Show ANOTHER ANOTHER ST LOUIS LANDMARK greets visitors to city who come in over eads bridge republic st louis mo st louis has a number of landmarks which have become familiar to her citizens and to the traveling public and another one has as just been added which will enable the traveling public coming into the city either eithe r over the fads eads bridgefor brid bridge geor or over the merchants chants terminal bridge and down the elevated tracks to at once realize that they have reached st louis in their travels and that is the sign which is on top of one of the warehouses of A leschen sons rope company on north first street and which reads WIRE ROPE it is as visible at night as during the day for it is an electric sign and catches the eye immediately it helps to show the great strides which this company has made since starting in business in 1857 at that time the business was known as adolph les ch chen enand and was so continued until 1872 when it was changed to A leschen son at which time mr henry leschen who is now president of the company became a partner in the business with his father in 1886 it was changed to A leschen sons rope company under which name it operates at the pr present es ent time this company has just completed the erection of probably the largest and handsomest sciez wire rope factory in the country on thir tyone acres of ground which they purchased chalsea something over a year ago between hamilton and hodiamont avenues in the northwestern part of town their plant is equipped with the most modern machinery of all ail kinds and the ropes which they are manufacturing they are selling and shipping at the present time to all parts of the world as well as to all parts of this country and this rope is used in the elevators of the largest buildings in every city in this country try and and wherever anyone travels it is found in use in mines in quarries on derricks in iii the logging camps throughout the country and on aerial wi tramways tram ways which the A leschen sons rope company are bui building iding in very large numbers it was not v very ery long ago that they completed an aerial wire rope tramway in 4 wyoming byomin g between sixteen and seventeen miles in 1 length on which alone almost seventy eniy miles of wire rope was used and all of 1 k this tramway material they manufacture in their new and handsomely equipped machine shop and blacksmith shop which they have erected I 1 on their new property this is a pase case where it is not only the all sign which is a landmark in st louis but the company itself has become one of the foremost institutions inthe in the city and in fact in its line in the whole country and this result has been obtained not only because of ao 40 1 th the energy and the push which they have EMI V y exhibited year y ear after year in reaching out into every possible field and section where they found any chance for business but also because of their steadfast purpose of manufacturing the very best quality and highest grades of wire rope and machinery they have at all times maintained this one purpose and that has been to make the very best rope that it is possible to manufacture and in spite of the fact that the special ropes which they manufacture are higher in price than those made by any other manufacturer nevertheless they have been able to increase their trade on these high priced ropes because the service obtained from them by the purchasers and by the users have demonstrated to such purchasers and to such users that these high grade ropes have been very much cheaper to them in the end for the reason that they have gotten so much greater service from them than they could obtain and they did obtain previously from ordinary grades of wire ropes |