The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1894-08-31
GOOD TIMES COMING.
Representative Business Men Say
Trade Ia Improving.
The City 10 Overrun with Buyers,
Mostly from the South.
The Rush at tho Custom House stu
Continues Unabated.

That an era Of general prosperity II
I rapidly approaching was demonstrated
i ny the statements made to an Evening
World reporter to-day by members o
Representative wholesale firms in varioui
!. branches, OF trade. The. large importing
houses Of the metropolis can, in com
/ mercial sense, be regarded as the pulse
: OF the entire country, and at the present
time. especially in the dry-goods ant
Z clothinG trades. the larger houses ar,
z ppessed to their utmost, capacity will
business. ~,
The city contains more out-of-towr
Y puyers than at any one time for years
(. The hotels are filled to Overlooking. and
1 Ia the wholesale district an air Of pros.
ssperity prevails. This Is due to the relief
4 from the suspense regarding the tariff. :.
J said Howard s. Jaffray, Of the big dry.
Eocde jobbing house OF Il. s. Janray g.
E Co.. to-day.
4 NOW that the squabble at Washington
Is finished the people are getting little
more ,confidence and are pulling the curls
out OF their tails which have been hidden
! between their legs so long.
There are two reasons for this re-
.fyivkl--thc season and the settlement of
the tariff question-but principally, the
tlattsI. We heye all we can do and are
( WORKING AT night
Mr.; Jaffray considers the present re;
~viya1 of trade the forerunner of general
good times. He says the merchants
Throughout the country are gaining con-
DAILY He snd bee at .o"nns b GsSsn
or Wall street, and finds this opinion to
be iniyersal. ... .-..-.. ... ''
:. the large establishment OF the II. 3.
OF town buyers to-day. =
"Our business is greater than
I vas year age ,..,a SAID Daniel mel
sUmpaf eyo Sesrs aso We ea are as very
busy. attribute II greatly to the settle
Rient Of the tariff question. We now
Enots what is what We did not know
Z Mr.. whiieman, of whiteman & Phelps,
importers of woollens and cottons, at
<Q-ie Leonard street. took conservative
View Of the Situation. He said business
was above the average for the past few
years. yet II still LACKED the snap OF
several years ago.. II had a healthy
dealers generally were gaining conn;
dence, which IL an exceedingly good
AZ Faulkner, Page. & Co.'S. importers
supply much Of the jobbing trade. It was
stated that business was very good. and
that Jobbers who had been holding out
Y were now stocking up generously.
In the Wholesale grocery trade the i'm
prov ernent was not SO marked.
Mr.. Nichols. of Austin. Nichols & Co.
s Of stock as r on ba keep
we're staple articles, necessary In every
household, and while business ali during
the month of August had gradually in
the tartfr question more than to the
fell ! beneft from the large number
g 6nyff RAM n TIE salty eiX especially those
The same story was told at the Amer
lean GraSsry Company, formerly Thur
The Wholesale hardware dealers are
IN somewhat similar position.
w r. Gray. of Patterson. HarraI q
1T is far above the average. The
| Western trade has been taken away
from the East by large manufacturing
concerns moving West. They have the
taken advantage OF this and moved
West. The Southern trade still comes
ITO New York. and It is heavier this sea-
Mr.. Wiebusch, Of the wiebusch, Hill
gar Company, "a Chambers street, said
their hands were working day and night
during the past six months: They are
Eeetting hundreds of cases Of goods out
" bond daily, and II will take month
more TO get their orders shipped.
Bernheim, Bauer Co., clothiers, said
the clothing business was now exp. ri
encing boom such as they had rot
seen In years.
THE tariff question WAS regarded as
disturbing element he said. Now
that II Is settled. the city Is full Of buy
ers, and they are ordering large sup
plies, and as result business is en-
cellent"
Several freight agents for trunk lines
said that the settlement of the tariff
law had not affected their business as
yet, but they looked for II very soon