Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-12-19
SANTA CLAUS'S
WORKSHOP DARK
The Local Lodge Is Closed After
Serving Children for Three
Generations

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| at each other and spit tobacco juice on the
floor All this is because Santa Claus has
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nut street must be made ready by the first
| of the year for an army Of serious-minded
| man who will h,.,, .,.,,..,,,.. .,oro so,I,rr
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| regular sro"n-up typewriters
| This Christmas Eve will be the fret in
| nearly sixty years TO end that old stores
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| ' "i'u 'ou'''e's c'''u'e' "'''
| srieve thereat and so will their parents and
| their grandparents. For Schwarz's Toy
| Bazaar was n beloved inst,,utior. of tho town
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49, &C., 81 WI. wn.n .he nm suooen!y .'iaus
o, .ha. " uu,. ;,, .ne letters OF pro.es. snu
| ee s,,. nc. .ano p''i,s IN wete as huiiIoiuue .
s,a, oaria y,,'oi, 80 .a,. trere u,,, VII
ra,,hn;roa oranS,o,sor siu To-, hro,,ch,
| 80 hohina sir,. ...nrsa se',.e .M III ~, "el
motor de- ,uxe has vat hasr oS ah,s 20 denlacs
| - go - en1 ~ a9 s.. ueen aole 70 u,spe' p..'
~ - w 'e'pe'.' "'noS' WV" ''.o'
| MY nrst oaoy was porn IN 1851, sne
| salo' ana carried ms nrst christmas Toys
nome from ths store I've done the same
Ior my grandchlldren ana my great-srano-
| %cniluren. % m nero tnis morning NOT 70 puv
any'n.hs, any pueMa must Tell you 'he truth
Jus. 10 CITY h'ue; - ~ -,
| pustaVus "A. Scnwarz was touched, lie
was tearing up roofs ana ne didn't Ike IT.
or course he was e,ghty-fve years old, and
| ~ 10 De supposeo hed nave 10 quit some
% %uIne put santa Ciaus pest LOOKS tne part
WIN ths SHOWS OF four-score years upon
him, and besides his going was not Of his
cHooshs
| Tho p,o,,n;ro.s rL;,
y. soi..
III oeplenloer' 1908, bustaNus sch"arh
came up from Baltimore. where he had spent
| hVe Years IN the toyshop OF MS eluer
nrotner henry the nrst adventurer OF the
Ianlly 0t iour nrotners VINO were 70 become
hatiohaily kno"h Hgures IN the business. lie
self and he found 1905 chestnut street va
cant. IL mad peen vacant two years.
the place bad name IT was too far out
IN tne country even LOT santa Ciaus mead.
quarters. people SAID There was farm Just
across the street. Ihe continental Hotel
was being built at the time and the stores
to be let on its Chestnut street front were
tempting; but the young toyman peeping
through the IRON shutters OF the window or
No: 1905 thought 1t likely place and he
took ".
Second street was the shopping thorough
fare In those days. and the trading was
also good upon Chestnut street as far west
as Eighth street. But Blasius, who occupied
the second floor OF No. 1905, seemed to be
selling few Steinway pianos there. 30 why
couldn't toys be sold on the street level?
50 christmas oiossomed there in 1853 and
continued to blossom thereafter for Nifty
In the meantime the other brothers were
coming along. r. a; o. scnwaTa. after serv,
ing an apprenticesnlp IN Bsltimore, opened
the New York house in 1851. Richard. the
sosnn, sCunSes., H .oUR tne CUE Customary Sai'imore
,nto hms'rss puu So. ,'.a,. Vr cs nere, Went
h',s,oS .u a,,. o.. .n ' aa .m e III Coso, . was
" peo.o ou' III '"o great hre anu jumped oack
These four man war. t,,. oo,,,.-,.s ,,.
reer serto tour ras men trt, were .' counys pio
ther, forth ~ n,v ths,r 1entie trads SEM d
Gsrn,on,, a,,eu,,aIi,, py me q, h'a. ,aue anu
80 30 S,,s,noss "hS pu' N'o oissee' oi 'neri
''N VI '
Looking Back
In a ou,e+ corn.r ~ th. ,b,rs ...r,, a..
The ola bmi,dng 20 uh,ch ~ eys" .'ty ~ III III
young ph,iadeInh,a have h.sn IN 81. h,hit |
Of turning at hoIiday.time c,usfav,s A.
Schwarz and his son, Henry g.. arc tenn |
porariy ouartered while they settle up their |
TITS odd to be sitting here idle at this time |
Of year" said the younger toyrnan yester-
day morning, "but we couldn't keep this |
house going without foreign toys, and those |
it's impossible to get. Mind we're making |
good toys in the United States, Just as we're |
making lots Of other things now that we |
have to; but we havent got very far with |
the toys yet We can't get the assortments"
When the original SohwarE modestly |
burst upon Philadelphia IN that Christmas |
time Of 80 he hadn't great variety Of stock |
Dolls, wooden soldiers, hobbyhorees and |
Noah's arks were the run OF his samut |
Noah's arka It would seern, are as old as
their prototype >nd dolls. OF a sort were |
nursed by htt1 girls by the waters OF |
Babylon
At the time or the CIVIL War the wax |
doll was Just coming m ana 30 were hobby |
horses with real, sure.enoush skin on them. |
That war didn't greauy interfere with tho |
toy business either. 1or Gusfavus sohwarz |
nourieneo from tne start
Vne oay ouIin1 tne CVlI war A. schoen- |
nut strugsAhS soymaker presented |
hIneoH pefore SaF. eonwSsH osrIyng plano |
uhoer MS aT-e emau piano. OF course.
He hao mace nInseh ano ~ IN turn' SUB. |
sequentiy maoe nis tolsuns.
'bor some years Toy pianos had been I'm |
ported from Germany, out they were never |
SATISFACTORY. The suins or glass upon which |
the litue hammers strueK were glued TO the |
sounding poafd ana they always absorbed |
away they went. A. schoenhuts Job was TO |