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Butler Brothers
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| Name | Butler Brothers |
| Ortssitz | Jersey City (N.J.) |
| Straße | Warren Street |
| Art des Unternehmens | Warenhaus |
| Anmerkungen | Gelegen im Bereich der Warren, Morgan, Washington und Bay Streets |
| Quellenangaben | [Jersey City of to-day (1907) 87] |
| Zeit |
Ereignis |
| 1877 |
Gründung in Boston |
| 1905 |
Seither in den Gebäuden an den Warren, Morgan, Washington und Bay Streets |
| Produkt |
ab |
Bem. |
bis |
Bem. |
Kommentar |
| Versandhaushandel |
1877 |
Beginn in Boston |
1907 |
tätig |
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| ZEIT | um 1907 |
| THEMA | Beschreibung |
| TEXT | Since 1905 the great jobbing plant of Butler Brothers, occupying the block bounded by Warren, Morgan, Washington and Bay Streets, has given massive though silent testimony to Jersey City's superiority over New York as the point from which to do the actual operating work of a giant jobbing business in general merchandise. The house of Butler Brothers has grown from an insignificant start in Boston in 1877 to "the house that covers the country with distributing houses in New York, Chicago, St. Louis, Minneapolis, and sample houses in Baltimore and Dallas." The fact that this great jobbing business has been built up without a single traveling salesman, solely through a monthly catalogue circulating among merchants exclusively is but one of the unique points about Butler Brothers' rise to leadership. Another is that within the past few years in each of its distributing centers, this house has built and equipped for its own peculiar needs an immense structure containing all the latest facilities for doing a big business efficiently and economically. The new "New York " building is the Jersey City structure above referred to. The original New York building, which but a few years ago served for the entire needs of Butler Brotheis' New
York house, is now used wholly - except for the space the buyers' offices require - for the display of samples and for other time-saving conveniences for the busy market-buying merchant. It was the overcrowding in lower Broadway and the congestion at the New York freight depots that led Butler Brothers to settle upon Jersey City as the place where "could be obtained a ground space large enough and so located as to permit of things being done right," as one of the officials in the concern expressed it when first steps were taken in the matter of making the tremendous improvement. The ground area occupied by Butler Brothers' Jersey City building is 200x400 feet, and the eight stories and basement afford a total floor space of over 500,000 square feet - thirteen acres under one roof. This Jersey City building is, therefore, one of the largest three wholesale structures, the other two also being "plants" of Butler Brothers in St. Louis and Chicago, while the Minneapolis building of the same concern ranks well up near the Jersey City building. Nothing that money could buy or skill design was omitted in making this Jersey City building as nearly perfect as possible for the quick and economical handling of business and the comfort and convenience of employees. By submarine cable, it has direct telephone connection with the New York building. There are over 300 feet of shipping platform 14 feet wide, and 500 feet of car shipping platform 14 to 17 feet wide, both platforms being protected with a metal canopy. Car space to the amount of 600 feet is afforded by the private tracks connecting with the nearby tracks of half a dozen other great railways and with the wharves of the New York Central Railroad. Thus the concern gains in the promptness with which goods ordered are started to their destinations, and saves in cartage by being able to unload all incoming, and load at least three fourths of the outgoing goods merely by wheeling trucks over their own platforms from and into the cars. Another advantage is that in this Jersey City building Butler Brothers can carry all open stock, all original packages and all surplus stocks under one roof - an impossibility to most New York jobbing houses who are compelled to have on Broadway or some other good street, quarters for offices and open stock goods and to carry surplus stock and original packages in anywhere from one to a dozen warehouses as close to the main store as possible. |
| QUELLE | [Jersey City of to-day (1907) 87] |
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