New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-05-15
BIG PRICES FOR DRY-GOODS.
A GREAT AUCTION SALE OF CoTToNs.
NEARLY TWO MILLION DOLLARS REALiZEp-MUCh
EXCITEMENT AMONG THE BUYERS.

NEARLY TWO MILLION DOLLARS REALlZEp-MOCh
EXCITEMENT AMONG THE BUYERS.
More than a thousand men representing all the
leading dry-goods houses In the Unlted states anu
of dollars packed themselves into the big AUCTION
room of Wilmerding, Hoguet d. Co.. No. 64 Wnlte-
ST. yesterday, and for eight hours wrestled with =
gb-tongued auctloneer oyer ZO9oo packages, cd al
by Bliss Fabyan e. Co., the selling
agents throughout the entire day the
crowd was immense ;. ana ID s; ene Of dmi.
mutton Buyers were present rom every o,u.o -
the Union, representing all the important houses IN
the trade Notices of the sale were sent OUT . py
telegraph on Friday, and we're Puollshed ny 'ne
leading newspapers III all the cities -.
Among the more important houses Presens T Jsf'
H. b. Clafiin & Co. left Weller q Co. F. nu D. ya-
Bucdey & Co.. Henry Wallachs sons, V. Henry
kothscnid, Butler Clapp. g. Co.. Charles Lock
wood. and HARRISON & Loder, of New-York CITY;
Hood, Bonbrlght e. Co.. J. II. Lcng & Co.; Kneed-
Ter. Patterson a. Co., Riegel. Scott & Co, Crap.
Vandervcer 81 Co, Wood, Bacon 81 Co., Williams
Yerks q Co, Elliott Brothers, and fairman
& Co., of Philadelphia; Hurst, Purnell & Co.
johnson. Sutton g. Co.. Pearre Brothers d Co.,
Seiger & Newman, Strauss & Brotheri Moses lose
81 Co. of Baltimore; Adam Wieidram d Anderson,
Buffalo; Root g. Mcbride Brothers, Cleveland; Z;
L. Luce & Co, Columbus; ID. p Erwin d Co., and
Drepke, George W. McAlpm & Co, Louis Stlx q 4
Co.. Speaker Buddeke & o., and John ShiiIeta ~
Co., OF Cincinnati; }. NJ. Robinson ~ 70, LOUIS
Daniel Morse, Shepherd IL Co., Hogg, brown ~
Taylor, C. f. lovey d Co.. Farley Harvey ~ Co,
Simon Hatch e. Whiten, and Wheeler, Sonant y
Strauss. Brothers g. Co., and Hellerm Sacks az Co.,
of San Francisco; Hyneen Brothers, Honolulu :;
DANIELS 81 Fisher, Denver; W. Is. Erlnees ~ 20
Kansas City; Yale & Bowling, Nelson McStea. Levy,
Lost g. Scheuber, and A. Leyman d Co., Oh
New-Oreans l.. and ii. Blum, of Galveston
Sanger Brothers, OF Waco Marshall Field a. Co.
Strong g. Hill, and Carson, Scott IL Co., OF en-
cage Coll & Frank. OF Milwaukee; s. Z. Davis d
Co., of ST. Louis, and Deering, MllliSen d Co., OF
Twenty thousand packages of cotton goods com
posed the catalogue, but nearly 22,OO0 were solo,
for many were disposed of in excess of the maui
selling was personally conducted by Mr. Wilmer
ding and with him stood Mr.. BLISS, The bidding
was brisk from the start and at times
the excitement in the room became intense
A lot of 900 bales of brown sheetings from the
Pepperell mills sold at ga cents The current price
is cents. A lot of 2. 800 packages of wide sheet
ings of the same manufacture sold at within 2 l2
per cent of the current prices; 900 blue CHECKS
sold at only per cent of from the regular price;
600 cases of satteen corsets of the Androscogsih
manufacture brought cents yard-they Drlng
only half q cent more in the Jobberss stores A lou
of $50 cases of Laconia Mills corset jeans sold or
$50 cents, within 20 of cent OF their regular
price 800 cases of colored cheVI0ts sold Tor from
6S4 to 6os cents with only margin OF or 3 OF
cent of the current figure 300 quits OIL the bates
manufacture sold at within per cent OF the
regular price. The ducks. the denms and the
brown tickings sold at similar figure. lot OF
1000 Lacona 1annels sold at Il cents, winch is
removed from their current price by only hair
cent The sales included manufactures OF the Pep
perell Company the AndrOscOgnn mills the La
coma Company. the otis Company. the Warren
Mills the Thorndyke Company, the Ihorndyk Ike
mills and the Boston Duck Company. Among the
LOIS were 5000 cases of wide sheetings, 1000
bales of brown sheetngs $50 bales of wide brown
sheetngs 500 bales of standard drills $50 cases OF
beached jeans 800 cases of Lacona slleslas. 100
bales of quilts towels and sackings 1000 cases OF
AndroscOggin L. beached shIrtlngs, 900 cases OF
Otis checks, 800 cases of corset jeans and sat
teens ZOO cases of blue denlns, 400 cases OF
brown denms and $50 cases Of fancy cheylots.
When the sales were ended at p H., every yard
had been disposed of. and enough more TO
tax the mills represented by the selling firm
for a month TO come. Great surprise was expressed
by many of the buyers at the extraordinary prices
ceceiyed considering the dull condition of general
trade. One merchant said
There is not "A commission house In the country
that does not wish its goods were IN this sale.
These prices are astonishing The total proceeds
reached nearly, If not quite Sl,71O,OOO. Auc-
tloneer Wilmer ing said that they would not fall
much below 81. 600 900. Ii was the largest dry
goods sale ever made and its gross proceeds reached
a larger figure than .any previous public sale OIL
single days duration"