The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1886-10-07
PROMINENT BUSINESS MEN.
Some of the Leading Citizens Who
Have Helped to Build Up Dallas.
Il. NJ. KAHN e. co.

Mr.. Il. M. Kahn, the head of this
house, was born in Alsacc in ls49. lie
came to America in 1866, and six years
later settled in Dallas, commencing his
present business which is conducted
on the corner OF Elm and Lamar
streets, with branch house corner
Elm and Poydras streets. Mr.. Kahn
has never held any political Office be-
cause he has never aspired to one, but
has made business and business sue
cess his object in life. lie established
business in Dallas in 1872, when the
city first began to become the railroad
center it now is. Commencing on a
small scale, his sales reaching only
$4,000 the first year, he has built up
as the city built up, until now his sales
reach annually more than 100000.
The house carries a stock of S150,000,
the largest carried in any inland town
or city in the entire country, and
equal to those of the largest metropol-
itan cities. Nothing but first-class
goods are handled, for, knowing the
Dallas market, knowing the wants and
tastes and requirements of this pub
lie, this house studies to please il,
studies to anticipate those wants,
tastes and requirements, and nothing
but the very best goods will do it. The
house does exclusively retail trade,
and every convenience, every detail
necessary for that trade is
adopted. Keeping pace with the
times and the progressive spirit of the
age, the house lets no novelty, no new
fashion, no late style, no fanciful or
ideal emenation of genius in the cloth
ing business escape it. Carrying heavy
lines of children's, boys, youths and
mems clothing, from the ordinary to
the very finest and most superb goods,
no customer fails to get exactly what
he wants. In furnishing goods this
house is ne plus ultra. All styles and
classes in these lines they carry, and
are agents for the justly celebrated
and renowned DR.. Yeager's under
wear. This underwear, for the neat
ness of its finish, the elegance and
superiority of material and the artis-
tic manufacture, cannot anywhere be
surpassed. In hats and caps this house
is also in the lead, and is agent for the
famous Dunlap hat, known and ap-
preciated for its beauty, style, finish
and excellence everywhere, and is a
favorite with everybody. The dig
nitaries of the land prefer this hat, and
it graces the brows of statesmen,
through. whose brains the mighty
problems of state craft and policies
evOlute, revolvc and are brought forth
to fruition, as well as the heads of the
laboring men, who boycott it not.
The house deals only with the best
houses in the country, which is guar
antee of the excellence and
superiority of its goods. One
price always is the motto
of the house, and it is never varied
from, either with the high or the low,
the rich or the poor, the proud or the
meek, the exalted or the humble. A
perfect system for conducting the
business has been adopted, as in all
metropolitan houses, and everything
works like clockwork. OF he very
large force of employees each has his
prescribed duties, his line of sales and
work and like the movements of the
army everything goes on harmonious
ly and in its regular channel. The
house is strictly a Dallas production.
As our city progresses, it has pro-
crossed as the city and county builds
up and advances and develops, it
builds up, advances and develops.
By the strictest business principles,
by apersonal integrity, probity, honor,
reliability, promptnes and fair dealing
Mr.. Kahn has achieved a wonderful
success and he is still going ahead.
Frank, social and generous, full of en-
ergy and enterprise and with broad,
liberal and conservative views withal,
Mr.. Kahn is always in the foremost
ranks in all measures tending to the