Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-10-20
A PROMINENT ESTABLISHMENT.
Removal TO More Suitable and Ele-
81 giant Headquarters. y .

THE VERY GLASS AID MOLD or
| FASHION.
Were capitalist to come among Us
with view of locating in our midst, we
would take pains to show the best feat
ures of the city; the squares, the
smoothly-paved streets, the fine blocks,
and the leading Wholesale houses in
various branches of business He would
be told that OR Main street looks more
like Broadway, and has more Of its
Metropolitan manners and features than
any street in the world. This remark is
frequently made by strangers on
first seeing Main street of beau
tiful busy day, when the world OF
commerce is rivakd by the world of
fashion The house TO which we more
particularly allude at present is that OF
Sproule q McCown, which has just re-
moved into the most commodious and
elegant quarters, in the new and impos-
ing block lately completed on the corner
of Main and Jefferson streets. Not
long since, in speaking of the various
improvements going up in the city we
described this block rather infinitely.
And as the various occupants wheel into
line, so to speak, it is matter Of public
interest and pride to note the outlay, the
enterprise and the display made by such
a firm as Sprouts 4 McCown at their
present location. The double store-room
they occupy has a front of forty feet,
which is entirely taken up with glass
doors and windows. The steadily IN
creasing business of the firm rendered 1T
necessary to remove from their old place,
under the Worsham House, and Mr.. Nc
Gown gladly availed himself of an offer
by Mr.. Goyer to build such store-rooms as
he might direct in the construction of the
new and costly block. None will ques-
ton that the firm has the best stand for a
large clothing house in the city. The es-
Enlistment is but branch of the parent
house in New York, but is large enough
to have half a dozen branches of its own,
if necessary. The goods are manufac-
tured chiefly at No. Is Barclay street,
New York, expressly for this wholesale
and retail market. The stock of ready
made clothing and furnishing goods, al
ways large, full and varied, is replenished
from week to week. Mr.. McCown's part
ner remains in New York to supervise
the manufacturing of the goods sent
here. He has had lifelong experience
in that line, and knows how to avail him
self of every possible advantage. Hence
the goods offered by Sproule 4 McCown,
whether plain or fine, cheap or
costly, are well made, and of
good, sound material. Hence they
sell at reasonable prices, and always
cheaper than an ordinary customer
could buy in the New York market in
person. The stock of custom-made
clothing and furnishing goods now
on exhibition, and constantly arriving
is perhaps the largest ever seen in the
South in one house. Mr.. McCown has
been here many years, and has es-
tablished a reputation for fair dealing
integrity, and social, as well as CONNER
cial, graces of character, of which older
citizens would be justly proud. Prompt
in discharging. all his obligations, cour'
teous to customers and agreeable to all,
he ranks as one of our foremost and
most popular young citizens, and has a
fortune within his grasp, all of which is
the result of his own honesty of charac-
ter and untiring energy. The house, we
are satisfied, can offer superior induce
ments to country merchants, as well as
to the general customer. Those who
call merely to examine will receive
a pleasant welcome. This extended no
tice is fairly due an establishment which
has done so much to build up first
class wholesale trade, and which cannot
fail to strike the eye of the stranger and
remind him of the most elegant and
fashionable emporiums of fashion and
taste on the finest streets of New York,
Philadelphia and Boston. The facilities
of Messrs. Sproule & McCown are unsur-
passed and almost unlimited. They
possess ample capital, large experience,
sterling integrity, an enterprising, pro-
gressiye spirit, and are wanting in none
of the elements of permanent success.
The advantages they possess are i'm
proved with the utmost zeal, and are APP
parent in the low prices of the various
articles in their line, such as dress and
business coats, pants, overcoats, vests,
shirts, drawers, socks, neck-ties, gloves,
undershirts, overshirts, handkerchiefs.
cuffs, sleeve buttons, and the score of
little articles which come in requisition
in making up gentleman's toilet and
complete outfit, whether for working
days and the wear and tear Of business,
in going to church, the opera, or to see
his lady love. The variety of these and
other articles in the gigantic show win
dows, which occupy the wide space be-
tween the tall, vide doors, is sufficient
to attract the eye Of every passer in the
street. 1t was only last night that the
establishment and its gorgeous specimens
of goods. arranged in such harmony
and taste, was fully lighted up by
flaming gas lights, multiplied and
a dozen fold in dazzling reflections which
challenged the gloom Of night without
and attracted large crowd of highly