The age-herald., 1900-08-21
THOUSANDS VISIT
 PALATIAL STORE
Viewing Riches and Listening to
 Sweet Music.
FAIR WOMEN AND SWEETS
See Bounti.ul Stocks of Beautiful Things, and Taste Delicious
 Draughts-S Sweet Music.

Between o'clock in the afternoon and sunset yesterday three thousand people at tended the opening of the great drug house of Nabers, Morrow & Sinnige, in Twentieth street; and before the establishment was closed at 10 o'clock last night probably 10,- 600 people had entered the finest drug store in the South.
 The crowd was extraordinary in eharac ter, well in numbers. Nearly every society woman now in the city was there at some time, and it is likely that almost all the households of Birmingham were represented during the day. It was the most fashionable event of the summer, and at the same time it was the most popular. Many of the most beautiful women in the world enjoyed the magnificent store the delightful music, the cooling beverages and the unique souvenirs in the forms of boxes of Huylers. Every woman who registered her name in large book prepared for the purpose received a box of Huyler's as souvenir of the opening of the store; and seeing that Huyler's costs exceeding sixty cents a pound wholesale, the famous firm made princely gift to the women, scores of whom came with their little tots The spacious ground floor was kept densely
  office, where the register was placed, was constantly filled almost to suffocation by eager women and girls.
 Every visitor is customer" said Dr. Frank Nabers, and it looked that way.
 The opening was the reopening of Ma bors, Morrow & Snnige's splendid store in Twentieth street, which was partially de- stroyed by fire on the 9Oth of May last
 
 justed the work of repairing the damage caused by the fire was begun, and last week it was completed leaving the store handsomer than before. The interior ar engagements were improved, especially as to the remarkably rich furniture. In plac- ing the stock the best advantage was taken of the opportunity to make a drug store which for beauty and stately ele- gance is perhaps unsurpassed in the Unit ed States. It is certainly larger and hand scmer than any drug store one sees in New York, being three times larger than the famous Hudnuts pharmacy at Broadway and Ann, for example.
 At the time the fire of May 30 broke out Majors, Morrow & Sinnige had an $SO00O stock in a $45,000 building. They reopened yesterday with a s9O,00O stock in a s5OOO0 building While the fire was still burning furiously on the morning of .nay 90 the firm purchased for $25, ,OOO the wholesale stock of the Amzi Golden Company, in Second avenue, and at a. m. was serving its customers in the usual, an achievement of practical business enterprise that could not be surpassed in any city. Hence the fire did not, in any degree, interrupt the hIci nf AyoIo nige, one of the largest manufacturing and wholesale drug houses in the South, and one of the largest retail houses in America.
 On the corner of Twentieth street and First alley, where stands the noble drug building which was reopened yesterday, Dr. Francis D. Nabers and Dr. George M Morrow opened their first drug business in little two-story building. They were im- mediately successful, and their business has grown as Birmingham has grown Meantime the two partners became two of the most representative and influential men of Jefferson County; pr. Morrow go- ing into politics and becoming the sheriff of the county. Both men were born in this county, and they come of the original set tiers who came hither eighty to ninety years ago. Ten or a dozen years ago, they took into partnership Harry Sinnige, a new conner from Holland, who is known to the American and European drug trade as one of the most capable druggists in any coun- try. Mir Snnige has been travelling in Eu- rope for several months.
 Thus the three men who constitute this great drug firm eminent business men who would be distinguished in the greatest cities.
 Yesterday they established new claims upon the people of Birmingham and of Ala bama.