. The Street railway journal . World some days ago, will be of in-terest in this connection. (vSpecial to the World,) Albany, May 26, 1896.—A new electricalinaiiufactiiring combination called tlie WalkerCompany has been formed. New York, Phila-delphia and Cleveland capitalists are interestedamong them being former Gov. Flower, J. , Anthonj N. Brady, Mr. Belmont,Dallas Sanders, William Rotch, Parker C. Chand-ler, Frank Billings and Jacob B. Perkins. They BUSINESS POLICY. Underlying the development of tlie WalkerCompanys business in the electrical held hasbeen and is the idea that dyna
. The Street railway journal . World some days ago, will be of in-terest in this connection. (vSpecial to the World,) Albany, May 26, 1896.—A new electricalinaiiufactiiring combination called tlie WalkerCompany has been formed. New York, Phila-delphia and Cleveland capitalists are interestedamong them being former Gov. Flower, J. , Anthonj N. Brady, Mr. Belmont,Dallas Sanders, William Rotch, Parker C. Chand-ler, Frank Billings and Jacob B. Perkins. They BUSINESS POLICY. Underlying the development of tlie WalkerCompanys business in the electrical held hasbeen and is the idea that dynamos and motorsare not delicate and complicated pieces of appar-atus diftlcLilt of design and construction andmysterious in operation—they are merely ma-chines and require only a high order of work-manship in the machine shop to make themthoroughly reliable and satisfactory in old ideas have passed away. It is no longerpossible to deceive purchasers by an air of super-natural wisdom and mystery into paying enor-. THE CLEVELAND FACTORY OF THE WALKER COMPANY. have factories in several places, the largest beingin Cleveland, where 2000 men are employed. The company has .secured the contract forfurnishing the electric light plant for the BrooklynBridge, for two railroads in Chicago, for some ofthe equipment for the elevated railway there andfor roads in Kansas City and Detroit. J. W, Hinckley, who organized the new com-pany and who was in town yesterdaj-, said nocombination would be made with the GeneralElectric and Westinghouse Trust. The capital of the newly combined companiesis only $5,000,000 as against nearly twentj^ timesthat amount represented by the stock and bondsof the General Electric and Westinghouse Com-panies. They claim in consequence to be able toundersell the trust on all kinds of machinery andstill make handsome profits. Mr. Hinckley saysthe company was incorporated in New Jersey. mous prices for manufactured iron and Walker Company builds
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