Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-10-02
Tells Interestingly
OF Eastern Trip
Cry H. C. Gilmore.)

Cry H. C. Gilmore.)
To travel and acquire knowledge
at first hand is the readiest and
ablest means of informing ones self
of the actual happenings of life. A
days visit only in New York-a city
as cosmopolitan as any in the world
lis sufficient for a birdseye view
only in one or two directions. Bos-
ton is some to a very large de-
gree, but New York is the whole
thing" when you come to deal with
the vast things of mundane life. One
of the greatest "show" depot struc-
lures, perhaps, in the world is the
Grand Central New York, erected
at cost of several million dollars,
but, also at an immense expenditure,
the Pennsylvania Central. situated in
another part of the city and occupy
ing two entire blocks, is a good sec
ond, possessing some features of a
solid granite character rarely met
with in these days, that impart to it
an air of grandeur seen only in the
bold inspiring creations in Europe
when time and money were mere
pigmies.
A Great Institution.
We have from time to time heard
great deal about r. H. Macy & Co.
of New York, and profiting by our
experience in Detroit in witnessing
the return home. after a hard days
work, of 10000 employees from the
Ford automobile factory, 10000 from
the Packard and 5000 from the
Cadillac, we were determined to go
early (S:15 a. m.) and witness the
throng of old and young women
some clad in the plainest calicoes
and others in rustling silks, crowd
ing the sidewalks and coming in all
directions, enter the great Macy C
Co. building for the prosecution of
an honest days work. The employees
number 1000, with an extra supply
during the Christmas holidays. The
business proper is divided into 90
departments, and the sight of a de-
partment directory, running from A
TO 2, at the main entrance, and spec
flying every item of goods saleable,
is sight to behold" especially to
the novice accustomed to purchase
his yard of calico and spool of cotton
in the country-run general store.
Add to this the moving stairs and
the bringing Of all goods from the
basement to the various departments
by pneumatic electric force, and you
have the picture of the oldest up-to-
date department store in the United
States. the firm having been estab-
Iished SO years ago by r. II. Macy,
an old sea aptain, who, under a
lucky inspiring star, believed in end
less possibilities for New York. The
Co. in the R. H. Macy firm has, in
the past, been very largely the la
mented Mr.. Strauss, who with his
excellent wife shared with hundreds
of others the unhappy fate of "going
down" with the Titanic. We are in
debted to Mr.. Charles Winship, one
OF the superintendents of the firm
not only for a pleasant inspection OF
this truly colossal business, but for
several interesting facts which we
give in nutshell as follows. That
r. II. Macy & Co. is the only estab-
lishment in New York city that buys
and sells for cash: that they fill
many mail orders but encourage, rath-
er, direct purchases at the store;
that more people pass a particular
corner of the Macy store than any
corner-excepting perhaps one in
Paris-and that the firm oversees
as far as is possible, the best inter.
ests of their employees. A summer
vacation, brief as it may be, falls tC
the lot of every employe of the firm
Sightseeing i'm Washington, ID. G.
Our federal capital is, indeed,
beautiful creation in all its amplifi
cations and city-as numerou
trolley rides will certify-of magnifi
cent distances. Visits to the Con
gressional Library. the White Hous
and the House of Representative
furnished us with much food for re
Election. An entire day could b
profitably and inspiringly spent in
critical survey of the many work
of art, ancient and modern, to b
seen in this temple of fame. In tn
musical department. among an a
sortment ESQ to speak, of our be-
and more generally known America
composers, works. we noticed a mai
uscript copy of symphonic trea
ment of great theme by our o.
friend Henry KimhalI Hadley wh