Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 March 1905 — Page 3 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

ing more in wages. This means we have a higher class of mechanics. The result is better quality of work. We had over 60,000 orders in this department last year. Very busy now, but we have a lot of good, experienced men to help. People are realizing that this is the place to buy vehicles.

I know of factories who build practically but one buggy, but have possibly twenty different prices. To explain : Here is their $35.00 buggy: their $40.00 buggy has the same wheels, body, axles, gear, shafts, top, etc., as their $35.00 job, with possibly 50 cents more in little immaterial things: and so forth all the way along the line. We grade our work. We make the same small percentage of profit on a $50.00 job that we do on a $35.00. On high-priced work we are not only giving better quality of material and better finish, but more improvements and little equipments which you do not find on the cheaper rig. Recently a certain manufacturing concern which builds work for a catalogue house, ordered, through another party,

one of our low-priced buggies and had it shipped to their factory for examination. They wanted to know why people were buying Ward’s vehicles. Upon receipt of the job it had so many features of the higher priced buggies, such a fine finish, and was so stylish and well proportioned in every way that they concluded we had made a mistake and sent them our highest