The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1867-08-06

i heated IN the centre by steam. Each
desk is marked with the city Us owner
represents We saw New Orleans,
Augusta. Mobile Galveston, Providence,
ST. Louis, Pittsburg, &c"
lARGE PAYMENT
Not many months ago steamer ar
rived at this port. having on board over
half a million Of dollars IN gold, con-
signed to Mr.. II. b. Clahin. He sent
one Of his confidential clerks 10 bringit
up TO the house An express wagon
was called for, aud taking boy, OF the
clerk went to the steamer Now, re-
member he said to the boy, "ail You
have got to do is to mind your horse
II any one touches him or attempts 10
stop him, do you pay no attention to
him, and III blow his brains out !" The
money was brought safely to the store,
and rolled into the yault in the cellar.
STOCK ROOMS
| The two upper floors of tho new build
| ing ON Thomas street, are filed with
boxes and bales of imported goods,
which have not yet been opened. 1t IL
| impossible to render any idea of their
value or the amount on hand A large
room is filled with stationery, and hum
dreds of pigeon-holes in cases stuffed
with letters placed on file
THE sALEs-RooMs.
These are in the main building and
extend the whole length Of it. There
are six rooms, each three hundred and
seventy-fve feet long by sixty in width,
the ceiling supported by two rows of
/ iron columns, thirty-two pillars in a
row, or sixty-four in each room. There
are 70 other rooms in the city of New
York Of equal size, and it may be doubt
ed if they can be found in any shop in
the world. Each end of these rooms is
eighty-fye feet wide, for distance Of
fifty feet, this corresponding to the
width Of the store on West Broadway
and Church street. The upper floor is
filed with boxes and bales piled up az
thick MS they can be slowed away IN the
room, from top to bottom. These are
all filed with goods, and constitute a
part of the stock on hand. Five steam
elevators are used to take the goods
from the street to the various hoors.and
one elevator is for the exclusive use of
passengers. To run these, six metro
politan steam engines are required, and
below the pavement III the court be-
low are to be found the large boiler
rooms, coal vaults, &c. /.
THE SHOE STORE.
The sixth floor from the ground, or
the second one from the top, is entirely
devoted to the sale of boots and shoes
The boxes are arranged in avenues and
streets up and down the centre of the
room, the principal avenue being known
among the clerks as Fifth avenue. Some
days as many as five hundred cases OF
shoes are brought into this room, and
one customer has been known TO buy
one hundred and fifty cases at time.
About one million and half of dollars
worth of shoes were sold last year, and
yet this was but as drop in the buck
ct, it being but two per cent of the
whole sales Of the house. 1t is claimed
that the shoe shop does more business
than any in the city At one end of the
shoe store is stock room for Yankee
notions, eighty feet by fifty, stuffed full
Of these fancy articles
THE THIRD FLOOR,
| Half of this room is used for Yankee
notions, and half Of it is devoted to ho-
siery. Two counters. each three hun
dred and seventy-fve feet long, run
the whole length of the room, while a
large number of shorter counters extend
across the room from side to side
There were seven hundred tills to be
seen for the storage of gloves and socks,
each till having capacity for five hun
dred dozen gloves.
Hanging up in the Office OF this depart
ment was a beautiful picture, called the
Origin of the Stocking Loom, 1t rep
resented VIM. Lee, who invented the
loom, and his wife. II viii be remem-
bered that William Lee of St. Johns
College of Cambridge, was expelled
from the university in 1859, for marry
ing contrary to the statutes. Having
no fortune, bis wife was obliged TO con
tribute to their support BY knitting,
and Lee, while watching the motion OF
her fingers, conceived the idea Of knit
ting by a machine.
CLOTH DEPARTMENT.
The second floor is devoted to The
white goods department, TO the lace
department, aud to the cloth. The
room is Of equal size with the others,
and looks like perfect sea Of dry
goods. An old lady who came into the
store, after looking up and down the
room, and getting a confused idea Of
the amount Of stock on hand, exclaimed,
"Well, IT, was worth enough to own
all this, I'd realize upon it and retire.
The first foor is devoted to silks,
dress goods, foreign and domestic
goods. Hundreds Of men and women
may constantly be seen here looking
over TIE stock while clerks and porters
with iron trucks are moving in every
direction.