New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1857-10-01
Leather and Felt.

AS large and nne display OF these articles as we
ever had the pleasure of looking upon we saw yes
terday, in the course of ramifcation through the
wholesale boot shoe and hat establishment of Messrs
Reed Il Co., No. &C sGravier street. opposite Bank
Place. This is one of the largest and most prosper
GUS Of the wholesale houses which render this city
nucleus to the surrounding country. 1t does an i'm
mense business, all the year around, the demands Of
the country in respect to shoes and hats suffer-
ing 1t to fall into the slumberous inactivity which
falls upon other branches of trade in the summer
season. 2514 80 ELI .Sl.e tst $40 a
An inspection of the different samples of goods in
the establishment disclosed to one fact of which
we were not previously aware II is prevailing idea
with great many people, that the finer and more
durable kind of boots and shoes to be had only of
the small shopkeepers, who make for their customers
to ORDER make no faster than they sell and the
idea is excusable perhaps for there was time when
such was the case. But now, the wholesale manu-
factories are turning out just elegant. well-made
fashionable and durable specimens of work. in every
respect as man can produce or man can want The
extra fancy styles, of course which are worn by the
fancy few are left to the small manufacturers, for
there are not enough of them sold to Justify their
wholesale manufacture; but all the neat and service
able articles which suit the average of genteel taste
atC out ny Wuoicstiit
and are none the less wemade and elegant on that
count Our wholesale have the necessity of
coming up to the elegant standard or country folks
are about as tasteful in the matter Of shoeeather
their city cousins) and they have done SO.
In the first story of Messrs Reed & Co.'s establish
ment, we found the boots shoes and brogans of the
mems and boys, department. They were of all pat
terms and qualities the better articles being as fine in
material and neat aIaua ntv mo do onv.
thing that gentleman encased his pedestals in
There were plain and substantial articles for working
men, and stout heavy articles for laborers. The
second story was divided into two apartments, one
for ladies' Shoes and the other for girls and childrens
Shoes The assortment we found very great. Caters
and shoes of all possible patterns and of all possible
materials suited to the tender sex of every degree
and for all the occasions of life-heeled CATERS to
promenade in, heeIless CATERS to stay at home in,
CATERS to dance in, white kid CATERS to get married
in /; with shoes and slippers in equal varety--the
slippers, many of them, being of the most delicate
and fairy-like descriptions. -,es
The girls and childfens shoes are also very extern
sve in variety as we'll as qpantity-many of them
being fancifully wrought of different materials,
morocco of different coors, patent leather, etc.;
from the delicate gaiter suggestive of young ankles
about to bid farewell to shorttcothes down to the
tiny little patent feathers or moroccos in which
mamas darling first sets heels to the earth and begins
the tramp of lite The special feature of this depart
ment is the fact that everything in it is from Messrs
Reed d Co.'s own mandatory many of the pref
test and most avorite patterns of the shoes being
exclusively their own.
The third story we found devoted to the cosrser
articles of plantation boots and brogans and hats of
all qualities. There were the finest and most FASH
ionabe styles of felt hats of different colors medium
hats of different kinds, and coarse wool hats for plan
tation use. Altogether, the establishment was about
as well filled as it could possibly be, and with va.
rety that could leave the retailer nothing to DESIRE
Large as is their stock in store it is but fraction
of what Messrs Reed & Co. have process of manu-.
aeture and on its seward way to this city, Nearly
every ship from the North brings out its quota of
goods and the store is crammed, only to be emptied
again--the fluctuations of receiving and shipping
being generally so that there is alwaysa full
assortment of on hand. One very particular feature
of the house is the low scale of prices at which the
goods are sold, and this with the unvarying excel
lence of the goods, explains the very large and
slant patronage it enjoys,
We refer readers to Messrs Reed 4 Co.'s adver-
tsement in another part of this mornings Crescent
and would advise our country friends in the retailing
or planting line, not to omit visiting the establish
meut when they visit the city.