| Show DEPARTMENT STORES WAR One Started on hem t by the Milwaukee Retail Grocers 11 It I U Is Saul It 1 Wilt 1 be founded Throughout limo Ilio hp Country uner May U HA A commer commercial cial dat war which it Is I said aahl will wi extend exten throughout ut tiie tue ti country has hal been start started started ed Id by the grocers grocer of ot this city against manufacturers who allow alow their goods good to 9 be sold cold lold or demonstrated In department depart ment meat stores The Retail Grocers asso aso association alo claton of ot Milwaukee a 1 member mcm r of the th IQ national association has ha passed resolutions resolutions 1011 not to handle hanlie products of ot manu manUM manufacturers that are placed in department stores stoles Henry W Vt Schwab president of at the Retail Hetal drovers association says saya the action 15 11 i the tie beginning of or an open warfare against department stores store that tat enter Into competition with Ih the retail grocers by conducting grocery He lie predicts that the ac action acion ion tion pf f the t grocer om will wi be he by b every one of ot the U 41 4 Mates association hue has brandies branche Building Hartford Conn May Muy 14 By an n ex cx explosion at thom tha Hartford club last lut night nighta a part PMt of ot the tho building was wag wrecked WrAcked and ant a 11 panic followed One 01 or two dinner dinne parties were scene re being held and the recep reception ion tion artl and Ind reading rooms were ell 11 JIBed filled ton In the kit kitchen Suddenly there was ns a roar th ki chen and auth the whole building seemed t to toC lift hilt C The Thu water boiler boier attached to t the he huge range had exploded hUle The fhe heavy brick wall ivall wal was urns blown bum ucross the lawn a hundred feet teet barring the he main entrance to the th club These were veto filled with wih men who wh were thrown In heaps het s with wih t chairs em I and glasses fM supports to the floors were iere blown out omit olt but bul fortunately I they did not mint go down Not a whole piece of t glass or crockery was WOI left In II this part of ot the building and In the main part doors doom were blown off or and elegant fur tur furnishings furnishings s damaged The Th main maln and Ind and the pantries and basement were werl a n mass masl of ot wreckage kog hurt Sd Sn fur far as known no one was seriously l |
