The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1885-09-04
FRIGHTENING SKIES
LOOKING DOWN ON THE WORLD OF
BUSINESS.
New York Merchants See Signs of Heavy
and Profitable Trade the Coming Sea-
son brightest Outlook Since
the Rebellion.

NEW YORK, Sept 4-Nearly all of the
merchants of note having returned from
their vacations, a United Pres reporter
went among them Thursday for the purpose
of cleaning their views with regard to the
outlook of trade for the fall
Mr. George Lord, of the firm of Lord q
Taylor, the first gentleman called on. stated
that he was led To believe from what he had
heard and seen that the fall trade In both
retail and wholesale departments would he
very heavy. Mr. C. p Greene, member of
the firm, Wholesale department, said
that the trade was opening up splendidly.
Merchants from the west and south, said
he, "are comii in every day and making
heavy purchases. Our sales thus far this
season are easily 50 per cent above those of
last"
One of the firm of C. j. Denning & Co.,
the successors of A. T. Stewart a. Co, said
that the fall trade had shown signs of great
activity. Taking the orders already re-
ceived by the wholesale department as a
basis he believed the trade this fall would
far exceed that for several seasons passed.
James McCreery & Co, large dealers in dry
goods, fully concur in the belief that the
one of the firm, ''the buyers are pouring in
at an astonishing rate from all parts of the
Union"
Mr.. R X. Terry, Of R. H. Macy & Co,
said that the fall trade had hardly developed
enough to allow of the forming of any
adequate ideas as 10 what it would be. THE
summer trade" he said, "has not been quite
up to the mark, hocou-e the weather has
driven every one who had dollar h spare
out of the city. We are, however, looking
for a heavy fall AMI holiday trade, and are
preparing for it, Our importations have
been much larger this fall than before in
some years..
Mr. O'Brien. of H. O'Neil & Co.'S large
dry goods establishment on Sixth avenue
said al don't think the prospects for bust
ness generally have been brighter since the
rebellion. The retail trade has opened up so in
the past week that l hardly think we shall
close early next Saturday. The number of
eut-of-town people here now anxious to buy
is without precedent in late years expert
ence They have let their stock run down
| during the past three years until they
are now almost cleaned out There
is now a demand for goods and they must
/
buyers here, and it begins to look as though
! New York merchants we're about getting
thestrade OF that section back again"
Mr. f. r. Chambers, of Rogers, Pest &
Co, raid that the early trading this season
in the jobbing department of the
clothing trade was very good. "Mer
chants who have come here &c
buy talk in confident way,
said he, "that | am inclined to the belief
that there viii be a good fail trade-not a
boom-but something reliable" H. Behr.
man, of A. H. King & Co, in the clothing
line, said that the prospects for heavy
mo vement in their branch were unusually
good. "Our firm" said he, shave already
received orders to sucn large amount thai
we will not be able to fiji them for the next
six weeks Some goods IN wooden have al
vanced Is TO % per cent"
Mr.. J. 2. Durham. manager of the Keel
Shirt Manufacturing company, at "a
Broad way said: "We are $25, 900 ahead q
the sales of last season In custom bushes
trade in our line was never so brisk" J. j
joy, manager for James g. johnson, of i
West Fourteenth street dealer in milliner,
goods. said the firm had made heavie
importations than for several years past
and the fall trade he thought would fully
warrant their action.
DeGraaf & Taylor, furniture dealers
West Fourteenth street, said the outlook il
their line was more encouraging than 20
years. The fall retail trade was hardl,
opened up yet but they expected it to eclips
anything of recent times.