The Beaumont enterprise. [volume] (Beaumont, Tex.) 1904-current, 1904-10-11
BUSINESS WE NEED
BUSINESS MEN TALK MOST "A,
voRABLE.
BOTH DRUGS AND DRY GOODS
And Notions Would Sell voluminously
by Observation-Disclosures on
the Subject,

. ming into contact with business meI
who look with favor upon the cstah
llshment in Beaumont OF ut least an,
Wholesale dry goods and notions
house and one drug house here.
) There men do not want any bis
clustering concern that will start II
with one effort TO turn the world ovel
; and break all previous business rec
ords, but they want two good snbstan
tlal houses operated on u conserva
tive basis.
Mr.. p. A. Heisig,of Heislg g. Nor
veil, one of the leading wholesale
4 grocer houses here said;
II believe Lnat there Is n good open
ing here for a wholesale drug house
but would prefer to see wholesale
dry goods and notion house to the
drug. business though both are good
business PROPOSITIONS D..
"My reason Is TO some extent per
onal hut being means of helping
the Wholesale grocer houses means
that Il would help Beaumont. ] think
we ought all pull together. will
help anything here that advances
| Beaumont and feel that others here
would help me in the same cause,
The desrability of Wholesale dry
goods and notions house comes from
the smaller towns which want to buy
both their groceries and dry goods at
the same place. It is inconvenient
| for merchant from Jasper say TO
| come TO Beaumont and buy his gro
ceries and then lie compelled to go
TO New Orleans or Houston for his
dry goods and notions. Then AFTER
he goes the influence of those cities is
brought to bear upon him to buy all
his goods of all kinds in those cities
and the people seem as a unit IN
bringing about this result. In the
end we may possibly lose merchant
| whose natural tendencies are towards
Beaumont for everything.
81 am confident that T. S. Reed
| feels lust as ] do about this propo-
sition and that the wholesalers now
here would gain NV tho bringing in Of
new houses in other lines. orr rail-
| road facilities are such that they
| would have plenty of territory to do a
safe and conservative business and
one that would finally become pros
porous and lasting.
eve do not want wnolesale
| house here that is in any manner
| connected with any retail house 1T
the citv. The moment you try 10
RIM both the wholesale and the re-
tail in one organization Won lose
trade Of othe" retailers. IT IS bnt
Natural that the others should saw
That thl man handling both retal'
and wholesale is taking an advantage
over the single retailer. This fcelinr
enroads until in the country Won WI"
End the retail merchant declining to
| ratroniZc n wholesale house that has
n "otail branch.
''Tt ie true that We have some mer-
chants here who do sell Wholesale IN
some case, hut thcv do not denond
upon a wholesale trade and their
sales OF this character are usually
where the merchant comes here TO
buy groceries of the wholesale grocerS
and do not have the time to get to
some other point for his other lines
or is in n hurry to get the goonS
| themselves. A matter of fact the
local merchants will give wholesale
concerns almost enough business TO
| make il profitable But they will not
| do that where the wholesaler is do
| ing a retail business also.
az should be glad to see agitation
| become sufficiently convincing to
bring some one in here to organize
and tart ont in both these lines on
a conservative basis"
DR.. W.,N. Forbes, representative Of
Parko. Davis & Co, hailed an Enter
prise reporter yesterday about If
this line:
Say, I see you are talking about :
wholesale drug house here. NOW
you're talking good sense. There iS
the best opening here of any place !
know. The territory surrounding
beaumont prefers Beaumont. When
they have an opportunity they buy
everything possible here and it l.
only because they cannot get every
thing they want they go through.
| would like very much to- see a prac-
teal wholesale drug man come into
| Beaumont. organize stock company
! nd start ont on a conservative basis
fl believe that Beaumont merchants
alone would buy $4,000 year. The
country would TAKE much moro than
that and the first years business
might be made 10 run a. high a.
$500 600. The trade would simply
/ cpme here Of its own volition Yor
ought TO keep up that sort Of talk nm.
/ fil Won get the people here awakened
/ 90 the fact that they have such p
| splendid ciiv and =uch an onp0rtunitr
I 20 Do a good. legitimate fairly rcmu-
l lucrative business.
I Wr T0hn y GThc~f said IN IN e.
I frrUri=n reporter that the need ~
! wholesale establishments here De- ~
] cent Hn does mt see uhy rrch in1fi
fufi1ns would n0- pay from fhn fr-'
] They would uf-f tha uh0lrsslr gro
rr-= and the batter in frrn v1Tlr
Z Hf'u fham. THE ~frr ir hi- 1r'ri1r
sac fhn evenings F1r uhClrralr hDusn-
f- ar least three different lines
Gentry Coming 20 ToDn.
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