Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-04
COHEN STORE SOLD:
GOLDSMITH MOVES
David Kaufman Takes Over
$4,000 Stock of Old Bust
ness Place
BIG FURNITURE CHANGE
Long Established House Leases
Claster Building to Take
Care of Growing Business
BIG FURNITURE CHANGE

in the heart of the city continue to be
the talg of business circles. Follow.
ing the purchase of the l.. w. Cook
and Jerauld stores by Dives. Pomeroy
and Stewart, it was announced today
that David kaufman, OF the Kaufman
Underselling Stores, had purchased the
stock of the Harris Cohen store, 202
Market street, one of the oldest
stands. if not the very oldest, in the
downtown district.
1t also became known that Joseph
Goldsmith one of the best-known
furniture dealers and upholsterers in
Harrisburg, will remove shortly from
his present place of business, 200 and
2O9 Walnut street, extending through
to Locust, to the building occupied by
Joseph Claster, wholesale jobber of
clothing and notions, 6 u North Mar
ket Square. Mr.. Claster has leased
the Harrar and Chamberlain property
at 119 South Front street, which he
Will occupy as soon as arrangements
can Oe made.
In addition it was rumored about
town this afternoon that a well-known
Reading merchant is looking for a
site in Harrisburg with the purpose of
establishing another department store
here. 1t is also known that a number
of local business men are inquirng for
locations with more floor space than
they have at present and the outlook
is bright for good business all through
the year with many changes in To-
cation this spring. In nearly every in
stance the old stores that nave given
way TO changed business conditions
and the march Of the city's progress
Will be replaced by new enterprises or
enlargements of present business
places More and more the city is
becoming the shopping and buying
center of all Central Pennsylvania.
The Cohen Purchase
Mr. Kaufman told a reporter for
the Telegraph that he took over the
Cohen store to-day and had already
begun to remove the stock, valued at
more than $4,000, to his stores on
Market Square. Mr.. Kaufman said
he is much pleased with the purchase
in view of the fact that Mr.. Cohen
carried many exclusive lines of wo-
mems notions, Corsets and hair goods,
and underwear Tor men, women and
children which will now go out
through his store. Mr.. Cohen's bust
ness was one of the most firmly eStab-
lished in the city and it was only ad-
vancing age that caused his retire
ment.
The rise of Harris Cohen in the busi-
ness circles of Harrisburg is one of the
romances of local commercial life.
Mr.. Cohen came to New York from
Wilma, Russia, at the time of the
Crimean war and located in New
York. Shortly before the outbreak
of the Civil war he became a peddler
and worked throughout Virginia,
Maryland, Pennsylvania and nearby
States. After some thrilling eX-
periencs between the lines in Maryland
during the war, when he narrowly
escaped death at the hands of the
rebels, who accused him of being u
spy, he came to Harrisburg and To-
Gated in little shop near where the
Market Square Presbyterian Church
now stands and began the manufac-
ture of hoop-skirts, then in the height
of fashion. He made money rapidly
and there laid the foundation of the
large fortune of which he is now the
possessor. In 1866 he removed to his
present site, 202 Market street, and
continued the manufacture of hoop
skirts until they went out of style some
ten years later, when he began to
develop the business which the Kauf-
man Underselling Stores took over
to-day. In addition to being reliable
and respected merchant, Mr.. Cohen is
interested in many of the large in
dustrial and public service enterprises
of the city and in real estate.
The Goldsmith Transfer
The removal of the furniture and
upholstery store of Joseph Goldsmith
to 6 IL n. Market Square give him pos
session of a building ideally adapted
to his purposes and very centrally To-
Gated, being directly opposite the new
stopping place of the Valley Traction
cars in the Square. Mr. Goldsmith,
Sr., and Lee Goldsmith, his son, who
is associated in business with him.
will make extensive changes in the
building they have Just leased. The
stock carried by the Goldsmith estab-
lishment is select character and the
alterations to be made will be to give
character and proper setting for the
various styles and patterns to be dis
played on each floor. Mr.. Goldsmith's
patronage is not confined to Harris
burg, but extends all through the
Central Pennsylvania field and beyond.
Joseph Goldsmith's commercial
career in Harrisburg dates back to
1881, when he started business as
an upholsterer at Front and Market
streets and later as an upholsterer
and furniture dealer at 109 Market
street, under thhe firm name of Gold
smith and Fry, the senior member of
the firm being the late Amos Fry.
About 35 years ago Mr.. Goldsmith
moved to 206 Locust street, where
he engaged in business for himself.
Five years later he secured a lease on
the Hunter property in Walnut street,
and remodeled the Locust and Wal
nut street properties into one large
store building. Subsequently, Mr..
Goldsmith moved his upholstering de-
partment to the Hursh building in
Court street part of which is also used
as ware rooms for the firm.
Business has grown so rapidly that
Mr.. Goldsmith has been seeking larger
quarters and he feels fortunate in OBJ
tanning the Market Square property.
He is arranging for a special sale of
his present stock, in order that he may
open his new store with a complete
stock of the newest things in furni-
ture.
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