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N. MAPQLIS COMPANY\\nI LBLISHERS", "height": "3294", "width": "1978", "jp2-path": "industriesofbayc00marq_0015.jp2"}, "16": {"fulltext": "-:i\\n,^^M^\\nTABLE OF eeRTGRTS.\\nMichigan\u00e2\u0080\u0094 page\\nIts History, Development, Kesources and\\nProspects 7\\nThe Educational System 8\\nReligious Interests 8\\nThe Farming Interests __ _ 8\\nTheLuiiiher Inchistries _. S\\nThe Salt Indnstrii-s 9\\nManufacturing; Industries __ __ _. 9\\nCopper and Irnn Mines 9\\nRailway Facilities 9\\nBay City\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nIts Location, History, Attractions and\\nEnterprises 11\\nThe City proper 12\\nWest Bay City 14\\nSignal Service 15\\nManufactdres\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nTheir Variety, Character, Volume and Im-\\nportance 17\\nLumber and Lumber Manufacture 17\\nThe Salt Industries __. 18\\nMiscellaneous Industries __. 18\\nOpenings for Enterprise _._ 18\\nThe Courts\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nUnited States Court 20\\nCircuit Court of Bay County 20\\nProbale Court 20\\nPolice Court 20\\nTransportation Facilities\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nThe First Railroad 21\\nFlint Pere Maniuette Railroad 22\\nMichigan Central Railroad 22\\nBattle Creek Bay City Road 23\\nThe Belt Line Road _ 23\\nLake and River Navigation. _ __ 23\\nBav City Street Railway 21\\nThe Schools 24\\nTelegraph and Telephone Service 25\\nThe Libraries\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nBay t ity Public Library _ __. _ 26\\nSage Public Library (West Bay City) 27\\nSocial Attractions 27\\nPublic Buildings\u00e2\u0080\u0094 page\\n(V)untv Court House 29\\nTil.. County .lail 29\\nThe City Hall 29\\nGovernment Building __ 29\\nBay City Government\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nThe tity Water System 31\\nPolice Department 31\\nThe Fire Department. 31\\nElectric I -ight Plant 32\\nSewerage System 33\\nMunicipal Assets and Liabilities 33\\nBanks and Banking\\nThe Fiscal Agencies, their Resources and\\nCondition 33\\nWest Bay City Government\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nThe Police Dnpartment _ 35\\nThe Fire Department 35\\nWest Bav City Water System 35\\nTlie Electric Light 35\\nSewerage System 35\\nProposed Consolidation of the Bay\\nCities 35\\nCharitable Institutions\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nThe Northwestern Hospital. 36\\nHome for Aged Women 36\\nWomen s Charitable Union 36\\nThe Churches 37\\nVital Statistics 38\\nPostal Statistics 38\\nReal Estate\\nResidence Property 39\\nBusiness Property 39\\nStore and Oifice Rentals _ 40\\nCost of Labor 40\\nBay City Gas Company 40\\nThe Press 41\\nHotel Faciiities 41\\nRepresentative Houses 43\\nIndex to Representative Houses 150\\nPROMINENT ILLUSTRATIONS.\\npage\\nArlington House 149\\nBay City Bank 76\\nBay County (V)urt House 2\\nBay National Bank 105\\nBissell Mather HX\\nBraddock, Bateman Co 122\\nBriscoe, B. H. Co 89\\nCenter Avenue 16\\nDolsen, Cliapin Co 104\\nEmerv McLaughlin 85\\nFifth Ward School 32\\nFraser House 41\\nGarland, M 68\\nGriswold. Albert B 114\\nHawley Fitzgerald 70\\nHigh School Building 24\\nInterior New Opera House 28\\nLogging Scene in the Pine Woods of Michigan 6\\nLumbermen s State Bank 91\\npage\\nMadison Avenue M. E. Church 14\\nMcDonald, J. N. Son._ 95\\nMerrill. Fiticld Co.. 5\\nMidland Street 34\\nNew C)pf-ra House 30\\nPalace Livery Stable 130\\nPerry, D. B 54\\nPerry Swaby 55\\nPhcenix Block 19\\nRouecli House ._ 126\\nSage Public Library 26\\nSecond Niftional Bank... 45\\nSee Brothers _ 65\\nSherman, W. D 93\\nSmalley Bros. Co. (Valley Iron Works) 52\\nSmith s Tug Line 146\\nThompson, Jay Co 118\\nTrinity Episcopal Church 37\\nWashington Avenue 10\\nPORTRAITS.\\npage\\nBertch, Louis (deceased) 99\\nBoutel, B 147\\nDavidson, Capt. James 42\\nFisher, Hon. S. O 56\\nEmerson, C. M.\\npage\\nOdell, O. W __ 82\\nMansfield, Geo. W ._ 87\\nToohey. Thomas 148\\nSmith, P. C 146\\nVan Liew. E. S 108\\nHall, J. R 50 1 Van Walthausen. G. L. Frederick 116\\nCopyrighted 1888 by A. N. Marquis Company.", "height": "3304", "width": "1998", "jp2-path": "industriesofbayc00marq_0016.jp2"}, "17": {"fulltext": "INTRODUCTION.\\nTHE ol)jcH t of this book is to furnish an intelligent, and, as far as\\npossible, an accurate account of tlie industries of the Bay Cities.\\nTheir commerce, manufacturing and trade resources are briefly\\ndetailed, and a list of representative houses given. The facts liave been\\nin the main derived througli individual efforts and from citizens, merchants\\nand public men residing here. The publishers have also availed them-\\nselves of data contained in all books upon the subjects treated, in addition\\nto that found in the daily press. Suggestions made by those interested in\\nthe growth, development and prosperity of the Cities, and the opportuni-\\nties for the investment of capital, have likewise been adopted and incor-\\nporated as far as it was thought practicable.\\nOf the obstacles in the way of a faithful and an acceptable perform-\\nance of their duty in the premises, the publishers have been from the outset\\nthoroughly sensible. To say that they have discharged such duty to their\\nentire satisfaction is more than they can pretend. All that is claimed\\nis an earnest desire to be correct. To be infallible in that behalf is\\nimpossible. Some errors may have occurred by trusting to what appeared,\\nupon reasonable evidence, to be facts. Others, through the difficulties\\nexperienced in the collation of such facts. Their presence, however, is\\ndue to no lack of effort or diligence.\\nThe publishers tender their acknowledgments for the encouragement\\nand information received by them, as also for a liberal pafonage and for\\nmuch else that may contribute to whatever of success that shall greet the\\nsucceeding pages.", "height": "3304", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "industriesofbayc00marq_0017.jp2"}, "18": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3304", "width": "1998", "jp2-path": "industriesofbayc00marq_0018.jp2"}, "19": {"fulltext": "MICHIGAN.\\nITS HISTORY, DEVELOPMENT, RESOURCES AND PROSPECTS.\\nTHE history of Michigan, briefly told, is as follows: The present State was\\noriginally one of the French dependencies in North America. In 1763, that\\ngovernment deeded its right, title and interest in the premises to Great\\nBritain, and in 1783, it was transferred to the United States. The State is bounded,\\non the north by Lake Superior and St. Mary s River; east by Lakes Huron, St. Clair\\nand Erie; south by Ohio, Indiana and Illinois, and west by Lake Michigan and the\\nState of Wisconsin. The first settlement made here was by the French, during 1610,\\na colony locating about that time on the present site of Detroit, also establishing a\\ntrading post at Mackinaw. In 1800, the population had visibly increased, and in 1805,\\nGen. William Hull became governor. He was succeeded in 1812 by Lewis Cass,\\nand in 181 8 the public lands were opened to sale. The following year, the territory\\nwas represented in Congress for the first time, and from that period the growth and\\ndevelopment of Michigan dates. A State Constitution was framed in the Spring of\\n1835, ratified by the people in October of the same year, and in January, 1837,\\nMichigan was admitted into the Union as the twenty-sixth State.\\nThe State is divided into two peninsulas. The Upper Peninsula contains about\\none-third of the area of territory included in the limits of the State, and immense\\ndeposits of iron and copper formations which have been prosperously developed,\\nalmost from the date of the State s admission, and, notwithstanding the steady\\nrequisitions which have been made upon their resources, the mines are appar-\\nently inexhaustible. This section of the State is also covered with large forests of\\ngrowing timber, that furnish material to supply the lumber industries in operation in\\nthe Southern Peninsula, and elsewhere. The surface of the country is rolling, in some\\nportions mountainous the Porcupine Range at intervals rising to a heighth of 2,000\\nfeet, below which are sandy plains and forests. The climate, except in the northwest\\nGrand Traverse region near Lake Michigan, is cold; the geological formation is\\nazoic, with mctamorphic slates, gneiss rocks, trap, etc.; the productions are timber\\nand mineral ores. The .Southern Peninsula is a level, rich, fertile country of prairie\\nand forests, watered by numerous streams and rivers, many of which are navigable,\\nand afford the means of communication with distant points by steamers and vessels.\\nGeologically, the Lower Peninsula is of limestone and sandstone, with well developed\\nstratas of coal, salt and gypsum. The climate is mild, salubrious and healthful,\\ngreatly tempered by the lakes, and adapted to fruit growing. The principal products\\nare wheat, corn, butter, cheese and wool; the ])rincipal manufactures, flour, woolens,\\nlumber and salt. The State takes a high rank among those which compose the\\nFederal Union, and in its leading advantages of soil, resources, timber and mining,\\nas also in many other important particulars, is unsurpassed by any of the sisterhood of\\nStates. Since 1800, the population has increased from 551 to 2,000,000. Its svstem of\\ninternal improvements, schools, colleges, transportation facilities, manufacturing\\ninterests, commercial relations, religious societies, and other developments of a pro-", "height": "3294", "width": "1978", "jp2-path": "industriesofbayc00marq_0019.jp2"}, "20": {"fulltext": "THE INDUSTRIES OF THE BAY CITIES.\\ngressive and prosperous period, have been fostered and sustained, and are now in the\\nenjoyment of that steady growth which comes after years of laborious and persistent\\neffort.\\nTHE EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM.\\nThe schools and colleges of the State are peculiarly adapted to the wants of the\\ncommunity, and to the times. They include the University of Michigan, at Ann\\nArbor; the State Agricultural School, at Lansing; State Normal School, with other\\ninstitutions of less prominence, and the common school system which obtains here,\\nand which, with respect to discipline, moral training and instruction, is without its\\nsuperior in any portion of the country where the system has been employed. For\\nthe past fifty years its growth has been substantial and permanent. At the com-\\nmencement of the school year for 1887, the school population approximated 700,000,\\nand the enrollment, 420,000. There were upward of 6,500 ungraded school districts,\\n443 graded school districts, 7,209 schoolhouses, and the value of school property\\nwas stated at nearly $12,000,000, with a total revenue, from the primary school\\ninterest fund, township taxes, district taxes and other sources, amounting to upward\\nof $4,600,000. The amount of trust funds upon which the State paid interest for\\neducational purposes, was slightly over $4,000,000.\\nRELIGIOUS INTERESTS.\\nSince the days when Father Jacques Marquette visited the Northwestern territory,\\nmore than two centuries ago, religious interests have been maintained in Michigan,\\nand the building of churches has marched in the van of improvement. There are at\\npresent about 3,100 church organizations in the State, and the value of church,\\nproperty is not far front sixteen millions of dollars.\\nTHE FARMING INTERESTS.\\nThe agricultural resources of the State, particularly in the juower Peninsula, are\\nrich and reliable, substantial and productive. The farms are highly cultivated, and\\ntheir crops are annually large, embracing all the cereals, esculents, fruits and\\nvegetables indigenous to the temperate zone, and of the best quality. Adopting the\\ncensus of 1884 as a basis of calculation, the number of farms in Michigan cannot be\\nfar from 160,000, containing a total of 15,500,000 acres, with an average of 97 acres\\nto each farm, representing an aggregate valuation of $573,000,000, or $40 per acre, and\\nenlisting not far from 240,000 persons in their conduct and management. The\\ncultivation of fruits for home consumption and export, is rapidly increasing in value\\nand importance, and a steady demand exists for these productions in all the leading\\ncities of the country.\\nTHE LUMBER INDUSTRIES.\\nThe lumber industries of the State, in extent and value, take precedence over\\nall others, except agriculture. The timber district begins at the southern line of the\\ncounties of Bay, Saginaw, Gratiot, Montcalm, Newago and Muskegon, and extends\\nas far north as Mackinaw. There are also considerable belts of timber in the Upper\\nPeninsula. The lumber industries of Michigan have become prominent within the\\npast quarter of a century, and in magnitude are not equalled by those of any State\\nor country. During 1887, according to statistics on the subject, there were more than\\n50,000 men employed in the manufacture of lumber, upward of $60,000,000 capital\\ninvested, and wages approximating $15,000,000 in amount paid out. The product of\\nthe mills in the State during the same year, was 4,162,317,778 feet of lumber and\\n2,677,855,750 shingles, aggregating in value the sum of $65,043,825.50.", "height": "3304", "width": "1998", "jp2-path": "industriesofbayc00marq_0020.jp2"}, "21": {"fulltext": "THI-: ISDl STRIKS OF Till: i:.\\\\V CITIES.\\nTHE SALT INDUSTRIES.\\nThe development oi the salt industries began to take shape early in the Txd s.\\nPrior to that period, the existence of salt layers in certain portions of the State was\\ngenerally known, but little was done toward rendering them productive. Within the\\npast twenty years, however, they have been made sources of large revenues, and\\nhave attained to conspicuous importance. The salt districts of the State are nine in\\nnumber, including on the list the counties of Bay, Saginaw, Huron, St. Clair, Iosco,\\nMidland, Manistee, Mason and Gratiot. During 1887, there were 132 firms engaged\\nin the manufacture of salt, operating 142 salt blocks, and 4,500 covers, with a total\\ncapacity of 5,265,000 barrels of salt. The product for 1887, was 3,914,309 barrels,\\nworth, at the prevailing price of that year, $2,249,734.47- A large force of men was\\nemployed and large amounts were paid as wages. There was a falling off in the\\nmanufacture for the year 1888, on account of the surplus on hand at the close of the\\nyear 1887.\\nMAXUFACTURINCi INDL .STKIES.\\nNearly all the leading manufacturing industries are represented in Michigan, and\\na steadily increasing activity is manifested in that department of usefulness. In\\nmany of the establishments thus engaged, the raw material is obtained in the timber\\ndistricts of the State, and the amount of capital invested in these special establish-\\nments was upward of \u00c2\u00ab;62,ooo,ooo in 1887, giving employment to a total of nearly\\n54,000 hands, and, up to June ist of that year, paying in the neighborhood of\\n517,500,000 as wages. On the ist of June, 1888, there was estimated to be 10,000\\nmanufacturing establishments in the State, representing an investment of $191,376,337.\\nemploying 200,000 hands, who were paid wages approximating $65,000,000.\\nCOPPER AND IRON MIXES.\\nThe copper mines of Michigan, about twenty-seven in number, are located in\\nKeewenaw, Ontonagon, Houghton and Isle Royale Counties, in the extreme north-\\nwestern portion of the Upper Peninsula. The iron mines are situated in the same\\nsection, and are double the number of the copper mines. In 1887, the capital\\ninvested in them was nearly $41,000,000 there were upward of 30,000 men employed\\nin their development, and $6,000,000, in round numbers, were paid as wages. The\\noutput for that year was 40,000 tons of copper, and 4.393 853 1^ of iron, valued, the\\nformer at $8,800,000. and the latter at $23,000,000.\\nRAILWAY FACILITIES.\\nOn the 1st of January, 1888, there were reported to be sixty-seven railway lines\\nin operation in Michigan, with a total mileage estimated at 6,295.38, not including\\nsidings or double tracks, nor upward of 500 miles of tracks used for logging purposes.\\nThe total ccst was also estimated at $604,150,375.50; the cost of operating same, at\\n$60,000,000 the total revenue, at $89,715,872.95. and their total indebtedness approxi-\\nmated at $350,000,000. The roads are well ijuilt, and their etjuipment and rolling\\nstock are full and complete.", "height": "3304", "width": "2052", "jp2-path": "industriesofbayc00marq_0021.jp2"}, "22": {"fulltext": "f\\nr^", "height": "3304", "width": "1998", "jp2-path": "industriesofbayc00marq_0022.jp2"}, "23": {"fulltext": "BAY CITY.\\nITS LOCATION, HISTORY, ATTRACTIONS AND ENTERPRISES.\\nHALF a century ago, hardly a dozen white men resided within the present cor-\\nporate limits of Bay City. The country was then a wilderness, occupied by\\nthe Indians. Up to the treaty of 1819, they remained in sole possession\\nof the Saginaw Valley. This treaty was consummated largely through the influence\\nof Stephen V. R. Riley, an Indian trader, whose power over the aborigines was\\nalmost supreme. To reward him for his labors, the government allowed Riley to\\nselect a tract of 640 acres for each of his three sons. The land selected for Riley s\\neldest son is now a portion of Bay City. The first person to locate in the present\\ncity was Leon Tromlaley, who came in 1831, followed by his family in the Fall of the\\nsame year. During 1834, John B. Trudell located in what now is the Fifth ward. In\\n1835, Joseph Trombley reached here from Detroit, and settled in what afterward\\nbecame the village of Portsmouth. Late in the same year, Medor Trombley joined\\nhis brother Joseph at Portsmouth, and with him conducted a store the latter, in the\\nmeantime, had opened. In July, 1836, Judge Albert Aliller purchased a tract of\\nland of the Trombleys, and laid out the village of Portsmouth, which now forms a\\npart of the Fifth and Sixth wards. The same summer, James Fraser, in conjunc-\\ntion with others, purchased the 640 acres reserved to Riley s eldest son. The pur-\\nchasers organized the Saginaw Bay Company, and appropriated 240 acres of the\\nland thus acquired to the site of a town to l)e known as Lower Saginaw. The\\ncompany, however, succumbed during the panic of 1837. In the winter of the latter\\nyear, Judge Miller, Cromwell Barney and B. K. Hall erected a mill at Portsmouth;\\na postoffice was also established there, with Judge Miller postmaster. In the Spring\\nof 1838, Sydney S. Campbell, accompanied lay his family, located at Lower Saginaw,\\nthe first permanent settler after the survey of the town, and opened the Globe\\nHotel. Other buildings were erected that year, notably the bank building, at the\\npresent corner of Water and Fifth streets.\\nFrom 1838 to 1844, the settlement of Lower Saginaw and Portsmouth was slow\\nand unsatisfactory. During the interval, the scrip of the Saginaw Bay Company was\\nacquired by James Fraser, Dr. D. H. Fitzhugh and others, who secured title to the land\\nwhere Lower Saginaw had been located. Some few adventurous spirits identified\\nthemselves with the place, a store was opened by Frederick Backus, the township of\\nHampton was organized, religious services were conducted at occasional intervals,\\nand, in 1844, a schoolhouse was built near the present site of the Detroit Bay City\\nRailroad depot. From this date, the building up of Bay City became an established\\nfact. Settlers began to arrive; improvements were projected and completed; the\\nHampton postoffice, located here in 1843, full of business regard was paid\\nto the enforcement of the laws, and other incidents of progress were of frequent\\noccurrence,\u00e2\u0080\u0094 including the building of mills and the promotion of measures inaugu-\\nrated for the development of the lumber industries, which have since grown to\\nalmost phenomenal jjroportions. .Among the loading arrivals, between 1844 and", "height": "3304", "width": "2052", "jp2-path": "industriesofbayc00marq_0023.jp2"}, "24": {"fulltext": "12 THE INDUSTRIES OF THE BAY CITIES.\\n1850, was J. B. Hart, B. B. Hart, F. J. Perrott, H. W. Sage, Daniel H. Fitzhugh, Jr.,\\nCurtis Munger, Edwin Park, Thomas Carney and wife, J. S. Barclay and wife,\\nJ. L. Hibbard, Alexander McKay and family, J. W. Putnam, and many others. In\\nthe latter year, additional improvements were made, in the way of residences, stores,\\nand a hotel, known as the Wolverton, was finished. During 1852, the cholera\\nraged here; in 1853, the Methodist church, on Washington avenue, was dedicated;\\nand in 1854, the Java a sailing vessel\u00e2\u0080\u0094 was completed and equipped here. There\\nwas little of importance occurred until 1858, beyond accessions to the number of\\ninhabitants and an increase in the number of the improvements. In the latter year,\\nthe name of Lower Saginaw was changed to Bay City by an act of the legislature,\\nand, in the winter of 1859, ^-^Y C^Y incorporated as a village, of which Curtis\\nMunger was elected President. The population at that time is said to have been\\nnearly 800. In i860, the village began to thrive under the beneficent influences that\\nwere there assembled. The manufacture of salt commenced, saw-mills were added\\nto the number already established, and for the ensuing five years a very considerable\\ndegree of prosperity was experienced. By 1865, the population had reached 3,359,\\nand at a session of the legislature, held that year, the village was granted a city\\ncharter. The spring following, the city was organized by the election of municipal\\nofficers. In 1873, ^he village of Portsmouth became a part of Bay City proper, and\\nfor nearly a quarter of a century the history of the municipality has been the history\\nof successful endeavors.\\nTHE CITY PROPER.\\nBay City is delightfully located on the east bank of the Saginaw River, five miles\\nfrom its mouth. Its early settlement, incorporation as a village, and later as a city,\\nare briefly stated above. It has advanced almost from the day of its birth. Follow-\\ning 1865, its growth has been steady and rapid. In 1870, the population was 7,064, or\\nmore than double that when incorporated as a city. In 1880, the population was\\n20,693; and in 1888, it was estimated at between 35,000 and 37,000, with an assessed\\nvaluation of more than |;io,ooo,ooo. When incorporated, the cleared ground did not\\nequal that which is now built up with houses. The city is situated upon a flat and\\nrelatively low tract of country, and, in the earlier days, may have been unpromising\\nin appearance for a city s site. But enterprise, thrift and American push have\\nbuilt a city, than which there is none in the State, at least the future of which\\nis so filled with brilliant possibilities. The city has a river frontage of about six and\\none-half miles, with a depth, to Forty-Third street, of two miles and upward.\\nThe streets east and west are numbered from one to forty-three; those north and\\nsouth are named after the Presidents, from W^ashington to Grant. They intersect each\\nother, forming blocks 200x300 feet in dimensions, and the greater proportion of them\\nare paved. The buildings lining these thoroughfares are substantially built of brick\\nor stone, many of them being triumphs of architectural skill. In the residence\\nportion of the city, the structures are among the handsomest in the State, a large\\nnumber of them occupying commodious and elaborately decorated plats of ground,\\nforming a landscape replete with natural and artistic beauties. The railway facilities\\nare complete and in successful operation. They include the Flint Pere Marquette\\nsystem, and the Michigan Central system, by means of which all points of import-\\nance in the State, as also in the South, East and West, are easy of access. In 1888,\\nthe Midland Railroad was completed to West Bay City, and within a year both cities\\nwill be in direct communication with St. Louis. The facilities for transportation by\\nlake and river are not less complete. Daily lines of steamers ply between Bay City\\nand the Saginaws; also, between the former and Alpena, where connection is made", "height": "3304", "width": "1998", "jp2-path": "industriesofbayc00marq_0024.jp2"}, "25": {"fulltext": "THE INDUSTRIES OF THE BAY CITIES. 3\\nfor the Mackinaws and ports on Lake Michigan. Steamers also depart upon set\\ndays during the week, for Buffalo, Chicago and intermediate ports. The accommo-\\ndations, both by rail and water, are fully up with the times, and the passenger and\\nfreight rates are not excessive. The Bay City Street Railway operates two lines,\\naffording comfortable and rapid means of communication between the northern and\\nsouthern portions of the city, also with Essexville.\\nThe lines of manufacture are varied, those of lumber and salt predominating. The\\nremainder include manufactures of machinery, mill supplies, wagons and carriages,\\nboilers, boxes, brick, brooms, beer, lime and cement, cigars, confections, drain\\nand tile, fire brick and clay, furniture, granite, firearms, picture frames and mould-\\nings, pumps, rubber stamps, sails, saws, screen doors, soap, stencils, terra cotta,\\nwoodenware, etc. All of these are well equipped and do a large business in their\\nrespective departments. As stated, however, in another part of this book, there are\\nopportunities for enterprise, in this field, which need only to be investigated; and\\ncitizens will cordially welcome, and make it an object for capitalists and others to\\nundertake the establishment of additional facilities. The banking institutions are\\nfive in number, and well known for their substantial character. They represent a\\ntotal capital of $750,000, carry deposits amounting to $1,849,322, and have a surplus\\nof $225,141.\\nThe educational system is a striking feature in the multitude of attractions of Bay\\nCity. The system was established many years ago, and is under the management\\nof a Board, composed of two members from each ward, one of which is elected\\nannually, in September. The schools furnish unexceptional opportunities for securing\\na thorough education, practical and useful, for a successful career in life, or\\nadmission to collegiate institutions. The schoolhouses are handsome structures,\\nwell heated, ventilated and lighted, and furnished with a large corps of teachers. In\\naddition to these, there are seven schools of a religious and miscellaneous character,\\nat which between 1,200 and 1,500 pupils are enrolled, and taught in both elementary\\nand advanced courses of instruction. The public library, under the management of\\na Board of Trustees, contains nearly 13,000 volumes, including books of history,\\nromance, science, philosophy and art, and is open to all classes of people.\\nThe cause of religion is sustained by societies, nearly all of which have houses of\\nworship, well built and elaborately furnished edifices. The Sabbath is made a day\\nof rest, and the large attendance of communicants and others, at the various churches,\\nis conclusive evidence of the moral and intellectual character of the population.\\nBy the terms of the new charter, the Mayor is elected biennially. The departments\\nof police, fire, water, health and public works are under the control of Boards,\\nseverally assigned to each, and which direct their conduct. All of these depart-\\nments are managed judiciously and to the best advantage. They are efficient and\\ninvaluable auxiliaries to the municipal executive in the prevention of crime, the\\npreservation of property, maintenance of the public health, and the promotion of\\ngood government. The courts are always available for the enforcement of rights or\\nthe redress of wrongs, and include Federal, State and city tribunals, each having\\nseveral and independent jurisdiction. The city is lighted by electric lights, being\\nthe first city in the State to establish the system, and obtains pure water from\\nSaginaw Bay by the Holly method. The health of the city has always been unsur-\\npassed, and, as will be seen by reference to the city as a place of residence, for\\ncommercial, financial and manufacturing purposes. Bay City has no rival in the\\nState. Property can be purchased and leases obtained at reasonable rates and upon\\nliberal terms. The compensation paid labor is above the general average, and the", "height": "3304", "width": "2052", "jp2-path": "industriesofbayc00marq_0025.jp2"}, "26": {"fulltext": "14\\nTHE INDUSTRIES OF THE BAY CITIES.\\ncost of living below that paid in neighboring cities. Every facility that can promote\\nthe advantage of the city or its inhabitants, is employed, and all agencies that will\\ncontribute to the public welfare are adopted. Situated upon a river navigable for\\nthe largest craft, in the center of a highly-cultivated district, inhabited by an\\nindustrious, enterprising, law-abiding class of people, and possessing natural advan-\\ntages that need no commendation, Bay City offers the most substantial inducements\\nto the laborer, the manufacturer, the merchant and capitalist. Within another\\ndecade she will have forged to the front, second to no leading city in Michigan, in\\npoint of enterprise, growth, development and material prosperity.\\nWEST BAY CITY.\\nWest Bay City, having a population approximating 15,00(5, includes the towns\\nformerly known as Wenona, Banks and Salzburg. It is located on the west bank\\nof the Saginaw River, directly opposite Bay City. The cities are connected by a\\nrailroad bridge and two other bridges, one at Third street, completed in 1865, and\\none at Twenty-Third street, opened to the public during 1876. It is likely that a\\nnew bridge will be built at Third street in the near future, plans and specifications\\nbeing in the course of preparation for the structure during October, 1888.\\nNEW MAUISON AVENUE M. E. CHURCH\u00e2\u0080\u0094 BAY CITY.\\nThe first settlement on the west side of the river was made, on what became the\\nsite of Salzburg, by Benjamin Cushway, who arrived in 1834, and acted as govern-\\nment blacksmith. He was followed by Solomon S. Stone and wife in 1842; in\\n1844-45, Joseph Trombley, who had previously purchased 2,000 acres of land where\\nthe village of Banks was afterward surveyed, took possession of his property and\\nbegan to permanently reside there. John Hays was among the earliest settlers in\\nWenona, which was known, up to 1864 or 1865, as Lake City, at which date the name\\nwas changed to Wenona, by H. W. Sage. During the decade concluding with the", "height": "3304", "width": "1998", "jp2-path": "industriesofbayc00marq_0026.jp2"}, "27": {"fulltext": "rilR INDUSTRIES OF THE liAV CITIES. 15\\nyear 1870, the influx of settlers, while not rapid, was steady. In 1867. it was incor-\\nporated as a villajj;c, the incorporation of banks followinjj in April, 1870. and that\\nof Salzburg later still. Improvements were made at intervals in all of these settle-\\nments, consisting of those usual to growing, progressive villages.\\nVarious attempts were made, between 1871 and 1875, to annex Wenona, Banks and\\nSalzburg to Bay City, but failed, as did efforts made in the latter year to consolidate\\nWenona and Salzburg. In 1877, however, the legislature adopted an act for the\\nconsolidation of the three villages into one municipality, under the corporate name\\nof West Bay City. The city was divided into three wards, and an election was held\\nJune 1st of the same year, for city officers. In 1883, the charter was amended,\\nincreasing the number of wards, and otherwise providing for changes in the city\\ngovernment, which have resulted advantageously. At the time of the consolidation,\\neach village retained its postoffice, a condition of affairs which has since remained\\nunchanged. In December, 1881, a destructive fire visited West Bay City, originating\\nin a tailoring establishment on Midland street, and extending in every direction.\\nBefore the flames were extinguished, they had inflicted damages amounting to\\n$100,000, and, for a brief period, the march of improvement was stayed. In the\\nSpring following, however, the burned district was rebuilt with brick structures,\\nwhich remain monuments to the enterprise of citizens and ornaments to the city s\\nhighway of trade. During 1882, additional buildings were erected, both in the\\nbusiness and residence portions, that gave a metropolitan air to the city, both on\\naccount of their solidity and attractive styles of architecture, as also by reason of\\ntheir tinibh and equipment. In a business point of view. West Bay City is admirably\\nlocated. It has a river frontage of nearly four miles, upon which are located mills,\\nlumber manufactories and the largest ship-yards on the lakes.\\nThe site of the city is elevated, the inhabitants energetic, capable, public-spirited\\ncitizens. The leading industries are lumber, salt and ship-building. The latter is\\nrepresented by two yards, from which have floated some of the largest vessels known\\nto marine circles. There are other manufactures, less conspicuous, but not less\\nimportant, the details of which are given in another part of this volume. The city\\ngovernment is administered by a Mayor and Common Council; and the various\\ndepartments of police, fire, water, sewage, public health, public works, etc., are\\nconducted the same as in Bay City. The educational and religious systems are\\nmentioned elsewhere; also, the Sage Library, the Lumbermen s State Bank and the\\npress. In all its varied departments of business, culture and the agencies of manu-\\nfacture and trade, each year witnesses a steady and permanent growth.\\nThe city to-day presents a wonderful development within a brief period, and if\\nits growth and advancement in the future are to be measured by that of the past.\\nWest Bay City, ten years hence, will have become a metropolis. An act has been\\npassed by the legislature providing for the consolidation of the Bay Cities in .\\\\pril,\\n1891. Whether or no this shall be done, the progress of the cities cannot be delayed,\\nand the opportunities presented by their incomparable location, will be rapidly\\nimproved by citizens and those attracted hither, to avail themselves in that behalf.\\nSIGNAL SERVICE.\\nBay City was included in the Signal Service system of the country in 1887. The\\noffice is on Water street, opposite the Fraser House. Daily observations are taken\\nof the weather, and flags indicating the probable condition of that element of\\nuncertainty, are displayed from an elevated site, for the benefit of mariners and the\\npublic.", "height": "3304", "width": "2052", "jp2-path": "industriesofbayc00marq_0027.jp2"}, "28": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3304", "width": "1998", "jp2-path": "industriesofbayc00marq_0028.jp2"}, "29": {"fulltext": "MANUFACTURES.\\nTHEIR VARIETY, CHARACTER, VOLUME AND IMPORTANCE.\\n0X1-: important, if not the most important instrumentality tliat has directed the\\nIJay Cities along the highway of a prosperous career, are the manufacturing\\nfacilities available to enterprise and industry. They have been the means\\nof attracting hither the class of inhabitants to whose efforts countries are indebted\\nfor their development, and communities for their prosperity and advancement. The\\ngrowth of the cities dates from the inception of manufacturing industries here. It\\nhas been permanent and substantial, progressive and prosperous. The population\\nto-day, closely approximating fifty-five thousand souls, is largely engaged in occupa-\\ntions connected with productive resources, bringing to their aid, in their varied\\nlines of duty, an invaluable fund of enterprise, energy and industry, and impressing\\ntheir individuality upon all the departments of commercial and financial endeavor.\\nLUMBER AND LUMBER MANUFACTURE.\\nThe lumber industries have contributed more effectively to the pre-eminence of\\nthe Bay Cities as manufacturing centers, than any other single agency. They are of\\nthe first importance, have attained to proportions little less than phenomenal and\\nexert a wide-spread and beneficial influence. The first mill erected here was begun in\\nOctober, 1836, and completed during the following April. The field thus opened has\\nsince been largely occupied and developed, and the immediate sources of supply then\\nrelied upon, become exhausted, or of limited dimensions. Within the past few\\nyears the manufacturers have been obliged to seek more distant territory for the\\nraw material, in which they have been aided by the extension of railroad facilities\\ninto timber districts, as far north as the Straits of Mackinaw. Heretofore, the main\\nsupply has come from the counties included in the Saginaw River District, by the\\nTittabawassee, Chippewa, Flint, Cass, Pine and other rivers tributary to the Saginaw;\\nalso from points on the Flint and Pere Marquette, and the Saginaw Division of the\\nMichigan Central roads, in addition to supplies from the Saginaw Bay District, drained\\nby the Pine, Rifle, Au Gres and other streams contiguous to the Saginaw Bay. At\\npresent, very many thousand feet of logs are railed and rafted from the lumber\\ncamps of the Northern Peninsula, hundreds of miles to Bay City, and that portion\\nof the State is coming to be depended upon as the base of supply, though the\\ncountry tributary to shipping points along the north shore, between the Bay Cities and\\nAlpena, furnishes large consignments to the mills here. The manufacture in the Bay\\nCities during 1887 will give a fair estimate of the volume of business done here, though\\nit has been stated that it is only a fairly creditable showing. In that year, there\\nwere 32 mills in operation in the Bay Cities, from about May ist until the early part\\nof November. Their total cut was 399.457,458 feet of pine, and 3,953,000 feet of\\nhardwood lumber, making an aggregate of 403,410,458 feet. Little attention has\\nbeen paid to the manufacture of hardwood lumber, as will be seen from the above\\nstatement but the vast quantity of hardwood awaiting the harvest, will, in the near\\nfuture, bring this article of consumption into prominence for manufacturing purposes,\\nand its products into importance as factors of supply and demand. The other manu-\\nfactures in this line for 1887 embrace 71,800,000 shingles, 53,656,550 laths, 16,237,950\\nstaves, and 638,000 sets of heading. The total shipments foot up 347,741,000 feet of\\nlumber, and 59,585,000 shingles. The future holds out bright prospects for this industry.", "height": "3304", "width": "2052", "jp2-path": "industriesofbayc00marq_0029.jp2"}, "30": {"fulltext": "18 THE INDUSTRIES OF THE BAY CITIES.\\nTHE SALT INDUSTRIES.\\nThe manufacture of salt, scarcely less important than that of lumber in its rela-\\ntion to the prosperity of the Bay Cities, is of comparatively recent origin. The\\nexistence of salt deposits in the Saginaw Valley was established during the thirties.\\nIn 1838 their development was attempted, but abandoned, owing to lack of funds.\\nIn February, 1859, the legislature made an appropriation to aid in that object, and in\\nMarch, i860, companies were organized here for the manufacture of this commodity.\\nOperations in the way of boring for salt were at once inaugurated, and have since\\nbeen prosecuted with steadily increasing results. Within the quarter of a century\\nthat has since elapsed, this industry has become permanent. A very large capital\\nhas been invested, employment given to a correspondingly large force of operatives,\\nand the annual product during the years from 1869 to 1888 has materially increased,\\nthough there was a decrease in the amount of salt inspected in 1887, from that of\\n1886, in the Bay Cities. During that year there were 32 salt companies in operation\\nhere, with 34 steam salt blocks, and 500 solar salt covers, having a total manufactur-\\ning capacity of 1,300,000 barrels of salt. Their entire output amounted to 891,462\\nbarrels; the total product of the State for eleven months of the sam.e year, to\\n3,914,309 barrels. The products of this line of manufacture are unsurpassed by\\nthose of any undertaking, similarly engaged, in the world. They are rigidly inspected\\nunder the State law, and a greater part of the same is handled by the Michigan Salt\\nAssociation, for account of the manufacturers, being shipped principally to the West\\nand Northwest.\\nMISCELLANEOUS INDUSTRIES.\\nThe range of manufacture carried on in the Bay Cities is as comprehensive as the\\ndemand for their products is large and increasing. While lumber and salt are\\nleading and representative, other lines have become established, and their goods are\\nsold in nearly every market in the country. The field for the manufacture of\\nmachinery, boilers, mechanical tools and implements, is by no means occupied, and\\naffords inducements for the investment of capital that cannot be over-estimated.\\nWhile the number of foundries and machine shops is comparatively limited, with a\\ntotal force, in round numbers, of 700 hands, they represent very large interests, and\\nthe value of their output is equally extensive. The manufacture of clothing has of\\nlate years begun to obtain here, and now gives employment to about 150 operatives;\\nalso that of carriages, wagons, buggies and other vehicles, in which industry a similar\\nnumber of artisans are constantly employed. In the lines of flour, furniture, wooden-\\nware, dressed beef, the fisheries, soap, boots and shoes, malt liquors, cigars, book\\nbinderies and other miscellaneous industries, the number is larger than ordinarily\\nfound in cities of the same number of inhabitants, and gives steady employment to\\na total force of a trifle less than 1,000 bread-winners. All of these undertakings\\nare conducted with an enterprise characteristic of the entire population. Another\\nimportant industry is that of ship-building, in which nearly 1,400 men are employed,\\nand an immense amount of money enlisted. The product of their handiwork enjoys\\na reputation for substantiality and durability not surpassed by that of any ship-yard\\non the lakes, from Duluth to Buffalo.\\nOPENINGS FOR ENTERPRISE.\\nAs above stated, the Bay Cities need additional facilities in many lines of manu-\\nfacture. Their situation is so advantageous for shipping and receiving, that freight\\nrates can be obtained at a minimum figure, and the facilities for a successful conduct\\nof operations are of a superior character.", "height": "3304", "width": "1998", "jp2-path": "industriesofbayc00marq_0030.jp2"}, "31": {"fulltext": "THE INDUSTRIES OF THE BAY CITIES.\\n10\\nThere are openings here for capital and enterprise to engage in many lines of pro-\\nductive industry. Profit would accrue particularly from the establishment of furni-\\nture and chair factories, for the manufacture of carriages and wagons, wooden-ware,\\nsash, doors and blinds, as also for the manufacture of many other articles in which\\nwood is the chief constituent. The hardwood lumber regions included in the counties\\nof Otsego, Auburn, Cheboygan, Presque Isle, Charlevoix and Montgomery, are easily\\n.acccssiljle, ami also diroctlv tributarv to the Ray Cities, and will furnish inexhaustible\\nPUUKMX BL 1LU1.N(\u00c2\u00bb.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2quantities of maple, beech, birch, cherry, butternut, walnut and other woods, specially\\nadapted to the uses above referred to, and which can be delivered here at compara-\\ntively low rates. These counties are, in a measure, depended upon to supply the\\nfactories of Grand Rapids, and such supplies, on their way thither, pass by our doors.\\nProfit would also accrue from the establishment hereof car shops, tanneries, canning\\nand preserving works, foundries, cloth and yarn mills, paint and oil works, agricul-\\ntural tool and implement works, tobacco manufactories, and from the manufacture", "height": "3304", "width": "2052", "jp2-path": "industriesofbayc00marq_0031.jp2"}, "32": {"fulltext": "20 THE INDUSTRIES OF THE BAY CITIES.\\nof the innumerable list of articles included under the caption of Miscellaneous.\\nIf the present absence of many of these were supplied, not only would citizens wel-\\ncome their advent, but make it an object to whomsoever would undertake the\\nventure. His Honor, Mayor Wright, in his last annual message to the Common\\nCouncil, called attention to this subject. I am of opinion, says the Mayor, that\\nthe city should extend some encouragement to manufacturing industries to locate\\nwith us. If we do not promote the growth of such establishments, either\\nby founding them ourselves or inducing them to locate here, our development and\\nprosperity will be arrested. Such encouragement the residents of the Bay Cities\\nare ready to extend to seek it is to obtain it.\\nTHE COURTS.\\nUNITED STATES COURT.\\nON February 28, 1887, Congress passed an act providing that thereafter two or\\nmore terms of the United States Circuit and District Courts, for the Eastern\\nDistrict of Michigan, should be held in Bay City at such times as such\\nCourts should appoint. In obedience to this Congressional mandate, Judge H. B.\\nBrown, United States Circuit Judge in and for the Eastern Judicial Circuit of Michigan,\\nissued an order carrying out the provisions of the act, and announcing, that until\\nfurther notice, the terms of said courts would begin on the third Tuesdays of May\\nand October of each year, and that the court would sit in the Bay County court house.\\nThe first term was held in October, 1887, and court has since occupied apartments in\\nthat building at succeeding terms.\\nCIRCUIT COURT OF BAY COUNTY.\\nThe Eighteenth Judicial Circuit of the State of Michigan was created in 1859, by\\nact of the legislature. It is composed of the counties of Bay and Arenac, and there\\nare four terms of court held each year, commencing on the first Tuesday of March,\\nSeptember and December, and the third Tuesday of June.\\nPROBATE COURT.\\nThe Probate Court began operations here in 1858. It holds semi-weekly sessions,\\nMondays and Fridays being the days upon which pending causes are heard and\\ndetermined.\\nPOLICE COURT.\\nThe Police Court of Bay City was organized in 1888, in accordance with an act of\\nthe legislature providing therefor. This court has jurisdiction over criminal cases\\noriginating within the corporate limits of the municipality, the Recorder s court\\npossessing jurisdiction over violations of the city ordinances. In addition to these,\\nthere are four justices of the peace, one elected each year for a term of four years,\\nhaving jurisdiction in both civil and criminal cases. In West Bay City there is a\\nRecorder and four justices of the peace, who are endowed with official prerogatives\\nsimilar to those exercised by the same officers in Bay City.", "height": "3304", "width": "1998", "jp2-path": "industriesofbayc00marq_0032.jp2"}, "33": {"fulltext": "TRANSPORTATION FACILITIES.\\nTHE systems of transportation available in the Bay Cities, both natural and\\nacquired, contain a preface to the cities successful career. A preface, too,\\neloquent with Truth a happy prolotjue, even, to that imperial theme. Pro-\\njected for the general good, which they have advanced, maintained and extended\\nfor the promotion of the general welfare, they have more than equalled anticipa-\\ntions, and fully realized the rose-colored expectations born of their design and\\nobject. Complete in their equipment and appointments, they are managed in\\naccordance with a policy that has resulted in the material development of t^e wonder-\\nful resources indigenous to this portion of the country. Yet the intelligence and\\nenterprise of the public-spirited citizens of the Bay Cities propose additional facili-\\nties, both by rail and water facilities that will bring producers and consumers into\\nmore intimate association, and more conclusively solve the equation of supply and\\ndemand. With such advantages, proposed and in progress of completion, the means\\nof communication enjoyed by the Bay Cities will be superior to those of contem-\\nporary cities in all portions of Michigan. Advantages of this character cannot\\nescape the consideration of capitalists seeking localities for investment of the\\nmanufacturer, the merchant or the householder, desiring to extend their fields of opera-\\ntion, or to establish a home. And when the value of such advantages is enhanced\\nby safe and reliable accommodations, with low rates of transportation, they become\\nagencies of influence and importance in the growth and progress of improvements\\nof every community. Such, at least, is the record of history, not alone of the Bay\\nCities, but of all conspicuous municipalities\u00e2\u0080\u0094 and the record of the past is a guide to\\nthe present and the to come.\\nTHE FIRST RAILROAD.\\nThe first steps toward building a railrf)ad from the Bjy Cities to distant points\\nwere taken early in the \u00e2\u0096\u00a06o s. In 1863, a company was organized to construct a line of\\nrailway connecting Bay City with East Saginaw. James Eraser was president; and\\nin February, 1864, the project received an impetus througii the adoption of an act by the\\nlegislature, providing for the issue of 575,000 of Bay County bonds, in aid of the under-\\ntaking. The act stipulated, however, that no part of the bonds should be available\\nuntil one-half the right of way had been graded. The citizens of Bay City, in this\\nemergency, subscribed $40,000 to the enterprise, and work was commenced. Upon\\nthe retirement of Mr. Eraser from the presidency, James Birney was elected to the\\nvacancv, and operations were prosecuted with increased vigor, under the superin-\\ntendence of A. S. Munger. In September, 1867, the $75,000 Bay County bonds were\\nissued, and such as remained undisposed of to subscribers were assigned to Samuel\\nFarwell, Dr. H. C. Potter and others, as consideration for the tracking and e(]uip-\\nment of the road. During the same month and year, the franchise was tranfcrred\\nto the Flint Perc Marciuette Company, and on the 30th of September, 1867. the\\npayment of the principal and interest of the Bay County bonds was guaranteed by", "height": "3304", "width": "2052", "jp2-path": "industriesofbayc00marq_0033.jp2"}, "34": {"fulltext": "THE INDUSTRIES OF THE BAY CITIES.\\nthe latter corporation. The road was completed and in operation on November 23,\\n1867, and has since been the most important and prosperous branch of the FHnt\\nPere Marquette system. The year after its completion, the track, which had been\\nfinished to Eleventh street, was extended to the Saginaw River.\\nFLINT PERE MARQUETTE RAILROAD.\\nThe first railroad built in the Saginaw Valley, was the Flint Pere Marquette.\\nIt was organized in January, 1857; the grading of its road-bed completed in August,\\n1859, and the road formally opened January 20, 1862. Its main line extends from\\nMonroe, four miles distant from Lake Erie, to Ludington, on Lake Michigan a dis-\\ntance of 254 miles continuing from Monroe to Toledo, 25 miles, and from Wayne\\nto Detroit, 55 miles, over the tracks of the Michigan Central. Its branches include\\nthe Bay City Division, extending from Flint to Bay City, tn a East Saginaw, the Flint\\nRiver, Mt. Pleasant and Harrison Divisions; also, the branch from Manistee ta\\nLudington, which, with the sidings, switching tracks, etc., comprehend a total of 211\\nmiles in addition. The road owns its own parlor, sleeping and drawing room cars,.\\nand runs a train every day from Bay City, Detroit and Toledo with them attached,.\\nand also runs a train every night with a Pullman car from Bay City and Saginaw tO\\nChicago. The company, in addition, operates a daily line of steamers, established\\nin 1876, between Ludington, Manistee, Milwaukee and Chicago. The main line of\\nroad, crossing Michigan diagonally from southeast to northwest, passes through\\nrich agricultural and lumber districts, and is an influential agency for the trans-\\nportation of these products to market. The road is substantially constructed, and\\nits facilities and equipment of rolling stock are of the most modern and approved\\nstandard. The present officers of this company are, W. W. Crapo, President; H. C.\\nPotter, Vice-President; H. C. Potter, Jr., Secretary and Treasurer; David Edwards,\\nAssistant General Manager; Sanford Keeler, Superintendent; W. F. Potter, Assistant\\nSuperintendent; Arthur Patriarche, General Freight Agent; A. W. Newton, Land\\nCommissioner; W. L. Webber, Solicitor, and Gilbert W. Ledlie, Auditor. The gen-\\neral offices of the road are in East Saginaw. See map of this road inside of front\\ncover.\\nMICHIGAN CENTRAL RAILROAD.\\nThe Michigan Central system in operation between Bay City as a distributing\\npoint, and the northern, southern, western and central portions of the State,\\nfurnishes invaluable facilities. The three divisions included in the system of which\\nBay City is the headquarters, consist of the Saginaw Division from Bay City to\\nJackson, 116 miles, and completed in 1867; the Bay City Division between this city\\nand Detroit, 108 miles, completed during 1873; the Mackinaw Division hence to\\nMackinaw City, 182 miles, to which it was extended from Gaylord during 1882. Its\\nmain line and branches extending through the most fertile and highly cultivated\\ndistricts; through the immense lumber belt of the Northern Peninsula; through\\nlocalities wherein the manufacture of lumber products is the leading industry, and\\nthrough sections of the State in progress of development and improvement. The\\nsystem has been and is a prominent factor in the growth of the Bay Cities, and affords\\nopportunities for the extension of their financial, commercial and manufacturing\\ninfluence, commanding as they are available. In addition to the divisions mentioned,\\nthe Michigan Central operates a branch from Pinconning to Gladwin, and renders,\\nthe immense stretch of country, bordering upon the west shore of Lake Huron,\\nbetween Alpena and the Bay Cities, accessible to the latter, and largely dependent upon\\nthem, not only as a base of supplies, but as the market for its consignments of logs and", "height": "3304", "width": "1998", "jp2-path": "industriesofbayc00marq_0034.jp2"}, "35": {"fulltext": "THE INDUSTRIES OF THE DAY CITIES. 23\\nlumber, which arc daily shipped here by the Detroit, Bay City Alpena to Alger,\\nthence by the Michigan Central. The road and its branches are of the highest order\\nof construction, and the policy of its management has always been liberal. See map\\nof this road inside of back cover.\\nBATTLE CREEK BAY CITY ROAD.\\nThe foundation for this line of road was primarily laid in 1874. A considerable\\nportion of the line hence to Midland was graded and made ready for the track, when\\nfurther operations were suspended. In 1888 the project was revived and its construc-\\ntion re-commenccd. It will be known as the Southwestern System, and extends from\\nthe Bay Cities to St. Louis, Mo., 7na Midland, Battle Creek, Goshen, Ind., and other\\navailable points. When work was resumed the Bay Cities subscribed $30,000 to the\\nenterprise. Track-laying began in November, and trains, between Midland and\\nWest Bay City, began running before the year closed. When completed this road\\nwill prove an invaluable acquisition to the Bay Cities, as it will open a market for\\ntheir products at points in the Missouri Valley and along the highways of trade\\nextending to the Gulf, now inaccessible.\\nTHE BELT LINE ROAD.\\nAmong the improvements contemplated in the way of transportation facilities, is\\nthe construction of a Belt Line Road. It is proposed to start from an available point in\\nthe northern part of the city, and thence proceed to Essexville, by a route to be here-\\nafter determined. The object of the undertaking is to afford an entrance into the\\ncity for other roads, also for the convenience of manufacturing industries, present\\nand prospective. The route has been surveyed and two companies are considering\\nplans for its construction. Those in a position enabling them to speak, declare that\\nthe enterprise will be in operation within a year.\\nLAKE AND RIVER NAVIGATION.\\nThe industries of Bay City, in a large measure, owe their development and\\nwonderful growth to the almost unequalled facilities offered for the receipt and\\nshipment of commodities by way of the river and lakes. .-Vt an early day these were\\nthe only means accessible for transporting passengers or freight, and, while the com-\\npletion of the railroads has materially affected the volume of passenger traffic, the con-\\nveyance of freight, particularly lumber and salt in vessels owned here and chartered,\\nhas not been seriously interrupted, especially during the season of lake navigation.\\nTo furnish the demand for bottoms hence to Buffalo, Tonawanda, Cleveland, Detroit,\\nChicago and elsewhere, a large fleet of propellers, steam barges and vessels are kept\\nin commission, and supply accommodations for an immense amount of tonnage.\\nThe business is managed with ability and is prosperous, each season s returns show-\\ning increased equipment and carrying capacity, and adding to the importance of the\\nBay Cities as shipping ports. Two lines of steamers ply daily between Bay City and\\nSaginaw, arriving and departing from each terminus of the route on schedule time,\\nand making landings along the route. They carry both freight and passengers, and\\nare sources of convenience to the trade and the public. A daily line of steamers is\\nalso operated between Bay City and Alpena, making landings at Alabaster, Tawas\\nCity, East Tawas, Au Sable, Oscoda, Greenbush and Harrisville. The steamers\\nemployed are handsomely equipped, and occupy about fourteen hours in making the\\nrun from port to port. There are, in addition, a large number of tugs for service in\\nthe harbor, also for the towage of rafts of logs from the pineries, and this branch of\\nthe transportation system is adequate to the demands made upon its resources.", "height": "3304", "width": "2052", "jp2-path": "industriesofbayc00marq_0035.jp2"}, "36": {"fulltext": "24\\nTHE INDUSTRIES OF THE BAY CITIES.\\nBAY CITY STREET RAILWAY.\\nThe Bay City Street Railway Company was organized in 1865, and the road con-\\nstructed from Third street to Portsmouth. In 1875 the line was extended to\\nMcGraw s Mill, and ten years later to Essexville. In 1886 a double track was laid\\non portions of the route, thereby increasing its facilities for rapid transit between\\nBay City, Essexville and South Bay City. The company now operates ten miles of\\nroad of four feet, eight and one-half inch guage, laid with forty-two pound and\\neighty-seven pound T rail. The equipment includes seventeen one-horse and\\nthree double cars and sixty-five horses. Employment is given to a force of thirty-five\\nmen, and the cars are run on schedule time. The fare is five cents.\\nTHE SCHOOLS.\\nTHE public school system in operation in the Bay Cities is complete, efficient\\nand invaluable to the cause of education, and through all time will remain an\\nimperishable monument to the enterprise and patriotism of its founders and\\ndefenders. The schools of Bay City were organized under an act of the legislature,\\napproved March 20, 1867, by which the Union School District was created. In 1869\\nthe schools were graded and brought up to a high standard. They are under the\\ncontrol of a Board of Education, consisting of twenty-two members, one being\\nHIGH SOHOOL BUILDING.\\nelected each year, in accordance with the provisions of an act of the legislature,\\nadopted in 1885, under which women are eligible as trustees, two being elected such\\nat the election in September, 1886. The course includes twelve years or four years each\\nin the primary, grammar and high schools. In addition to these the system also\\nembraces a training school, established in 1873, and an undergraded school in 1886.\\nPupils are permitted to the primary department during the first two weeks of the\\nfirst, and the first week of the second or third term; they are admitted to other\\ngrades at all times upon passing an examination. The cur-tHculiim is several and", "height": "3304", "width": "1998", "jp2-path": "industriesofbayc00marq_0036.jp2"}, "37": {"fulltext": "THE INDUSTRIES OF THE DAY CITIES. 25\\ncomplete in all departments, including besides the regular course, German and\\nmusic, bcintj adajJlL-d in ail departments to securing to pupils a practical education,\\nalso furnishing facilities for obtaining a higher education, as graduates of the course\\nhere are permitted to matriculate at the State University without examination.\\nAdmissions to the public schools are free, and the school year of forty weeks is\\ndivided into three terms, one of which is sixteen and two twelve weeks each. There\\nare ten public school buildings in the city, seven of which are brick and three of\\nframe, and represent an aggregate valuation of $188,500. With the exception of the\\nthree frame structures, all these buildings are two-story edifices, of brick, substantially\\nconstructed and furnished, and equipped with every facility for the promotion of the\\ncause, for the success of which their occupancy is maintained. During 1888 the sum\\nof Si6,ooo, was expended in the enlargement and improvement of some of the\\niniildings. A force of seventy-seven teachers, exclusive of the superintendent, are\\nemployed, and the salaries for the fiscal year ending March 22, 1888, amounted to\\n$33,673.25; the total cost of conducting the schools for the same period being\\n$74,401.57. This amount is derived from the interest on primary school moneys,\\nreceived from the sale of school lands by the State; fines for the violations of\\nmunicipal ordinances, which go to the public library fund generally; the one mill\\ntax, imposed by the State law for the payment of salaries, and the annual city school-\\ntax budget, appointed by the Board of Education, subject to amendment and\\nratification by the Common Council. The school census in 1888 was 8,013, and the\\nenrollment 3,098. The following statistics for the past ten years, will evidence the\\nsteady growth of the schools: In 1878, the school census was 4,385, the enrollment\\n2,160; in 1879, census 4,211, enrollment 2,484; 1880, census 5,411, enrollment 2,402;\\n1881, 5,153, and 2966; 1882, 6,313 and 3,185; 1883, 6,762 and 3,316; 1884, 7,578 and 3,301\\n1885, 7,651 and 5,515; 1886, 7,315 and 3,657; 1887, 7,293 and 3,836. The school system\\nof West Bay City is equally efficient, and of equally high merit. The schools there are\\nconducted under the same legislative enactment, and afford the fullest complement\\nof educational facilities to pupils. The school census for 1888 was 3,612 and the\\nenrollment 1,522, divided among the ten schools, which were crowded to repletion,\\nand more room will be required before the close of the scholastic year to accom-\\nmodate the rapid increase in the number of daily attendance. The expense of con-\\nducting the schools for the year 1888-9, was estimated at $25,710, less the two-mill\\ntax and primary money aggregating $4,500; leaving $21,210 as the net cost to the city\\nof their support. In addition to these agencies for the dissemination of knowledge,\\nboth cities contain parochial and private schools, including among the latter a\\nlousiness college in Bay City, The schools embraced under the divisions other than\\npublic, excel in their various departments, and furnished additional inducements for\\nthe election of the Bay Cities, as places of residences and for other purposes.\\nTELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE SERVICE.\\nThe Bay Cities are amply supplied with telegraph and telephone facilities. The\\nformer furnishes direct communication with Detroit, Toledo, Mackinaw, .Mpena,\\nChicago and elsewhere, and the United or Michigan Postal System is abundantly\\nequipped for operations in its special lines. The telephone service was introduced\\nhere nearly ten years ago, and has steadily grown in favor. A large number of\\ninstruments are in use here, and wires extend to cities adjoining and at a distance,\\naffordintr direct means of communication, satisfactory and at reasonable rates.", "height": "3304", "width": "2052", "jp2-path": "industriesofbayc00marq_0037.jp2"}, "38": {"fulltext": "26\\nTHE INDUSTRIES OF THE BAY CITIES.\\nTHE LIBRARIES.\\nBAY CITY PUBLIC LIBRARY.\\nThe Public Library Association of Bay City was organized in the Fall of 1869,,\\nand the articles of association filed in December of the same year, its incorporation\\nfollowing during January of the year succeeding. Within two years from that date\\n3,000 volumes had been collected. In 1874, the amounts derived from fines and\\npenalties for violations of municipal ordinances, set apart by law for the benefit of\\nschool district libraries, with other sums, aggregated $2,899.25, and was subject to-\\nSAGE PUBLIC LIBRABY.\\ndisposal by the Board of Education. The Library Association, about this time, pro-\\nposed the surrender of its collection of books to the Board of Education, in consider-\\nation of the latter s appropriating the sums at its disposal, to the establishment of a\\npublic library. This proposition was accepted, and the transfer completed in the\\nsame year. During the session of the legislature of 1877-8, an act was adopted pro-\\nviding for the appointment of a Board of six trustees for the government and\\nmanagement of the library, since when, the latter has been directed by such Board,\\nof which the Mayor of the city is ex-officio President. The library is located at\\nthe corner of Sixth and Adams streets. Prior to 1887, it was located on Washington.", "height": "3304", "width": "1998", "jp2-path": "industriesofbayc00marq_0038.jp2"}, "39": {"fulltext": "THE INDUSTRIES OF THE BAY CITIES. 27\\navenue. Requiring more space, the premises now occupied were erected by the\\nWood Opera House Company, and leased to the city for ten years. In that year, they\\nwere taken possession of by the library, and arc still in use. The institution is\\nwell managed and contains a total of thirteen thousand volumes.\\nSAGE PUBLIC LIP.RARV, WEST BAY CITY.\\nThe residents of West Bay City arc indebted to Henry W. Sage, formerly residing\\nthere, but now of Ithaca, N. Y., for the library facilities they to-day enjoy. The Sage-\\nLibrary building occupies a prominent site on Midland street, opposite the West-\\nminster Presbyterian Church. It was commenced in 1882, and completed the year\\nfollowing, at a total cost, including the valuation of the library, of $43,250. Its dedi-\\ncation occurred in January, 1884. The building is two and one-half stories high, and\\n56.\\\\90 feet in dimensions. The lower floor is occupied for class-room purposes, and\\nthe second floor for the use of the library and reading-room, the latter being also\\noccupied by the Sage Library Literary Society, which holds semi-monthly meetings,\\nat which debates are had, essays read, and musical exercises conducted. The library\\nnow contains between twelve and thirteen thousand volumes, and has a membership\\nof 1,518. The purchase of books is made from a fund of S2,6oo, of which Mr. Sage\\nannually donates Si, 000, the balance being furnished by the city. The yearly cost of\\nmaintaining the library is twelve hundred dollars.\\nSOCIAL ATTRACTIONS.\\nTHE cosmopolitan character of the population of the Bay Cities, is attested by\\nthe fact, that nearly every nationality is represented among residents. Of\\ncourse, the great mass of the inhabitants are of American birth, but the\\npresence of many of foreign birth is accompanied by the result that the social\\namenities prevailing in the land of their nativity, are perpetuated in the cities of their\\nadopted residence. These, combined with those of the same character indigenous to\\nAmerica, afford superior opportunities for social hospitality and benevolent purposes\\nin the Bay Cities. In addition to the Young Men s and Bachelors Clubs, there is the\\nBay City Club, occupying rooms in the Opera House Block. It was organized in\\n1886, and its annual reception, during the winter season, is a feature of social life here.\\nIt has 202 members. The Bay County Sportsmen s Club is the principal organization\\nof its kind in the Valley. It has 250 members, and owns a boat house and shooting\\ngrounds at Essexville. Its objects are sporting amusements, and in the winter a\\nseries of parties are given by the club at the club house, which are largely attended.\\nAside from these, there arc eleven Masonic lodges, one conclave and one council;\\nten lodges of Odd Fellows, two of United Workingmen, three of Good Templars, one\\nKnights of Pythias, one of the Protection Order of Elks, one Knights of Honor, four\\nKnights of Labor, two of Chosen Friends, two singing societies, and about thirty\\nmiscellaneous societies, of various nationalities, of a religious, benevolent, social,\\nliterary, athletic, medical and scientitic characters. In all the varied departments of\\namusement, education and recreation, above referred to, the Bay Cities afford\\nunsurpassed opportunities and inducements. The Bay County Agricultural Society,\\norganized in 1865. occupies the grounds, formerly owned by the Bay County Driving\\nPark Association, with handsome buildings, a fast track and other equipments^", "height": "3304", "width": "2052", "jp2-path": "industriesofbayc00marq_0039.jp2"}, "40": {"fulltext": "28\\nTHE INDUSTRIES OF THE BAY CITIES.\\nwhere fairs are held annually, and where the exhibits are of a very superior order.\\nOne military company is also included among the organizations of the cities,\\nCompany D, Third Regiment, Michigan State Troops. The Young Men s Christian\\nAssociation, of Bay City, was organized in May, 1885. The objects of the association\\nare the improvement of the spiritual, mental, social and physical condition of young\\nINTERIOR NEW Ui iSilA UOUSE.\\nmen. It occupies the building at the corner of Center and Washington avenues, and\\nits maintainance and support is obtained from subscriptions and membership fees.\\nThe present roll of members contains 200 names. The Bay County Medical Society\\nwas organized in 1886. It is composed of the licensed practitioners of the county,\\nand its object is the promotion of the professional interest of members- Meetings", "height": "3304", "width": "1998", "jp2-path": "industriesofbayc00marq_0040.jp2"}, "41": {"fulltext": "THE INDUSTRIES OF THE BAY CITIES. 2\u00c2\u00bb\\nare held on the second Tuesday of the mnntli, and tlu- exercises include the rcading^\\nof essays and the discussion of questions suggested by some, as also of those growing\\nout of the practice.\\nPUBLIC BUILDINGS.\\nThe public buildings of Bay City are of the most iinprttentious character. I hus\\nfar. efforts in the direction of architectural development seem to have been\\nimited to private undertakings. The residence quarter of the city presents an\\narray of mansions that, for design and finish, are unsurpassed in the State. The same\\nmay be said of a number of the business houses, but the public buildings are not in\\nharmony with their surroundings, though comfortable and adequate. In the near\\nfuture, however, that Bay City will supply this deficiency with structures in keeping\\nwith the demands of the times, there can be no doubt.\\nCOUNTY COURT HOUSE.\\nThe Bay County Court House is located on a plat of ground enclosed by Center\\nand Madison avenues and Jefferson street. It is of brick, two and one-half stories\\nhigh, and contains accommodations for the county courts and officers. The building\\nwas commenced in 1868, and completed during 1869, at a cost of S40,ooo.\\nTHE COUNTY J.ML.\\nThe Bay County Jail fronts on Center avenue, and is directly opposite the Court\\nHouse. It is also built of brick, and is completely equipped for the uses to which it\\nis devoted. The premises were completed in 1872, and cost $15,000.\\nTHE CITY HALL.\\nThe premises occupied by the municipal authorities are of brick, and located on\\nSaginaw street, near Center avenue. Thev were purchased for their present use ten\\nyears ago, and remodeled and re-arranged at a total expenditure of Sio.ooo. They\\ncontain the city offices, Common Councd chamber, and are being, in part, used as the\\ncentral police station.\\nGO\\\\ ERNMENr BUILDING.\\nThere is no Federal building in Bay City. .\\\\t a recent session of Congress, an\\nappropriation of $200,000 was made for the erection of a government building here.\\nOf that sum $100,000 is now available, and the building will be commenced immedi-\\nately a site has been obtained. During the Fall of rSSS those having the matter\\nin charge were undecided whether to purchase the present site of the Brunswick\\nHotel, on Washington avenue, or locate the proposed improvement elsewhere. The\\nplans contemplate the erection of a public edifice, that will not only be regarded as a\\nmodel of architectural superiority and substantial construction, but an ornament to\\nthe city and State. LIntil the preliminary steps now in progress regarding the pro-\\nposed site are disposed of, nothing can be determined upon with reference to this\\nimprovement.", "height": "3304", "width": "2052", "jp2-path": "industriesofbayc00marq_0041.jp2"}, "42": {"fulltext": "THE NEW OPERA HOUSE.", "height": "3304", "width": "1998", "jp2-path": "industriesofbayc00marq_0042.jp2"}, "43": {"fulltext": "Bay City government.\\nTHE city is well orj^anizcd in its executive and le{:jislative departments police,\\nfire, health, law, finance, education and other departments of municipal jjovcrn-\\nment are properly and commendably manaj^cd. The Mayor, members of\\nthe Board of Aldermen, Comptroller, School Board, Treasurer, and some minor\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2officials, are elective, others being appointive.\\nTHE CITY WATER SYSTEM.\\nThe supply of water furnished consumers is obtained from Saginaw Bay, the\\nwater-works being located on North Water street, at a distance of about four miles\\nfrom the city. The Holly system has been utilized for the purpose, and the engine first\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2employed possessed a capacity of 2,000,000 gallons every twenty-four hours. With the\\ngrowth and development of the city, however, this amount was found inadequate to the\\npublic needs, and, during 1886, an engine of the Gaskill pattern, with capacity to pump\\n4,000,000 gallons, was added to the equipment. There was, up to 1888, a total\\nlength of 25 miles of mains of iron and Wyckoff pipe connected with the works,\\nand 180 public hydrants in use. On the ist of October of the latter year, 2|^ miles\\nof mains were added, also 25 public hydrants, making a total of 27^ miles of mains\\nand 205 public hydrants the complement of appliances for distributing water\\nthrough the city at present. The total cost of working the system was Si 5.323.25 for\\nthe year ending January i, 1888, of which amount 56,900 was paid for salaries. It is\\nunder the direction of a Board of seven commissioners.\\nPOLICE DEPARTMENT.\\nThe Police Department consists of one chief, one captain, two sergeants, one\\ncourt officer, one sanitary and truant officer and fifteen patrolmen, under the control\\nof a Board of five commissioners. The metropolitan system, under which the\\ndepartment is managed, was introduced here in 1880, and has been found efTcctual.\\nThe service rendered is acceptable to citizens, there being an apparent absence of\\nthe crimes which are prevalent in cities of lesser importance. The expenses of the\\ndepartment for the current year are $15,402.88, including salaries. The headquarters\\nof the force are at the City Hall, on Saginaw street, near Center avenue.\\nTHE FIRE DEPARTMENT.\\nThe present Fire Department of Bay City is managed under the paid system,\\nwhich superseded the old volunteer system in all the leading cities of the country,\\nyears ago. The first efforts toward the organization of the fire brigade here, were\\ninaugurated at an early day, but it was not until i860 that they took shape and grew\\ninto substantial reality. The department, as then constituted, was subjected to the\\nsame experience in the procuring of engines, equipments, etc., that has attended\\nsimilar undertakings, but, in spite of the handicaps that weighed down their efforts,\\nbecame efficient and proficient in their lines of duty. In the Spring of 1887, the\\nlegislature adopted an act for the re-organization of the department here, and for its\\nmanagement by a Board of Commissioners. The department consists of one chief\\nengineer, two assistant engineers, six captains, six drivers, seventeen hosemen, and\\ntwo ladder and axe men, making a total of thirty-four men, seven of whom are full", "height": "3304", "width": "2052", "jp2-path": "industriesofbayc00marq_0043.jp2"}, "44": {"fulltext": "THE INDUSTRIES OF THE BAY CITIES.\\npaid, and the remainder call-men. The equipment embraces five first-class hose-\\ncarriages, five first-class hose-sleighs, one hook and ladder truck, one Port Huron\\ntire-escape, one Silsby rotary engine, one Clapp Jones piston steamer, one buggy^\\none sleigh, thirteen horses and 9,700 feet of hose. In the fire-alarm system there\\nare 39 alarm boxes, maintained at the city s expense, five house boxes and gongs,\\nseventeen individual call bells, eighty-two jars battery, 425 telegraph poles, nineteen\\nmiles ai\\\\d 2S0 feet of No. 9 wire, and 17,000 feet of insulated copper wire. The total\\nvalue of department property will closely approximate S6o,ooo, and the total\\nexpenses for the year ending March 22, iSSS, $17,100.26. During the same period\\nthere were loi alarms, and the total losses by fire amounted to $32,870.00, being\\nS39.106.50 less than during the previous year. The department is well disciplined,\\nand its effectiveness attested by the figures above i|uotod.\\n1. UVU I i.W\\nTHE ELECTRIC LIGHT PLANT.\\nBav Citv was the first municipality in Michigan to adopt tliis system for lighting\\nthe city. It was first established here in 1SS2 the Brush system being employed.\\nIt was then owned and conducted under the management of foreign capitalists. In\\n1 886, measures were taken by the Common Council to purchase the plant; and in\\nFebruary, 1SS7, the city acquired title for a consideration of $30,000, of which $10,000\\nwas in cash, the balance being represented by two orders of $10,000 each, payable in\\none and two years, bearing four per cent, interest. At the same time the city pur-\\nchased six and one-half miles of wire, in addition to the necessary poles to complete\\ncircuits, paying $1,583.62 therefor. By discounting the time orders, $2,094.21 was\\nsaved to tax-payers, and the total cost of the plant was $30,689.41. not including,\\nhowever, the cost of the Center avenue tower, which was subsequently purchased\\nfor $7;o. The present equipment includes buildings and machinery-, dynamos, five\\ntowers, 100 mast arms, 20 miles of circuit, with poles, cross-arms, insulators and\\nsettings, and 12S double-arc lamps. The Jenney Company s system w-as substituted", "height": "3304", "width": "1998", "jp2-path": "industriesofbayc00marq_0044.jp2"}, "45": {"fulltext": "THE INDUSTRIES OF THE BAY CITIES.\\n33\\nfor the Brush system, when the purchase of the plant was consummated, and fur-\\nnishes a superior h;^ht at a comparatively small expense,\u00e2\u0080\u0094 the same being about\\n^1425 per month for the salaries and maintainance of the department. The manage-\\nment of the system is directed by a Board composed of five commissioners.\\nSEWAGE SYSTEM.\\nThe sewage of Bay City was begun in the latter part of the jo s, and has been\\nsince extended each succeeding year. For the year ending March 22, 1888, a total\\nof 24 miles of sewer was in operation.\\nMUNICIPAL ASSETS AND LIABILITIES.\\nAt the close of the fiscal year March 22, 1888, the total value of the corporate\\nproperty of Bay City was $794,487. 29, with liabilities amounting to $386,001.55.\\nDuring the same year the total disbursements were $300,517.78, and there was a\\nbalance in the city treasury of $41,731.37 at its close.\\nBANKS AND BANKING.\\nTHE FISCAL AGENCIES, THEIR RESOURCES AND CONDITION.\\nUNTIL 1863 the Bay Cities were without banking facilities. In that year,\\nhowever, C. W. Gibson opened a private bank; and in the year following,\\nthe First National, now the Bay National Bank, was organized and com-\\nmenced business. It was followed thereafter by the incorporation of the Bay City\\nBank in 1871, under State law; the Second National in 1874; Lumbermen s State in\\n1882; Bay County Savings in 1884, and the Commercial in 1887; the three latter also\\nunder State law. One of the National Banks conducts a savings department, likewise\\nthe Bay City, Bay County and Lumbermen s State, the latter of West Bay City.\\nThe Commercial is provided with safety deposit vaults. The following is a tabulated\\nstatement showing the present condition of the banks:\\nTHE BANKS.\\n8 *coiul National\\nBay National\\nCommercial\\nBay City\\n\u00e2\u0099\u00a6Lumbermen s State\\nHay oiinty HdvingH.\\nCAPITAL.\\n8DBPLU8.\\nDEPOSITS.\\nLOANS AND\\nDISCOUNTS.\\n$250,000\\n$100,000\\n$507,331\\n$861,850\\n200.000\\n60,141\\n415.519\\n597,372\\n100,000\\n5,000\\n134.953\\n205,782\\n150.000\\n.50.000\\n.551.179\\n649.424\\n40.000\\n20,000\\n241.S18\\n3r)5,lf 0\\n5(),fKX)\\n10,000\\n2l().;i40 2l2,r,M9\\n$7 .\u00c2\u00bb0.000\\n$245,141\\n$2,091,140\\n$2,912,177\\n\u00e2\u0099\u00a6WeBt Bay City.\\nFrom the above it will be seen that the solvency of the corporations, State and\\nNational, included in the banking system of the Bay Cities, is beyond comment. The\\npolicy adopted has always been such as to preserve that solvency, at the same time\\nto augment the prosperity of the Valley.\\nThe banks have always been closely identified with the aid of commercial interests,\\nand wield a powerful influence in the development of enterprise in this portion of\\nthe State. In this department also, there is a field for the employment of additional\\ncapital, and overtures with that object in view, will be substantially encouraged by\\ncitizens.", "height": "3304", "width": "2052", "jp2-path": "industriesofbayc00marq_0045.jp2"}, "46": {"fulltext": "1 i\\n^^laif", "height": "3304", "width": "1998", "jp2-path": "industriesofbayc00marq_0046.jp2"}, "47": {"fulltext": "THE INDUSTRIES OF THE BAY CITIES. 35\\nWEST BAY CITY GOVERNMENT.\\nIN its municipal government West Bay City is constituted the same as Bay City-\\nproper. The city was organized in 1877, and was made up of the villages of\\nWenona, Salzburg and Banks. An election was held on the first Monday in May\\nof the same year, for city officers, and since that date its affairs have been managed\\nbv a Mayor and Common Council, the latter consisting of twelve members, who,\\nwith the Comptroller, Recorder, Treasurer, School Inspectors, Board of Education,\\nand some minor officers, are elective.\\nTHE POLICE DEPARTMENT.\\nThe police force of West Bay City consists of a chief and six police officers, or\\none for each ward, and is sufficient to repress disorder and crime.\\nTHE FIRE DEPARTMENT.\\nThe fire department is maintained at an annual expense, in round numbers, of\\nS6,ooo, including the cost of maintaining the fire alarm telegraph system, also in-\\noperation in West Bay City. Tlic department consists of one chief and fifteen men.\\nand the equipment of three iiiiproved hose carts, one steamer and 4,50x3 feet of\\nhose. The department is operated under the paid system.\\nWEST BAY CITY WATER SYSTEM.\\nThe water works of West Bay City are operated under the Holly system, and\\nwere established in October, 1881. They were completed during 1883 at a cost of\\n$75,000. There are thirteen miles of mains in the service, two miles of which were\\ncompleted in 1881. The management of the system is directed by a Board of Water\\nWorks Commissioners, composed of five members.\\nTHE ELECTRIC LIGHT.\\nThe city is lighted by electricity furnished by a company of which the Hon. S. 0\\nFisher is President. The equipment embraces fifty double arc lamps, and are sufficient\\nfor present purposes, but the number will be increased as demand requires.\\nSEWAGE SYSTEM.\\nThe construction of sewers was begun in 1888, and prosecuted with such diligence\\nthat one mile and one-quarter of mains and between eight and ten miles of laterals\\nwere completed during the year, at a cost of S6o,ooo. The entire cost of the system\\nwill approximate $150,000, and its completion be reached in the Fall of 1889. The\\nwork is managed by a Board of Public Works, composed of three members appointed\\nby the Common Council. The outlet for the sewage is at the foot of South street,\\nadjacent to the Michigan Central railroad bridge.\\nPROPOSED CONSOLIDATION of thf BAY CITIES.\\n.\\\\t the session of the legislature which adjourned in 1887, ^^s passed\\nproviding for the consolidation into one municipality of East and West Bay City and\\nEssexville. The consolidation is to take effect from and after the first Monday in\\nApril, i8gi. A committee of three persons from East and West Bay City is to be\\nappointed by the Board of Aldermen of each city; the committees are authorized to", "height": "3304", "width": "2052", "jp2-path": "industriesofbayc00marq_0047.jp2"}, "48": {"fulltext": "36 THE INDUSTRIES OF THE BAY CITIES.\\nprepare a just and equitable plan for the protection of the rights and interests of\\nthose resident within the territory to be affected, and in case of disagreement,\\nSpencer O. Fisher, of West Bay City, is constituted to act as arbiter, and his decision\\nshall be final. In case Mr. Fisher is unable to act, Theodore F. Shepard is author-\\nized to act in his stead. In case either city neglects or refuses to appoint a com-\\nmittee, the city so appointing shall perform all the duties provided for by the act,\\nand submit the charter prepared to the legislature for confirmation. These com-\\nmittees are to be appointed six months prior to the convening of the next ensuing\\nsession of the legislature, after the passage of the bill providing for their creation.\\nThe total population of East and West Bay City and Essexville approximates about\\n55,000, in round numbers.\\nCHARITABLE INSTITUTIONS.\\nThe charities established here are sustained with liberal hand by the citizens.\\nTheir location is in retired portions of the city, the comforts of life are generously\\nprovided, good taste and cheerful surroundings are apparent in the make-up and\\nmanagement, experienced nurses attend to the wants of inmates, and skillful\\nphysicians and surgeons are retained for the treatment of the sick, the maimed, and\\nthe unfortunate, who are admitted to be partakers of the benefits to be obtained in each.\\nThe cities are without regular hospitals, to which absence Mayor Wright calls the\\nattention of tax-payers, and recommends to their representatives that they take into\\ncareful consideration the immediate building of hospital premises.\\nTHE NORTHWESTERN HOSPITAL.\\nOne of the leading institutions of the character under consideration is the North-\\nwestern Hospital. It is handsomely located at No. 809 South Water street. The\\nbuilding occupied is large and fitted up with every convenience for the care and\\ntreatment of patients. The latter are admitted when unfitted, by accident or disease,\\nto work, and are provided with medical attention until recovered. Those able to do\\nso, pay a weekly sum for attendance, attention and physicians services. An\\narrangement exists between the city and the hospital, by which the city s sick and\\ninjured are cared for at this institution.\\nHOME FOR AGED WOMEN.\\nThe Society of the Home for Aged Women was established in 1886, and is com-\\nposed of all charitably disposed ladies who acquire membership upon the payment\\nof a nominal sum. The object is the providing of homes for aged women, and\\ntemporary homes for homeless women and children. It is supported by voluntary\\nsubscription, and managed by an Executive Board and a Board of Trustees, elected\\nby those entitled to the privileges of membership.\\nWOMEN S CHARITABLE UNION.\\nThe Women s Charitable Union was organized in 1883. Its objects are to relieve\\nthe sick and destitute of the Bay Cities. The management is conducted by lady\\nofficials, two being selected from each of the cities evangelical churches, and an\\nAdvisory Board composed of three members, supplemented by Visiting, Executive,\\nFinancial and other committees. It is sustained by subscriptions, donations, etc.,\\nand the expense entailed in the works of benevolence done under the society s\\nauspices, is nearly one thousand dollars annually. In addition to the foregoing,\\nthere are a number of church and secret society organizations created for similar\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2objects, in active operation.", "height": "3304", "width": "1998", "jp2-path": "industriesofbayc00marq_0048.jp2"}, "49": {"fulltext": "THE ISDUSTRIES OF THE BAY CITIES.\\n37\\nTHE CHURCHES.\\nTl course of rcli};ion has always maintained an ascendency in the Bay Cities.\\nIt found expression here when the present site of both municipahties was\\noccupied with groves- God s first temples and for a period of nearly fifty\\nyears has marched in the van of advancing civilization. Its influence upon the\\ngrowth and progress of the alley has been paramount, and efforts made in the\\nconservation of morality have proved substantial and effective. The societies in\\noperation include upon their rosters of membership a large proportion of the popula-\\ntion, and their objects are directed with beneficial results in all the departments of\\nriiiNiTY Ki iHcoPAL onmrii.\\nlife. There are at present thirty-four religious bodies of different denominations\\nin Bay City, embracing four Methodist Episcopal, two Free Methodist, two Presby-\\nterian, one Episcopal, one Reformed Episcopal, three Evangelical Lutheran, one\\nGerman Lutheran, three Baptist, one L nivcrsalist, one Congrcgation.il. two Hebrew\\nand four Catholic societies, in addition to one Presbyterian, two Methodist Episcopal,\\none Episcopal, two Lutheran, one Evangelical Rcfonned, one Catholic, one T^aptist\\nand one non-sectarian societies, in West Bay City. Their houses of worship arc\\namong the most prominent architectural tiiumplis in this portion of the State,", "height": "3304", "width": "2052", "jp2-path": "industriesofbayc00marq_0049.jp2"}, "50": {"fulltext": "38 THE INDUSTRIES OF THE BAY CITIES.\\nTcpresenting an outlay of many hundred thousand dollars, and they are sustained\\n-with exceptional liberality. The story of religious achievement here, is the old,\\nold story of pioneer privations and hardships, culminating in the success that is\\n^apparent to-day. Beside the church organizations proper, there are many societies\\nconnected with them, for humane, educational and social purposes, that contribute\\nmaterially to the public and private vi elfare, and which, like unto the origin of their\\ncreation, are prosperous and growing in value and membership.\\nVITAL STATISTICS.\\nThe location of the Bay Cities contributes toward making them among the\\nhealthiest in the Northwest. They possess the advantages of site, of pure water,\\npure air, spacious public grounds, wide avenues, an excellent system of drainage,\\nand a temperature that rarely reaches the extremes of heat or cold. Contiguous\\nto Lake Huron, the situation in this particular cannot be surpassed, as it is a\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0well established scientific fact that the presence of a large body of water, not\\nonly tempers the heat and cold, but dissipates the probability of severe wind storms,\\n-which have worked incalculable destruction to life and property in other portions\\nof the country. Neither are there droughts nor excessive rainfalls. As a healthful\\nresort, the site of the cities is as conducive to freedom from disease, as their\\nimprovements of beautiful homes, imposing buildings, parks and highways make\\nup an attractive picture to the visitor and resident. Diseases indigenous to the\\nclimate are unknown, and contagious diseases are of exceptional occurrence.\\nStatistics show that for the past ten years the births have exceeded the deaths nearly\\nfour to one. The sanitary direction is under the control of the municipal authorities,\\n-and the condition of the cities is in all respects commendatory of the labors of that\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0department of the public service. The health of the cities is supervised by a Board\\norganized in accordance with an act of the legislature, the members of which are\\n.appointed by the Mayor, with the advice and consent of the Common Council.\\nPOSTAL STATISTICS.\\nThe Bay City Postoffice is located on Washington avenue, between Center avenue\\na,nd Sixth street, whither it was removed from the Westover block, in 1886, upon the\\ndestruction by fire of that building. The present premises are commodious and\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2well equipped for the accommodation of the service and the public. The postmaster\\nin the discharge of his duties is assisted by a full force of clerks, carriers and\\nsubordinates. There are eleven carriers, and four deliveries and collections made\\ndaily in the business portion of the city, and three and two in the outskirts. Seventy-\\ntwo bags of mail matter arrive and depart each day, except Sundays, and fifty-two mail\\nboxes are distributed throughout the city. The office hours are from 7:30 A. M. to\\n7:30 P. M., except on Sundays, when the office opens at 11:30 A. M. and closes at\\n12:30 P. M. The registry division is accessible from 8 A. M. to 5 P. M. For the\\nfirst nine months of the year 1888 the receipts were $23,120.60; the expenses for the\\nsame period being $16,300. In addition to this, there is a postoffice maintained at\\nSouth Bay City, where it was established in 1859, and is still in operation. In West\\nBay City there are three offices, established prior to the consolidation of the villages\\nnow comprehended in the municipal limits of the former, and in all of which the\\npostoffices have been continued. They are supplied with all necessary facilities for\\na complete and available service, and are well managed.", "height": "3304", "width": "1998", "jp2-path": "industriesofbayc00marq_0050.jp2"}, "51": {"fulltext": "REAL ESTATE.\\nAPPRECIATION IN VALUES-ADVANTAGES FOR INVESTMENTS.\\nTHE Bay Cities offer advantages to those desiring to purchase lots and lands\\nfor commercial, manufacturing or residence sites, nowhere surpassed in the\\nState of Michigan. Those seeking investments in realty for immediate\\n-occupation, or from which to obtain a fair return, can realize such desire here. Such\\ninvestments will not only be absolutely safe, but must in the very nature of things\\nappreciate in value. Handsomely located, with a climate that is conducive to\\nhealth, and natural resources that beneficially promote that inestimable boon, this\\nportion of the Valley is specially attractive from a sanitary standpoint. In direct\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2communication with leading portions of the country, supplied with the very best of\\ntransportation facilities, surrounded by a territory highly cultivated and rapidly\\nbecoming occupied and improved by an intelligent and enterprising constituency;\\nsupporting an educational system efficient and judiciously managed; maintaining the\\ncause of religion, including upon its roster of sect nearly every creed or denomination;\\nsocially, relaxation and refinement are apparent in the homes and the places of\\npublic resort, and art and culture give additional claims to their preferment as a\\nplace of residence. Intersecting streets shaded and decorated, broad avenues lined\\nwith handsome private residences and elegant public buildings; a number of parks\\naccessible to all who desire to avail themselves of their inviting accommodations and\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2other metropolitan amusement attractions, render the Bay Cities a center of all that\\nis acceptable to the citizen, the student, the professional man, the merchant, and to\\nmen, and women too, whose greatness stands revealed in their pursuit of honest labor.\\nRESIDENCE PROPERTY.\\nThose who are in a position to know, declare that all classes of property in the\\nBay Cities are held at reasonable rates, and steadily growing in value. Residence\\nproperty is included among the best holdings. The lots for this purpose are com-\\nmodious and handsomely improved. Those in the neighborhood of the parks, along\\nCenter avenue, and on other desirable thoroughfares, bring from Si,ooo to $1,500\\neach, within easy walking distance from the business center, and upon lines of street\\nrailway. Lots can also be obtained in select portions of the city, on improved streets,\\nat from $600 to 5800 apiece. Residences, from the modest, unpretentious cottage, to\\nthe palatial mansion, can be built at from one to twenty-five thousand dollars. Lots\\nin the outer portion of the city and in suburban localities, are held at from one to\\nthree hundred dollars, and at the present cost of material and labor, a comfortable\\nhome, including the cost of the lot, can be finished ready for occupancy, for 5700 or\\nthereabouts.\\nBUSINESS PROPERTY.\\nBusiness property is valued in proportion as it possesses the advantages of\\nlocality and availability. The sum of $25,000 was recently stated as the value of\\nthe lot, 100x150 feet in dimensions, at the corner of Center and Washington avenues,\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2on which the building occupied by the Young Men s Christian Association is", "height": "3304", "width": "2052", "jp2-path": "industriesofbayc00marq_0051.jp2"}, "52": {"fulltext": "40 THE INDUSTRIES OF THE BAY CITIES.\\nsituated. On such business highways as Center avenue, they command from two to-\\nthree hundred dollars per foot; on the side streets just off from the main thorough-\\nfares, but in the business portions of Bay City, from one to two hundred dollars.\\nBusiness blocks, furnished with every convenience, can be erected for from $5,000\\nupward. In West Bay City, residence lots are obtainable at from $300 to $400, for\\nthe choicest, and from $50 to $250 in the suburbs. A comfortable home, lot included,\\ncan be finished for from $500 to $800, or more, as the inclinations of the owner shall\\ndetermine. Business property unimproved is quoted at $40 per foot, and the cost of\\nimprovements is about the same as in Bay City. Factory sites are rated at from\\n$200 to $800 per acre in Bay City, those along the river front at a proportionately\\nhigher figure.\\nSTORE AND OFFICE RENTALS.\\nSingle store rentals, including basements, range from $500 to $800 in Bay City,\\nand from $200 to $600 in West Bay City. Buildings for commercial purposes com-\\nmand froin $1,000 to $1,500 per annum, according to location and equipment. For\\noffice purposes, a suite of offices, well lighted and ventilated, also heated by steam,\\ncan be had for $500 a year in Bay City; single offices for from $10 to $25 per month:\\nin West Bay City, good accommodations are available at $12, by the month.\\nCOST OF LABOR.\\nThe prevailing prices for labor are $2 per diem, for painters and carpenters; $2.75\\nfor brick-layers and stone-masons, and $2.25 each, for machinists and boiler-makers..\\nUnskilled labor is paid from $1 to $1.50 per day. The wages paid in West Bay City\\nare $2.75 to $3, for brick and stone-masons, and from $2 to $2.50 for carpenters and\\npainters; for unskilled labor the rates which prevail in Bay City for the same service.\\nTaxes are not excessive, the total amount being 2.83 per cent., including State,\\ncounty and municipal taxes, against 4 per cent, in East Saginaw, declares his Honor,\\nMayor Wright, in his last annual message. As an evidence of the increase in the\\nvalue of property, borrowing from the same source, it may be stated that in i860,\\nwith a population of 700, the assessed valuation of property liable for taxes was\\n$530,589. In 1870 the population was 7,064, and the assessed valuation $1,166,475; in\\n1880, population 20,693, valuation $7,722,310; in 1884, population 29,415, valuation\\n$9,102,655; 1887, estimated population 33,000, valuation $9,746,246; 1888, estimated\\npopulation 35,000, valuation $10,021,845. Those, who from their intimate knowledge\\nof the transactions in real estate during the past are in a position to know, report\\nthat the real estate market is in a healthy condition. In conclusion, facts justify a\\nrepetition of the statements made, that the opportunities for investments in the\\nproperty of the Bay Cities are nowhere surpassed in the State.\\nBAY CITY GAS COMPANY.\\nThe Bay City Gas Company was organized February 15, 1868, with a capital of\\n$55,000. The erection of the works, with meters having capacity for 100,000 feet of\\ngas, was completed October 15, of the same year. The company has fourteen miles\\nof mains and sixteen of laterals, a portion of which was completed in 1888. Gas is\\nfurnished consumers at $2.20 per thousand, for less than 1,000 feet; $1.80 for over that\\namount, and $1.60 per thousand feet for heating and cooking purposes. The office-\\nof the company is on Washington avenue, between Center avenue and Fifth street.", "height": "3304", "width": "1998", "jp2-path": "industriesofbayc00marq_0052.jp2"}, "53": {"fulltext": "THE INDUSTRIES OF THE BAY CITIES.\\n41\\nTHE PRESS.\\nThe press of the Bay Cities is held in very high esteem, and considered to be the\\nequal of any published in the State, outside of Detroit. There can be no question\\nbut that the prosperity, development and present prominence of the Saginaw Valley\\nis in a large measure due to the enterprise and resources of the local press. It has\\nbeen the formulator of public opinion, the conservator of public morality, and the\\nearnest and able advocate of all measures designed for the public welfare, through\\nthe years of the Cities history, from the date when the first paper was established\\nhere, up to the present time. In its career, the press has created an elevated standard\\nof journalistic excellence, and no city assuming greater pretensions and equal\\nfacilities, can boast a higher plane, in all particulars, than that conceded to the\\npapers of the Bay Cities. There are now published and circulated in Bay City, two\\ndailies and four weeklies,\u00e2\u0080\u0094 ^one of the latter in the German language, two in the\\nFrench, and the Labor Advocate in English, its first issue being published on\\nSaturday, October 6th, 1888. In West Bay City there is one paper published -a\\nweekly\u00e2\u0080\u0094 established in July, 1887. All of these are ably edited. The dailies furnish\\nto readers a complete resume of local information, each morning and evening, while\\nthe Associated and United Press Associations supply full and interesting reports of\\nhappenings at a distance. The weeklies cover every variety of subjects, and handle\\ntheir themes in a manner that commends them to the careful consideration of\\nreflecting and appreciative constituencies. A large number of persons are employed\\nin the collection, preparation and composition of the daily record of current events,\\nand no efforts are spared to make it complete, newsy, edifying and instructive.\\nTHE HOTEL FACILITIES.\\nIn the matter of hotel fa-\\ncilities, the Bay Cities are\\nadequately supplied. The\\nhotel buildings are substan-\\ntially constructed, well ven-\\ntilated and their sanitation\\npromotive of health and com-\\nfort. They are located at\\npoints making them access-\\nible to travelers arriving by\\nland or water, and contiguous\\nto business centers. Their\\nimprovements arc modern,\\n,ind their equipments and\\nonveniences fully up to the\\nines and consistent with the\\ni|uirements of the service.\\n!ie rates are low for the ac-\\ninmodations furnished,\\nranging from one to three\\nKUASKii iioiM dollars per diem, and the\\ntotal number that can be comfortably housed in the hotclb here, will not fall fai short\\nof five thousand.", "height": "3304", "width": "2052", "jp2-path": "industriesofbayc00marq_0053.jp2"}, "54": {"fulltext": "CAPT. JAMEH DAVIDSON\u00e2\u0080\u0094 SEE OPPOSITE PACK.", "height": "3304", "width": "1998", "jp2-path": "industriesofbayc00marq_0054.jp2"}, "55": {"fulltext": "Ill the series of descriptive articles that follow, we have endeavored to\\nmake appropriate mention of every well established and deserviiifj; inercan.\\ntile and nianulacturing house, and every respont-ible fiduciary trust in Bay\\nCity and West Bay City, believing tliat tliose whose industry, energy and\\ncapital are enlisted in building up the liay Cities material interests, and\\ndeveloping and maintaining their trade supremac^y, arc worthy of all the\\nfavorable recognition it is in our power to bestow, and it is with the utmost\\nconfidence that we commend every business house, named in these pages,\\nto the good-will and patronage of all into whose hands tiiis book may come.\\nLiberal, enterprising, and of sterling business and personal character, it is\\nuj)on this class of men the future growth of the Bay Cities and their\\ninfluence upon the welfare of the State and Nation depend.\\nCAPTAIN JAMES DAVIDSON.\\ntliip lliiilder\u00e2\u0080\u0094 X.K. of .Mioliiisan C t ntral It. K. Kntciiit llooNe- W\u00c2\u00ab Ht liay 4 lly.\\nOne of the larfjeet, most completely eciuipped, and prominent of the ship-buildiuj.,\\ninduBtries alontf the chain of lakes, from l3uhitli to IJnffiilo, is owned and maiiiij^ed\\nby Captain James Davidson. His plant, eml)racing dry docks, yards, etc., is located\\nin West IJay City, at a point southeast of the cugiue house of the Michiyaa Central\\nRailroad, and occupies a very lar^e area of territory.\\nHe bet, an the business iu 1871, beinj, then located on the river at Ballentine s\\nyard, where he binlt the E. M. Davidson, a schooner that will lonp l)e remembered\\nfor superiority of deBij, U, e iiiij)mout, and saiiinj, ipialities. In 1.^72 he removed to\\nEast Saj,Mnaw and estal)lished a yard. While there, he laiinchi d and comjjletetl the\\nschooner Kate Wiuslow. After a brief stay at East Saginaw, he returned to IJay\\nCity and located ui)on his jiresent site, erecting mills and increasinjf Ids facilities to\\nmeet the demands of the trade. These were subse(|ueutly destroyed by fire, toj^ether\\nwith a portion of the hull of the propeller James Davidson, then in pro^rress of\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0construction. The craft, however, was rebuilt and completed for service. F jr the\\nnext few years ho ave bis attention to the management of his marine interests,\\nreturning to Bay City, however, in 18H0. and resumed operations as a ship builder,\\nwith a large force and large equipment of iiiHcliinery. .\\\\n ini-rease of i)UHint HH soon\\ncompelled the etdargeiiient of his facilities, yard room, etc., to accomplish which he\\npurchased additional ground, upon which were erected saw and jig mills, with other\\noonveuiencea and apimrtenances requisite to the complete furnishing of a plant of\\nthe character he conducted. A comjiaratively brief period only elajisetl, when his\\nequii)ment became inadequate to the requirements of the service, and early in 1888\\nhe finished what was quoted as the most comi)lete ship mill in the United States.\\nIt was 49x157 feet in dimensions, su|)plied with the latest improved machinery for\\nworking heavy timljer, improved |\u00c2\u00bbiinches for heavy iron work, etc., and otherwise\\nfurnished for turning out his product. These premises were destroyed by lire in\\n.\\\\ugust of the same year, without, however, having the e)b i-t of ciiusing even a", "height": "3304", "width": "2052", "jp2-path": "industriesofbayc00marq_0055.jp2"}, "56": {"fulltext": "44 THE INDUSTRIES OF THE BAY CIKIES.\\ntemporary Buepension of work. Contracts were immediately concluded, and the\\npremises rebuilt and furnished with additional tools and appliances, to meet the\\nsteadily increasing demand made upon the resources of the establishment.\\nCaptain Davidson is a native of Buffalo, N. Y., and began his successful career,\\nwhen, as a youth, he signed articles as a sailor, bound to Liverpool. He subsequently\\nsailed to China and other foreign ports, part of the time as commander of the vessels\\nthat bore him thither. Since engaging in ship building at West Bay City, he has con-\\nstructed steam-ships, tugs and sailing vessels of unsurpassed excellence. Among the\\nformer, the Oceanica, one of the largest crafts on the lakes; the Siberia of 1,618\\ntons; George T. Hope, 1,273 tons; Australasian, 1,540 tons; Roumania, 1,900 tons;\\nthe Bulgaria, 2,750 tons; and in 1888 the Germanic and Britannic of 2,000 tons\\nburthen each, and the Majestic, three hundred and fifteen feet in length, and forty-\\none feet in breadth of beam, with 3,000 tonnage capacity, the largest vessel afloat on\\nthe lakes. During the same year, he also finished the schooners Mary Wilson and\\nMary B. Mitchell, also a four masted schooner of 2,400 tons, and at the time of the\\nfire in August, had the moulds laid for several large crafts, which were burned. The\\nsteamships Germanic, Britannic and Majestic were built for the Davidson\\nLine, operating between Buffalo and Chicago, of which he is the owner. Captain\\nDavidson builds vessels to order, and for sale, and many of his largest craft built for\\nhis own use are purchased immediately they are floated, by transportation corpora-\\ntions and individuals, on account of their superior model and sea-going qualities.\\nHe employs a force of from seven to eight hundred bands and one hundred and fifty\\nteams the year round, and his trade is at every port on the lakes. He is also one of\\nthe Board of Managers of the Lake Carriers Association, is largely interested in\\nelevators at Buffalo, and is Vice-President and Director of the Frontier Iron and\\nBraps Works at Detroit, Mich.\\nCaptain Davidson is a remarkable man, not only in his own sphere, but in all the\\ndepartments of life. He has revolutionized the class of vessels employed in the\\nnavigation of the lakes, and the benefits accruing from his large investments have\\nbeen distributed with liberal hand in the promotion of industry, development of\\nenterprise, and to the prosperity of Bay City and the State of Michigan.\\nN. B. BRADLEY SONS\u00e2\u0080\u0094 ROSS, BRADLEY CO.\\nMiifrs. and I ealer8 in litinilier and Salt\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Office, Cor. Fourteenth Water Sts.\\nN. B. Bradley has been identified with the lumber industries of the Saginaw\\nValley for nearly forty years. He began business in Bay City in 1854. One year\\nlater he became partner in the lumber firm of Frost Bradley. In 1861 he purchased\\nthe present mill property, and organized the firm of N. B. Bradley Co., consisting\\nof himself, F. E. and Charles Bradley. In 1881 he purchased the plant in its entirety,\\nand, admitting E. E. and F. W. Bradley as partners, established the firm of N. B.\\nBradley Sons. They own and occupy a very large area of territory, including eight\\nblocks of ground situated on Water street, between Thirteenth and Sixteenth streets,,\\naffording them 2,000 feet of river frontage, in addition to ample accommodations for\\nthe transaction of their business. Within these dimensions are located the mill\\nproper, the shingle and lath mills, salt mills, salt block, booms, piling grounds, barns\\nand other equipments. The saw mill is a commodious structure, supplied with every\\nconvenience and facility for handling the stock, from the log in the rough to its\\nmanufactured products. The equipment is triple, embracing Wickes Brothers\\nimproved gang saw, powerful band and large circular saws, complete in all their varied\\ndetails, the most approved machinery only being employed, and driven by engines of\\ngreat power. Their shingle mill is equally equipped with machinery and conveniences\\nfor the business, and, like the lumber mill, is in constant operation. The piling\\ngrounds have first-class water frontage, and are of large dimensions. Their salt\\nindustry is represented by eight salt wells and an immense salt block. Each of the wells\\nis furnished with pumping-engiue facilities and drill-house conveniences, and the entire\\nplant, with its appurtenances, is provided with all the most approved appliances,\\nadapted to the several departments in which their services are utilized. In connection\\nwith the mill products, the manufacture of barrels, for the shipment of salt is also\\nextensively carried on. The total output of the enterprise annually is stated at\\nabout 21,000,000 feet of lumber, 8,000,000 shingles, 4,000,000 laths, 60,000 eetts ff", "height": "3304", "width": "1998", "jp2-path": "industriesofbayc00marq_0056.jp2"}, "57": {"fulltext": "THE INDUSTRIES OF THE BAY CITIES.\\n45\\nbarrel stock, and 60,000 barrels of salt. A force of one hundred and seventy-five\\nmen are employed, the products of its work being shipped to the Eastern markets.\\nTlie salt is disposed of tlironj, li the Michi an Salt Association, au or^ ani/afion which\\nhandles nearly all the salt made in the Valley, of wliich the Hrm are members. They\\nalso own large tracts of pine lands in various portions of Michigan, and during the\\nwinter engage extensively in lumbering in both the I pper and Lower Peninsulas,\\nemploying two hundred ami tifty men in that field of operations. They are other-\\nwise engaged in large undertakings, being owners of properties in the pine lands of\\nthe South, and of planing mills, which are the finest in this section, with an annual\\ncapacity of 40,000,000 feet, also lumber yards covering an extended area. Mr.\\nNathan B. Bradle has served as Mayor of Bay City, as member of the State Senate,\\nand as a Representative in Congress. He exercises a supervisory control over the\\naffairs of N. B. Bradley it Sons, being largely interested in other directions, the\\njunior partner managing its conduct and affairs. Their large product of dressed\\nlumber, in car-load lots, finds an outlet to market through the house of lioss\\nBradley Co.\\nSECOND NATIONAL BANK.\\nPliuMiix Ituildine\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Center and Vanliin\u00c2\u00a3tun Avennei^.\\nThe history of banking operations in Bay City dates back twenty-five years, when\\nC. W. Gibson opened a piivate bank in a room of the Union block, the present site of\\nthe Campbell House. As the city grew in proportions, and business increased in\\nvolume and importance, the necessities of the situation gave birth to enterprises of\\nINTF.nioH SErONI) NATIONAL BANK.\\nthis character, resulting in the establishment of a banking system in Bay City,\\nthan which there is none superior in the State. One of the leading banks here,\\nand recognized not onlv as an invaluable adjunct to the progress and development\\nof this portion of the State, but as one of the most substantial and reliable in the", "height": "3304", "width": "2052", "jp2-path": "industriesofbayc00marq_0057.jp2"}, "58": {"fulltext": "46\\nTHE INDUSTRIES OF THE BAY CITIES.\\nNorthwest, is the Second National. It was organized in May, 1874, with a capital of\\n$1()0,0()0; William Westover, President, and W. L. Plum, Cashier. Seven years\\nprevious the Exchange Bank was established by William and Luther Westover,\\nJames J, McCormick, Charles F. Gibson and H. J. Clark, and in 1869 the State Bank\\nwas organized through the efforts and influence of Orrin Bump, who was chosen\\nCashier, with W. S. Patrick as President. About this time the Exchange Bank went\\nout of existeoce, and Alonzo Chesebrough succeeded to the presidency of the State\\nBank, the capital of which was increased to $1.50,000. W. L. Plum, Cashier of the-\\nSecond National, died in 1877, and M. M. Andrews was selected to fill the vacancy.\\nIn May, 1878, the Second National and the State Bank were consolidated, with\\nWilliam Westover, President; Orrin Bump, Cashier, and M. M. Andrews, Assistant\\nCashier; the capital was increased to $200,000, further increased to $250,000 in\\nJanuary, 1883, which amount has since been maintained, and with the surplus and\\nundivided profits is now $399,245.04.\\nThe bank occupies a suite of offices in the Phcenix block, corner of Washington\\nand Center avenues, conceded to be the handsomest equipped and furnished of any\\nof the kind in Michigan, where business is conducted upon a sound financial basis,\\nand according to methods conservative but liberal. The offices occupy the entire\\nnorthern portion of the building, and were arranged and appointed for the special\\nuses to which they are adapted. They are finished in cherry and other hard woods,\\nthe flooring being of Italian marble, and the rooms of the Cashier and Directory\\nelegantly carpeted and furnished. Two safes of the latest improved pattern afford\\nabsolute security to deposits and other valuables, and a full staff of Competent and\\nefficient assistants is employed. Its business is a general banking business, of dis-\\ncount (of which it carries the largest line of any bank in the Saginaw Valley) and\\ndeposit, loaning money on approved security, the purchase and sale of foreign and\\ndomestic exchange and the issue of letters of credit, the carrying of accounts of banks,\\nbankers, and individuals upon the most liberal terms, etc. It also has direct con-\\nnection with leading monetary centers. The bank is one of the most substantial\\ncharacter, enjoying the highest credit, and its career has been one of uninterrupted\\nprosperity.\\nThe following is the report of the condition of the bank, Tuesday, November 13,\\n1888, at the close of business hour^:\\nLIABILITIES.\\nLoans and Discounts.. ...$869,7.^0.59\\nU.S. Bonds .^0,000.01)\\nDuo from Banks 100,03.5.61\\nFurniture 4,r)00.00\\nExponHOH and Taxes Paid 10,386.98\\nCash on Hand 54,187.02\\nRedemption Fund with U. S. Treas.... 2,250.00\\n$1,091,040.20\\nASSETS.\\nCapital Stock $250,000.00\\nSurplus Fund 100,000.0()\\nUndividod Profits 49,245.04\\nCirculating Notes 45,000.00\\nDeposits 611,797.89\\nKo-discounts 34,997.27\\n$1,091,040.20\\nThe present officers are William Westover, President; D. C. Smalley, Vice-\\nPresident; Orrin Bump, Cashier, and M. M. Andrews, Assistant Cashier. The\\ndirectory is composed of the following well known gentlemen: A. M. Chesebrough,\\nH. W. Sage, H. P. Merrill, William Westover, A. J. Cooke, S. T. Holmes, D. C. Smalley,\\nA. Walton, William L. Smith, W. H. Tousey and Orrin Bump.\\nThe management of the bank is perfect, and its operations have been conducted in\\na manner creditable to its official board, and to the prosperity and development of\\nthe Saginaw Valley.\\nNICHOLS SANGLE,\\nHarncMH and Saddles\u00e2\u0080\u0094 aiTiaac Tri in niiiitj -Center, near M^asliin^ton St.\\nAmong the well-known establishments in Bay City engaged in manufacturing\\nenterprise, the house of Nichols Sangle, harness makers, is prominent and repre-\\nsentative. The firm, which is composed of Fred. A. Nichols and George Sangle, was\\norganized in 1874. They occupy the two-story and basement building, 25x100 feet in\\ndimensions, at an available location on Center street. The first floor is devoted to\\nthe use of office and salesroom and handsomely fitted up, being provided with large\\nglass cases for the display of fine harness, saddlery, and horse goods generally, with", "height": "3304", "width": "1998", "jp2-path": "industriesofbayc00marq_0058.jp2"}, "59": {"fulltext": "THE INDUSTRIES OE THE HAY CITIES.\\n47\\nn workroom in the rear, containing ample facilities for the businePH of mannfactnrinsr\\nanil reiJiiiritiK ind where a force of bIx artisans is etiniloyed. Tn aihlition fo the j^ oods\\nmannfactnretJ, the tinn carry larj^ e invoices of sadilleH, roheH, hhinkets, turf ^oods,\\netc., of the best make ami material. Tlieir B[)ecialtieB areoriler-ma le l)ii^, :y, carriage,\\ndraught and Iuml)er harness; also doing carriage trimming to order, and repairing in\\na manner both neat and 8ul)stantial. Their trade is large and growing in the city\\nand country, i)articniarly among tiie himber mills ami otlier industries where the use\\nof horses is largely employed.\\nW. I. BROTHERTON CO.\\niiiiilx ruit ii N SiiitplioN KoH. I lO.*} tn I I I 1 W iitei- Mt.\\nnlKUTON en.\\nOne of the largest and most prosperous wliolesale grocery houses in the Saginaw\\nValley is conducted by W. 1. lirotherton S: Co., composed of W. I. Hrotherton,\\nWatrous, H. N. Watrous, and H. W. .Teunison. It is also one of the oldest, having l)een\\nestablished in 187:^ hy Carter Maltby. Tn ISTC, \\\\V. T. Brotlierton and H. A. (litTord\\nwere admitted as partners, and the firm name wascliaiiged to Maltby, Hrotherton A- Co.\\nThis continued until 1ST1\u00c2\u00bb, in whicli year N. A. Waterman succeeiled to the (tilTord\\ninterest, when the tirm name was again changed to !\\\\Ialthy. Hrotherton i: Waterman,\\nand again, in IKHl, to Maltby, Page A- Co., Mr. Waternum disposing of his interest to\\nW. W. Page. Mr. Hrotherton still remainetl a member of the tirm, whi h name, how-\\never, was once more changed, in IMSl. In that year. and H. N. Watrous, ti|K)n\\npurchasing Mr. Page s holding, became partners, and the original name of Maltby,\\nBrotlierton \u00c2\u00bbt Co. was resumed, so remaining until April, 18S7, when Maltby retired,\\nand the present style was adopted, since remaining unchanged, though in October of\\nthe same year, H. W. Jennison, who had been nine years with the ln)use. was made\\nan additional partner.\\nThey are lf)catetl at Nos. 110. 1107, llO .t ami 1111 Water street, occupying commo-\\ndious and amply equi[)pe(l premises, two stories in height, TtOxKH) feet in dimensions,\\nsubstantially built, with basement under the whole, an(l furnished with every conveni-\\nence for the sale, storage and shipment of their large stocks. .\\\\djoining the main\\nstores is the oflice building, recently completed, also of brick, consisting of one story\\nand basement, each 25xl(J0 feet in size, and the establishment entire extending back", "height": "3304", "width": "2052", "jp2-path": "industriesofbayc00marq_0059.jp2"}, "60": {"fulltext": "48\\nTHE INDUSTRIES OF THE BAY CITIES.\\nto the warehouse, which is 180x60 feet in dimensions, and adjacent to the docks. The\\nbasements and main floor are used for groceries, except sugars, which are to be found\\nin the office building, also occupied as a sample room for the lines of commodities\\ncarried. These latter embrace the purest and freshest of teas, imported direct by the\\nfirm sugars, coffees, spices, tobaccos, flour, lard, pork, salted meats, produce, and\\nfancy groceries; also lumbermen s supplies, including boots, rubbers, clothing, hard-\\nware, etc., which latter are kept on the upper floor of the main building. The office\\nbuilding, it may here be said, ia\u00c2\u00bbthe most complete in the Valley, being handsomely\\nfinished and frescoed, well lighted and ventilated, and divided into sample rooms and\\npublic and private offices. They employ a force of thirty salesmen and clerks, one\\noutside man, three travelers, and operate four wagons. As stated, their trade is very\\nlarge in Bay City and the surrounding country, as also in Northern and North-\\nwestern Michigan.\\nThe members of the firm are enterprising, public-spirited citizens and merchants,\\nand the house has advanced from small beginnings to a position of commanding\\ninfluence, contributing largely to the commercial success of Bay City, and enjoying a\\nwidespread reputation for the purity of its goods and its liberality with the trade to\\nwhich it ministers.\\nC. E. ROSENBURY.\\nDealer in Furniture. Stoves and Croekery Cor. Third aud Washinaton Sts.\\nIliiilii III II III I ilililiillliiliiilJfhillH\\nI iiii I III III II II I II III iiiiiiii!iiii f jMiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii\\nSometime during the year 1878, C. E. Rosenbury began the business of mer-\\nchandising in a small way, in furniture, stoves, crockery and other implements of\\nhousehold and domestic utility. His commencement was attended by the difficulties\\nand embargoes incident to the inauguration of every worthy enterprise, but he met\\nand disposed of them, and after a not uneventful experience has attained to\\nsuccessful and deserved prosperity.\\nHis place of business is at the corner of Third and Washington streets, a point\\nunexceptionally desirable and convenient of access, and in all particulars advant-\\nageous for purposes of trade. He occupies the main and upper floors of the building,\\nhaving a frontage of 120 feet on Third street, with an additional frontage of 100\\nfeet on Washington street, handsomely furnished, suitably departmented and\\nheavily stocked. The furniture branch of the establishment is 40x100 feet in its pro-\\nportions, and tilled with full lines of medium and plain wares, of original design and\\nattractive finish, including parlor, chamber and dining-room suites and fixtures.\\nThe four remaining stores adjoining, comprehend an area 80x80 feet in dimensions,\\nand are well adapted to a business requiring the exercise of care and judgment in its\\nmanagement. These stores are connected by arched passages, are perfectly lighted,\\nand occupied by the remaining departments, such as the department of china, glass\\nand queensware, mattresses and bedding department, lamp, stove and tinware\\ndepartment, and the department of household utensils, etc., etc., every line of which\\nis adequately stocked. He employs a force of twelve salesmen, clerks and subordi-\\nnates, and ministers to the wants of a large and continually extending trade in the\\ncity, as also within a considerable radius, and in the northern portions of the State.\\nMr. Rosenbury is a practical business man, familiar with the requirements of the\\ntrade, and has achieved a recognized success and reputation for his house, through\\nmeans that commend themselves to emulative enterprise and adoption.", "height": "3304", "width": "1998", "jp2-path": "industriesofbayc00marq_0060.jp2"}, "61": {"fulltext": "THE INDUSTRIES OF THE BAY CITIES. 49\\nMcKINNON MANUFACTURING CO.\\nKoil\u00c2\u00ab i- :Tlnk\u00c2\u00abM-H. FoaiulorN aiul llacliiiilnttM\u00e2\u0080\u0094 WaliT Hi. bet. Triit li aud F.I \\\\oiilh.\\nThe nucleus of tbe McKinuon Maunfacturiny Company was fonuded in 1H07, by\\nJohu D. McKinnou, who removed to Bay City from Cleveland, Oljio. in IKOT, and\\nengaged in the manufacture of steam boilers. Soon after, the firm became McKinnon\\nSc Co., beint: composed of Johu I). McKiiuion, Angus McKinuon and Duncan\\nMcKinnou. In iHHi the present company was incorporated with a cjij)ital of 8. 0,00().\\nImmediately this was accomplished, valuable and extensive improvements were\\ncompleted, and facilities for the manufacture of boilers, engines, and all kuids of\\nmachinery, enlarged and increased. The company s success has bet ti complete, and\\nit is to-day one of the largest and most influential of its kind in this portion of the\\nState, the range of manufacture including all articles connected with machinery, in\\naddition to being agents for leading establishments in other portions of the country.\\nTheir boiler works are located on the docks betweeu Eleventh and Twelfth streeta,\\nthe lot being 50xSnO feet in size, and the uuiiu building 5(1x180 feet in dimensions,\\nfully equipped with all the latest machinery for the manufacture of marine, mill and\\nlocomotive boilers, including slings for hoisting boats, pumps for cleaning boilers,\\netc. The machine shops are equally complete in their furuishings and e }uipment,\\nbeing provided with large lathes, boring machines, mill drills, heavy punches and\\nauxiliary machinery, adapted to the purpose to which it is applied. The machinery\\nis driven by steam power in all the several departments operated. The foundry\\noccupies a building on Water street, between Tenth aud Eleventh streets, 120x150\\nfeet in dimensions, with pattern shops, blacksmith shops, etc. adjoining, commodious\\nand well appointed, aud in every way provided with appliances and appurtenances\\nto the completion of work with the least delay aud in the most reliable manner.\\nThey manufacture every pattern of boiler and machinists supplies, are agents for\\nMorris Tasker Co. s wrought iron pipe and fittings; for James G. Pulling A- Co. s\\nsteam pumps, standard injectors. Eagle lubricators, general line of mill and lx)at\\nsupplies, and have a large stock of second-hand boilers aud machinery constantly on\\nbaud. They employ a force of one hundred skilled mechanics in the works, and do a\\nlarge aud increasing business in Bay City and the surrounding country, as also along\\nthe lake shore to the North, and upon order, ship boilers to all parts of the country.\\nThe present officers are John D. McKinnon, President, and H. D. McKinuon,\\nSecretary; men of practical experience, and maintaining an establishment that takes\\nhigh rank among the prominent and substantial industries of the State.\\nE. J. O NEILL.\\nVeterinarian, liivfr.v and Wale Stable\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Kleventlil^t. an\u00c2\u00abl a liin;;t iii .\\\\\\\\i\\nThe profession of the veterinarian is as important to the domestic animal kingtlom,\\nin its line, as that of the physician to the human family. The ministering to the\\ndiseases of the one requires the possession of the same degree of si ill, humanity and\\nscientific research as that indispensable to success in the other. One of the leading\\nveterinary physicians in the Valley is Dr. E.J. O Neill. lie is a graduate of the\\nfamous veterinary coUeere of Toronto, Canada, and enjoys the reputation of a learned\\nand experienced professional. He located in Bay City in ISTO as a practitioner, and\\nhis career has been attended by results that have served to contirm and strengthen\\nhis distinction as a skillful physician and operator. He treats all diseaees of horses\\nand cattle at his office and barns, corner of Eleventh street and Washington avenue,\\nor at the stables of owners, from a purely scientific standpoint, and is prepared to\\nrespond to telephone calls by nik ht or day. In 1S-S4 he establisheil a livery, sale and\\nboarding sta!)le in connection with his veterinary business. The premises occupied\\nby him at the above stated corner are commodious and well equipped, including the\\nlatest improved telei hone service, the i)lant being located uj)on the main floor of the\\nbuilding, well lighted and ventilated, and supi)lied with ample means of exit for the\\nanimals in case of fire. He carries a number of valuable hort^es and fashionable\\nvehicles in this liranch of the business, and his conveniences for the sale aud board-\\ning of stock are largely patronized.\\nHe employs a competent force of assistants, and does a large business locally and\\nwithin a considerable radius of Bay Citv,", "height": "3304", "width": "2052", "jp2-path": "industriesofbayc00marq_0061.jp2"}, "62": {"fulltext": "J. K. HALL. SEE OITO^ITE PAGE.", "height": "3304", "width": "1998", "jp2-path": "industriesofbayc00marq_0062.jp2"}, "63": {"fulltext": "THE INDUSTRIES OF THE BAY CITIES. 51\\nJ. R. HALL.\\nWalt and Sliiiitlt MaiiiifJicturor\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Woodward Ave. KaHtoTtlio Water WOrkH\\nKMNexville.\\nWithiu au area ten acres in extent, about one mile in an easterly direction from\\nBay City, is located the shingle and salt manufactory of J. R. Hall, said to be the largest\\nshingle industry in the Valley, and in every particular one of the most complete and\\nattractive of buildings, modern in constru^ tion and equipment, handsomely located\\nwith a splendid river frontago, fine docks and superior shipping facilities, the entire\\nestablishment is a model of its kind.\\nMr. Hall began business in 1870, and for nearly twenty years has progressed and\\nprospered. The shingle mill proper is a commodious structure 1 12x48, witii wing 24x65\\nfeet in dimensions, supplied with all the latest patterns of machinery, including two\\ndrag saws for cutting logs into blocks of the required length, one bolting saw, two sap-\\npers for shaping blocks and six Hall shingle machmes of the largest capacity, with\\nother accessory tools and implements, required in the manufacture of his products.\\nThe shingle machines are the invention of Mr. Hall, which for perfection of the work\\naccomplished are the best in use. The mill machinery is run by a powerful engine\\nof 20x24 inch cylinder, fed from a battery of five large tulnilar boilers, which make\\nsteam for salt manufacture, and the annual output aggregates 4n,()00,0(H) shingles\\nand 50,000 sets of heading. The shingles are shipped to Buffalo, Tonawanda\\nand other eastern market supply depots. Mr. Hall also operates three salt wells,\\neach supplied with drill house and pony engine equipments, an extensive salt block\\nor evaporating house; packing and storage departments, with other appurtenances\\nand conveniences, and manufactures 5O,O0J barrels of salt yearly, which are disposed\\nof through the Michigan Salt Association, in which he enjoys tiie privilege of mem-\\nbership. He employs about one hundred hands in his business and the annual\\nreturns represent a large valuation.\\nMr. Hall is a gentleman of enterprise, and keenly alive to the development of\\nBay City and her material interests, to which his establishment has so largely con-\\nv.ributed.\\nSTANDARD HOOP CO.\\nJliuuifaet lire I M of Cut and Sawed IIoo|\u00c2\u00bb!-i Wewt Bay City.\\nThe manufacture of hoops is an industry conducted in West Bay City with signal\\nadvantage to the capital invested and the trade which is supplied. The Standard\\nHoop Company is a leading establishment in this field of usefulness, and occupies\\na prominent position. It was organized in July, 188(5. by John M. Kelton, Harrison\\nMiller and Rphraim J. Kelton, whose labors and enterprise have resolved small\\nbeginnings into large projjortions, and built up a trade of very considerable magni-\\ntude. The property included in the enter[)rise occupies five acres of ground, with\\nadequate facilitie.s for the manufacture, storage and shipment of the products, and\\nis otherwise adaptive to the uses for which it is employed. The mill is 50x120 feet\\nin size, substantially constructed, and well equipped with machinery and mechanical\\nappliances for rapiil and economical service. The logs are first cut into one and\\none-half inch boards by an improved band saw, thence conveyed to the steaming vats,\\nto steam the planks, thence to the machine that fashions the rough material into\\nhoops, thence passing through other processes, until finished and ready for the\\nmarket. The best material only is used, ami every precaution is taken in their\\nmanufacture, to the end thiit the articles shall conform to the exacting requirements\\nof the trade, in the matters of strength and dural)ility. Their products are patent\\ncoiled elm, barrel and keg hoi ps. They give employment to thirty live hands, turn\\nout 12.000,0(X) hoops annually, and supply an increasing demand as far west as\\nCalifornia, and in the South; also in New York and Pennsylvania.\\nThe Messrs. Kelton are natives of New Jersey, and Mr. Miller, of Pennsylvania.\\nThey have resided in West Bay City for upward of twenty years, most of that period\\nengciged in the lumber business. They are enter|)ri8ing, public-spirited citizens,\\nand their manufacture has acquired reputation and trade in all portions of the\\ncountrv.", "height": "3304", "width": "2052", "jp2-path": "industriesofbayc00marq_0063.jp2"}, "64": {"fulltext": "52\\nTHE INDUSTRIES OF THE BAY CITIES.\\nSMALLEY BROS. CO., VALLEY IRON WORKS.\\nUlanfrs. Steam Engines, Saw Mill and Salt Works Machinery\u00e2\u0080\u0094 :405 Saginaw St.\\nOne of the most extensive, best equipped and widely Itnown iron industries in the\\nSaginaw Valley, is the Valley Iron Works, owned and operated by Smalley Bros.\\nCo. It is a representative enterprise of its kind, and enjoys an extended reputation\\nfor the excellence of its products. The works were first established about 1870, by\\nthe firm of Smalley Bros. Catlin, to which the firm of Smalley Bros. Lewis, sub-\\nsequently succeeded. The latter continued in the management of the concern Tintil\\n1874, when the present firm, composed of William Smalley, D. C. Smalley and W. T.\\nSmalley was organized, and has since directed operations with results that have\\ngiven to the works a position of prominence, and a reputation extended and invalu-\\nable.\\nThe plant is located at No. 205 Saginaw street, a superior site for the purposes of\\nthe business, and occupies a large area of territory convenient to trade centers, and\\nfully equipped for shipping, receiving, and Ihe storage of goods. It includes the\\nmachine shop, a building 60x160 feet in dimensions, supplied with boring mill\\nmachinery, steam hammers, drills, lathes, planers, key-seating machines, gear cutters,\\netc. The foundrf at the rear of the machine shop, is 60x80 feet in size, and equally\\ncomplete in its equipments. They also have large storehouses adjoining, and in\\n1888 completed the erection of a four-story white brick building, 60x75 feet in dimen-\\nsions, to be used for office and salesroom purposes, also for the storage of valuable\\npatterns used in the business. Their specialties are salt-well machinery, Oraney s\\npatent mill dog, etc., also building steam engines and saw-mill machinery of\\nevery grade and description, and carrying in stock all sizes of engine governors,\\nsteam pumps, inspirators and patent boiler injectors, gas pipe and well tubing, brass\\ngoods, etc., which are supplied to the trade at prices that compete with those of any\\nsimilar establishment in the country. They employ a force of from sixty to seventy-", "height": "3304", "width": "1998", "jp2-path": "industriesofbayc00marq_0064.jp2"}, "65": {"fulltext": "THE INDUSTRIES OF THE BAY CITIES. 53\\nfive operatorB, and do a large busiuess locally, and in the Valley, in addition to\\nresponding to demands for certain lines of their products frona all parte of the\\nUnited States.\\nThe members of the firm are men of the largest experience and a thorough under-\\nstanding of tlie busiuess, in all its departments and branches, and the facilities\\nenjoyed for supplying engines, null and other macliinery to the trade, entitle the\\nworks to the {jromineut and enviable position they now occupy among the industrial\\ninterests of the State.\\nfJOHN WELCH.\\nrTTfiTberl. HniiiirartuiM r ^Bet. :Sli(llaiid Mt. ami Itailroad IlriilKe\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Went Bay City.\\nr The old Drake Mill will always be inseparably entwined with the history of\\npioneer days in the Saginaw Valley. It was built by J. and S. Drake, brothers,\\nwho came here from Canada in 1851, and at once erected the premises, upon a forty\\nacre tract, purchased from the wife of James G. Biruey, now deceased. In 18r)3\\nthey sold it to Kibbee, Whitteniore Co., by whom it was in turn disjjosed of, and\\nafter running the gauntlet of ownership a number of times, was tinally purchased by\\nJohn Welch, the present proprietor, in IKSl. In the year following, the mill was\\ndestroyed by fire, but immediately rebuilt, and running during the winter of the\\nsame year. The plant is located on ground in West Bay City, between Midland\\nstreet and the Michigan Central railroad bridge, and besides being one of the oldest\\nmill sites on the river, is one of the best arranged and appointed, containing booms,\\ncommodious piling grounds, fine river frontage and docks, with all neceseary\\nbuildings and equipments.\\nThe mill is 8l)xl 20 feet in size, supplied with all necessary machinery and devices,\\nthat will increase the volume of the output, and operated by steam. It embraces\\ntwo large circular saws, shot gun steam feed carriage,andotherequiiiments, including\\nan automatic saw tiling apparatus. The engine is of two hundred and fifty horse-\\npower, feii from a battery of five steel boilers, 4x18 feet in dimensions, with seven\\ninch flues each, two boilers in the boom 5x16 feet, eight inch lines each. The logs\\nfrom which the lumber is cut, are obtained in Northern and Northwestern Michigan,\\nand the output aggregates 18,(J0(),(IU(J feet during each season. His sfecialty is the\\nmaking of large timbers for railroad sills, etc., ranging frcm 8^x4J inches and 34 feet\\nin length, through vaiious gradations, smaller and larger, as the trade demands. He\\nemploys from fifty to sixty hands, and ships his manufacture to the eastern markets.\\nMr. Welch is an enterprising, energetic citizen, alive to the interests of West Bay\\nCity antl the surrounding country, and his milling industry has proved a valuable\\nauxiliary in the promotion of such objects.\\nWEST BAY CITY IRONlCO.\\nro^vley A Kainer. l roiiri\u00c2\u00ab torj*\u00e2\u0080\u0094 .llalii [and Waf\u00c2\u00abliiii\u00c2\u00ab;loii; ^tM. Mowf Bay flly.\\nThe West Bay City Iron Company, a recent aciiuisition to the material interests\\nof the city, whence its name is derived, was established in May, 1 -8S, by Ciiarles\\nCrowley and Charles Kaiser, practical machinists, and familiar with the requirements\\nof the business in which they have embarked, in all the varied departments included\\nwithin the scope of its operation. They are located at the corner of Main and Wash-\\nington streets, a site convenient and desirable, where tlu y occupy premises 25x100\\nfeet in size for workshop purposes, equipped and arranged witli machinery and\\nappliances to secure perfection of work in their liiu- of manufacture. To the rear\\nof this, they have erected a foundry 30x5(1 feet in dimensions, containing all requisite\\nappointments for operations in that department of the enterprise. Though but\\nlately organized, their facilities for handling orders and supplyiug demands made\\nupon the productive capacity of their establishment are complete, and no delay is\\nexperienced in filling same. The materials conii)osir.g their products are the best\\nobtainable, and they have already secured a merited reputation for superiority in\\nthat connection. They employ ten hands, and are rapidly building up a proBjjerons\\nbusiness in the city and vicinity.", "height": "3304", "width": "2052", "jp2-path": "industriesofbayc00marq_0065.jp2"}, "66": {"fulltext": "54\\nTHE INDUSTRIES OF THE BAY CITIES.\\nD. B. PERRY.\\nl riiKS; \u00c2\u00abt and Pliarinacist\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Mi llaii l St., opposite the Postoffice.\\nThe pharmacy of D. B. Perry was estab-\\nlished in West Bay City during 1880, and\\nhis business has been attended with a con-\\ntinually prospering experience. He is seniar\\npartner in the extensive establishment of a\\nsimilar character in Bay City, being head of\\nthe firm of Perry Swaby, corner of Center\\navenue and Adams street. He enjoys un-\\nusual facilities for obtaining the purest and\\nfreshest of drugs and chemicals, and his\\nstock is one of the most complete carried by\\nany similar house in the trade. He is\\nlocated on Midland street, the main business\\nthoroughfare of West Bay City, opposite\\nthe postoffice, a location as prominent as it\\nis desirable, in premises 25x100 feet in size,\\nhandsomely apportioned and appointed, and\\nequipped with the latest and most available\\nconveniences. His specialty is prescriptions,\\nto the compounding of which he brings not\\nonly the purest of ingredients but a perfect\\nknowledge of the science of pharmacy, expe-\\nrience, and an invaluable reputation for\\ncare and reliability. His stock embraces\\ndrugs and druggists sundries, chemicals and\\nmedicinal compounds, extracts, preparations,\\netc., in addition to choice lines of meer-\\nschaum goods and the most select brands of\\nHavana, Key West and domestic cigars. He\\nemploys a competent force of skilled chem-\\nists, and does a large local trade, as also an\\nextensive business throughout the country\\nadjoining.\\nWEST BAY CITY MANUFACTURING CO.\\nManufacturers and Wholesale Dealers in Iiuinber\u00e2\u0080\u0094 W^est Bay City.\\nThe West Bay City Lumber Manufacturing Comyjany was organized in 1881, by\\nthe Hon. S. O. Fisher, A. A. Crane and P. B. Cole, and is located at a desirable\\nand accessible point in West Bay City, occupying a considerable area of territory,\\nwell improved and possessing superior shipping facilities. The planing mill is a\\ncommodious structure, one hundred feet square, furnished with every convenience\\nand machinery of the latest improved pattern for dressing and trimming lumber,\\ndriven by steam, employing a force of fifty hands, with a daily capacity of 75,000 feet\\nof dressed lumber. Adjacent to the mill, are large storage sheds and other buildings\\nnecessary to the business, also extensive yard accommodations, the firm being also\\nextensive dealers in logs and lumber.\\nThe members of the firm are well known men of enterprise, whose efforts in the\\npromotion of business endeavor in the Saginaw Valley are part of the history of this\\nportion of the country.", "height": "3304", "width": "1998", "jp2-path": "industriesofbayc00marq_0066.jp2"}, "67": {"fulltext": "THE INDUSTRIES OF THE BAY CITIES.\\n55\\nPERRY SWABY.\\nI\u00c2\u00bbr\u00c2\u00abiK- I liariiiJHixtx cnU r A and AdaiiiN ^t.\\nThe druj; and prescription house\\nof Terry Sc Swaby, made up of D.\\nB. Perry and Gnstavns A. Swaby,\\nwas orf, anized in April, 1888. The\\nsenior member has been for many\\nyears engaged in the same line of\\nbusiness, and still carries on an\\nestablishment devoted to jilianna-\\nceiitlcal purposes at No. lij J Mid-\\nland street, West Bay City. Else-\\nwhere will be found an extended\\nnotice of bis separate business.\\nPrevious to becoming associated\\nwith Mr. Perry, Mr. Swaby was in\\nthe employ of L. S. Coinans, and\\nlatterly with his present i)artner.\\nTlieir success is assured, and their\\nequipment complete and desirable.\\nThey occupy the main door and\\nbasement of a building at the cor-\\nner of Center avenue and Adams\\nstreet, the premises being 25x100\\nfeet in dimensions, with style in\\nthe api)oiutmeuts and furnishings\\nexceptional as they are superior.\\nThe store is most eligiljly located,\\nand is exceptionally well stocked,\\nl^he supplies include the purest\\nc[ualities of drugs and chemicals, standard medicinal extracts and preparations,\\nmedical appliances, surgical instruments, etc., and the general run of medicaments,\\nand materials adapted to the requirements of the trade. Their specialty is the\\ncompounding of prescriptions, in which only superior chemicals are used and in which\\nthey exercise extraordinary care and circumspection. They eni()loy the usual staff\\nof clerks, and supply a large local demand. The gentlemen to whose enterprise this\\nrecent addition to Bay City s trade resources has been made, are well known and\\nhighly esteemed, and each enjoys a reoutation which is, in itself, a guaranty of their\\netock and fair dealing\\n.YOUNG AMERICAN CLOTHING HOUSE.\\nA. W. Lew ifiHteiii, I loprietor\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Rouecli Illork. FifJirninliWater StH.\\nThe Young American Clothing House was established in 1870 by Mr. A. W.\\nLewinstein, and for eighteen years he has not only conducted a successful enterprise,\\nbut contributed materially to the advancement of Bay City and the promotion of ita\\nwelfare. The premises occupied are 25x80 feet in (limensions, neatly fitted up for\\nthe purposes to which they are adapted, and furnished with conveniences requisite\\nto the business. Mr. Lewinstein carries a large and select stock of goods in his\\nline, including men s, youths boys and children s reaily-made clothing, the product\\nof P^asteru manufacture, and also deals in gentlemen s furnishing goods, in great\\nvariety of every description, embracing ties, colhirs, cuffs, underwear, ho.se, etc.. etc.,\\nthe selection of which, as also of liis stocks of wearing apparel, he attends to person-\\nally, visiting the Eastern markets each season for that purpose. He employs a full\\nforce of clerks and salesmen, and does a large l ufiiuess in the city and vicinity.\\nThe management \u00c2\u00ab)f the establishment is marke l with enter{)ri8e and liberality,\\nand the character of its commodities, as, likewise, its busiqess methods, have\\ninspired an extensive trade with confidence.", "height": "3304", "width": "2052", "jp2-path": "industriesofbayc00marq_0067.jp2"}, "68": {"fulltext": "56\\nTHE INDUSTRIES OF THE BAY CITIES.\\nMOSHER FISHER.\\nliuniber and Pine Liands\u00e2\u0080\u0094 5f. E. \u00e2\u0082\u00acor. Micllantl and l^lnn Sts.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 M est Bay City.\\nThe tirm of Mosher Fisher, extensive dealers in lumber and pine lands, with\\ntheir office at the northeast corner of Midland and Linn streets, West Bay\\nCity, was organized in 1873. It is composed\\nof Alfred Mosher and Spencer O. Fisher.\\nThey are men of large means, great energy\\nand enterprise, and have very largely con-\\ntributed lo the development and improvement\\nof West Bay City. They own immense tracts\\nof timber lands and formerly operated mills.\\nOf late, however, their logs have been cut by\\njobbers, and delivered at mills in the Saginaw\\nValley, where it is turned into lumber, docked\\nand sold principally for eastern markets.\\nTheir annual product averages 70,000,000 feet,\\nand their transactions are among the largest in\\nthe Northwest. Alfred Mosher, the senior\\npartner, is a resident of Troy, N.Y., the business\\nhere being managed by Albert Mosher, Jr., and\\nthe Hon. S. O. Fisher. The latter is a native of\\nthis State, and located inWeuonaiu 1871. He is\\n1 one of the largest lumber operators in the\\n.West, and during his residence in West Bay\\nCity, has contributed very largely to the build-\\n;ingupcf the city and surroundings. He has\\nserved as Mayor of the city, represented tbe\\nTenth Michigan District in Congress for\\ntwo terms, and procured the location of the\\nUnited States Court in Bay City after an\\narduous struggle. He is in all respects a\\nHUJN. s. o. j-iBUKK. remarkable man, and his career furnishes an\\nexample that will inspire modest worth to noble ends.\\nTOUSEY TURNER.\\nPine Lands, LiOgs and liUniber\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Xo. 503 Jk 503 Phoenix Block.\\nThe firm of Tousey Turner was organized and became an established factor of\\ninfluence and importance among the substantial enterprises of Bay City in 1885. It\\nis composed of Wilson H. Tousey and Joseph Turner, and the scope of their opera-\\ntions is confiued to dealings in pine lands, logs and lumber. They are located in the\\nPhoenix block, corner of Washington and Center avenues, where they occupy suite\\nNo. 502 508, and are among the most influential firms in their lines of business in the\\nState. They own large and valuable tracts of pine lands in Arenac, Iosco, Gladwyn,\\nPresque Isle, Crawford and Marquette Counties, this State, and elsewhere, and their\\nmanufacture of lumber is done at various mills, contiguous to the base of supplies,\\nby contract at so much per thousand feet, and averages fiom twenty-five to thirty\\nmillions of feet per annum. They also sell logs extensively to mills and others, and\\nduring the season of 1887-8 transported 12,000,000 feet of logs to Bay City by rail\\nand as many feet by water, 7,000,000 feet of the latter consignment having been rafted\\nfrom Presque Isle. Their shipments are largely to the Eastern markets.\\nThe members of the firm are representative, public spirited citizens and merchants.\\nPrevious to embarking in the present undertaking, Mr. Tousey had been engaged in\\nthe hardware business as head of the firm of Tousey Jennison. Mr. Turner has, for\\ntwenty-five years, been extensively interested in tbe various branches of the lumber\\nindustry, and is the present head of the firm of Joseph Turner Co., also dealers in\\nlumber at No. 502 Phoenix block. They are both prominent in all enterprises\\ndesigned to benefit Bay City, Mr. Tousey being President of the Citizens Association\\nhere.", "height": "3304", "width": "1998", "jp2-path": "industriesofbayc00marq_0068.jp2"}, "69": {"fulltext": "THE INDUSTRIES OF THE BAY CITIES. 57\\nROOT, WILLISTON CO.\\nM lioleMule l ul\u00c2\u00ab rN in Fiiilay H Toledo leaser Uoei \u00e2\u0080\u0094\\\\o. Xoi-lli J\u00c2\u00ab-nVrHoii Nt.\\nOue of tlie foremost houses of Bay City, dealing in lager beer, aerateil beverages,\\netc., and extensively engaged in the manufacture of fine cigars, ih that of Hoot,\\nVVilliston A: Co., composed of Carlos E. Root, George A. Williston and. Horace M.\\nWilliston. The firm was established in 1S81, and enjoys unsurpassed facilities for\\nsupplying tlie trade with the best qualities of goods in the lines wherein it deals.\\nIts success has been large, and the business has been constantly increasing and\\nextending.\\nThey are located at No. 213 North Jefferson street, on the main line of the Flint\\nPere Manjuette road, and, in addition to superiority of site, possess shipping\\nconveniences that are not excelled by those jf any similar establishment in the\\ncity. The main building of the plant is two stories high, l(Hix25 feet in dimensions,\\nand provided with all requisite eciuipmeuts for the business to which it is appro-\\npriated. The tirst floor is devoted to bottling i)urposes, wherein large quantities of\\nFinlaVs celel)rated Toledo lager beer, stock and pale ales and porters, in which they\\nare large whoUsale dealers, are prepared for delivery to consumers, and in manner\\nso secure as that it retains its excellent tonic properties for an almost unlimited\\nperiod, in any climate. The second floor is occupied as a cigar factory, in which\\na large force is employed, and where a larger number of cigars are turned out daily\\nthan at any other concern of its kind in Bay City, their chief brands being Valley\\nLily. Michigan Central, My Partner, etc., in ten-cent goods; and in five-cent\\ngoods, (rem, Nips, Champion, Nabob, etc. Their manufacture of carbon-\\nated beverages is carried on in an annf x. 25x80 feet in dimensions, to the rear of the\\nmain building, and fully e(iuipped with all the latest machinery suited to the\\npurpo=^e, driven by steam. The i)roducts of this branch of the business embrace\\npop, ginger ale, soda water, champagne cider, etc.. compounded from the purest\\ningredients. They give employment to a force of thirty of)eratives, clerks and\\nassistants, and do a large and growing trade in the city and throughoat the Valley,\\nas also in the northern portions of the State.\\nThe members of the firm are among the most enterprising and substantial\\nmerchants and citizens of Bay City, and the house is well known as one at which\\ngoods are kept in stock of the best quality only, and fi.r which the price is fixed\\nupon a liberal basis, commensurate with their actual worth.\\nGREAT EASTERN CLOTHING HOUSE.\\nAI lowitK Itroy.. I roprietorM Xo. H04 Water St., Ihtoux m 1 I Stand.\\nThe Great Eastern Clothing House of Bay City was established in 1882. by\\nAbraham D. Ablowitz and Julius Ablowitz, comprising the firm of Ablowitz Brothers,\\nyoung men to whose enterprise and business discernment, the public is indebted for\\none of the most popular and frequented resorts in its line of busine.ss m the city.\\nThe success of the firm began with its organization, and from that date has bten\\ncoincident with its progress and the development of trade in Nort! east Michigan.\\nThey occu|)V the three-story and basement edifice at Xo. H()4 Water street, near\\nCenter, a building 2. )x!M) feet in its jjroportions. and known for years as Leroux s\\nOld Stand, a merchant whom the Messrs. .\\\\blowitz succeeded. The premises are\\nfinely located for business purposes, being in the center of that portion of the city\\nreserved to the occupation of commercial and industrial enterpri-es, and arranged\\nand equipped for the convenience of trade and the expeditious transaction of atTairs\\nconnected therewitli. They carry a large and full stock of goods in their line,\\nincluding clothing of the best eastern make, gents furnisliing goods, trunks, valises,\\netc., chosen with care in the New York and other eastern markets, and do a corres-\\npondingly large trade in the city and vicinity, re iuiring the services of a force of\\nclerks to handle successfully.\\nThe members of the firm are well-known and highly esteemed in business circles,\\nand the commercial i)rosperity they enjoy is the reward of honorable effort in the\\ndomain of trade.", "height": "3304", "width": "2052", "jp2-path": "industriesofbayc00marq_0069.jp2"}, "70": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3294", "width": "2040", "jp2-path": "industriesofbayc00marq_0070.jp2"}, "71": {"fulltext": "THE INDUSTRIES OF THE BAY CITIES. 59\\nMERRILL, FIFIELD CO.\\nWhoU SHlr ;iini r\u00c2\u00ab-Xos. lOftS A^ 1007 Xortli Water Nt.\\nOae of the l;ir ;est and most extensively enyaijed wholesale fjrocery firms in Bay\\nCity, is that of Merrill, Fitield k, Co. The business was established in 1871, by\\n(xiietia k Merrill. Five years later, Mr. Eugene Fifield purchased an interest in the\\nconcern, and the firm name became Gustin, Merrill Sc Fifield, so continuing until\\n1885. Meanwhile, in 1883, Mr. Herman Meisel was admitted as a partner. Two years\\nlater Mr. Gustin retired, and the present firm was organized, composed of H. P. Merrill,\\nEugene Fifleli and Herman Meisel. Since 1871, when the firm first started, their\\naccomraodatioas have been reneatetllv enlarged, and their facilities increased in\\nanswer to the demands of their trade. Along in 1876, they erected a commodious\\nwarehouse to the rear of their store, which was subsequently destroyed by fire, but\\nrebuilt. At that date, and until 1887, they occupied the northern portion (jf the\\nJennison block, corner of Fifth and North Water streets. Limited accommodations,\\nhowever, again compelled them to seek more commodious quarters, and they removed,\\nduring the Fall of the latter year, to their present site at Nos. 1005 k. 1007 North\\nWater streat, a location uusurpasseJ. The premises occupied consist of a two-story\\nbrick building, having a frontage of fifty-five feet on Water street, with a depth of\\none hundred feet to a warehouse, two stories high, -iOxGO feet in dimensions, and\\nfronting upon the docks, in addition to which the M. C. R. R. Co. have recently built\\nfor them an elevator with a capacity of 100,000 bushels of grain, which they occupy\\nin connection with another warehouse, 100.x60 feet in dimensions. The store is fur-\\nnished with an improved elevator system, is well lighted and ventilated, and contains\\nall modern improvements and conveniences for the display, sale, shipment and\\nstorage of stock, or the transaction of business.\\nJ They carry heavy stocks of groceries, staple and fancy, also grocers sundries, and\\npay special attention to the selection of teas, sugars and coffees, obtaining same from\\nfirst, hands, and exercising unusual care in the selection of the purest and freshest of\\nthese commodities. Their lines of fancy groceries embrace delicacies and substan-\\ntials, canned and potted meats, fruits and preserves, sauces, pickles, etc., etc., tobacco,\\ncigars, flour, pork, salt meats; lumbermen s supplies, etc., being also included on\\ntheir lists, and sold to the trade upon the most liberal terms, and at the lowest prices.\\nThey are also extensive manufacturers of spices and baking powder; their products\\nenjoying an established and wide-spread reputation for purity and superiority of\\nmaterials. They employ a force of seventeen clerks, salesmen and assistants, also\\nthree traveling men, and do a very large business in Northern and Northwestern\\nMichigan, in addition to a heavy trade in Bay City and throughout the luml)er\\nregions.\\nThe house is a model of its kind in the Northwest, directed by men who combine\\nenterprise and business ability, and whose operations have been characterized by\\nliberality and business methoils, that have securetl the confidence of a large and\\nsteadily increasing patronage. In addition to their |)reseut investment they own and\\ndirect the Hapsburg stock farm. This latter is a tract of one hundred and sixty\\nacres, located in Monitor township. Bay County, and until 18S5 was used for agricul-\\ntural purposes. In the latter year, however, Messrs. Merrill and Fitield purchased a\\nherd of Herefords, and in December of the same year imported a herd of ten. of a\\nsimilar breed, from England. They own the celebrated Clarence (J rove, (0.700);\\nimported Tom Wilton. (O.Hii); Lovely 2d. (2,107), one of the best cows of tiie Hereford\\nstrain; Greenhorn ith and others of the same breed, and have, with their herds,\\ntaken first prize at the Northeastern, Northwestern, and other fairs in Michigan and\\nthe adjoining States, where they have been entered. In this undertaking tliey have\\nmet with the most gratifying success, and their efforts for the promotion of stock-\\nraising, have commended the firm to universal approval.", "height": "3304", "width": "2052", "jp2-path": "industriesofbayc00marq_0071.jp2"}, "72": {"fulltext": "60\\nTHE INDUSTRIES OF THE BAY CITIES.\\nWATSON BROS. TOSSELL.\\nPluiubers, Is^teani and (Sas-Fitters\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Xo. 831 A^ortli Water St.\\nThe plumbing house of Watson Bros.\\nTossell was established in 188i. The\\nfirm is composed of Robert S. Watson,\\nBenjamin J. Watson and John P. Tossell.\\nIt is a thoroughly reliable concern, among\\nthe leading houses in its line in the city,\\nand its work of sanitary plumbing cannot\\nbe excelled by any similar establishment.\\nThe firm occupies a leading position in\\nthe column of Bay City s industrial\\nfactors, and the reputation enjoyed, both\\nas to stock carried, and services rendered,\\nis as extended as it is deserved and valu-\\nable.\\nThey carry on business at No. 821\\nNorth Water street, in premises con-\\ntained in a two-story building, but are\\npreparing, owing to the requirements of\\nthe trade, to take possession of larger\\nand more eligible accommodations, on the\\nsame thoroughfare as that upon which\\nthey are at present located. Their stock\\nincludes everything in the line of\\nplumbers steam and gas-fitters mate-\\nrials, and their line of work embraces\\neverything to which their art can be\\napplied, such as sanitary plumbing, gas and steam-fitting, connectmg sewerage pipes,\\netc. They also manufacture Watson s steam heater (their own patent), are manufac-\\nturers agents for the Auburn stea m heater, and carry full Hues of heaters of the McGee,\\nSymonds and other patterns. They are prepared to furnish estimates, and undertake\\ncontracts for the execution of work in their several departments, in this connection\\nhaving completed large jobs at Ludington, Alpena and at other points in the State.\\nDuriijg 1888, they held a large number of prominent contracts in temporary abey-\\nance, owing to the difficulty experienced in obtaining the class of men required in\\nthe work, the firm declining to employ any but the most experienced and skillful.\\nOwing also to this cause, but fifteen were on the pay-roll of the firm in the summer\\nof 1888. All members of the firm are practical artisans, and all jobs are personally\\nsupervised by one of them, thus affording evidence not only of their care and\\ndiligence as producers, but a guaranty to customers of absolute perfection of work.\\nTheir trade is in the city and State. Individually the members of the firm are\\nheld in high esteem by the community, and their continued growth and prosperity\\nseem assured.:^\\nC. H. BRADLEY MOO.\\nL iimber Inspeotoi-s and Sliipiiers\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Cottrell Block.\\nOne of the most prominent representatives or an important branch of the Jumoer\\nindustry in the Valley, is the lumber inspection and shipping house of C. H. Bradley\\nCo., located in the Cottrell block. Mr. Bradley is a native of Ohio, coming to Bay\\nCity in 1855, and commencing, in 1871, the business with which he has since been\\nidentified, with headquarters here, and branches at Au Sable and Oscoda, also at\\nMenominee. Their business is the purchase of lumber for shipment to the Eastern\\nmarkets, and the unusual facilities they possess for obtaining stock enables them to\\noffer inducements to the trade that are unequalled, and have established them as the\\nlargest shippers in this vicinity.\\nTheir purchases are made in all portions of the State, and either sent direct to\\nthe consignee East, or to the branches at Au Sable and Oscoda, which are managed\\nby W. A. Rose, who owns an interest therein, and to Menominee, in which A. F.\\nUnderwood and John S. Coman own an interest, and under whose direction affairs", "height": "3304", "width": "1998", "jp2-path": "industriesofbayc00marq_0072.jp2"}, "73": {"fulltext": "THE INDUSTRIES OF THE BAY CITIES. 61\\nthere are oondacted. Their Bhipmeate from all these points embrace all (grades and\\nqualities of fine lumber, Norway pine, etc., and havinjf a thorough knowjedpe of the\\nbusiness of inspecting these lines, as also entire familiarity with the re iuirements of\\nthe trade, and a well earned reputation for reliability and the prompt execution of\\norders, their services are constantly in demand by dealers and others. For three\\nyears prior to 18HS, they handled an average of l(Kt,0 lVb() feet of lumber annually,\\nand during 1888 completed contracts involving the delivery of 12r),()(i(),(iO() feet of\\nsame. They employ a competent force of salaried assistants, including a number of\\ne.xpert inspectors, and ship largely to New York and Chicago, as also to distributing\\npoints in Ohio.\\nThe members of the firm are well-known for their enterprise and honoral)le l)usi-\\nnesB methods, and the house is one of the best managed undertakings in the Lower\\nPeninsula.\\nPITTS CRANAGE.\\nllannfHetarerH or liUnilter. liUtli aii l Salt Foot of WaNhineton Kt.\\nOne of the most extensive mill and salt properties in the State is owned and\\noperated by Pitts fe Cranage, a firm composed of Thomas Pitts of Detroit, and\\nThomas Cranage of this city, and located at the foot of Washington street. In 18 j8,\\nthe present mill site was occupied with a mill of limited capacity, erected by Baugh-\\nman it Partridge. In 1856, the property was sold to the late Samuel Pitts of Detroit,\\nwho increased its capacity from 3(),()00 to 1,000,000 feet. In 18(55 the capacity of the\\nmill was again increased, and the firm of Samuel Pitts Co. was established.\\nThree years later Mr. Pitts died, and the firm of Thomas Pitts Sz. Co. succeeded, to\\nbe in turn succeeded by the present firm. In 1874, the old mill with an annual\\ncapacity of r2,0iX),0OO feet was destroyed by fire. The premises were at once\\nrebuilt, however, and the capacity increased to 25,000,01)0 feet, and with the planing\\nmills, river frontage, docking and shipping facilities, piling grounds capable of hold-\\ning 9,000,(K30 feet of lumber, booms, a river frontage of 1,630 feet, etc., make up, as\\nstated, one of the largest and most valuable plants of the kind in Michigan.\\nThe mill proper is 150x100 feet in size, substantially built, and in all respects as\\ncomplete in equipment, as experience can suggest or mechanical skdl can supply.\\nIt includes a Wickes Brotliers powerful gang mill, two circular saws, steam feed\\ncarriage, edgers, trimmers, lath and heading mills, with other requisite appliances\\nand tools. The engines supplying the motive power to this immense school of pro-\\nduction, so to speak, are two in number, one of 250 horse-power, and the other\\nof 160 horse-power, fed from two batteries of steel tubular boilers, one consisting\\nof four boilers, each 5x12 feet, and one of two boilers 6x16 feet in dimensions each,\\nalso three other boilers.\\nThe salt industry was established in 1863, under the administration of Samuel\\nPitts X Co., and embraces six wells, with an extensive salt block, packing iiouse,\\ncooperage and other buildings necessary to the business, the steam for ojierating\\nwhich, comes from the three large boilers above named, the fuel used being automatic-\\nally delivered into a refuse burner, connected with the latter equipment. The\\nproducts of the mills include 25.000,000 feet of lumber, 4,500.000 lath, 1,200,000\\nstaves and 300,000 pieces of heading; that of the salt wells 60,0(li) barrels of salt.\\nThe former is shipped east, the latter being disposed of through the .Michigan Salt\\nAssociation, of which the firm are meml)ers. The i)lant, located in the heart of the\\ncity, enclosed by tracks of the Flint and Pere Marquette and Michigan Central roads,\\nenjoys in aildition to water facilities, rail shipping conveniences, the value of which\\ncannot be too highly estimated. It also includes within its area twenty-six tenement\\nhouses, erected also under the administration of Samuel Pitts .t Co.. for the special\\nconvenience of employes, who pay a nominal rent only, for the fullest complement\\nof home comforts. They employ a force of 180 hands, many of whom have grown\\nfrom youth to manhood, middle life and old age in tlieir service, in addition to\\ntwenty-five horses, and do an annual business of very large proportions.\\nOf the members of the firm, Mr. Pitts resides in Detroit, and Mr. Cranage in Bay\\nCity, where he directs o[)eratioiis. They are represeutative citizens and manufact-\\nurers, types of the men who have erected cities and founded enterprises in the Lower\\nPeninsula. Bay City owes its origin, development, growth and prosperity, to the\\nliberality and public spirit of this class of citizens, a class among which Messrs.\\nPitts and Cranage are, and have been, the leading factors.", "height": "3304", "width": "2052", "jp2-path": "industriesofbayc00marq_0073.jp2"}, "74": {"fulltext": "62\\nTHE INDUSTRIES OF THE BAY CITIES.\\nC. M. EMERSON.\\nSair IVorks\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Repairing a Specialty\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Xo. 240 Sforth li ater St.\\nBy far the best known and among the^\\nmost generally patronized establishments\\nin Bay City, devoted to the manufacture,\\nsale and repair of saws, are the saw works\\nof C. M. Emerson, at No. 240 North Water\\nstreet. They ;were established by Mr-\\nEmerson in 1882, and have since been\\nmanaged under his direction with annually\\nincreasing reputation and prosperity.\\nHe is a mechanical genius, son of J. E.\\nEmerson, of Beaver Falls, Pa., manufac-\\nturer of the famous Emerson saw, sold and\\nused all over the world. And although a\\ncollegian, a medical student and pharmacist\\nat times in his life, his natural aptitude for\\nmechanics, has asserted itself and compelled\\nhis return to the business of his father.\\nHe has had twenty-three years experience\\nas a saw manufacturer and repairer, and\\nenjoys advantages in his special lines over\\nall other saw makers in the State. Of the four hundred large saws repaired by him\\nduring the past year, but two have been returned. He makes a specialty of repair-\\ning inserted tooth saws of all kinds, and keeps planer teeth in stock at all times,\\nthereby enabling him to fill orders without delay, and if the saws sent him to be\\nrepaired are not needed for immediate use, they are stored until wanted for work^\\nAnother specialty of Mr. Emerson is the restoration of burnt saws by a process of\\nhis own, known as the Damascus process, by which the injured tool is retempered,\\nreground, polished and put in perfect order for operations. He also manufactures\\nmoulding and\\nplaning knives,\\nand carries full\\nstocks of all\\nkinds of saws,\\nexcept the buck\\nsaw, and tools\\nfor use by filers\\nand gummers.\\nIn addition to\\nthe business\\nabove referred\\nto, Mr. Emerson\\ncontrols the _.^\\npatent rieht for ^=\u00c2\u00ab?\u00c2\u00bb!Ps\u00c2\u00bbHi\u00c2\u00abipf^\\nMichigan, Wisconsin, Ohio and Indiana of a recently invented automatic moulding\\nmachine, capable of turning out a superior grade of carved moulding for interior\\ndecoration of houses, in a manner more artistic and cheaper than that done by hand.\\nHe employs a corhpetent force of assistants, and his trade extends to every hamlet,\\nvillage and town in Michigan, as also throughout the Northwest. He is known as\\none of the most expert and experienced in his line in the State, and his services are\\nin constant requisition the year round, an expression of appreciation conclusive of\\nthe confidence reposed in him by the trade and the public.", "height": "3304", "width": "1998", "jp2-path": "industriesofbayc00marq_0074.jp2"}, "75": {"fulltext": "THE INDUSTRIES OF THE BAY CITIES.\\n63\\nBISSELL MATHER.\\nHardware, Ntovrx. I liiiits. Kte.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Xo. \u00c2\u00abOI Went nidlaiul Wt.-WoHt Hay it.v.\\nThe extensive hardware house\\nnow owned and managed by T. E.\\nBissell and E. L. Mather, compos-\\ning the firm of Bissell A: Mather,\\nwas established bv H. and H. S.\\nLewis in 1881. Duriuj, 1887. the\\npresent firm purchased the busi-\\nness and have since directed its\\nuiniluct with results so prosi)er )U8\\nthat they liave been obliged to\\nularge their accommodations and\\nincrease their facilities to enable\\nthem to supply the demands of\\nthe trade. They are located at\\nNo. 201 West Midland street, a site\\nin the commercial center of West\\nBay City, adjacent to lines of trans-\\nDortation and otherwise desirable.\\nThey occupy a handsome two story\\nbrick building 2.5x12. feet in dimen-\\n-sions, attractively titled up, neatly\\nappointed and well equipped.\\nTheir stocks are very full and com-\\nplete, selected and purchased with\\ncare and at prices that enable them\\nto offer the inducements of quality and rates not excelled in the Bay Cities. Budders*^\\nsupplies are their specialty, and being provided with commodious yard and ware-\\nhouse conveniences, they handle extensive lots of shingles, sash, doors, blinds and\\nother lumber products. In hardware they are prepared to furnish all grades and\\nevery description of supplies in that line, of foreign and domestic manufacture,\\nincluding shelf and household hardware, mechanical tools, appliances and cutlery;\\nalso paints and oils, with other articles appertaining to the requirements of the\\nservice.\\nW. D. RICHARDSON.\\nSheet IKaslo, llusioal Instruments. Ntationery, School Itooks. ArtiNtH Hate-\\nrialM. Eto.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Xo. 580S Center Avenue.\\nThe enterprising music, book and stationery store of W. D. Richardson was\\nfounded in 1880 by G. E. Van Syckle. In the fall of 1887, however, Mr. Kichardson\\npurchased the establishment, and has .since directed its management and interests\\nwith steadily increasing and protitable results, that furnish ample evidence of the\\nhigh esteem in which he is held by the large trade to the wants of which he success-\\nfully ministers. Mr. Richardson is located at No. 208 Center avenue, a site of unsur-\\npassed excellence, where he occupies handsome premises, 2.5x100 feet in dimensions,\\nand furnished with all modern conveniences and facilities for the display of goods\\nand the transaction of business, and where he carries a very large ami complete\\nstock of every article adapted to the wants of the trade. His specialties are sheet\\nmusic and musical instruments of all kinds, also stationery, of which he handles the\\nleading and most select lines, both im[)orted and domestic; dealing also in school\\nbooks, elementary and advanced, of all descriptiims; miscellaneous books, blank\\nbooks, pictures, picture frames, mouldings, artists materials, nick-nacks, notions\\nand bijouterie generally. This is the only store of its kind in the city, and the trade,\\nwhich is largely local, is of no inconsiderable magnitude throughout the surrounding\\ncountry. He employs a full staff of competent and courteons assistants, and is a\\nprominent figure in commercial circles, owning an establishment of elegant and\\nremarkable features, furnishing only the best qualities in the line of goods offered,\\nand achieving a success upon the basis of deserving merit.", "height": "3304", "width": "2052", "jp2-path": "industriesofbayc00marq_0075.jp2"}, "76": {"fulltext": "64 THE INDUSTRIES OF THE BAY CITIES.\\nSELIGMAN ROSSMAN.\\n\\\\%^holesale aud Retail Clothiers\u00e2\u0080\u0094 :Ko. 1004 ^Vater iiit.\\nThe wholesale and retail clothing house of Seligman Rossman was established\\nby Joseph Seligman (brother of Little Jake Seligman, the millionaire banker of\\nEast Saginaw) and Frank Rossman, in 1880, and has grown to be one of the strongest\\nand most important, in its line, in the Lower Peninsula. They have built up a large\\nand growing business which extends in almost every direction throughout the vast\\nextent of territory naturally tributary to Bay City.\\nThey occupy the two-story and basement building, 25x100 feet in size, at No. 1004\\nWater street, commodious premises, handsomely and accessibly located, and con-\\nveniently arranged for purposes of the trade. The basement is used for the storage\\nof stock, the first floor for the display and sales departments, and the second floor as\\nthe merchant tailoring department, in which every facility is furnished for the\\nmaking up of garments in the latest style of fashion, or as the taste of customers\\nmay suggest. They carry very large stocks of ready-made clothing, products of the\\nbest Eastern manufactories, selected with discriminating care, and suited to toe\\nrequirements of the trade. They also keep on hand equally large supplies of hats,\\ncaps, furnishing goods, boots and shoes, notions, and special lines of garments\\nadapted to the substantial wear required in the lumber mills. They do a large and\\nannually increasing trade in Bay City and vicinity, besides supplying a demand\\namong lumbermen and farmers throughout the North and West portions of the State,\\nand giving employment to a full force of clerks and salesmen.\\nThe members of the firm are active, enterprising citizens and merchants, who\\nhave a large capital invested, and have done much to develop the industrial resources\\nof this section. Their house stands very high in commercial circles, and the trade\\nit enjoys is the product of its enterprise, the quality of its output and its fidelity to\\ncorrect business methods.\\nWILLIAM LOOSE.\\nMnfr. and Dealer in Furniture and Fiineral Director\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Midland and Henry Sts.\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nl\u00c2\u00a5estBay City.\\nOne of the oldest manufacturers of, and dealers in furniture in Bay County, is\\nMr. William Loose, whose place of business is at the corner of Midland and Henry\\nstreets. West Bay City. Beginning operations in a small way during 1864, he has\\ngrown with the years, extending his field of usefulness, and building up a trade,\\nboth extensive and prosperous. He owns and occupies an imposing brick building\\nat the corner above stated, one of the most accessible and desirable locations for\\ntrade in the city. The premises are three stories high, 50x100 feet in dimensions,\\nfinely furnished and equipped, with large and attractive show windows, also every\\nconvenience for the display of stock, or the transaction of business. He carries very\\nlarge and complete lines of everything in the way of furniture, or appertaining\\nthereto. On the main floor are bedroom suites, wardrobes, cabinets, etageres, side-\\nboards, chiffoniers, book cases, parlor tables, etc., in the latest and most artistic\\ndesigns, in black walnut, panelled oak, mahogany, rosewood, and other choice\\nwoods. The upholstery department occupies the second floor, embracing beautiful\\nparlor suites, easy chairs, fancy occasional chairs, tete-a-tetes, etc., finished in rich vel-\\nvets, silk, brocatelle, satin, etc., of the best material, and sold at the most reasonable\\nprices. This floor also contains au infinite variety of bric-a-brac and small articles\\nappropriate to parlor and drawing room decoration. The third floor is devoted to\\nthe display of chairs and medium grades of furniture. The concern as a whole is\\nnot surpassed in the State in point of equipment and stock, and does a large and\\nsteadily increasing trade in Bay City, West Bay City and throughout the sur-\\nrounding country.\\nMr. Loose is also an undertaker and has been for many years. He furnishes\\ncaskets of all descriptions, hearse, carriages and the entire outfit for funerals, and\\ngives his personal attention to duties incident to that department.", "height": "3304", "width": "1998", "jp2-path": "industriesofbayc00marq_0076.jp2"}, "77": {"fulltext": "THE INDUSTRIES OF THE BAY CITIES.\\nG5\\nSEE BROTHERS.\\nnanufbctiirerM uii i l 4 al\u00c2\u00ab rM in Furiiituro. IpliolNtrrint;. i-tr\\na*\u00c2\u00abliiiiUl ii and Adanix.\\nnf\u00c2\u00ab r St. bet.\\nThe furniture and npliolsteriny iioiist- of See Brothers, was established in 18S(\\nby James A. See and John A. See, and has ^rowu to be one of the largest and most\\nconspicuous of any enterprise of its kind in\\nthis [jortiou of the State. The brothers are\\ngo ahead, enterprising men, and have\\nsecured an enviable reputation and a sub-\\nstantial success in the management aqd\\ndirection of their large establishment.\\nThey are located in Shearer s new block.\\nCenter street, between Washington and\\nAdams streets, a coign of vantage, so to\\nspeak, unsurpassed for business purposes.\\nThe {)reniises consist of thirteen spacious\\nfloors, giving an area of HO.OOO square feet\\ntloor room\u00e2\u0080\u0094 being the whole of a four-story\\nbuilding, and the three ujjper (ioors of each\\nof the three adjoining buildings. Each\\nfloor is a department in itself, stocked with\\nfull lines of the commodities carried, easy\\nof access by means of the improved elevator\\nservice employed, and handsomely and con-\\n%-eniently adapted to special uses. The\\nfirst floor is aj)proi)riated to the display of\\nvery elegant lines of bed-room suites and\\nfancy articles; the second floor\u00e2\u0080\u0094 covering four stores to a superb exposition of", "height": "3304", "width": "2052", "jp2-path": "industriesofbayc00marq_0077.jp2"}, "78": {"fulltext": "66\\nTHE INDUSTRIES OF THE BAY CITIES.\\ningrain, Brussels, velvet and Moquet car-\\npets and rugs, and where the stock is as\\nlarge ami varied as that of any establish-\\nment, dealing exclusively in those goods.\\nThe third floor also covering four stores\\nis in part occupied with artistic, high class,\\nand medium bed-room sets in mahogany,\\npanel oak, walnut, cherry, maple and other\\nchoice woods, where also are to be found\\nfancy tables, chairs, book-cases, davenports,\\nbrackets, etc.; the remaining space on this\\nfloor to the display of their magnificent\\nupholstery. Here may be viewed drawing-\\nroom and parlor suites, occasional chairs\\nand divans, etc., of the rarest woods, and\\nelegant designs, upholstered in rep, velvet,\\nbrocaded silk and satin, the upholstering\\nof which is done by the firm. Here also are\\nto be seen sideboards, etageres, escritoires,\\nhall stands, brackets, knick-knacks, etc., in\\nthe latest designs and bewildering varieties.\\nThe fourth floors are used for upholstering\\nand finishing, and as the store room for a large surplus of medium grades of\\nupholstered goods. A large and varied line of baby carriages are also kept. This\\nhouse is the largest of its description in the Valley, giving employment to from fifteen\\nto twenty-five skilled workmen, and doing a large trade in the city and the tributary\\ncountry.\\nThe firm members possess the confidence of the trade and the commercial com-\\nmunity. The house is representative of its class in the State, and the large trade\\nenjoyed is the natural result of the superior advantages offered purchasers in price\\nand products.\\nW. S. GILMORE.\\nPersonal Security Bank\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Ko. 817 Xortli Water St.\\nThe Personal Security Bank was established by W. L. Root, in 1874. and in\\nSeptember, 1887, he disposed of his interest to W. S. Gilmore, who has since directed\\nthe management with ability and liberahty. Its line of operations includes the dis-\\ncounting of paper, advances upon mortgages, lauds, farms, farm stock, logs, lumber,\\ncollaterals of market value, and personal security. The business has steadily\\nincreased in volume, and is characterized by fair dealing and honorable business\\nmethods.", "height": "3304", "width": "1998", "jp2-path": "industriesofbayc00marq_0078.jp2"}, "79": {"fulltext": "THE INDUSTRIES OF THE BAY CITIES. C7\\nPRATT KOEPPE.\\nArchit \u00c2\u00ab-tM and Mii|u riiil\u00c2\u00ab-ii l\u00c2\u00abMitH -Oflirr \\\\o. 5 ltaiik|ltiiil\u00c2\u00ablini;. 4 -iif cr SI.\\nAmonp the most prominent arcbitects anil building superintendents in Hny City,\\nis the firm of Pratt t Koeppe, made up of Leverett A. I ratt and Walter Koeppe.\\nMr. Pratt has enjoyed a professional e.xperieuce of nearly twenty years, and Mr.\\nKoeppe twelve years experience amou|^ the craft, and both have designed and super-\\nintended the erection of some of the most notable business and residence structures\\nin the State. The present partnership was organized in 18H0. and since that date,\\nthey have been constantly occupied in the application of their art to the constrnction\\nand remodelling of edifices, paying special attention to ecclesiastical and school\\narchitecture. Among the buildings tliey planned and directed erection or remodel-\\nling of, is the St. James Roman Catholic church, the Industrial Works block, the\\nWarren, Averill, Concordia, Miller, Eickmeyer and other public buildings; also every\\npublic school edifice in Bay City, with one exception, with very many private resi-\\ndences here and elsewhere. Their work during the season of 1888 embraced the\\nSmalley Brothers and W. II. Miller Sc Co. s new warehouses on Saginaw street, the\\nresidences of Mr. Cheseboro, W. L. Clements, L. Goechel, O. A. Watrous, George\\nLewis, II. C. Hitchcock and others; the Farragut and Fremont avenue school build-\\nings, all in Bay City; the residence of the Hon. S. O. Fisher, the finest in this dis-\\ntrict, and the Kolb school in West Bay City; the court house, sheriff s residence and\\njail, the Roman Catholic church, and two fine residences at West Branch; three\\nschool buildings, the opera house and Baptist church at Midland; hotel, store\\nblock and Catholic church at (iladwin; Roman Catholic churches at Essexville,\\nAlpena, Merrill and Mount Holly; town-hall at Metamora; court house at Mio,\\nschool building at Sterling, large warehouse at Columbiaville, and many smaller\\nbuildings, etc. They possess the highest order of abilities and are familiar with the\\nrequirements of every school of design, bringing to their professional aid not only\\nthese but other qualities of excellence.\\nThey are located in suite five, Bank building, Center avenue, and respond to\\napplications for services from all parts of the State.\\nHULL TILTON.\\nDruKSi^^tN and IMiarniaoistH\u00e2\u0080\u0094 \\\\o. 40!8 Center Ave.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Proscriptions a Speoialty.\\nThe drug house of Hull Tilton, though a recent acquisition to the commercial\\ninterests of Bay Citv, is daily growing in importance and tiiiaucial prosperity, carry-\\ning a large stock and covering, in its transactions, a wide growing demand. C. W.\\nHull, the senior partner, had up to March, 1888, been in the employ of L. S. Coman;\\nwhile B. E. Tilton had up to the same time been associated with the firm of Mason\\n.V: Beach, both representative and prominent drug houses of Bay City. At the date\\nlast mentioned, liowever, Hull it Tilton began business for themselves, and estab-\\nlished the present firm, which is rapidly increasing its trade as a result of the\\nsuperior selection of stock, the prices asked and the equity and accuracy attending\\nthe transaction of business. They occupy the main lloor and basement at_ No. 402\\nCenter avenue, a location unsurpassed for mercantile purposes, fronting 25 feet on\\nthe avenue, with a depth of 100 feet, handsomely fitted up. and arranged in a manner\\nespecially attractive, at the same time with commemlable regard to the requirements\\nand conveniences of the trade. They carry large and complete stocks of every com-\\nmodity catalogued on the invoice of druggists supplies, embracing drugs, chemicals\\nand druggists sundries, surgical instruments and appliances of the best make, choice\\nperfumery and toilet articles, homn opathic medicines, specially sui)erior wines and\\ncordials for medicinal uses, and the bric-a-brac and delicate textured notions, sucli\\nas soaps, brushes, pomailes, etc., kept in first-class establishments of the kind. They\\nalso deal largely in cigars of the choicest imported, Key West and domestic brands.\\nTheir specialty is the compounding of pre.scriptions. which are prepared with the\\ngreatest care and from the purest materials. They emplov a staff of thoroughly\\ncompetent assistants, and do a high-class trade with residents of Bay City and\\nvicinity, as also among transients.\\nThe members of the firm are experienced chemists, and the outlook for business\\nis in the last degree encouraging.", "height": "3304", "width": "2052", "jp2-path": "industriesofbayc00marq_0079.jp2"}, "80": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3304", "width": "1998", "jp2-path": "industriesofbayc00marq_0080.jp2"}, "81": {"fulltext": "THE INDUSTRIES OF THE BAY CITIES. 69\\nM. GARLAND,\\nMtandard Mm -iiiii4 r. WorkM ami .Hill HuppI.V lloiiHe\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Xo. 711 Wator Nt.\\nThe Standard ^lacbinery Works and Mill Supply Hou8e is a consolidation of two\\nlarge enterprises. Mr. M. Garland established the mill supply business in 1876, and\\nhas recently secured exclusive ownership of the Standard Machinery Works, com-\\nbining the two enterprises in one establishment, and greatly augmenting the facilities\\nfor 8npi)lying a large and rapidly increasing trade. He is a practical engineer and\\nmachinist, and possesses an inventive genius, that, during his career, has found fre-\\nquent expression in the discovery of mechanical aids and appliances, that enhanced\\nin value with years, and with the years have come into general use. When but a boy\\nof twelve, he was the responsible engineer in his father s saw-mill, and the ability he\\nhas since displayed in the field of mechanics, doubtless received its tirst impetus\\nfrom the experience acquired at the primitive backwoods enterprise of a former gener-\\nation. From 1870 to 1885, the firm of Emery Garland controlled the works,\\n.since when Mr. Garland has directed their operations, assisted by his son, Henry W.\\nOarland, who has inherited in no small degree the genius and practical business\\nability possessed by the father, and who has charge of the office affairs of the con-\\ncern, and looks after its financial interests.\\nThe machine shop is located at the corner of Twenty-sixth and Water streets, in\\na substantially constructed building, two stories high and 60x100 feet in proportions,\\nantl furnished with all the latest tools and machinery, many of which are his own\\ninvention, re(iuisite to the business conducted. His line of manufacture embraces\\neverything known to the domain of special machinery or labor-saving devices used\\nin saw-mills, planing mills, box factories and other industrial establishments, oper-\\nated either by steam or water power. They include Garland s improved saw-dust\\nand fuel feeder. Garland s improved slab and edging cutter, Garland s patent\\nsteam log deck. Garland s live roll lumber trimmer, Garland s patent cable power\\ntransmission, and conveyers for conveying saw-dust, coal, iron, grain, etc., Kline s\\nsteam log roller and steam power cutting saw, the Eureka combined gang\\nbolter and lath mill, stave and heading machinery, etc. He is also agent\\nfor the machinery of E. P. Allis k Co., and Filer, Stowell fe Co., for the Wicke s\\ngang and Simoud s saws, and Prescott s steam feed; Hill s niggers, Covel s saw\\nsharpeners and swages. His specialty is the designing of machinery adapted\\nto special purposes, and the planning and construction of saw-mills. In these\\ndepartments he enjoys unexceptional advantages and has unrivalled facilities. He\\nemploys a force of thirty experienced and accomi)li8hed operatives at the works, and\\na staff of draughtsmen, designers and clerks at the office, anti his trade extends all over\\nthe Union, he having but recently completed saw-mil Is at Louisville, Ky., at points in\\nthe lumber districts of Arizona, Texas, Mississippi, Georgia, the Carolinas and else-\\nwhere, where first-claes work is indispensable to the service demanded. He furnishes\\nmills with any equipment from a complete outfit, insuring perfection in construction,\\nand guaranteeing every article sent out by the Standard.\\nThe trade of the works has shown a steady increase since their organization.\\nThe products are in demand throughout the country, and their quality and durability,\\nwhich are universally conceded, speak in no uncertain lanuuage a tribute to the\\nsuccess of the uudertaking, and the ability with which Mr. Garland directs its\\nmanagement.\\nA. TROMBLEY.\\nRoot an;! Itircli It\u00c2\u00abM r, iii|;er Ale. Pop aii\u00c2\u00abl 4 i\u00c2\u00abl\u00c2\u00ab r M\\\\7 FirHt St.\\nA leading establishment, engaged in the exclusive manufacture of this line of\\nproducts, is that of A. Tronil)ley, who began the business in 1876, and for upward of\\ntwelve years has enjoyed an uninterrupted prosperity. He is located at Xo. )07 First\\nstreet, corner of Jefferson, in i)reniise8 two stories high and jr)x80 feet in dimensions.\\nHis equipment embraces a complete outfit of I). PulTer A- Sons machinery and\\nappliances, for the making of the choicest quality of goods in his line, and he has\\ncompleted arrangements for the introduction of steam apparatus, for the manufac-\\nture of mineral waters, which are now made by hand. He employs a staff of assist-\\nants and two wagons, to meet the demands of a trade that is large and increasing, in\\nBay City and the surrounding country.", "height": "3304", "width": "2052", "jp2-path": "industriesofbayc00marq_0081.jp2"}, "82": {"fulltext": "THE INDUSTRIES OF THE BAY CITIES.\\nHAWLEY FITZGERALD.\\nWholesale and Retail Dry CioodH and Carpets\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Xos. 312 and 314 Center St.\\n-Hitr\\ni- i 111 s.\\nThe wholesale and retail dry goods house of Hawley Fitzgerald is the oldest\\nin its line in Bay City, and one of the most prosperous and ably managed in the\\nState, owning and directing, in addition to the business here, branch establishments\\nat Alpena and Oscota. The foundation for the present large enterprise was laid by\\nMr. C. R. Hawley in 1865, in this city, where he managed his investments and\\ncontrolled affairs, with annually increasing success, for a period of eighteen years.\\nIn 1883, the present firm, composed of C. R. Hawley, B. M. Hawley and J. W.\\nFitzgerald, was organized.\\nThey occupy the handsome three-story and basement stone-front building at\\nNos. 312 and 314 Center street, the most fashionable promenade in the city, and\\nunsurpassed as a business location. In addition to this, the building is otherwise\\nadvantageous, being 50x120 feet in dimensions, and handsomely and conveniently\\nappointed and arranged, for sales and display purposes. The stocks carried are\\nheavy, embracing full and complete lines of linens, domestics, prints, dress goods,\\nin silk, velvet and satin; embroideries, laces, gloves, hose, shawls, coats, cloaks,\\nladies furnishings, notions, nick-nacks, toilet articles, bijouterie, etc., etc., in great\\nvariety, and of the best qualities. They have also a dressmaking department\\nconnected with the store proper, wherein twenty hands are employed, and where the\\nmost fashionable garments are made, under the direction of an accomplished lady\\ntailor, equaling in cut, style, make and trimmings, the exquisite productions of the\\nmost artistic purveyor in this special line. They also employ a force of twenty\\nclerks and salesmen, in addition to the staffs employed at Alpena and Oscota, which\\nare severally managed, by J. W. Fitzgerald at the former, and N. G. McPhee at the\\nlatter city. They do a large business in Bay City and vicinity, with a considerable\\njobbing business in Northern and Northwestern Michigan.", "height": "3304", "width": "1998", "jp2-path": "industriesofbayc00marq_0082.jp2"}, "83": {"fulltext": "THE INDUSTRIES OF THE BAY CITIES.\\nMcCASKILL, TROMBLEY BROWN.\\nl eal4TM ill l*iii\u00c2\u00ab IIuimIwimmI liUiiilMT and \u00c2\u00a3iOgN^\\\\ o. 700 Xortii W utor Hi.\\nAmong the promineut concerns thiit have contributed in no small degree to\\nbuilding up and promoting the manufacture, particularly of hardwood lumber, none\\noccupy a more enviable position than the firm of McCaskill, Trombley and Brown,\\ncomposed of T. McCaskill, D. H. Trombley and C. T. Brown. The firm was\\norganized in 1886 and, brought to the consummation of its objects, a thorough know-\\nledge of the business upon which it had entered, large capital and familiarity with\\nthe trade which it supplies. They have met with an abundant success, and have\\nmaterially aided to swell the trade in lumber products from the Saginaw Valley.\\nTheir logs are purch. ised by agents of the tirm, owners of stumpage grounds,\\nthe latter delivering the purchases at convenient mills, where they are cut and\\nthence shipped to the order of the firm, to points east and south. They also sell\\nlogs to mills that are without stock, or purchase logs from owners without mill\\nfacilities, and contract witli such mills to saw the same. Their operations are of a\\nvery extensive character, involving the entire seasons out of many mills and indirectly\\nfurnishing employment to a correspondingly large force of hands, clerks and assist-\\nants.\\nThey are located at No. 709 North Water street and make a specialty of hard-\\nwood lumber adapted to the furniture and car trade, though handling very large\\nquantities of pine lumber, which are shipped to the eastern markets, the hardwood\\nbeing disposed of to factories west and south. During the season of 1888, they dis-\\nposed of about 8,000,000 feet of this latter commodity, besides contracting for the\\ndeliverv of even larger amounts for 1889, one contract alone including the delivery\\nof 5,00(5,000 feet and upwards.\\nTheir business, especially that of making Bay City a source of supply for hard-\\nwood lumber, is steadily increasing and extending, and the firm is more extensively\\noperating in the development of the latter than any other house similarly engaged\\nin Bay City. They are enterprising, energetic, representative men and well deserve\\nthe large measure of success which attends their efforts.\\nH. E. MEEKER CO.\\nWholesale and Retail lUK-erieoi and Provisionoi\u00e2\u0080\u0094 UJOC and lOOH li^ aterWt.\\nOne of the long established and prosperous commercial houses in Bay City, is the\\nwholesale grocery establishment of H. E. Meeker ifc Co. A house that is old without\\nbearing marks of decay, progressive in its policy, liberal in its dealings, enterprising\\nin its management and successful in its career, it occupies a front rank in mercantile\\ncircles, and an enviable position in the domain of trade. The business was founded\\nin 1872, under the firm name of Meeker Adams, which remained unchanged until\\nthe Spring of 1887. when Mr. Adams retired, and S. F. (Jreenizan purchasing his\\ninterest, the present tirm was organized. At the same time, the premises occupied\\nwere reconstructed, improved and enlarged, furnished with an entirely new and fresh\\nstock of goods, and supj)lied with every convenience and auxiliary that would\\nfacilitate the dispatch of business, or contribute to the re ]uirements of the trade.\\nThey are located at Nos. 1006 and 1008 Water street, in two-story and basement\\npremises, 60x100 feet in dimensions, occupying in addition, the commodious basements\\nof the stores adjoining, which are used for storage and warehouse purposes. The\\nmain sales-room is handsomely appointed, having very much the apjiearance of an\\nItalian warehouse, as was recently remarked by a competent critic, so profu.se is\\nthe display there of potted meats, preserved fruits, delicacies, etc. The stock carried\\nincludes all lines of staple and fancy groceries, condiments, preserves, fruits, jirovi-\\nsions, etc., in varied antl complete assortment, the firm also handling orders for boat\\nand lumber supplies, having special arrangements for promi)tly and satisfactorily\\ntilling same. They employ a force of twelve courteous assistants, operate three\\nwagons, and supply a large local demand, in addition to serving an extentive jobbing\\ntrade in the northern and northwestern portions of the State.\\nThe individual composition of the firm are men of enterprise and practical experi-\\nence, and the manner in which the business is conducted has inspired contidence\\namong a large and valuable constituency.", "height": "3304", "width": "2052", "jp2-path": "industriesofbayc00marq_0083.jp2"}, "84": {"fulltext": "THE INDUSTRIES OF THE BAY CITIES.\\nHITCHCOCK BIALY,\\nManufacturers Band iSawed Pine and IIardi;\\\\ ood JLuniber\u00e2\u0080\u0094 2412 South M^ater.\\nWhat is known as tlie finest band mill in the Valley, is owned and operated by\\nthe firm of Hitchcock Bialy. It is also one of the oldest mills in the city, having\\nbeen established in 1852 by H. D. Braddock Co., for the purpose of supplying the\\ndemands of that period with ship timber. During the years immediately ensuing,\\nthe concern passed through a varied experience, its management was several times\\nchanged, and the plant several times rebuilt.\\nIn 1867, Mr. Hitchcock, of the present firm, succeeded to the ownership, and in\\n1872 the firm of Hitchcock it Ingraham was organized, so continuing until 1876,\\nwhen through the death of Mr. Ingraham the firm was dissolved, Mr. Hitchcock\\ncontinuing the business as sole owner from that time until 1885, when the firm of\\nHitchcock Bialy was established. During 1886 it was supplied with band saw\\nappurtenances, and as stated, enjoys the reputation of the finest band mill in the\\nValley. 4_ 1 t ^J \u00e2\u0080\u00a2ipfSJiwij\\nThe saw-mill is a commodious structure 150x100 feet in size, and furnished with\\na full and valuable line of machinery, adapted to the requirements of the manu-\\nfacture, which includes band and circular saws and steam feeds, which, with other\\nmechanical devices and labor-saving appliances, are driven by two powerful engines\\nof eighty-five and one hundred horse-power, respectively, fed by four steel tubular\\nboilers, each four by twenty-two feet in dimensions. The value of the band saw\\nconsists in the capacity it possesses of turning out a greater product per log than\\neither the gang or circular saw, its blade being so fine that very little waste of\\nmaterial attends its operation. The result is that the band saw is gradually taking\\nthe place of other patterns, and where both are used the choice logs from which fine\\nlumber is obtained go to the band saw. Its value, if only as a device for the pro-\\nmotion of economy, cannot be too highly estimated, and the precedent established by\\nHitchcock Bialy in its general adoption, must in a brief time be adopted almost\\nuniversally. The capacity of the mill is stated at 12,000,000 feet of lumber and\\n3,000,000 of lath, affording employment to a force of sixty hands and six teams, and\\nsupplying an extensive and rapidly increasing and extending demand throughout\\nMichigan and the eastern states. The firm also conduct logging operations during\\nthe winter, and give employment to sixty men in that branch of the business.\\nThe members of the firm are men whose enterprise and business methods are too\\nwell known and too highly esteemed to require comment. The reputation of the\\nenterprise and its product is as substantial as it is deserved.\\nJ. E. BASSINGWAITE CO.\\nL iverj- and Hoarding; Stable\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Saginaw St. bet, Center and Sivth Sts.\\nJ. E. Bassingwaite Co. carry on one of the most complete in equipment,\\naccessibly located and generally patronized livery and boarding stables in Bay City.\\nThey established the business in November, 1887. commencing in a small way and\\ncoming into prominence and popvilarity through their possession of meritorious\\nqualities, and their exercise of enterprise and honorable methods in their transactions\\nwith patrons and the public. Their stables, situated on Saginaw street, between\\nCenter and Sixth, a site of superior excellence, are 50x120 feet in dimensions, of\\nwood, affording ample accommodations and supplied with conveniences for sanitary\\npurposes, and the safe removal of the animals in case of fire. In this latter particular\\nthe premises are specially desirable, the stables, carriage houses, harness rooms and\\noffices being on the ground floor, whence exit is easy of accomplishment, and by\\nnumerous means. They carry sufficient stock, in point of numbers, to meet the select\\ndemand to which they cater, many of the horses being high priced as roadsters,\\ntogether with a full equipment of carriages, buggies, sleighs, cutters and other con-\\nveyances, also other aids and auxiliaries in the line of robes, horse clothing, harness,\\netc., etc. Besides their own horses, among which is a very valuable pacer, they board\\na number of gentlemen s driving animals, and establishments. They employ a com-\\npetent force of hands, and do a large and steadily increasing local trade.", "height": "3304", "width": "1998", "jp2-path": "industriesofbayc00marq_0084.jp2"}, "85": {"fulltext": "77/ A- INDUSTRIES OF THE HAY CITIES.\\n7?\\nSHORE BOATS.\\nIXiroit, Mny i \\\\ty and .\\\\lp na Line l o\u00c2\u00abk. Foot or Fifth !Ht.\\nThe facilitien for tranfl-\\nportation by water enjfjyed\\nby the iJay CitieH, are in no\\nHmall meaaiire entitled to\\npre ^;e Ierjce anions aj^euciea\\nthat liave f;reated and pro-\\nmoted i\\\\ic\\\\T prosperity.\\nfc }f2 _^ y _ JZ- KailwayB lon^ BJnce ceased\\nn\u00e2\u0084\u00a2*^^ mLr~-^ 7~ experiment, anfl\\ny^^ *^;p wr^^ r^ utc^^-^f^^ ^^^^^^rrS r* faf with their (growth travel by\\nwater has not been so\\n^{eneral. A leading line of\\nsteamers, which maintains\\nits ascondaiioy, is that opuratfid between Bay (yity and Alpena. It was establJHhe*!\\nby OaritiH Cole and Ira F. Holt, in \\\\HT.i, and durinjj the season of navijjation is the\\nfavorite route to the upper lakes and intermediate ports. The steamers employed in\\nthis line, the Arnnrlel and Metropolis, are staunch and seaworthy models of\\nmarine architecture, rapid sailers, and furnished and equipped with every luxury and\\nconvenience that can in any way contribute to the comfort or safety of passengers.\\nThey are commanded by skillful and experienced navigators, leave opposite ports\\ndaily, ari l make the trip from dock to dock in less than ffnirteen hours. They make\\ndirect connection at Hay T ity with railway communication to the East, South and\\nWest, and at Alpena for the Mackinaws and other points north and in Canada. They\\noffer superior inducements in the way of rates, fare and accommodations to travelers\\nand freighters, and for spf-ed and reliability are not surpassed by any similar enter-\\nprise on the lakes.\\nThe ownc^rs i f the line are among the oldest in the business. Captain Cole having\\nbeen [(rf)prietor of the first line of steamers to ply Vjetween the liay Cities and the\\n8aginaws, while fyajttain Holt has been equally prominent and influential in marine\\ncircles. The company s docks are at the foot of Fifth street, and the business is\\nmanaged by H. Lee, to whose efforts the popularity of the line has been enhanced\\nand extended. A force of sixty hands are employed in the management of the\\nsteamers.\\nBAY CITY STEAM BOTTLING WORKS.\\nH. I ittiiuer -Corner Fourth anil Wator HIm.\\nOne of the oldest establishments in the Valley, devoted to the sale of importetl\\nwines, liquors and oigars, is the Bay City Steam Bottling Works, owned and conducted\\nby Mr. S. Littauer. by whom it was founded in IHfj. being ai.so known to the trade as\\nthe liodega. He is located at the corner f)f Ff)urth and Water streets, the\\npremises occupied having a frontage of 2. feet on Water street, with a depth of 120\\nfeet on Fourth street, a site for commercial purposes iinsurpaHsed, and equipped with\\nevery convenience and facility for the display of goods and the transaction of\\nbusiness. The stock carried is large and varied, including the choicest brands of\\nliqueurs, cordials, brandies, wines and whiskies. In addition, he carries a full line of\\nimported Havana cigars; also Key West and other domestic manufactures, both in\\ncigars and tol accr)s, ami his long experience and consequent familiarity with the\\nrequireinents of the trade, aids in his catering to all branches of the business in a\\nmanner most successful and profitable. He also bottles beer, of which he has the\\nentire control of the Detroit Brewing Co. s fine liohemian Lager for this section, as\\nalso ale and porter, in which he does an extensive trade, and owns large warehouses\\nand i ;e-houses for the sur|ilus stocks of his commodities, on Michigan entral tracks,\\naccessible and convenient for the receipt or shipment of goods. His business is\\nmanaged according to the most e iuitable business methods, and the purity and\\nsuperiority of his stock, have not only given him an extended trade in Bay City and\\nthrouglK)ut the V^alley, but made his undertaking jjrominent among the leading\\ninterests in this section.", "height": "3304", "width": "2052", "jp2-path": "industriesofbayc00marq_0085.jp2"}, "86": {"fulltext": "4 THE INDUSTRIES OF THE BAY CITIES.\\nTHE VALLEY SOAP CO.\\nSetli McL eaii \u00c2\u00abK F. Li. M estover. Proprietors\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Twenty-sixth, near Water St.\\nThe most recent establishment in the line of uuiniifacturing industries, located\\nin Bay City, with full equipment for a successful and prosperous career, is the\\nA alley Soap Company. It was organized early in 1888, by Seth McLean and F. L.\\nWestover, both representatives of the type of manhood to whom Bay City owes its\\nimportance and prominence as a producing and trade center.\\nThe company occupy commodious premises on Twenty-sixth street near Water,\\nThey consist of a one-story building oOx iOO feet in dimensions, and well lighted\\nand ventilated, an annex 3l)xl00 feet, and a brick boiler and engine house. The\\nmachinery and appliances required, are of a special character, made expressly for\\nthe purpose, the saap being manufactured uuder a special process, the company s\\ninvention, for which the machinery ordinarily employed in establishments of a\\nsimilar character would be inadequate. The range of products turned out embrace\\nevery grade of soap from the tinest to ordinary, in the line of toilet, bath and laundry,\\ncomposed of the best materials and employing the most skillful operatives in its\\ncompounding and manufacture. A force of competent hands ranging in number\\nfrom t\u00c2\u00ab-enty-tive and upward, as the requirements of the business demand,\\nare retained in the constant service of the company, and when run to their full\\ncapacity, the works turn out a total of one thousand boxes of soap per week. The\\ntrade which is steadily increasing, locally and throughout the State, extends also\\ninto Indiana. Illinois, Ohio, Wisconsin and elsewhere, where the product of the\\ncompany has become known and valued as an article of absolute worth.\\nThe gentlemen composing the tirm are representatives of the commercial and\\nmanufacturing circles of Bay City, who in the founding of the Valley Soap Company\\nand of other enterprises have manifested their public spirit and business sagacity.\\nMr. McLean is also head of the extensive firm of S. McLean, Sou Co., lumber and\\nsalt manufacturers, and Mr. Westover is conspicuous in other fields of useful-\\nness. The company began its career uuder the most favorable auspices, and its\\nsuccess has been correspondingly substantial and prompt.\\nDAUNT SHARP.\\nCarriases and Sleiaiis\u00e2\u0080\u0094 \\\\os. 1108. IIIO. 1113 lll.\u00c2\u00bb Washington Ave.\\nThe largest carriage factory in Bay City, carrying a heavy stock and doing a large\\ntrade, is that of Daunt k Sharp, composetl of William J. Daunt and Edgar M. Sharp,\\nAlong in 1879 Mr. Daunt established the firm of Daunt k Smith, which was con-\\ntinued one year, when Mr. Sharp purchased the Smith interest and the present firm\\nwas organized, and has enjoyed a successful career. They occupy commodious\\npremises at Nos. 1108, 1110, 1113 and 1115 Washington avenue, a location of great\\ndesirability and convenience, consisting of a two-story brick building, 50x120 feet in\\ndimensions, well fitted up, apportioned aud appointed, and supplied with requisite\\nmachinery. The main fioor is used for manufacturing purposes, the painting aud\\nfinishing rooms, with a handsome suite of otHces being upon the floor above, and\\nthe repository or display warehouse in the two-story building, 50x120 feet in size,\\ndirectly opposite the factory on Washington avenue. Their line of manufacture\\nembraces only the highest class of vehicles, from the best materials and constructed\\nin the most attractive styles. They include buggies and carriages of every descrip-\\ntion, sleighs, cutters, bobs, etc., in all of which they carry full lines, from which to\\nmake selections. They employ a force of thirty experienced operatives, and supply\\na large and substautial demand in Bay City and vicinity, as also throughout the\\nState, north to Sault Ste. Marie and in the extreme northwestern sections.\\nMr. Daunt is a native of Rome, N. Y., and settled here in 1874. Mr. Sharp comes\\nfrom Mount Morris, also in New York, and located in Bay City during 1871. Both\\ngentlemen are practical business men of large experience, pushing, energetic and\\nenterprising. Their house is the only one in its line in tlie city carrying a full stock,\\nand the large trade which it supplies is expressive of the confidence in which the\\nproducts are held.", "height": "3304", "width": "1998", "jp2-path": "industriesofbayc00marq_0086.jp2"}, "87": {"fulltext": "THE INDUSTRIES OF THE BAY CITIES.\\nJ. E. HAWKINS CO.\\nWlioleMalt uimI K\u00c2\u00ab taii fjlrorerH\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Xo. 714) aMhiiiKtoii Am*.\\nThe necessity for firet-claes commodities in the line of supplies carried by dealers\\nin srroceries and provifiiooR, is bo universally conceded, as to leave no room for\\nargument. liay City is peculiarly favored in this resiiect, and a larj^e and steadily\\nincreasinii, [)atronaj^e as steadily expresses its substantial appreciation of the care\\nexercised in the behalf mentioned Vjy the firm of J. E. Hawkins k Co. The house\\nwas established in 188f5, and its indiN-idual composition J. E. Hawkins, John N.\\nMcDonald, and John A. McDonald -is a guaranty of its worth, commercially, finan-\\ncially and in other respects. They are all representative men, the Messrs. McDonald\\nbeing owners of the liay City Flouring Mills, the first merchant llouring mills in the\\ncity, with a present daily capacity of I. jO Ijarrels, and whose brand Gold Dust is\\nesteemed the best Hour on the market; men with large interests and responsibilities,\\nwho bring tf) the management of business undertakings, enterprise, commercial\\nexperience and methods. Under such influences was the firm of J. E. Hawkins it Co.\\ncreated, and under such influences has its operations been conducted. They are\\nvery desiral ly located at No. 710 Washington street, opposite the postoflice, in the\\nbusiness center of the city, and carry heavy and complete lines of goods adapted to\\nthe trade. They occupy the main floor and basement of the buildmg, commodious\\nquarters, 2.0x100 feet in dimeDsions, arranged, convenienced and e iuipped with all\\nrequisite accommodations for trjide and display purposes. Their stock embraces the\\npurest and freshest commodities in the several lines of staple and fancy groceries,\\nteas, coffees, sugars, etc., potted and canned meats, condiments and delicacies, fruits\\nand confectioueries, foreign and domestic; provisions, lumbermen s, farmers and boat\\nsupplies, etc., in great variety and of unexcelled quality. They employ an adequate\\nforce of assistants, and cater to a tine family retail trade in the city and country, as\\nalso to the supplying of farmers, boats, etc., and conduct an extensive jobbing business\\nin Northern Michigan. The facilities possessed by the Hrm, the purity of their goods,\\nand their equitable business career, have not only contributed to swell the volume of\\ntrade, but afford indubitable and invaluable evidence of the material of which the\\ncommercial circles of Bay City are composed.\\nWILLIAM H. NEWCOMBE.\\n4i; ii\u00c2\u00ab riil ItlackMiiiitli and arfia;;4 Haker\u00e2\u0080\u0094 HarriNun St. bet. A ZA and .i .iA Stw.\\nG A manufacturing industry of comparatively recent establishment, but which has\\nsucceeded in the most decided manner, is the blacksmith and carriage works of\\nWilliam H. Newcombe, located on Harrison street, between Thirty-second and\\nThirty-third streets, in South Bay City. The concern was organized under the firm\\nname of Newcombe Ar Wititerhalter, in 1885, and continued operations under their\\njoint management until June, 1888, when Mr. Newcombe purchased his partner s\\ninterest, and has since remained sole owner of the plant. The premises at the above\\ndesignated site on Harrison street are commodious, and were erected for the special\\noccupation of manufacturing industries. They consist of a two-story building,\\n40x100 feet in size, occupied as a carriage factory and ware-room, and well eqtiipped\\nfor either purpose. To the rear of this is the blacksmith shop, in dimensions 100x5(\\nfeet, and equally convenienced and adapted to the line of work carried on therein.\\nHis range of manufacture embraces every description of vehicle, including carriages,\\nbuggies, trotting wagons, skeletons, sulkies, democrats, as also conveyances for work\\nin the lumber camjis and on tiie farm. He also does repairing of every kind con-\\nnected with blacksniitliing and horseshoeing, and in the latter branch uses ouly\\nhand-made shoes and other products of the latest design. Mr. Newcombe is a man\\nof indefatigable enterprise, and is concluding arrangements for the extension of his\\nfield of operations, and an increase of his facilities and output. When such arrange-\\nments are consummated, he will keep on hand a full stock of carriages, etc., and so\\nequipped as that he will be able to materially promote their manufacture. He employs\\na full staff of competent mechanics, and does a large and steadily increasing trade\\namong a class of patrons who demand the quality of materials Mr. Newcombe uses\\nin his products.", "height": "3304", "width": "2052", "jp2-path": "industriesofbayc00marq_0087.jp2"}, "88": {"fulltext": "THE IXDl STEIES OF THE BAY CITIES.\\nBAY CITY BANK.\\n1 apiCit and ^iurplus. !i\u00c2\u00ab;J\u00c2\u00abHMHM Xo. riOO C oiitor Avo.\\nThe Bay City r auU,\\nrooojjnizeii as a substan-\\ntial and reliable baukinjj\\ninstitntiou, with methods\\neouservntive and credit\\nof the highest oharaeter,\\nwas organized iu 1871,\\nwith a capital stock of\\nSall.OOO (leorjje Lewis,\\nPresident, and Cieorjje II.\\nYonufir, Cashier. In 1S83,\\nAir. Lewis was sncceeded\\nby William Peter, the\\npresent incumbent of the\\npresidency, w h i o h has\\nbeen t h e only chanjjfe\\nnuuie in the person iit l of\\nthe bank othcers since its\\nincorporatii n. In July,\\nISTo. the capital stock\\nwas nicreased to^lOD.HOO,\\naijain to SlfHltHH). and at\\nthe close of the tiscal year\\nending; .Tidy 2, 1S8S, was\\nstated, with accrued sur-\\nplus, at $-:00.0l)0. and\\ndeposits amountinjij to\\nnearly StU iD.dOO.\\nThe premises occupied\\nare handsome, commo-\\ndious and convenient to\\nthe business center of\\nthe city, beiui: located at\\nNo. 200 Center avenue,\\nand equipped with appli-\\nances and facilities for\\nthe safe-keepiufj: of the\\nfunds and the transac-\\ntion of business. They\\ndo a general bankin\\nbusiness, discount and\\ndeposit, the makinjj of\\ncollections at low rates,\\nthe iHirchase and sale of\\nforeiijn and domestic\\nexchangre. etc. There is also a savinjis department, otferim: superior induce-\\nments to the thrifty and industrious to lay up. in small deposits, sums that\\nwill eventually agj^reijate lari. e amounts. This branch of the business is largely\\npatronized, and interest is paid upon such deposits at the rate of four per cent, per\\nannum. The bank has correspondents with financial institutions in all leadiujjr\\ncities, and does a large business in Bay City and the surrounding country.\\nThe present directors are: William Peter, George Young, (leorge H. Y oung,\\nIsaac Marston. George Lewis. A. McDonnell and J. Went worth. They are all well\\nknown and substantial representatives of manufacturing, commercial and tinaucial\\ncircles of Bay City, and direct the affairs of a bank, than which no similar institu-\\ntion offers superior facilities for the convenient prosecution of financial business.", "height": "3304", "width": "1998", "jp2-path": "industriesofbayc00marq_0088.jp2"}, "89": {"fulltext": "THE INDUSTRIES OF THE BAY CITIES. 77\\nP. C. FLOETER l CO.\\nAr -liit\u00c2\u00ab- -tn \\\\o. IH .Muii|; -r Buildlne* Outer niid HauiiiaM HtM.\\nTlje archiW;tiire of a city in the evidence of itw (growth and development, and to\\nno one profeHBion in a city more Babetantially indebted for its HiicceBH than to the\\narchitect. In the poHHeHHion of artinta in this line of buflineBS, Jiay City is specially\\nfortunate, and amonjf the leadinjj and difitinKniflhed firms thus en(;a(;ed ib the firm of\\nP. C Floeter A: Co., composed of P. C. P loeter and William Kauffman. They are\\n(gentlemen of eminent abilities, whose BerviceB have been enlisted in the desi^^ning of\\nedifices of remarkable proportions and exceptional finish, here and elsewhere. The\\nfirm was established in 1^82, Bucceeding to the business of Watkins, Hidden ic\\nArnold, and from the commencement of their career, furniehiuf^ plans that have met\\ninstant and commendable approval. They occupy a handsome suite of offices at No.\\n18 Manger block, corner of Center and Haginaw streets, where they carry on the\\nbusiness in all its details, and where a full staff of accomplished draughtsmen are\\nconstantly engaged in putting into form their artistic architectural conceptions.\\nNotable among the buildings they designed, and which have been erected in Bay\\nCity under their personal supervision are: The Griswold h\u00c2\u00bbuilding, the new Methodist\\nchurch, the Episcopal church, Harmon k Verner s business block, the fine private\\nresidence of JJr. Vaughan, Joseph Eastwood and others; St. Paul s church in East\\nSaginaw, alwj the large mortuary vault, chapel and conservatory in the same place;\\nthe rebuilding of St. John s church, with the guild house and rectory attached to\\nthat parish, in Saginaw City, the Court street Methodist church at Flint, Cirace\\np]piHcopal church at Port Huron, the Masonic Temple at Ludington, the famous\\nWright House and Sanitarium erected at Alma for A. W. Wright; the workshops\\nbuilt for the Detroit, Lansing fe Northern Railroad at Ionia, at a cost of 8175.fX)0;\\nthe large railroad depot at Clare, etc., also furnishing the plans for thirteen railroad\\ndepots on the line of the Toledo, Saginaw k. Mackinaw liailroad, and many other\\npublic and private e lifice8 in this city and State, as also in States adjoining, into\\nwhich their reputation has been extended and is established. Their plans show a\\ncomplete and thorough knowledge of their profession, and their success can be\\ndirectly attributed to their possessioD of these requisites in addition to the well-\\nknown and substantial character of buildings designed and erected under their\\ndirection.\\nAUG. J. BOTHE CO.\\nI ry oodH, Curtain and Curtain FixtureH. Ktc. nt l{n.\\\\ i ity.\\nOne of the largest retail dry goods bouses in West Bay City, is owned and directed\\nby Aug. .T. Bothe k Co. The firm is composed of Aug. .J. Bothe, .James Seed and .J.\\nFrank Eddy. Mr. Bothe is one of the oldest dry goods men in this vicinity, having\\nbeen identified with the trade in Bay City since 180^, and a successful merchant dur-\\ning all the years that have passed since that period. Mr. Seed is the senior partner\\nin the dry goods house of James Seed k Co., at Nos. 404 and \u00e2\u0096\u00a0100 Center avenue. Bay\\nCity; it was organized in December, 1887, and at once entered upon a prosperous\\ncareer. They occupy premises 2. )xl00 feet in dimensions, in the Fisher block, on\\nMidland street. West Bay City, adjoining the postoffice, a location than which none\\ncan be more desirable or accessible, equipped and fitted up with every convenience\\nor appurtenance designed to adequately display their stock, or facilitate the accom-\\nmodation of the trade. Their range of stock embraces the latest and most fashion-\\nable varieties, imported and domestic, purchased in New York every season, by Mr.\\nSeed, who attends personally to their selection, and in such large invoices that the\\ntrade is enabled to avail itself of the inducements as to prices thus offered. Their\\nspecialty is curtains and curtain fixtures. Tiieir stock includes staple and fancy dr\\ngoods, silks, satins, velvets, laces, embroideries and novelties, shawls, coats, sacques.\\nladies umbrellas and parasols, notions and nick-nacks, etc. They employ a full staff\\nof competent and obliging clerks and salesmen, and do a large and annually increas-\\ning trade in West Bay City, and vicinity.\\nThe establishment of this house is characteristic of the enterprise of the gentle-\\nmen composing the firm, and its large business is an appropriate recognition of public\\nspirit and commercial worth.", "height": "3304", "width": "2052", "jp2-path": "industriesofbayc00marq_0089.jp2"}, "90": {"fulltext": "18 THE INDUSTRIES OF THE BAY CITIES.\\nCOMMERCIAL BANK.\\nTrail sactiiigf a dJeiieral Banking Business\u00e2\u0080\u0094 ^Vater St. Foot of Center Ave.\\nA substantial fiuancial system is the true basis of prosperity in all the depart-\\nments of commerce, manufactures or trade, directly or otherwise. Its presence\\npromotes trade, protects industries, conserves commercial endeavor and adds to the\\npublic welfare and prosperity. Bay City is most fortunately equipped in this\\nparticular, having a number of institutions, the objects of which are to care for\\nmoney or trusts confided to their custody, and enjoying reputations for integrity,\\nbusiness sagacity and large resources. Among the leading establishments of the\\nkind here, is the Commercial Bank, which was incorporated August 15, 1887, with a\\ncapital of .^100,000, and, according to its last annual report dated July 2, 1888, had a\\nsurplus fund of S5,0,.0, with deposits approximating S150,000.\\nThe bank is located on Water street, at the foot of Center avenue, in fine banking\\npremises 25x100 feet in dimensions. A general banking business is transacted,\\nspecial attention being paid to collections, which are promptly remitted at low rates,\\nthose made in West Bay City and East and West Saginaw, at Bay City rates; buying\\nand selling foreign exchange, and accepting the accounts of banks, bankers,\\nmerchants and citizens. In conjunction with the regular business, the Commercial\\nalso possesses safety deposit vaults, built by the celebrated Hall Safe and Lock Co.,\\nfitted with time locks and all the latest improvements, and absolutely burglar and\\nfire proof. They contain a total of one hundred and three boxes of various sizes,\\nrenting at from three to eight dollars per annum, and though, for the accommodation\\nof public patronage, are mostly occupied by the bank s customers for the safe deposit\\nof bonds, deeds, silverware, jewelry and other valuable property.\\nThe present officers are H. N. Watrous, President; C. C. Whitney, Vice-President;\\nand W. O. Clift, Cashier; with a Board of Directors composed of the following well\\nknown capitalists, merchants and manufacturers of Bay City: H. N. Watrous, C. 0.\\nWhitney, E. Y. WiUiams. G. K. Jackson, W. H. Miller, C. R. Hawley, C. B. Chatfield,\\nJ. R. Hall and T. A. E. Weadock. The Executive Board is composed of gentlemen\\nof experience, who manage the affairs of the bank liberally yet judiciously, and who\\nhave contributed in a marked degree to the success it has obtained, and the confidence\\nand respect it has inspired in the community, to whose service it is devoted.\\nBENNETT WALTER LUMBER COMMISSION\\nl ealers in fiuniber and Liogs\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Xo. 409 Pliteiiix Block.\\nThe Bennett Walter Lumber Commission firm is composed of G. F. Bennett\\nand W. P. Walter. Both are enterprising, experienced, progressive, young men.\\nThey have been identified with the lumber industries of the Valley for many years.\\nPrior to the retirement of T. H. McGraw Co. from the lumber business, they were\\nengaged with that corporation, Mr. Bennett having had charge of their yards for\\ntwenty years. They embarked in business for themselves in the Spring of 1888, and\\norganized the Lumber Commission, which has since been managed under their firm\\nname. They are versed in the details of their occupation, and familiar with the\\nrequirements af the trade, prompt in the execution of orders, and their transactions\\nare characterized by the most honorable methods. They buy lumber and logs on\\ncommission and upon their own account, selling and delivering same from docks or\\nbooms where purchased, thereby saving cost of handling and transportation and the\\nexpense incident to the maintenance of yard room, etc. Their shipments are to\\neastern orders, chiefly in New York and Ohio, and their facilities are so complete and\\navailable that they are accumulating a business of large proportions. They have\\ncorrespondents at all the leading depots of supply north and northwest, thus being\\nalways cognizant of the condition of the whole Michigan and Wisconsin market, both\\nas to stock and prices.\\nThe firm is one of the most active and influential in building up and extending\\nthe benefits of Bay City lumber interests. Branch offices will be established north\\nby them the coming year, and the firm proposes to materially increase its facilities\\nfor handling by addition to working force and general broadening of their field of\\noperation.", "height": "3304", "width": "1998", "jp2-path": "industriesofbayc00marq_0090.jp2"}, "91": {"fulltext": "THE INDUSTRIES OF THE HA) CITIES. T9\\nSHEARER BROTHERS.\\nIleal Kstute\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Xo. H\u00c2\u00bbU AtlaniN St., KirHt Floor. Shearer Itro.oi. Itloek.\\nThat transiictious in real estate at Bay City and vicinity have for a numl)er of\\nyears been steadily ou the increase, is a fact noticeable to the most casnal observer.\\nTlie part real estate owners and ayf nts have taken in tlie promotion of this condition\\nof affairs, must not be nuder-estimated, as it has been of no inconsiderable import\\nance. One of the oldest firms engaged in this line of business, and one of the most\\nprominent, is that of Shearer Brothers. In about 1H7S, tlie firm was known as\\nJames Shearer Sons. Ten years later, however, the senior member withdrew from\\nall active business, and the tirm was then known as Shearer Bros., and consisted of\\nG. Henry Sliearer, James B. Shearer and Chauncey H. Shearer. In 1H84, Chauncey\\nH. Shearer withdrew from the tirm to accept the position of teller in the Bay\\nCounty Savings Bank, and from that date, G. Henry Shearer and James B. Shearer\\nhave conducted their large and prosperous business.\\nThey are located m a handsome suite of offices on the main Hoor of the Shearer\\nBrothers Block, No. 809 Adams street, neatly appointed; and in addition to desir-\\nableness of location, supplied with every facility and convenience for business\\npurposes. Their specialty is the handling of real estate of all kinds, the selling or\\nexchanging of city property, pine and farming lands, etc., the collection of rents, the\\nplacing of insurance, the payment of taxes, the furnishing of abstracts of title, and\\nthe discharge of other trusts connected with the business, for clients.\\nThey are among the largest realty owners in the city, including on their list of\\nholdings, the Shearer block, located on Center avenue and Water street, also the\\nCentral and Shearer Brothers blocks, extending from Washington avenue to Adams\\nstreet, ou Center avenue, being four stories high, containing ten stores, and gener-\\nally one of the finest structures in the Saginaw Valley, with other improvements in\\nthe way of public buildings, and for residence purposes e iually valuable. Apart\\nfrom their real estate interests, the members of the firm are otherwise identified with\\nimportant enterprises. G Henry Shearer is Vice-President of the Bay County\\nSavings Bank, and is also member of the Water and Fire Commission, and, with his\\npartners, has figured in many prominent real estate transactions in the citv and\\nState.\\nSMITH BROTHERS CO.\\nManufiietiirerft of Ijuiiiber ami Salt-Kast Kml of M ater St.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 West Ita.\\\\ t if.v.\\nSmith Brothers Sc Co. are successors to the firm of Peter Smith it Sons, and direct\\nthe management of one of the largest lumber industries in West Bay City. It was\\norganized in 1880, composed of Henry J. Smith and Chas. J. Smith, and aci]uired\\npossession of the mill property that had been in operation since 1S. )4 under the control\\nof Peter Smith, their father. They are located at the East end of Water street,\\nwhere the premises occupied are large and conijjletely e iuipped. The mill proper is\\nHOxlfJO feet in dimensions, having abundant accommodations and conveniences for\\nthe successful handling of its large product. The machinery employed consists of\\nband mill and gang mill saws, circular saws, trimmers, edgers, heading machines, and\\nall necessary appliances for the conduct of the lines of manufacture carried on.\\nThese are driven by four powerful engines, one 22x30 inch cylinder, one 2(1x30 inch\\nand two lOxKi inch cylinders, fed from two batteries of boilers, seven 1x18 feet in size\\nand two 5x1(5 feet. Their salt industry is represented Ity four wells, with drill house\\nand engine accompaniments, and an extensive salt i)lock and packing house. In\\naddition to these, they are supplied with large dockage facilities, booms, piling\\ngrounds and other reiiuisite accommodations, the establishment in its entirety being\\ncomplete and comprehensive. Their annual output includes 20,( 0(),OtT feet of\\nlumber. 900.000 pieces of staves, jO.OOO sets of heading and 3( ,0l\u00c2\u00bb0 l)arrels of salt.\\nTlie lumber is disposed of principally to dealers in liiifTalo. Tonawanda and elsewhere\\nat the East, the salt being ^old through the Michigan Salt Association, of whidi the\\nfirm are members. They employ a large force of men, and their annual business\\naggregates largely in value.\\nThe meml)ers of the firm are thoroughly practical and experienced lumber manu-\\nfacturers, and their success is the result of tlie superiority of their j)roducts, and the\\nhonorable business methods they employ in their dealings with the trade.", "height": "3304", "width": "2052", "jp2-path": "industriesofbayc00marq_0091.jp2"}, "92": {"fulltext": "80\\nTHE INDUSTRIES OF THE BAY CITIES.\\nTHE MICHIGAN PIPE COMPANY,\\nHenry B. Smitli, Secretary and Treasurer\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Manfrs. of Water Pipe and Steam\\nPipe Casing^\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Liord and Henry Sts.\\nA leading industry carried on in Bay City is the manufacture of water pipe and\\nBteam pipe casing by the Michigan Pipe Company. Its products are in universal\\nuse in many of the leading cities of the country, and have acquired an extended and\\ndeserved reputation for economy, utility and durability. This company is the out-\\ngrowth of the Northwestern Pipe Company, a corporation organized in 1871 by\\nChicago manufacturers. After some changes in proprietorship, the Michigan Pipe\\nCompany was organized in 1881, with a paid-up capital of S100,000, and became own-\\ners of the plant.\\nThe works occupy an area of territory several acres in extent at the corner of Lord\\nand Henry streets, having a large river frontage and connected with the Flint Pere\\nMarquette and Michigan Central roads, by which unsurpassed facilities for shipping\\nby rail and water are obtained. They are also supplied with abundant dockage and\\nboom conveniences, and in addition to their regular line of manufacture engage exten-\\nsively in the manufacture of salt, their annual product aggregating 20,000 barrels.\\nThe works are completely and perfectly equipped with the latest improved machinery\\nand appliances, including large boring apparatus, with hollow augers ranging in\\ndiameter from two to sixteen inches, the core from the larger pipes being re-bored for\\nthe manufacture of smaller pipes, with powerful turning lathes and machines for\\nbanding, testing and morticing pipe. The pipe is made in sections, each about\\neight feet long, from white pine logs first bored with an auger. The bark and sap\\nwood being removed by a turning lathe, the pipe is placed in a drying room, whence\\nit is taken after being properly seasoned and bound spirally with hoop iron, pressed\\non tightly by steam power, the chambers of the joints made stronger than any other", "height": "3304", "width": "1998", "jp2-path": "industriesofbayc00marq_0092.jp2"}, "93": {"fulltext": "THE INDUSTRIES OF THE BAY CITIES.\\npart of the pipe. Before npplyinp the iron the latter is coated with soft asphaltnin.\\nThe joints are then made, tlie thimble or couuet-tint, piece, eijifht inches lonp, of sea-\\nsoned timber about an ei^fhth of an inch Uir^er in diameter than tlie mortice of the\\npipe, so that it must be compressed wlieu the sections are driven together, making a\\nI)erfectly tight joint witliout packing of any kind. It is then subjected to a hydraulic\\npressure as high as 250 pounds to the square inch, after whicli the |)ipe is given a\\nheavy coat of asphaltum cement, to prevent corrosive substances from alTectmg the\\nbands, and the work is completed. For connecting lines of pipe at street crossings,\\nor hydrant pipes witli mains, special castings are made to form a perfect joint.\\nThe main business of the company is the construction of water works by contract,\\nincluding the engines and machinery. In 18H7 they completed five plants in Colorado,\\na number in Michigan, Illinois, Ohio, Wisconsin, Vermont, a twenty mile plant\\nat Tonawanda, N. Y., and others elsewhere, and in ISSK built complete water\\nworks at Plymouth, Ind.; West De Pere, Wis.; Piuconning, Gladwin, Gaylord, Ovid\\nand Vassar, Mich., and have furnished pipe for the water works at Central City, Col-\\norado; Goslien, Ind.; Alma, St. Louis, Stanton, North Muskegon, Ishpeming, Negati-\\nnee, Oscoda, Alpena, Bay City, West Bay City, Saginaw, and numerous other cities\\nin Michigan.\\nAnother important article of manufacture is steam i)ipe casing. This is made in\\nsections eight feet long, the shell of which is usually four inches thick. It is used\\nfor casing steam pipes underground, extensively by all of the steam heating and power\\ncompanies in the country. The prevention of loss of heat by radiation and condensa-\\ntion is reduced to a minimum, and the saving more than pays the tirst cost of the pipe.\\nIt is unsurpassed by any other casing manufactured. It is cheap and durable.\\nTheir annual product averages one hundred miles of pipe, in which six hundred\\ntons of hoop iron are used, and employment is given to from sixty to seventy hands.\\nThe plant is the only extensive one for the manufacture of wood pipe in the United\\nStates, and by its product is favorably known to all interested in water works.\\nVAIL EDDY.\\nHatter^s. Furnishers. Ioakt and Fiirs-Xos. lOO. 10!4 and 104 Confer St.\\nFew concerns in Bay City, or in this i)ortion of the State of Michigan, for that\\nmatter, engaged in a similar line of business, enjoy better facilities for trade, or are\\nmore generally known to the trade, than Vail k Eddy, hat, cap and fur dealers, in\\nthe new Fraser House. This tirm was organized in 1K74, and for years has grown\\nwith the city and aided in the promotion of its material resources and prosperity. As\\nthey have contributed, so have they also benefited, and from unpretentious begin-\\nnings have raised their business to a position of prominence and magnitude.\\nTheir location is among the best in the city, occupying three stores, severally\\nnumbered 10(1. 102 and 104 Center street, at the corner of Water, having a combined\\nfrontage of sixty feet on the former, and seventy feet on the latter thoroughfare.\\nThe stores are connected one with the other, supplied with an artistic entrance into\\nthe rotunda of the new Fraser House, and furnished with every modern convenience.\\nThey are also divided into departments No. 100. at the corner of Water street,\\nbeing used for the display and sale of hats and caps. No. 102 for the sale of gents*\\nfurnishing goods, and No. 104 for that of ladies furs and cloaks in the winter, but, in\\ntheir season, for the sale of straw goods, which they handle very largely. They\\ncarry large stocks in all the lines of goods offered upon the market, including hata\\nfrom the most celebrated Eastern makers, gents furnishing goods of the best\\nforeign and domestic manufacture, and fur garments, including ladies cloaks,\\ntippets, mutllers, gloves, mittens and boas, in seal, sable, otter, lynx, etc., of superior\\nquality as to materials, and of artistic design and finish. They employ a full staff\\nof clerks and salesuien, and do a large trade in the city and vicinity.\\nBoth memliers of the tirm (C. D. Vail and J. F. Eddyi. are active, enterprising,\\ngo-ahead men, their success expresses the possession of these iualities: their large\\nbusiness, the high measure of confidence extended by the trade to whose demands\\nthey respond. Mr. Charles 1). Vail is also a member of the wholesale dry goods\\nhouse of Jarmin iV Vail. Mr. J. Frank Eddy is also a member of the firms of\\nEddy, Avery it Eddy, and Eddy Bros, it Co., lumber and salt manufacturers; of\\nJames Seed it Co., wholesale and retail dry goods and is Vice-President of the\\nBay National Bank.", "height": "3304", "width": "2052", "jp2-path": "industriesofbayc00marq_0093.jp2"}, "94": {"fulltext": "82\\nTHE INDUSTRIES OF THE BAY CITIES.\\nCAMPBELL HOUSE.\\nO. ^V. Odell. I\u00c2\u00bbroi ri\u00c2\u00ab toi t oriuT of Third and ^Vater Sts.\\nO. W. ODELL, PKOPRIETOR OF THE CAMPBELL HOUSE.\\nThe hotels of a city, the homes of travelers and visitors, may be taken as fair\\ncriterions of the prosperity of the city itself, and the enterprise of the inhabitants.\\nIn the possession of first-class, thoroughly convenient and well equipped hotels. Bay\\nCity is specially fortunate. Among the leading establishments in this line is the\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2Campbell House, at the corner of Third and Water streets, where it was established\\nupon the former site of the old Union House, many years ago, and kept by C. A. Jay\\nuntil the Spring of 1888. when O. W. Odell, the present proprietor, took charge. The\\npremises consist of a handsomely proportioned three-story brick building, having a\\nfrontage of 150 feet on Water street and 100 feet on Third street. When the concern\\npassed into the possession of Mr. Odell, the latter refitted and refurnished the\\nbuilding throughout, in the most modern and elegant style, introducing electric\\nlights, bells and other improvemeots, making the Campbell an establishment of\\nunsurpassed facilities, with accommodations for one hundred guests, having sixty\\nairy, pleasant bed-rooms, many of them en svite. The main floor is occupied by the\\noffices, reading-room, billiard-room and bar, the latter stocked with the finest wines\\nand liquors. The parlors handsomely furnished, with the dining-room bright,", "height": "3304", "width": "1998", "jp2-path": "industriesofbayc00marq_0094.jp2"}, "95": {"fulltext": "THE INDUSTRIES OF THE BAY CITIES. 83\\ncheerful and attractive, and a number of commoilious BRmple-rooms for the con-\\nvenience of commercial travelers, occupy the second floor. Mr. Odell was. until a recent\\ndate, proprietor of the Pacific Hotel at Port Huron and the oritrinal founder f)f the\\nsystem of eating houses, alonp the lines of the iMichiyau Central road. F. H.\\nSymiupton, the chief clerk, has had ten years experience as a hotel man, havinfr been\\nconnected with the Kirkwood and Exchanste hotels at Detroit, the Everett House\\nfit East Satriuaw, and the Taylor House of Sa{, inaw City; and W. H. Farmer, the*\\nhead cook, is an accomplished artist in his line, as also is Charles Robinson, his\\nassistant.\\nA force of thirty-five assietants are employed, and the rates are two dollars per\\nday. This hotel is exceptionally popular with the travelers, and since the date of its\\nopening in July, 1H88, its daily arrivals have been the largest in the city.\\nR. P. GUSTIN CO.\\nM lioleMalc iirn\u00c2\u00abM i*H. oniuiiMMi ii llercliaiit and Toltai-co Iflaniifact iifitm\\n.\\\\u; iils laiii i St. 4\u00c2\u00bb|t|M il\u00c2\u00ab F. A I*. .11. IM pot.\\nThe oldest wholesale jyrocer iu Bay City, is Mr. R. 1 (xustin, head of the whole-\\nsale grocery house of R. P. Gustin Co., whose place of business is on Adams street,\\nopposite the depot of the Flint Sc Pere Marquette railroad. He began operations\\nhere in 18G6 as Gustin Co., so continuing until 1871 when the firm of Gustin A-\\nMerrill was organized, to which the firm of Gustin, Merrill Co., succeeded in 1876,\\nremaining in that capacity until 188.5, when he sold out his interest in that establish-\\nuieiit, and retired from the firm, to found the present popular and prosperous house\\nof R. P. Gustin Co.\\nThey are located, as above stated, at one of the most eligible and available sites\\nfor commercial purposes iu the city, occupying a two-story and basement building.\\n00x100 feet in dimensions, with a large and well appointed warehouse attached.\\nThe premises are commodious, the facilities for the display, storage and sale of stock\\nare ample, and those for receiving and shipping unsurpassed. Taken altogether,\\nnothing seems to be necessary for a successful conduct of the large trade to the\\ndemands of which they respond. The stocks carried, which are very heav)-, embrace\\nfull and complete lines of commodities dealt in by first-class houses of similar\\ncharacter, staple and fancy. Their specialties are the Canada Royal Navy, a cut\\nplug smoking tobacco, Mr. Gustin s own invention, pronounced by experts to be\\nsuperior, also the R. G. P. cigar, also original with Mr. Gustin, nianufacturetl\\nexpressly to their order. It is so popular that their sales in 1887 were 245,010, and\\nin 1888 upward of 500,000; also lumbermen s supplies and tobacco, being manufact-\\nurers agents for leading brands in the latter, paying special attention to teas, coffees\\nanil sugars, which are obtained from first hands, and to provisions secured direct\\nfrom producers. Their stocks of fancy groceries are equally complete, including\\ndelicacies, sauces, canned fruits, preserves, meats, etc., iniporfeil and domestic, from\\nthe most celebrated depots of supply and of unrivalled iiuality and purity. In addi-\\ntion, they solicit consignments upon which liberal advances are made. In this\\ndepartment a large and steadily increasing business is done iu all lines of prodtu e\\ncommodities, as also in staple articles of supfdy. They enifiloy a full staff of clerks\\nand salesmen, including two travelers, and their trade beside being large in Bay\\nCity and the surrounding country, is equally extensive and valuable in Northern and\\nNorthwestern Michigan.\\nMr. Gustin is loo well-known and too highly esteemed as an enterprising and\\npublic spirited merchant to require more than mere reference to his possession of\\nthese invaluable qualifies. As the pioneer in his lines in Bay City, his undertakings\\nhave not only benetiteil the city of their origin, but the surrounding country, and the\\nquality of goods offered upon the market, with the correct business metluxls enforced\\nby the house, have confirmed and extended the confidence of a trade, established\\nvears since.", "height": "3304", "width": "2052", "jp2-path": "industriesofbayc00marq_0095.jp2"}, "96": {"fulltext": "84 THE INDUSTRIES OF THE BAY CITIES.\\nUEBERROTH SEE.\\nDealers in China and Ciilassiv are\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Holiday Cioods and ^t edding Presents a\\n[Specialty\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Xo. 313 Centei* Ave.\\nThe well equipped, spacious and handsomely appointed establishment for the sale\\nof china, queensware, etc., owned and conducted ,by Ueberroth See, is a representa-\\ntive house of Bay City and a leading concern in its line of business. It was founded\\nin 1883 by Christopher H. Ueberroth and Frank King, Mr. King retiring six months\\nlater in favor of Milford E. See, and from that time has been successful, their trade\\nrapidly increasing and extending with each succeeding year. Both members of the\\nfirm possess a practical and valuable knowledge of the business, and their long expe-\\nrience and extensive information as to the requirements of the trade peculiarly fit\\nthem for the large demand they are called upon to supply.\\nThe premises occupied for salesroom and display purposes are at No. 313 Center\\navenue, in Shearer Brothers new block. They are 25x125 feet in size, with an L\\n25x40 feet extending to Adams street, specially devoted to the display of art good?,\\nand furnished with an equipment quiet but elegant. They make a specialty of\\nholiday goods and wedding presents in the most elegant designs obtainable, and the\\nstock carried is choice and valuable, varied and complete, made up of foreign and\\ndomestic products. These include china from the famous Haviland furnaces of\\nLimoges; Carlsbad and Vienna ware; Royal Crown ware from Worcester, England\\nSevres ware, etc.; exquisitely made Bohemian, Hungarian, Belgian and French cut\\nglassware, plain and decorated; English cut glass, and the very best lines of American\\nproductions in the latter line; crockery, ordinary and select; plated ware, wall paper,\\ncurtains, ornamental ceramics, etc., etc., in great variety and profusion. They employ\\nan attentive force of assistants, and do a large local trade in addition to a jobbing\\ntrade, extensive and extended throughout the State. Their goods are unsurpassed\\nin quality and price, and this, with the established reputation of the house for fair\\ndealing, will prevail to still further extend the business, already growing in volume\\nand influence.\\nFOLSOM ARNOLD.\\nIlljunibei and Salt Manufacturers\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Xo. 2\u00c2\u00ab01 Xoi tli Water St.\\nThe extensive lumber and salt industry owned by Messrs. Folsom Arnold, a\\nleading firm composed of Alexander Folsom and Benjamin W. Arnold, was estab-\\nlished by the late John Eraser in 1866, with a capacity of 3,000,000 feet of lumber.\\nUpon the death of Mr. Eraser, it passed into the possession of W. L. Fay, from\\nwhom it was purchased by the present firm, in 1869. The latter rebuilt the mill,\\nincreasing its capacity, and rendering it more available and prosperous.\\nThe plant is located at No. 2601 North Water street, and is furnished with very\\nfull and complete facilities for the manufacture and iiandling of the large output\\nannually supplied the markets to which it is shipped. The saw-mill is a commodious\\nand well-appointed building, 125x150 feet in dimensions, containing two gang mill\\nsaws, large circular saws, powerful steam feed carriage, and all other requisite\\nmachinery. The motive power is furnished by two massive and substantial engines,\\nwith cylinders severally 26^x30 and 16x26 inches in dimensions, fed from a battery of\\nten boilers; two 6x16 feet in size, with seventy-two flues each, seven flue boilers, 4x22\\nfeet, and one flue boiler 5x16 feet in size. The plant embraces piling grounds, boom\\nfacilities, and a large river frontage. Their salt industry includes four salt wells,\\neach equipped with drill house and engine facilities, an extensive salt block, packing\\nhouses and accessories. The annual output aggregates 20,000,000 feet of lumber\\nand 35,000 barrels of salt. The lumber is chiefly shipped to Albany, N. Y., where\\nthey have large yards, and the salt is sold through the Michigan Salt Association, of\\nwhich the firm are members. They employ 140 hands in their operations.\\nBoth members of the firm are from Albany, N. Y., where they have been engaged\\nin the lumber business since 1853. Mr. Arnold is still a resident of Albany, Mr.\\nFolsom residing in Bay City since 1867. The firm is leading and representative, aud\\nthe annual business foots up large amounts. Mr. Folsom is President of the Bay\\nCounty Savings Bank, and the efforts of himself and the industry and interests he\\nrepresents directed toward the development of prosperity in Bay City, have been of\\neffective and commendable character.", "height": "3304", "width": "1998", "jp2-path": "industriesofbayc00marq_0096.jp2"}, "97": {"fulltext": "THE IXDUSTRIES OF THE BAY CITIES.\\n85\\nEMERY McLaughlin.\\nI alei N in llnrd and Soft oal rMt -ii l Third St. Iti-id^;\u00c2\u00ab- W\u00c2\u00ab Mt lta ity.\\nOne of the leading and substantial firms in West Bay City engaged in the business\\nof dealing in bard and soft coal, is that of Emery k McLaughlin. It is composed of\\nJ. T. Emery and D. ^McLaughlin, and was organized in 1883, since when they have\\ndone a trade that is constantly increasing and extending. They carry full and com-\\nplete lines of bituminous and anthracite coal, common and tire brick and clay,\\nbuilding stone, cement, plastering hair and calcine plaster, and all kinds of sewer\\npipes, also extensively manufacturing Marble Head lime. They are located at the\\nwest end of the Third street bridge, where their yards, occupied with lime kiln\\naccommodations, coal sheds, pipe and stone yards, etc., cover a block of ground.\\nThey possess a commodious river frontage with tine dockage conveniences and ship-\\nping facilities, both by rail and water, of the most avail.ible character. During the\\nseason of 1888, they furnished tlie pipe used in tiie improved system of sewage in\\nWest Bay City, adopted by the authorities of that municipality and have furnished\\nmaterials for the same purpose elsewhere. They employ a force of twelve hands\\nand four teams, and do a large business in all lines in the Bay Cities and their\\nvicinity, besides shipping large consignments of coal and lime to consumers in the\\nNorthern Peninsula.\\nThe members of the firm are enterprising, progressive, public spirited citizens and\\nmerchants. Mr. McLaughlin i.s the present Treasurer of West Bay City. Their\\nstock in all lines is unsurpassed in i[uality and their eijuitiible dealings and high\\nreputation in commercial and financial circles, commends them to the continued\\nconfidence of the trade.", "height": "3304", "width": "2052", "jp2-path": "industriesofbayc00marq_0097.jp2"}, "98": {"fulltext": "THE INDUSTRIES OF THE BAY CITIES.\\nFRANK W. WHEELER.\\nShip Builder\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Speeifloations and Estiiuatef^ Furnished upon Application\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nM est Bay City.\\nNo industrial establishment in the Saginaw Valley surpasses in its equipment or\\ncareer of honorable success, the ship-building industry of F. W. Wheeler, in West\\nBay City. It stands second to none in its special line, around the lakes, and occupies\\na prominent position among the manufacturing industries of the country. It was\\nestablished by Mr. Wheeler in 1879, and is conveniently and eligibly located on the\\nSaginaw River, in West Bay City.\\nThe plant, including the yards, mill, dry docks, machine and blacksmith 8hope^\\nwith other buildings of utility and necessity, is comprehended within an area of\\nterritory forty acres in extent, and furnished with all requisite appliances. The\\nsaw-mill is commodious in its dimensions, running one large band and several minor\\nsaws, for heavy oak timbers, two large jig-mills for shaping and finishing ships\\ntrees; an upright saw-mill for the manufacture of the heavy oak plank; machine\\nshops, adequately supplied with the requisite appliances, and every conceivable\\nimplement of machinery to expedite the work of building, docking and repairing\\nvessels, steamers and other craft of the largest tonnage, and in the best manner, both\\nas regards material and workmanship. Since the establishment of his yards, Mr.\\nWheeler has constructed nearly thirty propellers, thirteen tugs and a large number\\nof barges, schooners and steamers, with a total tonnage of very considerable propor-\\ntions, nearly all of which are in commission still, and recognized as models of\\ndesign, equipment, durability and sea-going qualities. During the season of 1887-88,\\nhe built the propellers Mecosta, Tom Adams and Robert L. Fryer, each 280\\nfeet in length; also, the Servia, Eber Ward and J. V. Moran, all of which\\nhave proved crafts of the highest standard of excellence. In addition to these, he\\nconstructed the steamers Soo City and Post Boy, and the schooners Moravia,\\nand T. D. Ewen, also the steam tug Lulu Eddy, having on the ways, at the\\nclose of the latter year, five propellers, 280 feet in length each, in various stages of\\ncompletion. He employs from 700 to 1,000 men a portion of the year, and about\\n300 teams; and his orders for work come from owners and transportation companies\\nat every port around the lakes, from Duluth to Buffalo.\\nMr. Wheeler is a native of New York, whence he removed with his parents to\\nSaginaw, where he remained ten years. Upon completing his education, he sailed\\nthe lakes for three years, and then engaged with his father in ship-building. He\\nremoved to West Bay City in 1875, and four years later began the enterprise which\\nhe has since owned and managed. Being a firm believer in and an earnest advocate of\\nprotection to American industries, he was nominated and elected to Congress by the\\nRepublicans of the Tenth Congressional District of Michigan. He is a man of large\\nexperience and enterprise, aLd his industry has always been one of the leading and\\nmost powerful factors in the development of the Lower Peninsula. Mr. Wheeler\\nis about constructing a steel ship-building plant, for vessels of 3,000 tons and over.\\nPEOPLE S DRUG STORE.\\nO. A. Ijloyd. Manajfer\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Third and !Uonroe Sts.\\nThe People s Drug Store, a reliable and well equipped establishment in its line of\\nbusiness, was started in May, 1888. Mr. O. A. Lloyd, the manager, came to Bay City\\nabout that time, and taking charge, has conducted it successfully and profitably.\\nHe is from Muskegon (this State), where he enjoyed a lengthy experience in the\\npractice of pharmacy, and acquired a reputation for skill and professional superiority,\\nnot less valuable than deserved. Such reputation has been maintained since he\\nbegan his residence here, which, added to a complete knowledge of the business and\\nfamiliarity with the requirements of the trade, have conspired to promote his success.\\nHe is located at the corner of Third and Monroe streets, where he occupies premises\\n25x100 feet in size, well equipped and furnished, and carries a choice stock of pure\\ndrugs and chemicals, also fine brands of imported and domestic cigars. His special-\\nties are these lines of goods, and the careful compounding of prescriptions.", "height": "3304", "width": "1998", "jp2-path": "industriesofbayc00marq_0098.jp2"}, "99": {"fulltext": "THE INDUSTRIES OF THE BAY CITIES.\\n87\\nGEORGE W. MANSFIELD.\\nl euU r in \u00c2\u00abroc\u00c2\u00ab ri s uiul I roviwioiiM\u00e2\u0080\u0094 lO.l. I05A 107 Third and liOH nl\u00c2\u00abT fitn.\\nF _- _. Conspicuous among the old estab-\\nlisbed dealers in groceries, provisions,\\netc., is Mr. George \\\\V. Mansfield, the\\npresent collector of customs for the port\\nof Bay City, having his oflice in tlie\\nhuildiug occupied by him forcommercial\\npurposes. Mr. Mansfield began business\\nhere in 1873, and his career, comraer-\\ncinlly and in other respects, has been\\nthat of the successful man of business\\nfrom its threshold, bringing to his aid\\nin the enterprises he has established\\nor directed, the complement of industry,\\nintegrity and sagacity, by which reputa-\\ntion and prosperity are achieved.\\nHe is located at Nos. 103, 105 and 107\\nThird street and at No. 1 108 Water street,\\nin premises one hundred feet square,\\nand containing ample room for the man-\\nagement of the several lines of business\\nconducted under his immediate super-\\nvision. Within an area 75x100 feet in\\ndimensions, with conveniences equally\\ncommodious, he carries on a wliolesale\\nand retail grocery; the remaining space,\\n25x100 feet, being devoted to the uses of\\na meat market, with adequate equip-\\nments for furnishing customers and the trade. His stock of groceries embraces\\nall the lines in both staple and fancy, such as teas. coflFees, sugars, sauces, delicacies,\\ncanned and bottled preserves, fruits and vegetables, provisions, produce, etc., while\\nin the meat market everything edible in that line, including fresh and salted meats,\\nbreakfast bacon, and all the delicacies handled by similar establishments. Supple-\\nmentary to the latter branch of the business, Mr. Mansfield owns and operates\\na slaughter house on Genesee avenue, three miles from the city, at which a large\\nnumber of cattle, hogs and sheep are killed weekly for the trade supplied. He\\nemploys a force of eighteen assistants and four wagons in the business, and does a\\nlarge local trade m addition to a jobbing trade to boats and with dealers up the north\\nshore and some distance along the lines of railroads converging at Bay City.\\nMr. Mansfield is a thorough-going business man, and his house is popular with\\nthe trade.\\nDANIEL BAUMGARTEN.\\nj;ro\u00c2\u00ab erieM and I roviwionw\u00e2\u0080\u0094 \\\\o. 4 M \u00c2\u00abMiter \\\\\\\\v.\\nOne of the most progressive houses in the grocery and provision business, in Bay\\nCity, is that of Daniel Baumgarten. It was established by Mr. B.aumgarten in 18(\\nand for many years conducted under his direct personal supervision. He subse-\\n(piently sold his interest in the business and retired, but after an absence of four\\nyears his active, enterprising desire to be identified with mercantile pursuits\\nprompted his purchase of the house of wliich he has since remained the head.\\nHe is located at No. 400 Center avenue, where he occupies the main floor and\\nbasement, commodious quarters 25x100 feet in size. The premises are neatly fitted\\nup and furnished with modern conveniences and e iiiii)ments. His specialties are\\nfine teas, coffees and spices; also carryintr full supplies of staple ami fancy gro-eries,\\nand delicacies, and fruits and vegetables in season, and caters to a fine family\\ntrade in the city and throughout the country contiguous. Mr. Baumgarten is an\\nexperienced merchant and valuable citizen. The output of the house is of the best\\nquality, its affairs are managed with intelligent enterprise, and its business is\\ndeservedly prosperous and increasing.", "height": "3304", "width": "2052", "jp2-path": "industriesofbayc00marq_0099.jp2"}, "100": {"fulltext": "88 THE INDUSTRIES OF THE BAY CITIES.\\nJAMES B. CORWIN.\\nFire, Liife and Afcident Insiiranoe\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Mtinser Block.\\nJames B. Corwin, occupying commodious offices iu the Hunger block, on Center\\navenue, is among the best known insurance men in the State, He began biisiness\\nhere in 1879, making life and accident insurance a specialty, representing, as district\\nagent, the old and reliable Travelers Life and Accident Insurance Company, of\\nHartford, Conn., and building up the most extensive business in that line in the Valley.\\nIn 1885 he extended his range of operations so as to embrace a department of tire\\ninsurance. He has since managed both branches of the business with annually\\nincreasing prosperity and reputation, now representing a list of home and foreign\\ncompanies, with resources aggregating millions of dollars, and offering to insurers\\nsecurity of the most valuable and substantial character, upon the most favorable\\nterms.\\nHe is located, as above stated, in the Hunger block, his office being handsomely\\nfurnished and appointed, and where every facility is available for the convenience of\\ncustomers seeking the benetits of reliable, first-class insurance. Among the promi-\\nnent companies represented by Hr. Corwin, and for which he is sole agent here, are\\nthe two oldest and strongest Hichigan companies, and five of the most powerful\\nEnglish corporations, including the Sun Fire Office, of London, organized in 1710,\\nthe oldest of its kind in the world; the London Lancashire, and Queen, of Liver-\\npool; the Guardian, of London; Hichigan and Detroit Fire and Harine, of Detroit;\\nFranklin, of Philadelphia; Anglo-Nevada and California, of California; Liberty, of\\nNew York; and American and Slercantile Fire and Harine, of Boston; representing a\\ntotal capital of nearly fourteen millions of dollars, total assets of \u00c2\u00a760,479,275, and a\\ntotal surplus of S26,287,000, a showing of responsibility that will commend itself to\\nthe consideration of citizens of Bay City and her surroundings, Hr. Corwin employs\\ncompetent assistants, and his business extends throughout the Saginaw Valley and\\nNorthern Hichigan. He is known as a gentleman of ability and of popularity as an\\nunderwriter, who transacts his business in a businesslike manner upon the most\\nfavorable terms, and offers superior advantages to all who desire reliable insurance.\\nMASON BEACH.\\nDispensing Chemists\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Mo. 20a Center St.\\nAn important house in Bay City, and one too, whose long and steady career,\\nheavy and extensive transactions and reliable qualities, have made it a landmark of\\nconspicuous renown, is the drug house of Hason Beach. The enterprise was\\nestablished by George Lord in 1858. After conducting the concern for some years,\\nhe disposed of it to Goodale, Brown Co.; subsequently it passed into the hands of\\nDr. Goodale, who in turn transferred the title to Dr. Wheat. Along in 1873, the firm\\nof Mason McNiel the senior partner of the present organization, John K, Mason,\\nbeing the head of the firm\u00e2\u0080\u0094 succeeded to the ownership, and remained in control\\nuntil 1878, when Hr. McNiel retired, and Lyman F. Beach becoming interested as a\\npartner, the firm of Hason Beach was created and still continues.\\nThey are located in a fashionable quarter of the city, being occupants of the main\\nfloor and basement of the building at No. 202 Center street, premises 25x100 feet, and\\nin every way fitted up and adapted for the purposes to which they are appropriated.\\nThe stock carried is only such as can be found at a first-class establishment, neither\\ninferior nor impure articles being handled. It embraces drugs, chemicals, medicinal\\nextracts, standard preparations and compounds, surgical instruments, druggists\\nsundries\u00e2\u0080\u0094 in fact everything pertaining to the drug line or carried by any similar\\nundertaking in the West. In addition to these, they keep in stock, full supplies of\\nhomoeopathic remedies and the choicest brands of cigars, of imported and domestic\\nmanufacture. They employ a full force of experienced and skillful pharmaceutists,\\nand do a large prescription and drug business in the city and surrounding country.\\nThe members of the firm are men of enterprise and resources, and learned in their\\nprofession. They handle the best and purest articles in their line, and the trade\\nsupplied testifies to its unbounded confidence in the established reputation of the\\nhouse.", "height": "3304", "width": "1998", "jp2-path": "industriesofbayc00marq_0100.jp2"}, "101": {"fulltext": "THE IXDCSTRIES OF THK HAY CITIF.S.\\n89\\nB. H. BRISCOE COMPANY.\\n.lluiiiiractiiri i .s l a\u00c2\u00ab-lvinK ltox\u00c2\u00ab N Frt iiioiit A V4 iiiid Flint A I ci-c fl iii- net tf\\nItiiilroiul TrackH.\\nOne of the most productive, prosperous and well established industries in Bay\\nCity is represented by the manufacture of packing boxes, machine and stove crates.\\nIt is an industry that has. within a few years, attained to considerable proportions,\\nand made its influence felt upon all the departments of businees, both here and at\\ndistant points. A leading and representative establishment thus engaged is that of\\nthe B. H. Briscoe Sc Company, incorporated in 1S83, of which A. E. F. White as\\nPresident, B. H. Briscoe, Vice-President, and M. J. Beardeley as Secretary and\\nTreasurer, are the present executive oflBcers. The company is successor to the tirni\\nof B. H. Briscoe Sc Co., organized in 1881, and composed of B. Fl. Briscoe and M. J.\\nBeardsley, engaged in the same line of operation.s, and conducting same until the\\nformation of the company as already stated.\\nThe premises occupied for manufacturing purposes are at the Fremont avenue\\ncrossing of the Flint Pere Maniuette railroad, a location accessible, convenient\\nand otherwise available. The box factory is a substantial building, KMIxlSO feet in\\ndimensions, thnmgh the center of which tracks have been laid, connecting with the\\nmain tracks of railroads centering in Bay City, thus furnishing unsurpassed facilities\\nfor the loading and shipping of stock. The factory is equipped with the latest\\nimproved machinery, and in every way adapted to the uses for which it is designed.\\nAdjoining the factory proper are the engine house, offices and other accessories of\\nthe business, including large lumber yards heavily stocked. Their specialties are\\nboxes of all sizes and descriptions for packing purposes, though they manufacture\\nlarge quantities of sewing machine and stove crates; also sign-board and box print-\\ning, and deal extensively in lumber. They employ from fifty to sixty hands, and\\nannually ship between five and six hundred car-loads of boxes, aiul large quantities\\nof lumber, to all parts of the country, chiefly to the South, Southeast and Southwest.\\nThey sell only by the car-load, and their business foots up largely ejich year.\\nThe oflicers of the company are men of enterprise, practical experience and\\nfamiliar with the trade. To the exercise of these qualities, superiority of the\\nproducts offered on the market, and the honorable business methods which char-\\nacterize their transactions, the success of the enterprise is largely due.", "height": "3304", "width": "2052", "jp2-path": "industriesofbayc00marq_0101.jp2"}, "102": {"fulltext": "90 THE INDUSTRIES OF THE BAY CITIES.\\nJENNISON CO.\\nHardware, Mill and l^unibermen s Supplies, Agrieuitural Implements, Stoves,\\nHaws and Belting\u00e2\u0080\u0094 J ennison Bloek, M ater St.\\nNo Arm in Michigan is more widely known, and in its special line more influen-\\ntial and prominent, than that of Jennison Co., hardware merchants. The nucleus\\nof the present extensive establishment was formed in 1853, by C. E. Jennison. Since\\nthat period, during a career of thirty-five not uneventful years, the house has been\\nidentified with the development of busicess in the city, and actively engaged in the\\npromotion of its line of trade, throughout the State. In the lapse of nearly half a\\ncentury the enterprise has undergone several changes in the individual composition\\nof its management, in 1885, coming under the administration of the present firm,\\nmade up of C. E. Jennison, W. Jennison, Gustav Rechlin and W. F. Jennison, men\\nof large experience and resources, with a complete knowledge of the public wants,,\\nand familiar with the requirements of the trade.\\nThey occupy the imposing white brick structure erected by C. E. Jennison, on\\nWater street and known as the Jennison block, which is admirably arranged and\\nequipped for the purposes to which it is devoted, the several departments being\\nadequately provided for, and every available facility and convenience secured for the\\nlarge trade. The premises are three stories high, have a total frontage of one\\nhundred feet on Water street, with an equal depth, and embracing a total of 40,000\\nfeet of space, all of which is found necessary to accommodate the stock of goods\\ncarried.\\nTheir sales-rooms are large and finely appointed, and their invoices of commodi-\\nties include full lines of mill and lumbermen s supplies, stoves, house-furnishing\\ngoods, builders hardware, cutlery and tools, paints and painters supplies, road and\\nfarm wagons, agricultural implements, phosphates, galvanized iron and tin manu-\\nfacture, etc. The latter articles are displayed and for sale in a large two-story brick\\nannex to the Jennison block, just completed, on the river dock, to the rear of the main\\nbuilding, in which are to be found the agricultural implements as stated. Their\\nspecialties are the famous circular and other saws of Henry Disston Sons of Phila-\\ndelphia, for the sale of which they are special agents, and the leather hose and\\nbelting of J. B. Williams Sons, carrying also manilla and sisal rope. Their trade is\\nvery large in the city and country, and with the lumber mills of the Valley, to which\\ninterests their sales are large, and afford employment to a full corps of clerks and\\nsalesmen.\\nThe house is among the oldest and best in this part of the State, and offers\\ninducements to the trade that cannot be too highly commended.\\nJOSEPH GORDON\\nVessel Agent and Marine Insurance\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Union Bloek. Foot of \u00e2\u0082\u00acenter Ave.\\nThe vessel agency of Mr. Joseph Gordon is one of the oldest of its kind in Bay\\nCity, he having had twenty-two years experience here in that field of usefulness. A\\nvessel agent, it may be said, bears the same relation to shippers and vessel owners,\\nas the commercial broker bears to merchant and customer, negotiating between\\nthem and concluding transactions for the transfer of commodities. The vessel agent\\nmakes contracts for the shipment of consignments, the charter of bottoms, the\\nplacing of insurance, and, in some instances, for the procurement of crews. For years\\nMr. Gordon has been thus engaged, in conjunction with the placing of marine\\ninsurance, for which he enjoys unusual facilities, being the agent of Smith, Davis\\nCo., of Buffalo, the largest marine insurance house on the lakes. All policies\\nsecured by Mr. Gordon are at once passed over to that concern, the reputation of\\nwhich for reliability as guarantors, is well known from Duluth to the St. Lawrence,\\nand which offers protection against the numberless risks to which the merchant\\nmarine is subjected, as also the prompt liquidation of damages sustained by vessel\\nowners and shippers.\\nMr. Gordon s long experience in the business, the care exercised by him in dis-\\ncharging the responsible duties incident to his profession, and the superiority of the\\nservice he is able to offer patrons, has secured to him a valuable clientage, here and\\nat eastern lumber distributing points.", "height": "3304", "width": "1998", "jp2-path": "industriesofbayc00marq_0102.jp2"}, "103": {"fulltext": "THE INDUSTRIES OF THE BAY CITIES.\\n91\\nLUMBERMEN S STATE BANK.\\niii. O. Fitilivr, I*retiiilent II.\\nII. Aorrinetoii. t aNlii*\\nWeHt liay it.v.\\nliiiii uimI ^lidlaiMl StM..\\nmodem dt\\nThe history of hankiiif^ iu West Bay City starts\\nwith the estal li8hment of an institution devoted to\\nthat line of business, iu 1.S72, by II. H. Norrington and\\nlohn S. Taylor. Wenona was then the base of opera-\\ntions, and so continued to be until that village became\\npart of West Bay City. The enterprise was a success\\nfrom its inception, and soon after its organization it\\nwas found necessary to increase the amount of capi-\\ntal to meet the requirements of the business. In IHH l\\nthis bank became merged into the Lumbermen s State\\niJauk, which was tliat year incorporated with a capi-\\ntal of i^rjO.OOO. S. O. Fisher was elected President,\\nwith H. II. Norrington, Cashier, and they are still the\\nincumbents.\\nThe bank is located at the northeast corner of\\nMidland and Linn streets, the most central part of\\nthe city, in an elegant three-story brick building of\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2ttil by Hon. S. O. Fisher, and furnished and equipped with spe-\\ncial reference to the purposes to which it is applied. The premises devoted to the\\nbank are finished in red oak and Hungarian ash, with oak leaves and other decora-\\ntions, the main flooring of tile, that within the counter being inlaid with specimens of\\nthe various kinds of oak found in the Michigan forests. It is provided with a lire-\\nproof safe, containing an inner safe absolutely burglar proof; also steel boxes for lease\\nto special depositors. The rooms of the cashier and directory adjoin the bank proper,\\nand are handsomely equipped and furnished. A general banking Vmeiness is trans-\\nacted, to which a savings department has recently been added. They solicit com-\\nmercial accounts, loan money on approved mercantile paper, nfFording customers\\nevery facility consistent with safe banking, buy and sell foreign exchange, and for-\\nward money to all the principal cities in Europe. In the savings department deposits\\nof one dollar and upwards are received, and interest is paid thereon at the rate of\\nfour i)er cent, per annum from the time of deposit. The last annual statement, made\\nJuly 2, 1888, showed the bank s deposits amounted to 824:1,818.75, and its surplus tc\\n825,000.\\nOwing to extensive interests requiring the constant attention of Mr. Fisher, the\\naffairs are largely managed by Mr. Norrington. During the war lie was a member of\\nthe Loomis Battery, and was taken prisoner at Stone River after being severely\\nwounded. He also served on the staff of Gen. Heintzelman, and was presented with\\na sword by Gen. Reynolds in recognition of heroic services in West Virginia. He\\nlocated in Bay City in 18fi7, and has since be Mi identified with the growth and develop-\\nment of this section of the country. The bank enjoys exceptional facilities for the\\ntransaction of business, and is regarded as among the substantial and reliable insti-\\ntutions of its kind iu the State.\\nWILLIAM CROSBIE.\\nCarriase and Waeoii llakoi-. niitl tiiencral IllackNniitli\u00e2\u0080\u0094 \\\\o. lOIH Naeiiia^^ Nt.\\nWilliam Crosbie established himself in Bay City in 18,S(), and engaged in the manu-\\nfacture of buggies, road wagons, etc., in addition to carrying on a general repairing\\nand blacksmithing business. He is located at No. ItMS Saginaw street, an excellent\\nand desirable site for the convenience of the trade, in j)remises consisting of a two\\nstory brick structure, ;^(lx80feet in dimensions, and fully eijuipped for iilacksmithing.\\nrepairing and jobbing, in addition to his line of manufacture. His specialties are\\nlight dehvery express wagons, road wagons and buggies. These are made only to\\norder, and of a grade of materials unknown in cheap establishmeiits. Mr. Crosbie\\ndoes not compete with the i)rnductp of cheap lal^or, or with what is known as the\\nprison contract system. With him, quality is the tirst couf-ideration. and he does\\na large trade in Bay City and vicinity.", "height": "3304", "width": "2052", "jp2-path": "industriesofbayc00marq_0103.jp2"}, "104": {"fulltext": "\u00e2\u0080\u00a292 THE INDUSTRIES OF THE BAY CITIES.\\nR. W. IRWIN,\\nInsurance anrt Real Kstate Agent\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Fislier Block, ^Vest Bay r.lty.\\nThe field for eoterpriee in the real estate and insurance business in West Bay\\nCity is large, and well occupied by a class of men whose operations have raised the\\nstandard of professional requirements in that connection. One of the leading houses\\nin those lines is that of R. W. Irwin, successor to the large business of a similar char-\\nacter long since established by Recorder Phillips, and by that gentleman successfully\\nconducted for many years. Mr. Irwin had been engaged in real estate and insurance\\nfor twenty-five years prior to his removal from Huron County to this city in 1887, and\\nwas, by his experience and familiarity with the details of both, specially prepared to\\nenter into competition with rival houses in an enlarged and more pretentious lield of\\noperations. Upon arriving here he purchased the business of Recorder Phillips, as\\nstated, and has since attained to prominence and success. He is located in the Fisher\\nblock, Midland street, where he occupies a handsome suite of oflBces, and is well pro-\\nvided with all necessary appointments appertaining to the business, which is general\\nreal estate and insurance. In the former he buys and sells lands, houses, farming\\nand timber tracts on his own account and on commission, leases same, cares for\\nestates, collects rents, negotiates loans, attends to the discharge of encumbrances\\nupon realty, and otherwise is invaluable to the householder and capitalist. In the\\ndepartment of insurance he represents none but first-class corporations of established\\nsolvency, and with a well-earned reputation for liberality and the prompt and equit-\\nable adjustment of losses. Among the companies for which he is the sole agent here\\nare the Northern Assurance of London; the Hartford and Connecticut, both of Hart-\\nford, Conn.; the Union of Philadelphia the Grand Rapids of Michigan the Hiber-\\nniana of New Orleans, and the California of San Francisco, all fire: also of the Fidelity\\nand Casualty Accident Insurance Company of New York, assuring risks against acci-\\ndents, and the Michigan Mutual Life Insurance Company of Detroit, representing a\\ntotal capital of $6,200,000, assets amounting to S28,914,548, and a surplus aggregating\\nS12,638,794. The inducements Mr. Irwin is able to offer those desiring absolute pro-\\ntection are undeniable, being gilt-edged companies, low rates, and immediate settle-\\nment in case of loss.\\nHe employs a competent force of assistants, and is doing a large business.\\nCHARLES E. RHODES.\\n^Vatchmaker and Engraver\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Dealer in Cirolcl and Silver Watches\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Wo. 8131\\nWater JSt.\\nA leading and representative house in the line of watches and jewelry, is that of\\n-Charles E. Rhodes, established in 1872, and since conducted by him with ability and\\nsuccess. His beginnings were small, but for many years his trade has been steadily\\nadvancing and extending. The enterprise has grown in prosperity as it has grown\\nin years, and its popularity has kept pace with its progress and development. The\\nstore is located at No. 813 Water street, a site possessing every advantage for the\\npurposes of business, being in the heart of the retail portion of the city, and artist-\\nically and appropriately equipped and furnished. The premises occupied consist of\\nthe basement and main floor, each 25x100 feet in area, wherein is displayed for sale\\na most select stock of attractive articles of utility and ornament, usual to the lines\\nof goods carried by first-class houses similarly engaged. They embrace watches of\\nthe celebrated make of Howard Co., and of other American factories, in solid\\ngold and silver cases; also, imported watches, diamonds, handsomely mounted in\\norigmal design, clocks, solid gold and plated jewelry, silver and electro-plated ware,\\nchronographs, gold pens and pencils, charms, etc. His specialty is, repairing and\\nengraving; and not only is work in these particular departments warranted, but\\nevery article included in the stock is guaranteed as represented. He employs only\\nskilled workmen, and does a large trade in the city and surrounding country.\\nThe house is a favorite with customers, both on account of its work and honor-\\nable business methods, as also for its regard for the interests of its patrons, to whom\\nit offers the most advantageous terms.", "height": "3304", "width": "1998", "jp2-path": "industriesofbayc00marq_0104.jp2"}, "105": {"fulltext": "THE INDUSTRIES OF THE HAY CITIES.\\n9$\\nW. D. SHERMAN,\\nIJ^4 mid ItoaiMliiiK Htaltl\u00c2\u00ab 7IH AduniM Ml.\\nIn ist Mr. W. D. Sherman erecteil one of the Laud.somest and mu.st fuuvenieutly\\naccessible buildings for the purpose in Bay City, and began the livery business under\\nthe most favorable auspices. He had previously, for a number of years, been associ-\\nated with F. E, Tyler in the same line, under the firm name of Sherman k Tyler, and\\nwas familiar with all the requirements incident to a successful conduct of operations\\nin that field of enterprise. His premises are located at No. 715 Adams street, in the\\nnew building above referred to, a two-story structure (iO.\\\\l 2() feet in dimensions, built\\nof white brick, peculiarly adapted to the uses for wliich they are employed. The\\nbasement, of which it might be remarked, is so commodious and lofty that it becomes\\nalmost a main floor, is used for the stock, containing twenty-six stalls and ten large\\nloose boxes for the stabling of valuable horses. In the arrangement and equipment\\nof this department of the business, scientific precautions have been taken to insure\\nan abundance of light and ventilation, as also to facilitate the removal of the animals\\nin case of fire. The main floor is occupied with a handsome suite of offices and\\nwaiting parlors, carriage and harness rooms, and other conveniences, the second floor\\nbeing largely devoted to the storage of sleighs and vehicles not in use, whither they\\nare conveyeil by elevator. Mr. Sherman s specialty is first-class livery and coupe\\nservice, also boarding of horses. In the former brancii of the business he uses from\\nsixteen to twenty head of horses and is supplied with the most elegant lines of hacks,\\ncoupes and large carriages in the city; also with ligiit top buggies, one and two-seated\\nroad wagons, very light road buggies, etc., in great variety and of the be-^it make in\\nstyle, finish and reliability. In the boarding department he cares for a number of\\ngentlemen s private equipages, including some of the finest turn-outs in the city.", "height": "3304", "width": "2052", "jp2-path": "industriesofbayc00marq_0105.jp2"}, "106": {"fulltext": "94 THE INDUSTRIES OF THE BAY CITIES.\\nEDDY, AVERY EDDY.\\natanufaotiirers of I^uiuber and Salt\u00e2\u0080\u0094 IVater St. bet. Tenth and Eleventh.\\nAmong the leading firms in Bay City, engaged in the promotion of the lumber\\nand salt industries, that of Eddy, Avery Eddy, stands prominent. It is one of\\nthe oldest in the State, having been established by Eddy, Murphy Avery during\\nthe pioneer days at Port Huron. It is now composed of Edwin Eddy, of East\\nSaginaw, John F. Eddy, of Bay City and the Newell Avery heirs of Detroit. The\\npresent organization was effected in 186i, and up to 1880, was known by the firm\\nname of Eddy, Avery Co. In the later year, however, the present style was\\nadopted without material change in the composition of the firm.\\nThey are located on Water street, between Tenth and Eleventh, where their\\nplant occupies a considerable territory. The saw mill is 120x180 feet in dimensions,\\nwith the full equipment of a double mill, including two large circular saws, Wickes\\nBrothers gang saw, powerful steam feeds, lumber and slab transfers, stock lifters,\\nedging and trimming machines, with other appliances of modern make for effective\\nservice, the whole driven by four engines, one of two hundred and forty horse-power,\\noperating the gang mill saw; one of three hundred and seventy-five horse-power,\\noperating the circulars one of twenty-five horse-power working seven saw\\ndust carriers, conveying the saw-dust, the only fuel used, direct from its place of\\ndeposit to the furnaces, and a fourth of twenty horse-power for driving the main\\ncarrier for slabs. This large equipment of machinery is fed from a battery of nine\\ntubular boilers. Four of these are 5ixl6 feet in dimensions each, two 6x16 feet, and\\nthree 4x16 feet in size each.\\nIn the manufacture of lumber, the logs are taken from the boom by an endless\\nchain dotted with teeth, forced up an incline to circular saws where they are faced\\nand forwarded to the gang mill over a roller conveyance. After being cut into\\nlumber, the latter are run along rollers to the trimming tables, thence by the same\\nmode of conveyance to the sizing tables, where they are cut into equal lengths, and\\nthence taken on cars to the piling grounds. All the saw filing, gumming, etc., is done\\nautomatically by machinery. The annual output of the mill is 25,000,000 feet of\\nlumber, 3,500,000 laths, 1,000,000 staves and 500,000 pieces of barrel heading. In\\naddition, the firm yearly has thousands of logs cut to their order by other mills.\\nTheir salt industry is represented by six salt wells with drill house and pony\\nengine equipments, extensive salt blocks, packing houses, cooperage, etc., and\\nmanufacture 70.%0 barrels of salt per annum, which are disposed of through the\\nMichigan Salt Association. The logs from which the lumber is cut, are obtained\\nfrom all parts of the Upper and Lower Peninsulas. The prodiict is shipped east.\\nThe firm give employment to two hundred hands and a large number of horses\\nhere during the season, and to a force of from three to four hundred hands in their\\nlumber camps diiring the winter.\\nThey also own large tracts of pine and farming lands throughout the State, arid\\nthe volume and character of their business have made them powerful factors in\\npromoting the growth and prosperity of the Saginaw Valley.\\nH. L. SEMPLINER.\\nMerchant Tailor and Gents Furnisher\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Water Street, Foot of Center Ave.\\nThe promising clothing and gents furnishing house owned and directed by H. L.\\nSempliner, was established here in September, 1888. His place of business is one of\\nthe very best in the city, being located on Water street at the foot of Center avenue,\\nand directly opposite the New Eraser House. The store occupied is 25x125 feet in size,\\nand handsomely furnished and finished, also completely equipped for the accommo-\\ndation of the select trade, to the requirements of which he successfully caters. His\\nlines of stock are full and choice, chosen with care, and embrace foreign and domestic\\ncloths, cassimeres, vestings, suitings, etc.; imported underwear, gloves, ties and nov-\\nelties, also the same description of goods, the product of the best American manii-\\nfacture, and every article included on the invoices of a first-class haberdasher. He\\nmakes goods to order, according to the latest modes, employing only first-class hands,\\nand in the way of materials, finish and fit, his work is not surpassed by that of any\\nmerchant tailoring establishment in the two cities.", "height": "3304", "width": "1998", "jp2-path": "industriesofbayc00marq_0106.jp2"}, "107": {"fulltext": "THE INDUSTRIES OE THE BAY CITIES.\\n95\\nJ. N. Mcdonald son,\\nVloiir, KtM tt and araiii I i oprN. Ittxy ftty FI\u00c2\u00ab iiriiiK ^Iiili\\ni Ht anti \\\\\\\\at rNtN.\\nThe pioneer enterprise iu the\\nline of milling industries in Bay\\nCity is that now owned and di-\\nrected by J. McDonald X- Son.\\nat the corner of First and Water\\nstreets. Mr. McDonald, 8r.,\\nsettled in Bay City at an early\\nday in the history of the present\\nmunicipal corporation, coming\\nhither from Canada, and has ever\\neiiu-e his advent been an active\\n.11 li potent agency iu the origin\\n,11 111 development of means that\\nwonld tend to the enrichment and advance of the city of his residence. In 18(57 he\\nerected the first merchant Hour mill operated here. While large and complete in its\\nappointments, and possessing a producing capacity of 50 barrels of flour per diem,\\nthis mill was unpretentious iu comparison with those of a later day, and soon became\\ninadequate to supply the demands of the trade. During the winter of 18^9-70, the\\nold mill was the scene of an extensive conflagration, in which the entire plant became\\nthe prey of flames, occasioning a severe loss and l)rief suspension of operatioES. Soon\\nafter this occurrence, however, George C. Fray was admitted as a partner in the\\nenterprise, the mill was rebuilt, and within six months from the date of its destruc-\\ntion, was being run with improved machinery and a daily capacity of 125 barrels of\\nflour.\\nThe new structure, which rose from the ashes of its predecessor, still stands,\\nthough during the intervening years constant additions have been made to the\\nbuilding and its equipment. It is three stories high, 50x80 feet in size, and was\\nfurnished in the first instance with machinery embodying such auxiliaries and\\npatents as were then available. In 1884, however, machinery adapted to the grinding\\nof the raw material into roller process flour was substituted, the mill being fitted\\nwith a complete set of roller process machinery throughout. Along in 1877 Mr. Fray\\nretired from the firm, and Geo. H. Shearer succeeded to the vacancy. The mill was\\nconducted under the name and style of McDonald ct Shearer until February, 1888,\\nat which date Mr. Shearer withdrew, and John A. McDonald was received into\\npartnership, the firm name being then changed to J. N. McDonald it Son. The\\nspecialties manufactured embrace brands that have secured an established reputa-\\ntion for purity and snpenor excellence wherever they are known. They include\\nGold Dust, which is the leading specialty; also Roller Process, Straight,\\nClimax. Cyclone, and are in constant demand. The output of the mill is one\\nthousand barrelsof flour per week, giving employment to twenty competent employes,\\nand supplying a large local trade, as also an etjually extensive and imi)ortant patron-\\nage along the river and bay. The firm handles, in addition, large (luautities of grain\\nand feed products, with receiving, shipping and storage facilities, complete and\\ncommodious. Railroad tracks are accessible at the mill door, and a warehouse\\n60x100 feet in size, and extending from the rear of the mill to Sagmaw street, affords\\nample accommodations for the deposit and protection of cereals and stock.\\nThe continued prosperity and high standing of the firm testifies to its worth.\\nThe large and extending trade, to which they give their undivided attention, bespeaks\\na confidence in the purity of their products and in the business methods they employ\\nthat requires no elaboration.", "height": "3304", "width": "2052", "jp2-path": "industriesofbayc00marq_0107.jp2"}, "108": {"fulltext": "96 THE INDUSTRIES OF THE BAY CITIES.\\nWILLIAM B. ROUSE.\\nLiumber and Salt Manufacturer\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Wootlside Avenue, Xear City Liiuiits.\\nThe large and finely equipped saw mill of W. B. Rouse was erected, by J. M^\\nRouse, father of the present proprietor, early in 1871. Mr. Rouse, Sr., owned and\\noperated the mill until 1878, when it came into the possession of E. F. and W. B^\\nRouse. The latter immediately increased the facilities of the plant, by the addition\\nof new and improved machinery, at the same time establishing the salt industry and\\notherwise providing for the promotion of both branches of the enterprise. The\\nplant was conducted under their joint management until 1882, when W. B. Rouse\\nbecame sole owner, and has since directed its operations, residing in an elegant home-\\nopposite the mill office. The mill and salt wells are eligibly and prominently\\nlocated on Woodside avenue, adjoining the corporate limits of Bay City, and are.\\namong the best furnished and available for manufacturing purposes in this vicinity.\\nThe saw mill proper is a commodious structure, 100x13(3 feet in diruensions, andi\\nequipped with a powerful gang saw, circular saws, steam feed carriage, butting\\nsaws, edgers, trimmers and other requisite machinery furnished with motive power-\\nby three engines, fed from a battery of four steel boilers, 6x16 feet in size, each\\nprovided with seventy-four flues with three and four inch tubes. The plant also.\\nincludes a desirable river frontage, docks, piling grounds and other accessories, in\\nevery way complete and desirable. The logs are obtained from the Northern Pen-\\ninsula and other portions of the North and Northwest, and the product annually\\namounts to 15,000,000 feet of lumber, which is shipped to Buffalo, Tonawanda and^\\nother depots of supply for the Eastern markets. The salt manufacture includes\\nthe salt wells, with drill house and engine accompaniments, a large salt block, and\\nthe necessary packinghouse facilities, and turns out 20,000 barrels of salt per annum,\\nw^hich are sold by Mr. Rouse in car-load lots to the Chicago and St. Louis trade. He\\nemploys from ninety to one hundred hands and his yearly business is very large.\\nMr. Rouse is a representative man of this portion of the country, and has been\\nuntiring in his efforts toward the prosperity of Bay City and the State of Michigan.\\nHis operations in the line of his productions are very extensive, and the demand for\\nhis commodities is equally large, and constantly increasing and extending.\\nHANDY BROTHERS.\\nBox,Manufaetui ers, Planing Mill\u00e2\u0080\u0094 AVest Bay City.\\nOne of the most prominent and comprehensively equipped planing mills and bos-\\nfactories in West Bay City, if not in the Valley, is that of Handy Brothers. The firm\\nis made up of Thomas L. Handy and Charles W. Handy. It was organized in 1884,\\nand wields a powerful influence among the industries, in its special line, in this\\nvicinity. During the month of August, 1887, their establishment was destroyed by\\nfire, entailing a heavy loss, and temporary suspension of operations. They rebuilt,\\nimmediately, however, increasing their facilities and resuming business in what is\\npronounced the most desirable premises of the kind in this section. They are eligibly\\nand conveniently located, and consist of a commodious a\u00c2\u00abid substantially built\\nstructure, 100x130 feet in dimensions, divided into a planing-mill and box-factory,\\nand furnished with a full and complete equipment of machinery and appliances, for\\na speedy and economical production of all the lines of manufacture conducted. In\\nthe department of planing, they do custom work, for shipment in car-load lots to\\neastern consignees, their range of box manufacture embracing every description of\\nboxes for use in every department of trade, for which such articles are in demand.\\nTheir products are among the best in the market of supplies, in that branch of the\\nbusiness, and enjoy a wide-spread and deserved reputation for the qualities of their\\nmaterial and durability, throughout the East, West and South, whither they are\\nshipped in large quantities.\\nThe Handy Brothers are representative manufacturers and citizens, and have\\nalways been prominent and substantial aids in the development and promotion of\\nenterprises that would contribute to the public prosperity.", "height": "3304", "width": "1998", "jp2-path": "industriesofbayc00marq_0108.jp2"}, "109": {"fulltext": "THE INDUSTRIES OF THE BAY CITIES.\\n97\\nBAY CITY BUGGY WORKS.\\nJlufrs. I arriagt N, lia l ii i. ltu:;u;i H. MI\u00c2\u00ab-it :liN. Ktc\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Foot of la liMoii Ave.\\nOne of the important and leading industries wliieli has of late years become\\nfirmly establisbed in Bay City, is the manufacture of carriafjes, butryies, etc., which\\nis carried ou here with a large degree of success, contributing substantially to the\\ncity s prosperity, and being the source of supply for an extensive and lucrative\\ndemand. The leading establishment in this line in the Saginaw Valley, is the Bay\\nCity Buggy Works, established iu 187(3, the operations of which, during succeeding\\nyears, have elevated the standard of that class of work, enhanced its value and\\nappreciated the importance of Bay City as a manufacturing center.\\nThey are located at the foot of Madison avenue, adjacent to the Michigan Central\\nand Flint Pere Marquette railroads,\u00e2\u0080\u0094 a site affording excellent facilities for the\\nshipment of wares and the receipt of stock. They are two stories high, 5()x:5()() feet\\nin dimensions, containing office and display rooms, and carrying, iu the latter, full\\nand complete lines of the proilucts manufactured. The iron working, wood working,\\npainting and varnishing shops, drying and finishing rooms, trimming department,\\netc., and other accommodations requisite to a first-claas equipment, are equally\\ncommodious and convenient. The range of manufacture eml)race3 carriages,\\nphaetons, buggies of every pattern and description, including the Brewster.\\nTimken, Fairy Qiieeu, with side and elliptic springs, open and covered, with\\nPiano. Corning and White Chapel bodies; also, buckboards, road-carts, etc.,\\nin addition to sleighs and cutters, single and double seated, of the Portland,\\nBailey and Swell styles, tinished and u|)holstered in manner and design both\\ncomfortable and elegant. They also carry large invoices of materials and unfinished\\nvehicles, to supply the trade demands in both particulars. The product of the\\nworks is of the best and most stylish descrijjtion. The raw material is of superior\\nquality, the buggy gearings being made of thoroughly seasoned hickory selected\\nwith special care; the axles, springs and tire are of the finest grades of tempered\\nsteel, and the ornamentations and finishings neat, appropriate and durable. Their\\nproduct is very large, the item of cutters alone footing nearly l.()() annually; and\\nthe plant gives employment to a force of from fifty to sixty expert operatives.\\nThe trade in buggies, carriages, phaetons, etc., is extensive in Texas and in the\\nSouthwest, also in Dakota, Minnesota and Iowa; the cutter trade is largely in\\nMichigan and Minnesota.\\nThe works are under the management of J. B. Fox. who is a thorough carriage-\\nmaker of large experience, who served five years apprenticeship in the East, and\\nhas for several years been conne. ted with some of the leading manufactories of the\\nWest. Under his management, the works have been enlarged and their quality\\nimproved, enabling their successful competition with rival concerns in all parts of\\nthe country. The works occupy a permanent place on the list of Bay City industries,\\nand have been [prominent in the aid they have furnished for the development and\\nfostering of the city s prosperity.", "height": "3304", "width": "2052", "jp2-path": "industriesofbayc00marq_0109.jp2"}, "110": {"fulltext": "98 THE INDUSTRIES OF THE BAY CITIES.\\nCHARLES BREITMEYER.\\nFlorist\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Corner Sixth and Trumbull Sts., Baj City.\\nThe green-houses and gardens of Charles Breitmeyer, one\\nof the leading florists in the Bay Cities, are located at the\\ncorner of Sixth and Trumbull streets, easily accessible by street\\nrailroad or private conveyance. They occupy a varied and\\nattractive site, and present to the visitor a beautiful and pict-\\nuresque landscape of luxuriant foliage and horticultural\\nbeauties. Mr. Breitmeyer began the business in Bay City in\\n1885, coming from Detroit. During January, 1887, his im-\\nprovements were destroyed by fire, but immediately rebuilt.\\nHis gardens cover upward of three acres, the green-houses,\\nthree in number, occupying one-third of that area. He has recently completed\\nthe building of a*handsome residence, in the grounds, for his own occupation.\\nHis stock of plants is very large and complete, including every description known\\nto botanical science, and indigenous to every climate. His roses, magnolias,\\norange blossoms. Cape jasmines and other tropical productions, are to be seen\\nin profusion, as also the blossoms and plants grown in more northern latitudes\\nand in Europe. His green-houses are commodious, and supplied with every\\nnecessary convenience and appliance for the propagation and successful cultivation\\nof all in his line, while his floral designs for decoration purposes, receptions,\\nweddings, funerals and other occasions, have secured to Mr. Breitmeyer a well-\\nmerited reputation for beauty and originality in their combinations and design.\\nHis enterprise is in all respects unsurpassed, and his facilities for promptly filling\\norders are well known and appreciated. He employs a force of skilled assistants,\\nand does a large business locally and in the surrounding country.\\nMr. Breitmeyer is an experienced florist, having been educated to the profession\\nunder the direction of his father, who is one of the most prominent in the same line\\nin the West, and whose green-houses and gardens at Detroit are among the largest\\nin the country. He is a pushing, public-spirited citizen, and has achieved success\\nupon the basis of merit.\\nWILSON HOOP CO.\\nManufacturers of [Coiled Barrel and Keg Hoops\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Kinth and Washington Sts.\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nWest Bay City.\\nThe Wilson Hoop Company was organized in 1882. It is composed of F. L. Wil-\\nson and Isaac Pierce, of West Bay City, Alexander Bush, South Arm, Mich., and\\nW. G. Pierce, of Watertown, N. Y. Their manufacture is that of barrel and keg\\nhoopg, by means of an ingenious mechanical contrivance, the invention of Mr.\\nWilson, and the operations of the company have grown larger and larger, every year\\nsince their commencement.\\nThe premises occupied are located at the corner of Ninth and Washington\\nstreets, where they cover two blocks of ground, with valuable river frontage, and\\nunsurpassed shipping facilities. On the Middle Ground, opposite, they have a large\\nboom for storage of logs. The mill proper is 100 feet square, substantially built\\nand furnished with knife hoop, and other machinery, driven by two engines, one 12x18\\ninch cylinder for the hoop cutter, and the other a 12x16 inch cylinder for the remain-\\ning appliances of the plant. The hoops are made from elm logs, the same having first\\nbeen steamed in tanks for twenty -four hours, and for which purpose there are seven\\ntanks, each eight feet deep and 8x24 feet in dimensions. When taken from the tanks\\nthe logs are conveyed to the hoop cutter, a powerful machine driven by an engine\\nwith a 12x18 inch cylinder, where they revolve against knives moving horizontally,\\nand are cut into rough hoops, at the rate of 105 per minute. The latter are thence\\npassed through various trimming and sizing machines into the drying- room, and\\nthence to the piling grounds. Steam is the motive power employed to operate the\\nmachinery, and is furnished from a boiler 5x16 feet in dimensions, with seventy-three\\nthree-inch fliies.\\nFrom thirty-five to forty hands are employed, and the annual products of the\\ncompany are 18,000,000 hoops, which are in part sold to local salt manufacturers,\\nbut mainly shipped to the eastern markets. The company also own and operate\\na branch of their industry at South Arm, Michigan.", "height": "3304", "width": "1998", "jp2-path": "industriesofbayc00marq_0110.jp2"}, "111": {"fulltext": "THE INDUSTRIES OF THE BAY CITIES.\\n09\\nLOUIS BERTCH SON\\nFr\u00c2\u00ab Nli anal SaltctI llratN All KiiiilM NaiiNa:;4-M Xoh. fZ and 114 C iiter Ave.\\n(^ne of the oldest,\\nliest known and most\\nprosperous estab-\\nliebmeuts in Bay\\nity, devoted to the\\nbusiness of snpply-\\ninp the trade with\\nfresh and salt meats,\\nalso manufacturing\\na superior (juality of\\nsausages o f every\\nkind, is that of Louis\\nHertch Sod, at\\nNos. 112 and 114\\nCenter avenue. The\\nfODcern was founded\\nbvLouis Bertch dur-\\ning 1873, and for a\\nnumber of years ha\\nattended to the man-\\nagement of its af-\\nfaire. Subsequent to\\nits organization, Mr^\\nCharles W. Bertcb\\nwas admitted into\\nI)artnership, when\\nthe present firm was\\nconstituted, and so\\nremained until 1887,\\nwhen Mr. Louis\\nBertch deceased.\\nSince then the estate\\nof the latter and\\nCharles W. Bertci), the junior partner of the original tirm, have conducted the\\nenterprise, the firm name, however, remaining unchanged. They possess one of\\nthe very desirable locations for the business in the city, at the above numbers od\\nCenter avenue, and enjoy a trade that is only limited by their capacity to sujiply.\\nThe premises occupied are 40x80 feet in size, and well eipiipped with afjpurtenances\\nand conveniences, including a refrigerating department of ample capacity, and\\nspecially constructed for the uses for which it is employed. In addition to these\\naccommodations they own a slaughter-house, riOxlOO feet in dimensions, located ou\\nthe Saginaw River, at the Flint Pere Manjuette railroad docks, where their\\naccommodations for the slaughter and preservation of beef are commodious and\\nperfect, embracing a refrigerating room in which four car-loads of dressed beef can\\nbe conveniently stored. They slaugliter from five to six car-loads of cattle per month,\\nalso extensively dealing in smoked and salt meats of tiieir own curing. They employ\\na force of from ten to tifteeu hand.s, and besides a large trade locally and with boats,\\nengage in an extended jobbing trade in Northern Michigan.\\n1\\nJt^lTJBW,*!\\nuww\\n1\\n1\\n1\\n1\\n1\\n1\\nV\\nM\\nii.\\n1\\n1\\n1\\n1\\n^^5\\n1\\ni.iins i;i;iirrii. iiK(K", "height": "3304", "width": "2052", "jp2-path": "industriesofbayc00marq_0111.jp2"}, "112": {"fulltext": "100 THE INDUSTRIES OF THE BAY CITIES.\\nMILLER LEWIS.\\nMnfi*!^. Rough and I rei^setl Liniiiber, Liatliii^ and Shing^les\u00e2\u0080\u0094 South Water Foot\\nThirteenth St.\\nThis mill was established in 1866, when Albert Miller began the manufacture of\\nrough and dressed lumber, lath, shingles, salt, etc., and in 1881, George Lewis\\nbecame a partner, and the present firm was organized. Their plant is located on\\nSouth Water street at the foot of Thirteenth street. The mills, salt block, piling\\ngrounds, cooperage, offices, barns, etc., cover a territory of twenty-tive acres, and are\\nin all respects completely equipped and furnished. The saw mill is a two-story\\nbuilding 180x100 feet in dimensions and adequately supplied with machinery of the\\nlatest and most approved design, which is driven by three powerful engines, fed by\\ntwo batteries of seven and three, respectively, steel tubular boilers. The planing\\nmill is 160x125 feet in size, and equally complete in its furnishings and appointments.\\nHere the firm plane and dress a large proportion of the saw mill output for shipment\\nin car lots to New York, Boston and other depots of supply in the eastern markets.\\nA force of one hundred and fifty hands and a large number of teams are employed\\nat the mill, the product of which annually amounts to 18,000,000 feet of lumber, from\\ntwo to three millions of lath, four millions of shingles and two millions of pieces of\\nheading, which are sold to the trade in all directions. Included in the plant, are six\\nsalt v/ells and drill houses, each supplied with a pony pumping engine, also an\\nextensive salt block. This branch of the business yields a product of 30,000 barrels\\nof salt per season.\\nTheir planing mill is the most complete in the Valley, their boom and shipping\\nslips are unsurpassed, tracks run through the yards and by the planing mill door,\\nthus affording superior railroad facilities, and the water frontage owned by the firm\\nis among the largest and most valuable on the river.\\nIn addition to this connection, the firm are extensively interested in other\\nbusiness enterprises, Mr. Miller being the senior partner in the firm of Miller\\nBros., lumber manufacturers, and the firm also being partners in the establishment\\nof Joseph Turner Co., dealers in logs, lumber and lands, also during the winter\\nseason, conducting large operations in the lumber camps of the North, where they\\nown vast tracts of land, and employ two hundred and fifty hands.\\nThey have invested a very large capital in their business, and enjoy an enviable\\nreputation for integrity and reliability.\\nMILLER BROTHERS.\\nLiunibei* :\u00c2\u00bbfanufacturers\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Middle Ctrouiid.\\nThe mill for the manufacture of lumber, of which the firm of Miller Brothers,\\ncomposed of Albert Miller, Andrew J. Miller and James Miller are owners, is promi-\\nnent among the large industries in that line carried on in Bay City. It was\\nestablished by Albert Miller in 1882, and by him carried on until 1885, when the\\npresent firm was organized. It is located on the Middle Ground between Bay City\\nand We.st Bay City, a desirable site, and is completely equipped to meet the require-\\nments of the trade. Besides the mill building, the plant is occupied with valuable\\nriver frontage, fine dockage, booms and large piling grounds. The saw mill is 150x100\\nfeet in dimensions, provided with all requisite luachiuery of the latest and most ap-\\nproved pattern, embracing Wickes Brothers gang mill saw, steam feed carriage, of\\nlarge power and capacity, with other implements and appliances for facilitating\\nproduction at tbe least expense of time and labor, run by two powerful engines,\\nfed from a battery of six boilers each four by sixteen feet. The annual output of\\nthe mill is 12,000,000 feet of lumber, which is shipped to eastern points, in the\\nmanufacture of which employment is furnished to eighty hands. The firm has\\nrecently included in its line the sawing of logs on commission, general among the\\nValley mills, and engage extensively in that business, in addition to their regular\\noperations.\\nThe firm, individually and collectively, is leading in its line and a powerful aid\\nin the development of substantial prosperity here and elsewhere. The senior\\nmember is also head of the lumber manufacturing establishment of Miller Lewis,\\nand partner of the firm of Joseph Turner Co. The remaining members of Miller\\nBrothers are also interested in other enterprises, and are valuable and important\\nfactors in the business progress of the Valley.", "height": "3314", "width": "2061", "jp2-path": "industriesofbayc00marq_0112.jp2"}, "113": {"fulltext": "THE INDUSTRIES OF THE BAY CITIES.\\n(11\\nCHICAGO SHOE HOUSE.\\nDaiixitfi i Itrus.. I roprN. KootM and HIioeH\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Itouecli Itlock Htiit atcr St. LI\\nThe Chica(?o Shoe House, a ceutrally located and completely equipped eetab-\\nliBhrneut for the sale of the tiner and medium grades of boots autl shoes, was\\nfounded in 1882, by lienjamiu P. and Oscar Dauzi^er, who constitute tlie\\npresent tirni of Uanzif, er Brothers. They\\nare men of long experience in, and\\nthoroughly conversant with the business,\\nas also with the recjuirements of the\\ntrade, and theii- success lias been achieved\\nby that caieful attention to the fostering\\nof mutually advantageous relations,\\nwhich, in all well regulated commercial\\ntransactions, exist between factor and\\npatron. Their place of business is in the\\nRouech block, a well known and popular\\ntrade center, at No. 820 Water street, in\\npremises tweuty-tive feet front, with a\\ndepth of one huudred feet, handsomely\\nfurnished and supplied with every con-\\nvenience and facility for the display and\\nsale of their large and varied stocks of\\ngoods. These include every commodity\\nin the line of foot-wear for men, women,\\nyouths, misses and children, of tlie finest\\nand best (jualities and of the latest styles\\nas soon as they appear. They purchase\\nfrom the most celebrated eastern manu-\\nfacturers, whose products are known for\\ntheir durability and for tiuish, making\\ntheir selections from stock ada[)ted to\\nthe wants of the trade, and buying for\\nspot cash. They are thus enabled to\\notTer their customers superior induce-\\nments in quality and price, and their\\neflbrts have not been without results, both valuable and permanent. They employ\\na skilled force of polite and gentlemanly assistants, find do a large business in the\\ncity and Valley. The firm enjoys the advantages of long training and ample capital,\\nand the house enjoys the fullest measure of confidence among its patrons.\\nThis style of shoe, while liHviiiL. .1 vir\\\\ low v.uiii\\nis so shaped that the vauip seams do not toucli tlie\\nioiiits, and is therefore tlie easiest fitting shoe in\\nthe market.\\nW. W. HODGKINS.\\n^Vliole-iule and Itetail ^irooer-Xo. 304 ntrr Ave.\\nAmong the prominent houees who aid in promoting the reputation of Bey City as\\na locality for the purchase of the purest and best of groceries and family supplies in\\nthat line, that of \\\\V.\\\\V. Httdgkins occupies a leading position. The business w;is first\\nestablished in 187!) by the firm of Goeschel A: liodgkins. both gentlemen rtimiining\\nin charge and personally directing the building up of a large and substantial trade\\nuntil 18S7. During that year, Mr. liodgkins purchased the interest of his partner,\\nand has since managed the affairs of the liouse under his own name, catering to a\\nfine family trade, and keeping in stock the choicest lines of couimodities to be\\nobtained in the markets of supply. His place of business is at Xo. Hdl Center avenue,\\none of the most eligible locations in the city, in the center of the trade district, and\\notherwise desirable and convenient. The premises occupieil are HOxlOO feet in\\ndimensions, neatly arranged and api)ointed with accommodations for the display,\\nstorage and sale of his stock. His specialties are coJTees of his own roasting, fine\\nteas and confections, in all of which he carries full lines; also, every description of\\nstaple and fancy groceries, provisions, and in their seasons, fruits and vegetables.\\nHe employs a full statT. and does a large trade of the best character in Bay City Hud\\nvicinitv.", "height": "3304", "width": "2052", "jp2-path": "industriesofbayc00marq_0113.jp2"}, "114": {"fulltext": "102 THE INDUSTRIES OF THE BAY CITIES.\\nBAY CITY FISH COMPANY.\\nThomas R. Merrill. Oeiieral Maiiajjer\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Sagina^v River, XortU of West Ray City.\\nThe fish industry of Saginaw Bay and vicinity, has assumed large proportions,\\nenlisting large investments of capital, affording employment to a large number of\\noperators, and supplying a correspondingly large demand in all parts of the country.\\nOne of the most prominent and reliable agencies engaged in this field is the Bay\\nCity Fish Company, which embarked in business in 1882, and has, for a period of six\\nyears, been conspicuous in its development and promotion. Its success has been\\npronounced, and the trade has become of no iu considerable volume, extending from\\nNew York to New Orleans, and from the lakes to the Missouri River. The company s\\nfish house is located on the west bank of the Saginaw River, about two miles north of\\nWest Bay City. The premises are 115x55 feet in dimensions, and will soon include\\nan addition 75x55 feet on the ilock, fully equipped, and where is handled a very large\\ndaily catch of white fish, pickerel, etc., the product of over one hundred and fifty nets,\\nwhich are shipped, in fish cars, to Chicago, Louisville, Cincinnati, St. Louis, Kansas\\nCity and throughout the South and West. These cars are constructed for the pre-\\nservation of fish in transit, and so perfectly do they meet the requirements of the\\neervice, that fish can be kept fresh, iu the most oppressive weather, for a period of\\nfifteen days and upwards. The company also conducts a fish house at St. Ignace,\\nfrom which white fish are obtained all summer, also receiving white fish, pickerel\\nand lake trout from Lake Superior and Winnipeg, and owning valuable fishing\\ngrounds on Saginaw Bay. They have, in addition, agents at every source of supply\\nin the United States and Canada, and have received fish from the Bay of Quinto, (off\\nLake Huron) Canada. A force of traveling men constantly canvass the fishing\\nsections, as far east as New Brunswick, for the eastern markets.\\nThis extensive business, which is of inestimable value to the Lower Peninsula, is\\nunder the direction and management of Mr. T. R. Merrill, who has been intimately\\nassociated with the fishing interests of the Northern lakes, and has contributed in no\\nsmall degree to their development and prosperity for a period of twenty years. During\\nthe war he was a soldier in the Union army, serving in Virginia, where he participated\\nin all campaigns from Bull Run to Antietam, campaigns which culminated in the\\ndownfall of the Confederacy and shrived the American armies with an imperishable\\nlustre. At the close of hostilities he came west, engaging in business, first at Detroit,\\nthence removing to Bay City, with results that have redounded to the credit of the\\ncommercial profession and to the prosperity of the commonwealth.\\nROCHESTER SHOE HOUSE.\\nDealers in Roots and Slioes\u00e2\u0080\u0094 IVo. 91\u00c2\u00ab Water St.\\nA favorite establishment for the purchase of boots and shoes, carrying large and\\ndiversified stocks, and contributing to supply a large demand, is the Rochester Shoe\\nHouse. The business was established here some years ago by Detroit capitalists,\\nwho conducted operations until March. 1888, when Burt Regna, of Hawley, Mich.,\\npurchased the enterprise and still controls the same, with Louis Cummings as man-\\nager, who occupied the same position during the administration of the Detroit\\nowners. The store is located at No. 918 Water street, in the center of the city, and\\naccessible to the trade. The premises occupied consist of a two-story building, 25x100\\nfeet in size, arranged in the best manner for the display and storage of stock, and\\nequipped with every facility for the handling of the goods. Full and complete lines\\nof boots and shoes are carried, of fine and medium grades, for men, women, youths,\\nmisses and children, the product of the best eastern manufacturers, and adapted to\\nevery service. They are made specially for this market, and in workmanship and\\nmaterial are not inferior to hand-made articles in the same departments, while supe-\\nrior as regards price. The house does a large trade in the cities, as also in the\\ncountry, among dealers, farmers and lumbermen, and has acquired a reputation for\\nits supplies extended and invaluable. Mr. R\u00c2\u00bb^gna has materially increased the\\nfacilities of the concern, and is prepared to fill all orders with the least delay. His\\nmanager, Mr. Cummings, is familiar with the business, and to his efforts the success\\nof the house is measurably due.", "height": "3314", "width": "2061", "jp2-path": "industriesofbayc00marq_0114.jp2"}, "115": {"fulltext": "THE INDUSTRIES OF THE BAY CITIES.\\n103\\nTHOMAS MUNN.\\nMiifr, \u00c2\u00abf JSiiw Mill .Maoliiiiery\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Twent.v-Tlilr\u00c2\u00abl St. 4 roHHiiiK Flint I ore\\n.narquetto It. It.\\nThe manufacture of sawmill machinery,\\ncarried on by Thomas Munu, is one of\\nthe influential industries conducted in\\nthe Lower Peninsula. He established the\\nbusiness in 1868, as part owner of the Val-\\nley Iron Works, thence moving to the\\ncorner of Eleventh and Washington Ste.,\\nlinally to his present site in 1885. He is\\nlocated at the Twenty-third street cross-\\ning of the Flint Pere Marquette railroad,\\none of the most advantageous points in\\nthe city for manufacturing pur|)ose8, and\\nisprovided with complete conveniences for\\nreceiving and shipping machinery. The\\npremises occupied are 60x120 feet in size,\\nthoroughly equipped with mechanical\\nappliances, unsurpassed in extent and va-\\nriety, and adapted to the manufacture of\\nthe special products, many of which are\\nthe invention of Mr. Munn, annually\\nturned out in the concern. His range of production includes gang and circular\\nsaws, upright and lathe mills, parallel edgers, slitting machines, globe valves, gearing\\nof all sizes, etc. His five-saw and two-sawed No. 2 edgers, the result of his inventive\\ngenius, are considered the best machines of the kind in the United States, and are\\nin general use. They are skillfully built, and considered the cheapest in the market.\\nThe establishment is complete in all its appointments and is a prominent factor of\\nthe manufacturing interests of the Saginaw Valley.\\nMr. Munn is a native of Philadelphia, but has been a resident of Bay City since\\n1862. He has made valuable improvements in saw mill machinery, and is the\\ninventor of the present improved gang saw. In his business lie gives employment\\nto a force of fifty-five hands, and his products are in constant demand throughout\\nMichigan, as far west as California, and in the lumber regions of the Southern States.\\nWEBSTER PETTAPIECE.\\nAbHtractM and Real Entate\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Eddy Block.gCenter St.\\nThe firm of Webster Pettapiece, composed of the Hon. Thomas E. Webster\\nand W. A. Pettapiece, was organized in 1887, for the purpose of conducting a general\\nabstract, real estate and loan business. They are well-known, and maintain the\\nhighest reputation, professionally and otherwise. Judge Webster is an attorney of\\neminent standing, and for eight years has held the ollice of Probate Judge, while\\nMr. Pettapiece has been for many years deputy Registrar of liay County, and during\\nthe canvass of 1888 was elected to the ollice of Register of Deeds of Ray County.\\nThey are located in the Eddy block, on Center street, and are supplied with every\\nfacility for transacting the business in which they are engaged. Tliey are provided\\nwith the plats, maps and books containing abstracts of title to every piece or parcel\\nof ground in Ray County since its incorporation, and are prepared to make special\\nexaminations for pending suits, judgments, liens or incumbrances aizainst or tipon\\nsame, to furnish information from the records, etc., upon the sliortest notice, and at\\nthe lowest rates. They also deal in real estate, buying aiul selling for their own\\naccount, or to order, collect rents, investigate investments, perfected and proposed,\\nand perform other services connected with the lease or transfer of realty. In addi-\\ntion, they loan money and negotiate loans upon city and farm property, and though\\nbut of comparatively recent origin, the firm is doing a large local business, which is\\nconducted with systematic enterprise, and to the entire satisfaction of a steadily\\nincreasing clientele.", "height": "3304", "width": "2052", "jp2-path": "industriesofbayc00marq_0115.jp2"}, "116": {"fulltext": "104\\nTHE INDUSTRIES OF THE BAY CITIES.\\nDOLSEN, CHAPIN CO.\\nT^iiiiiber and i^alt Manufacturers Retail Iiunilier Yard\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Xo. S901 Xoi th\\nVater \u00c2\u00bbt.\\nThe firm of Doleen, Chapin Co., composed of John L. DolEen, Arthur B.\\nChapin, Robert B. Dolsen, Henry E. Chapin and Mrs. Helen A. Wood, was organized\\nin 1874, as successor to the firm of Dolsen, Chapin Bro. The mill owned by them\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0was originally built by Dolsen Walker in 1864, with a limited capacity and requir-\\ning a correspondingly limited force to handle. The mill was burned shortly after its\\ncompletion, but immediately rebuilt, and passed under the control of the firm above\\nreferred to, and from which it was purchased by Dolsen, Chapin Co.\\nThe plant covers an extensive area, and includes saw mill, planing mill, salt wells,\\nbooms, piling grounds and other conveniences, accommodations and appointments\\nnecessary to the branch of manufactiire carried on. The saw mill is 125x1.50 feet in\\nsize, equipped with a gang mill containing thirty-four saws, large inserted tooth\\ncircular saw, powerful steam feed carriage, trimmers, edgers, heading and lath\\nmachines, and other accessories, run by two engines fed by a battery of three boilers,\\n6x16 feet in dimensions each. The planing mill is 80x1.50 feet in size, and equally as\\ncompletely supplied with machinery for planing, re-sawing, tongueing, grooving, and\\nother purposes, stave heading, lath mills, etc., the motive power to operate wliich is\\nfurnished from an engine of 175 horse-power, fed by two boilers, each 6x]4 feet in\\ndimensions. They also run a large retail yard for the city trade, and sell largely in\\ncar-load lots.\\nThe salt plant embraces six wells, with drill houses and pony engines, an extensive\\nsalt block, large packing houses, cooper shops, where the barrels for the product are\\nmanufactured, etc., and other aids necessary to the requirements of the service.\\nThey also conduct an extensive and thoroughly et^uipped box factory, where a car-\\nload of boxes are completed daily. The establishment, as will be seen from the above,\\nis unsurpassed by any similar industry of the kind on the river in point of location", "height": "3314", "width": "2061", "jp2-path": "industriesofbayc00marq_0116.jp2"}, "117": {"fulltext": "THE INDUSTRIES OF THE BAY CITIES.\\n105\\naud equipment. The dimensioDB and fumiehings of the premises have been revo-\\nIntiouized since it was erected, nearly a nuarter of a century ago. As improvements\\nwere made,they were adopted, aud nothing was left unsiipplied that would promott pro-\\nduction in tinaiitv or quantity. The annual product includes 20,00(1,000 feet of lumber,\\n1,500,()(K) lath, 45*000 sets of barrel stock, and 40,()()0 barrels of salt. The capacity of\\nthe piling grounds is 12,0l)(l,(l00 feet of lumber, and of tlie booms a total of six million\\nof logs. A force of from 100 to 175 hands is employed, and the lumber i)rodu( t is\\nshipped to the ea=itern markets, while the salt is sold through the Michigan Salt\\nAssociation, of which they are members. The tirm is an influential one aud is\\nwidely known.\\nBAY NATIONAL BANK,\\nSaccesHitr t\u00c2\u00bb First Xutioiiiil Bank\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Corner Center uiitl WaMliin^ton Av\u00c2\u00ab h.\\n_==v, The First National iJank\\n=ry _ of liny City was organized\\nu -F S =J 7\\\\]^ May, 1804, with a capital\\nof *5b,0IJ(l. In January,\\n1H83, in contemplation of\\nthe expiration of the bank s\\ncharter, which would haye\\noccurred on February 24,\\nof the same year, a re-organ-\\nization was effected, and\\nupon January 17, 1888, the\\nBay Nati(mal Bank began\\noperations with a ca[)ital\\nof .S2(H).()()l); James Shearer,\\nPresident; B. E. Warren,\\nCashier, and a board of di-\\nrectors nuide up of the lead-\\ning cai)italists and business\\nmen of the Bay Cities. The\\nbank has pursueil a suc-\\ncessful career, the magni-\\ntude of its transactions and\\nthe high and honorable\\ncharacter it has maintained, haye secured for it a conspicuous position among the\\nmonetary institutions of the State.\\nThe bank is handsomely located in the stone building at the corner of Center and\\nWashington avenues, where it occupies the main floor, with a frontage of twenty-tive\\nfeet on Center avenue. The interior is finished in rosewood and walnut, and atTords\\ncommodious accommodations for the transaction of its large operations. It transacts\\nall business pertaining to general banking. Receives deposits, discounts commercial\\npaper, makes collections, deals in national. State and local securities, buys and sells\\nforeign exchange, issues letters of credit on all the leading cities of Europe, and has\\ncorrespondents at all the leading monetary centers. The report of the condition of\\nthe bank at the close of business June 80,1888, not only evidences its prosperity but\\nthe interest it takes in the business affairs of Bay City, and the assistance it extends\\nto the characteristic enterprise of her people. At that date the loans and discounts\\namounted to .)7,392.C.O. the deposits reaching .^415.510.(;8, and the siiri)lus \u00c2\u00a7()0,141.8.5.\\nThe policy of the bank has always been as a leading factor in the pros()erity of Bay\\nCity, rendering liberal assistance in the promotion of all commercial, manufacturing\\nand individual enterprises, and stimulating trade by its influence. It enjoys an\\nextensive patronage, and a reputation for enterprise unsurpassed by that of any simi-\\nlar undertaking in the West.\\nThe present rflicers are: Byron E. Warren, President; J. Frank Eddy, Vice-Presi-\\ndent, and F. P. Browne, Cashier. The directors are Edgar A. Cooley. Thomas Cran-\\nage, Byron E. Warren, Henry B. Smith, Alexander Folsom, J. Frank Eddy, Williiim\\nH. Miller. Luther L. Hotchkiss and F. P. Browne, leading and prominent business\\nmen, and flnanciers of experience and success in their several lines of operations.", "height": "3304", "width": "2052", "jp2-path": "industriesofbayc00marq_0117.jp2"}, "118": {"fulltext": "106\\nTHE INDUSTRIES OF THE BAY CITIES.\\nSTOVER, LARKIN CO.\\nHardware and Cutlery\u00e2\u0080\u0094 3Ios. ISl Vi i Thirty- first St., Cor. Harrison St.\\nEarly in 1888, the\\nhardware firms of\\n.Johnson Co. and W.\\nE. Larkin Co. de-\\ncided to consolidate\\ntheir interests, and, in\\nconjunction with Mr.\\nE. V. Monday, of W.\\nH. Miller Co., or-\\nganize a stock com-\\npany under which the\\nsame line of business\\nwould be carried on\\nwith increased facili-\\nties, and with results\\nthat proceed from the\\ncombination of capi-\\ntal, an extensive trade\\nand ability to procure\\nstock at the lowest\\nmarket prices. Act-\\ning upon these con-\\nclusions, the firms and gentleman above mentioned incorporated the Stover, Larkin\\nCo. venture on February first of the same year, with the following executive\\nofficers: R. V. Muaday, President; F. H. Stover, Vice-President, and W. E. Larkin,\\nof W. E. Larkin Co., as Secretary and Treasurer. Under auspices so advanta-\\ngeous the company began its career, which has been one of success and prosperity\\nfrom its inception.\\nThe business is carried on in a new double brick building, built specially for the\\npurpose by the company. It is located at the corner of Thirty-first and Harrison\\nstreets, is two stories high, 50x120 feet in dimensions, and furnished with all modern\\nequipments and conveniences. The store and its furnishings are very complete and\\ncommodious, affording ample accommodations for the display, sale and storage of\\nstock, and for the transaction of business. The establishment also contains a work-\\nshop, where large invoices of tin, copper and sheet iron ware are manufactured for\\nthe trade. The stock carried includes every description of hardware and cutlery,\\nstoves, tinware, paints, oils, glass, putty, agricultural implements, builders hardware,\\nhousehold hardware, etc., etc. The company, in addition, are the manufacturers\\nagents for saws, belting, flies, and other mill supplies, and employ a competent force\\nof clerks and t-alesmen. The trade is large, locally, and also among the mills and\\nthroughout the surrounding country. The company, from its inception, has achieved\\na success which has been substantial and permanent.\\nROBERT MAXWELL.\\n\u00e2\u0099\u00a6General Steamboat Agent\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Maxw^eli s Dock, rear No. 911 IVater St.\\nMr. Maxwell began the general steamboat agency business here in 1878, and\\noccupies commodious and convenient premises, consisting of the dock, warehouse and\\noffice, and where, in addition to acting as the agent of transportation lines, he does a\\ngeneral forwarding, warehouse and commission business. He is agent for the Bay\\nOityand Alpena steamers\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Arundel and Metropolis the latter a large and hand-\\nsomely appointed side-wheeler, departing semi-weekly; for the Saginaw Transporta-\\ntion Company, operating between Bay City and Cleveland, O.; for the steamer\\nC. A. Forbes, leaving Bay City Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays of each week, for\\nAu Gres on Saginaw Bay; and is thoroughly familiar with the varied requirements of\\nthe shipping and traveling public, and has acquired a large and steadily increasing\\npatronage.", "height": "3314", "width": "2061", "jp2-path": "industriesofbayc00marq_0118.jp2"}, "119": {"fulltext": "THE INDUSTRIES OF THE BAY CITIES.\\n107\\nWHITNEY PLUM.\\n\\\\Vhol\u00c2\u00ab Niil iiH kci- UaktMM. Maiuifa\u00c2\u00abtuiiii\u00c2\u00ab oiinrlioiu-iM ^\u00c2\u00bbh. .\u00e2\u0096\u00a0\u00c2\u00bb14 uikI\\nXortli WaHliiiiartoii A\\\\\u00c2\u00ab\\n^dyCity:Mi^h:\\nTlje firm of Whitney Plum, wholesale cracker bakers,\\ncoiisistiug of C. C. Whitney and J. H. Phim, was organized in\\nFebruary, 1S88. The business now conducted by them was\\nestablished in 1879 by the firm of Pomeroy fe Whitney. In\\nJulv, 1887, the name was chanfred to C. C. Whitney \u00c2\u00bbt Co., and\\nso continued until the present tirm was constituted at the date\\nabove mentioned. It is tlie pioneer manufacturing house in its\\nline, and the only one of its kind in the valley.\\nThey are located at Nos. 5U and 516 North Washingtou\\navenue, one of the most available sites in the city, convenient of access, and within\\neasy distance of the railway depots and steamboat landings. The premises occupied\\nconsist of a two storv and basement brick. 50x100 feet in dimensions, well apportioned\\nand appointed, affording ample accommodations for manufacturing and commercial\\npurposes, and fullv equipped with the latest improved machinery and appliances for\\nservice in an establishment of this character, driven by steam. Iheir line of pro-\\nduction embraces crackers, biscuits, and all grades of sweet goods, such as wafers,\\nsnaps, cookies, etc., and in which they have met with success. Their lines of confec-\\ntionery includes creams, caramels, chocolate work, penny goods, etc. ihey give em-\\nployment to a force of from thirty to thirty-five experienced operatives and three\\ntravelers, and do a large and steadily increasing business in Bay -ity and throughout\\nthe surroundincr country as far north as Sault Ste. Mane and Marquette, and as far\\nwest as Ludington. The members of the firm are business men of enterprise, and\\nthe success thev have achieved is due not more to the purity and quality of their pro-\\nducts than to the honorable methods they employ in their dealings with the trade.\\nG. A. EMRICH.\\nGrocer and Wealir in Butter, Kkks and Vegetables-Xo. 40* a^liiii\u00c2\u00ab;t\u00c2\u00bb\u00c2\u00bb Ave.\\nOne of the leading and youngest houses engaged in the grocery trade in Bay City,\\nis that of G Emrich. It is a comparatively recent acquisition to the ranks of\\ncommercial endeavor, having been established in 1887. but has met with deserved\\nsuccess and is building up a large and progressive business of the most desirable\\ncharacter Mr. i:mrich is located at No. 402 Washington avenue, one of the leading\\nand fashionable thoroughfares, convenient of access and otherwise desirable He\\noccupies an attractivelv equij.ped store, 25x100 feet in dimensions, supj.hed with\\neverv facilitv f.-r the aVcommodation of the trade and the transaction of business,\\nand carries large and complete lines of selected .stocks. His specialties are Cr .wn\\nBakin- Powder, Deter s Crown and Logan s Flavoring Extracts, also keeping the\\nusual articles included in the list of staple and fancy grncenes. in nd. ition to butter,\\neggs, cheese, and fruits and vegetables in their season. He has establislied a reputa-\\ntion for carrving commodities of the purest and freshest make, purchased from far*-t\\nhands, and as offering inducements to customers that come from the exercise of\\nenterprise and the eniovment of exceptional relations with business centers. He does\\na large and increasing retail trade in Bay City, and merits the hearty appreciation\\nexpressed in the public patronage he enjoys.", "height": "3304", "width": "2052", "jp2-path": "industriesofbayc00marq_0119.jp2"}, "120": {"fulltext": "E. S. VAN LIEW.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 SEE OPPOSITE PAGE.", "height": "3314", "width": "2061", "jp2-path": "industriesofbayc00marq_0120.jp2"}, "121": {"fulltext": "THE INDUSTRIES OF THE BAY CITIES. 109\\nE. S. VAN LIEW.\\nCity l*ro|M rt.v Real F.Htiiti \\\\om. 7 and H KiNlior ItlocK, \\\\V Nt Kay lty.\\nI he real estate intiTeets of West Bay City ami vicinity atVonl ample and substan-\\ntial iiulucemeuts for invebtmeuts, safe, remunerative ami certain in the payment of\\nlarge profits. One of the heaviest dealers in real estate here is E. S. Van Liew, a civil\\nengineer, and one of the most eminent in his profession, who settled in West Bay\\nCity in ISOH, when the present municipality was known as Wenona. In 188(\u00c2\u00bb he\\nengaged in the purchase and sale of realty on his own account, with an experience of\\ntwenty years to guide him in his operations, and ample capital to aid liim in tht pro-\\nmotion of his enterprise. He does no commission business whatever, limiting his\\ndeals to those made upon his individual account exclusively. He was formerly agent\\nfor the McGraw estate, which inventoried large realty holdirgs in West Bay City,\\nand in 18S8. when the estate was finally administered upon, Mr. Van Liew aiid the\\nHon. S. O. Fisher, at that time partners under the firm name of Fisher it Van Liew,\\nbecame purchasers of the undisposed of property belonging to the estate in this city.\\nIt included about 300 lots, improved and unimproved, all located within a half mile\\nof the West Jiay City Council Chamber, and within one mile of the City Hall of Bay\\nCity. Since then this investment has appreciated in value, and tlie improvements of\\nthe Michigan Central road, consisting of an engine house and shops, in progress of\\nbuilding in vicinity of these lots, will still further enhance their importance upon the\\nmarket. They are now on sale at pri .es and upon terms to suit purchasers. He is\\nalso heavily interested in improved and unimproved property in the Bay Cities and\\nthroughout the surronntling country, besides owning valuable pine lands in Georgia,\\nAlabama and Mississippi, and mineral and timber areas in Kentucky and Tennessee,\\nin addition to titles to proi)ertie8 in other parts of the United States.\\nHe is located at suites Nos. 7 and 8 Fisher i)lock. Midland street, and has, during\\nhis residence here, been repeatedly elected to positions of lionor and trust in the city\\nand county, to the prosperity of which he has so liberally and unselfishly contributed.\\nHe is the present President of the West Bay City branch of the American Building\\nand Loan Association, of Minneapolis, Minn., which has a capital of fifty millions.\\nA. B. PERKINS CO.\\nM lioIeNalo FriiitH and Produce\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Xos. 20H and HO Third Ht.\\nA decided and important factor in the development of commercial prosperity in\\nBay City, though the concern is comparatively a recent actjuisition to mercantile\\ncircles, is the wholesale fruit and produce house of A. B. Perkins A- Co. The busi-\\nness was commenced by the firm of Perkins t Houghtt n in 188, i, and was continued\\nunder that name and style until May, 1888, when Mr. Houghton withtlrew and the\\npresent firm, consisting of A. B. Perkins and W^illiam Perkins, his brother, was\\ncreated. The business, which is managed by A. B. Perkins Mr. William Perkins\\nresiding in Detroit has annually increased in volume and iuii^ortance, and the field\\nof nsefulne.ss has at the same time been extended and occupied. Their place of\\nbusiness is at Nos. 208 and 210 Third street, in a central and available locality, con-\\nveniently situated with reference to trade, and otherwise adviintageous and desirable.\\nTheir premises consist of a two-story and ba.sement building, having a frontage of\\nfifty feet on Third street, with a depth of sixty feet, supj)lied with elevator and dry\\nstorage systems ade iuate and valuable, in addition to all modern eiiuipments and\\nauxiliaries adapted to the rciiuirements of the service. They carry large and select\\nlines of goods, to supply the e iually large demands made upon their resources, and\\ncater to a trade with which choice commodities only are acceptable. Their stock\\nincludes both imported and domestic fruits and provisions, such as iiananas, oranges,\\nlemons, grapes, tigs, etc., wliich come direct from their producers viii New York; the\\nentire range of fruits, etc., grown in California: as also apples, peaches, pears, etc.,\\nindigenous to this latitude; in adilition to potatoes, onions, and a general line of\\ncountry produce, as well as Oa-At-Ka and Baltimore oysters, in complete supply and\\nvariety. They employ six clerks and salesmen, al.so two tenms, and their trade\\nwhich is locally large is extensive along the lake shore, and among dealers and con-\\nsumers upon the lines of railroads running out of Bay City.", "height": "3304", "width": "2052", "jp2-path": "industriesofbayc00marq_0121.jp2"}, "122": {"fulltext": "110\\nTHE INDUSTRIES OF THE BAY CITIES.\\nBELL S MUSICAL ART EMPORIUM.\\nDealer in PiaiiOM.Orstans. Pieture Frames, Mould in^s, Ete.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 yoe^Vasliington Ave.\\nThe art emporium of M. H. Bell is one of the leading enterprises of its type in\\nBay City, and holds a commanding position among the artistic circles, created and\\nsustained through agencies similar to that presided over and directed by Mr. Bell.\\nHe began business here in 1886, and has since enlarged his facilities, equipment and\\nsupplies to meet the demands of admirers of the refined in art, and who are exacting\\nin their requirements.\\nHe is located at No. 706 Washington avenue, in a ^ell-appointed and tastily-\\nfurnished store, opposite the postoffice, and does a large business. The premises\\noccupied consist of the basement and main floor, each 25x120 feet in dimensions,\\naffording sufficient room for the display of his select lines of goods, and the tran-\\nsaction of his large business. The lines carried embrace pianos, square, upright and\\ngrand, from the well-known and exceptionally-celebrated factories of the Webers,\\nBoardman Gray, Shoeninger, Newby Evans, and others, and organs of the make\\nof Newman Bros., the Palace brand, etc., etc., musical instruments, strings and\\nequipments generally, artistic frames and mouldings, artists materials, etchings,\\nengravings, parlor and mantel easels, imported oleographs, art novelties, mats, fine\\nstationery, bric-a-brac, etc., in which, in addition to ministering to the local demand,\\nhe does a general jobbing business, selling at manufacturers and importers prices.\\nMr. Bell employs a competent force of assistants, and is able, on account of the\\nvaried resources contained in his stock, to offer a wide range of selection, to a trade\\nin the city and surrounding country which enjoys, through his enterprise, advantageous\\nterms and fully equipped invoices from which to choose, as taste, necessity or incli-\\nnation may dictate.\\nM. RIEGEL.\\nDealer in Groceries, Provisions, Etc.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 lif est Bay City.\\nAn old and well-established grocery and provision store is that of M. Riegel in\\nWest Bay City. Mr. Riegel is a native of Germany, but immigrated to America in\\n1871, locating at Salzburg, now embraced within the territorial limits of West Bay", "height": "3314", "width": "2061", "jp2-path": "industriesofbayc00marq_0122.jp2"}, "123": {"fulltext": "THE INDUSTRIES OF THE BAY CITIES. 1 1 1\\nCity, where he engaged in his present business in 1878, becoming postmaster during\\n1879, and so coutiuuing up to date. He occupies a commodious store at an eligible\\nand accessible site, the premises consisting of a two-story and basement building,\\n25xl0t) feet in size, and in every way adapted for the uses to which they are devoted.\\nHe carries full and complete lines of staple and fancy groceries, produce, provisions,\\nclothing, crockery, glassware, tobaccos, cigars, notions, fruits and vegetables, novel-\\nties, delicacies, and other articles connected with the demands of the trade. Ail of\\nthe commodities handled by Mr. Riegel are of the best manufacture, and his relations\\nwith dealers and producers are of a character so advantageous that his pjitrons are\\nthereby enabled to obtain goods at the lowest prices. His trade, which is local and\\nthroughout the surrounding country, is large and steadily augmenting in value.\\nHAMMOND, STANDISH CO.\\nM lioIesale jDealers in Cliioago Dressed Beef\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Ofliee \u00c2\u00ab-or. Fii^t aiid IVater Hin.\\nThe firm of Hammond, Standish Co., wholesale dealers in Chicago dressed\\nbeef, etc., is the Bay City branch of a duly incorporated company having its head-\\nquarters at Detroit, with branches located throughout the country as bases of sup-\\nplies for consumers distributed about an extensive and thickly populated territory.\\nThe othcers are: George H. Hammond, President; James D. Standish, Secretary and\\nTreasurer; Sidney B. Dixon, Vice-President; C. D. Standish, Assistant Treasurer,\\nand Harry E. Tremaiu, Manager.\\nThe Bay City branch, which also directs the operations of a co-ordinate branch at\\nSt. Ignace, Mich., was established by Mr. Harry E. Tremaiu in 1883. He is a gentle-\\nman of large experience, familiar with the requirements of the trade, and possessing\\nbusiness sagacity and affability, that with other qualities have very largely contri-\\nbuted to the success of the enterprise in the Upper and Lower Peninsulas. The\\nconcern is contained in an extensive and well-equipped building, one hundred feet\\nsquare, at the corner of First and Water streets, conveniently arranged and ap-\\npointed for business, receiving and 8hip})ing purposes, embracing witliin its com-\\nmodious area office and counting-rooms, the refrigerating department, 5(1x80 feet in\\ndimensions, and other arrangements for the preservation of their commodities, and\\nthe expeditious service of the trade. The slaugliter and i)acking houses of Ham-\\nmond, Standish Sc Co. are at Detroit, where the facilities for meeting the very large\\ndemands made daily upon their resources are as complete as mechanical skill and\\nscientific research can make them, and where a force of several hundred operatives\\nare employed the year round. They also own and manage similar establishments\\nat Omaha, Neb., and Hammond, Ind., the latter twenty miles south of Chicago, from\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0which several depots, the trade in sections contiguous thereto is supplied, i)U8inees\\nbeing conducted under the firm name of George H. Hammond k Co. The oleo-\\nmargarine plant is also at Hammond; the yards and buildings covering fifteen acres;\\nthe capacity is 1.100 cattle and 100,000 pourds oleomargarine per ay. The\\nsupplies for Bay City and East Saginaw are furnished from the company head-\\nquarters at Detroit, whence they are transported to distributing points in Ham-\\nmond s Line of refrigerator cars, an invention of Mr. Hammond of unsurpassed\\nexcellence for the preservation of dressed meats. The products ar\u00c2\u00ab^ uidaden from\\nthese cars, immediately they arrive at depots of supply, and hung on hooks in the\\nrefrigerating room, subject to tlie demands of the trade. The concern is as impor-\\ntant as its resources are extensive and its trade extended. A total of about 8,( 0() heads\\nof beef, and 12,000 sheep and lamb, with 400,000 pounds of oleomargarine, are required\\nannually to serve the consumers as far north as Alpena. Manpiette, Rault Ste.\\nMarie, etc., in addition to the products sent out from East Saginaw branch.\\nTheir staples are dressed beef, fresh pork and mutton, sausage, etc., also the Excelsior\\nbrand of smoked meats, and their trade, in addition to that mentioned above, is\\nalmost unlimited among the lumber camps and in marine circles, giving steady em-\\nployment to a force of twenty hands.\\nThe value of this undertaking to Bay City and the surrounding country needs no\\nelaboration. Its output is uj) to the highest standard of excellence, and its manage-\\nment has developed one of the most potential and indispensable of factors in the\\nbuilding up of trade and material prosperity.", "height": "3304", "width": "2052", "jp2-path": "industriesofbayc00marq_0123.jp2"}, "124": {"fulltext": "112\\nTHE INDUSTRIES OF THE BAY CITIES.\\nBAY CITY BEEF CO.\\nli. Cornwell, Proprietor -Adams, Between Third and Fourth Sts.\\nThe Bay City Beef Company was es-\\ntablished in Bay City during 1883. To\\nMr. L. Cornwell, of Mount Morris, Mich.,\\nare the public indebted for an enterprise\\nthat has become one of the most import-\\nant of its kind in the Valley.\\nHe is located on Adams street between\\nThird and Fourth, in premises 25x120 feet\\nin dimensions and in every way equipped\\n5 for the business. The front part of the\\nbuilding is occupied as an office and sales-\\nroom, and provided with an elevated rail-\\nway and scales of Fairbank s pattern,\\nfor the weighing and delivery of goods.\\nTo the rear is the refrigerating room, 25x80 feet in size, with capacity for two car-\\nloads of dressed beef, pork, sheep, etc.. requisite to the demands of the trade. He\\nreceives an average of two car-loads of Swift s choice Chicago dressed beef weekly, also\\nabout one hundred and fifty heads of dressed hogs and mutton and lamb iu pro-\\nportion. These are for local consumption. In addititm, two car-loads of dressed\\nbeef per week are shipped direct from Chicago by Mr. Cornwell, to supply the\\ndemand along the North Shore, accompanied by a representative of the company to\\nattend to the preservation and distribution of the invoices. His commodities are car-\\nried in refrigerator cars in transit between Chicago, Bay City and the North Shore, by\\nmeans of which their purity is assured. The consignments here are delivered direct\\nfrom the refrigerator cars into the refrigerating room, by means of the elevated beef\\nrailway above referred to, and when sold are conveyed into the sales-room by the\\nsame agency, weighed on the elevated scales and delivered to consumers. This\\nsystem is very complete, and its employment avoids the necessity of handling the\\nmeat and other unpleasant features, ordinarily connected with the business. In\\naddition to the line of products carried by Mr. Cornwell, he also keeps full supplies\\nof smoked meats and deals extensively in live stock, having a farm of 1,800 acres at\\nMount Morris, always stocked with about two thousand head of sheep, from two to\\nthree hundred head of cattle and from fifty to seventy-five head of draught and car-\\nriage horses. Besides his interest at Bay City, he is proprietor of the Saginaw Beef\\nCompany, and owns similar industries at Cheboygan and Sault Ste. Mane. He is a\\nman of enterprise and his eiforts in behalf of Bay City s prosperity have been\\nattended with the most gratifying results.\\nThe undertaking here is in charge of A. J. Woolfitt as manager. He employs a\\ncompetent force of assistants, supplying the trade in Bay City and throughout the\\nadjoining country. He is a man of energy and ability, and the reputation of the\\nhouse for correct business methods and ability to execute orders, has obtained for it\\na large and prosperous trade.\\nCHARLES FITZHUGH, JR. CO.\\niiieneral Real Estate I ealers-Cor. Sixth and Adams Sts.\\nA real estate firm conspicuous for its reliability, substantial character and frequent\\nand important transactions, is that of Charles Fitzhugh, Jr., Co. The firm is corn-\\nposed of Charles Fitzhugh, Jr., and A. McDonell, and was organized in 1882. It is\\npossessed of large capital, is familiar with values throughout the State, and is fully\\nprepared to promptly and satisfactorily execute all orders for the purchase, sale or\\nlease of houses and lauds, or either, in Bay City and vicinity, and elsewhere. They\\nbuy and sell on personal account and to order, improved and unimproved properties,\\ncity and country, farm and pine lands, lease same, investigate titles, care for estates,\\ncollect rents, and generally the lines of business pursued in real estate offices. Their\\noperations are reduced to a system, Mr. Fitzhugh attending to the negotiations inci-\\ndent to transactions in and transfers of realty, Mr. McDonell, who is a practicing\\nattorney, to the legal aspects and phases that may arise. They are agents for the\\nestates of Mr. Heath, B. Whipple, M. F. Ballou and others, and do a large and\\nannually increasing business.", "height": "3314", "width": "2061", "jp2-path": "industriesofbayc00marq_0124.jp2"}, "125": {"fulltext": "THE INDUSTRIES OF THE BAY CITIES. 1 I 3\\nBAY COUNTY SAVINGS BANK.\\nPliu iii.v lllook\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Cor. Center and Waxtliin^^ton Aveis.\\nThe Bay County Savings Bank is well known throughout the State as one of the\\nmost rehable aud invaluable monetary institutions. The utility of savings banks as\\nagents for the promotion of thrift among all c-lasses, especially with those of modest\\nmeans, aud aiding their securing tinancial independence, Ik umiuestioned, and to\\n6U[)ply such aids to the industrious resident of Bay City and vicinity, was the Bay\\nCounty Savings Bank established. It was organized in February. 1884, commencing\\noperations on the tifth of March following. It was at once successful, and that\\nsuccess has accompanied its career ever since. The bank occupies elegant premises\\nat suite No. 202 Phcenix block, the most attractive and conveniently located\\nbusiness building in the city, corner of Washington and Center avenues, and does a\\nsafe and conservative, at the same time active and extensive business. The rules of\\nthe bank provide for the payment of interest to depositors at the rate of four per\\ncent, per annum, and deposits made on or prior to the fifth day of the month draw\\ninterest from the first of that month, and when made after the fifth, interest begins\\non the first day of the succeeding mouth on all sums deposited for at least three\\nmonths. Individual accounts are limited to two thousand dollars, and interest\\nis credited in July and January of each year. The solid character of the institution\\nis expressed in its annual report, rendered July 2, 1888, which shows the capital stock\\nat i$50,000, with a surplus of 6 10,000, and deposits approximating $250,000, and further\\nemphasized by the fact that the bank pays a semi-annual dividend of five per cent,\\nto stock-holders. The business is local and the present officers, composed of promi-\\nnent and influential capitalists and citizens, are as follows: Alexander Folsom, of\\nFolsom k Arnold, lumber and salt dealers, President; G. Henry Shearer, of Shearer\\nBrothers, real estate dealers, Vice-President, and John Mulholland, Treasurer; with\\na Board of Directors consisting of Alexander Folsom, G. Henry Shearer, Darwin C.\\nSmalley, of Smalley Bros. t Co., proprietors of the Valley Iron Works; H M. Gillett,\\nattorney; Gustavus Hine, wholesale meats; Newell A. Eddy, lumber and salt mer-\\nchant, and John Mulholland, who gives his undivided attention to the aflfairs of the\\nbank, in which line his experience peculiarly fits him, he having been connected with\\nthe First National and Bay County banks for fourteen years, aud was one of the\\nprincipal organizers of this institution.\\nThe bank is one of the soundest in the west, and its management is a guarantee\\nof its solvency and business methods.\\nRUSSELL BROTHERS CO.\\nItox Manuractory and Planing: Mill\u00e2\u0080\u0094 M est Itay ity.\\nThe firm of Russell Brothers fe Co., engaged in the manufacture of bo.xes and the\\nconduct of planing mill facilities, is one of the most prominent and representative\\nin these important branches of the lumber industries in the Saginaw Valley. The\\nfirm consists of A. D. Busseli. Alexander Kussell and F. I. Russell. They organized\\nin 1885, and since then have done an extensive business in their several lines of\\nmanufacture. They are most conveniently located in West Bay City, and possess\\nunsurpassed advantages for handling the large and increasing demand tliat is made\\nupon their resources to supply. Their pinning mill and box factory occupies a com-\\nmodious and well arranged building, one hundred feet squHre, and amply furnished\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0with every convenience and mechanical appliance necessary to the business, embrac-\\nintr planers, re-savvers, tongue and grooving machines, with other appurtenances,\\ndriven by an entrine of sixty horse-power, fed from a battery of boilers 5xl(! feet in\\ndimensions. They plane, groove aud re-saw lumber to order, and finish other lines\\nof interior woodwork as reipiired by dealers and the trade, for shi[ uient in cargo and\\ncar-load lots. The manufacture of boxes is their specialty, and is carriett on very\\nextensively, the products in this department, including a varied and diversified\\nassortment, which are shipped in the knock down, to points of distribution through-\\nout the West and South. They also do a large retail busiiif ss in flooring, ceiling,\\nmouldings and bill stuff. They employ thirty hands, and afford to customers all the\\nadvantages of price, terms, prompt acknowledgment of orders, and other induce-\\nments incident to a large and well managed manufacturing enterprise.", "height": "3304", "width": "2052", "jp2-path": "industriesofbayc00marq_0125.jp2"}, "126": {"fulltext": "114\\nTHE INDUSTRIES OF THE BAY CITIES.\\nALBERT B. GRISWOLD.\\nChina. Crl ass and Crockery ai e, ^all Paper. Eto.\u00e2\u0080\u0094Xo.rilO Center Ave.\\nPerhaps no bouse in Bay City, engaged in any branch of mercantile pursuit, is\\nbetter known through its wares and business enterprise, than that of Albert B.\\nGriswold, dealer in china, glass, crockery, wall paper, etc. He caters to a large and\\nselect trade, and his business aggregates a very considerable amount in value every\\nyear. Mr. Griswold became a factor in commercial circles in 1866, at which date he\\nbegan business, and since when he\\nhas conducted the undertaking\\nwith a large measure of prosperity,\\nbecoming one of the foremost deal-\\ners in his line of supplies in the\\nLower Peninsula. Until recently,\\nhe occupied the two-story and base-\\nment building at No. 809 North\\nWater street. During 188S, how-\\never, Mr. Griswold completed the\\nGriswold block, a three-story and\\nbasement edifice, 20x100 feet in\\ndimensions, of red and gray sand-\\nstone, into which he removed in\\nthe fall of the same year. The\\nbuilding is located at No. 210\\nCenter avenue, between Washing-\\nton avenue and Saginaw street, and\\nis an ornament to the city. Its\\nsite is unsurpassed for business\\npurposes, and it is equipped with\\nevery convenience. His stock em-\\nbraces every article known to the\\ntrade, essential to the useful or\\ndecorative in art, complete and\\nvaried. It includes imported\\nchina of the famous Crown Wor-\\ncester pattern, of the equally cele-\\nbrated Haviland and Miuton\\nmanufacture, and from the well-\\nknown potteries of Limoges and\\nDresden; also, StafPordshire, Eng.,\\nand American granite ware, Bohemian, Belgian, Hungarian, French and English\\nfancy glassware, American glassAvare and which,with the exception of a few special\\nlines, is equal if not superior to the imported product, well calculated to charm the\\nfastidious, as also the more conservative, of purchasers and dealers. In addition to\\nthese, his stock of lamps of all designs and at all prices, fine cutlery, silver and\\nplated ware, wall paper, etc., is unapproachable. He employs a full staff of clerks\\nand salesmen, and responds to the demands of a large trade in the city and sur-\\nrounding country.\\nThe quality of goods kept in stock, their low prices, and other advantages offered\\nto consumers, have made the house a depot of supplies for an extensive and steadily\\nincreasing patronage.", "height": "3314", "width": "2061", "jp2-path": "industriesofbayc00marq_0126.jp2"}, "127": {"fulltext": "THE INDUSTRIES OF THE BAY CITIES. 115\\nS. E. BURNHAM.\\nItoat Itiiilder Maiiufaotiirer of Oui-m. PaildleH, Et\u00c2\u00ab Knot of .Midland Ht.\\nMr. S. E. lUiruham carries ou an extensive and prosperous industry in tbe line of\\nboat biiildint, and the manufacture of boat ecjuipniente, at tlie fojt of Midland street,\\nWest 15ay City. Hi is a native of Maine, and came to Bay City from Eiist Safjinaw.\\nHe cstal^lisbeJ the business in which be is nijw eujiaged in ISSO, and has since that\\ndate been occupied in its direction and management.\\nThe yards devoted to bis enterprise, at the above desif^nated locality, are conveni-\\nently and amply e iuipped,aud well situated for tbe uses to which they are appointed.\\nThe worksho[) is jrjxlOll feet in dimensions, commodious and complete in its furnish-\\niuf, i, and supplied with all the latest machinery adapted to his line of 7uannfacture,\\ndriven by steam. His specialties are barpfes, row boats, 8trai ,dit and spoon oars, etc.,\\nfor clubs and sportsmen; also manufacturing paddles, rafting and salt well poles,\\netc., in great variety and of the best materials. In addition to these he builds steam\\nyachts and steam tugs, in which he is considered superior, and enjoys a wide reputa-\\ntation. During the summer of 1S88 he built a steam yacht 8. feet in length, to the\\norder of parties residing in the Lake Superior country, which met with such high\\napproval that the same parties commissioned him to build a sectmd craft of the same\\ndescription, but of materially larger dimensions and tonnage, the sameto l)e com-\\npleted at the opening of navigation in 1H89. During the season of 18HS he also com-\\npleted a steam yacht for his private use, but was induced to part with the boat for a\\nlarge price. In the winter of 1888-9 he built a duplicate of the latter craft, which, in\\nrespect to its proportions, design, finish and equipment, is not surpassed by any simi-\\nlar product in the same line of industry on the lakes. He employs a force of thor-\\noughly experienced and competent boatwrights, and does a large trade in Bay City\\nand the surrounding country, as also supplying an extensive demand for his products\\nin Northern Mii-higan.\\nHis business is among the largest in its line in the Lower Peninsula, and the supe-\\nrior quaUty of his output, with the liberal terms atfordeil patrons, have conspired to\\nsecure to himself and his venture an established position in the trade.\\n1. OBEY CO.\\nIi \u00c2\u00bbl( wal4 and lt\u00c2\u00ab tail liiquor 1 ea1ei*8\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Jobbers in Fine i{sarM-Xo. 1114\\nWaMhin;;t4\u00c2\u00bbn Ave\\nOne of the leading and substantial liquor houses in Bay City, occupying a promi-\\nnent position in commercial circles and enjoying an enviable reputation and a large\\ntrade, is that of I. Obey it Co. The business was first established by Mr. Obey in the\\nyear 187.5, and he conducted its operations until 1884, when Jo.seph Guindon was\\nadmitted as a partner, and the present firm was organized.\\nThey are located at No. 1 114 Washington avenue, a site of unsurpassed excellence\\nin point of convenience to the trade, in premises 80x100 feet in dimensions, and well\\nequipped and appointed for the display and sale of tbe large slocks carried. These\\nembrace full lines of the finest (pialities of imported French brandies, imported wines\\nof the choicest vintage, cordials, liqueurs, gins, etc.; also the best brands of American\\nbourbon and rye whiskies, and native wines of standard i)urity, all of which are sold\\nto consumers at the lowest rates commensurate with their superiority. They also\\nhandle extensive supplies of imported Havana and Key West and other brands of\\nimported and domestic cigars, and their methods of dealing are characterized by the\\nutmost fairness and liberality. They employ a full force of clerks, and operate two\\nwagons for the delivery of goods at the residences of customers and at the depots for\\nshipment to distant points, and do a large trade in the two cities, as also throughout\\nthe Northern and Northwestern portions of the State.\\nThe firm and its members are well known and popular, thoroughly reliable and\\nenterprising, and their goods can always be depended upon for their purity. In addi-\\ntion to his interest in the pre.sent concern, Mr. Obey owns large holdings in the Bay\\nIce Company, and is extensively engaged in lumbering at Sanford, Michigan. They\\nare a .substantial iirm, and merit the success to which they have attained.", "height": "3304", "width": "2052", "jp2-path": "industriesofbayc00marq_0127.jp2"}, "128": {"fulltext": "116\\nTHE INDUSTRIES OF THE BAY CITIES.\\nG. L, FREDERICK VON WALTHAUSEN.\\nDruggist and Chemist\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Wo. 815 Saginaw iSt., Opposite thelCity Hall.\\nG. L. Frederick Von Walthausen owns\\nand conducts the oldest drug hoiase in Bay\\nCity. It was established by Mr. Von Walt-\\nhausen in 1860, at a period in the history of\\nthe present municipality, when the promise\\nfor its growth and development was less\\nencouraging, and the trade to be supplied\\nwas less numerous and substantial. His\\nsuccess, however, has been gratifying, and\\nhis trade is annually increasing and extend-\\ning. He is a gentleman educated to the\\nprofession of pharmacy, a skillful and\\nexperienced chemist, and otherwise pecu-\\nliarly fitted and qualified for the business\\nto which he has devoted many years. He\\nis located at No. 815 Sayinaw street, oppo-\\nsite the City Hall, whither he moved early\\nin 1888, from the corner of Center and\\nAdams streets, his original site. The prem-\\nises are 25x80 feet in dimensions, well situ-\\nated in the retail center of the city, and\\nfurnished with conveniences, and appoint-\\nments requisite to the demands of the trade.\\nHe carries a fine stock of miscellaneous\\ndrugs and chemicals, of the purest quali-\\nties, in addition to the extracts, preparations\\nand compounds of established superiority,\\nalso fancy goods, perfumeries, soaps, etc., adequate to the demands of a patronage\\nthat requires the best in the several lines of these articles. His specialty is com-\\npounding prescriptions, to which he has particularly devoted his attention, and in\\nwhich he uses only the freshest and purest ingredients. He employs a sufficient\\nforce of competent assistants, and serves a large local trade, with which his long\\nexperience, distinguished scientific attainments, and the reasonable prices asked have\\ninspired with a confidence, deserved and general throughout the Valley.\\nFREDERICK VON WALTHAUSEN.\\nSMALLEYS CO.\\nMauufaoturers and Dealers in Pine and Hard^vood Liitniber\u00e2\u0080\u0094 H est Bay City.\\nThe firm of Smalleys Co., manufacturers and dealers in pine and hardwood\\nlumber, is representative of the manufacturing interests of the Lower Peninsula, and\\ncomposed of men who have been active in promoting the growth and prosperity of\\nthis section for nearly a generation. It was organized in 1883, by William Smalley,\\nD. O. Smalley, William T. Smalley and F. T. Woodworth, who constitute the firm,\\nand whose operations in their present business have increased in volume and import-\\nance during the years that have since followed. They manufacture and deal in\\nNorway pine and hardwoods generally. They own and occupy premises six acres in\\nextent, at a desirable location in West Bay City, also property adjoining the latter\\nbeing leased including in its spacious limits mills, piling grounds and other\\nimprovements necessary to the handling of their large and varied production. The\\nmill is equipped with all requisite machinery, and is convenient to water and rail\\ntransportation, also provided with every facility for the receipt and shipment of\\nlumber and lumber products. They are prepared to execute orders at the shortest\\nnotice, and upon the most liberal terms, to corporations, factories and the trade to\\nwhich unsurpassed inducements in the way of material and price are ofPered. Their\\noutput during 1888, aggregated 7,000,000 feet of pine and hardwood lumber.\\nThe members of the firm are enterprising citizens and manufacturers, the Messrs.\\nSmalley being also the owners of the Valley Iron Works.", "height": "3314", "width": "2061", "jp2-path": "industriesofbayc00marq_0128.jp2"}, "129": {"fulltext": "THE INDUSTRIES OF THE BAY CITIES. 1 1^\\nJOHN McLENNAN SON.\\nl al rM ill I iiie aii\u00c2\u00abl lIurilM out! liiimber\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Vard 4 rii r Fii-Mt aiKl Van ltur *ii Hin.\\nMr. Jobn McLennan is one of the pioneers in the lumber trade, lony since estab-\\nlished at Bay City, with which lie has been prominently and iiitluentially idtntitied for\\nnearly a quarter of a century. He is head of the present tirm of .John McLennan Sc\\nSou, composed of himself and William McLennan, and in 1K8G, opened exten-\\nsive yards for the sale of special linos of lumber. They occupy three blocks of\\npround at the corner of First and Van Buren streets, adjoining the tracks of the\\nMichif, an Central and within easy distance of the main tracks of the Flint and Pere\\nMarquette road, being thus equipped with facilities of unsurpassed excellence for\\nshippinj? and receiving. Their specialties are hardwood and fnne lumber, their\\nstocks of the former including white and red oak, white and black aeh, maple, etc.,\\nalso basswood, cottonwood, flooring, sidirg, ceiling, etc. The hardwood is shipped\\neast, south and west and 5,0(10,0011 feet are required annually to supply the demands\\nfrom dealers and manufacturers in those sections. The pine, of which large invoices\\nare handled, is consigned chiefly to the eastern markets. They employ a full force\\nof yard hands, and their trade is steadily augmenting and extending.\\nThe members of the firm are enterprising merchants and citizens. The senior\\nmember is a large property owner in all portions of the State, principally in\\nFraser County, and their untlertaking is backed by ample capital. They are prepared\\nto till orders at the lowest rates and promptly; theirstocks are exactly as represented,\\nand their business ventures are among the most substantial and important of the\\nagencies that are contributing to the prosperity of the Bay Cities.\\nE. J. HARGRAVE SON\\nManufacturers of L.iinib( r, l.atli, iitalt. Ett*.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 :fli(l lU (iirouii\u00c2\u00abl.\\nOne of the mo t extensive of the lumber and salt industries of the Lower Penin-\\nsula is that owned and directed by E. J. Hargrave Son. on an island, 160 acres in\\nextent, known as the Middle (Ground, in the Saginaw River, between Bay City and\\nWest Bay City, of which the tirm own and occupy about eighty acres. They operate\\nextensive salt wells and blocks, and turn out 35,000 barrels of salt per year, which are\\nsold through the Michigan Salt Association, and their mill is 100x1.50 feet in dimen-\\nsions, thoroughly adapted to the purposes for which it is designed, fitted up with the\\nlatest and most improved machinery nnd devices, and daily consumes six hundred\\nlogs in the mamifacture of their products. The season s output is 18.000,000 feet of\\nlumber, 4.000,000 lath and (500,000 pieces of heading, which are shipped to Buffalo,\\nTonawanda, and other depots of supply for the Eastern markets.\\nMr. Hargrave is also of the firm of Hargrave, Haven Co.. and Secretary and\\nTreasurer of the Valley Lumber Company, and the firm owns the Oakland Farm of\\n200 acres, where were reared the imported Clydesdale stallion Prince George of\\nWales, and one of his colts, Bonnie Willie.\\nHARGRAVE, HAVEN CO.\\nNliiiiu;l4 MniiiifaotiirorM lli l\u00c2\u00abll\u00c2\u00ab iirouiicl.\\nThis mill occupies part of the eighty acre tract in conjunction with E. J. Hargrave\\n\u00c2\u00bbfeSon,on the Middle (iround, and is considered to be the most perfectly equipped\\nshingle mill in the Saginaw Valley. The mill proper is a large and substantially con-\\nstructed building, and the machinery is of the latest patterns, embracing one of the\\ncelebrated Perkins model ten-block rotary shingle machines, double drag-saws, cuttinf?\\ntwo bolts at a time, heading machines, with other devices calculated to |)romote\\nproduction at the least cost of time and labor. They employ a fr)rce of fifty\\noperatives, an I the annual output aggregates 20,000,000 shingles, which are largely\\nshipped to points East and South.\\nThe gentlemen composing the lirm\u00e2\u0080\u0094 E. E. Hargrave, A. C. Haven and E. J. Vance\\nare largely interested in other business enterjirises. and Messrs. Haven and Vance\\nare extensive shingle dealers and do a large commission lumber business.", "height": "3304", "width": "2052", "jp2-path": "industriesofbayc00marq_0129.jp2"}, "130": {"fulltext": "118\\nTHE INDUSTRIES OF THE BAY CITIES.\\nJAY THOMPSON CO.\\nr\\nDry Goods. Groceries. Boots, iiihoes. Etc.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 :\u00c2\u00abos. 10^ to 112 aiidland St.\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nWest Bay City.\\nA well-known dry goods, grocery, boot\\nand shoe tirm in West Bay City, is that\\nof Jay Thompson Co., composed of\\nJay Thompson, O. M. Smith and M. A.\\nKnight. It was organized in 1883, and\\nhas enjoyed a career of unbroken pros-\\nperity since it became established. Their\\nplace of business is at Nos. 108, 110 and\\n112 Midland street, the premises consist-\\ning of three large stores, connected by\\narches, and having a total frontage of\\nseven ty-tive feet on Midland street, with\\na depth of one hundred feet, and sup-\\nplied with adequate conveniences. The\\nstore at Nos. 1U8 and 110 Midland street\\nis devoted to the display of dry goods\\nand boots and shoes, the store at No. 112\\nbeing the department of groceries, etc.\\nIn the former they carry full lines of\\nstaple and fancy dry goods of the latest\\nstyles, foreign and domestic, the large\\ncloak and carpet rooms occupying the\\nsecond floor; and in boots and shoes they handle the products of the best eastern\\nmanufacture. Their stock of groceries is equally select and comprehensive. They\\nalso carry full lines of crockery and glassware, of both foreign and domestic make,\\nin all the latest styles and finish. The business of the house is personally managed\\nby Mr. Thompson, the remaining members of the firm being residents of Flint. They\\ncater to a fine family trade, seeking no jobbing, though in every way prepared to\\nsu pply such demand. The house is leading in its several lines, and carries a very\\nextensive stock in each, the purity of which, as also the judicious and liberal man-\\nagement of the tirm, has secured for them individually and their house, a very\\nenviable reputation.\\nR. SCHEURMANN.\\nI ealer in Boots and Shoes\u00e2\u0080\u0094 ^Vater St. 3fear Center.\\nThe boot and shoe house of B. Scheurmann is one of the oldest, best known and\\nmost popular establishments of its kind in Bay City. Its origin dates back to 1866.\\nMr. Scheurmann began business in a small way, but by the exercise of qualities which\\ncreate success, he has, in the twenty-two years of his administration bailt up a large\\nand extended trade. He occupies the three-story and basement building, 25x100\\nfeet, on Water street near Center, and carries a large and diversified stock of tine\\nboots, shoes, etc., of eastern manufacture, including special lines made expressly to\\nhis order and bearing his name, a guaranty of their quality. In addition, he handles\\nthe production of Hanan Sons, A. E. Nettleton k Co., and other manufacturers of\\nmen s tine shoes, celebrated for their durabihty, the tine ladies shoes, made by ej.\\nand T. Cousins, Reynolds Bros., Bennett Barnard, and the output of other equally\\nfamous establishments at the East. He employs a full staff of clerks, and does a\\nlarge local trade, which is also established in tlie country adjoining and comparatively\\nremote.\\nIn addition to enjoying a reputation absolutely unassailable, Mr. Scheurmann is\\ndistinguished as one of the pioneers in his line of business in Southeastern\\nMichigan. The trade controlled by the house of which he is the head, has been\\nsecured through equitable business dealings and number one articles of supply. He\\nserved as Treasurer of Hampton Township for two years and was one of the mem-\\nbers of the first Board of Police Commissioners created here. In addition, he has\\nbeen a member of the Board of Education for years and was re-elected in 1888, for\\nanother term.", "height": "3314", "width": "2061", "jp2-path": "industriesofbayc00marq_0130.jp2"}, "131": {"fulltext": "THE INDUSTRIES OF THE BAY CITIES. 1 1^\\nBRUNSWICK HOUSE.\\nJohn ti. Iliicliuiinii. rroprietor\u00e2\u0080\u0094 X\u00c2\u00ab. lOOH WuHliinutoii Ave.\\nThe Briinewick House is one of the most conveuiently aud delit, htfnlly situated\\nhotels in the Sat, ina\\\\v Valley. It has long been known and valued as one of the best\\nappointed establishments of its claps, in the city, and a favorite resort for all classes\\not travelers, to whom its cheerful surnmudiuKS and home-like comforts are irre-\\nsistibly attractive. In February, 1H88, Mr. John G. Buchanan, the present owner\\nand proprietor, acquired possession of tlie property. He immediately remodeled,\\nrefitted and refurnished the house with a most complete and desirable eijuipment,\\ntaking, charge of its sub-seijuent mauaKement himself, in which he enlisted an experi-\\nence of years, anii a faculty of consulting, the wants of his patrons.\\nThe Brunswick is located in a handsomely shaded square of f, round, at No. 1008\\nWashington avenue, adjacent to the Michigan Central and Flint Pere Manjuette\\nrailroad depots, postollice, banks and commercial centers, and is provided with\\naccommodations for forty guests. The premises consist of a three-story brick build-\\ning, the main tloor of which is used for office, readinjf, billiard and sample rooms,\\nalso for the parlor aud dining rooms; all of which are furnished in a neat and\\nattractive manner, the parlor aud dining room opening into a broad lawn, planted\\nwith trees and diversified with the growth of rare e.xotics. The two upper stories are\\nfurnished for sleeping rooms, all of which are light, airy, well ventilated, and supplied\\nwith all modern conveniences. The cuisine is not surpa.ssed by that of similar\\nenterprises more conspicuous and pretentions, the tables being furnit-hed with all the\\nsubstantials and delicacies of the season. The hotel service in every department is\\nof the best order, and a full force of courteous and attentive assistants is employed.\\nThe terms are SI. 50 and S 2.00 per diem.\\nMr. Buchanan is a native of Lanark, Canada, but located in Michigan early in\\nlife, engaging in lumbering and logging. Prior to his purchase of the Brunswick he\\nmanaged the Moulton House for five years. He is a member of the Board of Alder-\\nmen from the Second Ward of Bay City, and half-owner of the Bay City Creamery,\\nwhich furnishes the hotel with pure cream and butter. He is a man universally\\npopular, and does a large business.\\nF. L. WANDS.\\nlioiierul liiMuranot Xo. Jil.! Fifth St.\\nThe insurance agency of Frank L. Wands is one of the most prominent, useful\\nand successful of its kind in Bay City, where Mr. Wands is himself one of the most\\npopular of underwriters. He located here in 187C), coming from Albany, X. Y., and\\nat once embarked in his present business, having been identified with the same line\\nfor ten years prior to his leaving the East, having both agency and home-oflice\\nexperience, and thoroughly equipped by a practical knowledge of its details for the\\nprosperous career that he has always pursued in that field of usefulness.\\nHe is located at No. 215 Fifth street, where he occupies a suite of commodious\\nand handsomely eipiipped offices, as the agent of a number of well known companies,\\nnoted for their reliability, liberality and i)romptitude and the equitable adjustment of\\ntiieir losses. Among the companies for which Mr. Wands is the sole agent, are the\\nBovleton Fire Insurance Company, of .Massachusetts; City of London Insurance Co.,\\nof England; the Commerce, of .Vlbany, N. Y.; (Irand Rapids, of Michigan, with\\n8276,000 assets and 8220.000 surplus; Firemen s Fund, of California, witli .t!2,181, )2.5\\nassets and .^815,000 surjjlus; German, of Pittsburg; (rerman, of Peoria, III., and\\nGerman, of Freeport. 111.; Hiberuia. of New Orleans; People s, of New Hampshire;\\nNew York Bowery, of New York; Mutual, of hi -ago; S{)ring Garden and Fiiion, of\\nPhiladelphia; Union, of San Francisco; Fidelity and Casualty, of New York,\\nwith other companies rep re. ^en ting a total capital of .\u00e2\u0096\u00a0?2,C,( 10,000, total a.ssets\\nof S8.649.938 and a surplus aggregating S;?.t 21.781. from which it is clearly apparent\\nthat the insured will be fully protected against all risks assumed in the policy issued.\\nMr. Wands does a large business locally, as also throughout the Saginaw Valley.\\nDuring the seasons of 1887, 1888 and 1889 he sustained few losses, and by his care in\\nplacing risks, and hie efficiency and promptness in the assessment and liipiidation of\\ndamages has secured to himself a reputation and patronage, both substantial and\\nvaluable.", "height": "3304", "width": "2052", "jp2-path": "industriesofbayc00marq_0131.jp2"}, "132": {"fulltext": "120\\nTHE INDUSTRIES OF THE BAY CITIES.\\nW. F. BENSON SON.\\nWholesale Dealers Fresh, Salt and Frozen Fish\u00e2\u0080\u0094 111 Main St.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 IVest Bay City.\\nThe firm of W. F. Benson\\nSon, wholesale dealers in fresh,\\nsalt and frozen fish, is the oldest\\nin its line in the Saginaw Valley.\\nDuring 1860, W. F. Benson, who\\nhad a short time previous removed\\nto West Bay City from Flint,\\nestablished himself in the busi-\\nness with which he has since\\nbeen so prominently identified.\\nHe was the first to ship fresh fish\\nfrom these waters to the leading\\ncities of the country, and is to-\\nday one of the oldest merchants\\nin Bay County. He continued\\noperations alone until 1885, when\\nH. A. Benson, his son, who had\\nbeen educated to the business,\\nwas admitted into partnership,\\nand the present firm was organ-\\nized. The establishment is lo-\\ncated at No. Ill Main street, and\\nconsists of commodious warehouses, ice houses, etc., with fine dockage conveniences\\nand superior shipping facilities, being also provided with every equipment for the\\npreservation, pickle and freezing of catches made at all seasons of the year. The\\nfisheries which supply the house are located at Au Sable, Tawas, Point Alabaster,\\nHarmon City, Oak Point and Sand Point; also at eligible sites on the Saginaw River,\\nfor the privileges of which latter $2,000 rental was paid in 1887. The resources of\\nthe house are further augmented by a full complement of nets, fishing boats and\\nother auxiliaries requisite to a successful prosecution of the enterprise, all of which\\nare still further increased during the busy season. A force varying from sixty to\\nseventy hands are employed the year round, and the shipments of the house, which\\nembrace bass, lake trout, white fish, perch, pickerel, muscalonge, fresh, salt and\\nfrozen, supply a large and growing demand in all parts of the United States.\\nJ. D. PEARSALL.\\nUndertaker and Coroner\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Ko. 203 Fifth St.\\nMan contemplates death, as does a child the entrance into a darkened room: with\\nfear and uncertainty. But death is the common lot of all of the babe in its mother s\\narms, of prattling infancy, ambitious youth, manhood in its prime, and age with its\\nstaff and crutch. All must bow to the supremacy of the Master of Mortality. After\\ndeath, the burial. To this complexion must all come at last. Among those whose\\nart and profession has enlisted them in paying the last sad offices to the dead, and\\nlocated in Bay City, is Mr. J. D. Pearsall, a gentleman whose experience has given\\nhim an intimate knowledge of the requirements peculiar to occasions of a character\\nso sacred and solemn. He began business here in 1885, and occupies the two-story\\nand basement structure, 25x100 feet in dimensions, at No. 203 Fifth street. Hia\\narrangements for the conduct of the business are complete, and his furnishings and\\nappointments are appropriate and of the latest styles. He is assisted m the discharge\\nof his delicate duties by a corps of competent subordinates, and elicits respectful\\ncommendation for the fidelity he brings to the exercise of his trust. He is prepared\\nto take charge of funerals, from embalming to the interment, furnishing all the\\naccessories of hearse, livery, etc., and to respond to all calls by day or night, also to\\ntelegrams for services at a distance.\\nMr. Pearsall is also Coroner of Bay County, to which position he has been repeatedly\\ncalled by the suffrages of his fellow citizens, and is everywhere held in high esteem\\nas an honorable, upright, public-spirited man.", "height": "3314", "width": "2061", "jp2-path": "industriesofbayc00marq_0132.jp2"}, "133": {"fulltext": "THE INDUSTRIES OF THE BAY CITIES. 121\\nROBERT S. PRATT.\\n\u00c2\u00abeneral IiiHuraiio*- UO C eiiler Ave.\\nPromiuent amoug the insiirauco ageuts of Bay City, and occupying a leading\\nposition in the profession, is Mr. Robert S. Pratt, who for a period of twelve years\\nand upwards, has supplied the demand for an insurance that guarantees prompt\\npayment for all losses sustained, an equitable adjustment of differences and the low-\\nest rates compatible with the risks assumed. He began busiuees here in IHTf,, and\\nhis career has been one of gratifying success, due, not more to the high grfide of\\ncompanies he represents, than to the enterprise and pushing qualities characteristic\\nof his operations. He occupies a handsome suite of apartments at No. 20G Center\\navenue, well titled up and specially adapted to the business, and affords patrons and\\nthe public a long list of representative companies, from whieh to make their\\nselections. Among the leading corporations for which he is the sole agent here, are\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0the Phccnix. Niagara, Germania and Mutual Life, of New York the Liverpool and\\nLondon and Globe of London, Eng., the strongest insurance combination on earth;\\n^Etna of Hartford, Traders of Chicago, Transatlantic of Hamburg, National of Hart-\\nford. American of Newark, Scottish Union and National of Edinburg, Rhode Island\\nUnderwriters Association, of Providence; New Hampshire, New York Underwriters\\nand Comjaercial of California, representing in round numbers a total capital of\\nSM.UOO.UOti, total assets of 858,358,000, and a total surplus of \u00c2\u00a7:31.000,0()0. He is also\\nagent for the Metropolitan Plate Glass Insurance Company of New Y ork, and the\\nHartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Company of Hartford, for the\\ninsurance of risks on the lines of goods designated by the names of the several\\nincorporations.\\nMr. Pratt does a large business in Bay City and West Bay City, as also in the\\nsurrounding country, being well prepared to consider and undertake all risks in his\\nline, and at the lowest rates. He is one of the most popular underwriters in the\\nState, and his operations are characterized by fairness and effectiveness, in the\\nmatter of protection, and have acquired for the companies he represents, an envi-\\nable reputation.\\nL. M. SIMONS CO.\\nKew and Second-IIan l Furniture \u00e2\u0080\u0094IVolverton House Third and i,Water Sts.\\nThe firm of L. M. Simons Co., composed of Leonard M. and W. A. Simons,\\nwas established in Bay City during, the year 1881. When the war of the rebellion\\nwas precipitated. Mr.L. M. Simons enlisted in Company B., 9th K. V. C\u00e2\u0080\u0094 W. A,\\nSimons, in Company H., 4th Michigan Cavalry,\u00e2\u0080\u0094 and served honorably and patriot-\\nically from Bull Run to Appomatox. At the close of the struggle for national\\nsupremacy, he returned to the walks of trade and engaged in the dry goods business,\\nwith which he was associated for the twenty years succeeding. In the year above-\\nmentioned, he embarked in the business of dealing in furniture and furniture\\nsupplies, and continues in the active pursuit of that branch of commercial enter-\\nprise. The tirm is located in the Wolverton House block,- eligible premises, at the\\ncorner of Third and Water streets, occupying the three-story and basement building.\\n40x150 feet in dimensions, spacious, of ample accommodations, neatly furnished,\\nconveniently departmented. and stocked in a manner commensurate with the require-\\nments of the extensive trade supplieil. They carry every article of furniture known\\nto the line, substantial and ornamental, new and second-hand; and in the matters\\nof material and i)rices, are able to offer superior inducements to i)urch.isers. Their\\nstock includes parlor, bed-room, dining-room and kitchen furniture; china, glass\\nand queensware; mattresses and bedding; carpets, oil-cloths and rugs; stoves and\\ntinware; lamps and fixtures; household notions and nick-nacks; curtains and lambre-\\nquins, new and second-hand, in any (luantity and at any price. They employ a\\nfull staff of sale-men. clerks and assistants, and their trade is large locally and\\nthroughout the surrounding country, as also up tiie coast.\\nThe Messrs. .Simons attend personally to the business, aod the houee is enter-\\nprising and reliable in every respect, enjoying the entire confidence of the trade and\\nthe public generally.", "height": "3304", "width": "2052", "jp2-path": "industriesofbayc00marq_0133.jp2"}, "134": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3314", "width": "2061", "jp2-path": "industriesofbayc00marq_0134.jp2"}, "135": {"fulltext": "THE INDUSTRIES OF THE BAY CITIES. 1^3\\nBRADDOCK, BATEMAN CO.\\n!ffaiiiiractiir4TN uimI Jobboi-M in Fine it;nrM \\\\on. OOO uimI i M t llnri-iMon Nt.\\nThe tirm of IJraddock. IJateman Co., maimfaoturers ami joljbers in tine citjars,\\nis the most prominent in its line of trade in this vicinity, carryint^ larf, e stocks, manu-\\nfacturing a large annual product, and doing an annual business extensive and widely\\nextended. Tlie tirin was organized in 1H73 as Braddock it Batr\u00c2\u00bbma!i, composed of E.\\nB. Braddock and Frank Batemau. In 1885 T. H. Keating was admitted as a partner,\\nand in July, 1888, C. H. Fox became a member, and the tirm of Braddock, Bateman\\nk Co., thus constituted, occupies a conspictious position commercially and otherwise.\\nTheir place of business is at Nos. 0(10 and fJO J Harrison street. South Bay City, in\\npremises commodious and well adapted to the trade. They are two stories high,\\n5UxlOO feet in dimensions, and equipped with all modern improvements and con-\\nveniences fur the handling of the stock and the transaction of business. They give\\nemployment to a force of from thirty to thirty-tive skilled workmen, clerks, assistants,\\netc., in addition to tive traveling salesmen, whose labors are carefully supervised by\\nmembers of the firm, and their annual product amounts to over one million fine\\ncigars, exclusive of the cigars manufactured to their order at eastern estaljlishnients,\\nwhich aggregate five millions per year of the best ijualities and make. Their spe-\\ncialties include the well known and highly prized brands: S. W. B., Silk Impe-\\nrial, Phcenix, Shriuer, Sam Anderson, Red Hose, Queen of Scotia, and\\nother favorite and celebrated prodiicts. They also manufacture any special com-\\nmodity in the same line to order, and carry full and complete supplie.s of imported\\nHavana cigars in addition to Key West and other brands cf domestic make. Their\\ntrade is very large to consumers and dealers in the city, and in all portions of Michi-\\ngan, their field of operations extending also into adjoining territory, where their\\ngoods are well known as to (luality and price.\\nThe members of the firm are enterprising and substantial merchants and citizens,\\nand the house maintains a reputation for the superiority of its products and its equit-\\nable dealing that challenges criticism.\\nJOHN C. FRANK.\\nCarriage Manufacturer\u00e2\u0080\u0094 State and South Washington Stw.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 West May ity.\\nProminent among the industries of West Bay City, is the manufactare of vehicles,\\nin which a number of establishments are profitably engaged. Among those thus\\noccupied is John C. Frank, who began the business in 1881), and has since directed\\noperations in this line with results advantageous alike to himself and to the trade.\\nHe is located at the corner of State and South Washington streets, in the Fifth Ward\\nof West Bay City, where he occupies a two-story and basement l)uilding, 2 )xlon feet\\nin size, and well e iuipped with implements and appliances for the work to whioh he\\nis devoted. He manufactures to order all descriptions of carriages, two and three\\nspring, light and heavy platform wagons, and carries a full line of finished work.\\nHis specialty is the manufacture of wheels, the (juality and durability of which, as\\nalso in other details of the conveyance, he guarantees, and agrees to make good any\\ndefects that become apparent in his work, after sale, free of expense. In additicjii he\\ndoes a general repairing business, and from his long experience is specially successful\\nin that department.\\nJ. B. CAMPBELL.\\nCheap iroeer.v House\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Xo8. ?oa an\u00c2\u00abl 7 \u00c2\u00bb4 Washington A\\\\e.\\nThe cheap grocery house of J. B. Campbell, was established by that gentleman in\\n1870. It is a model concern in all respects, and its career since the year 1871 has\\nserved to confirm and extend the enviable reputation Mr. Campbell has enjoyeil as a\\nmerchant and citizen. His stock has always been of the liighest standard of excel-\\nlence, and his prices, the (luality of goods considered, always within the range of\\npossibility to a i)atronage that exercises a discriminating care in its selections.\\nHis location is among the very best in the city, being at Nos. 702 and 704 Washington", "height": "3304", "width": "2052", "jp2-path": "industriesofbayc00marq_0135.jp2"}, "136": {"fulltext": "124 THE INDUSTRIES OF THE BAY CITIES.\\navenue, the highway of the retail trade, ^e occupies the main floor and basement of\\nthe premises, each 50x60 feet in dimensions, and eligibly equipped for the uses to\\nwhich they are appropriated. His specialty is standard goods, and his line of staple\\nand fancy groceries is complete and diversified. It embraces sugars, coffees, teas,\\ncanned and potted meats, canned and bottled fruits and vegetables, delicacies, con-\\ndiments, pickles, preserves, sauces, green vegetables and fruits in season, berries,\\nnick-nacks, etc., in great variety and abundance. He employs a full staff of clerks\\nand assistants, and two wagons are used to facilitate the business and delivery of the\\ngoods of purchasers. His trade is large with families in the city and suburbs, and\\nthe larger proportion being among farmers residing in the surrounding country.\\nMr. Campbell is a man thoroughly familiar with all the requirements of that trade,\\nand experienced in ministering to the same, and his establishment is a leading and\\nrepresentative house in its line. In addition to his large trade with farmers, Mr.\\nCampbell has made a specialty of the seed business, doing the largest business in\\nthat line in this vicinity for many years.\\nJ. A. STYNINGER.\\nManufaetnrer HeaA y Copper, Sheet Iron Pipe and Breeching,\u00e2\u0080\u0094 921 Water St,\\nIn 1873, J. A. Styninger began the manufacture, in a small way, of heavy copper,\\nsheet iron pipe and breeching, employing a limited force and turning out a limited\\nproduct handling also ropes, cables, junk, etc. Prom that beginning the business\\nhas extended until to-day it is the largest in its line in the Valley. He is located at\\nNo. 921 Water street, a most desirable site, in premises 25x100 feet in size, affording\\nample accommodations for display and sale purposes, with a fully equipped workshop\\nin the rear, adequately supplied with all requisite tools and machinery. His line of\\nmanufacture includes heavy copper, sheet iron pipe and breeching, also doing an\\nextensive business in plumbing, steam and gas-fitting, and carrying complete lines\\nof lubricating and illuminating oils, tallow, steam packing, gas pipe and fittings,\\nwhite and colored waste, red lead, emery and paper, plumbago, engineers supplies\\ngenerally, and heating and cooking stoves and ranges. He employs a force of com-\\npetent operatives keeping a man on the premises all night during the season of navi-\\ngation, to respond to calls from vessels\u00e2\u0080\u0094 and does a large local and vessel trade. Mr.\\nStyninger conducts the leading establishment of its kind in the Valley, and his enter-\\nprise, skill as a craftsman and impregnable integrity, has secured to himself and his\\nhouse, a deserved and widely extended patronage.\\nF. X. CAMPAU.\\nDry Goods, CSents Furnishing Ciroods. Hats, aps. Etc.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Xo. 60y| Harrison St.\\nIn 1874 Mr. F. X. Campau settled in Bay City, coming from Detroit, and estab-\\nlished himself in the dry goods business. He is a gentleman of experience and enter-\\nprise, a member of the historic Campaia family, which has been identified with the\\nsettlement and development of Michigan from the date when the present prosperous\\nState was included in the public domain, with settlements at Detroit and Mackinaw\\nonly.\\nHis place of busines is at No. 607 Harrison street. South Bay City, a location in\\nevery way desirable, in premises two stories high and 25x100 feet in dimensions.\\nThey are commodious and well equipped, containing all conveniences, and supplied\\nwith all requisite auxiliaries for the display of stock and the transaction of business.\\nHe carries large and complete lines of staple and fancy dry goods, including superior,\\nmedium and ordinary grades gent s furnishing goods, hats, caps, notions, nick-nacks,\\nwall paper, etc., and buys at figures that enable him to offer the most liberal induce-\\nments to the trade. He employs a competent force of courteous assistants, and does\\na large trade in South Bay City and vicinity, as also with farmers and residents\\nthroughout the surrounding country. Mr. Campau hasbeen identified with business\\ninterests in this section for years, and enjoys a reputation in the highest degree envi-\\nable. His house is well known and popular, and the trade to which he caters is both\\nextensive and valuable.", "height": "3314", "width": "2061", "jp2-path": "industriesofbayc00marq_0136.jp2"}, "137": {"fulltext": "THE INDUSTRIES OF THE BAY CITIES. 125\\nEDDY BROTHERS CO.\\nMaiiufactiii crN of I^unilM r. I^atli and Nalt \\\\o. iT i .t \\\\ortli Wat4 r Nt.\\nThe mill and salt euterpriees, owned and uiauaKed by Eddy Brothers Co. may\\nvery properly be claimed as jtart of the original foundation of these lines of industry\\nin Bay City. The mill was built by 8. H. Webster along in \\\\H 70, and by him\\nsold to the tirm of Chapin ic Barber. The latter operated the plant until 1H.S2. when\\nit was purchased by the tirm of Eddy Brothers Co., composed of Sehvyn E Idy,\\nCharles A. Eddy, Charles F. Eddy and J. Frank Eddy, for years prominently identified\\nwith very large manufacturing, mercantile and banking circles in tlie Saginaw\\nValley. The capacity of the mill when first established was very much less\\nthan at present, and when the last named firm obtained possession they at once\\nintroduced improved machinery and appliances for increasing the product in quality\\nand amount. They also rebuilt the salt block and concluded other arrangements for\\none of the most complete establishments of its kind in the Lower Peninsula, which,\\nunder their management, it has become.\\nThe premises are located at No. 272.3 North Water street, and embrace the lumi er\\nand salt industries, with the necessary buildings and appurtenances. The mill\\nproper is 1(50x100 feet in size, commodious, and in its appointments complete, supplied\\nwith one of Wickes Brothers powerful gang mill saws, circular saws, edgers, trim-\\nmers, cutting saws, steam feed carriage and other requisite machinery. The motive\\npower is furnished from four engines, three of one hundred horse-power each, and\\none of fifty horse-power, fed by two batteries of steel tubular boilers one of four,\\neach five and one half by sixteen feet, and the other of two each five by sixteen\\nfeet in dimensions, which also furnish steam to operate the engines at the salt mills\\nand in the cooperage department of the latter. The premises also include valuable\\nriver frontage with uusurpassed dockage and shipping facilities, and commodious\\nbooms and piling grounds, covering a considerable area of territory. They luml er\\non the Bay Shore, Pine River and other rivers in the north and northwest and the\\nannual output is 20,000,000 feet of lumber, 2..500,OnO lath and ;^0,()00 sets of barrel\\nheads, the lumber and laths being shipj)ed to Buffalo, Tonawauda and elsewhere in\\nthe east, the barrel stock retained for use in the salt works.\\nThe latter industry is in an ecjually prosperous condition, consisting of five wells\\nwith drill house and engine equipments each, a large and well appointed salt block,\\npacking house, cooper shop, in which all the barrels are made by machinery a lapted\\nto the purpose, run by steam, and other aids. These salt mills produce a total of 40,-\\n000 barrels of salt per annum, which are disposed of through the Michigan Salt Asso-\\nciation, of which the firm are members. They employ a force of one hundred and\\ntwenty hands and twenty teams of horses, and do a large business, increasing in\\nvolume each year.\\nPARSONS LUMBER CO.\\nYl liolenale liiiniber\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Bank Itnildins.\\nAmong the dealers in lumber and lumber products who have become prominent\\nin Bay City within a comparatively brief i)eriod, is the Parsons Lumber Co.. organ-\\nized at Detroit in 1878. During August, 1887, the company opened yards in this city\\nand during the year of their establishment here disposed of over 12.noO,()(H) feet of\\nlumber. The business here is in charge of William M. Parsons, the Vice President\\nand Manager of the company; H. H. Parsons, its President, and J. B. Young. Secre-\\ntary and Treasurer, remaining in Detroit. Their ofTice is in the Bank building, their\\nyards being located on the Flint k Pere Marquette railroad, at the foot of Henry\\nstreet. These latter are commodious, having a ri% er frontage tipward of a thousand\\nfeet, and piling ground capacity for more than two millions of feet of lumber, with\\nconveniences and equipments for the safe storage and protection of dressed and\\nplaned lumber produ its. They have unsurpawed facilities for receiving stock, which\\ncomes by water, as also for shipping, which is always by rail, and carry heavy invoices\\niu their line, of all sizes and for every purpoFe. Th^y trive employment to a full force\\nof assistants, and lo a large and growing trade in Southern Michigan, also in Ohio,\\nPennsylvania au l in [lortions of New England. Both members of the firm are\\npractical lumbermen of long experience, and enjoy advantages from a business\\nstandpoint, that enables them to offer superior inducements to the trade.", "height": "3304", "width": "2052", "jp2-path": "industriesofbayc00marq_0137.jp2"}, "138": {"fulltext": "126\\nTHE INDUSTRIES OF THE BAY CITIES.\\nTHE NEW ROUECH HOUSE.\\nOil Aiiiri ican :iii l l iir( i aii I laii A. Itonocli, l*ro| ri\u00c2\u00ab tor\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Fifth and WnterHfttsJi.\\nMr. A. N. Roiiech is oue\\nof the pioneer hotel men of\\nthis section of the State. He\\nis a native of France whence\\nhe emifjrated to the United\\nStates in 1832, and located\\nat Bay City in 18(5-2. The\\nyear following he engaged in\\nthe hotel business as pro-\\nprietor of the Lake House,\\nsubsequently keeping the\\nKouech House in West Bay\\nCity (^now the Toohey House)\\nand being very prominently\\nidentitied with other first-\\nclass etabslishmeuts of a\\nsimilar character in this city.\\nHis present undertaking\\nin the same line, the New\\nRouech Houee, is a model of\\nits kind in construction,\\nequipment, furnishings and\\nmanagement, with a capacity\\nfor one hundred and fifty guests. It is a three-story and basement brick, having a\\nfrontage of 2(10 feet on Fifth street, with a fnmtage of 50 feet on Water street,\\nsuperbly situated for the accommodation of the traveling and business pxiblic, and\\nmodern in all respects. It was first opened as a hotel in 1885, the Water street front\\nof the building being used for that object. Mr. Rouech s trade, however, increased\\nso rapidly that he was obliged to enlarge his facilities, to meet Trbich the eastern\\nextension fronting on Fifth street was built, the same being completed in the summer\\nof 188S, and adding materially to the conveniences, resources and elegance of the\\npremises. The otlices and sample rooms for commercial travelers, also the restaurant,\\noccupy the main tioor which is laid with a new and beautiful tiling of Italian marble\\nand provided with every reiiuirement incident to the demands of each; on the second\\nfloor the parlors, reception and dining-rooms, and ordinary are to be found, hand-\\nsomely fitted up. furnished and decorated, with the third floor devoted to sleeping\\nrooms, single and en suite, light, airy, commodious and cheerful. The house was\\nrefitted and refurnished upon the completion of the Fifth street extension and is\\nnow heated by steam, equipped with electric lights and aunnuciators, gas, the Hart-\\nford automatic electric call and fire alarm, with modern accessories in every depart-\\nment, and a ctmiplete and effective system of escape in case of fire. The hotel is\\nconducted on both the American and European plan, and perfect as the above\\ndescription entitles it to be considered and accepted, the furnishings of the house are\\nif anything surpassed by the table. The cuisine is perfect, including every thing in\\nthe line of delicacies or substantials, and the service is admirable, both in the dining\\nroom proper and in the temperance coffee house, restaurant and lunch counter, con-\\nducted for those who desire only rooms at the hotel.\\nIn his management, Mr. Rouech is assisted by Mr. A. N. Rouech, Jr., and Mr. G.\\nH. Rouech. his sons, the former as chief clerk and the latter as steward, with Geo.\\nChamplain as night clerk, in addition to a force of thirty employes. His trade is\\ntransient, composed principally of commercial tourists, and is very large and steadily\\nincreasing.\\n1. RUELLE CO.\\nFuviiitiire. liilaNs^vare and trovkery\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Harrison St.. Bot. 30th and 31st Sts.\\nThe business of dealing in furniture, glassware and crockery is an enterprise that\\ncommands large investments, and exerts an extended influence in mercantile circles.\\nA leading and important firm engaged in this department of trade is I. Ruelle I i: Co.,", "height": "3314", "width": "2061", "jp2-path": "industriesofbayc00marq_0138.jp2"}, "139": {"fulltext": "Till-: INDUSTRIES OF THF. HAY CITIES. I V\\nponipoBpd of T. RhpIIp nn l P. W. Oanliner. I lie firm wjih pstnbliKlipd in 1884, find\\nby itH eiittM-piise and tlio liljeralit y diRplayeil in tlio niaiia^tcniciit of llif htiHincHH. liavn\\nHi ciiri d a lar ;e and incrcaBinK tra(it I lit y art^ locatt d at an clij^ iblo point on\\nHarrison f-rtoet, between l hirti\u00c2\u00ab tli nml J liirty-firHt Htn-otH, and carry a lart, t and\\ndivoiHilitMl stock. Tlio |)roniiHeH occii[)iHd aro 2 xl()() font in din\u00c2\u00bb\u00c2\u00abnHionH, oonve!ii\u00c2\u00ab nlly\\nand adciiuatt^ly ptpnppHd for tlin favorahio display of tln-ir stock an l tli\u00c2\u00ab transaction\\nof l)HsitiiiH8. They carry fnll biu-sofall K i des of fiirnitnrK anil liouschold j^ ocxis,\\nand SI) c nnplt t\u00c2\u00bb\u00c2\u00ab in all I cspccts, that tlicy arc able to furnish rosidcn -cs with every\\nrei|iiisitc article from cellar to j, arict. They sell for cash, or on the instailinent plan,\\nand liave actjuired a reputation for quality of stock ami lil)eral busiuesB uiauaKe-\\nment, that is valuable and productive of large returns.\\nBOUSFIELD CO.\\nflaniifacl iir -i- H of oo\u00c2\u00abl\u00c2\u00ab nu nrv, I nilM. TiiIih. I .lr. I ool Soiilli (enter SI.\\nThe larf^fcBt establislnnent in the United Slates, en a ed in the manufacture of\\nwoodenware, is that of lioustieM .V Co., at the font of South denter street. Not only is it\\nthe most extensive enterprise of its kind, but one of the oldest. The IJousfield family\\nwere the first toent, aK e in the woodenware busniess on an extensive scale in tins country,\\nbe^rinnin^; operations many years a^^o at leveland, Ohio; the members of tlie present\\ncompany beinj., sons of .b)hn Housfielil, the founder of the enterprise. The works in\\nHay ity were established in ISCill by (ieorj, e llood. Between that year and IST the\\nmami(, ement underwent a number of chanf, e.s. In the latter year they came into the\\npossession of Boustield .t Co., and in IHK] were incorporated into a stock compuny.\\nThe |)lant occupies over two blocks of territory, and includes within that area the\\nsaw-mil!, kilns, turning, and paint houses, warehouse, engine house, ollices. booms,\\net etc., complete in all details, and perfeirtly ada|)ted to tlieir several uses. he saw-\\nmill [troper, i)ut recently erected, is lOxTO feet in dimejisions, sujiplied with jfour\\ncircular saws; veneerinj, bottom and top-making machines, steam carriages for\\nraising, the lo{, s from the lioom, and other coinenieiici s and eijuipments of a labor-\\neaviiij, character. In the niiiniifaoture of the products, which (-onsist chiefly of tults,\\nchurns and i)ails, tlie lo^s are raised from the boom to the mill, wiiere they are sawed\\ninto blocks of the re iuired length, elevated automatically to the floor above, and after\\nrunnint, the auntlet of new and improved machinery, by wiiich they are cut into\\nstaves and loaded into cars are sent alon^, to the dryinjf kilns adjoining, \u00c2\u00bbi d from\\nthere to the turnin^, room, without rehandlin^, The Kilns. inj, enious as they are\\ninvaluable, are fourteen in number, with a capacity, at the present time, of ei^jht car-\\nloads, but will b increased to twenty-four car-loails each, and all encloseil in a\\nbuililin^f sulliciently commodious for their accommodat i m. l roni the kilns, the\\nstcK k, yet in the rou^jh, is conveyed by the same cars, without rehanillii)), to the tiirn-\\nivm house, a two-story Ijuildinj, VOxlHO feet, and equipped with stventeen larye lathes\\nfor the manufacture of tubs. j)ails and churns. The staves that enter these |)remises\\nmake their exit as tubs, pails and churns, the bottoms tf each i)einK fitte l into place\\nalso by machinery. From the forest to the retail dealer, the stock of tlit\u00c2\u00bb works is the\\nproduct of machinery. From the turning houst tiiey are shot info tiie paint house, a\\nbuilding tiire( stories in hei^jht and SdxKlO feet in |)roportions. where they are\\ndecorated in colors by machinery, and whence tliey are delivered at the warehouse, a\\ntwo-story building, TOx JOO feet, from which they are finally shiiiped to consumers.\\nTo do this, re.|iiires the services of i.* thorou hly competent and pUillful mechanics,\\nand motive power derived from two enfjiues of lo iiorse-power each, fed by two\\nsteel tubular boilers, eacli live by sixteen feet. Their daily output is ,(MI() pails and\\n1,700 tubs, in theT composition, material and finish, of the hi^fhest order, reflectinjf\\nthe utmost credit upon the capacity of the works, as also upon tiiose who supervise\\ntheir manatrement. They have a booma^ e capacity of ilMl.lllHl feet and use t;,(l(HI,(i()(l\\nfeet of lumber annually, pine and basswood. Mr. .James Totter, wlio is foreman, has\\nbeen connected with the enterprise sinci- IXTc, and the products of the works are in\\nextensive* demand as far east as New Vork, to Iventucky and Tennessee at the\\nsouth, and all over the North and Northwest, as far as the Pacilii; coast.\\nThe present otlicers are: Alfred K. Housfield, President Ciiarles .1. liousfield,\\nVice-President and Secretary. The affairs of the corporation are admirably and\\nsystematically conducted, and its presence and operation lias contributed very\\nmaterially to the buildiiiK up of Bay City as a manufacturinjj and trade center.", "height": "3304", "width": "2052", "jp2-path": "industriesofbayc00marq_0139.jp2"}, "140": {"fulltext": "128 THE INDUSTRIES OF THE BAY CITIES.\\nJULIUS WILHELM.\\nCigar Manufacturer\u00e2\u0080\u0094 :SJo. 013 Third St.\\nJulius Wilhelm is well known to the cigar trade in Michigan, from the superior\\nquality of his manufacture in cigars, and the reasonable prices at which he disposes\\nof his products. He began business in 1881, at No. 807 Third street, where he\\nremained until April, 1887, when he removed to his present locality, at No. 613 on the\\nsame thoroughfare. The premises occupied consist of commodious quarters, 25x100\\nfeet in size, in the central portion of the city s wholesale trade, well arranged and\\nfurnished for the display of his stock, as also for manufacturing and sales purposes.\\nHis lines of products embrace, in ten-cent goods, the well-known and favorite brands\\nMorse Edison and StevenBon, etc., and in five-cent goods, the equally well-known\\nand celebrated New Standard, Flying Dutchman, Little Dandies, etc., all of\\nwnich are made from the pure leaf, and maintain the popularity for superior excel-\\nlence they have obtained wherever known. He also manufactures special brands on\\nthe order of customers, and his trade in this particular is extensive and extending.\\nHe employs ten competent operatives, and supplies a large demand in the city and\\nsurrounding country.\\nMr. Wilhelm is a man, who from comparatively small beginnings, has attained to\\nprominence and reputation, and his stock, with regard to quality and price, has\\nbecome an established commodity with a large and appreciative trade.\\nO. F. HAMET.\\nInspector and Shipper of I umber\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Xo. 50\u00c2\u00a9 Phoenix Block.\\nOne of the oldest, most experienced and reliable inspectors of lumber in the\\nLower Peninsula, is O. F. Hamet, whose office is at No. 506 Phoenix block. He is a\\nnative of Detroit, but located herein 1862, before Bay City was invested with the privi-\\nleges and immunities of a municipal corporation, and engaged in the special depart-\\nment of the lumber industry, he has since so successfully conducted. His position\\nis that of a factor between producer and consumer, an agent for both the owner and\\npurchaser, deriving authority to act from each, furnishing each with the latest and\\nmost authentic data as to the fluctuations of the market, and otherwise serving each\\nin his negotiations for their joint and several accounts. His facilities, experience and\\nextensive information with depots of supply, especially equip him for the discharge\\nof duties incident to his profession, including the execution and shipment of orders.\\nHis business embraces the purchase of all grades and descriptions of logs and\\nlumber, manufactured and in the rough, the inspection of same, and other acts in\\nconnection with its delivery and shipment.\\nIBAY COUNTY MILK! ASSOCIATION,\\nChoice Creamery Butter and Ice Cream\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Xos. 810 and 8ia IVashington Ave.\\nThe Bay County Milk Association was incorporated in 1885, with the purpose of\\nfurnishing pure milk and its products to consumers and the trade. A location for\\nthe plant was secured, the same equipped and operations commenced, which have\\nbeen successful from the start. During 1886, Mr. E. R. Phillips invested largely in\\nthe enterprise, and m 1888 became the virtual owner, occupying the position of secre-\\ntary and manager, and personally supervising the business. The premises occupied\\nby the association for manufacturing and supply purposes are at Nos. 810 and 812\\nWashington avenue, 40x100 feet in size, and in point of location cannot be surpassed.\\nThey are well arranged and appointed, supplied with all necessary machinery and\\nappliances for the manufacture of butter and ice cream, and giving employment to a\\nforce of competent hands in addition to two delivery and two collecting wagons. The\\nmotive power to drive the machinery is steam, working an engine of five horse-power.\\nThe specialties of the concern are choice creamery butter, ice cream, milk and\\ncream, procuring the same from farmers in all portions of Bay County and vicinity,\\nand doing a heavy local trade.", "height": "3314", "width": "2061", "jp2-path": "industriesofbayc00marq_0140.jp2"}, "141": {"fulltext": "THE INDUSTRIES OF THE BAY CITIES. 129\\nBRICHAM, AMES HEATLEY,\\nAbstractM, Iteiil KHtnlc iiml l.ouiix -Xom. 30iS and {07 I litmix lllock.\\nThe abstract, real estate aud loan firm of Brigbam, Ames Heatley, composed of\\nJohn Briyham. G. W. Ames aud John E. Heatley, was established in Octol^er, 1888,\\nsucceeding the old established firm of Beard, Brigham fe Co., in the same line, and\\nacquiring possession of the abstracts of title of Bay County, which are the most\\ncomplete and best kept set in the country. They occupy the best equipjjed of!ices in\\nthe State, at Xos. 802 and 307 PhtL uix block, corner of Washington and Center\\ncivenuee, and are provided with a perfect chain of title to all lands in liay County,\\nwith the State and United States surveys of same, as also with the plats of vUlages and\\ncities which have been incorporated and are now in operation. They enjoy unusual\\nfacilities for perfecting and tracing titles through their relations with the ofBce of\\nthe Register of Deeds here, and the Auditor General and United States Land Xlice at\\nWcLshington. They are thoroughly familiar with the vahies of real estate aud other\\nimportant points connected with property interests in the Saginaw Valley, aud other\\nportions of the State, giving special attention to the purchase, sale or lease of lands,\\nimproved and unimproved, city and country, to the care of private estates, and dis-\\ncharge other duties of a fiduciary character connected with the business. They are\\nalso prepared to loan money in sums to suit, upon real estate, and to uetrotiate loans\\nin behalf of clients upon tlie most liberal terms, being amply equipped with resources\\nand facilities to fill all orders in their lines promptly aud satisfactorily. Having\\nthree main features always before them, viz: First, that security is about three\\ntimes the amouut of loan. Second, that the title is perfect, and last, but not least, that\\nmortgage must be first security. Those desiring information respecting the title to\\nany tract of land in Bay County, prior or subsequent to its organization will, upon\\napplication to this firm, be fully and reliably advised in the premises.\\nThe members of the firm are experienced, influential and prominent citizens and\\noperators, Mr. Brigham is a leading property owuer in Bay County and a lawyer of\\nconspicuous eminence; Mr. Ames is a gentleman of great enterprise and long experi-\\nence, thoroughly posted as to real estate values, aud has made more sales than the\\nolder real estate dealers, siuce he commenced business; while Mr. Heatley, who is in\\ncharge of the abstract and loau department of the firm, enjoys a reputation for\\nrapidity and accuracy in his .special line unsurpassed by any professional abstract\\nmaker in the State, being patronized by three-fourths of the legal profession, real\\nestate dealers and bankers in this section, which is strong evidence of the confidence\\nplaced in his work.\\nA. C. MAAS.\\nMerchant Tailor\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Xo. 10\u00c2\u00a9 Center \u00c2\u00abt.\\nThe business of merchant tailoring, carried on by A. C. Maas, was established by\\nihat gentleman in 1876. In the period intervening his success has been large, but\\nnot disproportioned to the deserts to which his industry and enterprise entitle him.\\nIn tlie year above mentioned, he began operations at No. 100 Center street, where he\\nstill remains, and with which he has so long been associated. The looaticm is specially\\ndesirable, being on one of the main business thoroughfares of the city, opposite the\\nNew Fraser House, and otherwise convenient to trade centers. He occupies the\\nmaiu floor and basement of the premises, each being ifixOO feet in size, and arranged\\nin a manner appropriate to the display of goods and the accommodation of trade.\\nHis business is that of merchant tailoring exclusively, being a practical cutter and\\nthoroughly versed in the arts of the craft, he makes only to onler and cultivates a\\nhigh class of trade. He carries a select stock of goods, iuchiding the finest imported\\nfabrics, and the choicest product of the best American locmis, and his workmanship,\\nand the style aud finish of its product, is conceded to be uusnrpassed. He employs\\na force of from twenty to thirty experienced and skillful hand.s, as the business\\nrequires, and does a large trade in the city, both among residents and transients, and\\nin the territory adjoining.\\nThe house has a well deserved reputation for correct business methods and\\nreliability, and these, with the known superiority of the goods carried and the work\\nturned out, have secured a large and growing patronage.", "height": "3304", "width": "2052", "jp2-path": "industriesofbayc00marq_0141.jp2"}, "142": {"fulltext": "130\\nTHE INDUSTRIES OF THE BAY CITIES.\\nPALACE LIVERY STABLE.\\nFrank E. Tyler, Prop.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Liivery and Boarclinj^ Stable\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Sagina^v and Sixth Sts.\\nr\\niU\u00c2\u00a5\\nOne of the most complete livery establishments of its kind in the State, is the\\nPalace Livery Stable, which was built, is owned and operated by Frank E. Tyler,\\nand in all its appointments and equipments appropriate to the name by which it is\\nknown throughout the Lower Peninsula. It was founded in 1880. The premises\\noccupied consist of a handsome two-story brick building, with perfectly equipped\\naccommodations for the uses to which it is adopted. On the main floor is an elegant\\nsuite of offices and carriage house, which, with the harness rooms, wash houses, etc.,\\ncover an area of 10,000 square feet. On the same floor is the stable proper, with\\nforty-six stalls and six roomy boxes for the care and protection of the stock, each\\nstall being provided with a window, thereby insuring light and ventilation. Among\\nthe advantages are the easy means of escape assured in case of fire, and should such\\nan emergency arise it only becomes necessary to throw open the doors at the ends\\nand sides of the building and cut the horses loose, instead of leading them up or\\ndown crooked inclines, where according to the history of all stable fires the horses\\nstampede and rush back into the flames. Another advantage is, that whereas in most\\nstables the horse department is located on a floor above or below the carriage house,\\nthe effluvia arising from the ammonia causes serious damage to the varnish and high\\nfinish of tine vehicles, but by having them all on one floor and separated by thick\\nbrick walls, as is the case Avith the Palace stables, this nuisance is avoided. Mr.\\nTyler s business is equally divided between livery and boarding. In the former he\\nruns some twenty-five horses, chiefly to buggies and other light vehicles, of which\\nhe has a number of the best style and make, having in the heavier department the\\nmost elegant and costly coupes, barouches, broughams and other fashionable\\ncarriages, enabling him to turn out establishments, that in horses, harness, carriage\\nand equipment are equal to those from the finest private stables. In the boarding\\ndepartment his stalls are generally full. A number of gentlemen of this city, who\\nown valuable horses and equipages, give them into his charge, appreciating the facts\\nthat his personal supervision over a competent corps of stable-men, some ten in\\nnumber, together with the sanitary and scientific construction of the building,", "height": "3314", "width": "2061", "jp2-path": "industriesofbayc00marq_0142.jp2"}, "143": {"fulltext": "THE INDUSTRIES OF THE BAY CITIES. 131\\nassures the maximum of sTood care for their property, with the minimum of riuk as\\nto loss or il;imaj, from lire or other causes. In his hhicksmitli and paint slir)pH he\\nconstantly employs from six to ei^jht men. The ^jreater portion of tlie upjjer story\\nof the buildint, is devoted to the storage of vehicles not in immediate reipiirement.\\nThe establishment is, all iu all, the most complete of its kind in the State, and would\\nbe a credit to a great metropolitan city.\\nROSE LEWIS.\\nI eal( i-s ill l i-.v i;oo(In. I^oimthI ^lerehantlitiic. Kt C or. ,Tliirti\u00c2\u00ab tli A;\\\\\\\\ al\u00c2\u00ab r, itM.\\nThe business conducted by Messrs. Rose Lewis is as varied in the lines of jjoods\\nhandled as their trade le extensive and extended. The house was established l)y\\nAlbert iMiller early during the sixties, and from its start has been a successful\\nenterprise. In 1883 the present tirm, composed of M. A. Kf se and Geo. Jjewis,\\nassumed charge and still remain. The junior partner in the firm and Albert Miller,\\nfounder of the undertaking, also compose the lumber and salt tirm of Miller Ijewis,\\nthe former being, in addition, member of the lumber manufacturing enterprise ot\\nMiller Brothers, and both Miller and Lewis being likewise representatives of the\\nextensive laud and logging firm of Turner Co.\\nThey occupy a commodious building, two stories high and 25x120 feet? in dimen-\\nsions, at the corner of Thirtieth and Water streets, a location specially adapted to the\\nline of business in which they are successfully engaged, and well titted up with\\neqtiipmeuts and conveniences for the display and storage of their heavy stock, as also\\nfor the sale and shipment of same. Their stocks embrace every commodity that can\\nbe found in an establishment that ministers to a large and varied demand. It includes\\ndry goods, boots and shoes, gents furnishing goods, groceries, crockery, glassware,\\ngeneral merchandise, notions, knick-knacs, etc., calculated to meet every requirement of\\na trade that is not only extensive but exacting. The tirm employ six assistants and\\nconduct a prosperous business in the city and vicinity, as also with farmers and\\nresidents throughout the surrounding country. The house is one of the oldest in this\\nsection, and the quality of its goods, together with the liberality displayed in its\\nmanagement, have had the effect of materially adding to its patronage annually, since\\nit was established.\\nJOHN DRAKE.\\nGeneral IiiMuranoe\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Xo. 5815 Foiirtli Mt.\\nUp to within a comparatively recent date, a system of insurjince has been permit-\\nted, in which the policies were so deftly worded, that the risk sought to be guarded\\nagainst was included among the exceptions. A system of insurance which guarantees\\nabsolute protection without ambiguity in the terms of the contract of insurance, is\\na factor among the developments of modern civilization, as invaluable as it is\\nindispensable. Such a system of insurance is represented by Mr. Drake, the pioneer\\nunderwriter of Bay City, who established himself here in 18n( and placed the first\\nrisk ever undertaken in this vicinity. He is located at No. 21. Fourth street,\\nwhere he occupies desirable, accessible and conveniently arranged offices, as agent of\\nleading companies of the world, and where he offers inducements to the public in\\nthe way of security and rates, that are not surpassed in the Valley. Among the\\ncompanies for which he is .sole agent in Bay City, are the Home Fire, of New York;\\nHartford Fire, of Connecticut; Lancashire Fire and Commercial Union, of England;\\nHamburg, of Bremen; Orient, of Connecticut; Emi)ire State, of New York;\\nOhio, of Dayton; Phoenix of I^ngland. ami other comi)anies of acknowledged\\nreputability, with capital aggregating .?S,224.r)24; assets amounting to S42,77r .211\\nand a total 8ur[)lus of 618.1;U.3. )4. An exhibit that property owners will not fail to\\nacknowledge, is calculated to inspire the highest degree of confiilence. Indeed,\\n.few agents can show a balance sheet, so to speak, as conclusive of reliability and\\nsolvency.\\nMr. Drake has been engaged here for nearly forty years, during which period he\\nhas served the cause of protection to householders with enviable fidelity. He has\\nestablished the largest insurance business in the city, and enjoys an established\\nreputation for honorable dealing and the prompt adjustment of losses.", "height": "3304", "width": "2052", "jp2-path": "industriesofbayc00marq_0143.jp2"}, "144": {"fulltext": "132 THE INDUSTRIES OF THE BAY CITIES.\\nAMES McAllister.\\nReal Estate Mealers and Agents\u00e2\u0080\u0094 No. 307 Phoenix Block.\\nThe future of Bay City is tinted with colors of never ending fascination. The\\nday has dawned, when the prosperity now apparent, will have yielded precedence to\\na prosperity more liberal even than is to-day rejoiced in. Its natural advantages,\\nlocation, climate and the reasonable price at which lands and houses can be purchased\\nor rented, render the city an available and valuable point at which to invest capital\\nin residence, commercial or manufacturing interests. The real estate business here\\nis naturally of great importance, and has retained a considerable number of dealers\\nand agents. Among the leading firms thus engaged is that of Ames McAllister,\\nconsisting of George W. Ames and E. H. McAllister, the latter a recent accession,\\nhaving come here from Detroit. Their lines of operations are dealing in real estate on\\ntheir own account and on commission, collecting rents, caring for the property of\\nnon-residents, including the payment of taxes, securing relief against inequitable\\nassessments, with other duties of manifold character intimately connected, and\\nbringing to the direction of their offices a degree of enterprise and a quality of\\nexperience manifest in their success. They have large lists of property, improved\\nand unimproved, for sale or lease, both in the city and country, adapted to occupation\\nfor residence, mercantile or commercial purposes, also farming and pine lands.\\nParties having real estate to dispose of will do well to consult with these gentlemen,\\nand place ijroperty on their lists. Those desiring to avoid the care and responsibility\\nof looking after rent collections, can place same in their hands, as they are noted\\nfor their promptness and small commissions, while those seeking building locations\\nor desire to purchase a small home, save time by carefully looking over the lists of\\nthe firm. Property is cheerfully shown, and abstracts of title are furnished free of\\ncommission to purchasers. They occupy a handsome suite of offices at the above\\ndesignated locality, and are equipped with facilities and conveniences for the im-\\nmediate acknowledgment of orders and action in pursuance of instructions contained\\ntherein, and upon the most liberal terms.\\nE. VON HERMANN CO.\\nSuccessors to li. S. Conian Druggists Center anrt Washington Aves.\\nThe wholesale and retail drug house of E. Von Hermann Co., is one of the old-\\nest in its line in the Valley, and the foremost, having since its establishment in 1866,\\nby L. S. Coman, been conducted under his management until the present company\\nacquired the stock and good will, on Oct. 11, 1888, when it was organized with a cap-\\nital stock of S 50,000, and incorporated under the laws of the State of Michigan.\\nThe store is located in the Central block, corner of Center and Washington\\navenues, a handsome building and most eligible site. The premises consist of the\\nmain story and basement, each 25x100 feet in dimensions, and finely fitted up and\\nfurnished, having also a stock department of the same size on the upper floor. The\\nstock carried represents $35,000 and upwards in value, and is always full and complete\\nin the line of articles adapted to the trade. These embrace pure drugs and chemicals,\\ndruggists sundries, pharmaceutical preparations, surgical and hospital implements\\nand appliances of all kinds, fine imported and domestic cigars, wines, cordials,\\nliquors, mineral waters, sundries and other articles in short everything known to\\nthe trade except paints and oils. The business is about equally divided between the\\nretail and jobbing trade in the city and vicinity, as also throughout Northern and\\nNorthwestern Michigan. The retail department is under the personal supervision of\\nMr. Eugene Von Hermann, a graduate of Freiburg College, and none but registered\\npharmacists are employed in the prescription department. The drugs used are all\\nof standard quality, and prescriptions will be put up according to the United States,\\nBritish or other pharmacopias, as the requirements of physicians demand. The whole-\\nsale department is managed by Mr. W. F. Henes, a native of Milwaukee, Wis. a gradu-\\nate of the College of Pharmacy, New York, also of the School of Mines of Columbia\\nCollege, New York, and goods will be sold at prices to compete with New York,\\nChicago or Detroit. This house is the only concern of its kind in the Valley doing a\\nstraight jobbing trade, and the purity of its commodities has secured to it an estab-\\nlished trade, and an extended and substantial reputation.", "height": "3314", "width": "2061", "jp2-path": "industriesofbayc00marq_0144.jp2"}, "145": {"fulltext": "THE INDUSTRIES OF THE BAY CITIES. 133\\nBRIGHAM TASKER.\\nFire, liil e nii\u00c2\u00abl AiM-ident IiiNiiranre\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Xo. {04 l*li\u00c2\u00abriiix Itlork.\\nThe insurance firm of Brigham Tasker ie one of the most prominent of the\\nrepreseutative firms in that line, in the Bay Cities. It consists of John Briyham, Jr.,\\nana Kenben C. Tasker, and is the occupant of perfectly appointed ollices at Xo. 304\\nPhcpnix block, iu the business center of the city. Prior to October, 18H8, they\\nwere members of the abstract firm of Beard, Bri|Ljliam Co., whence they retired\\nand the abstract records were transferred to Brigham, Ames Sc lleatley, of which\\nJohn Brigham, Jr.. is a member, and who, in conjunction with Mr. Tasker, has since\\nattended exclusively to the placing of insurance. As underwriters of insurance risks\\nthey are among the most popular in the Valley, representing in that capacity the sole\\nagency in this vicinity of leading companies in the country, and including among\\nothers the Newark, of Newark, N. J.; the Merchants also of Newark; the Peoples\\nof Pittsburg, Pa.; Security of New Haven, Conn.; Providence-Washington, of 11. I.,\\nand the Ohio Farmers of Le Roy, O. All of these are tire insurance companies,\\nhaving a total ca=\u00c2\u00bbh capital of 81,(500.000; total assets amounting to $.5,;J0.o. J49. and\\nan aggregate surplus of .S 2,892,099. They are also agents for the Connecticut Mutual\\nLife, and the New England Accident Insurance Companies, the objects of which are\\nexpressed in the titles under which they have been severally incorporated, and each\\nbeing possessed of abundant resources. The firm are well prepared in all respects,\\nto undertake risks in the departments of the business to which they devote their\\nspecial attention, and to otTer patrons seeking absolute protection from loss or\\ndamage by fire, or by accident, the inducements of low rates and prompt settlement.\\nThe same is equally true with respect to the claims of beneficiaries named in life\\ninsurance policies, written by the firm. They do a large business, and enjoy the\\nreputation that accompanies a career of honorable successes.\\nMARINE IRON COMPANY.\\nMiitVs. of stouiii Kngines, Etc.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Cor. S\u00c2\u00abm oihI nml atrr Nt-*.\\nThe Marine Iron Company was established by George Ford iu 186:3, and from\\nthe magnitude of its operations and the superior quality of its products, enjoys a\\nreputation as wide-spread as it is deserved. The plant was cf)nductf d by Mr. Ford\\nup to 1888, success crowning his efforts, and prosperity attending the career of\\nhimself and his enterprise. During the latter year, however, he retired from its\\ncontrol and management, and was succeeded by William Burnett, Michael Schmaltz\\nand J. H. Davis, who leased the premises and continued the business with increased\\nfacilities, and a promise of future triumphs that has been more than realized.\\nThe foundry and workshops are located at the corner of Second and Water\\nstreets, eligibly situated, easily accessible, and well built and equipped. The\\nmachine shop is a commodious structure, in dimensions 40x80 feet, furnished with\\nextensive manufacturing facilities, including the latest improvements. The equip-\\nment consists principally of large steam lathes, powerful drills and punches, planers\\nand presses, etc., etc., with such other tools and api)nrtenances adai)ted to the line\\nof work carried on, as are necessary or can be advantageously employed. The\\nblacksmith shop is 30x80 feet in proportions, and equally convenient in its appoint-\\nments among which is a large steam hammer,- for the range of work to which it is\\naftpropriated. The manufacture includes high and low pressure steam engines,\\nheavy forging, general blacksmithing and repairing.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 all of which are specialties;\\nalso, the raising of boats for rej)airs, for which they have machinery specially\\nadapted. In addition, they manufacture phosphor bronze and all kinds of metals,\\nand are prepared to fill orders in any of their several lines of work speedily, and at\\nreasonable prices. They employ a competent force of skillful workmen, and their\\narea of trade, besides being local, embraces the entire line of coast.\\nMessrs. Burnett. Schmaltz and l^avie are thoroughly practical men. who give\\ntheir personal attention to the work they have in hand, and their success is the\\nreward of honest merit, honest business methods and an honest acknowledgment\\nfrom the trade they supply.", "height": "3304", "width": "2052", "jp2-path": "industriesofbayc00marq_0145.jp2"}, "146": {"fulltext": "134\\nTHE INDUSTRIES OF THE BAY CITIES.\\nWREGE FLUES.\\n(^uns and General Sporting Ciootls\u00e2\u0080\u0094 823 North ^Vater St.\\nThe firm of Wrege Flues, composed of Kobert E. Wrege and Emil F. Flues,\\nmanufacturers and dealers in guns and sporting materials, was organized in June,\\n1887. Both members were equipped with youth, a complete knowledge of the essen-\\ntials and requisites to a successful career as manufacturers, and with the energy and\\nenterprise necessary to the application of such information. Being thus provided,\\nthey have succeeded. Their trade has become deservedly large, and made up of\\npatrons of influence, while their product enjoys a more than local reputation. They\\noccupy the main floor and basement of the building at No. 823 North Water street,\\neligibly situated, and in dimensions, 20x125 feet, with workshop in rear, fitted up\\nwith due regard to the requirements of the business. The part of the building\\nfronting the street is used for sale and display purposes; that in the rear for purposes\\nof manufacture. In the latter is included guns, rifles, revolvers, ammunition and\\nsporting materials generally, which also are carried in stock in addition to the usual\\ngoods carried by similar establishments. They also do repairing of all descriptions,\\nand make the re-boring and re-bronzing of fine guns a specialty. Hazzard, American\\nand Orange powder is kept on hand, also all kinds of cartridges and ammunition, and\\norders by mail receive prompt attention. They do electric-bell work, key fitting,\\nmodel making, manufacture any style of barrel or gun, also re-stock same, giving\\nemployment to an adequate force of assistants, and are recognized as the most skill-\\nful gunsmiths in the State.\\nTHATCHER OLMSTEAD.\\nChoice Family iroceries\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Xo. 300 Twelfth^St., Coi-. Fraser.\\nThe grocery trade in common with other lines of mercantile endeavor in Bay City,\\nis in a flourishing condition. Among the firms thus engaged, and extensively dealing\\nin the choicest grades of grocery commodities for family use, is that of Thatcher\\nOlmstead. The business was established by Mr. George Thatcher in 1885. He con-\\ntinued the management of the house until January, 1888, when Mr. Frank Olmstead\\nwas admitted as a partner, and the present firm was organized. They are located at\\nNo. 300 Twelfth street, corner of Fraser, in the center of a populous neighborhood, and\\nare abundantly prepared to supply all demands at the lowest market prices. They\\noccupy a well appointed store, two stories in height, 25x90 feet in dimensions, fully\\nequipped and arranged for the convenience of the trade, and the exposition and sale\\nof goods. They carry complete and select lines of staple and fancy groceries; the\\nteas, coffees and sugars being of particularly choice grades, and the imported and\\ndomestic supplies of sauce, fruits, canned goods, preserves, etc. of the most celebrated\\nbrands. They also deal in flour, produce, feed and provisions; and in their season,\\nvegetables and delicacies fresh from producer and manufacturer. Their goods, all\\naround, are of the superior standards. They cultivate the patronage of those\\nrequiring the best, and do a large and constantly increasing trade in Bay City and\\nthroughout the adjoining country.", "height": "3314", "width": "2061", "jp2-path": "industriesofbayc00marq_0146.jp2"}, "147": {"fulltext": "THE INDUSTRIES OF THE BAY CITIES. 135\\nNATIONAL BOILER WORKS.\\nMnfrn. llariiie anil Mtutionary Sleaiii Itoilci N. Ktr.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Xiiitli and Water Ntx.\\nThe Xatioiial Boiler Works constitute a prominent factor anionj^ the industries of\\nBay City, ami thou^ li a comparatively recent addition, occupies a front rank in the\\nforces which have so substantially contributed to the development iTnd building up\\nof Bay City s material prosperity. The works were establislud in 1885, by Gray,\\nMaher Flajole. With the retirement of Mr. Gray in August, 188(), the present firm\\ncomposed of John Maher and John Flajole was organized ami still continues. Both\\nmembers are young men, alive to the requirements of the business, enterprising and\\nhonorable re{)resentatives of that guild which regards labor as the basis of all pros-\\nperity. Their establishment is located at the corner of Ninth and Water streets,\\nmost desirably and eligibly situated for manufacturing purposes, and adequately\\neijuipped for the uses to which it is devoted. The works occupy a commodius build-\\ning 120x60 feet, containing all necessary machinery and labor-saving devices, by\\nwhich the promotion of their products is advanced, and is in all respects a model\\nconcern of its class. Their specialty is the mauufacttire of boilers, marine and stat-\\nionary, also of salt pans, and effecting repairs. Their products are of the very best\\nmaterial, and in demand all over the country, especially in sections where lumber\\ncutting machinery is required. During the season of 1888, they completed a battery\\nof three steel tubular boilers, each SJoxlG feet for consignees in Arizona, and two of\\nsimilar material, pattern and dimensions for parties in Washington Territory, also\\nwere builders of the boilers supplying the motive power to the steam barge Burling-\\nton, the same being 8i 3xl5 feet in size, steel marine. They also constructed\\nseven pony marine boilers for Wheeler s lake boats; one each for the propeller\\nPost Boy, tug Munday and pile-driver Annie; three yacht boilers for Sam-\\nuel Burnham, and one each for IMr. Bense and Henry Williamson, also tubular\\nboilers for the Jenny Electric Works at Ypsilanti; and the same class of work for\\nBousfield, Perrin k Co., Bousfield Co., L. L. Hotchkiss k Co., M. Haggerty ct Co.,\\nSmalley Bros, k Co., James Xorris of Sterling, Mich., and others, all of the largest\\nand most powerful class. In addition, they do considerable work in the same line,\\nfor lumber dealers in the Southern states and elsewhere, and their business of repair-\\ning extends among the mills of Bay City and vicinity, and throughout the surround-\\ning country. They employ seventy skilled mechanics, and their output ranks with\\nthe best in the Northwe.st.\\nH. W. WEBER BRO.\\nHardware, Stoves, Kte.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Xo. 10\u00c2\u00ab :)Iidland St.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 W ewt Hay City.\\nAmong the old and reliable business houses in this portion of the State well\\nknown and popular\u00e2\u0080\u0094 none stands higher commercially, financially and with the\\ntrade, than H. W. Weber k Bro.. dealers in hardware and hardware supplies. The\\nconcern was established in 1877. by Henry W\\\\ Weber, and was l)y himself conducted\\nfor twelve years. In 1885, John C. Weber, his brother, was admitted into the house\\nas a partner, and the present firm was organized. The venture has been successful\\nfrom its original establishment: its importance as a factor in mercantile circles\\nincreasing, and the trade extending each succeeding year since its foundation. They\\nare located at No. 106 Midland street. West Bay City, in premises in every way\\nadapted to the demands of the trade; they consist of a fine two-story and basement\\nV)uilding. 2. )xlOO feet in dimensions, with an L 2 )x2. feet in size, extending to Linn\\nstreet, and a two-story warehouse and workshop, 2. )xS() feet, fronting ou the latter\\nthoroughfare, admirably ap[)ointed and departmeuted. The stock carrieil is very full\\nand complete in all the lines handled, embracing shelf, builders and housekeepers\\nhardware, mechanics tools and appliances of every descrijition, superior grades of\\ncutlery, table ami pocket; also heating and cooking stoves and ranges, with the\\ne |uipmeuts in tinware, etc., thereunto appertaining, and other articles of utility and\\nvalue connected with the businest;. Their stock, in short, is as varied and compre-\\nhensive as long experience in, and familiarity with the demands of the trade can\\nmake it. Thoy also do an extensive business in repairing, etc., employing a full\\nf irce of assistants and operatives, and supplying a large demand in the city and\\nthroughout the adjoining country.", "height": "3304", "width": "2052", "jp2-path": "industriesofbayc00marq_0147.jp2"}, "148": {"fulltext": "136 THE INDUSTRIES OF THE BAY CITIES.\\nROBERT BEUTEL.\\nW liolesale Fresh and Salt Fish\u00e2\u0080\u0094 ^Vest Bay City.\\nThe opportunities afforded for an investment of capital in enterprises growing out\\nof the fish resources of Saginaw Bay and contiguous waters, have always been\\nlargely availed of. That they always will be, is equally conclusive, even though\\ncompetition with other food products should become more and more active with each\\nsucceeding year. Among the wholesale dealers engaged in this line of business, and\\nwhose resources and facilities enable him to furnish the best qualities of supplies at\\nthe lowest prices, is Robert B^utel. He began operations here in 1886, and with the\\nequipments at his command, which are unsurpassed, he has built up a demand for\\nhis annual catch that has extended and become firmly established in all parts of the\\ncountry. His warehouse is 25x150 feet in dimensions, amply furnished with\\naccommodations for the storage, cure and shipment of his products, including\\nlarge ice houses and superior dockage facilities. His fisheries are principally\\nlocated at Au Gres, Yanquam, Quanaesea, Reservation Beach, etc., as also at distant\\npoints along the North Shore, all of which are adequately equipped and appointed,\\nand during the season the bases of very extensive operations. His specialties are\\nwhite fish, lake trout, pickerel, perch and bass, though every description of food fish\\nknown to this latitude are included in his stock and shipments. He also carries full\\nlines of salt fish and salt water fish and delicacies, and gives employment to ten hands.\\nHis trade is at points of distribution East, South and West, to which shipments aggre-\\ngating thousands of tons are annually made. Mr. William Beutel, with his sons,\\nAugust and Albert, are also interested in the annual catch.\\nS. SWART.\\nWatches. Jewelry, Diamonds. Etc.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Xo. 117 L.inn St.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 West Bay City.\\nA leading and artistic jeweler in West Bay City is Mr. S. Swart. He is a native\\nof Lapeer, this State, and in addition to a long experience in the business, is a prac-\\ntical watchmaker and diamond setter. He has been engaged in his professional\\ncapacity for many years in West Bay City, and is located at No. 117 Linn street\\nsign of the town clock. The store occupied is 25x80 feet in dimensions, neatly fitted\\nup, and well equipped with a choice line of goods. His specialties are watch and\\njewelry repairing and diamond setting, in all of which he has the reputation of being\\nan accomplished and skillful craftsman. The stocks carried embrace the best make\\nof imported and American watches, in gold, silver and filled cases; diamonds. Cash-\\nmere and Burmah rubies, Ceylon sapphires, pearls and other precious stones, fine\\ngold jewelry, solid silver and silver-plated ware, bronze ormolu and marble clocks,\\nHolland s gold pens, spectacles, etc., all of leading manufacture and unique and\\noriginal in design. His lines are complete in every department and in addition to\\nthose quoted, he keeps in stock every description of bric-a-brac and other articles\\nof virtu to be obtained in first class establishments of the kind only.\\nTHE MANSION HOUSE.\\nWilliam Kelly, Proprietor\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Sfo. 1306 Washington St.\\nThe Mansion House is one of the most comfortable, homelike and favorably\\nknown of Bay City hotels. In January of 1887, William Kelly, up to that date\\nlandlord of the Kelly House at Pinconning, this State, became the manager and\\nproprietor of the Mansion, and by his administration of affairs has materially\\nadded to its reputation and comforts. It is located at No. 1306 Washington street,\\nbeing a three-story brick building 60x100 feet in dimensions, neatly furnished and\\nwith capacity to accommodate fifty guests. The premises are admirably situated,\\nbeing in close proximity to the railway depots, boat landings, etc., and within sight of\\nthe several street car lines, thereby affording visitors a neat and rapid means of\\ntransit to all portions of the city. A competent and obliging staff of assistants are\\nemployed by Mr. Kelly, who has fixed his rates to patrons at one dollar per diem,\\nand does a large transient trade.", "height": "3314", "width": "2061", "jp2-path": "industriesofbayc00marq_0148.jp2"}, "149": {"fulltext": "THE INDUSTRIES OF THE BAY CITIES. 137\\nROBERT ELLIOTT.\\nMnfr. WatfoiiM. llugjcioM/Ktc\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Mi\u00c2\u00abllancl aii l atliuriiu *tH.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Went Uaj- tit.v.\\nA leading branch of tlie mannfacturiug inclustrieB of West Bay City, and one,\\ntoo, as prosperous as it has become leading, is that of wagons, buggies and other\\nvehicles. Prominent in this line is the house of Robert Elliott, and one of the oldest\\nand best known for its superior workmanshiji and fair dealings. The proprietor is\\na practical and experienced blacksmith and carriage l)uilder, who commenced\\noperations here in 1871, and has continued, since that date, on a successful career.\\nHe is located at the corner of Midland and Catharine streets, than which there is no\\nbetter site in the city for his line of work, and where he is constantly employed\\nduring all seasons of the year. His factory is contained in a two-story building,\\n40x10(1 feet in size, well fitted up with all necessary implements and appliances for\\nthe successful conduct of the business. Mr. Elliott makes only to onler, not\\ncompeting with the manufacturers of cheap goods, and enjoys an enviable reputation\\nfor the durability of his products. These include buggies, spring wagons, lumber\\nwagons and other conveyances, in all of which the best materials are employed, and,\\nwhen completed, are substantial, reliable, and in every particular models of skillful\\nworkmanship. He also does general blacksmithing and horse-shoeing work, painting,\\ntrimming and repairing, and is prepared to complete all contracts with the least\\ndelay and at the lowest rates. He does a large business, which is steadily augment-\\ning and extending.]\\nINDUSTRIAL WORKS.\\nAlanufaoturerN of Itailroatl Machinery\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Eleventh and Water StH.\\nThe Industrial Works were organized in 1873, with 8100,000 capital. Geo. C.\\nKimball, President; James Clements. Vice-President; C. E. Wells, Secretary and\\nE. Wells, Treasurer. Subsequently C. R. AVells succeeded E. Wells and James\\nClements became President. The capital stock has also been increased and the\\nline of manufacture changed from general mill and marine machinery to railroad\\nspecialties. The works are located at the corner of Eleventh and Water streets, with\\na frontage of 400 feet and extending 800 feet to the rear. The buildings occupied\\nare of brick, fire-proof and well equipped with labor saving devices for operations\\nin the various lines of production carried on, run by steam. The manufacture\\nembraces portable steel rail saws, steam pile-drivers, excavators, wrecking cranes,\\nlocomotive and car transfer tables, turn-tables, etc., etc. Their products are in use\\nby nearly every railroad on the American continent. They employ a force of two\\nhundred and fifty competeftit operatives and their annual business aggregates a very\\nlarge amount in value. The present oflicers are James Clements, President; Charles\\nR. Wells, Secretary and Treasurer, and W^illiam L. Clements, mechanical engineer.\\nBAY CITY LAUNDRY.\\nli. H. filriftin, I roprietor\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Cor. of Fifth aii\u00c2\u00abl NnKinnw Stn.\\nThe Bay City Laundry is the pioneer enterprise of its kind in Bay City. It was\\nestablished in 1870, by L. H. Griffin, who has since managed its operation, and\\nbuilt up a large and profitable business, giving employment to a large force and\\nacquiring an influential and deserved reputation for fine work and a liberal scale of\\nprices. He is located at the corner of Fifth and Saginaw streets, a site of unsur-\\nl)assed advantage, within easy reach of the business and residence portions of the\\ncity, and otherwise convenient. The laundry i)roper occupies a building 25x100 feet\\nin size, equipped with the latest improved machinery, also having large accommoda-\\ntions for drying purposes, and every facility for the rapid and satisfactory disposition\\nof the work to which the premises are adopted. Mr. Grillin makes a specialty of\\nthe more delicate work in his line, and the growing patronage served by his estab-\\nlishment is an evidence of the appreciation his efforts elicit. He emi)loys a force of\\neighteen experienced and capable assistants, and does a large business locally, and\\nwithin a considerable radius of the Bay Cities.", "height": "3304", "width": "2052", "jp2-path": "industriesofbayc00marq_0149.jp2"}, "150": {"fulltext": "138\\nTHE INDUSTRIES OF THE BAY CITIES.\\nE. E. BURROUGHS.\\nliivery and Boarding isitable\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Fifth and Sagina\\\\^ Sts.\\nOne of the best known and most popular livery and\\nboardingr stables in Bay City is owned and conducted by\\nMr. E. E. Burroughs, at the corner of Fifth and Saginaw\\nstreets. He began business in 1883, and has enjoyed a\\nlarge and growing trade, from the day he inaugurated the\\nundertaking. He occupies a fine two-story brick building\\nat the above designated corner, 50x120 feet in size, abund-\\nantly lighted and perfectly ventilated, furnished wilh every\\nconvenience including six box stalls\u00e2\u0080\u0094 and with accom-\\nmodations for the care of twenty-five head of stock. The\\nmain floor is used for purposes general to his line of busi-\\nness, being divided into office, carriage, harness and stable\\nrooms, and supplied with all necessary equipments thereto appertaining. He owns\\nand furnishes for public necessity or private pleasure, a field of fifteen horses, includ-\\ning roadsters, driving and saddle animals, also a fine line of elegant single and double\\nwagons, buggies, carriages, coaches, etc., and is prepared to furnish conveyances to\\nweddings, funerals and other occasions to which they are desirable or necessary. In\\naddition, he stables quite a number of horses belonging to owners among families and\\nbusiness men, who find it more convenient to board their stock than to care for them\\nat home. He employs a competent force of assistants, and does an extensive local\\nbusiness.\\nS. GRABOWSKY.\\nIVatches, Clocks and Jew elry\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Repairing IVeatly Done and Warranted\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\n16o. lis Center St.\\nConspicuous among the established business houses in Bay City, is that of S.\\nGrabowsky, dealing in watches, clocks and jewelry, and silver and plated ware. The\\nundertaking was started by Mr. Grabowsky during 1871, and in the years that have\\nfollowed, his success has been both deserved and pronounced. Along in 1878, his\\ngrowing trade necessitated the obtaining of larger and more accessible accommoda-\\ntions, whereupon he removed to the corner of Center and Saginaw streets, his present\\nlocation. The premises could not be more eligibly situated, being at the corner of\\ntwo of the principal business streets, neatly furnished and fitted up, and a depot of\\nsupply for articles in the various lines of goods representing the jewelry business.\\nHis stock is composed of the best make of American watches, in solid gold and silver\\nand filled cases, fine solid gold and rolled jewelry, diamonds and precious stones, solid\\nsilver and electro-plated ware; bronze, marble and other clocks, mantel ornaments,\\nand bijouterie generally in great variety. His trade is large and increasing in Bay\\nCity and the country tributary. His specialty is the manufacture, to order, of fine\\njewelry, as also in repairing same, and being an expert craftsman, he does a large\\nbusiness in both lines.\\nMr. Grabowsky is a well-known citizen, familiar with the requirements of the\\ntrade, and the success of his enterprise is a proper recognition of his business\\nmethods and the quality of stock oifered the public.\\nE. A. SPEAR.\\nCiroeerles, Provisions, Fruits, Vegetables, Teas and CoflPee\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Xo. 308 Center\\nAveniie.\\nA prominent representative of the retail trade in fine groceries and household\\nsupplies in Bay City, is Mr. E. A. Spear, whose place of business is at No. 308\\nCenter avenue. The house was established in 1879 by Spear Chatfield. Mr.\\nChatfield retiring in 1879, Mr. Spear succeeded, and has since enjoyed the\\nexclusive control and management of the enterprise, with annually increasing\\nresults, of a character both prosperous and prominent, the inevitable sequel to all", "height": "3314", "width": "2061", "jp2-path": "industriesofbayc00marq_0150.jp2"}, "151": {"fulltext": "THE INDUSTRIES OF THE BAY CITIES. 139\\nwell directed efforts. He occupies the basement and main Hoor at the above\\ndesignated number on Center avenue, a very convenient site, and with excellent\\naccommodations in the way of disposing of the large business. The premises are in\\ndimensions 25x120 feet, neatly arranged, attractively fitted up, and Hiipplied with\\nconveniences to meet the demands of the rapidly increasing trade. He deals in the\\nbest qualities of supplies in his lino and carries a large stock, embracing staple and\\nfancy groceries, canned goods and sweet-meats; sauces and delicacies; condiments,\\nforeign and domestic; provisions of every description and fruits and vegetables in\\nseason, with the usual list of articles standard with the business. He employs a\\nforce of competent clerks and operates two wagons for the benefit of his patrons.\\nHe caters exclusively to the best family trade, and attends jjersonally to the\\nmanagement of affairs connected with the enterprise. The articles dealt in are the\\nbest obtainable, and the house occupies a high position among the mercantile\\nindustries of the city.\\nFLORENTINE H. J. VAN EMSTER.\\nDruggiHt-Xo. 300 Twelfth St.\\nThe drag house of Florentine H. J. Van Emster is prominent alike for its long and\\nsuccessful career, also for its reliability and the purity of the goods carried. It was\\nestablished by Mr. Van Emster in 1877, and has occupied its present site for upwards\\nof eleven years. The establishment is advantageously located at No. 300 Twelfth\\nstreet, fronting Washington avenue. The premises are 25x00 feet in dimensions, well\\nappointed and arranged, and furnished with exceptional facilities for the conduct of\\nthe business. The proprietor is an experienced and practical chemist, learned in the\\nscience of pharmacopa-ia, specially familiar with the requirements of the trade, and\\nreputed for his attainments in the line of his profession. He carries complete stocks\\n%of the purest and freshest of drugs and chemicals, selected with care also standard\\nmedicines, fluid extracts, medicinal compounds, special preparations, wines and\\nliquors for medical purposes, druggists supplies and sundries, toilet goods, per-\\nfumeries, etc., with instruments and appliances usual to the business, of the best\\nmake and in great variety. His specialty, in addition to purity of stock, is the com-\\npounding of prescriptions. In the exercise of this accomplishment he brings experi-\\nence, ability and care to his aid, and employs only the choicest chemicals. He owns\\nthe property in which his store is situated, also that adjoining, which he occupies as\\na residence, and is prepared to respond to all calls for services, day or night. He is\\nassisted by a force of expert apothecaries, and ministers to the wants of a large trade\\nin Bay City and Bay County.\\nE. B. FOSS CO.\\nDealers in White Pine liuniber\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Xo.| 1705 Xortli IVater S^t.\\nThe lumber firm of E. B. Foss Co., is among the older organizations of the kind,\\nand one of the largest and best equipped in Bay City. The business was established\\nduring 1870, by S. S. Foss and E. B. Foss, who managed and promoted its growth and\\ndevelopment until January, 1S83, when the firm name was changed to Foss it Leiter,\\nremaining so until August, 1888, at which date Mr. Leiter retired, and the present\\nfirm name was adopted. They are located at No. 1705 North Water street, a site for\\nthe conduct of the business, convenient and advantageous, and furnished with every\\naccessory that will contribute to the successful handling of their large trade. Their\\nextensive yards are well equipped, with railroad tracks running through them and\\nconnecting with main lines, and other facilities f the most desirable character for\\nshipping. Their planing mill is equally (complete in its ai)i)ointmentR, and furnished\\nwith machinery of the most improved pattern. They handle white pine lumber most\\ngenerally, making dressed lumber, which they manufacture in large lots, a specialty,\\nalso dealing heavily in pine lumber in the rough, their annual sales averaging\\n1(3,000,000 feet. They employ from tiffy to sixty hands, and ship in car-load lots to the\\neastern and southern markets. The firm is well known to the trade in all parts of\\nthe country, and enjoys a reoutation for financial ability and resources, as also for\\npromptness in the filling of orders, and other characteristics, both enviable and\\ndeserved.", "height": "3304", "width": "2052", "jp2-path": "industriesofbayc00marq_0151.jp2"}, "152": {"fulltext": "140 THE INDUSTRIES OF THE BAY CITIES.\\nHAWKINS TROMBLEY.\\nDealers in Clioioe Gi oceries and ProTisions Corner -lOtli and Harrison 8ts.\\nThe well known and established grocery and provision firm of Hawkins\\nTrombley, organized in 1880, and doing a large and steadily increasing business, is a\\nprominent and potential factor among the commercial industries of South Bay City.\\nThe firm is composed of Hiram Hawkins and John L. Trombley, and their place of\\nbusiness is at the corner of Fortieth and Harrison streets in what is known as\\nMcGraw s Store. The premises occupied consist of a double basement and\\nthree-story building, 50x100 feet in dimensions, of white brick, well equipped and\\nconvenienced for the accommodation of the trade. Their stocks are fiill and com-\\nplete, embracing all lines and the choicest qualities of staple and fancy groceries,\\nselected with special care for the trade supplied, with the wants of which the firm\\nare entirely familiar. They also carry large invoices of imported and domestic\\ncigars, chewing and smoking tobacco, provisions, produce, fruits and vegetables, and\\nmerchandise general to the wants of an exacting class of patrons. Their goods in\\nevery department are of the bett and purest descriptions, and are purchased in such\\namounts that the trade benefits by the rebate always allowed heavy buyers at first\\nhands. The location of the firm, the inducements for the reasons cited, they are\\nable to offer together with the class of commodities handled, the liberal terms con-\\nceded and the honorable methods enforced have conspired to build up a large trade\\nin Bay City, as also among the kimber and farming industries of this portion of the\\nState, requiring the employment of a full staff of clerks and salesmen to supply.\\nThe members of the firm are representative citizens and merchants, whose suc-\\ncess is a modest acknowledgment of their commercial and individual worth.\\nBABCOCK BABCOCK.\\n^Vall Paper, Paints, Oils, Artists Materials, Etc.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Xo. 405 Center^Ave. Root|Blk.\\nA notable and enterprising business house in the line of artists materials, etc.,\\nestablished in 1887. is that of Babcock Babcock, the firm being composed of E. V. and\\nGeorge R. Babcock, father and son. The senior partner has been for years intimately\\nidentified with superior lines of work in Bay City and vicinity. They occupy com-\\nmodious premises in the Boot block at No. 405 Centre avenue, 30x70 feet, two\\nstories high and fully fitted up with every appliance and facility for the accom-\\nmodation of the complete and select stock carried, for the convenience of work in\\ntheir line, and the transaction of business. Their supplies include artists materials,\\nstudies and pictures; picture frames, mouldings, decorations, curtains, curtain\\npoles, and stationery; wall paper, paints, oils and brushes; plate-glass, knick-\\nknacks, etc., etc., in great variety and of superior excellence. They accept contracts\\nfor frescoing, interior decoration and wall papering, not only in the city and\\nvicinity, but at points within a radius of one hundred miles, successfully competing\\nwith Detroit and eastern houses, and at present engaged in the executioo of work in\\ntheir line, in remote parts of the Northeast and Northwest. Their specialty also, is\\nthe setting of large plate-glass, work requiring skill and trained experience to handle,\\nand of which they enjoy a monopoly. They employ fifteen competent assistants and\\nthe business foots up largely each year. The house is the headquarters of the Bay\\nCity Rubber Stamp Works.\\nTHE MODEL STEAM LAUNDRY.\\nM. J. Thomas, Proprietor\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Xo. 717 ater St. Opp. Fraser House.\\nIf cleanliness is next to godliness, there is no possible reason why residents of\\nthe Bay Cities, in respect to their apparel, should be at all removed from a condition\\nso desirable and accessible. The cities are the several localities for a number of\\nfirst-class laundries, the success of which not only attests their worth but public\\nconfidence in the truth of the proposition above cited. One of the leading establish-\\nments in this line is The Model Steam Laundry, started by Mr. M.J. Thomas,\\nin June, 1888, and conducted by Mr. Thomas with increasing profitable results. He", "height": "3314", "width": "2061", "jp2-path": "industriesofbayc00marq_0152.jp2"}, "153": {"fulltext": "THE INDUSTRIES OF THE BAY CITIES. 141\\noccupies the basemeut and main floor of the building at No. 717 Water street,\\nopposite the Fraser House, a location of unsurpassed worth, the premiseB being\\n25x100 feet in dimensioue, and amply equipped with all the latest improved laundry\\nmachinery and appliances. The work done under his supervision is of the best\\ndescription, no chemicals bein^r employed in the process, and the same care exercised\\nin procuriuf, the desired result as in the best re^ ulated lioueeliold. His specialty is\\nboat and hotel work, but he is prepared to fill orders from all sources promptly and\\nwithout the vexatious delays not infrequently experienced by patrons dependent\\nupon similar establishments. He gives employment to a force of twenty hands,\\nand is engaged in ministering to an extensive demand. In addition to headquarters\\nhere Mr. Thomas has nine agencies outside Bay City.\\nC. M. CURRY.\\nDealer iit the l^i;;!!! Itiiniiiue l onie!!\u00c2\u00abtir t^ewing Machine\u00e2\u0080\u0094 HIO Water Nt.\\nThe earliest manufacture of the Domestic sewing machine, the well-known and\\nhighly esteemed article of household utility and domestic economy, dates back\\ntwenty-five years or more, when the same was commenced under private auspices, at\\nthe village of Norwalk, Huron County. Ohio. The plant was subsequently\\ndisposed of by William A. and Frank Mack to Bhike Brothers, and removed\\nto Scranton, Pa., thence to New Haven, Conn., with the main office at Union Square,\\nNew York City, and subordinate oftices in every city in the country. The busi-\\nness in Bay City is directed by Mr. C. M. Curry, who established an office here in\\n1872, and to whose energy, enterprise and intelligent administration of affairs, the\\nDomestic is indebted for its prominence and the large trade that has been built up.\\nHe is located at No. 810 Water street, occupying the main tloor, 2uxlO(J feet in\\ndimensions, and possessing complete and convenient accommodations for the display\\nof goods and the transaction of business. He carries an ample supply of machines,\\nand their equipments and improvements. His field of operations includes Bay City\\nand Bay County as territory, and his sales have an aggregate of machines, large in\\nnumber and steadily increasing each year. He deals also in paper patterns and\\ndress forms, manufactured by the Domestic Company, and distributes thousands of\\ncopies of the company s fashion publication, The Stvm:, annually. No pains are\\nspared to render the utmost satisfaction in every respect to customers, and the\\nflourishing trade secured is emphatic evidence confirmatory of the premises. Mr.\\nCurry has been a member of the First Baptist church for many years, and is other-\\nwise connected with affairs that promote the moral and material welfare of the com-\\nmunity.\\nFRED. MOHR.\\nIIutM, Ca|\u00c2\u00bbN, OentN Fiii-iiiMhiii .ioo lN, TriiiikN. Ktr.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 llidlaiiU Nt. Op| I o^t-\\noIVkm W\u00c2\u00ab st Bay ity.\\nIn 188. Mr. Fred. Mohr began merchandising in clothing, hats, caps, gents\\nfurnishing goods, etc., for the supply of which West Bay City is the commercial\\ncenter of a large and growing territory. Mr. Mohr is a comparatively recent acquisi-\\ntion to mercantile circles, but his business has proved successful from its inception,\\nand his influence in the Ijuildmg up and developing of the city s industrial and com-\\nmercial resources, has l)pen potent and annually extending. He began operations in\\n1885, and is located on Midland street, opposite the postoffice. West Bay City, one of\\nthe most desirable sites in the city for business purposes, in premises 2.5x100 feet in\\ndimensions, perfectly appointed, and conveniently arranged, as also pui)plied with\\nsuperior facilities, for the display and sale of his large lines of goods. These latter\\nembrace clothing of the liest eastern make, in the latest style and iinish, and in the\\nmatter of durability unsurpassed; hats, caps, gents furnishing goods, of the best\\nmaterial and most celebrated manufacture; satchels, grips, trunks, etc.; the goods all\\nround, are in shurt, of a superior iuality. and have secured for the house a well\\ndeserved reputation and he does a large and steadily increasing trade with customers in\\nWest Bay City, as also with transients, in addition to supplying the demands of\\nfarmers and patrons, throughout the adjoining territory.", "height": "3304", "width": "2052", "jp2-path": "industriesofbayc00marq_0153.jp2"}, "154": {"fulltext": "142 THE INDUSTRIES OF THE BAY CITIES.\\nFOSTER, POST CO.\\nToys, afotions, Dolls, Crockery, Glassware, Tinware, Jewelry, Etc.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Xo. 714\\nWashington Ave.\\nThe firm of Foster, Post Co., consisting of Clark C. Foster, Nelson W. Post,\\nand Erwin Foster, was established in Bay City during 1884, by the junior member\\nof the organization, and have already attained to prominence and success. They\\nare known as enterprising business men who have contributed in no small degree to\\nthe development of their department of trade, not only in Bay City, but at other\\npoints in the State. The headquarters of the house are at East Saginaw, where\\nthey conduct a wholesale business and carry large and varied lines of supplies with\\nretail branches at Flint, Owassa, St. John, East Saginaw, and in this city. The\\nlatter was first located here in a building on Water street whence it was removed to\\nits present site in the three-story and basement building at No. 714 Washington\\navenue, opposite the postoffice, in September, 1887, a location that cannot be sur-\\npassed for convenience and accessibility and otherwise specially, adapted to the\\nuses to which it is applied. The premises are 25x100 feet in their dimensions and\\ndivided into departments, which in proportions and equipments afford ample accom-\\nmodations for the purposes of display and trade. The main floor is occupied\\nwith general stock of the various lines of goods carried, the retail department and\\noffices; the second floor with the wholesale business and the basement with full\\nlines of china, glassware, crockery, woodenware, toys, notions, novelties, nick-nacks,\\netc., in general assortment of varied and diversified design and finish. The business\\nis managed by Mr. Erwin Foster, a young man of energy and enterprise, to whom\\nthe firm are indebted for the measure of success that has accompanied their under-\\ntaking from its inception here. They do a large business locally, as also within a con-\\nsiderable radius of Bay City in all directions.\\nJ. G. LAETZ.\\nI ealer in Boots and Shoes\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Fraser House Block, Center St.\\nAlthough but recently established, no house in Bay City has in a short time be-\\ncome better known, and few en joy a better trade in its line, than theboot and shoe house\\nof J. G. Laetz. For many years prior to 1887, Mr. Laetz was associated with one of\\nthe leading shoe stores of the city, and during that apprenticeship, he not only\\nacquired an intimate knowledge of the business in its every detail, but complete\\nfamiliarity with the requirements of the trade. In 1887, he severed his connection\\nwith the house referred to, and embarked in business on his own account. He is\\nlocated on Center street, in the Eraser House block, occupying the basement and\\nmain floor, each being 20x70 in area, and handsomely arranged and fitted up. His\\nstock is largely of eastern make, comprising a wide range of superior grades of men s,\\nboys and children s fine boots and shoes, the material and workmanship being the\\nbest that money and good judgment can secure, and he does a heavy retail trade in\\nthis city and vicinity. Among the finer grades of shoes handled by Mr. Laetz are\\nGray Bros., Sachs, Martha, Washington Torrey, Liby, Brackett Co., men s fine\\nshoes. He makes a specialty of ladies kid shoes, selling same at S2.00 and $3.00 per\\npair, and in which he leads all competitors.\\nCHARLES BRUNNER.\\nDealer^in Groceries and Provisions\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Saginaw St. Xear Center.\\nThe grocery and provision house of Charles Brunuer, on Saginaw street near\\nCenter, is the pioneer establishment of its kind in the city, and among the oldest in the\\nValley. Though a comparatively young man, Mr. Brunuer has had nearly thirty-five\\nyears experience in the business, upward of twenty-two years of which he has passed\\nin Bay City. His success has been decided, and his prosperity proportionately gratify-\\ning. He established himself here in 1866, and is located at the above designated site,\\nthe center of commercial activity, in premises two stories in height, 25x100 feet in", "height": "3314", "width": "2061", "jp2-path": "industriesofbayc00marq_0154.jp2"}, "155": {"fulltext": "THE INDUSTRIES OF THE BAY CITIES. 143\\ndimeneious, and convenieutty equipped and appointed for the accommodation of the\\ntrade, to which he ministers. His stocks are hirj, e and varied, pure in quality, and\\nsold at the lowest market (potations. They embrace full lines of teas, cottees, siijfars,\\nspices, canned goods, preserves, pickles, sauces, produce, provisions, fruits ai.d vege-\\ntables in season, also tlour and feed. All goods carried are 8[)ecialties with Mr. Jlrun-\\nner, and from his long experience with the trade, and his continued operations with\\njobliers and other sources of supplies, he has acquired perfect familiarity with the\\nrequirements of the one, and perfected such arrangements with the other, that he is\\nable to oflfer unsurpassed inducements to purchasers. He employs a full staff of\\nclerks, and does a large business in the two cities, in addition to an extended trade in\\nthe surrounding coiintry.\\nMr. Bruuuer is everywhere knovvn as a man of business integrity, and his house\\nis equally prominent for the quality of its commodities, and the honorable methods\\nwhich characterize its operations.\\nGEORGE F. HOOD.\\nSuccessor to llcOerniott Hood\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Iiisuraiioc\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Xo. 5 .llcl i-iii t t ItlocU.\\nMr. George P. Hood is a conspicuous and enterprising underwriter of Bay City.\\nHe has been engaged in that capacity here for a number of years, first as a member\\nof the insurance firm of McDermott, Hood Kelley, subsequently as the junior part-\\nner of the house of McDermott Hood, in the same business, and since 18S7 a.s the\\nsole owner and manager of the insurance agency conducted under his individual\\nname. He is located at No. 5 McDermott block. No. 705 Adams street, where he\\noccupies hantlsome offices, and is fully provided with facilities for the afcommodation\\nof the business to which he devotes his services. He is sole agent in Bay City for\\nquite a niimber of insurance companies of acknowledged reliability, and which are\\nknown throughout the country for their financial re.sponsibility, reasonable rates and\\nliberal concessions in the settlement of losses. Among these are the Insurance Com-\\npany of Pennsylvania, with net assets amounting in round numbers to $5(10,0(10, and\\nwhich has paid, since its establishment in 1794, losses aggregating 815,0(10,000; of the\\nDwelling House Insurance Company of Boston, Mass., which confines itself strictly\\nto dwelling and farm business, with a capital of 8300,00(J, 82.80 as. sets as security for\\neach dollar of its liabilities, and SI. 30 surplus to policyholders for every 81((l at\\nrisk, also, of the Cincinnati Underwriters, composed of the Eureka Fire and Marine\\nand Security Fire Insurance Companies of Cincinnati, Ohio, with a cash capital of\\n8250,0(^0, and a net surplus amounting to S125,552.25: and, finally, of the well known\\nWestchester Insurance Company of New York, with Sl,064.(iO.S cash assets, and 8424,-\\n778 surplus. From such an exhibit none seeking absolutely unassailable protection,\\nupon the fairest terms, can delay action.\\nMr. Hood does a large local business and enjoys a well merited and largely\\nextended reputation for enterprise and honorable dealing.\\nWILLIAM WARD.\\nrrnclM-nl Naw -MiiUer\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Xo. 1.10 Xorth ^Vater Nt.\\nMr. Ward located in Bay City in 1865, coming from Saginaw, and during the same\\nyear established himself in the business which he has uninterruptedly conducted for\\nnearly a quarter of a century. He is one of the [iif)neer residents, and oldest mer-\\nchants dealing in saws, etc., in the present prosperous municipality, and is well\\nknown among the milling interests along the river, and around the lakes. His place\\nof busine.HS is at No. IMO North Water street, in premises 25x100 feet in dimensions,\\nprovided with all re(|uisite machinery, and giving employment to a sufficient force\\nto meet the demands of the service. In addition to his manufacture, Mr. Ward\\ncarries full and complete lines of goods in his sjiecial department, and is agent for\\nthe American Saw Company, being supplied with all grades and sizes of the circular\\nsaws of that corporation.\\nHis trade is in the city and throughout the lumber and milling districts of the\\nState, and the house stands high, whether considered in regard to the quality of its\\noutput, its volume of business, or the correct methods enlisted in its management.", "height": "3304", "width": "2052", "jp2-path": "industriesofbayc00marq_0155.jp2"}, "156": {"fulltext": "144 THE INDUSTRIES OF THE BAY CITIES.\\nTRAVIS VAN EGMOND.\\nManufacturers Carriag^es, Wagons and liunibermen s Supplies\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Cathai-ine and\\nMidland Sts.-M^est Bay City.\\nNo manufacturing establishment in West Bay City is more favorably known or\\nmore highly esteemed than the carriage and wagon factory of Travis Van Egmond.\\nIt was established during October, 1887, by N. Travis and H. Van Egmond, compos-\\ning the present firm. Not only is it one of the leading industries of the city, but\\nbears an important relation to the prosperity of the Valley. They are located at the\\ncorner of Catharine and Midland streets, convenient and prominent, where they\\noccupy a two-story building 25x80 feet in dimensions, well equipped in all its depart-\\nments for the superior manufacture of all descriptions of carriages, wagons, buggies,\\nsleighs, cutters and other mediums of conveyance. The materials which enter into\\ntheir construction are the best qualities of hardwoods, thoroughly seasoced and\\nadapted to the service, while the construction itself is after the most approved pat-\\nterns and the latest designs for comfort, style and durability. They also do all kinds\\nof job work, exercising the same skill and care in that branch of the business, and\\nmaking a specialty of horse-shoeing in which line of work they are unsurpassed.\\nThey employ a competent force of assistants, and by strict integrity and first-class\\nworkmanship, have established a reputation that has commended their services to a\\nlarge patronage in West Bay City, and throughout the Valley.\\nD. P. CLARK.\\nAi cliitect and Superintendent\u00e2\u0080\u0094 *o. 413 and -ll-l Phoenix Block.\\nOne of the leading architects in Bay City, is D. P. Clark. He is a student of the\\nart, learned in his profession, and has been deservedly successfvil in contributing to\\nthe architectural superiority of the city, and the surrounding country. He began\\nthe practice of the profession in 1880. Prior to that date, he was for many years\\nengaged in building, in connection with which his knowledge of architecture was\\nafforded an extensive field for practice and originality of design. In the latter year,\\nhowever, he turned his attention exclusively to designing and superintending the\\nerection of buildings, the latter being done by contract, in which his familiarity with\\nthe requirements of their construction, affords him unusual advantages. He brings\\nto the aid of his professional attainments, a thorough knowledge of the science of\\nbuilding, and has made a special study of its application, to all the departments of\\narchitectural development and improvement.\\nAmong the more prominent of his successes, is the Phoenix block, the largest\\nand most elegant business edifice in the city, and the Bay City Library building\\nhere; a Methodist church edifice erected in West Bay City, at a cost of S 20,000; the\\nBaptist church, the Kusch business block, the Loose block, and the residence of the\\nHon. John Welch, all in West Bay City; a church at Greenville costing \u00c2\u00a720,000; a\\nsimilar edifice at Flint, costing $12,000; and a $9,000 business block at West Branch,\\nin addition to many private residences, etc., here and elsewhere. Mr. Clark is now\\ncompleting an office building for Congressman-elect Wheeler, which for beauty of\\ndesign is not surpassed by any similar structure in the Valley.\\nHe is located at No. 413 and 414 Phoenix block, where he has every facility for\\nfurnishing designs, plans and specifications, and offers his services to those requiring\\nwork in his line, at the most reasonable cost.\\nFRANK BATEMAN.\\nJDruggist\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Astor House Block\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Soutli Bay City.\\nThe absolute necessity for pure drugs and of skill and familiarity in the compound-\\ning of prescriptions, are among the more invaluableessentials required in the domain of\\npharmacy. The knowledge by the public of establishments possessing these requisites,\\nis not less valuable, because of the confidence inspired and the success thereby assured.\\nAmong the leading drug houses in Bay City, making such features of the business\\nspecialties, and enjoying a wide-spread reputation for their possession, is that of Mr.", "height": "3314", "width": "2061", "jp2-path": "industriesofbayc00marq_0156.jp2"}, "157": {"fulltext": "THE INDUSTRIES OF THE BAY CITIES.\\n14i\\nFrank Bateman in the Astor House block, South Bay City. The store was formerly\\ncinirmMSMuB circles. In the present n,,dertakiuB he a.rec.sanUBUpemses\\nunsurpassed.\\nED. O CONNOR.\\nneater in C.roeeries and Provi\u00c2\u00abi\u00c2\u00abnH, VegetableH. Fruitn and OysterH-Ko. lOH\\nCenter St.\\nnn\u00c2\u00ab of the enterorisiug grocery and provision houses of Bay City, as also one of\\nt^-pt^S: Lfsg^^\\nstock earned is not only laree J Jj ^j|^e\u00e2\u0080\u009elg, ^^mporteU and domestic,\\npa^nroT^^e^rruS- -1 de sS7^t,^n7;rfve.etaWel and truHs, etc., a.\\ninterests.\\nLEFEVRE HOUSE.\\nFrank I.crev.-,.. IT,,,.. -W..hl.,Kt.n Ave. be.. Fir.. ....l\u00c2\u00bbi.l.- Ave.\\nstructures in that portion of the ^y\\\\J^% l^ IZ\\\\. ,,,e used for sleeping\\ndining and reception rooms, also the f;;^^j;,P ^J j ^Votherw convenient\\nm ^;^:r-Trc.S ;f^\u00c2\u00ab^^\\nrporaot?o:iffil^:,1t.d JU atV ^^VsSaS ^U transient trade.", "height": "3304", "width": "2052", "jp2-path": "industriesofbayc00marq_0157.jp2"}, "158": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3314", "width": "2061", "jp2-path": "industriesofbayc00marq_0158.jp2"}, "159": {"fulltext": "THE INDUSTRIES OF THE BAY CITIES.\\n14\\nP. C. SMITH.\\nl \u00c2\u00ab-al\u00c2\u00ab r ill iir\u00c2\u00abM-4 ri4-M. I*r iNioiiM aii\u00c2\u00abl Flour Ni coiiil Nt. Mt Itn.t it.\\nThe K rocery aud provision houee of P. C. Smith is one of the largest and beet\\npatronized in West Hay City. It was establislied by Mr. Smith in 18K3, and its\\nsuccess became instant, and has contiuned through the succeeding years. lie is\\nlocated on Second\\nstreet, in the First\\nward, an available site\\nfor the trade to the\\nsupply of which he\\ncontributes, where he\\noccupies i)remise8 two\\nstories high aud J5x-\\n150 feet iu dimensions.\\nThe store is conveni-\\nently arranged and ap-\\npointed, completely\\ne(iuipi)ed with all fa-\\ncilities necessary to the\\nsale and shipment of\\ngoods, and otherwise\\ndesirable. A heavy\\nstock is kept on hand\\nand fresh supplies are\\nreceived daily, thus\\nenabling Mr. Smith\\nnot only to fill all\\norders promptly, but\\nto sell at prices and\\nupon terms advanta-\\ngeous to customers.\\nHis lines of goods\\ninclude groceries, both\\nstaple and fancy, pro-\\nvisions, flour, mess\\npork and beef, hard-\\nware, packing lard and\\nmachinery oils, canned goods, general supplies, etc., obtained from first hands and of\\nthe best (lualities and descriptions. He makes boat supplies a specialty, and his\\nfacilities, embracing telephone service, to respond to requisitions from this source,\\nare unrivalled. He does a large and constantly increasing trade in the two cities,\\nand his operations in marine circles are equally extensive aud growing in volume.\\nMr. Smith is an old resident of West Bay City, having located here in 185t), and\\nan experienced merchant, specially familiar with the requirements of the trade. In\\naddition to his present enterprise, he is head of the tirm of Smith Sc Boutel, pro-\\nprietors of the Saginaw Bay Towing Association, and has been identified with the\\ngrowth and development of the Saginaw Valley for upward a third of a century\\nBOUTEL.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 SEE SAGINAW BAY TOWINO ASSOCIATION.\\nSAGINAW BAY TOWING ASSOCIATION\\nNiiiilli A Koiitcl. I rtiiirit tofM I*. Nniitli*^ onl I (m-U. 4 |ta I it. v\u00e2\u0080\u0094 iiiul\\n^Vutor Nt. Foot of First. Hay ilA.\\nThe demand for facilities for towing purposes. l)rouglit into existence the\\nSaginaw Bay Towing Association, which was established a luimber of years ago by\\nP. C. Smith and 15. Boutel, c(mipo8ing the firm of Smith .V Houtel, under whose\\nmanagement the utility and value of the service has been increased and enhanced\\nto large proportions. Both members of the tirm are familiar with the requirements\\nof navigation, each having served on the lake in the capacity of master of vessels", "height": "3304", "width": "2052", "jp2-path": "industriesofbayc00marq_0159.jp2"}, "160": {"fulltext": "148\\nTHE INDUSTRIES OF THE BAY CITIES.\\nand other sailing craft, and experienced in the hne of operations they are now\\nengaged in the conduct of. They own a fleet of powerful tugs commanded by\\nexperienced officers, and make the towing of rafts a specialty. Among the boats\\nincluded in their line, are the Peter Smith, Ella Smith, Sarah Smith, S. S. Eiimmage,\\nPensaukie, Justice Fields, Niagara, Annie Moile, Luther Westover, Sea Gull, and\\nothers, all thoroughly seaworthy and equipped with every auxiliary necessary to\\nsafe and rapid transit to and from all lake ports. They do a large business in tow-\\ning logs and rafts from Canada and points north of the Saginaw River, also towing\\nsame from points between the Upper and Lower Peninsulas, in addition to Detroit,\\nCleveland, Buffalo and other eastern and western ports. They have boom slicks\\nand chains and are the inventors of the famous core boom, designed for the absolute\\nsecurity of logs in progress of transportation by preventing their becoming detached\\nfrom the raft and sinking or drifting away. They are also prepared to furnish booms\\nto owners of logs, to procure the insurance of the latter at the lowest rates, and\\ngenerally to handle consignments entrusted to their care expeditiously and safely.\\nThey employ a large number of competent hands and during the season of navigation\\nare constantly in commission, handling an average of 300,000,OUO feet of logs per summer.\\nThe association under the management of Messrs. Smith Boutel, has secured\\nan established reputation for enterprise and progress, and is one of the most valuable\\nand influential in its field of operations around the lakes. The company s main\\noffice is on Water street, foot of First, Bay City, where Mr. Boutel gives his personal\\nattention to the management; the other office is at P. C. Smith s coal dock. West Bay\\nCity, where P. C. Smith carries on an extensive business in boat stores and provisions.\\nARLINGTON HOUSE.\\nTlionia\u00c2\u00bb\u00c2\u00ab Toohey. I l-oju-ietor\\nal!!io liuniheriiian and Contractor\\nand Jolin ^t8.\\n-Corner Liiun\\nThe Arlington House, the\\nleading hotel of West Bay\\nCity, is the successor of the\\nBunnell House, which was\\nfirst erected in 1867. It was\\nburned the same year, but\\nrebuilt immediately, brick\\nbeing substituted for frame\\nand opened in June, 1868.\\nDuring September, 1882, the\\nname of the house was\\nchanged from the Wells\\nto that by which it is now\\nknown and the year follow-\\ning it, was purchased by\\nThomas Toohey, who has\\nsince managed and directed\\nits conduct, refitting and\\nrefurnishing the house\\nthroughout, and resolving\\nit ifito one of the cosiest and\\nmost attractive resorts of its\\nkind in the city. The prem-\\nises occupied consist of a\\nsubstantial three-story brick\\nedifice, having a frontage of\\n60 feet on Linn street with a\\ndepth of 100 feet on John\\nstreet, a location of unsur-\\npassed desirability, being\\ncontiguous to the banking,\\ne ATT i. T, business and manufacturing\\ncenters of West Bay City, and adjacent to the postoffice and lines of transportation,\\nilie main floor is occupied with the office, reading, reception and dining rooms, also the\\noar ana billard halls, and the refectory. Broad stairways lead to the second floor, on\\nTHOMAS TOOHEY.", "height": "3314", "width": "2061", "jp2-path": "industriesofbayc00marq_0160.jp2"}, "161": {"fulltext": "THE INDUSTRIES OF THE BAY CITIES.\\n149\\nwhich handeomely appointed parlors, furnished in the latest modem style, with sam-\\nple rooms and chambers en suite are located, while the upper story is devoted to\\nsleeping apartments, supplied with luxurious accommodations and equipped with\\nevery convenience that will, even remotely, contril)nte to the comfort of the oconpants.\\nThe dininp room is a most attractive banquet hall, with cai)acity to comfortably\\naccommodate eighty guests, and the menu is nuule up of all the substantials aucl deli-\\ncacies to be obtained in the market, furnished in abundance, well cooked and artistic-\\nally served. The house is in all respects adapted to the requirements of the trade\\nand special pains are taken to realize to patrons the fullest fruition of comfort and\\npleasure during their sojourn. The house can entertain sixty guests, and enjoys a\\nlarge transient custom, in addition to an equally extensive clientele of boarders.\\nIts rates are one dollar and fifty cents per diem.\\nMr. Toohey is a pioneer resident of West Bay City, and i)rior to his purchase of\\nthe Arlington, was proprietor of the well known and popular Toohey House. He\\nis accomplished in the art of keeping hotel, and enjoys a well-earned reputation for\\nhospitality, find attention to the comfort of his patrons.\\nWILLIAM KEITH.\\nSlarine Insurance -Xo. 70 .i Xortli Mater \u00c2\u00bbt.\\nAt a port of entry like Bay City, the business of marine insurance is not only\\nnecessary, but indispensable to success in every department of commercial and\\nmanufacturing endeavor. To supply such demand here, agencies have been estab-\\nlished, the operations of which are limited exclusively to issuing policies providing\\nfor protection against risks encountered by marine interests. One of the oldest and\\nmost prominent agencies of this character, is managed by Captain William Keith.\\nHe is a native of Michigan, and, having sailed the lakes for twenty years and\\nupwards, located here in 1H70, and opened a marine insurance, vessel agency and\\ncommission house. His place of business is at No. 703 North Water street, where he\\nserves the demands of a large and increasing patronage. He is the local agent for\\nthe Western Assurance Company of Toronto, Canada, with cash assets of l,()64,(iiKS,\\nand whose specialty is the insurance of cargoes; also representing the firm of Smith\\nDavis, of Buffalo the largest insurance house on the lakes, whose specialty is\\nthe insurance of hulls, and to whom he turns over all risk.s undertaken upon crafts\\nat this and adjoining ports companies of which O. F. Flint, of ButTaio, is Jeneral\\nManager. In addition to these, he is the shi{)ping agent of the Michigan Salt Asso-\\nciation, shipping the product of the ditlerent salt works of tlie Saginaw Valley, in\\ncarload lots, to the order of consumers, and is also heavily interested in lake and\\nother interests.", "height": "3304", "width": "2052", "jp2-path": "industriesofbayc00marq_0161.jp2"}, "162": {"fulltext": "150 THE INDUSTRIES OF THE BAY CITIES.\\nM. KINNEY.\\nSuccessor to K.inne.v liambert. Hardware, Faints. Oils. Agricultural Ini-\\nplcuients. Sash, Doors\u00e2\u0080\u0094 5Jos. 711 and 713 Washington Ave.\\nMr. M. Kinuey commenced business in Bay City during 1882, as senior partner\\nin the hardware house of Kinney Lambert. This organization was preserved\\nuntil February, 188S, when the firm dissolved, Mr. Lambert retiring. The house\\nhas always stood very high with commercial, financial and manufacturing circles,\\nthe trade also enjoying a reputation for the quality and variety of its stock and\\nbusiness methods that has served to extead and increase its business annually. Mr.\\nKinney occupies the three-story and basement building at Nos. 711 and 713 Washing-\\nton avenue. The main floor is 25x100 feet in dimensions, the basement and two\\nupper floors, being each 50x100 feet, and the premises in their entirety, representing\\nan aggregate of 17,500 square feet of floor room, divided into departments, heavily\\nstocked and equipped with elevator service, as also other conveniences. The main\\nfloor is used as a display room for heating and cooking stoves, ranges, tinware,\\njappauned ware, etc., the second floor to light hardware and cutlery and the third\\nfloor for manufacturing purposes.\\nThe stock carried emljraces full and select lines of stoves, ranges, paints, oils,\\nglass, sash, doors, blinds, housekeepers and builders hardware, cutlery, notions, etc.,\\nin great variety; agricultural implements and farm wagons, the two latter being\\nstored in premises adjoining the main store, specially adapted to that object. Mr.\\nKinney conducts one of the largest and most widely known establishments in his\\nline in the Lower Peninsula. In addition to the classes of stock handled, he operates\\na branch for the manufacture of tin, copper, sheet and galvanized iron ware on the\\ntop floor of the building occupied, which is supplied with all necessary machinery\\nand tools and which turns out a large product annually.\\nE. H. VEDDER.\\nPrescription IJruggist\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Midland and Walnut Sts.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 West Bay City.\\nOne of the oldest and most reliable drug houses in West Bay City, dating its\\norigin back twenty years and more, is that of E. H. Vedder, at the corner of Midland\\nand Walnut streets. The business was established about 1868, by W. W. Vedder,\\nbrother of the present proprietor, and up to 1883, he conducted the enterprise with\\nsuccess and the skill that accompanies professional superiority. In 1883, however,\\nhe died, and Mr. E. H. Vedder succeeded to the ownership and management of the\\nenterprise. He is a gentleman of long experience, education and thoroughly\\nfamiliar with the science of pharmacy, as also with the demands of the trade. His\\ncareer has been prosperous, and has secured to himself and his business a reputation\\nboth deserved and established. He is located at the corner of Midland and Walnut\\nstreets as above stated, his store, 25x100 feet in size, being handsomely fitted up\\nand equipped with every convenience, and carrying large stocks. His specialties are\\npure drugs and chemicals, also the preparation of prescriptions. In the former\\ndepartment he has the choicest lines of the commodities mentioned, also handling\\nthe best medicaments, extracts, patent medicines, standard preparations, druggists\\nsundries, and the almost endless varieties of articles to be obtained in a first-class\\nestablishment of the character. In the compounding of prescriptions he cannot be\\nexcelled.\\nManufacturer and Dealer in\\nLWMBEK, LATH AND SALT,\\nWATER STREET, NEAR SOUTH CENTER,\\nSOUTH BAY CITY, MICHIGAN.", "height": "3314", "width": "2061", "jp2-path": "industriesofbayc00marq_0162.jp2"}, "163": {"fulltext": "INDEX TO REPRESENTATIVE HOUSES.\\n57\\nUS\\n140\\n73\\n12.S\\nli:i\\n1(1\\n111)\\n7S\\n120\\ni:\u00c2\u00ab\\nt)3\\n77\\n127\\n147\\n123\\nHO\\n44\\n9H\\nAblowilz Bros.. Clothing\\nAm. s A M.-AUist.T, Heal Esttite\\nH^ic. ^kAHial n. k.Artist s mlteriiai^Paiiit^\\nOilHandWiill PaixT..\\nHassin\u00c2\u00ab\\\\v;iit. K. A Co.. Livery\\nUat.Miiiiii, Frank, Dru^siet\\nKiu^m^ a^t.\u00e2\u0096\u00a0u, Daniel, Grocer.\\nBay Cit Hank r.-H il ^5;A;^ i 11\\nBav Citv 15e.f Co. L. ComweU, Prop.) ii-\\nBay City Biis^y Works.\\nIgli;^ El^,SvL:-H:Griffin)-:::::::::::: i?\\nBav ity Sti ain BotthnK Works\\nBay Co uity Milk Association...\\nl?ay .unity Savings Bank\\nBav National Bank\\nBoil s Musical Art Emporium\\nBennett A Walter, Lumber Commission.\\nBenson, F. W. Son, Fish\\nBertch. Louis Son, Meat Market\\nBentel, Robert, Fish. _.\\nBissell Mather, Hardware....\\nBothe, Auk. J. o-. Cry floods\\nBousfieM cV- Co., Woodenware, Ktc\\nBoutel, B.,Sa;,Mna\\\\v rowinK Assoeiation\\nBra.ld. ok. Batemau Cif- ar Mufrs...\\nBradley, C. H. Co., Lumber Inspectors and\\nBrmUey?N. B. Sons; Lumber and Salt Mf rs\\nBrcitmever, Charles, Florist\\nBdiham, Aiues.V Hoa. ley. Heal Estate. 2?\\nBriuham Tasker, Insurance\\nBriscoe 15. H. cfcCo., BoxMnfis.\\nlirotherton. W. L Co.. Wholesale Grocers. 47\\nBrunner, Charles, Grocer J*-\\nlS^SiorG.7p..p:Hrun^ickH;i.ise: 119\\nBurnham,S.E.. Boat Builder ii;\\nBurroughs, E. E., Livery J*?\\nCampau. F. X., Dry Goods, Etc 1^\\nCampbell House ,.,o\\nCampbell, J. B., Grocer\\nChicago Shoe House (Danziger Bros.) i\\nClark D. P., Architect ^tZ\\nCole Holt. Bay City and Alpena Steamers.. .3\\nCommercial Bank n^\\nCorwin. .Tames H- Insurance\\nCornwell, L., prop. Bay ity Beef Co 11-\\nCoumans, Louis P., Slioes w^Vi;; uT\\nCrosbie, Wm., Carriage and Wagon Works.- 91\\nCrowley Kaiser, Iron Works..\\nCurry, C. M., Sewing Machines i*|\\nDanziger Bros., Chicago Shoe House 101\\nDaunt Sharp, Carriage ai. l Sleigh Mnfrs...\\nDavidson, Capt. James Ship Builder 43\\nDetroit, Bav City and Alpena Line -J\\nDolsen. hapin i o., Lumberand Salt Mnfrs. 104\\nill\\n12.1\\n137\\n62\\n8\\n107\\nEstate 11-\\nDrake, John, Insurance.\\nEddy, Avery Eddy. Lumber and Salt\\nEddy Brothers A Co., Lumberand Salt....\\nElliott, RolH-rt, Carriage Manufacturer....\\nEmerson, C. M.. Saw Manufacturer\\nEmery McLaughlin, oal. Lime, Etc.--.\\nEmrich.G. A., Grocer\\nJia^fe^liJ^i:^;;!;;;.^.^ li: U: inside front cover\\nFloeter, P. C. Co.. Arclntect.s\\nFolsom Arnold, Lumber and ttelt.....--\\nFoss E. B. AC... Lumberand Planing Mill 139\\nFo-ster, Post ACo.,Toys. NotionsCrockery.Etc 14-\\nFrank, Jno. C., Carriage Manufacturer i-^\\n83\\n51\\n128\\nDressed Beef lU\\nGarland, M., Saw Mill Machinery Supplies, 69\\nGilmore, W.S., Banker\\nGordon, Josepli, Vess.l Agent and Insurance, 90\\nGrabowsky, S., Jeweler. rAKi;:\u00e2\u0084\u00a2Ji;\\nGreat Eastern Clothing House (Ablowitz\\nGriffith, L. H., Bay City Laundry 137\\nGriswoldVAlberVB.; ciiiiia and Crockery Ware 114\\nGustin, K. P. ACo., Wholesale Grocers and\\nCommissiim Merchants.\\nHall J. H., Salt and Shingles\\nHam et, O. F., Lumber Inspector\\nHammond, Standisli A Co.. Dressed\\nHandy Bros., Box Manufacturers.\\nHargrave, E. J. A Son, Luniber and bjilt IL\\nHargrave, Haven A Co.. Shingle Mnfrs 117\\nHawkins, J. K. A Co., Grocers\\nHawkins A Trombley. Grocers.\\nHawlev A Fitzgerald, Dry Goods, Wholesale\\nanilketail 151\\nHeinlein, Henry, Jr. Tailor l|l\\nHitchcock Bialy, Lumber and Lath 1^\\nHodgkins, W. W., (irocer... i\\nHood, Geo. F., Insurance\\nHull ATilton, Druggists\\nIndustrial Works, Railroad Machinery 137\\nIrwin, R. W., R al Estate and Insurance\\nJeunison A Co., Hardware, Agncultuial Im-\\nKaS A I ni^vley, Wesl Bay CUy lr ^n W^^rks\\nKeith, William, Marine Insurance.\\nKelly. William, Mansion House...\\nKinney. M., Hardwan- Ktc\\nLaetz, J. (i.. Boots and Shoes\\nLefevre House --v\\nLewinstein, A. W., Clothing\\nLittauer, S., Bottler..\\nLoose Win. FuVJnni I-eand Funeral Director 64\\nLumbermen State Bank J\\nMaas, A. C, Tailor\\nMalierAFlajole.\\nManstield, Geo. W., Grocer\\nMansion House .\u00c2\u00bbg\\nMarine Iron Co.... uu\\nMason Beach, Druggists.\\nMaxwell, Robert, Steamboat Agent.. io\u00c2\u00bb\\nMcCaskill, Trombley A Brown, Lumber and\\nMcDonald, J. N A Son, Flou r MiVls\\nMcKinnon Manufacturing o.. Boiler Makers\\nanil Machinists\\nMcL.-nnan, John A Son, Lumber UJ\\nMet ker H. K. A Co., (irocer\\nMerrill, Fitield A Co., Wholesale Grocers. 59\\nM.chigAutVntral R. R Inside back cover\\nMili:^ASi;!M..fr;;Lun^\\nMod.-l Steam Laundry (M.J. Thomas) 140\\nMohr, Fred. Gents Furnishers\\nMoslier A Fisher, Lumber and Pino Lands\\nSlunn,Thos., Saw Mill Machinery 10\u00c2\u00bb\\nMvers,(ieorge Mnfrs. Lumber and Salti. .\u00c2\u00bb0\\nNVitional Boih-r Works, Maher A Flajolet 13..\\nNewcombe. Wm. H., Blacksmith and amage\\nNi chofs ASangle, Hiirness Manufacturers. 4\u00c2\u00ab\\nObey, I. A Co.. Li-pior Deiders\\nO Connor. Ed., (Iroc.T\\nOdell.O.W., Campbell House..\\nO Neill, E. J., Veterinarian, Livery and H\u00c2\u00abue\\nStable\\n92\\n90\\n53\\n149\\n136\\n150\\n142\\n145\\n55\\n73\\n49", "height": "3304", "width": "2052", "jp2-path": "industriesofbayc00marq_0163.jp2"}, "164": {"fulltext": "152\\nTHEIINDVSTRIES OF THE BAY CITIES.\\nPalace Livery Stable Frank E. Tyler) 130\\nParsons Lumber Co., Wholesale Lumber 125\\nPearsall, J. D., Undertaker and Coroner 120\\nPeople s Drug Store 86\\nPerkins, A. B. Co., Fruits and Produce ltJ9\\nPerry, D. B., Druggist 54\\nPerry Swaby, Druggists 55\\nPersonal Security Bank 66\\nPitts Cranage, Lumber, Lath and Salt 61\\nPratt, Robert S., Insurance 121\\nPratt Koeppe, Architects 67\\nRepresentative Houses 43\\nRhodes, Charles E., Jeweler 92\\nRichardson, W. D., Music, Books, Etc.. 63\\nRiegel, M., Grocer 110\\nRochester Shoe House, Boots and Shoes 102\\nRoot, Wtlliston Co., Wholesale Lager Beer. 57\\nRose Levis, General Merchandise 131\\nRosenbury, C. E., Furniture and Crockery 48\\nRoss, Bradley Co., Lumber 44\\nRouech House, A. N. Rouech, Propr 126\\nRouse, Wm. B., Lumber and Salt 96\\nRuelle, I. Co., Furniture, Crockery, Etc 126\\nRussell Bros. Co., Box Manufacturers and\\nPlaning Mill 113\\nSaginaw Bay Towing Association 147\\nScheurmann, R., Shoes 118\\nSecond National Bank 45\\nSee Brothers, Furniture 65\\nSeligman Rossman, Clothiers 64\\nSempliner, H. L., Gents Furnisher 94\\nShearer Bros., Real Estate 79\\nSherman, W. D., Livery Stable 93\\nShore Boats Detroit, Bay City Alpena Line) 73\\nSimons, L. M. Co., Furniture, etc.. 121\\nSmallev Bros. Co., Engine, Saw Mill and\\nSaltworks Machinery 52\\nSmalleys Co., Lumber 116\\nSmith Bros. Co., Lumber and Salt 79\\nSmith, P. C, Groceries, Provisions, Etc 147\\nSmith Boutel, Proprs. Saginaw Bay Towing\\nAssociation 147\\nSpear, E. A., Grocer... 138\\nStandard Hoop Co., West Bay City 51\\nStandard Machine Works 69\\nStover Larkin Co., Hardware, Cutlery. Etc. 106\\nStyninger, J. A., Copper and Sheet Iron Pipe,\\nEtc _- 124\\nSwart, S., Jeweler,.: 136\\nThatcher Olmsted, Grocers 135\\nThompson Jay Co., Dry Goods, Groceries,\\nBoots, Shoes, Etc 118\\nThomas, M.J., Model Steam Laundry 140\\nToohey Thos., Prop. Arlington House, Lum-\\nberman and Contractor 148\\nTousey Turner, Pine Lands, Logs and Tim-\\nber 56\\nTravis Van Egmond, Carriages and Wagons 144\\nTrombley, A.. Mineral Waters 69\\nTyler, Frank E., Palace Livery Stable 130\\nUeberroth See, China and Glassware 84\\nVail Eddy, Hats, Caps, Furs, Etc 81\\nValley Iron Works, 205 Saginaw 52\\nValley Soap Co. (McLean Westover) 74\\nVan Emster, F. H. J., Druggist 139\\nVan Liew, E. S., Real Estate 109\\nVedder, E. H.. Druggist _ 150\\nVon Hermann E,. Co., Drugs 132\\nVon Walthausen. G. L. Frederick, Druggist. Il6\\nWands, F. L., Insurance.. _ 119\\nWard, William, Saw Maker 143\\nWatson Bros. Tossell, Plumbers 60\\nWeber, H. W. 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