The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-11-12
Say Business Is Better Than EbeY and
 All Express ContIdence
Saturday and Monday Were of the Best Days From Bus Standpoint in History of the Cty-What Some of the
 Prominent Merchants Say
steeIe.smith Dry Goods Go.

how anything but good times will be our lot. We are not afraid"
 steeIe-smith Dry Goods Co.
 The clerks at Steele Smiths were also kept on the jump yesterday and Satur- day waiting on customers, and the feel ing of satisfaction which prevails among the other merchants was also expressed by Arthur Smith last night
 'Collections have been better with us for the last week or two than for seven or eight months past, and our business Is constantly increasing Today was a very busy one with us and Saturday. while all ways our busiest day, was one of the very best days we have had in a long while. Our business is far ahead of last year and we wouldn't know anything about hard times if some one didn't men tion it. Am not afraid of any squeeze gripping Birmingham
 caheen Bros.
 Like all the others Caheen Bros had all they could handle Saturday and Mon day. and Ferd Caheen expressed things to 't' when he said:
 'If hard times have been creeping around here we haven't heard anything about it. It certainly hasn't reached us for today and Saturday kept us all busy We are doing a splendid business this fall and it is continually picking up. Col lections are good and there doesn't ap- pear to be any lack of money. The bus mess for the last two days could hardly have been better and was much better than we could even have hoped for or expected under the most favorable condi- tions No, l don't think Birmingham has anything to fear"
 Ferd Marx.
 Ferd Marks store was also busy place on Saturday and Monday, and in telling about it Hugo Marx said;
 ''Yes, we had two exceptionally good days in Saturday and Monday. Better, in fact, than we have had for some time Business for the past month or two has improved greatly and is better than It was last year. Are having splendid col lections and our cash sales are very large Haven't the slightest fear of-what vas that? Going to have hard times, No! Things will have to change, and change nightly before anything like that can come around here. No. l don't believe we need have the least bit of fear about any such calamity as that, and business will have to drop off tremendously from days like Saturday and Monday before we begin to even think about it.
 Loveman, Joseph & Loeb.
 Loveman, Joseph & Loeb, practically the largest department store in the south, had their hands full for the last two days, and when asked how matters were progressing with them, A. B. Loveman said:
 Business is better with us now than it was, although we had d great run of business last year. Saturday was a splen- did day, even for Saturday. and we cd an enormous business, while Monday night found us finishing the busiest Moa- day we have had in long while. We are having no trouble with collections, and are doing a tremendous cash business. We are not fearful of anything and haven't noticed anything unusual at all. We feel confident that everything will keep on as smoothly in the future as in the past and that the next few months will find us all working harder than ever. If there was such thing as hard times the merchants would be the first ones to feel 1t. We haven't felt any and from what I can judge and hear of our brother merchants they have found things as we have Birmingham Is all right and there is nothing to trouble her"