Shay, Stephens & Company among exhibitors at St. Louis Exposition

[Trade Journal]

Publication: Electrical Review

New York, NY, United States
vol. 17, no. 3, p. 29, col. 4


The St. Louis Electrical Exposition.

(By Telegraph to the ELECTRICAL REVIEW.)

ST. LOUIS, September 5th, 1890. — Sixteen thousand people witnessed the opening of the second annual Electrical Exhibition, at St. Louis, on Wednesday evening, September 3d, and declared it an unqualified success. Some of the exhibits were very elaborately displayed, while others were delayed by reason of the in­ability to get them out of the perplexing tie-up on the railroads.

There are electric fountains and cascades, and all sorts of electrical novelties in profu­sion.

The following is a list of companies which now have their exhibits in place; more are en route:

Carpenter-Nevens Electric Heating Co., Minneapolis.

Russell Arc Lamp Co., Boston.

St. Louis Electrical Supply Co., St. Louis.

Washington Conduit Co., Washington, D. C.

Johnson Electric Train Signal Co., Boston.

James W. Queen & Co., Philadelphia.

Automatic Electric Clock Co., Syracuse, N. Y.

Southern Electrical Supply Co., St. Louis.

Turner Electric Elevated Railroad, Dal­las.

Kester Electric Co., Terre Haute, Ind.

Crocker-Wheeler Electric Co., of New York.

Union Electrical Co,, St. Louis.

Great Western Electric Supply Co., Chicago.

Simplex Electric Co., Boston.

Bernstein Electric Co., Boston.

Parker-Russell Mfg. Co., St. Louis.

Joseph Irwin, Omaha.

Shultz Belting Co., St. Louis.

Page Belting Co., Concord, N. H.

Washburn & Moen, New York.

Sperry Electric Co., Chicago.

The Thomson-Houston, Westinghouse and

Edison Electric Light Companies are all ex­hibiting.

John T. Noye Engine Co., Buffalo.

Connecticut Motor Co., of Plantsville.

Okonite Co., of New York.

Shay, Stephens & Co., Chicago.

Armington & Sims, of Providence.

Russell Engine Co., Massillon. O.

Buckeye Engine Co.. Salem, O.

Swan Lamp, Cleveland.

Foree Bain, Chicago.

National Electric Mfg. Co., Eau Claire, Wis.

Hooven, Owens & Retchler, Hamilton, O.

Kelly Lamp Co., Rochester.

Western Electric Co., Chicago.

Municipal Signal Co., Boston.

Burton Electric Heater Co., Richmond.

Leclanche Battery, New York.

N. P. Edgerton, Philadelphia.

Gibson Electric Fixtures and Dekosenko & Hetherington Sons, Philadelphia.

River and Rail Electric Co.. New York.

Waite & Bartlett, New York.

The exhibit is a big one and will be largely attended.

W.

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Keywords:Shay, Stephens & Company : Foree Bain
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Researcher:Bob Stahr
Date completed:January 22, 2026 by: Bob Stahr;