Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-04-13

A LEADING MANUFACTURER
u HOLDS AN AUCTION FAIR
At Which Eager Buyers Representing
. Every State and Large City At
tend-Very Exciting.

a, The annual county fair excites no more
Keen interest in the home people of the
county than kind of annual mems
clothing fair. as it We're, in Utica, N. Y,
excites among the clothig buyers rep.e
senting all the great jobbers and retail
ers and who have their headquarters in
New York.
From their headquarters in New York,
these clothing buyers are posted, by
wire, from every prominent point, of any
great sale in bulk, that is going to take
place. whether it be the stock of a re-
firing retailer or of bankrupt concern.
or the sale of some special line by a
manufacturer, or of the leftover stock
that remains at the end of a season-Of
a manufacturers
When a manufacturer of mems high
grade clothing announces that he is
ready to clear out the entire remain LIZ
of his seasons goods, having filled all
his orders from jobbers and large retail
ers, there is a real scramble among the
buyers to be on hand; and for days be
fore the day announced for the sale the
stock is on exhibit, much as at a fait,
and the aisles of the factory stock room
ar crowded all day long with buye.s,
representing every state in the Union
and almost every large house of any en-
terprise in the country.
| Eager, foxy fellows, are those buyers.
They examine the garments in every pos
! slbe detail Threads of the wool to the
! square inch are counted. the same with
| the Innings. Even the patterns of the
goods are compared with sample books
of patterns for several past seasons, to
see that no last years patterns are III
the bunch. The buttons and the Innings
are inspected, and the silk and the
! thread carefully studied. Such keen,
shreWd, eager set of shoppers are
/ never seen outside such sales Whilst
all want the goods, of course, every one
| sWears the price suggested is far too
great, and each buyer tells every other
| buyer that the stock could be much
| better" and then he goes and tries to
&C. an inside track on the very goods
he has just decried at the talked or
price.
r. The largest of these sales, that have
been held annually recently, is that at
| CtIca, n. Y, by the Roberts Wicks COM
pany, manufacturers of high grade, fine
finish, nobby pattern, spring suits for
men-the remainder of it's spring stock
after filling all orders for the season.
The suits are all cut in this years nat
test styles, and they come in sacks and
cutaways-in Sims, fats and stouts.
The name of Robets- Wicks company is a
guarantee to all clothing dealers, of high
quality, of perfection of style, and OF
correctness in taste.
Each wear has seen these sales grow
in int crest and in excitement, as the
fame of the houses products became
| 1,;., = ii ant
for a week before the day set for the
sale. was very great, as the class Of
iclothing turned out for the spring of
I1901 had reached the highest merchant
tailoring art. There We're buyers at
Utica representing about forty jobbers
and three hundred retailers. Spot cash
was The rule. On the final day the scene
rep, esented bear and bull fight on a
fcornered market in Wall street. Bio
|ding was slow, timid. cautious. but wary,
and. at the finish, exciting. There Were
a dozen men there determined to have
|that stock. The sale proceeded, the ex-
Ecitemrnt creasing as the auctioneer
Easked:
Are you all done, gentlemen?"
The stiffness Of death prevailed. The
iauctioncer began slowly to count:
| ''One!'
| "TWo!,''
| Third and last call! Sold! The stock
goes to the gentleman over there in the
corner. For whom are you buying, sip
For the Symons Dry Goods company
OF Butte, Montana" was the quiet reply
of a keen-eyed little gentleman.
The agony was over. In contest of
spot dollars from every state in the
Union the Symons Dry Goods company,
established in Butte, Mont. hardly four
years ago. had won a great commercial
victory. and had yet gotten the stock for
about A. cents on the dollar of what it
or any other dealer had paid for tn,
same goods for the beginning of spring,
! orders for which. however, had been
placed last summer and fall.