The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-02-03
SAM HESS BIG DEAL
Buys Biting Brothers Stock
of Clothing
WILL OPEN SATURDAY
Leased the Biting Block Fer
a Long Term of Years.
WILL OPEN SATURDl

Yesterday morning Mr.. Sam Hess Of the
| firm of Herman & Hess, paid TO Biting
Brothers the sum of s17.S35.sS for their
stock of clothing. The big check was
drawn on the Kansas National Bank and
paid shortly after o'clock to Mr.. A w.
Biting. This is the largest check which
has been drawn and cashed in Wichita
for many long day. Mr. Hess obtained
this enormous stock at so cents on the dol
lar and he will proceed to sell it out inn
mediately at exceedingly low figures,
either in bulk lots or to individual buyers.
Biting Brothers sold out their business
exactly on the twentieth anniversary Of
their entering on their career here. The
fac-simile of the check given by Mr.. Hess
to Messrs. Biting Brothesr Will be found
to Messrs. Biting Brothers will be foun
of today's issue.
Herman & Hess came to Wichita in
August, 1854 and located in a room 25x1o0
feet in the Manhattan hotel block. There
they conducted their business for six
years, at the end of which time they
moved a few doors to the east at 40G
Douglass, their business demanding larg
er quarters, there they remained for seven
years.
The new store will open Saturday morn
ing for business with six clerks added to
the force.
Mr.. Hess has obtained a lease on the
magnificent building known as the Bit
ting block and situated at 12S and 12S East
Douglas avenue, for a long term of years.
The building has frontage of So feet
with two large entrances and three of
the finest show windows to be seen any
where. 1t extends to the alley for depth
of $50 feet. Two floors will be occuied by
Mr.. Hess with the largest stock of mems,
boys and childrens clothing in the state.
The second floor will be devoted exclus-
lively to children and here will be seen
the finest that the market affords and
garments to suit the price of all.
On the first floor there is $3.50 square
feet that will be crowded with every con-
ceivabe thing that will be wanted and
that appeals to man in the shape of wear
ing apparel. Overcoats, suits of every
color and style, gloves of all shades, ties
of plain and unique design, shirts that
will suit all corners, hats made by the
leading manufacturers of America, UNI
brellas that will satisfy all kinds of people
In fact every line will be complete in it
self. On this floor there are "a large
tables stacked high with clothes. There
are Is showcases that extend on both
sides rof the room from the front to the
rear. Nine handsome French mirrors hung
in appropriate places adorn the walls. Two
of these mirrors are in the rear of the
store on either side of the broad stairway
that leads to the second floor. They are
full twelve feet in length and seven feet
high. There like is not within the bounds
of the state. A glass covered hat case
with twenty-six sections made of oak
and cherry extend the full length of the
east side of the room. An elevator, steam
heat and many lights help to make
this the best fitted building in the city
for fine clothing store.
Mr.. Hess will conduct the two stores
until he closes out the stock purchased
yesterday After this is done he will have
the building painted and thoroughly rem
ovated when he will move the stock he
now has in his store at 4o6 Douglas,
which will be largely increased with
heavy shipments of goods already order
ed from New York, Baltimore and Phila-
delphia.
Mr.. Hess is business man of rare skill
and acuteness, energetic, broadminded,
and above all successful. Always cour-
teous and liberal he has built up in Wich-
ita from a small beginning one of the
most substantial houses. among the many
that have given this city a name abroad.
Honesty and one price surrounded by two
of the best statesmen to be found, his
business year by year has increased I'M
til he now occupies an envious place
among his business friends. Mr.. Hess
has been in this city for fourteen years,
and during all that time he has been
a persistent advertiser in the Eagle, adj
vertising exclusively for a number of
years. It pays and no one is quicker 10
acknowledge It than he. The advertise
ments of Messrs Herman and Hess al
ways attract attention They are writ
ten by Mr.. Fred Stuckey, who is acknow-
lodged TO be the best in the ad writing
line in the state. His work frequently
finds a place among the magazines who
put out the best ads from all over the
country as an exampleof superiority Mr.
Dick Frank has been associated with the
firm for ten vars and his window dressing
ability and cieverness as a salesman has
much to do with the success of his en-
ployers.
Mr.. Frank Niles returned yesterday
with his bride from Denver.