Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-09-14
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rEo EnponIpn While making our uaual
rounds on Saturday last, We visited The
establishment Of the wsll-known and
much respected firm Of Walker Bros A
Co, In order to satisfy desire long felt
by Us. TO have regular and thorough
insight Of the workings Of their so we'll
regulated aud colossal store. And as oil
we cav In inspecting their immense
stock Of goods divided in many different
departments, all separately and col
lectively conducted with regularity
equaled only by wellconstructed ma
chinery, in which all separate parts work
in perfect harmony-we cannot refrain
to give TO the public through our columns
in fact but IN imperfect sketch, Is full
justice cannot be done by any writer,
even iftims and space would permit, bat
hope that our readers win not fail TO
profit by ii and go and see for Themselves
The ever courteous, pleasant and afable
Mr.. Jacob Walker, who but few days
since returned from the East, where he
purchased goods in large quantities and
made most satisfactory and advantageous
arrangements for the future, in receiving
all the latest styles in ladies' wear, novel
ties in notions and laces, also for articles
Of gents wear-at our request, kindly
consented to act as our guide and from
him learned something Of the workings
of an establishment comprising thou
sands Of different articles in trade Of
which we heretofore but little dreamed.
Starting at the basement, which is filled
with staple dry goods in quantities that
few New York jobbing houses can excel,
comprising domestics, prints, linseys,
cotton plaids and stripes, jeans, satinetis,
cassinetts, cassimeres, fiannels, blankets,
tickings, osnsburgs, kerseys, linens, cot
ton checks and giughsm and many other
articles which we do not now remember,
allin many different widths and qualities.
We next assembled to the first floor,
which serves, as usual, as the re-
tail department of dry goods, rotions,
laces, hosiery and furnishing goods.
The different departments are respec-
lively presided over by the well known
statesmen, Messrs. John 81. Taylor, E.
Brown, J. Ennis, J. R. Miller, O. Pope
and We'll. In the rear part of this floor
we found neat and wellarranged room
for shawls and closks, of which the
latest styles are constantly arriving. To
attempt to particularize the different
articles comprising the stock on this
floor must prove failure, as it is simply
impossible on account of its complete
ness in every branch, and we are assured
that everything is Of the latest styles, and
in so many different grades and textures
that the poor as we'll as the rich can be
suited. The next floor, presided over by
our generous friend, Captain T. B. Allen,
and bis associates, Messrs. Livingston
and A. McGhee, is devoted to the retail
ing of ready.made clothing and furnishing
goods for gents, youths and children's
wear, also hats, boots and shoes of every
description. Fronting Main street on
this floor is their Office, which has been
but lately changed from the ground floor,
where the cloak and shawl room now is
situated. This was done to make it more
convenient to ladies wishing to inspect
and purchase shawls and cloaks. The
Office is well appointed, and in charge
of Mr.. L. s. Cohen, long and favorably
known in this community. The next or
third floor, to which we then assembled,
is the Wholesale department for hosiery,
woolens (fancy), white goods, gloves,
dress goods and notions in every variety
known to the trade. This also contains
the wholesale stock of boots and shoes,
and every department seems to be
small jobbing store in ITSELF This is
presided over by Messrs. Buehl and
Turstenheim, who seem to understand
their duties well, as everything there as
we'll as elsewhere was arranged with such
an exact nicely as to call to our mind
the we'll known rule, so seldom observed,
"a place for everything and everything
in its place" We next we're invited to
ascend to another, the last floor, which
we expected to find, if occupied at all.
to be used for a lumber room but in
stead ofthat, found it even more densely
packed with goods than the other floors
which we had inspected. This fsor is
devoted to the wholesale clothing trade,
and presided over by Mr.. Abr. judah.
In examining the stock on this floor,
which we spent considerable time in
doing, we found it to contain from the
heaviest and coarsest material for plan
tation and, laborers' wear to the finest
fabrics imported from foreign countries.
In connection with this we must state
that the Messrs. Walker Brothers & Co.
all clothing, without any
exception, which they offer for sale, and
guarantee to sell at prices and on terms
which compare with any Eastern market
in cheapness. Their factory is No. l35
North Third street, Philadelphia, where
it has been located for the past twelve
years. To country and city retail mer-
chants we do not hesitate to recommend