Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1902-12-13

Il il now pushing It's way into England
scandinavia and Switzerland. Geneva,
II city Of fats, although Il has som,
beautiful villas. In Bern there are
stores on the ground floors With apart.
mehts above, even In the older sections
OF the city, and Zurich il fast become
ing all mats Many Of the new houses
are apartment houses pure and simple.
others are apartments and stores COM
plned. There seems to be no fixed rule
as to business locations. as In other
cities. You find big wholesale estab-
nsnment way OFF AT one side surround
ca by residences and you have often TO
hunt for the stores that you want. The
people are very conservative. They
SUCK TO the merchants with whom they
are accustomed to deal. and for this
reason II viii pay vel TO cultlvat.
them az 10 American trade
PUBLIC CONCERT HALLS.
In ride with Consul Leberknecht
one afternoon we rode BY the Zulict,
Tonhalle and other characteristic build
ings. The Tonhalle Is one of the fea-
lures OF almost every Swiss city. 1t !,
a public amusement building contain
ing II good restaurant, theater and
concert room.
IL was built with private funds, and
Is owned by a private company, but the
CITY gives $4,000 a year to It's support
The people feel that they get more than
this out OF 1t In having cheap musiL
ana a good amusement place for them
selves and the travelling public. Their.
are beautiful Caslros at Geneva and
Luzernc, with reading, concert
and bathrooms, restaurant, thea.
tiers and gardens. You can go into the
gardens free and listen to the concert
which Is held daily at 4 p. IN.
DEPARTMENT STORES 1NEURoPE
| find that the department stores are
Slowly but surely making their way
into Europe, Paris has had them for
many years. put the other cities are
lust beginning to adopt them, and
find several here In Switzerland There
ls one in the heart OF the city which
looks as though II might have been
lifted up out Of an American town and
dropped down into the Alps, Its walls
are of iron and glass, and II is con-
ttructed in much the same way as our
stores. II has, however. about two
clerks to our one, and instead of using
the cash carrier system or the cash boy
II has little cash desks here and there
on every floor and the purchaser has to
pay all his bills at these desks, the
cerk who has made the sale going with
rim and carrying the goods TO be there
wrapped up, The clerks are not allow
ed TO handle the money, and the sys-
TEN Is altogether most clumsy and in
convenient to the purchaser
THE SILK FACTORIES.
Zurich does a big business In silk. II
completes With Lyons as to certain
goods, and II has wholesale silk stores
which compare favorably with any
raw In France. The silks are made
to suit the foreign demand and also to
catch the eye Of the tourist bought,
among other things, an American flag
woven in Zurich as a souvenir, and was
offered no end OF italian blankets made
by the Swiss Of refuse silk for the
tourist trade.
] say Italian blankets, for the Swiss
are great imitators. Like the Germans,
they copy the goods of other countries,
and | am told they do this even TO the
trade marks One instance know OF
was that Of the Mccormick reaper. The
Swiss saw these machines were selling
well with their farmers, and one firm
initiated them and put a fac simile on
the market, which II named the Cor