New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1848-09-29


have left all that behind The only wonder is, sha
we get out safely with coat on-or shall we have
traded il of for some vilainous scouredup concern
mile too big in me back but which have been con
yinced by the wheeling Isrselite fits If for a
wedding
Not that there are not honest shops-as shop honesty
goes in these days-in Chatham sreet-only they don't
somehow seem TO thrive and we never heard OF any
body happening to get into of them. 80 that our
clsssfcation-we beg that to be distinctly understood
leaves them out of the question.
The higgedy pigsledy which we enumerated at start
ing being the general element OF Chatham street nau
rally arrsnges itself into;
l. The Clothing Stores.
H. The Furniture and Pswubfok-f estioLshme1is
Ill The ,iok Auctions Lottery Offices, Grog~rs Sc &c
The Clothing Stores are invariably kept by Jews.
Yankee Ccute as they are) lop keeper in Chatham
could not exst-it is physical impossibity. The
Jew is gente-he is neutrality-suspicious. even pol
ished knows at glance whether you are from the
Country or the City whether you have monkeyish
for fnery and gewgaws want something rough
and substantial He is too. great artist especially 10
coats. You may have experienced some difficulty ana
vexaton in getting your tailor in Broadway 10 Mt you 2
Pshaw Step into the nearest clothing store in Chat
ham street and slip on a cost-aay coat-and we u
There is no such thing as illhng coat in Chatham
street Every coat there fits everybody. After you
20, il home your wife friends may perhaps discover
that II appears to have been made for the alderman OF
the ward But them even that is great deal better
than If il had been too small. IL can be easily taken
in and in fact coming from Chatham street there Is
no wonder it took you in first
If YOU would traffic in trousers ysu must however
be little more particular The press board has been
placed across the back Of the shop by way OF
tirngroom; and there, behind far perspective OF
dangling coatskirs you proceed ~ encsse yourse in
the unmentionables once another's Tender though
and alas too often tender trowsers too For by any
possibility they should happen not to ht the shopman
will nfallibly make you tear tremendous chasm In
them before you get them of and there you have them
on your - hands, we suppose we must say al
though that doesn't exactly express the idea. The
prices of clothing, in these establishments, are as va
red as the sizes and dispositions OF the customers
Most persons who trade there go prepared for ire
mendous decker but the reality far exceeds their
antcipations that they generally "come down. and
are contented to get OH with shave, the depth OF
which depends altogether on certain little things winch
we greatly fear will prevent General Cass being elected
President. 1t is the sublimity OF shop-keeplng, the
poetry of peculaton At first they troll you as
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sble escape They will perhaps even agree with you
little and admit with seeming reluctance, your sug
restion that button is wanting here redundancy
should be suppressed there Then. when you have ex
hausted your weapons when you have said everything
YOU could think of in depreciation of the garment you
are about TO purchase then watch well your shop
keeper, Then comes his turn; and casting upon you
some such scornful plying yet hungry giances as MT
Webster gave Mr. Haynes on the day he ate the caro-
linan he commences. He does not take you by STORM
he uses no claptrap-he dispises all such vulgar
auxiiaries He has set himself 10 convince you Out
your eyes and wheedle you ont OF your money-aho
this he will do Before you have listened hve minutes
you are satisfied your case is gone In anotner similar
interval you begin be convinced that II aces NJ IKE
YOUR skin that the price is less than quarter WHAT
il worth and that you were truly fortunate man
when YOU veutered into Chatham street we had H.
tended TO have reported OF these sartoran oraoh
10 YOU but upon second thought we have no ren' 10
spoil any man business and so you must go hs'eh
for yourself. o,..
For the greater portion of Chatham street these .o'"
, stores line the southern sidewalk, without inter
ruption and the coat tails and pantsioon legs ANU"
tho ,.ce If the pedestrian like the low branches in
path In front of each, from sunrise 10 suhoo"n'
.,ands the na,ty. ack-bearded and hercelymous'
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when a eountryman passes, 10 tap him deicateiy on
the arm and invite him to look at the magnificent
ss.ortmen, of wares and wearablos within STOPPING
a. Won enter the low dark doorway you ind yoursei
!, the midst of primitive formation OF rags carefully
Classified into vests coats aud pantaoons, ana eaeh
neatly labeled In fact it would require no eies'
sstch of the imagination to fancy yourself In CABINET
Of arsh,uv preserved rsimentsl antquites-with 'hs
xcen,ion that the philosopher in attendance Seems
r.,bcr willing to sell his specimens winch INC
rarrer.' Club we are certain would not 40
TIL. expertuess acquired by the keepers oil 'hese
shops in e. spottng " their man Is Truly "oh'ei
They know greenhorn from the country oy ns''n'' >
s5 ,bcre il something almost beautiful IN the certainty
with which they pounce upon him ana inc 'en"'
city with which they cling to him. No matter whs' ne
wants or whether he wants snythng-'hey are sure
90 f, him and to trade with him. II he won't buy new
clothes they will sell him old ones nay 'hey VIII
swan with him. for anything he has on rom nat "
boo,s-always managing 10 geta little something "
hoo, and TO send him OIL fully impressed WIN 'HV u0"
80 only the best dres sed but the best looking
-, :, ,ba Civ If his ,oggery, however, holds TO-
ce,ber ,ill be gets home he may account hin'eH i0
-. ;na;vidusI and if il don't what is he to DO
-, IL, There is no use in talking about trading
- nh ves-they are all poiteness, and periec'y
willing to trade back-out let MN oe""' "a
s,sn he makes will be sure to leave MN "0ise Va
Tho, before. He had better reconcile hinseh 70 {"
car.,snces and mind to keen out OF Chatham street
for the future. ,,,,., =,
The Furniture and Pawnbrokng esiaohshme"'s =
cba,hsnstrect are not less worthy OF attention 'nS
~, clo,hngstores Ii one would know the ul'iinaium
of the Rickey let him buy lot of furniture IN Cna'
ham street We have often seen furniture car laden
With this sort OF truck moving through the street eav
inc broad wake behind Of chsrless and tabe-leaves
which had been olted out of their proper places and
s.uer overheard And we once heard Of an old lady
who being somewhs, tired and aeshy' undertook TO
"a home in fourdollar rocking chair which she had
in., urchased But alas upon reaching ner own
-, sbe had become fixture. The chair, upon beng
sxno,ed to the weather had shrunk so rapidly as to
f,.,en her mmedia, in one OF the joints she was
...cusa with great difhcuy-but the chair never re-
| covered o-,,.,xo
,0micnl housekeepcrs afflicted with that most meiAn
cbov of all distempers, msnis tor cneap bargains
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