Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-04-23

is the boot and shoe departrnent-th first sixty feet being specially arranged and fitted up for the retail trade. Un- der the base counter are eighty drawers, each one capable of holding two dozen pains of boots. On each drawer is the number of the boots kept within-one pair each of many kinds but all of the same number. For instance, if a man wants a number 9, but one drawer needs to be opened, as every make in the store are to be found in it, and in case of any being sold their place is immediately supplied by exact duplicates. Above the base counter are six sec tions of shelves. In the first are to be found nothing but hand and machine sewed Congress gaiters, button boots and English Bal morals. In the second children's shoes, both high and low cut of every grade and quality. In the third are ladies hand sewed Edison and Aimee ties, opera slippers and low cut walking shoes. Tn the fourth are ladies' kid button boots and Polish Balmoral. The other two sections are occupied with ladies, misses and children's shoes of cheaper grades and quality. The balcony above this department merely duplicates the stock given.
 
 The hat department is in between the boot and shoe departments and the gents furnishing departments which face each other. The hats are displayed on tables and are of every shade, class and quality; for summer, winter and every other kind of time. from the light Panama to the heavy Machete; from the dandy's plush to the cowboys broad sombrero.
 The gents furnishing department ex- tends for about forty feet with counters and show cases and on the shelves and n boxes and drawers are kept everything that man may or can want for his en- ire furnishing, including white, fancy, woolen, travelling and calico shirts, with linen collars and cuffs, silk ties and bows, handkerchiefs, linen, silk and cot ton. kid gloves, silk, cotton, Lisle thread, fancy and plain hose, aver aging from ten cents to five dollars per pair. Linen, straw and felt hats for men, women and children. On the same ,onnter are two showcases filled with scarf pins, cuff buttons, shirt studs, etc.
 The dress goods department is of aqual length and faces on the reverse ,ide of the furnishing goods and because f it's importance is supplied with the most extensive and costly assortment of adies dress goods ever gathered together m the Territory, embracing plain, fancy, watered brocaded and plaid silks, mo- hair, common and Contyre silk, glpacas, ,assimeres, merinos and grenadines, white, striped, check and plain iaconets, satins in all colors and shades. French pique of many patterns, lawns of the latest and newest figures, Irish linens, 'hirting and sheeting of 6, s and 10 quarter. Fancy. black lace e,silk, wool and cotton shawls. Napkins, table cloth, white md colored, in piece or by yard, Marsail- les quilts and the many other commoner ,oods which go to make that department complete.
 Facing it is the fancy goods depart ment, well stocked with every needed lrticle, Brussels net, Parisienne, Malin, English crape silk and nuns yelling. Point, white, black, French. moire antique, torchon, linen brabaut and bed aces, crocnet, Hamburg and lace .dgings, Swiss and Nainsook embroid- .ries. steel, silver, gold, jet, bronze, md pearl buttons, Bernhardt, Foster. Eargot, Caroline, Zeckendorf and Bon- ievoie, Amica and Messenger kid gloves, look, seam and seamless varieties, silk md cotton mitts, black, white silk and Spanish lace, white embroidered muslin, null, tissue and lace ties, plain, white md fancy colored cuffs, collars and 'ollaretts, lace, silk, linen and cot Ion han lkerchiefs, lace and plush Idies, embroidered silk, lisle thread, jlain and cotton hose, c. P. 600 pone, Graphic, Arcadia, Palace and Our Own c)rsets; ladies dressing goods, la- lies and children's merino and gossa- ner underwear, satin, watered silk, French lowered, plaid and grosgrained ribbons, perfumery, hats, flowers, silk, ,ingham and cotton pdrasols are a few f C infui. variety. The two show -ases are filled with the choice articles f the department, and the two tables hat are placed similar to those in he hat department are covered md filled with staple goods.
 The grocery department in its fittings or the proper keeping of fancy, plain, 'nreigu and domestic groceries is beyond he possibility of material improvement. Twelve covered and gilt abeled bins for leans, coffees and sugars; twelve landscape painted caddies for the keeping of as many different eas and the fifteen glass front drawers filed with rice, peas, lentils and etc, ,re prominent features in this depart nent, and the shelves are filled with 'anned, bottled and potted goods of all shIngs that are calculated to please and Satisfy the epicurean or hungered man. The scales for weighing teas are nickel plated and in themselves are 'plendid pieces of accurate mech Inism. Cheese, butter and eggs nave counter and scales for their own special use, both being marble covered. l The counter in question stands on the 1outh side and to the left of the office. which in three different departments oc- cupies the center of the room, being sit | hated at the end and between the dress | goods and notion departments.
 In the rear of the office and extend ing across the entire room Is the whole sale and jobbing department, fifty-eight | tables are placed to form rows of counters with great stacks of staple goods such | as muslins, bleached and unblesched. cottonades, prints, shawls, hosiery. Aannels, towels, and no end of everything else. The articles mentioned occupy the tables from the center to the left of the building while those o1 the right are entirely hidden by the immense masses of cloth