Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1904-04-21
GREAT NEW STORE
FOR BUFFALO
The Sweeney Co. Will Soon Open a
Department Store on the Site of
the Barnes & Hengerer Estab-
Iishment-- Interesting Facts About
a Mammoth Enterprise.
OF AN
HISTORIC SITE

New York, as we'll as the most famous,
is the location of the new store of The
Sweeney Company at Nos. 256-26s
Main Street, Buffalo.
1t was way back in 1S45 that Mr.. G.
J. Hamlin first established a general
merchandise store in Buffalo, and in
1860 T. J. Mensden & Co., in which
store Mr.. Hamlin was interested, open
ed carpet and wall paper establish
ment in the same location where The
Sweeney Company will begin business
early in May.
In 1861, that memorable year, and on
the very day that Fort Sumpter was
fired upon, the firm of Hamlin & Mems
den opened remodeled store on the
same site for the sale of dry goods.
Since that time there have been many
changes. In 1866 the firm of Falkner,
Potts & Jackson were the proprietors
of the store, and they were succeeded
in 1868 by Barnes & Bancroft, which
firm later became Barnes & Hengerer
and the William Hengerer Company.
The Hengerer firm has recently rented
another building.
Now The Sweeney Company comes
into possession of the largest building
between New York and Chicago used
for retail merchandising; and thus on
the same historic site where the doors
of the most progressive store of the
ante-bellum days swung open, early
next month vast mercantile estab-
lishment will begin business
The president of the new tore is
Mr.. John f. Sweeney, who is also pres
ident of the big department store of
Buffalo known as the H. A. Meldrum
Company. Mr.. Sweeney will have
personal charge of the business. The
other officers of the company are: Will
liam Hamlin, vice president; II. A.
Meldrum, treasurer and Donald Mac
kay, secretary.
The Sweeney Company's store will
be new kind of a store, selling relia-
BILE quality merchandise cheap for cash.
With practically unlimited capital, the
store is founded on cash basis. The
results ofthis principle are manifold
those who pay cash are not charged
extra prices to make up the losses of
charged accounts Every article of
merchandise in the new store is of
thoroughly reliable quality There are
no inferior goods, no fabrics of un-
worthy quality, for the Sweeney Com
pany is founded on the solid rock of
good merchandise cheap for cash.
One of the rules of the new store is
to have every customer a satisfied Gus
toner. The Sweeney Company will not
count sale us closed until the pur-
chaser gets the goods home and is per
fectly satisfied with them. The new
store says: eff you are not pleased,
if for any reason the goods are not
just as We presented them, bring
them back, or send them to us and we
will give you back your money cheer
fully and willingly"
The exact date of the opening of
The Sweeney store will be announced
in this paper in a week or two and
everybody contemplating a trip to
Buffalo will do we'll to watch for the
date of opening, for the most extra.
ordinary bargains that have ever been
offered are promised for the opening
week; and in fact the wise shopper
will always be able to save money at
The Sweeney Store for it will be the
home of bargains.
While the front portion of the NAM
moth store will be bargain mart, the
remainder of the great Structure will
be turned over to host of workmen,
for improvements that will entail an
expenditure of more than 5000, 900 are
to be carried out on the building. New
elevators, new electric lighting ar
rangements, new fixtues, and the rails
ing of the skylight from the first floor
to the roof thus affording vast floor
space which will stretch, unbroken
from Main to Pearl streets, a distance
of nearly $50 feet-all these and many
out while the wheels of indus try are
in motion. The department managers
of the new store have been selected
from every quarter of the country.
Each man is ripe in experience and
has been eminently successful in his
particular department. These buyers
have searched the markets of the
world. They have gone to the mills
and factories and have gathered to-
gether magnificent assortment of re-
liable quality merchandise that will be
sold at the lowest prices ever quoted.
The visitors to Buffalo, or the per-
sons who wish to shop by mail, will
find where the Barnes & Hengerer
store used to be a new, live, up-to date
department store radiant with new
merchandise great bargain center
where they can fill all their wants at
substantial saving, for soon The
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