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Another dry goods house of many years' standing was that of H. G. Stone, started on July 1, 1871, in the old Shakespeare Hall block, facing Hanover Square. In April. 1896. the Stone store was moved to the Rosenbloom block. adjoining the Kirk building in South Salina street, and on April 22. 1903. the removal was made to the present situation, the extensive stores in the Masonic Temple Dock in South Salina street.
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The Rosenblooms, pioneer boot and shoe men in Syracuse, having the Shakespeare Hall block stores for many years, moved into the Rosenbloom block in South Salina street, and in the fall of 1903 established their dry goods and department stores.
In 1896, on November 20, D. McCarthy & Sons decided to discontinue their wholesale business at Clinton and Washington streets, but the extensive trade established was not allowed to go down, and the Syracuse Dry Goods Company, incorporated December 29, 1896, succeeded. Thomas MeCarthy had started in business in Salina in 1805, taken his son Dennis MeCarthy in the firm in 1834; in 1838 Thomas retired, and Dennis moved the business to Syra- euse in 1846. The wholesale department was established in 1862 by MeCarthy & Sedgwick, and in 1867 the latter member retired and David K. MeCarthy came into the firm. Dr. Thomas Emory went into the firm in 1869, and Dennis McCarthy. Jr., in 1875. The firm beeame D. MeCarthy & Company, and on May 8, 1894, was begun the demolition of the old store to make room for the new building at Salina and Fayette streets. The new building was completed in 1895, an event being the charity ball which was held there on February 25, 1895. The store was opened for business on March 29, following. As D. MeCarthy & Sons, to succeed D. McCarthy & Company, the business was in- corporated on January 11, 1898. A flourishing period followed and then Dennis MeCarthy, who had assumed active management, taking up publie work, outside interests came into the corporation and in 1906 it became the Hunter Tuppen Company.
Many dates in connection with business firms have become historie because of the prominence secured by those business houses. The big clothing firm of Wilber S. Peek & Company, so long a great employer and manufacturer, was dissolved on January 24, 1898, being succeeded by W. S. Peek & Company, composed of Herbert R., Wilber S. and W. S. Peek, Jr., which continued the big factory at 231-239 West Water street. The Syracuse Hardware & Iron Company was incorporated to succeed Bradford Kennedy & Sons, with a capitalization of one hundred thousand dollars, on January 12. 1898. Justin's Seubert, whose cigars had become well known in Central New York, incor- porated his business in 1904 for one hundred thousand dollars. In the spring of 1903 the Syracuse Metal Trades Association, composed of employers, was organized. In January, 1904, Nicholas Peters retired from N. Peters & Com- pany, a firm which has made the name of Peters a household word in the eity as well as along the countryside. The Star Clothing Company, which had a long run in the Kirk building, was sold out in May, 1894.
In 1907 A. Finek's Sons incorporated for one hundred thousand dollars, to deal in leather; the A. E. Nettleton Company, shoes, five hundred thousand dollars ; the Caldwell & Ward Brass Company, two hundred thousand dollars; Clark Music Company, three hundred thousand dollars; C. E. Mills Oil Com- pany, one hundred thousand dollars, and General Foundry & Machine Com- pany, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
The builders of industrial Syracuse are many, and to give even a partial list, allotting to each the proper place earned by the energy of push and ven-
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ture of moneys, would take a small volume in itself. Many have come for- ward in the city's history, however, by note of big things done and public work. Among these are the Paragon Plaster Company, manufacturers of varions building materials, which under the managership of William K. Squier has built an extensive plant in the western part of the city, near West Fayette and Magnolia streets, and taken a block at West Water and Frank- lin streets for down-town offices: the Engelberg-Huller Company, with a spe- cialty of coffee machinery for export to all parts of the world; the II. A. Moyer Wagon Works, with a great factory at Wolf and Park streets employ- ing more than three hundred men; the R. E. Dietz Company, lantern works, with more than two hundred employes, the company building a new factory, four stories and sixty by two hundred feet in 1904-05; the Direct Separator Company, which started a new shop, thirty-two by two hundred and eight feet, in the fall of 1903; the Syracuse Malleable Iron Works, giving employ- ment to more than six hundred men, incorporated as the Malleable Iron Com- pany. with Willis B. Burns as president in 1905; the Pierce, Butler & Pierce Manufacturing Company. with a pay roll of more than eight hundred men. a large wood working shop being moved from Oswego to Syracuse in 1905: the Syracuse Stove Works, which has branched ont considerably in later years: Kane & Roach, occupying the site of the old Fifth Ward ear barns and employers of more than half a hundred workers; the Reddin Iron Works. which leased the old Van Wie foundry in 1905; the Syraense Twist Drill Com- pany, which ran to close upon one hundred employes; Woodhull, Goodale & Bull, clothing makers, who employed more than three hundred hands, besides contract workers; the John Marsellus Manufacturing Company, limited, in- corporated for one hundred thousand dollars to manufacture undertakers' ar- tieles, reached considerably more than one hundred employes; the New York Brick and Paving Company, which has not only furnished the bricks for many well known Syracuse pavements, but has given employment to one hundred and twenty-five and more workers during busy seasons; Gustav Stickley, furni- ture manufacturer, whose name has been carried around the world by artistic and distinctive line. in furniture as well as by the Craftsman Magazine, es- tablished by Mr. Stickley, the furniture shops giving employment to two hun- dred and fifty workers; the People's lee Company, with fifty regular em- ployes. and one hundred and fifty to two hundred in summer; the A. E. Net- tleton Company, with a factory at Pearl and East Willow streets, was incor- porated in January, 1908, with five hundred thousand dollars capital stock, the business being founded in 1879 by A. E. Nettleton, who was still president of the big shoe concern in 1908.
As a manufacturer of beer the name of the city has been taken to other places by such brands as the Haberle Crystal Spring, Bartels. Thomas Ryan, Greenway. National, Zett and others. The George Zett brewery was incor- porated for one hundred thousand dollars on November 2, 1898. The old John Greenway brewery in West Water street, one of the historic buildings of the city, was taken over by the Third National Bank, and on March 11, 1905. was sold to Charles K. Underwood for one hundred and fifty-two thousand.
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eight hundred dollars. A stock company was then formed to carry on the ale and porter business.
The historic Jerry Rescue Block was purchased by Jacob Crouse from George M. Finn on January 30, 1899. The 17th of that same month the old crockery firm in South Clinton street of the Pierees was acquired by R. A. Stowell. March 20, 1899. the C. A. Whelan Company purchased the John P. Hier tobaeco business, which for so many years had been known in the Syra- ense business list. The Eckel Brothers Steel Company was formed ten days later.
The business changes have been many and marked, one of the most serious losses to the city being that of the Sweet Steel Company, which decided to go to Williamsport, Pa., on July 12. 1903. In the spring of 1904 the move was made and an employing manufactory of three hundred men was lost. Of the old Sweet Company, so long famous in manufacturing Syracuse. Robert Dey was named receiver on December 28. 1895. Upon the reorganization the Sweet Steel Company was incorporated February 25, 1898.
A well known old bookstore went out of business on January 9, 1897. when, through financial reverses, the store of Thomas W. Durston & Son was closed. The Central City Building & Loan Association failed on February 7, 1898. In 1899 the Adamant Manufacturing Company failed, was rejuvenated as the Adamant Plaster Company, and played its part before a second failure in the taking down of the American Exchange National Bank. But one build- ing and Ioan association, the Syracuse Co-operative, survived to carry out the promises of the loan association fever, which the city caught severely in the '90s. The Syracuse Co-operative was conservative, carried upon striet business principles by a board of directors and secretary that had pride in their work. and won out, being one of the strong financial associations today. The Onondaga Savings and Loan Association, with seventy thousand dollars liabilities, assigned with Henry Lyon as assignee on May 13, 1899. The Eastern Building and Loan Association. the most prominently advertised of any in this section, went into liquidation later. finally closing up its affairs in 1907. The Cosmopolitan was another, with promise of years of usefulness, which was liquidated.
The changes in merchants and manufacturing concerns in a score of years have been numerous, a new generation taking down many signs so familiar in the old days. Among the old firms, whose names were household words twenty years ago, that have been absorbed, transformed and closed upon the books, are the J. F. Pease Furnace Company, Dow, Short & Company, Joseph Seymour, Sons & Company, A. C. Belden & Company, G. N. Crouse & Company, Kennedy, Spaulding & Company, Penn & Lee, Francis & Company, Porter Manufacturing Company, Duguid & Wells. Phoenix Foundry & Machine Com- pany, George P. Hier & Company, J. Dean Hawley, ITier & Aldrich. Milton S. Price, Stinard & Edwards. Theodore Dissell & Company. Thomas Whitbread & Company Syracuse Glass Company, G. W. Ingalls, C. S. Ball. Everson & Company, Kent & Miller, Leeret & Blasdel. Lewis & Whelan, S. H. Starin.
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In 1903 the old hardware firm of Grant & Dunn, which had been dis- solved upon Mr. Dumm's retirement and conducted by Mr. Grant's sons upon his death, was incorporated as Alexander Grant's Sons with a capital stock of eighty thousand dollars. E. I. Rice also incorporated his eoal business for one hundred and fifty thousand dollars in 1903, a year in which the aggre- gate capital stock of new local corporations eame to ten million eight hundred and sixteen thousand nine hundred dollars. as against five million one hundred and twenty-seven thousand seven hundred in 1902.
During 1906 the figures of the United States Industrial Census were received, making comparisons with 1900, but they do not show the remarkable industrial activity and growth during the latter part of 1905 and the two following years. The figures as to manufacturers are as follows:
1905
Per Cent 1900 Increase
Number of Establishments
638
630
1.3
Capital
38.740.651
28.928,312
33.9
Salaried Officers :
Clerks, Etc.
1 728
1,246
36.7
Salaries
1,960,187
1,315,821
49.0
Wage Earners :
Average Number
14,578
11,809
23.4
Wages
7.129.707
5,303,407
34.4
Miscellaneous Expenses
4,250,826
2.944,374
44.4
Cost, Materials Used
16,171,650
26.546,297
31.2
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In the making of men's clothing the city of Syracuse had the largest number of workers engaged in 1906. There were fifty-two factories with one thousand four hundred and forty-four workers engaged earning six hun- dred and ninety-three thousand one hundred and eighteen dollars, with a capi- tal of two million thirty thousand two hundred and fifty-nine dollars invested. There were one thousand three hundred and eighty-five men employed in foundries and machine shops, earning eight hundred and thirteen thousand two hundred and fifty-four dollars, and the capital two million five hundred and thirty-eight thousand five hundred and eighty-eight dollars. In iron and steel works there were ten hundred and twelve engaged, wages and salaries coming to six hundred and thirty-three thousand nine hundred and thirteen dollars, and the capital three million nine hundred and eighty thous- and seven hundred and thirty-four dollars. The second largest amount of capital involved was in the making of malt liquors, which took three million six hundred and eighty-seven thousand two hundred and twenty-seven. but only three hundred and twenty-two workers earning two hundred and thirty thousand two hundred dollars; typewriters and supplies had one thousand gne hundred and five employes in the three factories, the capital two million four hundred and ninety-five thousand four hundred and fifty-five dollars, and the wages of the employes, seven hundred and seventy-six thousand and
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fifty-five dollars; in printing and publishing newspapers, etc., there was a capital of seven hundred and eighty-two thousand three hundred and sixty- four dollars invested in twenty-three offices, four hundred and fifty-four employed. carning three hundred and fifty-one thousand five hundred and ninety-nine dollars; book and job work had thirty-nine offices with a capital of four hundred and ninety-nine thousand six hundred and forty-eight dollars and two hundred and eighty-nine employes earning one hundred and sixty- seven thousand one hundred and fifty dollars; there were eighty cigar and cigarette factories running on tive hundred and three thousand six hundred and two dollars capital. employing four hundred and sixty-one people who earned two hundred and forty-two thousand six hundred and ninety-five dol- lars; the fifty-three factories making bake stuff's had eight hundred and twenty- four thousand two hundred and thirty-three dollars capital; the three shoe factories, six hundred and ten thousand eight hundred and eighty-two dol- lars; the four candle makers, eight hundred and ninety thousand five hundred and ninety-nine dollars; five hosiery and knit goods factories, five hundred and sixty-three thousand one hundred and twenty-nine dollars, with four hun- dred and eighty-eight workers; eighteen furniture factories, six hundred and fifty-two thousand and twenty-nine dollars invested and four hundred and ninety-seven employes; eight food preparation factories, four hundred and thirty-five thousand seven hundred and seventy-six dollars; eleven carriage and wagon makers. five hundred and twenty thousand and thirty-one dollars; ten lumber and planing mills, four hundred and fifty-eight thousand seven hun- dred and seventy dollars; four hardware makers, five hundred and ninety-six thousand three hundred and ninety-six dollars, and salt. five hundred and seventy-three thousand nine hundred and twenty dollars.
The shipments of Syracuse for 1907 give an idea of the volume of busi- ness done for the year in this busy business center, only some of the larger shippers being mentioned in this list: E. W. Edwards & Son, from New England, aggregate in value, sixty thousand nine hundred and thirty-seven dollars; Dey Brothers & Company. from New England, valued at between seventy thousand dollars and one hundred thousand dollars: W. S. Peck & Company, total outgoing, three hundred and forty-three tons. incoming. three hundred and forty-four tons; II. II. Franklin Company. fourteen thousand tons; Syracuse Hosiery Company, from New England, forty thousand dollars; Syracuse Dry Goods Company, from New England, five hundred tons; H. R. Olmsted & Son, four hundred and sixty thousand six hundred and fifteen pounds ; Horace G. Stone. from New England. twenty thousand dollars; Fra- zer & Jones Company, received. seven thousand tons, outgoing, five thousand tons ; Kemp & Burpee Company, incoming. eleven thousand tons, outgoing. ten thousand tons ; R. C. MeClure Company. incoming and outgoing, nine thousand tons; F. L. Walrath & Company. incoming and outgoing. ten thousand tons; O. V. Traey & Company, incoming. two thousand four hundred tons, outgoing. fifteen hundred tons; Syracuse Chilled Plow Company. incoming and out- going, thirty thousand tons; Hotaling-Warner Company, outgoing. two mil- lion pounds, all macaroni: Butler Manufacturing Company, ineoming, two
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SENECA RIVER AND OSWEGO CANAL.
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OUTLET OF ONONDAGA LAKE.
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thousand two hundred tons, outgoing three hundred and fifty tons; A. E. Net- tleton, incoming, seven hundred and fifty thousand pounds, outgoing, eight hundred thousand pounds; Gates Thalheimner, incoming, nine thousand six hundred tons, ontgoing. two thousand and fifty tons; L. C. Smith & Brothers, total. five hundred tons; Syracuse Supply Company, total, two thousand five hundred tons: Pierce, Butler & Pierce Manufacturing Company. incoming one hundred and thirty thousand tons, outgoing, one hundred and eighty-seven thousand tons; Merrell-Soule Company, twelve thousand five hundred tous; Will Banmer Company, incoming, fifteen million pounds, outgoing, sixteen million pounds; Paragon Plaster Company, sixty thousand tons; Crouse-Hinds Company, one thousand five hundred tons; Standard Guage Company, two hundred and fifty tons; Hunter-Tuppen Company, incoming, five hundred and seventeen tons.
The compilations of the Chamber of Commerce of industrial Syracuse, made in 1907. give valuable information of what has been accomplished in this eity of varied industry. In six hundred and thirty-eight factories there was an invested capital of thirty-eight million seven hundred and forty thous- and six hundred and fifty-one dollars, with one thousand seven hundred and twenty-eight clerks drawing a total of one million nine hundred and sixty thousand one hundred and eighty-seven dollars in salaries, and fourteen thons- and five hundred and seventy-eight wage earners taking seven million one hun- dred and twenty-nine thousand seven hundred and seven dollars a year. The miscellaneous expenses of these factories came to four million two hundred and fifty thousand eight hundred and twenty-six dollars; the cost of materials to sixteen million one hundred and seventy-one thousand six hundred and fifty dollars, and the value of the product thirty-four thousand eight hundred and twenty-three thousand seven hundred and fifty-one dollars.
In typewriter manufacture the city had reached first place in the United States with a production for the census year valued at one million five hun- dred and fifty-three thousand one hundred and seventy-three dollars. In candles it was first in the state with a production of eight hundred and ninety- four thousand three hundred dollars; first in the manufacture of salt, and first in the value of its iron, steel and rolling mill products, with a value of two million one hundred and seventeen thousand five hundred and eighty-five dollars.
In the matter of boots and shoes. Syracuse was third in the state with a value of one million two hundred and fifty-three thousand four hundred and eighty-three dollars produced annually; third in the production of bread and bakery prodnets, value one million two hundred and eighty-nine thousand and sixty-seven dollars; third in food preparations, value six hundred and fifty- six thousand seven hundred and forty-two dollars, and fourth in the produc- tion of men's clothing, value three million eighty-two thousand and fifty-two dollars.
The listed active stocks of Onondaga industries in January, 1908, with the prices asked for shares and bonds shows, makes an interesting table, although the great bulk of the securities were not in the market : Syracuse
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Reduction Company, fifty ; Haberle Cyrstal Spring Brewing Company, eighty- five; Bartels Brewing Company, one hundred; Thomas Ryan's Brewing Com- pany, one hundred and twenty; W. II. Bundy Recorder Company, eighty; Salt Springs Salt Company, thirty; Pierce, Butler & Pierce Manufacturing Company, common, two hundred; first preferred, one hundred and ten; Morris Machine Works. common, one hundred and nine; preferred, one hundred and forty; Syracuse Time Recorder Company, seven, preferred, sixty; Syracuse Gas Company, bonds, ninety-six; Syracuse Lighting Company, preferred, rinety-five, common, seventy.
A study of corporation taxes for a score of years, although not showing full values of properties, being notoriously under actual values, is interesting for showing changes, growth and additions. In 1887 the Solvay Process Company was assessed for two hundred and thirty-five thousand dollars, and in 1906 for two million seven hundred and thirty-nine thousand eight hundred dollars, with seventy-three thousand two hundred dollars in the Ninth Ward. and twenty-six thousand three hundred dollars in the Seventh Ward. The Syracuse Savings Bank was assessed two hundred thousand dollars in 1887 for its building, and in 1906. three hundred and twenty-six thousand dollars. Upon its old building the Onondaga County Savings Bank also paid a tax for a value of two hundred thousand dollars in 1887, while in 1906 the assessment for the new building was eight hundred and thirty-one thousand dollars. The Third National Bank, assessed for thirty thousand dollars in 1887, had to pay on fifty-five thousand dollars in 1906. Upon the old Remington Block the Syracuse University was assessed eighty thousand dollars, and in 1906, upon the new University Block, five hundred and seventy-six thousand five hundred dollars.
Some interesting changes of old companies are seen in the following assess- ments :
1887
1906
Sanderson Brothers
$75,000
$268.000
Straight Line Engine Company
7,000
103,000
Butler Manufacturing Company, personal
7,000
20,000
Onondaga Pottery Company
33,600
161,200
Syracuse Tube and National Tube Works
25,000
152,200
Kemp & Burpee Manufacturing Company
400
54,650
Boomer & Bosehert Press Company
25,000
50,000
Syracuse Stove Works
20,000
55,000
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The corporation assessments in 1906 were as follows:
First Ward
$ 665,657
Second Ward
136.325
Third Ward
160,095
Fourth Ward
79,925
Fifth Ward
497,435
Sixth Ward 689,980
Seventh Ward
1,673.230
Eighth Ward
1,923,250
Ninth Ward
357,620
Tenth Ward
962,400
Eleventh Ward
912,300
Twelfth Ward
51.700
Thirteenth Ward
159.900
Fourteenth Ward
3,673,083
Fifteenth Ward
604,500
Sixteenth Ward
218.500
Seventeenth Ward
425,225
Eighteenth Ward
210,490
Nineteenth Ward
68,010
Camillus
924,180
Cicero
65,950
Clay
187.913
Dewitt
1,287,690
Elbridge
624.762
Fabius
81,900
Geddes
3,657,575
Lafayette
213,800
Lysander
349,338
Manlius
1,025,200
Marcellus
310,800
Onondaga
457,600
Otisco
3,900
Pompey
22,875
Salina
264,077
Skaneateles
410,150
Spafford
5,550
Tully
331,250
Van Buren
511,832
An advantage of suburban territory for economy in publie expenses was shown in the tax rates of Solvay, which in 1906 and 1907 were close upon twelve dollars and fifty cents per thousand dollars. Of course the princi- pal tax payer was the Solvay Process Company, assessed in 1907 upon three million four hundred and fifteen thousand eight hundred dollars valuation, of which two million nine hundred and fifteen thousand eight hundred was
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property valnation and the remainder personal. The Frazer & Jones plant. started late in 1906, was assessed at twenty-five thousand dollars; the Halcomb Steel Company at one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars; Pass & Seymour Company at thirty-one thousand five hundred, and the Iroquois China Company at thirty thousand dollars.
No chapter upon the business of Syracuse would be complete which did not pay tribute to the Chamber of Commerce, which has become the active mover in everything which concerns Syracuse, economically, commercially, and in an advertising and expanding way. Again and again the Chamber of Commerce has been referred to in these pages, because no truthful history of modern Syracuse could be written which did not show the spirit of this body of business men in almost everything important which the city has done to extend its fame as an industrial eenter. The way the Chamber has fought the people's battles appears in the amounts of those fights for better condi- tions. Started as the Business Men's Association, which was organized March 29, 1889, there is a long record of helpfulness to the city. In the early days the rooms in the Larned building, as have the present quarters in the University building, were the popular meeting place, serving more frequently than the City Hall for a gathering place for the people to discuss popular ques- tions and movements. In 1907 the Chamber increased from six hundred and thirty-seven paying members, comprising eight hundred and forty-two per- sons, to one thousand two hundred and sixty-eight paying members. comprising one thousand three hundred and ninety-two persons. Some idea of the work done can be gained by giving the names of the most efficient committees besides those which handle the rontine work. There was a Boomers' Committee, and Committee on Education, Entertainment, Health, Legislation, Municipal Affairs. Ownership and Beautification of Homes, Parks and Streets, Promotion of Manufactures, Public Services and Railroads and Transportation. On February 11. 1907, at the Alhambra, the Chamber of Commerce gave to its members the largest dinner party ever held in the state outside of New York city. Through the efforts of the Chamber of Commerce the Park Commission was created; a system of medieal inspection was secured in the schools; a successful opposition waged to the leasing of the Syracuse Lighting Company to the United Gas and Improvement Company of Philadelphia; secured many conventions for the city; abated the smoke nuisance, and in truth took up and urged along every important public question. This work was not that of one man but of many men, and the Chamber of Commerce reflected the spirit of Syracuse better than even the various administrations in municipal control. for the Chamber was absolutely nonpolitical. The rooms in the University building were opened on June 2, 1898, and in August, 1905, the monthly Chamber of Commerce Bulletin was started.
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