Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 38, Number 276, 27 September 1913 — Page 28

THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELE GRAM, SATURDAY, SEPT. 27, 1913

PILOT MOTOR CARS SHOWN TO ADVANTAGE MATHER BROS, BEGIN "Anything Electrical" is Motto of Company Mr. Wiley is a graduate of Purdue university as an electrical engineer, while Mr. Anderson has had a number of years practical experience in this line of work, with the Auto Electrical company of Chicago and in telephone construction. The concern manufactures farm lighting plants and has already installed a number in this county. The largest plant of this kind that it has turned out was built for Ralph Cooper to light his farm and to furnish power for a milking machine. This equipment will be on exhibition in the In dustrial exhibit of the Fall Festival, j The company has a contract for the ( installation of a lighting plant for the I ber of thee ears in Richmond. The officers expect to enlarge their head quarters next spring. town of Centerville. This work will be done sometime this fall. The company does a general repair business of all kinds of motors, recharges batteries, wires houses and all other kinds of work that can be properly connected with the use of the electric current. It also has the agency for the Baker Electric runabout and has sold a num N BUSINESS IN 1810 The Tnt "Mr wife ttssee me events ps whet I get home late" "Affection?" "So; InvestlatlOBu" Bostoa Transcript "Anything electrical" Is the motto of the Richmond Electrical company. Cfitaistock building. This company was organized January 1, 1912 to do a general electrical construction and re pair business. Rocky Mountain Purchasers Get Service From Autos. It has not yet been Incorporated under the laws of the state but probably will be sometime in the near future. The officers of the concern are Charles T. Wiley, manager and E. M. Anderson, secretary and treasurer. One of Early Concerns to Handle Cement and Sewer Pipe. A man wbo ran laugh at himself cam lausu at the whale world- Rati c. BUSINESS INCREASES BIG FREIGHT RECEIVER Factor Addition Necessary to Keep Up With the Heavy Demands. Concern Brought First Car of Pocahontas Coal to Richmond.

The Pilot Motor Car company was organized about four years ago for the purpose of building pleasure automobiles. The organizers were George E. Keidel and Horace and Clarence Kramer. The factory now occupied by the company and located directly opposite the Panhandle station was purchased by the company and during the first year only a few cars were built. These were sent over a scattered area and the great care given to the design of the car, the material used and the construction throughout, brought repeated orders to the factory wherever the first cars wereisent. Particularly was this true in the Rocky Mountain territory where the car showed to exceptional advantage, and the original cars sent there are still in active service In the hands of'their owners. The business grew rapidly, the reputation of the product bringing many orders and a year ago it was decided to enlarge the plant, separate the manufacturing and selling departments, with the result the factory has been busy most of the time night and day the past season. The selling department Is managed by the Pilot Car Sales Co., who distribute the product for the factory. The manager and treasurer of this company is Charles E. Hayes, who came from Boston about a year ago. Adds Building. The factory addition completed last Spring was 125 feet long by 40 feet wide and two stories in height and shortly two large additions will be added to the plant to take care of the increasing business. As the business of the company increased well known business men of Richmond have become Identified with the company, including Walter McConaha, G. Fred Smith, Dr. Charles S Bond, Clem T. Gaar, T H. Hill. The company make a specialty of manufacturing the highest grade car using the finest material to be had and particularly adapted to each car essential, and they are get- j ting reputation throughout the country for the wonderful service which they give. So well thought of are the cars by owners that every original purchaser of a Pilot with two exceptions

are today owning either their first car or another Pilot. The demand for the car has been greatest where the service required has been the hardest in this country, in states like Colorado, Nevada, Texas and Pennsylvania where heavy grades and poor roads demand the highest quality of material and construction, and at present the company has cars in nearly every state in the Union. The officers of this company are George E. Seidel, president; Horace Kramer, Secretary, and T. H. Hill treasurer and general manager.

In 1876 S. D. and D. L. Mather, the latter now deceased, entered the coal and lumber business, and the growth of the concern was steady. In 1880 Harry, a brother, was taken into the partnershfp, as it was the first concern in this part of Indiana that carried cement and sewer pipe. Gradually Mather Bros., grew in confidence of the people of Wayne county until it was decided in 1899 to incorporate. This was done, and shortly afterward a very heavy loss came upon the new corporation known then as "Mather Bros. Company." In 1900, a fire of unknown origin destroyed their buildings and all coal and lumber in the spacious yards. Covert Five Acrs. Mather Bros, company today covers over five acres of land, north of the Pennsylvania passenger station, with a planing mill, cement warehouse, lumber yard, coal bins and two side-tracks, one on either side of the main office which is in the middle front of the land.

Fifty employes forty in the yards and ten in the office, with sixteen teams to make deliveries, comprises the corps that makes this concern a strong factor in the business world of Richmond. The first cement was shipped into Richmond by Mather Bros, company In five-barrel lots. The first car of Pocahontas coal was brought into Richmond from West Virginia by this concern and delivered to the Glen View Home. Building material and the complete preparation of all the interior woodwork for home and business buildings is now a specialty with this concern and modern millin equipment has been put into their new planing mill. . R. B. Mather Is in charge of the coal and building material department. Handles Much Lumber. Over 2,000,000 feet of lumber of various kinds Is on hand in the large yard to the west of the main office. Mr. Henry Mather is head of the lumber department. The Mather Bros.

company handled on an average of 1,000 cars of lumber, coal, cement, plaster, sewer pipe and lime in 1912. This concern is one' of the biggest freight receivers in Richmond. The firm does business with towns within a radius of forty miles of Richmond.

Mather Bros. Company is incorporated for $17,500, and has a surplus of $50,000. The volume of business for the past year runs within the $350,000 mark. This company had the prize float in its division and in the whole parade during the big Fall Festival of 1910.

HOME FURNISHERS

ENJOY PROSPERITY Hoover-Bond 'Company Soon to Occupy Big Main Street Store.

According to announcements recently made by Manager W. M. Penny of the Hoover-Band Co., home furnishers, the business of the concern is flourishing. The company will move from its present quarters, 927 Main street, to the new building being erected on the northwest corner of Tenth and Main streets. ' When in the new building the com

pany will be the largest business house of its kind in Richmond, having a stock of $30,000. There are joint stores of the Hoover-Bond firm in Kalamazoo, Mich., Lama, O., Steubenville, O., Tiffin, O.. and Ashtabula, O. The combined stock of the corporation is $500,000. Though the establishment was opened but five years ago under the name of Allen & Co., the management reports a flourishing business and so great has been the demand for lines carried by the company that larger quarters were necessary. A feature of the business is that all employes from the janitor to the officials are Richmond ' men. The local store is the only agency of the firm which employs only men residing in the city where the store is located.

A consolidation has been effected of the Tin Workers' Union and the Tin Plate International Protective association.

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