Business Journal . wan song of the passing woodenfiling equipment that is carrying the message of recommenda-tion of the steel cabinet. The unanimous verdict of the publicin support of the steel method is patent in none quite so muchas the Berger Manufacturing Company of Canton, O. Asleading manufacturers of steel filing equipment—includingsteel card drawers, document files, storage drawers, verticalfiling units, interchangeable horizontal sections, chairs, desks,tables and other office furniture—they are in a position tonote the transformation. It is and has been apparent in thephenomenal, co
Business Journal . wan song of the passing woodenfiling equipment that is carrying the message of recommenda-tion of the steel cabinet. The unanimous verdict of the publicin support of the steel method is patent in none quite so muchas the Berger Manufacturing Company of Canton, O. Asleading manufacturers of steel filing equipment—includingsteel card drawers, document files, storage drawers, verticalfiling units, interchangeable horizontal sections, chairs, desks,tables and other office furniture—they are in a position tonote the transformation. It is and has been apparent in thephenomenal, consistent and healthy increase in business. Numberless thousands of business firms, municipalities,counties and states have awakened to the necessity of pro-tecting records, correspondence, documents and papers ofvalue because of disastrous conflagrations. They found totheir cost that this protection was not possible where woodenequipment was used. They have since found it, however, inthe use of steel \\ hile steel filing equipment, as made by the Berger Man-ufacturing Company, is not claimed to be absolutely fire proof,it has been proved many times that it is a fire retardent ofhigh quality. More than once it has actually proven fire1 saved the valuable records of a lire-swept office. Acase in pomt was in Chicago, where a six-story buildingburned in June, 1909. It took seventj streams of water andthirty-two engines to put out the lire. (In one of the floorswas a new steel sectional file. When the ruins wenenough to Ik- entered it was found [bat the drawers of the cabinet operated a- though nothing bad occurred. Papers bad in a yet been placed in it but the guide Cards were only slightlj charred ami any notations on them would have been perfectly legible. s> 1 is the mi dern eo momizer and maker of efficii : i in the world and responsible for much of n- progn I i| a time it was unthought of in many in iiiiim \ ieu years w roughl a i hang and when oal :e held s
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