Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-09-09
HEARTS OF WOMEN;
MEMS POCKETBO0KS!
Both Will Be Under Fire When
the Hunt Company Makes
New Fall Showing.

Costly thy habit as thy purse can
buy" aye And as cheap, too. as thy
purse need wish-that is. as rs con-
sistent with good quality-will be the
character of the goods displayed when
the Hunt company opens the new
doors of its establishment on Main
between Third and Fourth for the in
spection of an admiring public at
7:3 O'Clock tomorrow evening.
Beautiful fur-trimmed tailored cos
tunes up TO $500, dreams of milli-
merry where one may squander $50
and count II well expended, and love
ly melting blouses for up to $3.50
these are some of the available
buys" which will part even the wisest
man and his money in painless oper-
alton.
Stock Doubled.
The stock of the firm has been
doubled both in quantity and quality.
New departments have been added
and at least forty new clerks and de-
partment heads added to the staff.
On the first floor, where two eleva-
tors whose arrangement at opposite
points in the store minimize the eff
forts which must be put forth by the
sometimeweary shopper in getting
from one department to another-on
this floor are the dress goods. the drug
and toilet article department, gloves,
hosiery, women's and children's
shoes. the notions and novelties. Here
also is the haberdashery-a new de-
partment for Hunt's-where the
wants of the m2le Of the species will
be catered unto.
Household novelties, Japan ware
and fancy lamps have also taken up
their abiding place on the first floor
of Hunts.
On the mezzanine floor the art de-
partment and patterns, together with
the credit and adjusting department,
Will be installed. Here instead of the
regulation banister the eye may feast
upon banister of electrically lighted
showcases filled with the artwork
department display.
No CrOwdlrg.
On the second floor where deep piled
carpets of delft blue and big mahos
any cases so arranged as to give maxi
mum amount of comfort and display
without sense of crowding. are further
aided in their extremely decorative
erect by handsome arboreal decora-
tons in autumnal golds and browns.
On this floor as on all others. the
daylight from the large. deep light
well, by 22 feet in area, penetrates
days when artificial lighting will he
necessary at Hunts will be few ana
far between.
Here is the department dearest to
all women's hearts The suits, skirts,
coats, blouses. corsets, millinery and
music are to be found on this floor,
and here also is Mr.. Hunts private
office.
on the third floor. which is dec
no
children's and infants wear are on
sale. In the infants clothes al.
especially large addition has been
made and it is now possible to outfit
the baby from top to toe in this de-
partment.
The Beauty ParIOrs.
On the third also is the lingerie
where the pink crepes and wonderful
Milanese vie with the dainty and still
popular lace and muslin CONNECTIONS.
Here, too, are the housedresses, the
bathrobes, draperies, knit underwear
and the beauty parlors.
The dressmaking department and
the alteration rooms, the stockroon-
and the main store offices are all on
the third floor. There will ,be one
hundred people on the new payroll
forty in excess of those previously eli,-
ployed, and there will be eight new
department heads.
Tomorrow there will be no good.
offered for sale, but the public is in
vited to attend the opening. see the
goods have souve\ir and listen to
the music.
Mr.. Hunt. who has been serving tnr
buying public of Tulsa for IA years
started two blocks north of his pres
ent location in a storeroom twenty
feet long and not very wide.
lie and his business have indeed
grown up with Tulsa