Year: 1879

0nAnS Princes.


Wilmington can boast of quite q
number of more than average success.
ful men among her merchants and in
ne front rank Of these none deserve
greater prominence than V. Z. Holmes,
proprietor of the mammoth Boston One
Price Clothing House.


1t has now been seven years since
Mr.. Holmes opened depot in this city
for the sale of clothing and during that
time his establishment has been stead
lily growing in public favor until at
present not only throughout the length
and breadth of the Peninsula has the
Boston One Price Clothing House o.
Wilmington become a household word
among old and young of the male gen
der, as a title that is synonomous with
AL that is rsliable and standard in the
ine of gentlemen's wear, but the bor-
der counties of Pennsylvania have also
pald tribute to its worth and to-day the
names OF scores of customers from that
section can be found upon the books ol
the firm.


Tne main spring of Mr.. Holmes sue
cess has been a strict adherence to
those principles which every merchant
mast learn ere hs can expect to win the
patronage Of those who buy intelli
gently. First knowledge Of the wants of
the buying public, and an ingenious skill
Of supplying just those wants; second
the ability to buy in such manner as
will enable him to sell at the lowest
market rates; third the reputation OF
handling only the best OF the different
lines of goods, so that when purchas-
er buys even the cheapest of ready made
salts he can be assured that there has
been no shirking in its manufacture aud
last but not least, corps CT gentleman
ly statesmen, in whose hands a vi sitor
is made to feel at ease whether he buys
or not.


In connection with the ready made
goods trade MIR. Holmes also conducts a
custom department from which each
week scores of the most fashionably cut
and elegantly made suits are turned
out. A cutter and filter whose reputa-
tion is daily growing through the
commeudatiou Of numbers of our best
dressed citizens, presides over this de-
partment, and his ability and taste are
too well known for US even to attempt
recommendation. A gentleman's fur
niahing department also occupies no
small space in this depot and in fact
any article of male adornment or COM
fort can be found in the establishment
at prices ranging at par throughout the
entire list.


/ On the shelves and counters of the
different sales and show rooms of this
depot are to be found at present fall
and complete line of goods that are
seasonable, and to attempt to mention
the specialtie5 which Mr.. H. makes it
point to control would require small
sized catalogue. One or two however
might not be alniss, for instance hand
some Russia ulster which has the facul-
ty of surrounding the wesrer with G
degree of warmth and comfort that is
surprising in the most inclement wealth
er, while at the same time it is snowy
and CHEEKY in appearance, is being sold
rapidly at the low price of S..


Then the fashionable reversible ul.
ster, in the purchase of which the
wearsr carries with him handsome
business coat, and at the same time a
fashionable dress garment finished in a
style unsurpassed, which can be adapt
ed for evening or Sunday wear, and
this at the low price Of SIS complete
As we above intimated, our space will
forbid anything like detailed descrip-
tion, and we leave our readers to in
spect for themselves.