Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-12-01
WHAT THEY SAY
ABOUT THE WHOLESALE INTER
ESTS OF THE CITY.
How to Increase the Business in
that Line---0pini0ns Of
Business Men.

LII Ufuer 10 ReC an expression lTOuA tuC
leading business men on the question OF
increasing the wholesale trade in the city
a number were interviewed yesterday
with the following result:
Geo. l.. Rouse-The best policy to pur-
sue is to indicate and show the advantages
offered by Wichita as wholesaling point
| understand Mr.. Whitaker is good man
in this respect by calling the attention Of
wholesale men in the east to Wiz hita's
facilities in this line. This scheme of our
own men going into business they know
nothing about am not in favor of 1T, but
let men who know business do it. There
Is no question today that Wichita COM
mands the most advantages of any new
and growing city in the country. No
question about Oklahoma being opened
soon which gives additional reason for
an increase in wholesale houses.
p. V. Healy-The wholesale business can
be improved by getting a wholesale drug
house; glass and that line; boots and shoes.
We have number of good houses, but all
lines not represented and some county
merchants who handle little of every
thing came to Wichita and not being able
to get all they want go somewhere else.
The sash and door men here say nothing
will pay better than a wholesale glass
house. The representative and business
men here should give this matter spec al
attention and get the men who know the
business interested.
George NJ. Larimer.-There has not been
enough attention paid to the wholesale
business. Ought to have all we can get.
Let our people put their hands in their
pockets and take stock in new wholesale
houses and thus maintain commercial
supremacy which is quite as necessary as
TO pile up fictitious values in certain lines.
W. L. Corbett-The wholesale business
of the city is not represented as it should
be. Take hardware, drugs, paper, boots
and shoes, all these lines should be repre-
sented by a strong firm. The chief thing
is to increase variety so a man can come
here and get all his stock. This variety
would help the present houses wonder
fully, in fact nothing would help them
more. If the Oklahoma country opens up
and the territory west of US is settled we
will have room for more houses in the
lines already represented.
L. ID Skinner-My idea is we want to
turn our attention for awhile from pack
ing houses to wholesale interests. We
need to be situated 80 men can buy hats,
caps, drugs, boots and shoes as well and
dry goods groceries and in the lines al
ready represented. Because if general
dealer from an outside town has to go to
some other city for a part he is
apt to buy everything there and as a con-
sequence our merchants already in bust
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trade that would naturally come to them.
A. NJ Thomas-Open Oklahoma. Put
three hundred thousand people within one
hundred and fifty miles of us and this
means canned tomotoes, packing house
business, plows, nails, soap, flour, and, in
short. means business. Can't sell goods in
the absence of people OF course present
houses are doing a good business but
would do more if they could reach more
people.
w. d. Mccormick - Our first effort
should be to secure wholesale houses in
other lines than those already represented
here; this done, competition will not be
long in finding such large trade territory
as Wichita enjoyS-the most promising
and extensive at the back OF young city in
the United States today, and which alone,
when fully developed, assures another
great city in the regular chain from east
TO west, which, Of course, will be Wichita,
because she already leads all others.
While there will doubtless be many who
will furnish their own capital, it would be
well for our capitalists TO promptly en-
courage such as desire assistance in the
way of subscription stock, taking care, of
course, that they are worthy and substan-
tial representatives in their particular
line.
Geo. Ii. ckwelder-There is a demand
for good, strong wholesale houses in addi-
tion to what we have, Think the board
of trade ought to take hold of the matter
and show to the wholesale men of the
country that it is to their interest to put
Wholesale houses here.
w. 2. Carey-We need probably another
wholesale house in the grocery line, shoe
house, hats and caps, dry goods and no
TONS drugs, and hardware, distributing
house for agricultural implements. The
board of trade has much work on hand
and representative business men should
discuss these matters, subscribe stock to
different enterprises. Let each man be-
come interested in business he knows the
most about.