Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-08-11
SEE GOOD TIMES AHEAD
Country Merchants Buying Goods in New
York Talk Hopefully.
In Most Cases They Report GoSs
Crops and n Better Feeling
Prevailing Generally.

Following are a number of interviews on
the subject of returning good times, given
to the World by merchants from all sec
tons of the country. who are now in New
York buying their winter goods:
The only merchant who called at the as
scciauon's headquarters yesterday and who
spoke of hard times was George Bensinger
of Lockport, n. Y. Mr.. Bensinger is in the
boot and shoe business and wears 10 to
L Bryan button in the lapel of his coat.
Everything is quiet my way he said.
Nobody has any money. and the biggest
Industry We have, the Indurated F Der COM
pany. closed Saturday night for lack of
orders
J. c. Goldthwaite. cloaks and furs, CO.
lumbus, Ohio, said:
THE tidal wave of prosperity is ap-
preaching. 1 have Travelled through twenty
one counties in Ohio recently and never
saw such crops. AS far as politics are
concerned. Mr.. Bushnell has no snap. and
II is a question whether Hanna, with all
his power, can be elected"
A. +. Bolton, Lake Charles, La, said:
business in my section of the country is
merely dependent upon the lumber product,
and this at present is in full activity. In
Lake Charles We have fifteen to twenty
saWmills and the same number of lumber
yards The sawmills employ an average OF
200 men each, and this number is fully en-
ployed. The farmers have suffered some
What for rain, and the rice crop is NOT as
good as in former years. However, general
conditions"
A: $. Kuhn of Kuhn & Co.. dry goods.
Vicksburg, Miss, said:
General business i'm Vicksburg is good
and has been so since January. The out
look Is very assuring. We have a fattertng
cotton crop, Irrespective of the overflows
Inc south possesses resources which could
be taken hold of by northern capitalists
with immense profit. We have recently
organized in Vicksburg a trade orsaniza-
ton for the express purpose of interesting
capitalists i'm the north in the wealth of
material that lies untouched in the south
icr want of financial assistance"
George Bauer of Wild Bros & Bauer
Alexandria. La. dry goods. said
For two years our particular section has
neen extremely fortunate with its agricul-
ture, and as consequence general BUSH
ness has been good, trade regular and no
commercial fluctuations The spring sea-
son was good and our summer business IS
consistent 1 might say that the recent rise
in sugar has helped general conditions"
L. n Parish. of Parish & Proctor. Cali
vert Texas, general merchandise said:
we have had drought for over thirty
DAYS In our section and business has been
seriously affected. This continuance will
| mean backward fall business but other
wise conditions are favorable"
III. Resten of Besten * Langen Com
pany, clcthiers, Louisville and Indianap-
oils. said:
I'VE are happy in the fact that our busi-
! ness both i'm the Louisville and Indianap-
oils stores, has been better this year than
Tor several years past. Our profits figure
an advance of over - per cent
r. j. Howe of Howe Bros Carrolltan
Ky, dry goods merchants said:
Il nave come into town to make my pur-
chases for my fall and winter trade. Agri-
culture has not been in a profitable condi-
tion in our Sc ction for some months and
money has, therefore. been hard to get.
But the prospect for the fall and winter is
bright"
James L. Audette of Jones & Audette,
dry goods and carpets, jamestown, n. Y.
said:
jamestown harbors a diversity of in.
dustries. There are large wooden and cot.
ton mills there; also furniture factories.
bicycle works, steel and rolling mills, pa
per factories. machine shops. and. I'm fact.
little of every branch of trade and in
dustry. They are all busy. employing COM
plete forces of help and working full time.
This Is in view of new business orders for
the fall and winter season. In my own
line We have had some quiet times but at
no time has 1t been sluggishly dull We
have every assurance of a satisfactory bus
mess for the entire winter"
William Davidson of Scruggs Wander
WORT & Barry Dry Goods Company cloaks
and suits. st. Louis. said:
The general business in st. Louis is
good. The foundation of prosperity for all
business there rests upon agricultural con-
ditions. AMI these are highly promising
The wholesale merchants are away ahead
and the banks in the past year cleared 25
per cent We confidently look for a pros
porous fall and winter business"
II. M Harrison of Hotchkiss e. Co.
Cleveland. dry goods merchants, said:
1.-The universal feeling for the fall trade
is COOL. Confidence has returned and
large purchases are being made Strikes
are over. and money is In circulation. The
new tax On wool has set the wooden mills
at work. In short. there is a healthy un-
dercurrrent OF feelirg which insures per-
feetly satisfactory fall business"