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Show IW1EM1SE ML Strong Company Leases, With Option to Buy, the Scowcroft Building on West Side of Wall Avenue I ' i Means the Organization of a Wholesale Grocery House With Half a Million of Capital, Made Up of Local and Outside Money Five-Story Building Will Be Filled With ' a Grocery Stock. A deal was virtually cloeed this morning by which a strong company is to secure a Imro, with option to buy. on tho big flve-story Scowcrort warehouse on tho west side of Wall avenue. ' Tho building Is to be occupied by a wholesale grocery concern with a capital cap-ital of half a million dollars and the floors are to bo loaded down with a stock of goods within sixty days. The men who are behind tho deal are associated with local capitalists and the combination proinlsos to be equally as strong and energetic as were tho Scowcrofts when In Ibat line and one of tho promoters paid to a representative of this paper that a season would not pass before a force of 100 people would be In their employ, em-ploy, including drummers covering tho territory heretofore occupied by the Scowcrofts. |