Daily Tribune, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 18 October 1914 — Page 18

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HOTEL LINENS BOUGHT RIGHT HERE AT HOME

One of Large Deming Contracts Han'died By the Levi Dry Goods Comi" pany of This City.

The table linens for the Hotel Ieiming, including the napkins, together with the towels, sheets, pillow cases, blankets, bedspreads and fancy embroldered linens for the dressers and tables, were all furnished by t'he Levi Dry Goods Company, 504-506 Wabash avenue. The barber shop supplies, kitchen linens and crashes. Including bath and hand towels, were also supplied by the same company in active competition, and the total figure was a neat one, something in the neighborhood of $10,000, the largest order of the kind ever placed with a local est&blishment. The feature of the order was that it was drawn from the line of goods that have always been carried by the company. The linens were of the Webb dry bleached variety, .i. the sheets and pillow cases were the product of the Utlca mills, Utica, N.

Y., while the blankets were from the North Star mills, Minneapolis, Minn., lines that can always be found in stock here. While part of the original order has been supplied, a portion of it is still to come, including the line of linens that are to be woven in the goods, the crest and initials and the order for which was not placed in time to be completed for the opening.

Although the business is conducted under the name of the Levi Dry Goods company it is owned by Simon Levi, who remarks on the fact that although he will have been in business in Terre Haute a quarter of a century March 10, next, he has oocupied but I two locations in that time. He began business in the room in the Mc-

Keen block adjoining the Oak Hall pharmacy on that date, March 10,1890, and remained there until the Erwin block, destroyed by fire in December, 1898, was rebuilt the following year. He has been in his present location, therefore, for 15 years. The filing of an order for hotel furnishings for $10,000 is not such an usual thing irt the ordinary establishment that it might not excite the proprietor when such an order is landed, but Mr. Levi, it is said, was thoroughly unperturbed when he was advised that the contract had been awarded him. The negotiatlons for the order were made by Joe Moore, who has been with Mr. Levi for many years. He notified Mr. Deming one morning, some time after the hotel project was broached, that when the time came for the purchase of the linens, etc., if he cared to take bids f^om local establishments they would like to bid.

Mr. Deming advised him that they would be given the opportunity at the A proper time. One day they were advised by phone that bids would be received that day. Samples and prices were submitted and in a short time -v- Aejfc.wgre notified that the contract had been awarded them. That was all there was to '.t, and in that simple manner the largest order of the kind ever placed with a local establishment was completed.

CASHIER PIGEONS.

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Flight Discloses Marvelous Homing instinct.

The establishment of a private mesmenger service with carrier pigeons between New York and Philadelphia, after a trial in which the round trip was made in ten minutes less than three hours, shows that though such

'3%1 a service naturally cannot hope to ,5^1 rival wireless telegraphy, it will for a long time to come fax surpass the rapidity of transmission by railway mail.

This flight of 180 miles or so In tiro

J, hours and fifty minutes, counting the stops, 1b a performance of which no _/•£-airman need be ashamed. It is more than sixty miles an hour—about the rate of Roland Garros, when he flew across the Mediterranean last September, 558 miles at sixty-eight miles an hour.

The speed at which the birds can fly depends largely upon the condition of the atmosphere. In the Mon tarns Brussels race of 1876 in good weather the winning birds traveled 270 miles to three hours and a quarter the next year it was stormy, and the first bird did not get home till thirty hours had elasped.

The Greeks of old sent the names of winners in the Olympic games to their cities by the carrier pigeons that were the Associated Press of that period. The Dutch government a century ago used them between Sumatra and Java. They were used during the siege of Paris in 1870-71, and the Germans sent out hawks against them- In China, in former times, the pigeons were equipped* with bells and whistles t» frighten away the winged foes only too ready to poupce down upon them.

The British admiralty, with the development of v/lreless telegraphy, has abolished the pigeon service, after bringing it to a high degree of efficiency, but the aerial envoys still are kept in the lofts of huge fortresses in Russia, Germany and France.

The training of the. "homer" begins in warm weather when the bird it about four months old. The practice distances are gradually increased, until the bird is able to find its way home when liberated at a point 100 miles from the loft by the end of the first season. The full distance is not attained until several seasons later. The birds should not be sent on long Journeys oftener than once a week. Their habit is to soar to a great height first of all, in a rapid spiral then suddenly they start off like an arrow from a bow in the right direction. The

Ymerican distance record is 1,004 •lies.—Philadelphia Ledger.

practical Economics.

"Why don't you move into more comfortable quarters, old man?" "I can't even pay the rent on this miserable hole." "Well, since you don't pay rent why not get something better?"—St. Louis Times. 0 THE TRIBUNE CLASSIFIED PAGE Is the great real estate market of western Indiana and eastern Illinois.

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The cement furnished the Hotel Deming does not represent the total of the company's business in Terre Haute during the past year. It also supplied the cement for the Hippodrome at BJ«hth and Ohio streets, as well as for the improvement of East Wabash avenue, the cement binders for the two and a half mile pipe sewer on Eighth avenue, and the brick sewer on Nineteenth street. Cement from the Marquette company was used on the Wadley building, at First and Poplar streets, the Samuel Frank & Sons building on North Fourteenth, and the Swan go building at First and Wabash avenue. In fact there axe few contracts of this character, where quality is the chief demand, that the Marquette company has not furnished the bulk of the cement used.

A CONTRIBUTION.

She weighed close upon 250 pounds, but she insisted on entering the crowded car, and as she stood and swayed with the movement of the car she waxed sarcastic. 'If there were any gentlemen in the car," she said, "they would not allow a lady to stand."

And then little Dobbins got up from his seat with a sigh. "Don't be cross, ma'am," he said, "I'll make one toward It!"

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first name on the register at the new Deaning Hotel is that of John O. Holmes, a well known traveling representative

of the Eli Lilly and Co., wholesale druggists of Indianapolis, Ind. Holmes exacted this promise from Manager Cochran some months ago and when the time came Mr. Cochran forwarded to Holmes the first page of the register. In went the name "John O. Holmes"

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Furnished the New Deming

JIR. D. RUSS WOOD.

Mr. Wood is head of the A. Z. Fos- I largely to him by Mr. Deming and tTie ter Furniture company. The furnish- excellent results are a fine tribute to Ing of the new Hotel Deming was left this Terre Haute house and its manager.

MARQUETTE CO. PUIS CEMENT IN HOTEL JOB

Product of LaSalle (111.) Concern Used in Building New Deming.

Every ounce of cement used in the construction of the Hotel Deming was the product of the Marquette Cement Manufacturing' Co., whose offices are in the Marquette buildings, Chicago, and whose plant is located

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Salle, Illinois. The latter has a capacity of 7,000 barrels a day. The product of the Marquette company is known the world over, and has entered into the construction of the principal buildings of this country and every other of note. The Mlarquette people furnished a 400,000 barrel order for the Illinois highway commission, to be used in the construction of new concrete highways in that state, and the closing of the order led the company to indulge in the notable advertising which filled the pages of the magazines and weeklies to this effect, "Illinois Out of the Mud." The Marquette company, to show its faith in the highway improvement plan, built at its own expense a large section of the new concrete road from LaSalle to Chicago.

ELECTRICALEQUIPMENT FINEST OF ITS KIND

Fixtures and Plant Include Every] Innovation Known to Modern Engineers.

Oliver M. Shiras, of St. Louis, a nephew of Demas Deming, promoter and builder of the Hotel Deming, is at the head of the company which has furnished the lighting system for the hotel. It was one of the earliest con tracts let in connection with tlte project, and the completion of the work has demonstrated the wisdom In the selection of the contractor. The work was done by the Shiras-Chassaing Electric and Manufacturnng Co., which is the direct successor of one of the country's oldest and most successful fixture concerns, the Chicago Gas and Electric Fixture Manufacturing Co., of Chicago, 111. The latter was of high repute for more than twenty years as a manufacturer of high grade lighting fixtures. For that term of years the Chicago comipany made fixtures for some of the largest buildings in the country.

A short time ago the Shiras-Chassa-ing Co. bought out the Chicago concern and moved its entire organization to St. Louis. The same men who made such a success with the old Chicago company are now with the Shiras organization ready to give, prospective patrons the benefit of their wide experience.

The lighting Installations of the Shiras-Chassaing Co. In the Hotel Deming have demonstrated the value of study and experience in the manufacture of high grade fixtures. Architects and owners submit to specialists in their several lines important problems of heating, ventilation, etc., and due to its success in lighting now refer to this company the matter of determining designs and manufacture of the lighting equipment fixtures. The specialists for this company study with equal care the requirements of both large and small quarters and their experience guarantees the best results.

Among recent installations of thds company may be mentioned the $1,000,000 city hall, Dallas, Texas Adolphus hotel, Dallas Hotel Russell Samson, Waterloo, Iowa Rice institute building, Houston, Texas the C. O. Tennyson residence, Dallas, Texas Galvez hotel, Galveston, Texas Rice hotel, Houston, Texas Masonic temple, Dallas state capital, Austin, Texas Dallas Country club, Dallas Hotel Bender, Houston, and many others, Including handsome residences, public buildings and private institutions.

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and the Indianapolis man has the distinction of being the first on the book. Mr. Holmes wrote Mr. Cochran: "The Hotel Ieming no doubt will be a great credit to your beautiful, industrial city. I know of no one better fitted to make it a signal success than yourself."

Holmes has been president of the Commercial Travelers' Association of Indiana and is now grand junior councillor of the United Commercial Travelers.

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•1 MEN SHARE IN DEMING ENTERPRISE

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Tons of Cement and Supplies 60 Into New Hotel Bnilding At Sixth and Cherry.

The Terre Haute Coal and Lime Co. furnished 4,450 cubic yards of gravel and sand, equal to 150 carloads, for the Hotel Deming, as well as delivering 7,550 barrels of Marquette Portland cement for the concrete work of the building and the sidewaJks about the establishment. It isn't the first 'big contract of the kind ever undertaken by the company, for it furnished all the building materials In Its line for the Terre Haute Trust Co.'s eight story building at Seventh and Waibaeh avenue as well as four-fifths of the cement used in the construction of brick streets and sidewalks In Terre Haute during the year 1913. The main yards of the company are located at Fifth and Lafayette streets, with branch yards on Fourth and the Big Four between Third and Fourth, and also between Center and Seventh streets. An Indianapolis dealer who inspected the •main yards of the company recently pronounced it the largest and most thoroughly complete of any of the ktod in the state of Indiana,

The line of building materials handled includes about everything used for the erection of building of whatsoever character, including lime, cement, plaster, roofiing, lath, sewer pipe, chimney tops, wall coping, flue lining, boiler tile, fire brick, fire clay, roofiing and sheathing, paper, mortar color, stone and gravel, White sand and charcoal. The active manager of the company and its secretary and treasurer is Jas. W. Landrum, who has held the same positions since the first inception of the company in 1887.

The present company first began business under the name of Talley, Tennant & Landrum, the other members of the firm beingt the late J. Smith Talley and Richard S. Tennant. It, was incorporated as the Terre. Haute Coal and Dime Co. in l^OS, "&d ha*

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BABY GRAND

A cabinet masterpiece in rich San Domingo mahogany. Note the equipment—genuine Vermont slate bed, celebrated Monarch quick-acting cushions and fast imported billiard cloth. These give the same speed, accurate angles and long life of Brunswick regulation tables from which the "Baby Grand" varies only in size.

Not a toy nor cheap-made make-shift. Yet sold at factory prices—terms as low as 20 cents a'day! Note, also, the cQncealed cue rack and accessory drawer that holds entire playing outfit. "Baby Grand" sizes 3x6 ft., 3%x7, 4x8. Brunswick Grand'' 4%x9 ft. All furnished as a Carom, Pocket Billiard or Combination Carom and Pocket Billiard Table."

A Size for Every Home

Other Brunswick Home Billiard Tables include "Convertible" Models, which can be changed in a

The Brunswick "Baby Grand' Pocket Billiard Style

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continued under that title since then. The present officers are Homer B. Talley, president, he being a son of the founder William E3. Bppert, vice president, and James W. Landman, secre

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HE excavating for the Hotel Deming was

done by the J. W. Creasey Co. We are prepared to bid on all kinds of excavating work, from a small cellar to basements forVV large structures 6uch as the Hotel Deming.

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SUNDAY, OCTOBER" 18, 1914.

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tary* treasurer and general manager. In addition to its other varied interests the company is warehouse for the Union Carbide Sales Co., and as indicated iby its name, handles Wabash and Lin

ton No. 4 lump oool, as well as block, nut, Anthracite and blacksmdthln# omL

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