The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-09-12
IS BACK FROM new YORK
The City Is Full of Western
Buyers.
A VERY SHARP DEMAND
Appears to Be in Excess OF the Sup
ply - The Raines Law Suspended
and the Patent Sandwich
Is No More

Missoula Sept. lie. A. Barnes, who
returned yesterday from his New York
trip, talks interestingly of the East,
which he says is prosperous this fall
and full of eager Western buyers. All
of the manufacturers with whom Mr..
Barnes had business are, he says, over
run with orders and the demand this
year in the line Of wearing apparel is
in excess of the supply.
we had a very pleasant trip this
year" said Mr.. Barnes, in speaking of
his trip. The weather was all that
could be wished. There were no ex-
cessively hot days and none that were
uncomfortably cool. We spent most of
the nights at the seashore returning to
the city in the morning, after a sea
bath and breakfast, in time for the
opening of business hours. In this way
we were able to get through the warm
nights pleasantly. New York is full
of people this year and all are busy.
The number of Western buyers is large
and they are buying a good class of
goods. AS a matter of fact the best
goods that are sold in New York come
to the Northwest. This has always been
so in a measure, but l noticed it par
tlcularly This year.
THE crowd Of retail buyers in the
city is very large this year. There are
shoppers from everywhere and the way
that they get buncoed would make q
Western merchant ashamed Of himself.
They go to New York and, because it
is New York, they pay larger prices
for goods than they would in any other
city in the country. This sounds strange,
but it is a fact. The large retail stores
If nrk Thn q t-illa
cially if the goods are novel, a larger
price than We get for them in Missoula
The town lives on the foolShneSS OF
these transient shoppers. The same is
true of theaters You have to pay more
to see a play in New York than you do
in the West and, with few exceptions,
the play is no better than it is out here.
The preparations for the reception of
Dewey are going on extensively all over
the city Work on the arches has been
in progress for two weeks or more. Elc-
waited seats are being erected along the
line of march and everything is being
done that ingenuity can devise. 1t will
be New York's greatest day when the
Olympia sails up the bay. The recep-
ton that will be accorded Dewey will
exceed any demonstration that has ever
been made in this country. New York
is planning to Guido herself.
THE city has changed greatly in
many respects. The suspension of the
Raines law makes it no longer neces-
| sary for man to order patent sand
| witch in order to get drink and the
change seems to be much appreciated
| The New Workers, themselves, enjoy
| the change and the Mazet inquiry is
| laughed at by everybody. 1t is a farce
| from beginning to end. 1t has ceased
to attract attention, the present ex-
element being the so-called water steal
that is keeping the newspapers busy
| these days.
we went east by way of Salt Lake
and Denver and the trip was an en-
| joyable one. but what interested me
most was the ride through the corn belt
| 1t has been a perfect year for the farm
| ers of Nebraska and Kansas and the
| corn fields are the most magnificent
| things that l ever saw. i had heard OF
them, but had never before seen them
| under such good conditions. The crof
will be immense this fall. This viii
| make all lines of business good anc
there is a general awakening all over
the West look forward here in Mon
| tana to the best fall and winter trade
! that we have ever seen.
| Il have made preparations to meet
! this increase of business and my pur'
chases have been heavier than usual
| / will have something to say soon il
your advertising columns, so | will not
| talk trade Just now. But you may say
| that we are ready to meet the rush and
to give the people the best that there is
| to be had anywhere. Our goods are
| already coming in and they will all be
here before long. When they are here
you will see some of the finest goods
| ever offered in this section o.