| Show WILL NOT ibe DOUBTFUL A short time since twenty five buyers representing the same number of departments in one department stores arrived in new york city not only was this the largest number of department buyers sent to the new york market at the same time by this concern but that it waa the largest number of buyers ever sent to new york for the purchase of goods at the same time by a firm during the entire history of american retail merchandising chan dising apropos of this event the son of one of the members of the firm represented by these buyers said in conversation with a reporter every trade condition in chicago and throughout the west Is indicative of a more prosperous fall season than has been experienced for many years those evidences of prosperity are not confined to a felnogle branch of commercial industry but seem to cover the entire field we have enjoyed a period of unprecedented activity this summer in every department of our establishment and the statements of business societies in chicago indicate that these conditions are well nigh universal it Is sate to say that the west will not be doubtful territory in the next campaign it the maintenance of the protective tariff Is put in the balance |
