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COMMERCE AND MANUFACTURES.

when John H. Bolton became associated with him. They have, by pru-
dent, honorable and conservative management of their business, gained
and enviable popularity, holding the confidence of the public universally.
They carry a stock of furniture in addition, and deal in second-hand fur-
niture. They give particular attention to outside sales of property, goods,
live stock, etc., and solicit consignments from abroad, guaranteeing satis-
faction. Their annual sales will reach $30,000. Three assistants are
employed. Their business premises are conveniently located on Houston
street, one of the main business thoroughfares of the city, their rooms
having a frontage of 70 feet by 75 in depth. Mr. Bolton holds the position
of alderman for the Third ward, this being his second term. He has dis-
tinguished himself by his earnest advocacy and support of ordinances and
measures looking to the commercial prosperity, manufacturing progress
and sanitary condition of the city. He has manifested special enterprise
and sound ideas of political economy, by advocating the encouragement
of manufacturing enterprises, realizing the unquestionable fact that cities
cannot become really great or metropolitan without manufacturing inter-
ests. He is a representative citizen, honest, independent, genial and able.
He also evidences the great importance of bestowing special attention on
the sanitary condition of cities, as an element conducing largely to
progress and prosperity. To this end, he has been an earnest and untiring
advocate of a good system of sewerage, and to his efforts the city is in-
debted for her present ordinance for that purpose.

CHAS. G. BOELHAUWE—Manufacturer of Doors, Sash and Blinds,
Scroll Sawing, Turning and Dressing Lumber; Odd Size Doors,
Sash and Blinds Made on Short Notice; Kampmann Factory, 527
Nacogdoches Street.
In every city on the American continent, those branches of business
connected with the lumber trade, occupy, by reason of their bearing on
other branches of trade, the most prominent positions; and, in this con-
nection, the special branch of the business, devoted to the manufacture of
sash, doors and kindred articles, is the most important, entering, as they
do, into the construction of material parts of all classes of buildings. In
times, not so very remote, these articles were all made by hand, and, while
they may have been as good and well made as machine work, the process
was slow and the construction of buildings long and tedious; more hands
were required and more economy of material and less elaboration ren-
dered necessary in the use of these indispensible articles, fabricated by the
planing mills of to-day. The introduction of labor-saving machinery rev-
olutionized the trade. Sash, doors, frames, etc., are no longer the work
of the hand-plane and chisel. Steam machinery turned out work too
rapidly, and with such perfection that hand work could not compete.
Among the prominent establishments, although but young in existence,
in San Antonio, is that of Chas. G. Boelhauwe, started in 1884. With an