The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-12-07
LEYS0N'S OPENING
BRILLIANT AND LARGE ATTEND
ANCE YESTERDAY AND TODAY.
GORGEOUS DISPLAY RARE GEMS
Sterling Souvenir Free to Every Lady
Visitor-Store Splendidly Decorated
Music on Both Days-Goods
Beautiful, and Sales Large.

]. H. Leyson's annual Holiday Sow
enir Jewelry Opening began yesterday
afternoon and continued four hours, to
closing time. It started again this after
noon and closes tonight at 10 O'clock
As usual the opening is a distinct So
| ciety event; as was easily noted by the
constant stream of fashion on Main
| street as far as Leysons and down Main
| again.
! The store itself was beautifully decor
| ated with green festooning and with cut
glass jars OIL roses and chrysanthemums
| on every counter. 1t was artif1cially
| lighted with gas in the new Kern globes
| with rich mellow cut glass effect. Su-
| perior music added to the brill!ancy of
! decorations, gaiety of the throng OF Ia
| dies and the magnificence of the stock
I of precious jeweled ware, sterling silver
| and cut glass.
| As Mr.. Leyson says, it was by far the
most brilliant opening of his career, and
he says that not in his business life has
| his store made such a showing Of costly
| and magnificent watches, jewelry and
cut glass. Many of the diamond brooches
! and pendants are original designs by the
| manager of the store, Mr.. Maynes,
| son store in Sah Lake City; and the
| gems are from the private reserve stock
| of diamonds of j. H. Leyson. one OF the
| largest and most beautiful stocks of the
kind in the whole West.
AS a Slight idea of the gorgeous mag
| nificence and rich costliness of the stock
| carried by Leyson this year, a few items
| are recalled.
| There is an open-face little bit of
| chatelaine watch, with pendant crown
| shaped with seven real pearls at the
| crown points, and five fancy colored dia-
! monds; four in pendant, one in watch
back The diamonds are brown, can
airy, wine, and plue white in colors. This
! is a direct importation from Paris sale
price $1,000.
A pendant sunburst has "a carats of
| diamonds, the center diamonds weigh
| ing exactly six carats. This balbee is
priced at the insignificant sum of $4,000.
| A diamond incrusted butterfly is
| shown with coloring of rubes, opals
| and dimes that is said to be priced
| low at $500.
A diamond encrusted chatelaine watch
and diamond butterfly attracted the re-
porter's eye until the price, $1,000, was
| mentioned, and he then turned his at
| tention to a few loose gems that as they
were unmounted he thought the price
might prove interesting, and he was
| right. A manrquise-shapedc canary dia-
! mond is there. or was there, at $780, a
| eart-shape blue-whte perfect gem was
| marked $780, and smaller blue-white
I was priced $3.50.
| A brooch that is very beautiful and
attracted much admiration, is a crea-
ton from Manager Mayners designing
| and the Leyson reserve stock. 1t has a
| Of
phire surmounted with diamonds and
pearls; nd it looked cheap at $3.50. An
| other of the houses designs is a dia-
! mond pendant, with an extended pend
| and of a marquise shape diamond, at
$3.50.
The fad seems to be in a strong direc-
| ton for brooches, watches and chatel-
aine pendants, of the most costly gems
| and wrought in the most extravagant
| jewelers. art. Several works of tine very
highest enamel and goldsmith art are
shown. One is a beautiful thunnb-nail-
size lady's face smelling a morning
| glory that has diamond dewdrop in it.
No wonder Mr.. Leyson says it is the
finest stock he ever carried, ana equal
| to the general stock of the best jewel
| ers in America. It is such enterprise as
| that of Mr. Maynes, backed by the lib
| eral proprietor, that has caused the
business under Manager Maynes to have
| doubled and the business of the watch
| department to have quadrupled.
The crowds that flocked to the open
ing yesterday and today, and the large
sales are the evidence of the stock. the
management and the reliability of the
house of J. H. Leyson, and the conf
dence that the Butte people have in
| them.