New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-11-23
DRY GOODS IN DEMAND.
AN AUCTION SALE YESTERDAY REALIZED
NEARLY s15OO,OOO
BUYERS FROM ALL OVER TIE COUNTRY SNAPPER
Up BARGAINs AND PRICES REACHED
THE TOP NOTCH WITH TIE
LAST LOT SOL.

Up BARGAINS AND PRICES REACHED
THE TOP NOTCH WITH TIE
| LAST LOT SOLD.
Are you going 70 Lakewood Tomorrow
! mo. sir; am going home to mark up my gooda
| / have more stock than | had this morning, and
| Is worth more"
This short dialogue between Cornelius n. Bliss
and large buyer at yesterday big drygoods SALE
which took place Immediately after the last lot
had been sold. indicates the feeling which pre-
vailed among the merchants assembled there. The
sale Ct the largest which have taken place
here for long time and was ATTENDED by buyers
from all the country. San Francisco elbowed
Boston ard Ncw-Orlcans crowded Minneapolis In
the struggle for the domestic cotton goods. and In
many instances. John c. Wilmerdng. who did the
selling han to refuse offers because lots were
hausted.
WImereins. Morris G. Mitchell Nos. ca and C.
White-st. sold the goods. by order Of Bliss Fabyan
* Co.. a credit of -four months from March l,
1891 These liberal terms doubtless contributed
large.y TO the activity in bidding and to the good
prices realized. and 1920 packages were sold be-
tween 10 m. and p. M. consisting OF sheetings.
Iarseiles quilts. singhams, damasks. denims,
checks. cottonades, ticks. chevots. jeans, sateens
and American bags-al the production Of the fol-
lowing mills: Pepperel! Manufacturing Company.
Laconia Company Bates Manufacturing Company.
Columbian Manufacturing Company, Thorndke
Company. Androscosgin Mills. Warner Cotton
Mills, Palmer Mills, Otis Company and Cords Mills.
The interest In the sale never tagged, high.
water mark in the prices reached with the last
lot offered, ana buyers and sellers alike
pleased with the result. A list of the large pur-
chasers includes the II. b. Cafin Company.
Sweetser, Pembroke & Co.. left, Weller & Co..
Durham. Buckley & Co. Butler, Clapp 4 Co..
Morris Well Dloomingdaie Brothers. 5. Steinfeld
Field = Co. Ely, Walker Drygoods Company, J.
" Farwen & Co, Mande Brothers. Carson,
pirie, Scott & Co, and Partridge &
Netcher, Chicago; Aims & Doelpke and
the John Shillito Company. Cincinnati; :. c. Davis
q Co. and Rice. Silk & Co., St Louis; Levy Loeb
& Co.. a. Lehman q Co.. Kaufman & lsaacs and
schwartz & Son. New-Orleans Murphy. Grant 6
San FRANCISCO; the Pittsburg Dry. Goods Company.
Badford. Thomas q Co, r. II. White Co.. Shep-
ard. Norwell & Co. Farley, Harley & Co. and Jor.
dan Marsh a Co, Boston; Doughton & wilkins.
J. T. Long Co., John Wanamaker and c. r.
McMullen 4 Co., Philadelphia; s. Kahn, Son & Co.,
Daniel Miller 4 Co; Joseph Grinsfeder. Straus
Bros: Hurst. Purnell & co. and Pearie Bros &
BulenI Moro & Emery, Kansas City, and BAN.
berger. Bloom & Co. Louisville
Cornelius y. Bliss after the sale and
said: Although this was an exceptionally large
Offering of goods. IL represented less than one-haif
OF what months sales should be in December
auction at the Histories and dealers stocks are
very much reduced all over the country"
THE prices realized" he added, are highly sat.
isfactory and are about ) TO per cent below
agents asking prices
The total amount realized was about sl,5eoo00.