Hartford and its points of interest; illustrated from original photographs (1895) (14782182754)

Identifier: hartforditspoint00merc (find matches)
Title: Hartford and its points of interest ; illustrated from original photographs
Year: 1895 (1890s)
Authors: Mercantile Illustrating Company (New York, N.Y.)
Subjects: Industries
Publisher: New York : Mercantile Illustrating Co.
Contributing Library: University of Connecticut Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Library Consortium Member Libraries



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and rolls, but for the superiority of their cake, pastry andconfectionery. They are extensive producers of all these, their establishmentbeing one of the largest and best of the kind in the city. Their store is at No.372 Asylum Street, and comprises two floors 25 x 45 feet in dimensions. Thelarge and always fresh stock is composed of a very choice assortment of plainanil fancy cakes, bread, rolls, buns, and, in fact, everything that is made by afirst-class bakery. A specialty is made of family and wedding supplies, allorders being given prompt attention. Messrs. Bibeau & Schrepfer establishedthis busiuess in 1892, and conduct both a wholesale and retail trade, employmentbeing giveu to nine experienced assistants. In the back of the store are pleasantcafe and ice-cream parlors, while the cream served is unexcelled for purity anddelicacy of flavor. All the goods used by the firm are manufactured in theirown bakerv, thus enabling them to guarantee satisfaction in every instance. 78 I
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ASYLUM STREET. -&-*• THE STATES MACHINE CO., No. 490 Capitol Avenue. —For securing the necessary supplies for steam-power plants the manufacturersof Hartford and vicinity are fortunate in possessing facilities that are unexcelledand which have in a measure contributed to the development of the industrialresources and enterprises of this section. Among the constructors of enginesand pump machinery, etc., a prominent place must be given to the StatesMachine Company, which during the four years it has been located here hasacquired a most extensive domestic and foreign trade in its specialties, and areputation that is the envy of all competitors. The company manufactures aline of special machinery which is without a superior in the market, and inmany cases not approached by the products of other makers. Their Worronshi;,h speed compound engine and four plunger pumps are such pieces ofmechanism. It is a model of perfection, and leads everything in the line of thelatest improved eng