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t FRIDAY MARCH 161906 Barrister la the second son everyday routine of the business conducted is a striking example what be accomplished by System The company what they WiliiamB and preach and an on of the various device they make can OQ always be seen in practical use Model School in the autumn In the class the handling cases easy matter The j ing is heated by steam the for some time J room taking up half of the eownhip of he t of the basement the other Toronto aDd Unlw ling specialty for room In this vault room is In Mr joined Law Society of Upper Canada the finest vaults In the county entire vault is constructed of In enamelled in white and trimmed enercd with gilt Every device for the correspondence records etc In a branch house in Montreal developed a large business atft piemises are now splendid new store at 255 St James being thoroughly fitted up and will be occupied on the first Op May The West and The Office Specialty Manufacturing Co was opened wppeg Office Specialty p each were added and the in- located Newmarket in buying creased and sufficient power that jntry the building formerly used by the suited has more than paid for the Company vestment This building Is a three storey brick With the toiler house a new stack been worked up The Territories are covered ptveUers the Winnipeg branch they with great aellj one and forms part of the was This stack is feet metal Though starting high and be several miles a small way to manufacture their distant v goods the always aimed to Mitral of railway tracks put The steady through tin- yard pro- growth of the business and lie He- vide excelled bClRtlm or branch at though not for high Devices shipment Cars are loaded and ship and may be safely to all pari a of Canada direc attributed to this policy fiom the factory In the had grown to While a office and staff is such proportions that an addition maintained at the factory the bead had to be to the factory and- office of company is at Wei a large i 50 feet street west and a complete woodworking he business and consequent department was installed The business continued to grow strides and in two were added to the building goods The Srtf looted fter by pifeaiciiip East ern covered by tho branches is meet- with gieit success in selling tm latest to be opened He has recently established MR A WILLIAMS one a by the woodworking depart ment the lumber ware house which will hold many InvancouvetVBC This branch office the of completes the cllain and Office Albert which be occupies every Specialty goods are to be day Part of the Dominion from ocean tc Mr Williams is a member of the Masonic fraternity and is a past of the factor the Toronto master of Tuscan lodge No He has also fcepf pace employs large a menher ol the Christian church The first store Adelaide street J J cover the country not which he holds prominent office was occupied n This was In Mr Williams married Mrs o- small to accommodate thestoekj u Elizabeth Howard widow of the late Plumbing of various kinds are and coutiacts are taken for eiulpping residences stores or public buildings with all modern sanitary conveniences paints are sold ilr and the- demand for these readytoputOo colors is a very keen cue Mr has foigotteu the sporting fraternity for he handles a full line of srorling goods base- hockey cricket flrs- etc Altogether store has given em ployment to nine hands and two wagons been operated delivering and teaming in coWdeotion with the business The store is lighted by day- and an arc system of electricity at eight The ceiling of the store Is a most handsome metallic one and shows to good advantage Mr a young man of mus cular build and great energy of char acter He is making a conspicuous success his business He proposes to a bandsoma residence for the coining summer TAB METHODIST He Is cohnected with the local lodge casn system from the first and by J with the Presbyterian church of Freemasons and is in every way I this sst a example to other He is a member of United Irish a most I to Day street where tho one and in 1S80 the busing was moved system advocat- Howard of East Gwllllmbury sand feet of lumber was erected The fiat and the basement soon became and- manufactured by the corn- In politics Mr Williams is Liberal Ho was the as recently the North Lehman Insurance Agent merchants and he has the League Toronto and is in full cash system to the present time sympathy with the Irish National The general of the Da a ford Movement Roche Co is one of if not the very largest in ttiis section J I of counry The firm owns the Mr Bellman has been a resident of j st0r no has able to improve upon busmen the companys show- v rooms and stock was completely Temporary were opened at street until the company could In the handsome new store at street west opened This store is without doubt ihe The illustrations on this page show some of many articles manufac tured by the company A specialty A Binns Hardvare hardware store Mr Newmarket for many yearo coming 0 ji SUuet here froraJIarknim lie Is an worker in all religious of the the Day Alliance and of the York Sabbath W Barrister and Solicitor A is made of vatilt steel and is located in the Millard wood steel office furniture and post block on the east side of Main street office equipment- The store is exceptionally largo trade murk adopted by the feet and three stories company Is a very striking and prac- There are few larger arc stores finest of Us in the country the t lhi cUics well Devices connected with the beaver tain a heavier stock than It does won for the name intelligence The writer has been In a great mwy and the Lion standing for Strength hat ware stores In many larger and Vigor is symbolic of the pro- towns he has not found so large a plate glass windows l t and Labor Saving Office and this store could not across the front of the Front The building built of pressed white brick three stories in height provision being made for a four I storey addition a the business keep the factory well at the rate of with dry storey will soon be the Company saw the necessary cecity of the metal The interior a very partment and a large three storey sornn appearance lh wins was built on west doors one Is impressed with the ample the plant This building is a room for dispKjing tj the best substantial one and Is well adapted advantage The sales floor Is well its purpose the workrooms are laid out The various filing devices large an5 airy and the machinery Is chairs desks and many other labor gresslvencss and standing the beat ijri and facility saving office devices are to bo found by the company for doing the best In the short In to meet the require in their products the est time here found I nienta of all kinds conditions of company spends thousands of In metal department had I dollars every year The printed mat wit grown the liccdy shop and high alined for by the is the country can pro- addition to be built company Is here illustrated No mat- Til AUK I wan dope by building an ler whether It is a single dune man of the Catalogues In four colors ftiou to the south Board or large Cabinet Iho In of l t wncrehlp I In in same stand for The plant had now grown to such high of workmanship Is of this company In such a abort always apparent It la expected that the The business office Is situated on years vfji tee the first floor This end of the bus- kef factory twice as Is most complete sys- at and large proportion that the power supply was no to operate the machinery and a new stack and holer house were built In summer of In the erection of this lojKr house no expense was spared stock and so complete a run go of goods here The impression made upon the mind on entering these pre mises that a very urge capital Is required to carry so large a stock Mr a boy born in the town and educated at Pub lic and High Schools He learned his trade here also his first lessons business and the I or a period j of five years he brushed up In other I towns and cities and acquired a J wider and more varied experience In year Mr went Into partnership with late I Wright In- a stove and tinware busi ness the store on tho west side l the street partnership con- tinned for two years and then Mr ROCxie GO General Store There probably no name in mcr- very centre of the The store is largo laid out There arc three floors devoted to jug The basement cental is boots and carpels oil cloths wall pipers etc on the ground floor is found dress gouds siiks staples dry goods gents furnishi while stairs there are millinery mantles I mens clothing and In each aid all of these- lines a compKtc stock is carried of up-to- date the beat quality The trade of there arc Dan ford Roche business as carried on Is the most systematic business in Ontario Apart from the regular of the store firm buys bankrupt sleeks In various juris of the Prov ince and then sells them off in the towns and cities where bought or brings here to add to their gen- j oral store As an Indication of the volume of business done it may be mentioned that a staff of fifteen I hands la necessary and busy days School Association Mr Lehman Us many as twenty arc employed a member the Friends church Mr- lhc irst telephone for many years waa Superintendent 0rlhrf line of Sunday School He Is most Aurora a Mr has been practicing law here twentyone years hav ing come hero upon being called to the in Mr was bom In on a farm from Newmarket He received his early education at tic and High Schools here and attended Toronto University graduating in Arts in 1VS0 Tlien he took up the study of law and got his sheepskin in 1835 His office upstairs is in the Block was the Liberal can ts firm Is a large one and 1 for York at the ast those who consider the t ii 1iovJnclal election but was unsuc cessful Mr- Widdifield occupies the j position of Secretary of the North York Reform Association Ho Is also I a member of the High School Board and He enjoy a very extensive legal practice Mr grandfather came to In nil the land he settled has been the fa mil to this day Blacksmith highly esteemed by his fallow cltl- 11s five years and then moved to way In which record correspondence Is filed and fact Wilcox of that retains to tho of hot only the largest factory iriCanada but of the largest In the world Itemises now occupied On coming pursuits more widely known and hough a it I tin- in this section of country than that war plumMng furnaces etc to Ms of tho above firm one of thy reasons j has Id factory lIat inirl years it and equipped and a very roi- been before the public by built up iii any part of an office Irado 1 In stoves the Moffat National and Happy Thought the main lines handled all popular and most satisfactory makes- Mr la alio Mr John Redmond of agent for Buck and fur- I Ireland and his mothers maid- and he has sold a great many en name was of Dublin of there heaters Ho has In- Mr Roche was educated in Mr smithy is on At that time street near the church the thrill had a branch store in Mr has hero sinco Aurora and this proved very He worked for Bros near useful Richmond Hill for five years and In the process of the years Mr then tame lure to slat business He Roche has crossed the Atlantic six- j Is an Irishman by birth and came teen times going and coming for In lo Canada in He settled first former years he j at Toronto then at markets in England Ireland and Mr do- all kinds of blacksmith bought for his stores work but hois shoeing is prln- tiling Ills son Mr himself J J in work of Interests shop Hois a bandsman of town to quite an Mr has for thirteen years head of the firm Mr in the hcciia member of the Separate School Roche comes of Irish parentage and years Hoard of be town and has been a wan bom In the cry of Belleville and is con- i prominent worker In the AOUW on January Ills father was stalled furnaces In Mr Canes at Iho public and grammar schools Mr Schmidts residence In At ago of he wont to Donnes fine home also and with to the dry the Methodist and Episcopal churclrs goods firm of Walker Hops The stove trade Is exceptionally largo where he remained for years some twoor three hundred stoves be- He then went lo Chicago and en- sold each year tho employ of Field Letter In and heavy hard- Co and was there when tho great ware from a to an anchor flie of devastated city The man returned to Toronto a hardware want that could the fire engage- not ho fully satlrifiud hero meht with the firm of Samson Ken- Metal roofing and beautiful as traveller colling Is a line In which this store position ho for three years In does a largo also Pattersons Mr earns edge roofing Is found to have a and purchased the slock of the who was doing In Ids general atoro largest credit business in thin part of the country Roche adopted the ready sale This has rowlvcd contracts from all over the country for and men aro ready on short notice to orders MODEL SCHOOL 1