The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-11-02
CHANGES HERE AND THERE
AT LA AMBERT'S BRILLI1NT NEJy
 HABERDASHERY.
one of the Most Noticeable Store Im- provements of Chapel Street ina Recent Renrs-A BeantifuI Store and What It
One of the Mos.

Eenrs-A BeantifuI Store and What
 Presents.
 one Of the most striking improve
 ments on Chapel street for the yea
 lsol' and in fact for years past, is tha
 made by Mr. Lambert at his new anC
 beautiful place of business S54 Chape
 street. Pressed for room for months a
 ms old location across the street few
 doors below,and unable to find space fol
 the goods his army of customers want
 ed and clamored for. MT. Lambert lait
 eyes upon the large and then vacant
 store which was for a long time the
 bflstol shoe store. He secured it and i then began the transformation act Which has converted it from a gloomy
 store into one of the most attractive
 to be found up and down the length of
 our greatest mercantile thoroughfare. 1 With an artistic eye he made a beauti- ful transformation. Nature abhors a vacuum, and Mr. Lambert agreeing heartily with this time honored apothegm set at work to do away with the forbidding big recess in front of
 the old store, and built out in it's place
 a large, capacious and elegant French plate glass front reaching to the side walk on either side of the store en- trance, thus utilizing a large amount of hitherto vacant space and creating one of the handsomeSt store fronts in the city. Not content with this he of tha
 decker each having a beautiful floor of choice inlaid woods. with a second base underneath for further display of goods, and thus equipped, the show windows take the cake for beauty, and afford space for very tasty exhibitions of sam pies of goods deftly arranged and tenlptingly displayed; and tt night with the numerous electric lights in the win dows present a brilliant appearance that attracts the attention of thousands of pairs of eyes and admiration from throngs of people. The interior of the store matches in beauty and artistic work the store fronts The whole for mer dull and unattractive interior is a fairly like scene compared with it's sombre and unadorned past. The ceil-
 
 work production which Is deftly execut- ed and is in fine contrast and harmony with the dark green burlap walls and gilt mouldings of the upper sides of the store above the elegant display shelves. In front of the handsome counters all up and down the extensive store are lines of those silent salesman plate glass show cases which present independent displays of goods, and are an additional important ornament to the store that lends much to its style and artistic character, These silent salesnen are fitted with carved legs with brass claws and are of special design. In the light ing of the store no expense is spared, and over 400 electric lights illuminate the store in the evenings and give a very brilliant effect very noticeable to the public. One of the central chande- Hers is a beauty indeed, representing clusters of grapes and vines and berries in beautiful colors which the electric lights of the chandelier heighten in beauty. The New York store is one of the famous stores of the metropolis and this chandelier is a gift of affection and esteem to MT. Lambert from the clerks of the New York store. The thousands of New Haven patrons of Lambert's home store have the key to the secret of the remarkable induce nents to buyers offered here, the New York store being a great depot center Or the business which, with big capi- | al can buy goods at the lowest shad- | ng of prices and give the customers | are bargains every time whether it be | n hats, neckwear, underwear, shoes, | 'anes, umbrellas, gloves bath robes, | louse coats, etc. In short the new store s the leading and best equipped haber- lashery in New Haven or in the state if Connecticut. The firm are exclusive gents in New Haven for the celebrat- d Manhattan shirt-none better; and | Ire also agents for the famed Marl- borough silk hats, while they have a 'ast assortment of stiff and soft hats nd the lords of crea tion can find what hey want at Lambert's in all these ines. Not a pair of shoes of all the jig line shown at Lambert's but is nade specially for the store at it's fac | ory at Rockland, Mass. The firm is { making a great speciality of their ten ent collars, worth every bit of twenty ents, of which they are selling thou ands of dozens-their New York house for and selling myriads of hem The New York store sells more 1llars under one roof al retail than any ther house in the United States.
 Shirts are made to order to suit the 1ost fastidious, and the house coats ill suit this demand to the acme.
 Lambert is selling also those famous ownes gloves at $1. 50 a pair, bargain aadily seen by the initiated.
 A striking new feature also is the lodern and fully equipped shoe shin lg department in the rear. In style, ' attern and management it is similar { the New York shoe backing empori- m which has become so popular with i othamites. Six or seven colored boys Z experience are constantly on hand f shine the shoes of customers without | :; large and absolutely no tipping is al- I wed. z The store is 126 feet long and twenty f et wide, while plate glass wall mir I ITS of large dimensions heighten the n sauty of the store and add to it's met r politan appearance. q My hart pepd mt he said iS l