The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1884-10-10
W1anamakrr's.

comes a deeper plunge. The
most unheard Of things oc-
cur. The explanation is to
be found in this clipping from
the Philadelphia Led,ger'S
New York Letter:
There has been no demand for goods suitable for
antumn and as the season is pretty well advanced
have to carry over their stocks until ne year or
cell at sacrifice, In either case making a serious
The other day we began
in the morning to sell 5000
yards of silk-and-wool black
poplin at IS cents a yard.
1t was worth 90 to IS cents.
Most Of it went before night.
That was the very cheapest
drcss-stuff we ever knew Of
in trade; but it was quickly
over.
Last week we began to
sell Lupin's Cachemiye Hin
"o" for 65 cents, IS cents
under value, and several
other of Lupin's 81 stuffs for
65 and IS cents, and Lupin's
(am6aN0 for IS cents, 40
cents under value, They are
still going at the same rate,
and will last a week yet; for
the quantities are very large.
Absurd things are done with
little lots of goods some
times; but, when greatquan-
titles are concerned, a tumble
from the very top Of the
market to the bottom is very
rare. This Lupin tumble is
a leap from the top of the
market clear to the bottom.
1t is probably the cheapest
large lot of fine, fashionable
and every way acceptable
drcss-stu.ls we ever had to do
with,
And now comes another
just such. Ladies'-cloths, 81
ladies' cloths, for IS cents;
54inch.
In one sense this is less
sur!'r:%ing: in another. more
SO Inc cloths are made by
a ErHl.class maker, less emi-
ncn; .h"n l.upin, not by one
Who ,';nd; head and shoul.
dc:s above everybody else in
his Inc. A tumble in his
-,,l,s slal;cs a smaller part
Of the world Of trade than
tumble in Lupin's stuffs. But
they arc rl9HS,' and for cloths
to tumble is a rarer event
than for lighter dress-stuffs;
because cloths have a wider
range Of wear than those
lighter stuhs, and enter into
trade more largely, Lupin's
stufs are staple in their range.
such cloths as these are
staple in a range of trade
connvrchcnding all classes.
And SO this tumble of cloths
is possibly a bigger local
event than the tumble in
Lupin's stuffs, At any rate
more people will be glad to
sec it.
\ month ago we began
selling 81 ladies'-cloths for
IS cents, and it was a Won
dcrlll thing to do. We are
selling them yet.
These now put down from
s. to IS cents are another
sort, better, better wool, out
Of a better factory, better.
made, made for a more exact
ing trade; and all these
things go to make the tumble
l bigger tumble.
We still have ladies'-cloths
at 81. How do they differ
from these at IS cents?
Different makers, different in
the make, different as they
happen to be; but the
reason of the difference in
price is the difference in their
cost to us. 1t is by no means
true that values always vary
with prices; it is true only in
the most general way.
We have twenty-eight
colors in these 81 cloths at
IS cents; and some Of the
colors are only to be found
in the higher grades oj
.loths:
rlree gray mixturs, Four blues.
Iwo brown mi xtuTes. Three brownA
-Four mixtures Of st terpl oolors Six drabs
-Four gArnetA Cardinal. Myrtle, olive bronze
Indeed we may say these
excel the other 7s-cent cloths
in color as we'll as in fabric;
for it is always true that
better wool and better make
makes better color.
JOHN WANAMAKER,
Chestnut Thirteeslh and Market streets and
Clsy-hal square.