9/7. 7 3-li Quincy Illinois: In the Heart of the — Great Valley. (1926) LIBRARY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URB/^\NA-CFiA,V\PAICN 917.73^ QU32qu I.E.S. QUINCY lUINOIS --Vu, FOREWORD UIKCY, ILLINOIS, "In the Heart of the Great Valley." Consider its location, read its history and study its progress, and you will know the story of the romance and adventure of the Great Mid-West. rp — ^;a|^gK^>**"**!*■ip•■^^■■ The modern department store stands where once the Indians bartered in their crude fc-' ^^^^M- .......i'^' I tepees, the busy factory manufactures its products where the early settlers rudely put together their simple wares; steel rails and roads of concrete follow the trails of the first hardy explorers, and man has fashioned parks and playgrounds of the beauty spots along the Father of Waters where the hopeful Mound Builders once buried their dead. Industry, trade and transportation, mills, stores and locomotives, stone, steel and concrete have wrought with more imagination than the slender weave of poetry or fiction. In this story of the magic of the Great-West, Quincy, Illinois, has a most essential and most interesting chapter. This booklet presented by the Quincy Chamber of Commerce hopes to make Quincyans themselves mindful of their blessings and to help them publish the facts to the rest of the world. Inasmuch as pictures often tell a story more vividly and more accurately than type, most of this volume consists of photographs of the Quincy of today. The first section, "Quincy, a City in Which You Want to Live," presents those factors of community life, a city's civic, welfare, religious, charitable, philanthropic and recreational institutions which make Quincy an ideal city of homes, "America's Gem City." The second section is devoted to the theme, "Quincy, a City in Which You Want to Work," and presents the city's institutions of industry and trade. Quincy, on the east bank of the Mississippi, proud of the city that it is, and more hopeful of the city that it is to be, is a vital figure in the romance of the development of the Great Mid- West. These pictures and these facts may help to tell the world of Quincy 's part in this "wond'rous story." A Century of Civilization One hundred years ago the Indian trading post on the east bank of the Mississippi was undergoing its first transformation into an abode of white men, the beginning of the series of changes which made it the modern city that it is today. Father Marquette, the French missionary, passing down the great river about July of 1673, was probably the first white man to look upon the bluffs where the city of Quincy later was to be located. General Zebulon Pike, under a commission of the United States government to locate forts along the Mississippi from St. Louis to the Falls of St. Anthony, must have tarried in the Indian and trading village that was located on Quincy 's present town site. In May 1819, Willard Keyes passed down the river on a raft of lumber but did not locate here at that time. In 1821, John Wood first visited the site of Quincy and was so pleased with the location that he erected a cabin here, though not at first within the original town. The first settlers were John Wood, Willard Keyes, who returned to the place he had seen from the river several years before, Jeremiah Rose and Asa Tyrer. OynNCY'^AMERiGA's GEM GiTr "In the Heart of the Crcut I alley The traveler who appraiches Quincy, whether he be driven swiftly over the steel rails, whether he come more leisurely on the Father of Waters or whether he drive his own car on one of the trans- continental roads that pass through the city sees first of all the graceful dome of the Adams county court house, as fine an example of architecture as is seen in any county buildinw of the Middle West. His first impression of Quincy thus gained must be that of Stability, Enlightenment, Beauty and Progress. As he comes to Quincy this impression will be more firmly established. He will be im- pressed with the Stability of its Business, the Enlightenment of its People, the Beauty of its Parks, Streets and Hemes, and the Progressiveness of Its Spirit. The Things That Really Mal^e a City A city is not properly measured by the numbers who dwell within its boundaries. A city must have numbers in order to be impressive — and thus Quincy looks with satisfaction upon the growth of the past several years. The last federal census in 1920 gave Quincy's official population as '5.'5,Q78 The recent estimate based on all the factors in a city's growth give the population as more than 43,000. But the opportunities which a city offers to make a living and the advantages which it presents to live a happy hfe really make it worth while. These are offered by Quincy in abundance. Those surroundings which man needs to hve his life richly and fully, which afford him culture and pleasure, and those opportunities which man needs to make him an independent economic factor in life, which enables him to support himself and family and gather a competence, all these abound in this rich and beautiful city. T^ ^fli^H THBllEACT OF THE GRE/^ VALLEY WX i^ QUINCY AT A GLANCE Outlines and Insights 10 CAT ED on a picturesque blutf overlooking the Mis' sissippi, bounded by Illinois and Missouri lands, garden spots of the world. The hub of a rich agricultural, manufacturing and conimer' cial section. Near the center of population of the United States. At the Junction of three great states — Illinois, Iowa and Missouri, in the low priced Hydro-Electric power zone. More than 40,000 population in a trade territory of 325,000 persons. Healthful climate with no extremes of heat or cold. Many miles of parks noted throughout the country for their n.itural beauty, many of them overlooking the Father of Waters. City of attractive homes, with 65 percent of its citizens owners of homes. Excellent school system, its high school, twelve fine grade schools, seven parochial schools, Quincy College, Gem City Business College, two Academies, Schools of Music and Art, Chaddock Boys" School, etc.; placing Qumcy in the front rank in educational facilities. Thirty churches of all denominations. Y. M. C. A., Y. W. C. A., and Boy Scouts. Three service clubs, Rotary, Lions and Kiwanis, several women's business, social and literary clubs, fraternal and social activities. Many places of amusement of high character. Commodious theaters, picture houses, amusement parks, bathing pools, ball parks, four golf links. Hunting, fishing, boating, camping and picnic groves; summer resorts in every direction. Many miles of new paving. Entrances to city all well paved. City-owned water system furnishing water of celebrated purity. Completely motorized fire department, said by state fire marshal to be one of the best equipped and best manned in Illinois. Largest industrial center in the Mississippi Valley, west of the Chicago group and North of St. Louis group. Banks among the best in the country. Bank clearings last year $74,000,000. Stability and ample resources of banks assure to business protection and progress. Retail stores in Quincy metropolitan in every respect. With trade areas covering a radius of 75 to 100 miles, giving more than 4(K),000 potential customers. Impressive group of civic and public buildings, including the State Soldiers' fer' Sailors' Home, Armory, Chamber of Commerce, Y. M. C. A., The Elks" Home, Eagles, Knights of Columbus, Public Library, Post Office, City Hall, Court House and a mag- nificent home for the Western Catholic Union. State Poultry farms and egg laying contest withm the city. Transportation facilities ample, by rail, river and motor roads. Hard roads leading from the city in every direction. Widely known jobbing center for hardwares, groceries, notions, stoves and dyes. Two daily newspapers with combined circulation of more than thirty-five thousand. Practically no indebtedness. Per capita wealth $1,689.11; per capita debt $4.61. Tax rate in 1924 lowest of any city in Illinois of more than 10,000 population. Baseball club in Three-I league. Manufacturing interests in highest rank in the country. Quincy made products being sold throughout the United States, Canada, Mexico and foreign countries. Beautiful homes, well paved, clean and well lighted streets, religious, educational and social activities, extensive industrial plants, combined with natural resources, make Quincy truly the Gem City of the West. C QVINCY-Ameriga^s gem City A City In Which To ''Live' THF. "open spaces" are not nej^lcctcJ in this city in the land where the west begins. The typically American city is that which is large enough to have its own factories, stores and trans- portation to establish it as an economic unit making a place for itself in the nation's trade, which is progressive and intellectual enough to afford its citizens the advantages of education, art and cultural intercourse, but which is still not so heavily burdened with its bigness that it has forgot that it is as essential .that its citizens "live" as it is that they make a living. Quincy is proud of its parks and is eager that the world should know of them and is even more desirous that the people of other cities may see them. Quincy has a park system of nearly 300 acres, but who can speak of parks in the terms of figures? Parks arc known for the joy that they bring, the vision that they give, the influence that they have upon a city's people. Quincy's parks are her people's proudest possessions. They stretch in long, sinuous, alluring drives along the bluffs overlooking the river. They follow creeks and brooks and eventually spread out in broad acres of breathing spaces and playgrounds for old and young. The accompanying photographs may give some idea of the beauty of the north and the south chains of park drives, of the magnificent distances ot South Park and of the panorama of greensward and stream, mounds and valleys which the Quincy parks afford. In Indian Mounds park is the "Mounds Plunge", the municipal swimming pool, sanitary and modern in every respect, a project inaugurated by the Quincy Rotary club, a place of joy for hundreds every day in the summer season. Just north of the city is the Illinois State Soldiers' and Sailors' Home, which is a home for the men of this state who served their nations in time of war, and their wives, and, while it is a home for these veterans, it is essen- tially a link in Quincy's splendid park system. The Quincy Boulevard and Park Association is an organization of volunteers which manages the city's parks with economy of purse but with prodigality of vision and purpose for the people's benefit. Quite recently a large industrial corporation seeking a location made a survey of Quincy's advantages. While it naturally was interested in the things of a material nature which make this a great city, it was most impressed with the many advantages which make Quincy a city in which people find living most enjoyable. Quincy is a city of homes. Wage earners in larger proportion here than in most cities own the dwellings in which they and their families Uve. They are industrious workers who establish themselves here and become citizens of this community, interested in all the things that make this a city in which people want to live. Quincy is a city of parks. The parks belong to all the people who make use of the drives and picnic grounds, swimming pools and golf Hnks and enjoy them to the fullest. Quincy is a city of wide, beautiful and well-paved streets. Due to a spirit of progressiveness in recent years, the property owners have had many of the streets re-paved so that smooth thoroughfares are found in even the out- lying sections of the city. Quincy is a city of good schools and many churches. Its system of public and parochial schools and colleges offers educational advantages which appeal to all classes of citizens. Quincy is a city of wholesome amusements. It has good theaters "offering the best of shows at all times ot the year. It has a franchise and a baseball team in the Three-I league affording good games of the great national sport. It also has many semi'pro teams which have loyal followers. In the fall there are football games every Saturday and there is golf on four courses at all seasons. Situated on the Mississippi river, Quincy offers opportunities not presented to inland towns. The river is always alluring with opportunities for boating, fishing and pleasant outings. Delightful drives abound m this picturesque section of the country. In all the many ways in which life is so abundantly W'orth while, Quincy is indeed a "City in Which to Live . \^S^ IN THB HEART OF THE GRBAT VALLEY i:\t\t7 i ^'Quincy"— "Adams"— "John"— and a Word About the "Illini" THE first message of John Quincy Adams as president was received on the day of his inauguration, March 4, 1825, the day that the county seat of the newly estabhshed county was located and, in honor of the president, the county was named "Adams", the city, "Quincy", and the public square in the heart of the city, "John's Square". The county and city names have remained but the plat of ground is now known as "Washington park" and is still one of the features of the business section of Quincy best remembered by visitors. The act establishing a separate county of what later became Adams county was approved by the legislature, January 13, 1825. A century of progress has wrought the changes from the simple settlement of those few courageous pioneers to the city of Quincy, county of Adams, which you see portrayed in this booklet today. It is said that the French missionaries first met a certain dis- tinguished tribe of red men on the waters of the Mississippi not far from Quincy. These original Americans, because of special traits which won them honor and distinction, were known as the "Illini", a word which has been variously translated as, "the men courageous", "the men strong and true", or merely as "the men". The name must have been the inspiration to those men of courage who established the settlement nearby and to those men strong and true who builded the modern city of industry and trade. Quincy, although it is located on the very western edge of the state has always been an important factor in the commercial and political affairs of Illinois. It has furnished to the state governors, senators and judges of the supreme court. It was the scene of one of those history making debates between Abraham Lincoln, who often practiced in the courts of this county, and Stephen A. Douglas, who presided in the courts here before he became United States senator and a national figure. Quincy today has in Riverview park a monument to George Rogers Clark erected by the state of Illinois portraying the great soldier in this most westerly piece of land in Illinois, surveying the large and fertile country which his vision and courage won for the American cause. Public Buildings or oui^ Tronir A f QVINCY-AMBRiCA^s GEMGirr Lijay^-"*^ ?^^ in thb hbart of the great vallby W^ 9. J73S? ^?Zl^d IN THB HEART OF THE GREAT VALLEyM QVINCY-Aheriga's Gem Girrl C QVINCY-AMBRiGA's GEM City ] HuAicipa.1 Pool ^^afl^ THE HEART OF THE GREAT VALLEY l^tXI ^, I QVINCY-Ambriga's gem Girr j F Quincy 's Powerful Asset lis Schools ORTUNATE is the boy or girl who lives in Quincy, or whose parents have chosen the schools of this city. Quincy has a complete educational system for the youth in its public and private schools, beginning with the kindergarten and carrying the student through the grade schools and high school into the academy and college. Quincy has twelve public grade schools, every building modern, as the result of a program of rebuilding the grade school plant. It has a High school of high standing and of recognized scholarship but the intelligent citizens of Quincy realize that its next big educational need is a new and thoroughly modern high school building. Quincy's school enrollment is 4cS99 in the public and 1502 m the parochial schools. The value of the public school buildings is $4,300,000, and the annual budget for public school purposes is $509,690. In addition to the public schools, Quincy has several paro' chial schools, the Chaddock School for Boys, a school of the Methodist denomination, Notre Dame for girls and Quincy College for boys, an academy and a college conducted by the Catholic church, and the Gem City Business College, America's best known commercial school. The schools of Quincy bring to this city many families who are eager that their children shall have the best that modern educational systems have to offer. Quincy is fortunate in that the citizens have always been ready to endorse every project for the welfare of the city's schools with the result that the grade schools are models of present day school architecture. Con- siderations of party or personal politics never arise in the choosing of officials so that Quincy's schools are administered according to the highest professional standards. [ QVINCY-America^s gem Girr 3 t tayiNCY-AMgRicA^s GEM Cirr Hmmmt; heart of the great valley i^^jy^^^slJ QVINCY- America's qem Girr Quincy's Hope For The Future — Its Youth Ql'INCY takes no chances on allowing its most valuable resources to be neglected. The first consideration of a modern city should be toward conserving for the future, the energy, the intellect, the body, the character and the possibilities of its youth. Every agency for the making of clean and upright citizens is working steadily and efficiently in Quincy. The hoys have a Y. M. C. A. with trained leaders for its classes, exercises, and sports. The Boys Scouts are organized through a central council with a specially trained executive in charge. Both organizations have their own camps for their boys during the summer season. Oehlman park, a choice camping spot north of Quincy, belongs to the Scouts. The girls have a particularly active Y. W. C. A., with a camp at Wyaconda near La Grange, Mo. The Young Women's Christian Home and the St. Joseph's Home for Girls offer homes for girls working in Quincy, with assured surroundings of safety, cleanliness and comfort. The Cheerful Home, with its day nursery, caring for children of parents who are employed during the day, and its visiting nurse giving bedside care to the needy, are vital agencies of welfare in the community's life. Religion Profession and Practice Quincy has always been known as a city of churches which carry on aggressive and practical religious programs. Churches of practically every denomination are represented here, Protestant, Catholic and Jewish. Several years ago a religious census was taken showing that Quincy was a city of church going people. Important religious activi- ties of all denominations followed the taking of this census in which all churches co-operated. Quincy is the See city of the Quincy diocese of the Episcopal church. The photographs which follow indicate the substantial architecture of the churches of Quincy and give an indication of the sturdy religious life that abounds here. The practical application of a community's religious professions is manifested nowhere better than in the several institutions of mercy and relief. Two orphanages, two hospitals, three old people's homes and a tuberculosis sanatorium are among the many and vital institutions that measure a city's devotion to the true religion of service to fellowman as well as to God. The Homes In Which Quincyans "Live" Above all, however, Quincy is a city of homes. It is this fact which makes Quincy the "City in Which to Live". Whether the pretty parks, the shaded streets, the modern schools, the fine churches and the many institu- tions of recreation and service have brought the homes, or whether the homes are the cause and all the other ad- vantages have followed, may be a question for debate, but the fact remains that the homes are here and all the things are here to make these homes livable and lovable. Statistics show that no other city has among its dwellers a greater proportion of home owners than Quincy. Once a man comes to Quincy to live he sets out to build or buy a home and become a factor in the development of the community. The fact that so many Quincy residents own their own homes has created a civic spirit which means interest in paved streets and all other public improvements which maintain the value of property and which make a house a home in the truest sense of the word. The pictures of residences shown in this volume are typical of the houses which Quincy has been erecting during the last few years in its greatest period of home building. f^ IN THE HEART OF THE GREAT VALLBY iJ^ tJi C QVINCY- America's gem Girr^ \ iay^>^? ^WiWmB HEART OF THE GREAT \^M.LBY W^ ^ ; ^L^-^J ^ p f f TN THETTE?IRT OF THE GREAl VALLljy liS^^:3&.gas5Li THBHEAUl UF THE GREAT VALLEY U^ (7 j^^-jsibl!!! t QVINCY-AMBRIGA-S GEM ClT-? They-andthe ^^%-s I I jag^-%:^ YZ7/) IN THB HEART OF THE GREAT VALLBY ll^?/^ *^^, j rClVI NCY~ AMERICA'S GEM CiTr 3 'E^^-^-3 :J*i^i I t-r ;;£ <^S^"!f ' mni^prMi 111 III E EC I'l I III III hi' v: .»W.: 1-}^ ]s'i'**"f' .^L. ^ .^ 5r>*^®' )yjD_CjVCdmpH^' r* ^tu?Tcy also realizes that the recreation and deveV opment of its young wom- anhood are ivorthy of thccitys hestejforts. ^;.^ (f iljWw M w iMifjjgRBnaiTfi ^•^fi»* !S^ OF THE GP RAT VALLEY tttiOi PB^-V; K QVINCY- America's GEM QirQ iJgsgW^i^^^/^ IN THB HEART OF THE GRBAT VALLEY lltV? Serving Man, The Social Animal OIUIANIZATIONS, sociiil, fraternal and recreational, naturally abound 'n .1 city where life is made so much worth while as it is in Quincy. The central business organization of the city is the Chamber of Commerce housed in a well equipped home of its own in the heart of the city. Three men's service clubs. Rotary, Lions and Kiwanis, and two women's service clubs, the Women's Luncheon club and the Business Women's club, beside many organizations of a distinctly social or literary nature, serve Quincy's in- terests faithfully. Quincy has all of the bodies which furnish Masonic interest in a city of its size. It has four lodges of ancient craft Masonry, a chapter of Royal Arch, a Commandery of Knights Templars, a Consistory of the Scottish Rite, and two chapters of the Eastern Star. All of them are housed in the beautiful temple shown on this page. The Eagles have a home splendidly equipped for all purposes of this fraternal and social order. The Knights of Columbus have a large and commodious home in the heart of the city which furnishes the headquarters for the activities of this large organization. The Moose have a home recently rebuilt to accom- modate this growing society. The Elks have recently built a home which, in addition to being the headquarters of the B. P. O. E. is also the down-town club of Quincyans, offering a splendid grill as well as all facilities for a pleasant social club. Quincys clubs have been "service clubs" in the truest sense of the word. Monuments to the endeavors of such clubs as Rotary, Kiwanis and Lions are the swimming pool in Indian Mounds park, the shelter house in South park, the electrolier system to the union station, the work in all boys' activities including the "Knot Hole Gang" of youngsters at the Three-I league games, and the interest in the city's various philanthropic institutions. The Women's Luncheon and Business Women's clubs have taken especial interest m the splendidly humanitarian work of assisting crippled children. Quincy plays golf on the links of four clubs, the Country club. Spring Lake club three miles north of the city, the Cedar Crest club at Walton Heights, and the Indian Trail club at South Park, the site of the municipal links. The North and South Side Boat clubs and the Power Boat club keep up an interest in water sports, and the Quincy Motor club cares for the interests of the thousands of motorists. The social life in Quincy is cared for in a manner that will appeal to every person who believes in the wholesome contacts ot man with his fellows. QVINCY-Ambrica's GEMQirr ] ■Hillerest SanitoriunNw AdcDTis County's progress along hinnamtanan Unes is manifested especially L\ b)i this Sanatorium equip- P' ped with modern methods ':% of fighting tuberculosis. i^k^/ytf IN THB HEART OF THE GREAT VALLEV ^^^ . QVINCT'^AMBRrcXs QEM-CiTr ;} C QVINCY- America's Gem Girr 1 * I Illinois .Soldiers G-^.Sailor5* Home aT^Vi 73^:^ 7 /7 /1 IN THB HEART OF THE GREAT VALLBYH ^ty ) V :- T 0. cH.cJIIoKreTtateeKer I JTlTsy.KeapoKl i-^i: 5:£.^^^^ ^^ TH^-MRA R T OF THF HREAT VALI.FA' (^ f JTlarlnrj cl. 6-eiae In the Heart of America As Well As of the Great Valley OF her geographical location, Quincy has little to complain. She is near enough to the Atlantic seaboard to make travel easy to the great financial and manufacturing centers of the East and is about on a parity with Chicago and St. Louis for Pacific coast connections. Forty-eight hours of travel from Quincy \k\\\ take one to cither northern or southern border of the United States. This survey is of railway travel. In the motor world Quincy is within easy reach of either coast. Her hard road connections with the East have been established for some time and progress on the Missouri and Kansas highway systems add two important links to lines of communication west. Quincy has enjoyed the distinction of being one of the largest contributors per capita of freight on the lines of either of her railroads. Waterway facilities are promised with the development of the Lakes-to-Gulf proiect which will mean thorough reincarnation of traffic on the upper river. Climatically, Quincy is far enough south to escape the rigorous winters of Northern Illinois and yet within the salubrious area of the temperate zone St. Louis and Chicago are but a few hours away, Omaha, Kansas City and Indianapolis but a little farther removed. It is ten hours from Chicago by motor over the new state highway system of hard-surfaced roads. Quincy is neither East nor West, North nor South. She is in the center of a great empire in itself, the Mississippi Valley, a production :onc without which the United States could hardly exist. C QVINCY-- AMERICA'S GEM GlTV 3 Quincy At Work, QriNCYS inJustry, personified, is Jitficult to picture. It might be said that this workman spends the major portion of his time erecting pumps and com- piessois. building poultry and agricultural products, casting and mounting stoves, making metal wheels, compounding dyes, building freight and passenger elevators, making showcases and store fixtures and pro- ducing strawboard and varieties of chip. But that does not occupy his entire time. He finds spare moments during his working day to print and bind Kxiks, to compound remedies and mixtures for live stock, to grind the farmer's wheat and corn, to put the dairyman's milk through a process where it is practically free of bacteria, to make etchings, paper boxes, soda water, refrigerating systems, cornices, files, ice, coach and wagon bodies, shirts, overalls, shoes, and women's garments. That is about his working day. Mr. Quincy as he works has two natural bents. He is first of all a skilled workman and shows his greatest proficiency in the metal trades. He is also a fairly good hand at working with wood. His "job " is highly diversified. He is a jack of all trades but master of several of them. He has two general workshops, one in the old district along the lower river front where railroads have had sidings for fifty years and the other at Walton Heights where he can now get the same facilities, a distance of nearly three miles separating the two. He works with the machine and uses hydro-power to keep it going. He sends his products all over the world, using both rail and water transportation with the motor truck for short hauls. He knows there is competition in a hundred other centers but some of his products have met a competing field for more than half a century and are still the best to be had. He makes more of several articles than any other workman in America. His products advertise him. This Quincy workman occupies 9,500 homes of which 65 per cent are owned by occupants. He is 6 per cent of foreign birth and 3.4 per cent of his numbers are colored. He supports four building and loan associations with about 3,500 members through his thrift, representing the number of ambitious workmen who are striving for home ownership. He has not supported strikes nor labor disturbances since 1920. He has an unlimited supply of electric power to drive his machine. He has good wholesome water and plenty of it for industrial and domestic uses. He averages a daily consumption of 700 cubic feet of gas in his home. Versatile artisans and mechanics of this sort make a first-class reservoir from which new industries locating in Quincy may readily draw their forces. Almost anything may be manufactured in Quincy so far as skilled labor is a factor in its production. Structural steel weighing tons shades down to a tiny phonograph needle. An industrial survey completed in the spring of 1925 shows 24 concerns that employ more than 50 workers. The same survey lists 107 major industries. Industrial locations outside of the corporate limits have the advantage of city water, gas, electric power and fire protection. Good acreage is available at prices ranging from $500 to $1000 an acre. These locations have railway side-track facilities. The tax rate outside of the corporate limits is a little more than half the city rate. The population of Quincy's trading zone (75 miles) is estimated from census figures at 325,685. 7^^/!l IN THB HEART OF THE GRBAT VALLBY i\t\ff i w^^m^&mwfT THIS Quincy workman is noted for his thrift. He has furnished the groundwork for deposits of 24 million dollars in the banks. He is ninety per cent native born and has a passion for home owning. He is progressive and thorough in his tasks. He is a patron of schools and education, loves parks and recreation, supports good retail stores and draws to his market place the trade of a supporting territory round about. From its geographical position in Illinois, Quincy has been denied some of the advantages of communication enjoyed by other cities. It has built no interurbans and its railroads are confined to two systems that embrace seven separately chartered lines. It has already received a fair share of the hard road building of the state and much more is promised. Yet it has earned the name with traffic experts of being the largest producer and forwarder of freight per capita of any city in Illinois, which speaks well of the volume of its manufactured products. Quincy has the advantages of other manufacturing cities with few of their drawbacks. It looks forward to the day when waterway freight routes are again in use and when the Mississippi river is once more a freight carrier. It has witnessed a tremendous building of new homes in the last four years and the assertion of a new industrial and mercantile spirit. It re-states the "I will" motto of other cities and makes it "I am". The corner-stone of Quincy 's prosperity and progress has been her diversified industries of national renown. Quincy 's position industrially is highly advantageous. It is located almost midway between Chicago and St. Louis on a line drawn north and south and midway between Indianapolis and Kansas City on a line drawn east and west. The factory production of Quincy covers about five hundred different articles varying from the tiny phonographic needle to huge fabricated steel columns that form supports for large buildings and bridges. Quincy is located a considerable distance from tide-water and some distance from both iron and ore fields but transportation rates have taken care of the ore problem and coal is no longer a necessity for power. Quincy 's industries use "white coal" produced at a power dam forty miles away and distributed as far south as St. Louis. The industrial survey of Quincy shows these facts; Capital in industries __ . $39,030,320 Annual payroll $10,400,436 Value of output $56,786,512 Number of Employes 11,430 Skilled workers 4,387 The fixed commercial radius of Quincy covers a distance of fifty miles. A secondary territory extends twenty miles farther in each direction. Some concerns job Quincy products a distance of 200 miles. Within the fifty mile radius are 204 towns and villages that look to Quincy as their trading and retail center. These towns and villages have a population of 115,000. A recent railway survey disclosed that Quincy contributed 38,087 box car loads of freight in a single year to her railroads for shipment to other points. Building progress is best summarized in yearly periods commencing in 1QI3 when 52 new buildings worth $184,000 were constructed and increasing to a peak in 1923 when 290 buildings were erected at a cost of $1,304,940. The building total for 1924 includes an office and fraternal building which will cost $500,000 and be ten stories in height. In buildings public and private Quincy has invested more than .'•ix million dollars in the last ten years. In 1920 there were 31 building permits issued in Quincy. in 1924 there were 330 with an estimated value of the building product of $1,500,000. Postal receipts grew from $252,443 to $340,218 in ten years time. Tn thb heart of the grbat valley i:\t\(7 C QVINCY- America's Gem City Economical Government QUINCY enjoys the name of being conservative in expenditures for public works, eager to make her city dollar go as far as it will in meeting expenses. The result is that bureau of census figures on the cost of ^government in all leading Illinois cities show Quincy ranking fourth in this respect. Her total city ex' ponditurcs in 1922 reduced to a per capita basis were $31.31. Her per capita property tax was $22.58. Her bonded indebtedness per capita was but $5.91, the best showing in this respect of any of the cities compared. The assessed valuation of her real property was $18,325,907 in 1922. In public school building improvements Quincy has been quietly making good headway. There is an out' standini' bonded indebtedness on four completed grade school buildings and one just completed to be added to the list. Improvements of two other grade school buildings are to be made when the whole school plant as covered by grade schools will be modern. There will follow a concentration of effort toward erecting a new Quincy High school, for several years an educational need of the city. In street improvement work Quincy has made rapid strides in recent years. The average annual improve- ment for several years past has been about five miles and plans for a program which will combine three or four years work in one are under consideration. Most of the street improvement work is of a durable character. A crushed stone supply produced in local quarries and river sand and gravel simplify the material man's street improvement problem in Quincy. Many of the older buildings rest on foundations of limestone rock taken from croppings along the river. The newer structures rest on beds of concrete in which this same limestone is a component and necessary part. Material is the same; the processes alone differ. Street paving costs have been materially lowered in Quincy since large programs of street improvments be- came the rule. When contracts are to be awarded on these improvements a dozen or more firms are interested bidders. This open competition has tended to reduce costs. Quincy today presents the picture of a community well satisfied with her paving investments and asking for larger programs each year. Industrial expansion has not lagged. The future holds several important factory projects which mean not only greatly increased volume of manufactured products but the opening up of an entirely new industrial district, advantageously located. Widely increased use of electric power makes these locations less objectionable than in the days of black coal. In industrial freight rates Quincy is advantageously situated. Her factories gain the 117 per cent basis of the New York-Chicago rate which is on all fours with tariffs given manufacturing concerns in St. Louis. To the west and southwest Quincy also shares the same freight rates as St. Louis. Shipments to the north are covered by the same freight rates as those given Chicago, without preference. In addition Quincy manufacturers enjoy many special commodity rates which place them within a basis of competition with such large competing points as Chicago and St. Louis. River navigation which promises intensive development within a few years will afford direct communication to all ports between New Orleans and St. Paul. An effort is under way to place Quincy on the same rate basis with Chicago m commodities shipped to the southeast coast, where the Ohio river is now the dividing line. Quincy "s industrial growth and stability has been due in a great degree to her favorable situation in the Middle West and the advantages given her in freight rate treatment. gvV^^ INTHE: HEART OF THE GRBAT VALLBY i\^tf i [ QyiKCY-AMeRiGA's gem Girr j Quincy's Greatest Strength In Its Banks FINANCIAL strcnjJth and solidity has been one of the salient points in the development of Quincy. There are few Illinois cities which can match her banks and their resources. The eight banks of Quincy in their statements of October 1924 reported total resources of $30,154,447 and total deposits of $23,- 480,391.74, which are increased by totals for the close of that year. These deposit totals have grown more than a million dollars in two years time as indicated by the published statements. This growth has been continuous and uninterrupted except for short intervals. Owing to the fact that theie have been consolida- tions and incorporation as state banks in the interim a detailed com- parison of the banking institutions of the city at the present time with their condition ten years ago is not possible. Taking three of the eight banks which had the same organization in 1914 as now and using the published statement of their condition, the following comparison may be made; Resources, September 1914, $9,322,695. Resources, October 1924, $17,817,478. Deposits, September 1914, $6,672,689. Deposits October 1924, $13,253,442. These figures show a gain of almost one hundred per cent in deposits and resources in the three banking institutions used for the comparison. In 1916 when Quincy was a contender for the proposed govern- ment armor plate plant it was modestly stated that the city banks had averaged for the previous five years 15 million dollars in deposits. Since 1920 and for the five year period starting with 1919 this deposit average has been well above the 20 million mark. Of the eight Quincy banks one is organized under national lanking laws and seven are state banks. The banks are all members of the central clearing-house association. Industries Up-to-Date PERHAPS the most modern of Quincy's manufacturing plants is that of the Monroe Drug company shown here- with. It was completed a little more than a year ago at a cost of about $200,000 and is fire-proof and modern in every detail. The company for several years occupied cramped quarters near the site of its new building and the expansion was brought about through business needs. The Monroe company is one of the largest exporting concerns of Quincy. It maintains a large force of salesmen and sells direct to retail druggists. Its dyes and drug supplies go to Cuba, South and Central America in addition to continental markets. The Pure Ice company and the Quincy Coal company plants are institutions that have been developed through local business energy. The fourth illustration is the filtration plant of the City waterworks, a successful venture in municipal ownership and operation. Formerly in private hands the concern was as- sumed by the city which rapidly liquidated the indebtedness and now owns and operates its water supply system. The filtration plant is but one feature of the water sys- tem. Taken from the river the water is treated in the nearby plant and then carried to a large reservoir from which point it is distributed to consumers. An adequate supply is practi- cally assured for all time and expansion needs are met from time to time. Quincy's water works system is one of the few thoroughly successful municipal ownership ventures in the country. With a fine yearly show of earnings for the city the water- works plant is also making from year to year the extensions and betterments in the service that is demanded of modern utilities. In the plant and its accomplishments citizens take a justifiable pride. lActustnea' 3Vaierworks Filierir^^ Plarti . 1 la j!i IJ 1 Y 1 ill a 1 g 3 CY^Ambriga's gem dry j Financial 1 m,mm m^M^ ^ ■ ■ ■ ilV Otate Savir^.LwnGvTVusiCo. '<»^3'JSi»maU3MMJU!IK- |jLgL.4L^^ ^ft IN THE HEART OF THE GREAT VALLBY l\^^, Our Modern Fire Department Ql'INCY'S fire department is motorized throufjhout and was one of the first in the state to achieve that distinction. By means of a small bond issue authorized by the voters in 1919 a fund was created for the erection of a Central Fire station and also to complete the motorization of the department upon which a good start had been made. The motor apparatus was purchased first because conditions regarding the site for the central fire station had not been settled but in 1923 it was determined to go ahead with the building plan and city property at Ninth and Vermont selected for the site. Only excavation work was done that year, however, leaving the principal construction for the 1924 season. The building has now been completed and gives firemen and their machines fine head- quarters on the edge of the business section. The new building contains a hose tower, modern quarters for the firemen and all other accessories. Into it the personnel and equipment of the Nos. 1, 2 and 3 stations have been moved and the old and outgrown stations shown in the illustration will be devoted to other purposes. The Central Fire station represents an outlay of about .$75,000 exclusive of the site. Quincys bonded indebtedness is so small as to be almost in- significant. One item covers a waterworks reservoir improvement which IS slightly more than $200,000, recently authorized, a second, school building bonds $127,500 in amount and a third, the amount necessary for the building of the Central Fire station. Of these three building debts the fire station bonds are about half of them retired. Almost any necessary building improvement in Quincy invites the approval of voters. The fire station bond issue campaign is recalled for the harmony it disclosed among voters and tax-payers on the necessity of modern improvements and the best of fire fighting apparatus. AI-. .-ja^°ffllfflj*l^i T. .» =^Ceriiral Station (under construction} Our Modern Fire Department FIVE outlying fire stations are continuing to furnish fire pro' taction to residence districts since the consolidation of the three central stations down-town. These smaller stations were built as occasion warranted and are more modern in construction than the discarded ones in the business section. Quincy firemen have an organization with high personnel. The platoon system was adopted years ago and relieves much of the monotony of a fireman's life. The smaller stations shown in the illustration are all complete units in the fire fighting system of the city. They are located on Delaware street, Payson avenue, Broadway, North Sixth street and South Eighteenth street. In addition to the organized department fire prevention and safety measures have been city watchwords. A large state gathering of underwriters recently gave Quincy merited praise for her efforts to keep down fire hazards and an adjustment of fire insurance rates followed. Quincy has always been prominent in the state firemen's or- ganization and boasted some of the best companies in the days of the old hand pumps. Steamers were discarded in the Quincy department when the full motorization was completed. Quincy's organized fire department in recent years acting with the underwriters' organization has been instrumental in cleaning up many of the fire hazards. The men of the fire department today are being drilled thoroughly under the tutelage of a special instructor on handling modern situations that involve fighting fires in larger buildings. Organized fire fighting in Quincy has been distinguished civic work. The motor apparatus all bears names of men prominent in municipal affairs. Some Large Factories ^McinuPaciiirei\^ 8 '^^-1 Moorman MF^- Co^ •D- Warren. MORE incubators are made in Quincy than in any other city in the world. About one million and a half dollars passes through its banks each year for poultry and poultry products. The state egg laying contest is known the country over. In this egg laying contest more than six hundred head of poultry are cared for in the most modern manner and the egg producing ability of each fowl is recorded daily. The results are published monthly in all the poultry journals of America. Bulletins are distributed to all who write for them. The hens in this contest come from practically every state in the union. Moving pictures have been taken of the contest and there are a do:en separate sets of films in use every night in some part of the United States Poultry journals with a circulation of more than a million copies have followed the results of this Quincy contest and given the city generous advertising. Hardly a day passes that does not find interested visitors from distant parts of the United States at this egg laying contest. In Its gradual expansion and development is indicated the growing importance also of Quincy as a poultry center. The illustrations show the Reliable Incubator and Brooder com- pany plant, a poultry supply company, the Moorman plant, producing mineral mixtures for hogs and stock, the J. D. Warren company, making hardware store fixtures and supplies and the North Star Strawboard mill, one of the two large paper mills of Quincy. In addition to its Quincy plant at Walton Heights, the Moorman company owns and maintains an experimental farm some seven or eight miles from the city, easily accessible by hard road, where complete data is compiled and charted on the growth of hogs under different methods of treatment. This scientific study is in line with the large and grow- ing live stock interests ot the county. Reliable Incubator - iO^fer Prmtinft, Co. \|1 .Manufacturers ixcelsior 5iove ^ S-MPg. Co. '■ / and orig^inal /'^s/ ^' , Quincy's Own Industries IT IS rather singular for a city of Quincy's type which once enjoyed a steady influx of immigrants that at the present time ninety percent of the thousands of employes of her manufacturing and mechanical establishments are native-born. Quincy has two thousand trained metal workers in the various trades and several of her industries enter the export field extensively. The illustration shows the genesis of the E.xcelsior Stove and Manufacturing company 35 years ago in small quarters, now among Quincy's substantial stove and furnace plants. The present plant covers several acres on the river front with excellent shipping advantages. The Electric Wheel company is one of the industrial leaders in the other wing of the city's industrial development and has a fine plant in the Walton Heights district. The manufacturing interests of Quincy are thoroughly diversified. There are in the neighborhood of five hundred different articles figuring in our national welfare manufactured in the various plants. Once known almost exclusively as the home of the stove industry in the United States, Quincy today is an able com- petitor for a dozen other articles of common use with other manufacturing cities of the country. River shipping by the new barge line is expected to en- hance and widen the markets of many Quincy industries which supply customers at a distance. A great many of the com- modities produced in local factories are of bulky types and admirably suited to water or water and rail shipment with the installation of suitable loading facihties and terminals. A Where Skilled Labor Counts HIGH percentage of skilled labor of many kinds has made possible the wide diversity in the metal manufacturing lines of Quincy. Few cities have the number and variety of men employed in the machine trades. It is possible without going out of the city to contract for specially-designed machines of any kind, welding, porcelain enamel supplies, brass, bronze or aluminum castings and almost anything needed in this age of the machine. Quincy has a well-established file works. In several of her machine shops auto cylinders may be re-bored with a high degree of efEciency. The sheet-metal trade is well represented in one local plant and several branch houses of national concerns. At times considerable repair work on railroad locomotives has been handled in Quincy machine shops. When the river trade was at its peak Quincy mechanics often found profitable labor on the hulls of river carriers at the old marine ways. It is presumed that these allied metal trades followed the stove industry to Quincy and soon established themselves. One of the machine shops of the city covers a trade territory with a radius of 150 miles and has added considerable exporting to its field in recent years. The illustration shows the C. H. Wurst company plant, a leader in the sheet metal trade of the city, the Gem City File works, a substantial industry, and the A. Wiebmer Machine shop, one of the concerns which does general machine work and which within recent years has occupied the new building shown herewith. Efforts at the establishment of manufacturing lines in Quincy allied with the motor industry seem extremely likely to bear fruit. This venture is a community movement designed principally to afford replacements for buildings and concerns which have been affected by the transition from the horse and carriage to the motor age. pH-Wurat Qv ^1 vn>^i^ FikV\^lk^J C QVINCY-Amerig ^Lk^^J 111 ,^ (pnleciioriei Grocer Co. 1 IN THB UBj L QVINCY- America's Gem Girr Main ms Plants Central Illinois Public Service Compaii (OjjuiL V Division); A substantia] addition to the Sluincy Gas, Electric and Heating company's property t7i ^uincy is the new coal gas plant recently completed at a cost of $2^0,000. The ^uincy property is one of a group included in the holdings of the Central Illinois Public Service Co. Office' ''ajt^-^^^ ^a IN Tlj& HEART OF THE GREAT VALLEY U^Q ^ iJ ^S^^^fl IN THB HEART OF THE GREAT VALLEV 1)1^^ C QVINCY-Ahbrica's gem Gitv ] ;^^^^^^^^EACT7SF"THE"GRE:^r VALLBY ^^"V ^^5S! A House || Distributing Our Products a railway distributing center Quincy is the key to a large territory. There are but two railroad systems centering here but they comprise seven independently chartered lines. The city's manufacturing district divides itself roughly into two zones, one lying along the river front where there is little inter- ference with business activity by railway switching and transfers and the other to the northeast of the city in what is known as the Walton Heights district. For this reason freight transfers cause little annoyance and facilitate the work of the transportation lines. The Burlington enters the city by a somewhat circuitous route from the north and east and its Missouri lines go direct to the bridge leaving the city proper almost entirely free from dangerous grade crossings. The Wabash enters the city from the southwest along the river front and maintains yards and shop facilities practically outside the city. The Burlington yardage in Quincy is extensive but as It covers several miles along the river front it is hard to vis- ualize it in a single picture. Quincy maintains a freight bureau for her shippers, jobbers and manufacturers and is frequently a meeting pwint for traffic officials of the important western railway lines. An interesting venture in the use of river barges for shipping IS soon to be undertaken in bringing sand and gravel from beds near LaGrange, Mo., for reshipment by rail from a depot located on the river front. This is a local development of the plan devised during post-war years for carrying coal from Southern Illinois fields to the upper river and ore from the North to smelters in the middle states. Renewed interest is being taken each year in river shipping and the success of the barge experiment on established federal lines south of St. Louis is a fore-runner of its extension to upper river points which will mean much to Quincy in a transportation way. New types of barge are being built for this experiment on the upper river. Growth of Oil Business T HE development of the oil business in Quincy has matched the development of motor transportation. In twenty years it has grown to property holding of considerable dimensions Quincy largely because of its central location in a territory that is without other large cities has naturally assumed a position as distributing center in the oil trade. There are between fifty and seventy-five filling stations occupying advantageous locations and dozens of curb-service points scattered th;oughout the city. Two of the oil concerns, the Standard and the Richardson Lubricating company, occupy locations in an industrial district where necessary side-track facilities are to be had. A third, the National Refining company, has a fine location north of the city. All of Quincy's oil concerns do a large jobbing and tank wagon service to outside points and a large part of the trade comes from Missouri points. The Quincy oil companies and branches distribute their products over a territory that leaps the boundaries of a dozen states. One of the largest of the independent companies maintains a force of more than thirty salesmen and the plant gives support to nearly a hundred families with a payroll yearly of almost six- figures. Petroleum products of all kinds enter largely into this growing business in the distributive field. One of the Quincy oil concerns specializes to a large extent on its grease and lubricat- ing products. The Standard maintains district offices in Quincy and at gatherings of its field and sales forces several hundred men are drawn to the city. Quincy has also been honored by a visit from the chairman of the board of directors of the Standard Oi company of Indiana which includes the city and immediate terri tory in its sales field. Ill _ .^;aafr-gi^7 J g i nthtt heart of thb great vao^am j^^^ riN THE HEART OF THE GREAT VAUJSY Uti I -Wood'-'V/orKera No.l Pleni WolP M^IrvJbgMt^ T Two Large Industries VHE showcase and phonograph industries in Quincy are closely allied. Out of a well-established showcase factory grew the present woodworking industry which today gives support to about three hundred and tw^enty-five families and has an annual payroll of $350,000. The trade territory of one concern, the Wolf Manufacturing company, now extends to all parts of the United States and Canada. It divides its forces between two large plants in one of which the manufacture of saddlery and leather supplies was once a profitable venture. As the phonograph is largely a cabinet making task calling for skilled woodworkers the adaptation of the Knittel showcase plant and its machinery to the new use was not difficult. The illustrations show the two plants maintained by the Wolf company from which their products go to all parts of the United States. Showcase manufacturing is carried on by the Quincy Show- case works which furnishes support for about one hundred and twenty-five families in normal business periods and has an annual payroll of almost $200,000. This concern supplies showcases and fixtures for drug stores, candy stores, cigar stores, dry goods, jewelry, millinery, clothing and department stores. Its products go all over the United States but much valuable business has been obtained in the Southwest with the recent rapid development of that section. Quincy showcases and store fixtures have always had the stamp of character and grade due largely to the fact that the city has for years been recognized as a center of the woodworkers skill. The illustrations show the central plant of the Quincy Showcase works and an auxilliary factory recently taken over. UUTiS &y Sh«w Case wwi^ Nal Plant ^;:^.. ■.^m^^^^^.r^.^.-^^^n^^ ^'^'-— ^^"'^^•---^»- On Modern Motor Roads CONTINUOUS hard road activity around Quincy has been followed by the introduction of bus Hne service to a number of nearby points. The Quincy-Mt. Sterling service is already in operation and makes regular scheduled trips daily between the two county seats. Incorporation papers have been granted for similar bus lines to operate between Quincy and Pittsfield, Carthage and Canton, Mo., respectively. The Quincy-Hannibal service has been in operation for several months and proposed extensions of this service to Missouri points will follow the building of the highways. Illinois was first in the field with a bond issue for hard road build- ing and has renewed her faith in hard-surfaced roads by a second and larger bond issue authorized in the election of 1924. Missouri ap- proved a sixty million dollar bond issue in 1922 and authorized a gasoline tax and larger license fees in 1924 to speed up her road building program. To each state a liberal allowance is made from the federal highway appropriation for the construction of through federal routes. Hard road construction out of Quincy involves the completion of routes to Carthage and Pittsfield with a direct road through Liberty to Jacksonville and a route north along the river ending opposite Ft. Mad- ison. The eastern connection to Springfield is to be completed in 1925 with the construction of a few miles involving gaps where right of way matters have delayed road building. There is a large amount of trucking over these completed routes and regularly estabhshed freight service in and out of Quincy is ex- pected to follow the completion of road building efforts. A central passenger station for bus lines centering in Quincy is already being planned with future provisions for freight service when the truck service is thoroughly organized. Quincy is one of the few cities m Illinois which reaped a hundred per cent benefit from the building of hard roads because of rail trans- portation service which was limited in scope and because she has lacked entirely any interurban service. ^' ^ainsDwiatMri . rS ^^^ ^ ff a IN TUB HEART OF THE GREAT VALLBY l\' I QVINCY--Am]&riga's gem Girr Fa. Pin Scenes rlgg ^Y^fTN THEr HEART OF THE GREAT VALLHY l\l\ty. ^nufacturers' Q Industries Show Growth I NCY with its one hundred and seven major manu- facturing industries is the "largest producer and for- warder of railway tonnage per capita in the state of This will indicate in a sentence the great development made during the growth of Quincy along manufacturing lines. A recent compilation of Quincy 's industries and com- irison with other manufacturing centers outside the Chicago ind East St. Louis zones shows that Quincy is easily the leader of all Illinois cities in this respect. Of Its two railway lines the Burlington alone takes rev' ^nues of two million dollars annually from Quincy and dis- urscs a quarter of that amount in pay-rolls. In several manufacturing lines, notably stoves, elevators, dyes, power pumps, rough paper, poultry feed and fine show- cases and store fixtures, Quincy is one of the leading cities in the entire country. The Michelmann company whose plant is shown in the ustration is one of the large fabricators of steel and competes with large St. Louis and Kansas City concerns. The Quincy Elevator Gate company represents a de- velopment from the general manufacturing line of freight and passenger elevators, for which Quincy has been recognized as a focal point. The Buerkin and Kaempen building is the mill maintained by a Quincy general contracting firm. The Quincy Compressor company is the youngest con- cern in that field in the city. Most of the major industries of the city began in a small way and left outgrown plants behind when they moved to one of the city's industrial districts. V^^l PuiHEip ^C«*Trtpres§pr Co, K Adapting To Modern Needs APID adaptability is one characteristic of Quincy as a manufacturing city. The illustrations show four concerns, one occupy ing a plant once occupied by a brewery and another an old stove foundry. This foundry now produces hog and poultry yard supplies made with lightning-like rapidity by machines out of sheet metal and the old brewery produces hog and stock remedies. Three of the four plants are now engaged in manufacturing lines dependent principally on an agricultural market. The extensive development of poultry raising has also brought additions to the local manufacturing field. The distribution of these products is made largely through jobbers and by mail direct to the consumer, a large and in- creasing business which does not leave its imprint on the community in a direct way but is a material factor in its pros- perity. The accompanying illustrations show the plant of the Mit-Shell Stamping company, where hog and poultry yard supplies are manufactured, the H. M. Sheer company plant, where oil burners, brooders, incubators and similar devices for the poultry trade are made, the Huck Manufacturing com- pany plant which is producing store and bank fixtures and school desks and the plant of the Illinois Stock Medicine company, engaged in manufacturing and compounding stock foods and remedies. The page in itself is further evidence of the thorough diversity of the manufacturing interests of Quincy. Many of these smaller industrial plants have side-track connections and hold the possibility of extensive development as their trade demands grow. Moijnuractupeps Mit-5hel Stampin<^ MPg. Co. . ni Illinois S^ock Medicine Co. Paper and Engraving ChjLinc^ Paper Box Ccx O^inci/PKoto Enora\dn^ O? PA1'1'!R 111 Its varied uses plays no small part m Quincy's industrial life. The center of the industry is represented by the two paper mills which produce strawboard and chip of varn)us types for a variety of purposes. Another branch of this general paper industry is represented 111 the printing and binding trades. Still a third is represented by the Quincy Paper Box company which manufactures candy, shirt, shoe and jewelry boxes for con- cerns in Illinois and seven surrounding states. The concern also tills special orders for boxes. The Irwin Paper company is a large jobbing concern which finds a market for its products in Illinois, Iowa and Missouri and furnishes support for about sixty families. Still another development of this general paper industry found in Quincy is the photo engraving trade, represented by the Quincy Photo Engraving company. This concern furnishes illustrations tor much of the book and catalogue work produced by Quincy printing concerns. These industries with the major manufacturing lines give employment to several hundred wage-earners. It is to paper, both in its manufacture and varied uses, that Quincy is indebted for considerable of her industrial prosperity. Quincy has been the birthplace of several important poultry and agricultural publications, which furnished healthy stimulants to the general paper and printing industries. These publications covered a wide territory. Engraving work done in Quincy commands a market whose range is a hundred miles either way in Illinois and Missouri. Many of the catalogues for local industries are the pro- ducts of Quincy printing plants. C^iii. Conner of Q^iTticxI PkkoioEneravin^Cp QVINCY— Ambrica^s Gem Qirr 1 Herald [ ija^-5^7 ^^ IN THB M Carrying On Our Own Business UNICIPAL ownership and operation of public utilities has achieved notable advances in Quincy. The principal effort in that direction has been the water works plant which was taken over from private hands a number of years .it;o and finally cleared of all indebtedness in the last few years. As the plant stands it is one of the best water systems in the entire country and with some improvements already outlined will furnish a wholesome supply for a city of 60,000 persons. The supply is taken from the river and is practically inexhaustible. The water is first treated in a filtration plant at the river front and pumped to the large Walton Heights reservoir where it is distributed to consumers. An auxilliary reservoir furnishes pressure for the immediate district. An improvement recently added to the plant equipment has been the smaller emergency reservoir near the filtration plant which will make possible repairs and renovation of the large reservoir itself and furnish an additional supply in case of need. The water works plant is under the management of a citizens commission nominally under the control of the mayor and city council but in fact entirely independent of city control. A second municipal venture is the city quarry which is now under lease to a contracting firm. It has supplied much of the stone for road work in the vicinity. This supply of limestone is practically inexhaustible. During the last year the city incinerator has been put in operation as ,1 scijntific and economic solution of the garbage disposal question which presented itself with the adoption of the health district act. The boat landing and house shown in the illustration is another city- owned venture. Much of the river front property has been retained by Quincy in the event of a generous revival of river traffic and is occupied by private concerns under leases at the present time. During the year contracts have been let for lining and covering the large reservoir at Walton Heights, a bond issue for the purpose being approved by voters at the April election. This improvement means the expenditure of more than $200,000 and insures Quincy a wholesome supply of water for years to come. Bonds to cover this improvement met with a ready sale in financial centers. C QVINCY- America's gem Girr^ and Loan ' i^uildino cx Loan. i I Owning (he Homes ^ The four building and loan associations of ^uincy have resources of three million dol' lars. All are expand' -■<' ing, two having shown a growth of $2 ^0,000 in resources in 7923. The four associations have financed more new homes during the last year than at any time heretofore. 1 IN THE HEAR GREAT VALLEYl^fT . THB HEART OF THE G ^^^CrVAlA.BY ^^, ^^^flN THB HEART OF THE GREAT VALLBY l\li ^ S^^^fili IN THB HEART OF THE GREAT V. The Power Behind Our Industry QUINCY was one of the first cities of the Upper Mississippi valley to become a steady and constant patron of hydro- ^ power, supplied from the dam at Keokuk forty miles away. This current is used almost exclusively in her industrial plants, furnishes power for the street car system and the major portion of the illumination that marks Quincy as one of the "best lighted" cities in the United States. This hydro-electric power makes it possible for the city to embrace a large industrial district which is almost entirely free from the smoke nuisance. The street car system is one of the most thorough and compact of the properties now embraced in the Illinois Power and Light corporation. It serves both residence and factory districts as well as parks and recreation resorts. The car average for the Quincy system is about 60,000 miles a year. In operation the system is among the most economical in the country, using less than eight- tenths kilowatt per mile. Birney cars have been m use on the system for several years and the transition to motor power has brought buses as a substitute on several of the residence lines. New connections which have just been made will make Quincy certain of her power supply. A new circuit has been built to the Keokuk sub-station at Hull and through the Central Illinois Public Service company's lines a supply of power is also assured from the plant in Central Illinois. Smokestacks that belch forth soot and dirt are now a rather uncommon thing in both industrial districts of the city. Use of this "white coal" has assisted in the general tidying up of the city's manufacturing zones. r^^ffl IN TUB HBART OF THE GRBAT^ /Y5America"s gem CiTr Bros. Shoe: Co. Elevators and Shoes Freight and passenger elevators produced by the Otis and Hollister- Whitney plants invade foreign territory. The Morris Brothers Shoe company established its plant in ^uincy about twelve years ago. Though one of the youngest of local industrial concerns it now gives support to about two hundred hands. Hollister Cqs. Hi lil---^ I iLiJ'!!!!!^:^L;^^ 4/i IN THB HEART OF THE GREAT VALLEY U^g . QVINCY-^^MBRIGA^ GEM ClT^ 1 'i Our Retail Stores ^mncys dry goods stores have annual pay- roll disbursements of $238,247.55 according to figures furnished by the retailers associa- tion. Special trading events attract store patrons withm a radius of seventyfive miles. I (^'Siern &^ons I 'siHff MM iiiltiillii hsStl'i uk^p Co. gW/rrTTTT HbiibAui ur'mrtm' Sfi^s^ QVINCY-^ AMERICANS GEM Gi-fiF] Partial List of Articles Manufactured in Quincy AiilonKihilr Shock Absorbers. Vutonntbilf Sprlnfis. \\Milni>s and Tents of all kinds and sizes. Itaked C;oods Bread (all kindsn Box Cakes, Cakes, Cookies, Pastry all kinds'. Halinfi Cresses Belt, Hand. Horse and Motor Power. Hariles. Row Bs. Clushions for operatinft chair-tables. s. Sanitary Back Rests, Window Tents, Cabinets Bath Cablr Koldlnii Bath Tu Laboratory .\pror Candies ^ail kinds'. Canning Outfits. Carrlanes. t:ereals Corn flakes. Fruited Oats and Wheat. Ciftars and Manufactured Tobaccos of all types. Ci>iar Boxes. Clothinft Work Clothinft. Cotton Shirts, Flannel Shirts, Mens and Bov's Garments, Moleskin, Khaki, Buckskin and Cordurov" Pants, Blanket-Lined Coats, Union-Alls for men and boys. Skirts (wool, worsted and silk). Ladies' and Misses' Hats and Aprons. Coal Tar and .Ammoniacal Liquor. CoBins, C:offin Boxes and Indertakcrs' Supplies. Coke. Common and Face Brick. C:ompressors Sinijlc Stafte Vertical, Two' Sta(>e Horizontal, Siniile Stafte Htirizontai, Team Actuated and Motor Driven. Compressors (all sizes and types). Confectionery — <:andy of all kinds. Ice Cream, Ices and Sher- bets, Fancy Moulds, Paper Bafts. Creamery Products— Butter, Pasteurized Milk, Ice Cream. Corruftated Fibre Board Containers. Cultivators. Dies for all industrial work). Disinfectants Paint Remover. Dolls and Children's Toys. Dyes. etc. Fadeless Dyes, Gildinft Paint, CJIycerated .Asafoetida, Liquid Bluing. F.ftft Carriers. Kftft Case Fillers. Electricity. Elevators, etc. — Freight, Passenger, Freiftht Elevator Gates, Power Operating Devices for freight elevator gates. Power Operating Devices for elevator doors. Cable Locks for elevators. Electric Operators for large doors. Elevator Cabs, etc. Engines Gas and Steam. Engravings Photo Engravings of all types. Eucalyptus Menthol Ointment. Exhaust Steam. Extract (Food Flavors). Fencing Wood and Wire. Fibre .Shipper Containers. Files (all kinds). Fireless Cookers. Flour Soft Wheat, Hard Wheat, Selfrlsing, Graham, Buck- wheat, Rye and Corn Meal. Furnaces for wood, coal or for wood or coal (pipeless). Furniture, etc.— Office, Bank and Store Fixtures, Kitchen Furniture, C^anning Outfits, Show Cases, School Desks and Window Display Fixtures. Gas. Gasoline Filling Pumps. Glasses, Spectacles and Optical Goods. Greases and Oils — t^up, .Axle, Cable, (Graphite, Tran Skid, Hard and Solid Oil. Hardware Store Equipment and Fixtures — Ash Stands, Brush Display Cabinets, Builders' Hardware and Tool Cabinets, Nail Bin and Wall Case Bases, Wall and Gun Cases, Nail Bin, Gun, Display and Wrapping Counters, Open Shelving, Bolt Pins, Paint Shelving, Screw Cases, Display and Vise Tables. Harness Specialties — Harness, Horse and Mule Collars, Saddles, Sole Leather, Shoe Findings, Sweat Pads, etc. Harrows — Disc and Drag. Hay-Presses. Hearse Bodies and Hearses. Heaters — Soft Coal, C:omblnatlon (coal or wood). Hot Blast (coal or wood), School Room (coal or wood). Ice. Ice Machinery. Incubators, Brooders, etc.— Hot Water, Hot Air and Electric Incubators, Indoor and Outdoor Brooders, Stock Food Cookers, Non-Freezing, Reliable Galvanized, Hanging and Knock-Down Self-Feeding Drinking Fountains. Egg C:ab- inets. Metallic Brood Coops, Egg Carriers, Blue Flame Wickless Oil Heaters for incubators and brooders. Lice Killing Machines, Oats Sprouters, Automatic Feeder and Exerciser, Metallic and Spring Poultry Feed Troughs, Spring Lever Poultry Punch, X-Ray Egg Testers, Auto- matic Grit Boxes. Iron Castings (all types). Iron Grill Work and Screening. Lime, etc.— High t:alcium Lime, Crushed and Fluxing St Agricultural Limestone, Rip R.lp. Lumber— Mill Work of all kinds. Mantels, Grates and Fireplaces. Manufactured Furs. Mattresses (all kinds). Meats, Sausages and Hams. Merry-Go- Rounds. Metal Weather Strips. Metal Work for Banks and Offices— Elevator Cabs and Er closures. Safety Deposit Boxes, ^Hollow Bronze Door: Wire Work for Window Guards, Bar Window Guards, Metal Grills, Wickets and Cages, Safety Deposit CJrills, C:ornice and Desk Signs, Wicket Number Plates, Bionze t^ounter Screens. Mineral Water. Monuments, Headstones, Mausoleums. Motors— Electric up to 15 H. P.; Electric Control and Switch Boards. ckel Plating and Enamelling. in-Expanding .Aluminum ,\lloy Pistons for Internal O bustion Engines. T^aF^ ^^fl IN THE HEART OF THE GREAT VALLBV lifi QVI NCT- AM&RtCA's GBM CiT r 1 Office Equipment — Blank Books, Broadsides, Catalogs, Edition Books, Loose Leaf Records, Pamphlets, Office Stationery, Straw Paper, Paper Boies, Envelopes (all kinds;, Rubber Stamps. Oil Burners. Optical Goods — Spectacles, Eye-Glasses, Auto Goggles, Lorg- nettes. Patterns — Wood and Metal, for tools, dies, furnaces, stoves and machinery. Pen Holders. Phonographs. Photographs, etc.— Commercial Photographs, Color Plates, Pen Drawings, Retouch Photographs, Zinc Etchings, Newtones, Two, Three and Four Color Process Plates. Pickles and Vinegar. Picture Frames. Plows (walking and riding). Plumber Specialties — Refrigerator Drains, Cesspools, Slop Sinks, P. and S. Traps. Bottle and Drum Traps, Drum Trap Ells, Float Valves, Trap Screw Ferrules, Bar Strainers, Soil Pipe Basket Grates, Soil Oil Pipe Vent Caps, Soil Pipe Rests, Iron Thimbles, Drive Ferrules, Sink Brackets, Tub Legs, Boiler Stands. Sink Couplings. Soap Dishes, Sink Strainers, Air t:hambers for iron sinks, Plate and Beam Hooks, Solder Pots, Solder Molds, Pouring Ladles, Ring Hangers, Expansion Pipe Hangers. Floor Flanges. Celling Plates, Meter Housings, Manhole Frames and Covers. Sewage Frames and Cover, Sewage Siphons and Grates. Bath Tubs, Lavatories, Lavatory Trays, Heating Boilers, Radiators and Plpe-Sewer Pipes, Hose Sheet and Coll Packings, Leather Rubber and Cotton Belting, Oilers, Grease Cups, Lubricators, etc.. Valves ol all kinds. Thread Pipe. Poultry Feeds— High Protein Egg Scratch, Egg and Growing Mash and Chick Scratch and Poultry Bone. Poultry Supplies. Pumps— Duplex Steam, Duplex Power, Pumps to handle all liquids. Oil Field. Sugar Mill, Air Lift, Dry Vacuum and C:entrifugal Pumps, Throttling Engine Governors, Speed and Pressure Regulators. Radio Equipment — Cabinets Ranges (all kinds). Refrigerators all kinds, in the largest Institutions. Rugs. :Iuding refrigeration syste Sand and Gravel. Signs and Posters. Shoes and Boots — Shoe Findings. Show Cases and Store Fixtures. Steel Work— Steel Lintels. Girders. Fire Escapes, Side Doors, Coal Chutes. Coal Chute Doors, Columns. Bridges. Doors, Shutters, Riveted Pipe, Stairs, Window (iuards. Joist Anchors, Anchor Bolts, Horizontal Tubular Boilers, Vertical Boilers, Pressure Tanks, Storage Tanks, Smoke Stacks, Breechings, Oil Tanks, Coal Bins, Culvert Pipe and Sheet Metal Stamping of all kinds. Stock Medicine, etc.— Hog, Steer and Sheep Tonics, Hog Oil. Tonic Brick, Powder and Poultry Dip, Self Feeders. Hog Drinking Fountains, Sectional Grain Fec(lers,Hog C: Mineral Mixture for hogs. Stock Dip : Horse, Cattle, Sheep and Poultry Powde Stove— Coal, Wood, Oil, Electric. Gas, GasoUr Straw Paper for corrugated shipping container Straw Paper for fireworks. Structural Iron. Tailored Clothing— Men and Women. Tire Patches. Tobacco— Cigars and Cigar Boxes, Plug and Smoking Tobacco- Toilet Preparations. Trailers and Tractors— Lumber, Tractor and Industrial Trail- ers, Gasoline, Kerosene and Farm Tractors, Tractor .\ttach- ments and parts. Reliable Tumbling and Water Cinder Mills. Truck Bodies. Trunks and Suit Cases. nd Disinfect : and Laundry. Vacuum Sweeper Vinegar. Wagons, etc. — Heavy Freight, Cane and Tank Wagons, Lumbe Boggles, Wagon Boxes, Steel and Wood Axles, Business anc Farm Wagons, Log and Lumber Hauling Equipment. Wheels — Wheels for machinery mountings, Steel Wheels fo general hauling purposes. Agricultural Implement, Trac tion and Wagon Wheels. Wood Sawing Outfits. ^^^H IN THE HEART OF THE GREAT VALLEY a^ t7 PRINTED KNO BOUND BY JOST Sc KIEFER PRINTING COMPAN PHOTOGRAPHED. DESIGNED AND OUINCY PHOTO ENGRAVING COMPANY UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS URBANA 3 0112 025340982