The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-03-23
u SPRING OUTLOOK
u(ers Trade Is Healthy This
Year.
. OPPOSITE or LAST spa'No.
- Dsysss sss 1Aytng = LAsss
stsshs for sAs Kar1y
ssnnsr.

.-.~e March 11-Trsde has bssn somewhat
- - snstux. but witktn ~ Pet eWo
Z eunker q buysss hsvs beeu u thfs eify
.s<s- 1Hefr spsing stocks. No house hes
~ - unussajly large shipm9nl but The
- -, invoices have been bouahk The
sS~sra. = shey a5s called. ~ those Who
~ - 4 skis market every sgoooas 49,
zs;iSn = the middle Of February. Of LITTLE
sT~yus winter weather couSinpes. % by
- and summer gods
~ III from Montana Afisoos, Eenhs Ne0
- Colorado. The hrst purchas made,
<sr, ally keep general stock, II iuyart-
= eoodsL Theis movements ere clooe1y
6ssi - The DRY gocdA clothing. ha1s end
<s ~ shoe salesmen, who constdef thsm
1871 peey. The c0ustry merchant 10
~ - become more intelligent and CO.,
- - d neither virsd. dfned nor taken
~, $500 - much o. IN former yearA
q ss es1lv pefchaufs are much sought aftes,
1 E.1 1870 believed 70 BE- the largest buyers
s{2 <--e = this market. Should IN outsider.
s. -. = allowed 20 gisncs over the iedgsp
8 ~ -. q ahe largest wholesale houses h
~ .nefee shaa there are host of retailers
8 - HUNDRED miles or les os Chicago
- 8 uonthiy whose pafchases aggregate
9 - . four tiues - much - the -.
] Se1vy buyera Following the distant
e ruie. the merchants from the near
- thes thoss from the states adjacent
- ~ ssen.
- - ams tho trade might b. designsisd
y foslfhy trade, the very opposite OF last
Al merchants look forward 10 April -
nn1k u this season for salea Should any
~ eoods house experience . dull
s 80 DE other houses are humming.
~ oily 4 full Of buyers. . 'had hrcak"
- uole. Firms and saisafnen alike are
- sboas the loss Of what they deem
~ Iedrnass trade or regular customers
- ~ txnde b. lost By smother house Of.
S5<v hetn Or dating bills ahead, the mesket
& nnsmes unaettled. Lass spSine viii long
5z harsd b. eli the Wholesale dry goeds
S1a lesding iobbing nrm Of fhis city
711 ~ wa8 with postais qnsting ging-
{s1 fnoeeinQ ana biesched goods 1t UMPIRE
7113g 10 pficca II produced . big but
S~3lny uade Not only this house.
3 S~ - oehsr houses in the came line
~ recipients OF enormous
~ Ire road men cent in the
- taksn hon customers, With N 1T RI
- ~ pricea Customers came 10 this
4 ~ No uesef came before II unsettled
(n A0Vever. for nearly eli merchandise
- ~ ~ Foods 3cbbers and evcyy Wholesale
& ~ noc6s house In the West and Northwest felt
r. - durtng the spring season The spring
- + usually about ons-third les In DOL
- - oonm than the fall trade. This u 90
mrnaod ~ b. there being no demand for wool
- h|onkets dress goods suitsbie for winter
Vosf htasy underwear ana hosiery.
~ unaonsonable weather Of the past winter
lrn - have any bearing upon the mef-
n1lee b be purchased the present season by
~ osoues retail merchant. IL viii doubtless
-, . . great degrees. the invoices made
III Ill Tho Chicago merchant 10 m optimtst
- ~ Z psninist II the buyers decrease
- Ills new customers must BE- hunted up
~ b NV sections the road men viii be sent.
~ Wholesale millinery trade has been most
0n111nt ne p6st weak and the stores carry
Il lkis linz Of goods have been Oiled with
~ lndy cusfcmen selecting the uBtfim-
- hata. feathers, flowers and ribbouA
~ ~ jobblng houses now permit . trimmer
~ Dsiyileses of the trimming room. That r..
AsGld merchant who has millinery depart
naot n his store bring his miliiner 70 this
~ hs can mako his purchaser Of hats and
nhhons while TIE mlliiner Ia allowed Ia remain
d H. txinmlngfoom, get instructed, or can
Opy the istees ssyie Of hats. several hundreds
- he fAis M VIII nock into one house alone
Ills season, remaining two weeks or longer.
Neu rork and the osheT jobbing cities upon
ths seaboesd epmplain Of duh times, snd % DO
- i0ss and Kasns City. g. Louie has been
ond b lairiy active on account Of the great
Deospeuiy that has attended the .southern
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