El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-01-16
TheGraham Syndicate, Which
Successfully Operates Fif-
teen Stores,
TO OPEN NO. IS HERO
Momsen & Thorne's Store
Leased, And the New
Store To Be Opened
In April.

A large dry goods store on the de
partment store plan, will be opened
about April 2, in the building at pres
ent occupied by Momsen & Thorne
| The store will be under the firm name
of FARRELL, Ballard & Co. and will be
store No. 16 in Texas of the Graham
| syndicate. Fourteen stores belonging g
to this syndicate are already esta olish-
| ed in Texas towns and cities. The
fifteenth is just opening. and the six.
teenth will be establish ed in Ell Paso.
The stores are not all run by the
same firm. The owners of one store in
the syndicate may have no connection
with any other store. The stores are
simply joined together in syndicate
for the purpose of buying the inssocks
in lump and securing a grea: dis
count on the quantity purchased. The
syndicate was organized by A. E. Ora
ham, whose original store was at Tenn
Pile, Texas.
Tue resident members of the firm of
FARRELL, Ballard & Co., will be J. G.
Ballard and II. w. Speer, of Temple,
Texas. Mr.. Speer is to be manager
and buyer and Mr.. Ballard resident
partner. The other mem bers OF the
firm are A. J. FARRELL aud F. NJ. Wort
ham.
Mr.. Speer, as the firms representa-
tive, signed the lease for Momsen &
Tnorne's store last night. Tha lease
begins April l. The store will occupy
the entire ground floor OF the building,
with fifty foot trout on South Oregon
street. II is to be remodeled some
what. Plate glass windows will be put
in the front of the room and large
ware room will be added in the rear.
Mr.. Speer, together with represent
atives from the other fifteen stores,
will go to New York on the 22nd of
this month to purchase stock.
Mr.. Speer will remove to Ell Paso
with his family at once. The follow
ing is taken from the Temple, Texas
Tribune about our prospective citi-
Zens:
Temple is losing two of her most
worthy young business men, Messrs.
b. F. Speer and j. @. Ballard. They
have become identified with the great
"Graham com mbination" stores and will
open in Ell Paso, in March, the 10Th es-
tablishment that is su output O. the
original A. E. Graham store at Denton
The Ell Paso house will be known as
farrell, Ballard 81 Co, and the mem
bers thereof will be all Temple people:
sippi store; DR.. F. M. Workman, one
of Temples pioneer merchants
and capitalists; J. @. Ballard and
Harry Speer, both formerly of the
Bentley, Bass & Co firm.
The enterprise has been on foot for
some time, and on the occasion of his
recent visit to Ell Paso, Dr.. WORKMAN
made arrangements for q house, the
largest in the city, possession of which
is to be given March 18th. Mr.. Speer,
Who is to be the active manager aud
buyer for the firm, leaves today for the
new field, but will return in about ten
days aud then 60 to the eastern
markets. Mr.. Ballard will receive the
goods and open the store, and he also
will become resident of the occiden-
tai city.
With such capable business men
the store, with such capi-
tal behind it and such an advantage in
buying as comes from being associated
N the Graham combination, there can
be no doubt as to the outcome, in q |
ield 90 promising as is Ei Paso.
To the Tribune, and no doubt to
,ther Bell county newspapers, Mr.. |
5peer's loss to Temple is more than
keenly regretted. He has been the ad-
7ertising manager for years of the best |
advertising house in the coun-
y, and with the newspaper fraternity |
las been general favorite for reasons
leeper than being the mere agent for |
he distribution of patronage. He is !
IN expert in advertising lines, and his !
influence In popularizing advertising :