The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-10-17
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
AND ELSEWHERE

There is in Nineteenth street revelation
for Birmingham, for the southern mineral
region, for the state of Alabama, and for
the south at large. Reference is had TO tine
dmmence department store of Loveman,
Joseph & Loeb. Some persons may be mar
minded enough to construe this as a
free advertisement, or puff" il you
please, but no matter of that nature can
find space upon this page of The Age-Her-
aid. The store referred to Is an object les
son to Birmin CHAM and to the SOUTH Upon
so gigantic a scale nothing else of similar
import has been even attempted in the
south. Even bounding Birmingham is as
founded. 1t remains for Ioveman, Joseph
& Loeb to inform Birmingham and the
South as to what they have come to be in a
business sense. That enormous combna-
ton of stores is not an evidence of buster.
boom, or sport. 1t is too vast, too costly
for mere vanity or The play of children.
Birmingham is amazed at Bfrmingham's
greatness as discoverable in that great
gathering of the earths riches Loveman.
Joseph Loeb erected nine years ago the
most magnificent business structure In Ala
bama. Yesterday They formally opened
the greatest store south of the Patomac
superbly appointed marts of trade In the
United States. This great shop i'm Nine
teenth street amazes even the most ardent
preacher of Birmingham's greatness. 1t
will amaze every Alabamian who comes
hither on business bent or in pursuit of
pleasure
Not since the first pig iron furnace was
huilded in Jones valley has any event oc
Cured of more vital public import than the
opening of the Nineteenth street store of
Loveman, Joseph & Loeb There is M
chimney stack, no mine opened, no rail-
road, no enterprise whatsoever in Alabama
that more faithfully sets forth the mate
rial development and riches of Alabama
than that great store In the street which
for convenience Birmingham has designat-
ed as the Nineteenth. From a paper of
pins for a cent to a ball gown worth a
thousand dollars from tandard book
at fifty cents to suite of furniture worth
years income of an ordinary man, that
store supplies. All the immense space 1t
occupies is stored with the things the pub
lie needs. If every Albanian could visit
that store every Albanian would be edi-
fled in the knowledge of that which is max
ing Alabama greater. The associates of
Moses Joseph will pardon special reference
to him as one of the greatest southern mer-
chants, one of the first citizens of Alaba-
ma. Mr.. Joseph towers pre-eminent1y in
the local business world and as a man Is
the first of citizens here.
John Pope, of Louisville, one of the best
known and most popular commercial trav-
elers known to Alabama merchants, and
@. Caldwell IF md oIso
widely known and liked, are in Birming-
ham. Talking last night, Mr.. Pope and Mr.
| Caldwell declared that they had never
| known business in Birmingham and Ala
| bama to be good as now. They travel
the state over, and find all the business they
could hope for or desire. 81 never knew
Alabama to be prosperous as it Is now,
and have had many years experience
said MIR. Pope. Business men are not only
| hopeful they confident, and are buying
| goods most literally. The condition of
| things in Birmingham astonishes every visi-
| tor. There is no boom here. There is a
| condition far better than a boom-there is
| steady growth almost phenomenal.
| hear that moro than LOO houses being
| built in Birmingham. That is easily sus-
| eeptible of belief,
"My goods cannot reach me till the mid
| die of November, and meanwhile 1 am a
| sopt of loafer,'' said Walter Brown, an
| other popular commercial traveller. ''The
truth Is the factories cannot fill orders
| rapidly as such orders are sent in. The de-
| mand for goods of all sorts is without
precedent. The demand upon is almost
| overwhelming. We are run to the resort
of doing the best we can. Our Brming
ham business<js greater than it ever has
been before. Some firms in Birmingham
are doing 100 per cent. more business than
they were doing a year ago. Never before
has there been so much money to spend as
there is now and those persons who have
the money spending it freely"
]. L. Chalfoux, after spending a week
here as the guest of his brother, Oliver
Chalifoux, left yesterday for his home at
Lowell, Mass. He expresses himself as
much pleased with business conditions in
Birmingham There had been marked i'm
provement since he was here in February
last. He was not prepared to say whether
he would make any new investments in this
part of the country soon, but if he does
no will be surprised. Mr.. Chalifoux is
opposed to booms and inti1nated that it
would be detrimental to the interests OF
the city If real estate owners inflated
values He is an able and successful bust
ness man, and has accumulated his fortune
by conservative methods. There is
more polished or agreeable gentleman in
the country than J. l.. Chalifoux.
significant street sign was observed in
front of popular hotel yesterday. 1t
read 81 want fifty crosstie cutters" In
a chair by the sign sat the man who de-
sired to employ labor. Near him were
three or four stalwart laborers. Whether
the agent had engaged them or whether he
had any hope of immediat ely securing the
laborers he demanded not ascertained.
But his sign told a chapter in the story OF
the demand for labor In this district. No