The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1873-04-18
AN EMPonIA ESTABLISHMENT.

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Bancroft 4 8IcCarter-TheIr Business
IN General and Kew Goods In Par i
cuiar.
No house in Kansas SURPRISES IL
magnitude Of stock and trade, and il
popularity with all classes of people
the well known Emporia establish
mont of Bancroft & McCarter. The
enterprising proprietors have opered
the spring and summer campaign with
a positively immense stock of new
goods i'll all OF their various depart
ments. We believe that not even
when EmpoIia was "booming'' as 9
railroad terminus, did any one store
here nnbox such magnificent lot OF
goods as have been and are still being
unpacked at Bancroft & McCarter's.
We stepped in there yesterday.
Found the energetic proprietors and
their courteous statesmen busy "a bees
in n clover field. The first fine day
will see their store rs full of ladies rs
1t Is OF goods for them to inspect and
admire. Even yesterday it was
thronged. \ number of Southwestern
merchants were selecting large stocks,
and several such orders were massed
in piles, showing the very large whole
sale trade which Bancroft & McCar-
ter enjoy and are steadily increasing.
We tried to look ar things generally,
but partial description would take
half Il dozen columns. The notion
department Is so comprehensive that
we need only say it has everything,
and a million more, and that the toilet,
fancy, ornamental, useful, unique,
odd and indescribable articles it con-
tains, can't be found in dictionaries.
The light and purely ornamental arti-
cles that pertain to feminine apparel,
such as exquisite laces, edgings, ruff
filings, collars, ties, bows, kerchiefs,
iringes, gloves, Swiss, Jaconet and
other embroideries, and goodness knows
what, have all the new and nice styles
and patterns which Mr.. McCarter
could find in New York and Boston.
This is also true of dress trimmings,
shawls, ETC., which are in great ele-
gance and profusion. We go in stores
enough to know the difference, if we
are only man, between new goods
and old, and we say that every de-
partment of Bancroft & McCarter's
mammoth store is most literally sup
piled with new goods. The dress
patterns and heavy cloths are in such
abundance that the shelves are packed
with the rolls endways, and huge piles
on the counters and on boxes where
ever there is foot of room, show that
hundreds of patterns are yet united
for want of room to display them.
Big shipments are had ut cheaper
freights. The new 'polka spot" in
dress patterns, Is often very pretty.
The range of goods for the tailoring de-
partment, is very large. Mr.. Jones
and six assistants are busy enough
making ordered suits. Prices run
from $25 to s65, or higher, to $l2 per
yard cloth, il any one wants to dress
that nicely. The hat and cap, hos
iery, undergarmenC and gents furnish
ing departments, are all magnificentty
stocked. So is the millinery depart
ment, both in ready made goods and
. in trimmings. House furnishing goods
are abundant. Many new patterns of
carpets, oil cloths, mats, &c, are on
hand. Trunks, satchelS, travelling
bags, and forty thousand ether things
VIC can not note down, are in capital
supply. We can't begin to mention
the good points of the various lines of
goods. Some very pretty summer
skirts must be alluded to. The entire
store Is erammed land railroad or no
railroad evidently makes no difference
in the purchases and sales of Bancroft
& McCartcr. They are. merchants of
the best type, energetic, enterprising,
up to the times in all things, anxious
to satisfy and DO justice to every Gus
TONER, and We are glad to see, both for
their good and that OF our city, that
their trade, both wholesale and retail,
steadily increases. We most cordially
assure our merchants in Lyon and adj
jacent countii :, that they can do "a
we'll and even better at Bancroft &
McCartcr's than in Kansas City or st.
Louis. And we feel sure no lady ever
goes shopping in Emporia without
calling there.