Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1876-02-11

TIE SPRING TRADE.
The Spring trade in this city is already
open, though the snow, which put in q tardy
| appearance la: night, has given the lay
dealers few days of grace. The large re-
( tail dealers have not time to stop T. COM
ulain of the time and | doubt IL any %
| them want To- They have found the way
to abolish hard times by putting their
goods down to selling prices. \ T stew
/ art a Co. when questioned about the pres
Poets for the season ahead. said that they
/ never knew trade to he better. and that last
month they had sent out more goods than
/ ever before in the sane time. Their books
/ for January showed 100000 packages de-
/ liyerei. an increase Of 10000 over the same
month Of last wear. They also report that
they find collections easier. and little Tcraep-
| ;ib.e abatement in the quality ol goods
demanded But understand. this only ar
/ plies 70 the very largest Of the retailer
| those who have capital 10 command and
control trade. They get the cream Of it,
for they can deal in such goods a. fit the
classes 70 whom all seasons are alike. All
except these are suffering The package
trade, last year. spite Of the high postage
was between / .OOo and 20 600 package.
1t is astonishing how popular this system
of sending goods i at the Far West.
speak from personal observation. The wo-
men Of Colorado and Wyoming do not intend
10 look Ike guys if they are week by rail
from the shop, Of Broadway. They get
their samples and patterns from New York
direct, and the consequence is that they
are, as 4 rule, often better dressed than
their sisters nearer civilization, who take
what the merchants choose 10 bring them.
There were the usual number Of failures,
th, week, and some Of them unusually
ugly. Sixty houses well known in trade
went under, some large and some small.
the lisi showing all that all branches Of
trade are represented. One leather house
failed for $500, 600. with assets of halt that
amount. This failure was the result Ct bad
debts, and undue credits The tendency
Of the past ten years has been to swell the
volume Of business, and it has led men 10
give credits careleSsly. Now when the
dark days are On Us, they find collection i'm
possible, and the merchants signs for his
goods a, he sees his drafts coming back pro
tested for non-Iayment. One thing is Ger
tain-credit Will he harder TO procure in
New York this year than ever before Tie
merchant finds it better 10 have his goods in
his warehouse, than to have them scattered
over the whole country in the hands Of
men who may pay or NAV not, as they think
best. Bring your money with YOU, good |
people, when you come to New York for |
goods
The gale of Wednesday was one Of the Sc |
rerest that ever alarmed New York ont |
in the country gale d0esn I matter, but in /
a crowded city it Is quite another thing
The seven story buildings, standing alone
and towering in the air, the sign-boaris pro-
lcctiug over the sidewalks, the immense
,ornices insecurely attached, all combine TO
make a gale a thing to be dreaded for it is
not nice when walking home with your head
iown to the gale 10 have a sign-b0ard
twenty feet long come whistling down upon
you. Nor Is i, comfortable to have build
ng seven stories high fall upon you There
: as much shammy building done in New
York Is in any other city, and it is not
llea-aut to try to sleep with the walls of
our house swaying. In short, gale in
his city Is a terror, any way il can be
AIKEN The wind moved at the rate of
ixty-six miles an hour; and while no cas-
alties are reported, there were many
arrow escapes. 4 great many buildings
we're badly twisted, and thousands of signs
nd cornices blown off.
The snow that fell Thursday night cum
ers the ground and is likely to- This Is
mother affection in a great city. The
treets are filed with it; is left TO melt {
hen the sun sees fit to shine as it holds {
\ the filth of the city in solution, the 1
ui.ance it is may be imagined. But it is I
God-send to such Of the poor As really a
ant work, for thousands of them are Ger '
lin Of job for a day at least, which !
i'll give them bread for a week. 7
The different charitable organizationsof C
&c city have their hands full, just now. St.
ohn's Guild, the best and most practical b
all of them, have %, 600 souls, or rather }
)dies, depending upon them for support. |
is a sight to see the throng at their build h
. every day drawing their rations The @
1T, the blind, the lame, the sick and the
ell, they are all represented. All who are
lown to be deserving get, each week, Y
ough of plain food TO support life, and
oh clothing as can he procured. 1t is j.
bic charity. a