The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-07-02
OPENS THIS WEEK
GOIdstandt-PoWeII Wholesale
Hat House.
IS READY FOR BUSINESS
Travelling Men Go on the
Road Wednesday.

The Goldstandt-Powell wholesale hat
cap and glove house will commence bust
ness this week. Their force of statesmen
will take the road wednesday morning.
5th. with line Of samples as large and
attractive as has been shown by any OF
the old eastern houses in this section.
Merchants who may hereafter visit
Wichita may also see this full line at LIS
North Market street, where the new
house has established its offices and ware
rooms
Wichita can well be proud Of this new.
wide awake institution, as It will reflect
credit on the city with its energetic bust
ness methods and far reaching influences.
Less than two months since, this COM
pany was organized. Since that time,
with characteristic Wichita energy, they
have secured Offices and warerooms, en-
gagged force Of statesmen, planned terri
tory for them, and attended to the null
t!tude of minor details incident to the es-
tablishment OF an up-to-date. thorough
going wholesale enterprise, besides going
10 the eastern manufacturers and con-
tracing for a stock Of merchandise equal,
If not superior to anything Of its kind
brought west of the Mississippi.
With high credit and abundant capital,
coupled with years Of valuable expert
ence, this young institution has been able
TO go in alongside OF the largest wholesale
concerns of St. Louis, Chicago, St. Paul,
Cincinnati, and New Orleans, and buy
goods on equal footing.
Thus equipped. they are better enabled
to serve the retail trade OF the southwest
than any distantly located jobbing house;
as time and freights can be greatly saved
the retailer. two most important factors
in this progressive age.
OF the force Of statesmen, Mr.. T. W. Ha-
ger, member of the firm, will head the
we'll organized campaign for business for
the new house. lie will make the territory
east of Wichita and south along and ad-
jacent to the Santa Fe in southern Kan
sas. eastern Oklahoma and the Indian
Territory TO Texas.
Mr.. J. II. Gervais. formerly with one Of
St. Paurs largest hat, cap, glove and fur
houses, will make the territory south of
Wichita along the Rock Island to Texas.
ana also on the ran 1anule 10 Inc PecOS
valley in New Mexico.
Mr.. VIM. Woolf, formerly with a prom
inent Kansas City house, will make the
territory north and west of Wichita in
Kansas, with a part OF northern Okla
homa.
All Of them perfect gentlemen, energetic
and capable, who will reflect credit on
wichita, and the bright. brainy army of
travelling men who already 60 out from
Wichita to represent its varied and rap
idly growing commercial interests.
This new firm will also have a sales
man for the city trade and will shortly
add another man for the western trade.
With the smile Of prosperity illuminat-
ing this great southwest; with the incom-
ing tide of emigration and capital TO de-
velop its mighty resources, and with the
attention Of the entire country directed
toward this prosperous section, the future
of Wichita's commercial interests is well
assured, and this city was never better
prepared to meet the great demand that
has arisen than now, as no better equip
ped or enterprising jobb.ng institutions
exist than the large number already estab-
lished in Wichita.