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HE Lincoln National Life Insurance Com- pany was organized on the strictest standards maintained by the laws of any state in the Union. It must deposit in approved securities with the State of Indiana at least the net cash value of each outstanding policy. Under this law no policyholder in an Indiana company has ever lost a penny, nor can loose. The benefits to be derived from invest- ing in present-day life insurance policies are thoroughly understood by every one. Proof of this is shown by the fact that over a million people of excellent judg- ment and business sagacity avail themselves of the opportunity every year.
The Lincoln Life has made the greatest success of any company organized in the Central States in the last 10 years. This success is due to the fact that it has at all times adhered to the highest prin- ciples of life insurance underwriting. The strength of the organization is shown in the splendid results achieved by the Company. Altho only 8 years old, it has approxi- mately eight thousand policy- holders carrying insurance for over $11,000,000. These facts demon- strate that the people of Northern
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Indiana are thoroughly in sympathy with the establishment of a life in- surance company in this particular section. The Company, however, writes insurance not only in Indiana but also in Ohio, Michigan and Pennsylvania. The majority of its business, however, has thus far been secured at home where the excellent business standing and ability of its officers is best known.
The Lincoln Life is regarded as one of the big elements that has brought fame to Fort Wayne financial institutions. Its premium income is over $1200 a day and growing by leaps and bounds. The Company has a fully paid-up capital stock of $200,000 and its assets at the close of the year will exceed $1,000,000.00. That the Company's policyholders are well satisfied with their policies and with the management of the Com- pany is evidenced by the fact that the Company has the smallest lapse rate experienced by any company of similar age, having been less than 9% for the past three years. This is a remarkable showing.
The watchword of the Company is "Advance". Its managers pride themselves on the conservative and substantial advancement in the Company's business which has been shown from year to year.
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HIE Anthony, built in 1908, is Fort Wayne's leading hotel, and ranks among the best in the country. The plans and designing, both exterior and interior, are the work of Mr. Charles R. Weatherhogg, of this city, whose work is to be found in many of the city's most promin- nent buildings and fine residences including the Elk's building, High and Manual Training School, Peoples Trust and Sav- ings Co. office building, Wm. M. Griffin's res- idence, Perfection Biscuit Co., Fort Wayne Box Company, T. F. Thieme's country res- idence, Fort Wayne Country Club, Summit City Soap Works and the Country residence of Dr. E. W. Dodez.
The Anthony is one of the best hotels in the state, and is advantag- cously located on West Berry Street closely ad- jacent to the business
THE ANTHONY
Chutes R. Weatherhogg, Architect
center of the city and is one of its handsomest buildings. The Grand staircase leading from the rotunda is a sympho- ny in marble. The ro- tunda, beautiful in de- sign and decoration, gives a distinction to the whole interior. The furnishings are elegant and every convenience has been provided. The cafe, grill and public dining room arc on the first floor and the design and finish show marked professional ability on the part of the Architect who fashioned them. There are also two pri- vate dining rooms and a spacious and handsome- ly designed banquet hall. The appointments in these dining places are elegant in every detail and the service and cuisine are all that a discriminating public can desire. The mural decorations of the bar are exceptionally beau- tiful, having been ex- ccuted by a German artist of rare ability.
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BOVE view of The Bass Foundry and Machine Company gives a comprehensive idea of the enormity of this plant, the leading industry of Fort Wayne. This concern had its conception in the year 1853 when it was organized as Jones, Bass and Company. In 1898 a reorganization took place and incorporated as The Bass Foundry and Machine Company with a capitalization of $1,500,000, which has since been increased to $2,200,000. A branch plant is operated and owned by this corporation at Rock Run, Alabama, which mines and smelts part of the ore used in the products. of the Fort Wayne plant, being established for the purpose of producing a finer grade of pig iron for use in Bass car wheels. Since this now mammoth business was established in a small way in the early fifties to the present day, the success following has been phenomenal in all its aspects. Buildings have, been added to the original group of structures, machinery of the most modern and approved type is constantly being installed and the labor field raked for competent mechanics. The number of men employed in both the Fort Wayne factory and the branch at Rock Run total approximately 2500 men with an annual pay roll of $1,500,000. The tonnage of manufactured material, and metal shipped from both sources, amounts to 300,000 tons annually. The produets. of the Fort Wayne factory are car wheels, general gray iron castings, axles, iron and steel forging, Corliss engines, boilers and complete power plants. The:
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product of the Rock Run branch is furnace high grade pig iron which brings the highest market price. The Fort Wayne plant covers an area of 20 acres and the branch at Rock Run, Alabama, 25,000 acres of land, upon which is operated the business of ore mining. Mr. John H1. Bass, president of the company has ever since its inception, been the guiding hand in its operations and to him is due the immense success of this concern. Besides his ownership of this plant, Mr. Bass has a wide interest in various other Fort Wayne enterprises including banking, is a large holder of property here and elsewhere and is held in the highest esteem in the business world for sagacity, keen foresight and judgment. The year 1852 saw his advent here, being a product of the blue grass state, Kentucky. His introduction to the iron industry was with the Jones, Bass Company in the year 1853. Raw material, out of which this concern makes its products, comes to the Fort Wayne factory carload after carload. In every department of this immense plant the work is systematized for economy in time and oper- ation, giving smooth and rapid execution in manufacture. A view of the interior of the many departments gives an educational touch to any one interested in mechanical work and to the layman. Intricate machinery operated as a bechive of industry, turning out work absolutely correet and accurate in con- struction, giving the impression that here is a typically modern producer.
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NOWN in all parts of the world, the products of S. F. 6 Bowser and Company, Incorporated, one of the largest manufacturing concerns in Fort Wayne, carry a guarantee of quality and excellence attest- ed by the long exper- ience and enviable record of the company. This concern was founded in 1885 with the home plant and general offices in Fort Wayne. Branches are Tİ maintained in the United States in New York, San Francisco, St. Louis, Denver, Albany, Dallas, Atlanta and Harris- burg, while foreign offices are located in London, Paris, Johan- nesburg, Buenos Aires Porto Rico, Mexico City, Toronto and Havana. The S. F. Bosser & Company. Incorporated, are oil system engineers, pat- enters and manufac- turers of Oil Storage and Distributing Sys- tems, Self Measuring Hand and Power Driven Pumps, Underground Storage and Distribut- ing Systems. Large Tankage, Automobile Filling Stations, Dry Cleaning Systems, Self Registering Pipe Line Measures, Oil and
Gasoline Storage Outfits for public and private garages and Oil Filtering and Circulating Systems. Many features of the tanks and systems are exclusive and not to be found on other apparatus of this class. These devices are designed for per- feet and accurate work, are built on honor as to materials and workmanship and are tested and adjust- ed in the factory. Bul- letins giving complete detailed description of any line will be fur- nished upon applica- tion and without obli- gation. If interested persons state what oils they handle, this Company will send literature descriptive of equipment suited to their particular needs. The firm's catalogue illustrates and describes the line, in a limited way, and shows a large number of installations in widely diversified fields. Every year sees additional uses to
POUR INTERIOR VIEWS OF S. F BOWSER & COMPASY INCORPORATED, PLANT
which oil and gasoline are put, mostly in a commercial way, and these perfectly working devices are a boon to manufacturers, transit companies and others. Their plant is one of the best equipped and managed in America.
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WAYNE KNITTING MILLS
ILE first successful establishment in America for manufacturing full fashioned hosiery, the Wayne Knitting Mills, is perhaps the largest exclusive hosiery factory under one roof in the world. It was founded and incorporated in 1891, with a capital of twenty-five thousand dollars, which has increased to one million two hundred thousand dollars. This immense plant, perfectly equipped in every department, affords a floor space of three hundred twenty-five thousand square feet. The output consists of cotton, lisle and silk hosiery for men, women and children. A specialty is made of medium priced hosiery. The firm also owns and operates an exclusive silk Hosiery factory for the manufacture of high grade silk hosiery. "Wayne Knit" appears on every pair of genuine Wayne Knit hose. This concern was the first manufacturer of hosiery to sell goods with a guarantee. The "Indestructible" hose bears a strong guarantee and represents one of the strong features of the Wayne Knit line. For twenty years "Wayne Knit" goods have been sold by the leading stores in all cities.
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THE Western Gas Construction Company constitutes one of the largest of Fort Wayne's many large manufacturing institutions both in point of area, value of the manufactured products and number of employes. This company was established in 18Ss and incor- porated in 1890 and is capitalized at one hundred thousand dollars. The plant occupies an area of thirteen and three-tenths aeres of ground space. The company gives employment to about six hundred people including a field force of one hundred fifty with wages and salaries amounting to about three hundred thousand dollars annually. The annual output in valne amounts to seven hundred fifty thousand dollars, to one million dollars yearly, consuming approximately seven thousand five hundred tons of material and exporting about five thousand five hundred tons of the manufactured product. The specialties are: Gas works construction, gas works apparatus and machinery, gas holders, valves and pipe specials of every description.
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OR more than a quarter of a century, the Berghoff Brewing Association has offered to the public a health giving beverage. Berghoff beer has an established reputation throughout the country. It stands on its merits-brewed from absolutely pure materials, by the best scientific methods. Every step in the process of brewing Berghoff beer is rigidly inspected and perfect cleanliness prevails throughout. Only the most carefully selected hops and the best grade of malt are used. The water is thoroughly tested. Berghoff beer has a nation-wide reputation to maintain and no care or expense are spared to uphold this high standard. The Berghoff Brewing Association was formed twenty-six years ago in 1887, and in 1899 was incorporated with a capital stock of one million, five hundred thousand dollars. The plant, strictly modern in every detail, is amply equipped with the most recently approved type of apparatus in every department. The two hundred and twenty-five employees are thoroughly experienced and receive two hundred thousand dollars in yearly wages. Ten thousand four hundred eighteen tons of raw material are consumed each year in producing one hundred sixty thousand barrels of beer which is valued at two and a half million dollars. This up-to-date brewery, which is commodius and unusually well lighted, has two hundred eighty one thousand four hundred sixty-eight square feet of working space. For local delivery purposes, this concern has six auto trucks and twenty teams. The brewery is provided with ample shipping facilities, having railroad switches from both steam and electric lines at the doors of the brewery.
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1 OFFICE BUILDING 2 INCANDESCENT LAMP WORK>
Fort Wayne Electric Works of General Electric Company
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FORT WAYNE CORRUGATED PAPER CO
CORRUGATED PAPER AND ITS PRODUCTS
FORT WAYNE CORRUGATED PAPER COMPANY (See page 10%)
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C. I .. CENTLIVRE BREWING COMPANY
NE of the largest establishments supplying the middle west with a high grade beer, is the C. L. Centlivre Brewing Company. This concern was established in 1862. More than a half century of ex- perience has brought the product of this company to a high degree of perfection. The Centlivre Brew- ery is a thoroughly modern plant in every detail. The well equipped buildings . have ample space and are admirably ar- ranged. Great care and watchfullness are exercised that only the purest water is used and absolute cleanliness prevails throughout. None but the best grade of hops is used in this com- pany's brew and its product is free from all contamination and adulteration. Cent- livre Beer is brewed by a German brew- master who knows what should enter into good beer and what processes are necessary to get the full effects of the materials. Extreme care characterizes every step of the making of Centlivre Beer. It means something when a firm starts out with the
ambition to supply an absolutely pure product-means much to the firm, much to the commercial world and more still to the consumer. Some time ago, the United States Brewers' Association advocated the
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Pure Food and Drink Bill by this resolution : "We are anxious to have the sanitary officers do their duty in our case, as this is the shortest, surest way of counteracting the unfounded talk about adulteration. If any law can be passed to make the surveil- lance over food and drink any more strin- gent, this association will be found among its supporters." When The Pure Food Bill was before the United States Senate, in 1905 Senator MeCumber found the Brewers' Association true to its word. He said, "1 believe that we manu- facture in this country the purest beers that are made on the face of the earth, and the fact that the Brewers'
Associations are all in favor of this bill is proof that they are satisfied they make a pure article." The brands are, "Centlivre Special" "Cent- livre Ex. Pale""Muenchener" "Special Export" "Nickel Plate Special."
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C.T.PIDGEON MILLINERY CO.
FORT WAYNE DRUG CO.
FORT WAYNE DRUG COMPANY-C. T. PIDGEON MILLINERY COMPANY
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HE Brown Trucking Company has been for the past twenty-eight years, one of Fort Wayne's most substantial and reliable concerns. The Company was established in 1885, since which time it has greatly enlarged its organiz- ation and increased its facilities. In 1898 the firm was incorporated with one hundred thousand dollars capital stock. The office is conveniently located at 125 West Columbia Street where there are also storage facilities. The modern equipment in use by the Brown Trueking Company consists, in part, of one motor truck and thirty-five teams. The firm also has the most modern derricks and devices for hoisting safes, pianos and other heavy furniture to upper stories. When pianos of great value are to be moved it is of great importance that the men handling them be not only cautious but competent to operate the devices with which they are moved or hoisted. The men employed by this concern are painstaking and thoroughly competent. Persons having valuable pianos or other heavy pieces of costly furniture to be moved may have every assurance of its safety when entrusted to the care of this firm. Fifty experienced men are employed who thorough- ly understand this particular line of work. Large and especially arranged vans for mov- ing household goods are also a part of the company's equipment. The large number of factories and jobbing houses, operated in Fort Wayne and the widely diversified lines of commodities made and handled together with the vast amount of raw materials receiv-
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BROWN TRUCKING COMPANY
ed and shipped by the manufacturers, ercates an immense bulk of cartage and the greater per cent of this business is handled by the Brown Trucking Company. As the city in- creased its number of business concerns this firm enlarged its facilities and force of men proportionately. A vast deal of transfer work is done between the various railroads that lead into Fort Wayne, which, in the last five years, has become a shipping point of much importance necessitating rapid movements between points. Starting in a small way, this concern has kept pace year by year with this commercial growth. The men in charge have ever been in close touch with modern condi- tions, and with the expansion of Fort Wayne's industrial growth have at all times considered expediency and effectiveness, The large army of men and teams employed attest to the fact that much money and facility additions have been expended in order that quick ser- vice and reliability should be the prime asset of this business. The large amount of pat- ronage given this company with its corres- ponding great tonnage handled yearly shows conclusively that elose and constant ap- plication to the wants of its customers has brought its own reward, year by year, by renewals of contracts from satisfied customers. The men who conduct the operation of this business are well known business men of Fort Wayne. The officers are: Walter .A. Borgman, president, Christian F. Borgman, treasurer, August S. Borgman, secretary. These men are in constant touch with local conditions. They have ample storage facilities.
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R. H. G. Raymond, distributor for high grade motor cars, has sales and display rooms at 718-20 Barr Street. This business had its beginning in a small way in the spring of 1911, in an old cement building on Lafayette Boulevard. Business increased so rapidly that the garage was removed to the com- modious and well ap- pointed quarters, in July, 1912. So great has been the demand for the cars handled by Mr. Raymond, that he has oversold his supply capacity by sixty per cent, for 1913. All cars sold by Mr. Raymond are machines of standard makes, the merits of which have been un- questionably proven. He is state represen- tative for the 1m- perial Automobile and local distributor for the Paige-Detroit Motor Cars, the Waverley, the Kissel Cars and Waverley Commercial Cars. The Imperial Automobile, built in Jackson, Mich- igan, is constructed under the watchword "An honest car at an honest price." The builders are well satisfied that Imperial Cars
have been brought to an unchallenged mechanical perfection; that they embody all the essentials to safe, enjoyable motoring. Hand- somely illustrated catalogues announce to the purchasing public the
merits of the 1914 Imperials. The Paige 1914 model is a mechanical master- piece in design, con- struction and equip- ment in its price field. Paige cars are designed and built by men who know the fundamental princi- ples of mechanical con- struction, to the last detail. An elaborat- ely beautiful year- book from the Waver- ley Electric Company of Indianapolis presents clear illustrations, full spec- ifications and prices of eight models of the "Silent Waverley Electric." These cars are the acme of lux- ury supported by mas- terly construction. The Waverley Com- mercial Electrics are the most dependable, economical and efficient of all power wagons. It requires but a slight study of the "Kissel Kar" to prove that it is a worthy expon- ent of all that is best and most desirable in automobile construction.
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AUBURN GARAGE
HIS company, composed entirely of Fort Wayne business men, was organized and incorporated in 1912, and has a capital stock of fifteen thousand dollars. The firm handles a complete line of the Auburn Automobile Company's machines. This is the Auburn Automobile Company's fourteenth successful year manufacturing automobiles and it has never created an unsuccessful model. The firm's 1914 car is on the market and is a sensation in motor car values. The body design of this car constitutes the blended lines adopted by two famous European cars for 1914. Men were sent to study styles and in this car they offer the latest. Europe has always dictated motor car styles. America, usually two years afterward, has invariably followed. But in the Auburn's new 1914 model, is presented the accepted European vogue of today. This is one reason this car is 1914's startling motor car value. Many other costly features are included, chief of which is dependable and enduring service. At no extra cost, the new Auburn "40" is electrically self- cranked; it is electric lighted; it is also equipped with an electric horn. The Auburn electric self-cranking system spins the motor. That ends a motor car fault, that of revolving the motor too slowly to secure combustion. There have been big value cars that need extras to complete them. With the new Auburn "40" there is nothing one could buy to more completely equip it. The Auburn Anto Company of Fort Wayne is located at 124-128 Washington Boulevard West, where the beautiful new Auburn is on exhibit in its spacious and well appointed garage which is the largest in the city. This garage has a complete repair department for all makes of cars. Twelve experienced mechanics are em- ployed in this department. In connection with the auto sales, this firm is the exclusive distributing agency for Knight tires for Allen County; also for the Brown inner tube which is the only pneumatic proof tube on the market not using any chemicals or artificial substance.
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