Daily Republican., 1884-04-07

vVLs NUN
BCAyTILE ENTERPRISE
1cmTENsrEIN's I'M
|ooyEnENTs-THIGE'h """"
OPENING.
,hs many store improve.
aols,' ,9at have been made THIS sp.'hhs In ny
: .h". .h". nt street, made necessary oy
aihe. I.ae sed trade of the times, none me
pore psa s''i iTicbtenstein, 1926 Market
'DN With the aid Of contractor Ply, !,
!. T., TI y Fonlk, these enterprising
scro.,'D ,a .ha necessities of the times,
se.u .ar.ially s remodeled their store,
ParsS.a"i, Pis. largest in the city, until
OF 's,mi,iar ,ri with it before would
'a ,saIize, were it not that they
Iy as rea',.l' .he same smiling and az
a"duting " proprietors an and t clerks; .a,s,S
9"l"s,ib ,. mss me same store. These could
u immnroyed mI upon, however much
pc could be made in the in
sa., araAIs ,h,ne noticeable upon halt
y :, .l, ,he nayement is that an entire
% ,1ont 'Dt Las been put in, including
'lSnv ITnw windows, new doors, new
,aa Sna and The largest and finest new
prS 'CE Mate glass. There is moro r..
.;"aows. a the latter being extended
'"r M, eighteen inches. Each OF
windows alone is a store OF itsel,
"anno. S, fail to attract attention, and
tr., thought that naturally comes
,,r mind II that q firm that mani
snch a spirit of enterprise Is
kbv of the largest encouragement.
ti n,iI4,usrnter. As we do, we find that
mnrov,ments ~, are not all on the
iI. r hnr run all through the store.
1 .e counters, what has been done 70
~ They we're nearly breast high
6npdinm sized people, but now they
|avay down like the counters IN
tr laIre stores. Contractor foulk,s
have been at work at 1t with their
y al and have let it down somewhere
4 foot. They look better now;
Biqs can now sit on easy chairs and
Fct ,heir goods as comfortably as
I cap 81. at their own tables and sip
This is a great improvement.
'ut don, yon recollect, the great high
Of shelving that used to cover the
il. so high that nimble clerks had 70
m ladders to reach the top. Well,
se shelves have been cut down too,
other modern stores. Goods can be
y handled now. Clerks do not
50 SC weary lifting them back and forth
n high shelves. This, too, Is a great
movement.
nj this is not all that has been done.
store looks lighter than il ever did
re. Let rs see what Is the cause Of
. All, now we nee it. Away back
Ger almost a half a square away are
large windows in the rear where
9 used 10 be but one, and that one
uttered around that 1t gave but
0 light Let us see how this change |
affected. Now we zee it. The ladies'
sing room and closets have been re-
'ed 10 the basement, which is reach
W an easy flight of stairs, and that
ies not only a window more but
ws much larger space into the
e. Into this space the pattern cases
be doubled, and thus more shelv-
room will be left for dry goods,
le there will be additional convent
es for the dressing room and closets
be basement. Wire skylights are
TO beput in which will Increase the
lting capacity of the store.
he pattern department Is one that
neraly elicts inquiry from those not
ry well booked up in such articles of
rChandzp 1t is not unlike great
lection Of letter boxes full of time
IN deeds and legal documents. We
nder why there should BE- 80 many
hem and why they should have
ha brownlsh look, denoting age. We
let into the secret when Mr.. Pyle
down bis pattern book In which
e are thousands of patterns of
'ses ard coats, and cloaks, and
yes, and skirts, and cuffs, and col
and fringes, and puffs and plalts,
numbered in the book and with
esponding numbered boxes. Yes,
'ee into II, and the extent of this
Z in patterns can only be imagined
1t becomes known that the firm
es a stock ofabont $4,000 in pat
alone.
is not necessary to say that this
lsnp 70 the times in the dry-goods,
ming aud dress lines. Connected
Tie establishment is a manufac,
z Department.. Ladies purchasing
goods here need not take them
uLiil hey are manufactured and
Eea6y to wear. This il an advan-
mat should not be overlooked in
when drtssmakers are scarce or
busy. We need say no more ex-
'lat TINS store will have a grand
Z opening on Saturday next, and
'ls Pyle 4 Lichtenstein have oc.
a considerable space elsewhere In |
lay RFrUBLICAN, telling the pub
what they have to sh ow |
ell On that day and all through the