Perth Amboy evening news., 1911-11-04
New York city. Nov. 4. 1s11.

New York City. Nov. q. 1911.
On Saturday evening last. octobe
ssth. It was our privilege to be presen
rs an invited guest. aiong with som
thirty to forty other newspaper mel
Of New York and elsewhere al
jubilee celebration given as "A FER
sonaf Tribute to the Honorable JOIN
Wanamaker by his Entire cuisines
Family" at the great Wanamake
store in Philadelphia
The New York newspapers OF TN
next day. Sunday. October zsth. CAV
q long and interesting Telegraph
summary of this unique event TIL
"details were very interesting, coTnpr1s
ing the passing In review before Mar
Wanamaker. OF his entire Phiiadel
phia Store force. Numbering aboa
1000 men and women 1t was Ger
tainiy inspiring to see the enthusiasm
that marked the marching columns
as they fied past the reviewing stands
A striking feature of these march
ing columns of employees was the re
rnarkabiy large number Of people
women as well as men, who nae
crown old in the service Of the Wana-
make store.
To our mind his fact alone speaks
volumes.
II Is a most significant Illustration
vi AN tQIafAhItAt9 "a AhhSt
that Seems to dominate the Wanna
maker organization and the Wanna
maker administration.
1t shows that there is not only
loyalty on the part of the Wanarnaker
employees, but that there Is also 9
deep and abiding interest In their well
fare IN the part of the Wanamaker
management. 1t shows that the en-
ployes have grow up from their
youth with the Wanamaker Store and
having i1nbibed Its principles. are now
reaping the reward of working In a
oongenial atmosphere with the con-
sciousncss OF a full appreciation of a
work we'll done.
Right here. It may be only a fitting
tribute to the W~anaTnAker admin
istration to say, that IL Ia one of the
very few general stores in the United
States that has q pension roll for EN-
Ployees who have served 1t o and
faithfully.
Perhaps the most unique event OF
this Jubilee occasion was Mr.. Joseph
III Appel's presentation to Mr.. Wana-
maker Of the deed Of his birth place,
which was = gift from all his EN-
ployees In New York As well as PhiIa-
deiphia. Nj. Appel was chosen by
the employees from both stores as
pAtnG the most fitting person Ia the
sWAnzTnaker organization to represent
It on this o~ccasion. Els address was
not only sympathstio n apprectativs
Of Mr.. Wanamaker and HIS career.
but exceedingly felfcftous turnout
Mr.. WananaakeTs to the ao-
cAptance Of the deed. while rcaoIsnf
with emotion. showed his high appre-
citation OF tbs sentiment conveyed In
the presentation OF the deed OF the
home he was born In.
What we would car to say, that
would be Of general interest In refer
once to the celebration of thfs great
wanamaker Jubilee. however, In not
what could be said of II by one who
would oolt upon 1t with the eyes of
h reporter alone.
Casting our vfsfon backward fifty
pears we find that Jonn Wanamaker's
hat a century OF continuous. active
business Ifs has many inspiring
things about It that Garry q message
of strength and hope 10 the hearts of
avery earnss worker In American
mercantile life.
Ills fifty years since John Wanna
maker, with his partner, Nathan
Brown opened Oak Hall as a Mems
Ind Boyg Clothing Store at the south.
past corner OF Sixth and Market
Etfeeta Philadelphia.
Fifty ear In business. Just tkink
Gilt
Half a century and that half a CEN
tury the most progressive period of
time known to Us In all the history
Vt mankind.
This was MIR. Wanamaker's FIRST
business venture and 1t was under
taken Ia 3 store the area OF which wasI
That hour MIR. Wanamaker has worked
pcntinuousiy In the development OF
what has come to be known az the
greatest retail business In the world.
II should be remembered that John
Wanamaker entered into the fullness
~ lis mercantile life when M opened
the store on the site of the old Penn
Junfper and 18th SITS. Philadelphia In
1916.
From q splendtsty successful man
Agement OF his clothing establishment.
hi waG already ~c-rtaS upon as enc
uE Phfladelphia's rich men. He could
have easily relaxed his grip ON
p active side Of business life and
ttxed IN comfort and afi1uence the
balance Of his days.
But John Wanamaker was not built
on the lines OF easy living.
Not much. For like all our great
American leaders OF industry and
trade he kept a is keeping. right
on In the active labors of the man
agemsnt Of hts great business. and
AtseS ~ Lu3 SaIl6 CLOSE attention to-
day that he gave 1t twenty years ago,
The opening OF the remodelled
Fennsyfvania Railroad Depot as al
kkneral store on the morning of May
9TH. 1875, by John Wanamaksr wasl
unauextfonably a great step In adj
n and brought him promptly Into
competitfou and In line with the old
md l-established retail houses of
Philadelphia. He had now broad sned
out from being q very succes9ful
clothing merchant into q general
atorekeeper n the sequel has shown
that II didn't take him long to mag
ter the principles that made him az
successful In his new venture as he
had been IN the old.
Another step in advance was taken
by Mr.. Wanamaker in 1896. ffteers
years ago. when he acquired the stora
that had housed the old and famous
a. II Stewart business GOVERNS tho
entire block. Broadway, Fourth Ava
nue.. Ninth and Tenth Streets. New
York. And still another step. upward
and onward was taken when La 1905
he opened hiS new mammoth stora
covering tie block next below he
A T Stewart building and thirteen
stories high.
Tho area Of the wanamaker stora
In Philadelphia alone is as acres. h
area of the Stewart building combine5
with that of the New York il "a aerse
giving the combined area of the
wanamaker Stores In P~hiiadeIphta
and New York rs acres. The coiossa
Axsa OF these buildings may be best