The Newtown bee., 1888-11-30

E Co, Dr Warmers, Eoomer's cutaways and Dr Scott's electric corsets, for which W. B. Hall & Co. have the agen- cy.
 MT Northrop presieles over the depart ment of haberdashery, notions, small wares, perfumery, leather goods, satch- els, plush goods, jewelry, stationery and the thousand and one articles of the kind.
 Embroidery wools of all colors in Scotch, Saxony, Germantown and Span- ish wools are sold by Miss Mcdonald.
 Ten thousand volumes of fiction, poe try and standard literature have been purchased for the holidays so rapidly approaching.
 Miss Stokes has charge of collars, ruff filings, etc.
 The furs are under the care of Miss yredenburgh. Furs and fur trimmings are in great demand and the most popu- lar furs are black martin, black mon- key, lynx, sable. Muffs are provided to match each. Gimps are returning to fa- vor again and it is hardly necessary to say that Hall has them, under Miss Wayland's care, to suit all tastes.
 This brings the visitors to the back of 9he store and here is the cloak room. As before stated, cloaks are among the great specialties for which this house is noted. The room is large, extending the entire width of the store and is approached by both main aisles. MT Hall, who is usu- ally here, when not called to some other part of the store, takes especial pride in this department and admits of no peers. The garments are piled up in metropoli- tan quantities and of metropolitan quail ties. Newmarkets, imported jackets, raglans and ulsters are the ruling shapes for ladies and misses. Plain goods arc generally worn, though stripes are used Samuel Scott, bIessrs Lyon, Patterson the veteran cloak man, c. F. Lewis, who has been with Mir Hall for 30 years anG
 Miss Lowell are here. Besides the ready
 made cloaks, which may be altered il any respect to suit the purchaser, Ger
 man and American cloths for making
 new garments are kept i'll stock. Sea l eloaks are always i'll great demand anC
 no dealer can show more comprehen
 sive assortment than Messrs Hall & Go
 They buy large consignments of the bes l Alaska sealskins, dyed ill the best Lon
 don establishments and made especially for this firm, who deal in none but tn,
 best. Medium length jackets, long
 sacques, wraps and dolmans are. mucl
 called for. Fitting rooms are adjacen and long mirrors are on every side, as suring satisfaction to all patrons. Mis-
 Bray has charge of this department ant five assistants are necessary to keep pac with orders.
 l Upstairs Dr Simonds's rooms, elegant ly fitted up, are filled with busy workers
 In the custom department, Mrs Harts horn, who has no rival as a cloak cutter reigns and, with her, are two cutters am
 15 seamstresses. So perfectly is the sys
 tenn organized that a cloak can be cut
 made and ready for delivery in 4S hour
 from the time that the order was given
 Such eelerity is unprecedented and tn
 practical results are seen in the increas
 ed orders which pour into this depart
 ment.
 Mrs Mabie, who was for 10 years wit
 Gunther, the famed seal cloak maker,
 next. She has charge of the dyeing an
 repairing of seal cloaks, which is
 trade by itself. With this department also Mrs Connor, who uses the $. T. Fay
 Tor system of measurement, which, one
 taken, is always ready \ lady ma : have her measure taken by this systcr and may send orders by mail for gal : ments to be made from the same mea: ure; she is as certain of a perfect fit as ! measured each time.
 ! Another department, presided over b Mrs Wesley, is that devoted to Butter
 ick's patterns, for which Hall & Go. ar sole city agents. Butteriek's are ae } knowledged to be the best patterns an } are growing i'll favor. Every montl . when new patterns appear, those for tl l month just past are removed and nc' ones substituted, no small work of itsel : Down stairs, in the basement, arc grca ' stacks of goods in bales and boxes, pile up like cord wood, from which the dail
 supply for the retail counters above } drawn. After threading his way be
 tween the long rows of goods, reachin ; from floor to floor, the writer was prt pared to believe, with Brother Bolles (
 the New Milford Gazette, that ssthe ha has not been told. Too much cannot | said.''
 The upholstery department, another ( the great specials, is here, under the d rection of Mr Lines. Real lace, Noting
 ham lace, gimpure, chenille and Turct man curtains, China silks, lambrequin house trimmings, foreign and domest rugs, table and piano covers, oil clotf and everything that pertains to upho : stery.
 It may be remarked that w. E. Hall
 Go. receive orders for fitting up house , complete and keep in their employ number of men for that purpose, inclut ing William Brooks, whose decoratiy work is in great demand throughout tI 5 city.
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