The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1898-10-01
A GREAT GREENyILLE INSTITUTION.


Mattings'and Rugs" " These words
stretch across one hundred and
seventy five feet of brick wall on
the second story Of the largest
furniture establishment in the
Delta, and probably in the State
Of Mississippi. Nothing can bet
ter convey an understanding
the great size of this concern than
figures, Themeasurements of the
three buildings which house Hams
immense stock are rs follows:
Main building, length, l75 feet;
width, 80 feet, two stories high.
Annex; length, 30 feet; width, 33
feet-two stories high. Ware
house on Washington Avenue;
length, IS feet; width 40 feet
two stories high. This gives Il to
tai space of 300 feet in length by
1913 feet in width, and this space
is exactly doubled by the fact that
each building has two floors OF
eQuM dimensions. Every avail
able foot of this space is occupied
by what Mr.. Ham confidently be-
lieyes to be the largest and most
complete stock of furniture in
Mississippi.
There is scarcely an article of
necessary or luxurious household
furnishing which cannot be found
in this great establishment, rang
ING in grade and price from the
simplest and cheapest to the most
elegant and costly.
The business has grown to its
present magnificent proportions
by safe and legitimate methods,
having u small beginning, and
gradually increasing as Mr.. Ham
gained the confidence and favor
of the public, until his customers
now include the entire Delta coun
try, and even far beyond it on the
various rail and river lines that
lead into the adjacent country.
Mr.. Ham naturally feels proud of
the popularity and success which
his business has attained, and no
effort is spared by him to keep Il
customer once gained, nor is his
business ever allowed to suffer
injury through neglect or misrep-
resentation. The result has been
rapid, but solid and healthy
growth, and the possession of
place in public esteem which no
competition has been able to af-
feet, and which has enabled the
business to withstand every yicis-
situde of the past ten years. Mr..
Ham has great advantage over
his numerous competitors in the
practically unlimited credit he en-
Joys with great wholesale dealers,
which enables him to procure his
stock at cost prices which permit
him to offer 1t at figures and on
terms far more advantageous to
purchasers than can be expected
from smaller and less securel y es-
tablished houses. 1t is of course,
useless to attempt an enumeration
of articles kept in such an estab-
lishment as this. 1t would occupy
more space than The TINES CON
tains to do so. Let the reader
take his house and furnish it in
Imagination from garret to cellar
halls, parIors, bedrooms, din
inc rooms-and he will have a fair
idea of the stock of G. NJ. Ham. No
matter if the house is a simple
cottage or the handsomest man
sion, it can be furnished through
out, either as sumptuously and
elaborately as as simply and mex
pensively as the owner may de-
sire, by going through the great
ware-rooms and making selections
from the stock of G. NJ. Ham.
Goods bought here, too, have |
the great advantage of being in
truth what they are represented.
The purchaser may be sure he is
getting his moneys worth, be 1t
much or little. Big as the stock
is. it needsconstant replenishing ;
and great trade and constant !
sales result in the goods being
always new. Mr.. Ham at the !
present time Is getting in sup
ply of parlor, dining room and
bedroom furniture, carpets, rugs
and mattings, larger and more
elaborate than any he has hither-
to brought to Greenvllle, This
will take the place of the quanti-
ties of goods sold during the sum
mer trade; and larger and more
prosperous business is anticipated
for this winter than ever before
in the history of the establishment.
+ Is one of the show places of the
a;tv. and No visit to Greenvlte,
especially if The object be shop