The herald., 1895-07-07

Angeles September 3, 1861. and has
been raised right here in the Angel
City. He Is prominent in church, work
and his friends are legion. He has
been with the firm for nearly two
years and thoroughly understands his
business, that of disposing of the bar
gains JACOBY BROS. back up their
statesmen with.
Space will prevent my giving the past
history, present status and future pros
| poets of every one employed by this
great firm, but, in crossing to the shoe
department, l found several of the
city's noted shoe statesmen. first among
them being MIR. M. JACOBY, who is
also the buyer for this important de-
partment. MIR. MORRIS JACOBY is
known to every wearer of shoes in Los
Angeles county, and many pair are
there that he has fitted to the feet of
his customers. He is backed by large
stock and a. force of shoe-sellers that
are hard to down, among them HAIR
VEY II. COX. Everybody knows
HARVEY. He has spent fifteen years
| in the shoe business, and four of them
have been in the interests of this firm.
He reads shoes like you do book and
he was born twenty-nine years ago in
Lafayette, Ind; came to Los Angeles
twelve years ago and is proud of it.
Wherever you hear the subject of
shoes you will find MIR. ]. Il.
| to this city in 1888. He was born
away back in the Badger State" (old
| WiscOnsin,) l don't think it was in a
shoe factory, but you would think so
if you heard him talk shoes, and saw
the way he handled them. He has
been with this firm for two years, or
ever since he sold out his own bust
nes in San Bernardino. And JOHNNY
HUGHES is still on deck.
G. S. GOODRICH crossed my path;
he was very busy; but, between Gus
toners. 1 learned that he had been
with this firm for eight years, and is
head salesman in the Spring-street
mems shoe department. He came to
this city nine years ago; was born in
Marshalltown, Iowa, and twenty-six
years have passed over his head, the
| most of which he has spent in fitting
| feet. Among the shoe statesmen in this
department met MIR. e. c. DIETER.
He is a native of Minnesota, an old
Indian-fghter, who can dangle scalpS
at his belt, and who counts his GUS
toners by the score. He is 20 years of
age, and came to Los Angeles in 1893;
has been with the firm for the past
eight months. His shoe-training COM
menced at an early age, his mothers
slipper being his first experience.
Possibly the two oldest shoe men in
the city draw salary from this big
firm. iefer to MIR. N. NJ. KILGARE
and MIR. A. S. MCDONALD. Both have
been in the business for years. MIR.
KILGARE was formerly proprietor Of
the King Shoe Store on Main street
He came to Los Angeles thirteen years
ago, and all but eleven of them have
been spent inside the economy shoe de-
partment of JACOBY BROS. MIR. Nc
DONALD was in business ON Spring
street, and the firm of MCDONALD &
FISHER was well-known. He has
had twenty-eight years experience in
shoes, and one-twenty-eighth part of
that time has been given to selling
shoes for this well-known and popular
house. Shoes and MCDONALD, or
MCDONALD and shoes, it makes no
difference. Among the other shoe
statesmen in this department met MIR.
I'M. 5STREICHER. who halls from
Toledo, o.. He has been with the
house for two years.
MR.. LEO JACOBY. son Of MORRIS
JACOBY, is on the floor of the econ
omy department, and he tells me that
his earliest business recollections were
and are connected with this house. He
is native son and natural salesman
and g. "chip of the old block" as it
were. One of the three-year men is
MR.. I. LOWENSTEIN, who sells shoes
from morning until night. He being of
an economic nature is found in the
economy department. From Tucson,
Ariz., comes MR.. A. GOLDBERG, who
has been with the house since last Sep
tember. J. COCHRAN of Downey, Cal,
has been with JACOBY BROS. two
years or more. and the DOwney trade
know that a native could only be found
where low prices make their home. MIR.
e. B. ARNOLD, who claims the whole
East Side as his abiding place, is now
assisting the firm through their gigantic
dissolution sale, and he had hardly time
to tell me about himself
MR.. P. PALMATEER is another who
takes pleasure in wrapping up shoes
and in showing sure-to-buy customers.
The firm gives employment to many
more shoe-sellers on Saturdays and
extra heavy trade days. Shoes are cut
ting an important item among the sales
of this giant firm.
! Among the hats, where stopped for
quite while, met MR.. JAMES IRA
Wis. Now, all I required to inform me
of his ability was the place of his birth
and the scene of his early training Or
ange, N. j. He is a descendent of hat
| manufacturers. He was born in 1856,
lived in Orange county from 1858 to 1868
where his father and brothers had a
hat factory; from 1872 to 1881 was with
his brothers in Philadelphia, still with
the hats, and from 1881 to 1888, when
he came to Los Angeles, he sold more
hats. For the past year he has been
selling hats to Jacoby Bros many Gus
toners. He is ably assisted by MR.
CHAS. KLINE, a native son of Kansas
who cannot get over recommending
hats with a cable attached-strong
winds, cyclones, etc. Between them
they turn out many dozen hats, and if
yours don't fit you right, just hand it
to MR.. TRAVIS and he will remodel
it for you. Heads fitted with neatness
and dispatch. Over on the furnishing
goods side, where suppose more people
are waited on and in less time than at
any other counter in the city, 1 found
MR.. p. S. JACOBY. I had to wait sew
eral minutes for my turn and, during
breathing spell, 1 caught Phirs atten-
ton. He told me he was born right
here in town and had been with the
firm for ten years, and guess he has.
they ask Phil, and If there is a garment
in the stock that he can't lay his hands
on I'll buy it, sure.
| MR., JAMES MAGIvNY, an old-time
furnishing goods man, greeted me in