Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1880-12-23
THE HARDWARE TRADE.
What one Establishment Is
Doing.


Doing.
The Leading Hardware House I'm
the South.
Our readers will, of course, recog-
nize at once from the heading of this
article that we are speaking of the
well known Hardware House of
Messrs. w. w. Woodruff & Co. We
have noticed this vast establishment
before, but it has been several years
since anything like an extended
notice has been given. Since
than the firm have pushed
forward their business until their
house is now the principal supply
depot in the hardware line of Tennes-
see, Georgia, North Carolina, Virginia
and Kentucky, Knoxville can Ger
tainly boast of as much enterprise in
the wholesale business as any city of
it's size anywhere, and in no branch
of the trade has more energy and
push been displayed than by the
above named firm. It is something
near sixteen years since MIR. Wood
ruff first opened the business, and
about zen years when Mr.. Gibbins
was admitted as partner in
the establishment, and no
two men ever worked more
faithfully to establish and in
crease their business in a fair and
legitimate way than they, and their
labors have been rewarded with
abundant success, and the year 1880
was the most successful business
year they have so far had.
A look through their mammoth
establishment will at once give to
the observer clue to their success.
It is no small establishment, in fact
it is one of the, if not the very
largest Wholesale Hardware Houses
of the south, and many cities boast
ing double the population of Knox
vile can not show such a Hard
ware House. It is stocked with
every conceivable article in their
line, and the beauty of it is, that it
is all so well and thoroughly CLASH
fed, under the charge of heads OF
departments, and when a customer
wants any certain line of goods they
do not have to look all through the
building to find it. Their stock is
simply immense in every department,
and it takes over twenty employees to
manage the business. Every man
knows his place and business. There
is no clashing or want of system
The goods are displayed in a sys
tematic manner, with a view of neat
ness of appearance as well as con
venience to purchaser and salesman
One great feature of their sue
cess is that they keep good goods
and make it point to have the
goods they sell come up to what they
arerepresented to be, and the result
is the customer will always com,
back again. Take, for instance, th,
Oliver Chilled Pillow. They hay,
sold over 5000 of these plows sine,
they first introduced them, and tn,
demand for them is constantly in
creasing. Why is this? The pillow il
all it is represented to be, and thu
people have confidence in it. W.
might continue to illustrate b,
naming many other articles, but it i
not necessary. They keep every
article in the agricultural nipple
ment department that can b.
used in this country, anG
all like the Oliver Chilled
Plow, of the very best make. Messrs
| Woodruff & Co. are also supplying
the trade with Halls celebrated Fir,
and Burglar Proof Safe, the bes
safe made, as has been proven b,
many tests in fires also Disston'
Circular Saws, all kinds of Agricul
tural and Mill Machinery, Mechanics
Tools, and in fact everything in tn
Hardware line. Of course we ca
not enumerate, for we printed TO
them some time since 60 page cats
logue, and we have no doubt bu
what it only contained the leadini
articles. A merchant will not fail t.
find any article he might find in tn
largest hardware houses of the cas-
and at prices just as reasonable an
we will close this article by urgin,
all to give them at least one trial
and they will never go elsewhere.