The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1869-03-26

a BIG STORE AND A BIG OTOCh-JOHNSON G
BREvILLIER.-Being on the lookout, as usual
for anything new. yesterday we noticed that the
new double store in Wayne Hall Block had oc-
cupants, and naturally drifled in there TO sec
what it meant, and found Messrs. johnson &
Brevillier, the wholesale grocers, with consd-
cradle force Of clerks and warehousemen, busy in
filling orders Tor goods for customers many miles
south and southwest Of this city.
The store is the finest for the wholesale bus-
ness Of any in this city, and 50 far US We can
learn, surpasses any wholesale store in Pitts
burgh or Cleveland. 1t is located on French St.
opposite the Reed House; it has Il frontage of
fifty feet, and is one hundred and forty leet deep
in the clear, with ceilings sixteen feet high
The office (niccly fitted up) is little room forty
by twenty-three eet, and it is sepperated from
the rear of the store by sash partition OF French
plate glass, so clear that articles at the further
end of the store can be distinguished through it
almost us readily as though nothing lnterpOsed to
obstruct the vision. The store is divided into
two appointments lengthwise, by a wall, which
contains doors aud arches with which TO connect
the two apartments Nearly the entire front is
composed of magnificent windows that risa from
the floor to within few inches of tho ceiling
These, with the rear windows, furnish abundance
of lght-a disideratum that purchasers Of teas
and sugars know the value OF.
From the immense space for the storage OF
goods, we should have supposed that any stock
they would be likely to have, would have looked
lost there, but, were surprised to find the place
already comfortably well filled, although there
are good many Of their heavier articles, such
as hogsheads of mOlasses, ETC., that have not yet
been put in. To give an idea of what we saw Of
the stock would Il duire nothing more like cat
alogue than we are in the habit Of doing. and in
fact there was SO many more articles than we
could possibly remember if we had tried 10, that
any such catalogue would be Il very imperfect
one One thing we were satisfied about, and
that was that if there was anything in the grocery
and provision line not there. it would take Il clO-
ser observer than ''pOurs truly TO find it out
Among the ''items" we noticed few cords of
sugar. the heads being ornamented with hiero
glyphics no doubt Ineligible 10 the Initiated ;
ditto of = ork, tierce beef hams in terces and
lard in barrels; about rod and a half square Of
canned fruit; kegs Of pickles by the gross; white
fish, trout. salmon, Goldfish, etc., in large guam
titles; a few thousand feet of rope; about 3OO
dozen brooms; large LOT Of tubs and pals that
we recognized as of Erie manufacture and can
endorse most heartily flour by the hundred barrels
foreign fruits and nuts by the drayload; candies
ditto probably over hundred sacks Of coffee of va
rious brands; one huDpred and fifty large chests Of
tea; yankee notions too numerous 10 mention;
pyramids Of cigar boxes and u cord or two OF to-
bacco in packages, all bearing the regulation
stamps; lamp chimneys and inkstands by hogs.
head, and-and-if we hadn't seen 50 much
of each we should not have remembered half SO
long list, though it is only portion.
We were pleased to see that the firm were as
busy as bees in filling orders for their customers,
knowing well that they sell at very slim mar
gin above cost, fact that country merchants
within easy reach of this city by rail, should re-
member if they wish to save freight on goods.
If untiring energy, industry, courteousness,
strict attention TO business and judicious solec
ton Of articles for customers, cOmbind with the
principles of always selling at the lowest living
profit, will eventually secure prosperity, Messrs.
johnson Broviilier are deserving Of it. That
their popularity as dealers is increasing is evnC
ed by the fact that, although the times have been
harder and money scarcer during the past winter
than for many years before, the firm never had
SO large a business as during that time ard it is
increasing every day.
We clip the above from the Erie DEspATcH,-
The numerous customers Of johnson & Brevilier
in this section Of tho State will heartily endorse
every thing in the article, and all will rejoice to
learn that their greatly increasing trade has com
PEELED them to materially enlarge their business
faculties. See their advertisement in another
column.