Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1851-08-23

which TO make up their semannua stocks of fashionable
goods The soundaoor Of their building Is used for sales
rooms; the Liberty street 'front.' being the whoesaleng
apartment in the of which the packing and boxing
the house DONE This wholesale branch is managed wholly
by set Of book keepers clerks and salesmen different from
those employed in the Broadway city trade where
six gentemany statesmen constantly waiting on the FASH
onabe and stylish Of New York In the rear of the Broad
way sae-rooms the bookkeepers room cashiers Office
ProPrieors oce &C., each 1hu up glass it
In this quarter of the premises show
pies OF every thing of good quality, by man or boy
the United States in the way Of the hat or cap arranged
really with skill artistic induce many to purchase
rather on the taking ook Of the goods than because
need OF them No other radesmen in New York equal the
fashionable matters in the grace with which they display their
wares and nowhere else in the city are they shown off
such advantage here have frequently the Broad
way sidewalk blocked up all day by the crowd around their
windows gazing nteny the samples of their last hat
position, which at once become the rage"
The basement used for their engine room and for store
rooms in which packed goods kept preparatory ship
ment Their engine (lO-horse power) built by Bur
don, and works smoothly make absolutely as little
noise ordinary wooden clock One informed Of the
fact would not have the least idea that such machine
sany motion the premises 1t duties are to drive the
machinery and to drive up and down the dumb wsites on
which their goods finished and unfinished are transported
from Story the other. Thus stream Of hat bodies ap-
to be always ascending and another Of finished hats
to be carrying down to the sale and packing sparments
They employ in all about hundred and seventy hands,
hreefourths Of whom usually work in this building yet
you have retail in Washington wherein half dozen
find employment in which less noise be heard by the
purchaser, rigid is the regularity and system with which
every thing appears to be conducted may remark here
that in all the constantly occurring arrangements between
the ourneymen hatters Gas organized body) and the city
employers this house has been the erng hacker Of
the former Of its heads being always on the committee
Of the ouIs" association authorized to make terms for the
employed the heavier wages they pay Cor
may not De in consequence Of hem they have got rich
having always the choice Of the cys wokmen their ar
ces have acquired reputation which induces thousands to pay
higher for goods at retail Of their fabrication than for those
Of others Of similar apparent style and quality They retail
first quality hats less than SIS, being undersod at
tail in hats Of nomnaly the quality by well nigh every
other hating establishment in New York Yet year by year.
they forced enlarge their premises and otherwise increase
their facilities supplying their city demand while said that
their wholesale trade doubles every twoyears. They sell in
gross hater and merchants in every section of this country
and ship to order quite extensively Cuba Mexico and South
America, sending their goods not unequeny to Paris and
London ALSO where the Beebe hat well known to the
trade that Of any manufacturer located the other side Of
the Atlantic As s the in almost every other branch Of
the cys commerce, these gentlemen Of both
have described here young and semade, owing their
wholly to their enterprise, integrity, and sagac
y, which qualities the Observer knowing New York thorough
y fail to have remarked have formed the groundwork
of the fortunes Of nneynne in every hundred distinguished
New York business houses almost all Of which conducted
by not above the middle age, who but yesterday
apprentices clerks penniless and without influential
confding moneyed friends. w. D. w.