Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 110, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 October 1909 — BOTH BROTHERS NOW IN THEIR FINE NEW SHOP. [ARTICLE]

BOTH BROTHERS NOW IN THEIR FINE NEW SHOP.

Which They Have Christened “The Royal Meat Market”—lt Is Best Equipped Shop In Indiana.

Roth Brothers, Milt and Sam, are perched upon the pre-eminence of butcher shop accomplishment, and , bedecked with spotless aprons they rival any picture ever produced of Spotless Town, behind the counter of their magnificent new meat market. If they had simply erected a new building and equipped it with ordinary furniture they would have deserved to feel well satisfied, but they have gone a long ways farther and after erecting a building of, good size and proportions they have equipped it with" every article of convenience and beauty that is manufactured for meat markets.

The erection of the building and the equipment of the market on the line of its accomplishment was the consummation of an ambitio'n of many years, and the proprietors can now do what they had formerly hoped some time to do, and that is say that theta is no better meat market in the land than their own. The building is 90 feet long, with a second story, 70 feet long, divided into offices. The lower floor is divided into three parts, the front or salesroom, the refrigerator and machinery room and a rear work room. Beneath is a basement with a hot water heating plant, which will heat the entire building, plenty of radiation being employed to satisfactorily heat it during the coldest weather.

The floor of the salesroom is tiled with small, white tile, while larger glazed tile form a six-foot wanescoating from the sides of the room. Above this is steel siding and steel celling painted with a pale green that harmonizes splendidly with the floor and other walls. At the sides of the room behind the counter the walls are wanescoated with oak of the same shade as the counter in front and the refrigerator that makes the rear wall of the salesroom.

The refrigerator consists of two parts, the front the selling portion with doors opening to the front, and measures 10 by 14 feet and is so arranged that twelve dressed beefs and other meats in proportion to the trade can occupy it at the same time. No ice will be used for the preservation of the meats, but a refrigerator plant has been installed by which with the use of ammonia the temperature can be regulated at all times. It will require the running of their big Fairbanks 10-horse gasoline engine when the cooling process is going on, but this will not require more than 6 hours Running during the hottest weather. The engine is connected up with the meat grinding and bone grinding machines and this work will be done during the hours when the refriger-

ator plant requires the running of the engine. The temperature of the storage refrigerator will be kept at from 30 to 35 degrees Farenheit, while the temperature in the front or sales part will not be so low. The custom counter in the front room is of oak, with marble top and glass front. It also, is connected up with the refrigerator plant and all the meat displayed therein is kept at a temperature of about 40 degrees. A new cash register and weighing scales adorn the counter, while new meat blocks were also installed, making in all a meat mark«et not excelled in the United States, justifying the pride of the owners and meriting the praise of the public. It is twelve years since Milt Roth and Granville Moody engaged in business in the room just vacated. During that time the firm of Moody & Roth and its succeeding firm, Roth Bros., have paid out $3,700 in rent. The new building and its equipment will stand the owners something like >IO,OOO, and is a credit to our city and a compliment to the enterprise of the proprietors and their confidence in the city which they have chosen as their home.