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760 for every inch of space. The automatic sprinkler system is perfect so that the danger from fire is practically annihilated. The latest improved machinery has been installed and chutes from the factory deliver goods in a second down three stories, while speaking tubes connect all departments. Moreover, this factory is similar to the National Cash Register and other model factories of the country in the care which it gives for the comfort of its employes. It is the only factory in the city which provides a large lunch room for the help. This firm ships goods all over the Pacific coast and some of their lines find a ready market in New York, Mexico and even Russia, and the water bags and horse blankets are sold extensively in South Africa.

Mr. Hirsch is also president of the Adam Appel Water Bag Company, occupying a part of the building with the Willamette Tent & Awning Company. Under his management the business is thoroughly systematized so that there is a minimum expenditure of time, labor and material yet without sacrifice to results in manufacture or to the comfort of employes. He is secretary of the Portland Tent & Awning Company and is president of the Stark Street Improvement Association. At present he is erecting a new hotel to be known as the Clark Hotel at the corner of Tenth and Stark streets and is also interested in several tracts on the east side.

Mr. Hirsch was married to Miss Clementine Seller, a daughter of Henry Seller, who came to Portland during the early development of the city, and they now have one son, Harold. Mr. Hirsch has never felt any regret over the fact that he left his native land at the age of fourteen years, for he here found conditions which seemed to him attractive and in the business world he found that labor is unhampered by caste or class. Through the steps of an orderly progression he has advanced to his present enviable position as a merchant and manufacturer of his adopted city. He is a director of Temple Beth Israel and his wife is president of the Council of Jewish Women and secretary of the Women's Union, taking an active interest in the new Neighborhood House.

The name of Dr. Herbert W. Cardwell appears upon the roll of Portland's prominent citizens for he attained a high rank in his profession and, moreover, made for himself a creditable military record in connection with the Spanish-American war. A native of this city, he was born on the 23d of December, 1867, and spent the greater part of his life here. Passing through the consecutive grades in the public schools, he was at length graduated from the Portland high school, after which he began the preparation for the practice of medicine as a student in Oregon Medical College. He afterward did post-graduate work in the College of Physicians and Surgeons of New York and had the benefit of two years' broad and practical experience in the Seney Hospital of that city. Throughout his active connection with the profession, he manifested the keenest discernment both in determining the cause of disease and its possible outcome. His ability was widely recognized by his professional brethren and secured him a liberal patronage from the general public. His diagnosis was always careful and comprehensive and his thorough understanding of the science of medicine enabled him to utilize at all times those remedial agencies which were of great service under prevailing conditions.

It was in 1891 that Dr. Cardwell was united in marriage to Miss Helen W. Winslow, of New Bedford, Massachusetts. They became the parents of two sons, Oliver Byron and Fowler Hathaway, aged respectively seventeen and sixteen years. Dr. Cardwell was devoted to the welfare and happiness of his family and found his greatest pleasure in ministering thereto.