Salt Lake Telegram | 1902-09-29 | Page 4 | A Billion Spent by Buyers.

A BILLION SPENT BY BUYERS The amount of business New ew York is K doing with the outside merchants continues to be the marvel marvel mar mar- rd vel t of the great mercantile emporium Several weeks weel s a ago o there then were buyers in town waiting to spend for fall roods goods The Times rimes said for town out firms films and They are buyers serve as aR a sort of advance guard for fOl twice as aB many more who will be here The Time first effect of their coming coining has been heen to crowd the thc Broadway hotels until most of them have bave been compelled to put in cots to provide pro pro- wide vide for their theil patrons while others have had to turn people away for want of room The he real effect i ito is isto isto to be he seen in the wholesale and jobbing districts where business is being conducted on a scale seldom seldom seldom sel sel- dom equaled at this time of the year for the buyers buyers buyers buy buy- ers have arrived fully two weeks earlier this year than titan has been their custom in the past and there are arc almost twice as many of them as us in previous years There are ale those who see in these facts an indication of greatly increased bus business nebs in every department department de de- department during the comin coming coining fall and winter months months for buyers are shrewd and nud do not buy unless unless un un- un less they have p good reason for believing belie that they the can dispose of their purchases at a fair profit They l keep cep their fingers on the pulse of the community community in which the live Ji and their of they diagnoses commercial commercial commercial com com- mercial and financial conditions are the seldom A very verr large proportion of them make the rooms rooms of the Merchants Merchants' association their headquarters headquarters head bead quarters while t ere re It is said there that perhaps will visit New York during the next thirty days and that the amount of money they will spend wi will probably exceed in the aggregate 1000 The purchase of a billion dollars' dollars worth of goods from one city for one season is a sign of prosperity pros pros- perky perit that even William Villiam Jennings Bryan Blan could not contemn That prosperity prosperity according according to the reports reports reports re re- re- re ports of the American Federation of Labor Labor Labor-is is dispersed dispersed dispersed dis dis- persed over nearly every State of time the Union Surey Sure- Sure ly y tilt the th apostles of despair of whatever political faith can hardly wish a return to the times of 1893 1693