The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-08-17
DRY G0ODSAND millinery
NEW LINES IN CLOTHS TO BE SHOWN
TO FALL TRADE.
winter styles I'm WOmen's Hats About
tO BE MISUNDERSTANDING
Rates to This City.

81 do not believe our customers have
ever before exhibited the paying capacity
that they have during the past two
months" remarked a representative OF
the wholesale dry goods house of Hibben,
Hollweg & Co.. yesterday. This remark
followed a statement to the effect that
collections for this house have been I'M
usually good for some time past. 1T GER
tainly indicates" he continued, that the
farmers have had something to sell for
which they rave received money, for L do
not think any of them nave been floating
schemes in stocks or bonds.''
Speaking of the dry goods business In
general, this man said: 1.-The dry goods
business has been better from a jobbing
point of view than at first hand. The mills
nave kept prices pretty stiff, while the
jobbers have 'softened' a great deal. That
is to say, the jobbers have been selling
many lines of goods for actually less than
mill prices. They do this in order to
stimulate business and to hold many
fabrics at popular prices. The general
range of dry goods prices, however. is less
than 1T was a year ago. Sheetings VIII
average 10 per cent. less, and prints about
the same. Cotton is about a cent a pound
less than it was a year ago. OF course, the
summer business is pretty well over now.
Most Of the lines of desirable summer
fabrics have been cleaned up and the en-
tire force in our establishment is busy
placing new lines, that is, fall lines, on
sale =.
shown to the fall trade, among other
things being novelties in .domets. Then
there will be the largest line of printed
fiannels and flannelettes that mas ever
been on the market. The trade in domestic
~ginghams is slow and prices are not SO
firm as they have been.
There is considerable doing in Madras
cloths and shirtings. Printed velVets VIII
be among the novelties shown this season.
Wool dress goods will sell mostly In PLAIN
colOrS and mixtures"
1.-THE fall millinery openings Will begin
a week from next Monday" said a mem
Der of the firm of Grifhths Brothers, "and
they will continue four weeks. During the
first two weeks, from Aug. 20 to Sept. z, we
will nave railroad fares of one and one
third for the round trip and we expect
| that to attract an unusual number of
buyers. From Sept. z TO IA there will be
no cheap fares, but the week of the 10Th
to the 21st, State fair and Odd fenows
week. there will be even lower rates tnan
during the first two weeks or the open
ings, so that the attendance OF OUTSIDE
buyers is confidently expected TO Tar eA-
coed that of any previous year: ,,rs
This is the first year that the JoDDers
of indianapolis could induce the railroads
to grant cheap fares to Indianapolis In the
interest of local business; They seemed 9b 70
cago and st. Louis. Even now we nave not
got all that we want. The railroads only
give us one-third off on a round-trip ticket,
| and they also limit the time during which
the tickets are good to two weeks, whereas
we would like to have it extended to four
weeks. The credit for bringing about this
innovation belongs to George e. Hunt, the
new secretary of the Commercial Club, al
though former Secretary Woollen did all
that he could to induce the railroads 10
| grant such a concession. 1t seems that the
| difficulty in the way of securing cheap
| railroad rates has been that the argument
has been advanced that the dry-goods and
millinery houses are about the only estab-
| lishments in Indianapolis which do a large
house business. The other stores have
travelling statesmen to make sales for them
at outside points, and when out-of-toWn
merchants come here they do not, as a rule,
come to buy goods. but to see the town
| and have a social chat with their whole
| saler, preferring TO buy their stocks at
home from travelling men,"
| He explained the method by which out
! of-toWn customers can secure cheap rail-
road fares. When a ticket is bought a re-
| ceipt must be obtained from the local agent
to be presented 10 one or the indianapolis
houses tina Is a member of the Jobbers'
| and Manufacturers Association, which will
| indorse the receipt in such manner that it
will be good for two-thirds of the fare on
| the return trip. The association pays %
cents to the railroads for each such re-
ceipt, and this amount goes TOWARD paying
the expense of maintaining a traffic agent
| at the Commercial Club, whose duty it is TO
issue return tickets to such customers.
There are sixteen members of the associa,
ton, as follows: J. III. O'Boyle & Co. and
the Hendricks-Vance Company, boots,
shoes and rubbers: the A. Kiefer Drug
| Company. the Indianapolis Drug Company;
Efroymson & Wolf, the Ravens & Geddes
Company and Hibben. Hollweg & Co, dry
goods: the Kipp Brothers Company and
Holiday q Wyon Company and the Indian
apolis Saddlery Company, harness, leather
and saddlery; the Fahnley & McCrea Mil
linery Company. Griffths Brothers, the In
dianapolis Millinery Company, the Muir
Millinery Company and Levey Brothers &
Co., printers and binders.
Beginning next Monday the annex work
rooms will open for the convenience of out
Of-town milliners who will send their trim
mers to Indianapolis TO become familiar
with the fall styles.