Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-10-14
Business and Trade Good.

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ITO this end factory owners welcome the
Greater Washington movement with JOY.
We want hands and we want them right
away. and there is no better way to In
crease our population. and with it bring to
us a share of this class of help. than to let
the world know that Washington intends
to develop into a business and manufactur-
ing center, and when this fact is better es-
tablished and more widely known factory
and manufacturing firms will secure more
help.
I'm the Industrial and manufacturing
lines in this city. irrespective of the class
or quality of goods turned out. business
was never better than this fall and we are
certain of a satisfactory increase for the
reason that many OF us have more orders
on our books than we can now NIL nat Is
why | am advertising In The Star for more
hands.
And in this connection 1t should not be
overlooked that so far as our own par
ticular trade is concerned il is largely local
Our home people buy our goods. That
shows a good, healthy home demand. don't
il? Ii certainly does. and 1t also shows
that our citizens believe in the good rule
Ct patronizing home factories and using
home made goods.
The Southern Movement.
There is another point about the new
southern movement. which. by the way. Is
one of the best individual things which has
in business-twenty years Here are two
orders 1 have received for the products
of NV factory from as far south as Atlanta.
Ga and | have received a number OF
other orders and some inquiries from firms
in cities and towns which were along the
line of The Stars special. and which came
to me as the direct result of the passage Of
the train through that section of the coun-
try.
For this factory like several others in
Ia, a lop rs Ia r.
ronage' from sections to the south OF us,
and while we occasionally receive orders
from the north. yet II is from the sur
rounding and the southern states that al
most all of our outside business comes.
Therefore those in the manufacturing and
industrial channels in this city, aside en-
tirely from the wholesalers and the store
keepers, have looked from the start with
the keenest interest upon the trip of The
Stars special. and in these interests this
movement has had strong support in prac-
teal ways and our cordial personal en-
enlargement.
Change in the Summer Trade.
In referring to the marked and satisfac-
tory increase in and sustained strength or
the past summers retail trade in this city.
to which reference is made above. a MEM
Der of the firm of one of the largest stores
on Pennsylvania avenue said
I'VE expected of course. with the advent
OF july. lnaC Ine usual ldillilR VI buSl-
ness which usually comes during that
month and August would begin. but we
were surprised to note that it did not drop
off as suddenly as in past years. but. on
the contrary. held its own close up TO the
usual normal mark.
This We cons .dered very important
indication of general prosperity and of the
times in Washington, and we paid close
attention to this changed condt of the
trade in this city, and il kept up right
through August until 1t blended with the
customary September patronage.
In view of the fact that very large
proportion of the population of Washing
ton is employed in the government depart
ments where a long annual leave Is grant
ed to the entire clerical force, and there
is necessarily a large number OF absences
from the city each summer. il would seem
to me that this holding up of the summer
trade in the capital means a greater sta
bility of business and is a very important
consideration to reckon with in the Greater
Washington development movement"