Show JENNINGS SONS A Popular Firm and a Growing Business During the year just closed several sev-eral important alterations have been made in the business of Wm Jennings Sons Mr Frank Jennings i Jen-nings who manages the concern determined to and did close the retail re-tail grocery business and confined it exclusively to wholesale Other departments of less importance however have also been eliminated 1 among which may be mentioned men-tioned their glass department The idea seems to have been to contract as much as possible the branches ofbusiness without diminishing the power to supply the wants of customersand to go more extensively into those departments which it has been decided to maintain This has resulted re-sulted in no diminution of the business busi-ness it has in fact resulted in an increase which has necessitated an increase of storage room and other attendant facilities The basement is literally packed with the heavier grades of goodsconsistmg of wholesale whole-sale canned fruits etc candiestubs meats hardware and the thousand and on things which can not be named but which are well known to belong to such a department The ground floor in front is devoted to retail dry goods cloaks etc etc and this year includes numerous fancy notions designed for the holiday holi-day business alonesuch as work boxes dressing cases ladies satchels satch-els and other things without end Further back is the cloak room and beyond this is the wholesale grocery department second to none in the west Still further west In the same floor is the stoveroom which while yet fulldyes not show that ten car loads of stoves have been disposed of this season though such is the fact UP stairs is the wholesale dry goods room neat and airy aud under the management of Mr Erlich If there is anything belonging to this department which cannot be found in that room in every style and variety then we would like to see it You can get anything from over 700 varieties of buttons up to the finest cashmeres and silks imported direct from Europe by this firm and sold at bottom prices This department is unusually fine this season 1 or the reason that it has been made a specialty On this floor also are the offices On the third story are piled away goods belonging to the several departments which had to betaken there for the reason that even the large building below did not afford sufficient room Notwithstanding the fact that two or three important departmen shave s-have been suspended nevertheless the whole business shows a heavy gain over the preceemng year whims Mr Frank Jennings attributs to the general prosperity and which he thinks is shared by aUbut which is also due to the business energy and taot displayed in the management manage-ment It indicates close attention to business and consideration for the wants of customers Already the firm has done au immense holiday holi-day trade and even thing points to an increase It is an old firm and a pttpular one and its prosperity and growing trade is but another instance in-stance of the prosperity of the country and development of its resources re-sources |