The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-09-10
J. W. JONES SEES OPENING OF NEW
 FURNITURE MART
Juneau Dealer Views Ex- hibits- Latest Products
 of Nation S Factories

' welcomed back to Juneau by rain, after a six-weeks' trip on which he had run into only one day of wet weather, John w. Jones stepped onto the dock here Labor Day after an extended buying trip in Pacific Coast furniture centers.
 Timing his departure from Ju- neau exactly, the head of the Ju- u-Young Hardware Company made his way directly south to San Francisco and arrived in that city just in time for the opening of the great new Furniture Mart there.
 "The new mart Mir Jones said, occupies a beautiful ne Wmodern building at Tenth and Market Streets and contains thousands of displays of the latest products of the Nations furniture manufactur- CTS. The exhibits are attractively arranged and presented under per feet lighting conditions. There were exhibits from Chicago: from Grand Rapids, Michigan; Jamestown, New York; from factories in the South and on the Pacific Coast
 Mart We'll Planned
 The new San Francisco Furniture Mart is planned, MT. Jones explain led, as a permanent display center where buyers may always see on view the newest trends in furnish Iings. In it's many displays are seen everything that goes into the home to make it completely furnished; from floor coverings to lighting fix lures and service equipment,
 On the eleventh floor Of the mart are dining and banquet rooms, so that buyers need not even interrupt their business by leaving the build ing for luncheon or dinner.
 The Opening Week Celebration at the new mart was inaugurated Aug ust 2, MT. Jones reported, and dur ing that opening week more than one thousand buyers from all sec tions of the nation viewed the dis plays and attended the ceremon- ies.
 Giftware Exhibition
 MT Jones remained in San Fran cisco for two weeks. Immediately after viewing the exhibits at the furniture mart, he attended a Gift ware exhibition which occupied the third and fourth floors of the Pal ace Hotel in that city Included in that exhibit were all types of ar ticles of home furnishing that make suitable gift articles; such as lamps, vases, pottery. A considerable quan- tity of imported merchandise was on display at the giftware exhibition and from it MT. Jones selected sev- eral items for his setre here.
 MT. Jones declared that he ar rived in San Francisco just one day after the settlement of the long, enduring hotel strike; so was fortu- nate enough not to have to carry his own bags or walk the stairs.
 Heads North
 After completing his looking and buying in San Francisco, MT. Jones paid a brief visit to relatives in Eu- lreka, then headed back north as far as Portland, oregon, where he visited one week with his brother and sister While in Portland he also looked into furniture factories and did some more purchasing.
 i MT. Jones reported that he ar rived in Portland just in time to witness the opening of the fight there between CIO and AFL unions for control of the sawmills.
 Big Fruit Crop
 Leaving Portland, MT. Jones spent the remainder of his time before sailing back to Juneau in Seattle, taking trips out from there to Yakima, to Victoria, B. C., and to visit his parents at Buckley, Washington. He went through the Yakima section just as they were beginning to harvest their wonder ful fruit crop and was greatly inn pressed by the sight.
 Buckley, where MT. Jones on his just completed trip made his day. light visit to his old home in twen- ty-eight years, is the site selected for the new State hospital for feeble l minded. Work on rather extens- i've scale is already under way on the 1900 acre tract set aside for the institution" he said. Several trac- tors and bulldozers are working con-