The Electrical Supply Company ware rooms

Electrical Supply Company.

An interesting hour can be passed in the offices and stock rooms of the Electrical Supply company of 171 Randolph street, Chicago. Even a person who is well informed concerning the requirements of those engaged in electrical industries will be surprised at the magnitude and completeness of the stock. The offices are pleasant places to visit, for every caller receives a cordial welcome, and this fact may, to a certain extent, explain the popularity of the concern.

The offices have recently been fitted up, and Manager Terry has most elegant quarters in the rear of the first floor in which to receive visitors. The furniture is handsome. The floor, which is inlaid, is covered with rugs, and the apartment is light and airy. Here Mr. Terry drives ahead with his work and keeps three stenographers busy. The room is connected by speaking tubes with every department. A three-inch pipe stretches from one end of the store to the other. Speaking tubes are connected with it leading to each department. Mr. Terry can sit at his desk and converse in a whisper with Mr. Taylor, assistant manager, whose office is in the front of the store. Push buttons are used to Signal. Mr. Taylor conducted a representative of the WESTERN ELECTRICIAN throughout the stock rooms. In the front of the store is a large show board containing samples of every supply needed by electric light companies. "We can show a gentleman that board," said Mr.Taylor, with a laugh, "and tell him he needs at least one article similar to everything shown there."

In the show cases are toy motors, Geisler tubes, testing sets, electric gas lighters, etc. Innumerable lines running around the room contain a seemingly inexhaustible supply of bells, push buttons, fine grades of wire, batteries, and odds and ends almost beyond enumeration.

In the center of the room is the cashier's office. Back of that is a reception room tastefully fitted up and intended for the use of customers who may desire to rest, write letters, or converse about electric supplies. It is a cosy little room, quiet and convenient. Adjoining this room is the mailing department and in the rear of the store is the shipping department, in which Mr Carter reigns.

The basement of the building, which is 175 feet long, is crowded with hogsheads, boxes and barrels containing supplies of every description, and miles upon miles of insulated wire.

After making even a hurried visit to the establishment one is inclined to believe, as a gentleman in the same line of business in the east said a week ago, that no electrical supply house in the country can show a larger or better stock than the Electrical Supply company, or has better facilities for handling its business.