Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 38, Number 276, 27 September 1913 — Page 31
THE RICIOIOND PALLADIUM AND SUX-TELEGRA3L SATURDAY, SEPT. .27. 1.913
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ARLINGTON MODERN IN EVERYRESPECT Each Room Equipped With Conveniences Efficient Management. The Arlington hotel, opposite the Union Station, one of the most modern hOHtelries in KaBtern Indiana, is operated on the European plan and is equipped for the comfort and convenience of iiy patrons. N?w furniture has been placed in one hundred bed rooms. Each room has a hath, hot and cold water, and is equipped with a long distance telephone. A beautiful dining room and lunch room with an up-to-date a la carte service lias been installed for patrons. Arrangements can be made on short notice, for special service to automobile parties. The management has made every effort to modernize the Arlington. Miss Woods, Manager, has had a metropolitan experience in the management of hotels and h-r untiring efforts have been a powerful factor in popularizing the Arlington.
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President Active in Business Interested in Schools and Music.
M. Rumely Unit Here Has Unusual History
Lee R Nusbaum company has gained an enviable reputation in the dry goods business in this city. Its success has been great and its prosperity is assured. ThP store has been remodeled completely and its appointments are up-to-date. This company has always supported every worthy enterprise in the city, and Richmond well may be proud of this enterprising store. Lee 15. Nusbaum. the president, of the concern has not. only advanced the growth of the Nusbaum store, but also nas been active in the interests of
the schools and ; of the city. He i
cess attending the Symphony orchestra and May Festival concerts.
TUHDOUS GROWTH
Knollenberg Store Started in 1866.
A small one story frame building housed the dry goods business which George 11. Knollenberg established on
Main street September 1, 1866. The ! Knollenberg store, handling carpets, j dry goods and notions, formed a foun-;
dation on which the present large bus Inesa has been built.
Eleven years later in the spring of J 1877, the frame building was no Ion- j ger adequate for the needs of the bus- j iness, so Mr. Knollenberg bought the j
site and erected a three-story stone front building. So rapidly did the trade Increase that eleven years later another addition was necessary. At this time the store had a front
age of seventy-six feet on Main street,"! and a depth of 150 feet. As rapidly as , new space was added the business j grew filling it. Having expanded as j much as possible on Main street an : .Annex was built on Eighth with aj
frontage of sixty feet, extending back J32 feet. This latest addition was made in 1896. The George H. Knollenberg company w-aa organized by George H. Knollenberg, Henry W. and Charles Augustus Knollenberg, and Harry V. Watt in 1893. Under the personal management of George II. Knollenberg the business lhas continued its steady growth, until It now covers almost a block near the center of the city.
MILTON RETAINS ARISTOCRATIC AIR
MILTON, Ind., Sept. 27. Caroline settlers founded Milton in the early twenties, and it has always retained something of the aristocratic atmosphere which its founders gave it. With a population of retired farmers and business men, Milton has many fine residences. The town enjoyed a steady growth until 1860 when the Hoosier Drill Company moved to Richmond, "h ilo only a small industry at the timtit was of much importance to Milton, and it was several years before the industry of the town again began to grow. The principal industries are, Doddridge Grave Decorating company, a "wagon shop, flour mill, grain elevator, and the Milton Carriage Company. With railroad and interurban connections, cattle and grain are shipped from Milton by the carload. The town has been incorporated for a number of yean., and is under the control of a board of trustees. The town has contracted for an electric lighting system, the e-urrent to be v 4red from Cambridge City. It also has gas for heating and lighting.
There is one branch of agriculture where the Itumely oil-pull will give to the world millions of acres, otherwise unavailable, says Elbert Hubbard in the .June Philistine. This is in the districts where "dry farming" only is possible. Much of this land is ten, twenty or fifty miles from the nearest railtoad. The land must bo plowed extra deep; and besides, in the ' r'ampbell method" each plow must carry an attachment that makes a little blind ditch beneath the furrow. Here a special amount of power is required. It is killing work on horses; and besides, the heat is often intolerable for the poor beasts, says the Era. There are three processes in civilization, continues Hubbard. One is to dig, the next is to carry, and the third is to manufacture. We have discarded horse-power in
the matter of transportation. The j steamboat, the locomotive and -the au-; tornobile do our lugging. Things are j brought from the farthest corners of the world and laid down in our big cities, all by Mechanical Power. ; Helps On Farm. I The first move in the direction of using mechanical power on the farm j was when we ceased to use horses for ' threshing grain. The horse-power, where a dozen horses were driven j round and round on a sweep, and the power was imparted with a tumblingrod, is something that all of the gray- j beards born in the country remember well. j The steam traction-engine which threshed for a score or more of farmers, was a great move in the direc- j tion of economy and co-operation. It did the work at one-half the expense -that horses could do it. What Is Best Fuel. Wood, as fuel, is now practically out ; of the question. Coal is heavy, cum- j bersome and often scarce. Gas can not ! be transported, and has other limita- i tions. Gasoline is volatile, is affected ' by temperature, can not be transport-; ed in wooden barrels, has to be stor- j ed underground, and increases fire , risk. Besides, its cost is more than i double that of kerosene. Kerosene-oil seems the best, cheapest, most easily j obtained, most condensed and most valuable fuel known. ! A pint of kerosene has more poten-' tial power in it than the same quan- ( tity of dynamite. . The demand for gasoline has now j make kerosene the by-product. The , people who run the buzz-wagons are I the people who make the profits foJ the Standard Oil Company. The Stand- j ard Oil company has more kerosene than it really knos what to do with.
Hence, the low pi'ice of the product. An Infant Industry. The application of the kerosene internal-combustion engine is just in its infancy. The Rumely Company will soon be manufacturing little portable engines that will serve the farmers for a vast number of purposes. The Oil-Pull now being made not only plows, disks, seeds, harrows, and draws binders, but it pulls out stumps, it goes to town and draws behind it a dozen wagons loaded with grain. It
runs a sno-mier. it can supply you electricity by attaching a belt from a dynamo to the flywheel.
Always and forever when humanity needs a thing badly enough, we reach tip in the air or dig down in the earth and fin dit. The most economical fuel now in use is kerosene. I'eyond this, when kerosene is gone, we will have alcohol, because science has shown us how alcohol can be produced as long as the sun shines and vegetation grows. Rut let us not cross the bridge until we get to it. There is kerosene enough now in sight to last a hundred years, and more. The success of the Rumelys is in the fact that they are coming in with the tide. They are riding on the crest of the wave. It is the psychologic moment. High prices demand Mechanical Power for the farmer instead of the power of animals. That is to say, we are going to use the incarnate power instead of the carnate. In America we do not eat horses, and they do not give milk. Instead of horses, we will .raise cattle. Just now it takes three cows to buy one horse. This ratio will eventually be reversed by the Oil Pull, and thus will we keep famine at bay. Replace a horse with Oil-Pull and you give back to the world five acres of land. The value of a horse is uncertain; there Is always a market. Changes Hands. Since Elbert Hubbard wrote the above, there has been considerable change in the organization of the M. Rumely company. E. A. Rumely has given over the reins of management to Clarence S. Funk, formerly with the International Harvester company. Prior to this change, the old Gaar, Scott plant had been closed down by the company because of over production, and for a time it seemed to be the intention &t the company to permanently abandon it as a manufacturing branch. The Gaar Scott company, the predecessor of the local M. Rumely division had its beginning in 1836. when the E. I. Jones company established a factory for the manufacture of stoves. Plant Sold In 1840 The plant was sold in 1840 to Jonas Gaar and E. Hully who later sold it to J. M. and J. H. Hutton who started the manufacture of engines ahd agricultural implements. During their ownership of the factory they began the building of the "ground hog" thresher. It was given this name because it was roped down to the ground and did nothing but knock the grain out of the heads. Builds Separators. The first separator was built by the company in 1845 but was not a success until four years later. The beginning of the future greatness of the company was in 1846 when Abraham and J. M. Gaar asked for an increase in wages from $1 to $1.25 a day and we were taken into partnership in the company instead of being allowed the increase. In IS 7.1 the company was rated at a half million dollars and covered 2l2 acres of ground. It was incorporated with Abraham Gaar as president, J. M. Gaar vice president; and William G. Scott, secretary and treasurer. Before it was taken over by the Rumely people the factory had a pay roll of over half a million dollars per year.
HOMRIGHOUS STRONG ON WATCH REPAIRS
George Homrighous. has established a prosperous jewelry store on Main street. With fifteen years of experS ence in watch repairing and management of jewelry stores the standard of his store has been brought up to the best. Mr. Homrighous makes a specialty of high grade watch repairing, special attention and care being given to railroad watches, job repairing and all kinds of ring and spectacle work.
Soft Drink Firm Has Big Output
Sufficient soft drinks can be manufactured in one factory in Richmond to assuage the thirst of the entire city and a number or neighboring towns. The Fossler Bottling company, located on Green street, has a daily output of 175 cases of soft drinks during the summer season, but with its plant facilities it has a capacity for more than double this production. The Fosler company was founded thirty years ago by the father of Frank Fosler, its present owner. It was located at that time on Seventh street. Mr. Fosler became the owner of the factory three years ago when he purchased it of the Fosler estate. Ow ing to the nature of work in the manufacturing of soft drinks only a small force of men is required to run the plant. The drinks are mixed in a huge closed vat heavily charged with gas. One man is required to care for the bottles as they slide down a grove to be filled and automatically capped. The power to turn the machinery of the bottling plant is furnished by a four-horse power electric motor. Beginning next year Mr. Fosler plans to purchase gasoline trucks to distribute the soft drinks he manufactures over the city and the currounding country.
ART STORE HOLDS WINNING MOTTO The business of the Richmond Art Store has flourished under the motto: "If you don't see what you want we will paint it for you," and the public has responded to this motto. At r anil !ra Smith nnrli- -n-Vitcn
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ed are both artists and their work has received the hearty endorsement of Richmond. Their stock includes both white and painted china, postal cards, letters, holiday and feature announcements in colors and tints, are novelties of all descriptions.
FELTMAN CONDUCTS TOBACCO STORE
The Ed A Felt man Tobacco store. 609 Main street, carries a line of tobacco for both the wholesale and retail trades. The store is owned bv F.d
A. Feltman. who conducted a tobacco ' store for the Driftmeyer Tobacco j company for twentv years. He enter-'
! ed business for himself four vears
j ago. He carries a complete line of ;
i pipes, cigarets and all the better ! known brands of cigars and smoking i tobaccos.
LOEHR AND KLUTE MEN'S FURNISHERS
SAM FRED ADOPTS UNUSUAL POLICY
Sam Fred, who has had many years of practical experience in clothing the public has adopted an unusual policy. No pressing and repair bills to clothes are incurred by the customerrs for one year after a purchase is made. This policy has to a large extent been responsible for the prosperity of his store.-
RATLIFF FEATURES DIAMOND TRADE
Joseph F. Ratliff, jeweler, although not a pioneer in the jewelry business in Richmond has made an enviable reputation. Mr. Ratliff has had three business locations in this city each in its turn being vacated for more commodious rooms. His trade has increased steadiiy. A large stock of jewelry.
! cut glass, copper, brass and silver- ! ware, watches, clocks, optical goods i and umbrellas, is carried. Mr. Ratliff makes a specialty of diamonds and 1 features low priced stones.
I.oehr and Klute is one of th most aggressive men's furnishers in the city and is up-to-date in all its business methods. This firm has always handled men's and boy's furnishings of the best quality and has substantially increased its sales until the current
j year has exceeded that of any previous j year.
Western Australia. Wo? torn Australia produces more gold than any American state, sends
! more pearls to Europe than any other : country except Ceylon and is said to have the richest belt of hardwood tiaij ber ia the world.
I&eep If xn r Mactaane in Q)vsr Modleirn (Garage HDyring tine Tim Yoxn Are in. trae CityQ)Gtolber 1, 2 and. 3
0ir Modern Repair Department Is a source of pride with us. We honestly believe that no other repair shop in the city can compare favorably with ours. This is the Reason Our men are skilled in their work. Our facilities are above the average. We allow no bad work to leave our shop. WE DO YOUR WORK IN ABOUT HALF THE TIME IT TAKES OTHERS. Think this over. A full and complete line of auto accessories carried at all times. Best Equipped Vulcanizing Plant in the City The best man available was secured and placed in charge of this department Most modern equipment was secured and materials the best on the market. As for Storage You will find a better and cleaner place to store your machine in our Garage than any other. Price is right.
Overhauling and Remodeling Done Scientifically
If Yoi Are in the Market for Tires Yoi Should See Us We have the Racine, the heaviest tire on the market Plain, Safety and Nobby treads, Heaviest, red inner tubes. Goodrich tire, the tire with a continuous good record.
PHONE 1925.
L G. WHITESELL, Prop.
1211 MAIN STREET