The daily citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1889-1890, 1889-12-22

SiIlECHj WHo wears q COntinual palneC
expression, look like an angel with G
twelve foot halo. In answer to our gen
tie query, he replied:
Our business has been at least quar-
ter greater than the past year, and e;.'~.
the holiday season set in we have been
unable to attend to the wants of our Gus.
toners. The sale of views is an import
ant branch of our business, but we sell
ten views of Asheville and its Immediat,
vicinity, where we sell one taken else
where"
Then the reporter left to escape being
crushed in the rush of patrons and has
tened over to the
| ASHEVILLE ICE & OCAL COMPANY,
Here he met with neither an icy or
cold reception but was told that the
company had secured the sole agency for
the Jellico coal and were now supplying
all the manufactures in town. Their
total output showed that the manu-
in size as their coal business has largely
increased. Quantities of this coal are
shipped to outside points by the car load.
The ice industry has just been basking in
the hot sun of the past few weeks and
this was the only enterprise, whose
proprietor did not grumble at the heat.
That is very good idea, when it be-
comes very cold, the coal trade Just
whoops her up, and when it becomes
very warm, the ice industry takes the
lead and makes things howl. But next
door is the store of
N. J. LANCE,
who says:
II formerly kept a store at Hot
Springs, and then moved to Asheville be-
cause l thought there was better bust
ness opening here"
The store will be opened on the first OF
January for the sale OF general merchan-
disc. But he is not the only new man
here, for entering the handsome McAtee
building, there was found the photo
graph gallery of
MR.. J. w. CRAWFORD.
Although just starting, he seems to be
well pleased with the prospects, and
vainly quoted rates to the reporter, who,
though he admired his work, had left his
pocketbook at home.
The next place was that of
KoPP LIcHTENBERGER.
II hear you have just started in busi-
ness here" queried the reporter. "Yes,
and we are agreeably surprised at the
amount of trade which we have secured.
We are selling goods as staple articles OF
which at first we only kept samples"
Not having been asked to sample any
thing the reporter moved on to
MITcHELLs s SHOE STORE.
"How is business " was asked. "You
don't mean to have nerve enough to ask
that in this state of the weather." was
the answer, and the reporter hastened
onward as rapidly as if he had been as
sisted by forcibly extended boot. At
PELHAM's DRUG STORE
every face was smiling and joyous. All
said that they had done the big thing OF
their life, when they moved from their
old quarters a short time ago, and that
business was so brisk now, that they
had no time to think of the business in
the old quarters.
Mr.. MAX MARCUS
sold his stock of gents furnishing goods
to Mr.. c. H, Mark, on the 18th of this
month. The latter gentleman will re-
main here until the first of January, and
then will remove his goods to Admission,
Ala, where he has store. Mr.. Marcus
says that he has been i'll business for two
years, but that the competition was too
great for him to make any profit and
that he thought the increase in the num-
Der Of stores exceeded the growth in the
FCLENwIDER BRO.
is another new shoe store. They said |
that the business had been as good as
could be expected, considering the state
of the weather. According to them the
people demand better class of goods
and so they have done away with the
cheaper grades.
WILLIAMSON co.
Were interviewed and replied as follows:
The sales are better. Perhaps not greater
in the total amount, but better in the
class of goods sold. An artistic line of
furniture is now demanded, which we
could not have put on the market before.
We carry double the stock we did before,
and the class of goods we keep has en-
;irely changed. A new and great demand
las sprung up for fitting up houses with
carpets, pictures, furniture, ETC., from top
to bottom.
THE ASHEVILLE HARDWARE co.
Owns the store formerly belonging to
Mr.. J. R. Hill, and have only been open two
weeks, but they certainly wouldn't risk
he amount they have in their venture ii
hey didn't think that their outlay would
De refunded.
The reporter had now almost finished
his beat and his cigar that remained was
to get the opinion of the
BALTIMORE CLOTHING STORE.
Flinging away his butt, which gutter
snipe quickly seized on, he entered and