Des Moines and Polk County, Iowa, City Directory 1894, Part 1

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II


HAWKEYE


Insurance


ASSETS


1866 $ 28,617.14 21867 05.041.87


1868 120.032.09


1809


140.003.26


1870 150.385.22


£ 1871


158.387.07


The following is a statement


in each year


Officers.


1876


429,683.41


A. HOWELL., President.


1877


511,225.65


W. D) SKINNER, SOCr.


1878


552,634.01


W. C. COLE, Ass't Secr.


1879


593,135.79


Louis STUTZ, Cashier.


1880


603,190.97


1881


620,05191


1882


650.203.98


1883


675,948.71


18 84


704,731.92


1885


708,235.21


18 86


709,172.55


1887


709,589.14


1888


711,245.16


1889


712,428.07


1890


713,319.61


1891


713,895.71


1892


720,694.42


1893


733.419.83


1894


748,947:15


T HE HAWKEYE insures property against fire lightning and tornadoes, and has done more business, paid more losses and has a larger surplus over all liabilities than any other Iowa company. ' It is purely a home institution, confining its business to Iowa alone. As to its standing among Iowa people, we refer to the above showing, which speaks for itself.


Patronize 'Home Institutions and Industries is the watchword. . Don't send your money out of the State when you can get a policy in one of the best Com- panies, Home or Foreign, by patronizing the HAWKEYE INSURANCE CO. of Des Moines, Iowa.


Company


Moines, lowa. MARCHI 6, 1865.


207 & 209 Fourth Street.


of assets on the First of January since organization.


Directors.


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. . Of Des ORGANIZED


Office in Co.'s Building,


1872 188,561.13


1873 243.050.18


1874 289,559.13


875


338,678.89


JAMES CALLANAN, FE PRES.


JAMES CALLANAN. G. M. HIPPEE. R. S. FINKBINE. JAS L. CALLANAN. W.C. COLE. W. D. SKINNER A. HOWELL.


27.406


1


ch corda ynd lib, Out.


THE


Equitable Life Insurance Co. OF IOWA.


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HOME OFFICE, DES MOINES. 1-


Assets January 1, 1894, $1,003, 143.02 Liabilities (4 per cent Actuaries table), 733,854.82 Surplus to Policy-holders, 269,288.20


EASY POINTS ~ ~ ~~ FOR BUSY MEN TO EXAMINE.


Strength- $135/00 m Assets for each $100.00 of Liability. Safety-Every Policy Secured-as provided by law-by deposit of interest bearing securities with the State Auditor of Iowa.


OLICIES- All Forms of Life, Endowment, Investment, Semi-Tontine and return Premium Endow- ment Policies issued at as low rates as any other regular Life Company.


TROFIT-Interest Earned on mean amount of Assetts in. 1893, 6,75 per cent. Death Losse to mean amount insured in 1 898, 6.67 per cent.


ROGRESS -- Insurance in forde $5, 500, opo.


PATRONIZE A HOME INSTITU- ATION AND HELP TO. BUILD UP IOWA.


. OFFICERS


F. M. HUBBELL, President. J. O. CUMMINS, Secretary. GIP. HANAWALT Med. Director.


CYRUS KIRK, Vice President. RET. WELLSLAGER, Treasurer! I. T. MARTIN, Supt. of Agencies.


HOYT SHERMAN. R. T. WELLSLAGER. FRED


HUBBELL !!


.. DIRECTORS F. M. HUBBELL. CONRAD YOUNGERMAN. J. C. CUMMINS.


ROB'T FULLERTON. CYRUS KIRK. I. T. MARTIN


DO NOT SEND YOUR MONEY EAST FOR


LIFE INSURANCE.


11925


III


DES MOINESCITY DIRECTORY.


1 IV


DES MOINES CITY |DIRECTORY.


DES MOINES


Cement Paving Co . .... .


F. R. STEHM, PROPRIETOR.


MANUFACTURERS OF ALL KINDS OF


CEMENT WORK.


CEMENT WALKS, CURBING, CELLARS, GARDEN WALLS, CARRIAGE HOUSES,


STABLES


DRIVEWAYS. ETC.


All Work Warranted to Give Satisfaction, at Lowest Possible Figures.


OFFICE-719 SEVENTH ST.


DES MOINES,


IOWA.


DES MOINES CITY |DIRECTORY.


V


860.


WHY INSURE IN THE


1894.


Washington Life Insurance Co. - Of NEW YORK


ECAUSE: Although not as Old as the Oldest, .. .


Or as Big as the Biggest, it is 1.


Safest Among the Safe! Strongest Among the Strong,


AND ITS CONTRACTS ARE AS


Good as Gold Bonds and Bear Better Interest Than U. S. Government Bonds.


Old Enough! Safe Enough ! Strong Enough and Good Enough for Anybody


That's why I insure my life in it. Can' you or anybody else give any better reason for Insuring in any other company? Does any company offer any more reliable inducements or present stronger claims?


BECAUSE: Its Assets of $13,000,000 are Invested in Undoubted Securities.


WE are justified in saying that i no securities are so staple and safe for the investment of a life insur- ance company as well selected bonds br mortgages, and that from no other sound secureties can so large a rate of interest be realized! "- 35 th Annual Repart of the Mutual Life of New York.


NAME OF COMPANY :


|Per cent of| Loans on Bond and Mortgage to Gross Assets.


Washington


84.30.


United States


64.63


Connecticut


61.40


Atna


51.96


Provident of Philadelphia


41.01


Mutual Life of New York!


38.35


New York Life of New York


17.35


Equitable Life of New York


13.72


Provident Savings


17.89


BECAUSE: No clap-trap, disreputable or dishonorable methods are resorted to by its Manager, his Special or District Agents, to obtain business. Its business is done by strict adherance to the truth in every department. These are some of the reasons why I insure in the Washington.


BECAUSE:


M. T. V. BOWMAN, Manager for Iowa. D. F. BOWMAN, Special Agent.


Cor. Fourth and Walnut, over Iowa National Bank, DES MOINES, IOWA.


VI


DES MOINES CITY


DIRECTORY.


CHARLES E. RISSER. 0- !


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1


Rissers®


Stores.


1


Department


4II Walnut Street. 607-609 East Locust Street.


General Dry Goods, Carpets, Fancy Goods, Etc.


LOWEST PRICES.


BEST GOODS.


(Sce Left Top Corner Cards.)


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JULIUS O. RISSER.


FREDERICK S. RISSER.


1


J. O. RISSER DEALERS IN


& SON


Boots an


hoes.


The Latest Styles.


607-609 E. Locust Street.


(See Left Top Corner Cards. )


WILLIAM H.


RISSER.


VII


"DES MOINES CITY DIRECTORY.


BEGIEBING & BUTTELL.


MANUFACTURERS OF


B&B


- ---


HIGH GRADE


PIANO


S


THE ONLY PIANO FACTORY IN IOWA


CALL AND SEE THEM ..


816-818 West Grand Ave.


Des Moines, lowa.


1


VIII


DES MOINES CITY DIRECTORY .!


.


R. L. POLK & CO.'S


Directory Library FREE TO THE PUBLIC.


Office, 609 Iowa Loan and Trust Building.


Albany, N. Y.


Atchison, Kan. Boston, Mass.


Bridgeport, Con. Buffalo, N. Y.


Chicago, III.


Chicopee, Mass. Columbus, Ohio. Des Moines, Iowa. Denver, Colo. Detroit, Mich. Duluth, Wis. East Hartford, Conn.


DIRECTORIES.


Grand Rapids, Mich. Hartford, Conn. Hoboken, N. J. Indianopolis, Ind. Jersey City, N. J. Kansas City, Kan. Little Rock, Kan. Memphsis, Tenn. Milwaukee, Wis. Minneapolis, Minn. Montreal, Canada. Nashville, Tenn. New Haven, Com.


Omaha, Neb .; Peoria, IN! Philadelphia, Pa. Portland, Ore. Providence, R. I. St. Paul, Mim, Salt Lake City, Utah. Sioux City, Towa. Spokane, Wash. Springfield, Mass. Superior, Wis. Tacoma, Wash. Toledo, Ohio.


We have back numbers of the Des Moines City Directory from 1888 to and including 1894.


1


GAZETTEERS, ETC.


Idaho Gazetteer. ILinois Gazetteer. Towa Gazetteer. Oregon Gazetteer.


--


Philadelphia Business Directory. Rhoad Island Business Directory.


Texas Gazetteer. U. S. Medical and Sur- gical Register. Washington Gazetteer.


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DES MOINES


CITY |DIRECTORY.


IX


P.C.KENYON · PRINTING


506 - 508 LOCUST 51 DES MOINES


FINE PRINTING


TO ORDER.


WE PRINT EVERYTHING.


FINEST WORK IN THE CITY.


PRICES RIGHT.


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R. B. CARTER,


DEALER IN


Windmills, Pumps, Tanks,


PIPES, FITTINGS AND FIXTURES.


BELTING, PACKING, HOSE, FACTORY SUPPLIES, LAWN HOSE RUBBER MATTING AND DOOR MATTS, RUBBER TNBING ETC.


318 COURT AVE.


318 COURT AVE.


DES MOINES CITY DIRECTORY.


DES MOINES


FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY. .. ... + -- - ... . ---


Indemnity Against Fire, Lightning and Tornadoes.


Assets, I


I


I


$400,000.00


CONFINES ITS BUSINESS TO IOWA.


Largest Gains and Lowest Ratio of Losses


OF ANY COMPANY IN THE STATE.


Patronize a' Home Company and Help to Build up Iowa and its Queen City.


Office in Company's Building, 405 Court Ave, J. G, ROUNDS, President. J. S. CLARK, Secretary and Manager.


SEE RICHT TOP LINES.


DES MOINES CITY DIRECTORY.


XT


THE


DES MOINES, NORTHERN ..


& WESTERN RAILWAY CO.


THROUGH PASSENGER AND FREIGHT LINE BETWEEN


DES MOINES AND


CHICAGO.


CHICAGO, ST. PAUL,


MILWAUKEE,


MINNEAPOLIS,


SIOUX CITY,


COUNCIL BLUFFS,, AND OMAHA.


The Des Moines, Northern & Western Railway Forms the Above! Lines in Connection with the 1.1


Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul R'y,


Thus Opening up Over 10,000 Miles of Railway to the city of Des Moines !!


FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, CALL ON OR ADDRESS JAMES N. TITTEMORE,


General Freight and Passenger Agent,


DES MOINES,


IOWA.


XII


DES


MOINES


CITY DIRECTORY:


Wabash


Railroad.


THE


"BANNER ROUTE' IS THE DIRECT LINE BETWEEN


DES MOINES, KANSAS CITY


ST. LOUIS


AND ALL POINTS SOUTH AND WEST.


SHORT LINE CHICAGO TO THE CAST THROUGH SLEEPING CAR LING.


RUNS DAILY BETWEEN THE ABOVE POINTS.


1:


For all Information, call on or address,


F. CHANDLER,


C. P. & T. A., ST. LOUIS.


HORACE SEELY, COMMERCIAL ACT., DES MOINES.


DES MOINES


CITY'


DIRECTORY.


XIII


PLATI


Pressed and Fire Brick Co.


MANUFACTURERS OF


FINE PRESSED BRICK. GOLDEN BUFF


THE POPULAR SHADE, A SPECIALTY ..


PRESSED BRICK IN VARIOUS SHADES.


FIRE BRICK


Paving and First-class Hard Com- mon Brick.


-WORKS AT VAN METER, IOWA .-


Office and Display Rooms, 706 Youngerman Block,


IOWA !! DES MOINES,


PLACI BROS ..


1.


Miners and Shippers of


VAN METER COAL


706 Youngerman Block,


Des Moines, lowa.


XIV


DES MOINES CITY


DIRECTORY.


C. E. RAWSON, Pres. and Gen. Mngr. HON. G. L. DOBSON, Vice Pres. O. P. WRIGHT, Treasurer. MRS. I. C. RAWSON, Secretary.


CUMMINS & WRIGHT, Legal Advisers, CHAS. W. EATON, M. D., Medical Director. G. E. RAWSON, O. P. WRIGHT and MRS. L. C. RAWSON, Executive Committee.


Des Moines


Life Association, Of lowa.


AGENTS WANTED. HAddress C. E. Rawson, President.


TO INSURANCE AGENTS. 1


GENTLEMEN: -- The Des Moines Life Association, operated on the "Rawson Sys- tem" of life insurance, is not a high rate company or a low rate company, but an or- ganization whose premiums are based on insurance experience, and are sufficient, but


not exhorbitant. According to the sworn statements of the old-line companies to the New York Insurance Department for the past thirty years, we are collecting just a lit- tle more money to pay death losses with than they do, but not nearly as much for ox- pense and reserve. Thus you will see that, by basing our mortuary collection on this experience, we are absolutely safe at less than one-half the rates charged by old line companies. We need not tell you that an agent's value is measured by his ability to collect premiums, or that it is much easier to collect a premium of $75 for a $5,000 pol- icy in our company than it is for a $2,000 policy in an old line company. This is why agents say that the Des Moines Life Association isja bonanza for thein. The insured, for the same premium, gets more than twice the insurance furnished by the old line com- panies, and insurance that is absolutely safe, and yet the agent's commission is about the same. We write as many lowa people in a month as any old-line Iowa company writes in a year. We are doing business in fourteen different States, and before the close of 1894 will be in at least twenty States. For three years in succession we have written more Iowa business than any phe company, eastern or western.


We have some good territory for special or general agents. Address,


BEE NEXT PAGE.


.C. E. RAWSON, President,


DES MOINES, IA


DES


MOINES CITY ||DIRECTORY.


XV


Read


THE FOLLOWING CAREFULLY.


ABSOLUTELY SAFE-READ CARE FULLY.


WE wish to explain why the Des Moines Life As- I sociation is absolutely safe for all time toy come. |The money paid in by the people for insier- "ance is divided into three different funds, viz.


Mortuary Reserve.


Expense!


These three items comprise the elements that make' up the gross premjum charged: i The following shows the amount charged by old line companies for pure life insurance, and also the amount charged by us.


Cost of Old-Line Insurance at Age 40 for


$1,000.


Mortuary.


$ 9 20


Reserve


06


Expense


8 95-$31 21 !


Cost of Des Moines Life af Age 40 for


$1,000.


Mortuary


2.9 9 60


Reserve


Expense


B 00 -- $15 00


You can see from the above that we collect more to pay our death losses than do the old-line or legal re- serve companies, but not nearly se mijch for reserve and expenses. The president of many old-line. com- pantes draws a salary Hof $50,000 pier anmimi (the same as the President of the United States), a few of them get $65 000,' while our president simply gets pay for the time he puts in, and mustbe paid from the $3.00 per Stiboo, as well as all the rest of the expenses of the company.


BUSINESS MEN ASK FOR OUR INSURANCE


Several of our Des Moines med, during past year; blive either called at dur office or asked us to call on them and write their applid (tions for a policy, which has been very gratifying i deed. None has been more so than a man whose | name is familiar not only to insurance [men but to the reisses of people! of the great State of Iowa. \ \ We refer! o Adam Howell, president of the Hawkeye Fire In france Company Jof this dity.


Not long since, Mr. Lo well said, as, we were dining together, "" Why don't you call and write me a policy in your company?'' at vie same time say' ing that he had heard a great many good things said about the D. M. L. All and felt that we were worthy of the slipport of our home people, is we were build- ing up a Western institution that was a credit to our city and State _ We appreciate the confidence thus placed in the L). M. I ! Al by a man that stands on the top round of insurance and at the head of a company that needs no introduction to the people of Iowa. We. feel that we have added to our membership a valua- ble name, one that will carry weight with it. | At the same time we have increased Mr. Howell's estate just. $2,000.


Refleet


AND THEN


Aet


OUR PYRAMID.


Built in the Four Years and Nine Months That the Company Has Been Operated on the "Rawson System." Assets,


July 1, 1889.


$00.00


Oct. 1889


4,100,00


jan. ,1890


11,327.19


April': , 1890


20,970.19.


July 1890 .-


27,340.19


Oct. 1890.


35,525.19


Jan.FI 1891


39,193.76


April 1, 1891. 49,650.76


July. I. 189


55,3 10 .76


Oct.I 1891


67,185.76


jan 1 1892.


7 3,188 .31


April , 1892


8 0,76 3 . 3 1


July I, 1892. 88,778


13:1


[Oct. 1802 9 .1,4 36


Jan., I 1803-


105,10


3 17


1 5


April 1803-


7 6 111 6 122 , 757 . 75


Oct! I, 1893 --


134,00


2 75


Jan. 1| 1894 --


150,48


029


April 1, 18941 61, 615


1. 2.9


" We wish to impress it on your mind that the above as. Rets all belong to our policy holders. No stockholders to absorb the savings. On the other hand; at the end of each tenth policy bycar, this fund is equally divided among pal- Hey-holders who have kept their policies in force for ten. full years, giving them their choice dither in cash or paid- up insurance


HY


The Leading |Life Insurance Agents prefer to represent this Company, and |


The MASSES of the PEOPLE


1. INSURE WITH US.


FIRST .--- Because we write pure Life Insurance with- out any side issues. ..


SECOND, -- Because we pay our death losses promptly; and in full.


THIRD .- Because we | do the leading [ business in Lowa, bld-line or new FOURTH .~ Because we pay our agents a cash com. ission on the fifteenth of each month.9


FIFTH,Because we have' no membership fee, mak.' ing pour plan much more desirable.'2 SIXTH .- Because our payments are fixed, doing away with post mortem or pass-the hat assessmentsi SEVENTH.+Because we always have money to pay! 1 death losses promptly, and to loan out on lova farts! EIGHTH !!- Because in case a policy-holder gets total -! disabled He can draw one-half of the benefit while ving.


NINTH. Because we write the Joint Policy do man did wife or any two relatives, with the full amount pay- able to the dne that lives the longest. The test at Noah soud when he invited them into the ark, " come in pairs. TENTH .-- And Because our dividendi at the end of for years will equally divide the accumulations between every policy holder that has kept his policy paid up for ten years If they have paid one dollar too milic itwill be returned to them with interest, making the cheapest insurance obtainable.


TEN REASONS


THY


July I 893 ..


:


BLUE


ROUTE OF IOWA


GRASS


Des Moines & Kansas


RAILWAY.


THE QUICKEST AND MOST DIRECT LINE TO


Lincoln, Colorado Springs, Pueblo, Salt Lake, Denver, Cheyenne, Leadville, Ogden, AND ALL OREGON AND CALIFORNIA POINTS.


OUR TRAIN No. 1, leaving Des Moines at 8:30 A. M., makes direct conf nnection with C., B. & Q. FAST DENVER DAY EXPRESS at Osceola !! arriving at Denver at 7 o'clock the next morning. Also at Leon with C., B. & Q. for St. Joseph and Kansas City.


SHORT LINE


TO ALL POINTS IN SOUTH AND SOUTHWESTERN IOWA making Direct Connections in Union Depots at all Junction Points.


FREIGHT DEPOT, Seventh St .; Cor. Elm Street.


N. T. MILLER, Agent


JOHN C. NEWTON,


Vice President & Gen'l Mngr.


DES MOINES,


DEPOT TICKET OFFICE, C., B. & Q. Passenger Station, FOOT OF 4TH STREET. C. E. MESSMER, Depot Ticket Agent


THEO. C. SHERWOOD, Supt. & Gen'| Pass. & Ticket Agent.


IOWA.


City


XVI


:


DES


MOINES


CITY


DIRECTORY.


2


DES MOINES CITY. DIRECTORY.


THE-


CHICAGO,


MILWAUKEE &


ST. PAUL R'Y


With its 6,150 miles of thoroughly equipped road reaches all principal points in


Northern Illinois, Wisconsin, lowa, Minnesota, South Dakota, North Dakota and Northern Michigan.


THE ONLY LINE


Running Electric Lighted and Steam Heated Vestibuled Trains.


All Coupon Ticket Agents in the United States and Canada sell Tickets via the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul R'y.


CEO. H. HEAFFORD,


Genl. Pass. Agent, Chicago, Ill.


R. L. POLK & CO.'S


CHICAGO


AND TRUNK RY


PALACE SLEEPING


AND


DINING CAR LINE


IN CONNECTION WITH


DETROIT, GRAND HAVEN


AND MILWAUKEE RAILWAY.


GREAT WESTERN DIVISION


GRAND TRUNK RAILWAY,


IS A FAVORITE ROUTE


VIA NIAGARA FALLS


GEO. B. REEVE, Traffic Manager. W. J. SPICER, Gen'l Manager. W. E. DAVIS; Gen'l Pass. Agt.


CHICAGO & GRAND TRUNK R'Y.


É


GRAND TRUNK RAILWAY.


L. J. SEARGEANT, Gen'l Manager. N. J. POWER, Gen'l Pass. Agent.


MT. CLEMENS, DETROIT AND CHICAGO LINE.


A Magnigcent Line of New Pullman Buffet Sleeping and Parlor Cars is run between Mt. Clemens, Detroit and Chicago, via Durand. Dining Car Service attached, Serving breakfast before arrival at Chicago.


CHICAGO AND SAGINAW VALLEY LINE.


A Daily Line of Pullman Sleeping and Parfor Cars is run between Chicago and the Saginaw Valley, via Durand, in both directions.


THE GRAND HAVEN LINE


Is a Popular Summer Route from Milwaukee'to the East.


CRAND


1 1


# RECLINING CHAIR CARS (Seats Free)


TEXARKANA and Texas points.


1


DES MOINES CITY DIRECTORY.


Che Iron Mountain Route.


1


THE


OR RON


OUNTAIN Route.


EAT THROUGH LINE VIA ST. Louis


ARKANSAS & TEXAS.


ALTERICAN BANK NOTE COTLAY


DAILY. TRAINS


St. Louis to Texas and the Southwest.


The Shortest and Quickest Line to the City of Mexico via Laredo. SLEEPING CARS THROUGH WITH ONLY ONE CHANGE.


1 No Change of Cars, St. Louis to Los Angeles and Pacific Coast Points.


ONLY LINE


TO THE


FAMOUS HOT


SPRINGS OF ARKANSAS,


THE CARLSBAD OF AMERICA."


yor rates and detailed information, W. B. DOUDRIDGE, General Manager.


address company's agents of " H. C. TOWNSEND, Gen'l Pann. and Ticket Agent, } ST. LOUIS, MO.


Antonio and Laredo without change. Fort Worth, Dallas, El Paso, Austin, San Memphis, Little Rock, Houston, Galveston,


PULLMAN BUFFET SLEEPING CARS ₩ ----


-TO-


TO


LITTLE ROCK, MALVERN


CJ


STEE


R. L. POLK & CO.'s


The Missouri Pacific Railway


+ SNIVEL KTIVIT BETWEEN


RECLINING CHAIR CARS (Seats Free) St. Louis, Kansas City and the West. ---


Omaha and Wichita. To Kansas City, Atchison, St. Joseph, Lincoln, PULLMAN BUFFET SLEEPING CARS


SOLID TRAINS DAILY


FROM St. Louis and Kansas City to Pueblo and Denver VIA THE COLORADO SHORT LINE, THROUGH PULLMAN BUFFET SLEEPING CARS E QUIPPED WITH


AND RECLINING CHAIR CARS.


W. B. DODDRIDGE. General Manager. H. C. TOWNSEND, Gen, Pass. and Ticket Agent,


-. ST. LOUIS. MO.


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R. L. POLK & CO.'S


DES MOINES CITY


VALLEY JUNCTION AND POLK COUNTY


.


DIRECTORY


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27.406


1894


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CONTAINING AN ALPHABETICALLY ARRANGED LIST OF BUSINESS FIRMS AND PRIVATE CITIZENS; A STREET AND AVENUE GUIDE ; MISCEL- LANEOUS DIRECTORY; CITY AND COUNTY OFFICERS; TERMS OF COURT ; CHURCHES; COLLEGES; PUBLIC AND PRI- VATE SCHOOLS ; BUILDINGS; BANKS; INCOR- PORATED INSTITUTIONS ; RAILROADS ; :


SECRET AND BENEVOLENT SOCIETIES, ETC.


AND !A COMPLETE


CLASSIFIED BUSINESS DIRECTORY. .


R. L. POLK & CO.,


COMPILERS AND PUBLISHERS, DES MOINES, IOWA


Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year v8gt by R. L. Polk & Co., in the office of the Librarian of Congressizat Washington, D. C.


GENERAL INDEX.


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PAGE


Abbreviations 145 Additions and Subdivisions 45


Advertisements, Index tol 11 to 13


Alphabetical List of Names 145 t.o 679


Alterations, Removals, Etc 15, 16


Business Directory 733 to: 856


Des Moines and Iowa


79 Financial Department 80 to 96


Manufacturing, Mercantile and Busi- ness Department 97 to 144 Miscellaneous Information 47 to 78 Parks and Public Buildings 43 to 45 Polk County Resident Directory 689 to 731 Street and Avenue Guide 17 to 43 Valley Junction Resident and Busi- ness Directory 680 to 688


INDEX TO MISCELLANEOUS INFORMATION.


PAGE.


PAGE


Alarm of Fire, Directions for Giving .. ' 48 55 Medical Colleges 66


Asylum's and Hospitals Banks_ 55


56.


Military


66


67


Cemeteries 56, 57 Miscellaneous Clubs and Sodieties 67 Chemical Engines, Location of 48 --- Churches 57 Missions. 48 City Government 47 59 Miscellaneous and Private Schools 69 59 Musical Colleges City Printers 59 Newspapers and Publications 69, 69 alleges and Schools. 47 70 71 Orchestras and Bands 70, bmbination Chemical Engines and I'laces of Amusement Hose Carts, Location of Police Department 47, 71 48 69


common Council


dunty and Township Officers 53 54 53


Junty Officers


hurts 59, 60


apartment of Health


47 47


gineer's Department «changes


xpress Companies


Titre Department. Freign Consuls


60 55 68 55


Secret Societies 72 to 77 54 Town Assessors 53


Township Assessors


Township Clerks


54


54


Township Justices of the Peace


54


Township Trustees


54


Voting Precincts


52


53


Ward Boundaries .51,


51 49 72 49 55


State Boards and Commissions


State Officers


54,


Street Railroads


55 72


Government of the State of Iowa __ 54, " fand Army of the Republic: .67, Igospitals and Asylums Incorporated Companies 60 to 65


Insurance Companies 65, 66 67 78 66


Towa National Guard Labor Organizations 77, Libraries


Medical and Dental Societies.


66


48 47


Political Organizations 68,


Postoffice


71 50


Public Schools. East Des Moines ...


49,


Public Schools, Officers Independent


Districts


50,


Public Schools) West Des Moines.


67 60 Rates of Fare for Public Carriages - 48, Railroads 71, :ederal Officers! 60 fre Alarm Stations 48 148


Township Constables


PAGE


52


6


DES MOINES CITY DIRECTORY.


Sabin House.


CORNER FOURTH AND CHESTNUT STS.


This Hotel is comfortably furnished throughout and


Situated Within a Few Blocks of all the Railroads


Entering the city. Standing as it does on one of the highest and


MOST BEAUTIFUL PARTS OF THE CITY,


Wholly unobstructed by buildings on all sides and away from all noise and bustle so annoying in all city hotels situated on business streets, it affords the


Most Comfortable Home in the City


For transient and permanent guests.


RATES, $2.00 PER DAY.


Special rates per week or month.


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The patronage of Commercial Men is especially solicited.


F. SABIN DYSART, Propr.


A. L. KNAPP, Clerk. .


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INDEX TO ADVERTISEMENTS.


PAGE


Abdill L B.


745


Acme Coal & Mining Co, right top cor


cards and


Albrecht F


141 754 827


Allen John E. opp


American Contract Co (The), right


bottom lines and


Anderson BG Arnold Mis A E


89 822 117


: Arntz Lew, right bottom cor cards .. Degiebing & Buttell. left top cor cards ( and front page VII. Benedict George H & Co.


775 126°


Bentley & Olmsted: Black Swan Coal Co, right side lines il and


137


Bloomfield Coal & Mining Co, right


Autop cor cards and


850


i lue Line Transfer Co, opp owman M T V, outside front cover, front page Vand 190 802


Bromley R N.


Burnside John


139


Burzacott W. 208


Buttler Seth & Co 744


Cady & Col 806 781


1: Capital Park Greenhouse! 215 and


apital Roller Mills


Capital City Planing Mul


100 and Box Factory lapitol Hill Greenhouse Carlson A W_


Farter R B, left top cor cards and front page IX.


Chase & West, left top cor cards and


Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Ry ...


Chicago, Milwaukee & St Paul Ry, opp front page XVI.


Chicago Photo-Engraving Co. 776


chicago, Rock Island \ Paciff Ry 14


Chicago & Grand Trunk Ry, o p front page XVI.


Citizens National Bank, outsi le front cover and


84


Columbian Co 117


Comparet I G, left side lines., -- -


Continental Clothing Co, left pop lines


and back page XX.


Co 778


Cook & Reed


Cory Phil S


Crone R W, opp.


Crosland J H, right side lines.


845


Dale & Brown 840


DIA polonia Peter


754


Dart Roswell P, left top cor cards.


PAGE


Day & Barge, left top cor cards and 772 Dennis A S, left top lines. Des Moines Box Works 136 Des Moines Carpet Cleaning Works 136 Des Moines Cement Paving Co, front page IV. Des Moines Edison Light Co, right top lines.


Des Moines Fire Ins Co, right top lines and front page X.


Des Moines Leader (The) 102 Des Moines Life Asan, right top lines and front pages XIV and XV. 127


Des Moines Mnfg & Supply Co. ..... Des Moines National Bank, embossed line, back cover and.


Des Moines Northern && Western Ry


Co, front page XI.


Des Moines Plumbing Co,


right bot-


tomi lines.


Des Moines Rubber Stamp Works.


133


Des Moines Tent and Awning Co -269,


736 and


849


Des Moines Transfer Co


269 and 851


Des Moines & Kansas City Ry, front


page XVI.


Des Moines & Northwestern Real Es-


tate & Loan Co


127


Dietz G W, right side lines.


Dingman W H




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