Cañon City record., 1897-09-30
RESULTS OF FRUIT DAY.

The question has been raised as to
what was the direct financial return to
our merchants this year from Fruit
Day as compared with other years.
OF course the merchants are not the
only class that are benefited ON az: Or
casion of this kind yet they are natur-
ally concerned as to their returns when
asked to contribute liberally for it, We
have taken The trouble to visit several
of our representative business men
and ask how their business this year
compares with last year, and with
hardly single exception the answers
were very favorable
Mr. Handy, of the Handy & McGee
Mercantile Company. said their sales
exceeded last years considerably.
Geo. Bethel is of the opinion that his
sales this year were greater than last.
He says that Tuesday before Fruit
Day was much better day, while
Wednesday and Thursday were about
equal.
Lon Haas, of the firm of A. Haas 4
Co, says his business this year far ex-
ceeds that of last. although he was well
satisfied with that year.
Mr.. Galley, the shoe man. did a hand
some business year ago. This years
sales exceeded those of last by a small
increase, which was as good as he had
expected.
Hunter Palmer is of the opinion that
this year just about equalled last. His
soda water trade was not quite SO good
as last year, but otherwise it was about
the same
Mr. Keables complains that the soda
water trade was much less. This may
be accounted for on account of the cool
weather and because the people were
not congregated Oh Main street.
Mr.. Smith, Of the Cash Grocery, says
his business this year wus. irst equal to
last Fruit Day.
Frank Smith, OF the dry goods store,
did business during Fruit week ex-
ceeding that of last year by several
dollars.
Mr.. Beecher did as well this Fruit
Day, but on account of the rain and
cold wave his business was light on the
second day. His sales for the week
equalied those of last year
The Brown Mercantile Company's
business this year on account of Fruit
Day was AS good if not better than last
year.
Mr.. Tanner said their business on
Wednesday and Thursday of this year
was not so good rs a year ago. but the
receipts for the week amounted to
$1,000 more than the corresponding
time last year.
Mr.. Mcdonald did little more busi-
ness on account of the crowd than the
year before. Had it not been for the
rain he would have done much better.
The hotels and restaurants were fun
to overlooking. All the rooms In the
st. Cloud were engaged day or two
ahead, while they had difficulty in enter
taining all persons desiring meals.
Uncle Tom fed more than thousand
people during the Fair
The st. James hotel fed about -four
hundred people the first day. The
second and third days were not nearly
so good.
Manning 4 Sappington made exten-
sive preparations and served over seven
meals on Wednesday alone.
They would have served twice as many
had they the room.
The churches that served meals did
well. The Cumberland Presbyterian
cleared Sl2o.oo. The Christian took in
sl4o,oe the first day, but did not serve
on the second day on account of rain.
The Y. NJ. c. A did better than last
year.
One Thousand seven hundred persons
visited the Peuitentiary, the number
being less than year ago.
Although not so many people came
in ON the railroads there was a much
larger attendance of people from vari-
ous parts OF the county. This accounts
for the Increased business done by the
rs people who come from a
distance do not make SO many pur-
rhases.