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Remarkable Progress of the Firm of
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I LEADERS II WESTEM TRADE.
House Founded in 187lT Has in Twenty-nine
Years Reached a Standard of Success and
Integrity in Business Dealing Second to
None in the World.
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' No better example need be cited to prove the supremacy
l of Chicago as a manufacturing center than her rapid advance
j in recent years in the world of shoes an advance which finds
H her on this, the beginning of the year 1900, practically tho
a ieader of fine shoe manufacturing.
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Thirty years ago no merchant, East or West; ever thought
for a moment that any boots or shoes could come from any
where else but the East To the enterprise of a few Chicago
J firms and their all-abiding faith in the prowess of the West is
M due the credit for the position Chicago holds to-day in the
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ij Foremost among these stands the firm of Selz, Schwab
ij & Co., who, from a most humble beginning (dating as far back
as rSji), have built up a shoe business whose size and extent
is not only a monument to themselves but a source of honest
pride to their city. The founder, Mr. Morris Selz, was born in
Germany in 1S26, and came to this country at the age of 17.
He started in life, as many other successful men have done,
with little or no capital the amount in his pockets when he
landed being $15.00. He began his commercial career as a
clerk and salesman in a dry goods house in Hartford, Conn.,
and in '4S was employed in a store doing a general business in
he State of Georgia. In the early 50's he migrated to Cali
'rnia going by way of Panama and Nicaragua.
The year 1S54 found him in Chicago, and in 1871 he in
. -sted the careful savings of years by starting in the boot and
hoe business in the simple way, depicted in another part of
this page, under the title of "M. Selz & Co." The firm at
first only sold boots and shoes to the jobbing trade, but soon dis
covered that greater prospects of success were assured in placing
their products direct from factory to retailer. This, coupled
with a stern determination to sell only good goods for the
smallest possible margin, laid the foundation of their ultimate
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a success. In 187S the style of the firm was changed to Selz,
ft Schwab & Co., and in 1890 became a corporation, of which
J Mr. Morris Selz was, and is still, the honored president
A The firm, to-day, owns and operates five factories, each one
il devoted to exclusive lines of boots, work-shoes, men's fine shoes,
j and ladies' shoes, respectively. They employ in the aggregate
j nearly 2, coo hands, and some idea of the volume of business
ij done by the house, including the sales of lines they do not make,
y and also of rubbers, may be gained from the fact that during their
fiscal year closing the first of November, the total number of
i pairs sold reached the extraordinary figure of 6,40s, 616.
The total floor space of their five factories is 545, 568 square
3 feet, or nearly 125 acres, and the amount of sole leather alone
j used annually is over 500 car loads.
For the last ten years the offices and salesrooms have been
fj located on. the northeast corner of Markci and Monroe streets,
i buc during the fall of '99 they acquired by purchase the property
J known as the "Jewett Building," on the opposite comer. This
building has been thoroughly reconstructed and fitted up in
Jj the most modem way, and is to-day the largest and most com-
plete establishment devoted exclusively to the sale of boots and
slices in the world. Some idea of the stock which the firm will
I carry may be gained when we state that the floor space aggre
J gates uvcr 100.000 square feet. In addition to an office and
I house staff of about 125 peoplo, they have a small army of
j salesmen on the road, of about 65 men, and Selz' shoes are to
5 day sold not only in nearly every state in the Union, but in
I Alaska, Hawaii, Norway, London, Paris, South Africa and
'. Australia.
Tne Republic joins its many friends in wishing them
q not only a "happy new j-ear," but even greater success, in the
A new home, than tha. which came to them in the old.
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