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If fl H ! ■ i j : *2 COLUMBUS ENQUIRER-SUN: SUNDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 10, 1886, ALL ABOUT THR SHOE TRADE. Am lntMrviow with a Live Wholesale Shoe Man. Br. 4. B. Orr. of the firm of 4. K. Orr Jt Co., ftrap Bon* I»U*r©stlnjc Data Colombo* tl»© mtrt Lerjrfwt Kxflanlv© Wholosel© Mho© Market h Georgia Dow io Got and Cestomor*. ■storing to obtain an Insight into the whole- aale ahoo trade of Columbus, a reporter of the fltoQcmiiVK-Stm decided to Interview the whole* ■ale shoe dealer, Mr. J. K. Orr, of the firm of J. 1. Orr & Co. Mr. Orr, although comparatively a young man, has had an experience of some ft teen years In the wholesale trade, commonc* lug his career in one of the largest Ary goods commission houses in Now York. The re porter picked his way through the pyramids of lMge boxes, which are always standing ready for Bklptnent in front of the firm’s establishment on Seventh street, and entered the private office of the chief of the firm. Mr. Orr was head over heel* in business, but his politeness overcame his -»— 1 — to make money fora season, and he vowed tftat he was delighted to see the reporter, and tbat nothing would please him better than to bavo him spend the day In the store. The re* porter sat down and evolved a pencil and pad, accompanying the action with the remark that Ik# was going to interview the shoe man. “In terview?" said he; “I don’t know how to be in terviewed. I don’t talk much. 1 don’t have toe. But I can tell you anything you want to know about shoes." '"That’s what 1’ro after," said the reporter; '•bow’s business opening for the fall trade?" “Opening? Our business doesn’t open. It ever shut up to get a chano© to open la. It ingoing all the year round. I can’t >11 act wheu wo were not busy. I admit that a tbe fhll lias sot in our orders have increased idously; but you mustn’t call that an opon- tof. An opening implies a previous dosing." "Doer Columbus do a largo shoe business?" "It doe* an immense business te shoes. Why, it is an ad mitted Bust that Columbus does the third bargest exclusive shoo business in the state of Georgia. By “exclusive" I mean men who soil ■tarally nothing but shoes. Our firm is one of ja*im kind. Wo pay entire attention to this one ■no and as a consequence we keep posted on its minutest particulars and can give our customers tee benefit of our knowledge. Wc are having a vmry heavy season, being driven all the time to ■K our orders. Wc arc as the mill men say— ■aid ahead of production.” "Do you sell many goods near home?" "I si'otild iwy we do. The prejudice that for- Marly existed with many merchants against buy- teg near homo is rapidly disappearing." "How do you account for this?" ‘•Why, I’ll tell you. Discerning buyers aro ftading out that the largest factories make the boat goods, oud can make them the cheapest, ftbeoc goods are handled by the leading jobbers, and we are able to sell them as cheap as any eraapcUtor, whether ho docs business in Balti more, Now York or elsewhere. In fact, we are ■ati&fied that under our present organization, tea percentage that our expenses bear te our sales is loos than the ismo business can be done in auy city north or «■■t. Wo have succeeded in placing our goods to the bauds of the best merchants in almost ■very town in the territory which we cover, and iS is s very largo one. Ah I intimated before, the most gratifying feature of our business is its large 'mcmtuA' with our city and near-by trade. Wo have shout fifty customers In and around Colum- 1m" “Do your customers have tbe advantage of hav- tog their goods made to order?” "They do. We make a special feature of tak ing early orders, and having the goods made for mch customer, giving him the brands, finish and Gyle wanted. These orders arc slopped from our Boston office, where they are Inspected and for- | wanted by a competent man in charge of that port of our business. We carry a large stock bore and do u considerable filling in trade. Knowing by our own experience the lever-power a buyer has that pays crush, we have encouraged •nr trade to discount our bills by allowing liberal tooonnW until now nearly two-ihirds of our trade discount our bills." PToin the number of goods shipped during the tew minutes the reporter was in the store, he had ■nary reason to believe that Mr. Orr had rather ■■drdrawn than overdrawn tbe picture in speak- tog of his business. One of the secrete of the success of J. fL Orr A Go, la the calibre of the men they keep on the ■■ traveling saloamen. A house is generally graced and judged by the public, by the kind of ■mb they lend out on the road. Mr. William R Macon, wh< has the entire state of Alabama tor his territory, is the ideal and typical commer cial evangelist, lie can give Sam’l OTosen four aoaa and beat him. The reputation of Oolumbus and his firm is not likely to suffer in Mason’s brads. Hois true to his headquarters and his borne. It is true he has a sweetheart in every town in Alabama, but he has the main one in Gnlmnbus and keeps her posted. He gets the beet room at every hotel and the teuderest steak mod the soAoet bed. And sell goods! He can sell wool to a sheep, water to a fish, corn to a miller and Are to old salon himself. Though the inference is not in tended that Mr. Mason Is thick and familiar with the latter party. Mr. Mason has a voice •ad a flow of language that would make a Philadelphia lawyer turn green with envy and go ■ft and kick himself. Ho is welcomed to every too n and biddon good-bye with regret. D is busl- mmm and natural shrewdness is such that alter being on the road ten years, and being now only M years old, and after dealing with the cutest easterners and schemers iu the country, he has mover yet allowed a man to get the advantage of bim. He iB at once a credit and an invaluable adjunct to any houBe that can secure his services, Mr. C. Q. Johnson, one of J. K. Orr & Co.’s mevefol travelers, is 26 years old, and has been traveling five years. Mr. Johnson has a way of making business hum that the ordinary drum mor can’t catch on to. He can get through as much space and business iu a day as two busi ness men would consider a task, and not get tired, either. Mr. Johnson’s territory is South west Georgia and Florida, where he is the favorite of the merchants, hotel keepers and peo ple. lie is a regular gold mine to the firm, and they could not do without him. He is brisk, quick and accurate, llo never makes a mistake and never forgets a promise. Such men can't help from succeeding. And Mr. Johnson is one of the traveling rep resentatives of Columbus that has proven a recommendation to the firm he travels for and to the city wherever he has gone. When he can’t sell goods there are no merchants, and when he can’t satisfy his customers they don’t know what they want. J. K. Orr & Co. and Columbus are proud of him, a compliment which he richly men's. There are other salesmen rep resenting this firm, all first-class men in their particular characteristics, and all working alike tor tbe interests of the city, the firm and their customers. Mr. Kyle Nuckolls, the junior mem ber of the firm, represents the house in northern Alabama. He is an experienced business man, though still young in years, and his services in |be house and on the road have gone a great ly toward building up the splendid reputation ■mtihe firm.f ONLY TKN CRNTR. One of tbs float Popalar Places In Columbus—Tho Largest Raslaoss of the Klndin the South. The Oolumbus Ten Cent Htorc fills a long felt ! want in this city. Mr. J. K. Halloway, the genial ! proprietor, Informed the reporter while on his ! rounds the other day that he did the largest busi ness of the kind of any house in the south, out side of New Orleans. The store presents one of the busiest scenes of any place in the city. Six clerks are kept constantly busy supplying the wants of their customers. The stock embraces a large number of valuable articles which are not usually found in an establishment of this kind. Mr. Hallo way commenced this business In Feb ruary, 1885, and it has increased so rapidly in public fhvor that Mr. Halloway adds a large num ber of new articles to bis stock every week. His | present stock is larger than any ho has hitherto offered to tbe public. It now embrace?* almost every article imaginable that can possibly be sold for five or ten cents. Nothing In his entire stock is sold for more than ten cents. He has ail of the latest novelties in toys, glass ware, tin and willow ware, laces, Jewelry, and no tions. One can scarcely have any idea of how many things can be bought for ten cents nnlesa he inspects this stock. The goods are pretty, or namental, useful and darable. It would be im possible to enumerate the various articles and the noval scenes which the artistic arrangement of this establishment presents must be seen to be appreciated. It may astonish many to know it, but any prudent housewife can almost secure a complete outfit for the dining room in this store. It is the very place to replace missing articles of crockery- There is hardly a house in ; Oolumbus that has not on© cr more of their pitchers. In this establishment may be found pictures that would adorn the walls of any par lor in the city. The store is packed with articles usefiil os well as ornamental and the many beau tiful things to be soon would more than repay a visit to It. No wonder that Mr. Halloway*s trade has In creased so rapidly. The quality and variety of the goods he sells, aud the low prices at which ; they are sold, aro bound to win their way with ; the people. If you have never paid tbe Ool am bus Ten Oont Store a visit, do so at once. Garry your pocket books along, as the inducements of fered you will be oo great that you are sure to want to buy something before you leave the store. A BARGAIN TO BflTAILBBA. Advantages Offered th© Trad© by 0»s ef the Largest Grocery Morr.hanU Honest Good*. Honest Prices and na Honest Merchant. J. T. Pearce, Pearce’s comer, upper Broad street, is doing a stirring wholesale and retail grocery business. In his meandering* a few days ago an EwQum no-Hun representative found time to look through his large and well-assorted stock. He is prepared to offer special induce ments to the retail dealer, aud sells job lots at lowest prices of any house in the aity. Mr. Pearce is well known to tho trading public, who know that ho will do exactly what ho rays he will do, so that the announcement that he is selling goods in job lots at remarkably low figures cannot fail to attract the attention of retail dealers in and around Oolumbus. Mr. Poance is spondieg every effort to please his customers, and the success with which he is meeting certainly must be highly gratifying to hiru. ne is Ailly determined to keep pace with the enterprise and progress of the city and not to be undersold. Mr. Pearce is a skillful buyer as well as a talented salesman, as an inspection of his stock will show. Here can be found all kinds of fhney and family groceries in the atmoat profusion, the quality of which cannot be excelled in this market. Ho keeps a nice and full line of formers 1 tupplies of every description, which he is prepared to furn ish them on most advantageous terms. When visiting the city farmers should not fail to ex amine Mr. Pearce’s goods and get his prices. All he asks is a fair IritU. and if this is accorded him, he is sure to give satisfaction, both as to the price and quality of the goods which he sells. Don’t forget the place when you come to town — Pearce’s building, upper Broad street. You will find clever and competent salesmen to attend to your every want. But let it not be understood that he deals ex clusively in the wholesale trade. Ho believes in accommodating all his friends and customers, and U matters not whether they buy 5 cents’ or a $100 worth of goods they will receive the same cordial welcome and fair treatment. He ia as honest as the day is long, and gives AU1 weights and measures. Anything needed in the way of groceries can be found in his complete establ ish- ment, and at prices to defy competition. L1YK AND TIlBIVfl. A ■©rebeet With sa Excellent Stosh *f Grads as Were Avar Broagkt to This City—His Goods Sell Themselves. There is always room in a city for a live, brisk and fair-dealing merchant. He will live and thrive in spite of competition. An illustration of this fhet is found in the case of Mr. J. 0. Horrison who has just opened at 1132 Broad street, one ol the most tasty and fashionable shoe stores to be found anywhere. His entire stock is new, fresh, aud in the latest style. He has constantly on hand every variety of shoe that- the market affords, or that the most fastidious customer could ask for. He keeps ladies’, men’s, boys’, girls’, infants’ and youths’ shoes in every variety aud at almost every price. Mr. Harrison buys from the manufacturers at the lowest obtainable figures and is enabled to give his custom era the benefit of his skill and ex perience as a buyer. He has had a long experi ence in the shoe business, and hoe been con nected with some of the best shoe houses in the state. He is well known among ns as a man of integity aud principle, who keeps his promises and pays his debts. He deserves tho patronage ofthe public, and his army of Wends will see that he gets it. His stock of ladies' shoes is not surpassed in Oolnmbus and he can fit any foot. No lady should make a selection without seeing his goods. He can fit the foot of young ladies and girls to make them look like those we see in pictures. His shoes for gentlemen aud boys em brace all the different styles, and he . guarantees satisfaction in fit, style, quality aud prices. It is the same way with reference to children aud infauts* shoes. He has the stock with which to build up a trade and he is doing it. Though | only a short time the proprietor of this store, he already has a trade that should be gratifying to long established houses. 61IOKS FOB 41,1.. 4 FlniW’,l»M Establishment and I’rlm* to Dufy Compotttlou. K. B. Prather & Co.’s shoe store is located at No. 1011 Broad street. The firm have an elegant and well assorted stock of men’s, boys’ and chil dren’s shoes, boots and slippers. Also a Bill line ol ladies’ aud misses’ shoes and slippers. These goods are of excellent quality and of tho latest styles. The Arm have determined to sell their goods at prices which defy competition. They have won for themselves by fair and honest deal ings a most enviable reputation, and rank among the foremost business men in the city. Their goods are of such a character that they take well with the public and do not fail tbe give Bill sat isfaction to every purchaser. If you have never bought anything from this popular firm, give them a trial and you will be pleased. It is one ofthe rules of this enterprising firm to guarantee satisfaction in each and every particular. u D > Vf J.. COLUMBUS, GEORGIA. Capital Stock, $267,000 GEO. P, SWIFT, President OiFTTOrEP^S OIF TEIZE COMPANY: W. A, SWIFT, Secretary and Treasurer. DIRECTORS: Geo. P. Swift, A. Illges, J. Rhodes Browne, H. H. Epping, Geo. P. Siwft, Jr. ONE OF THE LEADING INSTITUTIONS OF THE SOUTHERN STATES adLAJSrcrFtA-OTU KEIRS OP Checks, Plaids, Cottonades,k MAKES OVER ONE HUNDRED STYLES OF COLORED GOODS Sends Its Products into all the States and Territories of the United States, AUD INTO THE SOUTH SEA ISLAUDS AND MEXICO! ■'JiT.M tt*» JTJ9 The Goods manufactured by the Muscogee Manufacturing Company are sold exclusively through the jobbing trade. The Checks, Plaids and Cottonades turned out are of the best quality, and not excelled by any made in America. Over four hundred hands find employment in the institution, and it is difficult to supply the demand for the products of th e Factory. When these goods once find their way, no merchants will be without them. This institution is conducted on high business principles, and they compete in prices any where.