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Show EASTERNERS FORGET EUROPEAN CONFLICT C. R. Pearsall Says Revival of Business Is Now Topic of Conversation "New York jewelry stores are crowded with customers," Paid C. R. Pearsall of the Leyson-Pearsall company, upon his return yesterday fiotn a business trip to the metropolis. "The east is actually prosperous." M r. Pearsall was in New York about t.w o weeks, buying jewels and novelties, and could not help remarking- upon the improvement of conditions there over last spring and a year ago this fall. "People in the oust have quit (talking about the war and are talking about business busi-ness condition? in ibis country," said Mr. Pearsall; "also they are buying alt kinds of merchandise, patronizing: the big rcs-tn rcs-tn t.i rants and otherwise giving evidence that they have money Ho spend and that they feel confident about the trend of trade in the L. S. A." "I did not meet a slnsde man east of ; the Mississippi who mentioned the European Euro-pean war." said Mr. Pearsall. "New I York E'v?s visible sipns of prosperity, all of which were lacking- in the spring and last fall. I vi sifted alt the smart stores on Fifth avenue and found them crowded with pa trons who were buying goods and- expensive things. In the great iewelry establishments they were rushed with business. Calls for such things aa rich pearls and imported gems indicated that people had money to spend. Some of "The New York retailers were behind on orders for such articles. No such condition condi-tion existed a year ago." Mr. Pearsall added that all lines of re-ta re-ta i! trade in New York were brisk, and that reports of the wholesale houses showed that there was a better buying demand de-mand from all sections of the country, but I pa rticulnrly from the east and middle I west, which had long been quiet in a business busi-ness way. |