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Show LINED THE PAVEMENT A Keith-O'Brien Sale Draws Thousands of Women to the Store Early Monday Mon-day Morning. ANIMATED SHOPPERS OVERRUN THE STORE The Thrilling Forenoon Hours Proved the Greatest Sale in the History of the Store. Long before the doors were opened Monday morning, women crowded the Eavement in front of Keith-O'Brien's ig store. An embroidery sale was the magnet that drew and thrilled them. Never is a woman so happy as when attending sales, therefore it was a good natnred concourse of shoppers. Many of the employees were unable to gain admission to the store until the doors were finally opened. Then the rush started. Soon the spacious spa-cious aisles were overcrowded. The women were two and three deep around the tables and in front of the counters. The aisles were almost immpassable Everv few feet stood a saleslady. Hands were offering money and embroidery em-broidery to each clerk, while a din of voices added thrill to the animated scene. Women with their hands full of the dainty widths laughingly jostled one another as they crowded up and down the aisles seeking a saleslady. In their eagerness and enthusiasm, occa-' sionally shoppers even crowded behind the counters. The wrapping desks held an extra help, and there was a constant chug of the pneumatic tubes carrying money. Down in the basement where the pneumatic tubes center to a cashier's cash-ier's enclosure a most interesting scene was presented. Chug, chug, chug, crashed the money tubes which many hands were opening, making change and shooting the tubes back to their respective desks. There was much at stake. Even at best, there were a few amusing and trying mix-ups. Owing Ow-ing to the congested condition of the aisles, the clamor for packages and change, it was simply impossible for every package to reach the right party. But men in authority were close ty to rectify little mix-ups. ' There were a few disappointments, but in almost every instance the customer left the store happy. It was a record-breaking sale. Facilities Fa-cilities had been made to accommodate great numbers in the way of extra selling space and increased help, hut no such response was anticipated. The various patterns and widths were arranged ar-ranged on different tables and counters to simplify shopping. Soon it was necessary to strip the windows of display dis-play goods and replenish the tables and counters. Every hour new stock was huiried from the warehouse. The adjacent ad-jacent departments contributed to the relief of the embroidcrv section. It became be-came necessary to Iiurry salesladies from other departments to the scene of battle. The wider and finer widths were naturally in greatest demand, but hundreds hun-dreds of women, pleased with what they saw before them, and fearful lest the choicest patterns fall into other bands, wasted little time in examination and comparison. Seldom docs a sale arouse the whole city. It needs be out of the ordinary to overrun a store early in the morning with customers, with no appreciable diminution of numbers as the hours rolled by. The store closed at 1 o'clock, although al-though the aisles were still crowded. The battle will be renewed Tuesday morning. |