The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1883-04-19
A BRILLIANT DISPLAY.

Persons passing up OF down North Sth
street last Tuesday evening were induced
to stop in front of Torrison's elegar. trade
palace to admire the rich and very tasty
display of large variety of carpets, cur
tains, laces, dress goods, etc., arranged
during the day and shown to the very
best advantage by brilliant illumination
from the forty or fifty gas gets in the
front of the building. Such store and
a correspondingly handsome display Of
rich materials is seldom met with in the
larger cities south of us and certainly in
no other place in this state outside Of
Milwaukee; and it was altogether natur-
al that passers-by should stop in silent
admiration of the brilliant scene and were
perhaps only through curiosity induced
to enter and take stroll through the
various avenues just to see what an i'm
mense quantity and variety of articles the
four walls contained. And if the display
from the outside was handsome, that
from the interior surpassed it in quality
and variety. OF course the stock en-
braces dry goods, groceries, boots and
shoes, hats and caps, etc., as does every
other general store in the country, and
while the visitor recognizes all these
familiar features, the average one is lost
in admiration and wonder at the almost
innumerable kinds of dry goods, etc.,
which are to be seen. Carpets do not
come under the term "dry goods" as
generally accepted, yet Mr.. Torrison's
stock of carpets, rugs, mats, etc., is
distinctive feature of the establishment
and the money invested in that one branch
alone would stock an average dry goods
store. Not only the quality commands
attention, but the beautiful patterns and
great variety which goes to make mp
whole never before approached in this
city for completeness and range of style
and prices. Another article usually kept
in small quantities to ''fill up stock
with is lace curtains, which here take
place as separate feature; but the store
is so large and the place occupied by
these beautiful goods so small in compar-
ison that not until one examines the many
styles and notices particularly what a
large field they really cover does he ap-
preciate the extent of that one item of
merchandise. 1t is the same way with
dress goods. To man, particularly,
dress goods are dress goods and the
average citizen might go through this
beautiful store and perhaps notice that
some "dress goods" were silk and some
calico. But We will wager that TIE ladies
of Manitowoc readily distinguish the diff
ference. and while admiring the stacks of
goods from the common calico to the
finest silks, satins and velvets, are free to
admit that such stock cannot be match
ed outside of Chicago, and will admit,
further, that if the necessity ever existed
for going to Milwaukee or Chicago to
purchase dress goods, that that necessity
IS not now present. Another line of goods
that must be seen to be appreciated is
the stock of Spring and Summer Dol
mans, Cloaks and Sacques-something
that the ladies' minds turn to with the
advent of spring and which linger in their
thoughts until the coveted article has
been purchased. These are, as one of
the admiring groups of ladies exclaimed
the other day, ''just too lovely for any
thing" and embrace everything that is
handsome, stylish and durable, while the
large assortment allows of a variety of
prices to suit the pocket-books of ALL
But it would require columns of our pa
per to simply enumerate the articles that
go to fill every available foot of this eIe-
CANT store, and Of course our readers will
be attracted thither at one time or anoth-
er to see for themselves the many hand
some goods. And more generally will
this be the case when they learn Gas a
visit will demonstrate) that as Mr.. Tor
minish, and that be seems determined to
remove whatever cause existed for any
of our citizens to go outside of Manitowoc
for dry goods, dress goods, carpets. CHR
tains, ETC., and to this end he has made
large purchases Of the finer and more
costly goods which, with proportionately
ieass expense than Milwaukee and Chica-
go merchants are under, he can afford to
and will sell at as low or lower prices.
But this newspaper article went give our
readers half the satisfaction that per
sonal examination of this stock will af-
ford, SO we advise them to go and see for
themselves whether or not we have been
extravagant in praise of this mercantile
establishment--an institution which
should be source of pride to every citi-
zen of Manitowoc at least.