Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-11-02
TENTH ANNIVERSARY
KAHN, SONS & co. GREET THEIR
CUSTOMERS.
Beautiful Display in Honor Of the oc-
casion-Token From the
Employees.

The members of the firm of S. Kann,
Sons & Co. personally greeted thousands
of persons who were attracted to their
store by announcement of the first ami
versary celebration today. And the men,
bers of this well-known Washington firm
had just cause to recall with pleasure
their modest opening here at the national
capital. a full decade ago. When the
Kanns, as they are so we'll known. first en-
tered Washington ii was to sell out small
store on part of their present site, the
stock of which they had purchased as
business experiment.
They were successful from the start, and
We're not slow to find that Washington is
city where they might grow and still
further prosper The Busy Corner" has
become favorite and favorable express
sion among the people of the national cap
ital. From a single building of small pro-
portions on this corner the business has
grown to wonderful dimensions.
The celebration of the tenth anniversary
OF this well-known emporium of trade was
ushered in this morning. and under most
favorable conditions. From the time the
Busy Corner" was closed Saturday even
ing until the hour of opening today large
forces of electricians, florists and persons
engaged in other lines of Identification
were employed transforming the interior
of the stores into scenes Of dazzling bril-
liancy.
The choicest blooms of chrysanthemums.
smilax and other flowers were brought
from the southern states and were placed
in the most attractive positions by expert
enced hands. Perhaps never before has
there been given such unique and at
tractive electrical display in a dry goods
establishment in Washington that seen
in the Kanns' stores today.
Among the electrical displays that caused
the great crowd of buyers to marvel was
a realistic representation of the aurora
borealis with Its constant changing or
lights An ingenious electrical apparatus
manipulated in the basement produced the
dazzling changes of lights in the main au-
ditorium above. and gave an almost per-
feet idea of what the people see who in
habit the far northern parts of the world
Canopies of multi-colored lights shed their
glistening rays about the stores. There
were unique designs-in fact. there was
everything to attract the attention OF per-
sons who enjoy the beautiful. There were
festoons of mulu-colored lights intermin-
CLING their shades with the richest blooms
OF nature.
were called into the presence of a delega-
ton representing the employees and were
presented with beautiful cabinet oak desk
and silver service. memorial Of the ami
versary.
On the main floor near the corner en-
trance Of the store was ladder of flowers.
the lettering In red blooms each rung repre-
senting a year of the decade that the Kanns
have been In business in Washington. At
the top was the word success. emble-
matte of what the firm has done within
that period.
A particularly exquisite decoration was
that about the soda fountain. Porcelain
grapes and other fruits, importations from
Europe. gave rare coloring when placed in
Juxtaposition to the electric lights.
The whole thing throughout was appre-
ciated immensely by the vast crowds that