The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1863-10-16
The Fall Campaign.
From the Wisconsin,

The above caption has no reference to
the contest between political parties. or
the autumnal operations of General Rose
Grams and the Army of the Cumberland,
but simply and Only the announcement
of the Fall Trade of tie great wholesale
and retail Dry Goods house of J, l.: DA-
Wis & Co. The Messrs. DAVIS have left
this announcement later than usual, not
because they have not received their fall
goods, but because they could not, until
now, attend to their customers as they de-
sire to do. Their immense store has
been throngad ever since the first day Of
September We have had occasion to
speak several times Of the large and in
increasing sales of our merchants
amounting in the last thirty days to posi-,
lively double ever before sold IN The same
period. The establishment Of which we
write is not an exception. They have
sold goods the past three weeks at the
rate of 81, 5000 per snnum. The New
I ork Herald mentions two houses in Mil
waukee that sold respectively $4,000
and 10000 worth Of goods in one week.
and we think the writer alluded to this
house as one Of the two. We well re
member when the Messrs DAVIS came
here about SIX years ago and opened a
cash dry goods store in small way. 1t
was source of a good deal Of sympathet
ic speculation among The Mrs. Grundys Of
the day whether they could make live
Of it. They had little 90 foot store and
employed five or six clerks, but they let
.he people know where they could be
found, and year by year their business in
creased until now their sales are ten times
what they were when they commenced ;
they employ more than one hundred per-
sons IN their various departments and
their store room i. over 10000 square
feet, packed to the ceiling with goods -
So much for Cash, Fair Dealing, and
Printers Ink.
OF the fall stock of goods now offering
to the public it is not necessary for Us to
speak, but we will mention a few items
that have attracted our attention. In
dress goods we have never seen this stock
exceIled off Broadway. The line of silks
IS complete, embracing all the new cclors
and shades of the various grades, from
81 o. to So 90, in blue, green, tan color.
and the whole lice Of drahs, they have
dozens o. patterns that will actually
stand aloue' as the ladies' say. The
heaps of winter dress goods in all the
| fashionable and desirable colors--pIain.
and all those choice stripes and checks,
are astonishing. We must not forget the
charming scarlet and blue cloth cloak
tina, have TUNED the heads of half the la
dies in the city. They have all grades
Of cloth, aud make it up to the mode for
heir customers. Besides they make
cloaks and man'illas for the country
trade by the hundred every week.
If the people Of Wisconsin cannot fine
what they want in the dry goods house;
of Milwaukee, then they do not know
their wants. And as for prices we have
known from careful daily comparison Of
the two markets. that Milwaukee has un-
dersold New York on all the great sta
| pie goods-for more than year. ANY
country mercha' can to-day buy a stock
of goods in Milwaukee cheaper than in
New York, to say nothing of the saving
Of freight and travelling expenses and
DAVIS is one Of the houses where it can
| be done.