The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-10-05
THE GREATER OAK HALL.
News About the New Quitting Store fol
Women and Men-0ak Hall Now
Store for Everybody

We make no apology for borrowing a
half column of news for this issue on the
new move of our old business friends,
Wanamaker & Brown.
Nobody ever thought of the old corner
of 9th and Market, except as the house
that had been head and front of the
clothing trade for men and boys for over
sixty years.
They have gone into the clothing bust
ness as big as ever this season, but by
pushing the tables a little closer all
around, and gathering little room here
and there, they have got almost two big
floors empty and filed again with new
clothing for women, misses and little
girls.
| 1t is an entirely new thing for the
house. There is one 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' crowns and wraps to meas
ure, just as desired. These are to be made
by men tailors, thereby giving them the
highest stamp of skill and finished work
manship
At least one-fourth of the stock has
been imported and just brought through
the Custom House-fresh from the Paris,
London and Berlin makers.
While j. A. Hudson, the manager of
this new department, was abroad, be or
dered stock of bats, bonnets, toQues and
other new conceits in ladies' head gear,
made expressly to the order OF Wana-
maker < Brown, and these make the first
show of millinery.
These two-the ladies' cloak and suit
room and millinery room-have been
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floor.
Immediately underneath the ladies'
cloaks on the first floor is the room for
misses, and children's cloaks and suits.
In another part of the frat floor a de-
partment for the sale of women's and
misses mems and boys shoes has been
opened, and alongside Of it-men's and
boys hats.
The building alterations to accomplish
the needed selling space have almost
transformed the old store. The familiar
old broad stairway to the second floor has
disappeared, and the large transom space
has been hoored 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 green glass, turning the space
into selling room the old picture gallery
HOut wall On OH street 'front.', and the
whole long side of the store make an I'M
broken range Of glass in window and
door.
The opening day. Wednesday, Septem-
Der 29, was a study in multitudes and
comments. The hours passed in a med
ley Of sight seeing and buying. Notwith-
standing the very broad invitation to
make the day day of nothing but seeing
the new things, many were irrepressibly
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
peTched on tables or window stills, relieved
here and there with the sparkle Of dahlia
and aster and roses.
From the earliest business hour the
store was thronged with sight seers of the
city and suburbs and country towns ad-
miring and trying on and commenting on
the new sights of beautiful goods and the
many changes that had come over the
store.
There is no doubt that this new move
of Wanamsker & Brown will bring the
store a new glory to add to its old fame
as a clothing -house The women and
misses will be as eager now to 60 to
it as the men always have been.
Success to the new 'storekeepers for us
all