Daily Tribune, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 18 October 1914 — Page 19

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1914.

FOSTER COMPANY SET NEW MARKAI HOTEL

Furnishing Contract, Aggregating j, $70,000, Largest Ever Let to JSLtki-" Concern.

Si- The A. Z. Poster Furniture and CarPet Co, of this city, furnished the car--!x, pets, furniture, rugs, window shades, lac® curtains, draperies, springs, mattresses, pillows and pictures for the new Hotel Deming, including all the 'miscellaneous items th^t go to equip an establishment of that character.

The contract for these supplies, the .« total cost of which aggregated in the neighborhood of $70,000, was the largn: est single contract of the "kind ever undertaken by a Terre Haute estabw- lishment. It included the entire furniehings for the new establishment ex.1:# cept the linens and the kitchen equipment, and the manner in which the contract was handled reflects credit on t: the cprnpanv. In addition to furnishing these features of the establishment the company contracted through

Adanrson & Anderson, of this city, for the glass tops for the dressers, chiffoniers and writing desks', features which mark the individuality of the new hotel in its every respect.

The A. Z. Foster Co. was established '3 In Terre Haute as a private enterprise :in 1870 and since then it has been one of the leading establishments of its •••:»kind In the middle west. A. Z. Foster, who was the head of the company at the time of its incorporation in 1906, a month or two before his death, came here from Brazil in 1870, and established the Foster Bros, establishment, which was then located in the building on the oorner of the alley between

Fourth and Fifth streets, on the north side of Wabash avenue. The Fosters came west originally from Newburg, I*. Y., and established themselves in Indiana and since then have oeen

prominently identified with the business interests of Ft. Wayne, Lafayette 'and Terre Haute, where their stores are still conducted. The present offleers of the A. Z. Foster Co. are D.

Russ Wood, president and treasurer

John Luken, vice president and secretary, and the board of directors consist of these two officials and Mrs. A. jv Z. Foster. The contract for the Hotel

Deming was made by D. Russ Wood, president of the company, who has I made a high rfcord for business sagaeI'ity among the business men of Terre .Haute. 'if

An Indescribable Luxury. "I tell you," said Poots, "there is an indescribable sense of luxury in lying in bed and ringing one's bell for his Valet." "You've a valet!" exclaimed Poots' friend. "Xo," replied Poots, "but I've just got a bell."—Rochester Talisman. •i

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General View of the Lobby of the New Hotel Deming

HOTEL LOBBY LOOKING TOV.'.tHOS THIS DESK FROM CHtiKRV Si'JUKl-T i-:\? A

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HECKI'TIOJV ROOM OFF 'I MF LOI5HY, IJIiAl' l'!FI I. MURAL I»K ORATIONS CAN BE SEKN. This scene greets visitors to the! lobby one of the most attractive, and While a number ot guests have been Hotel Deming on entering the lobby have been the occasion for many con- housed at the Deming, the formal from the Sixth streetentrance. The] ep-atulations to Mr. Deming and Mr. cpenUtg will take place next Tuesday furniture and decorat ns make the! Cochran. •••. I evening.

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HOTEL DEMING

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REIMAN COMPANY HELD LARGE HOTELCONTRACT

Terre Haute Concern Furnished Thirty Car Loads of Partition Tile fox New Deming

The Reiman' Lime and Cement Co., with offices at 16 South Ninth street and yards at Tenth-and-one-half and Mulberry, furnished no small part of the building supplies used in the construction of the Hotel Darning. This included thirty carloads of partition tile, 2,500 bushels of lime, 1,000 barrels of Marquette cement, 1,200 feet otf vitrified wall coping and a carload of moulding plaster. Although the company was incorporated under its present title only this year, this action was merely a re-organization of one of the oldest building material businesses in the city. It was founded by Ernest L. Reiman, father of the chief stockholders of the present company, in 1845, Its headquarters being In the heart of the then business district

West Wabash avenue. Henry C. Steeg became interested in the bus! ness in 1891, the Arm being known as the Reiman & Steeg Co., and the business was continued under that title until the death of Mr. Steeg in 1912 The present company was re-organized during the present year with the fol lowing officers: E. E. Reiman, president, treasurer and general manager E. L. Reiman, vice president Millard Hunt, secretary.

The company handles a full line of building materials including lime, cement, plaster, Are brick, boiler tile, grate backs, roofing, pitch, felt, mor tar color, flue pipe, roof paints, etc. In addition to this it melees a specialty of a full line of high grade fertilizers, the use of which is becoming more common among the farmers and gardeners of this vicinity. The company also handles hay and grain, and its extensive yards at Tenth and Onehalf and Mulberry are perhaps the largest of the kind in the city.,

^FLORIDA'S EGRETS.

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$10,000 a Year Expended In guarding Rare Water Birds. That there is a splendid prospect of restoring to Florida and other states the beautiful white egrets which once frequented the lakes and rivers of our country, is the cheering assurance brought back by T. Gilbert Pearson, secretary of the National Association of Audubon Societies, from a trip of the South Atlantic and gulf coasts. He found the Audubon wardens everywhere, but only faithful and courageous in their work, but enthusiastic and proud of the fact that under their watchful care the colonies of herons and other water birds are secure from shooting by plume-hunters. "It is now my opinion," said Mr. Pearson today, "that we will be able to bring these birds back in numbers just as our warden work on the Atlantic coast and about, the great lakes

restored the gulls, terns and other seabirds which fifteen years ago were nearly exterminated by the millinery feather hunters. Of course, we have to watch the state legislatures every year to see that the Audubon laws to protect birds are not repealed by the milliners," he added.

The birds protected especially in the southern colonies are the white egrots whose nuptial ornaments furnish the delicate "aigrettes" so coveted by milliners and so tempting to gunners. The Audubon association employs wardens armed with extensive police authority to guard them In many swamps in Florida, Georgia, South Carolina and North Carolina. Each warden has charge of a more or less extensive district, and protect in the aggregate, nearly all known egret-col-onies in the United States. Herons, roseate spoonbills and other beautiful species of sub-tropical birds are guarded in the rookeries, along with the egrets, and large numbers of ducks, galllnules, rails and other water fowl. Here they rear their young in undisturbed security on the association's reservations, to the benefit of the whole country.

Mr. Pearson visited one rookery in the big cypress swamp of South Florida which he estimates contains not less than 100,000 specimens of the wood ibis alone, besides other water birds.

The Audubon association expends not less than $10,000 a year safeguarding rare water birds in various odd corners of the United States.

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Buffet Manager at Hotel Deming

ANDREW J. SOVERN

WINE STOCK SUPPLIED

Walsh & White Stock Cellars and Buffet At Deming-—History of Well Known Firm.

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Four Immense delivery wagon load's of stock for the buffet of the Hotel Deming were hauled from the wholesale liquor establishment of Walsh A white, 17 South Fifth street, to the new hotel—the largest single order of the kind ever sold and delivered by one similar establishment here to another, aggregating in value In the, neighborhood of {^.OOO. It was an or-5 der, that few establishments even in the largest cities could fill, and it was mete that it should have gone from the oldest wholesale liquor establish- ,4 ment In the city of Terre Haute and' one of the oldest in the state. For 1 the present business of Walsh & Whito, was founded in 1870 by the late S. C.^ Barker, who later formed a partnership with B. F. Alvey, and still later on with Edward Walsh, the senior member of the present firm, Who to April next year will celebrate his .twenty-flfth anniversary of entering the employ of S. C. Barker as a traveling- salesman. The business was located for many year* in the MteKeeo building, and later was removed to the present location, 17 South Fifth street

On the death of Mr. Barker in 190$ the firm of Walsh & White was formed, the junior member being William R. White, who had been successful in a number of business ventures in this city in previous years. The firm makes a specialty of high grade goods, including imported goods in various lines. Their leaders are the well known brands, "Old Buck Tanner*" "Old Dearborn," and, "J. T. Welch," all celebrated for their superior quality. In gins, native and imported winea, including the highest grade of champagnes, cordials, etc., the Arm carries a stock that would surpass those of many of the largest houses in the leading cities of the country and the 1 ease and the ability with which this Immense order was filled was creditable to the firm as well as an adver tisement of Terre Haute enterprise.

TAKEN LITERALLY.

One morning while Mrs. Cobb was at her summer home in the country she decided to go up to town* and spend the day with a friend. Her grocer had not called by the time she was ready to leave, so she wrote oa^H*, card: "All out. Don't leave anything,*' wid v!v tacked it on the door.

Upon her return at night she found k, the house had been ransacked and

nearly everything: of any value had been taken. On the card which she had left on the door these words had been added a"Thanks. W© haven't left much."—* L/ippinco^'s.

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