The Washington times., 1915-09-26
Thousands Of Balloons to Be
Sent Up at 9 A. N. Monday
With Prizes.
WINDOWS IN GALA ATTIRE
Merchants Vie With Each Other
for Prizes offered by Re-
taiIers' Body.

rfhe inauguration Of the fall buying
season will be formally observed here
It . o'clock tomorrow morning. when
several thousand balloons. each carry
fnk an order for merchandise on some
washinstons business house. will be
unloosed in the downtown section Of
the city. -.
Washington merchants are ready TOT
the fall trade. Their stocks have peeh
repienished and the opening display to-
morrow will be offered as a convincing
argument why every one. visitor ana
native, should "buy in Washington"
simultaneously with the unioosing Of
the balloons and their orders for mer-
ohandise-which range In value from 20
cents to $1o-the city's store windows
will be unveiled and will reveal the
fail offerings. Sixty-odd business
houses are in the window-display COM
petition Of the Retail Merchants AS
The balloons will be sent UP at a
number OF downtown points: APPROX
Ynately 900 will be unloosed from the
roof OF the Munsey building: ana tne
tbrongs on the street below have only
order found therein to the store upon
which 1t Is drawn.
Bells and Whistles to Be Busy.
A the balloons float Off bells will be
rung and Whistles blown to remind
washingtonians that the fall buying
season has been officially inaugurated
The balloons will be released
from The Mode, Eleventh and
NJ GAvAnfhf
Philip T. Hall. l411 r, William T.
F'reeny Company, Inc, a11 Four
teentk street, Goldenbcre's,
Seventh and Kj Schmedtfe Bros.
7O4 seventh street, n Berberlch's
Sons, 1I16 Seventh street and S1S
Pennsy yIvania avenue, Adams News
DEPOT, Ninth and G, and from the
roofs of the Newspaper offices and
other buildings along Pernsyl:
ania avenue between Ninth md
F6urteenth streets.
The Retail Merchants Association is
offering Nthree silver cups in the win
dow display scontest A fourth cup Is
offered by the WASHINGTON Shoe Deal
ers' Association for the best shoe dis
play and the window dresser OF the firm
to which this cup goes will receive SO.
Tho cups will be awarded by commit
tee consisting Of the advertising man
ayers of the four local newspapers-J.
r. Hamilton. Of The Times: Leroy W.
Of the Post. and Troland Cleare. Of the
Herald.
Many Firms In Contest.
The following business houses have
formally entered their windows in COM
petition: "a
D. J. Kaufman. l8s Pennsylvania
avenue; Regal Shoe Company. 1908
Pennsylvania avenue; kaufman q Co..
pnnnlvIva
Company. sls Pennsylvania avenue; b.
Berbericn's Sons. sl3 Pennsylvania
avenue; .. kaliii, Sons q Co., Glgntn
street and pennsylvania avenue; Saks
Il Co., seventh street and fennsyivania
avenue; Joseph Straspurger Company.
ham Company. Si4 Seventh street;
Lansburgn & Bro. 420 seventh street;
Hecnt q Co.. 5lo-l seventh street;
Schmedtie Bros. 1V Seventh street;
Charles Schwartz & Son. 1Os Seventh
street; Kings Palace. SO seventh street;
House 4 Hermann. Seventh ana Il
streets; Goldenberg's. seventh and X
streets; William Hahn & Co., Seventh
and X streets; H. Abramson. Seventh
and l. streets; r. Berberich's Sons, lI6
Seventh street; Harry Kaufman & Co..
1875 Seventh street; d. B. Gusdorf. 1920
Seventh street; M. A. Leese, GA Ninth
street; United Hat Company. 504 Ninth;
VOLTS Walkover Shoe Company. s2S F
street; Mayer Bros. & CO.. SS7 f street:
Kafka's Shop. Tenth and F streets:
Woodward & Lothrop, Eleventh and F
streets; The Mode. Eleventh and F
streets: w. H. Moses & Sons. Eleventh
and F streets: M. Philipsborn & Co., G10
Eleventh street; Palais Royal. Eleventh
and G streets: M. Brooks 4 Co.. 1l09 G
street: Mrs. Goddard. 1l12 G street: The
Louvre. LIS F street; Guide Bros Com
pany. 1214 street; Smoot & Jellef, Inc.
1915 F street; Topham's. Inc. 1219 +
street; Whitmore. Lynn & Alden. Thir-
teenth and F streets; Alice Maynard.
1906 F street: George Z. Hebbard. 1912 +
street: Berberich's Young Mems Shop
tshoe departmenD, 1921 street: Arthur
Burt. 1343 F street; Philip T. Hall. Inc =.
1ln r street: William Freeny Company
Inc. GIL Fourteenth street; Sidney West.
Fourteenth and G streets; r. P. Andrews
Paper Company. TT Thirteenth street
2. D. Blackstone. Fourteenth and H
streets: Tolman Laundry. Dupont cir
Gle: Sinsheimer Shoe Company, 3l46 NJ
street,. Stetson Shoe Shop, 1l09 Pennsyl-
vania avenue: Peoples Department
Store. Eighth street and Pennsylvania
avenue southeast. and Freyers Art
Shop.