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SAN ANTONIO-HER TRADE,
All sizes, styles and prices, in malleable iron, brass and nickel plated. He
gives special inducements to reliable and energetic agents. Mr. Emerson's
business premises are centrally located, right in the very center of trade,
easily accessible from any quarter ; the building is 25 feet front by 110 feet
in depth. The location is at No. 12, Soledad street, next to the court
house ; the New York office is at No. 111 Nassau street. Three assistants
are employed, who are distinguished for their courteous attention to
strangers and customers. Mr. Emerson has been connected with the bus-
iness since 1875. He is a live, energetic and reliable business man, and an
enterprising, useful citizen, favorably known for his genial and social
qualities, and justly entitled to the respect and confidence of the general
public.

ELMENDORF & CO.—Importers and Dealers in Hardware, Agricul-
tural Implements, Cordage, Paints, Oils, Window Glass, Etc.;
Main Plaza and Alamo Plaza.
No plesanter task falls to the duty of the editor and statistician than
that of presenting to the public the character and personnel of the leaders
of thought and action, and of reviewing the results of their enterprise and
energy in the busy drama of every-day life. Men who give both impress
and impulse to commercial history are not
only "the abstract chroniclers of their
day," but they are the guides of the peo-
ple in mercantile education, and the her-
alds of that broad progress which distin-
guishes American trade. For broad grasp
and executive abilities for leadership, men moving upon the active
stage of business life have proven their superiority in the estimation
of the people, not alone for business pursuits, but to grapple with,
solve and manage the most obstruse points and problems of political gov-
ernment. In short, there is more true ability, more statesmanship, if we
may so style it, in the circles of commercial enterprise, in the practical
solution of transportational problems and in the timely application of cor-
rect theories of trade, than can be found in our halls of legislation. The
true American statesmen, of broad views and of successful resultful ac-
tion, are the leading merchants—the architects, founders and heads of our
leading commercial establishments. It is, therefore, with more than ordi-
nary satisfaction that we pen this historical sketch of the business of men,
who, yet in the prime of vigorous manhood, have made a rare record of
business success and gained position among commercial leaders in their
state and city, and who furnish an encouraging example to the actors yet
young in the busy drama of modern mercantile progress. The history of
the commercial activity of San Antonio has produced but few examples of
success, so marked and substantial, as that which has attended the efforts
of Messrs. Elmendorf & Co., and, among the enterprises representing the