Los Angeles herald., 1908-08-09

has its branches In the next section,
where we find exhibited for housewife
as we'll as hotelkeeper every imagin-
ablS article of kitchen ware and gem
eral house furnishings. The wants of
man also are catered to. for not only
does this department carry full line
of garden tools, but a very extensive
assortment a of mechanics tools, cover
ing various trades. All. incidental hard
ware also is here found.
To Open Big Cafe
The next floor to which you ascend
the fourth floor-will be given over to
the wants of the inner man, entirely.
Here, within a short time, will be
opened a great restaurant for custom
ers, and another for employees; wide
ly assorted grocery department, fruit
store, baker shop. well stocked meat
market, and all the other branches of
trade along these lines.
Passing the fifth and sixth floors, the
latter entirely given over TO reserve
stosk and work rooms, you step on
roof garden which in extent is Wlthout
rival. This shortly will be furnlshed
with plants, benches and various lnno-
vations For the present you find es-
pecially landscape and sunshine. ou
descend again to the fifth floor. rms
and the basement of the bullulng are
its heads and hands. On the ffth moor
all merchandise is received, fnspecteu'
checked, examined and marked. Here
are naturally ali the claim and audit
ing departments connected with the re
ceiving of merchandise and also the
general offices both of the Hamburger
Realty and Trust company and the
firm of A. Hamburger & Sons.
After having Inspected the store you
no longer marvel at the clocklike regu-
larity with which everything seems to
move in all the offices, clear along the
line from that of the president and
assistant president all the way down
TO the room occupied by that now so
we'll known and still mysterious person
age, the Arrow Girl beside which you
find the offices of the very extensive
mail order department, where the
wants of all the out-of-town customers
are carefully looked after.
In going to the elevator you pass
big hall and naturally ask your guide
its purpose and intent. You find mere
an auditorium with a capacity of nearly
1000 persons, with a stage, curtain
scenery and dressing rooms fully
equipped in every way both for the en-
tertainment of the public and of the
Hamburger employees, who have been
offered the free use of this two-story
high auditorium at any time by the
firm.
You now take a trip down into the
big basement, the front part of which
will be devoted to an extensive toy de-
partment during the holiday season.
and where also special arrangements
have been made for close observation
by the hundreds who will gather there
of one of the greatest electric power
plants ever built for any mercantile in
stitution The entire other half of the
basement is given up to transfer
ROOM, supply room with fully
equipped printing plant, male and fe-
male employees retiring and checking
rooms, where wraps and parcels are as
we'll cared for as they would be at any
grand opera house in the country.
Another feature which attracts atten-
tion are the packing and loading rooms.
All delivery wagons of the firm enter
the basement by an inclined driveway
and are loaded inside the building, so
that everything sent out from the Ham
burger store reaches it's customers as
free from dust as when first inspected
on the counters.