The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-05-20

Il BIG STORE.

Although hardly week passes nova
days without the up-to-date housewife
visiting one or more of the big stores Of
the city, few of them have a correct
idea Of the real bigness of the stores.
Many Of them visit the same store doz-
ems of times in the course of the year,
but beyond knowing the size of the
apartments in which they trade their
knowledge of what really comprises a
big store in it's various details goes no
| farther.
A trip through the entire establish
ment of one of these, at the hands Of "a
gentlemanly salesman-say, for in
stance, a large furniture store-is well
worth the trouble for any woman to
take. The big establishment of the
BoWdtch Furniture company, on the
occasion Of one of these trips, furnishes
valuable store of knowledge as well
as a delightful hour. Six floors, every
one storehouse of knowledge for the
visitor, comprise the salesrooms of the
establishment
AS you enter the door you are struck
Immediately with the beauty of the
| Florentine statuary and Vernes Marten
cabinets. The statuary, each piece Of
which is a copy from an old master,
marks new departure in the policy Of
the firm, but the success with which it
has been attended shows that it has
been appreciated The rest of this floor
is devoted to beautiful display of
Florentine mirrors, brass beds, pedes-
tails, ladies curio cabinets, curio tables
in mahogany, imported japanese and
Indian lakewood tabourettes and a
complete line of choice upholstery
goods A large room just off from the
main salesroom is styled the business
mems department. Here is shown a
full line of roll top desks in mahogany
and solid oak, letter and cabinet files,
letter press stands, typewriter desks,
office chairs and stools, and all the 9TH
err articles which go to make up full
line of office furniture.
From the first floor up in the elevator
you go to the next floor, in which the
library furniture is kept. Here are
bookcases galore, OF all sizes and de-
scriptions, in the most beautiful pat
terms and woods. One can hardly view
them without the desire to straightway
amass a collection of books in order to
purchase one and to store them on the
beautiful shelves. Along with the book
cases are fine assortment of library
tables. desks and other library furni-
ture.
Another story brings you to where
the chamber furniture is kept. Here
in orderly rows are kept the beautiful
brass and iron bedsteads, bureaus,
dressing tables, chiffoniers, costumers
and all that goes to furnish model
bedroom. A very high grade of choice
holdings, springs, mattresses and pill
lows are also carried by the firm.
The fourth floor presents to the eyes
of the housewife perhaps the most beau !
tiful apartment of all. Here is kept the
parlor furniture. On all sides are seen |
valuable parlor suites, fancy easy |
chairs hall chairs, rockers, hall stands |
handsome divans, hall settles, couches
hanging mirrors and Oriental divans |
The upholstering of the various pieces
of furniture is most exquisite, some in
silk damask, some in English tapestry |
and others in French velours.
The fifth floor contains the dining
room furniture, and here, wherever one
turns he is confronted by a perfect |
maze of sideboards in modern and colo I
NAL style, dining tables with beautiful
carved legs, dining chairs, side tables,
buffers, trays, etc.
The sixth and last floor is the repair
ing department. This, in the Bowditch
company, is one Of the best and finest
appointed repair shops in New England.
Here old furniture can be made as good
as new and any new pieces desired can
be constructed to order. A speciality Is
the making of window and cosy seats
to order With this department the
tour of the store is ended, with the ex-
ception of the shipping department, and
you descend again to the ground floor,
wiser in regard to the history of the
of the manufactures of the
furniture trade than you had ever inn
agined possible for an outsider to be.