Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1885-10-11
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Besides attracting the attention Of all
people of our own. and considerable
sprinkling from other states, to the wonder
full productions OF this vally, as well as our
fine herds of cattle, sheep and hogs, also
our large display of fine horses of all breeds,
our county fairs have another benifoent
bearing. viz: to bring people here TO see the
This is another argument, and . veighty
one, for offering good premiums. and espec-
tally such purses for horse races as will
warrant the attendance Of good racers, for
no matter what the moral aspect of horse
racing may be, no one can deny that nothing
draws a crowd like good races.
From business standpoint re-
porter caught on to some pointers
during the fair that serve to illus
trate the benefits to our wholesale trade re-
sulting from the gathering OF such q crowd
as were here last Thursday. A large dealer
in saddlery and harness in Halstead, who
had always bought in Kansas City, st. Louis
and Chicago. came down TO see the fair. and
while here he looked around the wholesale
men in his line, and as he afterwards said,
he found he could do better here, taking the
freight into account, than in any of the
above named cities. Another customer for
our wholesale men, through the agency of
the fair, but this is far from being the only
one.
10 Lal Co. a a craac-
er and confectionery mandatory that turns
out as good goods as any similar establish
ment in the country, several other compan-
les doing business outside this state have
sold goods in our western towns
which are naturally tributary to our city,
and the goods are generally inferior in quail
fy to those manufactured by the Wichita
Cracker and Confectionery Company.
At the fair Messrs. Gehring & Phillips
had display of their goods that attracted
universal attention, and caused host OF
our western merchants who were at the fair,
to call at their mandatory and examine
goods and get figures. Here were q dozen
or more customers secured for our whole
sale trade, and they were not all from the
cities west OF us either, but were east as far
as Fort Scott and south as far as Little
Rock. Score another for the fair.
The magnificent exhibit of superior cloth
ing Biting Bros. displayed at the fair, led
several of our neighboring clothiers, east
and west, to visit their big Keystone house,
where they could buy goods in that line at
wholesale as reasonable as in any other
market. always taking the important mat
ter of freight into account.
Another point that these merchants
should not lose sight of is that they can
get their goods from this market in one half
the length OF time they can from any other
point where any considerable amonnt of
jobbing is done.
Again the display of fine carriages which
the Southwestern Carriage Repository of
Parkinson. Glunt & Kelley, exhibited on
the grounds, led men to examine goods and
prices in that line, and numerous sales was
the result.
The same happened in furniture. The
Kansas Furniture Company had the
finest exhibit of goods in that line ever
shown west of St. Louis, which led dealers
in the south and east along the Sunhower
road to look around, and in doing so they
found besides the Kansas Futniture's estab
lishment. one equally as large and fine,
Finlay Ross big house on Main st. who had
no exhibit at the fair.
The visiting merchants finding they could
do as well in all these lines as in any other
market, examined into other lines, and the
result was they concluded to do their bust
ness here. These are the results of the fair,
and as was limited at the beginning, our
merchants should cooperate with the fair
association and get up premiums that
would induce the best racers and the best of
everything here. These will insure an i'm
mense crowd and such results as we have
Just mentioned will follow, Another thing
not to be overlooked by the society is to
furnish plenty of room so that al who wish
may exhibit so largely as to properly repre-
sent their business