Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-01-05
STOUTENBURGHS
HAVE BEEN SIXTY
YEARS IN BROAD ST.
From Little Shop Business Grew
with City-T0 Celebrate
Anniversary.

Sixty years in business in Broad
street.
That is the proud record of Stouten-
burgh & Co. Starting sixty years ago
with a little shop in Broad street, three
doors south of West Park street, in
quarters 20 py 80 feet, the firm has
grown until it takes in five buildings
of four stories each, with a depth OIL
100 feet. During that time the estab-
lishment has grown from a little Gus
tom tailoring shop to the largest
'ready-to-wear'' establishment in New
Jersey.
The business was started by Robert
Stoutenburgh and Francis Mackin. jusr
after the close of the Mexican War.
when Zachary Taylor was President
of the United States, and when New
ark was a village without pavements
and with Pickering oil lamps for street
illumination. AS Newark has grown,
SO has the business of ~stoutenburgh &
Co.
Soon after the opening of business
Messrs. S~toutenburgh & Mackin found
q uCiiiullu III itauy CfOITlIiE,
and it was not long before larger quar-
tiers were needed. Mr.. Mackin early
withdrew from the firm and Robers
St~outenburgh, until his death in 1854,
looked after details of the business
himself. He 0 moved to .7S5 Broad
street. where he occupied the entire
building. This building proved large
enough until 1875, when the steadily
increasing volume of business neces-
stated still larger quarters, and Nos.
SO3-5 Broad street, the s%outherly end or
the present quarters, were added. The
three buildings on the northern end OF
this property We're soon annexed and
constitute the present store, which, for
location, equipment, room and light,
has no superior and few equals in the
country.
At h present time the firm employs
over 500 persons, including tailors and
clerical help, and thousands of dollars
weekly are paid to Newarkers in wage@.
The first floor of the five-stores-in-one
is devoted entirely to the sale of Stout
enburgh's tailored apparel for father
and son-ready-to-wear III easy 10
buy The second fioor is given over To
the custom tailoring department and
to the private offices of the firm ana
a reserve stock of black dress suits. On
the upper floors are the workrooms
and stocks of piece goods, Innings ana
trimmings bought from the best manu-
facturers in this country and abroad.
The trademark of the firm has az
ways been: "Bes Newark Made Cloth
ing" There are twenty efficient clerk-
many who have been in the employ OF
the firm for a decade or more, on hand
70 greet customers on the main floor
Reside the clothing DEPARTMENTS there
are hats, haberdashery, shoes, in fact.
everything for man and boy, from the
babe in arms to the tottering grand
father.
The business is now in the hands or
Mr.. Stoutenburgh's children, Frederick
| II. and Frank L., they taking owe the
mana cement on the death of Robert
Stoutenburgh in 1884. His daughter
Mrs. Marianna S. Gleason, has an in
terest in the firm. but takes no act
i've part in its management.
TO celebrate the switch .anniversare
the firm is putting in special windov
displays. while the entire store win br.
decorated and thrown open to the
public for inspection.