Clow+Water+Closet

= Clow Sanitary Company = = =

**"Indoor Plumbing It's Gonna Be BIG" **
Clow Sanitary Company founded by William E. Clow, the Clow Company was a plumbing supply distributor in Chicago. Clow Sanitary Company was considered a attraction of the 1893 Columbian Exposition held in Chicago. The Columbian Worlds Fair helped many companies and manufactures like James B. Clow display and show case their products. Clow installed lavatories into 32 different locations throughout the fairgrounds, this set precedence for the first pay toilets, which are still used today mostly in Europe. You could be admitted in to one of the fairground's bathroom with a ticket that cost 5 cents. Clow Sanitary Company installed and fabricated approximately 2,221 water closets into the Chicago Worlds Fair of 1893. Out of all the water closets in the worlds fair only about 730 were open for free public use. The other 1,491 or so water closets were operated by the company themselves. They charged 5 cents admission into the fancier toilet. In the toliets with the 5 cent charge included expensive soap dispensers, towels,"Clothes brushes" or a form of a lint roller, and other such luxuries not provided in the free bathrooms. These are a few examples of the tickets used to get into the bathrooms. Notice the different letters on the tickets, L and O. Clow had several different kinds of tickets that spelled out: "J A M E S B. C L O W". Also, Clow wasn't only famous for his work with the invention of the water closet, he started his own company with it. The Clow Sanitary Company was so successful, that it is still around today. []

[] [|Clow Water Company History] [] []