The daily gazette., 1879-06-04
FIRST EDITION.
From the Progress.
CELEBRITIES AT HOME,
A. T. STEWART AND JOHN wANAMA-
KER.
Cooperative and Civil Service Stores
I'm England.-The Great Baxaars
OF London, Paris, New York, and
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In England the greatest stores are cal
led "shops, =" and the greatest shops are
great warehouses. The civil-seryice
stores are repositories Of all sorts of
goods which are sold to subscribers and
holders Of tickets who supply them
selves with the necessaries of life at
greatly reduced rates. One book in
which these goods are described, with
their prices, is a volume OF several hun
dred pages, and as there are now number
of cooperative stores, that kind of litera-
ture is quite respectable.
The Parliamentary returns show that
these cooperative societies for distribu-
ton, that is for buying and selling pro-
visions and drygoods, number now more
than 1900 and successful have they
been that to 100000 of capital which
has been accumulating, and returning it
to the members. A leading authority
in this matter says, GA well-conducted
cooperative store can offer a workman
u per cent. rise on his wages, and without
strike or struggle" The returns from
sixty-five cooperative stores with paid
up capital Of about $780,OOO, and an an
nual business of $1,25O,0OO, show an an
nual net profit Of II per cent.
The most remarkable instance of CO.
operative store is one for somewhat
higher class, that in the Haymarket,
London, of the "Civil Service Co-opera-
tive Society,"" This has been patronized
and supported by officers in every depart
ment Of the British Government, whose
families not only sought for articles at a
lower price but of purer quality than
to be found in the ordinary shops. So
successful was this association that its
business has increased to over Sc, 200, 900
per annum, and in a few years its ac-
cumulated profits amounted to over$400,- =
600, which were ultimately distributed
among the share holders. In Manches-
ter Wholesale Cooperative Society
has been formed, which has buyers all
over the world, and purchases for the
smaller societies or stores throughout
England. In 1877 it numbered 273, 1851
members, owned capital of over S2,-
100000, sold goods of the value of over
$13,OOO,OW per year, and made net an
nual profit of over $16S,000. The result
is low prices and intense competition,
and incalculable advantages to people
who have fixed incomes or live upon
wages; and of course all such colossal es-
Establishments as Peter Robinson's on Ok
ford street and Marshall IL Snellgrove,
in the same immediate vicinity, are com
PEELED to sell on reduced schedule
when London has so many cooperative
stores.
oh pnlouuo1 o1,
ford near Regent Circus, London, is like
a small town; its numberless depart
ments upstairs and down crowded with
patrons of all countries talking all Ian
guages its clerks, statesmen and sales
women its vans going forth with pack
ages, and coming back loaded with fresh
goods ; the throngs in the street, and the
hurrying to and fro of the diversified
multitude inside and out. In the same
street lower down, and on the same side
is the more pretentious palace, the
great ''shop" of Marshall & Snellgrove.
Peter Robinson's is the more democrat
ic, Marshall & Snellgrove's the more ar
istocratic and more quiet and subdued.
Long lines of coronetted equipages stand
before this great depository; the splen-
did horses held by liveried drivers,
while the footmen, also in livery, hum
bly, wait for their mistresses, who are
inside pricing the costly wares. 1t is a
mistake to suppose that the higher
classes are all spendthrifts. Some are
wild enough, men and women, but the
majority are very "near," and nobody
knows this better than Peter Robinson
and Marshall T. Snellgrove. Some rich
lords and ladies are famous as misers
and hundreds will drive as hard bar
gain as if they earned their money b,
daily labor. These two grand shop
are types of hundreds on the same seal,
in London, Manchester, Birmingham
and Liverpool.
More extensive than either Pete
Robinson's or Marshall & Snellgrove'
in London, are the splendid shops il
Paris-the Bon Marche, across the Sein
and Magasin de Louvre, part of the oil
Hotel de Louvre, on the Rue de Rivoli
The Bon Marche is very grand an
comprehensive in variety; in the glarin
advertisement of all manner of mantles
robes, confectlon, ribbons, laces, flowers
!, and founces in the front and at tn
: doors in the extensive masses of beau
! tiful goods and ladies' wear, all wit
: marked prices, and thrown into heap.
Z in what seems inextricable confusion
:. A recent English writer gives me thi
insight into the Bon Marche and ii
q founder Aristide Boucicaut:
7 "Aristide Boucicaut was born in 1871
His father, halter, could give him bu
e little material assistance in life, and |
, early life young Boucicaut used, as wa
the custom in those days, to go abou
the country from town to town an
from village to village, selling his stocl
!, which was composed of dresses, shawl.
ribbons, etc., and what are known
, French as les nouved,tes. When sti
very young he left for Paris and entere
into the well-known establishment {
lie Petit st. Thomas Here his rea
u life began he had now entered into th
career which he was destined to follo'
b with such gigantic success. Ere lon
his spotless integrity, great capacity fo
business, wonderful application, an
n courteous bearing, attracted the atten
u ton of his employers, and he was ap
pointed chef du compton, one OF tn
most important and responsible pos
tions in the establishment.
SIN 1869, M. Boucicaut began to max
great improvements in his establishmeI
'' and to enlarge it. He bought vast lots {
neighboring land and began to build tn
rs splendid palace we all know to-day, wit
n frontage on the Rue du Bac, the Rue d
u de Seyres, the Rue Velpeau and the Ru
de BABYLON, one of the most gigant
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