Jim $‘.J . 7 SW .2‘ 1.. ETTE. , ESTABLISHED 1800 VOLUME) XE. Norwalk Gazelle. TERMS OF SUBSGRIPTIIIII. at? Two Dollars per year, in advancefi‘gsu RATES FOR ADVERTISIIG AND 103 PRINTING Furnished on application at the crime. Ordinary and transient advs., 1 inchul week, $1.00 Each subsequent insertion, up to 4 times, 50 Half inch, half of above rates. One column, ordinary adv., one time. - $5.00 One column. reading matter, one time, . -5.00 LOCALS in reading matter columns. per line, .20 Births. Marriages and Deaths inserted free. Advertising of Funeral Notices, - - 1._00 Liberal terms to yearly and half-yearly advertis- ers. and ten per cent. discount on all advs. pre- paid for three months or over. ' THE GAZETTE Jon PRINTING DnrAnTnENT is equlpped with the best facilities for turning out First Class Work of every description. _ All orders for filming. Engraving and Book Binding. execu- ted promptly. and will be as well and reasonably done as anywhere. _ ._.-__.__._..—_ Norwalk. The followingr birds-eye View of histori- cal Norwalk is gotten up. by the Board of Trade, and is printed on the note and let- ter paper of a large number of our busr— ness men who are interested in Norwalk’s growth and prosperity : Norwalk. Fail-field county, Connecticut was founded in 1640. It is in the southwestern portion of the state, on Long Island Sound, 42 miles from New York city. .— The population in 1860 was - A582. The population in 1880 was - 13,906 The population in 1890 is about 18,000 .. The Norwalk Islands, distant about a mile irom the main land, form a beautiful and com- inodious harbor. which receives the Norwalk river, up which vessels of twelve feet draft can sail a distance of two miles. A passenger steamer runs dailv to and from New York In the summer and a. daily freight boat. during the entire year. There is also a_ tri-weekly boat to Huntington, Long Island, in the sum- mer. Dorlon’s Point at the eastern entrance to the harbor and Roton Point at the western are delightful summer resorts, and the drives over the hills and along the shore are unrival- ed in beauty. The New York, New Haven and Hartford railroad furnishes hourly transit to- and_ from New York city, and the Housatonic railroad with its western and northwestern connections ‘brings Norwalk into easy communication wlth all arts of the country. _ he town, lying for five miles along the val- ley of the Norwalk river, and climbing up 'the splendid hills that reach out on either side, with its magnificently shaded streets,the result of two hundred and fifty years of care and thought, is not only a town of beautiful homes, but by its location, its rail and water commu- nications, and the advantages _ it possesses for many kinds of manufacturing industries, it has grown to the seventh in population in the state. It has eight post offices. a tree deliverytsystem, excellent telegraph and telephone servrce, four miles of horse railroad, concrete and fiag‘stone sidewalks, a well organized and well equipped fire department and fire alarm system, gas and electric lights, a fine system of water works. costing half a million dollars. and now sell sustaining, a sewer system which has cost a quarter million of dollars, .twelve' public and five private schools, one daily and five weekly newspapers, three hotels and fifteen churches. It has two public libraries, five national banks with a total capital of $740,000, three savrngs banks with 9,250 depositors and $3,162,000 of assets. It has two military companies and a. fine state armory, a flourishing Young Men’s Christian Assocfatiou, and thirty-one lodges, societies, a" L other social and benevolent organizations. _ Its industries are diversified and extensrve. The largest single one is the manufacture of fur hats, in wnich fifteen establishments, em- ploying about fifteen hundred persons. are engaged. The second in importance is the cultivation of oysters. for which Norwalk. has literally a world-wide reputation. In addition to these there are the following factories: 2 looks, I steam engines and air compressors, 2 straw hats, 1 corsets, 1 hatters’ supplies, 2 furnaces and stoves, 3 cassimeres. worsteds and felts, 1 elastic fabrics. 3 shoes, 2 hardware novelties. 5 carriages, 1 shirts, 5 sash, doors and blinds, 3 paper boxes and packingr cases, 7 cigars, 2 fur cutting. 5 saw mills, 1 gas stoves and appliances, 2 iron fences. 2 cement pipes, 4 planing mills, 3 machine shops, 1 patterns. Fast Day. Governor Bulkeley has issued the fol— lowing Fast Day proclamation, for Good Friday, April’ 4th :— Iu reverent recognition of Almighty God, I hereby appoint Friday, the fourth day of April next, a day of fasting and" Remembering how abundantly He has,in the past, answered the prayers of this people, let us upon that day, in our homes and churches, with penitence, hu- mility and prayer, devoutly supplicatc Him that He withdraw not His favor from us. but in His infinite mercy, continue unto us the blessings which have hitherto crowned our cup, and made us a free, prosperous, and happy people. - _____. ___._ —LO0AL ITEMS. prayer. See advertisement bank book lost. Martin Kellogg-’sddaughter Nellie is sick with diphtheria. Samuel Johnson is quite ill at his home on Merwiu street;____ , ’ Johnny Donuelly thinks of locating in Providence, R. I. There were lots of “drunks” about th e street on Saturday night. The Consolidated road will soon put on two heavy switching engines. A gutter orchestra made pretty good music on the streets. yesterday. Manager Stanley has booked Ned Har- rigan’s entertainment for the 27th inst. George I. Buxton has purchased the Simpson place, on the New Canaan road, Chief Buttery is ofl duty to-day, and Officer Adams is attending to the duties of Chief. Owing to illness, Ullie Akerstrom has been obliged to cancel her engagement at Music Hall. ' The 01:1 Homestead, Which Was booked for the Opera House, has canceled all engagements. ’ Miss Mart-haA. Evans and Miss Mary Rodemeyer, of Bethel, spent Sunday with , Norwalk friends. The county commissioners were in town on Monday, trying to locate a desirable site for the children’s home of the county. ', Souhd somewhat dangerdus Tuesday night, causingr considerable delay to steamboat traffic. The complicated part of the Bank of Nowalk’s big safe is receiving‘ expert treatment in New York. I —-Send a postal to the Saugatuck Carpet Cleaning 00., and have them get your carpets to clean. Cartage free. A number of Nor-walkers attended the meeting which organized a state board of trade, in New Haven, on Wednesday. The Danbury Register has suspended publication, leaving the News the sole occupant of the ficld,which’ it admirably fills. Fix-Assemblyman Daniel .‘Q’J. Talmadge of New York, on Monday obtained 3 Ver- dict of $20,000 damages against the New York World for libel. William Wiukelmau, of the firm of F. Bailwilz & Co., grocers, died at his home on Leonard street, Wednesday, in the for» ticth year of his age. ‘ The local board of trade are trying to induce a Canadian firm of steam heater- manufacturers to locate here and occupy the Simouds foundry; Miss Menu Ambler was credited with 94 votes last Sunday in the contest for the World’s $100 necklace. It ought to be not less than 200 next Sunday.‘ Large delegations from Concord and Minchaha Divisions, Sons of Temperance, aided in instituting a new division in Daricu, on Saturday evening last. On Thursday night special officer Burns was on duty to relieve Officer Gormley, and on Saturday night special officer Lovejoy relieved Officer Adams. Misses Anna and Amanda Smith, Flor- ence Fitch and Millie Fleet. of Norwalk, will attend the birthday party of Fred Hoyt, in Stamford, this evening. Mr. Christian Swartz has closed his cigar manufactory for a three weeks’ vacation preparatory to moving into his new building on Washington street. Henry M. Hill, of the Bridgeport Post has just purchased four lots and will erect a house on each one. Who says there isn’t money in the newspaper business 2 The Roman Catholic choirs throughout the county are to meet ere long to form a choral union for the presentation, of Mozart’s Twelfth Mass, with an accom- paniment of an orchestra of sixty pieces. A petition largely signed praying that Asa Smith be appointed superintendent of highways. was presented to the Court of Burgesses, Wednesday evening. It was Some evil minded scribe has started the report that McKinley’s tariff bill advances the duty on beans forty cents , per bushel. If this should prove true. what an explo- sion of indignation there will be in Dan- bury. *____ John Bray was presented with a four- legged chicken by Bill Abbott the other day. The chicken lived'only a few hours after being hatched. Mr. Bray will have it stuffed and mounted as a parlor or. nament. W. C. Brainard leaves town about the 15th of April to join A. J. White & Co’s circus, which opens in Chicago, April 25th. His posititm is that of arena lect- urer. Mr.‘Bra‘inard was never knowu to stammer. The new two cent stamp is pronounced the nastiest stamp ever issued by the gov- ernment. Even the New York Sun, which clamored for a change from the sickly green Stamp, isn’t satisfied with the sickisli red one. _ _ M. F. Dooley, of Hartford, National Bank Examiner, has resigned by request from the Treasury Department, his resig- nation to take effect April 1. His suc- cessor, it is thought, will be a republican from Rhode Island. The society of the Danielsonville church has united with the church in giving a. unanimous call to Rev. (001.) Edward Anderson of Boston, lately of Norwalk. The salary is $1,800, with the use of the parsonage and a month’s vacation.—Ro- ligious Herald. The article on the life of Joel Barlow, contributed to the GAZETTE this, week by Senator Hill, will be read with interest just' at' this time, when the matter of removing his remains to his native town, Bedding, is being considered. The regular monthly meeting of the Ladies’ Auxiliary of the Y. M. 0. A. will be held next Tuesday afternoon at 3 o'clock. and a full attendance of the mem- bers is requested, as the matter of furnish- ing the new rooms is to come up for ac- tion. Hon. Henry A. Bishop, of Bridgeport has returned from an extensrve trip through the South. It is not true that he brought heme a tank full of young aliga- tors with which to stock Twin Lakes for the amusement of Camp Magou’s devo- tees. . ——Mr. B. S. Blascer is to sell his stock of crockery at. auction Q Saturday, March 220, afternoon and evening. tabled until a future meeting of the court.‘ ,tersign?” “McGinty.” John Bray is in Providence this week arranging matters for his future residence and business in that city. He will prob- An Enterprising Republican Journal, especially devoted to Local News and Interests. NORWALK, CONN, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 19, 1890. l I Robert Howard, late of the Huguenot 3 Hotel, in New Rochelle, came up on : Monday to take charge of the bar at the ably move his family and household Oleander Garden, which his brother’sCon goods there about the first of next month. An entertainment will be given by the i Floral Ten, of the Kings’ Daughters, in the Parlors of the Norwalk Baptist church ‘ The entertain- on Tuesday evening next. ment will consist of singing, music and literary exercises, and a luncheon will be served. James A. Williamson, a typograpical tourist, was arrested by Officer Adams, on Tuesday, for being intoxicated. Justice 5 Austin fined him $7 and costs and thirty days in jail. As he was unable to pay the fine he has 60 days in which to sit on the jail-stool of repentance. An announcement in another column of this issue appriscs the public that Mr. John Lycett nowghas charge of the Five Corners blacksmith shop. Mr. Lycctt is well known as a good workman, and under his management the shop will be more successful than ever. Mr. I). W. Thrall of New Haven, gen- eral agent of the humane society, was in town on Monday, calling on his local agent, Dr. Geo. Bridges. Mr. Thrall will probably be here again next week, when some of the owners of broken down horses will be likely to hear something drop. Thomas Dowd and Thomas Cook, -Cobblc Hellians, were arrested on Mon- day by Oflicer Adams for drunkenness and fighting. They paid $8 each for their fun. Robert Powell was arrested by Ofilcchormlcy for interference with the ofiicer. His case was adjourned till to day at one o’clock. The King’s Daughters, of the First Congregational church Will give a “Sur- prise Reception” at the residence of Mrs. ' Charles Betts, next Friday evening, the 2lst, inst, from 7 to 10 o’clock. Tea and coffee will be served and a short enter- tiinment given. Admission 10 cents. The champion “old subscriber” is W. M. Brooks, of Roxbury, Mass, who is ninety-six years old and has taken the Christian Register sixty-five years—Ea:- change. We question if the venerable Mrs. Jonathan Camp has not taken the Gaza-rm - for more than sixty-five years, and her interest in reading it increases with her years. Wm.B. E. Lockwood has sent in a proposition to the Court of Burgesscs that Wall street, from a point at the west end of the bridge and the south side of the street to E._ K. Lockwood’s store be wi- dened. An improvement that the travel- cling public in general would appreciate, and it would add greatly to the appear- ancc of the street at that point. ‘ —.\n-. B. s. Blister is to sell his stock of crockery at auction on Saturday, March 22d, afternoon and evening. The rural correspondents of the New York Sun are progressrve and enterpris- ing. Last Sunday’s Sun contained a dis- patch from Norwalk which was a rehash of the article that appeared in the GA-o zu'r'rn about three years ago, relating the antics of Hon. James W. Hyatt’s goat. which ate the tail off Dr. McGonegal’s horse and did other ridiculous things. The Sunday Gospel Temperance meet- ing at Grand Army Hall was truly a love feast. Many who had signed the pledge during the past year bore witness to the good which that act had been to them, and they now rejoiced that they were new men in Christ. The singing was greatly aided by the presence of members of the choir of Concord Division. From the amount of trumpet blowing and shooting going on at the Price lot on Water street, just below the Opera Heuse, the wayfaring man might be led to believe that we have the 4th of July here every day. But the blasting will soon be over, and a block will be erected on the blank spot which will repay the public for all the annoyance of the shooting, and be a and be a creditto the borough. I hope when I resign my post on earth and am no more, I will not find McGinty’s ghost upon the other shore. I dreamed I stood at Heaven’s gate and, looking into space, I saw a soul on wings of fate ap- proach in quest of grace. The stranger knocked, and deep divine a voice said, “Child of sin, speak thou the holy coun- “Pass then in.” When I cast off this mortal coil and with the angels dwell, if 1 cannot McGinty foil, I’d rather be in—Chicago.—E:v. Mr. Arthur Brower, who is employed as engineer in George B. Weed & Co.’s shoe manufactory is constructing'a new steam yacht .which is a model of beauty, and which, from all appearances, will be the fastest sailing boat in this harbor. Mr. Brower is a genius of no ordinary ability, and the model is purely his own idea. He expects to have her ready to launch by the first of May. She is to be used as apleasure boat for parties who wish to visit the islands in this vicinity. l and William have just purchased. Tim Roth & Geldschmidt’s corset factory firm and operatives celebrated its tenth anniversary in a very pleasant manner on Saturday. The company have j been very successful, and, it is truly said of them, “They treat the men and women who work for them like ladies and gentlemen, and pay them well for their work.” Gould Saunders and his son David, " came. up from South Norwalk Saturday afternoon and got drunk together. They became boisterous in a Main street saloon, and were gathered in by Chief Buttery, who placed them in the lockup where they remained until Monday foreuoou. They were tricd.bcforc Judge Austin, who fined them each $2 and costs, which they paid. Charles Bailwitz, aged ten years, was it was loaded” gun He was buried yesterday afternoon. The Bailwilzfamily has been peculiarly unfortunate for a long time. The father was killed by the cars at South Norwalk, a couple of years ago, and misfortunes innumerable have overtaken the survivors. A nice looking black horse was led through our streets last Friday on his way to his last resting place. The poor animal had contracted that much to be dreaded disease, glandcrs, and had to be shot. In spite of all that was done to prevent the spread of this disease the past year there is no prospects of getting rid of it unless horse owners insist on more and better precautions for the protection of their stock. The sixth annual conference of the Y. M. C. A. General Secretaries of New Eng- land will be held in Norwich, this state, to-morrow night and continue until Mon- day of next week, during which time the work in, the various departments will un- dergo a thorough discussion. It is expect- ed that this will be the largest cenfercnce ever held. The Norwalk association will I be represented by Secretary Simone. Delegates from several boards of trade, Norwalk included, met in New Haven, Wednesday, to consider the proposition of a state board of trade. It. was thought favorably of and the delegates were in— structed to so report to their boards. Another meeting will be held on a date yet to be announced, probably the first of next month, and the meeting place will be Hartford. - A houec of ill repute was raided in Dan- bury, Tuesday, and the occupants, thir- teen in number,were arrested. The News says that they were followed to the jail by over 300 persons. The same paper re- ports the place as more fit for a barn than a dwelling, and the condition of the inte- rior almost beyond description, the filth and stench being something almost un- bearable. And this right in the heart of the city. Cleaning 00., and have them get your carpcts to clean. Cartage free; Several census enumerators must soon be appointed in Norwalk, and there is considerable conjecture as to who they will be. John McCarthy, supervisor of the census of the First district of Connec- ticut, will select six clerks and the enu- merators for the different towns. The clerks will do duty until the work is finish- ed, the enumerators only during June. In all towns having a population of 10,000 or more the work must be completed with- in two weeks, each ward having an enu- merator. The enumerators will make about $5 per day. "Illness will be a suffi- cient cause for removal. ' —-The Howard Brothers, having pur- chased the Oleander Garden business, beg to announce to the public that it Will be their aim to keep that popular resort fully _up to its well known excellent standard. Mr. Robert Howard, late of the Huguenot Hotel, New Rochelle, who is well and favorably known to the public of this and adjoining towns, and who will have immediate charge of the bar, has for several years past served the public to their entire satisfaction in Bridgeport, Canajoharie, White Plains and other towns in this region. He asks his friends to call and see him. The death of Mr. Joseph Scribner which occurred on Tuesday last at the residence of his daughter, Mrs. James W. Hoyt, in South Norwalk, removes an honored and upright citizen from our midst. He was an active and earnest member of the Methodist church and was born in Wilton 79 years ago. The funeral took place from his daughter’s residence on Friday afternoon. “Uncle"flJoseph was quite an extensive traveler during his later years, and had 4 friends far and, near. .He was beloved by all who knew him, for his many ennobling traits of character, and . was well known as one of God’s nobles works —an honest man. _-.,~~\ “.90: fatally shot by a playmate at his home in _ “’cston, on Sunday, with a “didn’t know ; —Send a postal to the‘fiaugatuck Carpet . A 4 Murat Halstead will begin in the April number of the Cosnzpolitan, the conductof a new department called “Review of Cur- rent Events,” in which he will discuss the leading topics of the day with a non-par- tisan touch. The same number will con- tain the first article by Miss Bisland upon her “Flying Trip Around the World;” “The Fighting Forces of Germany,” by Poultney Bigclow; “Princeton College,” shy Professor Marvuand; and several other important articles, all elaborately illustra- ted. Tlie novelette of the number will be “George \Vashmgtong’s Last Duel,” by Thomas Nelson Page. Archibald Forbes, the renowned war correspondent of the London Graphic is preparing for the 008 mopolitan a series of articles on “Great Battles,” in different periods of the world’s history. treating them all with the vivid description of an eve—witness, and his comrade, Frederick Villiers, will illustrate them in the same realistic style. The 003- anopolz‘tan will publish soon several articles by Henry George growing out of his visit to Australia. Wednesday, February 261b, was the 250111 anniversary of the first purchase of ' lands of the Indians within the bounds of the present town of Norwalk. The pur- chaser was Roger Ludlow and the pur- chase embraced the land lying between the Saugatuck and Norwalk rivers. On the _20th of the following April Captain Daniel Patrick bought. what is now the central part of the town, while the western portion was not bought until 1651. For the land between the Saugatuck and Norwalk rivers, and from the shore as far north as an Indian could go in a day from sunrise to sunset, Ludlow paid ten fathoms of wampum, three hatchcts, three hoes, SIX glasses, twelve pipes, three knives, ten drills and ten needles. Today you couldn’t buy a single building lot on West avenue for the consideration. This shows that prices of Norwalk real estate have advanced somewhat since those ancient days. , Although the purchase of the Indians was madeiu 1640 the permanent settle- ment of the town was not effected until 1651. The first settlement was in what is now East Norwalk, from about where Mr. Earlc’s residence now stands south- ward to the old Benedict tide mill.——Hou-r. The game of brag about advertisin : has broken out and is now raging like a scar— let rash, between two Norwalk newspa— pers. Conscious of the fact that the deepest waters run stillest, “we rise to remark and our language it is plain,” that there is no class of advertisers more critically circumspect, or who have by long experience, reduced the system of advertising to a more perfect and exact science, than the great Life Insurance companies of the country. These invari— ably select the old GAZETTE as the best medium for reaching the class of people they desire to interest,—pcrsons who have the means and the intelligence to avail themselves of the undeniable advantages of insurance. The great “New York Mutual Life” recently purchased an even New York Life, the Connecticut Mutual, the Etna, and the Travelers’ made simi— lar selection of our advertising columns. This they do year after year and know and acknowledge that it pays them royally. “A word to the wise.” etc. The superior value of the Sentinel as an advertising medium found an illus- tration last week in an advertisement in- serted in the columns by 3 Norwalk man at a cost of 25 cents. It brought him nine answers, while the same advertise- ment inserted in one of the weekly papers atacost of fifty cents brought him but one reply—Sentinel. Now that is the “most unkindest cut of all.” After the Sentinel’s loving contem- porary, whose noble nature never shows any mean spirit of envy, jealousy or avarice, has been week after week making himself happy by effusive puffing of himself over his surfeit of advertising, to spine as the above to chill his enthusiasm, is simply cruelty to animals. Perhaps when the Sentinel’s friend recovers con- sciousness from another cruel assault made on him in one of last week’s issues of the spunky city daily, and gets the poulticcs off his eyes and his arm out of the sling, he may feel like making some more of his forcible-feeble remarks about the Sentinel, and thus shall we see how beautiful a thing it is for brethren to dwell together in unity. By the_use of a new series of mileage book upon the Housatonic railroad and its diVi- siOns that were placed upon sale Wednes- day, many favors that have been extended to owners of books are abolished. The old series known as series “B” will remain good until used but no more will be sold. This series was good for the oivner of the book, and if any member of his family was with him or his clerk or bookkeeper their passage was also taken from the coupons. With the new books this is done away with and they will be received for fare only from the original purchaser of the 'book whose name must be written therein- If anyone else presents the book the con- ductors are instructed to take it up and collect full fare, and return book tooliice of general ticket agent with full particu‘ be allowed to take coupons for more than one passage fr0m the book, thus if a man oWns a book and his wife is with him for her he must buy a regular ticket between the two points traveled. The loaning of a book'for a friend to frayel' with had bc~ I come a common occurrence upon the rear ' and the company now propose to stop it; hundred dollars worth of our space ; the . have such a Spurt of ice water down his' lai's. And on no account will a conductor . TWO DOLLARS A YEAR ,, NUMBER 1 2. Messrs. Glover & Olsen are; cutting an archway fifteen feet in ~width connecting their store with the one recently vacated by confectioner Mead, their increasing business necessiatating more room. They are now enabled to carry as large and varied a stock of boots and shoes as any like concern in this part of the state. They are fulliug deserving of the large patronage they enjoy. Their “Siamese” stores present advantages enjoyed by no other store 111 tOWD. Mr. Farquhar, of New York, introduced in the House on Tuesday a bill amending the act providingr for the taking of the eleventh Census so as to rcquirc the super- intendent of'census to cause notices to be mailed to every post office in the country at least 30 days prior to the enumeration and in sufficient quantities to be distribu- ted among the peoplc doing business near the post office for filling in the blanks and giving the data required by the enumera— tors. The bill also provides that the enu— nierators shall collect these blanks, make any necessary correction. in case any per- son fails to fill the schedule provided, the euumerator shall then personally examine the persons upon the maltcr required. The enumerator. shall inquirc of every keeper in charge of a lodging house and police station, where persons in illiout fixed liabi- tatiou find temporary lodging. and also every house of detention, for such infor. mation as he may require concerning the occupants The compensation of enumer- ators is fixed at three cents for each living inhabitant and two cents for each death reported. 0. E. Wilson, real estate agent, has sold during the past month, lot No.26 Stuart avenue, to Cornelia F. Dunn, of Ridgefield, who has already a two story dwelling suitable for two families in course of completion; lot No. 20 Stuart avenue, to MaryMcEvoy; two lots on Glenwood avenue, to Wm. Hall, who will commence building a cottage at once: , lot No. 9 corner Connecticut Turnpike and Glenwood “Venue, to W. T. Peal, who is already building cottages for his numerous spring and summer boarders; the John I). Kimmey place on Prospect avenue, to Philip F. Lcnhart, of Wil- liamsburg, N. Y.; two lots on Glenwood. avenue, to Charles J. Olms—tcad ; nine lots on Eureka avenue, to Frank H. Merrill ; lot No 20 Stuart avenue, to Ellen O. Conner; Stoneliengr. or property formerly owned by Wm. J. Gunning, at l‘oilsomc,to Doctor Edwin Everett Smith, who will move his institution from Con- tentment Island, near Darien, on or about April 20th. Also lot on Glenwood avenue to Thomas Brennan, and the property on Beldcn place owned by Geo. F. Scofield of Brooklyn, to Chart s DeKlyn, of Dan-- bury. The following is from the Bridgeport Standard :— There is nothing more. convincing than facts which are self-evident. Some facts may not be held in this category, as théy need explanation, but that which speaks for itself is a pOWer to convince. Thus, in the store of W. B. Hall & Co., the goods which were sold during the winter at cer- tain figures, now appear With new labels and new figuijes, side by side with the old , buyers knowrng what they hitherto paid for the same goods and discovering that there is a reduction of from twenty to forty per cent. The motive of the firm in mak- ing this sacrifice—for it is such in its true sense is—to clear the store of every remind- er of a motor which has been so continu- ously open that eyerybody is tired of it, and at the same time supply themselves With space, in which to display to greater advantage the vast array of goods pertain- ing to the season of Spring, for the actual arrival of which all are impatiently wait- ing. The demands of the spring days to come have been in the minds of the firm from too day winter departed,and the first hour of aspring month dawned. In sa- teens there are several hundred examples entirely new, and so superior in beauty to those of the season of 1889 as to surprise 'the ladies, who are the best judges of such goods. . It. might be worth while to go into a description of some of the notable exam- ples, but personal inspection will serve a far better purpose. In brief, though, it can be said, the sateen display of 1890 eclipses any of its predecessors. In the dress Silk line the new features are count- less as well as beautiful, and the general stock of desirabilities in dress goods of all kinds is twice the volume shown in any prevnous . year. The firm say the coming scasop Will Witness a loud call for French and . Scotch ginghams and for all wash fabrics, also for India and China silks. The provnston in these lines is very great. Great changes have been made down stairs specially for the display of curtains. Space has been provided in ways best' cal- culated to show the texture and general character of those lines of goods. The en- tire space under the sidewalk on Cannon street has been turned into a certain re— posuory, and there are suspended from the ceiling all the various kinds which ladies need for house adornment. There are curtains of silk, Irish point, Chinise Turkoman, and all the other favorites. There is a new thing in Satin Derby, real Swiss and Shiela, Tapestry and Valour. The rug display is a surprise. I t contains many entirely new examples. There are Mahartta and Mecca rugs, Wilton and Daghestan rugs, and many new patterns in Smyrnas, seen here for the first time. As has been the casein every department upstairs, the Red Ticket and other sales have so cleaned out the‘ old stock that: there is _nothing worthy of special mention left of it. Byerything is therefore new, and, beginning with to-day the store and contents throughout will be new.
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