The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-12-25
r. K. THOMAS.

A cut of the new store to be occupied by
r. K. Thomas appears on this page; he
moves from the old clock 10 the new; from
the old-fashioned dark Eagle Emporium
salesroom to the handsome, modern,
Culmer block, 26, %, 30, 80, East, First
South street, with salesroom having fifty
feet front of plate glass, large and convent
ent and basement as lightas many stores.
When it was first rumored he intended re-
moving from the Eagle Emporium to what
had been considered side street, many of
his friends expressed fear he had made
mistake, but First South street is coming
to the front fast, and all now congratulate
him, and consider his move master stroke
This street has already three banks, two
immense furniture houses, several large
grocery and hardware stores, two or three
hote's, city hall, theatre, HERALD building
and now r. K. Thomas mammoth dry goods
house, and it will certainly become the
leading retail street of the city. Mr..
Thomas will commence moving his reserve
stock to his new quarters, and open up new
shipments tomorrow. The Eagle Empor-
ium, however, will be kept open with full
and complete stock for some weeks yet, to
accommodate his numerous patrons, and
goods will be offered very low rather than
move them. One department after the
other will be opened up in his new store as
rapidly as possible and goods offered for
sale, but due notice will be made of his reg
ular opening, when we look for an i'm
mense display and expect to see by all odds
bo fo,.
doing business in the west. Mr.. Thomas
success is explained in the fact that before
opening in the Eagle Emporium about five
years since, he had been in the dry goods
business all his life and had fifteen
years experience in the New York
and other eastern markets as buyer
for a large and wealthy concern
and having hundreds of warm personal
friends in New York business men his
credit was unlimited from the start, which,
with his ability and experience, has en-
abled him to land goods in Salt Lake
as low and perhaps lower than any other
house Commencing business on a cash
basis he has been enabled to discount his
bills, getting all the benefits, and not hav-
ing wholesale trade to protect he has sold
goods lower than wholesale and retail
house combined could dare do IN their retail
without being unjust to the
smaller stores they are selling to, and in
consequence has enjoyed very large share
of the public patronage. The sensational
policy of advertising bargain sales as bats,
and other eye-catching inducements, has
not been pursued by him, but everythin 6
has been sold at a uniformly low price,
and it has been found that
even his regular prices were lower
than the bargain prices named by other
houses on same articles. He has regretted
very much his present crowded quarters,
and feels confident that with a larger place, \
his business will be more than doubled
His new salesroom will have about four hun
dred feet of shelving, while the basement
which will also be used for salesroom
will have one-half that much, with plenty
of counters and ample accommodation for
all departments, consisting of silk, dress
goods, white goods, embroideries, laces,
hosiery, gloves, muslin underwear, shoes,
slippers. ladies', children's and mems fur
boys'clothing and fancy goods. The
basement feature will be good, suitable for
family supplies, and for the mechanic and
farmer and will be sold at basement prices.