Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 83, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 July 1906 — DOUGLAS' NEW BUILDING. [ARTICLE]

DOUGLAS' NEW BUILDING.

*l* Shoe Company Increase* Ite Jobbing Facilities. The dedication of the new administration and jobbing house building ■erected by the W.' L. Douglas SUMCo. as a part of its mammoth manufacturing plant at Montello. Mass., was marked by the thoroughness and attention to detail characteristic "of the firm In all its undertakings. As the new building is said to be the most complete and con venient of any ever bu i 1 t for a ■commercial house in the United States, «o were the expressions of appreciation by the many persons who visited It for Inspection sincere and of a highly congratulatory nature. The completion of this structure marks the establishment of a modern up-to-date wholesale Jobbing house and office building. Mr. Douglas has long considered the advisability of a jobbing house, not only for the purpose of supplying his own retail stores more readily, but that th? 11.000 dealers throughout the United States handling the W. L.Douglas shoes might be able to obtain shoes for immediate use with greater facility. Under the present system all shoes are manufactured to order, and customers sometimes lose sales waiting for shoes to arrive. With the new jobbing house they will be enabled to have their hurry orders shipped the same day they arc received, which will be far more satisfactory to the customer and will result in a largely increased businesa to- thc W. L. Douglas Shoe Co. The new building is 260 feet long and <SO feet wide and' two stories in height. The'jobbing department will occupy the entire lower floor, while the offices will occupy the second floot. The jobbing department will carry a complete stock of men’s, boys’, . youths’, women’s, misses’ and children’s shoes, slippers, rubbers and findings equal to any jobbing house m .the country.