Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-12-15
Opening Echoes.

fulfill our promise and do the thing up in
good style?
And wasn't it an immense success?
And did you ever see such crowds of
folks. And wasn't they all happyi
Well, we should say so. And if we
acknowledge our qualification over the
result and crow with sixteen tunes our
usual spontaneousness we may well be
pardoned.
Why, all creation was at our house on
Friday, and the rest Of them came Satur-
day and nearly bought US out.
We know that lots Of folks wanted to
see our magnificent new store, but we
hadn't any idea that everybody was of
that mind.
It's a fact that fully 10000 persons
passed through our doors, and our i'm
mense place was actually full. Never
expected such thing in the wide world.
And we gave out over 1000 souvenirs,
and then hadn't near enough to go round.
But there's more coming, and all will yet
be supplied.
We gave up all business and just de-
voted ourselves to the entertainment Of
the crowd.
Not nickePs worth was sold all dav,
and hundreds Of dollars worth OF trade
was actually declined.
Why? Because we could not wait upon
customers and also show our friends the
attention we wanted to.
Savannah's citizens have given us a
liberal support for fifteen long years. and
we wanted to do something that would
show them our appreciation of their good
will.
Hence we expended 5000 on this Open
ing, declined to sell goods, and did our
level best to make the occasion an enjoy
able one to all visitors.
And 1t was. Everyone was surprised
and delighted. The first floor looked like
fairy land. The decorations were pro-
nounced very tasteful. The flowers
lovely. The birds sang sweetly. The
lady clerks were pretty and attentive
The gentlemen statesmen were just too
sweet for anything. The manager-well
everybody knows all about him. The
Art Goods. Pictures, Frames, Brass and
Bronze Novelties made an elegant dis.
play.
And the exquisite designs in Xmas.
New Year. and Birth Day Cards and
banners quite captured the ladies. So
beautiful and so cheap, said they all.
But the Art Gallery, with its superb
Pictures, was the GROWING attraction to
art lovers, and many were the enconiums
bestowed on our taste in the selection of
such genuine art gems.
The $4,000 worth Of Pianos and Organs
displayed in our immense wareroOm was
a STARTER to all.
Those magnificent instruments created
a genuine furOre among musicians. and
were voted the finest ever seen North or
South.
And the delightful music unclaimed
hundreds OF music lovers for hours around
the skilled performers.
All had the run OF the house, and they
took us at our word and tramped it.
through from basement to loft, just as we
wanted them to.
The Easy Chair was kept hot, and the
| Crank Organs were turned for all thew
were worth.
Hundreds said: 81 knew You had
| large house, and did big business, but /
had no idea it was so large and flourish
| ing"
And we overheard three or four sleepv
| people remark: "Why, l thought all
these newspaper advertisements and
statements were simply brag and blow
and that L. d b. 5. NJ. Ii. was only a
small concern after all, but know better
now. There's no getting away from this
magnificent display. 1t means business
and no mistake"
1t certainly is provoking after we have
been here fifteen long years, doing solid
| square business, spending hundreds az
/ thousands OF dollars in letting the public
know what we were doing, and have built
! up business second TO none in our line
ON this cOntinent-that right here i'm Sa-
/ Yannah-there should be those who doubt
the reality of our su ccess.
U,tA
and blowing in advertisements and cir.
| culars Is so commong among our worId.
! be competitors, that it's no wonder some
are inclined to doubt all they sec in print.
But, friends, don't judge us that way'
| please. We do advertise tremendously
and possibly too much, but we ALWAYS
state things truthfully, and the n iuce.
| ments we cfler are genuine. Take us at
our word and you VIII lind that we have
neither exaggerated nor misrepresented
! in the least.
MORE SOUVENIRS COMING.