The story of Pittsburgh: Diversified products

Diversified products (Vol. 1, nr. 13)

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Identifikator:: 1831622599

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Title:: The story of Pittsburgh

Place of publication:: Pittsburgh

Publisher:: First National Bank

Year of publication:: 1919-1930

Collection:: Economics Books

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Identifikator:: 183162365X

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-241129

Document type:: Volume

Title:: Diversified products

Volume count:: Vol. 1, nr. 13

Place of publication:: Pittsburgh

Publisher:: First National Bank

Year of publication:: 1927

Scope:: [ca. 80] Seiten

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Standard sanitary manufacturing co.

Collection:: Economics Books

manager of branches; H. M. Reed, vice president and general manager of factories; Willard C. Chamberlin, vice president and general sales manager; M. C. Wilde, assistant treasurer; Jas. DeHaven, assistant secretary; Theo. E. Mueller, assistant general manager of factories. STANDARD UNDERGROUND CABLE COMPANY Richard S. Waring (deceased) was the founder of the Standard Underground Cable Company, in 1882; he was a real pioneer,—a man of vision; and his venture In the new and untried field of underground cables was the first spe- aific project of the kind in the United States. Many discouragements and difficulties were encountered, including opposition, or at least no encouragement by public service companies, who naturally did not relish the thought that they might be required to spend large sums of money to remove their overhead wires from the streets and place them underground without long proof of permanence. But Mr. Waring was an outstanding example of the type of men who never acknowledge defeat, and whose extra- ordinary foresight and courage spur them on in spite of seemingly insuperable obstacles. Before many years public service companies realized the value of underground cables, and nowadays such cables have become an indispensable part of their equipment in the larger cities. There were associated with Mr. Waring in the later form- ative period of the Cable Company some of the promi- aent leaders in other Pittsburgh industries, such as B. F. Jones, Sr., John and Willis Dazell, John and Frank Moor- head, Mark W. Watson, George B. Hill, Jacob Painter, Jr., and James H. Willock, and finally (in 1886) George West- inghouse. The company was first organized as a New Jersey cor- poration, but in 1889 it became a Pennsylvania corporation, by receiving a charter signed by Governor James A. Beaver, on June 4 of that year. It was only a few years after 1886 that the company began its unbroken record of cash dividends, interspersed aow and then with stock dividends out of surplus earnings,

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