, 1881-10-09
DRY GOODS, CARPETS, ETC.
MARSHALL FieId & Co,

| commenced business aE IL, LII, and ll6 Lake
street in 1865, and for sixteen years have
| been central figures in the dry-goods trade
! Of Chicago. III October, 1865, they moved
into the new Singer Building, oil the corner
Of State and Washington streets, containing
| six floors 150Xl60 feet, where they were
burned out in the great fire OF 1871. Within
eleven days they transformed the huge car
barns at the corner of State and Twentieth
streets into a great dry-goods bazaar, and
were selling goods again as usual. BY the
! 1st Of March, 1877, they had built the colos-
! sal store which they now occupy on the cor
| ner of Madison and Market streets, compris-
ing six floors 24ox105 feet, to which they re-
| moved their wholesale department., continu-
] ing the retail department at'State and Twe11-
ticth streets. LII October, 1872, they opened
| a new retail store in a building just COM
| plctcd adjoining their wholesale store,
and in October, 1876, the Singer place
| having been rebuilt, they consolidated their
! retail stores and removed them to the Singer
! Building. In the summer OF 1S7S their retail
| store was again burned up, when they
| opened retail department at once in the
Exposition Building, and, after remaining
there four months, they procured Temporary
improved building was completed on the old
site, which they bought and took permanent
possession of in the spring Of 1879. Both
their wholesale and retail stores are the
largest OF their respective classes ever built
for such purposes. Their retail store, for
architectural beauty. convenience, and adap-
tatlon to its uses surpasses anything known.
It is a landmark worthy OF an imperial city
and OF the great Republican Empire of the
West, and fifty symboizes the magnificent
goods trade Of Chicago and the good taste of
its citizens. 1t is due to the credit Of Chi
cago, as well rs to Marshall Field Is Co., to
state that in the amount of their floor-rooln,
and completeness Of their lines OF goods,
there is not a dry-goods house, under one
management, its equal in the worldl
IL has always been 4 cash and short-tlme
house to the mutual advantage OF both buy
ers and sellers. Its business has more than
kept pace with the growth of the country,
because they have extended their trade over
3 larger area Of territory than formerly;
the field Of their operations now embracing
Pennsylvania on the east, the British Posses
sions on the north, the Mexican Gulf and
Mexico on the south and southwest, and the
Pacific coast IN tile west. The growth of
their trade has not been titful and spasnodic,
but constant and progressive, the result Of
conformity with the established laws of
trade, and their sales, which in 1865 were
eight aud q half million dollars, in 1871
amounted to fourteen millions, and in 1881
" III IEAcll tICE7ttI-StGEfk MUTTON UOttUTS.
The original members OF the firm in1S67
we're Marshall Field, Levi Z. Letter, Lo-
renZo q. Wo0dhouse. Henry J. Willing, and
Henry Field. The only changes i'll sixteen
years have been the admission of Harlow N.
11igginbotha,n and Joseph n. Field to the
firm and the retirement of Mr.. Letter. The
history of this house is an illuminated index
Of the metropolitan character of Chicago, il
1ustrates its wonderful growth and prosperity,
and demonstrates its future position as the
great distributing centre for tWo-thirds of
this Continent 1t is more than record Of
Chicago in the past. It is prophecy and
revelation of the future.
John " Faryvell d Co.
There Is no business house in Chicago
that SO fully represents all the better phases
of Chicago daily--life commercial, civil. So
cial, intellectual, and moral-as the great
dry~goods house Of j. Y. Farwell s. Co. For
over thirty years, it has been leading factor,
and for q large part Of that time the leading
factor, in the trade of Chicago and the West.
There is not a house whose members, out
side of the exactlng demands Of trade, have
done so much, or spent so much money, in
building up and identifying Chicago. proyid-
ing for it large aud commodious public halls,
capacious and elegant stores, and in helping
to make it the magnificent city it
Is today. as theYse tthassffu ffurnished faithful