, who 
 was at that time a youth and had been con- 
 nected with the house only a short time. The 
 firm name of C. M. Henderson & Co. was at 
 once adopted, and has continued unchanged to the 
 present day. The firm have been burned out twice, 
 once in 1868, and again in the memorable fire of 
 1871, when they were located on Wabash avenue, 
 between Washington and Randolph, their stock, 
 valued at some $400,000, being at that time utterly 
 destroyed. Three weeks later, however, saw them 
 again doin^ business in a temporary board shanty on 
 Michigan avenue, corner of Congress street, where 
 they were obliged to remain for three months, until 
 the building at the corner of Wabash avenue and 
 Van Buren street was completed, which they occu- 
 pied for the ensuing year, and thence removed to 
 the corner of Madison and Franklin streets. The 
 marvelous increase of their business necessitated the 
 occupation, in 1878, of the extensive building at the 
 
 corner of Monroe and Franklin, which in turn has 
 again proved to be too small, and the increased fa- 
 cilities imperatively demanded have been lately 
 sought in their present spacious premises, some 150 
 by 200 feet in dimensions, this entire six-story and 
 basement building only affording accommodation 
 for their salesrooms and offices. They have, in ad- 
 dition to this, three large manufacturing establish- 
 ments, and these buildings altogether embrace more 
 space devoted to the boot and shoe business 
 than is occupied by any similar institution in the 
 world. 
 
 Their sales are upwards of $3,500,000 yearly. 
 They manufacture a great variety of goods, and 
 _ make a leading specialty of 
 
 ~"7\ the " Henderson Celebrated 
 Red School-house" shoe, 
 which has an unprecedented 
 sale. They also make a spe- 
 cialty of gentlemen's sewed 
 shoes, which are said to excel 
 any similar goods in style and 
 quality. Their ladies' and 
 misses' fine sewed shoes are 
 very superior, and the demand 
 for their French and American 
 kid and goat button shoes has 
 become so great as to be spe- 
 cially notorious. 
 They received the first prize (a gold medal) for 
 the highest grade of men's goods at the Centen- 
 nial Exposition in 1876, but have vastly im- 
 proved their styles and qualities and increased 
 their facilities since then. They have rubber 
 agencies, and are said to sell more rubber boots 
 and shoes than any firm in the United States. 
 In seeking for the causes that have led to these 
 grand results, they may be briefly stated in a 
 few plain words. The members of the firm, 
 Messrs. Charles M. and Wilbur S. Henderson and 
 Francis D. Everett, are among the leaders in the 
 mercantile world, conducting their business upon 
 a just and liberal policy, giving a customer the 
 full value for his money without misrepresenta- 
 tion, and as they always buy for cash, they are 
 enabled to offer to patrons such substantial in- 
 ducements as careful buyers cannot afford to 
 ignore.
 
 A. BUSINESS TOUR OF CHICAGO. 
 
 L B. Manionya & Co. 
 
 Wholesale Commission Boots and Shoes, 227 to 231 
 
 Adams Street. 
 
 It would be difficult to find an instance that 
 would be more readily accepted by well-informed 
 business men as typical of Chicago's commercial en- 
 terprise than that established by Mr. Lucius B Man- 
 tonya in 1865. As a commission house where they 
 can find a ready sale for stock, and in times of need 
 secure ready cash, this house is always prepared to 
 make liberal advances, Mr. Mantonya's motto being 
 "semper paratus." His facilities for handling 
 goods are such that in all cases quick sales 
 and prompt returns are secured, while liberal cash 
 advances are made on consignments. The business 
 is divided into three distinct departments. In 
 the private sales department, boots and shoes 
 are received on consignment from manufacturers 
 and jobbers, and where special bargains are offered. 
 Another department is devoted to rubber goods, 
 where the Boston Ideal Rubber Go's goods of every 
 description are kept in stock, and for which Messrs. 
 L. B. Mantonya & Co. are exclusive agents. 
 Messrs. L. B. Mantonya & Co. handle no auction 
 goods whatever. The house are also exclusive 
 agents for the genuine Sucker boot, the Rochester 
 Seminary shoe, the Society shoe and the Queen Anne 
 shoe, also the men's Pilgrim and boys' Nabob shoes, 
 synonyms of standard goods in the trade. To ac- 
 commodate this large and valuable stock, very spa- 
 cious premises are required, having occupied their 
 present building, Nos.227 to 231 Adams street, since 
 1885. Their eastern offices are at 49 High street, 
 Boston; 142 Duane street, New York; and 333 
 Arch street, Philadelphia. Their references are of 
 the highest possible character and include such well- 
 known names as Carson, Pirie, Scott & Co., New 
 York and Chicago; Atlas National bank, Chicago ; 
 and the Maverick National bank, Boston. 
 
 Mr. Mantonya is a native of Cleveland. Ohio, and 
 a descendant of a famous Huguenot family. 
 
 James K. P. Pine. 
 
 Manufacturer of the "Lion Brand" Men's Linen Collars and 
 Cuffs, 128 Fifth Avenue. 
 
 This firm has large houses at New York and Bos- 
 ton, which attend to the export trade as well as all 
 the east, south and extreme west. A branch office in 
 connection with these houses was opened in this 
 
 trade generally, and already a good and steadily 
 increasing business is the result. This branch office 
 is located at 128 Fifth avenue, and occupies the 
 whole of the first floor and basement. The mana- 
 ger, Mr. W. M. Wadsworth, is a thorough business 
 man, and one who, thoroughly acquainted with the 
 trade, is well qualified to watch over and develop 
 this rising and important branch establishment. 
 This office employs eight men as agents on the road, 
 who take districts as far east as Cleveland and all 
 north of Louisville. This house carries the largest 
 stock of its kind, that is, purely men's collars and 
 cuffs, of any in the trade, and the "Lion brand" has 
 become so well known in the east that it is a house- 
 hold word. This branch supplies jobbers and re- 
 tailers, and has not only a large country, but city 
 trade also. 
 
 B. F. Chase Co. 
 
 Practical Sign Painters, 125 Fifth Avenue. 
 Those who imagine that art is not cultivated in 
 this matter-of-fact, go-ahead city should pay a visit 
 to the sign-writing manufactory of The B. F. Chase 
 Co., located at 125 Fifth avenue. This is the 
 oldest establishment of its kind in the city, dating 
 back to 1845. Four years later the present head of 
 the company became the proprietor, and continued 
 so till last year, when the business was incorporated, 
 having for its president, Mr. Chas. A. Chase; man- 
 ager, B. F. Chase; and secretary, Fred. L. Chase. 
 This firm are the originators of the beautiful carved 
 wood signs which adorn some of the first-class mer- 
 cantile houses, insurance offices, etc., of this city 
 and elsewhere'. They do a general sign-painting 
 business, contracting for jobs of any magnitude 
 and furnishing everything complete. Amongst 
 others a large business is done in plain signs, in paint 
 and gold, column signs, engraved, brass or white 
 metal signs, wire signs, for hanging over streets, 
 glass signs, etc. About twenty-five hands are em- 
 ployed constantly, of whom some are the most 
 skilled artists that can be obtained. The work is 
 carried on on the second and third floors of the 
 building, also in premises forming part of the Times 
 building. Orders are executed and shipped to all 
 parts of the States and territories, some lately 
 received being from Arizona, Dakota and New 
 Mexico. 
 
 Myron L. Osgood. 
 
 Real Estate, Rowland Block, Room 25, 182 Dearborn 
 
 Street, Chicago. 
 
 The real-estate broker of Chicago has open before 
 him an ample field for enterprise and usefulness, 
 and many of our most prominent citizens are en- 
 gaged in this important branch of industry, among 
 whom none have more indubitably shown their 
 capacity to rank with the very foremost than Mr. 
 Myron L. Osgood. His business was founded four 
 rs ago, and by strict attention to business, faith- 
 ientious zeal for the best interests of 
 
 years ago, and 
 ful and consci 
 
 city on October 1, '85. to supply the city and western his customers, and fair dealing in all his operations,
 
 FIFTY YEARS' PROGRESS. 
 
 he has succeeded in securing a large and influential 
 clientage. He is perfectly familiar with present and 
 prospective values, both in and around this great 
 city, and has upon his books many desirable 
 bargains, including business, residence and manu- 
 facturing sites, improved and unimproved.- He 
 also secures money to loan on bond and mort- 
 gage, and in this branch is of the utmost service 
 to both borrower and lender, procuring for the 
 one funds with which to extend his business, 
 and to the other a profitable and perfectly safe 
 investment. The properties in which he deals are 
 absolutely perfect as regards their title, and no 
 estates are handled except those which are 
 thoroughly safe investments. Mr. Osgood is a 
 Massachusetts man by birth, and will be found a 
 gentleman in every sense, well worthy of trust 
 and confidence, careful, accurate and thoroughly 
 honorable, whose great aim is the promotion of 
 his clients' interests. 
 
 Servoss Furnace Co. 
 
 135 and 137 Lake Street. 
 
 Prominent in the commercial world and repre- 
 sentative in its special branch, stands the Servoss 
 Furnace Co., who for the past twenty-five years have 
 successfully covered the entire field of heating and 
 ventilation. The company are the manufacturers 
 of the improved Servoss ''Electric Heater," "Auto- 
 matic Fire Regulator" and "The Servoss-Ekstrom 
 Kitchen Ventilator and Air-Renovator," the large 
 demand for which, by the very best class of buyers, 
 
 being a sufficient evidence of their excellence. The 
 merits of the Electric heater are well known as re- 
 gards economy in fuel and thorough efficiency in 
 heating dwellings, stores, hotels, churches, halls and 
 public buildings, while the Automatic Fire Regu- 
 lator is capable of attachment to any kind of fur- 
 nace, and will take care of the fire day and night 
 with a large percentage of fuel saved. The com- 
 pany are also handling mantels and grates in great 
 variety of styles and patterns, and in these, as in 
 their own productions, have won a reputation on 
 the. merits of the goods and reasonable prices. The 
 extent of their business, both in this city and 
 abroad, makes this house a very prominent one 
 even in Chicago, whose semi-centennial anniversary 
 is now at hand, and as a memorial of which this re- 
 view of her leading industries is issued. Like many 
 others of our successful merchants, Mr. C. W. 
 Servoss is a New Yorker by birth, while the charac- 
 teristics which regulate the business policy of his 
 house are such as to guarantee that business rela- 
 tions entered into with it will prove as pleasant as 
 they must be advantageous to all concerned. 
 
 Portman Bros. & Co. 
 
 Manufacturers of Traveling Bags, 88 and 90 Lake Street. 
 Like many other branches of industry in the 
 United States the manufacture of traveling bags 
 has undergone a veritable revolution, while the com- 
 petition has become so severe that only those fully 
 alive to the require- 
 ments of the trade, 
 and enterprising 
 enough to utilize 
 the very latest de- 
 vices and appliances 
 in the interest of 
 speed and economy 
 of production, can 
 hope for permanent success. Though established 
 as recently as January, 1887, Messrs. Portman 
 Bros. & Co. possess all the necessary qualifica- 
 tions to win success, and as regards skill, capital, 
 care and intelligence, everything requisite is at hand. 
 The appliances and machinery used are complete in 
 every particular, and especially adapted for the most 
 thorough and scientific prosecution of the work. 
 The house confine themselves exclusively to travel- 
 ing bags, and are the only ones in Chicago so to do, 
 manufacturing them in over thirty-three varieties, 
 while in quality and price they are prepared to 
 compete with any in the country, and to offer every 
 inducement compatible with legitimate business 
 methods. Their trade includes many of the lead- 
 ing jobbers and dealers of our own city, and is rap- 
 idly covering the territory naturally tributary to 
 Chicago, with prospects in the near future of the 
 most favorable character. The individual members 
 of the firm are Messrs. C. P. and Max P. Portman 
 and A. C. Schmutz, the two former residents of some 
 twenty-four years' standing, and the latter a native of 
 this country, while the rapid development of their 
 house fitly typifies that of Chicago.
 
 A BUSINESS TOUR OF CHICAGO. 
 
 Academy of Music. 
 
 Halsted and Madison Streets, Dan'l Shelby, Proprietor 
 and Manager. 
 
 Though for many seasons the Academy of Music 
 has been deservedly ranked among the most attrac- 
 tive theaters in the west, its former beauty was mere 
 
 admirable. The opera chairs have been given a 
 bronze gilding, the floors are covered with rich new 
 Brussels carpets, and the whole interior decorated to 
 conform to the wall -treatment. The curtain, the 
 work of Messrs. Sosman & Landis, is beyond doubt 
 the handsomest hung in any Chicago theater. It is 
 a portraiture of numerous excellently executed fig- 
 ures representing a scene entitled " Rewarding the 
 
 display compared with its present rich and tasteful 
 charm. The auditorium is a veritable dream of 
 loveliness. The vestibule has been done over in 
 delicate blue, and is very inviting. The walls of the 
 auditorium, both up stairs and down, have been 
 uniquely and very artistically treated, and the color 
 tones of the house are composed of a harmonious 
 blending of golden browns, olives, malachite greens, 
 relieved by crimson, gold and silver. The effect is 
 
 Bull Fighter," and is an enlarged reproduction of a 
 painting by a Spanish artist. Manager Shelby can 
 with perfect propriety claim to have one of the 
 model theaters of the country. The past success of 
 this theater is a sufficient guarantee that the public 
 appreciates the manager's exertions to make this the 
 most popular and most comfortable theater in the 
 city. It is always in the lead with first-class attrac- 
 tions only, which are changed every week.
 
 FIFTY YEARS' PROGRESS. 
 
 66 
 
 Rand, McNally & Co. 
 
 Printers and Publishers, 148 to 154 Monroe Street. 
 Wherever, on the American continent, railways 
 are known or books are read, the name of Rand, 
 McNally & Co. is familiar. Their time-tables, fold- 
 ers, guides, and tickets are found in railway offices 
 everywhere; their atlases, maps, and directories are 
 seen in the business offices of every city and town; 
 and their book publications have hosts of readers 
 throughout the length and breadth of the land. 
 
 Heath & Milligan MTg Co. 
 
 The history of this house exemplifies in a strik- 
 ing manner the rapid development for which 
 American institutions are celebrated. Starting lit- 
 tle more than a quarter of a century ago as a 
 job and book printing-office, it soon became the 
 largest establishment of the kind in Chicago. 
 Soon after railroad ticket printing, wood engrav- 
 ing, map engraving, miscellaneous book publishing, 
 etc., were introduced ; and, steadily developing, the 
 establishment has become unrivaled in the world 
 at the present day. The miscellaneous book depart- 
 ment is the latest addition to the company's busi- 
 ness, and during the few years it has been in exist- 
 ence, its "Globe Library" and other special publica- 
 tions have earned a wide popularity. Other familiar 
 publications of the house are the "Bankers' Direc- 
 tory" and the "Bankers' Monthly," the "Lumber 
 Directory," the "Business Directory of Chicago," the 
 numerous tourists' and travelers' guides bearing the 
 company's name, the "Indexed Atlas of the World," 
 the "Standard" map of the United States, etc. In 
 short, there are few establishments in the world 
 whose names are so widely or so favorably known 
 as that of Rand, McNally & Co. They occupy the 
 large six-story building at 148 to 154 Monroe street, 
 Chicago, where a map may be followed from the 
 hands of the compiler to the bins of the stock room, 
 or a book may be traced from the pen of the author 
 to the cases in the shipping room. 
 
 Manufacturers of Mixed Paints and Dry Colors, Etc., 
 
 170, 172 and 174 Randolph Street. 
 The Heath & Milligan Manufacturing company 
 commenced their business in a small way in 1851, 
 and by industry and sound business qualities their 
 trade grew with the growth of the city, and though 
 burnt out twice, once in 1870, and again in the great 
 fire of the succeeding year, they recommenced each 
 time with renewed life and vigor. In 1881 the firm 
 became a corporation with a paid- 
 up capital stock of $250,000, and 
 of which Messrs. Monroe Heath 
 is president, Elliott Durand, vice 
 president. E. W. Heath, secretary, 
 and James S. Smale, treasurer. 
 This house is now one of the 
 largest and most complete of its 
 kind in the United States. The 
 premises occupied here are of 
 rge extent, centrally located, and 
 admirably adapted for the trade 
 carried on. They consist of the 
 whole buildings comprising Nos. 
 170, 172 and 174 East Randolph 
 street, each containing five stories 
 and basement. The top floor and 
 basement are used for storage, 
 the second, third and fourth floors 
 for grinding and preparing the 
 paints and dry colors, while the 
 first floors are used as packing 
 rooms, sales rooms and office. A 
 force of 175 hands is employed 
 constantly, 175 grinding mills are 
 in constant operation, worked by 
 an engine of 150 horse-power. 
 Twenty-five hundred gallons a day are made 
 of the mixed paints, four tons daily of dry colors, 
 two tons daily of oil and Japan colors, while 
 six large grinding mills turn out daily fifteen 
 tons of white lead and paste paint. Orders are 
 not only shipped to all parts of the United 
 States, but to Canada and Mexico. A very heavy 
 stock is carried, -the largest of any house this 
 side of New York city. The business is still rapidly 
 increasing, the approximate sales for last year 
 amounting to over $800,000. None but the best 
 materials are employed, and the firm are so well 
 known that their name alone is a sufficient guarantee 
 of the quality of their goods. 
 
 Moorhead-McCleane Company. 
 
 Galvanized Sheet Iron, Corrugated and Crimped Roofing 
 Iron, Office and Warehouse, Lake and 
 
 West Water Streets. 
 
 In crossing to the West side, over the new 
 Lake street bridge, visitors will first notice the 
 handsome new Jones & Laughlins block on the right- 
 hand side. One of the most important firms carry- 
 ing on business in this building is that of Moorhead- 
 McCleane Co., manufacturers of galvanized sheet 
 iron, corrugated and crimped roofing iron, special
 
 A BUSINESS TOUR OF CHICAGO. 
 
 widths sap pan and sheet iron. The works of this 
 company are situated at Pittsburgh, Pa., and are the 
 largest of the kind in the country. Their Chicago 
 business is cared for by their agent, Mr. W. E. Stock- 
 ton, who has held that position since 1881. He is a 
 thoroughly practical business man, and one who 
 has the interests of the company at heart. Through 
 him they do a most extensive trade among the 
 western and southern States. At their warehouse 
 on Lake and West Water streets they carry the 
 largest stock of galvanized iron goods in the city. 
 Persons interested in this line of manufacture would 
 be consulting their own interests to call and inspect 
 the stock of Moorhead-McCleane Co. 
 
 Lawrence Ambs & Co. 
 
 Manufacturers of Fine Scales and Weights, 81 and 83 
 
 North Clinton Street. 
 
 A branch of industry in which the greatest amount 
 of skill and accuracy is required, and in which the 
 ingenuity of the artisan is taxed to its utmost, is 
 the manufacture of the delicate scales and minute 
 
 weights in use by the chemist and druggist, in which 
 he makes a specialty. This business is in the hands 
 of a few firms, and one of the best known is that 
 of Messrs. Lawrence Ambs & Co., of 81 and 83 
 North Clinton street, manufacturers of fine scales 
 and weights. This firm occupies a light and 
 spacious factory facing on Clinton street, which is 
 fitted up with the most intricate and delicate ma- 
 chinery, and they give employment to six skilled 
 workmen. Mr. Ambs, who is at the head of the 
 business, is a native of Germany, where he learned 
 his trade. He came here in 1877 and established 
 himself in business on his own account in 1880. 
 Being a most expert workman he is enabled to per- 
 sonally supervise his staff of assistants, and the ex- 
 cellence of the work turned out by him has estab- 
 lished their reputation throughout the United States. 
 
 Grier & Jack. 
 
 Grier & Co. Every facility is at hand for the pros- 
 ecution of the business under the most favorable 
 auspices, while the experi- 
 ence of Messrs. Henry B. 
 Grier and Albert Jack, the 
 proprietors, guarantees the 
 permanency of their suc- 
 cess. The stock is exten- 
 sive and well selected, em- 
 bracing everything desirable 
 comprehended under the 
 general head of glassware, 
 lamps, globes, chimneys, 
 chandeliers and fruit jars, 
 the variety of the latter 
 being specially complete, 
 while the goods are offer- 
 ed at such prices as enables 
 them to compete with any 
 house in the trade. The 
 building occupied is a spa- 
 cious five-story and basement 
 structure, well lighted and 
 conveniently appointed and arranged for the proper 
 storage and display of the stock, while externally 
 the handsome front presents an attractive and showy 
 appearance, adding much to the metropolitan aspect 
 of that portion of the street. Taken in any respect, 
 whether in the extent of its stock, the magni- 
 tude of its salesrooms, or the scope and volume 
 of its transactions, this house ranks as a repre- 
 sentative one and a fair exponent of the present 
 stage of progress of the lamp and glassware trade 
 of the western metropolis at the close of the 
 fiftieth year. 
 
 The Exhaust Ventilator Co. 
 
 Mechanical Air-Movers and Contractors for Heating and 
 Ventilating, Corner of Polk Street and Third Avenue. 
 
 Wholesale Lamps, Glassware and Fruit Jars, 18 
 
 Lake Street. 
 
 In the wholesale lamp and glassware trade this 
 
 firm has attained an enviable reputation among the The subject of ventilating is one which occupies 
 
 representative establishments of its kind in the city, much attention, but in many cases it is as necessary 
 
 and, although established as recently as 1884, under in cold weather as in warm. Wherever it is re- 
 
 the present name, yet each member of the firm has quired that the air shall be frequently changed, 
 
 been in the business since 1861, succeeding the old exhaust fans rotating by steam or natural venti- 
 
 firm of Wheeler, Chapman & Co. and Chapman, lation are more or less affected by the varying winds
 
 FIFTY YEARS' PROGRESS. 
 
 r.? 
 
 and the condition of the atmosphere outside, hence 
 are not to be depended upon. The Exhaust Venti- 
 lator Co. was organized about six years ago, and has 
 offices in Boston, New York, Philadelphia, London 
 (England) and in this city at corner of Polk street 
 and Third avenue. Mr. L. G. Fisher is president, 
 and Mr. L. Litchfield manager of this branch. 
 This company's system acts independently of the 
 weather, and is secured by patents granted to 
 Messrs. Altebrand and Blackman, the first of which 
 dates from 1877, and the last 1883, and by them 
 assigned to this company. 
 
 The Blackman inventions have resulted in a form 
 of blades which delivers the maximum amount of air 
 and has a feed area two-thirds greater than that of 
 the old forms; so that these fans give the largest 
 volume of air at the lowest horse-power. Besides 
 carrying a large stock of fans of their own manu- 
 facture, this company is prepared to supply any 
 form of machine for mechanical air movement, 
 including pressure or blast fans. The use of these 
 ventilators is universal and applied to all large 
 buildings, offices, manufactories, etc., in all parts 
 of the world. Upon application a list of buildings 
 ventilated by this company and parties using this 
 wheel will be furnished, and plans will be submitted, 
 or advice given where the facts are stated, gratui- 
 tously. References in this city are to Chicago 
 Tribune, First National bank, Commercial National 
 bank and Chicago National bank. 
 
 In no instance has the introduction of an exhaust 
 or other form of ventilation by this company 
 for any use been followed by complaint. Full in- 
 formation, catalogues and price lists will be sent 
 free on application to the offices before mentioned. 
 
 Globe Foundry. 
 
 R. M. Eddy's Sons, Proprietors, 41 to 55 East Indiana 
 
 Street. 
 
 This is one of the largest and most important 
 establishments of the kind in the west. They turn 
 out all kinds of heavy and light castings for boiler 
 fronts, buildings, machinery, etc. In the heavy cast- 
 line they have no superior, and their trade is very 
 large and extensive. 
 The business was es- 
 tablished in 1865 under 
 the firm name of Gard- 
 ner & Eddy, which was 
 changed in 18C9 to R. 
 M. Eddy, and in 1884 
 to the present firm of 
 R. M. Eddy's Sons. 
 The premises occupied 
 are large and commo- 
 dious, having dimen- 
 sions of one hundred 
 by two hundred feet 
 with a large basement, 
 this establishment, and 
 they are prepared at all times to turn out large and 
 special jobs on short notice. From sixty-five to 
 one hundred men are employed, according to the 
 
 amount of work on hand. The business has in- 
 creased year by year, until now it amounts to over 
 $100,000 annually. Both members of the firm are 
 experienced foundrymen and well acquainted with 
 every feature of this trade. Correspondence is 
 solicited, and estimates are furnished for castings of 
 all kinds. 
 
 W. Seng & Co. 
 
 Manufacturers of^Furniture Fixtures, 224 E. Washington 
 
 Street. 
 
 Mr. Seng has patented some eight or nine devices 
 which are used in the construction of various articles 
 of furniture, such as reclining and barber chair fix- 
 tures, bed-lounge legs, locks and ex- 
 tensions, crib and rocker fixtures, 
 universal joint for arm-chairs, etc. 
 
 The latest invention is that of a 
 drill-press of four spindles repre- 
 sented by the cut. 
 
 This tool is automatic in every 
 respect, oils its own work, feeds its 
 own drill, stops feed and returns table 
 instantly to starting point. The oper- 
 ator has to put the work in and take 
 it out. A boy of ordinary intelli- 
 gence can operate it with ease and 
 do the work of four ordinary presses, 
 besides a great saving in oil and 
 i drill. You can work one, two, three 
 or four spindles at once. This firm 
 employs from four to eight hands and makes goods 
 either for stock or order, and goods are sent out to 
 all parts of the country, and a large city business is 
 also transacted. The sales are chiefly to manufac- 
 turers of furniture, and a business is done of over 
 $10,000 yearly. Mr. W. Seng was born in Germany 
 and came direct to Chicago in 1856, when the 
 number of inhabitants was only about one-tenth of 
 its present population. 
 
 Commercial Laundry. 
 
 Annie Lindner, Proprietress, 83 North Clark Street. 
 
 At this location is the well-arranged Commercial 
 laundry, which is under the charge of Miss Annie 
 Lindner, who began business about eight years ago, 
 and has given such satisfaction that a large and in- 
 fluential trade has been established. The special 
 feature of this laundry is handwork, so that persons 
 who patronize this place may rest assured of not 
 having their clothes spoiled by excessive use of 
 starch on over-heated machinery. Goods are called 
 for and delivered to any part of the city free of 
 charge, and all orders by mail will meet with as 
 
 ?rompt attention as though delivered personally, 
 erfect order prevails at this establishment, and none 
 but efficient help is employed. Her specialty is 
 family washing, for which she charges thirty-five 
 cents per dozen for rough-dry work and one dollar 
 for finished work.
 
 A BUSINESS TOUR OF CHICAGO. 
 
 The Great Four-TracK Route, over the New York Central 
 
 AND HUDSON RIVER AND BOSTON AND ALBANY RAILROADS. 
 Western Department, 97 Clark Street, Room 10, Chicago. 
 
 W. B. JEROME, General Western Passenger Agent. 
 
 One of the first inquiries generally made by per- 
 sons intending to become interested in any manner 
 at large commercial centers is, "Are the transporta- 
 tion facilities adequate, and will they be commen- 
 surate with the growth of future business?" In this 
 respect Chicago is exceptionally fortunate, and we 
 have only to point to Lake Michigan on the east 
 and glance for a moment at the great steel highways 
 that either make this city their terminal or initial 
 objective points to be able to answer such a question 
 decidedly in the affirmative. By connections made 
 with the trunk lines in other cities, Chicago is en- 
 abled to maintain direct travel from ocean to ocean. 
 
 that it is the only line having a depot in New York, 
 thus being able to land its passengers in the heart of 
 the city and save them the annoyance of "ferry 
 transfers." Those who have traveled over this route 
 between Chicago and the metropolis, along the east- 
 ern bank of the historic Hudson, through the love- 
 ly Mohawk valley (famed in poetry and prose), are 
 unanimous in praising the unrivaled scenery pre- 
 sented to their enraptured view. 
 
 Limited express trains are run over this route be- 
 tween Chicago and New York in both directions, 
 making the trip in' the remarkably fast time of 
 twenty-five hours. 
 
 Among the oldest of these connections are the 
 New York Central & Hudson River and the Boston 
 & Albany railroads. They were among the first to 
 enter Chicago for business and have kept steadily in 
 advance of other eastern lines by affording first-class 
 facilities to the traveling public. The New York 
 Central, being the most direct line between Buffalo 
 and New York, is enabled, with its connections, to 
 run solid trains between New York, Boston and 
 Chicago. The special advantages it offers as to speed 
 and safety are unsurpassed by any road in America; 
 two of its four tracks, laid with steel rails, being used 
 exclusively for passenger traffic, and two for freight. 
 This, with the entire absence of grades or short 
 curves, makes traveling safe and comfortable. 
 
 Another very commendable feature is the fact 
 
 The connection of "The Central" with the Bos- 
 ton & Albany road (at Albany) makes it the short 
 line to Boston and all New England points. The 
 growth of business on these roads, especially in the 
 western department, is synonymous with that of 
 Chicago itself. This department, under the manage- 
 ment of W. B. Jerome, embraces all the territory 
 west and south of the State of Ohio and the 
 Dominion of Canada. Mr. Jerome, having had some 
 sixteen years' active experience in an official capac- 
 ity with other leading railway lines before taking 
 charge of this territory some three years a*go, is con- 
 sequently well acquainted with the intricate details 
 of railroad management, and takes great pleasure 
 in giving the public any necessary information 
 regarding the lines he represents.
 
 FIFTY YEARS' PROGRESS. 
 
 John V. Farwell & Co. 
 
 Wholesale Dry Goods, Notions, Woolens, Carpets and 
 Upholstery, Monroe and Market Streets. 
 
 The fact that Chicago has permanently retained 
 the supremacy as the great national emporium of 
 the western and middle States, is almost entirely 
 due to the enterprise and energy of her leading mer- 
 chants and importers, who have by their untiring in- 
 dustry and thorough knowledge of the requirements 
 of the public, enlarged their business and increased 
 their stocks in a ratio proportionate to the calls of 
 the vast trade concentrated in this city. 
 
 In the wholesale dry goods trade the representa- 
 tive house is that of Messrs. J. V. Farwell & Co., 
 
 devoted exclusively to dry goods of any house 
 in the world. The building is imposing in appear- 
 ance and an architectural ornament to the city, being 
 eight stories in height and handsomely finished. 
 Internally the store, or rather series of stores, is a 
 hive of busy, well-ordered industry, each one of the 
 eight floors containing 52,200 square feet of space, 
 every inch being utilized for the accommodation of 
 the firm's enormous stock, accumulated from all the 
 leading manufacturing centers of the world. The 
 stores are most handsomely fitted up with every 
 modern convenience and improvement, including 
 steam freight and passenger elevators, electric bells, 
 electric lights, telephones and telegraph, while a 
 thorough system of organization pervades every de- 
 partment of the immense establishment, each one of 
 
 BUSINESS TOUR OF CHICAGO JOHN V. FARWELL & GO'S. Wl 
 CORNER MONROE AND MARKET STRE 
 
 whose immense establishment, corner of Market and 
 Monroe streets, is one of the sights of Chicago, and 
 takes rank with anything of the kind either in Eu- 
 rope or America. The gigantic business transacted 
 here really began its marvelous 'growth in 1854, 
 when John V. Farwell became the junior member 
 of the firm of Cooley, Wadsworth & Co., which soon 
 afterward became John V. Farwell & Co. The 
 rapid growth of trade compelled an early removal 
 from the original location to Wabash avenue. Here 
 the house made rapid progress and was enlarging its 
 connections and developing upon the most substan- 
 tial and conservative basis when the calamitous fire 
 of 1871 swept away their entire establishment, which 
 had been seriously damaged by fire only a short time 
 previously. Messrs. Farwell & Co. were not to be 
 deterred by the magnitude of these reverses, and 
 with characteristic enterprise and perseverance se- 
 lected a favorable site on Monroe street, erecting 
 thereon a large building, where they remained 
 until removing into the Farwell building, which 
 is considered to cover the largest superficial space 
 
 the firm's six hundred employesbeing systematically 
 trained to his duty. 
 
 The firm reaches out by its direct personal repre- 
 sentatives to all the markets in Europe and America 
 and is a complete wholesale emporium for dry 
 goods, woolens, notions, carpets, upholstery, etc., 
 representing the choicest fabrics of these classes of 
 manufacture throughout the world, adapted to the 
 wants of buyers from all parts of the country and 
 selected with especial reference to the assortments 
 required in each of the various departments of their 
 business. The stock embraces foreign and domes- 
 tic silks, satins, velvets, dress fabrics in all textures, 
 white goods, linens, domestic cottons, laces, ribbons, 
 embroideries, shawls, wraps, etc., furnishing and up- 
 holstering goods, blankets, flannels, hosiery, gloves, 
 underwear, carpetings, both imported and domestic, 
 mattings, yankee notions, fancy goods and kindred 
 articles. 
 
 The firm is the most active and extensive import- 
 ing house in the city, and ever foremost to exhibit 
 the choicest season's novelties, keeping experienced
 
 A BUSINESS TOUR OF CHICAGO. 
 
 resident buyers in the European and eastern markets. 
 Buying so largely as Messrs. John V. Farwell & Co. 
 do, and possessing such perfected facilities, the firm 
 is universally noted for its splendid display of goods 
 and the lowness of its prices. Associated with Mr. 
 John V. Farwell in the co-partnership are Messrs. 
 Charles B. Farwell, John K. Harmon, John T. Chu- 
 masero and John V. Farwell, Jr. They combine 
 that strength of talents and resource for which this 
 house is celebrated, while the wise and prudent 
 management characteristic of their commercial ca- 
 reer reflects the greatest credit upon all concerned. 
 Mr. John V. Farwell, during his lengthy, active 
 identification with engrossing commercial pursuits, 
 has, as is well known, found time to engage in many 
 philanthropic and beneficiary enterprises, and is one 
 of Chicago's most public-spirited citizens, whose 
 efforts for the advancement of the western metrop- 
 olis are duly appreciated and 'will forever link his 
 name with the noble cause of humanitarian progress. 
 In commercial life he and his able co-partners have 
 ever adhered to the most stringent code of business 
 ethics and have advocated the policy of equity and 
 honor on all occasions, supporters of national as 
 well as individual rectitude. Mr. Charles B. Farwell 
 has been time and again honored with the suffrages 
 of his fellow-citizens, whom he has ably represented 
 in numberless responsible and honorary public of- 
 fices, and has lately been deemed worthy to wear 
 the mantle of the late lamented hero, soldier 
 and statesman, John A. Logan, whose unexpired 
 term in the senate of the nation he has been called 
 to fill. Upon all questions of the hour the firm 
 stands a unit, on the side of progress and is a thor- 
 ough exponent of the best methods in mercantile 
 life, upon which substantial basis their immense 
 trade has been developed, which includes all the 
 leading dry goods houses of the western, middle 
 and southwestern States, their annual sales aggrega- 
 ting many million dollars, no house contributing 
 more largely to Chicago's permanent commercial 
 prosperity and financial importance. 
 
 Isa A. Eberhart 
 
 Dealer in Chicago Lawn Property, 182 Dearborn Street. 
 
 The great demand for choice suburban property, 
 together with the steady rise in values, affords the 
 best evidence of Chicago's growing wealth and pros- 
 perity. Experience shows that to the thrifty arti- 
 san, the salaried clerk and the moderate business 
 man, these suburban offerings have proven of in- 
 estimable value in permitting them to acquire a 
 pleasant home at a reasonable price, apart from the 
 turmoil of city life, and in a healthful location. 
 Without wishing or intending to institute compari- 
 sons, while referring to suburban properties, justice 
 only is served when Chicago Lawn is named as one 
 of the finest building sites surrounding Chicago, 
 and which offers superior inducements to those 
 desiring cheap homes or an investment for specula- 
 tion. Since being put upon the market only a year 
 ago, over 200 of these lots have been sold. Mostly 
 to American families for immediate improvement. 
 It is located southwest of Chicago, on the Grand 
 Trunk railroad, at Sixty-third street, the highest 
 
 ground anywhere in that vicinity, and considerably 
 higher than either Chicago or Englewood, the com- 
 mutation fare being only that of the street-cars in 
 most cities, while the town has all the conveniences 
 of schools, churches, stores, post-office and ex- 
 press office. Mr. Isa A. Eberhart, 182 Dearborn 
 street, is offering at present these lots upon unusual- 
 ly favorable terms, accepting monthly payments and 
 even assisting his customers in building their homes. 
 Mr. Eberhart, whose son is editor of the ''Insect 
 World " at the Lawn, is a native of western Penn- 
 sylvania, and was for many years engaged in the 
 ministry, while in business life he has achieved a 
 success and reputation accorded only to those whose 
 transactions are based on the strictest probity. 
 
 Kroeschell Bros. 
 
 Boiler and Steam Fitting Works, 4 to 12 Michigan Street. 
 This house was established six years ago and has 
 continued with a large trade ever since, until now 
 they employ from fifty to seventy-five experienced 
 workmen in the manufacture of tubular, locomotive 
 and upright boilers, oil and water tanks, sheet iron 
 work, heating of buildings, connecting of boilers, 
 engines, pumps, pipe-fitting and brass goods. The 
 plant they occupy consists of 125 feet on Michigan 
 street, with a depth of 100 feet. The buildings are 
 well arranged for the work, and fitted with the best 
 machinery and appliances for the rapid prosecution 
 of this business, a twenty horse-power engine being 
 used. One of the specialties of this firm is the 
 manufacture of Kroeschell 
 & Bourgeois' patent feed 
 water heater, represented 
 in the accompanying cut. 
 Although only manufac- 
 tured since 1883, it has 
 met with great favor by 
 the trade. It is superior 
 to all other heaters in 
 the following respects: 
 That by introducing the 
 exhaust from above, the 
 temperature of water is 
 raised faster and higher 
 than by any other heater; 
 it keeps boilers free from 
 scale ; it does not cause 
 back pressure to engine; 
 by its simplicity of con- 
 struction it will require 
 less attention; saves boiler 
 repairs; saves from 15 to 
 30 per cent, in fuel. The great trouble with other 
 heaters, caused by the early and frequent corroding 
 of flues, is obviated in this heater, the material of 
 the tubes being the best brass. The price is lower 
 than any other on account of simplicity. Being 
 manufactured at their factory and under their direct 
 supervision, they are enabled to guarantee every 
 heater in all respects. 
 
 The members of the firm, Chas., H. A., Albert and 
 Otto Kroeschell, are natives of Nashville, Tenn., 
 from whence they came and located in Chicago in
 
 FIFTY YEARS' PROGRESS. 
 
 The Tourists' Paradise. 
 
 Famous Resorts of the Northwest Reached by the 
 Wisconsin Central Line. 
 
 Each succeeding year, when the first bright fresh- 
 ness of the spring foliage has disappeared to give 
 place to the dust and dryness of the fierce June sun- 
 shine, when the gentle showers of early summer 
 have been superseded 
 by the sprinkling-cart 
 and garden-hose, and 
 the spring overcoat dis- 
 carded for the linen 
 duster, when the busi- 
 ness man begins to hug 
 the shady side of the 
 street on his daily trips 
 to and from his office, 
 a very large proportion 
 of the people of our 
 great cities turn their 
 thoughts toward the 
 country and commence 
 laying plans for the an- 
 nual summer vacation, 
 which, in these days of 
 rapid money-getting 
 and high-pressure liv- 
 ing.hasbecomean indis- 
 pensable element in the 
 calendar of every man 
 of wealth and woman 
 of fashion whose line of 
 life has been cast in the 
 seething, bubbling, tu- 
 multuous swim of 
 modern metropolitan 
 existence. 
 
 Until within a very 
 recent period, the tide 
 of summer travel has 
 set almost exclusively 
 in the direction of the 
 fashionable, though 
 long ago exhausted, re- 
 sorts of the east. 
 Saratoga, Long Branch, 
 Newport and the White 
 mountains are like an 
 old edition of some 
 standard line of au- 
 thors, whose pages have been thumbed and turned so 
 repeatedly that there is neither pleasure nor instruc- 
 tion to be derived from their further perusal. Cali- 
 fornia and the Pacific slope appear to have been so 
 completely overdone by guide-books and circulars 
 as to have reached a hackneyed stage of "innocuous 
 desuetude" long before its attractions are exhibited 
 to view, and, besides, the time occupied in visiting 
 those distant scenes would consume a considerable 
 share of the average American's midsummer holiday 
 season. 
 
 During the past decade, however, a new Eden of 
 enchantment has gradually but irresistibly developed 
 to draw within its delightful circle an ever-increas- 
 
 ing throng of pleasure-seekers from all parts of the 
 Union. Wisconsin, the summer paradise of the 
 fashionable world, the angler's Mecca of inexhausti- 
 ble resources, the huntsman's bonanza, the invalid's 
 acme of sanitary perfection, in short, the complete 
 Utopia of the tourist and pleasure-seeker, presents 
 an innumerable array of charms which each recurring 
 season attract thousands of the nation's wealthiest 
 citizens to our lovely State. 
 
 Waukesha, "the Sara- 
 toga of the West," 
 endowed by nature with 
 climatic and scenic ad- 
 vantages which her 
 eastern namesake 
 never possessed, and 
 whose fame as a water- 
 cure, where lost health 
 and vigor may be re- 
 newed or subtle disease 
 baffled and defied by 
 the simple efficacy of 
 her Bethesda and Silu- 
 rian springs, has been 
 heralded to the remo- 
 test quarters of the 
 globe. As a fashion- 
 able social resort alone, 
 Waukesha has achieved 
 a national reputation. 
 Within an hour's drive 
 of the city, upon the 
 loveliest of roads wind- 
 ing through shady 
 groves and over rustic 
 bridges spanning rip- 
 pling rills fresh from 
 their fountain source, 
 are to be found from 
 twenty to thirty of the 
 most beautiful little 
 lakes in the world, 
 transparent as crystal, 
 their edges overhung 
 with drooping grasses 
 and clinging vines and 
 their verdure-clad 
 shores lined with pic- 
 turesque cottages and 
 rural homes, while 
 steam yachts and mini- 
 ature sailing craft with 
 snowy canvas and swanlike outlines speed along over 
 the rippling blue surface of the foreground in de- 
 lightful profusion. All of these lakes are plentifully 
 stocked with every variety of American game fish 
 and the most improved tackle and seductive bait 
 is provided at a moment's notice for all who care to 
 indulge their piscatorial fancies. Nothing has been 
 left undone by nature to fit this region for a perfect 
 suburban home, and with all due deference to the 
 vaunted lakes and crags and castles and glens of 
 European legend and guide-book, it is scarcely an 
 exaggeration to claim that, for summer resort pur- 
 poses, the lake region in the vicinity of Waukesha 
 is unsurpassed on either continent.
 
 A BUSINESS TOUR OF CHICAGO. 
 
 Gus. Lindholm's Express. 
 
 72 to 76 North State Street. 
 
 Besides the large express business done by Mr. 
 Lindholm he is also an extensive dealer in coal, 
 wood and coke. The business was begun some years 
 ago with only a one-horse 
 wagon, and Mr. Lindholm 
 is now the proprietor of 
 one of the largest express 
 businesses in the city. He 
 is persistent and pains- 
 taking in all his work, and 
 satisfaction is guaranteed 
 on every order received, and at moderate prices. 
 His business is divided into three departments, 
 teaming, general expressage and parcel delivery. In 
 the first he has some of the largest trucks in use in 
 Chicago, and he has permanent contracts with the 
 large merchants to do their hauling. Besides doing 
 a general express business all over the, city he has 
 his regular customers who have his call cards, and 
 four trips are made daily all over the city. The 
 parcel delivery is complete in every respect, and for 
 ten cents persons can have articles delivered at their 
 homes in any part of the city. Mr. Lindholm is a 
 native of Stockholm, Sweden, and came to this 
 city in 1869. 
 
 N. G. Levinson & Co. 
 
 Wholesale Jewelers, No. 114 Dearborn Street. 
 
 Mr. Levinson has been in the business for the last 
 five years, having been located in his present posi- 
 tion the whole of the time. He carries a full line of 
 jewelry and watches, and the latest designs and nov- 
 elties are to be found in his stock. All the articles 
 he handles are of the very best quality and can be 
 depended upon to give satisfaction. 
 
 The business is exclusively wholesale, and goods 
 are supplied by agents to all parts of the central and 
 western States, from Ohio to Kansas and Nebraska. 
 
 Mr. Levinson has been connected with the busi- 
 ness for the last fifteen years and his long experience 
 enables him to purchase the best class of goods, and 
 those most likely to please the taste as well as the 
 pocket of the public. 
 
 A full stock is kept in all branches, so that retail- 
 ers will find here just what they need, the best in 
 quality and lowest in price. 
 
 Aug. Hirschfeld. 
 
 Merchant Tailor, 106 Fifth Avenue. 
 One of the oldest established firms in the trade is 
 that of Mr. Aug. Hirschfeld, who occupies the 
 ground floor of No. 106 Fifth avenue. He com- 
 menced this business at 127 North Clark street 
 eighteen years ago, and after his loss in the great 
 fire he re-established his business in the same locality, 
 where he remained for ten years. He has only 
 occupied his present site for two years. The busi- 
 
 ness is large, and numbers amongst its customers 
 some of the leading men of the city, his garments 
 being always superior in style and perfect in fit. 
 The manufacture is confined solely to men's cloth- 
 ing, which is supplied to city customers, the cloth 
 being obtained from eastern and also from city 
 houses. The stock kept is medium, and of the best 
 quality. Mr. Hirschfeld, a Saxon by birth, is always 
 ready to execute orders on short notice, and made 
 up in a manner that cannot fail to be satisfactory. 
 He trusts the cutting out to no one, preferring that 
 branch of the business himself, and does his best to 
 give complete satisfaction. 
 
 L Nitschkowsky. 
 
 Merchant Tailor, 130 South Clark Street. 
 
 It will never be possible to make to order as cheaply 
 as to buy ready-made clothing, but there is a great 
 difference in the prices charged at different houses. 
 No firm in the city make more cheaply goods of first 
 quality and best workmanship than Mr. L. Nitsch- 
 kowsky, who has his establishment at No. 130 South 
 Clark street, room 5. He commenced business in 
 1864 on the North side, where he was burnt out in 
 1871. For the last ten years he has been located at 
 the place he now occupies, enjoying a steady and 
 increasing amount of patronage. 
 
 He uses the best domestic material and imported 
 goods only, and employs workmen thoroughly skill- 
 ed and experienced in the making-up department. 
 As an instance of the hold he retains on his patrons 
 it may be noted that he has orders from Florida, 
 Nebraska, etc., from those who dealt with him while 
 residing in this city. 
 
 Mr. Nitschkowsky prides himself on his good 
 name; he has always acted fairly and honorably by 
 all who have favored him with their patronage. He 
 came to this country thirty-two years ago, when the 
 city had only one-tenth of its present population, and 
 during the whole of the time since then has been 
 engaged in his present line of trade. 
 
 Chas/LWilt. 
 
 Manufacturer and Dealer in Trunks, Traveling Bags, Etc., 
 40 East Madison Street. 
 
 In that of Charles T. Wilt, Chicago possesses a 
 house of more than ordinary importance in the 
 manufacture of trunks, traveling bags and ladies' 
 satchels. 
 
 Mr. Wilt is a gentleman of great versatility of tal- 
 ent, having become proficient as a printer, and also 
 a thoroughly learned lawyer before leaving his native 
 city, New York, whence some thirty-two years ago 
 he came to Chicago. In 1862 he founded his trunk 
 business at No. 24 N. Clark street, and soon devel- 
 oped his trade, opening his factory at No. 222 on 
 the same thoroughfare. The business growing he 
 found it profitable in 1869 to open another establish- 
 ment at No. 100 Lake street. In 1883 Mr. Wilt 
 occupied his present eligible premises, No. 40 Mad- 
 ison street, where is displayed the finest and most
 
 FIFTY YEARS PROGRESS. 
 
 complete stock of solid sole-leather Saratoga and 
 sample trunks, traveling bags and ladies'-satchels of 
 every description to be found in the west. The large 
 factory comprises the spacious four-story and base- 
 ment building Nos. 198 to 204 Kinzie street, wherein 
 a large force of skilled and experienced trunk-mak- 
 ers are engaged. Throughout the establishment 
 the greatest order and system prevail, which is at 
 once an evidence of Mr. Wilt's judicious manage- 
 ment, while the good judgment and taste displayed 
 in the production of stock indicate thorough expe- 
 rience in the business and an intimate practical 
 acquaintance with the wants of a critical trade. 
 
 James Pittaway. 
 
 Teas, Coffees and Spices, 26 and 28 River Street. 
 Among the many houses who handle these con 
 modities in Chicago may be mentioned that of James 
 Pittaway. This gentleman occupies extensive prem- 
 ises at 26 and 28 River street, and is engaged in 
 business as a wholesale dealer in teas, coffees and 
 spices. He handles the choicest kinds of these goods 
 that can be bought in the eastern markets, and his 
 trade extends throughout the western and north- 
 western States. In the matter of spices he does a 
 very fine local trade among the grocers and retail 
 houses. Mr. Pittaway has been in the trade for 
 thirty years, and during that time his perseverance 
 and experience combined have given him a recog- 
 nized place in the market, and he is looked up to as 
 one of our most reliable traders in this class of goods 
 
 Richard Irwin. 
 
 Draper and Tailor, No. 41 North State Street, Chicago. 
 
 At this establishment garments are made of good 
 material, and in the most elegant and latest styles. 
 The proprietor Mr. Richard Irwin, is one of the most 
 popular drapers and tailors of the city of Chicago. 
 He has been in the business for over ten years, and 
 during that time has had the patronage of the most 
 influential citizens of the Garden City. His facilities 
 are unsurpassed, and he keeps a force of twelve skill- 
 ed workmen, whose labors are conducted under his 
 own direct supervision. His transactions average 
 $15,000 per annum, and the business is rapidly in- 
 creasing. He is a native of Canada, and came to 
 Chicago in 1868. 
 
 Gannott's Laundry. 
 
 2135 Wabash Avenue. 
 
 Gannott's laundry is well arranged and equipped 
 for. the rapid prosecution of the business. Six to 
 eight assistants are employed to help with the work, 
 while machinery of the latest and best patterns is 
 used. Mr. Gannott established the business twelve 
 years ago, at his present quarters, and by perse- 
 verance, good work and a personal supervision of all 
 the branches has built up a large and steadily increas- 
 
 ing trade. The best of order prevails, and all goods 
 are received, checked, done up and returned in 
 splendid condition. There are no chemicals used in 
 the work, and the best of satisfaction is given. 
 Special rates to hotels and restaurants. Mr. Gan- 
 nott was born in Germany, and came to Chicago 
 in the spring of 1872. 
 
 David J. Braun. 
 
 Manufacturer of Stamped and Spun Metal Goods, Etc., 
 Office and Factory, 70 West Monroe Street. 
 
 The well-known and 
 
 frosperous house of David 
 . Braun, of 70 West Mon- 
 roe street, is extensively 
 engaged as a manufactur- 
 er of stamped and spun 
 metal goods, wire workers, 
 chandelier trimmings, etc. 
 He makes a specialty of 
 the manufacture of the 
 well-known electric kero- 
 sene lamps, a most useful 
 invention, and one in great 
 demand among his numer- 
 ous customers. Mr. Braun 
 is a German by birth, but 
 has been a long while in 
 this country. He has been 
 engaged in his present busi- 
 ness for the last twelve 
 years, and has established 
 a large and ever increasing 
 business among the prin- 
 cipal lamp and gas-fixture 
 dealers in the country. 
 His goods have a first-class 
 reputation on the market, 
 and as Mr. Braun is a 
 thoroughly practical man, 
 he makes it a point to turn out nothing but first- 
 class work. 
 
 N. Barnett 
 
 Dealer in All Kinds of Coal, Coke and Wood, Office and 
 
 Yards, 3121 to 3125 Cottage Grove Avenue. 
 Energy and enterprise, when well directed, inva- 
 riably lead toward success in all the walks of life, a 
 notable instance of which being found in the pros- 
 perous career of Mr. Napoleon Barnett, the enter- 
 prising coal dealer of Cottage Grove avenue. 
 Though born and reared in Montreal, Canada, Mr. 
 Barnett has resided in the United States for some 
 twenty-one years past, during fourteen of which he 
 was engaged as a contracting mason and plasterer. 
 In 1879, however, seeing a favorable opening, he 
 established his coal business at Nos. 3121-25 Cot- 
 tage Grove avenue, his present site, where he enjoys 
 every facility for conducting his business under the 
 most favorable auspices, his storage accommoda- 
 tions being ample, the yards themselves desirably
 
 A BUSINESS TOUR OF CHICAGO. 
 
 located, while purchasing, as he does, in large lots 
 direct from the mine, he is enabled to quote the 
 lowest ruling prices. All kinds of hard and soft 
 coal are dealt in, as well as coke, wood and kindling 
 wood, in quantities to suit. Under his management 
 this business has developed into one of the largest 
 in this section of the city, having reached the snug 
 sum of $25,000 per annum. Mr. Barnett is a gen- 
 tleman well known in business and financial circles, 
 and has attained success upon an, honorable basis 
 of equity. 
 
 T. E. Copelin. 
 
 Stoves, Furnaces, Ranges, Hardware, Etc., 37 North State 
 
 Street. 
 
 The stock of this standard house is entirely new 
 and consists of stoves, furnaces, ranges and shelf 
 hardware of al- 
 most every de- 
 scription. A full 
 line of kitchen 
 utensils of the 
 latest designs is 
 carried, as well 
 as all kinds of 
 hardware special- 
 ties and house- 
 furnishing goods. 
 Mr. Copelin is 
 agent for the cel- 
 ebrated M. & D. 
 wrought- iron 
 ranges and also 
 the "Monitor" 
 stoves and ranges of Wm. Resor & Co., Cincinnati, 
 Ohio, and makes a specialty of kitchen outfits for 
 hotels, large residences, etc.. in which correspond- 
 ence is solicited. All kinds of stovt work and job- 
 bing in tin and galvanized iron is done here. The 
 facilities are such that all orders meet with prompt 
 attention. Fine grinding is also done, as well as 
 nickel-plating and polishing. The prices for goods 
 and work are very reasonable. Mr. Copelin is a 
 native of this city and has long been connected with 
 the business interests of Chicago. 
 
 Bakenhus & Mueseler. 
 
 Manufacturers of Carriages, Trucks and Wagons, 
 
 95 and 97 East Indiana Street. 
 
 Prominent among the establishments engaged in 
 this important branch of industry is that of the firm 
 of Bakenhus & Mueseler, located at Nos. 95 and 97 
 East Indiana street. This firm has acquired a mer- 
 ited popularity throughout the city and environs for 
 the superior quality of vehicles turned out, and their 
 uniform reliability. The business was begun seven 
 years ago, on the corner of La Salle avenue and Illi- 
 nois street, but was removed to the present eligible 
 and commodious quarters two years ago. The 
 blacksmithing, wood-work, paint and finishing de- 
 partments are all well arranged for the rapid prose- 
 
 cution of work. Only the best material is used, and 
 the best class of workmen are employed. Both 
 members of the firm are veterans in this business, 
 it being their life trade. Many improvements have 
 been made by them, which have not only helped to 
 establish their reputation for good work, but have 
 added to the general character of this line of industry 
 in Chicago. Every description of work is made to 
 order, while repairing is promptly and satisfactorily 
 executed. All persons having work of this kind will 
 do well to consult this firm before going elsewhere, 
 as their prices are reasonable, and work first class. 
 
 Home Laundry. 
 
 10 Rush Street, Mrs. A. Moller, Proprietor. 
 The name of this laundry is appropriate, for it is a 
 home laundry in the full acceptance of the term. 
 Every piece is done by hand, and with great care, 
 under the direct supervision of Mrs. A. Moller, who 
 has a practical knowledge of how everything in this 
 line should be done. She has been established in 
 business for the past six years, and has never wanted 
 for patronage, as the work has won a trade very de- 
 sirable and remunerative. She carries a small stock 
 of gents' wares for the accommodation of her laundry 
 patrons. The office hours of this laundry are 7 to 
 12 P. M.; Sundays, 6 to 9 A. M. It will pay you to 
 patronize the Home laundry. 
 
 G. A. Mariner & Co. 
 
 Analytical and Consulting Chemists and Assayers, 
 
 81 South Clark Street. 
 
 Science has made rapid strides in the last twenty 
 years, and to its researches we are indebted for 
 much of our knowledge, comfort and commercial 
 success. To no branch does this apply more 
 particularly than to the chemical analyses of the vari- 
 ous materials and products that surround us. The 
 leading firm of analytical and consulting chemists in 
 the city is that of G. A. Mariner & Co. They have 
 been engaged in this profession for thirty years, and 
 have achieved just renown, having been called upon 
 to decide in many difficult cases. They accept all 
 kinds of substances for analysis, but make a specialty 
 of waters and ores. They have lately been engaged 
 upon the analysis of soaps for the government and 
 water foi various of the railroad companies. The 
 articles sent here are too numerous to be mentioned, 
 but whatever they are, the firm do not fail to give 
 all the substances and quantities used in their com- 
 position. Both Mr. Mariner and Mr. Hoskins, the 
 two leading members of the firm, are well known in 
 the highest circles of scientific and business men, 
 and are highly esteemed, both for their skill and 
 their upright and honorable character. No firm 
 stands higher in public estimation, nor possesses 
 ability of a higher order in this profession. As 
 assayers they have had long experience, and are 
 adepts in the profession, their decisions having 
 always been proved to be correct.
 
 FIFTY YEARS' PROGRESS. 
 
 6fi 
 
 C. H. Fargo & Co. 
 
 Manufacturers and Jobbers of Boots and Shoes, 
 
 116, 118 and 120 Market Street. 
 
 The boot and shoe trade of Chicago possesses no 
 better exponent than the house of C. H. Fargo & 
 Co., wholesale manufacturers of these goods. The 
 large business conducted by the well-known gentle- 
 men constituting this firm was originally established 
 in January, 1856, under the style of Bill, Fargo & 
 Kellogg, the former retiring irt the following year. 
 In 1858, upon the retirement of Mr. Kellogg, Mr. 
 Bill again became a member of the firm, the house 
 of Fargo, Bill & Co. continuing the business for the 
 subsequent five years, when, Mr. Bill retiring, the 
 firm of Fargo, Fales & Co. was formed, Messrs. C. 
 H. Fargo, H. D. Fales and S. M. Fargo being the 
 members. This style continued until Jan. 1, 1871, 
 when Mr, Fales withdrew, and Mr. John Benham 
 was admitted, under the firm name, as it now 
 stands, of C. H. Fargo & Co. Like many of our 
 other leading mercantile houses, so the birthplace 
 of this firm was on South Water street, No. 43, 
 occupying successively, as their growth required 
 increased facilities, No. 57 Lake street, Nos. 4-8 and 
 50 Wabash avenue and Nos. 40 and 42 Randolph 
 street, where the greatest holocaust of fire in modern 
 times in almost the twinkling of an eye reduced 
 their business to ashes, entailing a net loss, over 
 and above insurance recovered and stock saved, of 
 over $60,000. Nothing daunted, within a week after 
 the fire, before the ashes were cooled, in fact, the 
 business was resumed at Mr. Fargo's private resi- 
 dence on Wabash avenue, from whence, upon the 
 restoration of order, a few months later, the firm 
 removed to State street near Twelfth, where they 
 remained until the spacious five-story and base- 
 ment building on the corner of Madison and Market 
 streets was completed, when they moved into it, 
 occupying it for eleven years, when they moved into 
 their present large, spacious quarters. Messrs. C. 
 H., C. E., S. M. and F. M. Fargo compose the 
 present firm, Mr. C. H. Fargo, a native of Berk- 
 shire county, Mass., having been at the head of the 
 house since its first organization, and, with only two 
 exceptions, longer in continuous business than any 
 man in Chicago, this city being in no small degree 
 indebted to him for the advancement of her ma- 
 terial interests, while in the development of the 
 manufacturing industry belonging to his own field 
 of labor, he undoubtedly occupies a foremost 
 position. The firm manufacture a full line of men's, 
 women's and children's boots and shoes of all kinds, 
 and in addition carry a full stock of eastern made 
 goods, and a complete line of the best makes of 
 rubber goods, and are also the original patentees 
 and manufacturers of the celebrated sole-leather 
 box-tip shoes, which fully met the want that ex- 
 isted, doing away entirely with the unsightly 
 appearance of the metal tips, while retaining the 
 desired durability. For several years past the firm 
 have devoted special attention at their factory in 
 this city to the manufacture of a fine class of shoes 
 for ladies' wear, employing some 125 skilled work- 
 men, while 200 more find steady employment in the 
 
 production of a general line of boots and shoes at 
 their factory in Jackson, Mich. Thus briefly has 
 been sketched the salient points in connection with 
 the rise and progress of this great jobbing and 
 manufacturing house, a business that ha., been con- 
 ducted with consummate skill and untiring energy, 
 until now their great volume of trade, still on the 
 increase, reaches yearly into millions, and extends 
 over every State and territory in the Union, while 
 the liberality characterizing the policy of the house 
 has always made business relations between them 
 and their customers both mutually pleasant and 
 profitable. 
 
 Charles Himrod & Co. 
 
 Dealers in Pig Iron, Rooms 60, 61 and 62, 115 Dearborn St. 
 One of the oldest men in this part of the country 
 connected with the pig iron trade is Mr. Charles 
 Himrod. For upwards of twenty years he has been 
 a manufacturer and dealer. In 1881 he established 
 the firm of C. Himrod & Co. This firm are large 
 dealers in all the leading brands of pig iron, and are 
 the sole agents for the celebrated Deerlake, Vulcan 
 and Detroit (Michigan) brands. Brierhill, Calumet 
 and other well-known kinds of pig iron are also 
 largely handled by the firm. They supply manu- 
 facturers and foundries in all parts of the western 
 States, having customers as far out as Omaha. They 
 have also a large city trade, and are known as thor- 
 oughly reliable business men. Their rates are always 
 as low as those of any firm in the trade, while the 
 quality of their supplies is unequaled. The city 
 offices are located on Dearborn street, No. 115, 
 rooms 60, 61 and 62. Mr. Himrod, senior member 
 of the firm, served during the war in the 83d Pennsyl- 
 vania infantry, receiving his honorable_discharge at 
 the close of the war. 
 
 Elmer & Anderson. 
 
 Manufacturers' Agents and Commission Merchants, 267 and 
 
 269 Franklin Street. 
 
 Among the great hosiery and notion houses for 
 which the Garden City is justly noted, none have 
 succeeded in establishing and maintaining a higher 
 reputation, alike for the standard of excellence of the 
 goods handled and upright dealing, than Messrs. 
 Elmer & Anderson, manufacturers' agents and com- 
 mission merchants. The firm was organized some 
 eight years ago, though both Messrs. T. H. Elmer 
 and Geo. F. Anderson were for ten years prior each 
 independently engaged in the same line. They have 
 occupied their present spacious premises for five 
 years past, where they are prepared to show an 
 assortment of hosiery, notions, knit goods and 
 gossamer clothing unsurpassed in extent and variety 
 in this city, and in which, being the direct represen- 
 tatives of the producers, they are able to name the 
 manufacturers' bottom figures. A large and influ- 
 ential patronage has been built up, both at home and 
 abroad, and few possess better facilities for promptly 
 placing large consignments.
 
 A BUSINESS TOUR OF CHICAGO. 
 
 The Union Steamboat Co. 
 
 Thos. T. Morford, Agent, Market Street, Between Washing- 
 ton and Randolph. 
 
 Chicago has now its large connections by rail with 
 every town and village of importance in the States, 
 but in the early days of its existence, the waterway 
 was the only easy means of transporting goods 
 across the continent. Foremost among the freight- 
 carrying lines of steamboats which have connections 
 
 in this city is the Union Steamboat Co., which has 
 connections at Buffalo with the New York, Lake 
 Erie and Western R. R., and at Chicago with all 
 western railroads. This company was incorporated 
 in 1868, with head offices at Buffalo; the general 
 manager being Mr. W. Bullard, Buffalo, while Mr. T. 
 T. Morford is the manager of the Chicago agency. 
 This company runs a daily line of large freight pro- 
 pellers between Chicago, Milwaukee and Buffalo, 
 carrying grain, flour, sugar and general merchandise. 
 The celebrated fast steamers Tioga and H. J. 
 Jewett, which make the run between Buffalo and 
 Chicago in less than three days, are comprised in 
 this line, and also two larger steel steamers, to be 
 called the Owego and Chemung, now being con- 
 structed at Buffalo. Besides these they have a 
 fleet which plies between Lake Superior points and 
 Buffalo. This company executes bills of lading to 
 any port in Europe. They employ about two hun- 
 dred men at each port, Buffalo and Chicago, and 
 an average of twenty-five hands on each boat. 
 The docks here have a frontage to the river of 
 four hundred feet, and are one hundred and fifty 
 feet in depth. The warehouses and offices occupy 
 the whole block on Market street, between Wash- 
 ington and Randolph. These boats carry only 
 freight, the average amount received, both ways, 
 being two thousand tons daily, during the season. 
 
 Isaac Shillington. 
 
 Livery and Boarding Stable, 210 and 212 Indiana ^Street. 
 The fine livery and boarding stables of Isaac 
 Shillington are located at this point. The premises 
 occupied are 50x100 feet in dimensions, and well 
 arranged in every particular for the livery business. 
 The stables contain a number of fine horses, and in 
 the carriage-house may be found every description 
 of wheeled vehicles. Turnouts are t furnished for 
 shopping and pleasure riding on reasonable terms, 
 liveried drivers being provided when desired, and 
 
 stylish rigs of every description are to be had, all of 
 which are entirely new. Telephone orders, by 
 number 3077, receive prompt altention. The busi- 
 ness was begun in 1873 by the present proprietor, 
 who has been a resident of this city since 1858. 
 He has had long experience in the livery business, 
 and as a judge of fine horses has no superior in Chi- 
 cago. 
 
 Garden City Cigar Mfg. Co. 
 
 26 Rush Street. 
 
 At No. 26 Rush street is located the establishment 
 of the Garden City Cigar Manufacturing Company, 
 Richard Bradel, superintendent. They are whole- 
 salers and retailers of the best grade of Havana 
 cigars, besides prominent manufacturers of the fine 
 brands of domestic cigars. They call special atten- 
 tion to their new brand, "The Grip," which is 
 copyrighted and just being introduced to the public. 
 Their other noted brand, " Private Stock," is so well 
 known to the Chicago smokers that comment of 
 its fine qualities is unnecessary. Mr. Bradel has 
 half a dozen skilled workmen to aid him in his 
 business, and all his stock is choice hand-made 
 cigars. His trade is entirely local and amounts to 
 250,000 cigars annually. Mr. Bradel is a native of 
 Saxony, and opened up business in Racine, Wis., in 
 1861, and came to Chicago in 1881 
 
 Hotel Woodruff. 
 
 Corner Wabash Avenue and Twenty-first Street. 
 The new and elegantly appointed Hotel Wood- 
 ruff is in every way a representative establishment 
 among the fine hotels of the west; in truth, it has 
 never been called upon to compete with other 
 hotels, for since it was first erected, in 1872, it has 
 always had a select and influential patronage from 
 the best families of our city, and when they are 
 away to the seaside or mountains during the sum- 
 mer months, their places are filled by southern tour- 
 ists who for years have made this model hotel their 
 home while in the city. The hotel was built by 
 Mr. H. N. Woodruff especially for J. W. Boardman 
 in 1872, and was then known as the Woodruff hotel. 
 At Mr. Boardman's death in 1874 his wife assumed 
 charge, and to her enterprising management and 
 liberal business policy is due its present success. A 
 few months ago the house was entirely remodeled, 
 refitted and painted inside and out, and the name 
 was also transposed to read Hotel Woodruff. It is 
 located on the southeast corner of Wabash avenue 
 and Twenty-first street, just far enough away from the 
 business center to be free from the noise and dust, and 
 near enough to the lake to. receive its cool, refresh- 
 ing breeze. By means of the cable cars, which run 
 by the door every three minutes, one is in direct and 
 rapid communication with all the railroad depots, 
 steamboat wharfs, parks, places of amusement, etc. 
 The interior appointments are most pleasing, fully 
 in keeping with the exterior appearance. On the 
 first floor are located the offices, ladies' reception
 
 FIFTY YEARS' PROGRESS. 
 
 room, gentlemen's reading room, private office and 
 telephone room and also the large, beautiful dining 
 hall, which is one of the finest in the city. The 
 large, handsome parlors and suites of rooms are found 
 on the second floor, while the other floors contain 
 the airy and roomy sleeping apartments. The 
 house contains every modern convenience which 
 science and skill can produce, the building being lit 
 throughout by Edison's incandescent light, the 
 plumbing and ventilation also being perfect. Up- 
 wards of one hundred employes are connected with the 
 house, andevery department is run with that regularity 
 and precision which marks good management. The 
 cuisine of Hotel Woodruff stands unrivaled, the 
 catering for it being conducted on the basis of the 
 greatest liberality, which insures only the best and 
 rarest of everything that the market affords, while 
 the culinary department is under the management 
 of a distinguished chef, giving the utmost satisfac- 
 tion in this line to all guests. The proprietor spares 
 neither time, pains nor expense, making everything 
 comfortable for her guests, who ever remember their 
 delightful stay at the Hotel Woodruff. 
 
 Jos. Downey. 
 
 Mason Contractor and Builder, 159 La Salle St., Room 94. 
 Mr. Joseph Downey, whose office is at room 94, 
 159 La Salle street, holds a prominent place among 
 his fellow-craftsmen, not alone from his long resi- 
 dence in Chicago, but also from his well-known capa- 
 bilities as a mason contractor and builder. The 
 time in which he has been established in business is, 
 of itself, enough to rank him among the foremost of 
 his class. For more than fifteen years he has been 
 actively engaged in his calling, and many buildings 
 in this and neighboring as also more remote cities 
 bear evidence of his handiwork. While making 
 Chicago his home, Mr. Downey has not been con- 
 fined to this city alone, as his work in adjoining 
 States will show. Among the number of buildings 
 erected by him here and in the vicinity are the 
 Chicago and Western Indiana railroad depot, known 
 as the Polk street depot, and the Cook county poor 
 house, at Jefferson, a few miles out from the center 
 of the city. Mr. Downey also built and is part 
 owner of the Columbia theater. Very many private 
 buildings in the city have been built by him, and 
 all bear marks of a master hand. Among those 
 abroad, the Missouri State Lunatic asylum at St. 
 Joseph, Mo., is probably one to revert to with 
 most pride. 
 
 The Rascher Map Publishing Co. 
 
 162 La Salle Street. 
 
 The Rascher Map Publishing company, at 162 
 La Salle street, was begun ten years ago, when three 
 volumes were published ; now there are twelve vol- 
 umes of Chicago and suburbs. The fine maps of 
 this company are the most complete and perfect 
 published, being prepared from accurate surveys by 
 
 efficient draughtsmen, so that a person can tell at a 
 glance the class of building in any spot in the city. 
 Mr. Chas. Rascher, the manager, is founder of the 
 company, and by his efficient and earnest work has 
 succeeded in establishing a system very valuable to 
 all business men. These maps are not confined 
 alone to this city, but are published by this company 
 of all the western cities. They are sent out all over 
 the world, being used by the various insurance com- 
 panies, so that after a big fire they can tell at a 
 glance what losses have been sustained by their 
 company. Corrections are made on these maps 
 from time to time, so that they are strictly reliable. 
 
 116 Monroe Street. 
 
 This institution occupies a high position among 
 the many institutions which give to Chicago its un- 
 usual educational facilities. In this college the aim 
 is not to gather a crowd of pupils, and then claim 
 that the large number in attendance is evidence con- 
 clusive of the merit of the school, but the rather that 
 a limited number may haye the full advantage of a 
 thorough course of painstaking instruction either 
 individually or in classes. 
 
 Regular day, special afternoon and evening ses- 
 sions the year round, give the young and middle- 
 aged men and women excellent opportunities to ac- 
 quire a practical knowledge of book-keeping, Mun- 
 son's shorthand, penmanship, grammar, German, 
 commercial law, business arithmetic, correspondence, 
 geography, spelling, reading, etc., at very reasonable 
 rates. Teachers and others at a distance frequently 
 take advantage of the course by mail. While it is 
 not so desirable as attending the college, still good 
 results have been obtained by this method. Prof. 
 F. F. Judd, the principal, has spent the past eight 
 years in this particular line of work, devoting his 
 spare time to the examination of tangled accounts, 
 opening and closing books, etc., until he now occu- 
 pies a prominent position as expert accountant and 
 teacher of commercial branches. 
 
 E. L Brainerd. 
 
 Real Estate, 125 Dearborn Street, Room 10. 
 Mr. E. L. Brainerd. has been engaged more or 
 less for fifteen years in reale-state transactions, and 
 has now just placed his valuable subdivision of forty- 
 five acres, in South Englewood, on the market. This 
 property lies between Eighty-seventh and Ninetieth 
 streets, and between Loomis street and Center ave- 
 nue, ten miles from the court-house, on the Rock 
 Island and Pan-Handle railroads. The streets are 
 being laid out, and sidewalks and trees put in. Good 
 well-water abounds, and the land is dry and well 
 drained. The lots are 126 feet deep, with an alley
 
 A BUSINESS TOUR OF CHICAGO. 
 
 fourteen wide in rear. The low price of from eight 
 to fifteen dollars per foot frontage is all that is 
 asked. The owner, Mr. Brainerd, has erected a 
 residence for himself, and other houses are rapidly 
 being put up here. Besides this property, Mr. 
 Brainerd owns seventy acres more in this neighbor- 
 hood about to be subdivided. He has had a long 
 acquaintance with the city, and no man is better 
 posted in real-estate matters, or better qualified to 
 handle property or make investments. 
 
 M. H. Lowell. 
 
 Artist "and Dealer in Oil Paintings and Frames, 183 Mad- 
 ison Street. 
 
 Much good work may yet be done in all parts of 
 this country in elevating the tastes and cultivating 
 art instincts in the people. Besides, what tends more 
 to the adornment of a home than the presence on 
 the wall of a few good pictures? M. H. Lowell, 
 an artist, is doing his best to supply this want, and 
 employs on an average sixteen artists in producing 
 a class of oil paintings that, while not beyond the 
 reach of the middle and even poorer classes, yet are 
 so pleasing in subject and well executed as to be 
 desirable. Their manufacture of genuine oil paint- 
 ings occupies the third and fourth floors (each 35x80 
 feet) of No. 183 Madison street. All kinds, qualities 
 and subjects are treated here, being painted from 
 nature, sketches, copies or imagination, the latter 
 being chiefly those of the cheaper class. Prices 
 range from $1 to $250, the higher priced being gen- 
 uine works of art and fit to compare with many on 
 exhibition in picture galleries; indeed, some have 
 been sent to exhibitions in New Orleans and else- 
 where. The bulk of the sales are to jobbers from 
 
 New York to California, Montreal and Winnipeg 
 to Florida and Texas. Many are also shipped 
 through jobbers to China and Australia. Mr. Low- 
 ell is also a dealer, and has on handproductions from 
 some of the most noted artists of modern times. 
 
 Victor Lassagne. 
 
 Restaurant Francais (Elite) for Ladies and Gentlemen, 
 77 and 79 South Clark Street. 
 
 The French are proverbially the most skilled 
 caterers in the world, this industry having been de- 
 veloped to the rank of a science in that country, 
 and consequently those of experience who have 
 embarked in similar pursuits here have been uni- 
 formly -prosperous and successful. Few in Chicago, 
 however, have obtained that hold upon the public 
 favor equal with the Restaurant Francais, so ably 
 conducted by Mons. Victor Lassagne, which since 
 its very inception, twenty-two years ago, near the 
 old Board of Trade building, being at that time 
 known as the Board of Trade restaurant, has contin- 
 uously commanded the patronage of the best class 
 of the city. Mons. Lassagne was born in France in 
 1827, at Bagnols-sur-Ceze, Department du Card, and 
 at the age of twenty came to the United States and 
 located at New Orleans, from whence, just prior to 
 the war, on account of his well-known union senti- 
 ments, he was obliged to come north. After the 
 close of the war, in 1864, throughout which he gal- 
 lantly served his adopted country, filling the respon- 
 sible office of chief musician, he decided to locate 
 himself in Chicago. In the great fire of Octo- 
 ber, 1871, he suffered a very severe loss, his place 
 of business being then located where now the 
 Pacific house stands. Nothing daunted, however, 
 he at once re-established himself, and as soon as 
 practicable secured his present central and eligible 
 premises. The Restaurant Francais is handsomely 
 furnished, and the service is first class, while the 
 cuisine, in charge of a distinguished French chef, a 
 friend and acquaintance of the proprietor in old 
 France, leaves nothing to be desired. Spacious 
 rooms for private parties are on the second floor, 
 and service is had until midnight. In the manage- 
 ment everything has been reduced to a complete 
 system. The best that the market can afford is to 
 be found in the menu, while the stock of wines and 
 liquors is procured direct from the most famous for- 
 eign houses. Mons. Lassagne is an active, enter- 
 prising and clear-headed business man, and is pecu- 
 liarly fitted for his vocation, in which he has 
 achieved a well-earned popularity and success. 
 
 A. Schrader. 
 
 Bakery and Confectionery, 1019 West Madison Street. 
 
 Mr. Schrader has one of the finest and most at- 
 tractive establishments in this part of the city. He 
 does a large business, and has a fine stock of all 
 kinds of confectionery, cakes, pies, ices and soda- 
 water. This bakery is noted for the fine quality of
 
 FIFTY YEARS' PROGRESS. 
 
 its bread, which alone draws a large custom. The 
 premises occupied consist of first floor and base- 
 ment, and are well arranged for the rapid prosecu- 
 tion of business. Steam power is used, and every 
 modern appliance necessary for this trade can be 
 found here. His creams are most excellent in flavor, 
 and are much sought after by families in the vicinity. 
 Mr. Schrader has been in the business for over six 
 years. This is his life trade, and he superintends 
 the filling of all orders received. He is a native of 
 Germany, and came to Chicago in 1868. 
 
 ences are given, and all orders meet with prompt 
 attention. His patrons comprise Marshall Field & 
 Co., Brunswick, Balke & Co., H. Schultz, and other 
 
 large firms in the city, including hotels, restaurants, 
 business and private houses. None of his insect 
 powder contains the least bit of poison, and never 
 loses its strength. 
 
 John J. Inkersell. 
 
 Groceries, 1006 West Madison Street. 
 Those who wish to secure fine and choice grocer- 
 ies will always find them at the popular and well- 
 known family grocery 
 store of John J. Inker- 
 sell, located at No. 
 1006 West Madison 
 street. His store is 
 well stocked with a 
 complete line of sta- 
 ple and fancy groceries 
 of every description, 
 and no one can fail 
 to be suited who pays 
 him a visit. Great 
 care is taken in his 
 selection so as to al- 
 ways keep on hand a 
 fresh stock of goods. 
 He has been a resi- 
 dent of Chicago for a 
 number of years, and 
 thoroughly understand 
 every feature of the 
 retail grocery trade. 
 Although only estab- 
 lished in business 
 since Nov. 21, 1885, 
 he has succeeded in 
 building up a large and 
 lucrative trade among the best families of this 
 section of the city. 
 
 The Corey Car and Mfg. Co. 
 
 Successors to Francis W. Corey & Co., 87 North 
 
 Ashland Avenue. 
 
 This company are successors to Francis W. Corey 
 & Co., who begun the business in 1873 at La Porte, 
 Indiana, but in 1885 was changed to the present 
 company. They are manufacturers of all kinds and 
 styles of side, end, rotary and bottom dumping cars 
 
 I. Blumenthal. 
 
 97 1-2 North Wells Street. 
 
 Mr. I. Blumenthal is a manufacturer and dealer in 
 all kinds of vermin exterminators. His premises 
 are located at No. <dl l / 2 North Wells street. His 
 is probably the most successful article of its kind in 
 the market, and will effectually exterminate roaches, 
 ants, moths, fleas, water-bugs, mosquitoes, lice in 
 animals, etc., and all kinds of insects on flowers and 
 plants, and will exterminate rats and mice. It is 
 sold in all parts of the United States. Contracts 
 are also taken by Mr. Blumenthal to exterminate 
 any of the above-named vermin. The best of refer- 
 
 of any desired capacity. These cars are made from 
 the best seasoned oak, or from iron throughout, and 
 are for use in railroad grading, parkways and land- 
 scape grading, brickyards, stone quarries, lime 
 works, gravel pits, mines of every description, sugar 
 and cotton plantations, levee building, coal and ore 
 docks, tunnel work, peat works, and for logging and 
 narrowgauge railroads. All the wheelsare thoroughly 
 chilled and annealed, while the best skilled labor is 
 employed in every department. They also manu- 
 facture all kinds of portable track, frogs, switches 
 and curves, as well as iron platforms and all styles 
 of hand cars, for section work and patrol or tele- 
 graph service. Their works contain .the latest and 
 best improved machinery used for this kind of 
 business. Thirty-five skilled and experienced hands 
 are employed, while their trade extends not only 
 all over the Union, but to South America, Cuba and 
 Mexico.
 
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 A BUSINESS TOUR OF CHICAGO. 
 
 James H. Rice Co 
 
 Importers of Polished, Rough and Crystal Plate Glass, 
 13, 15 and 17 Quincy Street. 
 
 The growth of Chicago as a business center has 
 not only been very rapid, but its history is one of 
 advanced strides toward the position it now so cred- 
 itably occupies. Every department of commerce 
 has kept pace with this marvelous growth, and today 
 are to be seen the colossal results of the ability and 
 energy of her citizens, in which the glass trade forms 
 a most important branch, one of the leading repre- 
 sentatives being the James H. Rice Co. The busi- 
 ness was established just after the fire in 1871, by 
 James H. Rice, and conducted with eminent success, 
 the result of which is the present stock company, 
 which was organized January 1, 1884, with a paid-up 
 cash capital of $100,000, and whose officers are 
 Messrs. James H. Rice, president; J. M. Vernon, 
 treasurer; and E. Flanigan, secretary. The company 
 do an extensive wholesale and retail business, im- 
 porting direct every grade of polished, rough and 
 crystal plate glass, and handling large quantities of 
 English, French and American window-glass, also 
 French plate and German mirrors, colored, embossed 
 and enameled glass. To accommodate the immense 
 stock carried, a removal was effected, at the opening 
 of the year, from their former location, Nos. 80 and 
 82 Adams street, which had been occupied by them 
 so many years, to their present spacious premises, 
 Nos. 13, 15 and 17 Quincy street, a modern con- 
 structed six-story building, one hundred feet square 
 in dimensions. The stock carried embraces the 
 choicest goods in the market, and the resources of 
 the company are such that the largest orders can be 
 executed promptly and on reasonable terms. 
 
 Wilber Mercantile Agency. 
 
 Special Direct Mercantile Reports, Offices 182 and 184 
 Dearborn Street. 
 
 The Wilber Mercantile agency was established in 
 1872, and during the intervening period it has effec- 
 tually demonstrated its usefulness in the commer- 
 cial world. In every town in the Union and 
 Canadian provinces they have as a representative a 
 responsible attorney, some 8,000 in number, through 
 whom, by an ingenious system of blanks, special di- 
 rect mercantile reports may be obtained, and debts 
 collected. Its attorney lists are published annually 
 and revised by supplemental issues monthly, thus 
 rendering them more reliable than any others in 
 existence. Each attorney is supplied with the 
 attorney list and supplemental issues, thus enabling 
 them to use it as a medium through which they 
 may transact their own law and collection business, 
 and, as a result, attorneys by the thousands testify 
 that more business comes to them through the Wil- 
 ber agency than from all others. The advantages 
 are manifest and have not failed to commend 
 themselves to the leading business houses in the 
 country, from whom indorsements are daily re- 
 ceived; a few from Chicago being quite sufficient, 
 among whom are Armour & Co., John V. Farwell 
 
 & Co., Sprague, Warner & Co., Reid, Murdoch & 
 Fischer, John A. Tolman Co., Hart Bros., Leopold 
 Bros. & Co., Kohn Bros., Phelps, Dodge & Palmer, 
 Greensfelder, Florsheim & Co., Selz, Schwab & 
 Co., S. A. Maxwell & Co., James H. Walker & Co., 
 Giles Bros. & Co., Daily Inter Ocean, Chicago Tri- 
 bune and Chicago Times. Subscribers are entitled, 
 first, to make inquiries regarding delinquents; 
 second, to obtain special direct mercantile reports 
 and the prevention of making bad debts; third, the 
 best possible assistance in collection of accounts. 
 Another marked feature is that when a firm is in- 
 terrogated by the agency's representative as to 
 their financial standing, the replies are taken 
 down by them in writing and filed away as state- 
 ments to obtain credit, so that if untruthful, and a 
 loss occurs to the seller, the firm becomes liable to 
 criminal prosecution. The agency deals only with 
 wholesale and manufacturing houses, and it is need- 
 less to say are doing a large business. The officers 
 of the agency are Messrs. M. D. Wilber, president, 
 now United States district attorney for the east- 
 ern district of New York, located at Brooklyn, New 
 York, and E. J. Wilber, secretary and business 
 manager in charge. The general offices are at 
 Chicago with branches in all the leading cities. 
 
 L. Eaton. 
 
 Dentist, 235 State Street. 
 
 The profession of dentistry unites both mechanical 
 skill and theoretical knowledge in a degree peculiar 
 to no other profession, while among dental prac- 
 titioners in Chicago, few have attained a finer repu- 
 tation than Mr. Eaton. He has had many years' 
 experience, and began the practice of his pro- 
 fession at Elmira, N. Y., removing to Chicago in 
 1870, and established his office at No. 94 Washington 
 street, where in the great fire of 1871 his entire out- 
 fit was destroyed. He has been in his present 
 central location continuously for the past eleven 
 years. Dr. Eaton has built up a large and influen- 
 tial practice, including among his patrons many of 
 our leading citizens and families. As a dentist of 
 rare professional skill and ability he is unequaled, 
 while the satisfactory manner in which he covers 
 every branch of his profession has won the con- 
 fidence and esteem of the entire community. 
 
 I. Jonas. 
 
 Merchant Tailor, 22 Rush Street. 
 Mr. Jonas has a fine trade, and a standard reputa- 
 tion in Chicago for good work, fine material, and for 
 perfectly fitting and stylish garments, and his 
 patronage is among our best people. A stock of 
 select patterns of the latest styles is kept constantly 
 on hand in his store from which to make selections. 
 Clothing is also cleaned, dyed and repaired at very 
 reasonable rates. Mr. Jonas is a native of Germany, 
 and came to Chicago in 1882, but did not begin 
 business until March 1, 1885. His trade at present 
 is very good and rapidly increasing.
 
 FIFTY YEARS' PROGRESS. 
 
 71 
 
 H. G. Medcalfe & Co. 
 
 Prescription Druggists, 72 North Clark Street, Between 
 
 Michigan and Illinois Streets, Telephone No. 3158. 
 This house keeps constantly on hand a superior 
 quality of goods, and satisfaction is rendered in the 
 compounding of prescriptions. The business capac- 
 ity and judgment 
 displayed in the 
 management o f 
 this establish- 
 ment has attract- 
 ed a large and 
 first-class patron- 
 age, which is rap- 
 idly increasing, 
 and today they 
 enjoy as large a 
 measure of suc- 
 cessand maintain 
 as high a reputa- 
 tion asanysimilar 
 concern in the 
 city, not only with 
 the general pub- 
 lic, but with the 
 medical frater- 
 nity as well. The 
 business dates its 
 origin back to 
 1859. This house 
 has many stand- 
 ard preparations, 
 but chief among 
 them is Syrup of 
 Red Spruce Gum 
 for coughs and 
 colds, Elixir Ape- 
 rient and Corn- 
 cure. These three 
 /e many warm 
 friends, not only 
 in the west, but throughout the east and south, 
 where many can be found who will testify to 
 their unqualified merit. They are also western 
 wholesale agents for Dr. M. M. Townsend's Hay 
 Fever, Asthma, and Catarrh Remedy, so popular 
 with the public. Dr. Medcalfe was a native of Bal- 
 timore, Md., and a graduate of one of the leading 
 medical colleges there. He was a surgeon in the 
 regular army during the late war. Early in 1859 he 
 came to Chicago to begin the business described 
 . above. At his death some seven years ago.his eldest 
 son, Mr. H. G. Medcalfe, succeed'ed to the business. 
 
 C. W. Fullerton. 
 
 Attorney at Law, 94 Dearborn Street, Chicago. 
 Mr. C. W. Fullerton is well known in this city in 
 connection with law and the bar and honorable 
 conduct in the transaction of legal business. He 
 has at the present time a subdivision of about 
 one hundred acres in Lake View, just outside 
 
 the city limits, bordering on Fullerton avenue, 
 and only 3^ miles from the court-house. This 
 land is for sale for manufacturing purposes. This 
 district is admirably suited for such purposes, 
 being very convenient to the river, lake, city and 
 railroads. The well-known reaper factory of Deer- 
 ing & Co. is in close proximity, as are also several 
 others of almost equal note. This land has been in 
 the possession of the Fullerton family for the last 
 fifty years, and there has been but one conveyance 
 since the original grant was made; the title is there- 
 fore clear and unquestionable. This land is for sale 
 in lots of ten acres and upwards. Mr. Fullerton's 
 office is located at 94 Dearborn street, to which all 
 communications should be addressed. 
 
 A. H. Andrews & Co. 
 
 Manufacturers of Fine Office Furniture, Bank Fittings, Etc., 
 
 195 and 197 Wabash Avenue. 
 
 The business of this house is that of special lines 
 of furniture, as they do not manufacture common 
 household goods. The list of the manufactures 
 
 includes office furniture, bank counters and railing, 
 opera chairs, parlor folding beds and school furni- 
 ture or desks and all kinds of school merchandise or 
 apparatus. The well-known reputation of this firm 
 appears to have been largely due to a determination, 
 from the very outset, to select the best material for 
 their stock, and never to trust the reports of the 
 country lumber seller who claims that his wood had 
 been so many months or years in seasoning, but do 
 their own kiln-drying by a new process in what is 
 known as the Noyes lumber dryer, which they 
 find very valuable in preparing lumber for their 
 purposes. Their one hundred varieties of office 
 desks, samples of which have been seen in the 
 various expositions, are their own best advertisement 
 and have needed no special notice. Many lines of 
 railway have also adopted their desks, specially de- 
 signed for offices and stations of railway companies. 
 The bank fittings of the firm are well known, espe- 
 cially throughout the northwest and the south. To 
 this department they have added the new and stylish 
 brass work for gates or wickets, which is very su- 
 perior and of original designs. The improved opera 
 chairs, designed by this house, have attracted much 
 attention, with their various appliances, both for 
 comfort and reduction of space. The Andrews fold- 
 ing beds are made in various designs, several of which 
 are highly artistic, and represent dressing cases, bu- 
 reaus, book cases, etc., while some have the addition 
 of a writing table. In addition to these specialties
 
 79 
 
 A BUSINESS TOUR OF CHICAGO. 
 
 thus briefly mentioned, the firm have always manu- 
 factured that staple article called the public school 
 desk; also the various articles under the head of 
 school merchandise, such as globes in a very large 
 variety, maps, blackboards, etc., and as is well known, 
 A. H.' Andrews & Co. have for years led off in this 
 line of manufacture?. All in all, this house is a 
 standard one, on this fiftieth year of our history as a 
 municipality. 
 
 Fred. G. Frank & Brother. 
 
 Brokers and Dealers in Bonds, Stocks, Notes, Etc., 
 
 09 Washington Street. 
 
 The firm of Fred. G. Frank & Brother have been 
 for the last eight years dealers in bonds, stocks, 
 notes, etc., and are members of the Chicago Stock 
 Exchange. These brothers, having had over twenty- 
 one years' experience in some of the largest houses 
 in this city and New York, commenced on their own 
 account, and have succeeded in establishing a large 
 and widely connected business. A specialty is made 
 of investment and foreign exchange, both in specie 
 and notes. Loans are negotiated, exchange and 
 drafts issued on European banks and houses. An 1 
 office of this kind is one of the most useful in trans- 
 mitting or receiving sums of money from abroad. 
 The firm itself is well known in the business com- 
 munities of the city as one of the most reliable and 
 rising business houses of the class existing. The 
 offices are central and easily accessible from all parts 
 of the city, and any wishing to transact any business 
 of the nature quoted above will not do better than 
 by paying F. G. Frank & Bro. a visit. 
 
 Ivison, Blakeman & Co 
 
 Publishers, 149 Wabash Avenue, John C. Ellis, Manager. 
 The American educational system is unquestiona- 
 bly the finest and best organized of any in the 
 world, and naturally requires text books of the 
 very highest order, with the publication of which the 
 time-honored name of Ivison, Blakeman & Company 
 will always be inseparably connected. The founder 
 of this great business, Mr. Henry Ivison, was born 
 in Glasgow, Scotland, in 1808, and at twelve years 
 of age came to this country, and found congenial 
 employment in a Utica, N. Y., store. In 1830, see- 
 ing a favorable opening in Auburn, N. Y., he entered 
 into business there on his own account, and in 1846 
 removed to the city of New York, to form a co-part- 
 nership with Mr. Mark H. Newman in the publica- 
 tion of school and college text books. In 1856, Mr. 
 Phinney was admitted to the firm, and shortly after, 
 as the business grew in volume and importance, Mr. 
 Birdseye Blakeman became a partner. In January, 
 1882, three years prior to his decease. Mr. Ivison, 
 after having been the honored head of this house 
 for upwards of thirty years, retired and transferred 
 his interests to his son, Mr. David B. Ivison, who, 
 however, had been an active partner since 18(34. 
 During 1868, the demand of the firm's western trade 
 had become so large that a branch was opened In 
 
 Chicago, with S. C. Griggs Si Co., which arrange- 
 ment continued until 1870, when the firm opened an 
 office and store-room at No. 133 State street, where 
 the premises and stock were destroyed in the great 
 fire of October, 1871. They promptly reopened at 
 No. 273 West Randolph street, and in 1872, when 
 rebuilt, removed to Nos. 133 and 135 State street, 
 and eventually, in 1882, occupied their present 
 eligible and central location, at No. 149 Wabash 
 avenue, which contains an extensive and complete 
 assortment of the firm's publications, embracing 
 well-known text books in nearly all branches of 
 study, by such eminent educators and litterateurs as 
 Horatio Robinson, C. W. Sanders, Wm. Swinton, 
 Asa Gray, James D. Dana, David A. Wells, Arnold 
 Guyot, LeRoy Cooley, and others, and which are 
 pronounced the best by the most experienced and 
 successful teachers in our schools and colleges east 
 and west. For some years past the management of 
 the Chicago house has been in the charge of Mr. 
 John C. Ellis. Ivison, Blakeman & Co's publica- 
 tions are perfect specimens of the typographical and 
 binder's arts. They are collectively known as "The 
 American Educational Series of School and College 
 Text Books," and are introduced at prices which 
 afford a substantial inducement apart from their in- 
 trinsic merits. 
 
 M. D. Rider 
 
 Wholesale and Retail Dealer in Blank Books and Sta- 
 tionery of Every Description, 129 La Salle Street, 
 
 Four Doors North of Madison Street. 
 The expenses of this house are low, and as the 
 business is all conducted on a cash principle, the 
 proprietor is enabled to quote as low rates as any 
 retailer in the trade. Besides a large retail local 
 business, this house does a considerable wholesale 
 trade, both in the city and outside, in all parts of 
 the States, north, south and west, even supplying 
 goods as far as California. Mr. M. D. Rider com- 
 menced in this business six years ago, at 170 East 
 Madison street, where he continued till his removal 
 to 129 La Salle street in May of last year. He 
 manufactures, on the premises, blank books of all 
 kinds, to order, while his general stock is obtained 
 direct from eastern manufacturers. A standard line 
 of goods of all grades is kept on hand, and one well 
 worth a visit from anyone interested in or requiring 
 goods in. this line. 
 
 M. Thome. 
 
 Importer of Hair Goods, Hair Bazar, 157 State Street; 
 
 Wholesale Depot, 138 and 140 Wabash Avenue. 
 The house of M. Thome, importer of hair goods, 
 is one of the oldest engaged in this branch of busi- 
 ness in the west, having been established in 1871 at 
 No. 157 State street, and which is still the location 
 cf the retail hair bazar. In 1880 Mr. Thome 
 entered the wholesale trade, and was fortunate in 
 securing the present eligible and spacious premises, 
 where more than seventy-five skilled hands are em- 
 ployed in manufacturing all kinds of hair goods,
 
 FIFTY YEARS' PROGRESS. 
 
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 which for superiority of workmanship and finish are 
 unexcelled, while being himself a direct importer of 
 human hair from Europe in large quantities, he is 
 enabled to secure the best qualities of hair, and to 
 quote such prices for his goods as to defy compe- 
 tition. Mr. Thome is a German by birth, and has 
 been a resident of this city for many years, where 
 he is highly esteemed as an energetic, clear-headed 
 business man, honorable and fair in all transactions. 
 Of the stock but an inadequate idea can be conveyed. 
 Suffice it to say that it includes everything desirable 
 in the nature of human hair goods, and that the goods 
 themselves are what they should be, and their prices 
 correct, is best attested in the liberal patronage that 
 Mr. Thome has always been able to command. 
 
 the manufacture of its various specialties; among 
 which are the latest improved rubber stamps of 
 every description, banking and business stamps, 
 notarial and corporate seals, steel stamps, stencils, 
 badges, hotel, baggage and pool checks. A large 
 stock is carried, and all orders are executed promptly 
 at reasonable prices. The superiority of all work 
 turned out, and the liberal methods on which Messrs. 
 Sellschopp & Klockmann conduct their business has 
 won for the Columbia Rubber Stamp works a large 
 and prosperous trade. 
 
 A. S. Barnes & Co. 
 
 Publishers, 263 Wabash Avenue, Chicago. 
 As publishers of the newest, best and handsomest 
 school books in the world, the house of A. S. Barnes 
 & Co. may fitly be considered the representative firm 
 not only of Chicago, but of the country. Strictly 
 speaking, the house in this city, which is under the 
 management of Mr. Chas. J. Barnes, is a branch of the 
 New York house, Nos. Ill and 113 William street, 
 and since coming here early in 1869 their business has 
 developed with the growth of the west. Among their 
 more noted publications may be mentioned Steele's 
 Scientific series, Barnes' Drawing series, Barnes' Short 
 Studies in English, Barnes' National Copy Books, 
 Barnes" New National Readers, Barnes' General His- 
 tory of the World, Barnes' New Arithmetics, Barnes' 
 Elementary Geography, Barnes' Complete Geogra- 
 phy and a large number of other school and college 
 publications. Many of these works have reached an 
 enormous sale, as, for example, Barnes' New National 
 Readers with an annual demand for half a million 
 copies, and Barnes' Brief History of the United 
 States with a sale of over 150,000 copies. The suc- 
 cess of the house, brought about by the exercise of 
 ability, energy and a strict adherence to mercantile 
 honor, is in every respect typical of Chicago's remark- 
 able progress. 
 
 Columbia Rubber Stamp Works. 
 
 Sellschopp & Klockmann, Proprietors, Manufacturers of 
 Rubber Stamps of Every Description, Banking and 
 
 Business Stamps, Etc., 183 and 185 S. Clark St. 
 The trade in rubber and metal stamps for mer- 
 cantile use is one that has of late years grown in a 
 remarkable degree, one of its leading representatives 
 being the Columbia Rubber Stamp works, which, 
 though established as recently as 1885, has attained 
 a patronage and position in the trade seldom ac- 
 corded houses of much older origin. Messrs. P. F. 
 and H, A. Sellschopp and A. Klockmann, the pro- 
 prietors, are gentlemen of large experience in this 
 business, in which they were engaged in Germany, 
 their native land, prior to coming to this country, 
 four years ago. The factory employs a large force 
 of skilled workmen, and possesses every facility for 
 
 R. Ralston Jones. 
 
 Resident Engineer for Pittsburgh Testing Laboratory, 
 20 Portland Block. 
 
 Mr. Jones has been a citizen of Chicago for several 
 years, and as the resident engineer for the Pitts- 
 burgh Testing laboratory is known to the scientific 
 fraternities of Chicago generally as a peculiarly 
 active man in this line, and as one who has done his 
 share in advancing his profession to a higher plane 
 of usefulness. Mr. Jones is also the agent here of 
 the Thayer Manufacturing company, who are manu- 
 facturers of car bearings, babbitt metals, etc., and 
 also for the Solid Steel company, of Alliance, Ohio, 
 manufacturers of steel castings of all kinds. He is 
 a member of the American Society of Mechanical 
 Engineers, and also of the Western Society of En- 
 gineers, and was at one time for some years in the 
 employ of the government as engineer. The Pitts- 
 burgh Testing laboratory, for which Mr. Jones is 
 resident engineer, are inspecting and metallurgical 
 engineers and chemists, and test iron and steel, both 
 chemically and physically, in a most thorough man- 
 ner, and guarantee accuracy in all cases as to any 
 statements sent out from this laboratory, and mine 
 owners, mine inspectors and prospective buyers can- 
 not find a more reliable institution with which to 
 place their patronage. 
 
 The Geo. F. Child Adjustable Parlor 
 Chair Co. 
 
 281 Wabash Avenue. 
 
 This house was organized Oct. 2, 1885, for the 
 purpose of manufacturing the G. F. Child adjustable 
 parlor chair, which they are prepared in the most 
 scientific way to manufacture in all of its varieties 
 and styles. They use nothing but the best material 
 and employ none but skilled workmen. Manufac- 
 turing nothing else, it receives their full and undi- 
 vided attention. They guarantee their chairs to be 
 all claimed for them, in principle, construction and 
 durability. A careful examination of the chair will 
 reveal the fact that the inventor has surpassed 
 his highest imagination, and has produced, upon 
 scientific principles, and in an artistic way, one of 
 the most used and useful articles in the interest of 
 humanity. Nothing approaching it, is to be found 
 in the United States or elsewhere. The Geo. F.
 
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 Child adjustable parlor chair to be appreciated must 
 be seen and used. During the illness of Gen. Grant, 
 when the chair was first shown to the people of Day- 
 ton, Ohio, it was proposed among the prominent 
 citizens of that city that one of these chairs 
 be ordered and made in elegant upholstery, 
 and sent as a token of esteem from the 
 people to the illustrious soldier; accord- 
 ingly such was done, with result as follows: 
 New York, June 6th, 1885. (Special 
 telegram to the Cincinnati Commercial 
 Gazette.) General Grant and his family are 
 greatly pleased with the new and elegant 
 easy chair which the old hero has received 
 from the citizens of Dayton, Ohio. It is a 
 piece of marvelous workmanship, and many 
 a politician would be happy could he but 
 get in as many positions as the new chair. 
 The upholstering is extremely rich and 
 elegant, and, as Mrs. Grant says, "makes 
 the parlor look quite plain." Today the 
 General drew the chair up to the window 
 and reclined on it for an hour with a smile 
 of satisfaction on his face. The old chair 
 in which he spent so many weary hours has 
 been consigned to the attic, and when the Genera 
 wishes to lie off and be comfortable he chooses the 
 chair which the kind-hearted people of an Ohio city 
 sent him. 
 
 This has been accomplished by the above company, 
 whose business is confined strictly to the retail 
 trade. The butter is put up in four and eight pound 
 packages at their creamery at Ossian, Iowa, shipped 
 
 Peter Smith & Co. 
 
 cturers of Carriages, Buggies, Etc., 78 and 80 
 
 Michigan Street. 
 
 Mr. Smith is one of the oldest and most prominent 
 manufacturers of carts, buggies, carriages, milk, ex- 
 press, delivery and truck wagons in Chicago. The 
 business was established in 1863, May 1. His large 
 shop is equipped with every facility in the way of 
 machinery, tools and appliances for turning out the 
 most durable and easy-going vehicles. About twen 
 ty-five competent workmen are employed, and Mr. 
 Smith sees to it that none but the best material is 
 used, and none but the best and most satisfactory 
 work is turned out. He not only sells largely to the 
 city trade, but also ships his goods to all parts of the 
 west and northwest. Mr. Smith is a native of Ger- 
 many, and came to Chicago in 1842. This is his life 
 trade, and he is thoroughly conversant with every 
 feature of it, and readily merits the success attained 
 by his energy and perseverance. He is ably assist- 
 ed in the business by his son, George A. Smith, who 
 has been connected with the trade since 1881. 
 
 Charles Creamery Co. 
 
 F. R. Jackson, Manager, 68 and 70 North State Street. 
 Through the Charles Creamery company, located 
 at 68 and 70 North State street, it is possible for 
 the people of Chicago to secure as fine, pure cream- 
 ery butter as is sold in any market in the world. 
 
 here and distributed to all parts of the city 
 weekly. They also receive daily strictly fresh eggs, 
 every one of which is stamped, "Guaranteed strictly 
 fresh by Charles Creamery company." The busi- 
 ness was begun by C. W. Williams in 1880, at Ossian, 
 Iowa. Two years later a branch was established in 
 this city, which is under the management of Mr. 
 F. R. Jackson, who sees to it that every patron 
 receives the best of satisfaction. The cut above 
 is a view taken from life, and represents the source 
 that "has rendered Charles Creamery company so 
 popular. 
 
 Riverdale Distilling Co. 
 
 264 to 270 Kinzie Street, A. Junker, General Agent. 
 The premises of the Riverdale Distilling company 
 in this city consist of their offices and warehouse, 
 and are three stories in height, with a large base- 
 ment, and are 50x160 feet in dimensions. The 
 location is central, and all that could be desired 
 for the business. Their distillery is located at 
 Riverdale, Cook county, 111., and the whole plant 
 covers sixteen acres. The distillery is equipped 
 with all the most improved modern appliances. 
 They are distillers and rectifiers of alcohol, cologne, 
 French spirits, gin and whiskies, and their products 
 have a Standard reputation, their trade extending 
 all over the United States, and aggregating many 
 thousand dollars annually. Upwards of a million 
 bushels of grain are used during the year, and one 
 hundred hands are employed by the company. This 
 company also handles the reliable and noted "Fer- 
 mentum" compressed yeast, in which line they do a 
 large business. The officers are as follows: A. 
 Junker, president; J. J. Kissinger, treasurer; and 
 H. Wischemeyer, secretary. They have every facil- 
 ity for filling ail orders promptly.
 
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 78 
 
 Fred. Kaempfer. 
 
 Taxidermist and Dealer in Singing and Fancy Birds, Par- 
 rots, Goldfish, Etc., 169 East Madison Street. 
 
 This is the largest business of its kind in the west, 
 and was established in 1857, on Wells street (now 
 Fifth avenue), but as this did not prove a good 
 locality, Mr. Kaempfer rented a store on Clark 
 street, and afterwards on Madison, where it was 
 burned out at the big fire of 1871. After keeping a 
 temporary store on the West side for a year, in 1872 
 he removed to 127 Clark street, where he was doing 
 a good trade for nearly fifteen years. The steady 
 increase of his business forced him to look for larger 
 quarters, which he found at his present store No. 
 169 East Madison street, a much larger and more 
 commodious place. This large and varied assort- 
 ment includes in its category singing birds of all 
 kinds and particularly the fine singing Hartz moun- 
 tain canaries, which Mr. Kaempfer receives from 
 the most experienced and successful bird raisers in 
 Germany; a fine variety of all other fancy birds and 
 talking parrots of the best species of this bird ; cages 
 in large numbers and designs; also, birdseeds of all 
 kinds, and Kaempfer's prepared mocking bird food, 
 which is favorably known all over the country. Be- 
 sides, he keeps a complete stock of taxidermist 
 materials, tools, instruments and a full assortment 
 of bird and animal eyes, oologists' instruments 
 and entomological apparatus ; foreign bird skins, 
 mounted birds and animal heads, in fact, all that a 
 collector and naturalist may need. Fred. Kaempfer 
 Jr., his able assistant and oldest son, has charge of 
 the business at the store on Madison street, while 
 Mr. Kaempfer himself attends to the preparing and 
 mounting of birds and other specimens of natural 
 history, at his large shop and studio at 259 Elm 
 street. In connection with this he has a fine show 
 or private museum of stuffed birds and animals, all 
 of his own mounting, comprising a large and com- 
 plete collection of North American and European 
 game birds, a beautiful case of humming birds of 
 sixty different species, containing all the scarce 
 varieties. A large number of finely mounted heads 
 
 of buffalo, elk, moose, deer, antelope, bears and so 
 forth are shown. Mr. Kaempfer learned taxidermy 
 from his father, a noted taxidermist in Germany, and 
 has spent his whole life in the study and practice of 
 that art, and is now assisted in his workshop by his 
 youngest son William, and other skillful taxider- 
 mists. 
 
 John W. Masury & Son. 
 
 New York and Chicago; Manufacturers of Paints and 
 
 Varnishes; Chicago Office, Masury Building, 
 
 190, 191, 192 Michigan Avenue. 
 
 The extensive house of Messrs. John W. Masury 
 & Son is not only the oldest established, but also the 
 most prominent American house engaged in the 
 manufacture of fine house, car and carriage paints 
 and varnishes. The headquarters of the firm are lo- 
 cated in the city of New York, Bennett building, 
 corner Fulton and Nassau streets, with three large 
 factories in Brooklyn, the best equipped of the kind 
 in the world, and which give employment to up- 
 wards of four hundred hands, two of the establish- 
 ments being devoted to the manufacture of paints, 
 and the third to varnishes. The business was 
 founded in New York in 1835, and, during its half- 
 century of "existence has met with a remarkable 
 measure of success. The firm decided to open a 
 branch house here in 1877, and located at Nos. 
 
 138 and 140 Wabash avenue, but the firm, in order 
 to better accommodate its business, purchased a 
 central site and erected their present splendid ware- 
 house, Nos. 190, 191 and 192 Michigan avenue, into 
 which they moved in 1881. The premises are six 
 stories and basement in height, sixty by one hun- 
 dred and seventy-two feet in dimensions, and
 
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 A BUSINESS TOUR OF CHICAGO. 
 
 especially constructed and arranged for the storage 
 of the enormous stock of paints and varnishes 
 always carried here. Mr. M. J. House, a gentleman 
 who brings to bear vast practical experience and 
 an exceptionally perfect knowledge of paints and 
 varnishes, is in charge as manager of the Chicago 
 branch. Messrs. J. W. Masury & Son keep in 
 stock a complete line of house paints, including 
 railroad colors (tinted leads), liquid colors, pure 
 colors in oil and distemper, carriage and car paints, 
 all carefully and scientifically prepared, and are 
 the most economical, durable and brilliant of 
 any in the market; also large quantities of the cel- 
 ebrated varnishes manufactured by this house. 
 
 A full line of artists' tube paints are also manu- 
 factured, which the most eminent artists in the 
 United States pronounce in every way superior to 
 any others manufactured in this country or in 
 Europe. 
 
 The branch house in Chicago is directly rep- 
 resented to the trade by a force of ten men on the 
 road, while a staff of over thirty find steady employ- 
 ment in the various departments of the Michigan 
 avenue establishment. A significant fact in con- 
 nection with the reputation of this house is that 
 almost if not all others guarantee their goods "equal 
 to Masury's," thus according them " the standard of 
 quality." 
 
 Simpson, Hall, Miller & Co. 
 
 Manufacturers of Fine Silver-Plated Ware, M. N. Burchard, 
 
 Manager, 137 and 139 State Street. 
 The development which has attended the manu- 
 facture of electroplated ware is now admitted to be 
 largely the result of the distinguished enterprise of 
 Messrs. Simpson, Hall, Miller & Co., who, in their 
 persistent efforts to better their products, have actu- 
 ally forced other manufacturers to follow suit or be 
 debarred from participation in the benefits of the 
 trade. The house was originally founded in 1834. 
 by Mr. Samuel Simpson, the pioneer of the electro- 
 plate trade, and as the business grew, the firm of 
 Simpson, Hall, Miller & Co. was formed, whose in- 
 terests were eventually capitalized in 1865, the com- 
 pany being duly incorporated under the old familiar 
 firm name and style, the present officers being 
 Messrs. Samuel Simpson, president; Clarence H. 
 Brown, treasurer; Andrew Andrews, secretary; and 
 G. W. Hull, superintendent. At Wallingford, Conn., 
 they possess the largest and best equipped factories 
 in the country, in their line, for the manufacture of 
 electroplated table silverware of all kinds, and also 
 of the celebrated Wm. Rogers knives, forks and 
 spoons, of which they have the sole control ; in fact, 
 Mr. Rogers personally is in charge of this depart- 
 ment of the factory. In 1884, they opened their 
 Chicago branch, at No. l(iO State street, in charge of 
 Mr. M. N. Burchard, who had been connected with 
 the company since September, 1883, and than whom 
 none are better acquainted with the wants of the 
 western trade, with which, as a member of the St. 
 Louis house of Cheever. Burchard & Co., he had 
 been identified for upwards of thirty years. In 
 April, 1885, the present spacious salesrooms were 
 
 occupied, wherein a display of silver-plated and 
 Rogers ware is made, the like of which cannot be 
 duplicated in the west, while their perfect manufac- 
 turing facilities enable such prices to be quoted as 
 absolutely defy competition, the trade developed 
 making their house the most prominent alike both 
 west and east, and the representative exponent of 
 the silver-plate industry of the United States. 
 
 The Bee-Hive. 
 
 State Street, Opposite the Palmer H 
 
 No review of the industries of Chicago commem- 
 orative of her semi-centennial celebration would be 
 complete without mention of the Bee-Hive, the dis- 
 tinctive bargain house of the city as regards every- 
 thing in the line of dry goods, fancy goods, millinery, 
 etc., yet although cheap in price, the quality is of 
 the best, and it is only through the command of 
 large capital and constant attention to the market 
 that Messrs. Morgenthau, Bauland & Co. are ena- 
 bled to quote bargain prices. The store is large, and 
 the goods and fittings most tastefully arranged, 
 while there is not an article, imported or domestic, 
 which the Bee-Hive cannot furnish to accommodate 
 the purse of the rich and the poor alike, from the 
 most expensive silks of Lyons to the cheapest 
 calicos, the handsomest India shawls to the modest 
 sack, there is nothing wanting to suit all conditions 
 and tastes. To give an idea of the tremendous vol- 
 ume of business continually done, it may be men- 
 tioned that three hundred employes are always kept 
 at work, while the double store has recently been 
 enlarged by taking in the adjoining building. 
 Its location, directly opposite the Palmer house, is 
 considered the best in the city for the retail trade. 
 The great specialty of the house is their millinery 
 department, in which branch they excel every estab- 
 lishment west of New York city, keeping, as 
 they do, the most complete assortment of hats for 
 ladies, misses and children, and all kinds and styles 
 of materials used for trimming purposes. The Bee- 
 Hive receives during the seasons Weekly ship- 
 ments direct from Paris, and are thus enabled to 
 show the latest novelties simultaneously with the 
 most fashionable milliners in New York city. 
 
 Fred. P. Buell & Co. 
 
 General Fire Insurance, 175 La Salle Street. 
 Among the prominent fire insurance firms in this 
 city is that of Messrs. Fred. P. Buell & Co., than 
 whom none have been more fortunate in establish- 
 ing and maintaining a high reputation, and certainly 
 none enjoy a larger share of well-earned success. 
 Established in 1886, and conducted on sound busi- 
 ness principles, it was not long before the firm of
 
 FIFTY YEARS' PROGRESS. 
 
 Fred. P. Buell & Co. reached a front rank in their 
 line. Mr. Buell has enjoyed a long and valuable 
 experience as an underwriter, through his prior ac- 
 tive connection with well-known companies, and 
 possesses special facilities for placing large lines 
 without delay. Some of the oldest and most relia- 
 ble insurance agents in the city have placed all the 
 brokerage business they formerly did into Mr. Buell's 
 hands. He also places risks for some of the largest 
 firms in the west and northwest. Risks are placed 
 in any State in the Union, and none but the best 
 and most reliable companies are represented. He 
 is a native of Hamilton, 111., and an old resident of 
 Chicago, in whose mercantile circles he is esteemed 
 a gentleman of unmistakable ability, keen intelli- 
 gence and unswerving integrity, with whom those 
 who place their commissions will find their interests 
 carefully guarded in every particular. 
 
 There is no establishment in Chicago that shows 
 more conspicuously the rapid development and im- 
 provement in the art of photography than that of 
 J. K. Stevens' gallery, in the McVicker theater 
 building. This is the result of the close personal 
 application to every department of his chosen pro- 
 fession. Mr. Stevens begun the business on the 
 West side twenty-seven years ago, near the corner of 
 Madison and Halsted streets, and built up one of the 
 largest galleries on that side. In fact, ever since the 
 
 inception of his business here, he has been one of the 
 recognized leading artists in Chicago. In 1874 Mr. 
 Stevens moved to the South side, and after various 
 changes, finally, two years ago, located in his present 
 central and commodious quarters. His gallery oc- 
 cupies two floors, his reception rooms being hand- 
 somely furnished and equal to any drawing room in 
 elegance and comfort, and his operating department 
 is equipped with all the most improved modern ap- 
 paratus and appliances. Mr. Stevens employs ^rom 
 twenty-eight to thirty skilled and experienced assist- 
 ants, at the head of whom is L. W. Stevens, son of the 
 proprietor. Mr. Stevens possesses every facility for 
 turning out first-class work in the most prompt and 
 satisfactory manner, while his prices are very moder- 
 ate. Photography in all its branches is attended to, 
 special attention being given to children's pictures, 
 and in this line he has won a reputation second to 
 none in Chicago. His work is not alone confined to 
 this city, as is proven from the fact that in one day 
 his order book had fifteen States and Canada repre- 
 sented upon it. Mr. Stevens has been a resident of 
 Chicago for over thirty years, coming here from his 
 native State, New York. By a life study of his 
 chosen profession he has contributed much to the 
 advancement of modern photography in this city. 
 
 McCormack Bros. 
 
 Homoeopathic Pharmaceutists, Rooms 34, 35 and 36 Quincy 
 
 Building, 113 Adams Street, Opposite Post-Office. 
 This house is engaged in the preparation of all 
 the various drugs, chemicals, simples and therapeu- 
 tical appliances of the homoeopathic pharmacopoeia 
 and enjoys an extensive and increasing patronage 
 from the Atlantic to the Pacific. A leading feature 
 of the business is the manufacture of staple homceo- 
 pathic products for the general drug trade, consist- 
 ing of tinctures, triturates, pellets, liquids and other 
 remedial agents peculiar to homoeopathy. These 
 remedies are furnished in any and every degree of 
 attenuation to suit the notions of the prescriber or 
 the demands of the consumer, and are sent out from 
 the pharmacy in shape most convenient for handling, 
 dispensing or administering them. They are fur- 
 nished to the trade and for general use in the well- 
 known regulation homosopathic vials of hyaline 
 glass of uniform size and shape, which are carefully 
 sealed with their combination capping to guard as 
 far as possible against evaporation or contamination 
 through external influences. It is understood that 
 retail druggists do not generally have sufficient 
 tirrie nor the necessary conveniences for the prepara- 
 tion of homceopathic medicines, and are unable to 
 prepare them for themselves on a small scale so ac- 
 curately and economically as can be done by manu- 
 facturing pharmacists like McCormack Bros., who 
 devote their skill and attention to the business on a 
 large scale; hence it is that the products a this 
 pharmacy arc in such active demand by the retail 
 drug trade throughout the country, to whom they 
 are sold in any quantities required. Another feature 
 of the McCormack Bros', business is the furnishing 
 of family cases of selected homoeopathic remedies, for
 
 78 
 
 A BUSINESS TOUR OF CHICAGO. 
 
 family or individual use, with books describing the 
 disorders to which they are applicable, and giving 
 directions for their proper administration in all ordi- 
 nary cases. Thousands of families have procured 
 them and can testify to their great convenience and 
 value in the treatment of common ailments. McCor- 
 mack Bros, also furnish veterinary cases of homoeo- 
 pathic remedies adapted to the diseases of all domes- 
 tic animals, including horses, cattle, sheep, hogs, 
 poultry, etc. Horse-owners, stock-raisers, farmers 
 and all others having the care of animals find these 
 remedies of the greatest service in curing the dis- 
 eases to which animals are subject. None but skilled 
 and trusty assistants are employed in manipulat- 
 ing and preparing the McCormack Bros', remedies, 
 and the utmost care is taken to produce them in 
 absolute purity and perfection. From modest and 
 moderate beginnings this house has built up during 
 the past ten years an extensive patronage among 
 jobbers and retailers of drugs, and their remedies 
 have become known and valued in thousands of 
 households from one end of the country to the 
 other. For further information concerning the 
 remedies or the business of the firm, address McCor- 
 mack Bros., homoeopathic pharmacists, rooms 34, 35 
 and 36, 113 Adams street, Chicago. 
 
 ing on basis of estimate. The machines are manu- 
 factured in Chicago, a spacious foundry and machine 
 shop, at the corner of Jefferson and Fulton streets, 
 being utilized for this purpose. These machines 
 may be ordered either direct from Mr. Whitcomb, 
 rooms 31 and 33, Commercial National Bank build- 
 ing, patentee and sole proprietor, or through his 
 traveling salesmen, by whom he is represented in all 
 the mining districts. The Consolidated Coal Co., of 
 St. Louis, have over one hundred of them in use in 
 their mines. They are also in use by W. P. Rend, 
 of Chicago, the Bloomington and Springfield Coal 
 Co., of Springfield, 111., the St. Louis Ore and Steel 
 Co., Brazil Block Coal Co., the Tennessee Coal, Iron 
 and Railroad Co., in the Pratt mines of Alabama, 
 and many others. 
 
 
 ^ * MUSIC TYPOGRAPHER fr PRINTER * 
 
 Geo. D. Whitcomb. 
 
 Proprietor Harrison Mining Machine, Rooms 32 and 33, Com- 
 
 mercial Bank Building. 
 
 Every day mining becomes more and more de- 
 pendent for its success upon labor-saving machinery, 
 the production of which, of different kinds, is a busi- 
 ness engaging the attention of the most talented 
 business men of the country. The introduction of 
 the now justly celebrated Harrison Mining Machine 
 
 
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 has wrought a veritable revolution in this industry, 
 constructed, as it is, substantially, and from the best 
 materials, and yet with such simplicity as to preclude 
 the possibility of any derangement of its parts. 
 The machines require only one operator and one 
 laborer to run them, and will do more work for each 
 cubic foot of air consumed than any machine in use. 
 They are manufactured in two sizes, respectively, 
 the "light" and "heavy" standard, the former, when 
 mounted, weighing only five hundred pounds, and 
 will shear five feet in height and four and a half in 
 depth; the latter weighing seven hundred pounds, 
 and of corresponding power. These machines are in 
 successful operation wherever mining is carried on,- 
 and are so reasonable in price as to be within the 
 reach of all. A feature of the business is in exam- 
 ining mining properties and furnishing machines and 
 estimates, with machines subject to sale after work- 
 
 The growth of musical literature is a pleasing 
 indication of the rapid increase of refinement and 
 culture throughout the country, and no city in the 
 United States has become a more important center 
 for the trade in this line than Chicago. In music 
 typography and printing, no one is better fitted 
 by natural ability and experience than Mr. H. S. 
 Bigelow. He was formerly located in Boston, but 
 removed to Chicago in 1883, where he occupies 
 suitable premises, admirably arranged and equipped 
 with every facility and convenience for the business, 
 and is now prepared to furnish on reasonable terms 
 electrotype plates for sheet music and music books 
 of all sizes and styles, while his arrangements with 
 artists are such that every variety of cover illustra- 
 tion can be had at short notice. In mechanical ex- 
 ecution his work is unexcelled, his composing rooms 
 being stocked with a most extensive supply of new 
 type, comprising all the latest styles, and to which 
 additions are constantly being made as new designs 
 are issued. While being practical in every depart- 
 ment of his art, Mr. Bigelow, in achieving success, 
 has built up a standard reputation for the artistic 
 merit of his work. 
 
 Bogue & Hoyt. 
 
 Real Estate Agency, 182 Dearborn Street. 
 The late course of events in the financial world 
 has fully demonstrated that there is no form of in- 
 vestment so safe and with such sure returns as real 
 estate, and especially is this the case with regard to 
 realty in the western metropolis, wherein prudent 
 and judicious investments are more popular than
 
 FIFTY YEARS PROGRESS. 
 
 ever. Prosecuting an enterprise in this direction is 
 the house of Bogue & Hoyt, one of the oldest and 
 leading in the real-estate trade, and one which has 
 contributed largely to the development of property 
 interests in Chicago. This house was originally 
 established in 1867 by Mr. Geo. M. Bogue, the firm 
 composed of himself, Henry W. Hoyt and Hamil- 
 ton B. Bogue, having been organized in 1883, these 
 gentlemen being among the best known members of 
 the real-estate fraternity, and who have developed a 
 large and permanent trade. Their connections are 
 of a most superior character, including among their 
 permanent customers many of our capitalists and 
 investors. As real-estate brokers, they have carried 
 through many of the heaviest transactions on record, 
 devoting themselves to securing the best possible 
 bargains for investors who can always implicitly rely 
 on their sound judgment as to present and prospec- 
 tive values of the residence and business section of 
 Chicago and its vicinity. The firm transact all 
 branches of a general real-estate business buying, 
 selling, exchanging, renting including the negotia- 
 tion of loans on bond and mortgage, the collection 
 of rents, and the placing of insurance risks at lowest 
 rates with the most reliable companies. A promi- 
 nent specialty with them is the management of es- 
 tates, in which line they enjoy an especially high 
 reputation and have permanently retained the confi- 
 dence of property owners. They have recently 
 directed their attention to fine residence property, 
 such as that on Drexel and Grand boulevards, Ken- 
 wood, Hyde Park and the like, in which their books 
 contain some of the choicest selections. Their busi- 
 ness methods have met the permanent approbation 
 of our leading citizens, while their appreciation of 
 values together with their extensive acquaintance 
 renders their services peculiarly valuable to owners 
 of realty and intending investors. 
 
 many of the leading novelties. The bulk of the 
 trade is with country houses in all parts of the 
 States and Canada. A large stock is always on 
 hand, and a well-illustrated catalogue is sent gratis 
 on application to the proprietor. 
 
 C. M. Linington. 
 
 Importer and Jobber of Fancy Goods, Notions, and Five and 
 Ten Cent Counter Supplies, 200, 202, 204 and 206 
 
 Randolph Street. 
 
 This business occupies the second floor of the 
 above mentioned numbers, covering an area of 
 eighty by one hundred and eighty feet. It was first 
 established twenty years ago, and has been located at 
 various places, chiefly in this immediate neighbor- 
 hood, till last year the present premises were occu- 
 pied. The stock consists of fireworks, tinware, 
 iron and steel hardware articles, cutlery, perfumery, 
 tools, toys, dolls, toilet and shaving requisites, 
 musical instruments, valises, canes, Satchels, pens, 
 stationery, pencils, brackets, optical instruments, 
 glassware, pipes, combs, ladies' work baskets, etc., 
 etc. The chief specialties are five, ten, twenty-five, 
 forty-nine and ninety-nine cent counter goods, and 
 these are supplied at a cost not to be met with in 
 any other house in the United States. The supplies 
 are obtained direct from the manufactories, and in 
 such large quantities that special rates are quoted. 
 The house also imports largely, direct from Europe, 
 
 Kesler Bros. 
 
 Real-Estate Dealers, 146 La Salle Street, First Floor. 
 In reviewing the real-estate interests of Chicago 
 the business naturally divides itself into two great 
 subdivisions, brokerage and dealing, the latter in- 
 cluding those whose transactions are confined to 
 their own prop- 
 erty exclusively, 
 and among these 
 the firms engag- 
 ed in the erection 
 of buildings for 
 sale naturally 
 take precedence. 
 One of the most 
 widely known 
 firms thus engag- 
 ed is that of 
 Messrs. Kesler 
 Bros., who have 
 for years made a 
 specialty of build- 
 ing and selling 
 residences in 
 Chicago and vi- 
 .cinity, and are all the time planning new and beau- 
 tiful designs in cottages and two-story houses, or, in 
 short, any kind of house a purchaser may want, with 
 all modern improvements and built of elegant ma- 
 terial, which they are prepared to sell at prices 
 which must insure speedy enhancement in value, 
 and upon terms which even include monthly pay- 
 ments. The firm are offering an opportunity to 
 procure a home, to neglect which is nothing short 
 of improvidence. Messrs. S. W. and A. E. Kesler 
 are natives of Ohio, and have been established in 
 business here since 1868, and are universally re- 
 spected, as they are widely known throughout our 
 leading financial and business circles. 
 
 R. H. Sanborn & Co. 
 
 Western Agents for Celluloid Collars >nd Cuffs, 
 
 143 Fifth Avenue. 
 
 Though introduced to the public but a few years 
 ago, the utility of celluloid collars and cuffs has been 
 amply demonstrated, and their merits are now uni- 
 versally recognized. Large amounts of these goods 
 are annually sold in Chicago to supply points near 
 and far throughout the west and south, the great 
 bulk of which business is done by Messrs. San bom 
 & Co., who became established in this city in 187!) 
 as western agents of the leading manufacturer of 
 these goods. Their offices and salesrooms, located
 
 A BUSINESS TOUR OF CHICAGO. 
 
 at No. 143 Fifth avenue, are well adapted to their 
 business, the firm carrying a large stock in all the 
 latest styles and supplying all western jobbers and 
 retailers in their line in this city, in addition to the 
 large outside trade built up by their traveling sales- 
 men, while the prices named for these superior 
 goods enables retailers to place them within the 
 reach of all. The members of the firm are thorough- 
 ly experienced and practical gentlemen who spare no 
 pains to render satisfaction in every instance, while 
 the growth and prosperity of their house is the best 
 possible proof of the high estimation in which 
 Messrs. R. H. Sanborn & Co. are held by the trade. 
 
 Alsip Brick Co. 
 
 Brick Manufacturers, Office, Room 73, 159 La Salle Street, 
 Yard on 43d Street, West of Ashland Avenue, 
 
 and Chicago and Hamlin Avenues. 
 Like many other branches of industry in the 
 United States, the manufacture of bricks has under- 
 gone a veritable revolution, quite in keeping with 
 the rapid march of progress, while the competition 
 has become so severe that only those fully alive to the 
 requirements of the trade and enterprising enough 
 to utilize the most approved machinery in the in- 
 terest of speed and economy can hope for permanent 
 prosperity in the future. The house of Messrs. F. 
 and W. H. Alsip, lately merged into the Alsip 
 Brick Co., is one of our best known and most 
 highly esteemed as well as largest manufacturers of 
 brick, having turned out over forty million last year, 
 and has had an extended and honorable business 
 career, dating its foundation to the year 1871. The 
 firm possesses all the necessary qualifications to win 
 success, both as regards skill, capital and intelligence. 
 Everything requisite is at hand, while the appliances 
 and machinery used are complete in every particu- 
 lar, and specially adapted for the most thorough and 
 scientific prosecution cf the work. The yards at 
 43d street west of Ashland avenue, and Chicago and 
 Hamlin avenues, are very spacious, and employ 500 
 to 700 men in the season. Constant improvements 
 are being made, many of them of great magnitude 
 and at heavy expense, but the results of which place 
 them in a position to promptly supply the demand 
 and at the same time maintain the high standard 
 of quality which first gave them their prestige. 
 Messrs. Frank, Wm. H. and Frank B. Alsip, the first 
 a Pennsylvanian and the latter two lowans by birth, 
 are members of our Builders' Exchange, and in the 
 very prime of life have developed a business of more 
 than usual magnitude, and reflecting the highest 
 credit upon the fair fame of our city. 
 
 A Great Railway. 
 
 The Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul System. 
 The Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway com- 
 pany now owns and operates nearly fifty-six hundred 
 miles of thoroughly equipped road in Illinois, Wis- 
 consin, Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri and Dakota. 
 
 Each recurring year its lines are extended in all di- 
 rections to meet the necessities of the rapidly pop- 
 ulating sections of country west, northwest and 
 southwest of Chicago, and to furnish a market for 
 the products of the greatest agricultural and stock 
 raising districts of the world. In Illinois it operates 
 320 miles of track; in Wisconsin, 1,220 miles; in 
 Iowa, 1,575 miles; in Minnesota, 1,125 miles; in 
 Dakota, 1,190 miles; in Missouri (now building), 150 
 miles, and the end is not yet. It has terminals in 
 such large cities as Chicago, Milwaukee, La Crosse, 
 St. Paul, Minneapolis, Fargo, Sioux City, Council 
 Bluffs, Omaha and Kansas City, and along its lines 
 are hundreds of large and small thriving cities, towns 
 and villages. Manufacturing interests are culti- 
 vated, and all branches of trade find encouragement. 
 The railway company has a just appreciation of 
 the value of its patrons, and its magnificent earnings 
 are the result of the good business tact which char- 
 acterizes the management of its affairs. 
 
 The popularity of the line is attested by the fact 
 that, notwithstanding the strongest kind of competi- 
 tion of old and new lines, the Chicago, Milwaukee 
 & St. Paul railway continues to carry fully sixty 
 per cent, of all the business between Chicago, Mil- 
 waukee, St. Paul and Minneapolis. It is the best 
 patronized route to and from all points in Wiscon- 
 sin, Minnesota, Dakota and Iowa, and on the 
 completion of its Kansas City line, in 1887, it 
 will undoubtedly take equal rank with the older lines 
 leading to and from the southwest. 
 
 On all its through lines of travel the Chicago, 
 Milwaukee & St. Paul railway runs the most per- 
 fectly equipped trains of sleeping, parlor and din- 
 ing cars and coaches. No effort is spared to furnish 
 the best accommodations for the least money, and, 
 in addition, patrons of the road are sure of cour- 
 teous treatment from its employes. 
 
 Take it all in all, the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. 
 Paul is the peer of any railway in this or any other 
 country. 
 
 Henry Jansen. 
 
 Direct Importer and Dealer in Rhine Wines, 163 and 165 
 
 Washington Street. 
 
 The largest importer in this city of Rhine wine 
 exclusively is Henry Jansen. Some of the finest 
 casks in the world may be seen here made of solid 
 oak, of finest grain, and carved so elaborately as to 
 be quite works of art. The premises occupy a space 
 of 50x100 feet, and contained at time of visit an 
 average stock, that is, 150 casks of 80 gallons each 
 and 600 cases of bottled wines. The trade is both 
 wholesale and retail, of which the bulk is with re- 
 tailers, wine and spirit dealers. A large and grow- 
 ing outside business is also prosecuted. Mr. Wecker 
 commenced this trade here in 1873, but was bought 
 out by the present enterprising proprietor in 1880, 
 since when the sales have increased 300 per cent. 
 Mr. Jansen imports direct through the Chicago cus- 
 tom-house, and sells at low rates. His wines, being 
 of the finest quality, command a ready sale and give 
 satisfaction.
 
 FIFTY YEARS' PROGRESS. 
 
 81 
 
 Eastland & Duddleston. 
 
 Butchers, 83 and 85 Fifth Avenue. 
 
 Perhaps the largest retail establishment in the city 
 for all kinds of butchers' meats is that of Eastland 
 & Duddleston. The store is large, occupying two 
 buildings thrown into one, Nos. 83 and 85 Fifth 
 avenue. The store is a model of neatness and 
 cleanliness and is so centrally located that it is within 
 easy reach of all. parts of the city. The basement 
 and part of the store are used for the reception and 
 keeping of meat. Vast ice rooms, holding the pro- 
 ducts of six hundred cattle, form a sight worth see- 
 ing here. 
 
 No butcher's establishment in the city possesses 
 such accommodations for the reception and keeping 
 of meats in the warm weather as we have here. 
 
 The store has a frontage of thirty-five feet on Fifth 
 avenue and a depth of one hundred feet in the rear. 
 This firm has been established ten years, the last 
 seven of which have been spent in their present lo- 
 cation. 
 
 A specialty is made of supplying hotels, club- 
 houses and restaurants, while a large trade is with 
 families and private residents. 
 
 The firm has a widely extendingbusiness, and one 
 that includes many of the most influential and well- 
 known citizens amongst its customers. Their efforts 
 are to secure patronage by fair dealing, supplying 
 only the best class of meat and at the regular 
 market prices, and in this they have been most 
 
 larket prices, 
 accessful. 
 
 Win. Henning. 
 
 Manufacturer of Vinegar, Nos. 115 and 117 North Avenue. 
 Just west of Clybourn avenue is located the ex- 
 tensive vinegar works of Wm. Henning. His large 
 factory, fifty by one hundred and twenty-five feet in 
 dimensions and four stories in height, is well ar- 
 ranged for the business. The vinegar and com- 
 pressed yeast produced by Mr. Henning are manu- 
 factured by the most scientific and approved meth- 
 ods and apparatus, and in quality and general 
 excellence have a standard reputation. His vinegars 
 are noted for their purity and freshness and find a 
 ready sale throughout all parts of* the east, west and 
 northwest, and are much sought after by the city 
 merchants in this line. The business was begun in 
 1872 in a small way and is now one of the largest in 
 the city. Mr. H. is a native of Germany and came 
 to Chicago in 1862. 
 
 John J. Davis & Co. 
 
 Successors to R. W. Sweet & Co., Jobbers of Cigars, 
 274 East Madison Street. 
 
 Among the various interests which diversify the 
 industries of Chicago none deserves more prominent 
 mention than that of the cigar trade, giving employ- 
 ment as it does to large numbers of skilled opera- 
 tives and forming in many ways an important item 
 in estimating the manufacturing and commercial im- 
 
 portance of this enterprising and thriving city. One 
 of the most popular and energetic houses in the job- 
 bing department of the trade is that of John J. 
 Davis & Co., succeeding on January 1, 1887, to the 
 business of R. W. Sweet & Co., established in 1883. 
 The aim of the house is to place before the trade an 
 honest cigar at a reasonable price, one worthy of the 
 good opinions of smokers, and by scrupulously 
 maintaining the high character of their well-known 
 brands, "B. O. E.," " Old-Timer" and "La Inocenta," 
 to retain the patronage so lavishly bestowed upon 
 their predecessors. Commodious and well-appointed 
 premises, are occupied, in the very center of the busi- 
 ness district, and a full and complete stock of both 
 imported and domestic cigars carried, the reliability 
 of which is demonstrated by the steady demand aris- 
 ing for these goods wherever introduced, while the 
 facilities and resources of the house enable them to 
 quote prices difficult to duplicate elsewhere. Mr. 
 Davis has long been identified with the trade, to 
 whom he is well known as a gentleman of strict 
 integrity and reliability, and under whose guidance 
 this prominent house possesses every assurance of 
 even still further increased prosperity in the future. 
 
 Frederic Gaylord. 
 
 Real Estate, Room 31, 175 Dearborn Street. 
 The rapid growth of the city of Chicago abun- 
 dantly demonstrates that those who effected judicious 
 investments in realty years ago made the wisest 
 possible use of their capital. Mr. Gaylord has fine 
 properties on Calumet avenue, Forty-seventh street, 
 Garfield boulevard and Woodlawn avenue, where he 
 has at all times choice building sites at bargain 
 prices. He has resided in this city for over twenty 
 years, and was formerly engaged in the wholesale 
 grocery business, having, however, for twelve years 
 past devoted his attention to real estate. 
 
 Michener Bros. & Co. 
 
 Packers and Curers of the Celebrated " Banana Brand " of 
 
 Hams, and Dealers in Provisions Generally. Office, 
 
 Room 211, Insurance Exchange Building, 
 
 218 La Salle Street. 
 
 The packing trade is admittedly one of the greatest 
 factors in the remarkable development of the com- 
 merce of Chicago, and one of the leading houses in 
 this line is that of Michener Bros. & Co., packers 
 and curers of the celebrated "Banana Brand" of 
 hams, whose packing house at the Union Stock 
 Yards is equipped with all the most improved mod- 
 ern machinery and appliances, and wherein thousands 
 of workmen are employed constantly. The hams 
 are cured by a process which adds to the flavor of 
 the meat, renders it free from all injurious sub- 
 stances, and the unpleasant taste of excessive salt 
 so often noticed in those of other packers. Though 
 their specialty is the "Banana Brand" of hams, of 
 which a large sale is had all over the United States, 
 Messrs. Michener Bros. & Co. are also extensive 
 handlers of provisions generally, and possess com-
 
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 plete facilities for promptly filling all orders at the 
 ruling markets, both Messrs. J. Hart and W. W. 
 Michener being members of the Board of Trade. 
 The house is an old Philadelphia one, having been 
 established there in 1843, while the Chicago branch 
 was opened eight years ago, and has proved to be 
 eminently successful, doing a business which extends 
 all over the world. The extent of its operations 
 has made this house a prominent one even in Chicago, 
 the center of the packing trade, while the induce- 
 ments offered to patrons are of the most advan- 
 tageous character. 
 
 Enterprise Wire Cloth Mfg. Co. 
 
 Frederick Voss, Proprietor. 67 and 69 West Monroe Street. 
 Wire work and railings now enter largely into the 
 interior fitting and decoration of our large business 
 houses, and we find some of the largest manufac- 
 turing firms engaged in this class of work. One of 
 the oldest and most prosperous houses engaged in 
 this business is that of Frederick Voss, of 67 and 69 
 West Monroe street, whose establishment is known 
 as the Enterprise Wire Cloth Manufacturing Co. 
 He does a large business throughout the States as a 
 manufacturer of architectural and decorative wire 
 and iron work, bank and office railings, elevator 
 guards, window guards, stair rails, iron fences and 
 wire cloth and wire goods of every description. His 
 large factory here gives employment to forty-five 
 men. The business was started fourteen years ago 
 under the style of Keily & Voss, but two years ago 
 Mr. Voss succeeded to the entire control of the 
 concern. 
 
 Spalding Lumber Company. 
 
 Lumber Manufacturers, 248 South Water Street. 
 
 Foremost among the great lumber receivers of 
 Chicago today is the Spalding Lumber company. 
 In 1861 Mr. Jesse Spalding commenced, in a small 
 way, on the Wisconsin side of the Menominee river, 
 in Green Bay, locating yards in Chicago at Lumber 
 and Mitchell streets, south of Twelfth street. The 
 timber was cut and run down the Menominee river. 
 At that time the manufacture and sale of four mil- 
 lion to six million feet for an entire season seemed 
 very large. Twenty-three years ago Mr. Spalding 
 purchased the Cedar river property, thirty miles 
 north of Menominee, on Cedar river. The product 
 of the mills on the Menominee the past season was 
 forty million feet of lumber and of those on Cedar 
 river thirty million feet. Sales for the season were 
 about $1,000,000. Besides doing an immense 
 business on the cargo market, Mr. Spalding also had 
 yards in Chicago up to four years ago. It was. then 
 determined to abandon the retail trade. It is all 
 wholesale now, and so completely is the trade in 
 hand that no firm or company can sell cheaper, 
 when it comes to sharp competition. In bringing 
 the product of their mill to Chicago they employ a 
 line of barges of their own. 
 
 The Hon. Jesse Spalding has long been a rep- 
 resentative citizen of Chicago and the State, and has 
 
 held various positions of honor and trust, all the way 
 from city alderman up. He was also a member 
 of the National Republican convention of 1880. 
 As collector of customs of the port of Chicago he 
 inaugurated and enforced many changes and reforms 
 and put the affairs of the custom house on a prac- 
 tical, business-like basis. As popular as he is 
 wealthy, everyone in Chicago business circles knows 
 " Uncle Jesse Spalding." 
 
 The Thomson & Taylor Spice Co, 
 
 34 to 40 South Water Street. 
 
 The spacious buildings containing many acres of 
 floor room from 30 to 40 South Water street are 
 occupied by the Thomson & Taylor Spice Co. This 
 is the largest house in the trade in this country, and 
 about the oldest, being established in 1865. They 
 
 are direct importers of spices, coffees, indigos, etc., 
 and are also manufacturers of the various grades of 
 ground spices and coffees, mustards, baking pow- 
 ders, flavoring extracts, dry and liquid bluing, 
 hops and herbs, seeds, etc. They are also the pro- 
 prietors of the famous Red Cross lye and other 
 grades of lye and potash. This firm employ over 
 150 workmen in their factories, and their business 
 outside of Chicago is with the jobbing trade ex- 
 clusively, selling no goods to the retail trade. The 
 company was incorporated four years ago, and its 
 officers are Alex. M. Thomson, president; James E. 
 Taylor, vice president ; Geo. Thompson, secretary 
 and treasurer. 
 
 Murphy & Company. 
 
 Varnish Makers, 262 Wabash Av 
 Varnish is one of the most important of all the 
 aids to external decoration, and few articles of man- 
 ufacture have a more varied field of usefulness. 
 Much of interest might be written of its history and 
 mysteries, its manufacture and application, the trans- 
 formation of the fossil gums, hidden for ages in trop- 
 ical sands, into the mirror-like luster upon coach or 
 piano, and of the progress made in the methods of 
 its manufacture in the past few decades. It is not 
 more than a single generation ago that the itinerant 
 varnish-maker traveled from place to place and melt- 
 ed in the kitchen pot a mixture of gum, oil, and 
 turpentine sufficient to supply the carriage-maker 
 with enough "varnish" to last until his next yearly 
 visit. Today the manufacture of this article em-
 
 FIFTY YEARS' PROGRESS. 
 
 ploys enormous capital and extensive plant. Mur- 
 phy & Co. are undoubtedly, whether considered by 
 the quality of their products or the extent of their 
 operations, the leading house in their line in this 
 country, and have a history which is in full sympathy 
 with the spirit of the age. Their business was 
 started in 1864 in a very modest way at Newark, N. 
 J., which place is still the general headquarters, 
 No. 238 McWhorter street, and where their plant, in 
 its completeness and capacity for the production of 
 fine goods, is without an equal in this country or in 
 Europe. The company have also extensive works 
 at Cleveland, Ohio, No. 566 Canal street, and are 
 erecting on Twenty-second, Dearborn and Butter- 
 field streets, in Chicago, works that will rival their 
 Newark plant in capacity. They have offices at No. 
 231 Broadway, New York, and carry in storage full 
 lines of stock at No. 300 S. Fourth street, St. Louis, 
 and at No. 262 Wabash avenue, Chicago; the latter 
 a building fitted up with huge indestructible, fire- 
 proof tanks especially for their purpose, the average 
 stock therein carried being 35,000 gallons. The 
 company's total storage capacity closely approxi- 
 mates 500,000 gallons, and this one fact alone 
 carries with it the assurance of uniformity of quality, 
 an all-important element, which no other statement 
 could give. The foundation of the remarkable 
 success of this company lies undoubtedly in the 
 complete knowledge of the business possessed by 
 its managers, who are not only practical varnish- 
 makers, but practical business men. They under- 
 took to make only goods of a standard quality, and 
 never wavered from this policy. Manufacturing a 
 full line of coach, railway, cabinet and other varnish, 
 their product goes wherever varnish is used, but the 
 larger portion of their business is in railway and fine 
 coach goods and the higher grades of cabinet varnish. 
 The Chicago depot, which is under the charge of 
 Mr. F. H. Taylor, supplies not only the vast city 
 trade, but also that of the northwest, the Cleve- 
 land house supplying the middle west, and the St. 
 Louis house the far west and southwest, while 
 their New York department caters to the wants of 
 the balance of the union and their export trade, 
 which is large. 
 
 George Beaumont. 
 
 Architect, 115 Dearborn Street, Chicago. 
 
 Much of the prosperity and beauty of a city 
 depends upon its architects, and those of Chicago 
 have much to look back upon with pride. One of 
 the leading men in the profession is Mr. George 
 Beaumont, with office located at 115 Dearborn street. 
 
 This gentleman has been in the profession seven- 
 teen years, and has spent much of the earlier part of 
 his time on the continent of Europe, studying in 
 nearly every city of importance there. 
 , In 1879 he received the medal of the Leeds and 
 Yorkshire Architectural Society for the best class of 
 drawings. 
 
 He has been connected for six years with this 
 city, much of which time was spent in the capacity 
 of superintendent to the well-known late firm of 
 Wheelock & Clay. He is prepared to execute 
 
 plans and designs for any class of work required, 
 and is with his assistants kept busy executing orders 
 in this line. 
 
 He has superintended the building of some of the 
 largest and handsomest residences in the city, the 
 cost of which has in some instances reached over 
 $200,000. Though Mr. Beaumont is still a young 
 man, he has achieved much success and has been 
 recognized for his talent both here and abroad, being 
 a member of the Royal Institute of British Archi- 
 tects, London, and first vice president of the 
 Chicago Architectural Sketch club. 
 
 Wm. M. Dale. 
 
 Manufacturing and Dispensing Chemist, Corner Clark and 
 
 Madison Streets. 
 
 There is perhaps no branch of business which 
 requires a higher degree of proficiency and business 
 capacity than that of the chemist and pharmacist, 
 and in this connection we speak of our visit to the 
 "City Prescription Drug Store "under the proprietor- 
 
 ship and management of Mr. Wm. M. Dale. The 
 premises occupied are most central, being located 
 in the northeast corner of Clark and Madison 
 streets. The store is fitted up in the most thorough 
 and attractive manner, and contains the largest and 
 most complete soda and mineral water fountains in 
 the west. The store is amply stocked with pure 
 drugs and chemicals, all popular and desirable 
 patent medicines, perfumeries and toilet articles in 
 great variety, and in fact everything to be desired 
 in a first-class metropolitan establishment of this 
 description. Careful attention is given to the prep- 
 aration of physicians' prescriptions, which is under 
 the supervision of Mr. Dale and his corps of ex- 
 perienced clerks. Mr. Dale enjoys a high reputation 
 in this line, and possesses the highest qualifications 
 as a practical pharmacist, and has the confidence 
 and esteem of the medical profession generally. 
 Mr. Dale is a native of Scotland, where he was 
 born, in 1842, and came to Chicago in 1865, two 
 years after which he commenced business in a small 
 way at No. 155 Clark street. He moved to his 
 
 E resent premises in 1879, and so marked and rapid 
 as been his progress that at the present time his
 
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 A BUSINESS TOUR OF CHICAGO. 
 
 trade aggregates upwards of $125,000 annually. 
 Mr. Dale has been treasurer of the Illinois St. 
 Andrew's Society since 1867. 
 
 Elgin National Watch Co. 
 
 General Office, 76 Monroe Street. 
 In no department has American genius been more 
 satisfactorily rewarded than in the manufacture of 
 fine watches, among which the celebrated "Elgin" is 
 universally accorded the leadership in all the markets 
 of the world. This business was organized and duly 
 incorporated as " The National Watch Company of 
 Chicago, 111., " Aug. 27, 1864, with a capital of $100,- 
 000, the incorporators being Benjamin W. Raymond, 
 Howard Z. Culver, Thos. S. Dickerson, Geo. M. 
 
 Wheeler, Philo Carpenter, W. Robbins and Edward 
 H. Williams. In 1865 the company was re-organ- 
 ized by special charter, with a capital of $500,000, 
 and the title changed to the National Watch Co. 
 On Jan. 28, 1869, the authorized capital was in- 
 creased to $2,000,000, and the name again altered to 
 that of the Elgin National Watch company. The 
 factory is situated at Elgin, 111., on the banks of the 
 Fox river, and the area included in the works con- 
 tains 27 acres, 22 of which were presented to the 
 company by the citizens of Elgin, who likewise do- 
 nated 13 additional acres to accommodate the cot- 
 tages of the employes. The manufacturing prem- 
 ises consist of a splendid series of buildings, admi- 
 rably arranged and fitted up with every appliance 
 and convenience that art and science have devised 
 for the prosecution of the business and the comfort 
 and safety of the operatives. The machinery is 
 magnificent and unsurpassed in this country or 
 Europe, the tools and appliances being miracles of 
 accuracy and exactness. The drills for probing the 
 orifices in the jewels to admit the shaft on which the 
 wheels revolve are almost as fine as the filaments of 
 a spider's web, while the gauges used to measure the 
 correctness of the aperture thus made are so delicate 
 as to indicate the thirtieth part of a hair or the ten- 
 thousandth part of an inch. The cutters which are 
 employed to form the teeth of the 'scape wheel out 
 of the solid metal are sapphires ground down to the 
 proper shape in diamond dust and oil, and then in- 
 serted in small wheels or discs, and so fine do they 
 
 cut that the chips which they can remove are only 
 the thirtieth part of the thickness of a hair, and this 
 infinitesimal portion can be cut from any part of the 
 tooth, so easily are their motions controlled. A 
 coil of wire weighing a pound, and worth $5, is 
 divided and worked into 300,000 screws worth 
 about $4,000. These screws, which to the naked 
 eye resemble rifle powder, are finished in all respects 
 as perfectly as those larger ones with which every- 
 one is familiar, having counter-sunk heads, threads 
 and grooves for the reception of the screw-driver. 
 The threads are cut with perfect accuracy by means 
 of discs, and of a fineness not visible to the eye ex- 
 cept by the aid of a microscope. Many of the 
 tools and machines in use in the Elgin National 
 Watch company's factory are the inventions 
 of employes of the corporation, about 2,300 skilled 
 and experienced operatives being con- 
 stantly engaged. One great distin- 
 guishing feature of the Elgin watches 
 is the simplicity of their construction. 
 In some foreign watches there are as 
 many as 600 different parts, rendering 
 them a perfect labyrinth of cogs and 
 wheels, which complexity of construc- 
 tion necessarily increases their liability 
 to derangement, and which in the Elgin 
 is lessened two-thirds, and the friction 
 at least one-half. Again in the Elgin 
 there is a perfect uniformity of parts, 
 by which every watch of the same class 
 is a duplicate of every other. In ad- 
 dition to these advantages the Elgin 
 watches have, in common with others 
 of American make, some peculiarities 
 in invention which are secured by 
 patent. Mr. T. M. Avery, the president, is widely 
 known as one of the representative manufacturers 
 of the United States, and worthily presides over 
 the rapidly increasing business of the Elgin 
 National Watch company. Messrs. J. W. Scoville, 
 vice-president, and Wm. G. Prall, secretary, are 
 able and widely known business men, of inflexible 
 integrity and devotion to the company's interests. 
 The enterprise of the Elgin National Watch com- 
 pany is not only a source of pride to the citizens 
 of Chicago, but to the whole of the United States, 
 while the officers, from their training and education, 
 are well qualified to carry on this vast business and 
 with the greatest satisfaction to their numerous 
 patrons in all parts of the world. 
 
 B. F. Fitch. 
 
 Dealer in Paper Hangings, Window Shades, Paints, Oils, 
 Glass, Zinc, White Lead, Varnishes, Brushes, Etc. 
 
 194 Twenty-second Street. 
 
 On entering the establishment of B. F. Fitch at No. 
 194 Twenty-second street, it is found to be stocked 
 with a fine grade of wallpaper, window shades, paints, 
 oils, glass, zinc, white lead, varnishes, brushes, etc., in 
 fact everything to be found in a first-class establish- 
 ment of this kind. He employs from eight to ten 
 competent workmen to assist him, and every class of 
 work in this line is done with neatness and dispatch. 
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 86 
 
 understands fully every branch of his large business, 
 superintending personally all orders given to his 
 charge. He has been established at his present 
 quarters for the past twelve years, and the large pat- 
 ronage received, which is throughout the city, is 
 evidence of the success he has achieved. He is a 
 native of the State of Pennsylvania, and has been a 
 resident of this city since he began business twelve 
 years ago. He was in the late war as a volunteer 
 from this State, and served acceptably as a lieuten- 
 ant of company E, 129th regiment, Illinois volun- 
 teer infantry. 
 
 E. W. Blatchford & Co. 
 
 70 North Clinton Street. 
 
 The well-known shot-tower on the West side is a 
 landmark in Chicago, and serves to point out the 
 place of business of one of the most enterprising and 
 prosperous firms in Chicago. We allude to Messrs. 
 E. W. Blatchford & Co., of TO North Clinton street, 
 manufacturers of 
 lead and tin pipe, 
 sheet and bar lead, 
 pig lead and block 
 tin, solder and anti- 
 mony, antimonial, 
 leads, linseed oil 
 and oil cake, bab- 
 bitt metals, stereo- 
 type, electrotype, 
 type metals, copper 
 and spelter. They 
 also make a spec- 
 ialty of the manu- 
 facture of shot, of 
 which they turn out; 
 hundreds of tonsl 
 annually. Their] 
 enormous factory 
 and shot-tower at 
 North Clinton 
 street is one of the best equipped in Chicago, and 
 gives employment to over 100 workmen. They 
 have a very large trade among the wholesale city 
 houses, but by far the larger part of their goods 
 are shipped throughout the country. They are a 
 very solid and reliable firm, and spare no pains 
 to retain the patronage they have once acquired. 
 To deal with them once is to deal with them always. 
 Mr. E. W. Blatchford is a thorough specimen of an 
 American business man, and is highly respected 
 among the trading community. 
 
 Geo. F. KimbalL 
 
 Importer and Dealer in Polished Plate and Window Glass, 
 
 45 and 47 Jackson Street. 
 
 The natural and acquired advantages which have 
 contributed to make the city of Chicago a commer- 
 cial center of such an important character within 
 one short half-century have also induced here the 
 establishment of enterprises which have become 
 justly celebrated far and wide, throughout the 
 
 length and breadth of the United States. Such an 
 one is that conducted by Mr. George F. Kimball, 
 which, since its inauguration in 1879, has obtained a 
 liberal and influential patronage throughout the 
 entire west. Mr. Kimball is an extensive importer 
 of plate and window glass, and carries a large and 
 valuable stock of American window glass, and 
 French and German mirrors, to accommodate which a 
 spacious six-story building is occupied seventy-five 
 by one hundred and twenty-five feet in dimensions. 
 The goods carried by this house are of the very best 
 obtainable, while its resources are such that the 
 largest orders can be promptly executed at bottom 
 prices. 
 
 J. H. Wallace. 
 
 Dealer in Pine and Hardwood Lumber, 242 South Water 
 
 Street. 
 
 The rapid growth of Chicago abundantly demon- 
 strates the wisdom of those who early entered the 
 lumber trade, the rise of which, with but a few brief 
 intervals, has been rapid and permanent. In 1870, 
 seeing the advantage of the opening afforded in the 
 lumber trade to energy and perseverance, Mr Wal- 
 lace, who for the five years prior had been identified 
 with the dry goods trade at Decatur, Mich., estab- 
 lished this house, which has since obtained a con- 
 stantly increasing patronage, and whose annual sales 
 now exceed ten million feet. The yards are located 
 at North Branch and Eastman street, and are provid- 
 ed with every facility and appliance for the economi- 
 cal shipping and handling of lumber. Though pine 
 is largely dealt in, hardwood lumber is the specialty 
 of Mr. Wallace, in which the trade can at all times 
 depend on being supplied with promptness and 
 dispatch at the lowest market rates. 
 
 W. H. Reid. 
 
 Draper and Tailor, and Men's Furnisher, 163 Twenty- 
 second Street. 
 
 One of the leading drapers, tailors and gents 
 furnishers that have been foremost in promoting 
 the standard of elegance in dress is W. H. 
 Reid ; and in making a tour of the business interests 
 of Chicago, we did not omit to visit this popular 
 resort of all who appreciate elegant, neat fitting 
 garments. Mr. Reid is located at No. 163 Twenty- 
 second street, telephone 8209. This now representa- 
 tive house dates its inception from 1862, and when 
 first started was located under the old Matteson 
 House, which was then situated on the corner of Ran- 
 dolph and Dearborn streets. Being a first-class tailor, 
 and turning out work of the most excellent character, 
 his trade grew rapidly, and he has always been rec- 
 ognized as among the foremost tailors and drapers 
 of this city. His fine stock of goods consists of 
 imported and American cloths, cassimeres and 
 suitings of the latest styles and patterns. None but 
 experienced cutters and workmen are employed, and 
 perfect fits are guaranteed in all cases. The large 
 trade of this house necessitates the employment of 
 forty or more hands. In 1871 the big fire took all
 
 8fi 
 
 A BUSINESS TOUR OF CHICAGO. 
 
 that Mr. Reid had, and after the fire he began again 
 at his present premises, and is one of but a few who 
 paid one hundred cents to the dollar after the fire. 
 Mr. Reid has two sons, who also have large estab- 
 lishments of the same kind, and during each year 
 Mr. Reid takes a trip to New York and makes 
 selections for his trade. Mr. Reid also carries a 
 large and fine stock of gents furnishing goods. 
 He has been a resident of Chicago since 1855, 
 coming here from New York, and to his effort as 
 much as any other one man's is due the advance- 
 ment this branch of industry has made in this city. 
 
 Chicago Desk Manufacturing Co. 
 
 Manufacturers of Office Desks. Office and Factory, Corner 
 
 of Peoria and Kinzie Streets. 
 
 The largest concern in this line in the city is the 
 Chicago Desk Manufacturing company, of Peoria 
 and Kinzie streets. The factory is a handsome six- 
 story brick building, sixty by sixty-five, and there 
 are eighty workmen employed. The company is 
 exclusively engaged in the manufacture of office 
 desks, and they turn out a large number annually. 
 Their business is nearly all transacted outside the 
 city, and there is a great demand for their goods in 
 all the principal cities in the States. This is an in- 
 corporated company, and the business has been es- 
 tablished for eight years. The following gentlemen 
 are the officers of the company: Lars L. Skielvig, 
 president, and John H. Minges, secretary and man- 
 ager. They formerly did business at North Des- 
 plaines street, but they moved into their present 
 handsome premises last year. This is a thoroughly 
 representative concern, and it is well established on 
 a sound commercial basis. It is under good man- 
 agement, and contains within itself all the elements 
 of success. 
 
 McHugh & Enright. 
 
 Iron Foundry, Machinery and Light Castings a Specialty, 
 
 199-205 North Halsted Street. 
 
 The large iron foundry of McHugh & Enright, 
 at Nos. 199 to 205 North Halsted street, was formerly 
 known as the Standard Foundry, and has been in 
 operation fora number of years, although the present 
 proprietors have only had charge of it since Sep- 
 tember. '86. Through their energy, enterprise, and 
 the practical experience they have brought to bear 
 upon the business, they have been able to win a 
 large and influential trade. Their specialty is ma- 
 chinery and light castings, and any fine work that is 
 to be done can be turned out by them in the best 
 manner. Their telephone number is 4398, and all 
 orders received in this manner meet with prompt 
 attention. The foundry is fitted up with all the 
 latest machinery and facilities for the rapid and 
 perfect prosecution of their work, and they employ 
 a large corps of practical and experienced workmen, 
 who are under their personal attention, and every 
 job that leaves their establishment may be relied 
 upon as being perfect in every respect. Both mem- 
 bers of the firm are skilled foundrymen, this being 
 
 their life trade, and as they are hard and earnest 
 workers, they have succeeded in establishing a con- 
 nection with the prominent iron merchants of the 
 city and surrounding country. 
 
 Gates Iron Works. 
 
 50 to 58 Clinton Street. 
 
 The Gates Iron Works, of South Clinton street, 
 are engaged in the manufacture of a class of ma- 
 chines that are invaluable to our great railroad and 
 mining interests. They are principally concerned in 
 the production of their celebrated rock-breaker, 
 known as the greatest rock-breaker and ore-crusher 
 on earth, guaranteed to do three to six times more 
 work than any crusher in use. They are in great 
 demand by the principal railroads for breaking bal- 
 last, etc. In addition they manufacture mining 
 machinery. The works are owned and operated 
 
 by an incorporated company, of which Mr. P. W. 
 Gates is president; Ralph Gates, vice-president and 
 superintendent; and J. L. Fargo, secretary and 
 treasurer. Their plant is supplied with all the neces- 
 sary machinery adapted to their heavy work. Mr. 
 P. W. Gates, who is the head of the concern, started 
 in the iron trade, on the banks of the Chicago river, 
 in 1840. The business increased, and for many 
 years was one of the largest manufacturing estab- 
 lishments in Chicago. In 1871, he says, he thought 
 he would retire from active business and improve 
 his real estate. He says he soon found that he was 
 not competent to carry out the program of the 
 gentleman loafer, and started out again with his 
 sons in the machinery business. The result has been 
 the getting up, perfecting and introduction of the 
 greatest rock-breaker on earth. 
 
 Mathias Peters. 
 
 Manufacturer of Upholstery, Drapery and Millinery Trim- 
 mings, Fringes, Tassels, Gimps, Cords, 
 
 Etc., 229 Fulton Street. 
 
 A business that has its importance among the 
 furniture men of Chicago is that carried on by Mr. 
 Mathias Peters, at 229 Fulton street. He is a man- 
 ufacturer of upholstery, drapery, and millinery 
 trimmings, fringes, tassels, gimps, cords, etc. Mr. 
 Peters started this business in 1872. His factory is 
 a handsome brick structure, cornering on Fulton
 
 FIFTY YEARS' PROGRESS. 
 
 87 
 
 and Sangamon streets. He gives employment to 
 fifty workpeople, and is generally as busy as he 
 well can be. He manufactures none but the very 
 best articles, and his trade is entirely among the 
 first-class houses. His principal customers are 
 among the furniture supply houses and large dry 
 goods establishments. Mr. Peters is a native of 
 Germany, but he has resided in this city since 1870. 
 We would also call attention to the Peters 
 po\ver spinning wheel, invented by Mr. Peters. It 
 is something entirely new for the manufacture of 
 cords and gimps. The lightest and heaviest, as 
 well as the finest work, can be done with this wheel, 
 combining accuracy, speed and economy. It occu- 
 pies but one-third the space of the old wheel, and 
 requires but little power to drive it, and, owing to 
 the simplicity of mechanism, will effect a saving of 
 from ten to fifteen percent. It has the following ad- 
 vantages: It does not require a boy to run it; it 
 runs both right and left, without crossing the band; 
 it has a brake to stop it instantly ; it can be opera- 
 ted by a single shifting cord attached overhead; it 
 requires oiling but once a day. It can be seen in 
 operation at his factory in Chicago, and at the factory 
 of Walliser, 617 and 619 Arch street, Philadelphia. 
 The inspection of manufacturers is invited. 
 
 Mullen Bros. & Co. 
 
 Woolens and Tailors' Trimmings, 264 and 266 Madison 
 
 Street. 
 
 Like many others of the leading mercantile 
 houses of Chicago, that of Messrs. Mullen Bros. & 
 Co. was formerly located at Milwaukee, where it 
 
 was established in 1856. In 1880 they opened a 
 branch in Chicago, which proved a complete success, 
 and was followed three years later by the removal 
 of the entire business to this city. The firm occupy 
 very spacious and eligibly located premises, and 
 carry one of the most complete and extensive 
 stocks of woolens and tailors' trimmings to be 
 found in the country, the great European manu- 
 facturing centers, as well as the leading American 
 mills, being represented in large variety. The firm 
 have nine traveling salesmen on the road constantly, 
 representing them to the trade in all parts of the 
 
 west and northwest, while the house is fully pre- 
 pared with all necessary facilities and resources to 
 execute all orders not only promptly, but with that 
 intelligent understanding that has made their efforts 
 so highly appreciated among their patrons. The 
 house is in every respect a first-class one. Messrs. 
 Andrew and James Mullen and Charles Catlin, the 
 proprietors, experienced merchants, are recognized 
 exponents of the various branches of metropolitan 
 trade, and they well merit the high degree of prom- 
 inence to which their own energy and enterprise 
 have attained. 
 
 Hill's National Builder. 
 
 Hill Standard Book Co., Publishers, 103 State Street. 
 Established March, 1885. 
 
 Hill's National Builder is the acknowledged repre- 
 sentative of one of the foremost industries in the 
 world. It is a mammoth monthly illustrated journal 
 of practical building, containing all the way from 
 thirty-two to forty-eight pages, bound and trimmed 
 like a magazine, printed upon the best quality of 
 book paper, and is one of the handsomest publica- 
 tions issued, typographically speaking, besides 
 containing valuable editorial matter, and market 
 quotations as to lumber, sash, doors, blinds, brick, 
 stone, iron, glass, building hardware and everything 
 pertaining to the erection of a building from foun- 
 dation to roof, to the dealers in which its advertising 
 columns, with its large circulation all over the 
 Union, must necessarily be of great value. An 
 especial feature is the complete set of practical 
 working drawings in colors, with full details, specifi- 
 cations and estimates, accompanying each number. 
 This work is in charge of Thomas E. Hill, author of 
 " HiH's Manual," " Hill's Album," and other popular 
 works, assisted by Mr. Geo. O. Garnsey, one of the 
 leading architects of Chicago, where he has been 
 actively engaged in his profession for the past 
 twenty-five years. Of the many publications 
 started in these interests in the United States, Hill's 
 National Builder very early in its history has attained 
 a recognized position, while the ability, energy and 
 liberality displayed in its management must lead to 
 greatly enhanced success in the near future. 
 
 The Hiram Sibley Fireproof 
 Warehouses. 
 
 Nos. 2-18 North Clark Street. 
 
 In taking a perspective review of the commercial 
 interests of Chicago for the past fifty years, we 
 must not fail, in our "Business Tour," to give an 
 account of the visit made to "The Hiram Sibley 
 Fireproof Warehouses." at Nos. 2-18 North Clark 
 street. They are grand specimens of solid and 
 beautiful architecture, and are the first strictly fire- 
 proof warehouses erected in this city. They will long 
 stand as a monument of the energy and enterprise 
 of the owner, whose favorite maxim is "that the 
 preservation from destruction by any cause of value in
 
 A BUSINESS TOUR OF CHICAGO. 
 
 any form is economy in business." This, together 
 with the fact of there being a lack of sufficient first- 
 class storage accommodation in Chicago, was the 
 origin of these warehouses. They have a frontage 
 on North Clark street of 200 feet, and a depth of 
 240 feet on the river. This includes the warehouses 
 A, B and C. The structures A and Bare completed 
 and in active operation. It is contemplated to erect 
 building C in the near future. 
 
 Building A contains the boilers for hoisting and 
 heating purposes, has the main machinery of the 
 warehouses in its basement, and is eight stories in 
 height. The main floor, on Clark street, is planned 
 
 for stores, with large plate-glass windows, four of 
 which are occupied by the firm of Hiram Sibley & 
 Co. for their general offices and the retail depart- 
 ment of the Chicago branch of their seed business. 
 Above the main floor are elegant offices, with every 
 modern convenience, for the use of brokers in mer- 
 chandise, agents of out-of-town business concerns 
 and transportation companies. The four remaining 
 floors are used mainly by Hiram Sibley & Co. for 
 the cleaning and storage of field and grass seeds, of 
 which they are doing a large and constantly increas- 
 ing business. 
 
 Building B, immediately back of and adjoining 
 A, and covering the same area of 80x200 feet, is 
 ten stories in height, and is adapted throughout to 
 the safe storage of large stocks of goods and mer- 
 chandise. Here are placed the four large steam ele- 
 vators, built by Hale & Co., after special patterns 
 for these buildings, running from basement to top 
 story, one of them having the capacity of carrying 
 a loaded truck of 15,000 Ibs. weight to any floor. 
 Loaded teams enter by an arched driveway from 
 Clark street to the center of building B on the 
 main floor, and rapidly dispose of their loads, entire- 
 ly under cover of the building. 
 
 Building C, is intended to be an exact duplicate 
 
 of building B, with the addition of appliances and 
 space set apart for cold storage. 
 
 The exterior of the warehouses is a departure from 
 the nondescript style usually employed in buildings 
 of this character, and presents a very fine appear- 
 ance. The Clark street front, of Anderson pressed 
 brick and iron, with terra cotta details, and its liberal 
 display of glass, is very effective; and the river and 
 railroad fronts, while somewhat plainer in detail, are 
 strong and imposing. The broad pilasters, running 
 up from the foundation to long projecting arches at 
 the ninth story, seem to add to the already great 
 height of the building, the whole forming a har- 
 monious structure of mas- 
 sive and pleasing pro- 
 portions, which does 
 credit to the taste of the 
 builder and skill of the 
 architect and designer. 
 
 The extraordinary size 
 and facilities of his ware- 
 houses enable him to offer 
 the advantages of first- 
 class fireproof storage to 
 other business houses, 
 where the same views of 
 the close economies in 
 business prevail. 
 
 One noticeable feature 
 is the large iron letters on 
 the top of the building. 
 They are eight feet in 
 height and can be seen a 
 long way off. Mr. Sibley 
 is also the noted seeds- 
 man of this country. He 
 bought out, several years 
 ago, the large business of 
 Briggs Bros. The main 
 house is located at Rochesr 
 ter, N. Y., and the western branch in this city. This 
 department of the business, together with the 
 warehouses, is under the charge and personal direc- 
 tion of Mr. F. A. Warner, who has had many years 
 of experience in the seed business, and been an active 
 member of the Chicago Board of Trade since 1879. 
 There is kept constantly on hand a choice and select 
 stock of timothy, blue grass, orchard grass, red top 
 and Hungarian, clover in all standard varieties, 
 the finest mixtures for lawns, and a variety of pop- 
 ular imported grasses, sorghum, broom corn, 
 millets, seeding flax and buckwheat, also Sibley's 
 Pride of the North, Yellow Dent and other tested 
 varieties of seed corn. Garden and flower seed, 
 together with all kinds of implements for their culti- 
 vation, are kept on hand by this firm. They are 
 prepared to receive consignments of seeds from 
 growers or dealers who desire to hold for highei 
 prices, and have no facilities of their own for clean- 
 ing and storing. If desired, all seeds will be re- 
 cleaned and put in proper shape for the market, or 
 held in store at reasonable rates. These warehouses 
 are absolutely fireproof, and, besides all facilities for 
 general storage, have a department for the receipt 
 of bonded goods also. For further information ad- 
 dress Hiram Sibley & Co., Chicago, 111.
 
 FIFTY YEARS' PROGRESS. 
 
 Dunlap & Co. 
 
 Palmer House Block, 171 and 173 State Street. 
 
 The name of Dunlap & Co. has long been insepa- 
 rably connected with the finest trade in gentlemen's 
 hats in this country, and whose retail stores in the 
 leading cities are to be found located in the very 
 center of trade, viz: In New York City at Nos. 178 
 and 180 Fifth avenue, and No. 179 Broadway, near 
 Cortlandt street; in Philadelphia, at No. 914 Chest- 
 nut street ; and in Chicago, in the Palmer house, at 
 Nos. 171 and 173 State street. The firm employ 
 hundreds of hands and operate three distinct and 
 separate factories, two in New York, one for silk and 
 opera hats at Nos. 191 to 195 Seventh avenue, and 
 the other for straw goods at Nos, 132 and 134 South 
 Fifth avenue, while the felt hat factory is ire Brooklyn, 
 at Nos. 72 to 88 Nostrand avenue, the latter having 
 been destroyed by fire in 1886, entailing a heavy 
 loss, but was immediately rebuilt, and is now in op- 
 eration on a larger scale than ever. Seeing the de- 
 sirability of representation in this city, Messrs. Dun- 
 lap & Co. as early as 1868 established their branch 
 here. They have agencies established in all the 
 large cities of the union. The Chicago branch is 
 under the efficient management of Mr. James P. 
 Brewster, who is prepared to show the largest and 
 most stylish assortment of gentlemen's hats in the 
 city. Only the best grade of hats is to be found in 
 this establishment, and every one is sent from their 
 large factories in the east, and contains the die or 
 trademark of Dunlap & Co. The prices in all cases 
 are the same, as this firm considers they have no 
 competition for these goods, and do not deviate 
 from an established price the country over. 
 
 The firm have ever aimed to lead, in the attain- 
 ment of which as to quality and styles large sums 
 are expended annually, with the result that the pro- 
 ductions of their factories are unrivaled even by the 
 finest London or Parisian importations, and the de- 
 mand for which is rapidly increasing all over the 
 country. 
 
 Sautter & Apking. 
 
 Manufacturers of Men's, Boys' and Youth's Boots and 
 
 Shoes, Nos. 66, 68, and 70 West Lake Street. 
 Among the many notable business houses in 
 Chicago that have taken a prominent position in 
 the commercial world, we mention that of Messrs. 
 Sautter & Apking, manufacturers of men's, boys' 
 and youth's pegged, nailed and machine-sewed boots 
 and shoes, of Nos. 66-70 West Lake street. This 
 firm occupies two floors in the building, and employs 
 sixty workpeople, and they have facilities for turn- 
 ing out 125 cases of boots and shoes a week. Mr. 
 
 J. Sautter is a native of the kingdom of Wur- 
 temberg, Germany, while Mr. Apking was born in 
 New York State, and they have been associated to- 
 gether in business since 1880. They formerly occu- 
 pied premises at the corner of Lake and Franklin 
 streets, but their increased business required in- 
 creased accommodation, and in May, 1886, they 
 moved to their present location. They have a 
 very large city trade, selling directly to the retail 
 dealers, and they are gradually pushing their goods 
 into the country. They turn out the very best of 
 goods, both as regards workmanship and material, 
 and as they sell direct to the trade without the in- 
 tervention of jobbers, they are enabled to compete 
 favorably as regards terms. 
 
 Selz, Schwab & Co. 
 
 Boots and Shoes, Nos. 192, 194, 196, 198 and 200 
 Franklin Street. 
 
 In the wholesale manufacturing boot and shoe 
 trade of the west, the house of Selz, Schwab & Co., 
 of this city, may be fitly considered a representative 
 firm, the development of their business aptly typify- 
 ing the growth of commerce throughout the west. 
 They have neglected no opening that presented 
 itself nor failed to retain the trade which the unsur- 
 
 Eassed quality of their goods and their liberal terms 
 ave secured. They carry a complete stock in all 
 the various grades, and in their factory give employ- 
 ment to over nine hundred skilled artisans, besides 
 an army of clerks, while their traveling salesmen are 
 constantly on the road all over the States west of 
 the Alleghanies and as far south as the Rio Grande. 
 They occupy very extensive premises at Nos. 192 to 
 200 Franklin street, six entire floors, each two hun- 
 dred by one hundred and fifty feet in dimensions, 
 being occupied. The house makes a specialty of 
 fine boots and shoes, which have never yet failed to 
 win their way when introduced, such is their superior 
 quality and correct price. The success of this house 
 has been typical of Chicago's remarkable progress. 
 
 Simeon Harwell & Co. 
 
 Manufacturers and Jobbers of Men's Furnishing Goods, 
 
 244 and 246 Monroe Street. 
 
 As an essentially representative house, the firm 
 of Simeon Farwell & Co. are standard in this line. 
 As manufacturers and jobbers of men's furnishing 
 goods they are second to none and possess unsur- 
 passed facilities in their factory for the production 
 of these goods at a minimum cost, over three hun- 
 dred hands being constantly employed. The house 
 is an old one, Hamill & Laskey Co., the founders, 
 having been for years in the business. The present 
 firm was organized August, 1885, and is composed of 
 Simeon Farwell, H. S. Farwell and Stephen Laskey, 
 practical, experienced manufacturers, and thorough- 
 ly conversant with the wants of their critical trade. 
 A full line of men's furnishing goods is made, and a 
 large stock carried at their spacious storerooms, in 
 this city, fifty by one hundred and seventy feet
 
 A BUSINESS TOUR OF CHICAGO. 
 
 in dimensions, while a specialty is made of their 
 celebrated diamond brand S. F. & Co. farmers', 
 miners' and mechanics' garments, which are unsur- 
 passed for quality, durability and workmanship. 
 The house enjoys an enviable reputation among 
 jobbers and first-class retailers, wherever introduced. 
 Indeed, to the care and attention personally be- 
 stowed by these gentlemen upon all the processes 
 of manufacture, is largely due the success of this 
 reliable firm. 
 
 National Boiler Works. 
 
 J. Bee, Proprietor, 56, 58 and 60 Fulton Street. 
 A visit of interest is to the National Boiler Works, 
 Mr. Joseph Bee, proprietor, at Nos. 56 to 60 Fulton 
 street. Here we find a scene of activity and thrift 
 at once indicative of the importance and standing of 
 this firm. A large force of workmen is busily en- 
 gaged in the manufacture of all kinds of marine, 
 
 ing goods trade, and therefore it is that only those 
 thoroughly conversant with the business in its every 
 detail ever attain even comparative success. Among 
 those engaged in this line in this city who have at- 
 tained well-merited recognition, none have achieved 
 greater prominence than Messrs. Ries & Co. The 
 members of the firm, Messrs. B. Ries and M.Guettel, 
 are both Germans by birth, and on coming to the 
 United States, while still quite young, settled in 
 Chicago and organized their house in 1878, on Frank- 
 lin street, as importers and jobbers in ladies' and 
 gents' furnishing goods. In 1882, in order to procure 
 enlarged facilities, they removed to Nos. 207 and 
 209 Monroe street, and which in turn, in January, 
 1886, was found to be inadequate to accommodate 
 their largely increasing trade, necessitating a further 
 removal at that time to their present spacious 
 premises, one hundred feet square in dimensions. 
 Their trade is general and comprises a well-selected 
 and complete assortment of ladies' and gents' fur- 
 nishing goods, including gloves, hosiery, neckwear, 
 underwear, shirts, and every article, in short, to be 
 found in a well-ordered and strictly first-class es- 
 tablishment. Four traveling salesmen are con- 
 stantly on the road, and a large staff of clerks are 
 engaged in the house, in promptly filling orders 
 from customers in all parts of the west, who have 
 been attracted and permanently retained by the re- 
 liable quality of their goods, their reasonableness in 
 prices and by the liberal policy which has always 
 characterized the transactions of Ries & Co. 
 
 locomotive and stationary boilers, and sheet iron 
 work of all kinds. In another part of the works 
 boiler heads and flue holes are being flanged 
 by machinery in the most thorough manner. This 
 is the specialty of these works, and the jobs turned 
 out of this department give the best of satisfaction 
 as egards durability and finish. The latest and 
 bes improved machinery is in use here, and 
 every facility is had for the rapid and perfect prose- 
 cut on of work. The premises occupied are 60x130 
 fee , besides ample space for storage and handling of 
 all material used. The business was begun by Mr. 
 Joseph Bee in 1867 in a small way, but by energy 
 and industry he is now at the head of one of the 
 largest and finest establishments of this kind in 
 Chicago. The trade is large and increasing each 
 year. Products from these works can be found not 
 only in all parts of this city, but throughout the 
 west and northwest. 
 
 Ries & Co. 
 
 Ladies' and Gents' Furnishing Goods, Nos. 251 to 
 
 255 Monroe Street. 
 
 Few branches of mercantile pursuits demand 
 closer knowledge of the wants of the trade to insure 
 successful results than the ladies' and gents' furnish- 
 
 A. C. Mather & Co. 
 
 Manufacturers and Importers of Kid Gloves. Wholesale 
 
 Depot, 122 and 124 Market Street. 
 
 Of those houses that have attained distinction 
 
 in this industry few have the complete equipment 
 
 and the valuable experience of A. C. Mather & Co., 
 
 the fine goods bearing his name having an estab- 
 
 lished reputation, and are standard in all the princi- 
 pal markets of the west, northwest and south. The 
 factory in this city employs a large force of skilled 
 operatives in turning out these unsurpassed goods, 
 and a large stock in all sizes and colors is necessarily 
 carried to promptly fill the orders daily pouring in 
 from all over the country. In fact "The Mather," 
 on account of its reasonableness in price and ad-
 
 FIFTY YEARS' PROGRESS, 
 
 m'itted superiority in quality, has all but driven 
 from the market the many comparatively worthless 
 grades of imported kids, and is a formidable rival of 
 even the most expensive Paris makes. This house 
 has been established for the past eight, years, and 
 occupies an essentially representative position, its 
 proprietors esteeming time and money well spent 
 in maintaining the high reputation these goods have 
 attained. 
 
 Garden City Stool Co. 
 
 Office and Factory, 427 and 429 Blue Island Avenue. 
 The Garden City Stool company next claimed our 
 attention. The officers of the company are as fol- 
 lows: G. W. Schultz, president; Andrew Fuertsch, 
 secretary ; and Geo. Fuertsch, manager. We found, 
 
 A force of thirty men are employed, and the best 
 of satisfaction is guaranteed in all cases. Their 
 designer is now employed in completing various 
 modern and beautiful specimens for their new illus- 
 trated catalogue, which will be issued in the near 
 future, and will be a surprise for the trade. 
 
 on entering the first floor, a large and varied stock 
 of piano, organ and store stools, of fine pattern and 
 superior finish and workmanship. One can gain 
 some idea of the magnitude of this establishment 
 when we say that they turn out over forty thousand 
 of these stools annually, and that their trade ex- 
 tends to all parts of the United States. Their office 
 and factory is located at Nos. 427 and 429 Blue 
 Island avenue being two stories in height, and 
 covers an area of fifty by sixty-five feet. The 
 business was begun in 1882 on South Canal street, 
 under the name of Fuertsch & Pitts, and was 
 incorporated under the present name last October. 
 
 Merchants Safe Deposit Co. 
 
 78, 80 and 82 La Salle Street. 
 
 An unusually interesting place to visit is the vaults 
 and safes of the Merchants Safe Deposit Co., at 78, 
 80 and 82 La Salle street. The two vaults, which are 
 very long and occupy 40x150, contain no less than 
 6,000 safes all fire and burglar proof. These vaults 
 are owned by the Merchants National Bank Co., and 
 occupy the space underneath that bank's office. 
 The president of this Safe Deposit Co. is C. B. Blair, 
 Esq.; treasurer, C. J. Blair; and manager, G. E. 
 Purington. 
 
 This company allow larger safes and more room 
 than any other company for the same money. 
 Their system of safes is unequaled for massiveness, 
 strength and beauty. They are protected by double 
 combination improved time locks and guarded by 
 armed men night and day. These safes are for rent 
 at from $5 per year and upwards, for the safe keep- 
 ing of money, bonds, jewelry, deeds, abstracts and 
 valuables of every description. The company also 
 receive for storage trunks and packages, paintings 
 silverware, etc. Office hours are from 9 a. m. to 
 5 p. m. 
 
 Bookwalter, Kelley & Co. 
 
 General Commission Merchants, 78 South Water Street. 
 Our next visit was to one of the most active and 
 enterprising houses engaged in the produce com- 
 mission business in Chicago. The co-partners S. 
 Bookwalter, S. G. Kelley and C. H. Bartlett are 
 business men possessed of a wide range of practical 
 experience, and have developed a large and growing 
 trade, including among their correspondents leading 
 producers and dairymen throughout the western 
 States. They are located at No. 78 South Water 
 street, near State, and possess every facility for the 
 prompt disposal of large consignments of butter, 
 eggs, poultry and country produce generally, num- 
 bering among their customers our principal market- 
 men and dealers; also selling to eastern points. 
 They have an extensive trade throughout the west, 
 from Montana to New Mexico. Dealers in search 
 of choice creamery and fresh dairy butter are re- 
 ferred to this house, as they make a prominent 
 specialty of this article. They are all driving mer- 
 chants and good judges of all kinds of produce. The 
 firm has retained the entire confidence of our lead- 
 ing financial circles, being known for its legitimate 
 methods, and has attained a record at once a credit 
 to the co-partners and an abundant guarantee to all 
 who have mercantile transactions with them.
 
 A BUSINESS TOUR OF CHICAGO. 
 
 Wold & Wulff. 
 
 Undertakers and Livery, 177 West Indiana Street. 
 Messrs. Wold & Wulff's, of No. 187 West Indiana 
 street, is one of the best known undertaking estab- 
 lishments on the West side. They have been in busi- 
 ness here during the last fifteen years, and have suc- 
 ceeded in establishing a most respectable connection. 
 Their rooms are fitted up in a most elegant manner, 
 and they carry a large stock of caskets, coffins, and 
 all the usual articles found in a house of this descrip- 
 tion. In connection with their undertaking busi- 
 ness they run a livery stable at No. 4 Peccary street. 
 Mr. Wold was born in Norway and came to Chicago 
 a quarter of a century ago, while Mr. Wulff is also a 
 native of the same country and has been a resident 
 of this city for the past twenty-two years. Their 
 telephone number is 4636. 
 
 Stotz, Woltz & Co. 
 
 Manufacturers of Furniture, Factory and Office, 57, 59, 61, 
 and 63, Illinois Street; Warerooms, 193 
 
 Wabash Avenue. 
 
 Prominent among the many houses of Chicago is 
 the old and noted firm of Stotz, Woltz & Co., whose 
 large factory and office is located at Nos. 57, 59, 61 
 and 63 Illinois street. Their mammoth factory 
 
 isfaction, while their finishing work in buildings can- 
 not be surpassed and meets the approval cf the most 
 exact and critical. This firm has performed many 
 important jobs, not only in this city, but all over the 
 country, notably of which is the finishing work of 
 the government's new custom-house at St. Louis, 
 as well as the one in this city. The business of this 
 firm was begun in 1863 in a small way, and their suc- 
 cess and prosperity has been the result of good ma- 
 terial, good work, and close personal application to 
 all branches of their large business. 
 
 Both members of the firm are natives of Germany, 
 and have long been residents of the Garden City, 
 which they have successfully helped to build up and 
 improve. 
 
 William Neff. 
 
 Dealer in Flour, Meal, Hay, Feed, Etc., 1064 West 
 
 Madison Street. 
 
 This house carries a full supply of flour of all 
 brands, meal, hay, feed of all kinds, and country pro- 
 duce. Mr. Neff was, at the time of his death, one of 
 the oldest residents and merchants of Chicago, com- 
 ing here way back among the 40's. The business 
 has been established since 1873, and the premises 
 are well arranged for the business. The best 
 the market affords can be found here and is sold 
 at reasonable prices. Mr. Neff was a native 
 of Vermont and was connected more or less all 
 his life with the farm produce business. 
 He was at different times town clerk, 
 school director and justice of the peace 
 ^ of the township of Cicero, which this 
 W suburb of Chicago was formerly called. 
 All in all, this is one of the standard 
 houses in the section of the city where 
 located. 
 
 Bernard H. May. 
 
 covers an area of one hundred by one hundred and 
 eight feet, and is three stories high with a large 
 basement. They also own and use a large building 
 on Indiana street. They are manufacturers of all 
 kinds of furniture, but run as a specialty store, bank, 
 drug-store and saloon fixtures, and hardwood finish 
 for residences and public buildings. All their goods 
 are turned out in the most workmanlike and artistic 
 manner, the designs being unique and original with 
 the firm, as they have their own pattern-maker. 
 They employ a large force of hands, including over 
 one hundred skilled and experienced workmen. 
 Their goods are all reliable and give the best of sat- 
 
 Manufacturer of All Kinds of Rattan, Reed and 
 Willow Ware, Etc., 95 and 97 East 
 
 Indiana Street. 
 
 On our visit to the establishment of 
 Bernard H. May, at Nos. 95 and 97 East 
 Indiana street, we found nearly a score of 
 people busily engaged in the manufacture 
 of all kinds of rattan, reed and willow 
 ware. In this line Mr. May makes a spe- 
 cialty of reed and rattan chairs. Although 
 only established since September, 1885, he has built 
 up a large and rapidly increasing trade. His pat- 
 terns are of the latest and most approved styles 
 and meet with ready sale among the city mer- 
 chants. All work is first class and under the 
 direct supervision of the proprietor, who is skilled 
 and experienced in this line of manufacture. Mr. 
 May is a native of Chicago and has shown much 
 talent and enterprise in the successful business he 
 has established, and we heartily recommend him to 
 our many readers desiring work of this class, feel- 
 ing assured that they will be fairly and courteously 
 treated.
 
 FIFTY YEARS' PROGRESS. 
 
 Fitchburg Machine Works. 
 
 Manufacturers of Machinists' Tools, No. 59 South 
 Canal Street. 
 
 A greater part of the work of this foundry is for 
 the North Chicago rolling mills, although their 
 trade in other parts of the city is also very large. 
 About one hundred and fifty hands are employed, 
 and about 10,000 to 15,000 tons of iron is used 
 annually. The men connected with this business 
 are well known, not only among the iron mer- 
 chants, but to the business men of Chicago, as alive 
 to every interest which tends to promote the gen- 
 eral welfare of the city in the iron trade. 
 
 The Fitchburg Machine Works, of Fitchburg, 
 Mass., have a large repository at No. 59 South Canal 
 street, where they keep in stock a large variety of 
 machinists' lathes, planers and drill presses. This 
 is a partnership company, of which Messrs. J. L. 
 Chapman, Harrington Sibley, and 
 Jos. S. Wilson are the proprietors, 
 and their Chicago business is under 
 the efficient management of Mr. C. 
 F. Wardell, a gentleman well and 
 favorably known throughout the 
 country. Mr. Wardell is also agent 
 for the sale of the Taylor Manu- 
 facturing company's, of Chambers- 
 burg, Pa., engines. These latter 
 include Taylor's high-speed auto- 
 matic engine, the Tiger agricultural 
 and Tiger portable engines, and 
 the Clipper vertical engine and 
 boiler. Also the Prospect Machine 
 and Engine company, of Cleveland, 
 Ohio. Mr. Wardell has been in busi- 
 ness in Chicago for twenty-five years, 
 and is always willing to consult 
 the wishes of his patrons in every 
 particular. 
 
 Chicago Foundry Co. 
 
 Manufacturers of Rolling Mill, Blast Furnace, and Every 
 Description of Heavy Castings. Office and Works, 
 
 Corner Redfield and Stein Streets. 
 
 We would invite the reader to step in with us to 
 examine one of the important industries of the Gar- 
 den City. We refer to the large establishment of 
 the Chicago Foundry company on the corner of 
 Redfield and Stein streets. They are manufacturers 
 of rolling mill, blast furnace and every other de- 
 scription of heavy ( castings. The business was 
 begun in 1870 under the firm name of Dyer, Lamb 
 & Co., and was incorporated seven years later as the 
 Chicago Foundry company, the present officers 
 being E. Dyer, president; T. S. Kirkwood, vice- 
 president; W.W. Flinn, treasurer; and H.A.Keith, 
 general manager. The plant of the company con- 
 sists of over three acres, while the foundry proper is 
 sixty by one hundred and fifty feet in dimensions. 
 
 Putnam Clothing House. 
 
 131 to 133 Clark Street, 113 and 117 Madison Street, C. 
 
 M. Babbitt, Resident Partner. 
 
 Here may be found at all times a stock of ready- 
 made clothing cf the finest grades and most elegant 
 styles, manufactured expressly to meet the require- 
 ments of the better class of trade. The best ma- 
 terial only is used, artistic cutters are employed, 
 and the most reliable workmanship characterizes 
 every garment. Numerous new features in the 
 
 clothing trade have been introduced by the enter- 
 prising proprietors of this model establishment. 
 The members of the firm are wide-awake, energetic 
 business men, who have had long experience in 
 this line, and are thoroughly conversant with the 
 wants and requirements of the trade. The order 
 department, for the special convenience of cus- 
 tomers at a distance, is a feature which com- 
 mends itself to all desiring perfect fitting gar- 
 ments at reasonable rates. The premises occupied 
 by the "Putnam Clothing House" are eligibly lo- 
 cated, in the very heart of the city, and the vast 
 improvements which have just been made place it 
 in the front rank of the handsomely fitted clothing 
 houses of Chicago. The place is well lighted by 
 thirty Brush electric lights of two thousand candle- 
 power each, eight of which illuminate the exterior. 
 In the main store, on Clark street, their large stock 
 of men's clothing is tastefully arranged, and ex- 
 perienced and obliging clerks look after the wants of 
 the many patrons. The Annex, or boy's and chil- 
 dren's department, is entirely separate, the main en- 
 trance of which is at No. 117 Madison street, although
 
 A BUSINESS TOUR OF CHICAGO. 
 
 connection is also had with the main store. It has 
 lately been finished in the most complete and 
 handsome manner large plate-glass windows, beau- 
 tiful mahogany mantel, open fire-place and every 
 convenience and luxury to be found in a first-class 
 hotel parlor, which at once makes it the finest and 
 most handsome boys' and children's department in 
 the city. This house has a large establishment in 
 Boston, where they manufacture all their own 
 goods, doing the largest trade of the kind in New 
 England. As they retail all their goods at whole- 
 sale prices, it can be readily seen at what low rates 
 goods can be had at this establishment. The busi- 
 ness was begun by Mr. Abraham Putnam, in 1852, 
 on Randolph street, and has met with a successful 
 career from its inception. In February, 1886, the pres- 
 ent company was formed, consisting of Miner, Beal 
 & Babbitt, the latter being the resident partner. The 
 policy of the Putnam clothing house is to have 
 but one price, and that the lowest; to make no false 
 representations, and furnish only reliable articles at 
 reasonable rates; and the high character and large 
 experience of the manager of this house are a suffi- 
 cient guarantee that this policy will be persistently 
 adhered to. 
 
 Rudolph Born. 
 
 refuse to tow them. Often a vessel, for several days at 
 a time, could not secure a tug to bring her in or take 
 her out of the harbor. It was to crush out this sort 
 of foul play that the vessel owners held meetings 
 and finally organized this tug line of their own. 
 The successful organization of the company was due 
 mainly to the energy and determination of Captain 
 
 Wholesale and Retail Hardware, Cutlery and Mechanics' 
 
 Tools, 99 West Randolph Street. 
 A striking example of what enterprise and well- 
 directed energy can do, is shown in the subject of 
 this sketch. Few houses in this business have ac- 
 quired a better reputation or have built up a better 
 trade than Mr. Rudolph Born, wholesale and retail 
 dealer in all kinds of mechanics' tools, hardware and 
 cutlery. He occupies commodious quarters at No. 
 99 West Randolph street, which is suitably arranged 
 and stocked with as fine a supply of goods as can be 
 found in the city. As a dealer in mechanics' tools 
 he has no superior, and keeps the best and finest lot 
 of specialties to be found in this line. We will only 
 mention Morandi's improved kerosene glue-pot, for 
 which he is sole agent. It is the handiest, cheapest 
 and best glue heater in use. Gives out no odor or 
 smoke. It costs but three cents a day for oil, and 
 requires but little attention. They are made entire- 
 ly of tin and copper, and are very light and strong. 
 Mr. Born has been established in business for a 
 long term of years, and he is now ably assisted by 
 his sons. All orders meet with prompt and satis- 
 factory attention. 
 
 Vessel Owners' Towing Co. 
 
 240 South Water Street. 
 
 The fleet of fine tugs seen constantly plying 
 in the harbor bearing such names as "Protection," 
 "Van Schaick," "Satisfaction," etc., belong to the 
 V. O. T. line the Vessel Owners' Towing company. 
 It was the practice among tug owners in Chicago, 
 as at other ports along the lakes, to blackball the 
 vessels of certain owners on fhe slightest cause, and 
 
 James L. Higgie; this was in April, 1871, and he has 
 been the president of the line ever since. At one 
 time there were fourteen boats, but some of the 
 smaller ones were disposed of, and larger, more pow- 
 erful ones built, and there are now eleven of the 
 finest craft of their class on the entire chain of lakes. 
 The list of stockholders include Captain Higgie and 
 such extensive lumbermen and vessel owners as A. 
 A. Carpenter, A. G. Van Schaick, J. H. Witbeck, 
 John R. Lindgren, Thomas Hood, William John- 
 son, the N. Ludington Lumber company and the 
 Spalding Lumber company. The capital stock is 
 $75,000. J. L. Higgie is president, A. G. Van 
 Schaick, treasurer, and George D. Kirkham, secre- 
 tary and superintendent. 
 
 Albert Galloway. 
 
 Steam Heating and Ventilating, 198 Jackson Street. 
 
 This is undoubtedly an age of progress, and in no 
 branch has greater perfection been attained than in 
 the production of steam and hot water heating ap- 
 paratus for warming and ventilating public build- 
 ings, private residences and green-houses, the desid- 
 eratum being to secure a pure as well as a warm 
 atmosphere, at a reasonable outlay of expense. To 
 this important branch Mr. Galloway devotes his en- 
 tire attention, having established his business in 
 Chicago more than twenty years ago, and by reason 
 of his practical experience is able to determine upon 
 inspection what system will prove to be most ser- 
 viceable and economical in any given case, many 
 elements being necessary to be. taken into consider- 
 ation in addition to the architectural features of the 
 building, its exposure and the size and number of 
 rooms to be heated. A large assortment of heating 
 and ventilating apparatus is carried in stock, and 
 experienced workmen employed, thus enabling 
 him to promptly execute all contracts, however 
 large, many of the most pretentious buildings in the
 
 FIFTY YEARS' PROGRESS. 
 
 city having been equipped through this house, than 
 which none occupies a higher position in the com- 
 mercial world, and those contemplating building op- 
 erations will do well to consult Mr. Galloway, 
 and thereby secure, at a reasonable cost, that perfect 
 warmth and ventilation so essential to health in 
 this rigorous and variable climate. He is agent for 
 the large house of T. C. Joy, of Titusville, Pa. 
 
 Geo. P. Harris & Bro. 
 
 Copper, Brass, Tin and Sheet Iron Works, 62 and 64 
 West Lake Street. 
 
 The enormous capital invested and the number of 
 workmen employed in the metal trade of Chicago 
 have combined to render it a branch of industry of 
 the first magnitude. A representative 
 house in this line of business is that of 
 Messrs. Geo. P. Harris & Bro., of Nos. 
 C)2 and 64 West Lake street, manufac- 
 turers of copper, brass, tin and sheet 
 iron goods. They make a specialty 
 of distillery, brewery and steamboat 
 work and engineers' supplies, and 
 special attention is called to their ket- 
 tle and column. The combination is 
 apparent to all distillers at a glance. 
 Heavy bronze and brass castings and 
 brass finishing of all descriptions are 
 done. Their large and well-equipped 
 factory occupies two floors, and is fitted 
 up with all the latest improved machin- 
 ery. Their principal customers are 
 among the distillers and the brewers, 
 and they ship their goods to every 
 part of the States and Canada. They 
 have been at their present factory for 
 two years. Messrs. George and Arthur 
 Harris are Englishmen and came to this country 
 thirty-three years ago. They use the best of ma- 
 terial, and all the work passes under the master's 
 supervising eye, and in this way they have succeed- 
 ed in acquiring the confidence of the public. 
 
 entire floors are occupied, each 150x250 feet in 
 area, and though large as the floorage is, it is still 
 inadequate to accommodate the immense stock of 
 furniture, carpets, stoves, desks, show cases, etc. 
 There are some thirty-seven departments exclusive 
 of the manufacture of store, office and drug fixtures, 
 a branch recently added, and one in which great 
 prominence has been already attained. Mr. Revell 
 has found the desideratum, elegance and cheapness, 
 and without wishing to institute any comparisons, 
 the simple fact remains that this house can fit up a 
 store or office complete on short notice, with fix- 
 tures fully as elegant and at a price less than half 
 that of any other house in town. The concern 
 throughout bears the marks of enterprise and ju- 
 dicious management, Mr. Revell being satisfied 
 with a small profit on every article and relying 
 upon the extensive patronage to make the returns, 
 
 a policy which doubtless has been the keystone to 
 his success. Their building has lately undergone 
 great change by the addition of a new story, two 
 new passenger elevators, and nine new departments, 
 including silverware, crockery, woodenware, mantels 
 and curtains. 
 
 Alex. H. Revell &. Co. 
 
 L Heller & Co. 
 
 Furniture, Carpets, Stoves, Desks, Show Cases etc., Corner 
 
 Fifth Avenue and Randolph Street. 
 As a great metropolis Chicago, in this, the semi- 
 centennial anniversary of her birth, can justly pride 
 herself upon the possession of mercantile estab- 
 lishments in every line which are fully the equal of 
 anything found in the city of New York. In the 
 line of furniture, carpets, and house furnishing 
 goods generally the house of Alex. H. Revell & Co. 
 fully maintains the reputation of Chicago in this 
 respect. The business was established in 1876 
 upon such an insignificant amount of cash capi- 
 tal that, were it stated, the fact would be entirely 
 disbelieved, to such immense proportions has the 
 business been developed in so short a time. Six 
 
 Wholesale Jewelers, 240 Adams Street. 
 In more ways than one has Chicago eclipsed the 
 metropolitan greatness of her eastern rival, New 
 York, and in no sphere of activity more satisfac- 
 torily than in the wholesale jewelry trade, a leading 
 exponent of which is the well-known and popular 
 house conducted by Messrs. L. Heller & Co., whose 
 name for the past eleven years has been synony- 
 mous of that energy and enterprise through which 
 this substantial development has been effected. 
 This house confines itself exclusively to the jobbing 
 trade, in which they possess special facilities for fill- 
 ing the largest orders promptly and on reasonable 
 terms. They carry a large and attractive stock in 
 all the finer and medium grades of gold, plated and
 
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 A BUSINESS TOUR OF CHICAGO. 
 
 jet jewelry and novelties. They have a large and 
 growing demand throughout the entire west in ad- 
 dition to their extensive city trade. A leading feat- 
 ure of this house is their ability to secure all the 
 new leading novelties in the jewelry line, and par- 
 ticularly so in the way of the latest patents in cuff 
 and collar buttons, before any other firm in the city, 
 so that all their patrons will be the first in their 
 town to secure the latest styles and quick selling 
 articles. Any new patent offered by this firm the 
 trade may buy without any hesitation as nothing in 
 that line is added to the stock before it has been 
 given a thorough and practical test and the results 
 show a positive merit. 
 
 The house was established in 1876, and under Mr. 
 Heller's attentive management has obtained a most 
 influential connection among the most famous jew- 
 elry manufacturers in the United States. The 
 gentlemen at the head of this house are well and 
 favorably known in the business world, and have 
 placed it upon a substantial basis. 
 
 Newman Bros. 
 
 Manufacturers of Organs, Nos. 38 and 40 South Canal Street, 
 
 Corner of Washington: 
 
 This popular firm are not only wide awake to 
 every interest of their many patrons, but, by their 
 ability, experience and skillful workmanship, are 
 enabled to place before the public an organ of the 
 most modern pattern, fine 
 finish and rich tone, unsur- 
 passed by any other instru- 
 ment of the kind in the 
 country. The business was 
 established in 1856 in a 
 small way, but the merit 
 of their fine instruments 
 soon became known and 
 appreciated, calling upon 
 them for greater facilities, 
 which are found in the 
 large factory they now oc- 
 cupy. Today their trade 
 extends to all parts of 
 the globe, and for church, 
 chapel, lodge-room and par- 
 lor use, the Newman Bros, organs take the lead. 
 They have taken out several patents from time to 
 time for the improvement of their organ, prominent 
 of which may be mentioned their pipe-coupler swell, 
 which is only used in their organs. This is the only 
 invention ever introduced into a reed organ whereby 
 the tones are so modified and softened as to resem- 
 ble the rich, mellow tones of a pipe organ. 
 
 The personnel of the firm is Charles, Gustavus 
 and John Newman, all practical men, having had 
 years of experience in this line before beginning 
 business for themselves. They employ upwards of 
 one hundred skillful workmen, and are able to turn 
 out two hundred and fifty instruments a month. 
 Their prices are reasonable, and that they have suc- 
 ceeded in business the great demand for their 
 organs fully attests. For price list and illustrated 
 catalogue address as above, or call in person. 
 
 Whitehill Sewing-Machine Co. 
 
 Agency of E. E. Packard, 28 North Clark Street. 
 At this depot are found the Singer, Whitehill, 
 New Home, Wheeler & Wilson, Domestic, El- 
 dridge, in fact, all the prominent machines manu- 
 factured, both new and second-hand. Parties can 
 here obtain machines of all varieties and grades, 
 either for cash or on the installment plan. A 
 specialty is made of the popular light-running 
 Whitehill, a cut of which is given below. 
 
 The Whitehill machines are now manufactured in 
 the best equipped factory in the country, and for 
 simplicity, durability, ease, quietness and rapidity 
 of motion, a perfect stitch and a large arm, they are 
 peerless. 
 
 The Whitehill is the first and only shuttle ma- 
 chine constructed wherein the needle-bar is oper- 
 ated by a crank motion, forming a loop, entirely 
 superseding the noisy and irregular cam motion. 
 
 The wood-work is handsome and artistic in de- 
 sign, combining strength with durability, and fine 
 finish with utility. It is built up in sections, to 
 prevent warping and splitting. As a family ma- 
 chine it excels all others. 
 
 Examinations are requested, and a person will 
 not only be amply repaid by a visit to this promi- 
 nent machine depot, but surprised at the low prices 
 charged for so fine a machine. They are wholesale 
 as well as retail dealers, and all orders meet with 
 prompt and satisfactory attention. Anything in 
 the way of household furniture, pianos, organs, 
 horses, taken in exchange for sewing-machines, 
 pianos or organs. They are prepared to sell second- 
 hand machines (perfect satisfaction guaranteed) at 
 from $5 upwards. 
 
 T. W. Eaton. 
 
 Ma 
 
 facturer of Hand, Foot and Power Circular Sawing 
 
 Machines, 62 and 64 West Lake Street. 
 Asa practical machinist Mr. T. W. Eaton, of Nos. 
 62 and 64 West Lake street, has few equals. He 
 manufactures all kinds of hand, foot and power 
 machines for circular saws, etc., and one of his spe- 
 cialties is the making of hair-pickers for mattress-
 
 FIFTY YEARS' PROGRESS. 
 
 makers. He has been at his present stand for four 
 years, and his factory is fitted up with all necessary 
 machinery and appliances for the successful carrying 
 on of his trade. He employs from five to ten men, 
 and is at present largely engaged in manufacturing 
 a patent wood saw for two local firms. He turns 
 out from one hundred and fifty to two hundred of 
 these machines annually. Mr. Eaton is an old vet- 
 eran, having served his country for four years and 
 two months in the civil war. He was a member of 
 the 9th Illinois cavalry. He saw much active service 
 during that time, and has some very lively and in- 
 teresting recollections of those stirring times. 
 
 A. B. Gehman & Co. 
 
 Publishers of Standard Subscription Books, 177 and 179 
 
 La Salle Street. 
 
 In writing an authentic exposition commemora- 
 tive of the semi-centennial anniversary of the foun- 
 dation of the city, forming thus a valuable hand-book 
 of business facts and statistics, thereby spreading 
 the fame of the Garden City far and wide over this 
 and many other lands. In preparing the semi- 
 centennial review of Chicago, a few houses in each 
 branch of business will be represented as being 
 typical of the city's progress. In the subscription 
 book business, A. B. Gehman & Co. occupy, in their 
 relations to the literary world, a position of the 
 highest prominence and one which it would be diffi- 
 cult to fill. They publish a number of leading 
 works on general subjects, among which "The His- 
 tory of the Grand Army of the Republic," also 
 "The Great Cry of Labor," are of late issue, while 
 such is the popularity of their standard publications 
 and liberality of terms, that agents have found a 
 connection with this house to redound greatly to 
 their profit financially. Mr. Gehman is a native of 
 Ohio, and established his business in Chicago in 
 January 1886, which he has since conducted upon 
 the most honorable commercial principles, thereby 
 gaining the confidence and esteem of the community 
 and placing his house upon a substantial and reli- 
 able basis. 
 
 M. Straus. 
 
 Artist, Rooms 70 and 80, Japanese Building, Corner Jackson 
 and State Streets. 
 
 In the aesthetic arts, the productions of the land- 
 scape painter never fail to arrest the attention of 
 even the most superficial observer, while true merit 
 seldom fails to receive recognition and just reward. 
 The colony of artists in Chicago, though not large 
 when compared to European cities, yet possesses 
 some of the brightest ornaments of the profession, 
 among whom the citizens of Chicago pride them- 
 selves in numbering Mr. M. Straus, who for the 
 past three years has permanently resided in our 
 midst. A native of Bavaria, Germany, Mr. Straus 
 came to America at the age of fourteen, and has 
 practiced his profession for the last quarter of a 
 century in different portions of this country, and has 
 
 achieved a national reputation, standing today in 
 the front rank of our most accomplished American 
 artists; and when we add to this the fact that he is a 
 self-made man in his calling, we but add honor to his 
 achievements and luster to his career. Mr. Straus 
 has spent many years traveling, and has thus 
 studied extensively in all parts of this country from 
 Massachusetts to Puget sound, and notably twelve 
 years in California, where he doubtless caught 
 that exquisite coloring, and which some who 
 have never seen the gorgeous scenery of that 
 country are apt to think overdrawn. Several of 
 Mr. Straus' productions were exhibited at the New 
 Orleans exposition, his noted masterpiece, the 
 "Swamp Monarch," being owned in London, Eng- 
 land, where it excites universal admiration ; thus his 
 fame is transatlantic. Mr. T. F. Oakes, vice-president 
 and general manager of the Northern Pacific R. R.. 
 is the fortunate possessor of "Mount Tacoma," by 
 many considered the equal of the "Swamp Mon- 
 arch," while the Rev. D. M. Cooper, of Detroit, is 
 also the owner of "Mount Tamalpais," "Montery 
 Bay," several smaller gems, among them a view of 
 the Golden .Gate. The most expert critics have pro- 
 nounced high encomiums upon the works of Mr. 
 Straus, while among his brother artists who are 
 the most eminent in their calling they are highly 
 spoken of. Mr. Straus" style may be safely put 
 down as a modification of the French school. In 
 conclusion we can heartily say, as a lover of the 
 productions of the real, innate artist, the artist who 
 is one perforce and because he cannot help being 
 one, if anyone wishes a continual feast for the soul, 
 go and visit Mr. Straus' studio and become the 
 possessor of one of his inimitable productions. 
 
 Liverpool & London & Globe 
 Insurance Company. 
 
 Office, 124 La Salle Street 
 
 There is no part of the civilized world where the 
 Liverpool & London & Globe Insurance company is 
 not known. Chicago has good reason to remember 
 this company, for when most of smaller companies 
 were in a dilemma and could not pay claims in full 
 after the great fire of '71, this was one of the very 
 few that met all just claims, paying 100 cents to the 
 dollar. No less a sum than $3,272,782 was paid out 
 in losses at that time, and the great fire in Boston in 
 the fall of the succeeding year brought up the total 
 claims paid for these two fires alone to $4,500,000. 
 
 This company was incorporated in 1836, and has 
 its main offices at Liverpool, England, with branch 
 offices and agents in all parts of the world. This 
 branch was opened in 1875 as an office,, though long 
 prior to that agencies had been established here. 
 The other branch offices in the United States are 
 at New York, San Francisco and New Orleans. 
 The yearly business done by this, the largest fire 
 insurance company in the world, in the United 
 States branch alone, amounted in 1885 to a receipt 
 of $3,533,506 in net cash premiums, while the losses 
 paid were $2,035,033. The shareholders are person-
 
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 ally responsible in an unlimited liability, while losses 
 are payable in cash without discount. The Chicago 
 board of directors are John Crerar, of the firm of 
 Crerar. Adams & Co., chairman ; L. Z. Leiter, late of 
 Field, Leiter & Co., and Ezra J. Warner, of the firm 
 of Sprague, Warner & Co. The resident secretary 
 for this district and as far west as the Rockies is 
 Mr. Wm. Warren, to whom all communications 
 should be addressed. 
 
 John 0. Boesch. 
 
 Manufacturer of Center and Telegraph Tables, Cabinet- 
 Makers' Tools, Etc., 29 and 31 North] 
 
 Jefferson Street. 
 
 The wood-workers of Chicago are recognized as 
 an important factor in the commercial greatness of 
 this city. Mr. John O. Boesch is a manufacturer of 
 center and telegraph tables, general novelties and 
 cabinet-makers' tools. He has a very extensive con- 
 nection in the city and does a general jobbing trade. 
 Mr. Boesch is a native of Switzerland, and came to 
 this country in 1865. He started in business at No. 54 
 West Indiana street in 1880, but he latterly removed 
 to his present location at Nos. 29 and 31 North Jef- 
 ferson street. Here he is more centrally situated, and 
 the premises are more extensive and better suited 
 to the requirements of his ever-increasing trade. 
 Mr. Boesch is a thoroughly reliable workman and 
 is much respected in the trade. He has succeeded 
 in building up a very fine business, which is rapidly 
 increasing, as his goods become better known on 
 the market. 
 
 Foster, Roe & Crone. 
 
 Printers, 170 Clark Street. 
 
 Were anyone required to state what has contrib- 
 uted the most to the enlightenment of the human 
 race, the response unhesitatingly would be, the 
 printing press, an art properly denominated "the 
 preservative of all arts." Modern invention has 
 contributed greatly to the improvement and devel- 
 opment of printing, and at the present time its 
 price has been so reduced by labor-saving machinery 
 that books, pamphlets, and that great educator, the 
 newspaper, and, indeed, all printed matter, are 
 within the reach o'f all. One of the most complete 
 and reliable printing establishments in Chicago is 
 that of Messrs. Foster, Roe & Crone, equipped as it 
 is with all kinds of the latest and most improved 
 printing machinery, including rotary and job presses, 
 large quantities of clear-faced book and job type, 
 in all styles, and to which fonts are constantly 
 being added as new designs are issued; in short, 
 their facilities enable them to execute, at reasonable 
 prices, promptly, all contracts for book and job 
 work, the mechanical execution of which is unsur- 
 passed by any printing house in the city. The 
 house was established by Messrs. F. C. Foster and 
 M. A. Roe in March, 1884, Mr. C. E. Crone becom- 
 ing a member of the firm two years later, and have 
 always commanded a liberal patronage and held a 
 
 leading position in the trade. The firm employ 
 none but the most experienced type-setters, press- 
 men, and other employes, and many of their speci- 
 mens of work are masterpieces of this important 
 industry. 
 
 H. H. Gardner & Co. 
 
 No. 241 South Water Street. 
 
 Chicago, by reason of her immediate contiguity 
 to the lumber-producing regions of the great north- 
 west, together with her unsurpassed railway con- 
 nections, water routes and terminal facilities, affords 
 the chief point in America, as well as the largest 
 in the world, for the receipt and handling of lum- 
 ber of all kinds, but the factors of paramount 
 importance in building up her enormous trade in 
 this line are the ample resources and distinguished 
 energy and enterprise of her leading merchants. 
 Besides being one of the largest, the house of H. H. 
 Gardner & Co. is also one of the oldest in that line 
 in Chicago, Mr. Gardner having been engaged in it 
 continuously for the past twenty years. This house 
 is doing an exclusively wholesale business, nothing 
 less than cargo lots being sold. They manufacture 
 at Muskegon, Whitehall and Escanaba, Mich., and 
 at Ashland, Wis., and during the past winter cut 
 and logged nearly forty million feet of their own 
 timber. They are large owners of pine lands, and 
 are continually buying more, purchasing only the 
 best quality. This latter fact has become so well 
 known to the trade that two-thirds of this season's 
 cut of lumber was sold to eastern dealers before a 
 log was sawed, the reputation of their high-grade 
 stock being the principal factor of the sale. During 
 the past winter they also sold large bills of heavy 
 bridge and car timber, for spring and summer deliv- 
 ery, this material being cut from their coarse logs. 
 
 The present firm is composed of Messrs. H. H. 
 Gardner and C. J. Wood, and is one of the succes- 
 sors to the old Gardner & Spry company. With 
 ample resources and plenty of energy, pluck and 
 experience, they are destined to hold their place 
 among the leaders of the great lumber industry. 
 
 J. A. Shepard. 
 
 Portrait Copying House, 289 Wabash Avenue. 
 Under the bright light of the nineteenth century, 
 the arts, professions and sciences have advanced to 
 such a degree of perfection that it seems hardly pos> 
 sible for future generations to improve upon them, 
 and in no other thing has the progress of improve- 
 ment left such indubitable marks as in the perfected 
 processes at present in vogue in the copying and en- 
 largement of pictures. The largest and leading 
 copying house in the west is that so ably conducted 
 by Mr. J. A. Shepard, of this city, whose corps of 
 artists embraces the highest order of talent obtaina- 
 ble, and who, since inaugurating his business five 
 years ago, has obtained both a liberal and influential 
 patronage, and also an enviable reputation for fine 
 work at moderate prices. All kinds of small pic-
 
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 tures are copied and enlarged to any desired size, 
 and finished in crayon, india ink, water colors, oil 
 or pastel, the correctness of which is in all cases 
 guaranteed, and canvassers will find it largely to 
 their pecuniary interests to place their orders with 
 this house, whose business reputation is not only of 
 the best, but which possesses every necessary facil- 
 ity for enabling it to execute all commissions with 
 promptness, and of the highest artistic merit. 
 
 Fyfe & Campbell. 
 
 Printers and Publishers, 128 and 130 South Clark Street. 
 The firm of Fyfe & Campbell, printers and pub- 
 lishers, of Nos. 128 and 130 South Clark street, has- 
 been established seven years. This firm does a 
 general line of book and job work, commercial print- 
 ing, etc. Their two watchwords are "expeditious" 
 and "reliable," and they are very aptly chosen. 
 The class of work this establishment turns out is 
 standard, society printing being a specialty. A 
 very large variety of type, borders, and electrotype 
 cuts and emblems are to be seen here. The print- 
 ing machinery consists of five Gordon presses, cut- 
 ting and perforating machines, etc. The bulk of the 
 trade is local, though orders are at times received 
 from firms and houses as far distant as Colorado. 
 Their aim is to treat a customer so that he shall 
 return to them whenever he requires more work. 
 In this way they have succeeded in establishing a 
 good reputation in this city and vicinity. They are 
 also publishers of the Scottish Clansman, a semi- 
 monthly paper, devoted to the interests of the 
 Scottish clans all over the United States. Although 
 it is only established since September, 1886, it has 
 grown much in favor, and increased its circulation 
 greatly. The terms are $1 per year. For further 
 information address Fyfe & Campbell, No. 128 
 South Clark street. 
 
 avenue, and forms one of the finest wholesale 
 manufacturing clothing houses in the United States. 
 The firm devote special care to the selection of 
 their woolens and suitings, manufacturing all grades 
 of goods, which, as regards cut, workmanship and 
 finish, have earned a reputation in the market 
 strictly upon their merits. The building through- 
 out is provided with all the modern facilities which 
 science has devised as regards machinery for manu- 
 facturing purposes, as well as electric alarms, ele- 
 vators, etc., for expediting the. business, in which 
 some five hundred operatives are employed, together 
 with a large force of scientific cutters. The mem- 
 bers of the firm are widely known, both in and out 
 of trade, while their close application to business, 
 and liberal dealings, combined with a strict adher- 
 ence to the most rigid code of mercantile ethics, 
 have wrought out a success in every respect typical 
 of Chicago's remarkable development. 
 
 Strauss, Goodman, Yondorf & Co. 
 
 Manufacturers of Men's, Youths' and Boys' Clothing, Mon- 
 roe Street and Fifth Avenue. 
 
 The great clothing interest of this city is one of 
 its proudest triumphs, and it argues well to know 
 that the semi-centennial of Chicago's history finds 
 its strength unabated and the grip of its manufac- 
 turers and jobbers on the trade of the country in no 
 sense relaxed. The house of Strauss, Goodman, 
 Yondorf & Co. may fitly be considered the repre- 
 sentative of the wholesale manufacturing clothing 
 trade of Chicago, while their business has developed 
 with the growth of commerce throughout the west. 
 The original house, Mayer, Strauss, Goodman & Co., 
 was founded in 1870, and actively conducted until 
 its dissolution, some three years ago, resulted in the 
 formation of the present firm, composed of Messrs. 
 Abr. Strauss, Hugo Goodman, Simon Yondorf 
 and Edward Rose. Their immense trade necessi- 
 tates the occupation of their present very spacious 
 five-story and basement building, 100 x 225 feet in 
 dimensions, at the corner of Monroe street and Fifth 
 
 Illinois Terra Cotta Lumber Co. 
 
 Office, 42 and 43, 118 Dearborn Street. Works at Pullman. 
 
 The offices of this company are at 118 Dearborn 
 street, rooms 42 and 43. We gained much infor- 
 mation by our visit here concerning this new build- 
 ing material. This is a newly invented building 
 material made of clay and sawdust, and when burned 
 the" sawdust is consumed, leaving the material porous 
 or cellular, yet capable of bearing immense crushing 
 strain, and is only one-third the weight of brick. 
 
 It is absolutely fireproof and is suitable for all 
 interior architecture. Forsheathing columns, boilers, 
 beams, girders, pipes, etc., it is peculiarly adapted, as 
 it can be shaped with edged tools, sawn like a piece 
 of timber or have nails driven into its substance. It 
 costs less and can be set in place more readily than 
 any recognized fireproofing. If a slab one and one- 
 half inches thick be heated to a full red heat on one 
 side, the other is so cool as not to scorch paper or 
 white pine touching it. 
 
 The works are at Pullman. Samples only are 
 kept at the office before named. The president of 
 the company is Mr. Jas. Stinson; Quintin Johnston, 
 secretary; and C. W. Brega, vice-president. For 
 partitions this article is in special favor on account 
 of its sound-proof qualities, also because changes 
 in apartments can be readily made by sawing out 
 doors or other openings therein. 
 
 The company has the sole rights for making and 
 selling in this State. From fifty to sixty hands are 
 employed at the factory and kilns. 
 
 J. Frank Waldo. 
 
 Artist, Room 34, 225 Dearborn Street. 
 It is natural in every man to wish for distinction, 
 and whether in the domain of letters, art, science or 
 trade, the struggle to obtain it is praiseworthy and 
 should be applauded when won. To few has 
 fame been more lavish in her favors than to Mr. J. 
 Frank Waldo, the author of "Pike's Peak at Sun-
 
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 down, "a masterpiece well known in the art galleries 
 of America and to connoisseurs all over the world; 
 also, "The Sacred Grove," of historic interest, near 
 Taos, New Mexico. 
 
 Mr. Waldo is a native of Vermont, where he was 
 born May 16, 1835, in the town of Newbury. His 
 residence is a little more difficult to speak of with 
 any certainty, his nomadic disposition having taken 
 him all over this country and Mexico in search of 
 subjects. In 1871-2 he was in Chicago, and again in 
 1876, and even for the past three years has been 
 stationary here, and on the whole, perhaps, Chicago 
 can justly claim his residence; at least, her citizens 
 pride themselves in that belief. Mr. Waldo has ex- 
 hibited at several of the Chicago expositions, at Mil- 
 waukee, at Minneapolis in 1886, and at both New 
 Orleans expositions, where among the many artistic 
 productions his merits received fitting recognition. 
 Mr. Waldo makes a specialty of marine views, in 
 which he excels, and he is no follower or imitator of 
 anyone. A born artist, he seeks inspiration from 
 nature, and interprets her with a faithfulness 
 equaled by very few. 
 
 Salisbury & Cline. 
 
 Dealers in Rubber and Leather Belting, Hose, All Kinds 
 
 of Rubber Goods, Etc., 109 Madison Street. 
 The oldest established house in the city in rubber 
 and leather belting, hose and all kinds of rubber 
 goods, is that of Salisbury & Cline, who opened this 
 business in 1855. This firm have a large and exten- 
 sive business, both in the city and all parts of the 
 country. They represent the Boston Belting Co., 
 Boston Woven Hose Co., Goodyear I. R. Glove Co., 
 Gossamer Rubber Clothing Co., and James Davis 
 Belting Co. They were located on Lake street in 
 1871, when the fire destroyed the whole of this 
 part of the city, and have occupied their present 
 commodious premises for the last five years. The 
 business occupies the basement and first floor, each 
 twenty-five by two hundred feet, at No. 109 East 
 Madison street. Their specialty is wire-wound rub- 
 ber hose, packing hose and belting, though a full line 
 in all other branches is kept. Buying direct and in 
 such large quantities from the manufacturers, and 
 doing all their trade on a cash basis, they are en- 
 abled to quote as low prices as can be obtained from 
 any firm in the trade, while the names of the firms 
 and companies they represent are sufficient guaran- 
 tee of the quality of the goods supplied and the 
 enormous stock carried from which to select. 
 
 Muchmore & Muchmore. 
 
 Cylinder and Lubricating Oils, Naphtha, Gasoline, Turpen- 
 tine, Axle Grease, Rosin, Waste, Etc., 
 
 31 Market Street. 
 
 When a house has enjoyed a liberal patronage 
 and popularity for a long term of years, the conclu- 
 sion is irresistible that its management has been 
 characterized by integrity, ability and good judg- 
 ment. Such are the circumstances connected with 
 
 the establishment of Messrs. Muchmore & Much- 
 more, which was founded in 1878, and has since 
 held a prominent position in the trade. The firm 
 has been continuously located in this immediate 
 vicinity, and for the past three years have occupied 
 their present spacious premises, where a full and 
 complete stock of cylinder and lubricating oils, 
 naphtha, gasoline, turpentine, axle grease, rosin, 
 waste, etc., is carried, embracing the products of 
 the most reputable manufacturers in the country. 
 The command of ample capital enables them to 
 purchase direct, and in large quantities, for cash, 
 thereby placing the firm in a position to quote 
 prices difficult to be obtained elsewhere, and which 
 have been largely instrumental in building up their 
 widespread western trade, in addition to their flour- 
 ishing local patronage. The brands carried are well 
 known for their uniform reliability, and those desir- 
 ing oils of a high grade, free from all alkalis or 
 acids which so soon work irreparable injury to 
 machinery, may safely avail themselves of the op- 
 portunity offered by this house to procure such 
 supplies at reasonable prices. Messrs. J. E. Much- 
 more, Sr., a.id J. F. Muchmore, the gentlemen com- 
 posing this firm, have resided in this city the 
 greater part of their lives, where they are so well 
 known and highly esteemed. 
 
 T. D. Randall & Co. 
 
 Fruit and Produce Commission, 219 South Water Street. 
 No exposition of the produce commission trade 
 of our great city, now celebrating her semi-centen- 
 nial anniversary, would be complete without promi- 
 nent reference to the firm of T. D. Randall & Co., 
 who are successfully conducting, under its pristine 
 aggressive policy, the oldest fruit and produce com- 
 mission house in Chicago, as it is also one of the lar- 
 gest. The history of this house in its struggles 
 overcoming difficulties and drawbacks, on their 
 face apparently insurmountable, is, in fact, the his- 
 tory of the trade itself, which it has so long honor- 
 ably represented. Mr. Randall is emphatically an 
 old-timer, having established this business in 1852, 
 and is thus one of the pioneers in the produce trade, 
 which he was destined to see grow and expand into 
 its present colossal proportions, in the development 
 of which his house played a most important part, 
 and was always able to command fully its share of 
 patronage. Of his then competitors none remain, 
 death and financial reverses having claimed them 
 all. Only once during the entire thirty-five years 
 has this house failed to open its doors on every busi- 
 ness morning; for upon that memorable 9th of 
 October, 1871, nothing remained but a heap of 
 smoldering ashes of his once stately and spacious 
 building, while indeed its very site could not be 
 positively determined for several days. Although 
 the loss was severe, it was not crushing, and within 
 a very short time the house was conducting busi- 
 ness regularly upon a grander scale than ever before, 
 and has since enjoyed an uninterrupted career of 
 public favor and prosperity. His daughter, now 
 Mrs. Geo. S. Bridge, creditably discharges the du-
 
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 101 
 
 ties of cashier and bookkeeper, yet could and fre- 
 quently does take charge of the entire concern. 
 Fruit and produce of all kinds, hay, flour, feed and 
 grain are handled. A board of trade membership 
 belongs to the firm. The house being thoroughly 
 well equipped with every facility for doing business 
 promptly and satisfactorily, with ample capital, 
 large experience, and an established reputation, 
 shippers can make no mistake in entrusting their 
 consignments to this old, energetic and reliable 
 firm. 
 
 Ph. L. Raphael & Co. 
 
 179 Madison Street. 
 
 The largest wine and spirit houses in the world 
 are represented by this firm, including the Harris 
 Distilling Co., of Philadelphia, Pa.; the well-known 
 house of Gonzalez Byass & Co., Jerez, Spain; Cook 
 & Bernheimer, New York; Isidor Bush & Co., St. 
 Louis, Mo.; and they are sole agents for the Park- 
 land Distilling Co., Louisville, Ky. 
 
 Mr. Raphael, for twenty-five years, has been 
 known throughout the United States to the whole- 
 sale trade. Their trade, which is rapidly extending, 
 reaches from the Alleghenies to the Pacific and from 
 Canada to the Gulf. 
 
 This house enjoys a large city trade, but the bulk 
 of business is done through the entire country. 
 Besides ably representing these large houses, this 
 firm also sells on commission; and as they are well 
 known to all the trade, some idea of the immense 
 business enjoyed by Ph. L. Raphael & Co. may be 
 gleaned from the fact that from one company alone 
 (the Parkland Distilling Co.) from 8,000 to 10,000 
 barrels of whisky are sold yearly. A branch office 
 for the sale of sherries from Gonzalez Byass & Co., 
 of Spain, is located at 39 Broadway, New York. A 
 limited supply of wines, etc., is kept in the custom- 
 house at New York, for immediate orders, but the 
 large bulks are supplied direct from Cadiz, Spain. 
 
 Cass F. Maurer. 
 
 Dealer in Cigars and Tobacco, 113 Adams Street. 
 There is so much that is palpably vile that passes 
 for cigars that positive pleasure is afforded to refer 
 to the well and favorably known Club House Cigar 
 Factory, Cass F. Maurer, proprietor, whose pro- 
 ducts maintain such a high reputation for quality, 
 flavor and finish, and for which there is everywhere 
 such an increasing demand. Mr. Maurer is the suc- 
 cessor of the old firm of Heller & Maurer, which in 
 1869 was dissolved by the purchase of Mr. J. Hel- 
 ler's interest in the business. This house is the 
 headquarters for the favorite staple and fancy 
 brands of smoking and chewing tobaccos, cigars, 
 and smokers' sundries. His customers belong to 
 the better class of merchants, board of trade and 
 
 thirty-two years in which he has been engaged in 
 the business. In the great fire of 1871, Mr. Maurer, 
 while at No. 134 Clark street, suffered the entire 
 loss of his stock, but with characteristic energy was 
 soon firmly re-established, and now enjoys the dis- 
 tinction of being the proprietor of one of the hand- 
 somest and best appointed stores in this city. Mr. 
 Maurer is also one of our war veterans, having 
 served with the gallant battery A, attached to the 
 army of the Tennessee, having left Chicago for the 
 front on April 1, 1861, and was mustered out July, 
 1864, having given for the sake of liberty three of 
 the most valuable years of his life. 
 
 Thos. S. Cruttenden. 
 
 Agent for the Sale of Garner & Go's Goods, 
 
 252 Monroe Street. 
 
 Mr. Thos. S. Cruttenden is the first commission 
 dry goods man in Chicago who has made a success, 
 and has for the past twelve years represented the 
 well-known house of Garner & Co., of 12 to 16 
 Worth street, New York, the largest cotton manu- 
 facturers in the world, controlling the entire output 
 of the following mills: Cotton Mills Harmony 
 mills, Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5, Ogden mills, Strong 
 mills, Cohoes, N. Y. ; Newburgh steam cotton 
 mills, Newburgh, N. Y. ; Rochester cotton mills, 
 Rochester, N. Y.; Little Falls cotton mill, Little 
 Falls, N. Y.; Pleasant Valley cotton mill, Pleasant 
 Valley. N. Y. ; Franklindale cotton mill, Wappin- 
 
 fer's Falls, N. Y.; Reading cotton mill, Reading, 
 a. Print Works Dutchess company, Wappinger's 
 Falls, N. Y. ; Rockland print works, Haverstraw, 
 N. Y. ; Dutchess bleachery and dye works, Wap- 
 pinger's Falls, N. Y. Thus they are the largest pro- 
 ducers, either in this country or in Europe, of prints, 
 lawns, linings, silesias and percales, and of a quality 
 which for years past has been regarded as standard 
 in the trade, while Mr. Cruttenden, being the direct 
 agent, is enabled to name the very lowest manufac- 
 turers' prices. 
 
 A spacious five-story and basement building, 
 25x165 feet in dimensions, is occupied in this city, 
 and a large stock carried, from which all orders are 
 promptly filled for the entire west, throughout 
 which the house is ably represented by a large num- 
 ber of commercial travelers. 
 
 railroad men, who know and appreciate a good 
 cigar; and as his prices are reasonable and fair, Mr. 
 Maurer finds his trade all he can well attend to, and 
 
 cigar; and as his prices are reason 
 Maurer finds his trade all he can w 
 today better than ever before during the entire 
 
 Canada Fur Manufacturing Co. 
 
 Simon Minchrod & Co., Proprietors, 168 and 170 
 
 Market Street. 
 
 This firm makes a specialty of gents' fur coats, 
 fur-lined coats, fur attachments and fur trimmings; 
 also seal sacques, dolmans, robes, etc., the largest 
 assortment in the west. One of the advantages of 
 buying from a bona-fide manufacturer is that a per- 
 fectly fitting garment is obtained at a reasonable 
 price, which is well-nigh impossible under other 
 conditions. The skins handled by this reliable 
 house are always procured direct from first hands, 
 thus enabling Messrs. Minchrod & Co. to offer their
 
 A BUSINESS TOUR OF "CHICAGO. 
 
 goods at prices that will compare favorably with 
 those of any contemporary house in the city, a fact 
 that outside merchants dealing in these articles have 
 not been slow to appreciate. The house dates its 
 inception from the year 1876, when the organiza- 
 tion was effected as the Canada Fur Manufacturing 
 company, this style being still retained, Messrs. 
 Simon Minchrod & Co. becoming sole proprietors 
 January, 1886. Spacious premises are occupied, 
 forty by one hundred and fifty feet in dimensions, 
 and over one hundred skilled workmen are con- 
 stantly engaged the year round in manufacturing 
 fashionable seal garments, fur coats, fur trimmings, 
 etc., which for quality and workmanship are abso- 
 lutely unsurpassed, and which meet with ready sale 
 all over the west, needing only to be introduced to 
 have their merits fully recognized. As a firm they 
 are active, enterprising and pushing, full of life, 
 and are highly regarded in mercantile circles. 
 
 P. & H. Johnson. 
 
 Manufacturers of Extension Curtain Cornices. Furniture 
 Made and Repaired. All Kinds of Carpenter Work 
 
 Promptly Attended to. Cor. Green and Ohio Streets. 
 
 Messrs. Johnson have lately started in business 
 as manufacturers of extension curtain cornices. 
 They manufacture and repair all classes of furniture 
 to order. Messrs. Johnson are natives of Norway, 
 and learned their trade in the old country. They 
 have been here in Chicago for five years, and started 
 in business on their own account in May, 1886. They 
 are hard-working and industrious young men, and 
 are sure to command success in the near future. 
 Although so lately started, they have already a con- 
 siderable number of orders on their b6oks. 
 
 Morper, Dernburg & Co. 
 
 Manufacturers of Ladies' and Children's Cloaks, 
 
 Nos. 156 and 158 Market Street. 
 
 One of the leading houses engaged in this branch 
 of manufacture, which was formerly monopolized 
 by eastern houses, is that of Messrs. Morper, Dern- 
 burg & Co., composed of Messrs. Jno. C. Morper 
 and Carl Dernburg, who, with Mr. Julius Stein, six 
 years ago founded the business to which they have, 
 January 1, 1887, become the sole successors. The 
 premises occupied are spacious, comprising five entire 
 floors, each fifty by one hundred and fifty feet in 
 dimensions, devoted both to stock purposes and 
 manufacturing, in the former department carrying 
 one of the finest and best assorted stocks of ladies' 
 and children's cloaks in the market, while the latter 
 is provided with all modern machinery and appli- 
 ances and employs some five hundred operatives. 
 They select only such qualities of material as they 
 can guarantee, and, employing only the most skilled 
 cutters and expert boss tailors, their garments have 
 attained a high reputation in the trade. Their busi- 
 ness, which extends to all points north, west and 
 south, has been built up strictly upon the merits of 
 
 the goods, their reasonable prices and the honorable 
 dealings characteristic of the house. Messrs. Morper 
 and Dernburg are well-known Chicagoans, and have 
 been closely allied with the wholesale cloak trade 
 for many years past, and Chicago is to be congratu- 
 lated upon having in her midst a house which has 
 proved itself to be so thoroughly enterprising and 
 progressive. 
 
 Purtell & Kienzle. 
 
 Manufacturers of and Dealers in Saddlery Hardware. 
 
 Gold, Silver and Nickel Plating. Nos. 2 and 4 
 
 La Salle Avenue. 
 
 This firm are manufacturers of and dealers in 
 saddlery hardware of all kinds, and gold, silver and 
 nickel plating. From twelve to fifteen experienced 
 workmen are employed in the various departments. 
 
 They are the exclusive manufacturers of a new and 
 useful improvement in hames, of which the above 
 cut gives a fair representation. This valuable in- 
 vention is an improved means of securing the hame- 
 tug to the hame-bar, as well as certain novel features 
 in the construction and combination of parts. All 
 the wear is confined to the metallic bearing, thus 
 increasing the durability of the leather draft-strap. 
 It also confines the wear to the sleeve and bolt, 
 either of which may be removed when worn, and 
 replaced by new ones. This is a great advantage, 
 and one that is readily seen and appreciated by the 
 trade. The firm consists of F. P. Purtell and W. F. 
 Kienzle, young men of enterprise and energy, 
 which, coupled with the long years of experience, 
 enables them to give perfect satisfaction to all of 
 their patrons. 
 
 H. Goettsche. 
 
 Cigars and Tobacco, Wholesale and Retail, 271 East 
 Madison Street. 
 
 Among the numerous local manufacturers in this 
 line, none are more widely known than Mr. H. 
 Goettsche, whose establishment is at the corner of 
 Market and Madison streets. A huge pipe over 
 the entrance also shows that the proprietor does not 
 confine his attention to cigars, but that pipes, 
 briar and meerschaum, of all kinds, are dealt in.
 
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 103 
 
 Mr. Gocttsche manufactures his own cigars, employ- 
 ing eight hands. The store is on the first floor, and 
 is 20x45 feet in size. He opened this business in 
 1877, since which time it has steadily increased. 
 The cigars manufactured by Mr. Goettsche are 
 standard goods, and the favorites appear to be 
 "Lifespring" and "Toto" in the lower price, and 
 "Pet" and "Bouquet" at the higher figure, and, be- 
 sides his home-made goods, he also keeps a fine 
 line of imported goods, and a business of some 
 $15,000 is done. Mr. Goettsche was born in Ger- 
 many (province of Hanover), and came direct to 
 this city in 1866. 
 
 Western Furniture Co. 
 
 Wholesale and Retail Furniture, Carpets, Stoves, Etc., 
 
 87 Fifth Avenue. 
 
 On this street stores of this class were first opened 
 when the city was but a village, and contained not 
 a single brick or stone erection, and it still continues 
 one of the chief streets for that class of stores. 
 Amongst the largest of them may be named the 
 Western Furniture company, managed by Mr. F. 
 W. C. Macdonald. The building this company oc- 
 cupies is opposite the "Times" building (No. 87 
 Fifth avenue), and has been a furniture store for the 
 past twenty years. The first, second and third 
 floors, each 35x175 feet, are occupied in store and 
 sales rooms. Offices and residences are furnished 
 throughout. The bulk of the trade is for cash, 
 though a small portion is on time. The country 
 trade of this house is very extensive, goods being 
 sent as far as western Nebraska, Kansas and 
 Montana. These orders are from customers who 
 have paid a visit to the' city, and have given in their 
 order from observations then made. A specialty is 
 made of desks, which any intending purchaser 
 should call and examine before deciding on the 
 article. 
 
 C. Mears & Co. 
 
 Manufacturers of and Dealers in Lumber and Brick. 
 Office, 242^ South Water Street. 
 
 This house is one of the oldest, not in this busi- 
 ness alone, but in any branch of industry in the 
 west, having been established in 1838, and lacks but 
 one year of being co-existent with the foundation 
 of Chicago the city now celebrating its semi-cen- 
 tennial in the development of whose commerce 
 Mr. Mears has taken such a prominent and influen- 
 tial part. For years the house confined itself to 
 lumber largely, and in which it also yet deals, with 
 mills at Duck Lake, Lincoln and Mears, Michigan. 
 At the same time Mr. Mears was interested in 
 general merchandising and lumber manufacturing. 
 Observing the prevailing tendency in all building 
 operations toward brick, some four years ago the 
 house, being the principal stockholder in the Mid- 
 dlesex Brick and Tile company, began the manu- 
 facture of these staples at Pentwater, Michigan, 
 where it owns an unusually fine quality of brick- 
 
 making clay, in apparently inexhaustible quanti- 
 ties. Cutting their own lumber and manufacturing 
 brick by the aid of the latest devised machinery, the 
 house is in a position both to fill orders promptly, 
 and to quote bottom figures, while both commodi- 
 ties may be relied on as being the best obtainable 
 for the money in the city. 
 
 Delta Transportation Go's 
 
 Cheboygan, Mackinaw and Sault Ste. Marie Line of 
 
 Steamers. Office, 210 South Water Street. 
 The very name of this company brings before us 
 the pleasures of a steamboat ride among the many 
 beautiful islands which lie between the three great 
 lakes of the north, Superior, Michigan and Huron. 
 We refer to the Delta Transportation company's 
 Cheboygan, Mackinaw & Sault Ste. Marie line of 
 steamers, which ply between the grandest summer 
 resorts to be found in the north. The company's 
 general offices are located in this city, at 210 South 
 Water street, corner Fifth avenue. The company 
 was organized in 1884, and they now run'a daily line 
 of steamers between the points named above. The 
 officers of the company are Ira H. Owen, president; 
 F. H. Van Cleve, secretary, and W. R. Owen, 
 treasurer. The latter gentleman is also the manager 
 and looks personally to every feature of the com- 
 pany's business, and largely to his energy and per- 
 severance is due the great success of the company. 
 Their beautiful steamers, "Minnie M." and "Ossi- 
 frage," are among the finest on the lakes, fitted up 
 in the most modern style and noted for their speed. 
 Everything is done for the comfort, safety and hap- 
 
 Einess of the passengers. Some of our readers may 
 ave taken this trip, but as there are many of our 
 friends who may wish to do so, we will describe the 
 beauties along the route as seen by C. F. Crosby, 
 who makes the trip every summer, and always sees 
 some new points of beautyand interest. "Afterdays 
 of hot and dusty railroad travel, we reach, at break 
 of day, our point of embarkation, Cheboygan. We 
 soon go on board the company's beautiful and 
 swift-running steamer. "Minnie M.," and, at six 
 o'clock, start out on our pleasure trip towards 
 Lake Superior. Already we catch something of the 
 spirit of the beauty of the scene about us, the sys- 
 tematic beauty of the landscape and water view, 
 while all around us is the clear, bracing, stimulating 
 morning air, every breath of which fills us with new 
 life and vigor. Our first stop is at Mackinaw City, 
 then across the straits to St. Ignace. Backward we 
 turn our course to the well-known and historic 
 Mackinac island, the most beautiful and finest sum- 
 mer resort and home to be found among the lakes. 
 Half the morning is now gone by, and our journey 
 has scarcely begun. Onward we go, on Lake Huron, 
 through the Detour pass, up between St. Joseph and 
 Lime islands. Here and there beautiful scenes pass 
 before our eyes like the ever-changing kaleidoscope. 
 To our left is the beautiful little Round island, then 
 we enter, to the right of Sugar island, the noted St. 
 Mary's river, for we are on our way up ; coming 
 down, we pass on the other side, through Hay lake.
 
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 A BUSINESS TOUR OF CHICAGO. 
 
 One feature of interest is the government canal, the 
 improvements of which cost over $3,000,000, and 
 here are the finest set of locks, docks, etc., to be 
 found in the world. Another pleasant sight is that 
 of St. Mary's falls, and then at 6 o'clock P. M., re- 
 freshed instead of fatigued by our journey, we enter 
 Sault Ste. Marie, at our journey's end." 
 
 One feature of importance to a tourist is, that this 
 company give moonlight excursions through this 
 region, and anyone who is fortunate enough to take 
 one of these delightful rides will never forget it. 
 Their beautiful steamers can also be chartered by 
 parties who wish to make an excursion alone. 
 
 All we can say to our many readers is to follow 
 our friend Crosby's example, and not let the summer 
 go by without taking a trip in the Delta company's 
 beautiful-steamer. For all information address Mr. 
 W. R. Owen, 210 South Water street, Chicago, 111. 
 
 they receive daily from New York commission 
 houses, consisting of hosiery of all kinds, jerseys, 
 silk handkerchiefs, corsets, etc. 
 
 J. F. Carse. 
 
 .Stained-Glass Works, 19 and 21 South Canal Street. 
 This is one of the oldest businesses of this kind 
 m Chicago, having been founded over thirty years 
 ago by Robert Carse, father of the present propri- 
 etor. Every description of stained glass for use in 
 private houses, churches, public buildings, halls, 
 stairways, etc., is manufactured. Mr. Carse makes a 
 specialty of stained-glass work for ecclesiastical pur- 
 poses, and many of his designs are very elaborate 
 and give evidence of great artistic merit. Mr. Carse 
 has business pluck, which, combined with the excel- 
 lence of the work he produces, has established for 
 him a large and increasing trade. Lovers of art 
 should not lose the opportunity when in Chicago of 
 paying a visit to these works and inspecting the 
 various designs and specimens on exhibition. Orig- 
 inal designs are furnished on application, and prompt 
 attention is given to all orders. 
 
 Phil. N. Marks & Co. 
 
 Wholesale Hosiery, Fancy and Staple Notions, Laces, 
 
 Linens, Etc., 175 and 177 East Madison Street 
 This prosperous firm was established two years 
 ago, and their stock is not only full and complete, 
 but embraces the best quality from importers and 
 manufacturers. They also import laces, etc., them- 
 selves, thus enabling them to give their customers 
 the benefit of buying their goods at the lowest 
 possible prices. The extent of this firm's trade 
 embraces all parts of the west and northwest, as 
 well as large city patronage. This firm makes 
 specialties of all the prominent and popular novel- 
 ties of the day. One of the features of this firm is 
 their orders by mail, to which special attention is 
 given. Prompt, reliable and close personal atten- 
 tion to all branches of their large and increasing 
 trade insures satisfaction in every respect. Full in- 
 formation, samples, price lists, sent on application 
 to the above address. They have in addition to 
 their regular stock a great many job lots, which 
 
 Brown & James Heating Co. 
 
 Manufacturers and Dealers in Brown's Water Heaters and 
 Furnaces. Office and Salesroom, 2131 
 Wabash Avenue. 
 
 Our next visit was to the establishment of The 
 Brown & James Heating Company, manufacturers 
 and dealers in Brown's water heaters and hot-air 
 furnaces. Their office and salesroom is located 
 at No. 2131 Wabash avenue, where are exhibited 
 their heaters, furnaces and a variety of ornamental 
 screens, registers, etc. The works are located at 
 No. 2126 Wabash avenue, and are fitted with all 
 the approved machinery of the latest pattern. 
 From twenty-five to thirty skilled workmen are 
 employed making the construction of these fur- 
 naces and heaters first-class in every respect. See 
 cut. There has been for years a growing dissatis- 
 faction on the part of the public with the imperfect 
 methods of heating buildings and dwellings. This 
 led Mr. Brown (the president of this company) to 
 give much thought, time and attention to the 
 problem of heating by hot-water circulation. After 
 years of toil he has been able to present to the 
 public a means by which a delightful, healthful and
 
 FIFTY YEARS' PROGRESS. 
 
 105 
 
 uniform temperature may be maintained at all 
 times, and under all conditions. He has incorpo- 
 rated in this plan those qualities which a life-long 
 experience in the business have proven most desir- 
 able. In the perfecting of this system the com- 
 pany have spared no expense that could add to the 
 success of the undertaking, and after thorough 
 demonstration and many successful tests they are 
 able to give to the public the best and most satis- 
 factory heater in the market. 
 
 Their plan of ventilation, in connection with 
 their hot-water circulation, makes the whole system 
 complete and unsurpassed by any other way of 
 heating, while it costs about the same as steam to 
 put it in, but is much cheaper to operate", both in 
 the consumption of fuel and the care and attention 
 it requires. Any servant can operate it without 
 any possible chance of its exploding. No safety 
 valves are used, but the expansion tank is left open 
 all the time, thus insuring against any possible 
 accident. Mr. Brown began business in 1867. He 
 was then located on State street near Madison. 
 Mr. Brown is a native of Maine, and has been a 
 resident of Chicago since 1861. An illustrated cata- 
 logue and price list, together with any information 
 desired, can be obtained free on application to the 
 company. Telephone 8303. 
 
 Mrs. E. T. Walsh. 
 
 Fine Millinery, in Twenty-second Street. 
 These parlors are finely fitted and filled with a 
 fine stock of goods, in the latest and most fashion- 
 able styles, and orders are promptly executed for 
 hats, trimmings, ribbons, etc. The business was 
 established eight years ago, and has been successful 
 from the day of its inception. Her qualifications 
 are of a superior order, and she devotes particular 
 attention to the wants of her customers. She em- 
 ploys about a dozen able and efficient assistants to 
 help her with the business. All who deal at the 
 New York millinery store meet with the best of 
 satisfaction. 
 
 Lewis Brothers & Co. 
 
 Wholesale Dry Goods, 160 and 162 Market Street. 
 
 Among the various commercial interests for which 
 Chicago is so celebrated, no branch occupies a more 
 conspicuous position than that of the dry goods 
 trade, in which Messrs. Lewis Brothers & Co., of 
 New York, Philadelphia, Boston, Baltimore and 
 Chicago, are admittedly among the representative 
 exponents. The firm is one of the oldest in the 
 United States, and eight years ago, recognizing 
 Chicago's claims, opened a branch house here, which 
 is under the efficient management of Mr. Noble A. 
 Hamilton, a native of the Empire State. They 
 occupy spacious premises and carry a large stock 
 here, handling dry goods of various kinds, which 
 includes prints, cotton goods, dress goods, woolen 
 goods, etc., and possessing every facility for con- 
 ducting operations under the most favorable 
 
 auspices. They number among their permanent 
 customers all of the leading jobbers and many of 
 the large retailers, not only of Chicago, but all 
 over the United States, while their resources have 
 expanded with the lapse of years, and are now 
 such as can only belong to those thoroughly 
 conversant with the wants of the trade, and enter- 
 prising enough to take advantage of every means 
 whereby all orders may be promptly filled to the 
 satisfaction of the trade. The house is to be 
 commended as one capable of meeting all re- 
 quirements, and those entering into business 
 relations with it may be assured of treatment and 
 advantages in keeping with a just and orogressive 
 policy. 
 
 Enterprise Nickel-Plating Works. 
 
 Nos. 13, 15 and 17 South Canal Street. 
 The Enterprise Nickel-Plating Works, of Nos. 13, 
 15 and 17 South Canal street, is one of the few 
 houses engaged in the silver-plating business. This 
 is an incorporated company, of which Mr. J. G. 
 Shuler is manager. Their factory is fitted out in 
 the most approved style with all the known appli- 
 ances for successfully carrying on this business, and 
 they do a large and ever-extending trade in every . 
 description of nickel and silver plating, bronzing, 
 dipping and lacquering, polishing and grinding. 
 They employ a large staff of skilled workmen, and 
 they are prepared to execute all orders entrusted to 
 them on the shortest notice. Their manager, Mr. 
 Shuler, is a very estimable gentleman, and spares no 
 pains to give satisfaction and to attract business to 
 the firm, and he is highly respected by everyone 
 who comes in contact with him , either in his busi- 
 ness capacity or as a private citizen. 
 
 H. M. Garlick. 
 
 Dealer in City, Suburban and Country Real Estate, 
 Room 39, 118 Dearborn Street. 
 
 ' Nothing shows the rapid growth and impor- 
 tance of the city more than the increase in the 
 value of real estate, and few investments have 
 proved more profitable than those in this kind of 
 property. 
 
 Amongst the real estate dealers none are able 
 to give better advice or offer greater inducements 
 than Mr. H. M. Garlick, a veteran of many years' 
 experience. He has been doing business on his 
 own account for the last fifteen years. A general 
 business is done in city and suburbs, special at- 
 tention being paid to property in the western and 
 southwestern portion of the city and suburbs, in 
 lots vacant and improved. In acre property and 
 farm land, he offers many very great inducements 
 to purchasers, who can pay on time or easy pay- 
 ments, as they desire. He attends to purchase, sale 
 and exchange of real estate, either near or distant, 
 manages property, collects rents, provide tenants, 
 pays taxes, attends to repairs, etc. He also negoti-
 
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 A BUSINESS TOUR OF CHICAGO. 
 
 ates loans on real-estate security, and is well 
 known in business circles as a most reliable and 
 experienced man, His city office is at 116 and 
 118 Dearborn street, room 39, where all communi- 
 cations should be addressed. 
 
 Adam Siebert. 
 
 Practical Carriage, Wagon and Sign Painting, 95 and 97 
 
 East Indiana Street. 
 
 Mr. Siebert is a practical carriage, wagon and 
 sign painter, and has been in the business here'since 
 January 1st, 1887. He is well conversant with 
 every branch of this business, as it is his life trade. 
 His premises are eligible and commodious, occu- 
 pying the top floors. He generally employs half a 
 dozen experienced hands to assist him with the 
 work, which is entirely local, but quite large. His 
 patrons are among the most influential business 
 men in the city. Mr. Siebert makes a specialty of 
 fine work, and sees to it that none but first-class 
 work is turned out. He is a native Chicagoan, and 
 learned his trade right here in Chicago. 
 
 Brown, Pettibone & Co. 
 
 Blank-Book Makers, Stationers and Printers, 
 
 80 and 82 Adams Street. 
 
 In its special line this house is essentially a leader, 
 whether its extended connection or the deservedly 
 high reputation of its goods be considered. The 
 premises occupied are unusually spacious, the offices 
 and salesrooms comprising Nos. 80 and 82 Adams 
 street, perfectly equipped with every modern appli- 
 ance for the speedy and economical conduct of the 
 business. In addition to office stationery a spe- 
 cialty is made of county records and large blank- 
 books of similar character, with patent flexible backs, 
 which allows them, however large, to lie open flat 
 at any page, and of which Messrs. Brown, Pettibone 
 & Co. are the sole licensed manufacturers for the 
 States of Illinois and Iowa. The members of the 
 firm are thoroughly practical and experienced gen- 
 tlemen, who spare no pains to render satisfaction 
 in every instance, and their house occupies an emi- 
 nently representative and substantial position in 
 the commercial world. 
 
 F. L. Raymond Co. 
 
 Manufacturers and Wholesale Dealers in Gummed Labels, 
 Tags, Perforated Gummed Labels, Etc., 195 
 
 La Salle Street. 
 
 The day of small things is not to be despised, 
 nor is the manufacture of small articles either, for 
 some of the smallest are of the highest importance 
 to our comfort and convenience. The articles made 
 by F. L. Raymond Co., whose office and factory is 
 at No. 195 La Salle street, are gummed labels, 
 tags, pin and clothing tickets, stationery special- 
 
 ties, etc. They are now busily employed getting 
 out a clothing tag, or ticket, which is the most 
 simple and efficient ever introduced. It is fastened 
 on in a moment to the cloth, will not scratch, tear 
 nor become loose, and is cheap. Mr. Raymond 
 commenced work here in August, 1885, and the 
 business has steadily increased till the present time. 
 They carry a good stock and supply chiefly jobbers 
 and the large retailers. Mr. Raymond is essentially 
 a practical man, and does his work in the soundest 
 and most thorough manner. All goods supplied by 
 him never fail to give satisfaction and insure a con- 
 tinuation of custom. 
 
 Victor D. Gowan & Co. 
 
 Tailors' Trimmings, 154 Fifth Avenue. 
 In this advanced stage of the tailors' art, the re- 
 quirements in the line of trimmings are of the most 
 exacting character, to supply which few houses are 
 equally capable with that of Messrs. Victor D. 
 Gowan & Co., a house of fifteen years' standing in 
 the trade, and one noted for the good taste and 
 sound judgment displayed in the selection of stock. 
 Their connections in Europe are unsurpassed, en- 
 abling them to be foremost among American 
 houses in displaying the latest novelties in silk and 
 satin linings, facings, braids, buttons, etc. They 
 not only import largely, but also handle full lines of 
 staple and fancy trimmings of domestic manufac- 
 ture, while their trade is very extensive among 
 merchant tailors all over the country, not to speak 
 of those of our own city. Messrs. Victor D. Gowan 
 & Co. are merchants of the highest standing, and 
 recognized authorities in their line of trade, while 
 the policy upon which their business is conducted 
 is characterized by liberality and the careful foster- 
 ing of the interests of all patrons, so that transac- 
 tions once commenced with this responsible firm 
 may be made not only pleasant for the time being, 
 but of such a nature as to become permanent and 
 profitable to all concerned. 
 
 J. L. Hathaway. 
 
 Anthracite and Bituminous Coal, 38 Market Street. 
 One of the oldest established and best known 
 men in the coal trade is Mr. J. L. Hathaway, who 
 for twenty-two years has been in the coal business 
 in this city. His office is connected by telephone 
 with all the business offices and houses in the city, 
 as well as with his dock yards at 68 Kingsbury 
 street, 2423 South Halsted street, Clybourn place 
 bridge, and the railroad yard at 94 North Wood 
 street. He sells both at wholesale and retail, his 
 rates comparing most favorably with those of any 
 other house in the trade. He deals both in hard 
 and soft coal, obtaining the bulk of his supplies 
 from Pennsylvania and Ohio. When the great fire 
 of 1871 destroyed all this part of the city, this coal 
 yard was burning for a long time, but the fire was 
 finally extinguished, and much stock saved. The
 
 FIFTY YEARS' PROGRESS. 
 
 107 
 
 fact that this yard and the river offered so little 
 ground for the flames to spread from contributed 
 more than anything else to save the adjoining block, 
 between Randolph and Lake streets and west of 
 Market street. From fifty to one hundred and fifty 
 hands are employed in the trade of this house, ac- 
 cording to the season. The trade is largely city. 
 The yearly sales average from 75,000 to 100,000 
 tons. A large stock is always on hand, and orders 
 are promptly executed. 
 
 The Hat Palace. 
 
 Gentlemen's Fine Hats, Northwest Corner Madison and La 
 Salle Streets, Fred. S. C. Nichols, Manager. 
 
 All have observed the gilded horseshoe which 
 serves as an arch through which to pass to the "Hat 
 Palace," which occupies the basement of the build- 
 ing at this location. Here may be found at all times 
 a very complete and fine stock of goods in this line. 
 A large trade is done here, mostly local. Mr. Fred. 
 S. C. Nichols, the manager, is fully occupied in at- 
 tending to the wants of his patrons. This business 
 was established in 1881 at 131 Madison street, and 
 was eemoved to its present more commodious and 
 central location last May. The proprietor is sole 
 agent for Nickerson's silk hat, Philadelphia; also, 
 for Judd and Dunning's flexible light-weight hats. 
 Most of the trade is local, to meet the demands of 
 which a large stock is kept on hand. Orders are 
 constantly being received from all parts of the 
 western States, as far distant as Omaha. The 
 quality of goods is such as can be relied on for 
 wear, and the prices are so low as to defy compe- 
 tition. The consequence is that the house does as 
 large a retail trade as any in the city. 
 
 The Plano_Mfg. Co. 
 
 Piano, 111. 
 
 This company was organized in 1881 by Messrs. 
 E. H. Gammon, W. H. Jones and G. W. Chamberlin 
 who had been for many years prominently know 
 to the farming public in and around Piano, 111. 
 in connection with their Marsh harvester. The 
 success of the company from its inception to the 
 present day has been phenomenal. This wonderful 
 growth of business is rightly attributable to the 
 general excellence of their machines. Among the 
 numerous advantages claimed for their harvester 
 and binder are excellence of material and work- 
 manship, perfect adaption of parts, and great 
 
 simplicity. It is a complete model of successful 
 working in the field, and it is long lived and 
 made for hard and thorough work. The parts 
 of the machine which are most liable to wear 
 and tear are interchangeable, and can be readily du- 
 plicated, and fixed by the farmer himself, without 
 the necessity of removing the machine to a machine- 
 shop for repairs. The works at Piano cover five 
 acres of ground, and give employment to six hun- 
 dred men. They have a capacity of 12,000 binders 
 and 6,000 mowers annually. Their harvesters and 
 mowers are well known all over the world, and they 
 ship large numbers to South America, France, 
 Spain and Russia. The company is incorporated 
 under the State laws of Illinois, and Mr. W. H. 
 Jones is the president; E. H. Gammon, vice-presi- 
 dent; G. W. Chamberlin, secretary; and L. B. Wood, 
 treasurer. The company has agents in all the prin- 
 cipal towns and cities in the Union, and Mr. A. J. 
 McCormick is superintendent of agencies. Their 
 Chicago office is situated at 81 and 83 West Monroe 
 street, and is under the personal supervision of Mr. 
 G. W. Chamberlin. The Piano Manufacturing com- 
 pany claims to be the third in point of size and im- 
 portance of all the agricultural implement makers in 
 the world. 
 
 W. L Roseboom & Co. 
 
 Commission Merchants, Dealers in Broom-Corn 'and 
 
 Broom Manufacturers' Supplies, Corner of 
 
 Kinzie and State Streets. 
 
 One of the largest and most prominent broom- 
 corn establishments in Chicago is the house of W. 
 L. Roseboom & Co., at the northwest corner of 
 State and Kinzie streets. Mr. Roseboom occupies 
 seven floors, 40 x 100 feet in dimensions, which 
 enables him to handle promptly the large consign- 
 ments received from all parts of the United States. 
 Besides broom-corn he also deals in broom manu- 
 facturers' supplies. All kinds of machinery per- 
 taining to this line are kept on hand, besides wire, 
 handles, etc. Mr. Roseboom is also proprietor of 
 the Alba Broom-Handle factory, which is located 
 at Alba, Michigan. It occupies two acres of ground, 
 and turns out four million of handles per annum. 
 Mr. Roseboom began the commission business in 
 1876. He employs from sixteen to twenty hands 
 to assist with the various features of the trade, 
 which extends to all parts of the Union, and aggre- 
 gates a quarter of a million or more of dollars annu- 
 ally. He is a native of New York, and has been a 
 resident of Chicago for the past fifteen years. 
 
 Northwestern Boiler Works. 
 
 Chris. Pfeiffer, Proprietor, Manufacturer of Steam Boilers, 
 
 Tanks, Smoke Stacks, Etc., 64 Michigan Street. 
 The Northwestern Boiler Works are under the 
 proprietorship and management of Mr. Chris. Pfeif- 
 fer. In this large establishment is manufactured 
 steam boilers, tanks, smoke stacks, etc., which are 
 shipped all over the northwest. Besides the large
 
 108 
 
 A BUSINESS TOUR OF CHICAGO. 
 
 outside trade, they have performed many jobs for 
 important firms in this city. The material used in 
 these works is procured from the east and this city, 
 and is the best the market affords. Upwards of 
 fifty hands find employment with Mr. Pfeiffer. The 
 work turned out by them is celebrated for excellent 
 and careful workmanship, as well as great durability 
 and strength. The business aggregates about $80, 
 000 annually. All kinds of repairing in this line 
 meets with prompt attention, satisfaction being 
 given in all cases. Mr. Pfeiffer was born in Germany, 
 and came to Chicago in 1849. This is his life 
 trade, every department of which he is thoroughly 
 familiar with. He has had charge of the business 
 he now represents since 1877. 
 
 A. D. Ferry & Co. 
 
 Wm. T. Feld. 
 
 Artist, 369 North State Street 
 
 An interesting visit is to the studio of Mr. Wm. 
 T. Feld, located at 369 North State street. Mr. 
 Feld has made the study of painting and art 
 a lifelong pursuit. After learning the rudiments 
 here he studied for four years in Europe, visiting all 
 the important art centers and copying from the old 
 masters, and wandering in the finest old galleries of 
 art and sculpture. Three years ago he returned and 
 commenced for himself as a portrait artist, devoting 
 his time closely thereto. A fine portrait executed 
 by Mr. Feld is the one done for Archbishop Feehan, 
 of this city. Many others in this line prove Mr. 
 Feld's skill in this direction, both in oils and crayons, 
 Some of his notable works are " Christ on the Cross," 
 "Chicago," taken from the studio window, "A Gypsy 
 Encampment," " The Old Monastery," "Van Dyke" 
 and others. Mr. Feld also gives lessons in the art, 
 either in mornings or afternoons, to suit his pupils. 
 His rates are moderate, and the instructions per- 
 sonal and of the highest character. 
 
 J. B. Hassett. 
 
 Wholesale and Retail Dealer in Groceries and Jobber in 
 
 Fine Teas and Coffee, 9 North Clark Street. 
 Mr. Hassett is a prominent wholesale and retail 
 dealer in choice and staple groceries, and jobber in 
 fine teas and coffees. He came to Chicago in 1870 
 and soon after entered the employment of a large 
 grocer in the neighborhood, and, although working 
 for a nominal salary, succeeded in saving enough to 
 enter into business for himself, in company with 
 Geo. H. Brown, in 1881. Two years later he bought 
 out his partner and has since successfully conducted 
 the business alone. He is liberal in all his trans- 
 actions, and prompt with all orders. His long years 
 of experience enable him to make the best of se- 
 lections, and the finest the market affords can be 
 found in his store. Being careful for the wants of his 
 patrons, and reasonable in all his prices, he has won 
 a trade which extends to every part of the city. Mr. 
 Hassett has always been recognized as an active, 
 reliable and enterprising business man, whose affairs 
 are conducted upon a sound commercial policy. 
 
 Commission Dealers in Broom-Corn and Broom Material, 
 225 and 227 Kinzie Street. 
 
 The representative establishment in the broom- 
 corn and broom material line in Chicago is the house 
 of A. D. Ferry & Co., at Nos. 225 and 227 Kinzie 
 street. They' occupy four floors and basement, each 
 having a dimension of forty by one hundred feet. 
 These are stocked with a large and varied supply of 
 choice broom-corn, handles, wire, etc. The business 
 was begun by Mr. Ferry in 1869, and, by close appli- 
 cation and an enterprise worthy of emulation, he 
 has established a trade which extends all over the 
 States and Canada, and amounts to nearly a quarter 
 of a million dollars annually. He buys the broom- 
 corn in large quantities from all the States in which 
 it is raised. 
 
 Gay & Culloton. 
 
 Plumbers and Gas-Fitters. Sanitary Plumbing a Specialty. 
 
 50 North Clark Street. 
 
 This business was established in 1877 by William 
 Gay. In 1884 Mr. Culloton was received as a part- 
 ner. They are thorough masters of their profession, 
 and are experienced in every variety of work, and 
 perform all their operations in a complete and fault- 
 less manner. They are amply provided with ma- 
 chinery and tools, and they employ a working force of 
 fifteen skilled mechanics. Their specialty is in sani- 
 itary plumbing and gas-fitting, for which they carry 
 a complete stock, for the fitting up of residences, 
 flats, stores, factories, and public buildings. They 
 undertake jobbing of all kinds in their line, and they 
 have established a large trade, amounting to over 
 $30,000 annually. For honesty, proficiency, and 
 absolute reliability, they rank second to no other 
 firm in this business. Their telephone number is 
 3182. 
 
 Gunderson & Lindberg. 
 
 Private Livery and Boarding Stables, Rear 385 and 387 East 
 
 Superior Street; Branch Office, 222 Illinois Street. 
 This firm are proprietors of the North side livery, 
 board and sale stables. Their main stables are lo- 
 cated at Nos. 385 and 387 East Superior street. 
 Both premises occupied are very central and conve- 
 nient for business men who either wish to leave
 
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 their horse for care, or hire a rig for a drive. The 
 stables contain upwards of fifty horses, and a large 
 and varied assortment of vehicles of every descrip- 
 tion. The business was begun five years ago on 
 Superior street, and last year the branch was estab- 
 lished on Illinois street. Twelve assistants are em- 
 ployed, and the best of care is given to both horse 
 and vehicle that is boarded at these stables. Both 
 members of the firm give their close personal atten- 
 tion to every detail of their large business, sparing 
 no pains to maintain the high reputation always 
 held by these stables. They are both experienced 
 men in this line of business, and see to it that not 
 only the best of order prevails, but that all orders 
 by telephone No. 3337, mail, or personal, meet with 
 prompt and satisfactory attention. 
 
 Hamburg House. 
 
 W.JM. 
 
 Cigars, Confectionery and Specialties, 70 Fifth Avenue. 
 
 Among the many establishments that are doing a 
 good trade in this line may be mentioned that of 
 Mr. W. Hall, No. 70 Fifth avenue. He deals at 
 retail in a standard line of cigars, all kinds of con- 
 fectionery and specialties, to which he has lately 
 added the manufacture of chewing-gum and fly- 
 papers. 
 
 The cigars are obtained specially from St. Louis, 
 and are a superior brand, while the confectionery is 
 made by city houses. The trade is chiefly local, 
 though goods are occasionally sent out as far as 
 Colorado and Dakota. The business was established 
 here in 1882, but has only been in its present form, 
 under Mr. Hall, since 1885. A good trade is being 
 done, and the chewing-gum is sold in all parts of the 
 States. 
 
 Frank L. Allen Co. 
 
 Manufacturers of Shirts to Order, 152 and 154 Lake Street. 
 The house of Frank L. Allen Co. are manufac- 
 turers of shirts to 6rder, and importers and deal- 
 ers in gents' furnishing goods. They are centrally 
 located at Nos. 152 and 154 Lake street, where they 
 constantly require the services of a large number of 
 employes in producing a variety of goods, which, for 
 excellence of material, elegance of style and superior 
 workmanship, are unsurpassed, only the best of ma- 
 terial being used in the manufacture of their fine 
 shirts, collars, etc. The growth and prosperity 
 of this flourishing establishment is only com- 
 mensurate with the energy and enterprise of its 
 proprietors, who are W. P. Tuttle, president, and 
 Frank L. Allen, secretary and treasurer. Not 
 only a large and influential city trade has been 
 built up, but one which extends throughout the 
 States of Illinois, Iowa, Nebraska, Minnesota and 
 Wisconsin. This is one of the old shirt com- 
 panies of Chicago; in fact, from its small beginning 
 have grown four large establishments besides the 
 one represented above. This company has the full 
 confidence of its numerous customers, and the com- 
 munity in general. 
 
 184 and 186 Randolph Street, M. Marks, Proprietor. 
 This city is well provided with hotel accommo- 
 dations, but the only Jewish hotel is located at 184 
 and 186 East Randolph street. It was first opened 
 in 1876, but was purchased by the present proprie- 
 tor, Mr. M. Marks, only three years ago, when it was 
 all newly fitted throughout and remodeled. It 
 
 contains thirty sleeping rooms, a restaurant, reading 
 room supplied with all the leading daily papers, 
 reception room, parlor and laundry for the accommo- 
 dation of guests. The rates are very low considering 
 the accommodations, only $1.50 to $2.00 per day. 
 Special rates and arrangements are made for fam- 
 ilies, or visitors by the week. The rooms are all 
 well lighted and ventilated, and the house through- 
 out is remarkably warm in winter and cool in 
 summer. - 
 
 The cut represents a front view of the house as 
 seen from Randolph street. Mr. M. Marks, the 
 proprietor, will supply any further information to 
 intending visitors, upon application. 
 
 J. Leland Fogg. 
 
 Successor to Western Seed Co., Garden Seeds, 31 
 
 Michigan Avenue. 
 
 The well-known establishment of J. Leland Fogg 
 is successor to the Western Seed Co., and deals in 
 all kinds of garden seeds. The business was estab- 
 lished at Rochester, N. Y., in 1843. by the father of 
 the present proprietor, who moved to this city in 
 1863. The premises occupied consist of four floors 
 and basement, twenty-five by one hundred and twen- 
 ty-five feet in dimensions, which are arranged in the 
 best possible manner for the storage and shipment 
 of all kinds of seeds. Mr. Fogg makes a specialty 
 of garden seeds in boxes. His practice is to put 
 nothing but fresh and perfect seeds upon the market, 
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 him the confidence of the^public, and established so 
 large a trade. Mr. Fogg is a native of New York 
 State and came to Chicago with his father in 1863. 
 He took charge of the business Jan. 1, 1886, and 
 has done much to extend and further the interest of 
 his large trade. 
 
 Jacob Koehler. 
 
 Sale and Exchange Stable, 61 and 63 Wells Street. 
 The extensive sale and exchange stable of Jacob 
 Koehler is one the most complete in the city. The 
 stables consist of two stories and basement, and 
 
 cover an area of sixty-one by three hundred feet. 
 He also occupies large premises on Illinois street. 
 He has every facility for the buying and selling of 
 horses and mules, and keeps constantly on hand a 
 fine stock of horses suitable for all purposes. He 
 has the reputation of being the most extensive 
 dealer in mules in this city, and in this line possesses 
 as fine a lot of animals as can be found in the 
 country. A score or more of hands are employed to 
 help with the business, and everything is done for 
 the accommodation of his many patrons. Business 
 was begun by Mr. Koehler in 1872, and all his trans- 
 actions have been marked by fair dealing, which 
 have won the confidence and the liberal patronage 
 from the many business men of this and other large 
 cities. 
 
 Close Bros. & Co. 
 
 Dealers in Western Lands, 84 La Salle Street. 
 This firm was established eight years ago, and has 
 continued since, buying vast tracts of the finest 
 western lands and selling out in small lots for 
 farmers and others. At the present time they own 
 about 1 ,((00,000 acres in Kansas, Iowa and Minnesota. 
 The aim of the firm is to settle the country and not 
 to deal with speculators. For this purpose they 
 divide up their land into lots of eighty acres and up- 
 wards, to about six hundred acres, according to the 
 purchasers' wants; they also sell on easy payments, 
 and charge a low rate for their lands, and interest on 
 
 the balance of payments. The wild lands are sold 
 with a deposit of $1 per acre, and balance to suit pur- 
 chasers, extending over eight or ten years. The 
 lands in Iowa consist of 100,000 acres of the choicest 
 and best farming land in the State. They are sit- 
 uated in the counties of O'Brien, Dickinson, Osceola, 
 Lyon and Plymouth. This State is generally con- 
 ceded to be one of the most fertile of the Union, 
 the soil being a rich, black inexhaustible loam from 
 three to six feet deep. The price of this land is 
 $10 to $15 per acre. In Minnesota the lands for 
 sale are chiefly located in Pipestone, Rock and Noble 
 counties, the best stock-raising country in the world. 
 Land here is sold at from $8 to $10 per acre. Five 
 hundred thousand acres are here for selection, and 
 those who come first get the choicest lots, for every 
 intending purchaser is invited to go and choose out 
 for himself his farm, and on all sales of one hundred 
 and sixty acres and upwards the railway fare is al- 
 lowed. This region is rapidly developing and be- 
 coming settled. In Kansas this firm have about 
 600,000 acres of rich, fertile land, chiefly in Trego, 
 Graham, Gray, Kearney, Finney, and Hamilton 
 counties. This land, which is selling very rapidly, 
 is charged for at the rate of from $5 to $8 per 
 acre. In all their sales, this firm's terms are very 
 easy, long time being allowed on deferred pay- 
 ments. 
 
 Racine Wagon and Carriage Co. 
 
 19 and 21 South Canal Street. 
 
 Undoubtedly one of the largest houses in this 
 country engaged in the manufacture of omnibuses, 
 carriages and wagons is the Racine Wagon and 
 
 Carriage company, of Racine, Wis. Their factory 
 employs three hundred and fifty men, and is engaged 
 in the manufacture of every description of spring 
 wagon known in this country. They make every- 
 thing from the largest omnibus to the lightest 
 spring wagon, and their goods find their way to 
 every part of the States. It is an incorporated 
 company, with M. B. Erskine as president ; H. E. 
 Miles, secretary and treasurer, and Charles Corn- 
 stock, superintendent and general agent. They 
 have been in business eleven years, and during that
 
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 time their business has increased so rapidly that it 
 has taxed their ingenuity to the utmost to keep 
 pace with the requirements of the public. Their 
 Chicago business is cared for by their esteemed 
 manager, Mr. D. J. Morey, at their repository, Nos. 
 19 and 21 South Canal street. The company has 
 lately filled an order for the Fifth Avenue Trans- 
 portation company, of New York city, for fifty 
 buses to run on their line. They are the best con- 
 structed and finest finished vehicles ever offered to 
 the public, and give the best satisfaction of any bus 
 in the market. The Racine Wagon and Carriage 
 company also have large repositories at Nos. 1524: 
 and 1526 Broadway, New York, and on Market 
 street, Philadelphia, for their eastern trade. 
 
 Remington Type-Writer. 
 
 196 La Salle Street. 
 
 About contemporary with the telephone in point 
 of practical demonstration of fitness, and close upon 
 the greatest discovery of the century, the telegraph, 
 came the Remington type-writer. Probably as 
 great difficulties had to be surmounted in its begin- 
 nings as with the telegraph or telephone; certainly 
 it cost as much to demonstrate its utility, and only 
 are the public fortunate today in possessing this 
 admirable writing instrument by the indomitable 
 pluck and perseverance of its inventors and pro- 
 prietors. 
 
 It was an inspiration, no doubt, that put the 
 principles, the simplest possible, in the minds of the 
 inventors, Sholes and Glidden, of Milwaukee; those 
 basic principles, the second order of levers and type- 
 bars and separate type, are more than ever today 
 demonstrated to be the only really successful way, 
 so far as discovered, at least, of solving the writing- 
 machine problem. 
 
 country numerous devices for sewing by machinery, 
 the Remington standard type-writer, possessing 
 the "philosophers' stone" to the exclusion of all 
 others, has seen no strong competitor. It is true 
 that important improvements have been made, but 
 more, perhaps, carrying out the original ideas, 
 certainly in the line of greater simplicity. More 
 than 30,000 are already in the hands of users, and 
 the present output is upwards of 1,000 per month, 
 and the sales double yearly. 
 
 It is handled exclusively by Wyckoff, Seamans & 
 Benedict, home office, 339 Broadway, New York 
 city, with ten branches in the large cities of the 
 United States, and one at London, England. They 
 have dealers in all important places in the world. 
 The Chicago house or branch is located at 196 
 La Salle street. 
 
 Unlike the sewing-machine industry, which saw 
 spring up spontaneously, as it were, all over the 
 
 Metcalf s Dancing Academies. 
 
 South Side, 137 and 139 Twenty-second Street ; West 
 Side, 1 88 Blue Island Avenue. 
 
 Prof. Metcalf is a dancing-teacher of standard 
 reputation, having been engaged in the business for 
 almost a quarter of a century. He took lessons for 
 years under Profs. Allen and Dodge, of New York 
 city, and has also received instruction from Prof. 
 Wedgewood, of this city. He leaves nothing undone, 
 sparing neither time nor money in keeping up with 
 the times, in fact, ahead of them, as the popularity 
 of his academies attests. During an absence of six 
 years from Chicago, Prof. Metcalf was instructing 
 in eastern cities and acquiring every new idea in his 
 art, and returned here with increased knowledge in 
 all branches. 
 
 He became proprietor of the West side academy, 
 at 188 Blue Island avenue, four years ago, and two 
 years later became the proprietor of the South side 
 academy, formerly known as Sullivan's. It has been 
 newly refitted, decorated, and arranged with all 
 modern conveniences. The parlors, reception rooms 
 and main hall present facilities second to none in
 
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 the west. The main hall has a surface of fifty by 
 seventy feet and as smooth a floor as can be found 
 in Chicago. Those desiring to learn to dance cor- 
 rectly, and in a short time, should become members 
 of ProT. Metcalf's classes, as his system of instruc- 
 tion is the most rapid and thorough. He is ably 
 assisted with the classes by his wife, who has done 
 much in making the academies what they are. Prof. 
 Metcalf also gives private lessons, and has suburban 
 classes. The dancing season is from September 1 
 to May 1, and each term is composed of twelve les- 
 sons. The classes are not open to the public, as 
 none but parents of the pupils are admitted. Prof. 
 Metcalf's orchestra, which furnishes all kinds of 
 music for parties, clubs, socials, etc., is composed of 
 some of the best musical talent in the city. 
 
 J. R. Alcock. 
 
 Plumber and Gas-Fitter, 120 Twenty-second Street. 
 Among the active and enterprising business men 
 in this portion of Chicago engaged in the plumbing 
 trade, none are more popular or do a better class of 
 work than Mr. J. R. Alcock, located at No. 120 
 Twenty-second street. He has been in the business 
 for the past fifteen years, first locating on Indiana 
 avenue, coming to his present quarters about six 
 years ago. Having thus a business of longstanding, 
 he is known to all classes on the South side and in 
 Hyde Park. Mr. Alcock gives particular attention 
 to plumbing in all its branches, as well as to gas- 
 fitting, and as a sanitary plumber he is equal to any 
 in the city, and his work is done to remain for years. 
 He selects his plumbing goods with great care and 
 sees that they are well adapted to secure both the 
 health and comfort of his patrons. This is his life 
 trade, and he studies carefully every feature of it. 
 He believes in the establishment of a rule for all 
 plumbers to work up to a certain standard, thereby 
 increasing the honor of the trade. 
 
 J. S. Haskins. 
 
 Florist and Decorator, and Dealer in Plants, Flowers, Etc., 
 
 144 Twenty-second Street. 
 
 Mr. J. S. Haskins is one of the pioneer florists 
 and decorators of Chicago. He opened the first, 
 flower store in the city nearly a quarter of a century 
 ago, at No. 104 Madison street. After the big fire 
 of 1871, he moved to this section of the city, and is 
 now located at No. 144 Twenty-second street. His 
 nursery is located several miles from the city, from 
 which he receives fresh flowers daily. He is dealer 
 in all kinds of plants, flowers, designs, etc. His 
 trade not only embraces all parts of the city, but 
 orders are received from all over the Union, and it 
 would not be presuming too much to say that he is 
 one of the widest known and most popular florists 
 of the Garden City. Designs of all kinds, suitable 
 for weddings, funerals, parties, etc., are arranged on 
 shortest notice and in the most satisfactory manner. 
 Mr. Haskins is a native of Vermont, and has been 
 a resident of this city for many years. 
 
 E. S. Robert. 
 
 Dentist, 163 Twenty-second Street, Corner Wabash Avenue. 
 Dr. E. S. Hobert's dental rooms are located at 
 this point, which is very central for the residents 
 of the South side. His rooms are finely fitted for 
 the use to which they are applied, and he brings 
 to his aid all the modern appliances of his profes- 
 sion. Gas is administered if desired, so that one- 
 half the pain of the operation is thus done away 
 with. In the operating department, Dr. Hobert 
 is very proficient; in fact, his technical training and 
 practical experience have peculiarly fitted him 
 for his profession. His work is all first-class, which 
 reputation has won for him a large practice. He 
 has attained to a very prominent position, and his 
 offices are the resort of the best classes of the com- 
 munity. He is a native of New York State and came 
 to Chicago five years ago, when he established him- 
 self in business. 
 
 School of Art Embroidery. 
 
 Mrs. E. D. Hodge, Proprietor, 151 Twenty-second Street. 
 This business has been established for the past 
 ten years, under the successful management of Mrs. 
 E. D. Hodge. Both public and private lessons are 
 given at all hours of the day. A full line of mate- 
 rials are constantly kept on hand, while two of the 
 best teachers in this line in the city are employed 
 for instructing. The large store in front of the 
 schoolroom contains a fine stock of worsted and knit 
 goods. Stamping is a specialty, and a great deal of 
 work is done in this department. Specimens of the 
 school work are also on exhibition here, and last 
 year a pair of curtains, valued at over $500 was to 
 be seen here. Some idea may be had of the extent 
 of this school, when it is stated that upwards of 
 1,000 lessons are given each year. Every facility 
 for the rapid progress of the student is to be found 
 here, and all those contemplating learning the art 
 will do well to call on Mrs. Hodge or any of her 
 assistants. 
 
 Chas. E, Gifford & Co. 
 
 Commission Grain and Provisions, Rooms 62 and 63, 
 238 and 240 La Salle Street. 
 
 The Chicago markets dominate those of the world 
 gs in grain and provisions, a credit- 
 
 e cago marets om 
 as to all dealings in grain an 
 
 able state of affairs largely due to the influence ex- 
 erted abroad by such representative houses as that 
 of Messrs.. Chas. E. Gifford & Co. This business 
 was established eleven years ago by Mr. C. E. 
 Gifford, who has since admitted Messrs. I. Cushman 
 and Chas. E. Gifford, Jr., into partnership. Mr. C. 
 E. Gifford, the senior partner, was born in Albany, 
 N. Y., and- early in life embarked on a successful 
 mercantile career, and in 1876 became a member 
 of our Board of Trade. The firm are also members of 
 the Milwaukee and Duluth boards of trade, and con- 
 sequently every facility is enjoyed for watching the 
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 advantage of the ever-varying prices. The firm 
 carry on an extensive commission business in grain 
 and provisions, all transactions executed through 
 this responsible house being bona-fide purchases or 
 sales made on 'change and in accordance with the 
 strict rules which govern its members. With ample 
 means, they are noted in our leading financial circles 
 for their responsibility and honorable, prompt busi- 
 ness methods. 
 
 Roundy & Son. 
 
 Manufacturers of Lodge Supplies, Regalia and Uniforms 
 
 for All Societies, 188 and 190 South Clark Street. 
 Standing among the foremost of regalia manu- 
 facturers of the United States is the well-known 
 house of Messrs. Roundy & Son, of this city. The 
 extensive business so ably conducted by them is the 
 very oldest established, in all probability, of those 
 now in successful operation, having been originally 
 founded in New York city in 1857. In 1861 Wad- 
 hams Bros, became the proprietors, upon the dis- 
 solution of which firm in 1873 Mr. D. C. Roundy 
 entered the firm, the name and style of which being 
 that of Wadhams & Roundy. About 1880, Mr.' 
 Wadhams retired, and Mr. Roundy associated with 
 himself in partnership his son, Mr. F. C. Roundy, 
 thus establishing the present firm. Their establish- 
 ment has long been recognized as headquarters for 
 lodge supplies of every kind, inclusive of regalia and 
 uniforms, banners and flags for all societies, national, 
 secret, masonic, benevolent, temperance and social. 
 Military and theatrical goods form an important 
 feature in the business, and they have the necessary 
 experience, skill and facilities to promptly furnish 
 any kind of military goods. Our amateur and pro- 
 fessional actors alike find this establishment a com- 
 plete repository for everything needed on the 
 theatrical stage, the firm promptly fitting'and mak- 
 ing any required costume within a few hours' 
 notice, which are absolutely correct historically and 
 chronologically. As in Knights Templar uniforms, 
 so in all lodge regalia the firm excel in careful atten- 
 tion to detail as well as to the superior quality of 
 materials used, preferring to make only the best at 
 reasonable prices, and leaving the so-called cheap 
 houses to demonstrate their own unfitness a course 
 of procedure which has long ago placed their house 
 upon its present substantial basis. 
 
 Ginn & Co. 
 
 Publishers of School and College Text-Books, W. S. 
 
 Smyth, General Western Manager, 180 
 
 Wabash Avenue. 
 
 In American educational circles the firm name of 
 Messrs. Ginn & Co., successors of Messrs. Ginn, 
 Heath & Co., have justly become both familiar and 
 respected. The business was first established in 
 1871, at 56 Madison street, whence the steady growth 
 of their trade compelled the firm, in 1880, to remove 
 to their present very eligible and central location at 
 No. 180 Wabash avenue. Here they are actively 
 
 engaged in the publication of school-books and edu- 
 cational works upon an extensive scale. Their pub- 
 lications include school and college text-books, 
 besides books of reference that form a large miscel- 
 laneous collection of educational literature. ~ Their 
 catalogue embraces all the standard Latin and 
 Greek text-books, music readers and manuals, and 
 a comprehensive course under the head of English 
 literature, including the works of such classic 
 authors as Shakespeare, Coleridge, Burns, Burke, 
 Webster, Bacon and others. Members of school 
 boards and college faculties will find it to their in- 
 terest to write Messrs. Ginn & Co. for their full de- 
 scriptive catalogue, while correspondence in refer- 
 ence thereto will receive prompt attention. Mr. 
 Edwin Ginn, the esteemed senior partner, is a native 
 of Maine, and a publisher of much experience, whose 
 long and- honorable career in this field of enterprise 
 renders him an acceptable authority. Mr. George 
 A. Plimpton, the junior partner, is a popular and 
 hard-working member of the firm, having full charge 
 of the New York branch, while Mr. F. B. Ginn, the 
 remaining partner, is also well known to the trade. 
 The firm's general offices are at 9 to 13 Tremont 
 place, Boston; 743 Broadway, New York; 180 Wa- 
 bash avenue, Chicago; and 752 Ninth street, Oak- 
 land, Cal.; with branch houses in charge of managers 
 at 13 Tremont place, Boston; 180 Wabash avenue, 
 Chicago, W. S. Smyth, manager; 41 South High 
 street, Columbus, Ohio; 743 Broadway, New York; 
 and a Pacific coast depository, Cunningham, Curtiss 
 & Welch, San Francisco, Cal. 
 
 Simonds Manufacturing Co. 
 
 Works at Fitchburg, Mass., and Corner Canal and 
 Washington Streets, Chicago. 
 
 The Simonds Manufacturing Co., of Fitchburg, 
 Mass., was established in 1832, re-organized in 1864, 
 and incorporated into the present company in 1868. 
 Six years ago they opened a branch establishment 
 on Canal street at the corner of Washington. They 
 manufacture a complete .line of circular saws, solid; 
 circular saws, inserted point; crescent ground cross- 
 cut saws; gang, mill, mulay, drag and band saws; 
 also planing-machine knives, paper-cutting and 
 leather-splitting knives, etc. They carry a large 
 and well-assorted stock and do an extensive busi-
 
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 ness in all parts of the country. It is an incor- 
 porated company, of which Mr. Geo. F. Simonds 
 is president, Daniel Simonds vice-president and 
 treasurer, and E. F. Simonds the manager of the 
 Chicago branch. Mr. E. F. Simonds is a most cour- 
 teous and obliging gentleman, who has no notion of 
 letting any business go by him for want of attention 
 on his part, and it is mainly due to his exer- 
 tions here that the trade of the company has 
 taken such rapid strides through the western and 
 northwestern States. 
 
 E. Earnshaw & Son. 
 
 Masons, Contractors and Builders, Room 73, Exchange 
 Building, Pacific Avenue and Van Buren Street. 
 
 Since establishing business in 1865 upon his own 
 account, Mr. E. Earnshaw, the head of the firm, 
 has developed a large and permanent connec- 
 tion of a strictly first-class character, among both 
 our leading architects and property-owners, for 
 whom he has erected many of the substantial 
 business blocks and elegant private residences 
 which adorn the Garden City. He is still in 
 the prime of life and a hard worker, with well- 
 organized arrangements and facilities for the prompt 
 completion of any contract undertaken, his staff of 
 employes averaging 50 to 75 men in the busy 
 season. Mr. Earnshaw is a native of England, and 
 has been a permanent and honored resident of 
 Chicago for the past thirty years. A close figurer 
 and an active competitor for business, he has made 
 it a practice from the very outset to decline con- 
 tracts at prices which would compel him to do infe- 
 rior work. On the contrary, Mr. Earnshaw having 
 a reputation to sustain, and relying upon the 
 merits of past work to secure continued favorable 
 recognition, he is ready and willing to enter into 
 contracts of any magnitude, however large, upon 
 reasonable terms. The business thus stands upon 
 the solid basis of commercial integrity, and is 
 typical of the building interests of Chicago, whose 
 industries are now being reviewed in her semi- 
 centennial year. 
 
 W. W. Lazear, D. D. S. 
 
 Dentist, 2208 Wabasa Avenue. 
 
 Dr. W. W. Lazear has been established in prac- 
 tice in this neighborhood since 1882, and has now a 
 large patronage, embracing the best families on the 
 South side. His office is finely and attractively 
 fitted, and contains every modern appliance in the 
 dental line, and patients who consult him can rely 
 on prompt and thoroughly efficient work. Dr. La- 
 zear is a graduate of the Philadelphia Dental college, 
 of the class of 1882. Among the specialties used by 
 Dr. Lazear is the perfection tooth crown, and teeth 
 without plates, and he has been very successful in 
 the treatment of his patients with those modern 
 helps. He is a native of New Jersey, and came to 
 Chicago fifteen years ago. 
 
 Wm. Freeh. 
 
 Manufacturer of Metal-Working and Experimental Ma- 
 chinery, 68 and 70 West Monroe Street. 
 One of the best fitted machine shops in Chicago 
 is that of Mr. Wm. Freeh, at 68 and 70 West Mon- 
 roe street. He is engaged in the manufacture of 
 metal-working machinery and 
 tools, experimental machin- 
 ery, etc. The machines man- 
 ufactured by Mr. Freeh are 
 his own inventions, and are 
 the fruits of long years' study 
 and practical experience. 
 They comprise drill presses, 
 screw, foot and power punch- 
 ing presses, dies and special 
 tools, turret lathes, engine 
 lathes, speed lathes, slide 
 rests, and special machinery 
 m in general. His machines are 
 f noted for their simple and 
 accurate construction, beau- 
 tiful and studious design, and excellent workman- 
 ship. His celebrated power punching presses, of 
 which he makes at present six - 
 different sizes, are substantially 
 and accurately built. The adjust- 
 ment of the slide is the most 
 ingenious, simple and durable 
 device in existence, and they 
 possess numerous other advan- 
 
 tages. Gentlemen who are interested in this class 
 of machinery would do well to call on Mr. Freeh, 
 or write for his catalogues. They will find him 
 ever ready to give any information with reference 
 to the numerous machines manufactured by him. 
 Mr. Freeh is a native of Rhenish Bavaria, Germany. 
 He has been in this country seventeen years, and 
 is engaged in the machine business for the last 
 twenty-two years. 
 
 Baumann & Lotz. 
 
 Architects and Engineers, Rooms 59, 68 and 70, 
 
 Metropolitan Block. 
 
 Chicago has proved to be the most important field 
 in the United States for architectural enterprise, and 
 in no sphere of the practice of the profession has 
 more substantial progress been made than in that of 
 the designing and erection of grain elevators and 
 warehouses, wherein Chicago leads the world, both 
 as regards number, capacity and perfection of equip- 
 ment and arrangement. The representative of the 
 favorite style of architecture embodied in these vast 
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 Lotz, who have long held a leading position in 
 America as grain-elevator architects and builders. 
 The combination of talent exhibited in this firm 
 would be difficult to find elsewhere. Mr. Edward 
 Baumann is an associate member of the American 
 Society of Civil Engineers, having been closely identi- 
 fied with the architectural profession from an early 
 period of his life. He has for years past made the 
 designing of grain elevators a special study, while 
 the improvements which he has embodied have 
 proved to be of the most practical and acceptable 
 character, as witness many of the most important 
 elevators, among others, Armour, Dole &Co's, Mun- 
 ger, Wheeler & Go's and the C., R. I. & P. R. R. 
 Go's, that form such striking landmarks. On the 
 other hand, Mr. Wm. H. Lotz is one of the lead- 
 ing mechanical engineers of the country, a mem 
 ber of both the American Society of Civil Engineers 
 and the Western Society of Engineers, with a nation- 
 al reputation for his skill and ability. Mr. Lotz 
 was born in 1838, and received his education 
 in Germany, his native land, and has been ac- 
 tively engaged in the practice of his profession in 
 Chicago since 1865, with which he has combined 
 the other natural branch of the profession, viz., the 
 solicitation of American and foreign patents, having 
 a large practice in patent cases, in which he is an ex- 
 pert, having been engaged therein since 1865. The 
 firm are patentees of some very important inven- 
 tions of their own, embodying improvements in 
 grain elevators, breweries, malt-houses, etc., and are 
 fully prepared with every facility to promptly fill all 
 commissions in their line with that intelligent com- 
 prehension of the objects and requirements to which 
 the structure is to be put, which has contributed so 
 greatly to render them the representative exponents 
 of this branch of the profession. 
 
 R. P. Layton. 
 
 Real Estate, Room 25, 182 Dearborn Street. 
 The great demand for choice suburban residence 
 properties, together with the steady increase in value 
 of such holdings, affords the best evidence of Chi- 
 cago's growing wealth and prosperity. Experience 
 shows that to the thrifty artisan, the salaried clerk 
 and the moderate business man, these suburban 
 offerings have proved of inestimable value in per- 
 mitting them to acquire at reasonable cost a pleasant 
 home in a healthful location apart from the turmoil 
 of city life. In speaking of suburban properties ref- 
 erence is made to the beautiful suburb of Tracy, one 
 of the finest building sites in the neighborhood of 
 Chicago, and which offers superior inducements, both 
 to those desiring permanent homes or an investment 
 for speculation. Since being put upon the market 
 only three years ago, several hundred lots have been 
 sold, many for immediate improvement. Tracy is 
 immediately accessible to the city via the Rock 
 Island railroad, upon which it is situated, twelve 
 miles from the depot, on ground from eighty-five 
 to one hundred feet higher than Lake Michigan, 
 and in a beautiful grove of forest trees, where all 
 the conveniences of schools, churches, stores, post 
 
 office and express office are enjoyed. The lots are 
 large size, and offered upon unusually favorable 
 terms, by Mr. R-. P. Layton, who resides there and 
 is interested in the property. The finest depot on 
 the road has been built at this point, and new houses 
 are going up in every direction. Mr. Layton, for- 
 merly of the well-known firm of Clark, Layton & 
 Co., and more recently the successor of Layton, 
 Thayer & Co., is a native of New York State, and 
 has resided in this city over twenty years. 
 
 McNamara & Dick. 
 
 Manufacturers and Dealers in All Kinds of Trunks 
 Traveling Bags, 62 West Madison Street. 
 
 To a class of people who travel so often and so 
 far as Americans do, good serviceable trunks and 
 traveling bags are articles of prime necessity. A 
 reliable house, which makes a business of supplying 
 these articles, is that of Messrs. McNamara & Dick, 
 of No. 62 West Madison street, near the Union 
 depot, manufacturers and dealers in all kinds of 
 trunks and traveling bags. They make a specialty 
 of theatrical and sample trunks, great care being 
 taken to make them strong and durable, while for 
 lightness and beauty of construction they are un- 
 excelled. They have a large trade, which is steadily 
 increasing. They make goods to order, and give 
 attention to all kinds of repairing. All orders meet 
 with prompt and satisfactory attention. The mem- 
 bers of this firm are both citizens of Chicago, and 
 have only been associated in business for two years, 
 although they have individually been connected 
 with this trade for a much longer period. 
 
 The Holbrook Mfg. Co. 
 
 Office, 173 Madison Street. 
 
 The Holbrook Manufacturing Co. are widely 
 known in connection with their chemical specialties, 
 among which is the great Russian corn and bunion 
 exterminator, automatic shading, writing and color-
 
 116 
 
 A BUSINESS TOUR OF CHICAGO. 
 
 ing inks, Lock's gelatine starch, toilet and tooth 
 powders. The office and stockrooms are at 171 
 East Madison street, second floor. . 
 
 The business was established on Clark street in 
 1870, and two years later removed to its present 
 address, where the trade has maintained a steady in- 
 crease. The business is exclusively wholesale. 
 Their customers are city wholesale houses, while a 
 considerable trade has also grown up in the country 
 districts and the neighboring States. 
 
 All colors of fine rubber-stamp inks are also made 
 to order by this company. A new thing just brought 
 out is a very fine face powder, named "Queen of 
 Lilies,"which is experiencing a rapid sale. 
 
 A. D. Hewitt. 
 
 Fire Insurance, Successor to E. S. Hewitt, 
 
 147 La] Salle Street. 
 
 The fire insurance business conducted by A. D. 
 Hewitt, at No. 147 La Salle street, was established 
 in 1873 by Mr. E. S. Hewitt. After a successful 
 career of thirteen years it was taken in charge by 
 the present proprietor, who has placed it in the 
 prominent position held among companies of the 
 first class. The companies represented by evi- 
 dence the estimation in which the agency is re- 
 garded in this special line. Among them are the 
 Sun, California; Dwelling House Insurance company 
 Boston, Mass. ; New Hampshire Fire, New Hamp- 
 shire; Traders, Chicago; and Fire Insurance Asso- 
 ciation, England. These companies are known for 
 their worth and stability wherever fire insurance 
 exists, or a policy drawn, and the fact of A. D. 
 Hewitt holding the Chicago agency for these differ- 
 ent interests in Chicago and vicinity shows his 
 fidelity to their interests and his popularity among 
 the policy-holders. The present manager of the 
 office business, Mr. Wm. A. Graham, assumed the 
 position in August, 1886, and has already proven his 
 adaptability for so responsible a position. 
 
 Rogers, Brown & Co. 
 
 Pig Iron Commission, W. W. Backman, Manager, 
 98 Dearborn Street. 
 
 One of the largest firms in this city doing ex- 
 clusive business in southern and Ohio brands of pig 
 iron is that of Rogers, Brown & Co. The offices 
 are located at 98 Dearborn street, and are in charge 
 of Mr. W. W. Backman as manager. The head- 
 quarters are at Cincinnati, southeast corner Third 
 and Walnut streets, and branch offices have also been 
 opened in St. Louis and Louisville. Orders only 
 are received here. Iron is shipped direct from the 
 various furnaces this firm represents. This firm 
 supplies all the west and northwestern States as 
 far as Dakota, 9,000 tons being supplied by this 
 branch alone last month. 
 
 This firm are exclusive agents for eighteen of the 
 largest furnaces in Ohio, Tennessee and Georgia. 
 
 The brands are celebrated as being of excellent 
 quality, and for many purposes the best to be ob- 
 tained. This firm are the largest suppliers of the 
 soft and coke pig iron in the district, and one well 
 known by all iron manufacturers in this part of the 
 country. 
 
 H.C. Hoffman & Co. 
 
 Manufacturers, Dealers, and Contractors for Granite Mon- 
 uments, Vaults, Headstones, Etc., 12 and 14 
 
 Van Buren Street, Near Michigan Avenue. 
 The State of Vermont has long been noted for its 
 extensive quarries of the finest marble and granite, 
 the most noted granite quarries being located at Barre, 
 about eight miles from Montpelier, the State capital. 
 One of the largest 
 and most complete 
 plants in the country 
 for the manufacture 
 of the finest grades 
 of marble and gran- 
 ite work is that own- 
 ed and operated by 
 the Burlington Man- 
 ufacturing company, 
 of Burlington, Vt., 
 on Lake Champlain. 
 They use the latest 
 improved machinery 
 for sawing, cutting 
 and polishing marble 
 and granite, employ- 
 ing a large force of 
 skilled workmen, and 
 in the last ten years 
 have erected some 
 of the finest monu- 
 ments and buildings 
 in the country. 
 
 In the spring of 
 1886 the firm of H. 
 C. Hoffman & Co. 
 succeeded to the ex- 
 tensive monumental 
 and granite business 
 of the above men- 
 tioned establishment, Mr. Hoffman having been 
 associated with the old company for many years. 
 
 Within the past year H. C. Hoffman & Co. have 
 erected some very fine monuments in the cemeteries 
 of Chicago and other cities of the northwest. Among 
 the most noted are the Perkins shaft, the Mason 
 and the Chambers-Farwell sarcophagus at Rosehill, 
 and the Ayres monument in Graceland cemetery, in 
 Chicago; the Nisbet monument at Evansville, Ind.; 
 the Beebee monument at Denver, Colorado; the 
 Blossom sarcophagus at Kansas City, Mo., and a 
 fine monument purchased by General John A. Lo- 
 gan, erected at Murphysborough, 111. 
 
 This firm is using in its work granite from the 
 celebrated Westerly, R. I. .quarries, the dark Quincy 
 quarries of Quincy, Mass., and the dark blue 
 quarries of Barre, Vt. They are the agents in this
 
 FIFTY YEARS' PROGRESS. 
 
 117 
 
 city of the red syenite granite from the quarries of 
 Cohn & Robertson, Wausau, Wis., which is un- 
 doubtedly one of the best red granites in the world, 
 being very hard and durable and susceptible of a 
 high polish, and showing a strong contrast between 
 the polished and hammered surfaces, which shows 
 lettering or carving very plainly, making inscriptions 
 more legible than on any granite in the market. 
 These quarries are practically inexhaustible, the 
 ledge being about two miles long. The granite is 
 entirely free from iron blotches, checks or other 
 imperfections and is uniform in color. 
 
 A fine stock of monumental work in all the 
 best granites and marble may be seen at the ware- 
 room of H. C. Hoffman &Co. 
 
 This firm has a high reputation for first-class work 
 at low prices, and for the faithful performance of 
 their contracts and for always endeavoring to please 
 and satisfy their customers. They are practical 
 men in the business, H. C. Hoffman and Dorrell 
 McGowan constituting the firm, the senior member 
 being a designer of no mean ability, having had a 
 long experience in the business. They are prepared 
 to furnish designs and estimates on all kinds of 
 monumental and building granite work, and they 
 invite all persons requiring anything in their line to 
 call at their wareroom at 12 and 14 E. Van Buren 
 street, near Michigan avenue, Chicago, 111. 
 
 F. A. Lindstrand. 
 
 Jeweler and Optician, 179 Twenty-second Street. 
 Mr. Lindstrand established this business over 12 
 years ago. His stock of goods is of the finest in his line, 
 consisting of diamonds, gold and silver watches, all 
 kinds of clocks, lockets, bracelets, rings and other 
 articles too numerous to mention. All kinds of jew- 
 elry of the latest designs and styles are selected with 
 great care. Popular prices prevail in this establish- 
 ment, and all goods are warranted in every particu- 
 lar. He employs from three to five competent and 
 skilled workmen, and repairs of all kinds are execu- 
 ted with dispatch and neatness. Mr. Lindstrand was 
 born in Sweden, where he learned his trade of jew- 
 eler, and came to Chicago in 1871, and has be- 
 come one of Chicago's prominent business men and 
 popular jewelers. 
 
 A. Lorenz & Co. 
 
 Designers and Engravers on Wood, 84 and 86 
 
 La Salle Street. 
 
 Amongst the leading firms in this city which pro- 
 duce the finer kinds of wood engraving mention is 
 made of the house of A. Lorenz & Co., who have 
 been established here about ten years, and who have 
 earned the reputation of producing only good and 
 reliable work. Perhaps the most difficult branch of 
 this art is that of portrait engraving. This the firm 
 have a name for excelling in, though the bulk of the 
 work is for catalogue illustrations and book publish- 
 ers' orders. The firm is known all over the States, 
 and orders are constantly being received from all- 
 
 parts, from New York to California. From four to 
 twelve hands are employed, according to the state 
 of trade. The firm have lately removed from the 
 corner of Madison and Clark street to their present 
 more commodious premises at 84 and 86 La Salle 
 street, where all orders and communications should 
 be addressed. 
 
 Wm.Seydel. 
 
 Contractor, Carpenter and Cabinet Maker; Office and 
 
 Shop, 153 Twenty^first Street. 
 
 Wm. Seydel, contractor, carpenter and cabinet 
 maker, whose office and shop is located at No. 153 
 Twenty-first street, is prominent in this line of 
 business. His business career was begun twenty- 
 five years ago, in Germany although he has been 
 working at his trade here in Chicago, for only about 
 five years. In the short space of time he has been 
 in business in Chicago he has won a very large and 
 lucrative patronage. He is a practical and ex- 
 perienced workman himself, having learned this 
 trade in his native country. He employs only good 
 workmen, and does all kinds of repairing neatly and 
 satisfactorily. As a contractor and carpenter his job 
 work is unsurpassed. He came from Germany in 
 1881 and after sojourning for half a year in Phil- 
 adelphia, he came to this city. 
 
 Peter Wehle. 
 
 Merchant Tailor, 2135 Wabash Avenue. 
 Peter Wehle occupies at this point elegantly 
 fitted apartments, where is displayed a fine stock of 
 goods. He always keeps on hand a full and com- 
 plete line of piece goods from which to make selec- 
 tions, embracing all the novelties in French and Eng- 
 lish cassimeres and seasonable goods for gentlemen's 
 wear. He began business in 1873, in this same 
 neighborhood, and by good work has built up a 
 large and lucrative trade, embracing some of the 
 leading and influential citizens of Chicago. From 
 five to eight competent and reliable workmen are 
 employed. Perfect fits and reasonable rates for all 
 work, combined with his thorough knowledge of the 
 business, place this establishment in the front 
 ranks of the tailoring business in this city. Mr. 
 Wehle is a native of Germany and has been a resi- 
 dent of Chicago for the past fifteen years. 
 
 C. T. Boal. 
 
 Wholesale Stoves and Hollow-Ware, 247 and 249 
 
 Kinzie Street. 
 
 The large wholesale stove and hollow-ware estab- 
 lishment of C. T. Boal, at Nos. 247 and 249 Kinzie 
 street, occupies a building 40 x 100 feet in dimensions, 
 five stories in height, with a large basement. It is 
 thoroughly stocked with all varieties of heating and 
 cooking stoves and hollow-ware, equal to anything 
 of the kind in the northwest. Mr. Boal is also rep-
 
 118 
 
 A BUSINESS TOUR OF CHICAGO. 
 
 resentative of the house of Orr, Painter & Co., of 
 Reading, Pa., and Jas. Bell & Co., of Wheeling, W. 
 Va., and the Highland Foundry Co., Boston, Mass., 
 three prominent establishments of stoves and hollow- 
 ware. Mr. Boal has had long years of experience 
 in this line, although he has only established the 
 present Business about two years ago. Eighteen to 
 twenty hands are employed in the various depart- 
 ments, and all orders are promptly attended to. Mr. 
 Boal is a native of Ohio, and came to Chicago in 
 1854, and for many years has been engaged in the 
 manufacture and jobbing of stoves in this city. 
 He was an officer in the 88th Illinois second Board 
 of Trade regiment, which served in the army of 
 the Cumberland. 
 
 Headen & McAuley. 
 
 Manufacturers of Beer Stills, Railroad Tanks, Etc., 
 
 112 to 118 East Indiana Street. 
 
 This firm are prominent manufacturers of beer 
 stills, railroad tanks, and all kinds of distillers', 
 brewers' and vinegar 
 tubs, etc. They have 
 ^spacious and commodi- 
 ous quarters, fitted up 
 with all conveniences, 
 latest machinery, and 
 everything for the rap- 
 id prosecution of their 
 work. An engine of 
 eighty horse-power is 
 used, while from fifteen 
 .to twenty-five men are 
 employed. One large 
 ground floor, forty-nine 
 by one hundred feet in 
 dimensions, consists of 
 their workshop. We 
 would especially call 
 attention to the bevel 
 croze made by this firm 
 in all their work. The 
 crozing machine is their patent (April 24th, 1883), 
 and is the best of the kind in the market. The 
 business dates back to 1868, when it was begun 
 under the firm name of Hemingway & Headen, 
 being changed in 1875 to the present firm. The 
 business has grown very large, and the trade extends 
 throughout the city, south and west. Both mem- 
 bers of the firm are natives of Canada, and have 
 been residents of the Garden City since 1867. 
 
 J. Regan. 
 
 Fine Confectioner and Baker, 63 North State Street. 
 
 The fine confectionery store and bakery of J. 
 Regan, at No. 63 North State street, is a first-class 
 one in every respect. Mr. Regan does all his own 
 manufacturing and uses nothing but pure material. 
 His candies may be relied upon as being entirely free 
 from all adulterations. This fact alone has built up 
 a large trade. His bread and rolls are fresh twice a 
 
 day and are much sought after by the families in 
 the neighborhood. During the summer months Mr. 
 Regan keeps a force of six hands employed to fa- 
 cilitate prompt attention to his business. He also 
 makes a specialty of manufacturing fine ice-cream 
 of all flavors, twelve varieties, which is served in his 
 parlors, and orders taken from outside parties. He 
 is a native of this city and for years has been rep- 
 resented in the business interests of the Garden 
 City. 
 
 Richard Truppel. 
 
 Pharmacist, 96 Wells Street. 
 
 This finely appointed establishment was begun 
 fifteen years ago, but Mr. Truppel has only had 
 charge for the past three years. He has three as- 
 sistants, and careful attention is given to all orders 
 received, while prescriptions are carefully com- 
 pounded at all hours, day or night. The business, 
 although entirely local, is quite large, which attests 
 to the popularity and efficiency of Mr. Truppel as a 
 first-class druggist. He is a German, and came to 
 Chicago three years ago, when he bought out this 
 business. He is a graduate of the university of 
 Jena, at Thuringia, Germany, and a licentiate of this 
 city, and will give entire satisfaction to all requiring 
 his services as a druggist. 
 
 The John J. Crooke Co. 
 
 Manufacturers of Plain, Colored and Embossed Tinfoil 
 and Metallic Capsules, 84 Franklin Street. 
 
 The John J. Crooke Co. occupy the large, four- 
 story building at Nos. 84 to 88 Franklin street. 
 They also have offices in New York, 186 Grand 
 street, where the business was begun thirty years 
 ago. They moved to Chicago in 1881 and have suc- 
 ceeded in building up a large western trade. They 
 are the largest and most popular manufacturers of 
 plain, colored and embossed tinfoil in the Union, 
 being the pioneers in this business. They also 
 manufacture metallic capsules, over twenty-five 
 thousand dozen being turned out weekly. This 
 company possess every facility for good and rapid 
 work, and are among the enterprising firms of the 
 Garden City. 
 
 W. H. Montgomery. 
 
 Manufacturer of Artificial Limbs, 73 Clark Street, 
 
 Corner of Randolph. 
 
 Amongst the various artificial-limb makers of the 
 city none deservedly occupy a higher place than 
 Mr. W. H. Montgomery, who is located at 73 South 
 Clark street, corner of Randolph. Mr. Montgomery 
 has been connected with the business here for eleven 
 years, succeeding Mr. Foster, on his decease in 1881, 
 as sole proprietor of the trade and owner of the pat- 
 ent known all over the country as Foster's patent 
 union limb. For twenty-four years he has been 
 connected with the business, and is therefore no nov-
 
 FIFTY YEARS' PROGRESS. 
 
 119 
 
 ice, but thoroughly understands the business and has 
 brought out several improvements of his own. From 
 the old single stick or peg-leg, so long in vogue, to 
 the finely moulded and well finished pieces of 
 mechanism now made, there have been many im- 
 provements, but nothing has ever been introduced 
 to compare with the Foster patent union limb for 
 ease, gracefulness or durability. These limbs are 
 made upon a foundation of white willow, which is 
 light, tough and durable; upon this, a covering of 
 strong rawhide, made expressly for the purpose, and 
 upon this is a delicately tinted, waterproof enamel 
 or cement, colored to closely imitate nature. These 
 limbsare models of lightness, strength, simplicity of 
 construction, durability, naturalness of motion and 
 anatomical beauty. The trade is large and steady, no 
 dull season is experienced, and having gained the 
 reputation he has, Mr. Montgomery is kept pretty 
 busy with his assistants in supplying orders. Cat- 
 alogues and all further information will be sent upon 
 application. 
 
 Bliss & Tracy. 
 
 Iron and Steel Shafting, Steel-Rim Pulleys, Friction- 
 Clutch Pulleys, Etc., 51 South Canal Street. 
 
 Any person coming to Chicago with the intention 
 of buying machinery of any description would 
 naturally go straight to South Canal street, where he 
 would be sure to meet with everything he required. 
 Among the numerous wholesale houses there locat- 
 ed, Messrs. Bliss & Tracy carry on an extensive 
 business at No. 51 South Canal street as dealers in 
 iron and steel shafting, steel-rim pulleys, friction- 
 clutch pulleys, hangers, and power-transmitting ma- 
 chinery of every description. They carry a large 
 stock, and have a very old established connection in 
 the western and northwestern States. Messrs. S. 
 E. Bliss and E. C. Tracy, the individual members of 
 the firm, are well known in engineering circles and 
 are duly appreciated in the business world. 
 
 The Living Church. 
 
 Rev. C. W. Leffingwell, D. D., Editor and Proprietor, 
 162 Washington Street. 
 
 The Living Church is an ably written, well-edited 
 weekly journal devoted to church news. It has 
 the largest circulation of any Protestant Episcopal 
 paper in America, and is sent to all parts of the 
 States and Territories, as well as to the Canadian 
 provinces. The editor and proprietor is the Rev. 
 C. W. Leffingwell, D. D. The journal was found- 
 ed by the Right Reverend Samuel Smith Har- 
 ris, LL. D., second bishop of Michigan, in 1878, 
 in connection with the Rev. John Fulton, D. D. 
 They retained the editorship for six months only, 
 and then sold the paper to its present owner. The 
 circulation is rapidly increasing and is very large 
 already, especially in the eastern States and Canada. 
 The rate of subscription is $1 in advance. Each 
 copy contains sixteen pages, well printed, on good 
 paper, in magazine form. From the central location 
 
 of the office, and as Chicago is the inland metropolis 
 of this growing country, the Living Church is able 
 to collect and disseminate more promptly church 
 news than any other periodical. By an experience 
 of many years the publisher has learned the wants 
 of the people and secured the means to meet them. 
 The following are some of the popular features of 
 this work: News and notes, articles on the church 
 season, church history and biography, the revision 
 of the Prayer-book, independent editorials, opinions 
 of the press, pastoral work, the household, notes of 
 current literature, political contributions and corre- 
 spondence. 
 
 J. B. Devlin. 
 
 Dentist, 127 Twenty-second Street, Corner 
 
 Michigan Avenue. 
 
 Dr. Devlin is a graduate of the Toronto Dental 
 college, and came to Chicago in 1869, when he 
 began practice for himself, in the same neighbor- 
 hood in which he is now located. His parlors are 
 fitted up in the most attractive manner and contain 
 all the latest devices in the dental line for the 
 furtherance of the business. All work turned out 
 is done by Dr. Devlin, and he sees to it that every- 
 thing is satisfactory. It is his superior work which 
 has won for him so large and extended a practice 
 among the leading families of the South side. 
 
 Wm. Schmitz. 
 
 Importer and Dealer in Musical Instruments, 185 
 
 Twenty-second Street, Chicago. 
 
 These premises are finely arranged for the storing 
 of the various kinds of instruments which Mr. 
 Schmitz handles. Although but recently estab- 
 lished, he is doing a very fair business. He is one 
 of the leading importers and dealers in musical in- 
 struments on the South side, and imports direct 
 from the old country violins, accordions, flutes, etc., 
 of the finest quality and best grade. He carries on 
 business with the leading musical houses of Europe, 
 thus guaranteeing a genuine article. He is a native 
 of Germany, and has been living in Chicago for the 
 past twelve years, where he is highly esteemed by 
 all. 
 
 John Davison & Son. 
 
 Ship Chandlers, Sail Makers, Riggers, Etc., 282 and 284 
 
 South Water Street. 
 
 There are few of the many sailing vessels on Lake 
 Michigan but come into business relations with the 
 ship chandlers announced at the head of this article, 
 and it would be exceptional if the majority of them 
 did not require an outfit at the commencement of 
 navigation, and require refitting during the season. 
 The owners or captains of such vessels usually call 
 upon John Davison & Son to procure their outfits 
 or to have repairs attended to. This firm has been 
 following the ship chandlery business for a quarter
 
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 A BUSINESS TOUR OF CHICAGO. 
 
 of a century, and as sail makers and riggers there 
 cannot be much for them to learn as to [what is 
 needed to make a vessel perfect in her sea-going 
 equipments. Occupying four floors in the building 
 at 282 and 284 South Water street, there is plenty 
 of room and every convenience for supplying the 
 wants of maritime traffic, not only the room and 
 conveniences, but a large and complete stock of 
 ship chandler's and sail maker's goods from which to 
 select. The varied assortment kept in stock makes 
 the house of John Davison & Son a popular one. 
 
 G. F._Charles. 
 
 Photographer, 2029 Wabash Avenue. 
 G. F. Charles is one of the most practical photo 
 artists in the city whose love for the picturesque 
 and beautiful exhibits itself in every detail of his 
 business. His parlors and studio are models of 
 elegance and comfort, and are conveniently ar- 
 ranged, everything being on the first floor. The large 
 gallery is immediately in the rear of the studio and 
 salesroom. Mr. Charles has had long years of 
 practical experience, and has carefully studied every 
 branch of his profession, and by good work and close 
 application, has now a liberal and influential patron- 
 age from the best classes of Chicago. His elegant- 
 ly fitted studio contains a splendid array of speci- 
 mens of Mr. Charles' work and skill. Besides being 
 a talented photographer, he excels as an artist, his 
 crayon, india-ink, water colors, and pastel work 
 being equal to the best in the city. His fidelity to 
 detail, brilliancy of touch, and ability to preserve 
 every feature, prove that he is an artist of true 
 genius and animated with but one aim, namely, to 
 excel in his chosen profession. Mr. Charles is a 
 native of Kingston, Canada, and has resided in 
 Chicago since 1881. 
 
 The Chalcedony Company. 
 
 Manufacturers of Saxolin and Chalcedony Soaps, 
 
 93 Dearborn Street. 
 The high character and reputation of Chicago's 
 
 Eroducts are every day becoming more widely 
 nown throughout the civilized world, while the fa- 
 cilities it enjoys enables its persevering and ener- 
 getic manufacturers to compete with any of the 
 older establishments situated elsewhere. Although 
 established the present year, the honorable manner 
 in which its products have been introduced to the 
 public, assisted by the recognized standing of its 
 managers in the commercial world, have already 
 made a place for saxolin and chalcedony soaps 
 upon the market. The factory embraces every 
 modern improvement and facility known to the 
 business, while they employ a large amount of 
 skilled labor, the majority of whom must obviously 
 be proficient and well versed in chemistry. Saxolin 
 is a new and valuable compound for cleaning, scour- 
 ing, polishing and household purposes generally. 
 Chalcedony soap, in several grades, is designed for 
 
 cleaning purposes, and for general toilet use; each of 
 these kinds of chalcedony soaps is unique in its 
 action and particularly adapted for removing the 
 most obstinate substances from the hands and skin. 
 The business of this corporation is all under the 
 general supervision of its secretary, Mr. W. T. Blair. 
 All of the soaps and compounds of this company 
 are of the best quality made, and instead of being 
 perfumed by the base and rancid extracts of the 
 common butyric acid in such general use by less 
 scrupulous manufacturers, nothing but the cleanest 
 and purest essential oils are used. Yet, owing to 
 their improved process, the price compares favorably 
 with any. Most of their manufactures are special- 
 ties, and their like are not attempted by any other 
 manufacturers. This house enjoys a solid reputa- 
 tion among the business men of the city, while its 
 products are worthily assisting in maintaining its 
 fair fame abroad. 
 
 Robins & Talcott. 
 
 Building Specialties, Room n, 115 Monroe Street. 
 Among the various extensive and growing com- 
 mercial interests of Chicago which exert an im- 
 portant influence on our general trade and bear the 
 marks of continued increase and prosperity, none, 
 perhaps, occupies a more useful position than the 
 trade in building specialties, which is so satisfac- 
 torily represented by Messrs. Richard Robins and 
 Ed. N. Kirk Talcott. These gentlemen have for 
 years past been so prominent in the building frater- 
 nity that from the very outset in 1886 the success of 
 their house was guaranteed. The firm represent 
 the Hecla Architectural Bronze and Iron works of 
 New York and Brooklyn, the Magneso Calcite Fire- 
 proofing company, Boston Terra Cotta works of Bos- 
 ton, and several stone producers; and they success- 
 fully cover the entire field of ornamental iron- 
 work, terra cotta, granite, marble, sandstone and 
 fireproofing, orders for which Messrs. Robins & Tal- 
 cott are prepared to promptly fill on terms which 
 cannot be duplicated elsewhere. Their trade, already 
 of great magnitude, is steadily increasing, and is 
 reaching out rapidly into the far west. Architects 
 
 and builders, as well as owners and those needing 
 representation in the west, are now fully appreciat- 
 ing the advantages to be derived through this house. 
 
 J. D. Marshall. 
 
 Manufacturer of Chicago Slaughter Sole Leather ; 
 
 Office, 72 to 86 Hawthorn Avenue. 
 One of the largest and most complete tanneries of 
 the Garden City is that of J. D. Marshall, located at 
 Nos. 72 to 86 Hawthorn avenue. The tanbark 
 yard covers an area of 250x300 feet, while the 
 tannery proper is 150 x 275 feet in dimensions, and 
 the buildings are all arranged in the most convenient 
 manner for the transaction of business. Only sole 
 leather is tanned, and in this special line it is one of 
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 FIFTY YEARS' PROGRESS. 
 
 121 
 
 4,000 cords of tanbark are used, and 50,000 sides 
 are tanned annually. Twenty-five hands are em- 
 ployed, and an engine of sixty horse power is used. 
 The business was established in 1861, under the firm 
 name of Grey, Marshall & Co., but ten years later 
 Mr. Marshall took entire control and has built up a 
 trade which covers all the States in the Union. He 
 came from New York to this city near thirty-six 
 years ago and has been closely related with the 
 business interests of Chicago ever since. 
 
 Germania Fire Insurance Co. 
 
 E. G. Halle, 153 and 155 La Salle Street. 
 One of the first fire insurance companies of the 
 Union is the "Germania," with head offices at 179 
 Broadway, New York. The branch in this city is 
 located at 124 La Salle street. This company was 
 incorporated in 1851, 
 while the branch was 
 opened in 1880. This 
 Chicago branch is man- 
 aged by Mr. E. G. Halle, 
 and the rapid strides 
 made during the past 
 few years bespeak his 
 zeal and activity in the 
 work. At the last audit 
 the company's total as- 
 sets amounted to the 
 large figure of $2,700,- 
 075.63. As showing the 
 careful and sure manner 
 in which the business is 
 carried on, of this sum no 
 less than $1,672,000 is 
 invested in U. S. bonds, 
 and $510,000 in real 
 estate. The bulk of the assets are thus abso- 
 lutely secure, while it should also be remembered, 
 as an additional safeguard to policy-holders, that 
 this company has accumulated a surplus of $567,341. 
 The rates of premium are very reasonable, and this 
 fact, together with its stability and security, is the 
 reason why it is preferred to many others of a like 
 kind, and why this office is doing one of the finest 
 insurance businesses in the city. Mr. Carl Huncke 
 is the local agent for this city. 
 
 necessary for a first-class theater. The fourth floor 
 of the building is fitted up as a large lodge hall for 
 the use of secret societies. It covers an area of 
 50x70 feet. Just across the hallway of this lodge 
 room a gymnasium is being fitted for the use of the 
 S. S. Turners. All the apparatus used by this so- 
 ciety is found here, and it is one of the finest ar- 
 ranged halls of the kind in Chicago. The large 
 music hall not only contains fine stage, scenery, and 
 gallery, but also a large dining room, ladies and 
 gentlemen's dressing rooms, etc. It is for rent for 
 balls, concerts, theatricals and other entertainments. 
 The hall is owned by Messrs. Fred and Julius 
 Freiberg, and managed by their brother Henry, who 
 resides in the building, and to whom all commu- 
 nications should be addressed. The Freiberg 
 brothers' orchestra consists of from thirty to fifty 
 pieces and furuisTies first-class music for all occasions 
 at reasonable rates. String and brass instruments 
 are used, and some of the best talent in the city is 
 found among its members. The office of the 
 orchestra is at No. 85 Washington street, room 8. 
 They are all natives of Germany and came to Chi- 
 cago in 1857; later Mr. Fred Freiberg went to 
 New York, and when the war broke out became a 
 member of the famous 7th regiment band. He 
 remained with it for several months at Washington, 
 D. C., and returning joined the 45th New York 
 regiment band. After the war he was for years a 
 member of the renowned Gilmore's New York band. 
 
 Freiberg's Music Hall. 
 
 Henry Freiberg, Proprietor, Nos. 180-182 
 
 Twenty-second Street. 
 
 One of the interesting features of Chicago is 
 Freiberg's Music hall, at Nos. 180 and 182 Twenty- 
 second street, between State street and Wabash 
 avenue. It is situated on the main floor and has a 
 space of 50x115 feet, with a stage 22x50 feet in 
 dimensions. The Freiberg block was erected in 
 188."), but the opera house has just been remodeled 
 and refitted in the latest and most approved style 
 at a cost of $15,000. The stage is fitted with new 
 and fine scenery, and all appliances and machinery 
 
 H. J. Smith & Co. 
 
 Publishers, 161 and 163 La Salle Street. 
 In preparing a reliable exposition, commemora- 
 tive of the semi-centennial anniversary of the foun- 
 dation of the city, mention is made of the prominent 
 house in the subscription book business, H.J. Smith 
 & Co., formerly Smith & 
 Miller, who occupy in 
 their relation to the liter- 
 ary world a position of 
 prominence. They also 
 have an office at 249 
 South Sixth street, Phila- 
 delphia, and publish a 
 number of leading works, 
 mostly on theological, 
 medical, historical and 
 biographical subjects, but 
 confine themselves to no 
 particular branch or spe- 
 cialty. Coming here from 
 Wisconsin three years ago, Mr. Smith established 
 his business and has already gained the confidence 
 and esteem of the community and placed his house 
 upon a substantial basis. The prominent subscrip- 
 tion books of this firm consist of the "Crown Book of 
 the Beautiful, the Wonderful and the Wise," present- 
 ing in attractive form some of the most notable 
 things found in poetic and prose literature, in the 
 works of man and in the works of nature, in history 
 and in biography, in philosophy and in music; 
 " Brave Men and Women, Their Struggles, Failures
 
 122 
 
 A BUSINESS TOUR OF CHICAGO. 
 
 and Triumphs," by O. E. Fuller, A. M., author of 
 "The Year of Christ," "Ideals of Life," etc., illus- 
 trated; "Wife and Mother, or Information for Every 
 Woman," adapted from the writings of Pye Henry 
 Chavasse, M. D., together with an introduction by 
 Sarah Hackett Stevenson, M. D.,of Chicago. The 
 object of this book is to teach a physical redemp- 
 tion for woman, and that 
 she need no longer go 
 down to death's door in 
 
 fiving birth to children, 
 he knowledge contained 
 in it will be a boon to 
 every woman in all stages 
 of life, and we understand 
 the book is having a 
 remarkable sale. " Our 
 World's Great Benefac- 
 tors;" this work, contain- 
 ing about seven hundred 
 pages, gives brief biogra- 
 phies of nearly one hun- 
 dred people, both men and women, who have 
 accomplished anything in literature, art, science, 
 discovery, invention, philosophy or philanthropy, 
 that has entitled them to be considered benefactors 
 of the whole world. It aims in this way to give an 
 epitome of the world's work since the introduction 
 of the art of printing and is an invaluable work in 
 any library. Each biography is accompanied by a 
 full-page illustration made expressly for this book 
 at large expense, thus making it doubly interesting 
 and instructive. 
 
 The latest work of H. J. Smith & Co. is " Pleasant 
 Hours for Home and School," by Prof. Robert 
 Graham, State Superintendent of Public Instruction 
 for Wisconsin. It consists of four departments. 
 The first three are choice selections for readings 
 and recitations, suitable for all ages and classes. The 
 fourth is for home amusements, and consists of cha- 
 rades, shadow pantomimes, mock trials, etc. It is a 
 work to be desired by every home circle, and will 
 add much to the enjoyment and profit of every in- 
 dividual of the home. 
 
 Besides this, we believe, the firm handle an exten- 
 sive line of juvenile books, bibles and albums, and 
 also supply their customers with any of the standard 
 or trade books, so that their large force of agents 
 throughout the United States and Canada find a 
 business connection with this wide-awake house 
 both pleasant and profitable. 
 
 J. N. Hostetter. 
 
 Dealer in Coal, Coke, Wood, Hay and Feed, 
 
 1136 West Madison Street. 
 
 Just across the Chicago, St. Louis and Pittsburgh 
 R. R. tracks on West Madison street is located the 
 office of J. N. Hostetter, a prominent dealer in this 
 neighborhood in all kinds of hard and soft coal, 
 wood and coke, with a side line of hay and feed. 
 The business was established four years ago under 
 the firm name of Hostetter & Townsend, which was 
 dissolved about two years ago, and Mr. Hostetter 
 
 continued the business alone. He has a force of 
 from three to five men to assist him with the busi- 
 ness, and patrons may rely upon having their orders 
 filled promptly. Trade is done with the suburbs as 
 well as city, and a large patronage has been won by 
 fair and honorable methods. Mr. Hostetter is a 
 native of Pennsylvania, and came to Chicago four 
 years ago, although he has been in the State for 
 the past six years. 
 
 B. Van Buren. 
 
 Druggist and Pharmacist, 1249 Madison Street. 
 This fine establishment is under the proprietor- 
 ship of B. Van Buren, a prominent pharmacist of 
 over thirty years' experience. He is a native of 
 New York State, and attended the medical depart- 
 ment of the Cooper institute, of New York city. 
 He settled in this city in 1872, and for six or 
 seven years prior to this he was a resident of Le- 
 mont, this State. He opened up his present store 
 about eleven years ago, and has established a large 
 and influential trade with this part of the city. He 
 is a dealer in pure 
 drugs, medicines, 
 perfumery, paints, 
 oils, glass, brushes, 
 calcimining and 
 artists' materials, 
 etc. Special at- 
 tention is given 
 to the prescrip- 
 tion department, 
 which is well pat- 
 ronized by the 
 medical fraternity 
 of the West side. 
 Special attention 
 is called to Van 
 Buren's rheumatic 
 compound, being 
 a positive cure for 
 rheumatism and all disorders of the blood or ner- 
 vous system, especially neuralgia, headache, gout, 
 etc. It contains no minerals, and is not injurious 
 to the system. This article is warranted to cure 
 rheumatism in all its forms, no matter how long 
 standing or the age of the patient. It is purely 
 vegetable. Being already so well known, it needs 
 no comments here. The price is fifty cents and $1 
 per bottle. 
 
 His other noted preparations are malarial globules, 
 dyspeptic elixir, imperial liniment, and diarrhoea 
 and cholera killer. These medicines, especially the 
 compound, are shipped to all parts of the United 
 States, and have relieved and cured thousands, as 
 some of the most flattering testimonials in the pos- 
 session of the doctor will attest. Mr. Van Buren 
 is proprietor of the large and beautiful opera hall 
 which bears his name. (See cut above.) It is the 
 largest and finest structure of the kind in this sec- 
 tion of the city, being fifty by ninety feet in di- 
 mensions, and the height of ceiling is twenty-two 
 feet. It is well arranged in the most modern style
 
 FIFTY YEARS' PROGRESS. 
 
 123 
 
 and has a large and handsomely fitted stage. It is 
 rented at a nominal price for parties and entertain- 
 ments. Many creditable performances have been 
 given during the past season. On the second floor 
 is a large and finely fitted lodge room, which is in 
 use by the various clubs and societies every night in 
 the week. For further information address the Cen- 
 tral Park Pharmacy, 1249 West Madison street, 
 telephone 7007. 
 
 Byron A. Baldwin & Co. 
 
 Real Estate and Loan Agents, 154 Washington Street. 
 
 To certainly attain the greatest measure of secu- 
 rity in real-estate investments and the best results, 
 the services of an experienced and reliable agent are 
 always necessary. Prominent among the members 
 of the real-estate fraternity in Chicago is the firm 
 of Byron A. Baldwin & Co., whose offices are located 
 at 154 Washington street, telephone 890. Although 
 the firm has only been in existence since January 1, 
 '86, yet the members of it have been residents of 
 Chicago for years. Their knowledge of property in 
 this city and vicinity is thorough, and investors can 
 in all cases rely on their sound judgment in such 
 matters. The firm consists of Byron A. Baldwin, a 
 member of the Chicago Real-Estate board, and his 
 son Walter S. Baldwin, a notary public, both 
 well-known and influential business men. Their 
 connections are first-class, and include many leading 
 capitalists, and property owners. They make a 
 specialty of negotiating loans on bonds and mort- 
 gages, and give the utmost satisfaction in this im- 
 portant branch. 
 
 The management and care of estates is another 
 special feature of their business. Rents are col- 
 lected and remitted promptly, taxes paid, invest- 
 ments made, property sold, and repairs economically 
 attended to at reasonable rates. They are prom- 
 inent builders and property holders themselves, 
 having considerable property on Central Park boul- 
 evard, and on Humboldt Park boulevard. Mr. 
 Byron A. Baldwin is a native of Pennsylvania and 
 came to the Garden City in 1864. He is director in 
 the Peoples' Building and Loan association, and is 
 also prominently connected with the R. A. and A. 
 L. of H., of this city. Mr. Walter S. Baldwin was 
 born in Milwaukee, Wis. He graduated from Yale 
 college with honors in the class of '85. He is 
 secretary of the Calumet Council of A. L. of H. 
 
 J. H. Hogey. 
 
 Pharmacist, 3038 Cottage Grove Avenue. 
 One of the finest stores in any part of the outside 
 districts of the city is that of Mr. J. H. Hogey, on 
 the corner of Thirty-first street and Cottage Grove 
 avenue. Here a full stock of chemicals and drugs, 
 absolutely pure and fresh, can be obtained. Mr. 
 Hogey manufactures the cologne and cough syrups 
 so largely known and widely used in this neighbor- 
 hood. His stock includes all well-known prepara- 
 tions of fine toilet and fancy articles, perfumery, 
 
 nursery goods, mineral waters, etc. Mr. Hogey has 
 been in the business twenty-five years, being thir- 
 teen years in business for himself. 
 
 The business, which is very extensive, is of a 
 superior class, and the largest in this part of 
 Chicago. The trade is local and suburban, many 
 coming in from Hyde Park, Normal Park and En- 
 glewood to trade here. The cable-cars running 
 past the front of the store, and the horse-cars past 
 the side on Thirty-first street, make it readily acces- 
 sible from all parts. Mr. Hogey has the U. S. postal 
 agency for the accommodation of the public. He 
 is a licentiate in pharmacy for New York city and 
 State, and also for Illinois, and a member of the 
 American and Illinois pharmaceutical associations. 
 
 Ed. L. Fowler. 
 
 Photographer, 3105 Prairie Avenue. 
 Mr. Ed. L. Fowler is an artistic photographer of 
 the first order of merit, who is destined to make 
 his mark and achieve high distinction in the photo- 
 graphic art. Mr. Fowler studied under Mr. Barker, 
 the well-known photographic artist, who carried off 
 the first prize at the last photographers' convention 
 at St. Louis, against over one thousand competitors. 
 Mr. Fowler is rapidly achieving distinction, and Mr. 
 Barker himself writes of his work, concerning a 
 portrait made of himself, "I am greatly pleased, 
 would not ask for anything better." He has had 
 eight years' experience in the largest cities of the 
 central and western States, and has lately set up on 
 his own account. His studio occupies the whole 
 second floor of 3105 Prairie avenue, corner of Thirty- 
 first street. The samples of his work seen at his 
 studio bear comparison with any to be found in the 
 city or this country. Mr. Fowler makes a specialty 
 of high artistic finish and re-touching. His photo- 
 graphs are real works of art, and will bear the most 
 minute inspection. Mr. Fowler uses the finest in- 
 struments made and best materials, and guarantees 
 all work. The business is large and rapidly increas- 
 ing, being of the better class. To be properly un- 
 . derstood and appreciated, no article would give a 
 correct idea. The work is simply perfect in shading, 
 expression and general finish. 
 
 Hollingsworth & Coughlan. 
 
 Old Pioneer Contractors, Office 159 La Salle Street, 
 
 Room 73. 
 
 This house are beyond doubt the pioneers in their 
 important avocation in the west, in which it has at- 
 tained a reputation for skill, care and reliability con- 
 ceded to but few firms in the country, while their 
 record of thirty years' experience in handling the 
 heaviest and most costly buildings without accident 
 or damage affords their best indorsement. Their 
 specialty is in raising, lowering and moving brick, 
 stone and iron buildings, and for this purpose they 
 have provided a perfect plant of improved machin- 
 ery, devices and appliances, and spare no pains, time
 
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 A BUSINESS TOUR OF CHICAGO. 
 
 or expense to insure the successful accomplishment 
 of all contracts undertaken. The origin of the house 
 was in 1857, and one year later the firm of Brown 
 & Hollingsworth was organized, which continued 
 until 1860, when Mr. Brown retired, and Mr. Cough- 
 Ian came in. Mr. Jas. Hollingsworth is a native of 
 Delaware, and Mr. John Coughlan, of Ireland, both 
 of whom are too well known in this community to 
 require any personal mention at our hands, but for 
 the benefit of those who are unacquainted with 
 them, it may not be inappropriate to state that 
 there is no firm in this country better prepared to 
 execute contracts promptly or at more reasonable 
 and just prices. 
 
 S A. Kean & Co. 
 
 Bankers, Successors to Preston, Kean & Co., 
 100 Washington Street. 
 
 The bank occupies a central position, in a fine 
 stone structure having a frontage on Washington 
 street of forty feet and a depth of eighty feet. It 
 is commodiously and handsomely fitted up in the 
 interior and possesses vaults of remarkable size and 
 strength. The bank is backed up by the highest 
 class of business men and authorities as one of the 
 soundest and most reliable in the city. 
 
 One of the oldest private banking establishments 
 in the city, and withal one of the most sound and' 
 reliable, is that of S. A. Kean & Co., of 100 Wash- 
 ington street. The business has been conducted 
 for twenty-five years and has passed most triumph- 
 antly through some great commercial crises without 
 its credit having been impaired. It was founded 
 and carried on for many years as the firm of Pres- 
 ton, Kean & Co. A branch office has lately been 
 opened at 205 La Salle street as an adjunct of the 
 Home safety deposit vaults there, of which Mr. 
 Kean is president. A general banking business in 
 all its branches is transacted, such as the receiving 
 of deposit accounts of merchants, bankers, and 
 others; handling government bonds, municipal 
 bonds; discounting commercial paper; foreign ex- 
 change, letters of credit, United States land war- 
 rants, etc. It is ably superintended by Mr. Kean, 
 who has had direct personal management of both 
 this and the preceding firm. Mr. John Farson, also 
 an able banker, is one of the present firm. He 
 managed the bond department for the old house. 
 
 Harroun Manufacturing Co. 
 
 Manufacturers, Jobbers, and Dealers in Sewing Machine 
 Supplies, 248 Wabash Avenue. 
 
 In the city of Chicago no house occupies a greater 
 field of usefulness than the Harroun Manufacturing 
 company, possessing, as they do, every facility for 
 supplying owners of sewing machines and sewing 
 machine agents and dealers with all the many parts 
 of any and every machine made, at- 
 tachments, oils, needles, etc. They 
 also deal in all varieties and grades 
 of sewing machines, their terms and 
 inducements being, however, unusu- 
 ally favorable to purchasers. Their 
 spacious establishment, occupying the 
 entire second floor at No. 248 Wabash 
 avenue, contains a very large stock of 
 sewing machine supplies, the com- 
 pleteness of which has long since 
 caused this to be regarded as the 
 emporium and supply store for the 
 west. The business dates its origin 
 to the year 1867, when it was estab- 
 lished by Mr. H. C. Goodrich, who 
 was succeeded in 1879 by John H. 
 Grant & Co., the latter retiring Jan. 
 24, 1885, in favor of Messrs. W. S. 
 Harroun & Co., while in 1886 the 
 business had increased so largely as 
 to render an incorporation advisa- 
 ble, which was accordingly effected, 
 Messrs. G. Wallace Smith being 
 president, and John E. Lewis secre- 
 tary and treasurer. They are both highly regarded 
 in commercial circles, while the enormous volume 
 of their annual sales, which extend all over the 
 country, affords the amplest evidence of the popu- 
 larity of this useful business which they are success- 
 fully conducting, 
 
 Jones' City Express & Transfer Co. 
 
 Office, 2225 Cottage Grove Avenue. 
 The majority of our readers, especially on the 
 South side, have no doubt heard of Jones' City Ex- 
 press and Transfer Co., whose office is located at No. 
 2225 Cottage Grove Avenue. Mr, Theodore W. 
 Jones established the business some score of years 
 ago and by his energy and particular attention to the 
 performance of good work has built up a large and in- 
 fluential patronage among the first families of the city. 
 He employs from twelve to fifteen competent work- 
 men, and is prepared at a moment's notice to supply
 
 FIFTY YEARS' PROGRESS. 
 
 125 
 
 any number of trucks and express wagons desired. 
 Furniture is moved by a new and improved system, 
 adopted only by this company. Pianos are packed, 
 shipped and removed in a careful manner. All 
 work is done at reasonable rates, while his express- 
 age and parcel-delivery is very cheap, trunks being 
 received from and delivered to all parts of the city, 
 depots, hotels, steamboat wharves, etc., at the 
 nominal price of twenty-five cents, parcels and pack- 
 ages ten cents. Arrangements are also made for the 
 storage of furniture at moderate rates. Mr. Jones 
 is very systematic in all his transactions, the best of 
 order being maintained in all departments of his 
 business. Mr. Jones is a native of Hamilton, Cana- 
 da, and has been a resident of Chicago for almost a 
 quarter of a century. His telephone number is 
 8416. 
 
 S. E. Cleveland & Son. 
 
 Livery, Boarding and Sale Stables, 962 and 964 West 
 
 Madison Street. 
 
 This is one of the oldest stables in the neighbor- 
 hood, having been established ten years ago, al- 
 though the present firm has only had charge since 
 May 1, 1886. They have enlarged it to double its 
 original size, it now Covering an area of 50 x 200 
 feet, with upper and lower stabling. It is undoubt- 
 edly the largest and finest livery stable on the West 
 side. In the livery department the stock of horses 
 and vehicles kept for hire is among the best to be 
 found in the city, for balls, parties, funerals, and 
 pleasure driving. In the winter the sleighs turned 
 out from these stables are noted for their beautiful 
 appearance and fine finish. We wish to call special 
 attention to their boarding department. They have 
 box stalls single and double fitted up for 125 
 horses, a few being of clay bottom, a specialty which 
 none of the other stables enjoy. They also have a 
 large lot 75 x 100 'feet as exercise room. All horses 
 left in their charge receive the strictest care and at- 
 tention at reasonable prices. Satisfaction is guar- 
 anteed in e^ery particular. The telephone number 
 is 7207, and persons coming to the city can have 
 carriages meet them at the depot. 
 
 J. Parsons. 
 
 Dispensing Chemist and Perfumer, 194 Thirty-first Street, 
 
 Corner of Prairie Avenue. 
 
 One of the largest and finest drug-stores in this 
 neighborhood is that of Mr. J. Parsons. He has had 
 a long experience in the city in this line of business, 
 having been established twenty-three years. He 
 has lately removed to his present fine and commo- 
 dious store from 1409 VVabash avenue. He has a 
 new and extensive stock of the finest chemicals, 
 drugs, toilet perfumery, patent medicines, etc. He 
 also manufactures largely Parsons' inimitable cologne, 
 which is sold in all parts of the country, and is 
 superior to any other kind in use by the public. 
 Mr. Parsons with his long experience is eminently 
 qualified to make up prescriptions, which he does 
 
 with care and exactness. The business is large and 
 steadily increasing with the growth of the neigh- 
 borhood. The residents, being all of the upper 
 class, require only the best quality of supplies, and it 
 is Mr. Parsons' aim to secure the first quality only. 
 He is widely patronized, and has facilities equal to 
 any retail druggist's in the city. His premises in- 
 clude the first floor, 25 x 60 feet, and basement. 
 He employs only experienced help, and may be re- 
 lied on to give every satisfaction in his power, while 
 the quality of his goods is not to be surpassed. 
 
 S. Stein & Co. 
 
 Woolens, 197 Madison Street. 
 
 One of the largest houses in the woolen goods 
 trade in the United States is that of S. Stein & Co., 
 of Nos. 446, 448 and 450 Broadway, New York. 
 They are directly connected with a large manufac- 
 turing firm at Bradford, England, and import large 
 quantities of the finest English broadcloth. They 
 also obtain large supplies from the eastern mills. 
 That such a house should have an agency office in 
 this city is not to be wondered at. The firm long 
 enjoyed a large western trade, but since the opening 
 of this office in October, 1885, this has very consid- 
 erably increased. This office is located at 197 Mad- 
 ison street, room 2. At present no stock is kept, 
 merely patterns of goods, the orders being supplied 
 direct from the New York house. The old estab- 
 lished firm to which this office belongs has long had 
 the reputation of supplying goods of a superior 
 quality and at the most liberal rates. The fact that 
 this business has increased at a most rapid rate in 
 this neighborhood since the opening of this branch 
 proves the wisdom of the step, and the need that 
 existed for the direct representation of so renowned 
 a firm. 
 
 J. H. Haake. 
 
 Dealer in Staple and Fancy Groceries, 74 Wells Street. 
 
 If you enter the above finely appointed grocery 
 store you will find all parties busy as bees filling 
 orders and waiting on the crowd of customers. While 
 waiting our turn we took a survey of the commo- 
 dious quarters and choice lot of goods displayed. 
 We took note of the prices attached to a number of 
 these articles and were surprised at their low figure, 
 and more so when we came to examine the fine 
 brands of canned goods and the fine quality of the 
 staple and fancy groceries. Mr. Haake receives his 
 butter and eggs direct from the country daily, and all 
 hisgoodsof every description are fresh and pure. His 
 motto is, and always has been, "Good goods at the 
 lowest prices for cash." This, with his honest deal- 
 ing, has made his business a standard one, and ren- 
 dered him the most popular grocer on the North side. 
 The business was established in 1853 by Mr. J. D. 
 Haake, father of the present proprietor. He sold 
 out to Wm. Barmuth in 1868, who disposed of it to 
 J. H. Haake in 1877. A competent and polite corps 
 of assistants aid him with the business, which aggre-
 
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 A BUSINESS TOUR OF CHICAGO. 
 
 gates over $50,000 annually. Mr. Haake is a native 
 of this city, a thorough business man, honorable, 
 fair and liberal in all of his transactions, and richly 
 merits the large and prosperous trade he has helped 
 to establish. 
 
 George A. Arnold & Co. 
 
 Carpenters and Builders, Rear 82 Dearborn Street, 
 
 Court Place. 
 
 This business is owned by the firm of George A. 
 Arnold & Co., who employ from twenty to fihy 
 hands. Mr. Arnold has been in business in the city 
 since 1866, and has an extensive trade in all 
 branches of carpentering and building, both in the 
 city and suburbs. The firm are ready to undertake 
 any class of work, either jobbing work or by contract, 
 for which they furnish estimates free, and as low as 
 any firm in the city. They employ only skilled 
 workmen upon whom they can rely, and have in 
 their employ cabinet-makers, upholsterers, painters 
 and locksmiths. Mr. Arnold, being a thoroughly 
 practical and experienced man, supervises all the 
 work personally, and is thus able to guarantee 
 perfect satisfaction. Mr. Arnold is well known and 
 esteemed for his thorough business qualities and 
 reliability. 
 
 The Guarantee Company of North 
 America. 
 
 Chicago Branch, 175 La Salle Street, James Grant, 
 Secretary and Attorney. 
 
 The province of the Guarantee Company of North 
 America is to obviate the frequent financial loss 
 consequent upon the defalcation of salaried em- 
 ployes of financial and commercial corporations. 
 It issues bonds of suretyship upon such risks 
 exclusively, maintaining equitable rates, such as 
 will enable it to perform a proper and satisfactory 
 service. At the close of its fifteenth year the position 
 of the company is stronger than at any time in its 
 existence, and far in advance financially of that of 
 any other similar corporation, its resources for the 
 security of policyholders reaching the enormous 
 sum of $896,917, the deposit in the United States 
 for the special and sole security of United States 
 patrons being $240,000. The company was or- 
 ganized Aug. 2, 1871. at Montreal, Canada, where 
 its principal offices and headquarters are situated, 
 and began its United States business in April, 1882, 
 and has now eleven branch offices therein, each 
 with its separate board of directors, besides having 
 agencies in all the principal cities ; n this country. The 
 Chicago board of directors comprise the following 
 well-known gentlemen: Lyman J. Gage, vice 
 president First National bank ; R. R. Cable, presi- 
 dent C., R. I. & P. railroad; the Hon. J. Russell 
 Jones, president C. W. D. railway; C. T. Wheeler, 
 president Continental National bank; and E. Nelson 
 Blake, ex-president Board of Trade; Mr. H. P. 
 Collins being inspector, and James Grant secretary 
 and attorney. The company have issued 81,181 
 
 bonds, and rejected 7,495 applications, and the 
 records in each case being preserved enables it also 
 to protect employers against undesirable persons. 
 This is the only company that confines its business 
 exclusively to salaried employes, studiously de- 
 clining to issue' bonds for trustees, administrators, 
 guardians, contractors, and similar extra haz- 
 ardous risks, while the readiness with which its 
 bonds are accepted by the leading banks, railways 
 and commercial institutions is an evidence that its 
 principles are approved. 
 
 The Bowman Dairy Co. 
 
 Purveyors of a Safe Supply of Pure Country Milk, 68 and 
 
 70 North State Street. 
 
 This company, who succed M. A. Devine, have 
 recently completed the largest milk house in the 
 west, with a storage room, the sanitary condition 
 of which is perfect in every way. They also 
 have commodious offices, and a fully equipped 
 
 laboratory in charge of a practical chemist, C. E. 
 Peck, M. D., graduate of the medical depart- 
 ments of the University of Buffalo and Bellevue 
 Hospital college. It has been their principle and 
 practice through all their business experience to 
 serve their customers honestly. Feeling the neces- 
 sity of protecting themselves and to be able to 
 guarantee a safe and perfect milk supply to them, 
 they have established a laboratory, and their chem- 
 ist will analyze samples of the milk from each farm 
 as it is received. By this means they will know not 
 only that the milk has not been skimmed, watered 
 or adulterated, but that the cows have been fed 
 proper food in proper quantities, thus securing a 
 milk supply not only as pure as it is shipped from 
 the country, but fully up to the standard as estab- 
 lished by leading experts of England and America, 
 and perfect in its qualities. Then to ascertain that 
 the milk has been received by their customers in 
 perfect condition, their inspector will call on them 
 from time to time to learn of and correct any fault 
 in the service, and bring back to the laboratory 
 samples to be analyzed as often as necessary.
 
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 127 
 
 Kuh, Nathan & Fischer. 
 
 Manufacturers of Clothing and Jobbers of Woolens, Tailor 
 Trimmings and Cloth, 126, 128, 130, 132 Market Street. 
 
 As manufacturers of clothing and jobbers of 
 woolens there is no name in the western metropolis 
 more highly esteemed or widely known than Messrs 
 Kuh, Nathan & Fischer, which since their organ- 
 ization six years ago have always commanded a 
 liberal and influential patronage not of Chicago only, 
 but of the entire great west. The individual 
 members of this co-partnership, Messrs. Abrm. Kuh, 
 Adolph Nathan, and S. M. Fischer, have had long 
 practical experience and a keen appreciation of the 
 requirements of their first-class trade, which have 
 placed them in the highest position in their special- 
 ties as manufacturers of men's boys' youths' and 
 children's clothing and jobbers in woolens, cloths 
 and tailors' trimmings. Besides full lines of domestic 
 goods, the firm import direct from the most famous 
 manufacturers of Europe the finest broadcloths, 
 cassimeres, suitings, piece goods, and trimmings, 
 which are absolutely unexcelled in this market, 
 while some idea of the magnitude of the business 
 annually transacted may be drawn from the fact 
 that five entire floors are occupied, each 100 x 150 
 feet in dimensions, the factory, equipped with the 
 latest improved machinery and appliances, employ- 
 ing over five hundred operatives in the building, not 
 to mention the thousands who take work out to be 
 finished at their own homes. The direct con- 
 nections of this house with Parisian and London 
 centers of fashion and its facilities for arriving at 
 reliable decisions as to the prevailing modes for any 
 season have made their patterns of clothing as popu- 
 lar in the trade as they are eagerly sought after by 
 the public for their artistic cut, finish and workman- 
 ship and reasonableness in price. 
 
 H. C. Fisher. 
 
 Importer and Jobber in Teas, Cigars, Spices, Baking 
 Powders, Etc., 33 Michigan Avenue. 
 
 The commercial metropolis of the west, a proud 
 position attained by the Garden City, although the 
 first half-century has only elapsed since its founda- 
 tion, has also become the recognized center of the 
 trade in teas, cigars, spices, baking powders, etc., 
 and the interests thus actively identified with Chicago 
 have grown to proportions of the greatest magni- 
 tude, in which men of acknowledged ability find 
 profitable employment both for their time and cap- 
 ital. The present well-known house in this line of 
 Mr. H. C. Fisher was established in 1886, removing 
 hither from St. Joe, Mo., where the business was es- 
 tablished in 1874, and the advent of a few more such 
 houses cannot fail to add materially to the impor- 
 tance of Chicago as a trade center. Mr. Fisher 
 imports largely of teas from China and Japan, 
 and also cigars direct from Havana, the stock carried 
 requiring the occupation of the entire five-story 
 and basement building, 33 Michigan avenue. The 
 fine quality and reasonable price of these goods have 
 
 induced a trade extending over the entire west, and 
 as permanent as it is extensive. The activity and 
 enterprise of this house need not be recounted here, 
 since its merit is fully recognized in the trade, and 
 Chicago may well be congratulated on the possession 
 of such an energetic business man as Mr. Fisher is 
 known to be. 
 
 The Farm, Field and Stockman. 
 
 156 and 158 Washington Street. 
 
 The Farm, Field and Stockman is a weekly pub- 
 lication, issued by Howard & Wilson Publishing 
 Co., of 156 and 158 Washington street. It was first 
 issued in 1877 as a monthly publication, but in Oc- 
 tober, 1885, it was bought by the present company, 
 who changed it to a weekly. It is intended to treat 
 practically the great variety of subjects related to 
 agriculture, stock-raising and fruit-growing, and to 
 afford entertaining and newsy reading for the family. 
 It has a large circulation in every part of the United 
 States and teritories and also in the British prov- 
 inces, averaging weekly 52,000 copies. The editor 
 is Gen. Charles H. Howard; associate editor, Prof. 
 J. Periam; and business manager, James W. Wil- 
 son. This paper is sent to 20,571 post offices, 
 and no State but has its circulation of the 
 Farm, Field and Stockman. Over 23,000 new sub- 
 scribers have been added since the new management 
 took the paper. The subscription is only $1.50 
 yearly. Advertising rates were reduced by the 
 present firm from sixty cents to thirty cents per 
 agate line, with discount according to number of 
 lines during the year. Sample copies mailed free 
 on application. 
 
 C. BJUlen. 
 
 Druggist and Pharn.acist, 61 North State Street. 
 This business was begun six years ago at the same 
 location by the present proprietor, C. B. Allen.' 
 He is the only druggist on this street who keeps his 
 store open at all hours, day and night. His quarters 
 are attractively and conveniently arranged, and he 
 enjoys a large and influential patronage. He carries 
 a full stock of drugs, medicines, chemicals, fancy and 
 toilet articles, sponges, brushes, perfumes, etc. A 
 fine assortment of patent medicines and a full line 
 of mineral waters are also found here. Dr. Allen 
 worked for years with Tolman & King, the popular 
 wholesale druggists, before he began business for 
 himself. His long experience enables him to pre- 
 sent some of the best compounds ever introduced 
 to the public. They have proven by continued use 
 to be very efficacious in curing the diseases for 
 which they are recommended, and are prepared 
 from absolutely pure materials. The following are 
 among the most prominent: Allen's tonic bitters, 
 liver-wort kidney cure, popular liver invigorator, 
 compound syrup of sarsaparilla with iodide of po- 
 tassium, concentrated essence of Jamaica ginger, 
 cough balsam, compound laxative elixir, jonquil 
 cologne and a dozen other prominent and reliable 
 medicines.
 
 128 
 
 A BUSINESS TOUR OF CHICAGO. 
 
 Douglas Club Stables. 
 
 Livery and Boarding, 116 and 118 Thirty-fifth Street, 
 H. Mather, Proprietor. 
 
 A large and important establishment in this line 
 in the neighborhood of Thirty-fifth street and Rhodes 
 avenue is that conducted by Mr. Mather. It occu- 
 pies Nos. 116 and 118, having a frontage of fifty 
 feet. The stables afford excellent accommodation 
 for eighty-five horses, and are fitted up in the latest 
 and most approved style, with every convenience. 
 The sanitary arrangements and ventilation are as 
 perfect as can be, and the horses placed in their care 
 are well cared for by experienced hostlers. They 
 have also the best accommodations for boarders' 
 rigs, carriages, buggies, etc. The proprietor, Mr. 
 H. Mather, has also for hire carriages, buggies and 
 surreys, with twenty horses, at the usual rates, 
 making special terms by arrangement. These sta- 
 bles are well patronized, and may be relied upon for 
 the best and most careful attention to the patrons' 
 wants and interests. The business has been in ex- 
 istence over a year, and is a great boon to the in- 
 habitants of this neighborhood. An inspection of 
 the stables and carriage rooms is invited, after which 
 few persons in the district will care to "go further 
 and fare worse." 
 
 C. Koehnke. 
 
 Music Dealer, 126 Dearborn Street, Room 25. 
 A most musical race are the Germans. What city 
 or town of importance is there but has its German 
 band? A full supply of music for bands and or- 
 chestras especially is imported direct from Germany 
 by Mr. C. Koehnke, of 126 Dearborn street. He 
 carries a good stock of all the latest airs and com- 
 positions. He has been established here for the last 
 two years, and is the only house in the city import- 
 ing direct this class of music. He is the sole agent 
 in the United States for Ed. Kiesler's band and or- 
 chestra music. He is well known by the largest 
 music publishers and dealers in this city, and is 
 doing a large and increasing business. 
 
 Albert A. Lee. 
 
 Manufacturer of Men's, Boys' and Youths' Boots and 
 Shoes, ii and 13 Dearborn Street. 
 
 In 1877 Lee & Runnion established themselves in 
 the business of manufacturing boots and shoes on 
 Franklin street near Lake, the latter, however, only 
 remaining in the firm six months, since which time 
 Mr. Albert A. Lee has been sole proprietor. Mr. 
 Lee is a careful manager, and, himself being a prac- 
 tical workman, employs only those who approach 
 his standard, and he has thus won a strong position 
 among the manufacturers of the city, while trade 
 once secured has been invariably retained. His 
 spacious factory is fitted up with steam-power and 
 the best appliances for the speedy and economical 
 manufacture of men's, boys' and youths' boots and 
 
 shoes, pegged, screw-nailed and machine-sewed, 
 which, on account both of their durability and rea- 
 sonable prices, are popular with the public as well as 
 among dealers. Mr. Lee is a Canadian by birth 
 and has resided in Chicago since 1865, and is fully 
 imbued with that push characteristic of our suc- 
 cessful business men. He has founded a business 
 that is a monument to his own perseverance, integ- 
 rity and keen foresight and a credit to this city 
 whose industrial resources are now being reviewed. 
 
 L Dietmann. 
 
 Manufacturer of Meerschaum and Amber Goods, 73 South 
 
 Clark Street. 
 
 The finest meerschaum imported from Europe, 
 and obtained from the mines in Asia Minor, is used 
 by Mr. Dietmann in the manufacture of his goods. 
 Amber and jet too are imported, and these products 
 are used up in mouth-pieces, etc., with remarkably 
 good effect. Mr. Dietmann is very skillful and ex- 
 ecutes some very elaborate modeling and carving in 
 this line, one pipe with a group of horses and horse- 
 men being valued at 35. This work is mostly made 
 to order for the large firms of tobacco and pipe 
 dealers, but the public only have to know that such 
 a clever workman is here to give him their patronage 
 direct. He learnt the trade in Austria, of which 
 country he is a native, and for several years worked 
 in Vienna, coming to Chicago in 1882. 
 
 Acme Engraving Co. 
 
 L. H. Crumb, Manager, 89 Randolph Street. 
 Few lines of commercial industry in Chicago are 
 of greater importance than that so ably represented 
 by the well-known house conducted under the title 
 of the Acme Engraving company, whose manager, 
 Mr. L. H. Crumb, a native of New York, is himself 
 a highly skilled artist. He executes the greater 
 part of the finer work with his own deft and cun- 
 ning hand, leaving the cruder and easier parts to his 
 staff of skilled assistants. All kinds of engraving, 
 wood, photo, etc., are executed for newspapers, pub- 
 lishers and catalogue work, many of the productions 
 being masterpieces of artistic excellence. Their 
 rooms are always a scene of activity, and their 
 patronage, by no means confined to the city, is in- 
 creasing with rapid strides. Established in 1882, 
 the company was incorporated in the following year, 
 while the continuous success which has followed 
 may be ascribed to their good business methods. 
 
 H. F. Orvis & Co. 
 
 Grai 
 
 Produce Commission Merchants, No. 231 
 
 South Water Street. 
 
 No exposition of the business interests of Chicago 
 would be complete without mention of the house 
 of H. F. Orvis & Co., one of the conceded repre- 
 sentatives of the produce commission business,
 
 FIFTY YEARS' PROGRESS. 
 
 129 
 
 and whose head and founder is also the esteemed 
 treasurer of the Produce exchange. Mr. Orvis is 
 an old-timer, and has been identified with the trade 
 on the street even prior to establishing business for 
 himself in 1871, at a time when the trade in pro- 
 duce was almost in its infancy, and when, compared 
 with its present colossal proportions, it was utterly 
 insignificant. Mr. Orvis gives his business close 
 personal supervision, the firm handling large con- 
 signments of grain and produce of all kinds, upon 
 which liberal advances are made. Shippers and 
 growers can make no mistake in intrusting their 
 business to this energetic and reliable house. 
 
 Jacob Boser. 
 
 Dealer in Hard and Soft Coal, Office and Yard, I to 17 
 West North Avenue. 
 
 To gain an idea of the magnitude of the coal 
 trade of Chicago one has only to enter the large 
 yard of Jacob Boser at Nos. 1 to 17 West North 
 avenue. Here we found a covering over the entire 
 plant, 160 by 300 feet in dimensions, whereby all 
 the coal is kept dry during the entire year. He 
 keeps constantly on hand the best grades of hard 
 and soft coal, and delivers promptly to all parts of 
 the city. He began business in a small way in 
 1864 on Hawthorn avenue, and has been very suc- 
 cessful in establishing a large and growing trade of 
 over 30,000 tons per annum. He moved to his 
 present quarters two years ago, and has the best 
 facilities for the receiving and delivering coal, having 
 a dockage of about 200 feet. Mr. Boser is a native 
 of Germany, and came to Chicago in 1847, and has 
 become one of the successful and representative coal 
 merchants of the Garden City. 
 
 Oscar Goes & Co. 
 
 Manufacturers of Saws and Knives, All Kinds of Wood- 
 Workers' Tools, Etc., 41 and 43 South Canal Street. 
 Messrs. Oscar Goes & Co.. of 41 and 43 South 
 Canal street, manufacturers of saws, knives, wood- 
 workers' tools, etc., take a prominent place in sup- 
 plying the numerous houses engaged in the wood- 
 working and furniture manufacturingindustries with 
 suitable and necessary tools. They manufacture a 
 full line of saws, making a specialty of fret saws 
 and band saws to meet the requirements of those 
 
 houses which are engaged in the finer branches of 
 the trade. Mr. Goes was associated at first with 
 Mr. Sweet for eight years; two years ago Mr. Goes 
 dissolved partnership with Mr. Sweet and associated 
 himself with Mr. Albert Brabets, and the premises 
 were changed from 61 to 41 South Canal street. 
 These gentlemen are well known throughout the 
 trade, and the gentlemen engaged in the wood- 
 working business could not do better than call and 
 inspect the factory at 41 South Canal street. 
 
 D. W. Ryan. 
 
 Manufacturer of All Kinds of Cooperage, 19 to 27 
 
 Coventry Street. 
 
 This is one of the largest steam cooperage shops 
 in the northwest. It is owned by D. W. Ryan, and 
 has a frontage of one hundred and thirty feet, and 
 extends back to the C. & N. W. railway. The build- 
 ing is three stories in height and fitted up with all 
 the latest improved machinery for this work. In 
 fact, a barrel can be made from the rough oak tim- 
 ber inside of a few minutes by machinery, no hand 
 work being employed upon it. All kinds of cooper- 
 age are turned out from this establishment, but the 
 specialty is whisky barrels, kegs and half-barrels. 
 Nearly one hundred men are employed in the shop 
 alone. A large engine of seventy-five horse-power 
 is used to run the vast machinery. Some of the 
 noted machinery consists of the barrel hooper, how- 
 el and crozing machine and large stave planers. 
 His oak woods are received from Indiana, Wiscon- 
 sin and Tennessee, while his iron is received from 
 Cleveland. His trade is altogether local and so 
 great that he turns out 1,500 packages every week. 
 
 The old Romans prided themselves on the marble 
 floors of their dwellings, and the proof of their 
 knowledge of its durability is demonstrated by the 
 recent discoveries made in Roman ruins, where the 
 marble mosaic pavement retains its original designs 
 and colors. Of late years, an Italian artist, Mr. 
 Caretti, has introduced this work in some of our 
 new fashioned residences. In his establishment can 
 be found the finest and most beautiful designs of 
 Roman mosaic marble flooring. He has done more 
 towards advancing and rendering popular this style 
 of flooring than any other person in the United 
 States. His workmanship is perfect, and the best of 
 satisfaction is guaranteed. Orders by mail meet 
 with prompt and careful attention. Specimens of 
 his work can be found, not only in many of the fine
 
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 A BUSINESS TOUR OF CHICAGO. 
 
 residences of the prominent men of this city, but in 
 various parts of the northwest. He is his own 
 designer and has nothing but the latest styles, and he 
 sees to it that they are perfectly executed by skilled 
 workmen. He also does all kinds of fresco painting 
 and interior decoration for residences and in this line 
 has done work in some of the finest residences in the 
 west. Mr. John Carretti is a native of Italy and 
 has been a resident of Chicago for the past sixteen 
 years, and we are glad to have such an artist in our 
 midst. 
 
 Geo. Rounsavell. 
 
 Manufacturer of Cooperage, Office and Factory, 68 to 76 
 Clybourn Place. 
 
 It has been said that machinery can work won- 
 ders, but to fully understand the truth of this say- 
 ing, one has only to visit the noted cooper es- 
 tablishment of Geo. Rounsavell, at Nos. 68 to 76 
 Clybourn place. Here all parts of a barrel are pre- 
 pared, put together, and finished by machinery in 
 just one minute's time. When completed they are 
 as perfect as if made by hand. The machinery used 
 is the latest, and is run by an engine of forty horse- 
 power. Although all kinds of cooperage are manu- 
 factured, still the specialty is patent white barrels, 
 for which this establishment became noted. The 
 plant occupied and owned by Mr. R. is 125 by 325 
 feet, while the building is 60 by 110 feet in di- 
 mensions and three stories in height. The business 
 was begun in a very small way over a quarter of a 
 century ago, only three men being employed; now 
 eighty men find employment, and over 300,000 bar- 
 rels, kegs and casks are turned out annually. 
 
 Wm. Evers & Co. 
 
 General Commission Merchants, 215 South Water Street. 
 The semi-centennial of Chicago's birth finds the 
 trade in produce one of the most important of her 
 industries, in which the western metropolis is well 
 represented by a large number of responsible and 
 reliable houses, none of whom have achieved either 
 a trade or reputation superior to that of Messrs. 
 Wm. Evers & Co. They have been established 
 since 1882, and from a comparatively small begin- 
 ning, their business has steadily grown, until now it 
 
 ranks among the largest in the trade, with a wide- 
 spread connection among producers all over the 
 west. They possess first-class facilities for the 
 prompt disposal of the largest consignments of 
 country produce of all kinds, and makes a prom- 
 inent specialty of the choicest creamery butter, 
 taking the entire production of some of our most 
 noted creameries. Mr. Wm. Evers, the head of the 
 house, is one of our war veterans. He is a native of 
 Germany, and came to the United States about 
 twenty-seven years ago. Mr. Evers is a thorough 
 judge of all kinds of produce. This house, as may 
 be inferred, is widely known in the trade, the high 
 estimation in which it is held being solely due to a 
 long course of honorable and liberal dealings with 
 its customers. He has been connected with the 
 commission trade on South Water street since 1870. 
 
 Tiffany Pressed Brick Co, 
 
 Office, 175 Dearborn Street, Commercial National Bank 
 
 Building. 
 
 The Tiffany Pressed Brick Co. was incorporated 
 in September, 1884, upon a paid-up capital of $150,- 
 000, which has since been increased to a quarter of 
 a million dollars. The following are the officers: 
 President (resident of Chicago since 1854), J. Van 
 Inwagen; vice pr.esident, Joel Tiffany, the inventor 
 of the celebrated Tiffany refrigerator car; secretary, 
 F. Van Inwagen ; business manager, Solomon Snow; 
 superintendent of works, Wm. Alsip. The com- 
 pany have large works at Momence, this State, fifty 
 miles south of Chicago, on the C. & E. I. railway, 
 whose sidetracks run directly to the works, and the 
 line of production consists of the finest pressed 
 brick, both plain and ornamental, made by an en- 
 tirely new method known as the "Tiffany" process, 
 
 bv which pressed brick, equal if not superior in 
 quality, color and finish to any produced elsewhere, 
 is being manufactured. The company is a Chicago 
 concern, its headquarters being located here, its of- 
 ficers and stockholders being well-known business 
 men of the city. The works employ a large force of 
 skilled artisans. The intrinsic merit of the "Tiffany" 
 pressed brick has attracted the attention of the 
 leading architects and builders throughout the coun- 
 try, who are unanimous in its commendation. 
 
 The following testimonials from representative 
 architects have been shown us by this company: 
 William W. Clay, architect, of Chicago, says: Since 
 the Tiffany Pressed Brick Co. commenced to supply 
 our market. I have used many thousands of their
 
 FIFTY YEARS' PROGRESS. 
 
 131 
 
 fine pressed bricks, and they have given me great 
 satisfaction. I prefer them to any other red pressed 
 bricks that I know of. Their compactness of text- 
 ure, and perfection of surface, and beauty of color, 
 all combine to make them a building material of the 
 highest order. 
 
 M. L. Beers, architect, of Chicago, says: I have 
 used the Tiffany pressed brick in several buildings 
 that have been under my supervision as architect, 
 and I am highly pleased with them. I take pleasure 
 in recommending them. 
 
 Col. Arthur Crooks, architect, of New York, says: 
 I consider the "Tiffany" one of the best bricks I 
 have ever examined, and I feel confident that a 
 ready market would be found here for such a perfect 
 material. 
 
 D. Adler, architect, of Chicago, says: The Tif- 
 fany bricks that I have seen as samples in your 
 office, and in use as facing bricks on many buildings 
 in this city, are so remarkable for regularity of shape, 
 smoothness of finish, firmness and uniformity of 
 texture, and richness of color, that I must recognize 
 them as the equals of any and the superiors of most 
 of the high-grade facing bricks manufactured in this 
 country. 
 
 The certificate submitted from the Chicago Forge 
 and Bolt Co. below shows a strength of material in 
 the Tiffany brick that has never been paralleled: 
 
 CHICAGO, ILL., Feb. 21, 188?. 
 TIFFANY PRESSED BRICK Co., 
 
 175 Dearborn Street, Chicago. 
 
 GENTLEMEN : The following is result of tests on brick, by ex- 
 press from Momence, 111.: 
 
 Mark. Ultimate Crushing Strength. 
 
 Hard Building 402,000 pounds. 
 
 No. 12 Stock 516,000 
 
 Ornamental, No. 52 _. 480,000 
 
 No. 50 _ _ 648,000 " 
 
 Yours Respectfully, 
 
 CHICAGO FORGE AND BOLT Co., 
 
 C. Weatherson, Supt. 
 
 The Blake Patent Spring Doubletree. 
 
 O. D. White & Co., Proprietors. 
 This doubletree is an improvement in a new di- 
 rection as redounding to the welfare and comfort of 
 the beast, and appealing also to the idea that a 
 merciful man will be merciful to his beast. This is 
 
 the load is said to pull one-fourth easier on the 
 team and prevents crippling horses, and prolongs 
 their lives and usefulness, and is thus profitable as 
 well as humane. In starting it allows the horses to 
 firmly set themselves in the harness, and as they 
 pull on the spring it yields gradually until the 
 tension is strong enough to start the load, and when 
 under way it is easily understood how the spring 
 will relieve the jarring or pounding of the shoulders 
 when striking an obstruction and easing off the 
 shock by its elasticity. 
 
 The elliptic spring is used, which is the only re- 
 liable spring that can be used where great strength, 
 durability and fine action are required. It is made of 
 the very best English spring steel, oil tempered. 
 No coil spring can ever be successfully adapted for 
 this purpose, for reason that the shape and thick- 
 ness of the steel is such that they cannot be 
 tempered entirely through, consequently they lose 
 their elasticity in a very short time. If you already 
 have a good doubletree the spring and attachments 
 can be furnished, and they can easily be fitted on 
 your doubletree simply by boring two small holes. 
 They are made to fit any size doubletree. These 
 spring doubletrees are especially adapted for farmers 
 on their wagons, plows, mowers and reapers, as it 
 not only prevents the usual shock and strain on the 
 horses' shoulders when the wagon, plow, or machine 
 strikes a stump, stone, or other obstruction, but 
 saves the machine and harness from being broken. 
 
 A. L Campfield. 
 
 Commercial Printer, 73 JClark Street 
 Amongst all the facilities existing for getting print- 
 ing done in this city, none offer lower rates for card 
 printing than Mr. A. L. Campfield. He is located 
 at 73 South Clark street, rooms 9 and 11, and here 
 with his four presses and assistants he executes 
 large orders for this class of work. His charge 
 for 1,000 business cards of the ordinary size is 
 $1.00. He is ready to execute other orders for 
 general commercial and jobbing work at equally 
 low rates, but his specialty is card printing. He 
 has been established five years, and is well known 
 as a reliable printer. His customers reside in all 
 parts of the surrounding country, and he 
 as well enjoys a large city trade. He 
 even executes orders for customers resid- 
 ing in Texas and other equally distant 
 States. 
 
 the most complete doubletree in use, and is guar- 
 anteed to last one-third longer than any other kind, 
 thus making it a cheap article, although it costs a 
 little more in the beginning. As a spring seat is 
 easier to ride on than a common board, so a spring 
 on the doubletree is equally saving on the horse's 
 neck, who can only rely upon the humanity of his 
 owner to provide for his comfort. This spring 
 doubletree makes the load start easy and takes off 
 all the strain and jar from the horse's shoulders, and 
 
 John Zengeler. 
 
 New York Steam Dye Works, 2323 Cottage Grove 
 
 Avenue, Corner Prairie Avenue. 
 
 Mr. John Zengeler is proprietor of this popular 
 house, and begun the business almost a quarter of a 
 century ago, locating first on Clark street, near 
 Adams. After the big fire of '71, in which he was a 
 heavy loser, he moved to his present large and com- 
 modious quarters. He does dyeing and cleaning in 
 all its branches, and has by good work established a
 
 132 
 
 A BUSINESS TOUR OF CHICAGO. 
 
 Mr. R os- 
 back is also an inventor, having produced a planer 
 and a knot-tyer, the latter having been purchased 
 by Mr. McCormick and inserted in his great reaping 
 machine. 
 
 large and influential trade throughout all parts of special tools and machinery to order, 
 the city and State. Garments are cleaned without ' 
 ripping or removing trimmings, and the best of care 
 is taken with all articles received, and strict attention 
 given to all work performed. Fifteen competent 
 and efficient hands are employed in the various de- 
 partments of the business. Mr. Zengeler was born 
 in Bonn, Germany, and came to Chicago thirty-three 
 years ago. This is his life trade, and he has fol- 
 lowed it most successfully, and has built up one of 
 the finest houses in this line in Chicago. 
 
 J. H. Pank & Co. 
 
 Maltsters, Clybourn Place Bridge. 
 
 The plant of this large malting establishment 
 covers a whole block, 375 by 450 feet, just east of 
 Clybourn place bridge, and contains buildings four 
 stories in height, which are well arranged with the 
 latest appliances for this business. They have a total 
 capacity of 300,000 bushels of grain. A Corliss engine 
 of twenty-five horse-power is in use, and over 300, 000 
 bushels of malt is produced from this house an- 
 nually, and is distributed over all parts of the United 
 States. A force of twenty hands are employed to 
 assist with the business. The business was begun 
 about twenty years ago, and has changed hands 
 several times since then. Mr. Pank, who is an old 
 resident of Louisville, Ky., purchased the plant 
 three years ago, and under his able management the 
 business is increasing year by year. He has been 
 interested in the Kentucky Malting company for 
 over seven years, and is now its honored secretary 
 and treasurer. 
 
 Fred. PJtosback. 
 
 Manufacturer of Planers, Presses, Light Machinery, 
 Dies, Etc., 224 East Washington Street. 
 
 This firm established business six years ago. Re- 
 pairs to machinery was all the firm attempted till 
 three years ago, when the more important work of 
 manufacturing was undertaken. The class of goods 
 made here is that of presses, planers, jewelers' and 
 tinners' tools, perforating, beveling and slitting 
 machines, bookbinders' machinery and all kinds of 
 
 Mr. Rosback's life is one of interest. Born in 
 Germany, he came to this country in 1851, and re- 
 sided in Springfield, 111. In February, 1864, he 
 joined the 7th Illinois regiment and took part under 
 General Sherman in many actions. He obtained 
 an honorable discharge in July, 1866, and went 
 back to Springfield till 1881, when he. came and 
 took up his residence in this city. He is a musi- 
 cian, and during the campaign was detailed as leader 
 of the band. Being a thoroughly practical man, 
 and thoroughly understanding the business he is 
 now conducting, it is no wonder that it has met 
 with a large and growing amount of success. 
 
 Adolph Kurz. 
 
 Carriage, Sign and Ornamental Painter,. 582 and 584 
 
 North Halsted Street. 
 
 At the carriage, sign and ornamental paint shop 
 of Adolph Kurz about a score of men are employed 
 lettering and preparing wagons for dealers of all 
 kinds, and they will be used by the various owners to 
 advertise their trade by their ornamental sides as 
 well as to serve for conveyance. Mr. Kurz has a 
 reputation for good work, which is well attested by 
 the large amount of work constantly on hand. His 
 shop consists of two stories, forty by sixty feet in 
 dimensions. The best of material is always used in 
 his work, and the latest designs and illuminations 
 placed upon trade wagons. Mr. Kurz founded the 
 business twelve years ago at the corner of Blackhavvk 
 and North Halsted streets, removing to his present 
 location three years ago. He has resided in Chicago 
 for over twenty-two years and by close attention to 
 business and good work has built up a very large 
 trade.
 
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 133 
 
 Robert Stevenson & Co. 
 
 Wholesale Druggists, 92 and 94 Lake Street. 
 Affording an example of a long, honorable and 
 prosperous mercantile career, the house of Messrs. 
 Robert Stevenson & Co., known as " The Old Corner 
 Drug House," justly portrays the present status of 
 the wholesale drug trade in Chicago, in commemo- 
 ration of whose semi-centennial anniversary these 
 pages are dedicated. Mr. Stevenson, the head and 
 founder of the house, has been continuously en- 
 gaged in business since 1853 in the present build- 
 ing, with the exception of the short time necessarily 
 occupied in rebuilding the premises after the great 
 fire of 1871. The firm is composed, besides himself, 
 of Messrs. I. Giles Lewis and Arthur Dawson. The 
 house is widely known throughout the west, its ex- 
 tended and influential trade constituting the best 
 indorsement of its methods, occupying, as it does, a 
 place in the commercial world only accorded to the 
 most substantial and reliable concerns. Of the stock 
 but little need be said, other than that it embraces full 
 linesof drugs, chemicals and druggists' sundries, while 
 that the goods are what they should be, and the 
 prices correct, are amply attested in the liberal pat- 
 ronage the firm have always been able to command. 
 
 Heinold Bros. 
 
 Manufacturers of Fishing, Sporting and Sign Nets, 
 
 Hammocks, Etc., 15 and 17 Market Street. 
 Messrs. C. and J. Heinold compose the firm of 
 Heinold Bros., with office at Nos. 15 and 17 Mar- 
 ket street. They are manufacturers of fishing, 
 sporting and sign nets. So extensive has the busi- 
 ness of this house become that their fishing and 
 sporting nets are used wherever their purposes are 
 indicated. Not only are the brothers manufacturers 
 of these nets for capturing animals, but with dex- 
 trous movement they weave a net for protection to 
 the brute creation, as shown in the widely-known fly 
 nets for horses. In addition to being extensively 
 engaged in knitting, they afford ease and pleasure in 
 the hammocks produced at their establishment. In 
 addition to this they are known as dealers in cord- 
 age and twines of all kinds, sizes and weights. 
 
 fering a total loss of his business. He then moved 
 to Chicago, settling on the West side, where again, 
 in 1884, after having established a good trade, he was 
 once more burned out and lost all he had. Since 
 locating in his present premises he has suffered two 
 heavy robberies, sustaining total loss each time. 
 Through all his adversity he has been undaunted, 
 and has now a fine trade. Mr. Casteel is one of our 
 war veterans, going to the front in 1861, where he 
 served the full period of his enlistment three years 
 and, upon its expiration, re-enlisting, serving till 
 its close, two years later, with the fall of Richmond 
 and the surrender at Apomattox, and though made a 
 prisoner three separate times, was so fortunate as to 
 escape each time with less than four months' deten- 
 tion in rebel prisons, in which the records show 
 that fully as many Union soldiers perished as laid 
 down their lives on the field of battle in the cause 
 of liberty. 
 
 Geo. W. Hoyt & Co. 
 
 Dry Goods Commission, 241 to 245 Monroe Street. 
 
 Among the representative houses in the dry 
 goods commission business in Chicago the firm of 
 Geo. W. Hoyt hold a conspicuous position, both as 
 regards the volume of trade done and the standard 
 grades of goods handled. The house was estab- 
 lished in 1871, the year memorable of the great fire. 
 The transactions of the firm extend to all points 
 usually reached by the proverbial enterprise of 
 Chicago business concerns. The house are really 
 the pioneers in the special branch of staple notions, 
 braids, etc., and in this line they are always prepared 
 to offer special inducements to the trade, and of a 
 quality and standard excellence which is character- 
 istic of this house. 
 
 Geo. W. Hoyt, the head of the firm, is a gentle- 
 man of much and varied experience in this branch 
 of trade, which valuable experience is available to 
 patrons in relying upon his judgment as to quality 
 of goods sold to them, the good faith of which has 
 never been abused by such reposed confidence. 
 
 H. D. Casteel. 
 
 Manufacturer of Havana Cigars and Dealer in Leaf 
 
 Tobacco, 95 and 97 Adams Street. 
 The extent and importance to which the cigar 
 trade has attained in Chicago can scarcely be under- 
 stood by those not actually engaged therein. Con- 
 spicuous among the foremost establishments engaged 
 in this line in Chicago is the well-known and exten- 
 sive concern conducted by H. D. Casteel, manufac- 
 turer of Havana cigars and dealer in leaf tobacco, 
 Nos. 95 and 97 Adams street, established originally 
 in Indianapolis, Indiana. After a prosperous busi- 
 ness Tor eight years he was burned out in 1873, suf- 
 
 Merchant & Co. 
 
 Importers of Tinplate, Metals, Etc., 202 Lake Street. 
 
 In that important branch of industry, the tinplate 
 and metal trade, Messrs. Merchant & Co. do a very 
 large and growing trade, their operations extending 
 throughout the western States, and many of the 
 goods of their handling finding their way even to 
 the Pacific slope. Their spacious salesrooms con- 
 tain a very large stock of tinplate, sheet copper and 
 brass, seamless brass and copper tubes, seamless 
 copper house boilers, Russia, galvanized and black 
 iron, sheet zinc, reservoir metal, brass, copper and 
 iron wire, " Gilbertson's Old Method " and " Camaret" 
 guaranteed roofing plates. Root's spiral formed pipe 
 and pumps, together with tinners' tools and ma- 
 chines, and also the tin and roofing plates in both 
 regular and odd sizes. The exceptional advantages 
 to be derived through purchasing here will thus at
 
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 A BUSINESS TOUR OF CHICAGO. 
 
 once be recognized by manufacturers and jobbers, 
 especially when they realize the extent, character and 
 variety of metals and specialties carried by this en- 
 terprising firm. The house is an old Philadelphia 
 one, their headquarters being in that city at Nos. 
 525 Arch and 520 Cherry streets, their New York 
 branch being at No. 9 Burling slip. They also 
 established a branch house in London, England, 
 on January 1, 1887. 
 
 the delicacies provided, and the pleasure of a visit 
 to the Rosalie cafe. Taken altogether Mr. Nagle is 
 probably one of the most prominent and successful 
 caterers of Chicago, and is popular with all classes 
 and rapidly building up a flourishing business. 
 
 Alfred Payne. 
 
 H. J. Nagle. 
 
 Ornamental Confectioner and General Caterer, 175 
 
 Twenty-second Street. 
 
 The fine establishment of H. J. Nagle is located 
 at No. 175 Twenty-second street, where he carries on 
 an extensive trade as an ornamental confectioner 
 and general caterer, fine creams being a specialty. 
 His store is fitted up in the most attractive manner, 
 with a view to securing absolute cleanliness and 
 comfort. His Ice-cream parlor is tastefully arrang- 
 ed and decorated, and obliging attendants look 
 after the wants of the patrons. In the manufactur- 
 ing department Mr. Nagle brings a life of practical 
 experience to bear upon the fine production of 
 creams, ices, cakes and confectionery of all kinds. 
 His reputation in this line is attested from 
 the fact that he receives the highest prices 
 for his goods, and is being constantly called 
 upon to serve wedding occasions, parties and 
 receptions, balls, birthday aniversaries, etc., with 
 his productions. He makes to order and de- 
 livers the choicest plain French and fancy creams 
 of all varieties, also frozen fruits, souffles and water- 
 ices of all desirable flavors. The very choicest ingre- 
 dients only are used, the sugar being the best refined, 
 the cream pure, rich and fresh, and the fruits the 
 best in the market. Mr. Nagle has been in business 
 here since 1882, when he came from his native place, 
 Jeffersonville, Indiana. Besides his Twenty-second 
 street establishment, Mr. Nagle has a beautiful little 
 
 Portrait and Landscape Painter, Lakeside Building, 
 
 Southwest Corner Clark and Adams Streets. 
 To lovers of the beautiful in art the handsomely 
 appointed studio of Mr. Alfred Payne, to which vis- 
 itors and pupils are admitted from 1 to 5 P. M., pre- 
 sents, many attractions, as upon its walls are to be 
 found many pictures that bear the indubitable 
 stamp of originality of conception and marked 
 artistic ability. Mr. Payne is a native of Eng- 
 land, and has been permanently located in 
 Chicago for the past fourteen years, and is well 
 known in her leading art and social circles. In his 
 specialty, portrait and landscape painting, he is pre- 
 pared to execute commissions, and in addition has 
 on exhibition a choice collection of works, the 
 products of his own facile brush, which he offers at 
 remarkably reasonable prices. He has profited by 
 a thorough, practical training, which, coupled with 
 his natural adaptability to his profession, has enabled 
 him to attain to his present enviable position as a 
 portrait and landscape artist. 
 
 caravansery near South Park station, known as the 
 Rosalie cafe, which is largely patronized by visitors 
 to that delightful suburban place of recreation. At 
 this place he does a large business in the season, 
 and many visitors to the Garden City as well as 
 dwellers therein can testify as to the character of 
 
 A. J. Cameron & Co. 
 
 Worsted and Woolen Yarns, 77 Market Street. 
 One of the chief branch businesses carried on in 
 this city is that of A. J. Cameron & Co., manufac- 
 turers of worsted and woolen yarns, with store and 
 offices at 77 Market street. This firm manufactures 
 the worsteds extensively known as the "Thistle" 
 brand worsteds, so successfully handled by job- 
 bers throughout the country. Their long 
 experience and thorough knowledge of all 
 the details of the business enable them to 
 supply manufacturers with all kinds of yarns 
 suited to the various purposes of knitting, 
 weaving, crocheting, etc. Wool is the only 
 staple they use in the manufacture of their 
 goods. 
 
 The firm consists of Messrs. Alex. J. Cam- 
 eron, Alpin J.' Cameron and William P. 
 Denegre, and the chief office is at 85 Walker 
 street, New York, with mills in Massachu- 
 setts and Philadelphia. The business is an 
 old established and substantial concern. 
 The branch office was opened in Chicago by 
 Mr. Denegre, and has been established for 
 years on Market street, and consists of first 
 floor and basements, together with warehouse. The 
 business is solely with manufacturers and jobbers, 
 and the firm has a large city and country trade. 
 Their present manager Mr. Ayers has been with them 
 some time, and devotes his energies particularly to 
 the wants of manufacturers and knitters in general.
 
 FIFTY YEARS' PROGRESS. 
 
 135 
 
 The yearly sales are large and increasing. The firm 
 invite and defy competition in the matter of price 
 and quality for anything in their specialty of wors- 
 ted and woolen yarns. The business tourist will find 
 other firms in this line of business in this city, but 
 none possessing more stability or higher business 
 qualities than this we have visited and described. 
 
 Charles E. Rand. 
 
 189 La Salle Street, Manufacturing Sites on the Calumet 
 
 River. 
 
 Within the past few years a number of large man- 
 ufacturing industries have sought the Calumet re- 
 gion (fifteen miles south of Chicago) as the place 
 best fitted, by reason of its unexcelled railway and 
 water facilities, for conducting such business. 
 Added to this inducement was of course the low 
 
 Erice at which the land could at that time be 
 ought or leased. Ten years ago property at the 
 mouth of the Calumet river was worth a few hundred 
 dollars per acre; now it is worth as many thou- 
 sands, and within a few months one piece of ten 
 acres was transferred for $100,000. 
 
 The village of Hegewisch, the site of the United 
 States Rolling Stock company, is situated at the 
 forks of the Calumet, and the railways projected, 
 added to those already in operation at the point 
 (seven in number), will probably make the locality 
 one of the greatest railroad crossings in this part of 
 the country. The government will soon begin wi- 
 dening and deepening the river to admit of the pass- 
 age of vessels drawing fifteen feet of water. 
 
 Splendid manufacturing sites, dock property, or 
 acres for subdivision into lots can be purchased at 
 low prices today. Mr. Rand will be happy to send 
 maps and information and to accompany investors to 
 the locality at-any time. 
 
 VaLJlatz. 
 
 Chicago Branch, Corner Union and Erie Streets, 
 Henry Leeb, Manager. 
 
 The reputation of Milwaukee beer is co-extensive 
 with the country. Whatever be the reason therefor, 
 careful management, judicious brewing, using only 
 pure and select ingredients, or larger experience, 
 it matters not. the fact still remains that Milwau- 
 
 kee beer ranks at the head of all American beers, 
 not in Milwaukee alone, but all over the continent, 
 and the sales are growing more extensive every 
 year. In the manufacture of his beer, Mr. Blatz 
 uses none but selected and pure ingredients ; noth- 
 ing but hops and barley malt enter into its manu- 
 facture. As a tonic for invalids it is incompara- 
 ble, as an invigorating, nourishing and pleasant 
 beverage it is unsurpassed. Realizing that his ex- 
 tending trade necessitated careful management and 
 depot facilities at this point, where the consumption 
 was rapidly growing, and the facilities for transpor- 
 tation were so favorable, he in 1865 established his 
 Chicago branch. 
 
 At the Philadelphia exposition the Val. Blatz 
 beer was awarded a gold medal, the highest pre- 
 mium, for its excellent qualities and because it ex- 
 celled in point of body, flavor and purity. The fact 
 remains that the beer has won an international rep- 
 utation for its unsurpassed quality, and in order to 
 satisfy the demands of the trade, agencies have been 
 established in all of the leading cities in the United 
 States and elsewhere. During the recent exhibition 
 held at New Orleans, a wonderfully unique and 
 well-adapted exhibit was displayed, representing Mr. 
 Blatz's manufacture, which has been described at 
 length in the daily papers, owing to its grandeur, and 
 which no visitor passed by unnoticed. The grounds 
 and buildings at the corner of Union and Erie streets 
 cover eight city lots. Mr. Leeb, the manager, has 
 the ability and experience in a high degree to fill 
 his responsible position. Courteous, obliging and 
 strictly honorable, he is extending the reputation 
 and trade of the Blatz brewery. 
 
 Henry T. Nichols & Co. 
 
 General Agents for Bass & Co., and Pale and Burton Ales, 
 
 214 and 216 Washington Street. 
 
 Nothing does the average Englishman miss so 
 much on coming to this country as his ale. This 
 city possesses a branch of the house of H. T. Nich- 
 ols & Co., 58 Broad street, New York, importers of 
 Bass & Go's pale Burton ales, so well known all over 
 England, also of their extra and imperial stout. 
 They also import Guinness & Go's Dublin 
 extra stout. Nothing can be too enterpris- 
 ing for a go-ahead city like Chicago, and 
 accordingly we find a branch office which 
 will deliver at our very doors these luxu- 
 ries so well known the other side the water. 
 The first floor and basement of 214 and 216 
 Washington street are occupied with these 
 goods. Since this branch was opened, three 
 years ago, the trade has increased fourfold, 
 being chiefly done with city firms and resi- 
 dents, but also with the country towns as 
 far distant as Dakota, Denver, Kansas, 
 St. Paul and Minneapolis coming in for 
 a good share. Supplies are obtained by di- 
 rect shipment from England and also from the New 
 York house. A large stock is kept, and the yearly 
 sale already amounts to $70.000. The manager of 
 this branch is Mr. J. Murphy, who has been very 
 active in forwarding the business at this point.
 
 136 
 
 A BUSINESS TOUR OF CHICAGO. 
 
 George B. Whitman. 
 
 Commission Dealer in Pine Lumber, 196 La Salle 
 
 Street, Room 16. 
 
 Of such houses as that of Mr. George B. Whit- 
 man, their very existence is the most emphatic evi- 
 dence of the honorable position they occupy and 
 the long course of faithful dealing they have pur- 
 sued, whose business character it is a pleasure to 
 record. Mr. Whitman was for years engaged in the 
 lumber trade in Michigan, and since establishing 
 his business in Chicago some ten years ago has de- 
 .veloped a trade of such magnitude as to become a 
 most important addition to the industries of this 
 great city, the admitted lumber market of the 
 United States. He handles exclusively on com- 
 mission pine lumber, lath and shingles, and enjoys 
 an extended connection which enables him to 
 promptly dispose of the largest consignments, upon 
 which liberal advances are made when desired. 
 Mr. Whitman also handles largely white and yellow 
 pine lands, in which he is prepared to offer such 
 inducements as prudent lumbermen cannot afford 
 to ignore, dealing as he does only in such as he can 
 personally guarantee, and of whose soundness of 
 title in his principal, indubitable evidence is in his 
 possession. 
 
 Red Star Line. 
 
 Wasmansdorff & Heinemann, Western Passenger Agents, 
 Southwest Corner Randolph and La Salle Streets. 
 
 An imposing shipping office is that on the southwest 
 corner of Randolph and La Salle streets. Here the 
 Red Star line is ably represented by Messrs. Was- 
 mansdorff & Heinemann, bankers, etc., this com- 
 pany, of which Peter Wright & Son are general 
 agents, having their main offices at New York, Phil- 
 adelphia, Boston, Antwerp and this city. The line 
 consists of ten large steel and iron built full-powered 
 steamers, which carry neither sheep, horses, cattle 
 nor pigs, but which are fitted throughout in the 
 latest and most perfect manner for the transporta- 
 tion of passengers. The tonnage ranges from 3.000 
 to 6,000. Six of the vessels run between Antwerp 
 and New York, and the other four between Ant- 
 werp and Philadelphia, leaving Antwerp and New 
 York every Saturday. This line carries the mails 
 of Belgium and the United States. They run in con- 
 nection with the Pennsylvania railroad. The ac- 
 commodations on these vessels are unsurpassed, and 
 the second cabin rates have just been reduced to 
 
 $45. The rates are as low as by any other first-class 
 line, and it is a fact that this line has run its 
 steamers with unprecedented regularity and punctu- 
 ality without the loss of a single life. All further 
 information, rates, time of sailing, etc., will be 
 readily furnished on application to this office. 
 
 A. L Luetgert. 
 
 Summer Sausage Works, 69 and 71 North Avenue. 
 Almost everything in the line of work in this 
 establishment is done by hand, over fifty men being 
 employed in the various departments. A large 
 steam boiler of fifteen horse-power is used. Every- 
 thing is scrupulously clean and kept in the best of 
 
 
 
 order. The factory is of brick, four stories in height, 
 and covers an area of 40 by 48 feet. It is only run 
 from the 1st of October to the 1st of April. Not 
 one pound of these goods is sold in the city, but 
 find a ready market all over this country, and some 
 is shipped to Germany. The business was begun 
 in a small way at Nos. 105 and 107 North avenue, 
 in 1880, but it grew so rapidly that the present large 
 quarters were obtained a few years ago to increase 
 the facilities demanded by the trade. A stock 
 worth from $30,000 to $50,000 is constantly kept on 
 hand, while the sales reach upwards of $100,000 per 
 annum. Mr. Luetgert is a native of Germany and 
 came to Chicago in 1866 and has become one of the 
 representative men in his line of trade. He is not 
 only owner, but fills the position of manager and 
 overseer of his factory, every detail coming under 
 his personal notice, thereby assuring success in all 
 the departments of his large and rapidly increasing 
 business. 
 
 Alburger, Stoer & Co. 
 
 Manufacturers and Importers Tailors' Trimmings, 
 
 228 and 230 Fifth Avenue. 
 
 A branch of industry of growing importance in 
 the west, and more especially in Chicago, is that 
 denominated under the head of tailors' trimmings, 
 while one of the most enterprising houses in this 
 line is that of Messrs. Alburger, Stoer & Co. The 
 house is an old Philadelphia concern, and one of
 
 FIFTY YEARS' PROGRESS. 
 
 137 
 
 the oldest in the country, naving a purchasing 
 agency at Bradford, England, and a branch in this 
 city, opened three years ago, under the efficient man- 
 agement of Mr. J. R. Terhune, a gentleman well 
 known in mercantile circles, and who brings a wide 
 range of practical experience to bear. Spacious 
 premises are occupied, and a large and well-selected 
 stock of tailors' trimmings carried, mainly of their 
 own manufacture and importation. Their facilities 
 for the transaction of business are of an unusually 
 complete character, enabling them to place the 
 latest novelties in the market, and to fill all orders 
 promptly at lowest market rates. The firm are 
 noted for their liberality in business transactions, and 
 Mr. Terhune, being an enterprising, pushing business 
 man, is achieving a well-merited success, and largely 
 advancing the interests of his house in the west. 
 
 Wasmansdorff & Heinemann. 
 
 Bankers, 66 La Salle Street, Southwest Corner of 
 Randolph Street. 
 
 The firm of Wasmansdorff & Heinemann has long 
 been known in business communities of this city as 
 one of the most reliable and honorable houses en- 
 gaged in the banking business. They occupy com- 
 modious offices, centrally located, on the corner of 
 Randolph and La Salle streets, where they have 
 been located since 1883. The business consists 
 chiefly in the investment of moneys in good securi- 
 ties, especially in real estate. This kind of property 
 is also bought and sold extensively by this firm in 
 all parts of the city and suburbs. Loans are made 
 on the most liberal rates, but are confined to this 
 county. A large deposit business is done with this 
 firm, for they enjoy to a large extent the confidence 
 of the business part of the community, and deserv- 
 edly so, for they have made it their object to act 
 fairly and honorably in all transactions. On certifi- 
 cate deposits, that is, deposits that will not be with- 
 drawn for a specified time of twelve months or over, 
 interest of four per cent, is allowed. 
 
 Chas. Stattmann & Co. 
 
 Manufacturers and Importers of Sealskin Garments, Fine 
 
 Furs, Etc., 216 and 218 Monroe Street. 
 An active experience of over a quarter of a century 
 as a practical furrier has eminently fitted Mr. Chas. 
 Stattmann, the head of the responsible house of 
 Chas. Stattman & Co., and given to his house a 
 special degree of prominence in the manufacturing 
 fur trade. Becoming a resident of this city some 
 thirty years, ago Mr. Stattmann established himself 
 in business in 1876 at No. 314 West Madison street, 
 removing two years later to No. 85 Madison street, 
 and by May 1, 1885, his business had so largely in- 
 creased as to compel him to seek his present com- 
 modious quarters at that time. The premises are 
 fifty by one hundred feet in dimensions, and over 
 fifty skilled workmen find here remunerative em- 
 
 ployment the year round in the manufacture of seal- 
 skin garments, fine furs, caps, gloves, muffs, trim- 
 mings, robes and coats, that embody the choicest 
 furs that are found on this continent or imported 
 "from Europe, and made up under his personal super- 
 vision in the highest style of workmanship. Mr. 
 Stattmann is an acknowledged authority on furs, 
 and handles skins only that are procured from first 
 hands direct, and is thus enabled to offer his hand- 
 some goods at prices difficult to duplicate elsewhere. 
 
 August Schwarz. 
 
 Boston Fancy Steam Dye House ; Store, Office and 
 Works, 156 and 158 Illinois Street. 
 
 The store, office and works of this prominent es- 
 tablishment are located at Nos. 156 and 158 Illinois 
 street, while the branch offices are at No. 190 South 
 Clark street and No. 505 West Madison street. 
 Every description of silks, satins, velvets, crapes, 
 ribbons, woolen or mixed goods, shawls, cloaks, 
 clothes, alpacas, reps, curtains, fringes, trimmings, 
 hosiery, gloves, etc., are cleaned, dyed and finished 
 in the most perfect manner. All kinds of mer- 
 chant's goods also receive prompt attention. Gen- 
 tlemen's coats, pants and vests are cleaned, dyed and 
 repaired promptly and in the latest and best style. 
 Crape veils are beautifully cleaned. Ladies' suits, 
 in silk, pongee, woolen and mixed goods, also em- 
 broidered sacques, wrappers, etc., cleaned by the 
 dry-cleaning process. This process is acknowledged 
 superior to any method ever introduced in this 
 country. It does not necessitate the ripping of the 
 garment, or the removal of even the most delicate 
 trimmings. The goods are not shrunk; the luster 
 and finish are preserved; the most delicate colors 
 are not injured; all expense of making up is saved. 
 This applies to velvet trimmings as well. All kinds 
 of carpets are cleaned, plumes are cleaned, dyed or 
 curled, kid gloves are cleaned and dyed black. All
 
 138 
 
 A BUSINESS TOUR OF CHICAGO. 
 
 articles received are carefully inspected, and an 
 stains are taken out before dyeing. The business 
 was established in a small way, in 1856, on the site 
 where it now stands, and by good work, prompt and 
 liberal business policy, Mr.' Schwarz has built up a' 
 large and rapidly increasing trade extending over 
 all parts of the Union. He employs from thirty to 
 forty hands in the various departments. He is a 
 native of Germany, was born in Wurtemburg in 
 1824. This is his life trade, which he learned in his 
 native country, and followed throughout various 
 portions of the empire. He was foreman for a long 
 time in one of the largest establishments in Ger- 
 many. He has been a resident of Chicago for the 
 past thirty years, and has done much to build up its 
 industry and add to its fame. 
 
 A. Goodrich. 
 
 Attorney and Counselor at Law and Loan Broker, 124 
 Dearborn Street, Room i. 
 
 Perhaps one of the best known of Chicago 
 lawyers is Mr. A. Goodrich, attorney and counselor 
 at law, notary public and loan broker. 
 
 He has been established at 124 Dearborn street 
 for twenty-one years. He was in the same place 
 before the fire and only removed for a few months 
 during the close of 1871, till the buildings were 
 erected. He does a business in real estate, hand- 
 ling only his own property, which lies in most ad- 
 vantageous positions on the West and South sides of 
 the city. He also makes loans on real estate, bonds 
 and collaterals. He is, however, chiefly known in 
 connection with his legal practice, which is very ex- 
 tensive and lucrative. His office is central, and he is 
 generally looked upon as one of the most able and 
 reliable legal advisers and attorneys in the States. 
 
 J. B. Rogan &' Co. 
 
 Commission Merchants, Grain, Seeds and Provisions, 
 
 Insurance Exchange, 218 La Salle Street. 
 The course of the grain trade westward has been 
 rapid and steady. Thirty years ago Buffalo com- 
 manded the entire trade of the country; a few years 
 afterward Toledo received the greater portion of the 
 wheat and corn of the west. Eventually, however, 
 the center of production changed to the Mississippi 
 valley, and Chicago, lying on the shortest railway 
 lines and water-ways to the eastern seaports, became 
 the natural market for the world. The unrivaled 
 facilities and resources of the western metropolis 
 have been greatly developed by the energy and en- 
 terprise of such representative members of the board 
 of trade as Messrs. J. B. Rogan and Thomas Gregg, 
 whose house, J. B. Rogan & Co., was established in 
 1865. The firm transact a general business in grain 
 and provisions and are highly esteemed on the floor 
 for their excellent business methods and inflexible 
 integrity and have ever given a conscientious sup- 
 port to all measures conducive to the benefit and 
 permanent welfare of this national institution. In 
 
 every respect this house may be considered a repre- 
 sentative one, all its operations being conducted 
 strictly in accordance with the rules of the board, 
 and with a single eye to the interest of their patrons, 
 so that business relations entered into with them 
 are sure to prove pleasant for the time being and 
 satisfactory to all concerned. 
 
 Washington Foundry & Machine Shop. 
 
 13 North Jefferson Street, Holmes, Pyott & Co., 
 
 Proprietors. 
 
 Visitors to Chicago who have been in the vicinity 
 of new building operations of late years will have 
 been struck with the quantity of iron that is now 
 introduced into the work, both to strengthen and 
 beautify the structures. Messrs. Holmes, Pyott & 
 Co., of the Washington Foundry and Machine Shop, 
 No. 13 North Jefferson street, do a very large busi- 
 ness in this particular line. They commenced on 
 the South side twenty-four years ago, but after re- 
 maining there three years they removed to their 
 present location. They have a perfectly equipped 
 foundry and machine shop and employ seventy-five 
 men. All kinds of shaftings and pulleys are manu- 
 factured by them, and they do a large trade in 
 printing-presses, notably the Chicago stop-cylinder 
 press. They have business in every large city in the 
 country, and their work gives universal satisfaction. 
 Messrs. Holmes, Pyott & Co. are the owners of the 
 very extensive block in which their own works are 
 situated, and they supply the motive power to fifteen 
 other manufacturing concerns from a large two 
 hundred horse-power engine, which is of their own 
 manufacture, this, by the way, being the fourth 
 large engine that they have turned out for them- 
 selves. The Messrs. J. M. and D. Pyott are Scotch- 
 men, and they are well supplied with that native 
 foresight and perseverance for which their coun- 
 trymen are proverbial. The other member of the 
 firm, Mr. E. B. Holmes, is an American-born citi- 
 zen. Between them these gentlemen have organ- 
 ized and successfully built up a most extensive 
 connection, and their name is a synonym for strict 
 honesty and integrity in all commercial transactions. 
 
 Lafrentz & Karstens. 
 
 Kinzie Street Feed Mill, 259 East Kinzie Street, 
 
 Telephone 3029. 
 
 A tour through the Kinzie Street Feed Mill will 
 convince anyone of the extensive business of Messrs. 
 Lafrentz & Karstens, which, although entirely local, 
 amounts to upwards of $200,000 per annum. They 
 are wholesale and retail dealers in grain, hay and all 
 kinds of mill feed. They occupy three floors, twen- 
 ty five by one hundred feet in dimensions. Besides 
 the firm, there are six hands and fourteams employed 
 in all departments of the business. Smith & La- 
 frentz was the name of the firm that begun the busi- 
 ness eighteen years ago, but about ten years ago the 
 present firm took charge, and by energy and first-class
 
 FIFTY YEARS' PROGRESS. 
 
 139 
 
 stock of goods, have established their large and 
 growing trade. Mr. Lafrentz is an honored member 
 of the board of trade. The firm are both natives 
 of Germany, and for years have resided in Chicago, 
 and been connected with its interests and commer- 
 cial advancement. 
 
 Mikkelsen & Bendtsen 
 
 Manufacturers of Store and Office Furniture, Tables, Counters, 
 
 Signs, Etc., 74 and 76 West Washington Street. 
 Prominent in this branch of business we mention 
 the popular and important firm of Mikkelsen & 
 Bendtsen, of Nos. 74 and 76 West Washington 
 street. These gentlemen do a large manufacturing 
 business and a general jobbing trade in office and 
 store furniture, tables counters, signs, etc. Their 
 factory is replete with every modern improvement 
 'in the way of wood-working machinery, and they 
 employ ten skilled workmen. Their principal pa- 
 trons are among the wholesale furniture houses, but 
 they make a specialty of contract work in fitting up 
 stores, etc., in all styles of hard and soft wood furni- 
 ture. The members of the firm are both Danes by 
 birth and have been associated in their present un- 
 dertaking for the last six years. They have estab- 
 lished a very enviable reputation for good workman- 
 ship and liberality in their business dealings. They 
 are very obliging and courteous, and are much es- 
 teemed by their large circle of friends and patrons. 
 
 H. Philippi. 
 
 Bar Glassware and Bar Utensils Generally, 276 State Street. 
 
 In the line of bar glassware and bar utensils gen- 
 erally, the most prominent position in the com- 
 munity is indisputably held by Mr. H. Philippi, 
 who, since embarking in business in 1878, has been 
 successful beyond his most sanguine expectations. 
 He occupies two entire floors, each 25 by 125 feet 
 in dimensions, the whole being admirably lighted, 
 well appointed and neatly and tastefully arranged. 
 His trade is largely retail, although he enjoys an ex- 
 tensive wholesale patronage, extending for hundreds 
 of miles in every direction, while many of the first- 
 
 class hotels, restaurants and saloons obtain all their 
 glassware, chinaware and utensils from this house, 
 well knowing that everything needed, from the 
 finest imported glassware to the goods of American 
 manufacture, may here be obtained without delay, 
 and at reasonable prices. Of the stock, but an in- 
 adequate idea can be conveyed. Suffice it to say that 
 it embraces every desirable article comprehended 
 under the generic headings of bar, hotel and restau- 
 rant glassware, chinaware and utensils, and the fact 
 that the goods and prices are what they should be 
 is fully attested by the extensive trade which this 
 reliable house has always been enabled to do. 
 
 The Troy Steam Laundry Co. 
 
 147 Twenty-second Street. 
 
 This business was begun by the present proprie- 
 tor, H. W. Howe, three years ago. It is systemat- 
 ically conducted in the several different departments, 
 each being in the hands of skilled workmen, assisted 
 by labor-saving machinery of the most approved 
 style and designs. They have all the facilities for 
 rapid and first-class work. From twelve to fiftten 
 hands find employment here. Particular attention 
 is devoted to shirts, collars, cuffs and ladies' fine 
 underwear. Orders by mail are promptly attended 
 to, and goods are called for and delivered in all 
 parts of the city. The trade, although entirely 
 local, is quite large, and gives evidence of still 
 greater increase. Mr. Howe is a native of the 
 State of Massachusetts, and has been a resident of 
 this city for the past sixteen years. He entered 
 the war of the rebellion as a soldier in the 16th 
 Massachusetts volunteers. , In conclusion, we cheer- 
 fully commend the Troy steam laundry to our 
 many readers, feeling assured that all business 
 relations with them will be pleasant and satisfactory. 
 
 Frederick Baumann. 
 
 Architect, Room 32, Metropolitan Block, Randolph 
 
 and La Salle Streets. 
 
 The profession of an architect is a very difficult 
 one, requiring constant study, and, in addition, a 
 practical training in active service and a thorough 
 scientific and mechanical education, and it docs 
 seem a little remarkable, since the architect, equally 
 with the chemist, holds our lives and health in his 
 power, that the one profession should be surrounded 
 with stringent regulations by law, inclusive of a 
 severe examination, and the other by none. The 
 essential requisites for a competent and skillful ar- 
 chitect are found in a marked degree in Mr. Fred- 
 erick Baumann, who has been engaged in the practice 
 of his profession in Chicago since 1853, and is the 
 first of German architects in the city. Proofs of 
 his skill are very numerous throughout the western 
 metropolis as embodied in the many splendid build- 
 ings he has designed, and which have been erected 
 under his supervision during the past thirty-four 
 years. He employs a full force of competent
 
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 A BUSINESS TOUR OF CHICAGO. 
 
 draughtsmen, and bases his estimates upon the 
 most practical and comprehensive knowledge of 
 quantities and value. Born in Germany in 1826, he 
 received his education in Berlin, and in 1850 came 
 to Chicago, where in business circles generally he is 
 regarded as one of our most solid men. 
 
 Eureka Foundry. 
 
 Kolben Johnson, Proprietor, Manufacturer of Light and 
 Heavy Castings, 122, 124 and 126 South 
 
 Jefferson Street. 
 
 Mr. Johnson is engaged in the manufacture of 
 light and heavy castings of every description, and 
 he makes a specialty of printing-press work. The 
 foundry is well equipped with all the necessary ma- 
 
 and blinds, while re-sawing and carpenter job-work 'is 
 done to order in the most satisfactory manner. 
 From fifty to eighty skilled workmen find employ- 
 ment here, and their trade, which extends through- 
 out all parts of the city, amounts .to from $150,000 
 to $200,000 annually, and is rapidly increasing. 
 Their planing-mill contains the latest improved 
 machinery, which is run by an engine of eighty 
 horse-power. They enjoy a liberal patronage in 
 every branch of their business, which is accounted 
 for by the good management and fair dealings of 
 the firm. 
 
 J. F. Freitag. 
 
 chinery and gives employment to a full force of 
 workmen. Mr. Johnson does a large and increasing 
 trade, exclusively in the city. He has been at his 
 present undertaking for the last eight years, although 
 his connection with this business extends back to a 
 much longer time. Mr. Johnson is a native of Nor- 
 way, and has been in this country for nineteen 
 years. His energy and perseverance have been re- 
 warded, and he is now at the head of a most pros- 
 perous and thriving business. The above cut gives 
 a good idea of this establishment. 
 
 Manufacturer of Carriage and Cab Lamps, 4 La Salle 
 
 Avenue. 
 
 Mr. Freitag is a prominent man- 
 ufacturer of carriage lamps, hook 
 and ladder truck and 
 hose cart lamps, fire 
 engine signals and 
 trumpets, hub caps, . 
 curtain rollers and 
 carriage candles of 
 all sizes. Mr. Freitag 
 is a thorough and ex- 
 perienced workman 
 in this line of trade, 
 having filled the posi- 
 tion of foreman for 
 the house of A. H. 
 Heyner for years. 
 The premises occu- 
 pied are convenient and well ar- 
 ranged for the business. None but the best work- 
 men are employed, and he gives his close personal 
 attention to every department of his large business, 
 which extends throughout all parts of the city and 
 the country generally. Re-plating and repairing is a 
 specialty and no more reliable house can be found 
 with which to do business. Mr. Freitag is a native 
 Chicagoan and well known in business circles. 
 
 Heer & Seelig. 
 
 Cook, Hallock & Gammon. 
 
 Dealers in Lumber, Sash, Doors, Blinds, Etc.; Planing 
 Mill, 53 to 63 North Avenue. 
 
 The establishment of Cook, Hallock & Gammon 
 is one of the representative, live business houses of 
 the city of Chicago. The.ir planing-mill is one of the 
 most complete in the city, while their yard is full of 
 the choicest lumber in the market. They are lo- 
 cated at Nos. 53 to 63 North avenue, with one hun- 
 dred and sixty feet front and a depth of one hun- 
 dred and twenty-five feet. The business was begun 
 in 1871 under the firm name of Cook & Hallock, 
 but four years ago was changed to the present firm. 
 In their planing-mill the specialty is sash, doors 
 
 Manufacturers of Engineers' and Surveyors' Instruments, 
 
 192 and 194 East Madison Street. 
 
 The most prominent house engaged in the manu- 
 facture of these goods in the west is that of which 
 Messrs. Peter Heer and Roman Seelig are the proprie- 
 tors. Both are German by nativity and highly 
 skilled workmen, and have, since organizing their 
 firm as successors of R. L. Strassberger four years 
 ago, built up a business throughout the country, 
 which fully entitles them to be classed as among 
 the most enterprising engaged in this line. The 
 machinery used at their factory for the manufacture 
 of these goods is the most exact and accurate made, 
 and, employing only highly skilled artisans, the firm 
 have been able to successfully defy competition 
 both as to excellence and price. They make rules
 
 FIFTY YEARS' PROGRESS. 
 
 141 
 
 and other measures to any fraction of an inch 
 desired, their output being universally regarded by 
 engineers and others as the best now offered either 
 in this country or Europe. Their spacious store 
 contains a large stock of all those many useful in- 
 struments used by the architect, draughtsman and 
 surveyor, including the many varieties of chains, 
 rods, tapes, rules and measures, as well as transits, 
 levels and compasses arranged in handsome cases 
 and boxes, or singly, as may be desired, especial at- 
 tention being also given to repairing and adjusting, 
 and all goods are put to the severest tests before 
 being offered for sale. 
 
 ability and enterprise, coupled with a strict adherence 
 to mercantile integrity, and in every respect is typical 
 of Chicago's remarkable progress, whose semi-cen- 
 tennial anniversary is now at hand. 
 
 Sears & Sears. 
 
 Designers and Engravers, 126 Dearborn Street. 
 This is one of the most reliable and skillful firms 
 of wood engravers in the west. Their office is at 
 
 La Verne W. Noyes. 
 
 Manufacturer of Dictionary Holders, 
 99 and 101 West Monroe Street. 
 One of the most useful inven- 
 tions of recent issue is the dic- 
 tionary holder, and its 
 manufacture is carried on 
 in Chicago by Mr. La 
 Verne W. Noyes, at 99 
 and 101 West Monroe 
 street. Mr. Noyes has 
 been engaged in this business 
 since 1879, and has established a 
 very large connection among the 
 principal wholesale booksellers in 
 the country. The dictionary 
 holder is an article that has taken 
 a great hold on the public, and 
 the demand for it is steadily in- 
 creasing. Mr. Noyes is 
 equal to the occasion, however, and keeps 
 pace with the times. He employs a staff 
 of skilled workmen, and himself personally 
 superintends all the details of the factory. 
 Mr. Noyes is an American, and has been 
 long and closely connected with the rise and pro- 
 gress of our great city. 
 
 B. W. Eisendrath & Co. 
 
 Importers and Dealers in Window and Plate Glass, 
 
 117 and 119 Lake Street. 
 
 The house of B. W. Eisendrath & Co. may be 
 fitly considered among the representative firms of 
 its kind in Chicago, their business having developed 
 apace with the growth of commerce throughout the 
 west. They have neglected no opening which pre- 
 sented itself nor failed to retain the trade which the 
 unsurpassed quality of their goods and liberal terms 
 have secured, the patrons of the house being found 
 in every portion of the United States. The house 
 was founded in 1881, and occupies spacious premises, 
 carrying the largest stock in the west of enameled 
 and colored glass, cathedral glass, car, coach and 
 picture glass, French and German mirror and plate 
 glass and American window glass. The success of the 
 house has been brought about by the exercise of 
 
 126 Dearborn street, where a number of skilled art- 
 ists and workmen are employed. Their long ex- 
 perience enables them not only to make drawings 
 from nature or manuscript, but also to engrave, 
 print and bind a complete book ready for the public, 
 and could, if called upon, furnish the manuscript on 
 any given subject. They graduated from the firm 
 of Messrs. Harper Brothers under their father, and 
 have since executed work for Scribners, United 
 States Sanitary commission, etc., and were the pio- 
 neers to send an artist into the Black hills for the 
 purpose of making sketches to illustrate a book 
 written by Edwin Curley. If you should wish any 
 wood or photo engraving or printing don't fail to call 
 upon Sears & Sears, for they can turn out expensive 
 or cheap work at a figure as reasonable as any house 
 in the city. 
 
 W. Buckley & Co. 
 
 1307 West Van Buren Street. 
 
 In this model house are found the best goods per- 
 taining to a first-class market, and a great reduction 
 in prices. In fact, a visit to this admirable new 
 market will save consumers upwards of twenty-five 
 per cent, on all purchases. In Mr. Buckley's own 
 words, "We intend to sell the best quality of goods 
 at the very lowest prices for cash." Besides fresh
 
 A BUSINESS TOUR OF CHICAGO. 
 
 and salt meats and fish, he keeps oysters and game 
 in season, and all kinds of provisions and coun- 
 try produce. A specialty is made in fresh coun- 
 try butter and eggs, in which line he does a large 
 business. All orders receive the closest attention, 
 and prompt deliveries are made. Mr. Buckley is a 
 practical and experienced butcher, this being his life 
 trade, and all customers may rely upon receiving the 
 best of satisfaction. He has been located in this 
 part of the city for the past ten years, coming here 
 from his native city, Philadelphia. Mr. Buckley 
 served during the war in the 1st Delaware zouaves 
 and acquitted himself nobly in his country's cause. 
 Mr. Buckley has been prominently identified for 
 years with the leading secret organizations of this 
 country, and has held important offices in the same. 
 He has succeeded in establishing a large family 
 trade, and special inducements are offered to board- 
 ing-houses and restaurants. 
 
 The Continental. 
 
 C. Collins, Proprietor, Southeast Corner Wabash Avenu 
 and Madison Street. 
 
 The Continental is one of the oldest and most 
 popular hotels in the city. At the beginning of this 
 year a change in proprietorship was made, and the 
 entire house was remodeled, thoroughly cleaned, re- 
 fitted and furnished complete. It contains all the 
 modern conveniences, and no pains or expense has 
 been spared in making it the most comfortable and 
 attractive house in Chicago. It is located in the 
 business center, convenient to all the large whole- 
 sale houses, theaters and railroad depots in the city, 
 and is in fact the best $2 per day hotel on the South 
 side. It is under the proprietorship of the former 
 management of the St. Denis hotel C. Collins 
 which fact alone bespeaks success, and already 
 everything around the house betokens an air of 
 comfort and substantial hospitality, which makes it 
 so homelike and pleasant for strangers visiting our 
 city. Merchants and travelers will always find 
 clean, pleasant rooms and a first-class table. One 
 
 feature of this hotel is the large, fine merchants' 
 sample rooms on the office floor. Every attention 
 is given to the guest, whose comfort and safety is 
 closely looked after, and those who visit the Con- 
 tinental are likely to become regular patrons. 
 
 C. W. Ternand & Co. 
 
 Manufacturing Jewelers, 113 East Madison Street. 
 The goods of this well-known house are not sur- 
 passed for finish and design by any in the market. 
 Mr. Ternand has been in the business fifteen years 
 and is a thoroughly practical and experienced work- 
 ing jeweler. He started for himself nearly two years 
 ago as head of the firm above named. Most of the 
 work is to order, and he executes private orders 
 promptly and at lowest rates. Most of the material 
 he furnishes himself, except the stones, when such 
 are required. The rates for setting stones, etc., 
 charged by this firm are extremely low, and the work 
 of the highest and most reliable order. The bulk 
 of the trade is of a light nature, though all kinds of 
 orders are undertaken and executed promptly and 
 satisfactorily. 
 
 Berger Bros. 
 
 Wholesale and Retail Dealers in Michigan and Indiana 
 
 Charcoal, Office, 170 Michigan Street. 
 The firm of Berger Bros, are wholesale and retail 
 dealers in Michigan and Indiana charcoal. They 
 make a specialty of large contracts, and in this line 
 they can offer as good inducements as any firm in 
 Chicago. They not only have a large city patronage, 
 but their trade extends all over the country. Their 
 telephone number is 3182, and all orders received in 
 this manner or by mail meet with as prompt atten- 
 tion as though given personally. The brothers 
 have been in business for eight years, and, by honest 
 dealing and prompt attention to the wants of their 
 patrons, have built up a trade equaling 30,000 bush- 
 els monthly. They have been residents of Chicago 
 for over fifteen years and are well acquainted with 
 every department of the trade which they represent. 
 
 L L Wadsworth. 
 
 Manufacturer of Spring Trucks and Wagons, 252 Michigan 
 
 Street. 
 
 The construction work at Mr. Wadsworth's place 
 is as fine as can be found in the city, while re- 
 pairing is promptly and neatly done, in fact, for 
 wagon work and general blacksmithing Mr. Wads- 
 worth has few equals and no superiors. He has 
 been established in the business since the great fire, 
 and his large trade, which is entirely local, attests 
 to the reliability of his work. Mr. Wadsworth de- 
 signed and executed the large, fancy truck wagon of 
 Jas. S. Kirk & Go's, which for beauty and finish has 
 no equal in the city. We noticed some large iron let- 
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 143 
 
 height, and on inquiring found that they were for 
 the new Sibley block on North Clark street and the 
 river, and are placed in position on the roof of that 
 building. Mr. Wadsworth was born in Detroit, 
 Mich., and came to Chicago in 1865, and is therefore 
 a comparatively old resident. 
 
 Johnson & Metzler. 
 
 Manufacturers of Carriages, Buggies, Etc., 260 and 262 Michi 
 gan Street. 
 
 Those of our business men who desire a first-class 
 wagon or truck are referred to the old and reliable 
 establishment of Johnson & Metzler, at Nos. 260 
 and 262 Michigan street. They are manufacturers 
 of carriages, buggies, spring trucks and wagons. 
 Their shops are 25 by 100 feet in dimensions, and 
 two stories in height, with a large basement. The 
 business was begun by Mr. Johnson in 1871, but 
 three and a half years ago Mr. Metzler was received 
 as a partner. Their trade is large and extends all 
 over the city. The superiority of the trucks manu- 
 factured by this firm has caused them to be much 
 sought after by the trade in general. Not only are 
 all orders filled promptly, but all kinds of repairing, 
 painting and trimming is done, quickly and satisfac- 
 torily. They have done work for the following con- 
 cerns in this city: James S. Kirk & Co., Blomgren 
 Bros., City Transfer Co., Procter & Gamble, Allen 
 Paper Car Wheel Co., and many others. 
 
 H. Julius & Son, whose success has been largely the 
 reward of perseverance in the face of almost insur- 
 mountable difficulties. The house was founded in 
 1860 by Mr. C. H. Julius, in a very humble way, at 
 his home, at No. 162 West Polk street, which nine 
 years later was removed to No. 50 Wells street, now 
 Fifth avenue. At the same time, his brother John 
 becoming his partner, another store was opened at 
 No. 186 Lake street. Both were doing a prosperous 
 business when the great fire of 1871 destroyed both 
 stores, which, the insurance failing, ultimately 
 proved a total loss. The partnership was at this 
 time dissolved, and Mr. Julius began 
 life again, re-opening at his home on 
 West Polk street, whither his old 
 patrons followed him, and, enjoying 
 unimpaired credit, he soon had a 
 good stock of the best cloths and 
 suitings. In January, 1882. after his 
 son, Mr. C. H. Julius, Jr., had been 
 admitted to participation, the busi- 
 ness was removed to its present 
 eligible location in the Leland hotel, 
 where the firm take a justifiable pride 
 in showing their large stock of cloths, 
 cassimeres and suitings, which in- 
 clude the latest fabrics of both 
 European and domestic manufacture, 
 specially selected by reason of their 
 durability, fast colors and fashionable 
 pattern. Being artistic cutters them- 
 selves, Messrs. C. H. Julius & Son 
 employ none but first-class workmen, 
 and that their garments are faultless 
 in fit, finish and workmanship, is best evidenced in 
 the fashionable trade they have not only been able 
 to attract, but permanently to retain. 
 
 Ames & Frost. 
 
 C. H. Julius & Son. 
 
 Merchant Tailors, 16 East Jackson Street 
 Among the many enterprises that have contribu- 
 ted to make Chicago one of the leading centers of 
 fashion, that of the merchant tailor is one of the 
 most important. Among the fashionable merchant 
 tailors in this city, none can claim a more liberal 
 patronage, or a more steady and growing trade 
 among the better class of citizens, than Messrs. C. 
 
 Manufacturers of and Dealers in Woven Wire Mattresses, 
 
 Spring Beds, Etc., 45 South Desplaines Street 
 As manufacturers of woven wire mattresses, the 
 firm of Ames & Frost stands unrivaled in Chica- 
 go. They manufacture and deal in every descrip- 
 tion of spring beds, cots, hospital and asylum beds, 
 etc. They also deal extensively in hard maple lum- 
 ber, making a specialty of the higher grades. At 
 their mill at Blackhawk and Cherry streets, they 
 have the most perfect facilities for kiln-drying and 
 dressing maple flooring, etc. They employ 130 
 workmen and do a large business among the prin- 
 cipal furniture dealers in Chicago and throughout 
 the country. Messrs. Ames and Frost are both 
 American-born citizens and have been associated to- 
 gether in business for the last nineteen years. Mr. 
 Ames, who manages the Desplaines street office, is 
 from Maine. The resources of the firm are such 
 that all orders can be promptly filled, and in this 
 way they have succeeded in winning the confidence 
 of the public. Mr. Frost is located at present at 
 Muskegon, Mich., where they have a factory em- 
 ploying a hundred hands in the manufacture of cur- 
 tain rollers.
 
 144 
 
 A BUSINESS TOUR OF CHICAGO. 
 
 Gale & Blocki. 
 
 Druggists, in Randolph Street, Branches, 44 and 46 Mon- 
 roe Street and 126 North Clark Street. 
 This firm form what is undoubtedly the representa- 
 tive retail drug house in Chicago, and, as such, is 
 worthy of permanent record in reviewing her leading 
 industries upon the occasion of her semi-centennial 
 celebration. Their business was established in 1847, 
 and besides their main store at No. Ill Randolph 
 street, branches at Nos. 44 and 46 Monroe street 
 and 126 North Clark street are conducted, all of 
 which are spacious and elegantly appointed, while 
 they contain the finest and most complete stock in 
 the city, embracing a full assortment of drugs and 
 medicines of every description, approved proprietary 
 remedies and fancy and toilet articles. The firm 
 are proprietors of the White Rock springs and west- 
 ern agents for Ridge's .food, and are also large deal- 
 ers in artificial eyes and Swedish leeches. Many 
 of our leading physicians indorse this firm 
 on account of the reliability and purity of its 
 drugs and scientific service in the prescription 
 department. The individual members of the firm, 
 Messrs. E. O. Gale, W. F. Blocki, J. M. Baker and 
 W. H. Gale, are all old residents of this city, whose 
 career is in every respect a credit to themselves and 
 to the profession with which they are identified. 
 
 George Salvesen. 
 
 Practical Carriage Trimmer, Carriages Neatly Trimmed 
 
 and Repaired, 95 and 97 East Indiana Street. 
 Mr. Salvesen is one of the most practical and ex- 
 perienced carriage trimmers in Chicago, and, al- 
 though only established in business for the past two 
 years, has succeeded, by fine work, in building up a 
 large trade all over the city. This is his life trade, 
 with every feature of which he is thoroughly con- 
 versant. Before starting in business for himself he 
 worked for ten years for the large firm of Henry 
 Willets. He makes all styles of buggy-tops, cush- 
 ions, etc. Special attention is given to private or- 
 ders, and work of all kinds is turned out with perfect 
 satisfaction to all. In his repairing department, 
 everything is turned out with promptness. Mr. 
 Salvesen superintends all orders, and sees to it that 
 none but efficient and experienced workmen are em- 
 ployed. Satisfaction is guaranteed, and orders so- 
 licited from the trade. 
 
 National Tobacco Review. 
 
 Franklin S. Anderson, Publisher, 166^ Randolph Street. 
 
 The National Tobacco Review is a monthly jour- 
 nal devoted to the interests of tobacco and its manu- 
 factured products. It has as large a circulation 
 (6,000) as any tobacco trade paper in America, and 
 is sent to every State in the Union. It also has sub- 
 scribers in all parts of Europe, Sandwich islands 
 and Cuba. The Review consists of twenty pages, 
 
 double column, printed in large, attractive type, 
 composed of the latest and most interesting events 
 pertaining to the tobacco trade. Subscription price 
 is one dollar per annum. Advertisers will find 
 the National Tobacco Review an excellent medi- 
 um through which to reach the entire tobacco trade. 
 In the Review's job printing department are very 
 complete facilities for the execution of all classes of 
 printing at the lowest rates. The Review was 
 founded in 1885, and its enterprising proprietor and 
 publisher, Mr. Franklin S. Anderson, has spared no 
 pains in making it the best paper of its kind in the 
 
 Walter M. Jackson. 
 
 Real Estate and Loans, 80 Dearborn Street. 
 Mr. Jackson has proved himself to be a responsi- 
 ble and reliable operator in this line during the dec- 
 ade in which he has been actively engaged in busi- 
 ness, having developed a connection of the highest 
 order among capitalists and operators in realty. A 
 lawyer by profession, Mr. Jackson devotes his en- 
 tire attention to real estate, bringing to bear a class 
 of knowledge peculiarly serviceable in such transac- 
 tions, and possesses ample facilities for conducting 
 operations under the most favorable auspices, while 
 his books contain long lists of eligible properties, 
 either acres for subdivision or residence, business 
 and manufacturing sites. A general business is trans- 
 acted, buying, selling, exchanging and renting 
 property, loaning money on bond and mortgage, and 
 taking entire charge of estates, many properties of 
 non-residents being in his charge. A specialty of 
 the office is in fine residence properties on the 
 boulevards, avenues and desirable locations. The 
 opinion among his many permanent patrons is that 
 none are better qualified to conserve their best in- 
 terests than Mr. Jackson, because of his ability and 
 integrity in promptly executing any commissions 
 intrusted to Hs care. 
 
 U. E. Atwater. 
 
 Real-Estate and Furnished-House Agency, Room 9, Adams 
 
 Express Building. 
 
 The development of the real-estate interests of 
 this city has resulted in no small degree from the 
 energy and enterprise of our leading brokers, among 
 whom Mr. U. E. Atwater, since establishing busi- 
 ness in 1885, has obtained a sound reputation. Be- 
 sides conducting a general real-estate business, buy- 
 ing, selling and renting on commission, making a 
 specialty of the furnished-house business, wherein 
 he is prepared to show a larger and more desirable 
 list than any other office in the city, Mr. Atwater 
 also deals in real-estate securities and chattel mort- 
 gage loans, which his connections among capitalists 
 enable him to place without any unnecessary delay, 
 while his terms cannot be duplicated elsewhere. 
 His room-renting and boarding-house directory is 
 another prominent feature and one of peculiar ser- 
 vice to all desiring such accommodations. Mr. At-
 
 FIFTY YEARS' PROGRESS. 
 
 145 
 
 water became a permanent resident of Chicago in 
 1884, coming hither from Homer, N. Y., his native 
 State, and is both popular and respected in business 
 circles, while in his policy and methods he is a 
 thoroughgoing exponent of the great cardinal prin- 
 ciples which form the only basis of enduring pros- 
 perity. 
 
 W. S. Thurber. 
 
 Importer and Dealer in Fine Arts, 210 Wabash Avenue. 
 The advance of science and art now permits even 
 those in very moderate circumstances to adorn their 
 homes with the productions of the most celebrated 
 American and European artists, and fac-similes of 
 pictures that can be seen only in the most renowned 
 public and private galleries. 
 In this city are many estab- 
 lishments devoted to the fine 
 arts, but none more satisfac- 
 tory to the connoisseurs in 
 art than that of Mr. W. S. 
 Thurber, No. 210 Wabash ave- 
 nue, which since its incep- 
 tion, in 1880, has obtained a 
 high reputation for its beau- 
 tiful paintings, engravings, etchings, and other 
 artistic treasures. The premises occupied are very 
 spacious, handsome and attractive, and fitted up 
 in a style unsurpassed by the most celebrated 
 art galleries of New York, Paris or London, 
 and pictures from the most eminent modern art- 
 ists are always on sale here. A specialty is made 
 of artistic picture framing, in which original and 
 artistic designs are displayed. Mr. Thurber is a 
 native of Ogdensburgh, N. Y., and is eminently 
 fitted by education, natural taste and ability for 
 this business, in which the signal success achieved 
 highly reflects his own enterprise and indefatig- 
 able zeal in its promotion. 
 
 Chas. Raiser. 
 
 Manufacturer of Children's Carriages, 62 and 64 Clybourn 
 
 Avenue. 
 
 As an illustration of the results of energy, enter- 
 prise and honorable dealing, the success which has 
 attended the business career of Mr. Charles Raiser 
 is especially noticeable, rendering him 
 a representative of his industry in this 
 review of Chicago's commerce in her 
 semi-centennial year. Mr. Raiser manu- 
 factures every style of children's car- 
 riage, upon whose merits alone his 
 reputation has been won, his house 
 today being by far the most extensive on the 
 North side, and one of the first in its line in the 
 city. He occupies commodious premises, carrying 
 a very fine and large assortment, and is at all times 
 prepared to quote bottom prices and to extend 
 every legitimate accommodation to buyers. He is 
 himself a practical workman, many of his carriages 
 being the productions of his own hands; in fact, his 
 
 skill and experience were on the start his main capi- 
 tal in trade, through which he has reared an emi- 
 nently prosperous business, himself standing high in 
 general esteem as an honorable business man. Mr. 
 Raiser makes a specialty of selling his carriages direct 
 to private parties, and buyers can see the advantage 
 to them in this plan. He sends carriages to all 
 points within 500 miles of Chicago free of charge. 
 A catalogue will be sent to anyone free on applica- 
 tion. 
 
 City of London Fire Insurance Co, 
 Limited, of London, England. 
 
 Western Office, 153 La Salle Street, Edwin A. Simonds, 
 
 General Agent. 
 
 The agency in Chicago for this company has 
 been established since 1881, and Mr. E. A. Simonds, 
 being an old insurance man, has been a prominent 
 factor in increasing its business throughout the ex- 
 tent of his territory, which is a large one, and where 
 his managing capabilities have become thoroughly 
 known. A statement of the United States branch, 
 January 1, 1887, shows the company to be in an 
 excellent financial condition. The following figures 
 are condensed from the statement: Assets, $746,- 
 186.25, of which $624,500.00 are U. S. bonds, 3 and 
 4 per cent., market value, while other items of the 
 assets are correspondingly secure. The liabilities 
 are light, being but $390,577.82, leaving a net sur- 
 plus over all of $355,608.43. The names of the offi- 
 cers of the United States branch are men eminently 
 sound in their respective avocations, the trustees, 
 in Boston, Mass., for the United States being Chas. 
 F. Choate, president Old Colony R. R. Co., and Old 
 Colony Steamboat Co., Oliver Ames, of Oliver 
 Ames & Son, and Reuben E. Demmon, presi- 
 dent Howard National bank. The head offices in 
 the United States are at 20 Kilby street, Boston, 
 Mass., with John C. Paige, resident manager. 
 
 Henry C. Jacobs. 
 
 Real Estate and Loans, 57 Calumet Building, 189 La Salle 
 
 Street. 
 
 The vast interests centered in real estate in Chica- 
 go render this branch of commercial activity by far 
 the most important in the western metropolis, and 
 it is little wonder, therefore, that its representatives 
 include many of our leading citizens, among whom 
 none have attained a better recognized position in 
 their chosen occupation than Mr. Henry C. Jacobs. 
 He came to Chicago in 1861, and was formerly en- 
 gaged in the produce commission business, from 
 which, however, he retired in 1873, to engage in 
 real estate traffic. Though transacting a general 
 business in real estate and loans, his specialty is in 
 subdividing suitable acre property, and he has now 
 on the market several of the most promising subdi- 
 visions in our suburbs, which are rapidly filling up 
 with improvements of a substantial and desirable 
 character, attracted alike by the favorable location
 
 146 
 
 A BUSINESS TOUR OF CHICAGO. 
 
 and the unusually generous terms upon which the 
 property is offered. Mr. Jacobs is highly esteemed 
 in the leading financial circles of the city, as being 
 a thoroughgoing exponent of those enduring prin- 
 ciples of equity and honor which alone form the sure 
 basis of permanent prosperity in every department 
 of business activity. 
 
 Snyder & Rathbone. 
 
 Wholesale Fruit and Produce Commission, 217 South Water 
 Street. 
 
 As a branch of industry peculiarly successful in 
 Chicagp few excel in enterprise those engaged in the 
 wholesale fruit and produce commission trade, while 
 it is such houses as Snyder & Rathbone who are the 
 recognized exponents of Chicago's commerce, whose 
 prominence has been honestly attained by years of 
 fair and liberal dealing. They receive large ship- 
 ments of, country produce from Illinois, Wisconsin 
 and Iowa, making specialties of butter, eggs and 
 poultry, and also handle largely all kinds of early 
 vegetables and domestic fruits in their season. 
 Their connection among both producers and the 
 leading dealers is of an highly influential character. 
 The house was established by Mr. J. Snyder in 1878. 
 Two .years later, Mr. P. D. Rathbone becoming his 
 partner, the present firm was organized. They refer 
 to the First National .bank, Chicago, 111.; First 
 National bank, South Haven, Mich.; German bank, 
 Sheboygan, Wis. ; Steele, Wedeles & Co., wholesale 
 grocers, Chicago, 111.; while the policy on which the 
 business is conducted is such as to have met with 
 the hearty commendations of the trade. 
 
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 "i I. u Rogers & Son. 
 
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 Commission Merchants, 267 South Water Street. 
 The produce commission trade in 1886 received 
 an important accession to its ranks when I. C. and 
 B. E. Rogers organized h*ej houfee'/oif !"!'..). Rogers & 
 Son, which has since developed a large and perma- 
 nent patronage of a strictly first-class character. 
 These gentlemen have well-organized arrangements 
 and are large receivers of produce from a vast extent 
 of the surrounding country, making a 'prominent 
 specialty of green fruit and vegetables, butter, eggs 
 and poultry. They handle extensive consignments 
 of these staples, effecting quick sales at current rates 
 and remitting promptly to shippers and growers. 
 They occupy one of the finest establishments of the 
 kind in the city, centrally located at No. 267 South 
 Water street, where buyers are always sure of find- 
 ing a large and choice stock of produce of every de- 
 scription. The house is a recognized authority on 
 butter and is building up a fine shipping trade to 
 New York and other eastern points, while their 
 financial standing is of the highest character. The 
 specialty of this firm is the packing of their own 
 fruit from orchards all over the country, and in this 
 line they have an extended trade. 
 
 Finney & Channon. 
 
 Ship Chandlers and Sail Makers, 270 and 272 South Water 
 
 Street. 
 
 Few industries have exerted an equal influence 
 over the destinies of Chicago with that of our mari- 
 time interests. The shipping interests being thus 
 extensive the supplying of their wants constitutes a 
 trade the sum total of which is a material item in 
 her industrial resources. As ship chandlers and sail 
 makers, Messrs. Finney & Channon occupy a most 
 prominent position, carrying as they do an unusual- 
 ly large and complete stock of ship supplies at their 
 spacious salesrooms Nos. 270 and 272 South Water 
 street, while as sail makers they have obtained an 
 enviable reputation for the excellence of their work- 
 manship. The firm is composed of Messrs. George 
 C. Finney and J. Channon, the latter an old lake 
 captain and well known in every port throughout the 
 entire chain of lakes, while Mr. Finney was formerly 
 a resident of Oswego, though permanently located 
 here for the past twenty-five years. These men 
 stand at the very front of their useful and important 
 industry, and are prepared to furnish promptly any- 
 thing in their line at bottom prices. 
 
 Henry A. Fitch. 
 
 Prescription Druggist, 884 West Madison Street, Corner of 
 
 Leavitt, Telephone 7176. 
 
 The well-arranged and finely-fitted drug store of 
 Mr. Henry A. Fitch is located at the above location. 
 The store has lately been refitted and furnished, 
 presenting a fine appearance, with its large plate- 
 glass windows and fine corner entrance. Mr. Fitch 
 possesses every requisite necessary for the first-class 
 trade he has established. He is a practical drug- 
 gist, and keeps only the most reliable chemicals and 
 the best and purest of drugs. His other articles of 
 stock, perfumes, toilet and fancy goods, etc., are 
 strictly first-class in every respect. Special atten- 
 tion is called to his prescription department, which 
 he personally superintends, and the utmost precau- 
 tion is taken in compounding medicines of all kinds. 
 His telephone number is 7176, and all orders given 
 meet with prompt and satisfactory attention. 
 
 Shields & Brown Co. 
 
 Manufacturers of Sectional Insulated Air Coverings, 
 
 78 and So Lake Street. 
 
 Among those firms who manufacture sectional in- 
 sulated air coverings for steam, gas and water pipes, 
 boilers, drums, heaters, etc., is that of the Shields & 
 Brown Co. of this city, whose goods in the severest 
 competitive tests have invariably proved their super- 
 iority, while they have likewise received the cordial 
 indorsement of all the leading fire insurance compa- 
 nies in the country, yet in price they compare favor- 
 ably with any. Their western office and factory is
 
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 located in this city, with eastern office and depot at 
 No. 143 Worth street, New York, thus being in a 
 position to promptly supply the steadily increasing 
 demand from all parts of the country. The Shields 
 & Brown Co. refer with just pride to the largest 
 houses and finest office buildings in Chicago as 
 among their customers, and of the many places where 
 their insulated air coverings can be seen in large 
 quantities we mention the Pullman building, First 
 National bank, Chicago Opera house, Union League 
 club, Chicago City Railway Co. cable plant, Brother 
 Jonathan building, H. M. Kinsley's restaurant, 
 Grand 'Pacific hotel, Elgin National Watch Co. works 
 at Elgin, Pullman Palace Car Co. works at Pullman, 
 McCormick Harvesting Machine Co. works, McCor- 
 mick building, Reaper block. 
 
 Chicago Herald Company. 
 
 120 and 122 Fifth Avenue. " 
 
 Among our prominent daily papers is the Her- 
 aid, the office of which is at Nos. 120 and 122 Fifth 
 avenue. This paper has the largest circulation of 
 any strictly morning paper in the city. It was es- 
 tablished in 1881, the first copy being issued on 
 May 10th of that year. The circulation commenced 
 with a daily sale of 3,000 copies, from which it has 
 steadily advanced to 35,000. This paper is owned 
 by a corporation under the name of the Chicago 
 Herald Co. The publisher is Mr. James W. Scott, 
 and Mr. Martin J. Russell is the editor. The busi- 
 ness occupies the whole building of four floors and 
 basement, twenty-five by eighty-four feet. In the 
 different departments not less than one hundred 
 hands are employed, and the printing is performed 
 by three presses, manufactured by C. Potter, Jr., & 
 Co. These presses are worked by a twenty-five 
 horse-power engine, and are each capable of turning 
 out 30,000 copies per hour. The Sunday Herald 
 is one of the most complete and interesting papers 
 published in the west, and, besides the general news, 
 contains first-class serial stories. A weekly paper 
 is also issued, which is unsurpassed as a journal of 
 general information. 
 
 B. Garcia & Co 
 
 Spanish Cigar Manufacturers, Importers and Dealers in 
 Havana Leaf, 44 and 46 La Salle Street. 
 
 The natural and acquired advantages that have 
 contributed to make the city of Chicago a commer- 
 cial center have also induced here the establish- 
 ment of enterprises which for magnitude and char- 
 acter have become celebrated throughout the United 
 States. Such an one is that of Messrs. B. Garcia & 
 Co., which was established by the present proprie- 
 tors in 1879, since which time they have obtained a 
 large patronage in consequence of the excellence of 
 the pure Havana cigars emanating from their facto- 
 ry. Mr. Garcia is a native of the province of As- 
 turias, Spain, and early in life went to the island of 
 Cuba, where he became practically conversant 
 
 with every detail of the Havana tobacco trade, from 
 the culture of the leaf in the Vuelta Abajos and 
 other favorite districts up to the manufacture of 
 the choicest Cuban cigars. He removed from Hava- 
 na to the United States about fourteen years ago, 
 for a time being engaged in business in New York 
 city. In 1879 he came to Chicago, and has since 
 been a permanent and respected resident. From 
 small beginnings his factory has steadily grown to 
 its present satisfactory proportions, employing in 
 the ordinary course of business sixty skilled cigar- 
 makers, while the trade, in addition to that derived 
 from the city, embraces all the neighboring States. 
 This house purposes to maintain the character of 
 their famous cigars, in which none but the best 
 grades of Havana tobacco, of his own direct impor- 
 tation, is used. Further comment is unnecessary, 
 the well-known character of the house placing it 
 above criticism and affording, as it does, an example 
 of an honorable and prosperous mercantile career. 
 
 Griswold, Palmer & Co. 
 
 Successors to J. W. Griswold & Co., Manufacturers and 
 Importers of Cloaks, Cloakings and Trimmings, 
 
 236 and 238 Monroe Street 
 
 A house closely identified with the growth of 
 Chicago's commerce, and one which is also admit- 
 tedly one of its leading representatives, is that of 
 Griswold, Palmer & Co. Established upon a very 
 modest beginning in 1857, four entire floors, each 
 40x170 feet in area are now required for the trans- 
 action of their business, extending from Ohio to 
 California, some idea of the magnitude of which 
 may be gathered from the fact that during the busy 
 season the firm have daily in process of manufacture 
 fully 2000 garments. The factory is provided with 
 all the most improved modern machinery and appli- 
 ances; all the operations of cutting, sewing and 
 pressing being conducted by steam-power, while up- 
 wards of 800 skilled operatives find remunerative 
 employment here. An endless variety of cloaks and 
 suits in all the prevailing styles are carried, while 
 the firm have always been noted for their liberality 
 and reasonableness in price, which they are enabled 
 to do profitably by reason of their perfect manufac- 
 turing facilities, and importing direct their own 
 cloakings and trimmings. Messrs. Griswold are na- 
 tives of Hartford, Conn., and came to Chicago 
 many years ago, where their interests have since 
 been centered. 
 
 Ira Brown. 
 
 Real-Estate Dealer and Private Banker, 177 La Salle 
 Street, Room 9. 
 
 The steady ratio of development observable in 
 the Chicago real-estate market, and the universally 
 high reputation that investments therein have at- 
 tained, reflect the greatest credit upon our leading 
 real-estate agents and dealers. Among the most 
 enterprising members of the profession, Mr. Ira 
 Brown occupies a recognized position ; while being
 
 148 
 
 A BUSINESS TOUR OF CHICAGO. 
 
 also one of our leading capitalists, his resources per- 
 mit operations on a scale of magnitude attained by 
 few others. Mr. Brown is a native of Ohio, and, 
 after having received an excellenteducation, early in 
 life embarked in a financial career with great success. 
 In 1858 he commenced business in Chicagoat No. 24 
 N. Clark street, and eventually, in 1872, removed to 
 his present eligible location, 177 La Salle street. His 
 specialty is in the purchase of large tracts in an 
 available location, and the subdivision of the same 
 to suitthewantsofcustomers.forwhomalso hebuilds 
 houses to order and accepts monthly installments 
 in payment. At present he has large amounts of 
 property for sale at Evanston, Norwood Park, Des- 
 plaines, Glencoe, La Grange, Wheaton, Park Ridge, 
 and other equally desirable suburbs. Though Chi- 
 cago realty claims his principal attention, he also 
 deals largely in western properties, and particularly 
 at San Diego, California, where he has an office with 
 a resident agent in charge. Mr. Brown also conducts 
 a private banking business in all its departments, 
 and likewise makes liberal advances on govern- 
 ment. State, municipal and railroad securities. His 
 widely extended and varied experience, keen appre- 
 ciation of values, together with his wide acquaint- 
 ance with business men, render his services pecu- 
 liarly valuable to parties dealing in realty. 
 
 goods before purchasing elsewhere, as he buys in 
 large quantities for cash and sells for a very small 
 profit. The large and successful trade he has estab- 
 lished shows the merit of his goods and the demand 
 that is made for them all over the United States. 
 
 Eagle Carriage Works. 
 
 James B. Thomas, Proprietor; Manufacturer of All Kinds 
 of Children's Carriages, Sleighs, Etc., 114 North 
 
 Peoria Street, Corner Kinzie Street 
 So soon as a child can walk, or even sit alone, he 
 should be supplied with useful and amusing 
 toys. It is surprising how soon a little one will 
 amuse itself with a score or two of little cubes of 
 light wood. How soon these can be made a source, 
 not cnly of amusement, but of instruction. When 
 tired of these, what an acquisition is a little wheel- 
 barrow, and when this gets rusty and worn, with 
 what delight he lays hold of a little cart or wagon. 
 With a very little pleasant oversight and instruction 
 he amuses himself, learns to love home and annoys 
 nobody. The "Eagle Carriage Works" of Mr. 
 James B. Thomas are at Nos. 114 to 120 North 
 Peoria street, corner Kinzie street. The various arti- 
 cles turned out from this factory are baby carriages, 
 baby jumpers, chairs, rockers, sleds, girl's sleighs, 
 rocking-horses, velocipedes, etc. They are all of the 
 most modern pattern, and noted for fine finish, dura- 
 bility and beauty of construction. The factory 
 occupies one hundred and twenty-five feet on Peoria 
 street, and as many on Kinzie, and each of its 
 three stories is well arranged to turn out neatly 
 and quickly these useful and interesting articles for 
 children. All the work is executed under the eye of 
 Mr. Thomas, who had eight years' experience in 
 New York before he opened his factory here in 1859. 
 This experience, together with the unsurpassed 
 facilities at his command, enables Mr. Thomas to 
 furnish, as he has in the past, the best carriage that 
 can be found in the market, at the most reasonable 
 prices. Merchants would do well to examine his 
 
 Townsend & Yale. 
 
 Commission Merchants, 160 and 162 Market Street, G. L. 
 
 Forman, Manager. 
 
 The time has long since gone by when any argu- 
 ment was needed with the trade to convince them 
 of the utility of placing their orders directly with 
 the commission houses a system which is daily be- 
 coming more and more the order and method of 
 trade ; the connecting link, as it were, between pro- 
 ducer and consumer, enabling the former to directly 
 reach the market, and the latter to procure their 
 goods at manufacturers' prices without the trouble 
 and expense heretofore incident thereto. One 
 of the oldest and largest as well as the most 
 prominent houses thus engaged in the United 
 States is that of Townsend & Yale, of New York, 
 Boston, Philadelphia and Chicago. The branch in 
 this city is under the management of Mr. G. L. For- 
 man, having been established in 1871, and was for 
 many years located at Nos. 213 and 215 Fifth avenue, 
 from whence, in 1885, the press of business necessi- 
 tated a removal to their present spacious premises at 
 Nos. 160 and 162 Market street, where they are pre- 
 pared to show the largest and most complete line 
 of knit goods, hosiery, cotton piece goods, etc., to 
 be found anywhere in the country, representing as 
 they do many of the leading manufacturers of these 
 goods both at home and abroad. Mr. Forman, the 
 manager, is a native of Scotland, and isa gentleman 
 both esteemed and liked in business circles, and it is 
 due very largely to his persistent efforts that the 
 trade of the house has been so widely developed 
 over the western country. They have lately be- 
 come the sole agents for the Lawrence Manufacturing 
 Co. and the Boston Manufacturing Co. 
 
 A F. Seeberger & Co 
 
 Wholesale Hardware, 38 and 40 Lake Street, Chicago. 
 As a branch of industry peculiarly successful in 
 Chicago, and forming an important factor in the 
 commercial greatness of the Garden City, the hard- 
 ware trade is entitled to much consideration in a 
 work the compilation of which has for its main 
 object a review of the mercantile and industrial re- 
 sources of the city commemorative of her semi- 
 centennial anniversary. Chicago has every reason 
 to be proud of her many concerns identified with 
 this industry, as they are as a class thoroughly 
 reliable and conducted upon sound business 
 principles, and none are more representative of 
 the hardware trade than the house of A. F. Seeber- 
 
 fer & Co., who have been engaged therein since 
 864, and whereof, taken in any respect, whether as 
 to the character and extent of the stock, or the
 
 FIFTY YEARS' PROGRESS. 
 
 volume and scope of their business, or the liberal 
 policy upon which it is conducted, their house fully 
 typifies their branch of commerce. The firm occupy 
 the spacious five-story building, Nos. 38 and 40 
 Lake street, and carry a complete stock of hardware 
 in all its departments, making a prominent specialty 
 of cutlery, tinplate, metals, nails, etc., which, pur- 
 chased direct from first hands, they are enabled to 
 place upon the market at prices which have secured 
 liberal recognition, both in the local trade and that 
 of points west and northwest. Of the individual 
 members of the firm, Messrs. A. F. and Chas. D. 
 Seeberger, comment is superfluous, their reputation 
 extending over many years, while the business 
 which they have built up speaks in the most expres- 
 sive language of the confidence with which their 
 house is so widely and justly regarded. 
 
 Wells & Nellegar Co. 
 
 Wholesale Hard! 
 
 rare and Cutlery, 72, 74 and 76 
 '.ake Street. 
 
 The Garden City of the west has in more ways 
 than one seriously affected the commercial suprem- 
 acy of New York city, her only rival, but in no 
 branch of trade has more rapid and substantial pro- 
 gress been made than in that of hardware and cut- 
 lery. Typical of the remarkable development of 
 the city itself, has been the success attained by_ the 
 Wells & Nellegar Co., organized nine years ago, and 
 which now occupies such a prominent position 
 among the industrial resources of Chicago, the cel- 
 ebration of whose semi-centennial anniversary these 
 pages are designed to perpetuate. They are exten- 
 sive dealers in all kinds of hardware, cutlery, tinners' 
 stock, etc., and in the prosecution of the business 
 occupy a spacious five-story and basement building, 
 one hundred by one hundred and fifty feet in area, 
 giving employment to a large force of men, while 
 their trade, expanding rapidly with each succeeding 
 year, covers all points reached by our complex rail- 
 road system and magnificent water routes Through- 
 out our leading financial circles, the officers of the 
 company, Messrs. J. B. Nellegar, president, R. M. 
 Wells, vice president and treasurer, and J. B. Bat- 
 tles, secretary, are known for their honorable and 
 liberal business methods. 
 
 Suburban Homes. 
 
 One of Chicago's Latest Additions. 
 
 Eggleston, with its finely macadamized and stone- 
 curbed roadways and alleys, its rows of shade trees, 
 its large urns filled with flowers, and lastly its hand- 
 some new residences, which in beauty of architecture 
 surpass those of any other suburb around Chicago, 
 make it the most desirable place for a suburban 
 home. The projectors have seen the wisdom of 
 making all public improvements, such as water 
 supply, gas mains, macadamized roads and alleys, 
 in advance of sale of property, for there is nothing 
 so annoying to a house and lot owner as to have 
 
 these things done after occupancy. A year ago 
 people used to inquire, where is Eggleston? Now 
 it is as familiar as Englewood or Normal Park, which 
 it joins on the south, Seventy-first street being 
 the north boundary line; it has the same railroad 
 facilities afforded these suburbs. This property is 
 in the hands of and is being managed by the firm 
 of J. P. Mallette & Co., who have offices at room 
 518 Royal Insurance building, Chicago, and 2 and 3 
 Central block, Englewood. 
 
 J. K. Russell. 
 
 Planing-Mill, 82 to 96 Fulton Street, Chicago; Mouldings, 
 
 Dressed Lumber, Sash, Doors and Blinds, Resaw- 
 
 ing, Kiln-Drying, Box Factory, All Kinds 
 
 of Mill Work, Hauling. 
 
 One of the largest and oldest planing-mills on the 
 West side is that of J. K. Russell, at Nos. 82 to 96 
 Fulton street. It occupies a site of 170 by 170 
 feet, which contains a large building four stories 
 high, with basement. The business was begun in 
 1850, under the firm name of Cleveland & Russell, 
 but in 1857 Mr. Cleveland withdrew, since which 
 time Mr. Russell has had complete charge of the 
 business. His large factory is fitted up with all the 
 latest improved machinery for this business; his 
 trade extends throughout all parts of the west 
 and northwest, and aggregates upwards of $200,000 
 annually, and 125 workmen are employed in the 
 various departments. He manufactures all kinds 
 of mouldings, dressed lumber, sash, doors, blinds, 
 hardwood flooring and resawing. One feature of 
 his business is that of kiln-drying on a large scale, 
 having facilities for 100,000 feet at one time. Mr. 
 Russell has always been closely identified with the 
 lumber interests of Chicago, and is one of the rep- 
 resentative mill men. 
 
 The G. M. Jarvis Co. 
 
 39 North State Street. 
 
 The foundation of this company was laid in 1860 
 by Mr. G. M. Jarvis, the senior member and presi- 
 dent of the company, when he planted the famous 
 Vine Hill vineyard. This property, of about two 
 hundred and forty acres, is located on the Santa 
 Cruz mountains, at an elevation of nearly two thou- 
 sand feet above the beautiful bay of Monterey, and 
 nearly twenty miles from the city of San Jose. 
 Much of this vineyard was set out in early days .to 
 the grape known as the Oporto wine grape, and from 
 it a most excellent article of port wine was made, 
 rivaling the foreign wines, as early as 1870. This 
 port took the first prize at the Centennial at Phila- 
 delphia. It also took first prize at the New Orleans 
 World's fair, over both foreign and domestic wines, 
 and it has taken all the first prizes at the State, dis- 
 trict and mechanics' fairs in the Golden State. Prof. 
 Peirce, of Harvard university, says, " It is not only 
 a pure wine, but is the finest I have ever known 
 made in this country." This wine is now fifteen
 
 160 
 
 A BUSINESS TOUR OF CHICAGO. 
 
 years old and is pronounced by chemists and con- 
 noisseurs the finest and best in the United States. 
 Besides this the company has almost all ages of port 
 wine, sherry, muscatelle, angelica, reisling, hock, 
 white wine, chasselas, sauterne, clarets, burgundy, 
 blackberry wine, blackberry brandy, peach and apple 
 brandy, and the famous Jarvis reisling grape bran- 
 dy, vintage of 1877. Their trade now extends over 
 most of the northwest, while east it reaches into 
 Pennsylvania and New York. Prof. J. H. Long, 
 analytical and assaying chemist, of the Chicago 
 Medical college, says, " Gentlemen, I have analyzed 
 your wines and your brandies. These tests show 
 me that they are not only perfectly pure, but that 
 they contain all the essential elements so much ad- 
 mired by leading wine chemists." Twenty-five years 
 producing grapes, making wine and distilling bran- 
 dy, gives this company many advantages over new 
 firms, who have to buy their products from other 
 new beginners, that often spoil the market with 
 their new and half-made productions. A quarter of 
 a century in making and aging wines and brandies 
 ought to make a good nucleus for a prosperous 
 business, For samples, price lists, etc., address the 
 G. M. Jarvis Co., corner of State and Michigan 
 streets. 
 
 Wm. Garnett & Co. 
 
 Real-Estate Brokers, 77 Clark Street, Room I. 
 The rapid rise in the value of real estate in and 
 near this city has given a great impetus to in- 
 vesting in that kind of security. Foremost amongst 
 this body of men is the firm of Wm. Garnett & Co., 
 consisting of father and son. Mr. Garnett has had 
 twenty-four years' experience in this city, and has 
 been engaged in the real-estate business for the last 
 eighteen years, doing a steadily increasing busi- 
 ness in selling, managing property, collecting, 
 renting, etc. Special attention is given to non-resi- 
 dents' estates, loans are negotiated, and all business 
 of this nature is honorably and reliably transacted. 
 Mr. Garnett has besides vacant lot property in large 
 variety, also acre property for disposal at Cragin, 
 near Humboldt park, seven miles from the center of 
 the city. This property, at $500 per acre, will in a 
 few years be worth a large advance over present 
 value. Knowing so much of real estate interests, 
 Mr. Garnett's advice and opinions are in constant 
 demand. 
 
 The D. F. Bremner Baking Co 
 
 Manufacturers of Crackers and Fine Biscuit, Office and Fac- 
 tory, 76, 78 and 80 O'Brien Street, Branch 
 
 Office, 19 Market Street. 
 
 In Chicago there are many enterprising houses 
 thus engaged in this branch of business, but among 
 them few have attained a more merited distinction 
 than Mr. D. F. Bremner, whose business, since its 
 organization in 1872, has constantly grown in mag- 
 nitude and importance, until now it is one of the 
 largest in the west, employing over 150 hands, at the 
 
 spacious factory on O'Brien street, where every fa- 
 cility has been provided so as to meet the demands 
 of the trade, including the latest improved labor- 
 saving machinery, and every device calculated to 
 advance the work in hand in the interest of economy 
 and cleanliness. The celebrated Eureka bread is 
 made by Mr. Bremner, a bread which these many 
 years has obtained a firm foothold in public esteem, 
 the demand for which is so great. In addition to 
 the Eureka bread, a full line of plain and fancy 
 crackers and fine biscuit are made, and this is the only 
 house in the west that makes a full line of such 
 goods. They are in all respects equal to the finest 
 eastern or imported goods, and are taking their place 
 rapidly, being much fresher and nicer. Since May 1, 
 1888, Mr. Bremner has occupied the spacious build- 
 ing at Nos. 19 and- 21 Market street, fifty by two 
 hundred feet in dimensions, as a branch depot, re- 
 moving thence from Nos. 46 and 48 Michigan 
 avenue, on account of its specially central location 
 as a distributing point. Mr. Bremner is of Scotch 
 descent, and in his business life presents the type of 
 the enterprising, self-made and successful merchant 
 and manufacturer, who, while winning the patronage 
 of the public, has also retained the confidence and 
 esteem of all with whom he has been brought in 
 contact. 
 
 O.W. Richardson & Co 
 
 Carpets, Mattings, Oilcloths, Etc., 261 and 263 State Street. 
 With the rapid strides made in recent years in the 
 manufacture of carpets, as regards improved ma- 
 chinery, beautiful, brilliant and durable new colors, 
 coupled with the skill of expert designers, has come 
 the welcome fact of great reductions in price, ren- 
 dered still lower by the enterprise of such houses as 
 that of Messrs. O. W. Richardson & Co. of this city, 
 at 261 and 263 State street. Their business, though 
 rather a novel departure in the trade, has proved 
 both popular and successful, and since its inception in 
 1875, they have developed a widespread and influen- 
 tial patronage throughout the entire west. This 
 firm are jobbers of cut carpets, mattings, oilcloths, 
 linoleums, and smyrna rugs, with a system whereby 
 dealers are enabled, by merely carrying their samples, 
 to exhibit to their customers the assortment of one 
 of the largest jobbing houses in this metropolitan 
 market at least 5 per cent, cheaper than if they were 
 obliged to carry a stock. The carpets are ordered 
 from the samples, and Messrs. Richardson & Co. do 
 the cutting, matching and sewing. They are cut- 
 ting over one hundred of their choicest patterns 
 without waste. The advantage of their system 
 needs only once to be understood to effect an entire 
 revolution in the carpet trade. The firm occupy 
 spacious premises, and carry a completely assorted 
 stock of the finest imported and domestic carpet- 
 ings, including all the leading novelties and sea- 
 sonable designs in wiltons, moquettes, velvets, 
 brussels, choice tapestries, ingrains, druggets and art 
 squares in vast variety, while their connections 
 among manufacturers enable them to name prices 
 that defy competition. The house also own the
 
 FIFTY YEARS' PROGRESS. 
 
 151 
 
 patents for the northwest for Richardson's patent 
 carpet exhibitor, whereby their samples are dis- 
 played to as good an effect as if the whole roll 
 was on the floor. Messrs. O. W. and E. C. Richard- 
 son and M. M. Curry compose this reliable firm, 
 which has built up its business by dealing honestly 
 and justly with the trade. 
 
 TELEPHONE 56 3 k 
 
 One of the most pleasing indications of higher 
 culture in Chicago is found in the artistic interior 
 decorations now considered indispensable in homes 
 of refinement and wealth, the science of interior dec- 
 orating having attracted into its ranks in this city 
 some of the most skilled artists of the old world, 
 and among whom Mr. Wm. Phillipson, a native of 
 Holstein, Germany, takes high rank. The Phillip- 
 son Decorative Co. is the result of the business 
 originally founded by Mr. Phillipson in 1882, and of 
 which he is still the head. Their specialty is deco- 
 ration in all its branches, and they have painted 
 many of the beautiful frescos that are so much ad- 
 mired in the churches and public buildings, and no- 
 tably' in our city, in the Board of Trade building, 
 also the State Capitol, at Springfield. The house 
 carries in stock a large line of imported dados, 
 friezes, elaborate wall papers, leather hangings, lin- 
 crusta walton, tapestries and papier mache. the lat- 
 ter being peculiarly adapted for household and the- 
 atrical decorations, this house being the sole im- 
 porters into the United States of these papier-mache 
 decorations. Mr. Phillipson is a thorough artist, 
 and possesses the happy faculty of originating de- 
 signs and harmoniously blending shades and colors 
 to produce pleasing effects, and patrons desiring 
 really artistic work may confidently place their or- 
 
 though founded, in 1870, on a scale far from exten- 
 sive, the energy and discernment with which the 
 business has been conducted have been effective in 
 building up a trade of the most satisfactory charac- 
 ter. The premises occupied comprise the spacious 
 three-story and basement building, No. 6- Dearborn 
 street, and the factory at corner of Bowery and Til- 
 den avenue, on West side, where heaviest goods 
 are made, admirably ar- 
 ranged and fitted with all 
 the modern appliances and 
 conveniences for the prose- 
 cution of the business, 
 employment being given to 
 a large force of skilled 
 operatives, who are en- 
 gaged in the manufacture 
 of the celebrated Landell's 
 baking powder,' true ex- 
 tracts of fruit, lemon and 
 vanilla, essence of pepper- 
 mint, cinnamon and winter- 
 green, indigo liquid bluing, 
 mucilage, school inks, cold 
 drawn castor oil, sewing 
 machine oil, hair oil, ground 
 spices, mixed birdseed, bird gravel, diamond bath 
 brick pulverized, washed whiting, toilet soaps, pep- 
 per box bluing, improved French shoe blacking, 
 shoe dressing, stove polish, lye, potash, licorice, 
 mustard, etc., while the enterprise of the house is 
 well illustrated in the high grade of goods which 
 Mr. John E.'Landell, the proprietor, places upon 
 the market at prices difficult to duplicate elsewhere. 
 
 G. L. Beck. 
 
 ders with this house, and rely upon having their 
 commissions executed pro 
 prices, and to their entire sat 
 
 commissions executed promptly, at reasonable 
 tisfaction. 
 
 Star Chemical Works. 
 
 Manufacturer of Landell's Products, No. 6 Dearborn Street, 
 
 John E. Landell, Proprietor. 
 
 Among those houses which have risen to deserved 
 prominence in Chicago, by virtue of enterprise and 
 industry, must be classed that of the Star Chemical 
 Works, manufacturers of grocers' shelf goods. Al- 
 
 Publisher and Bookseller, 26 North Clark Street. 
 
 G. L. Beck, the prominent publisher and book- 
 seller of Chicago, began business in 1874, in a small 
 way, on Clybourn avenue, but trade increased so 
 rapidly that he moved to more central quarters in 
 1876, and in 1884 located at his present eligible 
 quarters. He has periodicals, papers and books in 
 all languages and at reasonable rates. He sells on 
 subscription, and has twenty-five or more assistants. 
 His sales amount to over $25,000 annually, and his 
 patronage extends all over the northwestern States. 
 Mr. Beck is also interested in Dr. C. Bernhard's 
 Glorious Discovery, Johanniter oil, salve, tea and 
 drops, which have become so noted throughout the 
 United States. The oil is a never-failing remedy. 
 It is an internal and external remedy, is incompar- 
 ably better than all contemporary medicines, and of 
 wonderfully rapid and strong action, although at the 
 same time totally harmless, even for the most deli- 
 cate constitutions, and sells for fifty cents per bottle. 
 The Johanniter salve is a popular remedy, and is 
 sold at twenty-five cents per box. The Johanniter 
 drops are blood-purifying, cathartic and strengthen- 
 ing. These drops are the very best remedy of 
 modern times, and should be found in every house- 
 hold. 
 
 For further particulars address G. L. Beck, No. 
 26 North Clark street, room 16.
 
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 A BUSINESS TOUR OF CHICAGO. 
 
 Dauchy & Co. 
 
 Manufacturers of Patent Vault and Sidewalk Lights, Etc., 
 125 and 127 Indiana Street. 
 
 his firm are noted manufacturers of patent vault 
 and sidewalk lights, and their premises are well ar- 
 ranged and fitted with all the appliances and con- 
 veniences necessary for this business. Besides a 
 variety of vault and coal-hole covers, they are put- 
 ting in a great number of forms and shapes of roof 
 and floor lights, and with different colors make very 
 handsome and ornamental work for both ceilings 
 and floors. They call especial attention to Ross' 
 patent light for vaults, which this firm uses. This 
 is by far the greatest improvement made in vault 
 light work for a long time, being one whereby they 
 are able to greatly increase the light, and thus make 
 deep basements more valuable. The plate is cast 
 with shoulders in the hole where the glass is inserted, 
 whereby the glass, with corresponding shoulders, 
 can be inserted from below, and then being partly 
 turned around is thereby fastened in so secure a 
 manner when cemented that it cannot be got out 
 without breaking it to pieces, nor can it be jarred 
 loose. The Ross patent has many other advantages, 
 which will be fully explained on application to this 
 firm. 
 
 Acme Laundry. 
 
 James Donnellan, Proprietor, 1035 West Madison Street. 
 
 The Acme laundry has been established for over 
 six years, but the present proprietor, James Donnel- 
 lan, has only had charge of it for the past four years. 
 The specialty is hand-work, every article being hand- 
 led in the most thorough manner, and without any 
 injury to the garment, as is often the case where 
 machinery is used. The best of order prevails in the 
 receipt and delivery of all goods, which shows the 
 
 good system of management of this laundry. Goods 
 are called for and delivered free of charge. The 
 price of family washing is from 75 cents to $1.50 per 
 dozen, and rough-dry from forty to fifty cents per 
 dozen. Mr. Donnellan is a native of Ireland and has 
 been a resident of Chicago for the past thirty-five 
 years. He is one of the energetic and live business 
 men of the West side and well merits the large trade 
 he has won for the Acme laundry. 
 
 Edwards & Fitzgerald. 
 
 Family Market, 55 North State Street. 
 This house of Edwards & Fitzgerald is not only in 
 name but reality a " Family Market," and enjoys the 
 patronage of some of the best citizens in all parts of 
 Chicago. Meats of every variety and description 
 can be had here at reasonable prices. Choice poul- 
 try, game, fish and oysters, as well as all kinds of 
 vegetables and fruits in their season, constitute part 
 of their fine stock. The finest cutlets, steaks, roasts 
 etc., are always in stock here, and 'prompt attention 
 in delivery is the rule in the place. Both members 
 of the firm are old and experienced butchers, and 
 have followed this business in Chicago for a long 
 term of years. 
 
 Great Western Wire Works. 
 
 198 Easf Madison Street, Theo. Spangenberg, Proprietor. 
 Theo. Spangenberg, the proprietor of the Great 
 Western Wire works, since inaugurating his business 
 in 1868, has continuously retained his lead in the 
 manufacture of all kinds of wire goods, store and 
 window fixtures, milliners' and hatters' trees, wire 
 show and advertising signs, stands, brackets and an 
 infinite variety of other wire goods, making a spe- 
 cialty of papier mach6 and wax forms. A hand- 
 somely illustrated catalogue of the goods actually 
 manufactured by this house is published and mailed 
 free on application to those interested, and which 
 those desiring anything of this character will do 
 well to consult before placing their orders elsewhere. 
 Mr. Spangenberg is a native of Germany and has 
 been a resident of Chicago since 1867. 
 
 Keller & Co. 
 
 Manufacturers of Bouquet Stands, Tables, Pedestals, Etc., 
 
 Corner Lake and Jefferson Streets. 
 One of the prominent furniture manufacturers of 
 this city is the firm of Keller & Co., corner of Lake 
 and Jefferson streets. They are manufacturers of 
 bouquet stands, tables and pedestals, easels, music 
 stands, etc. They turn out some very elegant work 
 at this factory, their designs being artistic. They 
 do a very extensive city jobbing trade, and their 
 goods are in great demand among the large whole- 
 sale houses in the city. Their factory is fitted up 
 with all the most modern wood-working machinery, 
 where they employ fifteen workmen. The business
 
 FIFTY YEARS' PROGRESS. 
 
 153 
 
 has been established since 1883. Mr. Edward A. 
 Keller is a designer and wood-carver, and has 
 been a prominent business man in this line of 
 trade for many years. Mr. J. G. Wartenweiler 
 is partner in the business, and has done much 
 to advance the business to its present high 
 standing. He is a native of Switzerland, learn- 
 ing his trade (wood and bone turning) in that 
 country. After learning his trade, he traveled through 
 all the large cities, gaining new points and perfect- 
 ing himself in all the branches of turning. He came 
 to Chicago in 1867, and has always been recognized 
 as one of the most experienced and skillful members 
 of his trade in the city. 
 
 Augustus Burke. 
 
 Successor to Burke Bros., Practical Felt, Composition and 
 Gravel Roofers, Office and Warehouse, 15 West 
 
 Superior Street. 
 
 One of the greatest considerations in building a 
 house is how to get a substantial roof. This ques- 
 tion has been practically solved by Mr. Augustus 
 Burke, of 15 West Superior street, near North Hal- 
 sted. He is a practical felt, composition and gravel 
 roofer, and dealer in roofing material. This gentle- 
 man has made this class of work his study for the 
 last eight years, and during that time has executed 
 work on many large buildings in this city, and 
 always with the greatest satisfaction. He has an 
 extensive connection with the principal builders, 
 carpenters, masons and architects of the city and 
 suburbs, and is always open to take contracts for 
 the execution of any amount of this kind of work. 
 He has excellent facilities and accommodations, the 
 plant being ample, and a staff of efficient workmen 
 are always employed. Parties who are connected 
 with the building trade would do well to consult 
 Mr. Burke at his office. They will find him ready 
 to give any information that lies in his power. The 
 notable jobs performed by Mr. Burke were for the 
 city police and fire departments, for the West Di- 
 vision Railway company, the Chicago and North- 
 western railway, Cribben & Sexton, Brunswick & 
 Balke, Washingtonian home, etc. 
 
 M. T. Coughlin. 
 
 Manufacturer and Dealer in Oils and Engineers' Supplies, 
 49 North Market Street. 
 
 Continuing our tour of the city, we entered the 
 establishment of M. T. Coughlin, at No. 49 North 
 Market street. He is manufacturer and dealer in all 
 kinds of oiU and engineers' supplies. One of the 
 important special brands of this firm is "Old Gold" 
 cylinder and machine oil, which is so popular and 
 much sought after by the trade. Mr. Coughlin has 
 been in the business for the past seven years and 
 during that time has built up a trade extending 
 throughout all parts of the south, west and north- 
 west, and aggregates nearly $3(1,000 annually. He 
 
 is a marine engineer of life-long experience, which 
 enables him to supply the best articles for this 
 trade. Entire satisfaction is guaranteed, and those 
 wishing supplies in this line will do well to give him 
 a call before going elsewhere. 
 
 D. Needham's Sons. 
 
 Red Clover Blossom Preparations, u and 118 Dearborn 
 
 Street. 
 
 The simple and common red clover blossom has 
 been found to be one of Nature's great remedies for 
 whooping cough, catarrh, inflammatory rheumatism, 
 erysipelas, etc., and has cured many 
 cases of cancer. It is not a patent 
 medicine, but simply what it is call- 
 ed red clover blossoms, and the 
 extract of the blossoms. It is con- 
 ceded by thousands of sufferers in 
 all parts of the country who have! 
 used it, and by many of the leading 
 physicians, to be the best blood purifier known, and 
 as a regulator of the bowels the solid extract has no 
 equal. It is pure simple, harmless and efficacious. 
 Great care is taken by this house in picking the 
 blossoms to get only the pure red clover, and to ex- 
 clude leaves and stems, and their red clover prepara- 
 tions now have a world-wide reputation as being 
 pure and unadulterated. They do not advertise ex- 
 tensively, but effect many sales through customers 
 who have seen or known persons benefited by the 
 use of the clover blossom remedy. 
 
 The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. 
 
 John L. Crist, Manager, Chicago Main House and West- 
 ern Headquarters, 160 State Street. 
 The representative concern in its line and the lar- 
 gest importers and retailers in the world are recog- 
 nized to be the Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Co. 
 This great company was organized a quarter of a cen- 
 tury ago, with headquarters at 35 and 37 Vesey 
 street, New York. The company began operations 
 in 1861 with ample resources and facilities, that have 
 never since been rivaled by any other house on 
 either hemisphere. There, today, in the company's 
 counting-rooms, is conducted the business which has 
 grown to magnitudinous proportions. The company 
 have 172 retail stores throughout the United States, 
 and are the heaviest importers of fine teas and cof- 
 fees brought to this country. Having connections 
 in Europe, India, China and Japan, their resources 
 for securing the choicest goods are unlimited, and 
 they deal today with millions of people on the basis 
 of pure teas and coffees. No rubbish or doctored 
 goods can be found in their stock. The oldest and 
 most practical tea men are at the head of this vast 
 business, and by judicious use of enormous capital, 
 the members of the company have long held the lead, 
 and must necessarily continue to do so. Special 
 agents are kept by them in the tea-growing districts
 
 154 
 
 A BUSINESS TOUR OF CHICAGO. 
 
 of China and Japan, who secure the finest yield of 
 this fragrant plant, and no second-grade or last sea- 
 son's teas, such as is usually foisted on the public by 
 small and inexperienced dealers. 
 
 The company is entitled to the credit of breaking 
 up the high prices which teas and coffees were sold 
 at some twenty years ago. The gross outgo of cof- 
 fee in their vast business is simply stupendous, and 
 it does not seem credible that one concern can 
 handle and consume at retail the enormous -amount 
 of five hundred tons of coffee per month, or one mil- 
 lion pounds. The coffee-roasting department has in 
 operation forty roasters, and they are taxed to their 
 utmost, being obliged to roast night and day in or- 
 der to supply the great demands made on them from 
 their branch houses. The first retail store was estab- 
 lished in Chicago in 1871, and now six large estab- 
 lishments, all in flourishing operation, are located as 
 follows: 160 State street, 91 North Clark street, 245 
 West Madison street, 148 Twenty-second street, 428 
 Milwaukee avenue and 240 North avenue. 
 
 Revere House. 
 
 Corner Clark and Michigan Streets, J. D. Fanning, 
 Proprietor. 
 
 This is one of the finely appointed and newly 
 fitted hotels of Chicago. It is also conveniently 
 located for trains and boats, and the pleasure resorts, 
 places of amusement, parks, etc., can be readily 
 reached by street-cars from this hotel. It is six 
 stories in height with a large basement, and is 
 entirely fire-proof, and from basement to roof every- 
 thing is arranged after the most improved modern 
 plans. Upwards of $100,000 were expended last 
 year alone for improvements and furnishing. The 
 house has a frontage on North Clark street of 150 
 feet and 100 feet on Michigan street. Thus it re- 
 ceives plenty of light, while fresh breezes from the 
 lake pass through every room in the house. This 
 standard house has been in existence for over a 
 quarter of a century, and although razed to the 
 ground by the fire of 1871, it has arisen, phosnix- 
 like, from its ashes in grander proportion and in- 
 creased magnificence. A finely fitted cafe, news 
 stand, telegraph ofHce, barber shop and billiard room 
 are located on the office floor. The Corinthian hall 
 is a prominent annex to this hotel, a covered tin 
 
 bridge uniting the two. The hall is 100x100 feet 
 and is used for public and private balls, receptions, 
 etc. The present proprietor, Mr. J. D. Fanning, 
 has had charge of this house for the past three 
 years, and it is to his efficient management and 
 energy that the improvements spoken of were 
 made and the present high standing has been reached. 
 Both the American and European plans are followed ; 
 the rates for the former are two dollars per day, 
 while at the latter rooms can be had from seventy- 
 five cents to one dollar per day and meals fifty cents 
 each. Mr. Fanning is a native of New York, and 
 brings with him a great practical experience in this 
 business, in which he is popularly known throughout 
 this country. 
 
 Henry J. Frieman. 
 
 Fancy Bakery, Coffee House and Restaurant, 
 
 91 Washington Street. 
 
 One of the most convenient and pleasant places 
 to get a meal, in the neighborhood of Washington 
 street and Clark, is that of Henry J. Frieman, at 
 91 Washington street. This house has been for 
 nine years a well-known, reliable restaurant. All 
 kinds of fancy baking is made on the premises, and 
 everything is as clean and inviting as possible. The 
 room 26x150 feet is fitted with twenty tables, is 
 well ventilated, and kept at a uniform heat of 
 about sixty degrees, both in summer and winter. 
 Meals are served up on the European plan, accord- 
 ing to the menu card. Thus everyone gets just 
 #hat they prefer, at a moderate cost. About twenty 
 hands are employed, and about one hundred can be 
 seated at one time, and on an average from six hun- 
 dred to seven hundred are fed here every day. The 
 business is steadily increasing, and is as prosperous 
 as that of any establishment of the kind in the city. 
 
 H. C. Nelson. 
 
 Maker of Fine Parlor and Professional Banjos, 
 
 716 Dania Ave. 
 
 Mr. H. C. Nelson makes the finest and hand- 
 somest banjos in the market, and a more skillful 
 workman is not to be found in the country. He 
 has lately made and sent a fine instrument of this 
 kind to H. R. H. the Prince of Wales. One lately 
 made for a prominent citizen is simply perfect in 
 construction, the finger-board and neck being of 
 ebony, the tuning keys of ivory, body of silver and 
 silver plate worked on a base of rosewood, inlaid 
 with tulipwood and ebony. The material alone cost 
 about $60, and the instrument was to be disposed of 
 for $125. Such an one could not be purchased in 
 any retail music warehouse for less than $200. Mr. 
 Nelson makes solely to order, both for private indi- 
 viduals and for the trade. He has been in the busi- 
 ness for six years, the last five of which have been 
 spent at his present location. The tone of his in- 
 struments is very fine, and not to be excelled and 
 very rarely equaled. His prices are from $15 up- 
 ward.
 
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 155 
 
 Dr. L. 0. Gibbs. 
 
 125 South Clark Street, Room 79. 
 Amongst the various remedial agents in cases of 
 disease, blood impurities, and especially in the case 
 of throat and lung affections, none is receiving more 
 attention than the oxygen treatment. The inhala- 
 tion of oxygen compound has been productive of 
 good results in many cases, and is indorsed by many 
 of the leading physicians of the day. Dr. L. O. 
 Gibbs has made this treatment a specialty, and also 
 uses, as aid, electricity and herbal remedies. He 
 has been established in this building and locality for 
 the past fifteen years, and is well known. He grad- 
 uated at Bennett Medical college in this city, and 
 has continued here since, having a large and increas- 
 ing practice. He gives his treatment direct, at his 
 office, 125 South Clark street, room 79, and charges 
 nothing for consultation. His charges are moderate, 
 and he gives one trial treatment free. His office 
 hours are from 10 A. M. to 5:30 P. M. 
 
 Phil.Jienrid 
 
 Cafe and Fancy Bakery, 175 and 177 East Madison Street. 
 This house was established in 1869, burned out in 
 1871, re-established in 1872, and has continued in the 
 same block ever since. About one hundred and fifty 
 guests can be accommodated at one time, and about a 
 thousand a day patronize this establishment. The 
 rates are based on the European plan what is ordered 
 is charged for, the price being plainly marked on the 
 menu card. The provisions are of the best quality, 
 well prepared, and served up in a thoroughly clean 
 and pleasing manner. It is, however, more for the 
 fine pastry and coffee that this house has become 
 noted, and as such we can cordially ask any visitor, 
 whether on business or pleasure, to give it their 
 patronage. 
 
 Henry Schoellkopf. 
 
 Importer and Wholesale Dealer in Groceries and Foreign 
 
 Produce, 232 and 234 East Randolph Street. 
 Amongst the oldest and best known mercantile 
 houses in the city, and a leading one in the grocery 
 and fruit line, is that of Mr. H. Schoellkopf, of 232 
 and 234 East Randolph street. This gentleman 
 came to this country from Germany when not more 
 than twenty years of age, and settled for four years 
 at Buffalo. He came to this city in 1851, and when 
 but twenty-four years of age opened this business. 
 The trade, which is both wholesale and retail, is 
 very large, extending to all parts of the city and 
 embracing a large country business. The goods 
 are sent out as far as Dakota, Colorado, etc., and are 
 of the best quality, and low in price. Mr. Schoell- 
 kopf'sends out no agents, advertising in the local 
 papers in preference. He keeps a large stock, and 
 makes a specialty of foreign cheese, canned fish, 
 dried fruits, and imports both direct and obtains 
 through importing houses. The bulk of his other 
 
 supplies are obtained from New York houses of the 
 largest kind. Mr. Schoellkopf has just erected some 
 fine residences on North Clark street and North 
 Park avenue, near Lincoln park. They are models 
 of architectural beauty, and among the finest resi- 
 dences of the North side. 
 
 John Snitzer. 
 
 Tailoring, Dyeing and Scouring, 125 Dearborn Street. 
 
 One of the oldest established and most reliable 
 houses where cleaning, dyeing, scouring and repair- 
 ing is made a specialty, is located at 125 Dear- 
 born street, on the second floor; also at 1824 
 Dearborn street, at his residence. The proprietor, 
 Mr. John Snitzer, has been connected with the busi- 
 ness all his life, and succeeded to this established 
 trade years ago. This house has been established 
 here since 1852, and is well known throughout the 
 city. It suffered with the rest in the great fire of 
 1871, but speedily built up again, and has a name 
 for careful and thorough work, and customers come, 
 some from long distances, to avail themselves of its 
 advantages. From six to eight hands are constantly 
 employed, and as the expenses are low, the charges 
 will be found to be as moderate as at any similar 
 establishment. 
 
 A. Lipman. 
 
 Diamond Broker and Loan Agent, 99 East Madison Street. 
 A standard and reliable establishment in its line 
 is that of A. Lipman, of 99 East Madison street. 
 Here the passer-by is attracted to the most beautiful 
 and costly collection of jewelry, diamonds, etc., 
 while inside a more varied assortment still is display- 
 ed. Mr. Lipman has been long established, having 
 commenced in this business a quarter of a century 
 ago, and has won the confidence and esteem of all 
 who have had dealings with him. He is well known 
 to all the hotel proprietors and is recommended by 
 them to any who may need temporary help. He is 
 fair dealing and can be depended upon for honest 
 and upright treatment. His stock of diamond jew- 
 elry is very fine, many beautiful designs being shown, 
 some single stones being worth close upon $1,000. 
 All in all, Lipman's is a standard place. 
 
 Mrs. E. M. Hoyt. 
 
 Artist, 1239 West Jackson Street. 
 The city of Chicago is possessed of a large number 
 of first-class artists, who, by close application to 
 study, have gained not only a local, but national 
 reputation, and none are more worthy of special 
 mention than the lady whose name heads this 
 sketch. She has had over fifteen years' experience 
 in portrait and landscape painting, and has received 
 instruction from prominent European artists, and 
 been a pupil of Mrs. Fassett and Prof. Carling. She 
 is known not only as an able artist, but as an excel-
 
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 A BUSINESS TOUR OF CHICAGO. 
 
 lent and proficient teacher, having pupils and receiv- 
 ing work from all parts of the city, suburbs, and the 
 States of Illinois and Wisconsin. She does all kinds 
 of artist work, such as crayon, india-ink, pastels, 
 water colors and oil. Special attention is given to 
 portrait painting and enlarging and finishing old 
 pictures. She is most thorough in the course of in- 
 struction given to her pupils, and does everything 
 in her power to perfect them in their work. Her 
 studio is located at her residence, 1239 West Jack- 
 son street, where she can be addressed or visited at 
 any time. All orders received by mail meet with 
 prompt and careful attention. 
 
 La Pierre House. 
 
 European Plan, Corner Washington Boulevard and 
 
 Halsted Street. 
 
 The West side hotels are proverbial for comfort, 
 and they are most extensively patronized by a large 
 class of people when they make a visit to our im- 
 portant city. The La Pierre house, at the corner of 
 Washington boulevard and Halsted street, is a nota- 
 ble example of what we mean. The popular pro- 
 prietor has been in this business for eleven years, 
 and understands it thoroughly in all its branches. 
 There are fifty rooms, and accommodation for eighty 
 guests This hotel is a fine brick structure, and 
 is considered one of the safest in the city, as 
 regards the construction and general internal 
 arrangements. Every precaution is taken to in- 
 sure the safety and comfort of the patrons of 
 this house. The house is very conveniently situated 
 with regard to easy access to the business portions 
 of the city, as the street-cars pass by the door, and 
 the Union depot can be reached by a person walk- 
 ing in five minutes. The idea of the management 
 is to make it a home hotel, and in this regard a 
 great success has been achieved. 
 
 Henry Newgard. 
 
 Practical Locksmith, Bell-Hanger and Brass-Finisher, 
 
 167 East Madison Street. 
 
 Mr. Newgard is a thoroughly practical and ex- 
 perienced workman. His trade is that of locksmith, 
 bell-hanger, brass finisher and erector 
 of speaking tubes, electric bells, 
 burglar alarms and gas-lighting 
 apparatus. His work may be relied 
 upon, and an order is promptly 
 attended to. His trade has been 
 steadily growing since 1883, when 
 he first commenced in business for 
 himself. He keeps a stock mostly 
 of materials for his use, which he 
 obtains from city houses. His 
 premises on Madison street com- 
 Sm<fJ prise office, work-shop and stock 
 room in one, and here the proprietor may be found 
 when not superintending work in the city or sur- 
 rounding districts. All the work and material 
 
 are of the first quality and are guaranteed to 
 give satisfaction. Mr. Henry Newgard is an ener- 
 getic and practical workman, and the informa- 
 tion may not be out of place in a work which, like 
 this, is intended to be a thorough guide to the 
 business man. 
 
 Lucke Bros. 
 
 Merchant Tailors, 121 Fifth Avenue. 
 One of the most reliable houses in this branch of 
 trade is that of Lucke Bros., of No. 121 Fifth avenue, 
 who have long been established and known as first- 
 class merchant tailors. They deal only in the best 
 goods (all cloths being imported), make up in the 
 latest styles and with the best workmanship. The 
 effort made by this firm is to produce as perfect an 
 article as can be made, and the giving of satisfaction 
 is more sought for by them tnan the amount of 
 profit gained by the transaction. Eleven years ago 
 they opened this business on Washington street (84), 
 and removed to their present premises only this 
 year. They are centrally located, in the very center 
 of the business part of the city, and their premises 
 are admirably suited to their requirements. The 
 bulk of the trade is local, but orders are constantly 
 being received from all parts of the State, chiefly 
 from their old customers, who cannot find another 
 firm to suit them so well in their new place of 
 abode. 
 
 R. Ernesti. 
 
 Artist, Studio, 77 South Clark Street. 
 Mr. R. Ernesti is an artist of fi-ne reputation and 
 of sixteen years' experience in his profession, and 
 can be said to stand today among the leaders in 
 this line. His $10 crayon and india-ink pictures 
 which he makes with good frame complete for$10, are 
 clever reproductions. Mr. Ernesti is very rapid, and 
 his work is indeed a marvel at the price, and orders 
 corne in faster than they can be executed. Mr. 
 Ernesti takes his copy either from life or from a 
 photograph, as may be desired. Those taken from 
 life, however, are always the most satisfactory. All 
 who desire to get a valuable and good portrait of 
 themselves or their friends should avail themselves 
 of this unexampled offer. Visitors are welcome to 
 inspect the work and specimens, and for the $10 
 they can choose their own style of frame. 
 
 Wm. Casler. 
 
 Dress Plaiting and Button Hole Bazar, 99 East 
 
 Madison Street. 
 
 A very important item in the expenditure of 
 ladies is the making of their dresses. This in many 
 cases exceeds the cost of the material, and many 
 would make their common dresses were it not that 
 they find such difficulty in making the plaiting, kilt- 
 ing, etc. For the benefit of such, we venture to
 
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 157 
 
 cite the establishment of Mr. Casler, known as the 
 Dress Plaiting and Button Hole Bazar, 99 East 
 Madison street. Here all the difficult portions of 
 the work can be brought, and skilled hands will 
 overcome the difficulty and make any kind of 
 plaiting desired, at low rate of charge. Mr. Casler 
 has lately added a branch to his line of business in 
 the button hole line, making the finest button hole 
 that was ever yet produced. It is different from all 
 others, and has the appearance of hand-made work, 
 and is just as durable. The kilting of skirts is a 
 specialty, and contracts are made with dressmakers 
 for this class of work, some of which cannot be done 
 with ordinary machines. Mr. Casler has been in the 
 business nine years in the same location, his busi- 
 ness having steadily increased since the commence- 
 ment. He employs six skilled hands, and uses steam 
 power for the sewing machines. 
 
 Lansing & Sickler. 
 
 Restaurant, 122 to 126 SouthClark Street. 
 The vast improvements lately completed here place 
 this restaurant the equal of anything of the kind in 
 
 established only four years in Chicago, she has a 
 large and growing patronage, extending over all 
 parts of the United States. Upwards of twenty 
 hands are employed to assist in manufacturing and 
 fitting, and all orders meet with prompt and careful 
 attention. Costumes for large parties can be fur- 
 nished on short notice, and all prices are reasonable. 
 Mrs. Kehl has had long experience in this business, 
 and is able to please the most fastidious masquer- 
 ader as to a suit and trimmings. Her proficiency 
 in this line has won for her all the theatrical trade 
 German and English in the city. Letters of the 
 highest testimonials are in her possession, showing 
 the satisfaction of her work to clubs, societies and 
 individuals. 
 
 Adam Breuer. 
 
 Manufacturer of Fine Brands of Hand-Made Cigars, and 
 Dealer in Tobacco and Smokers' Articles, 
 
 14 Rush Street. 
 
 Mr. Breuer is not only a dealer in tobacco and 
 smokers' articles, but makes a specialty of manufac- 
 turing fine brands of hand-made, unadulterated 
 cigars, prominent among which is the Henry Clay 
 and La Rosa Conchas. In this line he is 
 not surpassed by anyone in Chicago, 
 and many of his customers walk blocks 
 out of their way to procure one of his 
 desirable brands. On account of this 
 merited reputation his trade is very large, 
 and amounts to over a quarter of a million 
 cigars annually. Mr. Breuer began busi- 
 ness in 1860, at No. 355 Superior street. 
 Although a heavy loser by the big fire, 
 his energy and will were too great to be 
 thus downed, so he made another start, 
 which has resulted in his present large 
 trade. He moved to his present quarters 
 in 1880, and has six skilled workmen 
 employed in the factory. 
 
 the city. The ladies' department is elaborately fur- 
 nished and fitted, and reserved especially for them. 
 The house has been established ever since the -big 
 fire, and has obtained a wide reputation and patron- 
 age. The place is fitted up with the latest mosaic 
 tiling for the floors, lincrusta walton for the ceilings, 
 and fine mirrors for the walls. Philip Best's and 
 imported beers are served, and lunch counter and 
 tables are fitted up with all that goes to supply the 
 inner man, while from thirty to fifty obliging waiters 
 look after the interests of all. About fifteen hundred 
 to two thousand persons are served daily at this 
 model restaurant. 
 
 James Ball. 
 
 Mrs. L. Kehl. 
 
 Masquerade Costumer, 62 North Clark Street. 
 At No. 62 North Clark street are the parlors of 
 Mrs. L. Kehl. the popular masquerade costumer of 
 Chicago. She keeps constantly on hand a full and 
 varied supply of all make-ups, and patrons can be 
 fitted out with any style on short notice. Although 
 
 Ladies' and Gentlemen's Fine Boot and Shoe Maker, 
 Avondale. 
 
 One of the very finest custom boot and shoe 
 makers in the city is Mr. James Ball. Mr. Ball uses 
 imported leather and only the best materials of all 
 kinds, and employs skilled hands only. He makes 
 exclusively to measure in the latest styles, and guar- 
 antees satisfaction, and your measure can be taken 
 at your residence by sending a postal card. For 
 thirty years he has been in the trade, ten of which 
 he has been foreman in some of the largest Chicago 
 houses. He is a Cornishman and left England 
 when twenty-six years of age. He came to this city 
 twelve years ago, and early in 1885 commenced 
 making on his own account. He employs from six 
 to ten hands, and has a large local trade. He buys 
 his material from local importers, and is well known 
 as a thoroughly reliable and hard-working trades 
 man.
 
 158 
 
 A BUSINESS TOUR OF CHICAGO. 
 
 McEwan's 
 
 Temperance European Hotel and Coffee House, 93 and 95 
 
 West Madison Street. 
 
 One of the finest establishments of this kind in the 
 cify is McEwan's Temperance European hotel and 
 cuffee house of 93 to 95 West Madison street. The 
 hotel is a handsome fire-proof structure, containing 
 one hundred and thirty rooms, which are all well 
 furnished in a style superior to the general run of 
 hotels of this description. The interior arrange- 
 ments are admirable, and the strictest attention is 
 paid to cleanliness and comfort. Mr. McEwan also 
 runs a restaurant in connection with the hotel. It 
 has a spacious, well-lighted dining-room, and is well 
 patronized, as many as 1,200 meals a day being 
 served, Mr. McEwan is an old resident of Chicago, 
 having been settled here since 1855. Visitors to 
 Chicago will find this a very comfortable and con- 
 venient hotel, as it is very centrally located and 
 within easy access of the Union depot and all the 
 principal business houses and places of amusement. 
 
 Fred. J. Wallis. 
 
 Artist, Room 75, Japanese Building. 
 There are few artists in whom the innate qualities 
 essential to success more strongly predominate than 
 in Fred. J. Wallis, now permanently located in 
 Chicago. He is widely known as a portrait painter, 
 and is patronized by many of our best families. Mr. 
 Wallis' work gives evidence of marked natural 
 ability, thorough technical training and originality 
 of conception, while the careful attention he pays to 
 the minutest details insures the utmost perfection 
 in his treatment of a subject. Mr. Wallis is a 
 native of Germany, but has resided in Chicago since 
 1857, and in his specialty, oil and crayon portraits, 
 has become widely known, both at home and abroad, 
 his productions embellishing the walls of many of our 
 own palatial mansions, while as a public-spirited and 
 representative citizen he also occupies a prominent 
 position. 
 
 Sandberg & Co. 
 
 Dealers in Engravers' Wood and Engravers' Tools, 
 
 Factory 86 and 88 Dearborn Street. 
 This firm is engaged in the production of en- 
 gravers' woods (bolted blocks being a specialty), 
 tools and requisites for wood engraving. Their box- 
 wood is imported from Turkey, while maple, pine, 
 etc., are obtained from domestic sources. These 
 latter woods are used for common engraving, but 
 the better class are all executed on boxwood. 
 The boxwood does not reach a cirumference of 
 more than about eight or ten inches, and of this the 
 center contains knots and the outside cracks, so 
 that blocks can only be cut of about four inches 
 square. When larger are required they are made by 
 "bolting" together two or more of these smaller 
 
 blocks. Some of the largest engravings are executed 
 on bolted blocks, of great size, and containing a 
 hundred or more separate blocks. The fitting 
 of these together, smoothing them off, etc., is a 
 delicate process, and requires much skill. This 
 business has been established twelve years, and has 
 steadily increased until at present about fifteen 
 hands are employed, and the blocks are supplied to 
 engravers in all parts of the United States, and are 
 are also sent in considerable quantities to Canada. 
 The quality of the work cannot be surpassed, while 
 having every facility for the prompt execution of 
 orders, they are able to work for as low rates as any 
 firm in the country. 
 
 A. R._0hlman. 
 
 Glass Engraver, 113 Madison Street. 
 Mr. A. R. Ohlman, glass engraver, is thoroughly 
 skilled and experienced in all kinds of glass engrav- 
 ing, having been established since 1869. He has 
 been a large loser by fire; first in 1871 he lost all, 
 and nearly all, except his tools, in the spring of 1886, 
 on Dearborn street. The tools cannot be bought, 
 and have to be made specially for the work, gener- 
 erally by the engraver himself. It is astonishing 
 with what speed a skilled workman will execute a 
 piece of engraving. In about four minutes, while 
 watching the proprietor, he took up a glass bottle, 
 fixed his tools and engraved first a name, in old 
 English, then an ornamental top and bottom figure 
 of leaves, work that apparently would take ten times 
 as long to perform. He also has specimens of some 
 of the finest and most "delicate engravings to be 
 anywhere seen. Monograms, especially, and initials 
 are executed most skillfully and accurately by him 
 or his skilled workmen. Most of his orders are from 
 firms, but he is open to execute orders for private 
 individuals, etc., at very low rates. 
 
 Anna House. 
 
 102 and 104 North Clark Street, A. B. Young, Proprietor. 
 This house was opened ten years ago especially 
 for hotel purposes, and is six stories high. The 
 offices, parlors and large dining hall are located on 
 the second floor, while the rest of the building is 
 given to sleeping apartments, of which there are 
 over fifty. The house is furnished throughout in 
 the most elegant and latest style, while all modern 
 conveniences and appliances are used. The rooms 
 are large and airy, and everything is done for the 
 comfort and safety of the guests. The standard of 
 the Anna house is so well known that it is con- 
 stantly crowded. It is more of a home hotel than 
 any one in the city. The rates are $1.50 and $2.00 
 per day, according to location of room. Special 
 attention is given to family patronage, and in this 
 line a large trade has been established. Mrs. A. B. 
 Young has been proprietor of the hotel for nearly 
 two years, and under her efficient management its 
 patronage has greatly increased.
 
 FIFTY YEARS' PROGRESS. 
 
 159 
 
 United States Home Mfg. Co. 
 
 Inventors and Manufacturers of Specialties in Ladies' and 
 Children's Underwear, 37 Lakeside Building, 
 
 N. B. Little, Manager. 
 
 There is probably no line of manufacture in which 
 has been made greater progress in the last few years 
 than in the manufacture of specialties in connection 
 with the ladies' fur- 
 nishing goods trade, 
 while no house in 
 the business has at- 
 tained an equal rep- 
 utation with that 
 built up by the U. 
 S. Home Manufac- 
 turing company, in 
 the five years which 
 have elapsed since 
 its organization. In 
 the sale of their rub- 
 ber underwear for 
 ladies and misses, an 
 entirely new thing, 
 the invention of 
 Mrs. H. F. Little, 
 thousands of lady 
 agents all over the country have found remuner- 
 ative and easy employment, as this article needs 
 only to be introduced to insure a certain sale. 
 Besides ingenious machinery, there are hundreds 
 of operatives steadily engaged in the manufacture 
 of these goods. The manager, Mr. N. B. Little, 
 gives his close personal supervision to the busi- 
 ness, thereby insuring that only articles of first- 
 class quality shall leave the premises. The enterprise 
 of this concern has been fully illustrated by the supe- 
 rior character of the articles placed on the market. 
 
 J. H. Purdy & Co. 
 
 Watch Materials, Tools, Etc., Room 4, 170 State Street. 
 Among the wonders of a great city, the magnitude 
 attained by seemingly unimportant lines of business 
 is not the least. A notable illustration is in the line 
 of watch materials, jewelers' supplies, jewelers' and 
 watchmakers' tools, etc. A prominent representa- 
 tive of this branch of trade in Chicago is the house 
 of J. H. Purdy & Co., noted for completeness of 
 stock and thorough knowledge of this special busi- 
 ness. Beginning as a watchmaker's apprentice, Mr. 
 Purdy's experience covers nearly one-third of this 
 century. When the U. S. Jewelers' Guild, an asso- 
 ciation of retail jewelers represented in nearly all the 
 States, determined to supply themselves and patrons 
 with reliable stamped goods, they found it necessary 
 to entrust their interests and stamp to some one of 
 undoubted integrity, who should act as their repre- 
 sentative in obtaining and distributing this supply, 
 and Mr. Purdy was the first choice. Mr. Purdy is a 
 native of Bath, N. Y. He came west in 1869, set- 
 tling at Des Moines, Iowa. In 1805 he traveled for 
 a large jewelry house of this city, and in 1875 com- 
 
 menced selling on commission, in his own name. 
 He opened a regular jobbing business in 1880, soon 
 after which he took charge of the Guild jewelry. 
 He has invented many important tools and articles 
 .pertaining to the trade, that have met with large 
 sales in this and other countries. 
 
 North Side Restaurant. 
 
 53 North Clark Street, Mrs. Williams, Proprietor. 
 This orderly establishment is conducted by Mrs. 
 Williams, who has had charge of it for the past six 
 years. Everything of the best the market affords 
 can be had here, at very reasonable rates. Mrs. 
 Williams gives every feature of the business her close 
 personal attention. She has nine efficient assist- 
 ants to help her with the work. The restaurant is 
 well patronized, and commutation tickets are sold 
 for $3.00, on which $3.50 worth of meals can be pro- 
 cured. Lunches and suppers are prepared on short 
 notice and at reasonable terms. It is also an all- 
 night restaurant, and meals can be had at all hours. 
 
 P. H. Bolten & Co. 
 
 General CommissionJ Merchants, 223 South Water Street. 
 A thoroughgoing exponent of the commission 
 business in Chicago is to be found in the reliable 
 house of Messrs. P. H. Bolten & Co. They do a 
 general commission business in country produce, 
 making a specialty of butter and eggs, in which 
 their extensive acquaintance among the trade en- 
 ables them to effect quick sales and immediate 
 returns, thus tending greatly to the advantage of 
 those placing consignments with them. Mr. Bolten 
 has been in the commission business since 1871, and 
 is fully acquainted with every feature of the trade. 
 The gentlemen at the head of this house, Messrs. 
 P. H. Bolten and J. William Johnston, are held 
 in high esteem and bring long experience and 
 marked ability to the conduct of their enterprise. 
 They are doing an extensive business, honestly 
 earned by the fairness of their methods and the 
 promptness with which is executed all orders 
 entrusted to their house. 
 
 Stephen Paddon & Co. 
 
 Chemical and Drug Importers, 156 Washington Street. 
 A very important firm is that of Stephen Paddon 
 & Co., chemical and drug importers, glass-makers', 
 soap-makers' and paper-makers' supplies, and manu- 
 facturers of glass bottles, located on the first floor 
 No. 156 Washington street. This firm was estab- 
 lished in 1875, the office having been located here 
 ever since. The chemicals and drugs are imported 
 direct from Europe, while the sales are chiefly in 
 the country, west and north, from Cincinnati and 
 Ohio to the Pacific. The manufacture of glass- 
 ware was added in 1881. The factory is located at
 
 160 
 
 A BUSINESS TOUR OF CHICAGO. 
 
 La Salle, 111., and employs about 180 hands, all 
 kinds of bottles, chiefly those required by bottlers 
 of wine, ales, cider, etc., being the article of manu- 
 facture. Samples only are kept here, orders being 
 supplied direct from the factory and warehouses in 
 the city. The trade is large and steadily increasing, 
 numbering amongst its patrons many important and 
 well-known firms. 
 
 J. Jerusalem. 
 
 562 and 564 North Halsted Street. 
 The large Weiss Beer brewery of Mr. J. Jerusalem 
 is at the corner of North Halsted and Rees streets. 
 He is one of the old residents of this city, and suf- 
 fered heavily from the big fire in 1871, having his 
 entire establishment, which was then located on 
 Rush street, burned out, but with energy and per- 
 severance he began again, and his business has 
 steadily increased ever since. He owns the large 
 building in which his brewery is located, although 
 he only occupies one-half of it, 30x126 feet, three 
 floors and a basement. A large force of men is em- 
 ployed, and several teams run to accommodate his 
 many customers. Mr. Jerusalem is a native of Ger- 
 many, and came to Chicago in 1865. 
 
 Charles W. Rose. 
 
 Merchant Tailor, 168 East Washington Street. 
 In the merchant tailoring trade there are none who 
 have a better name for turning out superior goods 
 than Mr. Charles W. Rose, successor to L. Wunderle. 
 This business was first established in 1854, and was 
 carried on by Mr. Wunderle till the 6th of March, 
 1883, when the present proprietor bought the busi- 
 ness, since which time the trade has rapidly improved, 
 and employs thirteen hands in the making-up 
 department alone. The second floor of No. 168 and 
 basement of the next door building are occupied by 
 this business. Mr. Rose only deals in best imported 
 cloth, Italian, and other materials. Suits are fur- 
 nished complete on short notice from $35 upwards, 
 and this, considering the quality of the goods and 
 the workmanship, is extremely reasonable. The 
 yearly sales amount to $25,000, and have more than 
 doubled in the last two years. 
 
 W. R Horn. 
 
 Commission Merchant and Dealer in Lumber, Shingles, 
 Etc., 238 South Water Street. 
 
 Prominent among the old established business con- 
 cerns of Chicago stands the well and favorably known 
 house of W. H. Horn, lumber commission and deal- 
 er in shingles, railroad ties, wood, bark, cedar posts 
 and telegraph poles. The business was established 
 upwards of twenty years ago, and has been carried 
 on continuously and successfully ever since. Mr. 
 Horn handles all kinds of lumber, lath and shingles 
 
 on commission, in car an<_. cargo lots, having old es- 
 tablished connections with the largest mills in the 
 northwest, and cuts from his own lands railroad ties, 
 cedar posts, telegraph poles, wood and bark, and is 
 therefore in a position to promptly fill the largest 
 orders at the lowest market quotations. Besides his 
 other business ventures, he is the proprietor of 
 Horn's Pier, Door county, Wis., from which millions 
 of railroad ties, cedar posts and poles are annually 
 loaded, being one of the best piers on the lakes. 
 During his long and active business career, Mr. Horn 
 has displayed large business capacity, shrewd fore- 
 sight, and is well and favorably known in business 
 circles. 
 
 John Clottu & Son. 
 
 Dealers in Wringers, Carpet Sweepers, and Manufacturers 
 of the Banner Washing Machine, 277 East 
 
 Madison Street. 
 
 Mr. John Clottu and his son Victor are successors 
 to Calkin Brothers and P. H. Weber & Co. in this 
 business, which consists of the manufacture of the 
 "Banner W-shing Machine" and the sale and repair 
 of all kinds of wringers and 
 carpet sweepers. This firm 
 occupy the first floor and 
 basement, the former be- 
 ing the store, and the lat- 
 ter the place of manufac- 
 ture. Three skilled and 
 six unskilled workmen are 
 constantly employed. Mr. 
 John Clottu came to this 
 country in 1849, and for many years traveled through 
 the States representing various commercial interests. 
 His son was born in Minnesota in 1861, and came to 
 this city in 1865. They have a good local trade, and 
 also export to Australia to a considerable extent. 
 In Chicago, where washing and laundry work is so 
 dear, every family should possess one of the " Ban- 
 ner Washers," which are the best in the market, and 
 very reasonable in price. And Mr. J. Clottu & Son 
 make it a point never to sell an article they cannot 
 guarantee. 
 
 F. Gustorf. 
 
 Agent, Lumber Commission, 242 South Water Street, 
 Room 16. 
 
 The enormous amount of capital invested in the 
 lumber trade of the United States, and the general 
 interests involved give to this branch of business an 
 importance that does not attach to many of the other 
 leading lines of commerce. Among the old estab- 
 lished and best known houses engaged in this line 
 in this city is the deservedly popular and highly 
 successful one of which Mr. Gustorf is the proprie- 
 tor, lumber commission, than which none maintain 
 a higher standing in the trade or enjoy a larger 
 share of public favor and patronage. He handles 
 all kinds of lumber in car and cargo lots, received 
 direct from the chief producing regions of Michigan,
 
 FIFTY YEARS' PROGRESS. 
 
 161 
 
 Wisconsin and the northwest, upon consignment of 
 which liberal advances are made when requested. 
 Mr. Gustorf, who has conducted the business with 
 success for twenty years, is a gentleman of unmis- 
 takable ability and of the highest integrity, and the 
 large measure of prosperity he now enjoys affords 
 the amplest evidence of the general satisfaction he 
 renders to those entrusting consignments to his care. 
 
 S. F. Wright & Co. 
 
 Livery and Boarding Stables, 248, 250 and 252 Kinzie St. 
 
 Those desiring to see the much talked of boulevards 
 
 and parks of Chicago will always find good facilities at 
 
 the fine livery and boarding stables of S. F. Wright 
 
 & Co., at 248 to 252 Kinzie street. The business 
 was established in 1857 by Mr. A. J. Wright, at the 
 corner of Madison and Clark streets. In 1864 S. F. 
 Wright united with his brother, and two years 
 later large and commodious stables were erected on 
 the present site, but were burned out in the fire of 
 1871. They moved to the West side, where they 
 remained until 1873, when the partnership was sev- 
 ered, and S. F. Wright returned to the present site 
 and erected the large three-story brick stable now 
 used by him. In 1880 his nephew, George N 
 Wright, was admitted to the business, and has don 
 much to promote their large trade. The stables 
 cover an area of 100x150 feet, and are as finely 
 fitted and arranged as any livery in Chicago. For 
 ventilation, light and care given to all horses left in 
 their care, these stables are unexcelled. Some of 
 the finest turn-outs in the city can be procured 
 here, and the trade consists of patrons from all the 
 leading clubs and families of Chicago. A force of 
 twenty-five men are constantly employed, and nothing 
 is left undone to keep up the reputation of the 
 stables for prompt attention to orders and first-class 
 equipages. For further information call up tele- 
 phone No. 3065. 
 
 Potter & Kisselburg. 
 
 Dealers in Hay, Straw and Grain, 1073 West Madison St. 
 This firm deals extensively in hay, straw and 
 grain of all kinds, besides feed. Their trade is quite 
 large, especially among the various stockmen of the 
 city and suburbs, and since the State fair has been 
 
 held in this city, this firm has had the contract for 
 furnishing forage for the association, and also for 
 the fat stock show for the past four years. They 
 begun the business in 1878 at No. 622 West Madi- 
 son street, and after several changes moved to their 
 present quarters three years ago. Their premises 
 are fitted up in such a manner as to insure the 
 prompt handling of all stock, so as to fill orders in 
 the quickest and most satisfactory manner. They 
 make selections of the best that can be procured, 
 and their prices for such goods are very reasonable. 
 Mr. Potter has been a resident of Chicago since 
 1876, and Mr. Kisselburg came to this city twenty 
 years ago. 
 
 W. M. Paine. 
 
 Dealer in Fresh and Salt Meats, Poultry, Game, Etc., 
 1066 West Madison Street. 
 
 The enterprising establishment of Mr. W. M. 
 Paine is at this location. Here is kept all kinds of 
 fresh and salt meats, together with poultry, game, 
 fish, vegetables, etc., which at once indicates the 
 first-class character of this market, and conducted 
 by a man experienced in this branch of trade. Mr. 
 Paine has been located at his present quarters for 
 the past three years, although he was in busi'ness for 
 himself five years ago, at No. 75 West Adams street. 
 He gives all his attention to his present market, and 
 by bringing his life experience to bear upon the 
 business has won a fine reputation and gained a 
 large patronage from the best class of citizens in this 
 part of the city. Mr. Paine is a native of this State, 
 and has spent most of his life in this city. He was 
 among the first to answer the country's call during 
 the war, and enlisted in the 52d Illinois volunteers. 
 He is an honored member of Custer post, No. 40. 
 
 Western Patent Agency. 
 
 H. P. Crawford & Co., Proprietors, 125 South Clark 
 Street, H. C. Pockman, Attorney. 
 
 When an inventor brings out a patent, the next 
 difficulty is to dispose of it to the best advantage. 
 Several means are offered of doing this, but none 
 have so great a merit as that system pursued by the 
 " Western Patent Agency." The manner in which 
 this is done is by judiciously advertising and placing 
 the merits of the invention before the manufacturers 
 and merchants dealing with that line of goods. This 
 is done by publishing a journal, "The Inventors' 
 Review," and mailing this to all such persons, in all 
 parts of the country. The proprietors of this agency 
 are H. P. Crawford & Co., Mr. H. C. Pockman be- 
 ing the associate in the business and the attorney for 
 the company. The terms for disposal are as moder- 
 ate as any other reliable agency, and depend largely 
 upon commission, from ten to thirty per cent being 
 charged upon the sale, according to the merits of 
 the invention. The firm also obtain estimates for 
 the manufacture of inventions for all inventors who 
 place their business with them. They also obtain 
 United States and foreign patents on the most rea-
 
 A BUSINESS TOUR OF CHICAGO. 
 
 sonable terms. Satisfactory references are given, and 
 satisfaction guaranteed. Engraving, printing, etc., 
 is done on the lowest terms; estimates given on ap- 
 plication. This business was carried on for five years 
 in San. Francisco, at which city a branch office still 
 exists. 
 
 Meath Bros. 
 
 Wholesale and Retail Dealers in Furniture, Carpets, Etc., 
 
 265 and 267 West Madison Street. 
 At Nos. 265 and 267 West Madison street will be 
 found the commodious store of Messrs. Meath Bros. 
 These gentlemen are wholesale and retail dealers in 
 furniture, carpets, stoves, oil cloth, curtains and 
 everything in the house-furnishing line. This firm 
 are very liberal with their customers, and are advo- 
 cates of the easy payment system. They manufac- 
 ture a considerable quantity of parlor furniture for 
 their own trade, and have a well-fitted factory to 
 carry on this branch of their business. They carry 
 a large stock, and are prepared to furnish any sized 
 house at the shortest notice. The firm is a new one 
 in this locality, having only started in business here 
 on the 1st of July, 1886. But they succeeded to an 
 established business, and are gentlemen of experience 
 in the furniture trade, and know how to give satisfac- 
 tion to their customers, and to keep the trade to- 
 gether. 
 
 Charles Racine. 
 
 Pattern-Maker and Millwright, 86 an 
 Street. 
 
 88 West Randolph 
 
 Mr. Charles Racine, of 86 and 88 West Randolph 
 street, is extensively engaged as a pattern-maker and 
 millwright. He gives special attention to putting up 
 shafting and setting machinery, a branch of business 
 in which he has had a long and varied experience. 
 Mr. Racine makes a specialty of the manufacture of 
 metal signs for shop doors, windows, etc. He has a 
 large trade through the west and northwestern 
 States, and his goods give universal satisfaction. 
 Mr. Racine was born in London, England, and served 
 his apprenticeship at the Millwall shops. He came 
 to this country in 1857. In 1865 he started in busi- 
 ness for himself, and by his energy and perseverance 
 has succeeded in establishing a very snug business. 
 
 Svenska Tribunen 
 
 (The Swedish Tribune) Published Every Saturday at 
 
 Corner Clark and Kinzie Streets, Room 23. 
 This is a liberal political weekly journal, published 
 every Saturday by the Swedish Publishing Co. 
 The Swedish Tribune is devoted to the interests of 
 the Swedish people, not only of Chicago, but through- 
 out the United States. Its popularity is attested 
 by the large circulation of over twenty-five thousand 
 copies. It is liberal in its politics, and upholds 
 that which is right and just, no matter what the 
 party name may be. Its columns are full, not only of 
 
 the news of the day, but contain choice and inter- 
 esting reading for the household. As a medium 
 through which to advertise to reach the notice of 
 this people, there is none better, and business men 
 will do well to give it a trial. The price of the paper 
 is $2.25 yearly, and $1.15 for six months. A large 
 subscription list of over fifteen hundred is sent to 
 Sweden every week. The officers of the company are 
 A. Chaiser, president and manager; 'C. G. Linder- 
 borg, secretary and treasurer; and F. E. Jocknick, 
 assistant treasurer. The paper was begun in 1869, 
 and has met with great success. The most promi- 
 nent Swedish writers of this and the old country 
 contribute to it. Mr. C. O. Carlson is advertising 
 manager, and all communications should be ad- 
 dressed to him. 
 
 E. T._Marsh. 
 
 Manufacturer of and Dealer in Harness, Collars, Whips, 
 Robes, Etc., 1055 West Madison Street. 
 
 This business was established over seven years ago, 
 and Mr. Marsh has had charge of it since March, 1886. 
 He is manufacturer of and dealer in all kinds of har- 
 ness, horse-collars, whips, robes, horse-clothing, etc. 
 He employs the most competent workmen, and 
 uses only the best of material. Mr. Marsh has a 
 large and lucrative trade, and satisfaction is given in 
 every case. He has had a life-long experience in 
 this trade, which enables him to make the best of 
 selections for his patrons, and to produce his manu- 
 factured goods at most reasonable prices, and also 
 does all kinds of carriage trimming and repairing. 
 Mr. Marsh has lived in Chicago for the past fifteen 
 years. He served in the war of the rebellion in the 
 3d Wisconsin cavalry, where he did valiant service. 
 
 Charles T. Brown. 
 
 Attorney-at-Law and Counselor in Patent Causes, and 
 
 Solicitor of American and Foreign Patents, Offices, 
 
 No. 225 Dearborn Street. 
 
 However learned and intelligent an inventor may 
 be, however skilled in his profession or business, ig- 
 norant alike of the letter of the patent laws as passed 
 by congress, and of their meaning as construed in 
 the many decisions made in litigated cases in the 
 United States courts, the difficulties and delays ex- 
 perienced in properly preparing an application and 
 in presenting it to the rigid examination neces- 
 sarily required in the patent office are almost insur- 
 mountable by an inventor, and he has but little 
 chance of obtaining his just rights, unless aided by 
 an able and experienced patent solicitor. The 
 importance, in litigation concerning patents, of 
 securing the assistance of an attorney specially 
 trained in the patent law and skilled in the analysis 
 of mechanical devices is recognized by all litigants. 
 It is universally admitted that many of the patent 
 attorneys and solicitors of Chicago, located, as they 
 are, in the very center of a large manufacturing dis- 
 trict, and upon whom the demands from the factory, 
 the machine shop and the field are almost unlimited,
 
 FIFTY YEARS' PROGRESS. 
 
 163 
 
 are specially fitted for and exceptionally successful 
 in their chosen profession; and especially is this true 
 of Mr. Charles T. Brown, of No. 225 Dearborn street. 
 Mr. Brown has the best facilities for making exhaus- 
 tive examination of all official documents of Ameri- 
 can and foreign patents, and since his admission to 
 the bar of Illinois, his success has been phenomenal, 
 both in the soliciting of important patents and in 
 patent suits before the United States circuit and su- 
 preme courts. We recommend all interested in 
 inventions to call upon or correspond with Mr. Brown 
 and obtain his advice and opinion concerning their 
 patentability and cost of obtaining American or 
 foreign patents. 
 
 A. W. Reggie & Co. 
 
 Wholesale and Retail Dealers in Imported and Domestic 
 
 Cigars and Tobaccos, 74 Washington Street. 
 One of the largest businesses in cigars and tobacco 
 is that of A. W. Heggie & Co. The retail store, 
 well stocked and fitted up, is located at 74 Washing- 
 ton street. Here lovers of the fragrant weed can 
 obtain all the leading brands of both imported and 
 domestic cigars. Mr. Heggie has had many years' 
 connection with the trade as jobber, manufacturers' 
 agent, etc. He deals in'good, reliable brands only, 
 and does a considerable trade with country retailers. 
 His retail trade is large and steadily increasing; the 
 box trade especially is growing, as special induce- 
 ments and reductions are made to such customers. 
 A full line of smoking and plug tobacco is also 
 kept, of qualities not to be surpassed and at the 
 lowest market price. Mr. Heggie is well known to 
 the trade, his connections with them having been 
 long and always of an honorable character. 
 
 M. Schwalbach. 
 
 Manufacturer of Church' and Tower Clocks, 426 Ninth 
 
 Street, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. 
 
 The construction of this clock is so simple that 
 anybody can easily understand its working, take 
 care of it and keep 
 it 'in good order. 
 The pendulum, 
 having vibrated 
 \ freeone-half-min- 
 : ute, one minute 
 I receives a new im- 
 ; petus by a light 
 ; spring, to keep it 
 ' vibrating; the 
 small wheel at the 
 top of the pendu- 
 lum counts the 
 number of vibra- 
 tions and loosens 
 the clock. The 
 weight pushes the 
 clockwork and 
 the hands ahead 
 one half-minute, 
 or every minute, and braces the little spring, which 
 
 then follows the pendulum and communicates 
 to it a light pressure, the clockwork thereafter again 
 resting thirty sec- 
 onds. The fan at the 
 front of the pendu- 
 lum serves to detain 
 the weight. Behind 
 the fan is the es- 
 capement-wheel with 
 three rollers. Inside 
 of -the escapement- 
 wheel is the little 
 spring, which on one 
 end is fastened to 
 the shaft and on the 
 other to the escape 
 
 ment-wheel. The first shaft revolves around one- 
 third every half-minute, making a full rotation in 
 one and one-half minutes. The second shaft turns 
 every quarter of an hour and starts the quarter- 
 striking, while the quarter-striking, having struck the 
 four quarters, starts the hour striking, this being 
 done on the largest bell. The third shaft makes one 
 full rotation every hour, indicating the time on a 
 small dial at front of the clock; the third shaft, by 
 means of a rod running upwards in the rear of the 
 clock, also moves the hands on the dials of the 
 tower. 
 
 C. M. Barnes. 
 
 Wholesale Books and Stationery, 75 and 77 Wabash Ave. 
 Of the various commercial enterprises that have 
 made Chicago one of the great trade centers of the 
 nation, it is easy to perceive that the book trade has 
 exerted an important influence. Prominent among
 
 164 
 
 A BUSINESS TOUR OF CHICAGO. 
 
 the leading and representative houses engaged in 
 this trade is that of Mr. C. M. Barnes, a gentleman 
 both by education and taste peculiarly adapted to 
 the book business. Mr. Barnes was for fifteen years 
 a minister of the Congregational church, but failing 
 health necessitated a change to other pursuits, and 
 after three years spent in the government service, 
 he established his present business in 1876, and soon 
 thereafter, through judicious management, attained 
 to his present prominence in the trade. Though 
 devoting himself to no particular class of literature, 
 his prominent specialty is in second-hand and shop- 
 worn school-books, in which his facilities permit of 
 his offering the most advantageous terms. His line 
 of new school-books is also very extensive. The 
 house was formerly located at Nos. 151 and 153 Wa- 
 bash avenue, but more enlarged accommodations were 
 long since demanded to properly transact the busi- 
 ness, and on May 1, 1887, the present spacious prem- 
 ises were occupied. Mr. Barnes is a native of Canton, 
 111., and is highly appreciated by all know him, while 
 in his relation to the educational world, he occupies a 
 place which it would be difficult ro fill. In addition to 
 the school department, he has so largely increased 
 the miscellaneous and stationery departments as to re- 
 quire an entire floor for these two departments alone. 
 
 H. F. Vehmeyer. 
 
 Dealer in Broom Corn and Broom Manufacturers' Supplic 
 204, 206, 208 and 210 Michigan Street. 
 
 As Chicago will ever continue to retain its pn 
 tige as a great food supply center, its importance w 
 
 Tuckhorn & Co 
 
 Manufacturers of Billiard and Pool Tables, 92 Fifth Ave. 
 
 As manufacturers of billiard and pool tables and 
 dealers in supplies, Messrs. Tuckhorn & Co. have 
 for years occupied a position of the highest prom- 
 inence, their tables being regarded as standard among 
 
 players, while their reasonableness in price places 
 them within the reach of all. The house was estab- 
 lished in 1850, a branch also being conducted at No. 
 28 Mifflin street, Madison, Wis., while in addition 
 to the manufacture and repair of billiard and pool 
 tables, for which every facility is enjoyed, the firm 
 are extensive importers and dealers in materials of 
 all kinds, inclusive of cloths, balls, marbles, pool- 
 pins, bottles, chalk, cue-tips, cue-wafers, cement, glue, 
 brushes, court plaster, dice and cups, cue-cutters, 
 triangles, pool-pockets, pool-checks, poker-chips, 
 pocket-irons, playing-cards, chess, dominoes and 
 dealing-boxes. Second-hand tables are also pur- 
 chased, and balls re-turned and colored. Their 
 trade is co-extensive with the Union, rendering 
 further comment superfluous, their business furnish- 
 ing as it does an example of an honorable and 
 prosperous career. 
 
 augment in other commercial pursuits as we 
 This is clearly demonstrated in the industry of broo 
 corn, which within recent years has assumed propc 
 tions not equaled by any other city in the Unit< 
 States, and is fast developing itself into an enormo 
 trade specialty. The heaviest dealer 
 the west in this line is Mr. H. F. Ve 
 meyer, his warehouse comprising Nc 
 204, 206, 208 and 210 Michigan stre 
 Chicago. He was formerly located 
 No. 190 East Kinzie street, he havii 
 been engaged in the business at this poi 
 about six years. His trade increased 
 rapidly that he was forced to carry heavi 
 stocks of goods. In order to accomm 
 date them he erected the structure nc 
 occupied by him at his own expens 
 and from designs originated by himself, whii 
 his long-continued experience told him were be: 
 It is a very strong and well-proportioned brii 
 building with cut stone trimmings, five stori 
 and basement in height, and 80x100 feet in are 
 The facilities now enjoyed by Mr. Vehmeyer w 
 enable him to handle more promptly his growir 
 business, while the structure put up by him will star 
 as a monument to his business enterprise, and add 
 feature of adornment to the locality in which 
 stands. He is well known in trade circles, where 1 
 has the record and reputation of an honorable ar 
 fair-dealing merchant and successful operator. B 
 sides broom corn Mr. Vehmeyer handles all kinds < 
 broom-makers' supplies, and in this line of trad 
 as well as in broom corn, he sells at the smalle 
 possible margin consistent with a fair and ju 
 profit.
 
 FIFTY YEARS' PROGRESS. 
 
 165 
 
 Hotel Brevoort. 
 
 European Plan, 143 and 145 East Madison Street. 
 The new Brevoort house has lately undergone 
 in entire change, so marked that, but for the loca- 
 :ion, none of the old patrons would recognize in this 
 Beautiful, modern, palace hotel the old home of days 
 rone by. It is now the best European hotel in the 
 :ity, with all modern improvements and accommo- 
 lations for her many guests. Entering from Madi- 
 
 house was left entirely to Mrs. Field, and to her 
 excellent judgment in selecting and arranging is due 
 the rich and home-like air which pervades every part 
 of this beautiful hotel. No two rooms are furnished 
 with exactly the same pattern of carpets. The 
 curtains and draperies are all of the very latest pat- 
 terns, rich in design, texture and finish. The furni- 
 ture is all in antique oak and .mahogany finish with 
 marble tops throughout. 
 
 The new dining-room in rear of the office is 
 fitted up in elegant style, with private stairway 
 
 : 
 
 ;on street the spectator finds himself in a brilliantly 
 ighted office on the ground floor, with marble tiling, 
 narble sideboards, beautiful frescoed walls, solid 
 arass chandeliers suspended from the ceiling, su- 
 Derbly grand in finish and design, shooting out a 
 jozen or more gas-jets, which seem to be enviously 
 /ying with their more powerful and brilliant com- 
 petitors, the electric arc lights, the whole combining 
 to make the most cheerful and inviting hotel office 
 in the city. The furnishing of the new Brevoort 
 
 for ladies leading to the parlors of the hotel. The 
 restaurant will be open to the general public as well 
 as to the guests of the hotel, the main entrance way 
 facing the old board of trade court. It is the pur- 
 pose to make this the model restaurant of the city, 
 and to make the prices as reasonable as first-class 
 accommodations will allow. The dining-room is the 
 handsomest and best furnished of its kind in the 
 city. The new Brevoort is under the proprietorship 
 of Mr. George M. Hubbard and Mr. Rush H. Field,
 
 A BUSINESS TOUR OF CHICAGO. 
 
 both experienced hotel men, while Mr. Martin 
 Burke, late of McCoy's hotel, will preside as head 
 clerk. This will comprise a strong trio, as they are 
 all men who have individually made hosts of friends 
 in their past connections. Mr. Field was for many 
 years the proprietor of the Wiler house, of Mans- 
 field, Ohio, while Mr. Hubbard has been connected 
 with the Palmer, McCoy's and Brevoort of this city. 
 
 Henry Sievert. 
 
 thai, Paris, France, and many others. This is the 
 only Jewish reform organ in the United States, and 
 numbers amongst its patrons many of the leading 
 and influential Israelites of the city and vicinity. 
 It contains general news, literature, science, art and 
 is devoted to the interests of Judaism generally, 
 being the official organ of congregations, societies 
 and orders, and is a fine advertising medium. The 
 subscription price is $3.00 per annum, and same 
 rates for six or three months. 
 
 Dealer in Imported and Domestic Cigars, Tobacco and 
 [Smokers' Articles, 41 North Clark Street. 
 
 One of the oldest cigar stores in Chicago is at 
 No. 41 North Clark street, opposite the Casino. 
 This store is kept by Mr. Henry Sievert, dealer in 
 imported and domestic cigars, tobacco and smokers' 
 articles. He is doing a flourishing business, and 
 keeps one o.f the finest stocks in this line in the city. 
 He began business in June, 1885, at his present cen- 
 tral and eligible quarters. Cigars by the box is a 
 specialty. While he keeps on hand all the principal 
 brands, "No. 41" is his special brand, and meets 
 with great favor from the public. Mr. Sievert is a 
 native of Germany, and came to Chicago in 1880. 
 
 The Jewish Occident. 
 
 us Silver- 
 
 155 and 157 Washington Street, Chicago, Ju 
 smith, Editor and Secretary. 
 
 The Jewish community in this city numbers 85,- 
 000. These have a newspaper devoted to their inter- 
 ests issued weekly, entitled the Occident, which 
 has an extensive circulation of over 31,000. This 
 is the only Jewish paper in the western States with 
 
 33w"0oeiasfle'is thaonly Jewislil 
 
 devoted ta General News, Literature, Science, Art. and the .Interests ot Judaism. 
 
 Francis W. Holbrook. 
 
 Expert Accountant, Room 4, 171-173 East Madison Street. 
 Many who are trying hard to make money " have 
 a kind of a suspicion," or an "ill-defined intuition 
 that something must be wrong with their books," 
 and yet, "don't quite in fact, don't want to suspect 
 the one making or directing the entries therein of 
 being dishonest or incompetent," and therefore, 
 spend much of the valuable time which their busi- 
 ness demands in trying to explain away from their 
 own thoughts the idea that they are being wronged 
 by their confidential man, their book-keeper or cash- 
 ier, oecause neither seems to be that kind of a man 
 their habits, industry, and general deportment are 
 all against such an idea. Nothing but an exami- 
 nation of your books and methods of calculating 
 profit, either thoroughly or in a general way, by one 
 disinterested and competent, can relieve your sus- 
 picions or iears. The ordinarily good book-keeper 
 cannot do this for you. An expert accountant 
 (not "lightning calculator"), one who has trained 
 himself by ong and exacting hours, for years, to be 
 able to detect errors and erroneous entries, alone 
 knows where to look for them, and determine their 
 significance. There is no accountant 
 more skilled or experienced than 
 the subject of this sketch, Mr. 
 Francis W. Holbrook. His prac- 
 tical experience covers a period 
 of over thirty years, viz., twelve 
 years in Albany City bank, twenty 
 
 ;ears jobbing business in New 
 r ork city, in credit and financial 
 departments, holding full power of 
 attorney from late firm of A. T. 
 
 such a circulation, and the only one printed and Stewart & Co. If any of our readers desire at anytime 
 published in the city. The offices are at 155 and 157 special service for examination or investigation of 
 Washington street. This journal is generally recog- commercial or estate accounts, bank reports, business 
 nized as the radical reform Jewish newspaper, edited ledgers, trial balances, or any matter of a financial or 
 by Julius Silversmith, M. A., and printed and pub- mercantile nature, conducted in strict confidence, 
 lished in. Chicago since 1872. It has had or now either in the city or out of it, he is at your 
 numbers among its contributors the following named service. 
 
 Chicago references: Mr. H. N. Higinbotham, 
 Mr. Henry W. King, Mr. Benjamin Dough 
 
 eminent writers in this country and abroad: B. 
 
 Felsenthal, Ph. D., Dr. E 
 
 country 
 . G. Hi 
 
 irsch, Dr. Samuel 
 
 Sale, Liebman Alder, Julius Rosenthal, Esq., Henry Mr. J. McGregor Adams, Mr. James H. Walker, 
 
 Greenebaum, J. O. M. Hewitt, D. D., Rev. Dr. Max Mr. Cyrus H. McCormick, Mr. Robert Hill, of 
 
 Heller, Rev. Dr. H. M. Bien, Vicksburg, Miss., Rab- Storm & Hill; Mr. James M. Horton, of Wm. 
 
 bi Joseph Krauskopf, Kansas City, Mo., Dr. E. Blair & Co.; Mr. S. A. Kean, banker, Messrs. H. 
 
 Schreiber, California, Adolph Moses, Esq., Chicago, G. Foreman & Bro., bankers ; Mr. A. M. Hen- 
 
 A. E. Frankland, A. E. Laing, N. J., Dr. Ed. Rosen- derson, director Board of Trade.
 
 FIFTY YEARS' PROGRESS. 
 
 167 
 
 The Catholic Normal School. 
 
 Of the Holy Family and Pio Nono College, St. Francis, Wis. 
 This institution was founded by the Rev. Dr. Salz- 
 mann in the year 1870, and opened on the 2d of 
 January in the following year. In appreciation of 
 such a praiseworthy and beneficial project, the gen- 
 
 erous Louis I., king of Bavaria, before all others, do- 
 nated the sum of $1,704 towards the erection and 
 completion of this institution, the first and only 
 Catholic normal school in America. Beautifully loca- 
 ted two miles south of the city limits of Milwaukee, 
 near Lake Michigan, on the Chicago & Northwestern 
 railroad, the building presents an aspect at once 
 grand and inviting. Elegant in its proportions, it is 
 constructed and arranged with the utmost care and 
 regard for the comfort and convenience of pupils. 
 The house is thoroughly supplied with water from 
 an artesian well, lighted by gas, heated by steam, 
 and amply provided with all modern improvements. 
 As special care is taken to promote the health and 
 vigor of mind and body, the spacious grounds around 
 the institution are intersected by pleasant, shady 
 walks, and in bad weather a large hall is provided 
 for healthful exercises and youthful recreation. The 
 entire building comprises two departments, viz., the 
 Catholic normal school and the Pio Nono college. 
 In the former, Catholic young men are educated, 
 trained and prepared for the profession of teaching. 
 In the latter department, Catholic youths are ground- 
 ed in the principles of Christian faith and educated 
 for the various branches of literary and commercial 
 life. The united effort for the restoration of Cecilian 
 music to its pristine purity and grandeur had its 
 origin in this institution, under Dr. Salzmann, in the 
 year 1873, when a society known as "The Cecilian 
 Society" was established under the presidency of 
 Sir John Singenberger, graduate of the musical 
 school at Regensburg, Bavaria, and professor of 
 music at the normal school. The members of this 
 society, extending, as it does, over the whole United 
 States, now number almost five thousand (5,000), 
 amongst whom are many priests, bishops and arch- 
 bishops. Sir John Singenberger, who is yet presi- 
 dent of the society, edits "The Cecilia," a beautiful 
 literary organ of church music, published at the 
 Normal school. The faculty of the institution are 
 
 Rev. Chas. Fessler, rector and professor of exegesis, 
 pedagogy and German ; Rev. Aug. B. Salick, master 
 of discipline, professor of Christian doctrine and 
 German ; Rev. J. F. McMullen, professor of Christian 
 doctrine and English; Chevalier J. Singenberger, 
 professor of vocal and instrumental music; Mr. J. T. 
 Kelly, professor of English, geography, history and 
 penmanship; Mr. Dominic Schuler, B. S., professor 
 of natural science, mathematics and book- 
 keeping. The course of studies in the 
 normal school comprises four years. The 
 programme of studies embraces Christian 
 doctrine, exegesis, liturgy, church history, 
 pedagogy, music (vocal and instrumental), 
 English, German, Latin, arithmetic, algebra, 
 geometry, natural science, geography (polit- 
 ical and physical), United States history 
 and government, penmanship and drawing. 
 In the college department, the course of 
 studies comprises religious instruction, Eng- 
 lish, arithmetic, algebra, geometry, geog- 
 raphy, commercial law, book-keeping. 
 United States history and government) 
 penmanship, drawing and the optional 
 studies, viz., German, Latin, music and 
 natural science. Connected with this insti- 
 tution is the St. John's Deaf-Mute asylum, under 
 the direction of Rev. Chas. Fessler. It was founded 
 in the year 1875 by the Rev. Theo. Bruener, now 
 rector of St. Boniface church, Quincy, 111. Every 
 care and attention is paid towards promoting the 
 knowledge and advancement of these pupils. The 
 boys are instructed by Mr. Lewis Mihm, and the 
 girls are taught by the good Sisters of St. Francis. 
 
 James P. Smith & Co 
 
 Wholesale and Retail Dealers in Ice, Offices, 145 East 
 Monroe Street and 1522 Indiana Avenue. 
 
 That a trade should be prosperous whose pro- 
 ductions are an actual necessity and to be found in 
 universal use, is a natural sequence, and hence there 
 are no more flourishing establishments in the United 
 States, and particularly in the western metropolis, 
 than those engaged in the ice trade, the representa- 
 tive exponent of which is the old established house of 
 James P. Smith & Co., whose enterprise is well 
 illustrated in the high quality of ice which they 
 place upon the market, while their facilities are 
 such as enable them to name prices which only the 
 most thoroughly equipped houses can hope to com- 
 pete with. A large trade in car lots is done with the 
 south and west, as well as a fine retail business in 
 the city, their ice-houses being located as follows: 
 Crystal Lake station, M. C. R. R.; Cold Springs, 
 M. C. R. R.; Riverside, 111., C. B. & Q. R. R.; 
 Batavia, 111., C. & N. W. R. R.; Fond du Lac, Wis., 
 C. & N. W. R. R. ; Forty-first street and Ellis ave- 
 nue, S. Y. R. R.; 1522 Indiana avenue, I. C. R. R. ; 
 thus affording ample storage of hundreds of thou- 
 sands of tons. The house was originally established 
 in 1848 by Hiram Joy, to whom Mr. James P. 
 Smith succeeded in 1855, and ten years later the 
 present firm was organized by Messrs. Homer
 
 168 
 
 A BUSINESS TOUR OF CHICAGO. 
 
 E. and John S. Sargent, becoming his co-part- 
 ners, all of whom are also members of the Board 
 of Trade. The test of time has shown that no house 
 is better qualified to supply the trade as well as that 
 few are equally desirable with whom to establish 
 business relations, while in its development there 
 are aptly typified the elements that have made 
 Chicago the most progressive city in the world. 
 
 Joshua Smith. 
 
 Dentist, 2139 Wabash Avenue, Northeast Corner Twenty- 
 Second Street. 
 
 The dental parlors of Dr. Joshua Smith, on 
 the northeast corner of Wabash avenue and 
 Twenty-second street, are well arranged and hand- 
 somely furnished. The rooms are light and airy and 
 possess all those 
 desi rable and 
 complete ap- 
 pointments which 
 bespeak more em- 
 phatically than 
 anything else, 
 first-class work. 
 Able assistants 
 are employed and 
 every endeavor is 
 made to not only 
 do good work at 
 moderate prices, 
 but to be patient 
 and careful, and 
 give satisfaction 
 in all cases. Dr. 
 Smith is a practi- 
 cal self-made man 
 in his profession 
 from many years' 
 practical experi- 
 ence. In 1871 he 
 opened parlors 
 for himself at No. 
 2244 Indiana Av., 
 but in Nov., '85, 
 moved to his present fine quarters. He has pro- 
 duced a dentifrice known as " Dentaline," which 
 has become popular among the trade, and is 
 much sought after wherever introduced. It is an 
 unrivaled preparation for cleansing, beautifying and 
 preserving the teeth, inducing a healthy action of 
 the gums, and imparting a natural sweetness and 
 fragrance to the breath. Children as well as adults 
 are delighted with it. It contributes to health and 
 comfort, thoroughly cleanses and preserves the teeth, 
 keeps the mouth free from injurious accumulations, 
 renders it fresh and agreeable, and is, in fact, one of 
 the finest toilet luxuries of the age. Its superiority 
 and worth is attested by high testimonials from Prof. 
 Walter S. Haines, professor of chemistry, pharmacy 
 and toxicology in Rush Medical college, from Chas. 
 Krusemarck, M. D., Ph. G., 175 Twenty-second street, 
 Chicago, 111., and from the late Dr. J. S. Swartley, 
 surgeon-dentist, southwest corner Wabash avenue 
 
 and Twenty-second street, Chicago, 111. It is kept 
 in stock by all the large wholesale druggists of 
 every city, and being rapidly introduced through- 
 out the w.hole country. One trial will insure its 
 constant use. 
 
 James. B. Goodman & Co. 
 
 Real Estate, Room 17, No. 105 Dearborn Street, Chicago. 
 One of the oldest and best known firms of real-es- 
 tate dealers is that of James- B. Goodman & Co., 
 composed of James B. Goodman and Marion A. Farr. ' 
 They do a very extensive business in suburban prop- 
 erty and pine and timber lands in Michigan and 
 Wisconsin. This firm are also agents for all classes 
 of city property, vacant and improved. They spe- 
 cially deal in houses, lots and blocks on Madison street, 
 Washington, Randolph, Lake, Fulton, Kinzie, Park 
 avenue, Carroll avenue and other streets between 
 West Fortieth and Forty-eighth streets, near Garfield 
 park. This is embraced in one of the largest sub- 
 divisions about Chicago, is owned by the West 
 Chicago Land company, and is managed by Mr. Farr 
 in person. This property is developing rapidly, and 
 during the next five years the probability is that it 
 will double in value. James B. Goodman & Co. take 
 the entire management of property for non-residents V 
 renting. Their spacious offices are centrally located | 
 at 68 Washington street. 
 
 J. B. Hall & Co 
 
 Tailors and Men's Furnishing Goods, 128 Dearborn Street. 
 Our next visit was to the establishment of J. B. 
 Hall & Co. at 128 Dearborn street. There are two 
 departments here, a tailoring, where best suits are 
 made to order from finest imported or domestic ma- 
 terials, and a men's furnishing department, a spe- 
 cialty being made of neckwear and custom-made 
 shirts. The tailoring department occupies from twen- 
 ty-five to thirty hands during the season, the suits 
 being made in the latest styles, and in a manner and 
 of material not to be surpassed. The first floor and 
 basement, 18x80 feet, are occupied by this firm. The 
 business has steadily increased, and is now one of 
 the largest of its kind in the city. The firm buy 
 largely, and a long time ahead, thus, catching the 
 markets when at their lowest point, they are en- 
 abled to undersell many of their competitors. All 
 their business is conducted on cash principles, and 
 to this in no small measure is due their success. 
 They are thoroughly experienced themselves and 
 employ only skilled hands on their work. 
 
 Phrenological Institute. 
 
 ' Prof. Thayer, Proprietor, 113 East Madison Street. 
 Professor Thayer has made this specialty a life- 
 long study, having become deeply interested in the 
 science at the early age of sixteen, being employed 
 at that time as a "frame spinner" in a cotton mill,
 
 FIFTY YEARS' PROGRESS. 
 
 160 
 
 in Uxbridge, Massachusetts, at $4 per week; the 
 working hours at that time being from 6 A. M. to 
 7:30 P. M. with thirty minutes out for dinner; yet 
 he managed under these circumstances to pay board 
 at $1.75 per week, to dress fairly well, to pay for a 
 seat in church, to supply himself with works on 
 
 Ehrenology, anatomy, physiology, a phrenological 
 ust, and to take "Life Illustrated," the first monthly 
 published by Fowler & Wells, to take one weekly 
 paper, and to devote from one to three hours to study 
 nearly every night. In a few months he commenced 
 a gratuitous practice among friends and acquaint- 
 ances, soon acquiring quite a local reputation as a 
 phrenologist. He practiced for a longtime in Rhode 
 Island, and came to Chicago nine years ago, since 
 which time, by industrious application, honesty of 
 purpose and accuracy in all character delineations, 
 he has established a reputation second to none in 
 the field of his profession. His examinations of 
 children, to whom he gives special attention, are said 
 to be of a very interesting character, always reliable, 
 practical and beneficial to a high degree, giving per- 
 fect satisfaction in all cases. A visit to his institute, 
 which we most cordially recommend, cannot fail to 
 be interesting and profitable to all. 
 
 C. W. Flint. 
 
 Manufacturer of Picture Frames in Every Variety, 133 
 Clark Street, Room 16. 
 
 Mr. Flint has been in this line of business since 
 1869. He with many hundreds of our business men 
 was a victim of the disastrous conflagration of '71, 
 but very soon afterwards launched forth with his 
 accustomed energy, and the result we see in the suc- 
 cessful business he has established. Mr. Flint is a 
 practical artisan, and manufactures picture frames of 
 all styles and designs, including the new styles of 
 ash, oak, cherry, etc. He has no traveling agents, 
 and employs none but the best of workmen. His 
 gold work is of the finest kind, some specimens of 
 which can be seen at his establishment. It is this 
 superior work which has caused Mr. Flint to become 
 so popular among the dealers and general public, and 
 it will repay all those interested to call on him and 
 see his work. 
 
 John Ruprecht. 
 
 Broadway Market, Fresh and Salt Meats, Sausages, 
 
 Hams, Etc., 77, 79 and 81 West Randolph Street. 
 One of the largest concerns of the kind in this 
 locality is the Broadway market, 77, 79 and 81 West 
 Randolph street. The proprietor of this establish- 
 ment, Mr. John Ruprecht, does a large wholesale 
 and retail business as a dealer in fresh and salt 
 meats, sausages, hams, etc. The market is very 
 centrally situated, in a thickly populated district, 
 and a very large business is transacted daily. Mr. 
 Ruprecht has a perfect system of cooling and refrig- 
 erating rooms, and the greatest care is exercised in 
 keeping the premises neat and clean, and impart- 
 ing that wholesome appearance which does so much 
 
 to encourage patronage in the eyes of a discriminat- 
 ing public. Mr. Ruprecht has been engaged in 
 this business since 1859, and among his many cus- 
 tomers he numbers several who have dealt with him 
 continuously since that time. 
 
 The Sigwalt Manufacturing Co. 
 
 Manufacturers of Check Protectors, Seal Presses, Self-Ink- 
 ing Hand Stamps, Etc., n South Canal Street. 
 The business of this company extends to all 
 parts of the Union, Canada, and South America. 
 All descriptions of seal 
 presses and engravers' 
 supplies are turned out 
 by them in the most 
 perfect and rapid man- 
 ner. They possess every 
 facility in the shape of 
 the latest improved 
 machinery and experi- 
 enced workmen. Be- 
 sides the various seal 
 presses, they call special 
 attention to their Ex- 
 celsior self-inker, the Little Gem self-inker, pen 
 and pencil stamp, and the latest novelty in this 
 line placed upon the market, the 
 Garden City rubber stamp press. 
 These presses are useful in all 
 branches of business, especially 
 so for the reason that any number 
 of dies can be used with one 
 press for printing letterheads, bill- 
 heads, note heads, statements, 
 postal cards, business cards, etc., 
 the same being quickly and easily 
 adjusted. Each press is fitted 
 with an improved movable gauge 
 to hold any size paper in po- 
 sition while printing. 
 
 Wm. Cowan. 
 
 Wood Turner, 82 Fulton Street. 
 
 The business of the wood turner is one that re- 
 quires constant care and attention as well as a natural 
 aptitude that is onlyacquired after long practice and 
 the closest application. Mr. William Cowan is a 
 worthy exponent of this class of work, and carries on 
 business at No. 82 Fulton street. Mr. Cowan is a 
 Scotchman by birth, and has been in business on his 
 own account for the last six years. He has a good 
 jobbing trade with the principal builders, carpenters 
 and furniture houses. He isa very expert workman 
 and is kept constantly busy. His business connec- 
 tions are very extensive, and he is highly respected 
 among them for his honest and straightforward work. 
 He inherits all the shrewd common sense and pa- 
 tient energy for which his countrymen are proverbial 
 the world over, and he owes his success in a great 
 measure to these traits of character.
 
 170 
 
 A BUSINESS TOUR. OF CHICAGO. 
 
 Peterson & Oveson. 
 
 Manufacturers of Center, Library and Parlor Tables and 
 
 Flower Stands, 141 to 151 North Sangamon Street. 
 There is no class of naturalized citizens of America 
 in Chicago who show such aptitude for steady hard 
 work and patient perseverance as our citizens from 
 
 Norway. They are mostly engaged in the wood-work- 
 ing business, and generally bring a ripe experience 
 with them from the old country. Among the number 
 of these we may mention the firm of Peterson & 
 Oveson, of 141 to 151 North Sangamon street, corner 
 of Austin avenue. This firm are manufacturers of 
 center, library and parlor tables and flower stands. 
 They do a very large jobbing trade among the 
 wholesale furniture houses in the city. Their light 
 and handsome factory is well equipped with ma- 
 chinery, and they give employment to sixteen expert 
 workmen. These gentlemen have only been asso- 
 ciated in business for the last three years, and have 
 been located at their present premises for one year. 
 They exercise great care in selecting the lumber for 
 the different articles they manufacture, and the 
 factory is under the strict supervision of the head of 
 the firm. They spare no pains to give satisfaction, 
 and this is the great secret of their success. 
 
 J. P. Ellacott. 
 
 Mechanical Engineer, 194 Madison St., Corner Fifth Ave. 
 Mr. Ellacott has been a resident of Chicago since 
 1854, and established his present business as pro- 
 prietor in 1872. He has been engaged as consulting 
 engineer and mechanical expert by several of the 
 largest concerns in the country. He was for a 
 while the superintendent of the mechanical de- 
 partment of the Inter-State Industrial exposition. 
 He laid out the plans and assigned the space as 
 superintendent of the World's Exposition of Rail- 
 
 way Appliances in 1883. Among his patrons are 
 the American Press association, the Union Brass 
 Manufacturing company, Rand, McNally & Co., 
 the International Press association, the Chicago 
 Newspaper union; the Bryant' & Stratton Short- 
 Hand Machine Co., the American Desk and Stool 
 Co., for whom he invented and designed a number 
 of opera chairs, of which they sold and placed in 
 theaters over 25,000 in one year. Mr. Ellacott 
 makes a specialty of assisting inventors, who, with- 
 out the necessary mechanical skill or knowledge, 
 are unable to put their ideas into practical shape. 
 To such his assistance is invaluable. His repu- 
 tation for skill, honesty, integrity and sterling 
 worth as a man is one of which he may well feel 
 justly proud, and anyone wanting a model made, 
 or experimental machine work done, will never 
 regret visiting Mr J. P. Ellacott, mechanical engin- 
 eer, Nos. 192 and 194 Madison street, Chicago. 
 
 W. Levy & Son. 
 
 Butchers and Provision Dealers, 94 North Clark Street. 
 W. Levy & Son, 94 North Clark street, are the 
 prominent and representative butchers and provision 
 dealers of the North side. They carry a very large 
 and choice assortment of all kinds of meats, includ- 
 ing beef, lamb, veal, mutton, pork and everything in 
 this line of business, besides all kinds of salt goods, 
 and vegetables of all kinds. They are both expe- 
 rienced judges of meats, and have a deservedly high 
 reputation among their customers for the superiority 
 and fine quality of goods furnished. In their large 
 and extensive premises are found everything pertain- 
 ing to a first-class establishment of this kind, includ- 
 ing large and ample refrigerators, while an air of 
 cleanliness and neatness pervades the whole estab- 
 lishment. The business was established in 1856, on 
 the corner of Madison and Clark streets, when 
 Chicago was but a small town. In 1868 they moved 
 to their present quarters. This firm has such a wide 
 reputation and large patronage that all the principal 
 hotels, restaurants and families have seen it to be to 
 their advantage to get their provisions from them. 
 Many of the large lake vessels also purchase supplies 
 from them. Mr. Levy is a native of Germany, and 
 has made his home in Chicago ever since he begun 
 business in 1856. He and his son are both fine busi- 
 ness men, prompt and honorable, and are highly 
 regarded by all who know them. 
 
 F. Trussing. 
 
 Dealer in Foreign and Domestic Groceries, 51 and 53 North 
 
 State Street. 
 
 One of the most complete and best appointed 
 grocery stores in Chicago is the fine establishment 
 of F. Prussing, at Nos. 51 and 53 North State street. 
 He is an extensive dealer in all kinds of foreign and 
 domestic groceries. His store is in one of the best 
 sections of the city, and is commodious and well 
 arranged, having an area of 40 by 150 feet. His
 
 FIFTY YEARS' PROGRESS. 
 
 171 
 
 staple and fancy groceries, including fine teas, fra- 
 grant coffees, best East India spices, sugars and 
 syrups of standard grades, canned goods and other 
 table luxuries, are fresh and first class in quality. 
 He imports all his foreign goods direct from 
 England, France and Germany. His large custom, 
 which amounts to nearly $100,000 per annum, calls 
 for the employment of ten hands and four delivery 
 wagons. All orders meet with prompt attention, 
 and customers may have the satisfaction of knowing 
 that nothing inferior or adulterated will be sold to 
 them. Mr. Trussing -was born in Germany, and 
 came to Chicago in 1874. He founded his present 
 business nearly nine years ago, and during that 
 time has built up a successful trade and established 
 a highly honorable reputation. 
 
 Wm.H.Grubey. 
 
 Merchant Tailor, 113 South Clark Street 
 One of the largest and most noteworthy tailor- 
 ing establishments on South Clark street is that of 
 Mr. Wm. H. Grubey. He is well known and widely 
 patronized, his customers hailing from every State in 
 the Union. He has been established in the city for 
 twenty years, and during that time his trade has 
 steadily increased, till now it probably ranks second 
 to none in size, and is certainly unsurpassed by any 
 in quality of the work turned out. Only the finest 
 class of trade is catered for, and all material is im- 
 ported goods. The establishment is centrally lo- 
 cated, being readily accessible from all parts of the 
 city. Three cutters are employed, and a force of 
 about thirty-five hands. The finish and make 
 throughout of the suits furnished by this house are 
 such as to command, not satisfaction merely, but 
 appreciation and recommendation. The proprietor 
 is well known, and has many influential patrons. 
 He keeps a large stock of material, and is able to 
 furnish suits in the latest style at short notice. Three 
 salesmen are constantly engaged, and the increase of 
 business has been so great of late that even the 
 large force employed has barely kept pace with it. 
 
 E. Norcott 
 
 Manufacturer of Tin and Copper Ware, Wholesale and 
 
 Retail, Corner State and Illinois Streets. 
 Mr. Norcott is wholesale and retail manufacturer 
 of tin and copper ware at the above location. From 
 eight to ten practical and experienced workmen are 
 employed, and special attention is given to the 
 jobbing trade, and all orders are promptly and sat- 
 isfactorily executed. Roofing and guttering also 
 done in the most complete manner. Furnaces and 
 stoves are put up and repaired, and all kinds of tin 
 and copper specialties manufactured for the trade. 
 Although the business was only established in Au- 
 gust, 1885, connection has been established with 
 the prominent jobbers of Chicago, and the trade is 
 rapidly extending to all parts of the" city and 
 suburbs. His workshop is equipped with all the 
 
 latest appliances and tools necessary for the rapid 
 prosecution of business, and he aims to merit patron- 
 age by superior work. He is a native of New 
 Jersey, and has had years of experience in this line 
 of business, it being his life trade. Anyone can 
 feel assured that any commercial relations entered 
 into with Mr. Norcott will be agreeable and satis- 
 factory. 
 
 Canfield & Co. 
 
 Manufacturers of Show Cases, Drug-Store Fixtures, and 
 Wall Cases for All Purposes, 7, 9, n and 13 
 
 Wabash Avenue. 
 
 The offices of the large show-case establishment 
 of Canfield & Co. are located as above, their factory 
 being located on Curtis street, and fitted up with 
 
 every convenience for the prosecution of their ex- 
 tensive business. The inception of this firm dates 
 back fifteen years, and during that time they have 
 not only won a large city trade, but send their goods 
 to all parts of the Union, and are now preparing to 
 introduce them in the European and Australian mar- 
 kets. They have unsolicited testimonials from all 
 over the country, as to the merit and fine workman- 
 ship of their cases. The fact that they have sold to 
 one firm alone over 3,000 cases is a sufficient guaran- 
 tee of the fine quality of their work. They manufac- 
 ture every variety of show cases, drug-store fixtures 
 and wall cases. They are the only manufacturers of 
 druggists' sectional fixtures, which are the most com- 
 plete, convenient and economical way of fitting up a 
 drug store. The firm consists of Mr. H. S. Canfield 
 and his son P. E. Canfield. They are both experts 
 in this branch of industry, and practical and expe- 
 rienced business men. 
 
 Geehr & Gardner. 
 
 .Hide Brokers, 178 Michigan Street. 
 
 Geehr & Gardner, at 178 Michigan street, are 
 
 among the prominent hide brokers of this city, and 
 
 have been associated in business since January 
 
 1, 1883, and in that short time have won the con-
 
 172 
 
 A BUSINESS TOUR OF CHICAGO. 
 
 fidence of a host of patrons, and established a trade 
 equaling a million of dollars annually. Their 
 specialty is green salted hides for union cropped 
 leather. They buy from all over the city, and make 
 extensive shipments to the east and south. Their 
 New York office is located at No. 91 Gold street. 
 For references they have Stephen Kistler's Sons 
 and Keck, Mosser & Co., both of New York city. 
 Mr. Geehr was born in Pennsylvania, while Mr. 
 Gardner is a native of Scotland, and both came to 
 Chicago in 1883. 
 
 W. RBlair. 
 
 Board and Glass Signs of Every Description, 171 and 
 
 173 Madison Street. 
 
 The visitor to this city can scarcely fail to notice 
 the large number of signs which adorn the fronts of 
 stores, factories, etc., and a special kind of wire 
 open-work signs which sur- 
 mount or depend from the 
 roofs of many of our largest 
 establishments. This kind 
 of sign is almost exclusively 
 the work of Mr. W.E.Blair, 
 who occupies three floors, 
 30x85 feet, and employs 
 ten hands in producing them. This was the first 
 house which produced this class of goods, having 
 the patent and control of sale in the whole of 
 the western States. This business was begun in 
 1873, and has occupied its present premises ever 
 since. Orders are shipped to all parts of the 
 western States, as far as Denver and Kansas. 
 Glass and board signs are also turned out, of the 
 
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 tend their business 
 
 W. W. Wyman 
 
 Dealer in Fresh, Salt and Smoked Meats, Etc., 1004 West 
 
 Madison Street. 
 
 To the careful buyer no establishment can be more 
 highly favorable than that of Mr. W. W. Wyinan. 
 He is an extensive dealer in all kinds of fresh, salt 
 and smoked meats, besides poultry, game, oysters 
 in their season, vegetables, etc. He is located at No. 
 1004 West Madison street, corner Western avenue. 
 The store is commodious, well fitted up, and pos- 
 sesses every requirement for the transaction of busi- 
 ness. His trade is large and still growing, and the 
 frequent depleting and replenishing of his stock in- 
 sures to purchasers fresh goods, while prices are 
 moderate. Mr. Wyman was born in Racine, Wis., 
 and came to Chicago ten years ago, opening up busi- 
 ness for himself on the South side, corner Thirty- 
 fifth street and Indiana avenue, where he only re- 
 mained three years, when he moved to his present 
 desirable quarters. Mr. Wyman is an energetic and 
 enterprising business man, wide-awake and progres- 
 sive, and has made his market the most popular in 
 this section of the city. 
 
 Ferdinand Schweitzer. 
 
 Jewelry Cases and Trays, Etc., 113 Madison and 133 Clark 
 
 Streets, Room 28. 
 
 Mr. Ferdinand Schweitzer manufactures jewelry 
 cases and trays, sample, medicine and silverware 
 cases of every description. This business was com- 
 menced here by the present proprietor in 1882. 
 The wood used (when covered) is white pine, or, if 
 left exposed, walnut or some fancy wood. The 
 linings are silk, satin, velvet or plush, according to 
 order. He keeps a stock of samples, but makes all 
 to order, supplying some of the largest firms in the 
 city. He makes in his own original designs, and 
 some of the patterns have great merit for beauty 
 of workmanship and general appearance. His 
 charges are very reasonable, as his expenses are 
 light, and he buys his material very low. None of 
 his patrons have ever yet had to complain of the 
 goods he has furnished. He is known by all who 
 deal with him as a deserving and reliable manufac- 
 turer. 
 
 Yerbury & Barry. 
 
 Steam Laundry, 2218 Wabash Avenue. 
 A business enterprise which by reason of able man T 
 agement and good work has attained proportions of 
 great magnitude within a comparatively brief period 
 is Yerbury & Barry's steam laundry, located at No. 
 2218 Wabash avenue (Seaverns* block). It has been 
 established for the past two years, and is under the 
 proprietorship of A. G. Yerbury and J. Barry, two 
 experienced men in this line of trade. All the latest 
 improvements are to be found in this first-class laun- 
 dry, and the work turned out is satisfactory in every 
 respect. A force of twelve or more hands are em- 
 ployed in the various departments of this business. 
 The prices are reasonable, and the best of order pre- 
 vails in the receiving and delivering of orders. Spe- 
 cial attention is paid to family washing, in which 
 line they have a large trade. One trial will convince 
 a person of the fine quality of work done by this 
 laundry, which is becoming a standard one. 
 
 N. D. Swansea 
 
 Bakery, Confectionery and Ice Cream, 1047 West Madison 
 
 Street. 
 
 A standard place to go for first-ciass ice cream, 
 confectionery and bakery articles is to N. D. Swan- 
 sen, at No. 1047 West Madison street. The prem- 
 ises occupied are fitted up in the most attractive 
 and pleasing manner, while both Mr. and Mrs. 
 Swansen are obliging in their attention to the wants 
 of their many patrons. Mr. Swansen first established 
 the business on the North side in 1877, and moved 
 to his present location in 1882. All the articles 
 kept by him are of the best quality. He deals 
 exclusively in his own creams and ices, and not 
 only serves it in his parlors, but takes orders for
 
 FIFTY YEARS' PROGRESS. 
 
 173 
 
 families at their houses. Mr. Swansen has won a 
 large and lucrative patronage, which is steadily on 
 the increase. He has been a resident of the Garden 
 City for the past seventeen years, and by energy and 
 thrift established his present business. He keeps all 
 monthlies, illustrated papers and city dailies, and 
 receives orders for all papers and magazines at as 
 low rates as they can be procured from the publish- 
 ers, thereby saving postage and exchange. 
 
 Wm. A. Gaw. 
 
 Bookseller and Bookbinder, 126 and 128 Dearborn ^Street. 
 Mr. Gaw is agent for several large New York 
 houses, and handles solely subscription works, which 
 he sells in parts, through sub-agents. The follow- 
 ing are some of the chief of the works, which, it may 
 be added, can be purchased only by subscription : 
 "Treasury of Universal History," "History of the 
 late Civil War," Zimmermann's " Popular History of 
 Germany," Johnson's " Household Book of Nature," 
 Spencer's "History of the United States," Los- 
 sing's " History of Our Own Country," " Lives and 
 Portraits of the Presidents of United States," 
 "Life and Times of Washington," "National Por- 
 trait Gallery of Eminent Americans," "Portrait 
 Gallery of Eminent Men and Women of Europe 
 and America," etc., Bibles, self-interpreting, etc. 
 Fleetwood's "Life of Christ," poetical works of 
 Lord Byron and Thomas Moore, "Living Thoughts 
 of Leading Thinkers," etc. These works are all stan- 
 dard books, well written, and edited by some of the 
 most able authors of the day. Mr. Gaw has been 
 in this business nine years and is sole agent in the 
 city for the works above mentioned. He also makes 
 a specialty of binding these parts to order in the 
 finest and most durable manner, in any style desired. 
 This way of purchasing works, namely, in parts, 
 enables everyone to become the purchaser and 
 owner of a fine library, which otherwise he would 
 never get, 
 
 Samuel Myers & Co. 
 
 268 and 270 Madison Street. 
 
 It would be difficult to name a house in their 
 line of trade more prominent than that of Samuel 
 Myers & Co., jobbers in fine Kentucky whiskies. 
 When a house has enjoyed a liberal patronage and 
 popularity for a long term of years, the evidence is 
 conclusive that its management has been character- 
 ized by integrity, ability and liberality. Such are 
 the circumstances connected with this well-known 
 house, which, since its foundation in 1847, has con- 
 tinuously held a prominent position in the trade, 
 both at home and abroad, their patronage embrac- 
 ing the leading dealers throughout the entire west- 
 ern country. The firm occupy extensive premises 
 in this city, covering two entire floors and basement, 
 each 50 x 100 feet in dimensions, and carry a stock 
 second to none in the country, embracing the choicest 
 vintages of the old world, as well as the most cele- 
 brated distillations of our own country, a specialty 
 
 being made of old rye and bourbon whiskies, 
 among which their popular M. & Co. rye-malt whis- 
 ky, a pure distillation from grain, deserves special 
 mention, as well as their Monticello rye and Ander- 
 son's bourbon and rye. An unusually large stock is 
 carried both of domestic and foreign goods, the 
 latter being of their own direct importation, while 
 the unrivaled reputation of the house has been won 
 solely upon the merits of the goods. Both Messrs. 
 S. G. Myers and H. Wilkinson have resided in 
 Chicago the greater part of their lives and have 
 achieved that success which is the usual result of 
 strict adherence to a rigid code of mercantile honor. 
 
 MacLachlan & Co. 
 
 Dealers in Food Products, Etc., 104 and 106 Twenty- 
 second Street. 
 
 The large grocery and market of MacLachlan & 
 Co. is one of the most prosperous, and finely appoint- 
 ed places of business on this thoroughfare, and well 
 deserves the name of being the leading establishment 
 of this class of business on the South side. The 
 business was established in 1867, under the firm name 
 of MacLachlan, Campbell & Co., which so continued 
 until 1881, when the present firm took charge. The 
 premises occupied are large and convenient, and are 
 arranged into two departments, one for groceries, 
 and the other for meat and provisions. The patron- 
 age of the firm is very large and consists of city and 
 suburban trade. The large refrigerators insure at all 
 times a fine condition of meats, and excellent quality. 
 Everything is a model of cleanliness and neatness, 
 while strict supervision is given to every detail by 
 the firm and their fifteen able and obliging assistants. 
 Their staple and fancy groceries embrace as large 
 and varied a stock as can be found in the city. Mr. 
 MacLachlan was born in Scotland, and has lived in 
 Chicago for the past twenty years. 
 
 Charles ^Wallace. 
 
 Sanitary Plumber, 362 Wabash Avenue. 
 There is no class of business or trade that is more 
 intimately connected with the comfort and good 
 health of the residents of a large city than that of 
 the sanitary plumber. One of the leading and pop- 
 ular members of this important trade in Chicago is 
 Mr. Chas. S. Wallace, whose office is located at No. 
 362 Wabash avenue, telephone 1448, where he has 
 but recently moved. The business was under the 
 firm name of White & Wallace until the 1st of Jurte. 
 1886, when Mr. White withdrew. A force offrom 
 four to six competent hands are employed, and 
 sometimes a much larger number is enrolled, accord- 
 ing to the amount of job work on hand. Mr. 
 Wallace gives special attention to sewer building and 
 ventilating. Estimates on all kinds of contract 
 work readily given. All job work is promptly at- 
 tended to. Mr. Wallace was born in Buffalo, N. 
 Y., and came to this city when a mere boy. He- 
 is corresponding secretary of the Chicago Master 
 Plumbers' association.
 
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 A BUSINESS TOUR OF CHICAGO. 
 
 Tom. N. Donnelly & Co. 
 
 Loan and Diamond Brokers, 118 Dearborn Street. 
 This is one of the largest loan and diamond estab- 
 lishments of the city and is owned by Tom. N. 
 Donnelly & Co. The business has been established 
 six years and is known throughout the city as one of 
 the most reliable and fair-dealing houses in Chicago. 
 All kinds of jewelry, watches, old gold and silver, 
 diamonds and precious stones are bought, or loans 
 are advanced upon them. Bargains can always be 
 had here, by a buyer. Most of the articles can be 
 purchased for about half their original price, and a 
 very large assortment is in stock. Some of the finest 
 and rarest bracelets, pins, rings, etc., are to be seen 
 here, and a fine stock of field and opera glasses, tel- 
 escopes, etc., are always in stock. A visit will prove 
 highly interesting, and to one who wishes to pur- 
 chase, undoubted bargains are to be had. Their 
 goods are both new and second-hand, and their cus- 
 tomers hail from all parts of the United States. 
 
 English Bros. 
 
 Avenue Market, 112 and 114 Twenty-second Street. 
 English Brothers' Avenue market was established 
 some fifteen years ago, although the present pro- 
 prietors only took charge in March, 1886. This 
 market has always enjoyed a most liberal and sub- 
 stantial patronage, and has won the reputation of 
 being the representative market on the South side. 
 The present proprietors have added to its popularity, 
 by devoting close personal attention to the wants of 
 the trade, and making careful study of the markets. 
 In this way they are always able to supply their cus- 
 tomers with the finest quality of goods that can be 
 procured, and at reasonable prices. An extensive 
 and finely assorted stock is carried to meet the 
 steadily increasing demand. The premises occupied 
 are spacious and commodious, having a frontage on 
 Twenty-second street of fifty feet. A competent 
 corps of efficient and obliging workmen are con- 
 stantly employed, while four wagons are kept busy 
 delivering to various parts of the city. The two 
 brothers, W. P. and E. J., are natives of Wisconsin, 
 and begun business years ago in Kenosha, where 
 they still have a large establishment. 
 
 M. D. Coder & Co. 
 
 Real Estate and Loan Agents, 125 La Salle Street, 
 
 Room 8. 
 
 Few real estate and loan agents do a wider or 
 more general trade than the firm of M. D. Coder & 
 Co. Special attention is paid to the sale of furnished 
 houses, grocery stores, cigar stores, sample rooms, 
 etc. Exchanges are made and partnerships formed. 
 Good business chances are always on hand in all 
 parts of the city. Anyone desiring business 
 or opportunities to begin well in some paying trade 
 should consult this firm. Another specialty is that 
 
 of farm lands in this State and Indiana, both vacant 
 and improved, and also in hotels. This firm has 
 always a number of this class of investments in 
 nearly all parts of the United States. No firm deals 
 more fairly with its clients, norhas obtained a better 
 class of customers than that of M. D. Coder & Co., 
 and they are well known throughout business com- 
 munities as being honorable and reliable in their 
 transactions. 
 
 Wolf, Becker & Co. 
 
 Wool Commission, Pelts and Furs, 221, 223, 225 and 227 
 
 East Kinzie Street. 
 
 This firm has only been in existence since 
 February, 1886, but it is composed of young busi- 
 ness men 
 of energy 
 and deter- 
 mination, 
 who in 
 that brief 
 have won a large 
 .nd highly creditable 
 patronage. Wool is the 
 specialty, although 
 they handle largely 
 pelts and furs. Their consignments are from all 
 parts of the west, southwest and northwest, and 
 besides their large city trade supply both eastern 
 and western manufacturers with raw material. 
 They occupy four floors at the above number, 40 
 by 100 feet in dimensions. This gives them 
 ample facilities for the storage and handling 
 of their large stock. The personnel of the 
 firm is A. S. Wolf, S. M. and A. E. Becker, who 
 look to the prompt and satisfactory filling of all 
 orders. The attention of our merchants is called to 
 the substantial advantages offered by this new firm, 
 feeling assured that any relation which may be en- 
 tered upon with them will be upon a basis of strict 
 business integrity. 
 
 Diamond Palace. 
 
 Diamonds, Watches and Jewelry, 119 East Madison St. 
 One of the most attractive establishments, both 
 on the exterior and inside, on Madison street is the 
 "Diamond Palace," at No. 119. The firm, com- 
 posed of L. Hirschberg and E. Driscoll, established 
 the diamond, watch and jewelry business here in 
 1877. A fine stock of genuine diamonds, many of 
 great beauty and brilliancy, precious stones, rock 
 crystal, Waltham, Elgin and Springfield watches, 
 and the latest novelties and designs in jewelry are 
 to be seen here. The splendid cases outside attract 
 the notice of passers by, while the windows and 
 show-cases display to great advantage the valuable 
 stock on sale therein. A very interesting sight also 
 is a case of fine and accurate models of the largest 
 crown diamonds of Europe, including the Great 
 Mogul of Russia of 279^ carat, the Kohinoor, 
 blue diamond, etc. The firm import diamonds and
 
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 175 
 
 some of the latest Parisian designs direct, the other 
 articles being obtained from the large eastern manufac- 
 turers. The quality of all goods supplied bythishouse 
 is of the highest order, and dependence can be placed 
 implicitly on the goods being exactly what they are 
 represented to be. A large and almost exclusive 
 western trade is done by this house in the real Parisian 
 diamonds, cut by the most skillful lapidaries from 
 crystal quartz. Theatrical specialties are made up 
 to order in the most perfect and gratifying manner. 
 
 S. A. Maxwell & Co. 
 
 Schreiber & Annas. 
 
 Manufacturers of Ornamental Cut Glass, Plain and Fancy 
 
 Beveled Glass, 13 and 15 South Canal Street. 
 Of all the gorgeous decorations devised to orna- 
 ment our homes and public buildings, nothing 
 exceeds the brilliant effects of artistic cut glass in its 
 different forms, such as cut and ground door, tran- 
 som and office lights, plain and fancy beveled glass, 
 etc. No other form of glass ornamentation can 
 compare with this class of work. The firm of 
 Schreiber & Annas, of 13 and 15 South Canal street, 
 devote their sole attention to artistic glass cutting 
 in its highest perfection, in all its branches. This 
 concentration of their abilities makes- it possible for 
 them to furnish perfect work of the most difficult 
 description, such as making jewels of any size to 
 pattern or drawing, glass engraving, hammered 
 beaded mitred, scored and fancy beveled glass. 
 They have introduced many new and effective ideas 
 in this line, and have established an extensive 
 business. They are both ambitious and de- 
 termined that no eastern concern shall lead Chicago 
 in turning out artistic glass work. They will 
 cheerfully give any information in regard to their 
 business, and when desired will furnish designs 
 and estimates on application, and will sus- 
 tain their reputation for promptness and reliability 
 by striving to oblige their patrons at all times and 
 by turning out perfect work only. 
 
 Henry H. Hindshaw. 
 
 Scientific and Ornamental Taxidermist, 86 La Salle 
 
 Street. 
 
 A most interesting visit is to the studio of the 
 noted scientific and ornamental taxidermist, H. H. 
 Hindshaw, at room 14, No. 86 La Salle street. 
 He has for the past three years been located in this 
 city. He is a native of England, and learned the 
 art for which he has become famous at the noted 
 schools of Manchester. When he first came to this 
 city he was taxidermist for Col. Wood, of museum 
 fame, but when he went out of the business, two 
 years ago, Mr. Hindshaw began to do work for him- 
 self. His fame had become known, and his many 
 friends soon gave him plenty of work to do. Birds 
 and animals are mounted to order, and first-class 
 work is guaranteed. His work consists mainly of 
 large bird skins, animals, deer and elk heads, hat 
 birds, fans, screens, etc. 
 
 Booksellers, Stationers and Wall Paper Dealers, Nos. 
 134 and 136 Wabash Avenue. 
 
 The name of "Maxwell" has been long and hon- 
 orably identified with the bookselling interests of 
 the country, and the business now conducted by 
 Messrs. S. A. Max- 
 well & Co., Nos. 
 134 and 136 Wabash 
 avenue, upon such 
 an extensive scale, 
 is the outcome of a 
 steady adherence to 
 the legitimate prin- 
 ciples of trade. This 
 house was originally 
 founded in 1855 by 
 Mr. J. W. Maxwell, 
 in Lacon, 111., and 
 was conducted by 
 him therewith great 
 success, but with 
 several changes in 
 the name of the firm 
 till 1866, when Mr. 
 S. A. Maxwell pur- 
 chased an interest in 
 the business. Event- 
 ually, after a very 
 successful career 
 Mr. J. W. Maxwell 
 retired in favor of 
 his sons, Messrs. E. E. and C. E. Maxwell, and 
 son-in-law, H. C. Prevost, who now, with Mr. S. A. 
 Maxwell are the co-partners. In 1882 Messrs. S. A. 
 Maxwell & Co. established their house in Chicago, 
 since which period they have obtained a liberal and 
 influential patronage from all classes of society. 
 The premises occupied are very extensive and com- 
 modious, and comprise a splendid five-story building 
 with basement, which is fitted up with every con- 
 venience and facility for the accommodation and 
 display of the large and valuable stock. The firm 
 carry on the bookselling and stationery business in 
 all its branches, and deal both wholesale and retail 
 in books, blank books and stationery. They are the 
 largest dealers in wall papers in the United States. 
 Messrs. S. A. Maxwell & Co. may be justly con- 
 sidered as thoroughly identified with the best in- 
 terests of the western metropolis, in this her fiftieth 
 year. 
 
 Joseph Blakemore. 
 
 Manufacturer and Gilder of Gold and Metal Leaf Frames, 
 
 Office and Manufactory, 234 East Lake Street. 
 The manufacture of picture frames has become an 
 industry of no mean importance in Chicago, during 
 the last few years. As an exponent of this branch 
 of art, for art it may fairly be called, we may 
 mention the well-known house of Joseph Blakemore, 
 at No. 234 East Lake street, manufacturer and 
 gilder of gold and metal leaf frames. His stock
 
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 A BUSINESS TOUR OF CHICAGO. 
 
 of patterns is replete with some of the most beautiful 
 and elegant designs, Some we noticed in antique 
 bronze were exquisite beyond anything we had ever 
 seen of the kind before. If Mr. Blakemore keeps on 
 perfecting his frames and mouldings, the picture it- 
 self will shortly be a matter of secondary importance, 
 and all the admiration will center in the frame. 
 Mr. Blakemore is an Englishman, and came to this 
 country from Liverpool forty years ago. He has 
 been in the picture-frame business all his life, He 
 employs ten skilled assistants, and his articles are 
 shipped all over the States. Mr. Blake'more is a 
 genuine type of his countrymen, and has won him- 
 self a wide reputation for his bluff honesty and lib- 
 eral business methods. 
 
 John Horn. 
 
 Clothes Cleaning and Repairing Rooms, 126 Dearborn St. 
 This business consists of cleaning and repairing 
 all kinds of men's and boys' clothes. How many 
 suits are laid aside before half worn out, because the 
 bottoms have become frayed, or a tear has accident- 
 ally disfigured the articles. Then, too, alterations 
 are sometimes needed, and unless the goods were 
 purchased at some local tailor's, a difficulty is ex- 
 perienced. All this is avoided and a great saving 
 made by patronizing Mr. Horn, who keeps a stock 
 of material for mending, repairing, altering, etc. 
 He occupies two rooms in the basement, and does 
 his work extremely cheap. Mr. Horn has been in 
 the tailoring business for twenty-three years, having 
 worked for his brother until 1879, when he set up 
 for himself. 
 
 E. F. Angell & Co. 
 
 Brass and Bronze Workers, 87 and 89 Franklin Street. 
 The hum of industry nowhere in Chicago plays a 
 livelier tune than proceeds from the workshops of 
 this firm. The 
 long lines of shaft- 
 ings, revolving 
 pulleys and flying 
 belts keep in mo- 
 tion the varied 
 machinery, which 
 under the control 
 of able mechan- 
 ics transforms the 
 large rolls of 
 brass, long 
 lengths of tubing, 
 and the rough, un- 
 
 -^ polished iron and 
 
 steel into graceful and artistic patterns of fenders, 
 frames, grates, brass tables, brass easels, office railings, 
 wickets, grilles and every conceivable article the firm's 
 patrons demand in ornamental brass, bronze and iron 
 work. The many unique and original designs in fire- 
 place trimmings, furniture trimmings, office fittings 
 and ornamental metal work of all descriptions man- 
 ufactured by this concern can but elicit the admira- 
 
 tion of the visitor, and satisfy the various tastes of 
 the most critical buyers. With years of practical 
 experience, and their facilities for production, this 
 firm is holding unchallenged its place among the 
 manufacturers of fine metal work. 
 
 C. M. Staiger. 
 
 Printer and Publisher, i and 3 North Clark Street. 
 This business was established just after the great 
 fire of 1871. Mr. Staiger employs fifteen hands to 
 help him, and looks to it that every job that leaves 
 the office is correctly and satisfactorily executed. 
 It is this great care which has won for him so large 
 a custom. His printing is in different languages, of 
 which English is the principal one. The bulk of 
 the trade is located in the city, and comprises all 
 kinds of job, book and newspaper work. Mr. Staiger 
 is thoroughly proficient in everything pertaining to 
 this line of business, and is zealous and enterprising 
 in the promotion of the art which has been his life 
 work. He is a native of Germany, and came to 
 Chicago in 1867. 
 
 Katholischer Jugend-Freund. 
 
 Catholic Juvenile Friend. 
 This paper was established in 1877. 
 
 It is one 
 
 of the best papers for the young found in the 
 city of .Chicago. Rev. A. J. Thiele, pastor of the 
 St. Aloysius church, is editor, and has ably filled 
 that position for ten years. It is published semi- 
 monthly, in German and English. Its subscription 
 list numbers over 10,000, and is rapidly increasing. 
 Two traveling agents look after its interests through- 
 out the country. For the past four years it has 
 been published in the interest and for the benefit of 
 the Rose Hill orphan asylum. 
 
 John Myers. 
 
 Palace of Pharmacy, 1002 West Madison Street, Corner 
 
 Western Avenue. 
 
 The large and handsome premises of John Myers 
 deserves its name " Palace of Pharmacy." A fine 
 stock of drugs and chemicals, popular patent medi- 
 cines, perfumeries, toilet articles, wines and liquors 
 for medical use, in fact, everything to be desired in 
 a first-class metropolitan establishment of this de- 
 scription is found here. The pharmacy was founded 
 in 1866 by Dr. O. P. Hatheway, who in 1876 sold 
 out to Mr. Myers, who had been with Dr. Hatheway 
 since the inception of the business. The prescription 
 department is presided over by Mr. Myers and 
 competent and skilled assistants, who possess the 
 confidence and esteem of the medical profession 
 generally. Of the proprietary medicines of the 
 Palace pharmacy the most important are Dr. 
 O. P. Hatheway's hair tonic, which is now a 
 standard article in the trade. His concentrated
 
 FIFTY YEARS' PROGRESS. 
 
 177 
 
 ferro-phosphorated elixir of calisaya bark and 
 strychnine is a preparation which represents three 
 very important remedial agents, namely, iron, phos- 
 phorus and calisaya bark. The bitter taste of the 
 bark and the nauseous, inky taste of the iron are en- 
 tirely concealed by aromatics, which renders it an 
 agreeable elixir, adapted to the most delicate stom- 
 ach. His concentrated essence of Jamaica ginger is 
 a preparation made from the very best Jamaica gin- 
 ger, especially for domestic uses, and the utmost 
 pains have been taken to make it reliable in all re- 
 spects. His improved cherry pectoral, for coughs, 
 colds, asthma, croup, etc., is unsurpassed, and his 
 glycerine cream is an exquisite article, superior to 
 camphor ice, cold cream or anything in use for chap- 
 ped hands, face, lips or rough skin without being 
 sticky or greasy. These goods are shipped to all 
 parts of the United States, and found upon the 
 shelves of the principal druggists throughout the 
 country. Mr. Myers is a native of Ireland and has 
 been a resident of Chicago since 1865. 
 
 Philadelphia, 1876; International exposition at 
 Paris, 1878; World's Industrial exposition at New 
 Orleans, 1884-5 ; the Southern exposition at Lou- 
 
 MANF'5 WILSON RDJ I) ST 
 
 I if ti 
 
 lilkl.Jall^ll 
 
 Wilson Oayless. 
 
 General House Furnishers, 314 and 316 West Madison 
 
 Street. 
 
 The firm of Wilson & Bayless, general house fur- 
 nishers, although only established one year, have 
 taken the lead on this live thoroughfare. This is 
 the headquarters 
 for the latest de- 
 signs of .fine fur- 
 niture, the most 
 modern and stylish 
 patternsof carpets, 
 folding beds and 
 reclining chairs, 
 that cannot be ex- 
 celled in the city. 
 The firm makes a 
 specialty of the 
 Windsor folding 
 bed, being one of 
 the five firms who 
 are allowed to 
 handle them on 
 the West side. 
 These beds are 
 among the best in 
 the market and combine beauty, strength, durability 
 and fine finish in their construction. Wilson & Bay- 
 less are also manufacturers of the world-renowned 
 "Wilson Adjustable Chairs." They consist of the 
 adjustable chair, invalid propelling wheel chair, 
 and Wilson's physicians', surgeons', and gynaeco- 
 logical chairs. These chairs are a combination 
 of beauty, lightness, strength, compactness and 
 simplicity, and for comfort in health or sickness 
 are unsurpassed. Their reputation is world-wide, 
 having received the highest awards from the fol- 
 lowing expositions: United States Centennial, 
 
 isville; Cincinnati Industrial exposition, and many 
 others of note throughout this country and Europe. 
 It is economy to have one of these chairs in every 
 home, as they will last a lifetime. Illustrated cat- 
 alogue, price list and full information given free on 
 application. 
 
 Messrs. Wilson & Bayless are well-known and re- 
 liable gentlemen and treat all their patrons with the 
 utmost fairness, and it is not too much to assert 
 that since entering the commercial field they have 
 done as much as any other firm in Chicago to pro- 
 mote the welfare and general interests of the Gar- 
 den City. 
 
 Lewis & Howard. 
 
 Wool, 184 and 186 Washington Street. 
 The firm of Lewis & Howard is a prominent one 
 in this line. The premises, Nos. 184 and 186 Wash- 
 ington street, second, third and top floors, are occu- 
 pied by the house for storage and office purposes. 
 The firm are wool merchants, and are old residents 
 and well-known citizens of this city, Mr. Lewis 
 having resided here for the past thirty years, and 
 his partner sixteen years. The business was estab- 
 lished in 1850, and since that time, though tem- 
 porarily checked by the disaster of 1871, which 
 consumed the premises in South Water street which 
 the firm then occupied, it has continued to increase, 
 until this last year, when the trade has doubled that 
 of the previous year, and the firm have added to 
 their already extensive trade in domestic wool that 
 of importing, so that their business now includes 
 the following wools: American, Australian, Cape, 
 Montevideo, East India, Levant, English and German 
 nigwaste extracts, garnetted worsted, camel's hair, 
 noils, English noils, Iceland noils, Russian hair, 
 Cheverette and Louisville shoddy in all grades and 
 colors. The firm, having had such a long and 
 practical acquaintance with the business, are authori- 
 ties in the market, while their trade extends to all 
 parts of the States, a good business being done with
 
 178 
 
 A BUSINESS TOUR OF CHICAGO. 
 
 New England. The approximate yearly sales 
 amount to 4,000,000 pounds, which, on an average 
 of twenty-five cents per pound, means $1,000,000. 
 This firm give steady employment to about thirty 
 hands, and is one of those old established houses 
 that have done much to build up the present com- 
 mercial prosperity of the city. 
 
 Northwestern Parlor Suit Co. 
 
 687 to 701 Clybourn Avenue and 28 to 36 A Street. 
 The factory and office of this company are located 
 at Nos. 687 to 701 Clybourn avenue and 28 to 36 
 A street. The main building is 40x212 feet in 
 dimensions and four stories high. It is fitted up in 
 the best manner, with all the facilities for the manu- 
 
 trade. This establishment is not only a representa- 
 tive one of the kind in this city, but one of the 
 leading ones in the Union. 
 
 Leroy Payne. 
 
 Palmer House Stables, 169 to 173 Michigan Avenue, Tele- 
 phones 5437 and 5462; Also, Southern Hotel Stables, 
 
 2021 and 2023 Wabash Avenue, Telephone 8532. 
 In the line of livery the fine establishment of which 
 Mr. Leroy Payne is the proprietor is regarded on all 
 hands as a representative one, while personally Mr. 
 Payne affords an admirable example of the self-made 
 man. At the early age of seventeen, with creditable 
 self-reliance, he began in the livery business at Kan- 
 kakee, 111. with only one team, for which he paid 
 
 facture of parlor furniture frames. On the first floor 
 are located the large engine of seventy-five horse- 
 power, all the planers and heavy machinery. The 
 second floor contains the mortise machines and 
 polishers. On the third and fourth floors all the 
 frames are put together and prepared for shipment. 
 These frames are not only perfect in construction, 
 but of the latest designs. One hundred and fifty 
 men are employed in the various departments, to 
 meet the demands of their large and growing trade, 
 which extends throughout all parts of the Union. 
 The woods used in the construction of these frames 
 are well seasoned and of the best quality in the 
 market. The mahogany is procured in large quan- 
 tities from Cuba. The present company has only 
 been in existence since 1884, but the business was 
 established in 1877. The officers are Fred. Koropp, 
 president; Joseph Doetsch, treasurer; and A. Hoff- 
 man, secretary. They are all representative busi- 
 ness men of Chicago, and thoroughly acquainted 
 with every feature of the cabinet and furniture 
 
 $200, $100 down, and the balance in installments, 
 taking six months to liquidate the debt. To get his 
 start in the world, Mr. Payne worked for $7 a 
 month, and by great economy was able to save 
 enough to make his first payment as above stated. 
 He rapidly developed a fine business, and, to meet 
 its growing demands, kept constantly adding to his 
 stock, until a few years later found him the proprie- 
 tor of a large establishment at Bloomington, 111., 
 where he also owned and operated the omnibus line. 
 Eventually Mr. Payne sought a wider field for his 
 energies, and, already recognized as one of the lead- 
 ing and most successful liverymen of the State, he 
 removed to Chicago, and opened in November, 1875, 
 at No. 145 Michigan avenue, with a stable of fine 
 horses and the best made carriages in the market. 
 In 1880 a removal was made to his present spacious 
 stables, 120x180 feet in dimensions, two .Atones and 
 basement in height, and perfect in all appointments 
 and arrangements, a thorough system of organiza- 
 tion being maintained, and a large staff of experienced
 
 FIFTY YEARS PROGRESS. 
 
 179 
 
 hands assisting in every department. His stock 
 includes some of the finest roadsters in this city, be- 
 sides a large number of fine carriage horses, while 
 his desire to excel is also seen in the excellence of 
 his carriages, including coupes, coaches, victorias, 
 buggies, road-wagons and sleighs in vast varieties. 
 The guests of the Palmer house patronize this livery, 
 which is fully in keeping with everything about that 
 palatial hotel, from which it is only two blocks dis- 
 tant, and directly opposite the Exposition building 
 on the lake front, while it is but one block from the 
 Leland hotel, and convenient to the most fashionable 
 sections of the city. To accommodate the residents 
 and hotels of the southern part of the city, in 1886 
 Mr. Payne opened the "Southern hotel stables" at 
 Nos. 2021 and 2023 Wabash avenue on a scale and 
 in a style fully in keeping with the "Palmer house 
 stables," and no city, not even New York itself, has 
 more adequate livery accommodations than these 
 two stables afford the citizens of Chicago. Besides 
 his livery business, Mr. Payne is also the proprietor 
 of the " Horse Home," situated at Chebanse, in Kan- 
 kakee county, this state, on the Illinois Central rail- 
 road, sixty miles south of this city. This beautiful 
 farm home for the raising, training and care of horses, 
 consists of nearly 1000 acres. The entire farm is 
 fenced in, and divided into twenty or more pastures. 
 Mr. Payne established this horses' home in 1880, and 
 it has for its objects, (1) a place where horses 
 overworked in the city and foot-sore can be kept 
 for less money than in the city, and, at the same time, 
 imparting new life and energy, incident to the change, 
 (2) for the training of all kinds of horses, and 
 for the breaking of colts, and for conditioning of 
 horses. The horses' home is looked upon by the busi- 
 ness man as a refuge where he can seek a moment's 
 relaxation ; he enjoys the country, admires the horse, 
 and dwells with eager delight upon the young stock. 
 Harbored there, he finds himself poetized and lifted 
 out of the rut of mercantile slavery, and gives him- 
 self up to the delightful enjoyment of freedom and 
 rest; so we claim for the horses' home a high place 
 in the tabernacle of human enjoyment, and so pray 
 we for a long continuance of this farm, under Leroy 
 Payne's careful eye and active mind, for he is truly 
 a philanthropist. No visitor to the semi-centennial 
 jubilee should fail to pay a visit to this "home," as 
 he will not only be courteously received, but gain 
 information and pleasure which will more than repay 
 him for all expense and trouble incurred. 
 
 J. D. Roberts. 
 
 Glass Beveler and Silverer, 39 Canal Street. 
 A leading branch of commercial industry, and one 
 that is fast assuming prominence in this city, is that 
 technically known as glass beveling and silvering, a 
 branch of trade so ably represented by Mr. J. D. 
 Roberts, of No. 39 Canal street. Since establishing 
 his business in December, 1885, it has developed into 
 most prosperous proportions. Mr. Roberts is a 
 native of Rutland county, Vermont, and has been 
 a resident of Chicago for the past thirty-five years, 
 having been engaged in the business of house and 
 
 sign painting for some eighteen years prior to em- 
 barking in his present undertaking. At the out- 
 break of the great civil war, Mr. Roberts at once 
 went to the front 
 as a member of 
 McAllister's 
 battery, achiev- 
 ing a gallant 
 record at the 
 various engage- 
 ments in which 
 it participated, 
 being assigned 
 to B o 1 ton's 
 battery, after re- 
 ceiving his com- 
 mission as sec- 
 ond lieutenant 
 for meritorious 
 conduct in the 
 face of the ene- 
 my. After three 
 years' constant 
 service sickness 
 finally necessi- 
 tated h i s dis- 
 charge, upon which he returned to this city. His 
 three brothers also served through the war, one in 
 Col. Brackett's regiment, 9th Illinois cavalry, most 
 remarkably passing through 160 of the great battles 
 and skirmishes of the war without receiving a 
 scratch. In commercial life Mr. Roberts has been as 
 successful as he was gallant as a soldier. 
 
 Young, Gatzert & Co. 
 
 Successors to Andrew Young, Plumbers and Gas-Fitters, 
 
 965 West Madison Street. 
 
 The plumbing establishment of Young, Gatzert & 
 Co. is a good representative of business improve- 
 ments and scientific progress during the past fifty 
 years of Chicago's history. Mr. Andrew Young 
 founded this business in a small way in 1866, which 
 has steadily advanced to its present large patronage. 
 In May last he received as partners Milton Gatzert 
 and Charles Cavanna, two practical and experienced 
 plumbers and gas-fitters, who have spent a lifetime 
 at this business, working for years at the large estab- 
 lishment of E. Baggot. Mr. Young has a na- 
 tional reputation as a thorough sanitary engineer and 
 plumber. He has held the office of president and 
 also vice-president of the National Plumbers' associa- 
 tion at various times, and twice elected president of 
 the local association, and was appointed on the com- 
 mittee on sanitary appliances to the World's Expo- 
 sition at New Orleans in 1885. He believes in State 
 legislation, and that examinations should be as rigid- 
 ly made as for applications to any government posi- 
 tion. Mr. Young is inventor of an automatic attach- 
 ment for unhitchinghorses, which is just being placed 
 upon the market. It is found to work a revolution 
 in getting horses from barns and stables during a 
 fire. This firm make and execute contracts for the 
 complete fitting up of buildings of all kinds, and in 
 sanitary plumbing, which is their specialty.
 
 180 
 
 A BUSINESS TOUR OF CHICAGO. 
 
 the lew fork Central and Hudson liver 1. 
 
 THE:ONLY:FOUR-TRACK:RAILROAD:IN:THE:WORLD 
 
 Speed., Ssifet3r and. Cons-fort Is -A.ssTji.rec3. 
 3Pations of tlais 
 
 The only Line having a Depot in the City of New York, landing 
 Passengers in the very heart of the Great Metropolis. 
 
 The New Passenger, Drawing-room, Sleeping, Buffet and Dining Cars, now 
 in use on the New York Central and Hudson River R. R. and connections, 
 are unequaled in elegance of finish and their modern appliances to promote 
 the comfort of Passengers. 
 
 THROUGH CARS ARE RUN TO NEW YORK AND BOSTON 
 WITHOUT CHANGE FROM THE FOLLOWING CITIES: 
 
 CHICAGO, CLEVELAND, INDIANAPOLIS, 
 DETROIT, ST, LOUIS, COLUMBUS, 
 TOLEDO, CINCINNATI, BUFFALO, 
 
 w. :B. 
 
 Street, - 
 
 HE.NRT MONE.TT, 
 
 ASS'T GENERAL PASSENGER AGENT, OVonor-al rassaa.ser A.S&I 
 
 Grand Central Depot, - NEW YORK.
 
 A BUSINESS TOUR OF CHICAGO. 
 
 D. J. McNAMARA. J.H.DICK. 
 
 McNAMARA & DICK, 
 
 
 MICHENER BROS. & CO., 
 
 Packers and Curers of the 
 
 ypurjtjs, ypeiv'elir)^ Jesters, ^>c., ^>c. 
 
 THEATRICAL AND SAMPLE TRUNKS A SPECIALTY. 
 
 62 West Madison Street, 
 
 Repairing o, a,l kinds promptly attended ,o. CHICAGO. 
 [See page 115.] 
 
 
 ielcbrated "lanana Irand" of lams, 
 
 AND DEALERS IN PROVISIONS GENERALLY. 
 
 PACKING HOUSE, OFFICE, ROOM 211, 
 UNION STOCK YARDS. ISSURaKCB HCHaNGE BOUJJISG, 
 - ^-S-V ai8 La Salle St. 
 Telephone 9BO8. CHICAGO. [See page 81.] 
 
 
 
 
 T. -F. CLAUSE, 
 $6ainoeL Qlass *J2o*l$. 
 
 
 Abrm. Kuh. Adolph Nathan. S. M. Fischer. 
 
 KII.U JYatAan & FiscAer t 
 
 MANUFACTURERS OF 
 
 ORIGINAL DESIGNS FURNISHED ON APPLICATION. 
 
 
 e^cxrmNGr, 
 
 Artistic Stained Glass for Domestic and Ecclesiastical Purposes in Everj Style, antique, 
 Opalescent, Venetian, and Cathedral Glass. Cat and Molded Jewels. 
 
 19 & 21 Canal St., CHICAGO. 
 
 [See page 104.] 
 
 
 ^.nm jouiB>:xts i is- -wooxjxsivs. 
 
 126, 128, 130 & 132 Market St., CHICAGO. 
 
 Telephone No. 7 1 O. [See page 127.] 
 
 
 
 
 J. L. HIGGIE, President. GEO. D. KIRKIIAM, Secretary. 
 J. H. WITBECK, Vice-President. A. G. VAN SCIIAICK, Treasurer. 
 
 VESSEL OWNERS TOWING CO. 
 
 240 SO. WATER ST. 
 23Xj Jii %/ JliPJ" -JL- U G-JS, 
 
 A. li. Tan Sehaiek. Protection. Eebl. Union. Satisfaction. I. Shields. 
 Black Ball No. 2. A. A. Carpenter. . P. Ferry. Thos. Hooi J.V.Taylor. 
 
 GEO. D. I^II^HAM, SUPTJ. O^HO.A.GrO. 
 
 [See page 94.] 
 
 
 J. E. MUCHMORB, SR. J. F. MUCHMORE. 
 
 MUCHMORE & MUCHMORE, 
 
 ^fcUBUG4TlBfi 
 
 Naphtha, Gasoline, Turpentine, Axle 
 Grease, Rosin, Waste, Etc. 
 
 31 MARKET ST., CHICAGO, ILL. 
 
 TELEPHONE 903. [See page 100.] 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 8TMU88, GOODMflfi, YONDORF * Co., 
 
 Manufacturers of 
 -jS- MKUV'S, 1^0 YS' ^VIVI> -X-OtTTHS' -S-C 
 
 CLOTH ING, 
 
 MONROE STREET & FIFTH AVENUE, 
 
 Telephone No. 1373. CHICAGO. [See page 99.] 
 
 
 ipalding lumber iompany, 
 
 LUMBER MANUFACTURERS, 
 
 248 S. WATER STREET. 
 
 TELEPHONE 1508. [See page 82.] 
 
 
 
 
 * DON'T FAIL TO PAY A VISIT TO THE 
 
 
 
 Mix *-fi$$^flfc * W ^ * 
 
 Lc f\f\ KSfflKi* lA \\ Jf\ 
 
 
 Jf lex. J$. Zgevell <& (go. 
 ^ FURNITURE, ^ 
 
 DS2r^^^/ivg * 
 
 
 Carpets, Stoves, Desks, Show Cases, &c. 
 
 COR FIFTH AVE AND RANDOLPH ST 
 
 DRY GOODS, MILLINERY, CARPETS, Etc. 
 
 [Sec , K c TO.] 
 
 
 [Seepage95.] TELEPHONE 1029. GFlfGAGc.
 
 A BUSINESS TOUR OP CHICAGO. 
 
 No. 96 Wells St., Corner Indiana, 
 
 here is perhaps no place in our beautiful world half so charming as 
 c?me and see S?"vVe have" fo'^year^made a ipMdZtr^f baUdlnc iSd 
 
 all built of B '. u.l we are prepare 
 
 s. w. KES.LER, A. E. KESLEB. 
 
 RRAn E.ST ATR 
 
 146 LASALLE STREET, 1st FLOOR, CHICAGO. 
 Residence : 3112 Michigan Are. [See page 79 . ] 
 
 J. H. WALLACE, 
 
 DEALER IN PINE AND 
 
 Hardwood 
 
 242 SOUTH WATER ST., 
 
 xacOM e, 
 
 City Telephone 1OOB. 
 Yard Telephone 4284. 
 
 YARD, NORTH BRANCH AND EASTMAN ST. [See page 85. J 
 
 ESTABLISHED 1871. 
 
 H. F. ORVIS & CO. 
 
 GRAIN AND PRODUCE 
 
 (Commission 
 
 /Vo. 231 South Water St., CHICAGO. 
 TELEPHONENO. 836. [See page 128.] 
 
 A, B, GERMAN & Co,, 
 
 PUBLISHERS OF 
 
 j^kntlan! j^ttbsn;i$fi0tt 
 
 sxAND BIBLES. >o=^- 
 N08. 177 & 179 LASALLE STREET, 
 
 e97.] CHICAGO. 
 
 tleaf * Cstate * attd * Lou tis 
 
 57 CALUMET BUILDING, 
 
 189 LA SALLE STREET. 
 
 operty bought and sold on commission. Special attention 
 residents carefully looked after. 
 
 SNYDER &. RATHBONE, 
 
 WHOLESALE FRUIT AND PRODUCE COMMISSION, 
 
 Butter, Eggs and Poultry Specialties, 
 217 S. WATER STREET, 
 
 JNO. J. INKERSELL, 
 
 G RO DE R 1 E S 
 
 1006 WEST MADISON STREET. 
 
 [See page 69.] 
 
 Richard hwin, 
 
 No. 41 NORTH STATE STREET, 
 
 iio^ 
 
 [See page 63.] 
 
 I. TO2T.A.S, 
 
 22 RUSH STREET, CHICAGO. 
 
 ClothesCleaned.Dyed and Repaired at Reasonabl 
 Prices. Good Fitand Workmanship Guaranteed.
 
 A BUSINESS TOUR OF CHICAGO. 
 
 T. D. RANDALL & CO. 
 
 FRUIT AND PRODUCE 
 
 OO^CMIISSIOIST, 
 
 219 S. WATER ST., CHICAGO. 
 
 OLDEST FRUIT AND PRODUCE COMMISSION HOUSE IS CHICAGO. [See page 100.] 
 
 WHOLESALE 
 
 247 & 249 IINZIE ST. [See page 117.] 
 
 VICTOR D. EOWAN & 60., 
 
 tailors' f rimmiiigs, 
 
 CHICAGO. [See page 106.] 
 
 . F. 
 
 lUPOBTEB AMD DKALKIi 
 
 policed plateli 
 
 315 to 321 WABASH AVENUE, 
 
 [SeepageSS, ^"CHICAGO, ILL, 
 
 FftRWEU & Cd, 
 
 MANUFACTURERS AND JOBBERS OF 
 
 Men's * furnishing ioods, 
 
 244-246 MONROE STREET, 
 
 [See page 89.] 
 
 IMPORTERS AND MANUFACTURERS 
 
 SIEVES, 
 
 CHICAGO, ILL. 
 
 I3IES cSc CO., 
 
 LADIES' AND GENTS' 
 
 251 TO 255 MONROE STREET, 
 
 CHICAGO, ILL. 
 
 SIZ, 
 
 <6 CO., 
 
 192, 194, 196, 198 A 200 PMNKLIN ST., 
 
 TELEPHONE NO. 629. 
 
 STEAM HEATIN6 AND VENTILATING 
 
 FOR PUBLIC BUILDINGS. RESIDENCES AND GREEN HOUSES, 
 
 By High and Low Pressure Steam and Hot Water. 
 
 NO. 198 JACKSON STREET, 
 Jobbing of ill Kindj Promptly Attended to. BIOA. 
 
 Telephone No. 1048. [See page 94.] 
 
 RAREST & GO; * 
 
 Masquerade and Theatrical 
 
 3427 STATE ST., CHICAGO, ILL. 
 
 A Large Stock of Costumes, Wigs, Beards, Mustaches, Masks 
 Tableaux Fire, Etc., Constancy on Hand, For Sale or Rent.
 
 A BUSINESS TOUR OF CHICAGO. 
 
 JNO. SCHIPPERS, 
 
 lakerij and Confectioner]], 
 
 222 So. CALIFORNIA AVENUE. 
 
 Fresh Baked Bread, Cakes, Pies, Etc., Etc., 
 Always Kept on Hand. 
 
 WASHINGTON FOUNDRY * MACHINE SHOP, 
 
 No. 13 North Jefferson St., Chicago, III. 
 
 OIjMUS, I*-xr01"T db CO., Fi-opriotox 
 
 Iron Work of All Kinds for Buildings 
 
 SHAFTING, PULLEYS, STEAM ENGINES, CHICAGO 
 
 TAYLOR PRINTING PRESSES. 
 CASTINGS AND HEAVY MACHINERY. [See page 138.] 
 
 ALEI. M. THOMSON, 
 
 THOMSON & TAYLOR SPIGE GO. 
 
 Roast and Ground Coffees, Whole and Ground 
 Spices, Mustards, Baking Powder, Flavor- 
 ing Extracts, Indigos, Dry and Liquid 
 Bluing, Hops and Sage, Seeds. 
 
 84, 36, 38 & 40 South Water St , CHICAGO. 
 
 [See page 82] 
 
 GEO. W. HOIT & CO., 
 j * Boods * lommission, 
 
 Nos. 241 to 245 MONROE ST., 
 
 SIMONDS SAWS AND KNIVES. 
 
 *^X5f-. 
 
 SIMONDS MANUFACTURING GO. 
 
 FITCHBURG CHICAGO. 
 
 ESTABLISHED 1832. RE-ORGANIZED 1864. 
 
 INCORPORATED 1868. [See page 113.] 
 
 . C. ROGERS. 
 
 B. E. ROGERS. 
 
 Commission ^ Merchants, 
 
 GREEN FRUITS AND VEGETABLES, 
 
 267 South Water Street, 
 
 [Seepage 146] CHICAGO. 
 
 ANUFACTURER OF 
 
 and 
 
 CABINET-MAKERS' TOOLS, Etc. 
 29 & 31 N. Jefferson St., 
 
 [See page 98.] Oi^ 
 
 Ulitehill lowing Machine Bo. | 
 
 28 NORTH CLARK ST. \f 
 
 E. W. BLATCHFORD. N . H . B LATCH FORD. 
 
 E. W. BLATCHFORD & CO. 
 
 70 NORTH CLINTON ST., CHICAGO. 
 Lead and Tin Pipe, Sheet and Bar Lead, Pig Lead 
 and Bloctt Tin, Solder and Antimony, Anti- 
 monial Leads, Linseed Oil and Oil Cake, 
 Babbitt Metals, Stereotype, Electro- 
 type, Type Metal, Copper, Spelter. 
 
 TELEPHONE 4221. 
 
 [See page 85.] 
 
 FRANK HEADEN. 
 
 FRANK Me A ULET. 
 
 HEADEN & McAuLEY, 
 
 J_^^U1' t^l UJ-l-LOj 
 
 AND ALL KINDS OP DISTILLERS', BREWERS' AND VINEGAR TUBS, CISTERNS, 4c. 
 
 112 TO 118 E. INDIANA ST., 
 
 (Cor. Franklin, North Side,) 
 Telephone No. 3x44. [See page 118.] CHICAGO,
 
 A BUSINESS TOUR OF CHICAGO. 
 
 The Hiram Sibley Fire-Proof Warehouses. 
 
 HIRAM SIBLEY 4. CO., PROP-RS. 
 2 to 18 NORTH CLARK STREET, - CHICAGO, ILL. 
 
 ~~ DEALERS IN 
 
 GRASS AND FIELD SEE 
 
 Consign Goods to The Hiram Sibley Fire- Proof Warehouses, 
 
 Care Chicago & North- Western R. R. 
 [See page 87 and 88.J 
 
 VARNI9H MAKCR9 
 
 262 WABASH AVENUE, CHICAGO. 
 
 F. H. TAYLOR, 
 
 MANAGER. Hello 5546. [See page 82.] 
 
 NATIONAL BOILER WORKS 
 
 56, 58 & 6O Fulton St., CHICAGO, ILL. 
 
 (Between Clinton and Jefferson Streets), 
 
 All Kinds of Marine, Locomotive and Stationary Boilers, 
 
 Sheet-Iron Work of All Kinds. Boiler Heads and Flue 
 
 Holes Flanged by Machinery. 
 C '' .Repairing Prompt??/ Attended to at Be able Bates. 
 
 CRD1XS SOLICITED BY TEIZPHONB Ko. 4272. [See page 90. ] 
 
 ^ 
 
 f K,KJ[RN8H11 
 
 ten 
 
 im L. 
 
 ^ Masons, Contractors 
 
 and. Builte, T 
 
 | Room 73, Exchange Building- | 
 
 [See page 
 
 14.] 
 
 S. BOOKWALTER. 
 
 C. H. BARTLETT. 
 
 BOOKWALTER, KELLEY S CO. 
 General '. Commission '. Merchants, 
 
 SPECIAL ATTENTION GIVEN TO THB SALE OP FINE 
 
 BUTTER, CHEESE, EGGS AND POULTRY. 
 78 SOUTH WATER ST., 
 
 Merchants' Exchange Nat' 1 SSaak, Musc 
 
 [Sc e P age91.] 
 
 JOHN W. MASURY & SON, 
 
 Jlciu Uark n& <r In can a. 
 
 MANUFACTURERS OF 
 
 NEW YORK OFFICE, II CHICAGO OFFICE, 
 
 BENNETT BUILDING, M. J. HODSE, Manager, 
 
 Fulton Street, Cor. Nassau. M AS U R Y BUILDING, 
 
 -*- || 190, 191, 192 Michigan lire. 
 
 TELEPHONE No. 5777. [See page 75.] 
 
 H.C.Hofman. Dorrell McGowan. 
 
 H. C. HOFFMAN & CO. 
 
 (Successors to Burlington Mfg. Co's Monumental and Granite Business), 
 MANUFACTURERS, DEALERS AND CONTRACTORS FOR 
 
 Granite Monuments, Vaults, Headstones 
 
 AND ALL KINDS OF CEMETERY WORK. 
 
 OFFICE AXD SALESROOMS: 
 
 t 2 & 1 4 Van Buren Street, near Michigan Avenue, 
 CHICA.GTO. 
 
 other Granite 
 r See pa&e n6 .-j 
 
 CLARK D. OSBORN. ALFRED L. CAYZER. 
 
 OSBORN 8z: GAYZRR 
 
 MANUFACTURERS OF 
 
 GLOVES AND MITTENS, 
 
 FINE GOODS A SPECIALTY. 
 
 238 & 240 ADAMS ST., 
 
 GLOVERSVILLE, N!Y. CHICflGO, ILL, 
 
 IMPORTER AID DUIER IK 
 
 FIKR ARTS. 
 
 PAINTINGS, 
 ENGRAVINGS, 
 ETCHINGS, ETC. 
 
 ARTISTIC FRAMING. 
 
 210 WABASH AVENUE 
 
 Andrew Mullen. James Mullen. Charles Catlin. 
 
 MULLEN BROS. Sc CO. 
 
 264 & 266 MADISON ST., 
 
 arXetSt. [Seepa^ST] CHICAGO.
 
 A BUSINESS TOUR OF CHICAGO. 
 
 Dealer in Staple and Fancy 
 
 GROCERIES 
 
 ^ 9fl5 Wells SfW, 
 
 Our Motto Good Goods at Lowest Prices for Cash. 
 
 [See page 125.] 
 
 A, 
 
 884 W. Madison St., Chicago, 111. 
 
 DRUGS, MEDIGINESTMD GHEMIGALS, 
 
 FANCY AND TOILET ARTICLES, 
 Toilet Soaps, Sponges, Brushes. Combs, Perfumery, &c., &c. 
 
 Physicians' Prescriptions Carefully Compounded, 
 
 S. E. CLEVELAND & SQJI 
 
 [iVERY, ROARDINC & S^LE ^TABLES 
 
 962 & 964 WEST MADISON STEEET, 
 
 Between W.. 7 and Wes^Aves. 
 
 Carriages promptly furnished at all times for Weddings, 
 Telephone 7207. Parties, Theaters, Depots, etc. [See page 125.] 
 
 D. F. BREMNER, Pres. and Treas. J. P. DONLAN, Sec'y. 
 
 THE 
 
 D. F. BREMNER BAKING CO. 
 
 76, 78 & 80 O'BRIEN ST. \ 19 MARKET STREET. 
 
 [See page 150.] 
 
 COMMISSION DEALERS IN 
 
 BROOM CORN 
 
 AND BROOM MATERIAL. 
 
 NOS. 225 & 227 KINZIE STREET, 
 
 CHICAGO. [See page 108.] 
 
 C. H. FARGO & CO., 
 
 Manufacturers and Jobbers of 
 
 BOOTS & 
 
 116, 118 and 120 Market Street, 
 OH3IO-A.C3O. 
 
 T. T77-. 
 
 Manufacturer of Hand, Foot and Power 
 
 lircular iawing Machines, 
 
 Also Hair Pickers for Mattress Makers, 
 
 62 and 64 WEST LAKE ST., 
 
 [See page 96.] OHXO-A-GrO, XXlXj. 
 
 F. H. BOnTRKt & (SO. 
 
 General Produce Commission 
 
 AND WHOLESALE DEALERS IN 
 
 Butter, Cheese^ Eggs, 
 
 223 SOUTH WATER STREET, 
 013110^0-0. 
 
 Reference: Hide and Leather National Bank, Chicago. 
 TELEPHONE NO. 825. [See page 159.] 
 
 GEORGE D. EDDY 
 
 R. M. EDDY'S SONS, 
 
 41 to 55 EAST INDIANA ST., 
 (Telephone 3429.) CHICAGO, ILL,. 
 
 [See page 57.] 
 
 Established 1882. 
 
 Incorporated 1883. 
 
 81 Randolph Street, Cor. Dearborn, 
 Designs Furnished. ~+CHICAGO.*~ Send for Samples. 
 
 TAKE ELEVATOR. [See page 128.]
 
 A BUSINESS TOUR OF CHICAGO. 
 
 vii 
 
 
 
 C. COLLINS, Proprietor, 
 S. E. Cor. Wabash Ave. and Madison St., CHICAGO. 
 
 (2.30 
 
 Under New Management. Thoroughly Renovated and Re-furnishcd. 
 
 In Business Center and Convenient to Principal R. R. Depots and 
 
 Theaters. Eligible Rooms for Families and other Permanent 
 
 Boarders. Day Boarders Accommodated. 
 
 [See page 142.] 
 
 NORTH V WESTERN * BOILER * WORKS. 
 
 iTTAMS, 
 
 SxtLOlx.0 Stnolt>-i. Etc-. 
 
 64 Michigan Street, - CHICAGO, ILL. 
 
 Residence, 70 Lincoln Ave. TILEPMONE 3100. [See page 107. ] 
 
 McVicker's Theater Building, 
 
 [See page 77.] 
 
 CARRIAGE TRIMMER. 
 
 Landaus, Landaulettes, Coupes, Coupelettes, 
 
 Broughams and All Other Carriages 
 
 Neatly Trimmed and Repaired. 
 
 85 tiixcl 87 Iiidiivixiv Street, 
 
 [See page 144] -^-CHICAGO, ILLS. 
 
 INTo. 876 State Street, 
 
 HRADQUARTRRS 
 
 For all the Late Styles of 
 
 And BAB UTENSILS GENERALLY, 
 
 Hotel and Restaurant CHINA. [See page 139.] 
 
 
 IMPORTER and JOBBER. 
 
 SPICES, BAKING POWDERS, &c. 
 33 MICHIGAN AVENUE, 
 
 M. JOHNSON. J. METZLER 
 
 JOHNSON & METZLER, 
 
 -MANUFACTURERS OF- 
 
 Carriages, Buggies, 
 
 SPRING TRUCKS and WAGONS, 
 260 & 262 Michigan Street, near Rush, 
 
 AH kinds of Painting and Trimming ) /"" TUT T /"* A f~* /~\ 
 
 promptly attended to. J UrllCALlU. 
 
 taa. [Sec page 143.] 
 
 C. MEARS & CO. 
 
 Manufacturers and Dealers In 
 
 LUMBERS BRICK, 
 
 Office, 242| South Water Street, 
 
 301 Hawthorne Avenue, Red Office. /"> 
 
 Brick Dock, East End Madison St. Bridge. UHICAGO. 
 
 o@. 
 
 Manufacturers and Dealers in 
 
 The Late Improved Servoss ELECTRIC HEATER, 
 
 The Servoss -Ekstrom Kitchen Ventilator 
 
 And AIR RENOVATOR, HOT AIR FLUES, MANTELS. GRATES. &c. 
 
 135 & 137 Lake St., near Clark, CHICAGO. 
 
 l S*7O. [Sec IKI^C W.]
 
 A BUSINESS TOUR OF CHICAGO. 
 
 
 
 !- n - .1 .xi 'iirj< >ra, !Yi,.,,.. >ti ...-. 
 
 flLSIP Bl^IGI^ (0. 
 
 Office, 159 La Salic Street, Room 73, 
 CLLO,Dil}C[X 
 
 Z"-^I^3DS : rrlylio3ie : 
 43d St. West of Ashland Ave. 43d Street Yard, No. 9604. 
 
 
 0JP|LB C^JP^YC 
 
 68 & 7O N. State Street, CHICAGO, 
 
 MANUFACTTJBERS OF THE CELEBRATED 
 
 "CHARLES CREAMERY BUTTER," 
 
 - And Dealers in STRICTLY FRESH EGGS, 
 
 Chicago and Hamlin Avenues. Chicago Ave. Yard, No. 7a66. 
 [See page 80.] Office, No. 96. 
 
 
 Orders by mail receive prompt attention. [See page 74.] 
 
 
 
 
 MORPER, DERNBURG & CO. 
 
 MANUFACTURERS OF 
 
 156 & 158 Market Street, 
 
 [See page 102. ] aZEHO-A-OO- 
 
 
 WBE. ML DAUB, 
 
 aiAWTnVA-OTTJUIPB-G- and aOIST^EIVSIlVGr 
 
 >OHBHI9T< 
 
 Corner Clark and Madison Streets, 
 OHIO^C3-0. 
 
 [See page 83.] 
 
 
 
 
 EDW BAUMANN Ah' WM H LOTZ M h ' 1 E ' 
 
 
 
 BAUMANN & LOTZ, 
 ARCHITECTS AND ENGINEERS, 
 
 Rooms 59, 68 and 70 Metropolitan Block, 
 
 SPEC ^i^Marr onof CH.CAGO, ILL. 
 
 and Breweries. [See page 114.] 
 
 
 DOUGHY & GO. 
 
 MANUFACTURERS OF 
 
 Patent Vault and Sidewalk Lights. 
 
 Vault and Coal Hole Couers always on hand. 
 
 125 & 127 INDIANA STREET, NEAR WELLS, 
 TElBPHONKHo.3103. [See page 152.] CHICAGO, ILL. 
 
 
 
 
 BROWN & JAMES HEATING CO., 
 
 Manufacturers and Dealers in 
 
 Irown's Water leaters and furnaces. 
 
 Office and Salesroom, 2131 Wabash Ave., 
 
 [See page 104.] -^/Z/2/^CHICAGO, ILL. 
 
 
 HARROUN MANUFACTURING GO. 
 
 Manufacturers, Jobbers and Dealers in 
 
 &e Msshme Supplies, 
 
 No. 248 WABASH AVENUE, 
 OI3IIO^.C3-O- 
 
 
 
 
 S. A. K^AKi: & (SO. 
 
 JScmfters, 
 
 (Successors to PRESTON, KEAN & CO.,) 
 100 -vvwsirii'srci-'roivr SI-H-KIEIT, 
 
 -*>H!<2A0.<S>- 
 
 [See page 124.] 
 
 
 THE JOHN J. CROOKE CO. 
 
 MANUFACTURERS OF 
 
 Plain, Colored and Embossed Tinfoil and Metallic Capsules, 
 
 4 FRA,ISKt!I* STREET, 
 
 [See page 118.] -=^ CHICAGO, ILL.
 
 A BUSINESS TOUR OF CHICAGO. 
 
 FOSTER, ROE X GROflE, 
 
 3Fin* -pointers, 
 
 170 Clark Street, * + CHICAGO, ILL. 
 
 [See page 98.] 
 
 
 H. H. BOULTER, N. D, D. D. 8,, 
 
 -33Bentt*t,3- 
 
 ROOM 29, CENTRAL Music HALL, $ E- Cor. Randolph and State Sts. 
 
 
 
 
 F. emSTORF, 
 
 Agent, $ Lumber f Commission, 
 
 242 SOUTH WATER STREET, 
 
 ROOM 16. [See page 160.] GHICS6O, ILL. 
 
 J. SAUTTER. J. APKING. 
 
 BAVmiBlR ^ ^F1M^ 
 
 Men's, Boys' and Youths' Pegged, Nailed and laehine-Sewed 
 
 BOOTS ^o SHOE3S, 
 
 Nos. 66, 68 and 70 W. Lake Street, 
 
 [Seepage 89.] OHIO-A-GrO. 
 
 
 
 R, M. W2E1M, 
 
 DRUGGIST * AND * APOTHECARY, 
 
 Pltl^E 600DS OUI^ SPECIALLY. 
 
 1238 West Jackson St, 
 
 N. W. COB. CALIFORNIA ATE. 
 
 ""^SZttSSS^tSSS?* CHICAGO. 
 
 RKGORE) BROTHER, 
 
 ^^.i^ i>i^'^tf- 
 
 GmmisgiFi f ffiephiHfeg, 
 
 267 and 269 FRANKLIN ST., 
 
 omo^-oo. 
 
 NELSON B . RECORD . MILTON L . RECORD. 
 
 
 
 
 d f frc J F^if lie, 
 
 PORTRAIT^ LANDSCAPE PAINTER, 
 
 Southwest Cor. Clark and Adams Sts., 
 
 [See page IH.] -^ CHICA6Q, 11,1,. 
 
 ftarfes Z Waffcice, 
 
 Sanitary Plumber, 
 
 TELEFHONK 1448. 362 Wabash Avenue, 
 
 Remodeling of Old Work a Specialty. -*CH ICAGO. 
 [See page 173.] 
 
 
 
 CHAS. HOLMBERG, 
 
 IV > l t TH_-V'ESTmi.Il|r 
 
 COPFEB WORKS, 
 
 54 and 56 Wells St., CHICAGO. 
 
 Henry B. Grier. Albert Jack. 
 
 <3cRms & .mcsK, 
 
 Wholesale 
 
 Lamps, Glassware and Fruit Jars, 
 
 48 tAKB STREET, 
 
 [Seepage56.] OIE3IIO^\.G-O- 
 
 C^>- Mannfaeturer of ConfeetioDery and Steamboat ffotk in all its Branches.
 
 A BUSINESS TOUR OF CHICAGO. 
 
 MYRON L. OSGOOD, 
 
 HOWLAND BLOCK, Room 25, 
 
 182 DEARBORN ST., 
 Real Estate. CHICAGO. 
 
 [See page 52.] 
 
 jr. 
 
 ass 
 
 CHICAGO, ILL. 
 
 S. A. MAXWELL X GO. 
 
 Wall Paper Dealers, 1^- 
 
 104 A ISG \Unbnsli Aur.. 
 
 [See page 175.] CHICAGO, ILL. 
 
 H. S. Canfield. 
 
 F. E. Canfield. 
 
 MANUFACTURERS OF 
 
 how* Gases. 
 
 Drug-Store Fixtures and Wall Cases for All Purposes. 
 7, 9, 11 & 13 WABASH AVE., 
 
 [See page 171.] OJSIO.A.G-O. 
 
 Importer of 
 
 O-o-o-d-o 
 
 HAIR BAZAAR: 157 STATE STREET, 
 WHOLESALE DEPOT; 138-140 WABASH AVENUE, 
 
 S. F. WRIGHT. G . N. WRIGHT 
 
 S. F. WRIGHT & CO. 
 
 Livery and Boarding Stables 
 
 248, 25O & 252 KINZIE STREET, 
 
 Telephone 3O6S. 
 
 page 161 .] 
 
 T. E. Geehr. 
 
 Hide Brokers, 
 
 178 MICHIGAN STREET, 
 
 CHICAGO, ILL, 
 
 New York Office: 91 COLO ST. [See page 171.] 
 
 B. C. Peterson. C. A. Oveson. 
 
 PETERSON X OVESOli 
 
 Center, Library and Parlor Tables and Flower Stands, 
 
 Nos. 140 TO 151 NORTH SANG AM ON STREET, 
 
 Corner Austin .Uenue. CHICAGO, ILL. 
 
 [See page 170.] 
 
 H. Gr. 
 
 & (SO. 
 
 Irescription 
 
 72 NORTH CLARK STREET, 
 Bet. Michigan and Illinois Sts. OHIO.A.C3rO. 
 
 TELEPHONE No. 3 1 58. [See page 71.] 
 
 PLUMBERS 1 GAS-FITTERS, 
 
 96S WEST MADISON ST.,
 
 A BUSINESS TOUR OF CHICAGO. 
 
 TELEPHONE No. 1516. 
 
 Steel, Heavy Hardware 
 
 RAILWAY, MACHINISTS' AND MINING 
 SUPPLIES. 
 
 247 & 349 Lake st. and. 7 & 9 Market St., 
 
 RIVERDALE DISTILLING CO. 
 
 DISTILLERS ^RECTIFIERS, 
 
 264 to 27 BASTP KIJSZIE S<T. t 
 
 Foot of Cass, 
 
 LOCATED AT 
 RIVERDALE, COOK CO., ILL. [See page 74. 1 
 
 Manufacturer and Gilder of 
 
 Sold and Metal leaf frames, 
 
 MOULDINGS MOUNTED FOR THE TRADE. 
 
 II- I- 
 , ILL. 
 
 FERMENTUM " 
 
 THE ONLY RELIABLE 
 
 COMPRESSED: YEAST 
 
 MANUFACTURED BY THE 
 
 RIVERDALE DISTILLING CO. 
 
 A. JUNKER, GENERAL AGENT, 
 264-27O Kinzie St., [See page 74.] CHICAGO. 
 
 WM. 
 
 (Successor to John Kit 
 
 r.EAR * CUTTING 
 
 MILLING WORK OF EVERY DESCRIPTION A SPECIALTY. 
 
 machinery Made to Order. 
 31 AND 33 SOUTH CANAL STREET, 
 
 Second Floor. Telephone 4157. 
 
 C. H. JULIUS & SON 
 
 DTEDfG AND SOOUBDfG, 
 
 J-a.olx.aoxi Stx-oot, 
 
 CHICAGO. 
 
 Under Lelancl Hotel. 
 
 [See page 143. 
 
 Jos. Dottsch, Presl. A. Hofman, Treas. Wm. Lange, Stc'y. 
 
 PARLOR FURNITURE FRAMES, 
 
 687 to 701 Olybourn Am and 28 to 30 A St., 
 Telephone 3456. CHICAGO, ILL. 
 
 AND DEALER IN 
 XJX2.A.X 1 T O 33 .A. O C O, 
 
 95 & 97 ADAMS ST., 
 
 Opp. Custom-House. [See page 133. J CHICAGO. 
 
 COMMISSION DEALERS 
 
 Woff, 
 
 CO 
 
 Wool, pelt?, fan aqd 
 
 221 to 227 E. KINZIE STREET, 
 
 CHICAGO. 
 
 Successors to Schreiber & Brown, 
 DESIGNERS AND MANUFACTURERS OF 
 
 HrnamEnlal $ Cut * Glass, 
 
 PLAIN AND FANCY BEVELED GLASS, 
 
 13 & 18 SOUTH CANAL STREET, 
 
 ORIGIWL DBIGHS niMISHH) ON iPPUCinOH. C7l3.lca.eO.
 
 A BUSINESS TOUR OF CHICAGO. 
 
 A. >. SEESERGER. CHAS. D. SEEBERGER. 
 
 A. F. SEEBERGER & CO. 
 
 WHOLESALE HARDWARE, 
 
 Cutlery, Tinplate, Metals, Nails, &c. 
 38 & 4O LAKE ST., 
 
 [See page 148.] 
 
 Real x Estate * Dealer 
 
 177 La Salle St., Room 9, 
 
 Sr CH 1CAGO, I LL 
 
 [See page 147.] 
 
 WII. ^ 99 
 
 Enmmissinn : fflErnhanfs, 
 
 215 SOUTH WATER ST., 
 
 CBEAMERY A SPECIALTY. CHICAGO. 
 
 [See page 130.] 
 
 JAUNDEY 
 
 [See page 152.J 
 
 It It WSDSWORTH, 
 
 ^pi^ing TJucI^ aqd Wagon?, 
 
 REPAIRING PROMPTLY ATTENDED TO. 
 
 252 Michigan Street, 
 
 [Seepage 142.] 
 
 latch Materials, fools, lie. 
 
 0. S. JEWELERS' GUILD JEWELRY, 
 I'ZO State Street, 
 
 [Seepagem] CHICAGO, ILL. 
 
 FI. F. 
 
 DEALER IN 
 
 Broom Manufacturers' Supplies, 
 206, 208 & 210 MICHIGAN ST., Near State, 
 
 - ^CHICAGO. 
 
 [See page 164.] 
 
 Patent, Trade Mark and Copyright Law.7 American and Foreign Patents. Obtained- 
 
 CHARLES T. BROWN, 
 
 ROOM 33, 225 DEARBORN ST., 
 
 Opp. Government Building. [See page 162.] CHICAGO. 
 
 DEALER IN 
 
 ' '>'' ' N 
 
 DOMESTIC 
 
 51 & 53 NORTH STATE ST., 
 
 TELEPHONE 3131. 
 
 G. 
 
 88 & 90 LAKE STREET, 
 3] . CHICAGO, ILL.
 
 A BUSINESS TOUR OF CHICAGO. 
 
 xiii 
 
 TREMBLE & ALBERDING, 
 
 -^SWHOLESAI^E AND XETAILez*- 
 
 MANUFACTURING GONFEGTIONERS, 
 
 -"CARAMELS A SPECIALTY,^ 
 NO. 64 NORTH CLARK STREET, 
 
 
 MANUFACTURERS OF 
 
 16., 
 
 ^-78 & 80 MICHIGAN STREET,*- 
 
 OHZIO^-G-O. 
 
 
 [See page 74.] 
 
 
 
 
 MOORSHRAE) & (SO., 
 
 Manufacturers' Agents and Jobbers of 
 
 JEWELRY SPECIALTIES, 
 
 : In Men's Fine Rolled Plate Sleeve Buttons, Sleeve Links, 
 Collar Buttons, Scarf Pins, Studs, *c. 
 
 
 MATTSON & AEPPLI, 
 
 ""^'"^PS HIRERS ~ tf ^~ 
 
 AND MANUFACTURERS OF 
 
 (s-rl fO'\7'P c ^ #S rnTJTtnTPlST^ 
 
 A Full Line of the Celebrated FULL DRESS STONINE Sleeve B.ttjn., 
 Studs and Links, Constantly on Hand. 
 
 161 LaSalle St., Rooms 74 & 76, ^CHICAGO. 
 
 
 13 & 15 SLOAN STREET. 
 Salesroom, 89 Franklin Street, OHIIO-A-QO- 
 
 
 
 
 C. F. WEBER. W. J. WEBER. 
 
 METAL SPINNERS, 
 METAL GOODS, 
 
 (national Tube Works Building.) 
 
 
 McCORMACK BROS., 
 
 lomoBopathic Iharmaceutists, 
 
 Rooms 34, 35 & 36 Quincy Building, 
 
 i i 3 Adams St., Opposite Post-Office, 
 
 JOBBING PROMPTLY ATTENDED TO. 
 
 
 [See page 77.] CHICAGO, ILL, 
 
 
 
 
 Spanish Cigar Manufacturers 
 
 * l 'HQ<T7"S.2I3-3< T .<=>;=> "T <*- 
 44 & 46 La Salle St., CHICAGO. 
 
 [See page 147.] 
 
 
 FJOMAN fflOSAIG fflAF^BLE FLOODING, 
 
 ^V42 N. STATE STREET.-^- 
 [See page 189.] CHICAGO, ILL. 
 
 
 
 
 NEW YORK. FACTORY TROY, NEW YORK. BOSTON. 
 
 
 D. BAKENHUS. A. MUESELER. 
 
 JAMES K. P. PINE, 
 * r .L'.iixf5f -Lj^iiiiT-D^ 
 Meris Linen Collars & Cuffs, 
 
 -^V128 FIFTH AVENUE,^-- 
 
 w ' M> WA r"":j Mana8er ' CHICAGO 
 
 
 BAKENHUS & MUESELER, 
 
 MANUFACTURERS OF 
 
 BftftKIftGES, TRUCKS and WAGONS, 
 
 95 & 97 E. INDIANA STREET, 
 
 Every Description of Work Made lo Order. Repairing Promptly Done. 
 
 [See page 64.]
 
 A BUSINESS TOUR OF CHICAGO. 
 
 ZD. IEEZZDDSIK, 
 
 Wholesale and Retail Dealer in 
 
 BLANK BOOKS AND STATIONERY 
 
 OF EVERY DESCRIPTION, 
 1.20 n. .^ Si /v. TJ I j !; Si T i * i-: v: M\ 
 
 Four Doors North of Madison. CHICAGO. 
 
 SOCIETY AND COMMERCIAL PRINTING. 
 
 [See page 72.] 
 
 SPECIALTY ! Selling Direct to Private Parties. 
 62 & 64 CLYBOURN AVE., CHICAGO. 
 
 [See page 145.] 
 
 is. 
 
 CITY AND SUBURBAN 
 
 182 XDeairtoom Street, 
 
 CHICAGO. 
 
 FURNITURE, * EfiRFETS, 
 
 STOVES, OIL CLOTHS, CUETAINS, 
 
 And everything in the house-furnishing line for 
 
 cash or on our easy payments. 
 
 265 & 267 W. MADISON ST., CHICAGO. 
 
 [See page 162.] 
 
 LIVERY, BOARDING and SALE STABLE 
 
 21O & 212 INDIANA STREET, 
 
 Between Clark and Dearborn, 
 
 Te.ephone3077. CHICAGO. 
 
 [See page 66.] 
 
 EX 
 
 CONFECTIONERY, STATIONERY AND PERIODICALS, 
 1O47 Madison Street, 
 
 [See page 172.] 
 
 m. 00. 
 
 Western Agents fo 
 
 -^ C7 ZJ Jj IjTJ O-J O I U .^ 
 
 bOLLARS AND GUFFO 
 
 NO. 143 FIFTH AVENUE, 
 
 Chicago Stock. 
 
 [See page 79.] 
 
 v^ MRS.A. MOLLER'S ^v 
 
 HOME LAUNDRY, 
 
 NO. 10 RUSH ST. 
 
 ALL WORK DONE BY HAND. 
 
 Ii52 MONROE STREET, 
 
 [See page 101.] 
 
 U, S, HUME MFE, EU, 
 
 37 Lakeside Buildine;, Cor. Clark & Adams Sts., 
 p. o BOX 443 CHICAGO, ILL., IT. S. A .
 
 A BUSINESS TOUR OF CHICAGO. 
 
 H. W. JENNEY, President. C. L. GRAHAM, Sec. & Treas 
 
 JENNEY & GRAHAM GUN COMPANY, 
 
 Fire firms, Pishing Tackle, 
 
 AND 
 
 ^GENERAL SPORTING GOODS,*- 
 
 Former Stand of E. E. EATON. 
 
 CHAS. STATTMAN & CO., 
 
 Manufacturers and Importers of 
 
 Fine PiJrs, Gaps, Gloves, Jdlffs, Trimmings, 
 
 PROBES AND COATS.-v- 
 
 CHICAGO, 
 
 GMEMML ^D DRUG IMPORTERS, 
 
 GLASSMAKERS , SOAPMAKERS', 
 
 156 WASHINGTON STREET, 
 
 [See page 159.] 
 
 -"Hodge Supplies, Banners and Flags,-^ 
 
 Regalia and Uniforms for all Societies, 
 
 188 & 190 S. CLARK ST., 
 
 [See page 113.] 
 
 MASON 60NTRA6TOR & BUILDER*- 
 
 No. 161 La s : . II.- Street, Boom 94, 
 
 Office Telephone-. No. 167. Residence Telephone: No. 7141. 
 
 [Sec page 67.] 
 
 *McEWAN'S* 
 Temperance European Hotel & Wee House 
 
 95 W. MADISON STREET, 
 Transient Booms, 50 Gts. to $1.00. Meals at all Hours. 
 
 [See page 158.] 
 
 -*CLUB HOUSE CIGAR FACTORY.*- 
 
 CASS F. MA URER, 
 
 -^DOMESTIC AND IMPORTED.^ 
 
 103 Adams Stree; p TT T p A /^ r\ 
 
 Opposite Post-Office. [See page 101. J W IT. 1 ^ /\ O V^ . 
 
 G. A. MARINER. ESTABLISHED 1856. WM. HOSKINS. 
 
 Cr. A. MARIKIRR & (SO., 
 
 Analytical and Consulting 
 
 CHEMISTS 4 ABB4YHB, 
 
 81 South Clark Street, CHICAGO, 
 
 Top Floor, lake Elevator 
 ASSAYS AND ANALYSES OF ALL KINDS. 
 
 SHtet& 
 
 [See page 64.] 
 
 IF YOUR HOUSE IS INFESTED WITH 
 
 COCKROACHES, BED BUGS, MOTHS, ANTS, 4C,, &C, 
 
 CALL ON OR ADDRESS 
 
 4-J. BLUMENTHAL,^ 
 
 07^ N. WELLS STREET, 
 
 The Best Reference Given. 
 
 Contracts Accepted. 
 
 [ M. BOGUE. HENRY W. Ho 
 
 BOGUE & HOYT, 
 
 *09iuy. ffvmn 
 
 No. 182 Dearborn Street, Room 1 , Second Floor. 
 
 Real Estate Bought and Sold on Commission. Special Attention Gi 
 to the Care and Management of Property. Taxes paid and 
 Rents Ci.ll.Tt. ,1 Interest < Non-Residents Care- 
 fully Looked After. Mortgage Loans, 
 o. [See page 78.]'
 
 xvi 
 
 A BUSINESS TOUR OF CHICAGO. 
 
 ESTABLISHED i 
 
 INCORPORATED ises. 
 
 r. M. ^ 
 
 vSAN JOSE, CAL.,^ 
 
 Growers, Distillers & Dealers 
 
 "WIn.es 
 
 Jarvis Riesling Grape Brandy Our Specialty. 
 
 a e !<>- tii s<vto S 
 
 LSt e page 149.] 
 
 GEO. C. FINNEY. 
 
 JAS. CIIANNO> 
 
 FINNEY &CHANNON, 
 
 ihip Ihandlors^iail lakers, 
 
 Manila, Hemp and Wire Eigging, Blocks, Anchors, 
 
 -^-VCHAINS, PAINTS, OILS, ETC.-V 
 
 Special Attention Given to Outfits and Repairs. 
 270 & 272 South Water St., CHICAGO. Itl,. 
 
 [See page 146.] 
 
 JAMES IT. RICE COMPANY, 
 
 Importers of and Dealers in 
 
 Polished, Rough and Crystal Plate Glass, 
 
 FRENCH PLATE AND GERMAN MIRRORS. 
 
 Also English, French and American Window Glass, 
 13, IB, 17 Quincy Street, ^ T TT ~, . ^ 
 
 T ~ 506 ' [Seepage, CHICAGO. 
 
 Manufacturer of and Wholesale and Retail Dealer in 
 
 COR. STATE AND ILLINOIS STREETS (Basement). 
 ROOFING AND GUTTERING. .^ 
 
 "Tttautas* CHICAGO, ILL. 
 
 PHILLIPSON DECORATIVE CO., 
 
 ^-Designers, Importers, Manufacturers,-^ 
 
 -245 WABASH AYE.- 
 
 Frescoing, Paper Hanging, Painting, Papier Mache, 
 
 -fc. [See page 151.] 
 
 ALFRED x 6.x KEMPER x GOVERIMx 60. 
 
 Room 929. Opera House Bu 
 
 .CHICAGO. 
 
 GENERAL WESTERN AGENCY 
 
 GIUONALI AND SUASIIIG (SO 
 
 OIJlHH GJOOD eULP gLASI 
 
 HLEGLE pii^ SPAGB SOVEI^ING. 
 
 Dealers in Asbestos and Hair-Felt Covering. 
 DEPOT, HIRAM SIBLEVS WAREHOUSE. TELEPHONE I 284 
 
 ^ The Sigwalt Mfg. Company ^ 
 
 Seal Presses, Check Protectors and Engravers' Supplies, 
 
 11 to 13 S. Canal Street, 
 
 J. SICWALT, Manager, OHZIO-A-QO- 
 
 [See page .69.] 
 
 * BUCKLEY'S 
 
 CHEAP:CASH:MARKET 
 
 Fresh Fish, Oysters and Game in Season. 
 
 BOARDING HOUSES AND RESTAURANTS SUPPLIED 
 
 13O7 West Van Buren Street. 
 
 Real Estate and Furnished House Agency, 
 
 Room Renting & Boarding House Directory, 
 
 MORTGAGE 
 
 Room 9, Adams Eipress Buildi 
 
 ., CHICAGO. 
 
 Special Attention Given to Hotels, Lease and Furniture for Sale. 
 [See page 144.] 
 
 TOM.--N,--DONNELLY.-.S---CO. 
 Ie)i0:ir)r)ca JeDp 
 
 118 
 
 Corner Calhoun Pla 
 
 ST., 
 
 CHICAGO. 
 
 Bet. Madison and Washington, 
 
 High Et Cash Price paid for Old Gold, Silver and Precious Stones. 
 [Sec pnge 174.]
 
 A BUSINESS TOUR OF CHICAGO. 
 
 E. C. TRACT. 
 
 Iron and teel Shafting, 
 
 ^Z. ' ' ' *~ 1 ~. * 
 
 Steel Eim Pulleys, Friction Clutch Pulleys, 
 
 Hangers, Countings, Etc. 
 51 S. CANAL ST., -'. '. '. '. -.CHICAGO. 
 
 [See page 119.] TELEPHONE 4485. 
 
 T AS. HOLLINGSWORTH. THOS. COUGHLAN. JOHN COUGHLAN. 
 
 HOLLINGSWORTH & COUGHLAN, 
 
 OLD v PIONEER v CONTRACTORS 
 
 For Raising, lowering and Removing BRIO, STONE AND IRON BUILDINGS. 
 Thirty years; experience in handling Office, 1 59 La Salle St., Room 73, 
 
 CHICAGO. 
 
 Office Hours, lOto 11 and 3 to 4. Telephc 
 
 [See page 123.] 
 
 154 Washington Street, 
 
 f^zal Esfafe aiji Ltoetr, 
 
 CHICAGO. 
 
 Rents Collected, Money Loaned, Taxes Paid, 
 
 Investments Made and Property Sold. 
 Telephone Ifo. S'JO. [See page 123.] 
 
 3KRMBURG HO 
 
 Proprietor. 
 
 first-Class Accommodations Special Inducements 
 
 for Transient Public at for 
 
 Moderate Prices. Weekly Arrangements. 
 
 184 AND 186 RANDOLPH ST., 
 
 [See page 109.] 
 
 iutomatic Engines, Hde Salve liigiiies 
 
 AND BOILERS, 
 
 METAL-WORKING MACHINERY, 
 
 FITCHBURG MACHINE WORKS 
 PROSPECT MACHINE * 
 
 59 S. CANAL ST. 
 
 CKE2T3ST <$c CO., 
 
 PUBLISHERS OF 
 
 K\m\ i College Cert 
 
 180 WABASH AVENUE, 
 
 CHICAGO. 
 
 RICHARD ROBINS. 
 
 ED. N. KIRK TALCOTT. 
 
 Ornamental Iron Work, Terra Cotta. Granite, 
 Marble, Sandstone, Magneso Calcite. 
 
 Agents for FireprooSng, Heda Arehitectoral Bronze and Iron Works (New York and 
 Brooklyn), Boston Terra Cotta Co. (Boston, Mass.) 
 
 115 Monroe St., R. n Montauk Bl'k, CHICAGO. 
 
 TELEPHONE 1714. [See page 120.] 
 
 . B. 
 
 WHOLESALE AND RETAIL KROGER, 
 
 HIHE TEAS SKD GOHKEE, HLOUR,' 
 
 FRUITS AND PRODUCE, 
 No. 9 NORTH CLARK ST., CHICAGO. 
 
 [See page 108.] 
 
 WM. G. BERGER. ROBT. BERGER. 
 
 BERGER BROS. 
 
 Wholesale and Retail Dealers in 
 
 MICHIGAN ^ INDIANA CHARCOAL, 
 
 Car Loads and Casks of CHARCOH skipped to anj part of the Country. 
 
 OFFICE, 17O MICHIGAN ST., 
 
 R. R. Yd., Michigan Central, Ft. of S. Water St. 
 
 CONTRACTS A SPECIALTY. TEL. No. 3182. 
 
 Chas. E. Gifford. /. C. GiforJ. C. E. Gifford, Jr. 
 
 OP^^. H. aiFBORD % C. 
 
 COMMISSION, 
 
 Grain and Provisions, 
 
 Rooms 62 and 63, 
 
 238 & 24O La Salle Street, 
 
 [See page 112.] CHICAGO.
 
 xviii 
 
 A BUSINESS TOUR OF CHICAGO. 
 
 HRES i PLM ING 
 
 BUTTON HOLE BAZAR, 
 
 99 EAST MADISON ST., 
 
 [See page 156.1 
 
 CHICAGO. 
 
 JACOB P. GROSS. 
 
 3. F. 
 
 A. H. GRUNEWALD. 
 
 & do., 
 
 HANDLES. WIRE, TWINES, TOOLS AND MACHINERY, 
 
 Nos. 249 & 251 Kinzie St., CH ICAGO. 
 
 155 & 157 WASHINGTON ST., CHICAGO, 
 
 THE LEADING JEWISH NEWSPAPER OF THE 
 GREAT NORTHWEST. 
 
 JULIUS SILVERSMITH, M. A., - Editor. 
 
 [See page 166.] 
 
 ". F\ 
 
 Manufacturer of 
 
 CfiRRIfiCE ftNO CftB IftMPS, 
 
 NO. 4 LA SALLE AVE., CHICAGO. 
 
 Coach, Carriage, Hearse and Doth Lamps, Book and Ladder, Truck 
 
 and Hose Cart Lumps, Fire t:n,,i,,e ,SY,/,M/| ,( Trumpets, Hub 
 
 Caps, Curtain Hollers and Carriaye Candles of all Sizes. 
 
 Caps, Curtain Rollers and Carriage 
 Old Work Repaired and Xeplated. 
 
 [See page 140.] 
 
 Seymour, 
 
 AND RED CYPRESS, 
 
 HICAGO, 
 
 H. 
 
 Wholesale and Retail Dealer in 
 
 Imported, leg lest ^Domestic ligars 
 
 TOBiCCOS, KEERSCHiOM AND BRIiR PIPES AND SMOKERS' ARTICLES, 
 271 E. MADISON ST., Cor. Market, 
 
 239 East^Di^sion'street. CHICAGO. 
 
 MEERSCHAUM PIPES BOILED AND REPAIRED. 
 
 [See page 102.] 
 
 L. HELLER & CO., 
 
 WHOLESALE JEWELERS, 
 
 NOVELTIES IN BUTTONS AND PINS. 
 JEWELRY. 
 
 DIAMOND PALACE, 
 
 119 East Madison St., 
 
 Wholesale and Retail Dealers and Importers of 
 
 GENUINE DIAMONDS AND PRECIOUS STONES, 
 Also Fine Watches and Jewelry. 
 
 [See page 174.] 
 
 CARRIAGE, 
 
 AND SIGN 
 
 fvumiw 
 
 95 & 97 E. Indiana Street, 
 
 u ^CHICAGO. 
 
 M. 
 
 Dealer in Oil Paintings and Frames, 
 
 183 MADISON STREET, 
 
 [See page 68.] CHICAGO.
 
 A BUSINESS TOUR OF CHICAGO. 
 
 City Rxpress **a Parcel Delivery, 
 
 :F-OTJ:E*. rraii^s 33-A.xXj-ir. 
 
 Englewood, Stock Yards, Hyde Park, Ravenswood, 
 Cicero, Lawndale and Oak Park, 
 
 TRUNKS, 25c. PARCELS, toe. 
 
 Also Dealer in COAL, WOOD AND COKE. 
 72-74-76 N . State Street, CHICA.GrO, 
 Telephone 3265. [See page 62.] 
 
 J. P. MALLETTE & CO., 
 
 Real Rstate Loans ^> Insurance. 
 
 [See page 149.] 
 
 T. IE. 
 
 37 N. State Street, CHICAGO, ILL. 
 
 Hitoves, Furnaces, Ranges, and Builders' Hardware,* 
 
 Kepairing and Jobbing in Tin, Copper and Sheet Iron. 
 
 FINE GRINDING, NICKEL-PLATING AND POLISHING. 
 
 Agents for Wm. RESOR & CD'S > Monitor" Stoves and Ranges. 
 
 [See page 64.] 
 
 162 LA SALLE STREET. 
 FIRE INSURANCE MAPS OF ALL WESTERN CITIES. 
 
 [See page 67.] 
 
 & 
 
 -^BILLIARD AND POOL TABLES.** 
 
 Balls bought and sold. 
 
 In all kinds of Repairing we agree to do First-class Work. 
 
 Send Postal Card and I will call. 92 Fifth Ave., CHI 
 
 BRANCH: 28 Mifflin St., MADISON, Wis. (TIMES I 
 
 [See page 1&4.] 
 
 PBOPBISTORS OF THE 
 
 White Rock Spring Water and Giqger Ale. 
 
 I I Randolph St., 
 
 44 A 46 Monroe St., PALMER HOUSE, 
 
 126 N. Clark St., 2O6 Lake St., OAK PARK 
 [See page 144.] 
 
 American and European Plans, 
 
 CHICAGO 
 
 A Finely Appointed Cafe Run in Connection with the Hotel. 
 
 Best Furnished and Best Appointed Hotel for the Price in 
 America. The Safest Hotel in the World. 
 
 Nine Kvitsin <Msi- of Kire. 
 
 [See page 154.] 
 
 ALBURGER, STOER & CO,, 
 
 MANUFACTURERS AND IMPORTERS OF 
 
 ' SKIMMINGS, 
 
 228 & 230 FIFTH AVENUE, 
 
 CHICAGO. 
 
 BRADFORD. ENG. 
 
 J. R. TERHUNE, Manager. [Seepage iae.] 
 
 SHIELDS & BROWN CO,, 
 
 i! \M I'AC'II KIlKh OF 
 
 Sectional Insulated Air Coverings. 
 
 For Steam, Gas and Water Pipes, Drums, Heaters. &c.. 
 143 Worth Street, 78 & 80 Lake Street , 
 
 NEW YORK. CHICAGO. 
 
 [Sec pa K e 146. ] 
 
 SALE AND EXCHANGE STABLES, 
 
 --MJ1 & 03 N. Wells St., CHICAGO/V 
 
 Have Constantlj on Hand a Full Line of Horses and Mules Suitable for all Purposes. 
 
 For Fair Dealing During the past Fifteen Years, we refer to 
 
 Respectable Business Men. 
 Telephone 3059. [See pa K e 110. )
 
 A BUSINESS TOUR OF CHICAGO. 
 
 fiili.fipiii&ii. 
 
 W&&2LMnMMM 
 
 DRY GOODS, 
 
 Notions Woolens, 
 
 Monroe and Market Streets, 
 
 FACTORIES AT WALLINGFORD. OONN. 
 
 SIMPSON, HALL, MILLER x Go. 
 
 MANUFACTURERS OF 
 
 Spoons, FOF^S, frames, Is<3., 
 
 137 & 139 STATE ST., 
 
 ^^'oSSSS^ 13 ' XH CHICAGO. 
 
 [See page 76.] 
 
 H. J. SMITH & Go., 
 
 PUBLISHERS, 
 
 Our Great Benefactors. 
 Wife and Mother. 
 
 Beautiful, Wonderful and Wise. 
 Brave Men and Womer\. 
 
 Pleasaqt Hours for Home and School. 
 
 Mother, Home and Heaveq. 
 Happy Days of Chjldhood. 
 
 Pictures for the Wee Ones. 
 
 Bibles. Alburqs. 
 
 - P. . GATES, President. RALPI GATES, Y. P. and Supt - 
 
 J. t FARGO, Sec'y and Treas. 
 
 lit 1 
 
 CHALCEDONY COMPANY 
 
 MANUFACTURERS OF 
 
 CHALCEDONY SOAPS, 
 -FINE TOILET SOAPS>- 
 
 GRIT SOAPS A SPECIALTY. 
 
 93 DEARBORN ST. CHICAGO, ILL, 
 
 [See page 130.] 
 
 S, E, COR, WABASH AVE, AND MADISON ST., 
 CHICAGO. 
 
 rnhoroughly cleansed, refitted and furnished, 
 I is now open under the former management 
 of St Denis Hotel. It is located in the busi- 
 ness center, convenient to all the large whole- 
 sale houses, theaters and railroad depots, and is 
 the best $2.0O per day hotel in the city. 
 Merchants and travelers will find clean, pleasant 
 rooms and first-class table. Merchants' Sample 
 Rooms on office floor. [See page 142.]
 
 A BUSINESS TOUR OF CHICAGO. 
 
 xxi 
 
 Sprague, Warner & Co. 
 
 IMPORTERS AND JOBBERS OF 
 
 Randolph Street and Michigan Avenue, 
 
 inn. 
 
 Heath & Milligan Manf g Co. 
 
 M ANUFAOTTJ RB.RS 
 
 AND JOBBERS IN 
 
 Paints, Oils, Varnishes, Brushes, &c., 
 
 170, 172 & 174 Randolph St., 
 
 [Seepage*,.] CHICAGO ILL. 
 
 MANUFACTURERS OF 
 
 BOOTS m SHOES 
 
 RUBBER I 
 Salesrooms (for, Adams and Market Sts., 
 
 BOWMAN DAIRY GO. 
 
 (Successors to M. A. DEVINE.) 
 
 Pure Milk ~a^d Cream, 
 
 68 & 70 North State Street, 
 
 TELEPHONE 318T - J** CHICAGO. 
 
 [See page 126.1 
 
 -A. CHZC.&-S-O 
 
 Photogravure" edition.) Devoted 
 
 ARCHITECTURE, DECORATION AND FIRMING. 
 
 Inland Architect AD ^ SE 
 s K & News Record 
 
 Illuitrations UnequaleO.. 
 
 BEST ADVERTISING MEDIUM IN THE WEST. 
 [19 TRIBUNE BUILDING.] 
 
 O. W. RICHARDSON. E. O. RICHARDSON. M. M. CDRRY. 
 
 f < i I >' --. o" C3TJT 
 
 CARPETS, 
 
 MATTINGS, 01L-CLDTHS and LINOLEUMS, 
 
 261 & 263 State St., CHICAGO. 
 
 Merchants Wanted to Sell Carpets and Rugs by Sample. 
 
 [See page 150.]
 
 A BUSINESS TOUR OF CHICAGO. 
 
 IVISOfl, BLAKEMM X GO. 
 
 PUBLISHERS OF 
 
 The : American : Educational : Series 
 
 Of School and College Text 
 
 CHICAGO BRANCH, 149 Wabash Avenue. 
 
 JOHN C. ELLIS, Manager. 
 
 [See page 72.] 
 
 
 116 MONROE STREET, CHICAGO, 
 
 Day, Special Afternoon and Evening Sessions. 
 
 BOOKKEEPING, * SHORTHAND, 
 
 PENMANSHIP, ARITHMETIC, ETC., 
 
 Relieving- that we offer the very best advantages to 
 limited number, we invite your inspection 
 and solicit your patronage. 
 
 General House Furnishers, 
 
 ACM ,, 
 
 302 & 304 West Van Buren Street, 
 
 CHICAGO, ILL. 
 
 furniture, iarpets, itoves, iroGkeru.. 
 
 FOLDING BEDS A SPECIALTY 
 
 -i>t^ 
 
 314-316 W. Madison St., 
 
 WE MAKE THE CELEBRATED 
 
 ACME PORTRAITS. 
 
 Good Agents Wanted in Every Town in 
 ~*THE UNITED STATES.*- 
 
 Transportation Company's 
 
 CHEBOYGAN, MACKINAW 
 
 - AND - 
 
 SAULT STE. MARIE 
 
 mm urn 
 
 W. R. OWEH, + Manager, 
 
 210 South Water Street, CHICAGO, ILL. 
 
 TELEPHONE 922. [See pa ff e 103.] 
 
 THE GUARANTEE COMPANY 
 
 -*OF NORTH AMERICA.*- 
 
 Oldest and Largest in America.-^ 
 
 BONDS OF SURETYSHIP. NO OTHER BUSINESS. 
 
 p., . . ,,..,, I It has deposited in the United States, 
 
 Paid up Capital, -- - $300,000 for t he*sSle security of all Policy- 
 
 Assets 31st Dec. 1886, - 528,317 | holders therein $214,000 of U. S. 
 
 Head Office: ST. JAMES STREET, MONTREAL. 
 
 President, HON. JAMES FERRIER, Senator. 
 
 Vice-President, SIR ALEXANDER T. GALT. 
 
 Managing Director, EDWAKD RAWLINGS. 
 
 CHICAGO BRANCH.-O*^, 175 La Salle Street.-/?(>/or.v/ 
 
 L.J. GAGE, Vice-Pres'l First Viitioiiiil U:mk: R. R. C'AHI.K, 1'u-s't 
 C. K. I & Par. R. K.ilInN. JOHN Rrs-n.L ION-KV. Pres't We.-lSide 
 Ry.-C T WHBBLER, Pres't Continental Naboniil liiink; E. NELSON 
 BIAKI Ex-PiwH Board of Trade - Cmins.-l : HON. Irnr.E BECK- 
 XV.TH/ ' JAMES CRANT, Serretarv a.ul Attorney. 
 
 With Branch Offices and A, en^n
 
 A BUSINESS TOUR OF CHICAGO. 
 
 MANUFACTURERS OF 
 
 ^^-^^=# 
 
 ScftiEs ftNo f imn 
 
 81-83 N. Clinton Street. 
 DRUGGISTS' SCALES A SPECIALTY. 
 
 [Seepage56.] * CHICAGO. 
 
 Fresh School Books. 
 
 Shopworn School Books. 
 
 WHOLESALE DEALER IN 
 
 STATIONERY, ETC. 
 
 CHICAGO, ILL, 
 
 M,,ce.,aneou, , , 8econd . Hand 
 
 Books and Stationery. School Books. 
 
 [See page 163.] 
 
 GEO. D WHITCOMa 
 
 PROPRIETOR 
 
 HARRISQR Mime /AAGHIJJL 
 
 Commercial Bank Building, Rooms 32 and 33, 
 
 Dearborn and Monroe Sts. 
 
 Hiring proporties eiaroiaed. estimates made, and machines furnished subject to sale > 
 
 having worked on the basis of the estimate. 
 [See page 78.] 
 
 CONTO COMPANY 
 
 BAY DE NOQUET CO. 
 
 4NAHMA, DELTA CO., MICH> 
 
 MANUFACTURERS AND DEALERS IN 
 
 Lumber, Lath, Shingles, 
 
 CEDAR POSTS AND TIES. 
 
 Telephone NO. 863. Office, 234 So. Water St. 
 
 WAUKESHA, WISCONSIN. 
 
 o. w. 
 
 76 & 78 MARKET STREET, 
 
 CHICAGO, ILL, 
 
 -TH E <5^ 
 
 Catholic Jtorrnal ^chool. 
 
 <0i the Holg ivi mil u 
 
 r- I-".-'- ("_-*%=-" 
 Pi 'iL_-;J, 
 
 Pio. Nono- COLLEGE. 
 
 ST. FRANCIS, WIS. 
 
 [See page 167,]
 
 D RX. 
 
 PAGE. 
 
 Academy of Music, Dan'l Shelby, Proprietor 54 
 
 Acme Engraving *, L. H. Crumb, Manager .. 128 
 
 Acme Laundry, James Donnellan, Proprietor 152 
 
 Alburger, Stoer & Co., Tailors' Trimmings... 136 
 
 Alcock, J. R., Plumber and Gas-fitter 112 
 
 Allen Co., Frank L., Shirt Ma 
 
 10!) 
 
 Allen, Chas. B., Druggist 127 
 
 Isip Brick Co., Manufacturers of Brick 80 
 
 mbs, L. & Co., Scales and Weights 56 
 
 mes & Frost, Manufacturers of Wire Mattresses 143 
 
 ndrews, A. H. & Co., Furniture Manufacturers 71 
 
 ngell, E. F. & Co., Brass and Bronze Workers 176 
 
 nna House, A. B. Young, Proprietor 158 
 
 mold, Geo. A. & Co., Carpenters and Builders 126 
 
 twater, U. E., Real-Estate and'' ienting Agency 144 
 
 B. 
 
 Baldwin, Byron A. & Co., Real Estate 123 
 
 Ball, James, Fine Boots and Shoes.. 157 
 
 Barnes, A. S. & Co., School Books and Supplies 73 
 
 Barries, C. M., Wholesale Books and Stationery 163 
 
 Barnett, Napoleon, Coal Dealer 63 
 
 Bakenhus & Mueseler, Carriage Manufacturers '. 64 
 
 Baumann, Frederick, Architect - 139 
 
 Baumann & Lotz, Architects and Engineers 114 
 
 Beaumont, G., Architect 83 
 
 Beck, Geo. L., Publisher 151 
 
 Bee-Hive, Dry Goods, Notions, Etc . 76 
 
 Berger Bros., Charcoal Dealers 142 
 
 Bigelow, H. S., Music Typographer 78 
 
 Blair, W. E., Sign Manufacturer 172 
 
 Blakemore, Joseph, Picture Frame Manufacturer 175 
 
 Blake Patent Doubletree, O. D. White & Co 131 
 
 Blatchford, E. W. & Co., Shot Tower 85 
 
 Blatz, Valentin, Brewer and Malster 135 
 
 Bliss & Tracy, Machinery Depot. - 119 
 
 Blumenthal,"!., Vermin Exterminator 69 
 
 Boat, C. T., Wholesale Stoves 117 
 
 of Tables, Etc... 98 
 
 Cameron, A. J. & Co., Worsted and Woolen Yarns ______ 134 
 
 Campfield, A. L., Printer _____________ ..... _____ ..... .. 131 
 
 Canada Fur Manufacturing Co., Simon Minchrod & Co... 101 
 
 Canfield & Co., Show Cases, Etc _____________ ...... _____ 171 
 
 Caretti, J., Roman Mosaic ________________ ..... _________ 129 
 
 Carse, J. F., Stained Glass Works _______________________ 104 
 
 Casler, W., Dress Plaiting Bazar ....... . ........ ________ 156 
 
 Casteel, H. D., Havana Cigars.. ..... ___________________ 133 
 
 Catholic Normal School, The ...... ________ ..... _______ 167 
 
 Chalcedony Soap Co., The ____________ ...... ___________ 120 
 
 Charles Creamery Co., F. R.Jackson, Manager __________ 74 
 
 Charles, G. F., Photographer and Artist _____ ...... ______ 120 
 
 Chase, B. F. & Co., Sign Painters _______________________ 52 
 
 Chicago Desk Manufacturing Co ......... _______________ 86 
 
 Chicago Foundry Co., Heavy Castings __________________ 93 
 
 Chicago Herald Co ........... .- __________ ............ 147 
 
 Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway __________ ...... 80 
 
 Child Adjustable Parlor Chair Co., The Geo.F ___________ 73 
 
 City of London Fire Insurance Co., L'd, E. A. Simonds.. 145 
 
 Cleveland, S. E. & Sons, Livery Stables _________________ 125 
 
 Close Bros. & Co., Western Lands ______________________ 110 
 
 Clottu, John & Son, Wringers, Carpet Sweepers, Etc _____ 160 
 
 Coder, M. D. & Co., Real Estate ________________________ 174 
 
 Columbia Rubber Stamp Works ......... _______________ 73 
 
 Commercial Laundry, Mrs. Sinclair, Proprietor __________ 57 
 
 Continental Hotel, C. Collins, Proprietor ________________ 142 
 
 Cook, Hallock & Gammon, Lumber and Planing-Mill ____ 140 
 
 Copelin, T. E., Stoves, Furnaces, Etc ____ ....... _________ 64 
 
 Corey Car Manufacturing Co __________ ...... ___________ 69 
 
 Coughlin, M. T., Oils and Engineers' Supplies ___________ 153 
 
 Cowan, W., Wood Turner ________________ ...... . ...... 169 
 
 Cro'oke Co., The John J., Capsule Manufactu 
 ., G 
 
 Cruttenden, Thos. S., 
 
 & Go's Goods 
 
 D. 
 
 Boesch, John O., Manufactur 
 
 Bogue & Hoyt, Real Estate 78 
 
 Bolten, P. H & Co., Commission Merchants-.. 159 
 
 Bookwalter, Kelley & Co., Commission Me 
 
 Born, Rudolph, Hardware, Cutlery, Etc 
 
 Boser, Jacob, Coal Yards-.. 
 
 Bowman Dairy Co., The, Pure Country Milk ' 
 
 Brainerd, E. L., Real Estate ." 
 
 Braun, David J., Spun Metal Goods, Etc. 
 
 Bremner Baking Co., The D. F 
 
 Breuer, Adam, Cigars, Tobacco, Etc 
 
 Brevoort Hotel, Hubbard & Field, Proprietors 165 
 
 Brown, Chas. T., Patent Attorney 162 
 
 Brown, Pettibone & Co., Blank Books, Printing, Etc 100 
 
 Brown, Ira, Real Estate... 147 
 
 Brown & James Heating Co 104 
 
 Bucklev, W. & Co., Groceries 141 
 
 Buell, Fred. P. & Co., Fire Insurance 76 
 
 Burke, Augustus, Felt and Composition Roofer 153 
 
 Dale, Wm. M., Drugs and Medicines 83 
 
 Dauchy & Co., Vaultand Sidewalk Lights 152 
 
 Davis, John J. & Co., Jobbers of Cigars 81 
 
 Davison, John & Son, Ship Chandlers 119 
 
 Delta Transportation Co 103 
 
 Devlin, J. B., Dental Surgeon 119 
 
 Diamond Palace, Diamonds, Watches, Etc.... 174 
 
 Dietmann, L., Meerschaum and Amber Goods 128 
 
 Donnelly, Tom N. & Co., Diamond Brokers 174 
 
 Douglas Club Stables, H. Mather, Proprietor 128 
 
 Downey, Joseph, Contractor and Builder 67 
 
 Dunlap & Co., J. P. Brewster, Manager 89 
 
 E. 
 
 Eagle Carriage Works, J. B. Thomas, Proprietor 
 
 Earnshaw, E. & Son, Contractors and Builders 
 
 Eastland & Duddleston, Butchers and Packers 
 
 Eaton, L., Dentist 
 
 Eaton, T. W., Sawing Machines 
 
 Eberhart, Ira A., Real Estate 
 
 Edwards & Fitzgerald, Family Market 
 
 Eisendrath, B. W. & Co., Plate-Glass Importers. 
 
 Elgin National Watch Co 
 
 Ellacott, J. P., Mechanical Engineer 
 
 14S 
 114 
 81 
 70 
 
 96 
 
 o 
 
 141 
 84 
 170
 
 INDEX. 
 
 Elmer & Anderson, Commission Merchants 
 
 English Bros., Market House 
 
 Enterprise Xickel-Plnting Works 
 
 Enterprise Wire Cloth Mfg. Co., T. Voss, Proprietor.... 
 
 Ernesti, R., Artist _ 
 
 Eureka Foundry, Kolben Johnson, Proprietor 
 
 Evers, Wm. & Co., Commission Merchants 
 
 Exhaust Ventilator Co., The 
 
 F. 
 
 Fargo, C. H. & Co., Wholesale Boots and Shoes 
 
 Farm, Field and Stockman, The 
 
 Farwell, J. V. & Co., Wholesale Dry Goods 
 
 Farwell, Simeon & Co., Men's Furnishing Goods 
 
 Feld, W. T., Artist. 
 
 Ferry, A. D. & Co., Broom Corn... 
 
 Finney & Channon, Ship Chandlers 
 
 Fisher, H. C., Teas, Cigars, Etc 
 
 Fitch, B. F., Paper Hanging, Paints, Oils, Etc 
 
 Fitchburg Machine Works, C. F. Wardell, Manager 
 
 Fitch, II. A., Druggist 
 
 Flint, C. W., Manufacturer of Picture Frames 
 
 Fogg, J. Leland, Garden Seeds 
 
 Foster, Roe & Crone, Printers-- 
 
 Fowler, Ed. L., Photographer 
 
 Frank, Fred. G. & Bro., Bond and Stock Brokers .. 
 
 Freeh, Wm., Metal-Working Machinery 
 
 Freiberg's Music Hall, H. Freiberg, Proprietor 
 
 Frieman, H. J., Bakery and Coffee House 
 
 Freitag, J. F., Carriage and Cab Lamps 
 
 Fullerton, C. W., Attorney-at-Law 
 
 Fyfe & Campbell, Printers 
 
 PAGE. 
 
 65 
 174 
 106 
 
 82 
 156 
 140 
 130 
 
 146 
 
 84 
 
 146 
 168 
 
 ion 
 
 Headen & McAuley, Stills, Tanks, Etc 
 
 Heath & Milligan Manufacturing Co., Paints, Colors, Etc 
 Heer & Seelig, Engineers' and Surveyors' Instruments .. 
 
 Heggie, A. W. & Co., Cigars and Tobacco- 
 
 Heinold Bros., Fishing Nets, Hammocks, Etc 
 
 Heller, L. & Co., Wholesale Jewelers 
 
 Henderson, C. M. & Co., Wholesale Boots and Shoes 
 
 Henning, Wm., Vinegar Manufacturer.. 
 
 Henrici, Philip, Cafe and Bakery.. 
 
 Hewett, A. D., Fire Insurance 
 
 Hill's National Builder, T. E. Hill, Proprietor 
 
 Himrod, Chas. & Co., Pig Iron 
 
 Hindshaw, H. H., Taxidermist 
 
 Hirschfield, Aug., Merchant Tailor 
 
 Hobert, E. S., Dentist 
 
 Hoffman, H. C. & Co., Granite Work 
 
 Hogey, Julius H., Pharmacist 
 
 Holbrook Manufacturing Co - 
 
 Holbrook, Francis W., Expert Accountant 
 
 Hollingsworth & Coughlan, Contractors 
 
 Home Laundry, A. Moller, Proprietor 
 
 Home Mfg. Co., The U. S., N. B. Little, Manager 
 
 Horn, John, Clothes Cleaning. 
 Horn, W. H., Corn Merchant. 
 
 Hostetter, J. N., Coal and Wood Dealer 
 
 Hoyt, Geo. W. & Co., Dry Goods Commission. 
 Hoyt, Mrs. E. M., Artist 
 
 Inkersell, J. J., Grocer 
 
 Irwin, Richard, Tailor 
 
 Ivison, Blakeman & Co., Publishers 
 
 G. 
 
 Gale & Blocki, Druggists 
 
 Galloway, Albert, Steam Heating 
 
 Gannott's Laundry, E. Gannott, Proprietor.. 
 Garcia, B. & Co., Cigar Manufacturers 
 
 Garden City Cigar Manufacturing Co 
 
 Garden City Stool Co 
 
 Gardner, H. H. & Co., Lumber Dealers 
 
 Garlick, H. M., Real Estate 
 
 Garnett, Wm. & Co., Real Estate 
 
 Gates Iron Works 
 
 Gaw, Win. A., Bookseller and Binder 
 
 Gaylord, Fred'k, Real Estate 
 
 Gay & Culloton, Plumbers 
 
 Geehr & Gardner, Hide Brokers 
 
 Gehman, A. B. & Co., Publishers 
 
 Germania Fire Insurance Co., E. G. Halle, Agent 
 
 Gibbs, Dr. L.O 
 
 Gifford, C. E. & Co., Commission Merchants 
 
 Ginn & Co., Publishers 
 
 Globe Foundry, R. M. Eddy's Sons 
 
 Goodman, James B. & Co., "Real Estate 
 
 Goodrich, A., Attorney-at-Law 
 
 Goes, Oscar & Co., Manufacturers of Saws, Knives, Etc.. 
 Goettsche, H., Wholesale Cigars and Tobacco 
 
 144 
 94 
 
 n 
 
 147 
 66 
 
 1)1 
 
 105 
 ISO 
 
 H6 
 173 
 81 
 
 108 
 171 
 117 
 
 in 
 
 ir,r> 
 
 112 
 li:i 
 B7 
 168 
 
 in 
 in 
 
 102 
 
 J. 
 
 ckson, Walter M., Real Estate, 
 cobs, Henry C., Real Estate... 
 
 H., Rhine Wine 
 
 3wers 
 
 arvis Co., The G. M., Wi: 
 
 erusalem, J., Brewer 
 
 ewish Occident, The, J. Silversmith, Publisher. . 
 
 ohnson, P. & H., Curtain Cornices, Etc 
 
 ohnson & Metzler, Manufacturers of Carriages. 
 
 onas, L, Merchant Tailor 
 
 ones, R. Ralston, Mechanical Engineer 
 
 ones City Express and Transfer Co 
 
 udd's College, F. F. Judd, Proprietor 
 
 lius, C. H. & Son, Merchant Tailors 
 
 K. 
 
 Gmvar 
 
 D. & Co., Tailors' Trir 
 
 Kaempfer, Fred., Bird Store 
 
 Katholischer Jugen-Freund 
 
 Kean, S. A. & Co., Bankers.. 
 
 Kehl, Mrs. L., Masquerade Costumer 
 
 Keller & Co., Manufacturers of Tables, Pedestals, Etc. 
 Kesler Bros., Real Estate 
 
 Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Co., The, J. L. Crist, Mgr 
 
 Great Western Wire Works, Theo. Spangenberg 
 
 Grier & Jack, Wholesale Lamps, Glassware, Etc 
 
 Griswold, Palmer & Co., Cloaks, Trimmings, Etc 
 
 Grubev, William H., Merchant Tailor 
 
 Guarantee Company of N. A., The 
 
 Gunderson & Lindberg, Livery Stables 
 
 Gustorf, F., Lumber Commission 
 
 106 Kimball, Geo. F., Plate Gla 
 
 H. 
 
 Haake, T- H., Fancy Groceries 
 
 Hall, William, Cigars, Confectionery, Etc 
 
 Hall, John B. & Co., Tailors and Gents' Furnishers 
 
 Hamburg House, M. Marks, Proprietor 
 
 Harris, Geo. P. & Bro., Copper and Brass Work 
 
 Harroun Manufacturing Co., Sewing Machine Supplies. .. 
 
 Haskins.J. S., Florist 
 
 HnsM'tt, J. B., Groceries 
 
 Ilathavav, T- L-, Coal Dealer. 
 
 Hat Palace," The, S. C. Nichols, Manager. 
 
 153 
 
 iia 
 
 56 
 147 
 171 
 126 
 108 
 
 Koehler, Jacob, Livery Stables 
 
 Koehnke, C., Music Dealer 
 
 Kroschell Bros., Steam Fittings 
 
 Kuh, Nathan & Fischer, Wholesale Clothing 
 
 Kurz, Adolph, Carriage and Sign Painter 
 
 Lafrentz & Karstens, Feed Mill 
 
 Lansing & Sickler, Restaurant 
 
 La Pierre House, Mrs. S. Dunn, Proprietor. 
 
 Lassagne, Victor, Restaurant 
 
 Layton, R. P., Real Estate 
 
 Lazier, W. W., Dentist. . 
 
 Lee, A. A., Shoe Manufacturer 
 
 Levinson, N. G., Wholesale Jeweler 
 
 Levy, W. & Son, Provision Dealers 
 
 Lewis Bros. & Co., Wholesale Dry Goods 
 
 108 
 106 
 
 107 
 
 Lewis & Howard, Wool Me 
 
 Lindholm's Express 
 
 Lindstrand, F. A., Jeweler. 
 
 PAGE. 
 118 
 55 
 140 
 
 61 
 81 
 
 155 
 
 in; 
 87 
 66 
 
 175 
 
 128 
 
 115 
 
 161! 
 
 lag 
 
 04 
 
 !.-,! 
 
 176 
 
 160 
 122 
 1.-13 
 155 
 
 n 
 in 
 
 124 
 
 ir.7 
 
 152 
 711 
 86 
 
 no 
 
 128 
 M 
 187 
 
 170 
 105 
 
 177 
 63 
 
 117
 
 INDEX. 
 
 PAGE. 
 
 Linington, C. M., Fancy Goods, Notions, Etc 79 
 
 Lipman, A., Diamond Broker 155 
 
 Liverpool & London & Globe Insurance Co 97 
 
 Living Church, The, C. W. Leffinsjwell, Editor 119 
 
 Lorenz, A. & Co.. Engravers on Wood-. 117 
 
 Lucke Bros., Merchant Tailors --- 156 
 
 Luetgert, A. L., Sausage Manufacturer 136 
 
 M. 
 
 MacLachlan & Co., Market House .................. - 
 
 Mallette, J. P. & Co., Suburban Homes ________ ....... 
 
 Mantonva, L. B. & Co., Wholesale Boots and Shoes ____ 
 
 Mariner G. A. & Co., Chemists and Assayers.... ...... 
 
 Marks, Phil. N. & Co., Hosiery, Notions, Etc ---------- 
 
 Marshall, J. D., Sole Leather _________________________ 
 
 h, E. T., 
 
 PAGE. 
 
 Phillipson Decorative Co. 151 
 
 Phrenological Institute, Prof. Thayer, Proprietor 168 
 
 Pine.J K. P., Lion Brand Collars 52 
 
 Pittaway, James, Teas, Coffees, Etc 63 
 
 ' nufacturing Co., The - 107 
 
 101 
 170 
 159 
 102 
 93 
 
 Marsh, E. T., Harness, Collars, Etc ...... -. ....... 
 
 Masury, John W. & Son, Paints and Varnishes ...... 
 
 Mather, A. C. & Co., Manufacturers of Kid Gloves 
 Maxwell, S. A. & Co., Books, Stationery, Etc 
 Maurer.Cass F., Cigars and Tobacco..! -------- 
 
 May, Bernard H., Rattan and Willow Ware ...... 
 
 McCormack Bros., Homoeopathic Specialties ..... 
 
 McEwan's Hotel 
 
 McHugh & Enright, Iron Foundry 
 
 Mears, C. & Co., Lumber and Brick Dealers...." 
 Meath Bros., Furniture House ___________________ 
 
 Medcalfe, H. G. & Co., Drugs and Medicines 
 
 Merchants Safe Deposit Co 
 
 Merchant & Co., Tin-plate, Metals, Etc ------- ....... . 
 
 Metcalf's Dancing Academies 
 
 Michener Bros. & Co., Packers and Provision Dealers. 
 Mikkelsen & Bendtsen, Furniture Manufacturers 
 Montgomery, W. H., Artificial Limbs __________ ...... 
 
 Moorhead, McCleane Co., Iron Warehouse 
 
 Morper, Dernburg & Co., Cloak Manufacturers, 
 
 Muchmore & Muchmore, Oils 
 
 Mullen Bros. & Co., Woolens and Tailors' Trimmings. 
 
 Murphy & Co., Varnish Manufacturers _____ 
 
 Myers, John, Palace Pharmacy ________ ...... - ...... - 
 
 Myers, S. & Co., Jobbers in Whiskies ................ 
 
 M 
 
 104 
 120 
 168 
 
 75 
 
 '.HI 
 
 77 
 158 
 
 86 
 115 
 103 
 162 
 
 71 
 
 91 
 133 
 111 
 
 81 
 139 
 118 
 
 55 
 102 
 100 
 
 87 
 
 N. 
 
 Nagle, H. J., Confectioner and Caterer 
 
 National Boiler Works, Jos. Bee, Proprietor 
 
 National Tobacco Review, F. S. Anderson, Publisher 
 
 Needham's Sons, D., Clover Blossom Preparations 
 
 Neff, Win., Flour, Meal, Hav, Etc 
 
 Nelson, H. C. Banjo Makerl 
 
 Newman Bros., Organ Manufacturers.. 
 
 Newgard, Henry, Locksmith 
 
 N. Y. C. & H. R. Ry., and B. & A. R. R., W. B. Jerome. 
 
 Nichols, H. T. & Co., Ales _ 
 
 Nitchkowski, L., Merchant Tailor 
 
 Norcott, E., Tin and Copper Ware 
 
 North Side Restaurant, Mrs. Williams, Proprietor 
 
 Northwestern Boiler Works, Chris. Pfeiffer, Proprietor... 
 
 Northwestern Parlor Suit Co 
 
 Noyes, L. W., Dictionary Holders 
 
 o. 
 
 Ohlman, A. R., Glass Engraver 
 
 Orvis, H. F. & Co., Grain Commission.- 
 Osgood, M. L., Real Estate 
 
 154 
 M 
 
 156 
 
 P. 
 
 Packard, E. E., Sewing Machines 96 
 
 I'.-iddon. Steven & Co., Chemical and Drug Importers 159 
 
 Paine, W. M., Meats, Poultry, Etc 161 
 
 Pank, J. H. & Co 132 
 
 Parsons, John, Chemist and Perfumer 125 
 
 Payne, Leroy, Livery Stables 178 
 
 Payne, Alfred, Artist" 134 
 
 i-etcrs, Mathhis, Upholstery and Drapery Manufacturer __ 86 
 
 peterson & Ovesen, Parlor Tables, Etc.". 170 
 
 philippi, H., Bar Glassware 139 
 
 Portman Bros. & Co., Manufacturers of Traveli 
 
 Potter & Kisselburg, Hay Dealers ______________________ 
 
 Prussing, F., Grocer ____________________________________ 
 
 Purdv, J. H. & Co., Watch Materials, Etc ---------------- 
 
 Purtell & Kienzle, Saddlery Hardware ________ ....... ... 
 
 Putnam Clothing House, C. M. Babbitt, Resident Partner. 
 
 R. 
 
 Racine Wagon and Carriage Co ....... ----- 
 
 Racine, Chas., Pattern Maker .. ..... 
 
 Raiser, Charles, Manufacturer of Children's Carriages 
 Randall, T. D. & Co., Commission House _________ 
 
 Rand, Charles E., Real Estate 
 
 Rand, McNallv & Co., Publishers ________________ 
 
 Raphael, Phil.'L. & Co., Wine House ________________ 
 
 Rascher Map Publishing Co., The__ ..... ____________ 
 
 Raymond, F. L. Co., Gummed Labels, Etc ___________ 
 
 Red Star Line, Wasmansdorff & Heinemann, Agents . 
 Regan, Joseph, Confectioner and Baker _______________ 
 
 Reid, W. H., Draper and Tailor... ..... ... ..... . ..... 
 
 Remington Type- Writer ____________________________ 
 
 Revell, A. H. & Co., Furniture House ______ ......... 
 
 Revere House, J. D. Fanning, Proprietor _____________ 
 
 Rice, James H. Co., Plate Glass _____________________ 
 
 Richardson, O. W. & Co., Carpets, Oil-Cloth, Etc _____ 
 
 Rider, M. D., Blank Books, Stationery, Etc ___________ 
 
 Ries & Co., Furnishing Goods -------- ..... ----------- 
 
 Riverdale Distilling Co ----- ........ _________________ 
 
 Roberts, J. D., Glass Beveler, Etc ____________________ 
 
 Robins & Talcott, Building Specialties 
 
 Rogan, J. B. & Co., Commission Merchants 
 
 Rogers, Brown & Co., Iron Commission 
 
 Rogers, I. C. & Son, Commission Merchants 
 
 Rosback, F. P., Manufacturer of Planers, Presses, Etc. 
 
 Rose, Charles W., Tailor and Draper 
 
 Roseboom, W. L. & Co., Commission Merchants 
 
 Rounsavell, George, Cooperage 
 
 Roundy & Son, Regalia and Uniform Manufacturers.. 
 
 Ruprecht, John, Broadway Market 
 
 Russell, J. K., Planing-Mills 
 
 Ryan, D. W., Cooperage , 
 
 101 
 67 
 106 
 136 
 118 
 85 
 111 
 95 
 154 
 70 
 150 
 72 
 90 
 74 
 179 
 120 
 138 
 116 
 146 
 132 
 160 
 107 
 130 
 113 
 
 S. 
 
 Salisbury & Cline, Rubber Goods. 
 
 Salvesen, George, Carriage Trimmer, Etc 
 
 Sanborn, R. H. & Co., Celluloid Collars 
 
 Sandberg & Co., Engravers' Wood and Tools 
 
 Sautter & Apking, Boot and Shoe Manufacturers 
 
 Schmitz, Wm., Musical Instruments 
 
 Schoellkopf, Henry, Grocer 
 
 Schrader, A., Bakery and Confectionery 
 
 School of Art Embroidery, Mrs. E. D. Hodge 
 
 Schreiber & Annas, Ornamental Cut Glass 
 
 Schwalbach, M., Tower Clocks 
 
 Schwarz, Aug., Dye House 
 
 Schweitzer, F., Jewelry Cases 
 
 Sears & Sears, Designers and Engravers 
 
 Seeberger, A. F. & Co., Wholesale Hardware 
 
 Selz, Schwab & Co., Manufacturers of Boots and Shoes. 
 Seng, W. & Co., Manufacturers of Furniture Fixtures.. 
 
 Servoss Furnace Co. 
 
 Seydell, Wm., Contractor 
 
 Shepard, J. A., Portraits 
 
 Shields & Brown Co., Pipe Coverings, Etc 
 
 Shillington, Isaac, Livery Stables 
 
 Sibley Fireproof Warehouse, The Hiram 
 
 Siebert, A., Carriage and Sign Painting 
 
 Sievert, Henry, Cigars and Tobacco 
 
 Sigwalt Manufacturing Co., The, Seal Presses, Etc 
 
 Simonds Manufacturing Co 
 
 Simpson, Hall, Miller & Co., Silver-Plated Ware 
 
 Smith, H. J. & Co., Publishers 
 
 Smith, James P. & Co., Ice Dealers 
 
 Smith, Joshua. Dental Surgeon 
 
 Smith, Peter & Co., Carriage and Buggy Manufacturers 
 Snitzer, John, Merchant Tailor - 
 
 119 
 155 
 
 112 
 175 
 163 
 137 
 172 
 141 
 148 
 89 
 57 
 53 
 117 
 98 
 146 
 66 
 87 
 106 
 106 
 1611 
 113 
 76 
 121
 
 INDEX. 
 
 PAGE. 
 
 Sn vder & R athbonc, Commission Merchants - 146 
 
 Sp.d.lin- Lumber Co 82 
 
 Staiu'iT. C. M.. Publisher _ ;. 176 
 
 Star Chemical Works, J. E. Landell, Proprietor 151 
 
 Stattmann, Chas. & Co.,Sealksin Garments 137 
 
 Stein, S. & Co., Woolens. 125 
 
 Stevens,J. K., Photographer 77 
 
 Stevenson, Robert & Co., Wholesale Drugs 183 
 
 Stotz, Woltz & Co., Furniture Manufacturers 92 
 
 Straus, M., Artist.. 97 
 
 Strauss, Goodman, Yondorf & Co., Wholesale Clothing. . . 99 
 
 Svenska Tribunen 162 
 
 Swansen, N. D., Bakery and Confectionery. 172 
 
 T. 
 
 Ternand, C. W. & Co., Jewelry Manufacturers _ 142 
 
 Thurber, W. S., Fine Art Dealer 145 
 
 Tiffany Pressed Brick Co 130 
 
 Thome, M., Hair Goods 72 
 
 Thomson & Tavlor Spice Co., The 82 
 
 Townsend & Yale, Commission Merchants .148 
 
 Troy Steam Laundry, II. W. Howe, Proprietor 139 
 
 Truppel, R., Pharmacist 118 
 
 Tuckhorn & Co., Billiard and Pool Tables.. 164 
 
 u. 
 
 Union Steamboat Co., The, T. T. Morford, Agent 66 
 
 V. 
 
 Van Buren, B., Druggist 122 
 
 Vehmever. H. F., Broom Corn 164 
 
 Vessel bwners Towing Co 94 
 
 w. 
 
 Wadsworth, L. L., Manufacturer of Trucks, Wagons, Etc. 
 Wuldo.J. Frank, Artist ________________________________ 
 
 Wallace, Chas. S., Sanitary Plumber ........ ______ ..... . 
 
 Wallace.J. II., Lumber Merchant ________ ..... ______ ..... 
 
 Wallis, F. T., Artist ____________________________________ 
 
 Walsh, Mrs. E. T., Fine Millinery __________ ......... .... 
 
 Washington Foundry and Machine Shop ________________ 
 
 Wasmansdoff & Heinemann, Bankers ___________________ 
 
 Wehle, Peter, Merchant Tailor ____ ...... _______________ 
 
 Wells & Nellegar Co., Wholesale Hardware... ....... ... 
 
 Western Furniture Co., W. C. McDonald, Manager _______ 
 
 Western Patent Agency, H. P. Crawford & Co __________ 
 
 Whitcomb, Geo. D., Harrison Mining Machine __________ 
 
 Whitman, Geo. B., Lumber Commission _______ ......... 
 
 Wilber Mercantile Agency, Mercantile Reports ...... ____ 
 
 ess, Hou 
 
 Wilson & Bayless, 
 
 Wilt, Chas. T., Trunk Manufac 
 
 ouse Furnishers 
 
 turer 
 
 \\ i-omsin Central Line 
 
 Wold & Wolf, Undertakers and Livery-... 
 Wolf, Becker & Co., Wool Commission. . 
 Woodruff Hotel 
 
 Wright, S. F. & Co., Livery Stables 
 
 Wyman, W. W., Dealer in Meats 
 
 178 
 
 85 
 158 
 
 105 
 
 up 
 
 1:17 
 
 117 
 1411 
 
 108 
 Ul 
 
 78 
 
 i:;t; 
 70 
 
 177 
 
 Y. 
 
 Yerbury & Barry, Laundry 172 
 
 Young, Gatzert & Co., Plumbers and Gas-fitters 179 
 
 z. 
 
 Zengeler, John, Dye Works. 
 
 WHETSTONE & CO., 
 
 Chicago Agents for 
 
 f ho Standard lolarij Ihuttle lewing Machine, 
 
 BEST for the rich, because it is the finest finished and does the 
 finest work. 
 
 BEST for the poor, because more woi 
 "Standard" in two days than 
 three. 
 
 in be done on tlv 
 
 BEST for the invalid, because it is the easiest-running Ma- 
 chine made. 
 
 BEST for the nervous, because it is noiseless. 
 
 BEST for the manufacturer, because it will outwear any other 
 Machine made. 
 
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 2500 Stitches Per Minute. Fastest Loch-Stitch Machine Made. Attachments Entirely New Style. 
 
 Solid Steel Ruffler and Tucker. Wood Work Finest in the World. 
 
 THE STANDARD SHUTTLE Is Wheel-Shaped, and Revolves on Its Own Axis. 
 
 -H-Main Office, 285 Wabash Avenue.-*- 
 
 We carry a Complete Stock of McC ALL'S BAZAR GLOVE-FITTING PATTERNS at our Main Office, 285 Wabash 
 Avenue, and at our Branch Offices, 458 West Madison Street and 471 Ogden Avenue. THE BAZAR DRESS- 
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 NEW YORK LIFE INSURANCE GO. 
 
 The NEW YORK LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY will sell a Contract that GUARANTEES to 
 pay 100 per cent, of the premiums -with the face of the policy. By sending your name, ad- 
 dress and the date of your birth (day, month and year in which you were born), to the 
 undersigned, a statement -will be sent you giving a full explanation of this form of policy. 
 
 All the policies issued by the NEW YORK LIFE since 1850 have not contained a clause 
 making them void in case of suicide or self-destruction ; the policies of nearly all the other 
 companies still contain a suicide clause. 
 
 The NEW YORK LIFE has a lower rate of mortality than any other company over 
 forty years old. 
 
 The NEW YORK LIFE was the first company to recognize the policy-holders' right to 
 paid-up insurance in case of discontinuance of payment of premiums, by originating and intro- 
 ducing in 1860 the first non-forfeiture policy. 
 
 The NEW YORK LIFE was the first company (many companies do not yet do it) to attach 
 to each policy issued a copy of the application upon which the contract is based. 
 
 RECORD FROM APRIL 12, 1845, TO DECEMBER 31, 1886. 
 
 Period-Dates Inclusive. 
 
 Average Amount 
 of Insurance 
 Written Yearly. 
 
 Insurance in 
 Force, End of 
 Each Period. 
 
 Avenge Amount 
 of Premiums 
 Received Yearly. 
 
 Average Amount 
 Paid Policy 
 
 Avenge Amount 
 Ptid Yearly 
 
 Average Amount 
 Received Yearly 
 
 Cash Assets, 
 End of 
 Each Period. 
 
 1845-1859 . . 15 years, 
 1860-1869 . . 10 years, 
 1870-1879 . . 10 years, 
 1880-1884 . . 5 years, 
 1885, . One Year, 
 1886, . One Year, 
 
 $2,181,504 
 16,549,764 
 22,250,984 
 42,029,979 
 68,521,452 
 85,178,294 
 
 $15,284,718 
 102,132,513 
 127,417,762 
 229,382,586 
 259,674,500 
 304,373,540 
 
 $258,237.47 
 2,120,671.14 
 6,014,81289 
 9,213,501.48 
 12,722,103.03 
 15,507,906.04 
 
 $132,212.10 
 958,759.27 
 4,059,839.99 
 5,847,273.34 
 7,681,873.75 
 7,627,230.09 
 
 $108,422.02 
 418,551.23 
 1,489,027.16 
 2,044,096.95 
 2,999,109.64 
 2,757,035.97 
 
 $37,106.14 
 347,689.08 
 1,586,299.42 
 2,646,610.02 
 3,399,069.71 
 3,722,502.24 
 
 $1,767,133.24 
 13,025,561.23 
 38,996 952.66 
 59,283,753.57 
 66,864,321.32 
 75,421,453.37 
 
 Received from Policy-holders in Premiums, in 42 years, 1845-1886, .... 
 Paid to Policy-holders and their representatives, 1845-1886, $96,714,644.67 
 Assets held as security for Policy-holders, January 1, 1887, 75,421,453.37 
 Total Amount paid Policy-holders, and now held as security 
 for their contracts, ---.-----..--. 
 
 Amount paid and held exceeds amount received, 
 
 $40,251,099.32 
 36,678,744.66 
 
 Received from Interest, Rents, etc.. in 42 years, 1845-1886, 
 Death-losses paid in 42 years, 1845-1886, ........ 
 
 Interest and Rents exceeded Death-losses paid, 
 
 Dividends paid in 42 years, 1845-1886, $30,294,550.62 
 
 Legal Surplus over Liabilities, under State Law, Jan. 1, 1887, 15,549,319.53 
 
 Amount Saved Policy-holders from table-rates, - 
 
 - $159.,52. f >.918.92 
 $172,136,098.04 
 
 $12.610,179.12 
 
 $3.572,354.66 
 
 $45,843,870.15 
 
 CASH ASSETS, January 1, 1887, - - over Seventy -Five Million Dollars. 
 INSURANCE IN FORCE, January 1, 1887, over Three Hundred Million Dollars. 
 
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 363 & 365 Wabash Avenue, CHICAGO.
 
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