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YMAS SUGGESTIONS This week we call special attention to such articles as can be easily mailed to friends at a distance. Watch this space next week. Stationery--The best value to be found anywhere. BALTIMORE Linen has been,specially prepared for the. Best Drug Stores in over 7,000 towns and cities. Very neatly neatly packed. 50c is all we are going to ask this year, 90 sheets and 50 envelopes. You have often paid more for a cheaper grade of paper. a* That's It, a Fountain Pen H-We sell Watermen's, Parker'p, Swan and other good kinds. $10.00 down to 98c. Everyone guaranteed. Extra Special--We have purchased purchased a big stock of guaranteed 14k Fountain Pens and will give ' one free to everyone who purchases a Hair Brush worth $1.00 or over before Dec. 1st. KodaK--Boys and girls all want kodaks, so do grown-ups. Everyone Everyone likes to keep photos of places and faces. We sell the genuine kodaks and cameras. $1 to $100. / Some Specials-- Fountain Pen with guaranteed 14k nib..... 98c Safety Razors $5.00 Safety Razors. $i.co Safety Razors with 6 Gillette blades all for. 69c Note Paper, reg. 50c 29c >Çut Glass, % off on any Cut Glass ià our stock. Chocolates in fancy Xmas Boxes, no better goods in any city in America America .....i..... ......... $1.00 up. - iN Vacuum Bottles--Keeps liquids liquids hot 24 hours, $1.00. Thermos Bottles make ideal Xmas Gift& We carry the most serviceable kinds. Ebony a nd Parlsianlvory Brushes -- These are leaders with us. We buy larger quantities than all other dealers in town combined combined and our prices will save you money. Hot Water Bottles--Both your parents would enjoy . your thoughtfulness if you gave them one of our strong, fully guaranteed Rubber Hot Water Bottles, and we guarantee they would think of you every night as they felt the gentle warmth at the foot of the bed. Special 89c to $3 50. Chocolates for Xmas -- Call and see,samples now and make your selections and "we will deliver them to any address in Canada on Xmas morning. 25c, 30c, 40c, 60c, 75c, $100, $1.50, $2.00, $3.00, $400, $5.00. No firm in Canada can give you better value or better quality. Dainty Perfumes--We have not forgotten the children this year. For iocjrou get a very pretty little bottle of really good perfume that will delight the little lads and lassies Fancy carefully selected, imported and "Made in Canada" Perfumes, . the finest the world produces. If you think your lady friend or even your mother does not like perfume. you are greatly mistaken. Xmas Greeting: Cards-- Your name printed in free, hundreds hundreds of samples to select from. Important Christmas Announcements Important Xmas announcements. This year we have bought heavily of such goods as are useful and moderate in price: It will pay you to call early as the ex traordinary values we are offering will soon clean out some of the best lines Jury & Lovell. This year we are paying special attention attention to goods suitable for mailing to your friends at a distance. Call and see them, jury & Lovell. JURY & LOVELL The Safe, Satisfactory Druggists and Opticians Phone 78, Bowmanville When We Test Eyes it Is Done Properly For your (parents any of the following useful gifts will make you as being thoughtful, wise and considerate for they are all suited to the requirements of older people--Spectacles, eyeglasses, hairbrush- es, toilet soap, fountain pens, fountain syringes, hot water bags, chamois vests, stationery (see our special values),, perfumes, perfumes, cut glass, toilet water, talcum powder, powder, mirrors, scissors, nail files, nail polishers, polishers, etc. Jury & Lovell. are used here, some of them appearing milities. to possess almost human capa Various other labor-saving machines are seen here, too, all well worth see- in ïh( Some useful ideas to help you out- medicines are prized as Xmas gifts. Grandmother would -appreciate an eye lotion or a bottle of cough remedy, a rubber rubber cushion, sponge, tooth brush, toilet powder, hair lotion, a nice cake of fancy soap and hundreds of other little things we have in stock. Jury & i LoveIl. Early shopping will pay you. This year you get abetter selection and wé set the article aside and deliver it when arid where ycu desire. Jury & Lovell. Jury & Lovell e rear section of the fourth floor is occupied by one composing room, where fourteen linotypes, or typesetting machines, most of which run on night shifts as well as during the day, turn oiit a mass of letterpress material. Another similar room to the rear contains a battery of typecasting typecasting machines, and with this hangs rather an interesting story. It is found good practice in modern days to use what is termed "display" type--that is, type used in headings and advertisements--only once, after Which it is melted up and recast, instead instead of being "distributed, ' as was thé old custom. . This procedure is followed followed almost exclusively, so that practically practically all printed matter which goes out from the Book Room bears the imprint imprint of fresh, new type, which has not been used on any previous job. The same sect*on oh the third floor is occupied by another composing room and by the • Stereotyping and Electro- typing Department. In this latter the pages of "plates" are made from wh ch the various books and papers are printed; printed; and here is installed a series of most interesting machines. One sees here how an impression is made, from a "forme" of type on a papier-mache composition, or on wax, and how from these is produced the type metal or copper-plate surface which are. later Used in the printing process. We.can only mention some of the larger features. ' The mailing room sends out 46,000 separate parcels weekly. weekly. The largest press room in this country is found on the ground floor of the factory section., Here twenty- four cylinder presses are running day and night, turning out the various E ubliCations of this great publishing ouse and other, work which is pro-, duced in the printing departments. Six smaller "pony" presses, eleven platens or jobbers for smaller work are found here also. The large freight elevajfcore, the engine rooms, the electric electric light generators, the stock rooms and facilities for handling shipments, and various other interesting things would, require more space than we have at command to properly describe. We were shown thru the new Weakley Weakley Buildings, Toronto,, on Monday week by Mr. W. G.: Kettlewell, Chief Accountant,, and: w.e-give' our readers an illustration of the building by favor of thé management. • Mr. Edward; J. Moore,'R.A.,, recently recently wrote a descriptive stoiÿ of this new home : of the Methodist Publishing Publishing House, from which we extract a few paragraphs. The illustrations we publish, tho good, convey but a faint idea of the real size or con'ipléteness of this new Book Room* The best way to obtain a proper conception of the immense industry within the walls is to spend an hour going thru the institution institution with thé help of an intelligent guide. Canada's largest publishing house is located on Queen St. West, having a frontage of 133 feet on Queen St., 220 feet on John St. and .104 feet on Richmond St It is easily reached by Queen or Bloor St. cars and is only ten minutes' walk from the Union Station or from Yonge St. The main structure is five-storeys, presenting the contour of a modem office building, The main entrance--a very handsome one--is on Queen St., i;he main hallway being finished in marble. A Rest Room is a special feature, a very attractive place where "our Methodist friends" may meet. It is comfortably fitted with tables and' chairs,, provided with writing facilities, facilities, papers and magazines and newest standard books. The story further says : "Here any friend of the Church is welcome to browse at hearts' content content or to make this room his downtown downtown headquarters while in the city." Country visitors will greatly appreciate appreciate this great privilege. 'The hall floors are of terrazo with a tasteful border of tile, and wainscoting and wood trim is in birch. \ A really novel feature in Canadian industrial institutions is a restaurant to provide luncheon for the about 500 employees during mid-day. Four cornua cornua > dious rooms facing John St. have beén set apart for this service. A kitchen kitchen is equipped with necessary modern modern appliances. The cafe? eria system --that is you take what you Want and pay tor what you take--and there are tables and chairs for use while eating --is proving a very popular feature, and we believe is paying its w&.y', altho prices are exceedingly moderate. Further Further provision for the comfort of employees employees are automatic drinking fountains fountains provided at regular intervals in the hallways all over the building. A filtration and ammonia cooling plant has been installed in the roof, thru which the drinking water is kept in constant circulation. Ample provision provision has been made also against possibility possibility of fire. All the Church departmental offices are located here in splendidly lighted rooms. The Book Room offices on the third floor occupying the whole Queen and John St. frontages. The corresponding corresponding section on the second floor is occupit d by the wholesale book department. department. The most interesting department for most visitors will be the sections of the five floors devoted to the manufactory. manufactory. We present only one illustration--the illustration--the binding room--which conveys conveys some idea of the extent of this one branch, altho the machinery cannot cannot be seen in this picture. About 280 young women are employed here and several men. Nine folding machines BUILDINGS CANADA'S FINEST PRINTING AND PUBLISHING HOUSE All power used in building is transmitted transmitted electrically, there not being a foot, of shafting on the premises. Every machine has.its own motor and one looks in vain for a flying belt or line of shafting. The artificial lighting system includes some 3,500 lights. Two huge steam producers^ each 300 horsepower, horsepower, supply steam for heat and poWer The floor of the boiler room is 36 feet below sidewalk level. This invitation appeared in The Guardian and holds good to our réad- ers : * MR. ALONZO B. SEE AND THE BUSINESS HE HAS BUILT UP. ' Possibly few business men in New York City have madea finer record for industry, integrity, perseverance*and honorable dealing than Mr. Alon.zo Bertram See, head of The A. B See Electric- Elevator Company, whose elevators have been installed in many of the leading buildings in that city, "th< - AN INVITATION FOR YOU. It may be judged from the foregoing Whether- the new Book Room building would be a place worth visiting when next you borne to Toronto. Some people are already making trips to the city purposely to see it. Arrangements have been made whereby visitors are t aken on a regular tour of inspection by a guide who is thoroughly conver- and in other cities of the United States and Canada. Some New York structures structures contain as many as fifteen of the drum and geared trac;ion„type, some of them being used for rapid transportation transportation at a speed of 650 feet per minute. minute. In cur personal investigation of the merits of these elevators in the interest interest of the Building Committee of the Methodist Book and Publishing House, Toronto, we rode on a considerable considerable number of those elevators, both Rev. Wm. Briggs, D-D., Toronto sant with all the features. The new building, and the arrangement of the plant which it has made possible, are such a source of pride to the Book Steward (Rev. William Briggs, D. D.) and to the Book Room staff that they are delighted to see any visitors at any time during office hours. Aecord- ingly a most hearty invitation is extended extended to. all the readers of the Guardian Guardian to visit the new place when next they come to, Toronto and to see its many features. On Monday this week Engineer Kirby who has the oversight of the Wesley Building and plant and knows every department "like a book", conducted conducted a party f. om Bowmanville all thru the building from basement to the top of the roof. MR. A. B. SEE, New York City passenger and freight, and had interviews interviews with the superintendents and engineers in charge of them, all of whom, without exception, bearing tes- timon y to the efficiency and good Î working qualities of the A. B. See elevators. We found them very substantial, substantial, neat in construction and smooth operating, and but for seeing the movement in the ascent and descent descent it would be hard tô b -lieve they were going it the speed they were. We shov T u think that the builder has about reached the climax of efficiency in the construction and installation of elevators. We to-day publish a portrait of Mr. A'onzo B. See, the founder and President President of the American A. B See Elec- VIEW OF THE BOOK BINDERY trie Elevat orCoaopany of New York with offices in St. Paul Building, .220 Broadway, and. the ; principal cities of Amer» ica, .and of a- Canadian Company Company with headquarters ab Montreal, of which Sir Thomas Thomas Tait is one of the Directors. During.a visit to New York City we visited the large factory factory of the A. B. See Electric Elevator Co. in. Jersey City, N.J. where the buildings cover cover some four, acres of land. We later met,Mr. Alonza B. See and found 'him to be a very interesting man--a real self-made person. So greatly were we interested in the story of his business- sue ess that we obtained from a prominent New York gentleman, whe has known him intimately for many years, some particulars of his business-career. About. 32.yea» s ago Mr. See opened a very small shop in the basement of a building on the corner of Centre and How- ard-sts. where he announced? himself as a repairer of elevators, elevators, and soon began to build small hand-power side walk élevators for raising and lowering lowering merchandise and other heavy freight from the street into cellars and basements. This business out-gr w these quarters and Mr. See buijLb a factory in Brooklyn, but the growth of the elevator- trade began to expand, and about 25 years ago it began to dawn upon his vision that there was a bright future for the electric elevator, so with strong f.iith Mr. See concentrated concentrated his efforts on the manufacture manufacture of direct connected electric elevators. He invented invented a most valuable attachment attachment in the shape of an automatic automatic controller which has worked very satisfactorily, and it was not long beforeihis own factory was making everything everything comprised in electric electric driven elevators. Fortunately, as it turned out, Mr. See's factory site was taken for anchorage for Manhattan Manhattan Bridge and he found a suitable site of 11 acres in Jersey City where he built fully complete modern buildings buildings and installed a plant of the latest and best machinery for the m i nufactureof every part of the now famous A. B. See electric elevators. Our readers may form some idea of the extent of the buildings when we tell them that the main machine shop is 250 by 460 feet and a fire-proof pattern pattern shop is 115 feet square. When we visited this plant it was a beehive of industry and the nature of the work is such that mostly skilled men are employed at big salaries. We found aremarkablefea- ture in the construction of the floor in the main building that we had never heard of till then. The floor of the main shop is composed of 6 inches of concrete for a foundation, then 2 inches of tar concrete cover d with 2 inch spruce laid flat, and 1J inch maple on top of the spruce, the cost of this floor being $32,000.00. This precaution was taken to prevent dampness to the workmen's feet. There being no air spaces, there can be no rot. One of the most pleasing conditions that we found in Mr. See's big industry and one which we hâve never known before te exist in any Burge moderirindustry, was that no time clock or any other checks are kept on his men and he has no notices posted anywhere anywhere instructing employees what to do and what not to do, evidencing . the greatest confidence betweenthe master and his men. This condition led us to inquire how such a happy condition obtained and were informed that several of' the workmen had been in Mr. See's employ over 20 years and that the sons of some of them had come into the works with their fathers. Surely such desirable desirable relations between employer employer and employees is a great honor to Mr. See and the men who are at the head of. the several branches of this immense industrial plant That the A. B. See Electric Elevator Co. has been a financial financial success we discovered also by consulting Bradstree's, where we found this firm rated rated G. Aa ($1,000,000) the highest highest rating. It is no wonder that this company is doing most of the elevator work for United States Government at Washington. While Mr. See is not a newspaperman in the sense of a 1 active publisher, we see by the manufacturers' magazine. magazine. "American Industries," published by the Nn tional Association Association of Manufacturers at 80 Church-st.; New York City, that Mr. A B. See is on the Board of Directors and is tho Treasurer of the Company. He is also on the Board of Governors of the New York Machinery . Club in Hudson Terminal Building. He is a lover of horses and carries, on a large farm outside of the city where fcheSee summer home is. ( Continued, on page 4) . i Si k ■"à \ s' sis . . 1 X y . 7