Arizona republican., 1919-11-22
BAYARD STREET CLOTHES

awful than a few swear words. The Bayard street merchants are not | stubborn, however, and are always
 quite willing to listen to reason, as long
 as they are doing the reasoning. Their | first price is always twice as much as | they expect you to accept even when
 there is a crowd of customers to be
 waited upon, and they are using valu-
 able time for their descent to the real price.
 The other afternoon, a well-dressed
 man entered a Bayard street shop and began examining its stock of over
 coats. Finally, he picked one out-a slightly worn dark blue one of very good cut.
 "A fine overcoat,'' said the owner,
 immediately coming forward. and hold
 ing it for him to try on. Only $72.'' The customer quickly withdrew his arms and started for the door, Whats d matter; what's d mat l ter?" shouted the dealer indignantly ; running after him. How much you want to pay for a overcoat?"
 Not a cent over $40" replies the
 customer firmly.
 } Well wait till I look at my books" said the dealer, and going behind the T ? ing the cost price of this particular 3 overcoat on his ledger. All right" he
 agreed cheerfully. "I let you have it" Q Almost as many different types of s people come to buy in Bayard street a as there are. different types of apparel e in it's shops. Some of the men are al- . ready well dressed and do not appear ,; to be in need of anything this old n clothes mart has to offer. Many, on e the other hand, come dressed in over S alls and shirt sleeves, as they leave = their jobs in the nearby warehouses = and many others are obviously hoboes y The foreign element at the bargain f sales would be hard to assort and clas- If sify, but to all appearances every na- $ tion in the world is represented n Chinamen jostle Roumanians, anC e Roumanians crowd italians. ant
 Italians shove and push Greeks ant a Syrians in an effort to get to th' r. most attractive tables and finger th' IS bargain offerings.
 e, Occasionally a pushcart' deale l. draws a large crowd by his loud-voicet if vail of bargain goods, some pieces o " which often change hands for as littl a as dime or a quarter. There used t 1t be several saloons in this neighbor SC hood where the old clothes men hel, h convivia1 and often dramatic sales rs while they bought cheap drinks, at > free lunches and bartered for foo to space in which to display their goods to but if these saloon sales still go or ,u they are kept a dark secret from tn Is casual explorer. Instead, the only re e. freshment apparently offered to tn Id hard worked throat of the old clothe ir man is a roasted sweet potato, sol Id from an east side pushcart. This con ch trivance, containing wood fire an es an oven, and resembling small loco
 motive, usually appears about 4 o'cloc ho in the afternoon and feeds Bayar ou street roasted sweet potatoes unt he dark
 he While Bayard streets merchandise n't confined almost entirely to mans al n- parel, there are apparently hundreds ,u. second hand stores in the nearby di: ITS ltrict surrounding Chatham squal le which specialize in various products = in cutlery, women's wear, jewelry, flu i'm and linens. There is linen store { lly Clinton street. for instance. whit at looks like junk heap, but which hi rat some wealthy patrons on its book ,re According to well-known actre