These creations, while being very popular, are at the same time the most magnificent and perfect expression of legitimate stoveplate decoration that has yet been displayed on this market.

With branch offices at Indianapolis, St. Louis, and St. Paul, this company have placed themselves and their products high in the estimation of the American public by the matchless virtues of honest dealing, low prices, and prompt delivery.]

CRANE BROTHERS' MANUFACTURING

COMPANY

report a largely increased business during the past year and collections satisfactory. Prices were remunerative the first part of the year, but declined the latter part, owing to the depression in the iron market, which is the more remarkable as the demand for goods has not fallen off. They manufacture steam and hydraulic elevators, which are in general use and very popular; steam engines, steam pumps, steam goods, engine trimmings, and wrought-iron pipe of all descriptions, having two mills for that purpose, the lap-weld pipe mill being very large and run to its full capacity. They make specialties of cast-iron and malleable fittings of all kinds, and brass and iron valves and cocks for steam, gas, and water. These works, covering almost a square on Jefferson and Desplaines street, give employment to 1,200 men. It is one of the largest houses in its line in the West, and occupies a very conspicuous place among the leading manufacturing industries of the West.

BURLINGTON MANUFACTURING CO.

MARBLES.

The Burlington Manufacturing Company, at the corner of Michigan avenue and Van Buren street, are extensive manufacturers and producers of marble in the form of floor tiling, mantels, wainscoting, monuments, and

all kinds of interior and exterior ornamentation and decoration. They aim to secure the best grades of marble from beds of various geological formations and structure, possessing a fineness of texture and purity of shading that fit it for the choicest works of decoration and even for the sculptor; of grades held in the highest estimation by those familiar with this rock. Their experience and their determination to use none but the best material has enabled them to secure a large patronage. Their trade extends through the West and Northwest, and elsewhere to some extent

THOMAS DOUGALL.
RECORD OF THIRTY-FIVE YEARS.

At Nos. 35 to 41 Cedar street we find the extensive establishment of Thomas Dougall. This gentleman first engaged in the manufacture of soap in Chicago thirty-five year ago, and no other laundry soap ever placed upon the market in this country has given more universal or continued satisfaction His leading brands are the "American Laundry," "German Fine Laundry," and Chemical Erasive. His soaps are sold in large quantities all over the West and at prices that defy

competition. In his factory is used the latest and most improved machinery, so that his soap is manufactured at the least possible expense. Mr. Dougall reports his trade constantly on the increase and his business in a satisfactory condition.

SPIELMAN BROS.

COMPRESSED YEAST AND VINEGAR.

Among the thriving enterprises of Chicago may be mentioned that of Messrs. Spielman Bros., manufacturers of compressed yeast and vinegar. This firm, located at 103 East Erie street, has been compelled by their increase of trade to seek larger quarters, and are now located at Nos. 93 to 99 North avenue, also running their Erie street establishment. This firm was established in 1879, on a small scale, and are now the largest manufacturers of their kind of goods in America. They make white wine vinegar, and, with their increased facilities, are unable to keep up with their orders. Their Yeast, and is being used by large bakers and yeast is known as the Chicago Compressed the leading grocers of the city.

They have lately made extensive additions and improvements, which enables them in a measure to keep pace with their thriving business. We wish them merited success.

PURTELL, HANNAN & CO.

NICKEL PLATERS.

The members of this firm are practical workmen, and herein lies the secret of their success, for they have certainly been successful, and have grown in importance steadily and surely year by year, until they are now one of the most prominent firms in their line of business in Chicago. They make a specialty of fine and durable work, and pay great attention to stair and balcony railings. They also do an immense amount of work for the palace-car companies. Door plates, carriage plating, and carriage name plates are also directly in their line of business, and have recently added nickel-plating, bronzing, dipping, lacquering, polishing, and grinding to their extensive works. This firm is licensed by the United Nickel Company, of New York. They are at present located at No. 60 South Canal street, prepared to increase their business materially during 1884.

J. J. WILSON.

THE ARROW BRAND.

Mr. Wilson first engaged in the vinegar rade in Chicago in 1865 and in the pickle business in 1876, naming his pickles the "Arrow Brand," which has been registered as this trade mark. His pickles and kindred goods are well and favorably known throughout the country and give universal satisfaction to the trade. Mr. Wilson reports a steady increase of trade year by year. His office and factory are located at Nos. 12 and 14 North Clinton street, Chicago, and his salting works at Crystal Lake, Illinois.

PRUSSING VINEGAR WORKS.
STRICTLY PURE GOODS.

Among the pioneer industries of Chicago are the well-known Prussing Vinegar Works,

founded by Mr. Chas. G. E. Prussing in 1848. These works occupy the block bounded by Clark, LaSalle, Twenty-fourth, and Twentyfifth streets, and are the oldest works of the kind in America, as also the most complete and extensive in the world, their daily capacity being 400 brls. A visit to this estabfishment reminds one of the famous old breweries of England, as there may be seen faithful and reliable workmen grown from youth to old age in the service of the PrussIngs, and to this system is due much of the reliability and uniform purity of Prussing's vinegar, which has so many years brought joy to the hearts of prudent housewives, who pride themselves on the crispness and flavor of the toothsome pickle.

THE YOUNG & FARREL

DIAMOND STONE-SAWING COMPANY'S

Works on Twelfth and Lumber streets, Chicago (see cut), are most complete and admirable; it is said, indeed, they have not their equal in the world. They cover an area of about three acres, and include many won

company feel confident of building up a magnificent business by helping to build up and embellish these magnificent cities of the great West.

The officers are Franklin Farrel, President; Hugh Young, Secretary and Treasurer; Ferdinand V. Gindele. Manager, and Robert C. Harper, Superintendent. They are exceedingly gratified with the liberal patronage of architects, builders, and the public heretofore accorded them, and are determined to deserve the continuance and increase of the same.

THE ALLEN PAPER CAR-WHEEL CO. A WHEEL THAT IS ABSOLUTELY SAFE.

The science of railroading owes a great deal of its advancement and progress to this celebrated wheel, which has been tried and found to perform all that is claimed for it. The core of the Allen car-wheel 'consists of straw board compressed by hydraulic power of 5,000 tons. The centers are encircled by heavy steel tires of the most perfect and expensive manufacture. The paper, in the center of which rests the iron hub, is encased

derfully effective machines, such as overhead travelers, power and hand cranes, diamond saws, planers, rubbing beds, lathes, etc., for handling, sawing, dressing, polishing, and turning the different kinds of building stone,

The business of the company is the furnishing and erection of cut stone, whether plain, molded, or carved, for private dwellings, business blocks, churches, court houses. schools, bridges, and the like, and it makes a specialty also of planed sidewalks.. It is the sole agent in the West for several of the most interesting and valuable stones, of which we may mention the red Scotch stone, known as Corsehill, so popular in the Eastern cities, and the celebrated and attractive Brinton green stone of Pennsylvania, already such a favorite in Chicago.

The company owns the patents for Young's diamond saws and for other machines used in its business, and has a branch establishment at Mott Haven, New York City, specially devoted to their manufacture and sale. By reason of abundant capital, extraordinary facilities, and long experience in every part of their business; by promptness, good work, and reasonable charges, the officers of this

between side-plates of wrought iron, the combination of steel, paper, and iron being so securely held together as to be incapable of separation in any considerable accident. Safety and durability result as a natural consequence. As high as 200,000 miles have been obtained from these wheels without turning the tire, and 800.000 miles without renewing the tire. The economy of the wheel in every way is established. The Allen Paper Car-wheel Company, of which Mr. A. G, Darwin is President, are operating extensive works at Pullman, Morris, Ill., and Hudson, N. Y., which have an annual production of 25,000 wheels.7 These wheels are in use under most of the sleeping, parlor, chair, and dining cars, and many of the first-class coaches upon all the principal railways in this country.

SMOKE CONSUMPTION

A SUCCESSFUL PATENT.

Smoke consumption has at last reached a stage of development which places it among the assured successes of the age. This result has been attained only after years of experience and patient investigation and in

quiry. There are numerous devices upon the market which make great claims to effectiveness and superiority, but after thorough research we have found but one device which effectually accomplishes the result sought, and in this device all the objections seem to have been met and overcome with consummate skill and completeness, and the theory that smoke cannot be consumed is exploded as is most emphatically attested by the daily operation of the

HUTCHINSON SMOKE AND SPARK BURNER. We find about 2,200 of these machines in successful operation on locomotives, tugs, and all manner of stationary furnaces, the number exceeding all other smoke consumers combined. In no case has this device been found wanting in reliability, durability,

or effectiveness.

It is simply an air-feeding device, and the fireman can supply his furnace with air in the same manner he does his boiler with water, by the use of an injector. They will attach the device to any locomotive, tug, or other furnace at their own expense, and demonstrate all they claim for them before presenting their bill for payment. Address, for particulars. 103 Adams street, Chicago.

GOSS & PHILLIPS MFG. CO.
SASH, DOORS, ETC.

In the development of the Northwest, sash, doors, and house-furnishing materials are

joyed such extended patronage as the Goss & Phillips Manufacturing Company. While this company continues in business the consumer will always have an assurance of getting good value for their money. They are now giving particular attention to hardwood finishings. A visit to their establishment would well repay the visitor for the time thus spent.

FULLER AND WARREN COMPANY.
THE BEST STOVES.

The Clinton Stove Works, at Troy, N. Y., were established in 1831 for the manufacture of stoves, furnaces, and ranges, and by dint of careful attention to the details of their

business, have extended their trade throughout the American continent and all parts of the civilized world. The establishment occupies an area of six acres of ground, with substantial buildings fully equipped with the latest modern appliances for the production of stoves, and their facilities are unquestionably without rival in the stove industry. Their goods, of all kinds, are undoubtedly superior in every minntiæ, both in construction and finish. In 1862 the Chicago branch was established, and is one of the pioneers in the Western stove trade, with sales-room at 56 Lake street; and an immense reserve stock in storage at their great warehouse in this city places them in position to

important factors toward which the above firm has contributed very largely. Thus, in its business as a well-managed and successful lumber-manufacturing company, has done much toward the progress of the great West. Their great establishment, on the corndr of Fisk and Twenty-second streets, is one of the landmarks of the lumber district, and is equipped with the most approved machinery. Their facilities for manufacturing and shipping are unsurpassed in this great lumber market of the world. Here may be found at all times, every style of goods in their line, from the plainest to the most elaborate. Few establishments have en

tation the country over. Whatever is neat, tasty, and artistic in the way of fancy leather goods is made by this establishment, and cannot be excelled in quality or finish in the United States. Descriptive price-lists sent to the trade upon application.

A. H. ANDREWS & CO., CORNER WABASH AVENUE AND ADAMS, report a constant increase in the volume of their business, their sales being considerably over one million in their departments of Bank Counters, Office and School Desks, Opera Chairs, Church Seating, Globes, Maps, and their specialty, the "Andrews Folding Beds." The well-known quality of their goods and the reputation of the house have combined to crowd them with orders.

BEMİS & M'AVOY, BREWERS. The goods manufactured by this firm have a reputation co-extensive with the United

States. The house does an enormous business and counts its customers by the thousand

LUMBER.

HOLBROOK & CO.

HARD WOOD LUMBER.

One of the most extensive, and the oldest in point of continued existence, firms dealing exclusively in hardwood lumber in Chi cago is Messrs. Holbrook & Co., located at the corner of Eighteenth and Grove streets. It was established there in 1853, and has occupied the same premises ever since. They deal in all kinds of hardwood lumber suitable for the use of bridge and warehouse

builders, furniture marufacturers, interior and exterior finishing, and for whatever uses hardwood lumber may be wanted. They obtain their supplies mainly from Michigan, Indiana, and the South, or wherever their judgment, based on thirty years of experience, tells them the best grades of hardwood lamber can be obtained. Their business extends throughout the West, Northwest, and to some extent in the East. They have track and other facilities for shipping in and out, which are unsurpassed by any similar concern in the country. During their long and uninterruptedly fair and honorable business career they have acquired a reputation for dealing advantageously and squarely, which few firms in business as long attain and retain.

HAMILTON & MERRYMAN COMPANY, LUMBER DEALERS.

Loomis and Twenty-second streets. The business of this company expresses exactly those methods which have made this city the greatest lumber market of the world. [Beginning with the ownership of the land on which the pine tree grows, every operation in the process of preparing it for use and putting it on the market is conducted at the smallest possible expense and under one management. The mills of this company are at Marinette, Wis., where they have sawed 25,000,000 feet the past year. From the mills to the yards in Chicago the lumber is transported in their own vessels and landed at their spacious dock, where at one handling it can be placed on the cars. Thus this company is prepared to offer their customers lumber on which there is but one profit from the growing tree to the prepared article.7

CHICAGO'S SUBURBS.

THE UNION STOCK YARDS.
HISTORICAL.

The entire system of all the railways East and West center here, making the Union Stock Yards the most accessible in the coun

try for both buyer and seller The large capacity of the yards, the facilities for unloading, feeding, and reshipping have been kept up to the requirements of the wondrous growth of this market. The elevated driveways and viaduct system have been pushed forward on such a grand scale as to render the economic handling of the stock from all divisions more convenient than at any other period in the history of the yards. These great roadways and stock drives, connecting with the city of packing-houses, are direct and wonderfully complete. Ten times as much stock can be more rapidly and conveniently handled here at present than could be done ten years ago, while the banking interest conducts the volume of two hundred millions of annual business that obtains here now with fewer complications and less red tape than was required to handle ten millions when these yards were in their infancy. Then it required the personal indorsement and assurance, at great risk, of the management and their friends to bring Eastern money here to conduct this great branch of commerce. Now it flows through in such a wave that the tide will ever be irresistible. Much has been written and said upon the subject to whom belongs the credit of concentrating in Chicago this branch of commerce, through which flows the cumulative wide Western wealth in its fullest volume. The proposition is plain and of easy solution. To those energetic spirits belongs the chief credit that gathered the nucleus and rounded into form this grand combination of united interests, and then sagaciously directed the enterprise until it has become a rock-rooted institution of Middle America, adjunctive to the civilized world. It can be said beyond a cavil or doubt that the business facilities afforded by the

UNION STOCK YARD AND TRANSIT COMPANY to the live stock market of Chicago has been one of the chief factors in the grand agricultural development of the great West.

From the foundation of this market up to the present the same management have bent their indefatigable energy to the accomplishment of a great purpose; how well they have

succeeded is known in every land and lauded in every language, until the guide-book of the foreign visitor is incomplete that does not include the great Union Stock Yards and its city of packing-houses, wherein is prepared the mostwholesome and richest of human food which is sent to feed the millions throughout the world. The first stock yard founded in Chicago, that attracted Eastern capitalists to this market as a live stock supply point, was managed by John B. Sherman, who was the chief spirit in organizing the present Union Stock Yards, and has been actively identified with its management ever since. These yards were constructed in the year 1865, and were opened for business Dec. 25 of the same year. The company now owns about a section of land, and over one hundred miles of railroad track, making a transit through the city, and running around and through different parts of the yards, all laid with steel rails, connecting with all the railroads centering in Chicago. Within an inclosure of 360 acres are constructed the

TRANSIT HOUSE

at a cost of $250,000, which is furnished first-class and is kept second to none in the country, charges to stockmen being only $2 per day, or 50 cents per meal. In the center of the yards is a large two-story-and-a-half building 60x380, with large wings extending south from either end, doubling the capacity of the main building. This is known as the Exchange Building, and is divided up as follows: Large Board of Trade hall, main offices for Stock Yards Company, Superintendent's, Secretary's, and Treasurer's offices, telegraph and telephone offices, postoffice, restaurant 60x80, spacious saloon, packers' offices, offices for Eastern shippers, barber shop, news stand, fruit stand, and about 150 offices for commission merchants who take charge of and sell stock consigned to them; the Union Stock Yards National Bank building, 40x60; twenty large hay barns, as many more large corn cribs, twenty scale-houses, each containing one of Fairbank's improved scales with a capacity for weighing three or four car-loads of cattle or hogs at a draft; machine shops, depot buildings, printing office, and two dozen other buildings used to transact business pertaining to the receiving and shipping live stock, including the grand new horse sales stables and the experimental fat-stock barn that is always replete with an assortment of different breeds of cattle. The water supply is furnished through the regular waterworks and a halfdozen artesian wells, a standpipe, surrounded by a tower 150 high, into which the water is