Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1871-1872, 1871-10-30
CHICAGO
The Heading Houses 3ssuming
Business.

business mon were estAoiS"aos
IN nav quarters and had commenced receiv-
ing large and costly stocks OF goods, and |
filing orders from their old patrons, Just the
same a, before the terrible whnlwind Of FIRE
and dire destruction had swept away her
marble, granite and iron fronts, and her
countless wealth of buildings and merehsn-
disc. Two weeks ago to-day her hundred
thousand and more Of people were fleeing
for their lives, Is her marble and iron col
umns were orumbling and whitening away
before the most terrible exhibition OF the |
fierce wrath of the Fire Demon that history
anywhere records. Terrible as was the
ordeal the true genius Of the Garden City
Of she West has been brought to the front.
Wonderful 90 was her frat growth, more
wonderful still is her rise from the ashes
aud surrounding ruins.
We have taken some pains TO hunt up and
locate some OF the leading firms those in
which our people are mos, interested BY
former business relations, and take pleasure
in letting al know where they may be found.
That they thus, so soon, conquer the result
of the Ere and fling their banners to the
breeze is sufficient recon me nda,ion TO their
old customers and all new patrons who may
wish 10 favor so deserving with their orders
Tast large and popular dry goods houss.
Fiela, Letter & Co, have secured very ex-
tsnsive and advantageous premises almost
as large as previous TO the FIRE, on the cor
ner of 2Oth aud State streets, where they
have opened their retail business with q
new and complete stock. and no advance 10
prices. They have also commenced Q Job
bling trade to meet the pressing needs OIL
thSir patrons, and viii very shortly be il
order TO carry on their wholesale trade n
extensively IS ever. Their widely spread
patrons will appreciate the situation aid re
serve their large orders by purchasing
smaller lO,s from tbeir jObbinE department
Such men, with sGch plucb and energy de
serve the patronage of AL.
WSloh & Hutchinson, the most popular
aud justly celebrated importers and jobber,
VI boht VI aNNN bAhf WubAc Ahtl
have an Office, have located at 6l6 Wabash
Avenue, with an entire new stock Of mor'
rare aud fine descriptions than ever before
A. Il. Andrews 4 Co, the celebrated
manufacturers of school, church, Office AM
hall furniture, have started again and ar,
now located ct ll9 and l2l West Washing
ton street
The well-knOun brm of Daggets, BAsset
d Hills, Wholesale dealers IN boots ant
shoes have Ie-estAbIished themselves at So
Wabash Avenue. All of their old custom
ers will Of course send on liberal remittance
due or not due and with them just as IiberA
orders.
The National Watch Company, of Chi
oAgo, H., now located ct s. W. Corner o.
Green and Washington streets, lost by The
ire the electrosypes, presses, cuts, and 200,
900 copies of their AlmAnsck, for 1872, a.
though their factory being AZ miles away
their other losses are iriling and they ar,
doing business rs usual. Dealers in ell thu
Western States should again forward their
NHiAo @AA htAo NNAuootn AbA u po~A1Eo VI
the AlmAnAek, as the list Of western names
were lost.
The important Chicago mandatory OF
show cases, known as the -torih western, is
at work again, under the management Of j.
d. Vrsdeuburg at 23l Wes, Lake street.
Henry G. Smith, agent q, Chicago for the
celebrated DurJeG Starch, so great q favor
ite With the whole Northwest, has started
again a, No. 945 State street, and has the
means TO NEE, the demand let il be ever 80
large. This is an article which must be
had and consumers will appreciate the AlAci.
~ with which Mr.. Smith goes right into the
wholesale starch trade again.
Van Setback, Stevenson & Reid. the
great wholesale druFgisis of Chicago have
rented the Baptist Oh urUh building Nos.
s47, $40 and S5l Wabash Avenue. They
are opening daily large and complete
stock Of drugs, chemicals &C., and while
thankful for past fAvors are anticipating
large and liberal orders from their old
patrons and trial orders from hos' Of new.
Our druggists will stick by them for they
know they cannot get better served.
Perhaps one Of the best examples of Chi
eAgo grit, is shown in tina, young and enter
priaing Millinery and Fancy Dry Goods es-
tAblishmsnt OF MAhon, DAILY & Co. Their
large and complete stock was swept away
but their zeal and true grit remained
The proprietors at once set about the cree
iion Of = two story building on Michigsu
Avenue, between Monroe and AdamI
streets, and were the first house 10 go into
operation upon that .hOroughfare after the
FIRE, and they now have the beat of facilities
for suppling the trade =, old prices.
The wholesale grocery store Of j. W
Do~ne d Co., on the corner Of Peck Cour
and Michigan Avenue, Immediately after
the FIRE improvised store with . salesroom
Of forty by Q hundred feet, and have for
more than . week past been selling goods
TO the amount Of ten or twelve thousand
dollars day. With energy like that these
men possess, Chicago must soon rise from the
ruins more splendid than ever before.
AMONG tue large firms successfully saw.
ing their books from the great fire was that
very imporian. one to this agricultural CON.
muniiy, "the Corn Exohange Bag MAnufac.
tory" which is in full blast again, having
established their Office and warehouse on
West Madison street, Nos. 8 and Z, where
they are constantly receiving and filing
large orders held in allegiance by the FIRE
They have stock Of bags of every dssorip
hon. and the only difference is that partie,
desiring Hour sacks who have been ,hei,
0us'onsra muat send copies of their brands
with directions for D,;n,;, ,h.;. .n