The story of StreatorBeing an account of the growth of its institutions civic, social and industrial, with special reference to its manufacturing and business interests; together with an outline of its early history and life sketches of some of its leading citizens . 0 THE STORY OF STREATOR. Here are twentj-two departments in four stor-ies, sheltered under one roof, the foundationbeing two luindred and fifty by one hundredand forty feet, and the total floor space aggre-gating more than one hundred and twentythousand feet. A neigliboring city of sometliinglike double the jiopulation of Streator
The story of StreatorBeing an account of the growth of its institutions civic, social and industrial, with special reference to its manufacturing and business interests; together with an outline of its early history and life sketches of some of its leading citizens . 0 THE STORY OF STREATOR. Here are twentj-two departments in four stor-ies, sheltered under one roof, the foundationbeing two luindred and fifty by one hundredand forty feet, and the total floor space aggre-gating more than one hundred and twentythousand feet. A neigliboring city of sometliinglike double the jiopulation of Streator. ])ro-claims it has a department store larger thanany other city in the state of Ilinois, outside ofChicago, and gives the floor space in that storeas sixty-five thousand scpiare feet, which is a more in the mind of the builder tlian the Strea-tor of today when the enterprise was under-taken. It was realized theu that a city .-^ituated inthe heart of a wonderfully rich agriculturaldistrict, with railroad facilities second to noinnnici])ality of its size in the whole country,Mith its central location, with its multiplyingmanufcvcturing advantages in the manufactureof glass, it was realized then, as it is now, thatsuch a citv nuist eventuallv become one of the. Heenan Department Store. trifle over half the size of tlie Streator estab-lishment. Some idea of the magnitude of thisinstitution may be had when one realizes thatit would take more than forty stores twenty-five feet wide by one hundred feet deep toequal it in capacity. This establishment stands as a monument tothe enterprise, genius and courage of D. Hee-nan. who planned it, as well as to his wonderfulfaith in the future of his city, for thei-e is nodenying that the Streator of tomorrow was great commercial centers of the country. The D. Heenan department store drawstrade to Streator from a circle ninety miles indiameter, and its annual catalogues, because ofthe bargains and oiii)nrtunities therein offered,find wholesome
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