Lansing State Journal from Lansing, Michigan • Page 49

LANSING STATE JOURNAL ANNIVERSARY EDITION- TWENTY-FIVE OVER Chamber of Commerce Closely Affiliated With Great Growth of Lansing During Last Decade IS 10 CITY PUNTS MUNICIPALITY FURNISHES LIGHT AND WATER TO THOUSANDS OF CITIZENS. business: to discover and correct abuses: to establish and maintain uniformity in commercial usages; to prevent or adjust controversies and misunderstandings that may arise between the persons engaged in trade: and generally to foster, protect and advance the commercial, mercantile, manufactory and municipal Interests of the city, more especially by the establishment of a permanent bureau or office, from which shall be disseminated through the press, and by other modes, all general or specific information regarding the advantage of Landing as a business community, as a place for the establishment of manufactories and other business enterprises, and as a place of residence. Hundreds of meetings are held in the Chamber of Commerce building annually and the building has been made the center of various activities of a civic nature. The Lansing Merchants' association, the Grocers and Meat Dealers' association, the I-an-alntr Ileal Estate Roard. the North.

Side Commerc ial club and various Improvement assobiatlons and business Cloaely affiliated with the rreat growth of Lanilnc during the lait decade hu been the Chamber of Thla boosters' whose membership coraprlsM banker, manufacturers, merchants, professional men, Jobbers, real estate dealers, traveling salesmen, insurance agents, clerks, and others connected with the city's commercial has brought many factories to I-ansln during the lust 15 years and ha as-slated in making the Capital City a greater industrial center. Name Changed Three Years Ago. The organization was formerly known as the I-ansing liuainem Men association, but desiring a broader name, the members decided upon a change to the Chamber of Commerce, three years ago, and headquarters were established on East lichiKn where officers of the organization have offices and where a free employment bureau is conducted. As stated in the constitution, the object of the Chamber of Commerce Is to promote Integrity and good faith, and ust and equitable principles of EFFICIENT AND MODERN men's organisations, including the traveling salesmen and insurance agents, are closely affiliated with the the Chamber of Commerce and are represented on the board of directors of the Chamber of Commerce. The Chamber of Commerce has been the means of securing many kirge conventions for Lansing and with the completion of the new W.

K. Prudden auditorium, it is expected that even larger corventions will come to the Capital City In the future. W. K. Prudden is President.

W. K. Prudden Is president of the Chamber of Commerce, J. Edward Roe. first vice-president: E.

S. Porter, second vice-president; J. W. liaarer, treasurer, and Charles 11. Davis, secretary.

Other directors follow: C. E. Bement. John A. Weston, H.

B. Lundberg. Donald E. Bates. M.

Bowdish. F. W. Sabin. H.

D. Bul-lcn. C. L. Front.

O. A. Jenison. C. C.

Ludwig. O. J. Price. R.

E. olds. H. D. Luce.

V. H. Xewbrough. F. X.

Ar-baugh and H. P. Woodworth. The present Chamber of Commerce had its forerunner in the Iinsing Improvement association, which flourished about 4 2 years ago. The organization had for its object, as has its successor, the building up of the financial and commercial interests of the city.

officers of the association were: President. J. J. Bush: vice-president, A. N.

Hart: secretary-treasurer, E. YV. Sparrow: executive committee, J. Tookcr. mayor: John Robson.

secre-tarv; T. Gain Merrill. A. E. Cowles and C.

W. Butler. In 1STS a book was issued by the Water Works System and Electric Light Plant Rebuilt and Improved About Year Ago By Commission. THERE'S A REASON FOR THAt DOUBLE HYPHEN IN OUR NAME. IT MEANS EXPANSION When a business house grows, especially when it extends the service it gives and improves its product in addition to increasing its lines, it is very often found necessary to change the original name to fit the occasion, as it were- Such has been our experience, and that change is of as vital importance to our prospective customers and our old cutsomers, as to us.

It assures the best WHEELBARROWS, the best SCRAPERS, the best HAND CARTS, the best TRUCKS, at low prices, made possible only through large scale production. In 1SS5 Lansing took Its initial step in an effort to become "citified" for in that year Its citizens voted to bond hi ii mis. i .1 ii.ii w. i roof raised to accommodate the changes, the plant continued to operate and not a patron was inconvenienced. Water Meters Installed.

The report that has been submitted this year by Secretary X. B. Kirby and Manager Guy O. Crane. Indicates a decided increase In patrona.se and incidentally that over 400 new houses were biult In Lansing within a year.

The water department has now 8.400 patrons and the light division 5.150. I'nder a plan inaugurated by the present board there have now been installed 6.500 water meters. This installation was for the purpose of conserving the water supply and at the same lime giving all patrons a "square deal" inasmuch as none pays for more water than one consumes. The combined wells and pumps of water department have a capacity of fi.Ouo.OOO gallons dally. This may be increased somewhat when any unusual contingency such as wide sweeping conilagrations, arise.

The plant has its own ash conveyors and also automatic coal handlers which have proved a big economic factor. Seventy employes are always on the payroll of the combined plants. I'nder the system adopted by the last board the methods of accounting ure precisely the same as any commercial corporation since the bookkeeping system and auditing methods were taken from those of one of the largest power furnishing corporations in the country. Every expenditure, no matter how small, is accounted for and must pass through several members of the board as well as the manager before paid. Present members of the board are: Warren V.

Sullivan. John AtTeldt. Otto Ziegler. C. II.

Stroud, F. C. Arnold und John Toolan. SlnliMios Relative to llant. Some idea of what the "stockholders" of tho municipal water and light plant have an interest in may be gathered from the following statistics of the latest condensed inventory-: One central and four sub-stations.

Standpipe. 290.000 gallons capacity. Pumping facilities: Central station, one 5-milllon-gallon Holly pump, steam driven, and one 3-million-gal-lon Alberger centrifugal pump, electric driven: mili-statton No. 1, one electric driven S-million-iia'lon Gould pump; sub-station No. 2.

one electric driven 1 1-2-miUton-gallon Gould nump: sub-station No. 3, one electric driven 2-milllon-gallon Fairbanks-Morse pump, and one electric driven 3-iiiillimi-gallon Allis-Chalmers centrifugal pump; sub-station No. 4. one electric driven 1 -million-gallon American Well Works centrifugal pump. Source of water supply: Thirty-seven six-inch, six 12-inch and one 20-inch rock driven wells, 227 to 490 feet in depth.

Distributing system: Total mileage of mains. May 1, 1914. S2 miles; total service connection. May 1. 1914.

8.282; total number of valves, lS-inch to 4-inch, 68; total firo hydrants fcitv), 500; total fire hydrants (private). 48; total number of meters in service, 5.400; water pressure at base of stand-pipe, 65 pounds: average pressure throughout the city. 55 pounds. Two thousand eight hundred poles, wiring, transformers, melers. (1f ample capacity for street lighting and 5,000 commercial customers.

Street lighting system: Three hundred eighteen allernatiii enclosed nrc lamps: 6.6 ampere; series Tungsten lamps: 168 32 inr aiidnM o-it lamps: 168 32 C. P. incandescent lumps In parks and nllevs; 154 five-light poles. 60 watt Tungsten lamp; 304 three-light poles. 60 wntt Tungsten lamp; 3 street signs, "Lansing." association which set forth tne natural and acquired advantages of the city as a trade center and desirable location for manufacturing institutions.

The association was not long lived but while it lasted was an important factor in the city's growth. I XX til for 5125.000 for the purpose of promoting a complete water works system. Seven years later Lansing citizens again made a venture In civic improvement and purchased the electric light plant then privately owned. The combined value of the plants equaled an investment of less than 200.000. Gradually I-ansing began to experience a substantial industrial and trade revival and hundreds of patrons of both the water and electric light departments were added when newcomers built houses and settled down in the Capital City to become permanent residents.

Investment Totals Over $1,000,000. Today Lansing has considerably over 1.000,000 invested in its water and electric light plant, and, since It is municipally owned, each taxpayer is in reality a stockholder in the enterprise of furnishing water and liBht to the city's residents. It has been pointed out many times by townspeople that the Lancing water and electric light plant is one of the few municipal plants in the country that is "standing on Its own legs" and paying as It Koes along. It has also been pointed out that these municipal plants are a monument to loyal citizenship: the inherent desire of Lansing's citizens to render service, wince none of the commissioners who have been or are members of tho water and electric light board have ever received pay for their services but have performed their work gratis. In other words they have "done it for Lansing." The great success of the plant hns been due to the progressiveness, loyalty.

buHiness integrity and enterprise of the citizenship that lias comprised these boards. The water and electric light plant was almost entirely rebuilt a year ago in order to bring it up to greater capacity. Regardless of the fact that new boilers, a new switch board, new pumps, generators and much other equipment was installed and even the Lansing Mayors 1859 Hiram 1L Smith. 18i) John A. Kerr.

1S61-62 W'm. I. Chapman. 1S63-S4-65 Ira 1L. Bartholomew.

1 Wm. II. Haze. 1847 Gen. W.

Peck. 1SSS-C9 Cyrus Hewitt. Solomon W. Wright. 1ST1 John ltolson.

1S72-73 John S. Tookcr. 1874-75 lanlel W. Buck. 1S7 John S.

Tooker. 1877 Orlando M. Barnes. 1S7S Joseph K. Warner.

1879-Sn Wm. H. VanBuren. 1881 John Hnhson. 1882- 83 Orlando K.

Barnes. 1 884-85 William Pnnovan. 188ri Daniel W. Buck. 1887 Jacob F.

Shultz. 1 888 John Crotty. 1SS9 James M. Turner. 1890-91 Frank B.

Johnson. A. O. Bement. 1894 Alroy A.

Wilbur. 1895 James M. Turner. 1896 Rusxell Ostrander. 1897 98-99 Charles J.

Davis. 1900-01-02-03 James F. 11am- mell. 1904-7 Hugh Lyons. 1908-11 John S.

tlonnctt. 1912-15 J. Reuttcr. LANSING COMPANY LANSING, MICHIGAN, U. S.

A. Southern Factory-Parkin, Arkansas CHICAGO, 169 West Lake St. MINNEAPOLIS. 330-334 1st St. North NEW YORK, 288-289 West St.

PHILADELPHIA, Willow No. American Sts. KANSAS CITY, 1413-1425 W. Tenth St. SAN FRANCISCO, 338-348 Brannan St.

BOSTON, 78 Cambridge Street, Charlestown District .1 LgnasCTiEgCT vtrnvcrxnrr; SCHNEEDERGER H. KOORT 0 Economical and Durable FORD OWNERS 1 FORD DISTRIBUTORS 1 FORD DEALERS! Tht new 191T Stro.nn I.in Fnnl Tin; rmif nml ltimdsloi A Direct Cooled Engine No Freeze Ups-No Overheating Gees and Goes Right larks ju.st nw ttiiiiK t1 it 1 1 ronifortable under ull Schneeberger Koort Cement Contractors LANSING'S ONLY SPECIAL GAS ENGINE The only successful direct cooled high grade engine on the market wouthi-r condition VViniIslii(il lh.it will a.Yord KaJn N'ision anil Ventilation as woll as a and unobBtruJto-i fv for (irivr. The New Vanguard "Ford Adjustable" provides Ihtc essentials for from fort und uftty at a very small cutst to tho Ford Owner the price is only SlO.OO $8l um The "Little Giant" 1 H. P. Engine and Pumper.

This engine can be detached and nsed for other purposes besides pumping. TIIK STANDARD 8 to ii. r. Tho -Vow-Way I l-t In A II. I'.

71 WE BUILD SIDEWALKS and do a general cement work. Our rep. utation is our asset and we would cheerfully ask bids and let us figure on jobs on concrete work. This firm has been established 10 years and have done a greater part of building sidewalks in Lansing. Let US help you fignra out your power question.

Write for catalog. I PROOF OF A JiOOO FNGIVE IS IX TIIK KNOOKSKMFNT OF ITS ISKKS. Willis. Feb. 19, IM3.

The "NKW-WAY" Motor Lansing, Mich. About tx yean ago I pnr-chitp nn of your 3 1-2 H. P. "NKW-WAY" Air Cooled Kt.infs and haw uied it fur pumping water, grindtnu feri. nd wood since that time to tr.y complete nut infliction.

and I um plead to slate that it now delivers as muoii or more power thn when it aa new. The engine has Riven such excellent satisfaction that for heavier wttrk I have purchased one of your 6 H. "NKW-WAY" Air 00 1 i s. and I have no doubt but that these two engines will do rood work for me as long an 1 live. Yours truly.

(Signed) Fisher A. Darllnp. K. F. D.

No. I. y-1 it i IfcAK OK SATIfeFAC TOKY tKK K. Wnvprly Park. ft.

F. l. 13. The "NKW-WAY" Motor Mich. Gentlmn I hv on fif yrtur "VEW.

WAT" Air I'onlM .1 1 -2 It. 1. tnclnrs which hit lfn run a-'it yarn anil I hv neT hl trouble to amount to anvthti.fc with it. It will drvelop itH lutl H. P.

and for all 1 r.in runa a well now as It 1 1 when first leaving th factory. In all thf nnif I hav nwn'-l tha eniclna I hv apont $. Ti tor re pair a and fe-l lht 1 ran cn-aiatently nay that It ha aatlnfactlon In every pviiae v' tne word. In fat. I am mnvln.Vi of the reliant lit of th "NKW-WAY Air Cooled Tht 1 ha purchased a NKW-WAY twin cylinder engine.

Youra truly. (Signed KUKI) l.VAl. washing machine, grindstone, emery wueci, eic. -Y iTtii' OFFICE AND HOME ADDRESSES 831 North Pine St. 741 Grove St.

Phones: Citz. 9424 Cits. 9324 Lansing, Michigan, U.S.A. LANSING, MICHIGAN 'lhe above Illustration phoua a SHrcum L.lne loril equilped illi a VANUL'A KI" "KOKU A U.J LTA It is a ery simple muttur to HubHtilute the new Khiold for the oid ono noiv on the car. Explicit direction for deluchlnx the old shield and attuchinir tln new one coino every shield.

YOUR FORD will take you "THERE AND BACK'' In any kind of wnathor. but it will not be a comfortable trip, unie'a your tar la equipped with one of the new and improved Vaniiuurd Haln Vision, Ventilating "Ford de Luxe" Cowl Shields $15 for cither Toniins Car or WHAT IT DOES! Capita! Ornamental Iron a stag KOI 4 A This machine takes off rough edges of collars and makes them perfectly smooth. Therefore, it is absolutely a saving for the wear and tear of shirts. This machine finishes the fold of any style or shape of fold collar, rendering it comfortable and pleasant to the wearer. It creates a tie 1 rfirr.prv3 ip fi WE ARE THE ORIGINAL MAKERS OF AIR COOLED CYLINDERS MANUFACTURERS OF Gray Iron Machine Castings of All Kinds space, making the slipping or manipulation of the tie free and easy, which is impossible to accomplish with any other machine or device on the market.

American Laundry Findley Lewis. Props. LANSING, MICHIGAN V. B. Latteri Patent granted Dae.

tih, 1914. Tha Vanruard Ford da Luxa la mada In two alien, one Z-ln. wide, for tha 1913 Modal and ona 40. In. wtda for the 1814 Model, a well aa all 1915 Forde that came equipped with the lis KI nhicld.

Upper half can be adjusted to any poattion and locka automatically. Lower half opena Inward, mora or knu, aa may be deslrcl. A rub ber weather atrip, attached to bottom rail of ahield. utakea lower half wind and rain proof. Cowl and metal parta of ahleld are finely finished In blacic enamel and nickel trimmed.

Equipped with best poliehed, plate glue, belli by metal clips providing clear view. Attaching; brackets and cllpa aretes, the new equipment in a few minu adjustable and anyone can attach Special Attention Given to GAS ENGINE Let Us Give You an Estimate on Your Work Vanguard Manufacturing Co. Detroit, Mich. um.