The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-10-20

Daily News =. 2,238
Saturday Night 9O7
Saturday Evening Post 72O
IMPROVEMENTS ON EIGHTH SrREET.-We
shall resume our description of the improve.
ments BY noticing, IN the first place, the elegant
newly ftted-up store OF the Espen Brothers, at
No. A North Eighth street The building, three
stories in height, has been thoroughly reno.
waited and modernized. The heavy front to the
lower story has been removed and light iron
and plate.glass put in its place. By-the-way,
how very essential these plate-glass wndo VS.
seem to have become to show off goods to a
proper advantage. Allowing the light to pass
through almost absolutely unobstructed, every
thing In the windows seems most beautifully
frightened up, and shows Off to the best advan-
tage. Besides this, they are really much stronger
and more lasting than the old style of bulk
windows, with their small panes and heavy
sashes. Great pains (panes p are taken to
render the windows more attractive, and the
stores themselves lighter and more comfortable.
Espen Brothers have spared no exertions
to make their establishment as com.
Portable and as inviting as lavish
expenditure of money, combined with rare
display of good taste, could obtain. They have
succeeded. A better lighted, better ventilated,
and handsomer place could not be found in the
street. Their stock conforms to their building,
and is we'll worth visit Their trade is in laces
and embroiderles, lace curtains, etc. They do
large importing business, and sell at whole
sale quite extensively. Some ten or fifteen
thousand dollars have been expended in i'm
more than three times as much rent as it did
few years ago. Those whose taste is for
the light and the beautiful we would recommend
10 pay the Messrs. Espen Brothers visit. 1t
is almost bewilderng to look over the rich and
costly embroiderIes, with their arCistical and
intricate designs and patient elaboration of de.
tails. One almost wonders at these triumphs of
human skill and diligence that are here so laVslly
displayed. Here the most iastidious tastes can
be satisfied, so endless are the varieties of pat
terms and sty les.
There is new institution on the street, and
one that bids fair to attain a popularity as
great as it is deserved. We refer to the Staten
Island Dyeing and Cleaning Establishment.
This Is branch of a New York house, and
although but recently established has attained
great popularity. We stopped in there the
other day, and from the way the ladies patronize
1t, we should Judge that 1T will not be long
before they find that their fine accommodations
are insufficient tor their extensive orders. Their
place is newly fitted up, at a cost of some
eight or ten thousand dollars, and presents a
light, cheerful aspect, that is very well calcu-
lated to arrest the attention. As is usual with
the stores along this street, they have the
modern plate glass bulk windows. They occupy
the building with their extensive business,
which Is carried on in a very successful way. 1t
is great consolation to know that the ladies,
when their dresses have become little faded,
or the color has gone out of style, can have
their beauty renewed and their colors changed
TO almost any OF the hues OF the rainbow. 50
great is the skill attained in this dyeing that
even delicate shades of MORE antique can be re-
colored and renovated, to appear in all
their pristine beauty. 1t certainly makes the
money pockets of husbands feel better when
they (the husbands) can see way by which
their wives can obtain new dress made of an
old one. 1t Is an institution which we Ameri-
cans ought to patroniZe, and is worthy OF all
the success that can attend it. The Company,
as we have before observed have not long been
located in the street, but in the short time they
have been there, they seem to have attained
most unusual popularity.
We will now turn to the store occupied by
Belcher q Reed, at No. "a. The improvements
in this establishment we're commenced early in
last January, and have been but recently COM
pleted, the present proprietors removing into it
on the Sd of last May. The entire building has
been rebuilt and renovated in the most thorough
manner. 1t was but small two and one-half
storied building before, but is now one OF the
finest and most imposing stores in the square.
The building is owned by Mr.. William Warnock,
whose establishment was for so many years so
well known on the street as the leading retail
house.
Belcher & Reed have thoroughly reftted the
interior, in style which does great credit to
their taste aud judgment, and eyinces a proper
regard for the comfort of those with whom they
have dealings. We cannot avoid, in passing. to
notice the beauty of the interior of their store.
Here may be seen the most beautifully rich
and costly silks, dress goods, and all kinds of
dry goods OF the latest styles and finest quail
ties. The clean, well-lighted rooms, with their
lofty ceilings, and admirably arranged counters,
are well calculated to invite purchasers TO enter.
The building few years ago did not bring one
half the rent it now commands, aud it could
bring at least onehalf more than it does.
The WEATHER OF THE WEEK.-We sup
pose that the week which closes to-day is to be
dgn fed with the title of Indian Summer,
although the early hours OF this morning re-
sembled an Indian Winter, or some such anoma.
lous state of the weather. We give below the
record made by the thermometer at Fourth and
Chestnut streets during the week, as follOws:-
A. NJ. IL NJ. 3 p. NJ. p. Nj.
Monday, 81 deg. 66 6S 63