| Show HOLIDAY TRADE t BREAKS Chr Christmas Goods Pra Practically All Sold in Retail Retail Stores i i. k BEST THINGS THINGS IN DEMAND i- i People Are Arc r Well Supplied With Wit It II J C 1 and ha- ha Better th r Grades of or rood Cond tP I Are Arc Sought v 1 f t tf f f 4 Marked lkc f by hy an an unu unusual demand fo for the hest best est In every line ine the ChristmaS v- v shopping season closed In Salt lit Lake Lak yesterday yesterday-by yesterday b by fir far the greatest In th the j i history of or the I local I retail retal trade Fo For the I last ct two weeks the rush lia ha has been wen j felt It Sn in the tho several department and t other retail stores but the tho ther r real al test tes S 1 on the shop gl girl l. l the thc floor walker v. an anthe and 1 the store mana managers ers came yesterday Everybody E hn had been told to come com early earh and avoid the ruRh rush usha hut but it seemed seem seem- t I od ed c to have no effect Th streets wore wor j I crowded from torn to night an and r every aisle In all of oC the tho stores wa Was waR Jammed Everybody seamed to b be buying It was vas a n. rarity to see oc ec any t one without half a dozen bundles stud stuck t around somewhere F i Manageri of all the stores report th the largest Christmas business In their his his- tory too It was not in Iii any special Hp J i J that the demand was felt hut but al all allt t through the several departments r s Increase O in it All IIno f a Every Ever year yeal we g give gc c out that th the tho I f Christmas business was larger thai limn any previous pre year said a a. L retailer yes yes- e y Sometimes we have told the th i truth and atul sometimes we have ha not nut lint this time it Is a II fact rho Tho increase ii In Ini i business has hap I believe e been beon felt fell in E- E pr e every store stole In Salt Snit Lake City It H i inot is not only the tho department stor stores j but bu io o er every other retailer r has had more bu busl busi- l- l ness floss FO so far Car as I can learn than h he be had a year n ago o. o Just JUEL how much larg larg- or cr the business u Js is this thiN year cu than last las we wc will not know for tor several e days hut but that it has been satisfactorily in increased in- in creased is Ia a certainty If c Our business has h been cn Ja largely el Ii lit ill excess of last year said Col Cot T. T G G. G j Webber general Z C e M. M J J. J I. I yesterday Of course COUIse I carnot cannot can car not tell teU at ot tills this time In figures how mu much ta greater the business I Is I. but hut i it will 5 show a n. handsome Increase The most noticeable thing about the trade this year has been heen that people have ha bought hoUght much more expensive e things thing s than ever cr before It II is because of oC the general distribution of money mone as all aU of If the people seem to have hae a a. supply of ready cash now no The people show bett better r taste In their selections and bU buy only the be best t of oC goods good Take fake it in the lines JInes where there aI are arc so man many grades from the finer tIneI to the coarser goods and ana the demand this hus has 4 year ear been heen i- i l i uni t universally rs II tot for the finer class cla r I j Toys Are rc All JI Sold Said if Wo o 0 thought we would have ha enough h I toys toS to run through h the wee week hut but buty h y IIa rw r i Iro cn rac n a. 11 LY night ant only a few w were v r le left leftover t o over r for the thron throng of or shoppers hoppe that have ha been in our store tore all day long It has hns not been heen a n wonderful demand for Cor toys alone however howe hut but in ever every department the trade tracIe during the last two weeks has been heen decidedly str strong strang- stronger stranger ng- ng e er r than a year par ago Though the tho figures s 's have ha not been heen full fully I 1 belle believe I r am safe In saying that our wholesale le trade for foi forthe the tho year will be bo l 15 Ii or 20 O per percent percent cent larger cl than the pre preceding year The wholesale trade is quiet now flow of ot course coune as ns all of or the winter anti and much of the spring goods o d arc out H Henry nr J. J Wallace manager of or Auerbach's Auer- Auer bachs bach's said that the Christmas hu business bust busi l- l nt ness i in that store was gr greater than t a year Yost ago One thing especially no no- ho said was the tho Increased trading from the thc small towns towns- near Salt Lake Most of oC the tho Chri Christmas hu buyIng buying buy buy- Ing of the town of purchasers rJ war was done ono last lasi Saturday but hut there thero were f many more in today toay to what they forgot ot Jn last t week eek I Officials In both hoth O Keith O'Briens' am and t I. I Walkers Walkers' said Mill yesterday t that their bus bul- bul ness hal had be been n in 10 excess excels s of last laH ear year toys being one of oC the mo most l important sales from Crom these two department t I stores There were vere perhaps more mor customers I In the mens men's clothing stores tons anlon among I rt the fair sex than of men and tho the answer ant an nn- t s er will be happily shown hown to friends ft r. r 1 brothers brother husbands or fathers whon i- i bundles f are ari opened this morning I II |
