St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-09-23
st. Paul the Latest City Sc
leeted in Which to Locate
a Retail House.
Their Store on Seventh Street
the Finest Ever Opened
in the Northwest.
What Capital, Coupled With
Energy and Business Ex-
pepienee, Has Done
for This Firm.

The advent of the immense clothing
firm of Browning, King & Co. into St.
Paul was an event in our city's CONNER
cial growth and development that is
not to be underestimate. 1t is need
less to tell the readers of the GLOBE
who Browning. King q Co. are. Every
one knows of them, and those who are
in any way familiar with the firms of
note in the commercial world know
Browning, King & Co. to be the largest
manufacturers of clothing in the world.
a glance at commercial agency record
makes them appear even better, for
there they are quoted as financially
among the highest firms doing bust
nSSS in the United States. Truly, then,
was it an event of immense Importance
when they decided to locate their man.
moth store in st. Paul, at the corner OF
Robert and Seventh streets. The work
of securing such desirable site was
naturally slow and very expensive, but
when Browning, King 81 Co. settled
upon locating in st. Paul the question
of expense became only matter of sec
Ondary consideration. Thousands of
dollars had to be spent to change the
old structure into its present appear
ance, but they came here with the in
tentiOn of giving st. z .ul something
better than it ever had before, and they
have carried their plans out 10 the let
ter. st. Paul has clothing house that
is metropolitan In every respect, and
one that is not surpassed by even the
best in ChicagO-a city not less than
four times as large.
Another page of this paper is taken
uD with an advertisement that contains
some valuable information regarding
the extent of business of this firm. In
it will be seen cuts of the stores occu-
pied by them in the different cities in
which they are doing business, namely:
New York, Chicago. Philadelphia, Mil
waukee, Kansas City, Cincinnati, st.
LOniS and st. Paul. Aside from any adj
vantage they may have as to unlimited
capital, ETC., they are selling their own
goods and are thus enabled to save their
customers the expense incident to
''middleman" being in the deal. Nat
urally enough, when house has built
up its reputation on the quality of the
goods 1t manufactures, it would be
jealous of that reputation to the extent
of never willfully letting poorly made
garment or garment of poor quality
go on the market; for on the merits of
their goods alone must they stand or
fall.
Their St.Paul house was opened on the
30th of August, under the management
of Mr.. II. w. Fagley, who, aside from
knowing all about the business in which
he is engaged, is, in the ordinary West
ern parlance, thus tier" aud is pos
sessed of that happy and gifted faculty
of making friends, while never for a
moment losing sight of the fact that
business interests are paramount to all
other matters. In word. he is prince
of good fellows, and is the right man in
the right place. No sooner was the
store opened than the people of
st. Paul took advantage of the
opportunities offered, and have
demonstrated by the way in which they
have thronged the spacious saleSrooms
that they appreciate the effort these
gentlemen are making to give st. Paul
a clothing house the equal of anything
in the country. Their store is large,
their goods are the best made, and are
sold below the prices usually charged
by other clothing houses, and the
quality and variety of what they offer
can always be depended upon to be the
best manufactured.