| This superb building will be devoted to retail purposes, |
| where every description of dry-goods, from the necessary and |
| convenient to the most elegant and fashionable, will attract |
| a multitudinous throng, and add even a new attraction to the |
| brilliancy of Broadway in the most delightful part of the |
| thoroughfare. Besides an immense trade extending to all |
| parts of the United States, LORD & TAYLOR deal largely in |
| carpets and oil-cloths, in upholstery and house furnishing |
| goods, and especially in trousseaux, cloaks, and ladies' |
| furnishing goods of all kinds, in which, perhaps, their |
| business is heavier than that of any other house in the |
| city. The furnishing of hotels and steamboats is one of |
| their specialties. The headquarters of their wholesale trade |
| is at the old Broadway and Grand street store, while their |
| stock of carpets and oil-cloths is mainly limited to the |
| Grand and Chrystie street establishment. Since the |
| organization of the firm, five partners have retired with |
| fortunes, to make room for younger men, thus affording |
| opportunities for others to profit by the experience and |
| success of the house. These changes have also had the effect |
| to maintain the original vigor of the firm without detaching |
| from the maturity of judgment that has marked its |
| operations. Some idea of the magnitude of the business of |
| the house may be inferred from the fact that the pay-roll |
| contains the names of more than 1,000 persons. |
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GEO. W. WHEAT & CO, PRINTERS, No. 8 SPRUCE STREET.