Arizona republican., 1908-03-07
NEW CURI0 STORE
 IN HOTEL ADAMS
A Place Which Has Been Fitted up
 Without Regard to Expense.

The curio store which R. L. Bake
 of the Big Curio store has opened in the Hotel Adams is one of the most complete and attractive emporiums for the display and sale of curios and cu- rious wares in the southwest where that business chiefly flourishes Though MT. Bake supervises both of his large establishments. the Hotel Ad- ans store is in charge of Ms. Bessie Howard who has been connected with
 the Big Curio store for several years. This store furnishes opportunity for a better display of the more expensive
 goods which MT Bake carries. The room has been fitted up especially for this business at a cost of more than 5000. There are ten large show caSes wholly of plate glass except the mar
 ble bases. The shelving is of hard
 wood polished oak and there are two large cabinets of the same material one for an ostrich plume display and the other for d display of Mexican drawn work which has always been a gIe eat feature of the Big CUrio store ana which has SO largely contributed to the great success of it.
 The exhibition of Russian hammered | brass and copper is given much more prominence than it could have been given in the larger store and so also is the fine stock of imported laces brought more directly to the front ! There is another line which it was not generally known that MT. Bake carried and of which comparatively few people have heard. It is a Chinese manufac- | ne rlpfEanA of small vases of hand carved and chased | silver overlaid with a transparent : enamel of various colors. altogether as delicate an exhibit of the metal work CTS art as could be conceived.
 Visitors to the new store are given ! a better view of the varieties of Indian i and Mexican silver work than could
 be afforded them at the larger store. ! Included in this display are Mexican
 silver belts, something new and beau
 tifuI.
 | There is also d handsome line of I shell combs. antique brooches and belt 1 buckles. The large plate glass show ! cases and the admirable arrangement | of the shelving brings everything into ] plain view and makes the store one oi 1 the show places of the city. well worth 1 visiting. Arrangements are being made l for an exhibit of antique weapons and other instruments and implements oi | a by-gOne age.
 { Mention should be mace of some | thing new in canes. This novelty has ! the general appearance of the unlawful dirk or sword cane whose use has been l interdicted for years in all civilized ! countries. The Servicea bleness of this | cane was made public the other day on the occasion of a visit by Miss Ada Wallace Unruh. the famous temper ance worker, to the curio store. In the
 course of q conversation with Mir Bake. she said that it was matter of very short time until Arizona
 would be enrolled among the prohibi- tion states; very soon it would be i'm possible for one to procure d drink Of alcoholic liquor within the boundaries oi Arizona.
 Mir. Bake replied that he had an ticipated such sumptuary condition and had provided for it. He produced one of these canes and uascreWing what appeared to be the sword handle drew forth long slim glass tube whose contents might sustain the fail ing strength of the weary traveller over
 many miles of arid wastes Miss Un-
 ruh replied that a cane of that kind
 would never receive the official ap- proval of the national prohibition par ty or the w C. T. U.
 The Hotel Adams store will be kept
 open at night for time at least until S.3O and all are invited to call and