Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-09-17

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city by the great show. The influx Of peo-
pie to Pittsburg has been steady and is in
creasing. The crowds of people from the
outside all do more or less shopping. and
that fact is creating quite business BOOM.
Some of the leading merchants say their
sales have increased from 25 to so per cent.
Everybody who comes buys something, and
the merchants are SO elated over the results
that thew would give amounts as high as
S15,000 rather than see the Exposition end.
Another merchant saws the money he con-
tributed to the Exposition is the best paying
investment he ever made.
BIG DRY GOODS SALES.
Mr.. Horne, of Horne s. Ward, puts it
very clearly when he says almost the entire
trade of September is due to the Exposition.
Said he Yesterday: The Exposition is of
almost uneStimable benefit TO the merchants
of Pittsburg and to the city in general. This
is unusually dull month. The city people
have Just returned from their summer out
ings and are not ready for business They
do not commence their shopping until
late in the month. The E1posi-
ton and the cheap excursions bring
in people within a radius of 100
miles. They are good people and buy
good goods Almost all our sales this
month are to people outside of the city.
They are from towns like New Castle, West
Newton, Greensburg, etc. They take just
as fine a quality of goods as do the city
people, and they are not hard to deal with.
Last wear our sales increased 20 per cent.
and this wear thev will be advanced to 25
per cent at least There are more new faces
too, and we are getting class of trade that
would not be reached in any other way. OF
course there are many of them who would
come at some other time of the year, and
this brings them in earlier. 1t is an ad-
vantage to us. We can give better service
now than we could when the city rush is on,
so if we did not get any new people we
would still be ahead
FITTING OUT THE FAMILY.
Kaufman Brothers are jubIlant. 'Why,"
said one member of the firm yesterday, 'our |
business has increased 80 per cent The in |
crease is nearly all country trade, and We
can trace it directly to the Exposition. At |
le1SL per cent dT6 peOplS WIZ NEVER
dealt with us before. They came here |
with the intention of buying. A father who |
wants to fit out his family reasons that by |
coming to Pittsburg he will have better |
selection, he will be able to save enough in |
his purchases to pay his expenses, and can |
see the Exposition for nothing. We are
away ahead of last year now and when
more excursions are run We expect even
greater results. We could hardly do with
firm subscribed toward its erection l regard |
as the best investment we ever made. 1t is
paying us bigger dividends than any other |
stock we hold"
"What effect is the Exposition having on |
your trade?" was asked of Mr.. Paul Hacke, |
OF Hugus & Hacke, yesterday.
NOT LIKE CITY SHOPPERS.
''You can see it right here" was the |
response. Look at this crowded store. 1t |
is a wet day and in a dull season, yet look |
at the crowds. The Exposition alone is
responsible for it. The increase in business
has been wonderful-I might say almost so
per cent. The increase from the country
people who would not likely come to us in any
other way. They come here with the inten-
ton of buying, and they do business
quietly. They are not like the professional
city shoppers, who simply go into stores to
gossip and worry the clerks. 1 could not
begin to tell the benefits we are deriving
from the Exposition, bur if there was a situ- |
alton where a question OF money would hold |
the Exposition here, L would willingly put |
myself down for $4,000, and think it
good investment.
At the Peoples store the proprietors were |
not SO sanguine, although they expect |
brighter things for the future. The result |
of a talk with Mr.. Dick of that firm, was as
follows; Although the Exposition has |
not done much for us yet, there is a notice |
able increase. The weather has been so !
bad that nothing would bring out people. |
When more excursions are run we expect to |
do big business. The Exposition has |
helped us heretofore, and has brought in
customers that would not otherwise have |
come. We expect it to do the same or bet |
ter this year.
TOLD ITS OWN STORY.
The crowds in the store of Biber g. Easton
told the story before even the question was
asked. Mr.. Easton said the firm was en-
loving a heavy country patronage, and
while most of the people were regular out
of-town customers, there were a number of
new faces He attributed the increase en-
tirely to the Exposition, and said it made it
more convenient to handle the outside trade
at this time than later in the season when
the city patrons were doing their shopping.
Himmelrichs the shoe men, were loud in |
their praises of the Exposition. Their trade |
was materially increased over last year and |
wonderfully over September of the wear be- |
fore. They blamed the Exposition and the |
cheap rates for large part of their extra |
trade.
"The Exposition is an educator" re-
marked Mr.. Boggs, of the great drygoods |
firm across the river. ''1t teaches people how |
and what to buy. Its value to Pittsburg |
and Allegheny can not becounted in dollars |
and cents We are receiving some outside |
trade from the people who attend the Ex-
position, but most of it we would get any,
how. Still, about % per cent of our coun- /
try trade is of that character that would not
come to US in any other way than by the E1-
position. 1t brings good class of custom
ers that might not come to US at all.
Joseph Horne s. Co.'s stores of course
were crowded, and Mr.. Joseph Horne said
many of the people were persons who came
here for the purpose OF seeing the Exposi- |
tion. He said: "There has been great in
crease in our business since the Exposition
opened. Last year there was an increase,
but this year it is greater. could not say
what per cent our sales have been advanced,
but it is an unusual amount"
ENORMOUS GLASS SALES.
In the glass business the story was the
same. Said 7. G. Evans, OF I. G. Evans &
Co. ''The increase in sales is exceedingly |
gratifying. The merchants have learned |
the habit of bUving only in small quantities |
from travelling statesmen. They wait to buy |
their big stock until they come to the Ex- |
positiou. Then they visit the various estab- |
{;hrnentS make n better selection and in |