The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1871-04-07
CHICAGO CORRESPONDENCE.
The Weather Business-The Whent Mar
ket - building - The Wholesale Trade
John v. Fnrwell a. CO.-J. w. Grisw0ld

The Acknowledgements The Whe@s Mar
& Cco.-Gase brothers x CS.-The Lesisia-
ture.
CHICAGO, March 25, 1S7l.-Cool weather
the past week, notwithstanding a, heavy
thunder shower, Wednesday night, has re.
tarded vegetation, and kept back bud and
blossom. Still the season is much earlier
than last year. We have panses lowered
in the open air, and early peas are just
creeping into the light.
BUSINESS
is becoming quite active, and the prospects
of an increased trade are improving. Prices
of most classes of goods rule little lower
than last year.
THE WHEAT MARKET
has been little excited, No. fresh bring
ing $l.27. and sales for the last half of April
making $l.2sl, which show confidence in a
rising market.
is abundant, the demand for 1t waiting the
opening of navigation.
BUILDING.
From the reports of our city architects,
contracts have been made for building, the
present season, to the amount of over three
million dollars.
THE WHOLESALE TRADE
is more active than the retail trade, and
merchants from the whole Northwest are
making our streets, hotels and stores lively
with their presence. Spring styles are be-
ginning to make their appearance. But the
lveliest locality | have yet seen is in the
great wholesale dry goods house of
JOHN V. FARwELL CO.,
whose statesmen, clerks and employees make
a good sized regiment, perform their duties
with the promptness and efficiency of dis
ciplined army, and well represent the lead
ing house of the West.
J. W. GRIswoLD co., AS AND so WABASH
AVENUE,
are now opening the largest and most fash
ionable stock Of spring cloaks, cloakings
trimmings, laces, and especially ladies' suits
ever offered the trade of the Northwest
They lead in matters of taste, and distance
all competitors in the wholesale cloak trade
The largest wholesale millinery house in
this city, devoted exclusively to the sale OF
Head Gear, is the firm of
GAGE BROTHERS & CO.,
Importers, Manufacturers and Jobbers o.
Millinery Goods, Is Lake street, UP STAIRS
celebrated all over the Northwest for theil
large, well-selected and fashionable stock
always fresh and attractive, and of the lates
styles. Other millinery houses swell the
amount of their sales, by keeping depart
lneHlS lOr uOtlOHS anu furnishing SoVuo, bu
this house sells, of Head Gear alone, three
quarters of million dollars worth year
They are large manufacturers, having, IL
addition to their mandatory of hats anC
hat frames, of which | wrote last year,
hundred girls at work making cactus, hal
| and fancy braid hats, which enable them t
supply iobbers, at Eastern manufacturers
prices, and to offer unusual inducements t
retail dealers.
The milliners of the Northwest will her
find the most desirable goods for their trade
of every conceivable fashionable style, a
the lowest prices. GAGE BROTHERS & Co. ar
authority in matters of fashion and taste
! and what they cannot supply the trade IL
| the millinery line is scarcely worth LOOKING
| for. They are among the most substantial
! and responsible houses in this city, and hav
! built up an immense trade in Head Apparel
! by using their abundant means, in the mos
sagacious manner, to produce and procur
the best goods at the lowest prices, by cour
tesy, urbanity, promptneSs IN filling orders
and by giving their customers the benefit c
their capital, skill and experience.
TIVE LEGISLATURE
has been invited to hold its adjourned ses
sion in this city and declined. People ar
beginning TO lose faith in Legislatures gen
orally, and in this one in particular.
began its sessions with good promises an
inspired sangune hopes, but its perform
ances, thus far, have not met the public eX
pectation.
There is nothing new in amusements or i
daily city life. B.