The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1871-01-06

thing like that Of Ruggles & Plumb's. All
three of these buildings were drafted by Mr..
Charles Wheelock, and they all present very
symmetrical and attractive exteriors. =
In addition to the above, several very hand
some two-story brick business houses have been
put up on this street during the year, among
which we might mention the banking house OF
Riggs, Dunlap & Co., on the corner of Sixth
| avenue; the hardware house OF b. T. Wright,
| the grocery house Of Alex. Baily, into which
| he has just moved his store; the house of DIR.
F. G. Steimel, south of the railroad; and the
very pretty building, not quite, but nearly, I'm
| ished, of Van K. Holmes, adjoining the bank
Of Riggs, Dunlap & Co., and which will be oc-
cupied on or about the 18th Inst, by the Neo-
shO Valley Bank, new institution.
On the north end of the street, two large
boarding houses have been erected for students
Of the Normal School. which may be capacious
enough and conveniently arranged for all that
we know TO the contrary, but the architecture
is nothing TO speak of. In fact, their external
appearance is horrible. But they were put
there at an expense Of $1,000 to the city. Near
these the Episcopal parish OF st. Andrews il
building brick edifice.
The private residences that have been put
up in all parts of the city are more generally
built in any previous year. and give TO the city,
AS well as do the business houses referred to,
an air Of permanence and comforts The Bap-
tist denomination has put up a neat chapel on
Merchants street, and the First Presbyterian
church is arranging to put up large brick
building during the next summer.
But the prosperity Of the city during the
past year is not more surely indicated by the
number and character d the buildings erected
than by the increased amount of business
transacted in every line of trade. Since the
completion Of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa
Ferailroad to this point, and the consequent re-
duction in the rates of transportation, and
with the greatly increased population of the
southern and western counties. the commerce
of the city has been doubled in extent. The
cash receipts at the city depot of this road
alone in the last five months, amounts to the
handsome sum of 1852, 45l.95.
In the dry goods line, the number Of stores
has not multiplied, but the business of the sew
eral firms has greatly increased. Bancroft 4
McCarter, Newman Bros, p. G. Hallberg, j. c.
Hall & Bro. and t. G. whitley, have sold in the
aggregate not less than $3.50, 600 worth of goods
and this may be too low estimate. Grocer
les, which are u better index of the CONNER
cial importance OF town in i new country
than dry goods stores, have not only greatly
increased in number, but have doubled in their
extent of trade. From the best information
we can obtain in regard to this branch,
the sales of groceries and provisions during
the past year have amounted to over $500, 900.
This trade during 1869, was estimated in the
report made of the business in the first number
Of this paper for 1870, at 500, 900, and the fig
ures we give of the grocery sales during 1870
may seem unduly large, but several new firms
have been established which carry immense
| stocks, and have done q most wonderful bust
ness. Among these are the wholesale house of
A. A. Baker & Co., whose sales since April,
when IL was opened, will doubtless exceed
100000. Dowdel, Bell 81 Co., B. Trumbull
and Bragunier Bros. and several other houses,
were opened during the year, and all of them
| have had an immense trade, while the old
houses of Wicks & Mayse, Mcmillan & Hough.
| ton, (latterly Mcmillan & Overstreet), and
Baily & Painter, now Alex. Baily, have lost
nothing in the amount of custom by the addi-
tiOnal competition. The figures we made in this
branch are low, as we can prove to the salts
faction of any one who wishes TO see them in
detail.
In boots, shoes and clothing, several addi
tionai stores have been opened, the old firm:
/
amount of goods sold in the city in these de-
partments Of trade is nothing less than aston
ishing. The business in these branches 6id
not fall short Of S3OO,OO0.
The sale of hardware, stoves, tinware, wag
ons and agricultural implements, has beeI
steadily growing. At the beginning Of tn,
year, two houses supplied the hardware DE
mand, and Bruner & McMurtrie, and Holder
| m fin nod ho af0v finxu
the latter in connection with hardware, wag
, ons and agricultural implements, Wicks d
Mayse also sold wagons and agricultural i'm
! plements in connection with groceries and pro
duce. b. T. Wright disposed Of all wagon
and larger forming implements, and reduced
his stock to exclusively hardware basis
; During the spring J. NJ. Griffith & Bro. opene,
an agricultural store, and built up large bus
mess in that line, formed a co-partnership wit
II. Parkman of Philadelphia, under the tirI
name OF Griffith. Parkman & Co., and opene
large stock of hardware in the large neN
room Of 1. Z. Perley, on the corner Of Con
nercial and Fourth avenue. This co-partnel
hip was subsequently dissolved, j. N
Griffith < Bro. remaining in the establishment
= They are doing u most gratifying business
= The sale OF wagons alone by these sewers
firms does not fall short of 500, or nearly $50
" 100. In addition to the two stove and tinwar
establishments mentioned, two new ones. dl
voted exclusively to this branch Of trade, hay
: been opened by o. =. Bowman & Co., and job
Bay, and the success with which these firm
have been crowned is equal TO their most sal
guinc expectations.
The drug firms are in Stdtu quo, and RENAL
the same in character, except that DIR. j.
Trueworthy has withdrawn from the firm
. randy 3 Trueworthy. The business of the
" firms in the line OF paints, oils and glass, HI
: very materially increased.
The real estate business is not so brisk as
was during the previous and early part of Il
m year, but the sales are large and the numb
h Of agencies reduced, SO that Major Z. p. Ba
e croft, Crawford & Steele, ii. +. Norton, c.
A. Bachelor, and A. n. Hanna are still doing
II. profitable amount OF business. The sale
as town lots has fallen OF. and the business
., this line just at this time is dull.
an In lumber there has been an extraordina
- lively trade. Cowgirl & Wilhelm disposed
a their yard to John Wayne Il Co., who ha
n continued # in connection with their old or
running two lumber yards. The sales of t
latter firm amounted in round numbers to t
o. enormous sum of s. coo, 600 feet during the ye'
~ or $3.50, 900 John Hammond retired from {
nj business also early in the season. The firm
m Garrett 4 Rush continues at its original lo'
an ton opposite the Robinson House. and
NJ done an immense business. The firm
re- Thompson i Jay was established and disso
I'm ed during the year, VIM. s. Jay & Go. sucee'
n ing to the business. The latter have moved tn
of lumber yard from Sixth Avenue. near the
al h. & T. depot, to the corner OF CONSTITUTE
CIV street and Fourth avenue, and have add
mt very largely TO their stock, while Mr.. Thou
al son has taken charge Of a new lumber yard
,rc Gently established on Merchants street In
rn rear Of the Court house, by Washburne & {
,re OF Chicago. Messrs. Rice & Jones have
M. moved their business in this line from this C
ain TO Usage city, on the A. T. & S. +. road nor
ria east OF Emporia. The lumber sales Of the c
ad in the aggregate, have amounted to more Il
nd 2O,OOO,OOO feet during the year, or alb
to SsO0, 900.
ate No better index to the business Of the cit
In obtained than Is furnished by the bank
the houses. The Emporla bank, the oldest Of
Of two now doing business, has been in operat
for about twoA = half years, and its b