Show H HOLIDAY ll T TRADE t 8 BEST T I IN n YEARS So Say Merchant ol Who Were In Interviewed Interviewed by the Deseret News Today GIFT CF VERY ERY HEAVY Stores and Streets Street Filled fied With Wih People r ople Tills ThIs I Afternoon Afi Will be he General Monday The Tho Christmas le I In full ful swing and the Inclement of ot the morning nd the sloppy walking of or tho the afternoon the business streets of oC the city with wih shoppers and anul alli AS ns It draws on toward evening the tho line has como to become a n regular crush The stores lores have hlO all Al the tho extra help that can ean ho Ilc crowded crowde on and RM people with multitud multitudinous multitudInous inous multifarious arid mountainous parcels packages and burdens are or finding It I hard lines to navigate around the stores and amid through through the streets j and ord when It comes to a n womans trying to like Uko with wih her hr arms arm tul Full of bundles several children hung hang Ing tug onto her dress s and ond trying to keep tier her skirts clear elfr ot of the time mud ludo u oil 5 I die hiA amplo occasion for tor or an extended ext exercise e 01 o patience to tl my say Iny of Is crowded temper Every Eor street ear car I today toa with people veople carrying packages of all al sizes and weights enough gh to load lond an all 11 express wagon and there hone does doel not miot promise to ta be b any let up until after ater midnight for Cor Is not this Christmas s see eve ee or as I a the old song hath bath It I f V S tho the night before Christmas when all al through the house not nt a creature c was WR stirring not even a mouse roule The would be a it surging mass mau of ot humanity but for tor tho the Suet that lint there thero Is not room enough In the tho lobby obby to surge tho the whole place 1 laco Is II 1 pocked packed all day and the registry stamp 01 and money mone order clerks arc aro arl trying to 0 do dothe dothe the stunt of their lives liven Women with Improperly tied toll bundles give gin n a lot of ot trouble antl 01 not u a 1 few Cew of thorn them apparently that tho the clerks have actu actually ally nothing not hilI else elso to do but to see that their packages are securely done hone up and nOI to tie to to thorn them thor up UI when Insecure The The malls mafia In and out are very ery heavy hOV moro morn moroto oro to so 0 than over ever before befort and nn au n Immense Immons hoday business bu ln II Is II being done doneA donel A tour among Imong the principal local l de develops d business houses house thit morning mornin the tho fort fact that ns as a 1 gen en oral thing the Christmas trado tr llo orl la ia considerably In tn excess of that of the tho I year e although It IL I has hns bean benn bell spread out more moore over oer the th month began earlier than usual For that In somo lome cUes CAM the figures for thin week will wi not foot Cot up UI ns as n much luch oa as oatho I the tho tho the same week In 1901 10 19 but when months returns aro are footed tote up thoy they will w amount It Is said to much mich snore more than the of this the tie same month last One large Ige dry dr goods house reports report business as an Al 60 ao 1 per cent hotter batter than last year at nt this time and another firm Irm equally er oa as n large reports 40 and 45 4 per var cent Improvement Others shade oft off down to 25 2 15 16 and 10 per por cent and or then down lOWI to 0 G per cent cent nut Hut pr the great grat gr t bulk of the houses visited vilie showed an on Improvement that Is healthful and All MI Allo look k forward to a n pros prosperous prosperous year to there theN IB Is IrIS plenty of moisture mol tur which to till fill 1 UI the lie soil and give cie promise of dope ClOps to conic coma omo AD It Is II J purchasers seem to have ho money to spend and d thy they are Slot not t hesitating to tl upend It I Tho candy condy dry dr goods tho the clothing mens benn wear Mr shoo shoe and notions houses are hay hav having haying ing the thi most lot to do Ono would think there Is n it n universality of ot Christmas Riving giving today to visit tho the telephone om s Not Nol ot only ophy p I the tho managements of tho the two corn com cm but their many man patrons have havo hlo not forgotten tho the hello helo girls and hand handkerchiefs kerchiefs candles candies kid gloves cloves and knick knacks have been boen handed around nil all RI day so o that the girls tie I in ifs the tha loveliest 10 kind of ot a n mood and on call Hello In tho the roost most dulcet rl banks and of Moot loot of ot tho the very 01 many tho the houses ho have havo remembered their handsomely with tur turkeys turkeys keys candles candies money various Ilous articles of wo wear ad and merchandise In fact Ct fa there scorns scams to be a 1 free tro hand everywhere and general nell g rood good od feeling prevails JI rova 1 Uni Universally nl ni 1101 the Iho car clr lines In at are 1 remembering the ear car moats man who h take taire tae them liens to and from their places of busi bUll business business ness the elevator boys bors are aro R not for tor forgotten forgotten gotten ICiS golen Mil anti tho the Salvation S Army Amy Is gathering in a n harvest harest of ot for forthe forthe the worthy poor Jr The he hotels will 1 tic Ills penso PlIS generous cheer tomorrow at lt din dinner dinner ner ncr as ci Is I their custom and the occa occasion 1 oela don sion will 1 be enjoyed Inthe tho penal pen l in institutions as well wel |