The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1914-10-27
SANTA CLAUS
OWN SHOP
FRANK GABSON AHEAD OF THE
FIGHTERS
Bought Big Stock Of Made i'm Ger
many Toys for the Ocala
Bazaar

played ready for the inspection of
the public.
We do not believe there is sucn
display of toys and accompanying
lines in the state, unless, it is IN
one store in Jacksonville that special
ICES on these goods. The store is
80 loo inside, and all excepting
Is feet across the rear end of the
second floor is filled with toys. That
the public may have easy access TO
the toy department., an easy stairway
has been put i'm ait the rear of the
ground floor. 1t is carpeted and has
lbanister supports. The second floor
is we'll ventilated and< well
lighted, both by electric lights and
large windows in front and rear.
That there may be some one al
ways there to wait on those who Wis
it this department, and no delay in
making change, cash register has
been placed in this department, and
a cashier and one clerk will he kept
There continuously, beginning ON No
Tember 1st until after Christmas
An Excellent Display Room
Shelving has been placed all
around the wallis, from floor TO cell
ing. Down the entire length of the
store are two wide tables and sets of
shelves, extending from the floor to
as high as one can reach, giving the
utmost display room for the size of
the apartment. and it is aiM filled, ev-
cry inch of space that is available,
after leaWing ample room for the Gus
TONERS to get about, all over the
room and see everything that lis dis
played. There are more toys and
holiday goods in the room than most
stores would hold, and Frank says
that it would have been impossible to
have shown, or to have even stored
the goods in the one store down
stairs, and but for his second floor,
he would have had to rent a store
outside. The first floor has no avail
able space, and the usually heavy
stock of goods in all lines, in THAT
department, has taxed the stores
force ITO dts utmost to provide space
to make anything like a display of
it,
Frank Got Ahead of the Fight
EvidentalIy Frank Gadson got in
ahead of the European war, some
how, for he has many toys and novel
ties THAT were IN truth made in Ger
many When asked how this was,
he said he bought his toys as he al
ways does, early in the summer; in
fact, in the spring, a great many of
them being samples, especially in the
expensive mechanical toys and char
acter dolls, tFIeAt cannot now be du-
pllicaAed at any cost. The war was
declared after the goods were ship
ped ito him, hence The was not really
effected by it I'm this department.
Many of the goods have doubled and
tripled in price since he bought
them; but he is sticking ito his orig
inal prices and will give the children
and their parents of this section the
advantage THAT he has reaped.
| Gadson seems ito have a ihappy
tfaculty for buying for striking the
lmarket just right; for knowing what
the puIblic wants, and for picking III
fbig Jobs and bargains and we'll he
mfgIht. for he has been 2S years at
it: going to New York twice or three
times each year, and has learned
rwhlajt ies the most desired by the pub
die i'm that time, and if it is to be
Ihad in the big city he is going to
find and buy 1T.
Many will Not Return
IT looks like he has exceeded al
preyious efforts this season, and al
though lhe has many foreign toys
TOYS made by hands that are nov
fighting their country's BATTLES, n
has thousands of Others THAT Wer'
.fnade in america where peace am
. nlentv prevails and where the STOCK
ings and 'auumies'' of the little one
will be filled as usual, at the ap
preaching ChTlSuIIldS i1TuO.
Almost every child in Ocala, Wh
has been here for as much as a yea
;, knows Frank Gadson and likes 10 z
!, to his store at the holiday time,
; fact, children who now have III
tie ones of their own. remember &C
: ing to see toys and Santa CLAUS
!. his store twenty years ago, VINE
! they too, were tots, and thought pni
) such things were of more Important
o than all else in life.
20 In the big upstairs of the Ocal
D Bazaar, are so many different item
= that one can but mention a few an
!, the public can realize what is ther
IS Magnificent Display of Dolls