The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1869-01-07

TAe wAelesais CistAs.g Trade
il vas in 1853 that tho house Of

The wholesale Clothang Traae
Ii vas in 1863 that the house Of
/. =. sfERN CO.
Began its Keokuk life, It Was then IN the
Arm style Of "6tern Brothers,' and wasn'ts
nearly SO pretentious and metropolitan An
establishment % il has since become. Rss.
son enough ios that, for Ksoknk wasn't %
pretentious asd mstropolitaa ; city then - i
has since become. But the house was then
what 1t has eyer since been, capital house
for the place, and for even much larger
place. Five or six years sgo the firm be-
came Hess / Stern, and had continuing and
growing prosperity under that management.
Three wears ago our friend s. Francke, Who
had himself been one Of Keokuk's good IN
situations, for some ten years, in clothing
house Of Lis own, entered the firm and the
STYLE Of it became Hess, Stern i Go. And
about that time il was moved up TO its pro-
sent quarters, and spread out IN 10 mann
moth proportions and became what il il now.
Tho present establishment fronts on Main
street. with another front upon Second, and
is, altogether, one Of tho largest clothing
kaaae. in the West. Il carries very heavy
| and choice stock Of goods. Their stock OF
piece goods for this season is particularly
large in quantity and excellent in quality.
They have On immense and carefully Sc
I lected stock Of ready made under clothng.
And the overcoats that they have made,
and thst they can make, put winter at def.
snce, and make cold weather rather enjoya-
BILE than otherwise.
One member Of the firm is always in the
East. buying for the house, which enables
them to keep their house constantly supplied
with goods 1t the lowest possible market
rates.
| Mr.. Francke is alone in the management
Of the house these days. He is fully and
popularly competent to do that. But there
lie reason enough for his being alone just
now.
/ For we know secret that isn't q secret
sny longer. 1t was when We first knew it.
Mr.. Isaac N. Stern, the Senior Of the house
"a 20 capabIs, enterprising and altogether
capital business man, that he 10 Senior vhsn
mOst men are scarcely Juniors. He, one Of
the most genial and inveterate of keokuk
Bachelors, ceased to be Bach
elor and became Benedict yesterday
lin New York City, unless some i'll natured
Fates conspired to prevent the happy con.
summation, and however badly the Fates
may behave at times, We don't think they
would hinder in this case. So We mentally
send him, away there to the Eastward, greet
liDgs and congratu lations. Tho house il
bound now to be more prosperous thar
ever.
The Merchant Tailoring department Of thu
house il presided over with taste and skill
by Mr.. Barter, who is q master Of his Graf
and never fails 70 please the patrons Of thu
house.
They are good men throughout who arr
found behind this houses counters. Among
these is "Dockn Fry,one Of the GATE CRY
long time attaches.
r. voGEL 1 RRo.
Was the next house ir the order Of time
Mr.. Michael Vogel commenced business herr
in 1856. His then stand Vas on Main street
between Fourth and Fifth. Subsequently b,
removed to the stand on Main near Second
now occupied BY Fletcher l. Hollis sho,
store. In 1859 his elder brother, Mr.. r
vogel, came and entered the business will
him, and the firm name became what it ha
since continued. With growing and pros
pernns trade, the Messrs. Vogel removed t
the rooms now occupied by Dr.. O'Connor
Two years ago, when Mr.. KHbourne complet
: ed his fine building they moved INTO thei
present superb quarters.
If there is one thing more than anothe
that came Of Ewes eating that apple, and 0
Adam sharing it with her-its > clothing
store. We have made long advance from
the primitive fig apron to the Sewing Ma
chine and clothing establishment lk
vogers. But the trade has been legiti
mate and indispensable one. DR.. Collyel
tempted by plum on his tree Of the knowl
edge of good and evil. when he was boy
. now says that he wonders sometime
. whether it Was not the best thing after a
: for those first parents to plunge in as the
!; did, and get done with their Paradise if the
must and even while we think Of the un
1 tasted joys of that Impossible Garden {
, Eden that We have lost, We may in som
!. sort console ourselves with thinking of som
good results that come from being outsid
!, rather than inside it's walls. Ana as it is on
: Of the felici,ies of this life to get bran ne,
suit Of clothes, that privation would hav
. been one of the. infelicities OF being insid
! that Garden. It would have been the sam
i old costume from years end to years en-
and never chance to sport q new h.
or the latest style Of pants. Howe woul
: never have invented his Sewing Nj
j. chine. Think what splendid product {
inventive genins the world would thereb
. have lost. And Carlyle would never hav
$ written Ssrtor Resartus, which impossibility
. however, most would have esteemed grea
benefit to the race. In any event it is Ger
Q tain, Is we have said, that Vogers clothin
j store would not have been one Of Keokuk'
: institutions, and that We are certain, woul
g have been privation to this municipality.
, In their new house this firm is largely pros
: porous, and deservedly so. Mr.. Nj. Voge
9 the first Of the firm in business here, univel
sally known and universally liked, continue
in charge here Of the house. Mr.. R. Vog,
: remains in the east, keeps his sharp busine.
eyes upon the market, keeps the house her
constantly replsnished, and with good
bought at such favorable times and on sue
q favorable terms as enables the house her
i always to sell cheap.
ltlMr. Ben. Vogel has been in the house fe
ten years, and is one of its mos. popular fei