The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1916-05-02
Yesterday Was Far the Largest Silk Day
in the History Of the Hudson Store

This is the most wonderful silk sale have SEEN"
That the cryptic statement of nearly of the
biggest in Americas silk industry yesterday after they
had gone through merchandise carefully and expery
I pay you cold ten per cent profit for entire lot
and take every yard of silk have left tonight added
New York merchant prince who controls three Of the
country's largest department stores
He had Travelled all the way from New York to the
goods He is great merchant His judgment in matters
pertaining to merchandise is listened to with respect
This is wonderful lot of Silks" he said IT don't
how where you got them. And the most astonishing
thing that you have the best coors and best patterns the
most fashionable-the silks women want"
His offer to pay per cent profit for goods
made with sincerity. We declined it with thanks.
"Createst Sale Toe Seen in Fifty Year"
So said ayhaed silk expert nearly 80 years of age
who has been dealing in silks since boyhood.
A member of the advertising staff found him wander
ing among the silks enjoying of the greatest treats Of
his fe The aryand around him held far deeper meaning
for that than for the average visitor He knew the
wonder of 1.-THE miracle of bringing about sale of 10000
yards finest desirable silks in the face Of adverse market
conditions
"Tts great sale, isn't it?" the writer suggested.
He gazed through his glasses earnestly, almost con-
temptuously.
you don't know HOW great it u.s." he said. IF you
had been selling silks for SO years. you had travelled from
coast coast if you had sold every big silk store in the
country if you KNEW silks and the silk trade do then
you would know that it is MOST WONDERFUL SALE.
'Such a Clean Lot of Merchandise"
'These silks aren't like those in Sales cleaned UP
in Job from dealers who can't get rid of them at regular
prices They are like the silks of opening than
those of a sale with prices slashed.
1.-THE coors are fashionable They are what the women
want The patterns right up to the minute The widths
are all standard The merchandise is brilliantly displayed
1t is new, fresh desirable.
know enough about silks to know that 1870 of those
goods actually could not be purchased AT THE MILLS
at prices you selling them That sounds unbelievable
and wasn't right here and the goods and the prices
the silks I'd hardly believe it myself"
Experts From Many Cities Are Here
The gentleman whom, have just quoted stayed away
from important business to be at the sale.
"A silk show as important in business as a national
automobile show to the motor business he called
There from New York besides the big mer-
chant have mentioned. Men from Buffalo, Cleveland,
Chicago and dozen of the larger cities in Michigan That
they amazed at this saeamazed at the merchandise
and amazed pricesthey admitted They knew that
the had very seriously affected the silk manufacture and
they knew that it almost impossibity get such
goods at price, to nothing of the prices at which
Offering them.
They had been attracted to Detroit by the success of
the November silk SALE They wanted something
better. They said they saw it.
"You know, nobody could put sale like this unless
he had unlimited opportunity to buy (and buy bg) and pay
the silk industry, visiting buyer told Nobody
that any better than those who have tried follow
our example)