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From: "Cathy Joynt Labath" <>
Subject: [IASCOTT] !! Davenport Times; Scott Co, IA; Nov 24, 1900 "business"
Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2003 19:06:55 -0600


Davenport Times
Davenport, Scott, Iowa
Saturday, Nov. 24, 1900

DAVENPORT TRULY A CITY OF PROGRESS


PITTSBURG PLATE GLASS CO.
Manufacturers and Jobbers of Glass and Paints.

An institution which has had a remarkable growth since it was
established in Davenport, and which is today regarded as one of the great
interests of the city, is the Pittsburg Plate Glass company. The house was
established here as something of an experiment about four or five years ago
and the business it has done since that time warrants the statement that it
has become one of the permanent business enterprises of this vicinity, it
has been under the best sort of management from the very beginning and this
has probably been the chief reason for the remarkable success that has
characterized its business.
It is now the heaviest dealer in plate glass in the country west of
Chicago and there is nothing in even that city in the line of plate glass
that excels the quality turned out by this factory. This house here also
makes a specialty of art glass, which it manufactures, and it has recently
secured some of the largest contracts that have ever been let in this
section. The company purchased the paint business of the Jas. E. Patton
company of Milwaukee, but a short time ago, and it will from this time forth
carry a full line of paints and painters' sundries in addition to its glass
products. The paints will be manufactured at the Milwaukee house and each
branch of the company will carry a fall line.
The manager of the Davenport house is F.W. Currier. He has been here
for the past few months but he has had an extensive experience in the
business having grown up with the concern. He was assistant local manager of
the Minneapolis house for a number of years and he is perhaps one of the
best posted young men in the company's employ. This house shops as far west
as Creston, Ia., and its territory east of here covers a small portion of
Illinois. The Pittsburg company makes it an object to fill all orders
promptly and to furnish the lowest freight rates to its customers. A trip
through the factory here reveals the magnitude of the company's work for
skilled mechanics are to bee seen busily engaged daily in preparing art
glass, doing beveling and silvering while others are employed in the
manufacture of mirrors.
This concern has furnished the art glass in nearly all the fine
residences that have gone up in Iowa in the past few years as well as having
furnished the plat glass for most of the large business buildings that have
been constructed within several hundred miles of this place during this same
period.
The Pittsburg Plate Glass company has about a dozen manufacturing
plants in the states of Pennsylvania and Indiana and at a few other points
in the country besides Davenport, and besides its warehouse here it has
extensive warehouses in the cities of Boston, New York, Cincinnati,
St.Louis, Chicago, Minneapolis, Detroit and Philadelphia.
The business of the company here is located on Scott street on the west
side, opposite the court house and it has splendid switching facilities
whereby it is enabled to ship any quantity of its product on short notice.
There is now no better known industry in this part of the state than the
local plant of the Pittsburg Plate Glass company and the good reputation and
extensive trade it enjoys is due to its wise management and fair dealing
with the public.

Cathy Joynt Labath
Scott Co, IA USGenWeb Project
http://www.celticcousins.net/scott/index.htm

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