The Monitor-register., 1897-10-08
THE GREATER OAK HALL
NEWS ABOUT THE NEW OUT
/, FITTING STORE FOR WOMEN
AND MEN.
OAK HALL NOW A. STORE o EVERY
BODY.

We make no apology for borrowing
half column of city news for this issue OF
the new move of our old business friends
! Wanamaker 6 Brown.
Nobody ever thought of the old cor
ner at 9th and Market, except as tht
house that had been head and front Of
the clothing trade for men and boys for
over %thirty-six years.
They have gone into the clothing busi'
ness as big as ever this season, but by
pushing the tables a little closer al
around, and gathering little room here
and there, they have got almost two big
| floors empty and filled again with new
clothing for women, misses and little
girls.
| 1t is an entirely new thing for the
house. There is M whole floor filled
with women's cloaks, suits, wraps, opera
cloaks, tea gowns, and all the other
goods for outer wear for ladies; and
as a part of that business they have
cloths for making ladies' gowns and
wraps to measure, just as desired. These
are to be made by men t~ailors, thereby
giving them the highest stamp of skill
and finished workmanship.
At least one-four th of the stock has
been imported and just brought through
the Custom House-fresh from the Paris,
| London and Berlin makers.
While Mr.. j. A. Hudson, the manager
of this new department, was abroad, he
ordered a stock of hats, bonnets, toques
and other new conceits in ladies' head
gear, made expressly to the order of
Wanamaker & Brown, and these make
the first show of millinery.
These two-the ladies' cloak and suit
room and millinery room-have been
commodiously arranged on the second
floor.
Immediately underneath the ladies'
cloaks on the fl rst floor is the room for
misses and children's cloaks and suits.
In another part of the first floor a
department for the sale of women's and
misses, mems and boys shoes has been
opened, alongside of it-men's and boys
hats.
The building alterations to accomplish
the needed selling space have almost
transformed the old store. The lam,
iliar old broad stairway to the second
floor has disappeared, and the large
transom space has beer foored over "a
modest stairway replacing the old one),
and an unbroken second floor secured
thereby. Some of the old skylight
spaces have been closed with heavy greer
glass, turning the space into selling
room; the old picture gallery front wall
on 9th street front, and the whole Ions
side of the store made an unbroken range
of glass in window and door.
The opening day, Wednesday, Septem.
Der 30, was a study in multitudes and
comments. The hours pssse in
= medley of sight seeing and buying.
Notwithstanding the very broad invitation
to make the day a day of nothing but
seeing the new things, many we're ire.
pressibly bent on buying, and spent their
money in opening day purchases.
The store was in holiday garb for the
opening-palms in corners Of rooms or
perched on tables or window stills, re-
lieved here there with the sparkle of
dahlia and aster and roses.
From the earliest business hour the
store was thronged with sight-seers oil
the city and suburbs and country towns
admiring the new sights of beautiful
goods and the many changes that had
come over the store.
There is no doubt that this new nov
of Wanamaker 6 Brown will bring tn.
store a new glory to add to its old fam,
as a clothing house. The women and
misses will be as eager now to 60 to i,
as the men always have been.
Success to the new storekeepers for u
all,