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THE PITTSBURG- JDiSPATOH, 'SUNDAY, APRIL 24. 1892.
COMIC OPERA AT SEA.
Hurray Takes a Sail Down the Coast
and Strikes It Keal Rich.
HAS A WHOLE SHIP-LOAD OF FUN.
A Hade-Ip Company for a Southern Season
Whipped Into Shape.
MISHAPS WHEX THE BOAT LURCHES
connrspoxBENCi or the cispATcn.l
Charleston, a 0., April 2L Did you
ercr witness comic opera at sea? A floating
theater a stanch Clyde coaster rolls
pently in the illimitable bine fromXevr
York toward the Southern snn; from
ulsters and scurrying snow clouds under
clear skies bound for the land of oranges
and flowers. "Why should not happy faces
and smiles and music and laughter rule the
passing hours?
But no such "human freight ever before
left the port of Xew York, and no such
spectacle was probably ever witnessed from
day to day at sea; for the Iroquois has a
comic opera on board and in course of train
ing. There are young men and pretty
maids galore. From the stately and re
served prima donna soprano to the vivacious
little man who plays the flute in the orchestra
tenors, bassos, baritones, sopranos, con
traltos chorus girls, mnsicians the entire
gamut of the operatic trade are here, apicked
crowd from Bohemia, picturesque and en
tertaining. Such rustling and singing, and pacing up
and down the decks, and conning of parts,
and hourly rehearsals of music and recita
tive between decks by day! and such twit
tering and flirting and purring in the shad-
. ows and under the brilliant moon by night!
Training Under Difficulties.
"First scene, ladies!" calls the nervous
stage manager, rapping on the stateroom
doors. "Hurry up first scene, ladies!"
And from the cabins and nooks and quiet
corners of the boat come blondes and bru
nettes, petite young girls and solid matrons,
who are cat lor pirts in the first score of
the opera on hand. Down in the main sa
loon "thev range about one of the long
tables, librettos before them. The black
servants are yet clearing away the debris of
late brcakJasts. Idling passengers hang
about the stairways and lounge on the dis
tant solas, listening curiously to the recita
tive. The opera is "Fatinitza" and the stage
manager is drilling the corps of ladies in
their several parts. While this is in prog
ress the notes of a single violin are heard
from the ladies' parlor above and the voices
of pretty songstresses rise and fall with
the rythmic motion of the ship pausing
suddenlv at intervals to give the sharper
and corrective notes of the musical director
a chance.
TrrnsurM TVastrd on Gnlls and TorpoUes.
Sow and then the clear and penetrating
voice of the prima donna, too powerful for
the narrow confines, opens and floats
out upon the trackless ocean to cheer the
swooping sea gulls astern. And then the
plunging porpoises, plowing along under
the stern of the Iroquois, leap into the music
laden air and shake their sheeny sides, as if
they too were members of a comic opera
company and were enjoying the coming re
hearsal. The male chorus is playing poker
in the smoking room. Another hour and
the suave and indefatigable director has
them in hand and in turn. Thus the work
of licking an opera company into shape goes
on from dav to day on the ocean.
The facility with which these professional
people can be broueht together their
mental and social pliability is something
verging on the wonderful. To illustrate:
The Dunbar-Broderick Opera Company
existed ten da vs before it sailed for Charles
ton only in the mind of Robert Dunbar,
tenor. Having jut closed his season with
the "Little Tycoon" at Pittsburg he rushed
up to Xew York,caught William Broderick,
the well-known basso, and Billy Keogh,
manager of the Charleston Academy of
Music, and began to walk Broadway and en
gage the people. "Within six days thereafter
they had Miss Carlotta Maconda, prima
donna soprano, formerly with Juch and the
"Bostonians;" Miss Bessie Fairbairn, con
tralto, well known to comic opera, but more
recently ith Mestayer at the Park Theater,
lew Yoik; Miss Monroe, of the Pauline
Hall Company, and some 3D other singers
and orchestral musicians and were rehears
ing in a 2?ew York hotel parlor.
Thry Soon Get TVeIl Acquainted.
Two davs later they were on the ocean
bound for Charleston for a season of light
opera of eight weeks. Xo two of these peo
ple w ere from the same company, and not
half a dozen knew one another. On board
ship acquaintance is easilv made friend
ships ripen suddenly. "With this Bohemian-
crowd the usual barriers do not exist They
are quick to yield to circumstances, and a
single day out of New York finds them a
happy family. The women pair off by
natural selection, and the men hang together
in a body or flock alone.
At table the company have half the saloon.
I am sandwiched between a pretty contralto
and a premiere dauseuse, and have a man
ager and the prima donna vis-a-vis. I note
that the latter is partial to salads, and that
the demure danseuse usually gets the tough
legs of the chicken. The 'pretty Southern
maid just below lives daintily upon rice and
milk. The contralto likes what I like, and
that is plain substantial food and plenty of
it so she gives "two orders of the same,"
which relieves me of the gastronomical re
sponsibility. Down the table is a tall
bleached blonde from 'Frisco, and her chum
is a petite brunette from Pittsburg admir
able foils.
A rtttslmrg Girl Rlcht In It.
The little brunette has large laughing
brown eyes, which have bored a brace of
young male passengers full of holes. One
of these youns men follows her around the
ship all day iike a sick poodle, and when
he looks at her afar ofl it is with a "please-come-and-wipe-your-pretty-feet-on-me"
ex
pression that indicates the early stage of
Jove paresis. At dinner a glance from her
makes sad inroads upon his liver; but she
eats as much as a iarin hand, so the steam
ship company doesn't make anything. The
Pittsburg brunette has a waist only about
even inches in diameter, and I am always
making involuntary calculations where she
puts things. AVe have tremendous appe
tites all 'round and eat three excellent ob
long meals a day.
Basso Broderick eats with his libretto
tilted up against a glass before him, ab
sorbing his lines with his potatoes, and
some of the rest eat with a knile. Occa
sionally the ship wallows a trifle heavier in
the trough of the sea and everybody pauses
and looks around uneasily and tries to
smile.
The second day out the wind shifts to the
east and we roll. A pretty chorus girl
sucks a lemon and a bottle of ammonia at
tains a limited circulation. There is an
evident disposition in various Jeminine
quarters to seek seclusion; but the ener
getic stage manager and the musical direc
tor are inexorable.
3IaI de 3Ier and Rehearsals.
"Rehearsal at S, ladies. Rehearsal at 3,
gentlemen. Come to the centerl"
And they came. The ship rolls steadily.
The tall blonde from 'Frisco hangs on to a
door knob with one hand and to her smell
in:: bottle with the other. Broderick
swings on a rail with his soft brown hat
cocked merrily over his right eye, and savs
the weather is likely to be throaty off Hat
leras. The first violin keys up against the
table. Eight chorus girls says, "Dear me!"
"Come to the center," says the stage man
ager. And the eight chorus girls come
with the next lurch Of the ship, all trem
bling down to leeward with shouts and
laughter, in which we idlers join. The
whole company indulges in lively recitative
not laid down in the libretto.
"Come, cut that funny business!" cries
the stage manager.
"Places!" and the re-
hearsal beeins.
Fatinitza Fairbairn a little later Is
curled up in a corner with a book, while
Broderick as General JCantchulcoff delivers
the lines to Hardy, the newspaper corres
pondent, looking meaningly at me,
Central Who are you? " ,
Hardy I? A newspaper correspondent.
General A newspaper correspondent?
Bah! I have often wondered what you fel
lows were made for. I suppose you are
around only to betray our movements.
What a Sudden Lurch Does.
With the last sentence, delivered at me
with great expression, the ship keels over a
little further than usual and Broderick loses
his balance on the rail and brings up in the
lap of Miss Fairbairn in the corner. Amid
the general shout of the assembled company
those who have so extra hold on some sta
tionary article follow suit and scramble
over each other in a heap.
Screaming fun from chorus, from prima
donna, from musicians, from ship's officers,
lrom lookers-on all 'round.
I weep tears oSgenulne joy at Broderick's
half voluntary mishap, and swear by Fati
nitza that I will faithfully betray his move
ments. He declares on the honor of General
Kantchuclioff that if I do he will interpolate
my name in the lines of the opera on the
opening night.
Meanwhile the gallant Iroauots rolls on.
The 6tage manager rolls on with her, and
ORIGIN OF BOCK-BEER,
First Made in the Fifteenth Century
by Two Koted Brewers. ,
JTKTt ADTKRTXSEHENTH.
A YOUNG GOAT'S PART IN IT.
Eia
Kimble Capers at tbe Wrong
Settled a Famous Wager.
Time
MATERIALS IN THE STRONG STUFF
the prima donna and the handsome tenor J '? made In Bavaria. Also written bucfc
and the jolly basso and the good-natured
contralto and the pretty chorus and first
violin and the rest roll on with him. The
rehearsal is finished. There is no thought
of sea sickness now. The fun has driven
the idea out of every pretty head. The
musical director takes the male chorus in
hand at one of the saloon table between
decks and is going over the drill, while I
escape to the deck.
IU or Fan on the Deck.
The sky is cloudless. Its blue gives a
glorious Mediterranean color to the water.
The heaving sea bears not a single curling
wave. She lifts us in centle rythmic sighs
upon her placid bosom and bids us sigh in
turn that we might go on forever o'er a sea
and under a sky like that. The young-man-mashed.on-a-chorus.girl
is on her
track. Half a dozen gentlemen with briar
wood pipes are pitching penuies at a kuifa
stuck in the deck. One is very fat and is
going South to get leaner; another is very
lean and is going South to pick up flesh.
An aged paralytic- and his pretty daughter
watch the game.
The fat man pulls out a small curious
rule every now and then and gets down on
oue knee to measure the relative distance of
competing pennies from the goal and
breathes very hard when he jrets up again.
He has a rule such as shoemakers use to
take foot measures. The pretty daughter of
the aged paralytic smiles and whispers in
her father's ear. The premiere danseuse
lies crumpled up in a big coil of rope en
veloped in a heavy check ulster and the sun
is wanning her Italian soul into homesick
ness. It is hot enough for a flannel shirt
and blazer, and several pairs of red shoes
have come out from somewhere.
A Fat Man its on the Dansens.
Pretty soon the fat man gets tired of
pitching pennies, and, measuring and
wiping his bald head, sits down on the
check ulster on the coil of rope under the
impression that it is nothing but an ulster
He is scared worse than the danseuse when
he finds it is alive. We think it is funny,
but she does not. "I was dreaming not
asleep," said she. "I was dreaming I was
on my way to Italy. That big, fat idiotl"
We go and look "over the stern of the
ship at the porpoises, and the Italian
woman goes to her stateroom and brings out
an umbreHa, and deliberately throws it
overboard. "It will bring me good luck,"
said she, and curled up again in her ropy
nest in the sun. A good umbrella, too, that
somebody might have borrowed. It is too
painful, and we go back and look at the por-
Eoise aiain. But they have gone, and so
as a Sj hat of one of" the spectators. The
umbrella did it. I wonder where that
umbrella is now?
We eat again. The dark-eyed Pittsburg
chorus girl whispers to me confidentially
that the young man mashed is a fool. "He
wanted to hold my hand," said she. "He
makes me sick!"
Chunks of Philosophy at the Table.
Dear, dear! "What a world this is! But
is it best to change it and make youth wise
and only old age foolish? The contralto on
my left thinks not. Then why do these peo
ple change their names to go on the stage?
Are they ashamed of their parentage, or of
their profession which? One of the girls
I have known by two names already and
she is but 20.
"I've changed my stage name," said she:
"1 don't think it was pretty."
A woman with a strong Irish face and a
brogue likes a French name. But why not
plain Miss Molly McGlynn or Miss Ann
Maria Smith? And why not Mrs. Eliza
beth Jones? Is a married woman more at
tractive billed as a Miss? There are pos
sibly good reasons why a woman who has
gained a reputation as an actress or singer
while single should not change it by .mar
riage, for she may marry so frequently that
the public mind couldn't keep up with the
matrimonial business. But to begin the
theatrical profession by dropping an honest
name, and keeping it if made scandalous,
has no sound reason behind it In a man it
is ridiculous. So I think as I look up and
down the tables in the saloon.
A Glimpse of HUtorlc Sumter,
"If you want to see Sumter, you better
hurry up," calls a passeneer from the head
of the stairs.
"Now, who's Sumter?" asks a blue-eyed
Kew York girl, innocently.
The Charleston girl looks at her with scorn
ful contempt, but those of us who remember
Sumter cau afford to smile at the shower of
misinformation that follows. Bounding up
in the historic harbor of Cbarleston at sun
down the members of the opera company
gather together their effects and cluster
along the forward rails. The Charleston
girl's sharp eyes discover friends waiting
in the little, crowd on the pier, and hand
kerchiefs are flying in the air. The chorus
girls and lesser people are speculating as to
where they shall stop. The principals are
provided lor they know every city in the
Union. But the'other people must shift
for themselves. They are strangers and their
salaries will not admit of carriages and big
hotels.
Enow How to Take Care or Themselves.
But they are not strangers to such a situ
ation. It is interesting to hear their business-like
views of living of small hotels, of
rooms and meals sent in, of boarding houses
and mine host and hostess. They have quite
a practical turn of mind when it comes to
this. They walk uptown in a straggling
body, while the prima donna and other prin
cipals are wninea away to tne tjnarieston
Hotel in carriages. They leave their im
pedimenta somewhere and rush around in
pairs and quartets. Thev call at the the
ater tor letters and the local attaches ad
vise them as to accommodations.
Within half an hour after their arrival
they are more or less satisfactorily housed
about town and are ready for their baggage
and the beginning of the summer operatic
season.
Two weeks ago they were strangers to
each other in New York, Boston, Philadel
phia, Pittsburg, Chicago and other cities
just laid off for the summer; they are now in
Charleston, a comic opera company, play
ing to an appreciative Southern public.
And what would be an event in the lives of
other people they accept as a mere matter
of course.
Charles Theodobe Mubeat.
The season for boek beer is here and the
drinkers of that strong beverage are asking
ing their friends to Join them, perhaps, a
little oftener than is the custom, for its stay
is brief, and therefore all the more enjoyed.
In many instances the word bock is pro
nounced as it is spelled, though not cor
rectly. The old lover of that intoxicant
will always say buck when ordering or
speaking of it. Webster says:
Bock-beir, n. Ger. bockbier, from boek,
a buck, and bier, been said to be so named
from its tendency to cause the drinker to
caper like a goat. A strong beer, original-
YOUR KIND!
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SATURDAYS
Is the latest moment at which small
advertisements will be received at the
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For insertion in the
SUNDAY DISPATCH.
On waek days the office will remain
open until 9 r. at. as usual.
beer.
Quite a number of amusing stories are
told of its origin, but the true one is a sub
ject of record in th: archives of the city of
Munich, and is thus related in an amusing
strain by a continental traveler:
Away back in the fifteenth century the
brewer to the crown of Bavaria, the Duke
Christoph, or "Chistoph the fighter," as he
was generally known, considered himself
the best brewer of his time, and'wai never
disputed on this point by others in his
country, for reasons obvious. However, It
so happened that the Duke Braunschweig,
of Enbeck, made a visit to the Duke Chris
toph, and while they were drinking beer
together in the gardens of the palace
Braunschweig casually remarked that if his
brewmaster could not brew better beer than
that he would cause things to be done to
him which are unpronounceable in the lan
guage of the English.
Besulted In a Hlstorlo Wager.
Christoph thereupon sent for his brew
master and demanded what he meant by not
producing beer which could npt be criti
cised. The brewmaster became very indig
nant, and said that he had always made bet
ter beer than anyone in the city of Enbeck
ever heard of. In earnest of what he said,
he put up 200 ducats and staked all the
possessions he had in the world besides
his position, his wife, etc. all of which was
covered by the Braunschweig brewmaster.
The terms of the contest were that each
brewmaster was to do his best with the next
brew this was in November and on May
1 of the next year they were to meet in
Munich and each drink a bumper, which is
seven qnarts, of the other brewer's beer
while standing on one foot, and then thread
a small needle. The one failing to perform
this teat would be regarded as having lost
his wager, for it proved the other beer to
have been the stronger and therefore the
best.
The Mayor of the city of Munich was
Stakeholder and referee, and all the big and
mighty beer drinkers of the kingdom and a
swarm of the small fry gathered at the
Mayor's palace May 1, 1450, to witness the
struggle for supremacy on this important
question.
Trouble Blade by a Goat.
When the assemblage was in readiness the
referee cave the word and the race was on.
While the contestants w ere slowly draining
their big mugs the master of ceremonies
retired to a room in the palace to get the
necessary needles and thread for the final
test. In passing through one of the rooms
he unconsciously left the door open and a
young goat or kid, which was confined
there, escaped and made a break for the
courtyard in which the contest was
going on.
He arrived at an inopportune moment for
the Duke Braunschweig's brewmaster. The
Christoph brewer had finished his social
glass very comfortably and .threaded his
needle, and the Braunschweig' brewer was
trying to find which end of his needle had
the hole in it, when the goat ran against
him, disturbing his equilibrium and dignity
at the same time, and he rolled ignominious
ly under the table. The Duke of Braun
schweig claimed that the "bock" was the
cause of his brewer's defeat and not the
Christoph beer, but the claim was not al
lowed by the referee, who asserted that the
"bock" that did the business was in the
beer, and he exonerated the goat. And
from that time until the present the pecu
liar kind of beer which was drunk at that
contest has been called "bock."
How It Differ From laser Beer.
There is a vast difference between the or
dinary lager and bock beer. Bock is made
and stored for at least six months before the
opening day of its consumption and is about
one-half again as strong as the ordinary
beer.
Only malt and hops can be used in mak
ing it, and it contains about & per cent of
alcohol and 9 per cent of extract, while
lager contains but 5 to 6 per cent of extract
and 4U per cent of alcohol The malt is all
kiln-dried and made dark by the heat, which
accounts for the dark color of the beer.
The "bucking" qualities may be accounted
for by the fact that it is kept longer and
cooler than the ordinary beer.
IN FOOTWEAR OF ALL KINDS, YE MEN, WOMEN AND
CHILDREN OF PITTSBURG!
My window display, the price-tags of the goods therein,
which are duplicated in my store, will tell a better story than
columns of figures in the newspapers. The bargains I offer for
young and old are worth coming miles to see and buy. Just a
few prices to show what I am doing:
, LOOK CABEFULLY AT THESE:
Ladies' hand-turn and hand-welt button shoes, In all
widths and all style toes, reduced from $5 to $3.
Men's Fine Calf Lace and Congress Shoes, all widths.
all style toes, sold all over town for $4; my price
$2.50 only.
Look out for my great Chicken-Guessing Contest; particu
lars of which will be announced next week. A phenomenal
novelty, with a, chance for every one of my patrons to start a
banking account
msrr adtkbtisehemts.
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MEN'S CLOTHING
OP PITTSBUBQ.
SENSIBLE MEN.
KIW ADVEBTISBJttllTS.
They know a good thing when they tea Is.
MERCHANT
TAILOR -MADE
GARMENTS
1-2
The original made-to-ordar prices, thereby
brlnslng the cost of our Finelv Made SUITS,
SPRING OVEECOATS and PANTALOONS
LESS than the ready-made clothiers charge
for their far Inferior goods. TUT ITS.
It it a well known fact that the largest
stock of diamonds and watches in the city
and lowest price is at 1L G. Cohen's, 38
Fifth avenue. Ten per cent discount lor
aisli till May L
Kentucky Horses.
ThoArnhelm Live Stock Company, Ltd.,
have Just received by expres 20 extra Ken
tucky horses. This is the finest load of saddle,
driving and speedy road horses that ever
cafne to Pittsburg. They are all well broken
and have been selected with great care by
Mr. D. Arnheim, and cannot be excelled for
style and beauty. They have also 60 head of
extra ill aught and general purpo-e horses,
and their uiule pens are filled with 75 extra
mules, all sizes. Anyone wanting a good
horse or mule should give them a call, as it is
no trouble for them to show their stock.
Aehheim Live Stock Covpast, Ltd.,
62 Second avenue, Pittsburg, Pa.
Securn Tonr Papers and Valuables
From loss by burglars, robbery or fire in the
a me rjroor sale OeDOsit vaults.
National Bank, Wood street and
burglar an
German Ni
Sixth avenue. Accessible only from bank
ing room. Boxcmentod at fi and upward
per year, with combination and permuta
tion lockt, which can be opened only by the
renter. Tin boxes and silverware stored.
Booms and desks adjoining vaults provided
for renters. Vault open lrom 8:30 to 4:30 r. x.
The Iron City Brewing Company uses
nothing but the choicest qualities of malt
and bops in the manufacture of its favorite
brands of lager and Pilsner beer. This beer
is guaranteed to be four months old, un
adulterated and a most delicious beverage.
Fifty thousand barrels of it on band in the
vaults of the Iron City Brewing Company.
Purity, age and quality combined.
Excursion to Omaha, Neb.
Excursion tickets to Omaha, Neb., will be
on sale April 27. 28 and 29, good to return
until June 1, 1S92. For tickets and full infor
mation call on or write to Chas. Devlin, 970
Liberty stieet, Pittsburg, Pa.
Don't Spend a Dollar.
Don't invest one dollar in clothing until
you see the men's suits we sell Monday and
Tuesday for $10. P. C. C. C. Clothiees,
Cor. Grant and Diamond streets.
45c, 45c, 45c,
For gents' kid gloves, reduced from $L Come
quiok If you wish to get any.
ItOSEaEAtfJt & Co.
110 dozkt men's fast black socks, worth 60c
this week for 25c
TTS3U Littell's, 203 Smlthfleld street,
The greatest spring and summer beverage
is the Iron City Brewing Company's lager
beer.
Bughte kills roaches, bedbugs and all In
fects insUnter. 25 cents.
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Cor. Market & Fourth Ave
PITTSBURG,
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v WE ARE THE LEADERS. V
fcPOINTER NO. i LADIES, ARE YOU TIREE
going to merchants who offer to sell you Cloaks and Suits wortl
$20 for $io; or worth $10 for $5, and etc, eta?
"IF SO, COME TRY THE WAY WE DO."
The Parisian will sell you the best All-wool Tailor-mad
Jackets.ever shown in this city for. $6.50 and worth $6.50.
The Parisian will sell you the best All-wool Tailor-mad'
Suit ever shown in this city for $8.75 and worth $8.75.
flSPOINTER NO. 2 LADIES, ARE YOU TIREI
going to merchants who advertise Cloaks and Suits at a lo
price and are out of them before 9 o'clock in the morning; it
fact; advertise' anything and everything, and make you pay for it
"IF SO, DO AS THOUSANDS HAVE DONE." Comi
to the Parisian. We increase the purchasing power of youi
dollar and give you better garments for the same money thai
any other house either here or elsewhere.
'.' COME, VISIT THE PARISIAN. '.
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SHORT SUNDAY SERMO
ON CLOTHING AND FURNISHINGS.
TEXT: 4The Price List's the thing wherein we'll catch the conscience of the ,:
King. Hamlet Revised.
Men of Pittsburg, don't be caught with a price, for price, as it stands in the paper
apart from the article it represents the cost of, means nothing. Only when taken in
connection with the goods has it force and argument
1 here s an abundance of cheap clothing in the market and many dealers, while
your
a
pocket-
difference
We are showing an im
mense representation of Men's
Suits which comprises all that
is new and stylish in Men's
attire.
Our range of prices runs
all the way from $5 to $25,
but we find $15 a most pop
ular price, and you'll find us
particularly strong in suits
costing that amount
Our showing surpasses any
ever made in this city at any
previous time. It embraces t
every popularfabricand every
possible design in pattern.
Here's a sample or so from
the $15 tables:
A Brown and White Cheviot, in
stylish single and double-breasted,
sacks, elegantly made and trimmed.
A fine quality of Cheviot, In the
new and popular shade of tan, in
single or double-breasted sacks.
We start in with All-Wool
Suits at $9, See a fine Brown
Check Cheviot, with patch
pockets, as a sample of quality.
At $10 we are showing a
line unsurpassed for quality
or richness. As a sample of
these look at a Light Drab
Cheviot with invisible brown
check.
MEN'S PANTS.
A fine line of Spring Pants
in new and beautiful stripes
and checks. Thousands of
pairs, from which to select of
the newest and best designs
in the market
BOYS' CLOTHING
Furnisning Ms.
perhaps not trying to catch your conscience, are endeavoring to capture
books by quoting prices that seem irresistible on paper. But, oh! what
in the morning, we mean in the store. -
Come to think of it, it isn't cheap goods you're after, anyway. Here's what you j
want: Good goods cheap. A difference with a big D. . j
This has been and is our strong position. Superior goods for less money than the
same can be procured for elsewhere,
LOOK AT OUR OFFERINGS FOR THE COMING- WEEK.
HATS.
Seasonable Hats at reason
able prices. There's the
secret of the marvelous suc
cess in our Hat Department
The new blocks from all
the prominent makers in all
the new shades at prices that
are not approached else
where. THIS DRAWS THE CROWD.
We do not believe that
you can match our $1.98
Derby in any store in this
city. And, from the thou
sands we sell of them, it is
evident that we are not alone
in our belief
Although beautiful and
attractive, the Boys' Cloth
ing we sell is made for
service also.
It is not only a larsre but
a choice,a dainty.an elegant
assortment to which we ask
your attention,
It comprises everything
that's new, bright,fresh and
original in boys' wear.
An extremely handsome
line of Zouave Suits in
Scotch Cheviots, Cassimeres,
Blue Tricot, Worsteds and
Velvet' of various shades.
$4 up.
A choice assortment of
three-piece suits in brown
Corkscrews, light Cheviots,
fancy Cassimeres,etc 4 up.
In Jacket and Pant Suits
we are offering especially
good values in a very large
line at $3.
These are all wool.
Older boys, up to young
men's sizes, are as well pro
vided for, and you'll not
fail to be pleased' with our
r large and sightly line of
Boys and Youths Long
Pant Suits.
Yes, we are furnishing
goods to a great many people
of this city, and in immense
quantities.
In Men's Neckwear we
show new and stylish lines
at from 24c to 99c
We especially pride our
selves on our line at 49 c
UNDERWEAR. .
Spring-weight Merino Un
derwear, 49 c to $1.49,
LADIES
CLOAKS AMD SUITS
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Negligee Sits,
In Zephyr, Madras, Cheviots,
Oxfords, Sateens, eta
Makers are Fisk, Clark
& Flagg, the. Eagle, Emory,
Banner and others famous
for fine goods.
Thousands of styles to
choose from, both in laun
dried and unlaundried, at
prices from 49c to $3.
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Ladies.you
do not need
to be re
minded
that you
are not in
style if you
are not
wearing a
Cape, eith-
:r plain or
'embroider-
pd.trimmed
with Chan-
tilly or Cluny lace. But it
itsn't necessary that it
should cost $50 or $75.
At $4 we are showing an
elegant all-wool Cape, 42
inches long, faced with silk
serge, Medici collar, trim
med with feather edge.
At $6 Ladies' Capes of
all-wool Serge Cheviots, with
silk embroidery and jet,
black and tan.
At 7.95 we show the
finest Cape at the price in
the city. All-wool Cheviot,
shoulders trimmed with lace,
collar with ribbon.
IK' UNDERWEAR :
Though a new depart
ment it is fast coming to
the front. It is filled with
a most attractive stock at
prices still more attractive.
SHOES.
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BROAD
INFANTS' WEIR:
Complete line of every
thing pertaining to Infants'
Dress. Long and Short
Dresses from the cheapest
work to the most expensive
.hand embroidery.
Our shoe business is done
upon a broad gauge.
We carry the largest stock
of footwear in the city for
you to select from, and we
sell at a small margin of
profit
Sightliness and serviceabil
ity go hand in hand, and this,
in connection with what we
said above,brings us ati enor
mous business.
300 TO 400
MARKET ST.
300 TO 400
MARKET ST,
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