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RECEIVED^
A large consignment of OVERCOATS purchased by our resident N. Y. buyer, Mr. Chas. Appel, FOR A GASH
CONSIDERATION] from a large manufacturer, WHO NEEDED THE GASH ; (and we happened to possess the
lucre) for from 50 to 60 cents on the dollar, and we propose selling them at a like figure, and in addition thereto,
we have included our present stock of Men s, Boys’ and Children’s Overcoats in the same sale.
I 52 $ 4 85 .
v|/ 10 00 64 a 6 90
• W {‘j “ “ ?40 if
M 13 50 44 u 8 90
Nff 15 00 a in 40 , s
Fit 10 50 44 a 11 00 J\V
' 18 00 ii a 13 i3
20 00 44 44 15 55 ’
25 00 “ l9 50
We are public benefactors. Come early and get your pick, this is a lifetime chance. All Overcoats on 2nd
floor.
MERCHANT AND HUNTER.
JOHN OLAFLJN TELLS HOW HE
KILLS A GRIZZLY nVERY YEAR.
A Man Who Oan Make Money and
KUI Bears With Equal Skill —He
Does Not Care to Talk of His Trav
els. But Never Refuses to Tell of Hie
Ho counter With His Favorite Game,
the Grizzly.
(CopyrtoM.)
Nw York, Nov. 26.—One bloek away
from Broadway, In the center of what Is
known at the dry goods district of Hew
York oity, stands a large atone building, so
plain in appearance that a stranger would
probably pass without noticing it. It is the
largest business house in the world. The
main eDtrance to the building is a narrow
door at one corner, where customers—some
of whom come to buy by the SIOO,OOO
worth—aften have to step aside in entering
to make way for the porters who are wheel
ing goods in or out, In huge crates set on
little wheels.
If you enter no one will speak to jou
unless you ask a question. You will find
yourself In a huge room, so paoked with
go ids that only narrow passageways are
left, here and there to walk through.
Hundreds of salesmen are busy all ever the
room. Some of them earn *15,000 or $20,-
000 a year. If you want to see the head
of the concern, and if you know the way,
you will walk about 150 feet west and then
aoross the room, perhaps forty feet more,
to the foot of a stairway, where there is a
little sign, which savs: '‘To the Counting
Room.”
Go upstairs, and yon will see half a
hundred bookkeepers at work. At one end
of the room U a spaoe railed off, but the
gate is open. \Valk In and turn to the left,
and you will see an inner office with an
open door. There sits John Claflin. Tell
him your business as quickly as von can
and go. He bos no time to waste, and as lie
does not waste yours by making you wait
to send in your name, it is only fair to ask
him for as little as possible,
John Claflin is only 42 years old, but it is
nlueteeu years since his father, the famous
Horace B. Claflin, made him a full partner
In the business. The Arm then owed $25,-
000,000, but this was all paid, though 1873
was a panic year; and the great concern
went on selling goods—from *40,000,000 to
$70,000,000 worth a year. In twenty-flve
years It has sold more than $1,090,000,1.00
worth of mercuandise.
The father, when he started In business in
Worcester, Mass., sixty years ago, bad only
SI,OOO capital. Of course, the son bad a
very different start in life, but he was made
to serve an apprenticeship in the business
after being educated at the College of the
City of New York. It was only after he
bad proved his abiltv that bis father trusted
him with the business con.rol, end he has
been proving his ability ever einoe.
There are few men in the world who are
more engaged in important business matters
than Mr. Claflin, for besides being the head
of the great corporation which his suc
ceeded the firm of H. B. Claflin & Cos., he is
a trußt f e or a direotor of a great many
charitable and financial institutions. But
ue plays as vigorously as he w irks, and so
keeps his youth and strength. In the oity
his principal amusement is driving good
f ° r many years he has bept
up tbe habit of going away eacu summer
for some two months. Once he went away
* mout b N aud accomplished what no
white man had ever done before. He
s.artod with only one white oompauion, at
oro * ae f South America, coming
out at the mouth of the Amazon. This was
the longest and most adventurous of his
journeys of explorations, hui he has, on his
uncU^ 101 !?' trttVel ‘* l 1,1 of the
Boraa of lhe tUeQ unexplored
countries of the world.
Ter y curious to hear this quiet,
2££7 n f® n * 1 “h. sitting in a business
office la New York, tell with pride of the
fact that he has not failed for a number of
years to kill at least one grizsly bear eaoh
summer in the Rooky mountain!. He looks
like a man who would tie more at home iu a
Sunday school room than one who would
face a grizzly, but he has fought
Indians as well as boars. Only, he
W so modest about it that he caunot be
coaxed to tell particulars that would doubt
less be of value as additions to the literature
of exploration. The writer tried for a long
time to get him to furnish the details of his
South Amerloan journey, but was com
pelled to give it up. “I have lost or mis
placed my notes of the trip,” he said. “And
there was really nothing about it that
would be of great public interest.”
In this the public will hurdly agree with
Mr. Claflin, hut so long as he remains at
the head of the largest mercantile house In
the world, it is hardly likely that he will
publish the story of bis explorationa And
that is likely to be as long as he continues
in active business. Thai, again, may very
probably be a quarter of a century longer,
for he inherits his father’s physical stamina
as well as his business ability, and Horace
B. Claflin lived out the scriptural limit be
fore laying down his business cares.
It is easy, however, to get Mr. Claflin to
talk in an off-hand way about hunting.
His face brightens at the word, and as he
pushes back from his desk, he straightens
out his tall, slender, wiry figure and moves
restlessly, almost nervously, as if eager to
be handling a rifle and facing a bear. It Is
an odd pleasure for a counting room.
“Have you bunted muoh in other coun
tries than America!” I asked him.
“No. Not a great deal, of course, 1 have
shot more or less whenever and wherever 1
have been in camp. 1 have not taken the
time for very tnauy foreign trips, but Igo
at least as far as the Rocky mountains
every summer."
“Have you found your sport very dan
gerous i"
“No, I cannot say I have," said Mr.
Claflin, laughing. “I have been told, times
without number, that I was putting
myself in imminent peril. And,
oddly enough, It ie the people who
live in the bear oountrles that are the most
strenuous ou the point of danger. I never
go out without being told by tbe people
uround that 1 am going to ‘git all tore up.’
That seems to he their favorite word; but
so far, ’ laughing again, “I haven’t been
‘tore up’ to auy great extent.”
“ Nre thestories of the ferocity of the
grizzly bear exaggerated, then!”
“Yes and no. They are true enough in
one way. It is just this: In the olden time,
when the whnx man was unknown in the
liear countries, the grizzly roamed the for
ests just as he does now, but tbe Indians did
not hurt him, and he looked upon a man as
his meat, just the same as all other animals
were. Ho he hunted the Indian when he
found him. But when the white man ap
peared with weapons that the iudians
had not had, Mr. Grizzly fuund
out that there was one animal
that refused to become his prey.
8o he stopped hunting him. for the
bear is the ni'ist wary of all aDlinals. so far
as 1 know animals. There are instances, to
be sure, when the bear will, for no apparent
reason beyond hts own sheer cussedness, at
tack a man, but suo i instances appear to
he very rare. Ho far as 1 know he is seldom
dangerous excepting in two cases. First,
he will certainly fight If he is cornered.
And he will make a tremendously savage
light, too. Then he will oertainly follow
aud destroy a man if the man runs from
him. There is no earthly use in running
away from a bear, for you can not p ssilily
get away from him. He will follow you,
and certainly catch you and kill you if you
run. If you don’t run he will almost always
get away from you if he can.”
“Have you ever faced them at close quar
ters!”
“Yes; I shot one once that wasn’t more
than ten or fifteen feet a wav from me. I
was out with a friend on the
trail, and 1 was on one side of a
hill while he was on the other ( side with
my guide, I heard a shot aud judged that
my friend had found the bear and shot at
him. It wasn’t at him, either; it was a she
bear with two cubs. There was a sort of
THE MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1892—TWELVE PAGES.
trail acr ts the hill that I knew, and I
thought the bear would come that way, so
I ran to the end of it, and just as I got there
the bear appeared. 1 fired and knocked
her over, but did not kill her, and she got
on her feet again aud disappeared into the
brush before 1 oould fire again with any
thing like an aim.
“Pretty soon my friend aud the guides
came around, and 1 told them I had wounded
the bear aud was going into the brush after
her. That is the really dungerous part of
hear hunting, for they will turn on vou at
olose quarters in the brush, and one of the
guides refuzed to go in. He said the bear
pro' ably wasn’t hurt. Bhe had been
knocked down by the explosion without be
ing hit, but I knew better, although wo
couid not find any blood.
“My guide, however—the other one—was
a man I could depend on to do anything
and he and I went in. We found the marks
of the blood after a time and presently mv
guide shouted: ‘She’s coming for yer.’ She
wasn't coming for mo, though, but was try
ing to get up from where she had fallen aud
I saw her aud shot her agaiu."
“Did you ever face a bear when you were
out of ammunition!”
"No; I have always taken good oare to
be well supplied. 1 have had no experience
whatever iu fighting them with kaivee, a .and
I would not oare to try it, A rifle is good
enough. Very often a single shot Is enough
if you oau hit tbe head, or strike within so
muoh of the heart." And he made an irreg
ular oirole, ten or twelve inches in diame
ter, by holding up his hands with out
stretched fingers. “I always fire at the
head if the bear is near enough, but at any
considerable distance the heart is the better
mark, for the head is apt to be moving
around more than the body, and the bullet
must enter the brain in order to kill, when
you fire at the head.”
“Have you shot other big game beside
bear!’’
"O, yes. Tbe most of my shooting has
been in this oountry, as I said, because I do
uot take the time for foreign travel, but I
have shot elk and mountain sheep quite
considerably. Of late years, though, I have
hunted nothing but bear, excepting, of
course, when Ido what shooting is neces
sary to keep tbe oarnp in meat while we are
in cauip. I have kept up the record,
though, of killing at least one grizzly every
summer right up to the present tima This
last summer I only killed one, for I only
went as far as Montana 1 have been taking
my wife with me of late years, and when
you have a lady iu the party you can’t very
well go to the less accessible plaoes where
there is really better shooting.
“I am sorry,” said the great merchant, as
h® closed tbe interview, “that I oan not give
you more interesting and more valuable
particulars about traveling and shooting
both; but it would take considerable time'
and unfortunately time is something I do
not have enough of.”
David A. Curtis.
Two Very Prominent Merobants Pub
licly Dispute an Bleotton Wager.
1 wo very prominent merchants came very
near oomlng to blows yesterday over tbe
coming eleotioo. By the request of the
parties interested we will suppress names.
It was brought about in the following man
ner:
It appears as If Ray street bad wagered
with Broughton street ($1U0) one bundled
dollars that Ruth’s papa would occupy the
white house for the oomiug four years
from March 5,1893, which Broughton street
disputed. One word led to auother, until
finally friends interfered to prevent what no
doubt both gentlemen would have regretted.
It was dually decided to deposit with Dry
fuß & Rich, the liquor and oigar merchants,
ltil Congress street, the *2o*l, and the suc
cessful man would give the above-men
tioned firm carte blanche to stock hts wine
cellar with the winnings from their large
stook of imported and domestic wines and
liquors.—ad.
Big bargains iu fine clothing at Kohler’s,
168 Broughton street. Overcoats and un
derwear sacrificed,—ad.
DRY GOODS.
RECORD BREAKING
.—•
RKOSD ‘ MAKINfi SALE
UNPRECEDENTED CUT IN PRICES.
To Do Two Weeks’ Bisiness Tlis Week
Down Go the Pricss on Dress Goods.
Thus, Changeable Diagonals, Chsvlot Mix
tures and Novelty Dress Goods this week 23c.,
former price 85c. and 40c. Plain and Fancy All-
Wool Imported Dress Goods, embracing Plaids,
Novelties,Kto., sold everywhere at6so. and 75c.,
our price this week 49c.
62-mch Impor ed Broadcloth, in all shades,
sold the world over at Si 50. this week’s price
98c.
All High Class Novelty Dress Patterns reduced
OXK-TBIRU.
Down Go the Prices of Silks.
Changeable Silks in all the New Tints and
Colorings at 750., o!d everywhere for |l.
Black and Colored Dress Bilks of every de
scription at greatly reduoed prices.
Down Go the Prices of Linens.
Bleached and Turney Red Table Damask at
49c., reduced from 65c. per yard.
Bleached and Turtey lied Table Damask at
78a. reduced from |l per yard.
100 dozen Knot Fringe Damask Towels at 2So.
each, fine value for 35c.
Down Go the Prices of Domestics.
Good Heavy Unbleached Canton Fiannel at
sa, worth 7c
Yard-Wide Bleached Shirting, soft finish, at
5c., worth 7a
Remember we give better goods for the
same money or the same goods for less
money than elsewhere.
FOYE & MORRISON
t JOHH ROURHE & SON.^j^
AND BRASS FOUNDERS AND
MACHINISTS. BLACKSMITHSAND BOILERMAKERS
THE SAMSON SUGAR MILES AND PANS.
dealers in
STEAM ENGINES, INJECTORS, STEAM AND WATER FITTINGS.
CORRESPONDENCE SOLICITED— ESTLWATKS GIVEN.
Nob. a. 4 axxii O Hay and X, a. 3,4,. ft and e Hirer Street*.
SAVANNAH Gr JL.
Down Go the Prices ob Cloaks.
Children’s All-Wool Reefer .Taefcets at $1 49
and $1 98. reduced from $2 and $2 76.
Children’s Long Cloaks, laiast styles, rsgular
$5 and $9 quality, now $3 9.
Ladies’34 iuoh All-Wool Black Cheviot Keef
ers, good sellers at $5, now $3 49 each.
Bee our immense selection of Ladies' Jackets
at $7 69 and $lO, former price $lO and sl3 50.
Down Go the Prices of Blankets i Comforts.
10- Gray Wool Blankets at 580., worth sl.
I'M White Wool Blaokets at 930, worth $1 39.
11- Fine White All-Wool Blankets at $8 9H
worth $3.
11-4 Fine White California Blankets at $0 50.
worth J:0.
Extra valua in Bed Comforts at 390., 49c., 98c .
$1 50 and *2 25 each. ’
Down Go the Prices of Woolen Underwear.
Ladles’ Heavy Ribbed Undervests at 860., sold
everywhere at 50c.
Ladies’ White Ail-Wool Undervests at 950.,
worth $1 50. '
See our Gents’ Woolen Underwear, tbe best
stock in town, at reduced prices.
I- RAILROADS.
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