The Beaumont enterprise. [volume] (Beaumont, Tex.) 1904-current, 1904-10-14
COL DAVIDSON TALKS OF THE
COMING ELECTION.
COLD WAVE MADE BUSINESS
Leading Merchants All Wear a Smile
When King Norther Called Yes.
terday Morning.

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, business and the future prospect
: with the commercial world Colone
Davidson spent few days pleasant!
with his parents Is Asheyille, Nortl
Carolina, and then went on 10 New
York. Speaking OF the approaching
ELECTION and its connection with bus
mess he said:
There Is listlessncss about the
! election that has never been know
before, In New York City | woul,
never have heard the election men
TONED except that |. myself. asked
about IL three or four times. The
consensus OF opinion there Is that II
matters little which man is elected
50 far as business Is concerned. They
|are each regarded as safe men and
! the administration Of either would be
STEADY and lacking radical changes
| in the currency laws or rules.
Better business conditions will eX-
list after the election because winter
follows il and the winter months are
aways busy months. The traveller
can tell very little more about the re-
suit Of the approaching election than
lHOSt VIM ltIlldln III DtdulllOHl. ne
newspapers convey as much informa-
ton about the political affairs Of the
nation as one gains by personal con-
tact with the people of other states.
There is very little interest in the
ELECTION, in any state"
Just keep this cool bracer from the
Arctic Pole up and Beaumont will be
whiZZing along at boom time pace"
said Mr.. f. Szafir, the stationer yes
tCrday. Our business has shown
a remarkable increase just today and
the nOrther is not twelve hours old.
1t is cold weather we need here to
get better business conditions. Beau
mont has been better off all summer
than any other city | know of but
from now on things will hum if this
norther will only keep up"
Eyes, the iewelry business is large
ly governed by the weather too"
said r. NJ. MOthner. This cold wave
will do more to build up the wave of
prosperity than anything else know
of. OF course we want factories
here, railroads here and new enter
rrises here, and for immediate action
this norther was about the best thing
yet"
yes, we are smiling today" said
Martin Wiess yesterday, land of
course it is attributed to the colder
weather. Some good wholesome rail
read rates into Beaumont would make
us smile auditably though. / am
satisfied with our business
tor the summer. and feel that this |
winter will surprise all the business
men of Beaumont"
THE White House has enjoyed a
bit of the cool bracing weather." said
he manager. October has been UNI
Usually warm so far but with yester-
lays change we do not anticipate
any more of those life sapping hot
lays. People will now buy heavier
clothing and more clothing and the
White House is getting its share Of
he trade"
The baseball season is over the
lOrther has arrived and we are sell
ng an unusually large amount of
lothinC today" said Louis Mayer. at
he Manhattan. "and | don't know
Why We should not all carry around
n air of satisfaction. Business is
DING to be better now just as it al
'ays is in winter"
Say we couldn't accommodate the I
today or tomorrow if !
l.,
aid j. J. Nathan, but please tell the l
Enterprise management to hammer 7
way on those low rate special train
Ncursions to Beaumont We need {
lcm." e
do YOU see that show window" d
aid Mr. Roos, well the cold wealth a
" and that show window did the bus 4
loss for rs Yesterday. We didn't e
link h any nicer than our windows j
sually are but the people thought
and what they say goes you know.
send me LOCO oysters" licked the Z
strumont ar the telegraph Office. and Q
was signed Ferry at the Alamo .
lfc. The norther did that said
.rry
Yes. that show window stove Is
1rilG over time now" said Larry J.
au.-un. ar the French restaurant.
nh hi-ya.vDS are az a premium.
!. cold weather o. the stun"
That's selling meat" said Miller. !,
D" ana Blaine compared notes and
.h lE-rhiU1 f1 himself last night
rNa DAYS business fuf the French I
sr.. and Nt.lgr4 market had start ,