The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1903-03-21
4 TRAIN LOAD
OF DRY GOODS
viii be Brought From Dallas
To Galveston.
MISTROT BROS, & co
MADE BIG PURCHASE.
Madden & Graham Stock Will be
Novel Here Bodily and Handled
From This Point.

have purchased the entire stock
Of the wholesale dry goods firm of
Madden & Graham of Dallas and
a solid train of about 30 cars will
leave that city tomorrow morning
for Galveston loaded with the
wares The consideration was
about $4,000 and it was one of
the largest single dry goods trans
actions or such nature that has
ever taken place in the state. The
train will come via the Katy and
it will be duly bedecked with ban
.ners. The train Will be photo
graphed at Dallas, Waco and
Houston and should reach Calves
ton by tomorrow night. The firm
Of Madden & Graham will pass
from existence.
In speaking of the matter this
morning Mr.. S. p. MistrOt SAID
that his firm had the opportunity
Of purcha asing the stock and simp-
" did 50. The little thing of pay
ing out $4,000 for a lot of dry
goods, etc., never appealed to him
as being a record breaking trans
action.
sWe are satisfied with the bust
ness we are doing, in the sense
that it il satisfactory. We must |
provided for fast growing trade.
We have, found Galveston as a
place to do business all that any
one could ask. We have ample
room to store and display our new
stock" said Mr.. Mistrot.
With the addition of 30 cars Of
merchandise the firm of Mistrot
Bros. & Co. becomes easily not |
only tile largest dry goods firm in
Texas, but in the entire south.
There IsNnot a firm in st. Louis,
perhaps, tnat carries either as
large or asNyaried a stock of mer
chandise as is carried by this firm.
There is not a firm south of the
same point that does -asfarge a
business as. Mistrot Bros. & Co. |
For those who have been contend
ing there are disabilities to be en-
countered by jobbers in Calves
ton, the very fact that dry goods
nrm. should absorb a Dallas firm
and move the stock, lock, stock
and barrel to this city must ap-
peal to such in different manner.
In addition to the deal men
toned this firm is now importing
about 10000 pounds of mating
and fans direct from Japan. The
mating and fans were purchased
by an agent of Mistrot Bros. 4
Co. stationed at Kobe. They
we're shipped from Kobe to this
point via the Suez canal and New
York. The freight rate obtained
on the shipment was 81 per 100
pounds. The rate from Atlantic
seaboard points to this city alone
is IS cents per 100 pounds. 1t can
thus be seen at a glance that New
York enjoys differential over
Galvestcn on eastern goods OF
only 10 cents per 100 pounds.
MIR. MistrOt said this morning
that if his firm had desired to use
sailing vessels instead of steam
ships, the rate from Kobe to Gal
! weston could have been equalized
with the rate from Kobe to New
York.
In addition 10 the three stories
100 by l25 feet in size that this
nrm began using when it opened
It's wholesale house here.it also re-
qulres one store house two stories
nigh, 90 by 125 feet in size, and
dhother three stories higi,, SOx12J
Ieet IN size, to store the stocks.
Both of these store rooms are To-
Gated on Mechanic sfi eet just
across from The main luilding.
When Galveston finn can &
70 nallas and absorb one of tn,
largest dry goods firms in th'
metropolis of the stale it does no
look so much like this town wa
either dead or sleeping. While i
q big feather in he cap Of Mis-
Rot Bros. 4 Co, it is still
agger feather in Galveston's cap
As an evidence Of the state im