The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-02-06
TO LARGER QUARTERS
Cash Henderson's Arrange
mentS For His New Store.
TWENTY THOUSAND FEET
Of Floor Space Will be Used
After March 10.

On March Is, at o'clock, Cash Hender-
son will open up his new store in the Dig
F.nIay Ross block on North Main street
The workmen are now putting the first OF
four coats Of bright white paint on the
Ross block Main street front. The whole
building will be as white on the outside
as white paint can make 1t. The interior
win be rentted out and out, and remodeled
entire, except that there viii be no par
t.tion on the first floor. An elevator Of
modern improved design has been ordered,
with steel cage guard from the second
floor TO skylight, and when finished will
shoot up and down by means of a big
electric motor, now being built in ST.
Louis, at cost of $500.
The new store will occupy almost q, 900
square feet of floor space, exclusive Of
some ware-room additions which Mr.. Hen
derson is now planning. Crosby Bros
big store in Topeka, for which great
claims are made in size, has only 1000
square feet.
The first floor will be used for fine silk
dress goods, laces, kid gloves, etc. The
second floor will be occupied by the mil
iinery departments, to which Mr.. Hen
derson's head millner will devote money
and skill till it is unsurpassed in the west.
Here, also, viii be a great line of carpets
and curtains, such as are found in the
big stores on Broadway, New York. On
the third floor there will be two dress
making departments, in charge of the
best trained and most skillfui experts that
can be secured. Also two large rooms for
| special sales, disposition of remnants, etc.
This move VIII give Mr.. Henderson
twice as much room as he has now in the
place he has occupied for eleven years.
/ The change has become absolutely neces-
sary on account of the increase Of bust
ness.
| Mr.. Henderson has been in the dry goods
| business in Wichita for twenty-six years,
! beginning for the firm of Kohn & Co, on
the corner of Main and Douglas Here
| his aggressive policy and enterprise made
| him manager, and when the opportunity
came he opened a store for himself at
$50 and 132 North Main, where he is now.
1t wasn't at first the big emporium OF
the finest goods that can be bought, as 1t
| is now. but nevertheless a remarkable
store of honest goods, which Mr.. Hender-
| son sold then as he does now-spot pay
ment at the lowest prices that could be
made anywhere in the west. Straight
policy and straight goods has built up a
business that's too big for it's home
that's why Henderson has to move. Not
many people realize the daring OF q
| change in location Of a big business
house Only those merchants who know
| things and how to do them will pick VI
a good fourishing business and change its
location It is expensive. It will cost il
fitting out the new place at least $500
in cash. Then there are thousands O.
| dollars worth of goods that cost money
that cannot be taken away. They must b'
sold. Cash Henderson doesn't accumu
late a lot of old goods. They'll go anC
only the first customers in will get turn
at the goods to be sold before the re
rcoval. When the new store opens it will
be full of only the best of dress goods il
STYLE the laces. silks, umbrellas, spr.nt
wraps. etc, curtains. carpets, covers AM
all the newest and finest in hat wear tina
the fashion shops put out
Yesterday the store was crowded, ant
everybody so busy that it was almos
imnossible to get to see Mr.. Henderson
and learn the plans he has made for en-
trance upon the new era for his store.
TIL shoplifters were there, too. The,
always go where the crowd is. Two
them were detected in the throng yester
dav trying to hide stuff and get away.
Mr.. Henderson, like all successful bust
ness men, is good advertiser. He know
the value of printers ink, and he avail
himself of the vantage of the daily press
Readers of the Eagle have learned to loo
every day for Henderson's ad, and the
know where to find it It's always Their
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