Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-03-25
new STORE IS
THROWN Open
Thousands of Visitors Inspect
the New Home of Young
q ,McCombs.
PRAISE FOR THE OWNERS
business Houses and Friends of Pro
prietors Send Greetings-Lunch-
con Is Feature.

From the time the doors of the Best
building were opened at o'clock this
morning. there was steady stream If
people to the Young & McCombs store
today, the occasion being the formal
opening of the. new store in its big
new building. Thousands of people
visited the store thronged every floor
and inspected the new quarters and
the new departments during the day,
and this afternoon the employees
found it a big problem to properly
handle the crowds of visitors.
During the day the members of The
firm received scores of kilograms from
business houses throughout the coun-
try, congratulating them on their open
ing in such fine new quarters. and
hundreds personally extended their
greetings TO the members of the firm.
And not only were there kilograms
and personal greetings. but numerous
representatives of big mercantile
houses sent their greetings in the form
of enormous punches of flowers. Some
were in the form of loose bouquets,
some were in set pieces in the form IF
horseshoe, and others were in diff
ferent shapes.
The two members of the firm Frank
G. Young and William S. McCombs,
were on hand and greeted as many
of the visitors as possible. Those who
went to the store were presented with
souvenirs in the form of pocket mir
Tors. There were also a number of
demonstrators on hand, who gave
souvenirs to callers.
All of the departments did a rushing
business, and it almost seemed that
the people who had contemplated MAX
ing purchases had delayed their shop
ping until the opening, in order to ex-
anime the new stock of Young C Nc
Combs.
The jam presented the appearance
of that attending one of the big city
department stores and the best part
of ii was, as said, most of the people
went to shop as well as to see.
Owner Makes Statement.
l.. p. Best of Davenport. the owner
of the new block, was one of the in
terested visitors at the opening and
he showed evident pride in the event.
Mr.. Best has invested an enormous
sum in the building-the entire in
vestment being estimated at about a
quarter of a milion-and his pride il
the beauty of the place was well justi-
fled. An Argus representative suS
gested this to Mr.. Best, and he mod
estly replied: Il think@the real credit
belongs to Young & McCombs. They
have the big undertaking. They GER
tainly have a beautiful store, and
think il is as conveniently arranged
and as tastefully furnished as it could
be- Everything is in good taste, and
the owners of the store are to be con
graduated
Pretty Cafe Opened.
One of the features of the opening
was the luncheon de luxe served il
the cafe. An elaborate menu wa;
served under the direction of NJ. Pog
ges, who has charge of the cafe ant
the lunch room on the fourth floor
During the day musical pro
gram was provided in the grill room
by Ogden's orchestra.
The cafe is a new departure in thu
store, and it is so arranged that en-
trance viii be possible through tn
Office portion of the block and the caf
may be kept open when the store !
closed Several hundred guests eT
joyed the service this noon.
Music and flowers and uniformed a