The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-09-17
ARMY RETAIL STORE
OPENS HERE SEPT. 20
City Station and Schenectady
Depot to Supply State, Jert
sey and Connecticut.
23 IN OTHER CITIES
War Department Will Bear
Mail Expenses and Insure
Orders Over So.
Special DespotcA to TEE suS.

WASHINGTON. Sept 16.--Army retail
stores will be opened in New York city,
Schenectady and twenty-three other
cities throughout the country September
rs for disposal of army surplus goods
direct to the public both by mail and
over the counter the War Department
announced to-day.
The New York store will serve that
part of the State south Of line due
east from Pennsylvania to the north
west corner of Connecticut, and also will
take care of New Jersey and Connecti-
cut. The Schenectady store will supply
northern New York.
Announcement of the street locations
of the Army Quartermaster stores divi-
sions. as they are known officially and
as they should be addressed, will be
made within few days
In selling goods through stores the
War Department set a precedent 1t
will bear all postal expense in mail or
ders and will insure all orders OF more
than 50. The prices for goods delivered
by mail will be the same as those for
purchasers at the stores.
The entire country was districted in
erranging the location of the stores. The
locations and the districts they will
serve are:
Administrations, Florida, Georgia
anC tennessee.
Observation-Disclosures and Maryland
Boston-Maine, Massachusetts, New
Hampshire, Rhode Island and Vermont.
Charleston-North Carolina and South
Carolina.
Chicago-Illinois, Northern Indiana,
Iowa and Southern Wisconsin.
Columbus-Ohio and West Virginia.
Dcnver-Colorado, Utah and Wyom-
ing
Observation-Disclosures. the Peninsula,
north OF Indiana and Ohio.
FL Paso-Arizona and New Mexico.
Jeffersonville, Ind.-Southern Indiana
ana Kentucky.
Los Angeles-California. south of and
including San Luis, Oblspo. Kern and
San Bernardino counties.
New Orleans-Loulsana and Missis-
sippi.
Newport News-virginia.
Omaha-Nebraska, North Dakota and
South Dakota.
hiladelphia-Eastern Pennsylvania.
Pittsburg-Western Pennsylvania.
Portland--Oregon and southern Idaho.
San Francisco--California north of
the Los Angeles district and Nevada.
st. Louis-Arkansas, Kansas, Mis-
souri, and Oklahoma.
San Antonio-Texas.
st. Paul-Michigan, the peninsula
north of Ohio and Indiana, Minnesota
and northern Wisconsin.
Seattle-Northern Idaho. Montana
and Washington.
Washington-The District of Columbia
and ALL points in Virginia and Mary
land within a twenty-mile radius.
Mail orders for goods must be accom-
panied by cash. postal money order or
certified check. Orders should be sent
direct to stores and not 20 postmasters
A partial list of goods and prices pub
lished by the Department to-day is:
New Goods-Wooi blankets. Sc wool
and cotton, IS; cotton, SO. Underwear
wool, 81 a suit. Raincoats, $5.25. Socks.
cotton, Is cents. Light wool socks, 20
cents. Heavy wool, 55 cents Towels,
bath, 45 cents buck, 20 cents.
Renovated Goods--Wool blankets, So ::
wool and cotton, $3.50; cotton, 81. I'm
derwear. summer. so cents a suit Socks,
light wool, 1914 cents; heavy wool, 80
cents.
An additional list will be announced
this week.