St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-11-11
WARM wEATmEn AND TRADE.
What Merchants say as TO Hts Effect
on the Dry Goods, Far and shoe



on the Dry Goods, Fur and Shoe
Trades.
Trade is booming or dull according to
the rise and fall of the temperature this
time of the year." Yentured George r.
Finch, of Auerbach, Finch & Van Slyck.
1T does not affect the prices, but the sales
are less. OF course. during the last few
days business has been good. There prom
Uses to be good demand for blanketings
and heavy woOlens this winter. BY the
way. I'll give you pointer. l received a
letter from Helena not long ago, asking for
the cost of making up 120 blanket suits.
such as we had here last winter. Those
fellows up there are going to have snow
shoe club. The carnival is doing a great
deal to make business good. sent some
patterns for prints to the Pacific mills. OF
Lawrence. Mass. not long ago. and to-day
| received a sample of what they've turned
out This print is something new. 1t is a
picture of the ice palace, with tObOggan
Slides snOw-shOeng scenes and illustrations
of polo, curling and skating. 1t is the first
thing Of the kind that has ever been turned
out"
o. P. Lanpher, Of Ladpher. Finch &
Skinner, was found perSpirng over lot of
skins in his fur department. well. the
spell of warm weather hasn't affected our
business very much" he said. as he COM
pleted pling a bundle of offers. You
see. most of our orders come in in advance.
For instance we are now filling orders
which were sent in last May for this win
ter'S stock. Of course, any man who tells
you the warm weather doesn't affect the
sales of wearing apparel for the time being
lies. There is a slack in our present Or
derS Just now. OF course there is cold
weather enough in this region to convince
everybody of the necessity of having furs,
so that, taking it all in all, we will do the
usual business"
Clerks were quite busy yesterday after
noon in Lindeke, Warner & Schurmeier's
piling up orders. DO you see that pile
there?'' asked Mr.. Lindeke. well. that
shows what we are doing to-day, and Will
do whenever the cold weather comes.
Sales have sackened up during the warm
spell probably so per cent, but we will
make that up easily as soon as the cold sets
in for good. We haven't much in heavy
wooden materials, but prints and all light
goods are in steady demand. Prices still
hold firm. however"
Mr. Ferguson, of Gordon & Ferguson, sat
dI HIS Qcoh CuOChiiiS VII lioe vi OIOClo'
Business is good with u.s. he replied toa
query. and | guess it will continue so.
We sold more goods before Nov. than we
did all of last year-we are two months
ahead of business The demands for furS
will be about the same SO long as people
believe we are going to have weather cold
enough for them some time during the win
ter"
Mr. Foot of Foot, Schulze & Co., stood
with arms akimbo as he gave Instructions
to a clerk. 1T is knocking all the stuffing
out of the shoe trade" he said with stole
countenance. Prices stiifen up. however.
You see we have to do so much business
every year anyhow. and if sales decrease
why we simply mark up our goods. It's
all the same to us. If the demand for our
trade increases we are willing to make
lower figures, but if trade is dull. we have
to make up. We've got to make some
money and live. When the cold weather
comes shoes VIII sell. Probably if the
weather had been wet or snowy we might
have sold more"