The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-12-13
Gotham Merchants Enjoying
 A Brisk Christmas Trade

NEW YORK; December I3-once more glad joyou. masde the door, and abandoning for the time being all h thoughts everybody inspired by the sole thought of making others happy the Day of all days.
 The business crowded with people them loaded down with bundles and the principal shopping like Fourteenth TwenTd Thmyouh and Foysecond Sixth Avenue and Broad traffic seriously mpeded by the arsecrods surrounding the shop dows with their brilliant and empng displays
 Business deal brsker than las, and the improvement the general business condition the election makes itself clearly felt lin the Christmas trade The people have than last owing their greater confidence the fut be willing spend for holiday presents The sopkp that only business b than last but the purchasers inclined purchase better grade lof goods
 Of great poor paonzes the cheaper the East side and the department catering the and middle classes but the merchants carrying goods of the higher grade and therefore pensve feel the improvement last muh The displays the show windows always good barometer for and this their character clearly indicates improved confidence satisfactory labor and trade and ready the pockets of the shoppers
 As usual hundreds of vendors with their mproved stands push taken possession the East side and the loa part the which gives those ooughfs the appearance of village fair As rule these ks kept moving by the police. but during the weeks before Christmas the authorities inclined be and the enpns street merchants slow taking advantage of the opportunity.
 Notwithstanding strong agitation against of the forests especially against cutting down of small the Christmas market supplied pn spuce and baam frs of and description.
 Holly laurel cedar branches and other evergreens and last but least mntetoe. also plentiful and comparatively cheap.
 Christmas essentially feast for the children and make them hap py of money spent this As nothing will contribute the and happiness o child than toys great deal Of thought and ingenuity devoted the invention of novelties the toy ne Only few years ago electrical extremely There mechanical
 great variety. but they depended and coco for ta moving power then. however. practical exploitation of has made strides and the industry has ayaid itself of the deru progress of electrical science and industry Where there cleo hica five there hundred them and although the larger complicated electrical requiring considerable quite expensive there interesting electrical which cheap that they within the reach of even the poorer classes
 Railroad and subway trains and trolley with electric motive power among novelties. Some of the expensive models moving figures and also lighted by ncand Esh Electric from the of English walnut the sceab of fruit the market and ind purchasers These motors power all kinds of mechanical which may pu chased separately.
 Automobiles of them others large enough aOmmade
 child of teeve the novelties and them bought The display of moving dolls and animals unusually large ds year and shows remarkable progress mechanical Particularly the walking dolls and animals far those shown former As in former the best and ingenious of German make They include instructive and scientific suitable both for boys and girls the there doll houses of all the expensive lighted by electricity and equipped with all modem cOnvenence.