Norwich bulletin., 1922-09-15

eo 4o,oVu VlSlted the splendid new store of Schwartz Bros. Inc, 7e-s2 Main street Thursday during the afternoon between 2.so and 5.so and in the evening from 7.30 to midnight, the hours of the formal l opening and public inspection. Everywhere around the store were dis
 played the scores of floral horseshoes and magnificent bouquets that had been sent during the day and had fairly cleaned out the Norwich florists, who. had kept relays of men busy bearing these floral tributes into the new place. Over 50 con- gratulatory telegrams were received, as well as congratuiatory letters from Nor l wich business men.
 | Stanley's augmented orchestra render ed a concert programme and played for dancing in the evening. The Italian Columbus band, which had been giving a concert at the Boswell avenue park in the evening, came to the store and rend- l cred several selections after the con cert.
 Souvenirs were distributed and candy 1 and ice cream were served.
 President Abner Schwartz Speaks. l F. B. Mann, of Boston, New England
 manager for the Columbia Graphophone | Co, acted as chairman during a period l of the evening when brief remarks were made after an address of welcome by 1 President Abner Schwartz, who spoke as ] follows:
 Lalies and Gentlemen, Friends, Employ
 es, and Fellow Business Associates:
 It is indeed grat privilege and a
 pleasure to address you this evening. | This is the formal grand opening of the new store of Schwartz Bros, Inc., company of which I have the privilege 1 Of being president, company of which have great pride In saying have been | the founder. I can, say, without exag-
 eration, that our new store is the larT-
 est store of it's kind in the city of Nor
 wich, and so far as I know, the largest
 and most modern store in the state of 1 Connecticut.
 You have undoubtedly by this time
 seen the magnifcence of the wonderful
 new store. Perhaps should not say this,
 but. it feels good to say this, because it
 Is the fulfllment of a great ambition and 1 desire of sixteen years standing, and
 of sixteen years of hard work by my
 self associates and fellow workers of the Schwartz Bros. Organization Let me tell you something of the history of the
 Schwartz Bros. Company.
 Sixteen years ago commenced busi-
 ness in this city with my brother, Mi-
 chael Schwartz. The capital we comL
 menced with was a few hundred dollars.
 We made 1t our business at once to study
 the needs of the people of this section.
 and to give them the best service that
 we possibly could give. This was the be- ginning of the success of our organiza- tion. We have never deviated from this
 policy and we never will We do not by any means consider this store our store. This store is the peoples store. It is nothing more or less than added | '. people of this city and nearby towns. We
 do not ignore any ideas, modern or old : but We follow modern methods when they are improvements over the old We have : just moved from another building. which was not by any means small or old fash l toned. But. to give better service to the i, people we have built this new store . which is the latest in modern construc- : tion as you can see for yourselves and
 also gives us almost three times as muct s space within which to show our mer l chandise to an appreciative public. Wt ] owe great deal to those who have ap !. preciated our efforts to serve them and f believe it is only fair to state that tho S newspapers have been the great medium d by means of which we have been abl, K to constantly put before the public oul
 efforts to serve. Norwich and Connecti : cut may we'll be proud of the newspaper | puDllS4eQ III lHlS Clly.
 e We have made every effort to mak : this building one that will be a prid = to Norwich and Connecticut. It hal d cost us a great deal of money to do this
 We consider this store of great none, tt value. Our stock has considerable value t These assets are worth a great deal O s money, but we do, not consider these ou y greatest assets Our greatest asset 1
 one that is far greater than either o kl,1-1 41-- -k.-k 2, we have, issthe faith of the public in us 3, and the gratitude of the people of Nor g, wich and the eastern part of Connecticut IS If I could sell this. there would be n r money that could buy 1t, and mean this r. It is an asset that do not carry ol
 my. books because dollars and cents can
 net buy It.
 I will not burden you with details 0 le my business enterprise. One of the ob 'f jects of this grand opening is to promot 'd human intercourse among our friends S, You are here to enjoy yourselves an l not to be burdened by heavy addresses < There are number of the prominen Id speakers here who will address you fo le a few minutes.
 ;. My friends, I feel great. pride in th
 store you are now in don ot take credi
 for the success of this company. Such
 success as we have met could not b s. possible without the cooperation of sue Ia able workers as my associates, Josep s: M. Lahn, secretary and treasurer, an 1f Benjamin Lahn, vice president of tn s. organization of which have the hon
 or to be the head. The faithful assist IS ant managers, Clarence Brown and Ray ie mond Girard, and the rest of this organ i'd ization deserve praise, credit and appre d citation for their good work and success e. full efforts.
 y In closing, hope you will all have a $. enjoyable evening. I shall do all I ca
 to make the evening as pleasant as i'd can. This is a night set aside fo ,e enjoyment, dancing and entertainmen Tn: You have helped us to success. Now CT d, joy our success I thank you all yer
 kindly for accepting our invitation n- come here this evening. number ( ht:t the prominent citizens have come her a to enjoy with you and will make fe' le short addresses. I thank you.
 Others to speak were Secretary J. ia lO'Rourke of the Chamber of Commerc te Alex Pasnik, David T. Meskill of Somert
 Royal Stamp Co.,. Max Hanover of th ut Talking Machine Shop, F. s. Shaffer ( a Gleahill Wall Paper Co, who had chars i'll Eof the decorations Ex-Mayor T..
 Murphy Michael Schwartz and "Ma
 and "Pa" (Mr and Mrs. Ma
 Schwartz). v The new store will be closed to tf a. public today fFriday) but will be ope ,. for business Saturday Ten per cent ! T. the entire receipts of the day will ne given to the W. W. Backus hospital
 this city. and thirty society women, vi r, are cooperating with the ladies' advi m ory board of the hospital are to gis he their services as salesladies during u re day No sales were made Thursday z