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Show Tho -Oltl .SMhtinniMl'r." This is the signiliciint title by which l'eter Van Schaack, Kn., of Van Sehauck, Stevenou ltcid is known, in coiLeiUencc of the number of tiiu-s he has Urn burnt out, and the indomitable pluck by which he rises superior to this destructive element. The following extract from an editorial in SVhoolcy'.s Vhtwju Ihu-j Jtri'orrr, will he read with much interest by those who know the man, and tlie linn has many friends besides doing a large business in this region: The Old Salamander has ber jik-"fainiliar jik-"fainiliar as a household word" to the drug merchants of the northwe.-t. The title is most appropriately attached at-tached to the wholesale drug house of Messrs. Van Sehaack, .Stevenson it licid, who were the leading drug house burned out in our memorable fire, and. were the irxf druu bouse re-rttitlJi!,;! n ;, ,v,,- jn the burnt district. Tliisis of itself no unmeaning un-meaning evidence of pluck and enterprise, enter-prise, and when we consider tlie extent ex-tent and elegance of their present stores, the credit due lor the enterprise enter-prise is greatly enhanced. Less than eight months after "the great tiro," j (having occupied tlie Wabash Avenue Baptisii Church in the meantime we find this firm fully re-established on ' the old site, with a larger .-lock and I more commodious building than ' be-! be-! fore. We chanced to visit Messrs. Van S. & l.'s capacious warhouse a few days since, nnd our call was htMh pleasant and instructive. The building erected expressly for the business, has all the conveniences that long experience experi-ence can suggest heated by steam and handling goods hv steam power. The stores, & Vl Lake street, corner of Dearlorn street. are of stone, fifty feet wide, and including tin1 , basement, occupy live Uoors ad mil- j ably arranged, tlie two stores being 1 thrown into one, supported by iron . cnlnmiu, :ud prciiiiit .-idlojeLUiii-. llm ; incwt spacious and elegant appearance ; of any llrui: Store we have fieen in ; this country or Europe. Xo business : seem; to reijuire a longer apprentice- ship or more extensive, inlurnuitton, , than that absolutely es.-ential to tlie ; successful jobber of Medicines. Tlie whole habitable globe seems to have paid tribute in making up the variety , of this Drug Stock, including uioL,of . the medicinal combinations known to , the Pdarinacopioia. ! Kach department i under tin-supervision tin-supervision of practical heads, which no doubt, largely accounts; for the order and perfect working of all. We rejoiced to look over the foreign invoices, in-voices, showing that M'vsrs. an Schaak, Stevenson & h d were fully alive to the benefits to be derived by! Chicago merchants importing goods direct in lond to this port, and thus i saving at least two profits, which thej-I thej-I can divide with their customers. e I saw their invoices from London, ! Paris, Messina, Germany, etc.. for goods lately arrived and. in transit-. |