Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 35, Number 327, 2 October 1910 — Page 29

MOH1 FAlXAJDIUM

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AND SUN-TELEGRAM. HAffUFACTtJItlNG SECTION. nicmioxD, ixd., October, 1910. pages 1 to a.

IVOnLD'S LARGEST TIIOESIIER CONCERN IS GJ1AH0MIY Gaar, Scott 4 Company Start- . ing in a Most Humbls Manner Has Grown in a Most Wonderful Manner. SENDS ITS PRODUCTS ALL OVER THE WORLD It Has Branch Agencies in Canada, Russia and ArgentinaNow Making Big Addition to Plant.

Three quartera of a century ago Mr. , Isam E. Jones, one of the Irst maaufacturers of Wayne county, bought a small one story brick buildlas on North F street, established a business and calling It the "Spring Foundry," began manufacturing tores. Much of the work was done by the proprietor himself, but a few workmen were employed. This was the humble foundation of Gear, goott Company of today, the greatest threshing machine factory In the world, whose products reach five continents of the globe from the hot Pampas of the Argentine Republic to the wide prairies of the United States and Canada, and from the moors of England and the narrow flood plains of the Nile, to the steppes of Russia, and the broad dreary wastes of Siberia. Isaac Jones and his little corps of workmen built a dam near the stove foundry, at the top of the Whitewater gorge and a pond was formed from waters of a spring located' near Ninth and North F streets. This water formed the first motlro power for the company, which was destined to become known In erery agricultural country on the earth. Founded In 113. , Jv,rtrntelJFoundry,,,was founded f.-t7-tlree years ago, in the ant3 of lttS. The little institution rapidly increased its business and proved a money making Investment lor Its owner. However, after several additions to the number of men employed, the entire establishment was soil la list to Jesse IL Hutton and JSstm XL XJutton, . ptla was the real beginning of the p?mil nans factory, as this firm lnv aux Pecan tns) manufacture of and mechanics Mcstsiered at the factory constructed ps4 turned out the first thresher that lavs ever built la Indiana and one of Cat first la ths them primitive west i Axaong the first operatives at the wncern, continuing under the. of the "Spring Foundry" were Joaaa Gear, the chief machinist; .tram Gear, the carpenter and mill wright f James IL Gaar, a machinist and William O. Scott, foreman of ths noUttmg department. From this nucleus grew the present company. The First Thresher. These men built the first threshing machine. The thresher was known as a "chaff pller." or "groundhog." It simply threshed the whest snd was operated by horse power. Realising that the untried field which they were about to eater was one full of business opportunities, the first machine was put oa the market of Indi ana la 1141. This continued to the chief output of the factory until 1S48. , During these seven years the Industry was growing snd the force of men was gradually Increasing, until at the closs of 1141 there were nearly fifty mea building threshers. la 1148 the scope of the machines was enlarged and during this year an Improved grain separator which threshed the wheat from the shock snd separated It from the straw which was deposited oa the ground to be "bucked" away, was constructed by the mechanics and put on the market soon after. Tea years after the factory was taken over by the Huttons, ths pioneers of the threshing machine Industry In Inaaa. Joaaa Oaar, Abram Gear, J. U. Oaar and William G. Scott, purchased the Institution and former a company under the name of "A. Gaar a- Company, Spring Foundry and Machine shop. Manufacturers of Threshing Machines, Steam Engines, etc." Firm Incorporated. Under this management the company soon grew out of Its swaddling clothes and was Increased with new bunaga, warehouses and additions of land from time to time. In 1870. thirty-one years after the Gears took control, the Institution was Incorporated under ths firm asms of Gaar, Scott Company. Abram Gaar was the first president of the corporation; J- XL Gaar, vies president, and Wil. Kan O. Scott, secretary and treasurer. Ca the death of Abram Gaar la 1884 Jams XL Gaar snooeeded to the pres. Ideaey of the company. Oa the death of XTr. Gear la 1800, Howard Campb3 became president sad general rarsr. which oCce he aeUs st ths ITtzuA time. 8. 8. Ctrattaa, Jr sue CZZ.ZH WUam Q. Scott, deceased la IT. tji sstrstary. The otter oSosrs at tls grexest time are Frank Land. Cra Tiso rrtstteat. WlUUa IL Camp-

bell, second vice president, and Charles H. Land, treasurer. The capital stock of the company la $350,000. The early captains of Industry who founded this successful manufacturing enterprise and their successors of the modern school of business have

always kept it at the head of Richmond's splendid manufactories, and among the very first of its line in the United States. The Principal Products. Threshers, traction and portable engines are the principal products, including large steam plowing engines, but the company also builds clover bullers, saw mills and straw bruisers, the last for export only. The trade of the company, which was at trat only local and amounted to only a few thousand dollars a year has expanded until, as the announcements of the company state, "GaarScott threshing machinery goes wherever straw grain grows." In the wheat belts of Canada and Mexico, their machinery Is as well known as In the United States, and they enjoy s growing export trade In South America, Egypt, Russia and other European countries. From a mere handful of men em ployed there is now an army of over six hundred and fifty men always at work, not Including those at the branch bouses and the traveling sales men who number over a hundred. During the busy season there are as many as eight hundred men employed In the factory of the concern. Build New Foundry. The most recent addition to the building 'equipment is the huge fac tory building on North F street near the C. A O. railroad. ' This is a five story brick structure which was built at a cost of over $100,000. It is one of the most modern factory buildings in the state. At the time the new foun dry was constructed several yeara ago it was the largest in the state. Even these extensive Improvements bringing the number of buildings to twenty-two, have been Insufficient to meet the needs of the fast increasing trade of the company and North F street from Eighth to the river will soon be closed and large buildings built north from Washington avenue. The chief export office of the com pany Is in New Tork City, 16-25 Whitehall street, of which C. B. Corwin Is manager. The foreign branch houses of Gaar, Scott ic Company are at Winnipeg, Alberta, and Reglna, Bask., In Canada; Buenos Aires, Ar gentina, and Odessa, Russia. The South American branch was only established a few years ago but already the trade In that section Is very heavy. - There are fifteen United States offices. SHOCKED TO DEATH Anderson, Ind., Oct. 1. George F. Hackelman, age thirty-one, of this city was instantly killed yesterday by touching a live wire of the city lighting plant, at Fourteenth and Hend ricks streets. The wire had fallen from a pole but half an hour before and employes of the company were on the way to repair it. CM! SHIP THEM OUT San Antonio, Texas, Oct 1. For the first time the lew passed br the 31st legislature providing that when Indigent sick people are shipped into a county that county has the right to ship them back home, has been in voiced by the city of San Antonio. .On account of the delightful, health-giv ing climate here other counties and cities in northern states have at times shipped their Indigent sick people here to get rid of them. 8an Antonio will In future protect herself by returning such sick people to their destinations since It Is manifestly unfair to saddle the cost of caring for their Indigent sick on this city. The hotels, apartment houses and boarding houses have mutually agreed not to entertain sick people at all. REUIOII A BIG ONE 8an Antonio, Texas. Oct 1. Antirace suicide received an Indorsement yesterday In the reunion of the Tschlrhart family. Altogether 15 descen dants of Nicholas Tschlrhart snd his wife Catherine Meyer Tschlrhart gath ered In a beautiful grove of pecan trees just outside of this city. Mr and Mrs. Tschlrhart came to this country from Alsace-Loraine in 1843. At the reunion were present their eleven children, $8 grand children and 4$ great grand children. ' It is claimed that this Is the largest family In America. They are planning a reunion next year and to bring in the absentees and hope at that time that the number will run In the neighborhood of 300, which at the present rate of Increase will probably be re alised. The Tschlrhart's have been pioneers, farmers, ranchmen and In dian fighters snd are among the solid dtisens of this community. They have many interesting relics of Indian fighting days and the family tradi tions furnish enough material for a dosea Wild West stories. DO GOOD NOW, If you do act now tSe rood wJach &e cms wil come when you caext do the good wfeach you H-Hedse.

send inviTATion TO THE PIONEERS OF WAYNE COUNTY Residents of. the County Over Eighty Years of Age Are Urged to Take Part in the County Centennial.

GRACE CHURCH WILL BE MEETING PLACE Aged Citizens Will Be the Guests of the Festival Management and Will Be Given an Auto Ride. - - ' B. W. Kelly, chairman of the com mittee in charge of arrangements for the entertainment of the pioneers at the Centennial day celebration of the Fall Festival, has addressed a general letter to all of the older residents in the county, i Those over 80 years of age are requested to assemble at the Grace M. E. church on Centennial day, where arrangements will be made for their entertainment and comfort The pioneers will be the guests of honor of the Festival association. The letter which he has addressed to the pio neers is as follows: To the Pioneers of Wayne County: Centennial Day, October 7, will be the greatest day of the Richmond Fall Festival and one of the - most inter esting in the history of -the county The big parade at 1 o'clock will repre sent in a striking and beautiful manner the great progress which the grand old county of Wayne has made in the one hundred years of its . history. In it will be seen side by side ox team and automobile, home made stool and luxurious divan, sickle and self-binder, home-spun and satin, log school house and "educational . institution." and many another reminder of the vast difference between the Wayne county of 1810 and , that of 1910. To Recognise Services. But interesting as this may be to the average onlooker, to no one can it mean more than to you. who, for the greater part of the century, have been actively assisting in bringing about these great " and beneflcient changes, and It Is with an earnest desire to recognise and honor your services, however commonplace they may appear to some of you to have been, that we Invite you to' be present and to occupy positions of honor at the public exercises and In the parade. We want every person eighty years old and over in the county to come to Grace Methodist church at 1 o'clock. October 7; there you will be met by a committee who will see that you are made comfortable, and at one-thirty you will be given seats in automobiles or carriages snd will proceed to follow the line of march in the place of honor in the parade, to the place of meeting. East Main Street Friends' church. Here your conveyances ' will stop and the entire parade pass by you so that you may see It all. Then you will be taken to the speakers platform where a program In honor of the pioneers of Wayne county has been ar ranged. , Good music.' short addresses by Hon. Addison C. Harris, Hon. Wm. Dudley Foulkev the governor of Indiana and others will, be . parts of the program. . After the adjournment if you so desire.- conveyance will be again provided to any. point in the city where you may desire to go to begin your homeward Journey or remain for the night - Next we want all pioneers between seventy snd eighty years old to assem ble on the grounds , of East . Main Street Friends church snd watch the parade go by. Then we want you to take the seats reserved for yon next to the speaker's stand and remain dor-

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Gaar, Scott & Co., a Monarch of It's Class - mil" "T' r 7" in "'" 1 1 1 it 1 i 'i II,.,

THE NEXT HUNDRED-AMD THE REAL

AN EDITORIAL BY CARL BERNHAR DT. A CENTURY HAS PASSED. AND NOW WAYNE COUNTY IS CELEBRATING ITS CENTENARY AT THIS FALL FESTIVAL. THE MANUFACTURERS OF RICHMOND ARE WORLD KNOWN. YET THE TIME WAS WHEN A SIMPLE MILL-RACt- IN WAYNE COUNTY WAS A MARVEL OF ENGINEERING SKILL. DOWN ABOUT ELKH0RN WHERE THE FIRST SETTLEMENT WAS MADE THERE YOU MAY YET SEE THE RELICS OF A MILL RACE, THE GRIST MILL TO WHICH CAME MEN FROM THE COUNTRY 'ROUND, THEIR BAGS OF GRAIN UPON THEIR HORSES.

; AND SO THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE VIRGIN COUNTRY STARTED. TODAY THE COMPLEXITIES OF MODERN LIFE HAVE MADE THOSE VERY INDUS-

ITRIES A FACTOR IN THE VERY

TODAY THIS TOWN SHOWS SIX EXAMPLES OF THE LARGEST SINGLE DEVELOPMENTS OF THEIR KINDS. TODAY RICHMOND SHOWS THE MOST ADVANCED TENDENCIES OF THOUGHT REGARDING THE PROBLEMS OF INDUSTRIALISM. WHY? THE REASON IS NOT HARD TO FIND, AND YET, SO USED HAVE WE BECOME TO IT THAT IT HAS ESCAPED US FROM ITS VERY NEARNESS. RICHMOND'S INDUSTRIES HAVE BEEN DEVELOPED BY THE MEN AND THEIR DESCENDANTS WHO FIRST CAME HERE IN THE EARLY TIMES. AND THIS IS NOT ALONE THE MEN WHO ARE THE OWNERS BUT THE MEN WHO HAVE DONE THE WORK. ALL WERE STURDY OF GOOD STOCK, MENTALLY AND PHYSICALLY AND MORALLY. ' ' AND SO LESS THAN ANY OTHER TOWN IN THE COUNTRY (IN ALL PROBABILITY) CERTAINLY IN THE STATE OF INDIANA WE HAVE NO "LABOR PROBLEM" HERE. THAT MEANS THE CONSERVATION OF GOOD CITIZENSHIP. THE TOWN IS BUT SO MANY CITIZENS. THE NATION IS BUT SO MANY PEOPLE. ANY INDUSTRY ANY FACTORY ANY BUSINESS WHICH DOES NOT PAY A LIVING WAGE ON WHICH ITS EMPLOYES MAY TRUTHFULLY FLOURISft MUST IN THE END BE REGARDED AS A MENACE TO THE NATION AND ESPECIALLY TO THE BODY OF THE CITIZENS IN THE COMMUNITY IN WHICH IT IS ESTABLISHED. THAT IS A STRONG INDICTMENT.

AND YET RICHMOND IN

IT SHOULD BE A CHARGE ON THIS COMMUNITY' THAT IT DOES NOT TAKE THE CELEBRATION OF THIS CENTENARY LIGHTLY. INCREASING STRENGTH SHOULD : MEAN INCREASING RESPONSIBILITY. IN THE MIDST OF MATERIAL PROGRESS IT IS TIME TO TAKE STOCK OF IDEALS AND THE MAN . ' PROPERTY-SHOULD EXIST FOR MAN NOT MAN FOR PROPERTY. A WHOLE COUNTRY IS TURBULENT OVER THIS QUESTION. IT IS A QUESTION WHICH IS BEGINNING TO : BE FELT HERE DISTANT YET STIRRING.

RICHMOND MUST LOOK THIS QUESTION IN THE FACE IT IS THE , REAL PROSPERITY. . : . AND RICHMOND WILL SOLVE IT. THAT THIS IS SO IS BECAUSE OF THE CHARACTER OF ITS CITIZENSHIP. WE HAVE NO SLAVS-K0 POLLACKS BUT AMERICAN CITIZENS OF THE BEST TYPE WE ARE ALL HERE TOGETHER. THE REALIZATION 0F.THIS FALL: FESTIVAL WITH THE BOUrjTY' OF THE YEttl BEFORE US THE REALIZATION OF THE COUNTY OF -THE HUNDRED YEARS SHOULD HAVE IN" IT A KESSAGE OF THE REAL PROSPERITY OF RICII"0r:D. RICHMOND IS GOItE THAN AN INDUSTRIAL CETJTER-niCH"C::D IS A PLXS 13

WHICH TO LIVE A PLACE TO

HAPPINESS. ; ; THE TASIt 0F THE NEXT

LIFE OF THE COUNTRY. .

ACTUAL TRUTH IS SAFE IN THIS RESPECT.

REAR CHIUT.EfJ-A TOV-TJ OF

. IIUNLT.ED YES I5J0 KEEP

PROSPERITY

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IT SO.

RICfflKID BOASTS OF BIG GREAT H FACTORY CENTER 130 Plants Are Located Here, the Total Investment. Bcir.3 $7,500,000, with Payroll cf . $3,800,000. LOCAL PRODUCTS NOW

KNOWN FAR AND W1DZ Caskets, Farming Implements, Lawn Mowers: and RcHcr Skates.Have a ttcrket Everywhere Uniqua Hbtcry.

Total pay roll . . . ; .$ SOO.m Number of factories , . . , 1!0 Capital invested ....... $T.K00.C$

, The whole story of Richmond as sv manufacturing center is told . abovo . ; , and it ia not quite a hundred years, for the birth of Richmond Is noumrty , attributed to the year ltlt, la wt&h year. John Smith . laid out lots ataes the east bank of the Whitewater rtr er. It Is marvelous storythis mauu facturlng development for It has' grown from nothing, nlaoty-Csur .. years ago to such a figure that Ecmond today has a world wide fayU tlon as a factory town, the pro&tsts of its mills snd factories being scU . wherever civilised man is to be fnu&L "Made in Richmond, IndV is pu$ ? threshing machines, lawn mowers. ,V traction engines, roller skates, driUs, burial caskets and a kact t2 i. other things, the market tar wtka is v'i without limit and oa which tla tzX never sets. Wlthont a boast it yt'y be truthfully said that Rlchao4 ct" ufactnres more threshinx BUdlln. -. ' , than any other etty la the wertJ,1 tJ . it manufactures mors trsetSsa eccr than any other city ia the wort U manufactures mors lawn mowers Cia . any other city ia the woril, R tUS v w f actures more roller skates tksa try other city In the world. It amsmus" " tures more safety elevator gates tlsa t--any other city in the world, it matt V factures more grain drills than aey ; ' other city in the world, it maavCsv' : tures more burial caskets than acy . V other city in the -world, and it'ama factures mors " ventilating arrttn for greenhouses and bui&izc)' ri any other city in the world. Tie cy has a piano factory producing a ec plete high grade piano every CTra minutes.. .' H When one thinks of what has heo' -'f f done in the way of devewping local r industries In this less than a ceiaUtry of time he cannot bat marvel ovtr -the development that'' today Is so eon -plete that it might rather seem to ho

the work of hundreds, of years. trip about the city to Inspect the great

Industries that dally ars szj tUSr : . part in supplying the ccritts cf the world leaves one to fcrlM wist tie' ' conditions were that pwvilL:2 txro. , these hives of r"T v V smoke toward heavca or tlcJ f ' ; of employes , throne tc3' C J Cj assist In the great labor cf Cz'izz, . man's ' needs. Beginning of fsctoriee. v ,, '". v To be t more exact tin history ct ' Richmond in so far as it psrtsixs ta - -the msnofactnrlns; buttnsss .mxUzZj- 'j S only back to 1S2S, when a wtia fc'-.v-5 tory was esUblished,- a ssesftS tac-Ty? -- of that nature being sstatSstrt C;:' same year under , ths - Basse cf C -Fleecy Dale Woolen factory. LlerU3 Just north of the city, A ga-tr CET. : was put in operaUaa la a esV ton factory was built by Charles XT., .

I8tarr In lSIL and In lggg the - .

jnrm ; mei :. rw factory - was mXZZ1 - lished. From that tlsss 'to tH tis' development, especially la ao TTtts -of manufactured machinery. Las bso - . steady. It was la the year ef : that the fotmdatfcm of the grst; ' Oaar-Scott factory was tall, r TLs Robinson Machlao Works were Cscrl ed ia 1842. the Quaker City T7cct3fr' . - : lowed in lSSf. the VaSoa . XlaCs Works ia 1M0, the-. Cielssl X3 Works in list, a stove factory t the Richmond Cchoel BerrWorks in ltzi, a sash, door trxl tz3 school faraltaro factory la 1ZZ3, O". velopiag Into what is now C . v mond -Casket ooBeas7, tsS a fcca case and cssSet faefcry ialTXJ. being the present Crm of X XL HzIZx 4k Company. Ths piano iaasry hers

dates back to 175, wtile Cae nlng of the Iloosier DrCl now the Aamrtesa reegzg tl Company, was la L7 at IToa. CJLt county. :- From these bc&sir tas developed the present msss'ir'r.ij that repMsiila. as statsj, a wide variety of nea. the Uv:.'..irr.1 -of assay ssKSoas of doZars sa4 a gsy r roll sppradxsstiatf tovt rr.:Zlra :V lars eacb year. ' Uy, J New faTssrW; It U aot pmCU is u ct,:jt? this aataro to mas srtcU vzz:':ie -of' m rtIs gstTttry tszz-Z 'jira aZ r .r rrr frt:-x Xzy r tsaC t gcrcrir. (Ccxi