Los Angeles herald., 1908-08-09

very glass laughs back at you smii-
ing, mocking piece of millinery Won
derful? Yesl Unusual-possibly gro
tesque. IL you please-but how can
one find an adjective for such mil
linery? It would not be fair to speak
Here woman reigns. Here fashion
reigns. and reigns supreme-outranking
and outclassing all comparison.
Past the Phone Exchange
Passing the busy telephone exchange,
where local and long distance wires
centralize and again spread to all de-
partments and sub-connections of the
building, a short, quick trip on one of
the commodious elevators brings you
to the third floor.
Here is located the vast public libra
ry of the city of Los Angeles, with its
115,000 volumes. Here on one side is
the commodious fiction room, separat-
ed from the still larger general reading
room, where hundreds are seeking for
knowledge, pleasure, entertainment and
relief from the humdrum of daily life;
and still there is not the least indica-
tion Of crowding.
Pages might we'll be written about
this library alone, but we have but
moment here to make hurried in
spection of few of the separate rooms
devoted partly to the conservation OIL
rare volumes and inapart to the quiet
and privacy so much sought by the
reader and student.
You enter the other part of the third
floor devoted to the Hamburger store
properly, there first entering the fur
niture sales space, which is much Iars-
er than the main floor of almost any
exclusive furniture house of the coun-
try. Right here, as in the adjoining
crockery and house furnishing sections
is exemplified one of the strongest Key
notes of the Hamburger success.
The Hamburger way allows of no
scanty variety. There are no side is
sues. The firm is as much firm or
furniture dealers as it is anything else.
Here are bedroom sets in polished
woods, brass and iron bedsteads ga
lore. Here Is dull mission, and there
heavy leather upholstered pieces. Close
on to 400 pianos of every kind. size de-
scription and variety are lined up In a
separate and distinct department just
north of the furniture department.
These comprise high grade models con-
trolled by Hamburgers, and locally
manufactured, as well as models OF
we'll known names, familiar to music
lovers and built in eastern factories.
Prices range up from the most modest
figures, and all models indicate luxury,
both In case, finish and construction.
Big Crockery Department
The north portion of this floor is en-
tirely devoted to crockery and house
furnishing goods in almost endless va
riety. Bohemian glassware in all hues
and tints; clear crystal goods for ev-
cry use, and brilliantly lustrous Amer
lean cut glass, each arranged not only
| in artistic but in the most convenient
manner.
Cut glass is one of the Hamburger
specialties and therefore Is given an
entire separate room. Models are on
show here instructing the visitor or
prospective purchaser in the various
stages of glass cutting from the blank.
Next you step into a separate room
admitting no outside light, given over
to the exhibition of electroliers and art
statuary. AS you leave this room you
face a wall shelving showing over 400
running feet of dinner ware exhibited.
Think of a table 400 feet long, the
length of a city block set with select
show pieces, each and every one diff
ferent! Not satisfied with this, there
are nine special exhibition tables OF
this same class of chinaware, these
tables apparently affording 1000 square
feet of exhibition space. The balance
of the crockery department is devoted
to plain and fancy pieces of every
character, covering the entire range
from low priced toilet sets to the most
exquisite Imported art pieces.
Here is another special room. This
Is devoted exclusively TO hotel ware.
Los Angeles is a city of great transient
population, hence naturally one of ex-
tensiye hotel and boarding house con-
dftions, This special department also