Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1871-1872, 1872-03-21
Twenty-6rst Year.
DoDD, BROWN q 90.

Dodd, Brown l. Co. is composed of young
men, who have, in few years, made names
for themselves Is merchant princes ahead Of
any in the great west, and their business
has increased each year since starting until
their sales for the present year exceed six
million dollars. IL Was owing to this en-
ormous increase of trade that they were
compelled to vscats their old Msiu Street
stores and erect q colossal structure on the
corner of Fifth and ST. Charles streets des-
igned and built expressly for their business.
Here, on the corner of Fifth and St.
Charles streets, at cost Of ttco hundred
thousand dollars, they have erected q
tremendous building, Eve stories in height,
fronting one hundred feet on Fifth street
and one hundrsd and thir.y-6ve feet on St.
Charles street, with = sub-cellar equal in
capacity almost to the ordinary Wholesale
dry goods stores for storing, in bulk, the
heavy stock necessary to be always kept on
hspd for their heavy list Of customers. The
architectural beauty Of this building canno,
be surpassed. It is the best lighted whole
sale house in ST, Louis. Steam elevators
penetrate the building, carrying oargoes of
goods from the sub cellar to the various
floors, and returning with them fully packed
and ready to ship east, vest, north or south,
for be it known, that Dodd, Brown b Co
supply all sections of country. Here can be
seen the merchant from Salt Lake, Colora-
do, Illinois, Wisconsin, Iowa, Montsns,
New Mexico, Texas, Arkansas, Mississippi,
Kentucky, Tennessee, New Orleans, and
from the Red River region, ali busting
about the large salesrooms, eager on max.
ing selections, and getting of tor home
again on the shortest possible time.
To look through FIVE immense stories,
and the huge basement extending far out
under the carriage drives on both 81,
Charles and Fifth streets, and see the i'm
msnse stock of goods piled up in avenues,
as they are, il seems almost incredible that
any one establishment would ever need
such Aqusntity or that they could ever dis
pose Of those that are TO be seen there daily;
and yet immense as it is, the quantity to be
seen at these Wholesale stores may be said
to form bat mere sample upon exhibition
when compared to the mass of goods on
storage at the various public stores in this
city, many of which are almost wholly filed
with the property of this firm.
Il may be here noticed that the extent OF
the business Of this house, which the pro-
prie,ors have carefully constructed from the
bottom, can scarcely be oomprehended
without aknowledge OF its various bran ches
and agents inuumsrsbls penetrating every
where, oil of which, however, are but mere
hands and arms for gathering together and
distributing the great variety Of goods COM
pretended in their stock to the markets OF
the western world.
The public little know the amount OF
labor and thought and capital required 20
carry on the immense business conducted by
this house they little know the number Of
agencies throughout the East and Europe
constantly employed in gathering the ma
serial necessary to supply the wants of its
customers in the western country. The
amount OF capital invested in Indian goods
alone, such as blankets, cloths, prints and
beads. is fabulous, but their customers mus
be supplied no matter whether they deal il
the finest silks, lsces or dry goods. Here il
this establishment can be furnished al
most any range of goods in sheir line, th'
aim of Dodd, Brown & Co. being to nee
every want within the line Of their business
and as q consequences, the supply must b'
varied Is the demand upon them requires
The dress goods of Ssxony, the fanciful pre-
duOtions of Bohemia, the bVouterie and mar
ufActurers Of leather from Austria and SUI
rounding oountries-because, it is know
that what is denomina,sd the notion depart
ment of this house forms . collection q
thousands of things that can scarcely b
counted-the perfumeries and soaps of Lu
bin Coudray, Of Paris; the ladies' cuslery
Of Sheffield the port-monaies, leather ret
culss and other articles that Germany know
so well how to produce the fringes, braid
and buttons so needful on ladies' dresses {
for general use, and all the various litt
things that tend to fill up what is termed
Yankee Notion Department, a stock
goods unknown to the business of any oth'
country than that of America. All thel
go to supply the wants of the country me
chants of the Great West and Pacific State
who seek to find, in one place, where the
can purchase everything necessary to me
; the requirements Of their customers at hom
Nothing ia too small or too great to ent
5 into the collection tha. the business of th
s house requires for the demands of its Gu
TONERS, from the pin to the csmsl's hs
|. shawl, costing tn ousands of dollars; a
2 here we may Allude TO an erroneous imprt
. sion which generally obtains in respect
. India and camsl's hair shswls coming frc
!, France or the East. They are to be
! only at Manchester, England, where th
!. are first laid open to public inspecti
e and sale, and from there the world is 81
: Piled. The famed East India Comps
o have the sole franchise for selling at au
s hon. In London, the products Of the vi
:. country within their control foremost q
:, most prominent among these is their 81
ID OF the India and camers hair shawls. II
e at these sales that merchants are gather
to from all parts Of the world, because il
N from them tha. the world can alone
I, supplied.
e. At Belfast, Ireland, an agent is cons.a
nes y sending those fine Irish linens, 80 fame
ID all over the world. In fact, nothing Il
at at Ireland can produce, within the limit
n what is termed the dry goods trade, but
Is. here collected and forwarded. The fAmo