The daily citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1889-1890, 1889-12-22
OUR PAST AND FUTURE.
BUSINESS MEN
INTERVIEWED.

The Results of the Year Now End
Ing and the Prospects for 1890
Just Enough DespOndent One
to Show Our Future Assured.
There is hum and a hustle, a rattl
and roar, a vim and go about Ashe
vile merchants which makes the visito
think but once about the scenery and eli
mate and then turn his attention to tn,
shop windows. Good gracious! Look al
JACOBS DRUG STORE.
That is the toughest sort of pill tc
swallow. II there are not aprons, mou
choir cases, tides, and lots of fancy art
icles, hanging just out of the reach ot
some mustard plast,rs, which would lain
draw them down. But there comes the
proprietor himself, with jaunty step.
Hello, old man! l see you are dealing
in dry goods. The pill business must be
pretty bad this year. Do you have to
throw these articles in as prizes for the
man who is able to take the most of your
medicine without experiencing any i'll
effects, or are these rewards for the doc
tor who sends you the most prescrip-
tions?"
mo, sir; those are the property of the
ladies of the Christian church, who have
put them on sale here"
WELL you are endorsed by the church
| guess your wares must be all right,
only from the clothing there one would
think you spelled it wears. But how
has your business been during the year ?"
II can't complain. Our sales have
never been larger. We have more pre-
scription work than he can attend to,
and the hardest part of the business is
to find some place to invest the profits" +"
Mr.. Jacobs statement is perhaps a lit
tie overdrawn, but constant association
with doctors is not conducive to making
one state case accurately to the public.
Leaving him to the arduous task of in
vesting the profits, let us step into the
store of
II. REDWOOD co.
There behind those counters, piled up with
dry goods, clothing, boots, shoes and no.
tions, is the man we want to see.
How has our business been during the
present year compared with that of last !?
We can truthtully say that our sales have
increased 25 per cent. Not only that, but
we are keeping finer line Of goods than
ever before. Our trade has clamored for
1t, and we have been compelled to keep
them in order to supply their wants. The
increase of population has brought with
it a growth in taste and style OF dress"
That speaks well for a place. Where
the luxuries of life are in popular demand
the merchant ought to make a few dol
lars. AS an old Greek, when asked why
he was working, said, IL am working to
earn money to buy food to get more
strength to earn money to buy food to
get more strength to earn, etc." And
that is what we are all doing. 1t takes
lots of courage and nerve to keep walk
ing through this dreary treadmill of ex-
istence. But this isn't place for moral
izing, but for more realizing. That is
what we are doing in Asheville. If you
don't believe it, walk into the store of
FL MIMNAUGH.
Listen to what he says: II dealuow only
in dry goods and carpets. My business
has been running FIVE months, and have
no cause to repent having opened store
in Asheville. Business is especially good
the time l have been here.
The finer lines of goods have the best
sales. There is no Southern town, and
have visited them all, that can support
and demands finer quality of merchan-
disc than Asheville. The better grades
Of carpets are especially in demand, ow-
ing to the great amount OF building now
going on. l can hardly fill the orders
which have received Tor furnishing en-
Tire houses with carpets. Even in this
small space of time my business has
grown SO that intend to use the second
1oor of this building for millinery and
lressmaking.."
Asheville seems to offer pretty good in
lucements for new merchants, according
% Mr.. Mimnaugh's statements.
Now we will go to
SAWYER S CLOTHING STORE
And see what they will say to this all i'm
,ortant question. They are not the men
who, when a customer returned with his |
uit and complained of the fit, said |
Why, we have sold ten suits to various
PARTIES who saw you with those clothes"
while the customer went away rejoicing
md kicked himself around three blocks |
or not being able to appreciate good,
mug, New York fit. No, they are not the
men, but they seem to sell suits, all the
anne, for one said: as business good |
Well, it was an off day to-day, and yet l |
old four suits of clothes myself. That
sn't doing very bad, is it? l am not
'ery sad because the business is picking
Up, although it did compel me to add a
arge line of dry goods and carpets to my
PRESENT stock"
Hello there, CITIZEN man! How are
our" And out on the sidewalk appeared |
Ir. Chedester's beaming counteuance,
alking to the customers who were stroll
ng into the store of
CHICHESTER 4 son.