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AMERICAN LUBRICATING OIL CO., CLEVELAND, O.
THIS company was organized in 1868, and since then they have had a steady and increasing trade, until it now amounts to upwards of -$300,000 in lubricating oils alone, annually. Their works are located on Walworth Run, foot of Mill Street, where they give, constant employment to twenty-five hands. The company's offices are in the Standard Block, situated on Euclid Avenue, and admirably adapted to the transaction of their business, which is conducted in the most thorough and systematic manner. There is no place in America better adapted for the manufacturing and handling of petroleum products than the city of Cleveland. The vast amount of business transacted here in lubricating and petroleum burning oils, has established for her a reputation for excellence of manufacture of these productions which stands unrivaled. This is mostly due to the efforts of her manufacturers to produce superior quality as well as quantity. Among them bone stand higher for this specialty than the American Lubricating Oil Company. They receive their crude oil in tank-cars, direct from the oil regions, which cars are run on to their own switch at the works, and thence to five reserve-tanks, into which the contents of the cars are emptied. From here it is pumped into other tanks, of which there are seven, and is then conveyed to the retorts, where the oil undergoes the process of distillation. After the lighter oils are extracted, the remainder is the lubri- cating oil, and is run into the bleaching-room, where it is clarified and prepared for barreling, ready for market. The company have in operation four forty-five-barrel, and two twenty-five-barrel retorts; and, in addition to these, are about to erect two others of fifty barrels capacity each. Mr. Jacob Finger, one of the most experienced and scien- tific refiners in the country, is the superintendent .of the works; and under his careful supervision oils are daily put up and shipped to all parts of the Union and the Canadas. Their oils, if not superior, are equal to the best manufactured, and have a wide reputa- tion for their quality. Their brands are special favorites, and have elicited, from those who have used them, the highest commendations. This company pay particular atten- tion to procuring special rates of freight for their patrons, and sending out with every invoice a bill of lading, which custom gives the most unqualified satisfaction, and has contributed not a. little to their success. They also take pleasure in sending circulars and samples of their oils to any who may so request. Their aim has been, and always will be, to supply the market with the best goods that can be manufactured, and to fur- nish them at as low a price as their superior quality will justify.
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SHERWIN, WILLIAMS & CO., PAINTS, OILS, ETC., CLEVELAND, O.
THE above firm is composed of H. A. Sherwin, E. P. Williams, A. T. Osborn, and WV. HI. Glover, with offices and storerooms at 126 Superior Street, and works on Cuyahoga River, opposite the foot of Michigan Street, where they manufacture white lead, colors. colored paints, etc. The house was originally started by Truman, Dunham, & Co., in 1865, H. A. Sherwin comprising one of the firm. In 1870 Sherwin, Williams & Co. became the sole proprietors. From a small commencement, by an unsurpassed energy, strict attention to business, and fair dealing, they have so extended their operations that they now give constant employment to sixty-five hands, and produce annually $750,000 worth. A specialty of this establishment is the manufacture of fine colors.
The offices, stores, and salesrooms are 165 feet decp by 20 feet front on Superior, and 40 feet front on Long Street, where they keep, besides their own productions, a full supply of painters' materials of all kinds, including brushes, and in the last-named branch they are among the largest dealers in the United States. The window, plate, and French glass department is a specialty with this house, having an extensive and commodious storeroom on Long Street, 33 by 125 feet. In the manufacturing department they run forty-one mills for grinding paints and colors. In connection with these works is an oil refinery, which is a fire-cased building, containing eight enormous metal vats, of 7,000 gallons capacity, besides a very fine conical tank and three large caldrons, where the oil is boiled. The firm make all their own cans and pails, in the manufacture of which they have all the latest and best improved machinery for facilitating and cheapening produc- tion. One feature of this department is a patent can, of Mr. Sherwin's invention, in which the cover requires no soldering, and, instead of being destroyed when opening the package, can be removed and kept intact. In a neatly fitted up printing-office they turn out all their own labels, circulars, etc. The firm are also sole agents for the extensive concern of Murphy, Sherwin & Co,, who started in 1870 to manufacture, on a large scale, Varnishes, Japans, etc., making a specialty of fine carriage varnishes. In 1872 the Company was incorporated, with an authorized capital of $150,000. The works for this branch are new and elegant, having recently been fitted up with every improve- ment known, and their productions may have equals, but none superior.
Messrs. Sherwin, Williams and Co, being among the largest dealers in their trade, and one of the best-known houses in Cleveland, can always fill an order promptly and satisfactorily, no matter how large or varied, and this is a consideration of great value to those who have suffered vexatious and costly delays in procuring stock after they were ready to use it, for there is no pursuit in which the article of promptitude is more of a . virtue than in the exercise of the painter's art. We had almost forgotten to speak of the manufacturers of this firm. They stand deservedly high, their brands being universal favorites wherever known, and the strictly legitimate basis upon which their commercial and financial traffic is carried on. The members of this firm have a reputation that is truly enviable.
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KING IRON BRIDGE AND MANUFACTURING CO., CLEVELAND, O.
THIS Company was organized in 1871, with a paid-up capital of $225,000, absorb- ing the private enterprise of Z. King, who originated the works as early as 1857. - Ry a very liberal charter, granted by the Legislature of Ohio in 1871, the Company was authorized to build and construct iron bridges of all kinds, turn-tables, fences, jail- works-in fact, every thing in general wrought iron business. In addition to the original works, new and complete works of enlarged capacity have been erected, till the whole covers over 50,000 square feet, affording unlimited facilities for getting out work promptly. In the completeness, extent, and adaptation of all the tools and appointments required for bridge construction, the works of this Company are without a rival. while at the same time they possess every facility requisite for the construction of any thing in wrought iron. The annual sales of these works is now $600,000, and even these are being constantly increased. Some idea of the favor their style of bridge has met with will be apparent from the fact that during the first four or five years after 1859 they only built from five to twenty-five bridges a year, whereas they now manufacture from 250 to 300 spans of Z. King's patent bridges each year, and the number is constantly increasing. During the year 1874 they contracted and erected over 18,000 feet of wrought iron bridges of Z. King's patent, and they have yet to learn of a single failure of their work to do what ought to be required of it. The officers of the Company are, Z. King, President; Chas. E. King, Vice-President; H. B. Gibbs, Secretary; and Win. Vliet, Engineer. The office and works are situated on the corner of Wasson and St. Clair Streets, Cleveland, Ohio.
Schofield, Shurmer & Teagle, Oil Refiners, Cleveland, O .- This firm is com- posed of Wm. C. Schofield, Daniel Shurmer, and John Teagle, who associated themselves together under the above firm style, for the purpose of refining petroleum. The house, though young, are among the heaviest capitalists interested, their annual business amount- ing to $400,000. The office of the firm is located at No. 171 Superior Street, though their works are situated on Willson Avenue Extension, and the A. & G. W. R. R., between Cleveland and Newburg, where they give employment to from twenty-five to thirty men. Here they receive the crude oil from the tank-cars of the A. & G W. R. R. into their own receptacles, from whence it is conveyed to the stills without pumping. These works .are furnished with seven 75-barrel stills, and one 500-barrel; also, agitator, with Soo bar- rels capacity, besides four bleachers, 1,600 barrels capacity. They have also a fine house in which they paint and glue their barrels; and barrel storeroom, with capacity for 3,000 packages. In connection with their works they have a large cooper shop, superintended by K. Egert, which employs thirty-two hands and turns out 1, 500 bar- rels weekly. One special feature of these works is, that every thing and every body has its or their own place, and their works are furnished with every convenience and labor-saving arrangement that is known, and the proprietors enjoy a reputation for their products and business capacity that is truly enviable.
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GRISWOLD & DUNHAM, LINSEED OIL, CLEVELAND, O.
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THE above firm, composed of G. O. Griswold, of Warren, Ohio, and Truman Dunham, of Cleveland, are the proprietors of the Cleveland Linseed Oil Works, which were started by them in 1867 for the purpose of manufacturing linseed oil and oil cake. How well they have succeeded may be inferred from the fact that they give constant employment to thirty hands, and do an annual business of $700,000 to $800,000. - Their main building covers an area of 120 feet front by 62 deep-a fine three-story brick edifice, with basement; and the progress of their business has been such that they are now building a fine store-room as a receptacle for seed. This building will be 66 feet front by 75 deep, and 35 feet high, built with 12 x2-inch plank, nailed flat one upon another with 573-inch iron spikes, and braced with heavy rods in every 8x5 feet. The roof will be iron and the exterior of the structure brick, making it perfectly fire- proof. The weight of spikes alone necessary to nail planks together reaches 17,400 pounds, and the iron for bracing is something over fifteen tons. The capacity of this enormous store-room is 130,000 bushels, which will be connected to the works proper by means of an elevator. The manufacture of this valuable product is rapidly passing into the hands of a very few, who are able to meet the increased competition by saving every possible item in the cost of production. Cleveland is now the point of greatest oil supply of all kinds, and it is undoubtedly the cheapest market on the continent for these goods. The house spoken of is among the largest extant, and each succeeding year can but still further extend the business, it being conducted with the same prudent foresight and on the same liberal terms which have ever been their policy.
The trade of this firm principally confines itself within the limits of the city of Cleveland, the principal aim being to have a large trade right here at home, though the refuse after the oil is extracted is made into linseed cake, which is used largely for fattening and feeding cattle and sheep, and most of which finds a market in London and Glasgow. The firm pay particular attention to quality, and pride themselves on never sending out an inferior article. They have attained their high standing by a practical knowledge and a close observation to their business, growing with our growth and strengthening with our strength.
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L. HALDEMAN & SON, CLEVELAND, O.
THE above firm is composed of L. Haldeman and L, P. Haldeman, who are largely engaged in mining building-stone and manufacturing grindstones-they making only the larger sizes of the latter, for manufacturing purposes. Their quarries are situated on the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railroad, about two and a half miles from Amherst, Ohio, where they constantly employ ninety to one hundred hands, and do an annual business of $150,000. Their offices are located in Room 15, National Bank Building, Cleveland, Ohio. That the reader may form an idea of the vastness of their quarries, we have only to state that they have already worked down sixty feet, and are not yet through the bed. The building-stone from these quarries is uniform in color, and a great favorite. The above firm are furnishing the same stone for Horticultural Hall, Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, and this is the only Ohio sandstone used in the construction of the Centennial Buildings. It has also been adopted and specified for all the interior work and entrances to the new City Buildings in Philadelphia. The Academy of Fine Arts, in the same city, has used largely of it. The "Beautiful Opera- house," of Cleveland, is also built of stone from the same quarry; also the "Simmons Block," said to be the finest sandstone building in the country. Their facilities for shipping are the best, they having side-track alongside the quarries, where the stone is loaded right on to the cars.
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BREWERS.
Isaac Leisy & Co., Brewers, Cleveland, O .- In 1873 this firm bought its . present brewery, which is located at 137 to 143 Vega Avenue, west side, from F. Halt- worth, and commenced the brewing of lager-beer; and that the reader may have an idea of the extent and character of the business done, and the reputation of Mr. Isaac Leisy, who is thoroughly practical, we have only to say that they give employment to thirty-two hands, and sell annually 35,000 barrels of beer, which amounts to $350,000. This is double the business done when they first started, and speaks volumes. They have a branch office at 340 Liberty Street, Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, and sell beer through Western Pennsylvania and Northern Ohio. Messrs. Leisy & Co. have new patent cellars, with ice above, for fermenting, holding fifty-six butts, each butt having capacity for forty-five barrels. The cellars for storing beer are models; and here you are im- pressed at once with the great neatness and cleanliness to be seen on every hand, as much attention being paid to these points as is to be found in a regular barracks on inspection-day; and whoever drinks Isaac Leisy & Co.'s beer may be sure they are partaking of the purest, made from the best materials to be bought, which has given them their present standing. The reputation enjoyed by the firm is one that any house might well feel proud of.
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Cuyahoga Steam Furnace Company, Cleveland, O .- The officers of this company are J. F. Holloway, President; S. F. Lewis, Secretary; and their works are located on Center and Detroit Streets, which were established in 1834. Their capital is $100,000, and they manufacture land and marine engines, and do general foundry and machine work, employing one hundred and seventy-five hands, doing an annual busi- ness of $200,000. Among their specialties we may mention their machinery for blast- furnaces, rolling-mills, mill-gearing, and all kinds of casting and boilers. They have built some of the finest engines and blast-furnace machinery in the country, and were the first in the West to introduce the short-stroke, high-speed, blowing-engines; their celebrated " Himrod Engine," whose fame is known to all iron men, being the original from which all subsequent builders have copied. Among stationary engines, built by this company, and now in use in various parts of the country, we cite as part of them the machinery constructed for the Cleveland Rolling-mill Company for their Newburg and Chicago Steel Works; the large low-pressure engine built for Smith & Jewel, and which is now driving one of the largest and finest flouring mills in New York; also the large engine furnished the new M'Cormick Reaper Works of Chicago, as well as those in use in some of the largest elevators in that city, besides the largest merchant flouring- . mills in Cleveland; and we refer with particular pride to the marine engines built by the Company, of which so many are to be found on the finest boats that navigate our lakes. Their large accumulation of patterns enables them to supply almost any thing required in their line.
Cleveland Scale Works, Cleveland, O .- The Cleveland Scale Works, of Cleve- land, O., are owned and operated by Jones & Lyman-the firm being composed of C. S. Jones and C. C. Lyman, and their manufactory is located at No. 9 Slater Avenue, where they have been manufacturing railroad and platform scales since 1870. C. C. Lyman is patentee of the celebrated motion-weighing scale, with indicator attachment, for weighing and registering trains while in motion. It has also a device attached for entirely relieving the scale-bearings when not in use; hence their scale is well adapted for main tracks, as they can be incessantly passed over with engines, etc., without the least injury to the scales, not even causing the bearings to touch together. Therefore, the expense of building, and trouble of switching upon side-tracks to weigh,. may be avoided, only six (6) seconds being required in changing the scales into weighing condi- tion, or visa versa. The wheel-barrow scale, with indicator and register for loading canal- boats in the night as well as day-time, will soon find a conspicuous place on the docks. Among the railroad scales, now in active service and made by the above firm, is one on the C. and P. R. R., at Cleveland, and one on the Tuscarawas Valley Railroad, near Cleveland. The proprietors enjoy the best facilities for manufacturing a most superior scale, and the attention of business men interested is called to those practically in use.
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Lake Shore Foundry, Cleveland, O .- This company was incorporated in 1874 with a capital of $200,000. The officers are O. M. Burk, President; A. M. Burk, Vice-President : C. E. Burk, Secretary. The works and grounds, which are located at the foot of Alabama Street, between the Lake Shore and Cleveland and Pittsburg Rail- roads, cover an area of five acres in the heart of the city of Cleveland. The principal productions are cast-iron gas and water pipes, though they do general foundry work, such as car-wheels and miscellaneous casting-their total production footing up $400,- ooo to $600, 000 annually, consuming ten to twelve thousand tons of pig metal; and they have a capacity to cast eighteen to twenty thousand tons. They supply the city with all the pipes used, and ship all over the country. And their position between two great railroads enables them to land their pipes and castings right on to the cars without carting. The shop, in which are made the heavy water and gas pipe, contains three pits and two cupolas; and the pipes, after being cast, are cleaned, heated, and coated with pitch, then tested, weighed, etc., when they are ready for shipment. The miscel- laneous casting-room is furnished with steam hoisting-machines for conveying iron to cupolas, of which there are two ; also four drying-rooms, besides every modern appliance for handling work cheaply. Their pattern-room contains patterns for every thing made by them; and they also have a machine-shop and forge connected with their works, sufficient for doing all their own work, thereby saving all intermediate profits necessarily charged by others. Their works are among the largest in our State.
L. Schlather, Brewer, Cleveland, O .- The brewery, in which L. Schlather con- ducts his large and growing business, is located on York, corner Carroll Street, and were originally started, in 1857, on the corner of York and Bridge Streets, the present building being built in 1861. Though started on a small scale, the brewery now gives employment to twenty-five or thirty hands, and turns out annually 25,000 barrels of beer, which represents one-quarter of a million dollars. Mr. Schlather enjoys the best facili- ties for making good brewings, having a patent fermenting cellar, besides eight under- ground cellars for storage, four of which are one-story, and four are two-stories deep, with a capacity to store away ten thousand barrels; and the amount of ice consumed daily reaches twelve tons. The steam brewing-kettle holds one hundred and twenty barrels-they brewing often twice daily. . The brewery is also furnished with a patent. copper beer-cooler eighteen by eight feet. The whole establishment is run with a fine new forty-five horse-power upright engine, built by Stovering & Co., of this city, and is an elegant piece of machinery. Two tube-boilers are used for supplying steam to the engine, and heating the brewery and supplying steam. Mr. Schlather is a thoroughly practical brewer and a business man, which is proven by the recorded results to give Clevelanders the best glass of beer that can be made here or abroad; and whoever par- takes of his productions may be sure they are getting the purest and the best.
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CORRIGAN & CO., OIL WORKS, CLEVELAND, O.
THE Excelsior Oil Works, which are located on either side of the bridge, Walworth Run Railroad Crossing and Pearl Street, and are two separate buildings, occupying, with ground and buildings, nearly six acres, are operated by Corrigan & Co., who have the office and counting-room at No. 12 Bratenahl's Building. The works, which are among the largest in the city, give constant employment to twenty-five hands, and have a capac- ity to handle 500 barrels of crude oil daily, from which they manufacture carbon oils of high tests, and extra refined oils, their annual sales at present prices amounting to $300,000. The oil, which is received from the L. S. & M. S. R. R. alongside their works, is pumped from the tank-cars into their own receptacles, which contain 2,200 barrels; from here it goes to the stills, they having in all eleven small stills, each with a capacity of 550 barrels, and one 400-barrel capacity ; two water-boxes, containing almost 10,000 feet of condensing pipe, and are bountifully supplied with cold spring water. The tank capacity for manufactured goods is about 4,000 barrels, exclusive of agitator, which holds 650 barrels. They have a barrel room that holds 5, 000 empty packages, and one room capable of holding 2,000 painted barrels, and storehouse for barreled oils with capacity for 800 barrels; also, a skidway for loading barrels from the works to the cars. The works are also furnished with one large 20-horse power steam blower, two large steam pumps and two small .ones, two large 52-tube boilers twelve feet long, and for fuel they burn gasoline at one of the works, and coke at the other.
C. Gehring, Brewer, Cleveland, O -. Mr. C. Gehring commenced brewing beer in Cleveland as early as 1857, though on a very small scale compared with his present fine and well-conducted establishment. The brewery is located on Brainard, Freeman, and Pearl Streets, and covers an area of 132 feet on Brainard, 132 on Pearl, and 180 on Freeman, where he gives constant employment to sixteen hands, and turns out annually $130,000 worth of beer. The building is furnished with a fine 16-horse power engine and boiler, a 60-barrel kettle for brewing purposes, a patent beer cooler, consisting of a series of copper tubing, over which the beer passes and through which is pumped ice- water, so that when the beer reaches the bottom of the cooler it is in condition to go below, having in the cellar a pump for forcing ice-water from the cistern below, which holds 50 to 75 gallons. The cellars, which are in themselves models, are used for storing beer, and in them are situated the fermenting tubs. When the beer has passed over the cooler above, it is transported to these fermenting tubs by means of rotary pumps. These cellars are packed in ice all the time, which keeps the beer at about 38° or 400 Fahrenheit. . He also has four cellars, with a capacity to hold 2,500 barrels, for storage purposes, and also has his own malt house in connection with the brewery. Mr. Gehring is thoroughly a practical man, who pays strict attention to his business, always meriting the patronage so liberally bestowed upon him.
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NOVELTY IRON WORKS.
THESE Works were originally started by Thos. R. Reeve, in 1862. In 1873 Fred and Frank Zwilling, who had been interested with Mr. Reeve since the beginning, now bought interests, when the firm name was changed to Zwilling Bros. & Co. Their works, which cover 90 by 157 feet, are two stories high, and located on Wasson and St. Clair Streets. They are largely engaged in the manufacture of bridges, iron and jail-work, fences, machinery, etc., giving employment to sixty hands. In 1871 the works were rebuilt by Mr. Reeve, and refitted with the latest and best improved machinery, includ- ing nine lathes-the largest being nine feet long-three planing-machines, three drilling- machines, one wheel press, one bolt-cutter, two punches, one nut-tapping machine. They have a fine set of patterns, and every facility for making them. The blacksmith shop has twelve forges, two furnaces, a 10,000 pound steam hammer, bolt-headers, etc., and their work is of the highest standard, especially their jail-work, which has received the best indorsements from all over the country.
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