The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-08-12
CHESTER CLEARY.s OPENING.
Many People Acknowledgements OF the
Mammoth Stock.

Many People Acknowledgements OF the
Mammoth Stock.
Chester Cleary opened his magnificent
dry goods store Yesterday in the new and
elegant quarters in the Harrisburg build
ing on Second and Cherry streets. The
store was visited by thousands of people
and scores of clerks were kept busy all dav
long in exhibiting the mammoth stock.
The day marks an era in not only the
mercantile career of Mr.. Cieary, but in
the dry goods business of the city and the
Northwest as well.
The building into which Mr.. Cleary has
moved is to be the finest in the city. His
main store-room situated on the south
side, facing on Second street, is 50x110 feet
in size, with 22-foot ceiling and magniti-
cent show windows in 'front.' Owing to the
immense amount of work necessary to get
the store-room In shape, the windows were
not fixed up yesterday, but the goods on
the shelves were the most elegant and ex-
tensive ever seen in one room in Seattle.
Nearly every line of goods is stocked,
with endless assortments of imported
goods, which Mr.. Cleary has imported by
means of the new international law. which
allows goods to come into this country by
tanced all competitors and secured his
goods in from four to six weeks less time
than by the old freight lines.
The store is divided into two parts by a
partition running through the center from
end to end. To the lett as one enters the
palace OF trade is the dress goods depart
ment Here are new lot of imported
robe suits in endless variety, in amethyst,
heliotrope. Australian and other shades.
The most fashionable are those with As
trakahn effects. serpente line braided box
suits in terra Gotta. coral. logwood and
other shades and embossed velvet goods in
all colors. With every pattern is an
elegant plate and there is only one
suit OF each pattern. so that there is no
danger of the market being flooded with
similar suits. The line of dress goods is
also stocked with the new Boucle point
trimming in new patterns, with endless
shelves of black silks and satins in Bonnet.
Faille, Francalse, Soule, De Layon and
other brands; Jersey silks, black cash.
meres and Drap D'Alma wool and silk
Henriettas, silk warp Drap D'Almas, vel
vet pushes in all the latest shades In silk
plush and yelvets, the newest and lasest
colors in silk warp Henriettas, colored
sergcs, Drap D'Alma beiges and fancy
novelties in stripes, checks and fancy bro
caded colored dress wooden goods-the
latest novelties from the European markets.
directly imported for the new store.
At the end OF this department is to be
found all the newest evening shades in
cashmeres, nuns yelling and crepe clothes.
At the front end Of the store, on the left
side from the entrance, is a full assortment
of all silk Spanish Guipuire hand run
escurerai laces, Van Dyke and Eiffel points
in large and varied patterns, and in black
and cream. Back of this are all the newest
designs in fancy dress trimmings. with a
new and large importation of black let and
fancy colored buttons. Swiss. nainsook and
Hamburg embroideries with EjffeI and
Irish points-a direct importation from
Paris and Berlin.
On the right hand side of the STORE ia a
large stock OF pure silk hosierv-tbe latest
novelties in two tones, fancy stripes. drop
stitch and plain shades. In this denart-
ment is new line of ladies' hand.knit
silk underwear in fancy stripes with long
and short sleeves and open and eored
fronts; ladies' and children's muslin
underwear in large and varied assortment.