The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1915-11-20

week to Frank P. Gadson's Bazaar
Store, in it's handsome new quarters
IN the ST. George block, where the
popular store occupies three of the
commodious store rooms on the front
and large addition in the rear which
was built afterwards, entirely for the
toy department.
tunity than it has ever had before to-
display it's huge stock of goods and
the different departments are sys-
tematized and the different classes of
goods arranged in different parts of
the store. Every department is filled.
There is complete stock of the lat
est creations in dry goods, notions,
clothing for men and boys, ready
made garments for ladies and chill
dren, shoes, hats and millinery.
GREAT TOY DEPARTMENT
The store occupies over 1000 square
feet of floor space and with the eco
nomical arrangement of goods, the
many extra tables and shelves and
display cases that space is more than
doubled.
While the toy department proper
is in the huge room in the rear of the
main store, where there is nothing
but toys, yet toys and holiday goods
are more or less displayed all over
the store, wherever additional room
could be found to take care of the
overflow.
There are some very handsome
cases of silver ware, jewelry and
other high class goods and large
line of graphophones and records have
been added.
Every available foot of space in the
toy room is filled, the walls and even
the ceiling has been covered, where
hundreds of larger toys are suspend
ed. The place is well lighted and a
cash register has been placed there
and the clerks will always be in at
tendance to wait on the public.
1t seems to the Star man, who has
been watching Gadson's holiday dis
play for 20 years, that he has excell-
ed himself this season, for the toy de-
partment is certainly fairyland and
will delight the hearts of the chill
dren and their mothers as well, and
make their shopping easy and pleas
ant.
AN EXCELLENT DISPLAY ROOM
Shelving has been placed all around
the walls, from floor to ceiling of the
store and wide tables and sets of
shelves, extending from the floor to
as high as one can reach, give the ut
most display room for the size of the
apartment, and it is all filled, every
leaving ample room for the custom
ers to get about, all over the room
and see everything that is displayed
There are more toys and holiday
goods at the Bazaar than most stores
would hold, and Frank says that ii
would have been impossible to have
even stored the goods in the old store
uptown, and but for his greater
space he would have had to rent a
store outsidei. The big store has nc
vacant space, and the unusually
heavy stock of goods in all lines, in
that department, has taxed the stores
force to its utmost to provide space
to make anything like display of it
FRANK GOT AHEAD OF THE BIG
FIGHT
Eidently Frank Gadson got il
ahead of the European war, some
how, for he has many toys and novel
ties that were iE truth ssmade in Ger
many" When asked how this was
he said he bought his toys as he al
ways does, early in the summer; il
fact, in the spring, especially in the
expensive mechanical toys and char
acter dolls, that cannot now be du
plicated at any cost. Many of tn.
goods have doubled and tripled il
price since he bought them; but he i,
sticking to his original prices and will
give the children and their parentl
of this section the advantage that h,
has reaped.
Gadson seems to have a happ.
faculty for buying, for striking tn,
market just right; for knowing wha
the public wants, and for picking VI
big jobs and bargains and well h
might, for he has been 20 years a
it; going to New York twice or tire
times each year, and has learne
what is the most desired by the pub
lie in that time, and if it is to be ha
in the big city he is going to find
and buy it.
1t looks like he has exceeded al
previous efforts this season, and al
though he has many foreign toys
toys made by hands that are nov