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Show THE BULLETIN 'Connecticut Yankee Established America's First Hardware Store glimpse of the. hardware store is given by D. Fletcher Barber of. Boston, former president of the, National Retail Hardware assoAn interesting ciation in these reminiscences: ' As I look back over 50 years in the hardware business, I can see many changes, but it is diffi-- j cult to summarize what has en place during this period. A' half or even a quarter of a century ago stocks were very aim--1 pie in amount of merchandise and limited as to selection. Store equipment was poor and inade-- . quate and while fitted to the lim--, ited needs of those days, would be totally unsuited for todays Display of hard--1 requirements. ware was not given much con-- 1 sideration, and was so little thought of that shutters were put in nearly all stores at night and over Sunday. Windows were generally made up of small panes of glass and in most cases not a plate glass. Windows were not dressed more often than once a month. "The hardware stores in the cities of New England did not sell stoves and kitchenware, although the country and suburban town 'stores did. Stoves were given a prominent place, often reaching to the front door. The city stores imported many of their tools, and the saws that were sold were those manufactured by Spear & Jackson or Groves & Sons. We sold a great many files, also planes, bit braces, carving tools and other fine tools. Cutlery of the better kind was nearly all English made and we can remember the old Jonathan Crooks knives which most boys thought the best made. Razors were nearly all English made, as the German products were sold only as very low priced Table knives were for goods. the most part sold with the fork handle to match the knife handle, and there was a great variety of handles and bolsters, which was the finish of the covering over the ends of the handles. The better kinds had real ivory handles and some were solid silver plated knives, very expensive as compared with the present day prices. Plated ware began with a base of brass or inferior metal, which was changed later to nickel or combination of metal which more nearly resembled silver service. The shelving showed what would today be considered a vegr poor appearance, since not many boxes were used. Goods were put up in packages of brown paper, with green labels, and, when Men of the tLASJIFIED DEPARTMENT, , i Celebration of National Hardware Week Recalls Story of Amasa Goodyear and His Son, Who Later Won Fame as an Inventor but Who Was a Failure in the Business Today Carried on Successfully by Nearly 37,000 Retailers Throughout the United States. O Weatern Newspaper Union. ' By ELMO SCOTT WATSON BACK a in Yankee 1807 named Goodyear made the first pearl buttons ever produced in this country and a little later branched out into the manufacture of other kinds. His business grew so rapidly that by 1812 he was supplying the United States government with all the metal buttons used on the uniforms of its soldiers in bur second war with England. From buttons Amasa Goodyears Yankee ingenuity led him into other fields of invention and he patented a number of articles, the most important being a hayfork. Goodyears next venture was in a new field that of retailing the articles which he manufactured and in 1827 he opened up in Church alley in the little village of Salem, near Waterbury, Conn., a small store which is believed .to be the first hardware store in the United States. Today In this country there are nearly 37,000 hardware stores who trace their "ancestry back to that little shop in Church alley in Salem village and as they join in the annual celebration of National Hardware Week, which is being observed from May 9 to 14, it is interesting tc trace the development through the last 111 years of this branch of American business. This is the typical hardware store of yesteryear with lia dark, oily Haora, poor lighting, crowded and poorly arranged stock, much of it nnder glass where the customers are unable to Inspect it closely. facture not only to secure revenue by taxation but also for protection for British manufacturers. Besides taxing sugar, tea and other necessities consumed by her colonies, England also tried to prohibit them from manufacturing any commodity which was or could be made in the Mother Country. Depending upon her colonies for raw fnaterials, she required that these materials and the finished products be carried in British-bui- lt ships, manned by British subjects and that all ex It would be pleasant to record that the pioneer hardware store owner of this country was out- standingly successful in his venture. But, unfortunately, just the opposite is true. For Amasa Goodyear placed the store in charge Of his son, Charles, and although history has written this son down as one of its great inventors for he was the Charles Goodyear of India rubber fame apparently he was not a good business man. At least, it is recorded that the pioneer hardware stores failed because of Charles Goodyears speculations in real estate and in January, 1831, it passed into the possession of Curtis and Hand who were prominent in developing retail hardware stores as outlets for various articles of domestic manufacture. The story of Amasa Goodyears pioneer venture is an interesting chapter in American economic history. In the colonial days all supplies were brought from Europe. But as this country became more settled and the English colonies became better es- - ports and Imports of the colonies be shipped through England where a tax was levied. Thus it will be seen how the development of manufacture in the colonies was retarded and why the American Revolution was quite as much an economic as a political rebellion. of With the establishment American independence, however, restrictions upon American inventive genius and expansion were removed. Small home man-- Here is a modern hardware store, rearranged and designed by hardware association experts. It has plenty of light, a systematic arrangement of its merchandise, most of which is out where people can heft it" before buying. tablished as governmental units, trades were set up to do specific work or make specific commodities. The Village Blacksmith The village blacksmith was the foundation of the American manufacture of hardware. He made the bars and hinges for doors and the early, crude implements for agriculture. With the finding of coal and other minerals in great abundance, manufacture of various items of hardware began on a small scale which became increasingly larger as the years passed. Before long the Mother Country was beginning to look upon this development with an unfriendly eye and she began imposing restrictions upon manu facturers grew up to supply the local demand but for years by far the greatest part of the manufactured goods was still imported from Europe. Despite the fact that the restrictions upon colonial manufacture had been a factor in bringing about the Revolution, early American manufacturers had little encouragement from the majority of American people who still favored foreign-mad- e goods. Nor was this discrimination of short duration. In fact, it lasted almost until the Civil war. When the Berlin and Milan decrees of Napoleon and the retaliation of the British Orders of Council placed a blockade around Europe and reduced neu-- ti ill shipping to almost nothing, they forced a new problem upon American manufacturers. Since no goods could be imported from Europe, domestic manufacturers were called upon to meet demands with which they could not cope with the machines and processes then available. Industrial Revolution This marked the advent of the American industrial revolution in 1808, which eventually carried the new nation from a negative position to the worlds greatest manufacturing nation and which changed the United States from a purely agricultural to a manufacturing country. As new machines were invented, new processes worked out and new production methods brought into action, American manufacturing assumed a real magnitude and spread rapidly throughout New England, New York and Pennsylvania. Coincidentally with the growth of manufacture came the necessity for retail outlets for the manand this ufactured products brought into existence hardware stores along with other kinds of retail establishments. Although Amasa Goodyear has the distinction of being the first to operate a hardware store, he was soon followed by others. One of these was Christopher Hubber (later Casey and Hubber), who started in New York. He was followed by George H. Grey & Co. in 1829 and Hesner & Green in Boston. The articles offered for sale, even by the largest dealers, were limited in number and variety. Among the small articles were molasses gates, Goodyears Fenns cockstop and leather faucets, cast bits and screws (not very salable), nails, shoe and side strap hammers, wooden awl handles, mill, circular and hand saws, Britannia wares, carpenters planes, manure and hay forks, shovels and scythes. All these had not come into use in 1828 or 1830, but American hardware sold by dealers in 1834 included wire screws, coffee cow bells, mills, andirons, scythes, pewter faucets, clothes lines, window cords, hemp and manila rope, brushes, paints, guns, axes, tacks and brads, locks and latches, hammers and hatchets, glass door knobs, auger bits, lead pencils and buttons. A Great Variety At the beginning of the Ninehardware teenth century, chiefly meant mechanics tools and builders hardware, whereas today it includes so vast a variety of goods as to make it difficult to enumerate them. Comprising, as it does, all small articles made of metal that are patented and used in construction of houses or for household purposes, as well as tools of mechanics trades and professional men, it simplifies labor, it economizes the time of the housewife, it covers all that could be classed as goods for kitchen and dining room service, the product of the tin shop and of stamped ware manufacturers, as well as tin plate, sheet iron, fence wire, etc. It has within its range also sporting goods, such as guns, rifles, ammunition, baseball; in fact, goods for all outdoor sports. The recent wave of manufacture of electrical household appliances finds its most efficient distribution through hardware channels, and manufacturers of paints, varnishes and agricultural implements, with sundry affiliated lines, look to the hardware fraternity as the best means of reaching the consumer. It is not uncommon for a large hardware house to have in its catalogue nearly 50,000 kinds and sizes of articles. house-furnishin- g HOTELS saltto lake plandome. HAS hotel HAS 41k by Captain G. Elliott Nightingale -- Cepyiiftht, WNU QUIET RESPECTABLE CLKAN Wkaa la UNO. NEVADA atop at U HOTEL GOLDEN Baart largeel aa4 moat pepalar katal CHANGES 1IIS MIND a SMITir SOAPY It THS WILSON HOTEL Hataa ft tha haart of the city Salt E. !a4 8a. St. WANTED NORTH WESTEBN TEACHERS MORE notorious political racketeer never lived than Soapy Smith. For years he and his gangsters did just as they please up and down the west coast, and when Soapy decided to hit for the Yukon during the historically famous gold rush, he took most of his gang and robbers of ruffians, Almost with him. overnight Soapy gained complete control of Skagway, and soon the town was wide open multiplied by ten. Ska g ways streets became battlefields where provoked and unprovoked gunfights occurred daily as some of Soapys ruffians robbed and plundered outgoing, goldrushers and incoming gold seekers alike. At night, raucous voices singing lewd and filthy songs were augmented by cries of murder from the street. Might was right in every sense of the word, meanwhile all sorts of card sharps, e confidence men, and crooks robbed and plundered right and left, keeping out of trouble because Soapy, the Big Boss, had arranged the police and judiciary to suit himself. and his lieutenants "Soapy planned and executed hundreds of robberies and swindling schemes, growing richer and more powerful the while. Then came news the Northwest Mounted Police were about to escort about $200,000 in notes and gold from Lake Bennet post, to Victoria, British Columbia, via the port at Skagway. Surely this was too juicy a plum for and his gang to miss. Soapy Moreover, up to this time, both and his henchmen had Soapy balked at any job that might make them step into Canadian territory. Even the reputedly daring Soapy entertained a healthy respect for the Men of the Mounted Here was a job they could pull right on American soil where, by rights, the Men of the Mounted had no business. And so Soapy and his brain-trusat down and schemed, planned and arranged for every emergency. This was to be the job of the decade. Soapy organized an army of 100 men, engaged boats, and planted scouts here and there; the commissioner of the Yukon terriand good luck, tory bade good-bto three Men of the Mounted, Inspector Wood and two constables. Their load consisted of their own personal kits, and the $200,000. After many anxious miles during which the three Men of the Mounted followed the Skagway trail, and nodded the time o day with furtive - eyed rascals who were evidently Soapys scouts, Insand his men arrived pector-Wood at Dyea where they immediately boarded a waiting rowboat and were soon rowing out across the d bay. Halfway across several men in a rather large manned by half a dozen stoutmuscled oarsmen, did their best to intimidate the Northwest Mounted and made several attempts to bring the two boats into a collision. Inspector Wood, handling the steering oar, warned the ruffians to keep their distance or he would fire upon them, and, thus arguing back and forth, the two boats finally crossed the bay without any shootings or drownings. Upon arrival at the wharf, however. Inspector Wood and his men received a rough and tumble reception from almost a hundred ruffians lined up and ready for the big robbery. As the Men of the Mounted stepped to the wharf carrying their $200,000 they were tripped and jostled and pushed about hither and yon as they tried to make their way toward a small steamer that lay alongside awaiting their coming. Kicked and pushed and tripped and otherwise held up and delayed, things began to look really serious. The great robbery was imminent. And then, just when it seemed that the Men of the Mounted were about to be smothered by the mob, the captain aboard the steamer tooted the vessels horn, and instantly a score of armed members of the Royal naval reserve were over the side and down among Soapys gang. In no time the Men of the Mounted and their $200,000 were snatched from the mob and were aboard the A Teaehrre Wanted. TEACHERS AGENCY. Balt Laka City. Utah torn-aiai- al Special la teachere. Sommer eaaraa la SIAM, Tntal, eokject. 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The manifest object, of course, was to show what was in the package, and a good deal of time was spent in tying up these packages and putting them back on the shelf in an orderly manner, which was known to the boys of the store, at least, as clearGenerally the goods ing up. were left on the counter or around and there had to be a real session of clearing up at certain times. Files were one of the hard things to keep in shape, as the samples had to be tied fore and aft and shown on the shelves broadside to. Most of the present day clerks would find it a rather difficult job to tie on a h japanned side pulley on a package of a half dozen or dozen and have it stay in shape. To some extent, after a number of years, wooden boxes were used and, in general, these were covered by pasting green paper over the front and the samples screwed to the front of the box. This was a big improvement over the old method, and some thought the height of perfection had been reached when most of the front stores showed good clean paper fronts. The effort to display cutlery in show cases has been, and is to some extent even now, dependent largely upon the experience of the dealer and his disposition toward fine display. They used to be tied upon packages or boxes. Sometimes boxes were made which would hold a full package, having a recessed top for the sample, and sometimes they were fastened to the top by means of clips or strings. Other times a sail needle was used with hard twine. In fact, this method with copper wire was used mainly for sampling on shelf boxes. four-inc- HOLLYWOOD BOULDER . DAM-Won- derful YELLOWSTONE Playland GLACIER Coolness PARK The National Parfca Routs Western Air Express Loe Aarelei, Lae Veil, gait Lake Idaho Pall, paralalia Bette, nricaa. Great Falla Being sn Optimist A man kin be so much of optimist, said Uncle Eben, dat simply goes through life scllin h self gold bricks. X NEW GRAND steamer. Soapy Smith, surrounded by at least a score of his most trusted gunmen, had witnessed the whole show from the deck of a tug that was treading water nearby. Although he had seen his best plans go haywire, he was still smiling or sneering, when he opened up conversation with Inspector Wood. Like ter have yer stay round Skagway a day er two, Spector, said Soapy, its a mighty nice . ykin have anyting yer town . . . Name it . . . an its want yores. How bout it? Spector? Thank you, Mr. Smith, the inspector replied, coolly, but I must be about my business. Id advise you to keep off Canadian territory in the fulure, as you have dune, so very well, in the past. Good afternoon, sir. Glamour M. H. 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