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Auction,

WEDNESDAY, Jan 90 at 1890 a. M, sos Lack,
awunl avenue, ucNt to EinleEs Dry Goudi
Store, six carloads PanAmorican exposition fur.
nitWc, uscd about three months Iron nd.bra,s
pillow case, ten thousand towels, one thensi,ud
pairs blankets and comiortbes, two thousand
pillows, one ton good mattngs, carpets and lin
new, dresselS, commodcs, tables, folding ;bcd,,
five hundred toilet s,ts seven thousand napkins,
lot cots, Couohes. Fine lot lace curtains. many
other goods too numerous to mention. Sale will
continue all week until sold out. This IS the
largest lot OF goods ever offered at public auG.
tion in Scranton at your own price, llardwick,
AuctiCneCr,
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STOCK AND WHEAT TRADERS without delay.
Write lor our special market letter. Free on
application. $. NJ. llibbard Il Co., members ~
y. Consolidated and Stock SNohangc, - and 10
Broadway, New York. Established 1864. Long
Distance Phone 23SS Broad.
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Boarders Wanted


PRIVATE FAMILY wishes to have two nice men
10 board, German on English Call any tma
after Thursday. All conyenrnccl sJ7 Harrison
avenue.
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Rooms and Board.


FOR RENT--One nicely furnished front room;
also two side rooms with or without hoard,
Gi7 Adams avenue.
FOR RENT-With board, front room, suitable
for two gentlemen. Address jl5 Adams ave-
nuc, city
ROOMS TO RENT. with board. 500 Mulberry
street.
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thing AL his misfortunes are good.naturedly
passed over for the next sharper
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Money to Loan.

LARGE OR SMALL amounts Promptly made.
Interest per cent okcll Attorney, Coat
Exchange building.
ANY AMOUNT OF MONEY TO LoAN--Quick.
straight loans or Building aud Loan At
from 4 to per cent. Call ON n. y, Walker,
SliSl5 Council building.
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LEGAL,

THE ANNUAL stockholders meeting OF Dickson
Mill and Grain company will be held in Room
Gel, Conncll building, Monday, February II,
1902, at 4 O'Clock p. m,
EDWARD H. BUCK, Secretary.
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Rooms for Rent.

7---.-r~-~-~ ~~~----.,-.
ROOMS FOR RENT--A good front room and
good back rooms with all convcniences, use
OF bath; terms moderate can be seen any time.
rs LaCkawunna avenue.
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Hotels and Restaurants.

THE ELK CAFE, 125 AND 127 FRANKLIN AVE.
nue.. Rates reasonable.
p. zIEGLER, Proprietor.
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Statesmen Wanted.


SALESAlEN--Two of good education and adj
dress, TO learn our business, first as sllcs-
men, then managers reference. 9Ol Mears
building, Scranton.
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WANTED-To rent, an 8 to 10 room house; good
location, with modern improvements. Nd
dress, businessman, care Tribune.
WANTED-By gentleman, one or two well fur.
nished rooms with use OF bath, without board,
in good neighborhood. Address, b.. Postoitce
Box 5I2.
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~Nl~,~~>>lON>,>~~~>>>~ ~
STORE BUILDING for rent in Dickson City, Pa.
Building 80 feet by ~ feet cellar under all,
and second story can be arranged for a family.
All in good repair ready for use. Two coal
breakers and mines close by employing over a
get large trade Apply TO William II. Rich.
mond, Richmond Hill, 1925 y. Main avenue,
Scranton, Pa
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ID. B REPL0GLE, ArTORNEY--LoANS NEGO.
tlated on real estate security. Mears Building,
corner washington avenue and Spruce street.
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He1p Wanted-Male.

NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. colorcd or white coach.
man. Must have good reference State wages
expected. New phone 5000. 10 William street,
Pittston, Pa.
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opposite. and O'Neilrs between Twentieth-st. and
Twenty -frst-st.
The growth of the avenue north Of Twenty-th third
St to Herald Square, filing in the gap between the
present row Of department stores and the new
Macy and Saks stores. is looked upon as inevi-
table. Within the next five or ten years
quainted with the scope of the drygoods business
say this part of the city will also be built up with
leviathan department stores Of the same type as
the Macy. the smpson-Crawford and the siegel-
Cooper stores
The proposed station Of the Pennsylvania Rail-
road which to be built between Thirty first-st.
and Thirty -third-st. and Seventh and Eighth aves.
and which viii afford outlet for traffic to and
from Long Island. has already given ar impetus
the business activity Of TINS part of the city and
far sighted merchants the time when Herald
Square is be the centre It is the northern
limit. of the shopping district Of the city. BY means
Of the PENNSYLVANIA Railroad the crowds of Jer-
sey commuters, who at heart New Workers, and
who make their money and spend the most Of it
in the metropolis, will be landed within little
than a block of Herald Square and Sixth-ave.
Here also will come even greater crowds of shop
pers from Brooklyn. the majority Of whom the
present time. because Of the inadequate transit
facilities between Brooklyn and Manhattan. do
their shopping in the big stores of Fulton-st of
that borough. The natural outcome Of the Jersey
Manhattan Brooklyn tunnel Of the Pennsylvania
Railroad will thus be to complete the Improvement
Of Sixth-ave. with the construction between Twen-
ty-third-st. and Herald Square Of new department
stores.
The Broadway link in the pid transit subway,
which is recommended by such men as Alexander
E. Orr. president of the Rapid Transit Commits
sion; John b. Mcdonald. chief contractor Of the
subway; George i. Rves, former member OF the
Rapid Transit Commission and the present Cor
poratton Counsel together with number of prom
inent Broadway merchants and property owners
would also stimulate the trade of the Rig depart
ment stores in and off Of Herald Square as well
as In Twentyt third-st. the site of such fashionable
drygoods stores Sterns' McCreery's etc. This
Broadway link would run from Union Square to
Long Acre Square, a distance Of one mile and a
half. and offer a direct line for the population of
the great West Side. OF Harlem. Washington
Heights and the western part Of the Borough of
The Bronx TO the lower part OF Manhattan. AS
the subway is being built at present the whole
trafhc OF this underground road will be diverted
from the present shopping district, the sta
ton being at Twenty -third-st. and Fourth-ave
with the construction Of the proposed Broadway
link. passengers can he landed Herald Square.
az Madison Square and at other points in Broad
way, close TO the big department stores.
That department stores have come to stay
cannot be questioned. The subject of their socio-
logical influences has been thrashed out at length
and yet IL is evident that the department stores
hitef everything Is said ana done. popular In
sututions. Evidences OF their popularity to
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measure 800 feet The entrances will be orna-
he two stories high. 4 copper Sornice viii sur
5 mount The structure and the straisht line OF the
glass globes. three and a half feet in diameter.
elevators ana the building win be trimmed in hard
woods. The estimated cost is $ltOo,o0o Buchanan
~ Fox are the designing architects.
Enrich Brothers, who do a business in Paris
this city. enargrg their store at the
southwest corner Of Twenry-third-st. and Sixth
afford them about S0020 more square feet Of noor
the three stores which hav, been recenIiV ardiireS
in Twenty-third-st are now being pulled down 10
be in architecture in harmony with the present
building facing In SiXth-ave 1t will be five stories
In height and will involve cost of several hum
dred thousand dollars. Many attempts have been
SHpied ny ItIkers drug store, but without success
The hrm however, has obtained possession of the
OF Twenty -second-st. and Sixth-ave. which is now
occupied by the Rothschild cloak store As soon al
re present addition 10 the store is completed the
Iwenty-Second-st corner is 10 be torn down. and
the policy of 5s Ebrch aTS Vbn IN be GreG5 nne with with
$. ". Enrich. last November. The first home of
Eighth-ave between Twenty-fourth and TwentV a4 Il
to Sixth-ave.' where 1t has gradually acquired the
Largest among the present stores in sxth-ave
r. ihat on Sesei-7G9opeI between Eighteenth and
M N'feeHn bt ~ IL i 3 dhis eudGLg was opened in 1896
Completed The Big store as n E e4 or InSt a
an area Of nearly $1,000 square feet + oSr Surfaces e
with ten elevators which are patronlzed by an
average crowd Of one hundred and eighty thou
sand people In a day. The great fountain in the
centre of the building Is object of Interest for
out OF town people and favorite meeting place
II is an exact reproduction of the statue Of the
Republic which stood At the eastern end of the
Court OF Honor at the Chicago Worries Fair and
was erected at cost OF $25,0O0 The store has en-
ployed as many as tfty-hve hundred persons in
the houuaS season SO that the force of employees
represents small city in itself The business of
the Big store is now N excess of 100000 each
year, and some idea of the enormous business
transacted can be obtained from the fact that the
amount OF wrapping parer used In wear amounts
10 foOot.W0 square feet. " - -
Inc store and the land cost s6OOOOOO the building
having oeen erected by a firm of Western mer-
chants and hnancers consistfne of Henry Siegel
r n. Cooper, j. r. Greenhut and his son. r. j.
GtSJunuI Al the present time because of the
ou'sition OF Mr Siegefs interests by the other
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PHILADELPHIA AFFAIRS.

Philadelphia. May 3 (SpeciaD.-Insurance Com
missioner Durham. with the control of the Phila-
delphia delegation the next Republican State
Convention. five weeks OF. is looked upon
holding the balance of power and being able TO
dictate the nomination FOR Governor This ex-
plains the "bated breath OF the last two weeks in
ing a visit 70 Hot Springs Va u was expected
that his return North Thursday would be the
nee OF the convention Mr. Durham returned ac-
cording TO programme he saw Senators QUAY and
that city that Pennsylvania's Senator's are as
conference is concerned; as Durham is here
All agree in saying that no candidate has been
selected and that will be in advance Of
caucus 70 be held on the eve Of the convention
II is believed. however. that understanding has
Deen reached. ana II Is apparent that Mr. Quays
plan OF eampaisn in Putting none but trusted ones
st-rrf eiSefas iT ujII ba f,I5 Up o irir I
Will be OF those who can be trusted TO 90 what
ever Messrs. Quay and Durham want done.
The developments Of the last week have finally
disposed OF one candidate. General Brooke. Feeers
thrown out in all directions in his behalf were
fallen the suggestion that President Roosevelt IA
vored his nomtaation on The other hand. in the
SJ or n % a1y Ro|1'e b deeT259I 4y Senator
has met - opposition.
The declaring by the Pennsylyania Railroad d.
rectorS Of straight seni-annUal dividend OF per
cent. placing its stock on permanent per cent
;IIS A t oe'y Ilau not peeh as
Of the market on Thursday. the day on which III,
decided tendency 10 lower prices all along ths
line or leading stocks. which changed when
the PSDCSylvania'S dividend announced Penn
Sylvanla advanced nearly per cent az once. and
the other trunk lines were favOrably affected
In the face OF a score OF millions OF dollars worth
OF Improvements undertaken o provided for in the
near future. the announcement carries with it the
assurance the directors feel that the prosperity OF
The last two years is here TO stay, The kaowledgs
that in past years, despite accumulation OF
pronts which on each years returns JUSTIFIED more
than per straight dividends the conservative
board Of directors had declared any larger
COnvinCeS .cvestOrS that now there doubt Os
the future. The company has much more than
earned its per cent dividend this year. II had
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1nent an era OF rebuilding began in this city which
Sc at the present time fairly transforming its face.
Structures which had been thought wholly ade-
quate TO needs of the eighties and nineties were
rorn down to make room for larger and more mod
ernly furnished buildings.
While the tide of prosperity was piling up the
syscrapers in the financial and office region of the
city the huge apartment houses on the West Side
and the '.polychambered' tenement houses TO the
east of Central Park. the merchants of the whole
sale and retail drygoods district began TO re-
build, remodel and enlarge their stores
For the reason that the wholesale district be-
tween chambers-st and Fourteenth-st.. has wide
scope the enlargement OF its stores has not arrested
the attention has the evolution Of the retail
orygoods district which at the present time is more
limited in extent.
In the primary evolution Of this district the
sn Fourteenth-st were the first to assert them
selves. and then came the Broadway emporiums.
which soon grew TO be famous throughout the
country The stores in Twenty-thrd-st and. in
siYth-ave came last, and for many years shop
tn the latter thorSughfare. in the avenue" as
II was sometimes termed, was regarded as if it
were a grade below its big Broadway rivals. I'm
7vonted prosperity, however, seemed to attend the
shops 'fn the avenue" and with the growth of the
city and the increase OF traffic on the elevated
road which traverses the length OF Sxth-ave these
stores grew from ordinary shops to what are now
known as department stores. in which because of
the manifold lines Of their wares, these eporiums
became actual cities in themselves.
Ana IL IS TO the department store that has
another largess OF prosperity which has made itself
evident practical rebuilding OF the part Of the
city containing these places OF business. Small
,ildincs Of the conventional twenty-five foot front
age have fallen give way TO the mammoth
structure reaching from one cross street to the
next and half dozen more stories in height.
At the present time the department stores which
are in this state OF transition Macy's TO
move from Fourteenth-st at the extreme end o.
the shopping district TO Herald Square. between
Thirty-fourth-st and Thirty -hfth-st; Saks, oppo-
site and facing Greeley Square, between Thirty
fourth-st and Thirty third-st.; Ehrch's, in Sixth
ave- between TRenty-third-st. and Twenty-second-
ST: Adams's between Twenty y-second-st. and Twen-
ty-frst-st and that Of the Simpson rawford Com
many between Twentieth-st. and Nineteenth-st For
ali these stores with the exception OF Ehrich's,
entirely new buildings being constructed.
Tomorrow IS looked upon the beginning OF
another era in the history Of the department store
Of this city, for the reason that at that time the
frst OF these new buildings will be formally opened
the public. This is the store Of the Adams
Drygoods Company. stately structure of six
stories which has been evolved from conglom-
crate aggregation Of shops that had been acquired
from time to time by the hrm as its growing needs
required room.
The new stores. while alike in tie main in en-
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deavoring to provide the greatest possible floor
space for selling purposes. differ in some details.
which are interesting showing the varying opn-
ions of merchants. For example. the new store
of the Adams Drygoods Company is provided with
a huge rotunda to permit the natural light of day
to reach every part of the buildings, and thus to
enable the customers Of the store to its goods
in the daylight In Macy's new store there will be
no rotunda. the whole floor being used for the eX-
hibition and sale of goods The store will. however
be fully equipped with electric lights. that, in
the opinion of its proprietors the goods may be
seen equally a 5 we'll in the subdued sunlight
which is made possible by the lofty roof of
rotunda. So evenly is opinion divided on the sub
ject. however. that Mr. Adams says that If he
building his store again he would elm
mate the rOtunda altogether and use electricity
instead Of daylight. On the other hand. the man
agement Of the Simpson-Crawford store contend
that a rotunda is necessary to store with block
frontage and point with pride 10 the big rotunda
in their building. part Of which has already
been thrown open TO the public.
With the completion Of these new stores, Sixth
ave. from Eighteenth-st to Twenty -thrd-st will
present on the west side of this thoroughfare a
solid row of stores whose frontages take in a
whole block, with the exception of a in
or two instances while the east side Of the
avenue stands the big Store" Of Siegel-Cooper.
occupying a whole block in frontage and extending
ba ok small fraction of mile in the streets
All the stores which not building in the
process of reconstruction are practically build
ings and equipped with the most modern appli-
ances. Such, for example. the stores of SieGel-
Cooper. between Eighteenth-st and Nineteenth-st
on the east side Of the avenue; Altman's. directly
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be found in the numberleSs thronGs which flock
to their counters and in the almost Aladdin like
prosperity of the men AT their head. At one time
ii said that the department store throttled
competition, for the reason that it put the small
owners out of business. At the present time the
spectacle is presented of dozen more depart
ment stores competing one with another, with the
result of a minimum Of prices
Together with the reconstruction Of the build
ings Of the department stores in SiXth-ave..
change is going I'm the class of goods which
can be purchased here IN to the present time
certain Broadway stores have enjoyed particu-
larly exclusive trade which later began also to
patrOnze the Twenty -third-st stores. bought I'm
Broadway" somehow sounded better 10 the fash
ionable ear than bought in SiXth-ave.' Such dis
tinCtions however, are becoming more and more
infrequent. and at the present time the avenue
stores are steadily gaining in the grade Of their
goods. which has been COmmensurately accom-
panied by Weather and more exclusive class of
pa
The first Of the new department stores which
will. as has been told above, be formally opened
TO the public tomorrow. is that OF the Adams Dry
Goods Company. The growth Of the business OF
this firm has been rapid from the beginning In
1855 Samuel Adams, the head of the present firm.
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BIG SHOPPING CENTRE.
sSLXT,H-AVE. FROM HERALD
SQUARE TO EIGHTEENTH
ST. LEADS THE WORLD.
CHANGES JUST COMPLETED OR WELL
UNDER WAY THAT TRANSFORM
THIS DISTRICT.

sixth-ave., between Eighteenth-st. and Herald
Square, is undergoing a transformation. entailing
en- expenditure OF about Sl5.O00O00. which in the
course Of a few weeks Will stamp this thorough
fare as the leading shopping district Of the world
iRegent-st.. in London. famous as the shopping
place Of the dweers of the West End; New and
Old Bond sts. and the other parts of the Eng
lish capital which have long boasted of their
supremacy are now relegated TO second place, SO
the men Of the trade say, by the great stores of
Sixth-aVe.
Contemporaneous with the revival Of business on
the election OF Mckinley IN 1896 the drygoods
firms Of this city well Of the whole country.
were profoundly benefited. and began to show it in
many ways. Striking proof Of this prosperity did
itself until the reelection of Mckinley
sn 1900 and with the assurance which this election
brought of four more years Of commercial advance
New-York tribune., 1902-05-04

bought out store In Sixth-ave.. at the corner
or the site now covered by the new structure Mr..
Adams Is still compare lively young man. ami
before coming TO this city he resident OF
Brunswick Canada.
The business OF the little corner store soon out
grew its habitation, and adjacent property was
purchased until. in 1900. the firm had extended
from one cross street to the other. and the store
had taken unto itself aggregation Of small
buildings of the Old style built of brick and OF
three and four stories The business OF the store
still grew The only solution to the problem was
new store. which could furnish stiIl more floors
for the exhibition and sale Of goods.
The erection of the present building has
been accomplished without any Interruption
In the business OF the store. First the part
was built while the public stil found ready access
to the stores on the avenue. Then with the rear
of the building complete. half OF the front was
torn down and rebuilt to he followed by the
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completion of the other half The towers Of the
building still lacking. but the interior Of the
store viii be completely furnished and formally
presented To the inspection of the public tO-unOr
row. The marble rotunda, with its handsome sky
light and balconies, is well worth visit
The store of Simpson-C Crawford Is now
occupied in part, and arrOrcs an example Of the
highest type of department store. 1t is
pected that the building viii he complete in every
particular by September / next. Since the original
plans We're made. which contemplated structure
having a frontage of a block in the avenue, and
a depth of -SS feet in the streets. the man
aEement has decided to enlarge the store by the
erection OF annex I'm the rear which Will
have a frontage Of 80 feet I'm Nineteenth-st
and which will be ten stories in height. The orig-
nal building which is complete. with the
exception of the Ninteenth-st corner. is seven
stories high fIom curb 70 caves, with extra
eighth floor for a restaurant and palm garden.
This restaurant is of semi-cirCular shape with a
heavy baIustrade around the edge OF the roof. so
that tho windows and doors can be thrown open in
summer time and the guests be permitted 10 sit
out on the roof under the open sky. with the heat
OF the tempered by palms and other tropical
plants.
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members OF the house the firm consists OF J. 3.
Greenhut president: F. H. Cooper, first vice-presi-
dent: Jerome Siegel second vce-president; B. J.
Greenhut, treasurer. and Charles NJ Hogan. sec
retary
Although making no recent enlargements the de-
partment store of O'Neills, between Twentieth-st
and Twenty is in modern IN its
equipment. This firm was one of the pioneers in
this line of business in Sixth-ave having become
established there in 1870 The store founded BY
Hugh and Henry O'Nein. whose original store was
I'm HudSOn-St. BrOOme-St- The JWO brothers
then moved 10 Broadway. and from there 10 Sixth
ave Nos S27 and 329 were remOdelled for the busi-
ness which the firm acquired and then ad-
iacent buildings were procured, until the store ex
tended the whole width OF the block In 1SS0 all
the property of the Congregation OF Shearith Israel
was purchased. and the buildings were torn down
10 make way for new structure In 1894 the busi-
ness of the firm had increased TO such an extent
that an additional story added, making the
present building five stories in height The bUsi-
ness is now being carried on by the heirs OF the