New Western agency; Brown-Spear-Sloan forming; will handle Hemingray insulators

THE MERGING OF PROMINENT INTERESTS:

FRANK L. BROWN, general manager of the Pacific Steel and Wire Company, and the gentleman who recently successfully put through the Portland Street Railway’s con­solidation, has just returned from New York where in company with General Victor Enginger and Charles F. Sloane, he has been directing the incorporation of the new Pacific Coast sales agency, The Brown-Spear-Sloane Company in which he is prominently interested.

Mr. Brown reports that the new company has been successfully formed by the merging of the personal interests of Charles F. Sloane with those of Brown-Spear & Co., of which Mr. Brown and Lewis E. Spear, of the Pacific Steel and Wire Com­pany and General Victor Enginger, of the California Wire Cloth Company, are financially interested. The Brown-Spear-Sloane Company have taken the offices recently vacated by the Charles F. Sloane Company, in suite 215 Crossley Building, corner New Montgomery and Mission streets. The officers recently chosen for the administration of affairs are: Charles F. Sloane, president; I.ewis E. Spear, vice-president; Victor Enginger, treasurer; and Ralph L. Phelps, secretary.

On November 1st, branch offices were opened in the Pacific Electric Building, Los Angeles, under the able management of Garnett Young, and in the Alaska Building, Seattle, Wash., under the management of Benjamin F. Smith.

Mr. Brown further advises us that this company have recently acquired the exclusive Pacific Coast sales agencies of several very prominent Eastern manufacturers of electrical, telephone and railway equipment, prominent among whom are:

Safety Insulated Wire and Cable Company, Bayonne, N. J., manufacturers of electrical wires and special cables.

American Electrical Works, Phillipsdale, R. I., makers of bare copper and weatherproof wires.

Billings & Spencer, Hartford, Conu., makers of overhead material.

Stromberg-Carlson Telephone Manufacturing Company, Rochester, N. Y., complete telephone equipments, switchboards, telephones, cables and telephone supplies.

Hart and liegeman Manufacturing Company, Hartford, Conn., manufacturers of the celebrated Hart switches for lighting circuits.

Osborn Flexible Conduit Company, New York, originators and manufacturers for the flexible conduit, known as "Flexduct.”

National Metal Moulding Company, New York, manufactur­ers of "Economy" iron armored conduit.

Pass & Seymour, Inc., Solvay, N. Y., electrical specialties and porcelain of special design.

Crouse-Hinds Electrical Company, Syracuse, N. Y.. all copper switches, switchboards and railway headlights.

Morden Frog and Crossing Works. Chicago, Ill., electrical and steam railroad track material.

Hemingray Glass Company, Covington, Ky., glass insulators and glass of special design for overhead transmission.

With their sales department fully equipped to handle anything in the electrical, telephone and railway activities, they are so­liciting the trade in general in the interest of the above company which they represent.

The gentlemen interested have extended a most courteous in­vitation to all those interested in electrical developments to make their offices either in San Francisco, or their branch offices in the other cities, headquarters while in town. In these offices will be found complete sample displays of each company represented, and the Brown-Spear-Sloane Company will be able to make immediate Pacific Coast deliveries from their complete stocks warehoused in Los Angeles, San Francisco and Seattle.