Rensselaer Union, Volume 1, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 November 1868 — Correspondence. [ARTICLE]

Correspondence.

< CMltAtiO COItJf«PO!IDIiM( E. Activity •< Trade—P»lley at WeiUm jMirchnl.-Wholuali Hawse of J. V. Farwell A Co. -Hines mv last tetter bosineseiaftnereasod in activity, and the largo wholesale houses swarm with customers? like gigantic beehives, lam more than ever impressed with thc sect tbit it ia the VJ 1 ” Ibtiweate eru merchant io buy his goods hero instead of in Now York. The largo dealers here buy «i>ods just as cheap as tho Now York dealers, hey bny all domestic goods of Uis manufacturers, and either import their foreign goods or buy them of the manufacturers' agents. Bents .are far iesa.here. and goods Hian be handled cheaper here than in New York. And it ia an actual fact that, thewholesale jobbers here sell just as cheap us the wholesale jobbers in New York. 'Hwy know the wants of the trade in tlie northwest better than the New York merchant, mid adapt their purchases to supply that want. The merchant who buys here saves tho time and expense of a visit to New York, the extra freight, and weeks' of delay in the receipt of his goods. There is no necessity for his going to Now York, tyr just as good stocks .can be found here as there. Take the house of JOHN V. FARWELL a CO., 42, 41 and 4(1 Wabash Avenue—tho largest and strongest wholesale dry goods house in the Northwest, selling ten millions a year— In illustration of my positions. Their advantages are: 1. They have, groat facilities for doing business. Thoir store is five floors above the sidewalk, is 60 feet wide by 120 deep. The basement ia 80 feet wide by 145 feet deep.-r Four floors are used for salesrooms, the two uppoif <>nCs for packing and storing goods.— They are also obliged to use outside storeroom fbr a largo amount of goods. Tho inside ai-Hngemcnts of the afore arc perfect.— Tho goods, when sold, are carried by machinery irolii each lloor’to the floor next to the upper story to be packed,and are brought down in tho same way to be shipped by rail or steam. Homo idea of the amount of work done in the packing room may be formed from tho fact that $310,18X1 worth —so a clerk informs mo—wore boxed and shipped from that room the first week in .Soptcmbor. 2. They own their store and have abundant capital to buy ui the best murkcts of tiic world. 3. Thoir sales are so large that they can sill at a small profit. - —, 4. They are tho oldest house of the kind hero, having takes the lead-of the wholesale trade iu the Northwest for. years, and are everywhere known as responsible and Honorable dealers. The age and character of a bin silicas house, like the age and cbaracjsUtajf a -newspaper, are a part of its capital, and A yer V important part, it Us years have been prosperous and honorable. Tho flame of J. V. Farweft-A iw, >s a synonym- for uprightness and business integrity wherever known. This bouse is prepared to do a larger business than ever. We talk flippantly of millions, bpt it is not easy to comprehend how much is represented by such numbers. One needs to go through such a house as this—as we have—and see tho long rows of staple and domestic goods, aud iliu endless piles, packages ami boxes ot dress and fancy goods, notions, Ac., to realize it. Think of iimlking a mile by the side of rows of such goods, aud you can form s .mo idea of tho amount of goods displayed,and for pale here th oughout the year. And there is nothing needed in tho dry goods lino that cannot be bought here. The house is a credit to Chicago, and illustrates the wonderful growth of the Great West, under the expansive influence of free institutions. HOUSES AND HOUSE BUILDING. There has been almost fabulous amount of building doue here this season, and still ■rents do iiutcnuie down. \Vliere.ver a pla.card is stuck or “Rooms to Rent'’ there is swarm of house-hinders, in search of a home. There needs yet to be devised some plan by which those in moderate circumstances c m provide themselves cheap ly with a comfortable home. Twelve hundred houses—in addition to the multitude of stores —have been built here fn six mouths, and towns or villages laid out and partially built on the lilies of the various railroads, to accommodate tho teeming populations that throng here to do business, aud itil the demand is still for more. To provide a good home is the first thought of-every head of a_ homelet a family. NEW’MOUSE COVpBINO.’ Passing along the streets the other day, my curiosity was excited by seeing a small house on the sidewalk. Was it a model of some famous man’s domicil, or had it been Used in a political procession, or figured at a county or state fair ? Or was it put there as u sample of how houses should bo built? On examination I found the roof, sides and floor were covered with compacted paper or pasteboard, saturatfed with tar, and nnpervioxs to air and water, and a non-eonductor ~ot beat and cold, making it cool in summer and warm in winter, and protecting the house against vermin. It is put on the studs without sheathing boards, or on the sheathin g Aioard s before clap boarding, or oti th e inside of the studs before lathing, or on the lath and papiwcd. instead ah- plasteritlg, like any wall, on the joists under the floors to keep out cold and noise, and on roofs, either as sheathing, or instead of felt for a gravel ’roof, And it js s<>j’hcftpjhat.a lmuae 25teu»t By 50 and 20 teet high eau be covered with it aiid made air and water tight, and as warm as a brick house, for from fifteen to twenty dollars. Tho paper can be used before saturation for the insides of rooms, instead of plaster, and bo papered or whitewashed. I learned that this material is beilig extensively used, the Reek River I’aper Company, at 13 La Salle street, manufacturing it in large quantities. Full particulars by circular are eent/iw on application t 6 tho company. We hitve had paper boats for scull races, and now wo arc to have paper houses I We live