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Twelve Staples '
Show Net Drop
Of 13c in Week
Fair Price Committee Gives
Out First List for Two
Weeks, Showing Steady
Decline in Many Foods
?
Grocers Praised fop Aid
Fresh Butter, Down 6 Cents,
Leads in Decrease, With
Potatoes Alone Rising
The Fair Price Committee issued a
staple foodstuffs price list yesterday
after an interval of two weeks, during
which it steadfastly refused to quote
advances regarded by it as not justified
by market conditions.
In making public the price list yes?
terday, Federal Food Administrator Ar?
thur Williams, who is also chairman of
the Fair Price Committee, said that the;
cost of staple foodstuffs had dropped
sufficiently to warrant the committee's
placing of its approval stamp on them.
He said that the public had not been af?
fected by the increase in prices of two
weeks ago, as retailers had failed to re?
flect the advances in the wholesale mar?
ket on the'r quotations. Grocers wore
to be heartily commended for their co?
operation, the Food Administrator said.
Federal agents had informed him of the
stability of retail prices in this city, he
announced.
Twelve Commodities Drop
Twelve staple foodstuffs dropped ?"
price since last week, the Fair Price
Committee's list shows. Only one com?
modity, potatoes, increased in cust.
Fresh butter records the banner de?
cline, six cents from last week's price
and seven cents from that of two
weeks ago. Storage butter fell two
cents, to 64. while cheese fell off
a half cent, to 39.5 cents. Selected
Candled fresh eggs tumbled five cents
from last Wednesday's quotation and
nine cents from that of Monday. Yes?
terdays quotation on them was 81 and
83 cents a dozen.
The top prices of canned corn and
canned tomatoes are two-thirds and
five-sixths cents lower, respectively.
The low price of flour shows a decline
in bosh sizes of evaporated milk are
also reported. Onions have dropped
ore-half cent a pound since last week,
with rolled oats rolling down one-quar?
ter cent. The net numerical decrease
of the commodities on the list is 13
cents from the prices which would have
been quoted if a list had been issued
Jase week and four cents below the
quotations on the last published list.
New Fair Price List
Mr. Williams declared that he be?
lieved the Fair Price Committee's stand
in refusing to approve unwarranted
increases, had brought about the re?
duction. This was aided by the attitude
of the retailers, Mr. Williams said. The
fair price list for this week follows:
Fair Price
cents per lb.
Benns, pea or medium, do?
mestic . 10?? 11 ?i
B-.-ns, pea or medium. Im
ported . 9 \% l<m
Bn ad, factory, wrapped, 16
o ?jnce . '-9Vi
Bread, store wrapped, 16
o unce .- 9
Bread, tvk, by the pound... - 9
P.-titer, fresh creamery, firsts
t.. 91 f<^ore (good table)... 67'^ ?5
Batter, storage, firsts (good
t ?ble) . 64 70
Ch-ese, American, whol- milk 39*4 42
Corn, canned .,. 12 2/3 14 V,
Commea!, yellow .'. 6% 6%
EiTPS, candled, cold storage.. 59 68
E-r.-s, select, candled, fresh.. 81 82?
Fio-ir, wheat . 8 1/5 9?
Four, wheat, government.. 6 4/5 6 9/10
Li.rd. 32 34 Va
?NU'k, evaorated (unsweet?
ened), 6-ounce . - ~i\
Milk, evaporated (unsweet
e i?d), 16-ounce .-lb
O.u?. bulk . 6'.a 7't
O'iions . 6V? 8
F : s. canned. 15 H 16
Potatoes . 4 1/3 5V4
Etico, broken . ll'? 12M.
R'ce, Blue Rose . 15 J6?4
S; lmon, canned . 22 V4 24 V?
Tomatoes, canned . 13 14 2/3
Beet?chucks of good and
medium ?(sers?
Chuck steak . 23 25
V.'hol<i cross rib. 30 33
Cut cross rib . 34 36
Stew b?-ef . 22 25
B??f?hinds and ribs of good
and medium steers?
Sirloin steak . 38 44
Bottom round . 40 46
Rib roast, prime. 39 45
?Whole top sirloin .... 36 42
Cut top Biiloln. 40 46
l.?rnb?Good to medium?
Vk of lamb . 84 3?
Rib chops . 34 38
Bt? t? lamb (under cost). 16 20
Chucks . 23 27
Pork products?
.Smoked hams (un?
wrapped). 8-18 lbs.. 87 38
Smoked shoulders, pic?
nics .,. . . . 28 S2
Smoked bacon, un?
wrapped), bulk. 41 41 Vi
Brnoked bacon (un?
wrapped), sliced ... 46 46!,4
Pork loins?Western light?
Pork chops (end) _33 34
Pork chops (middle).. 37 Z%
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Thirteen New Yorkers
Named to West Poin
?Vew York Tribune \
Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON, Jan. 15.?Six mem?
bers of the New York National Guard I
and seven men from civil life living '??
In New York to-day were designated I
by the War Department to take the
entrance examination the first Tucs
dav in March for admission to the Army
Military Academy at West Point with
the Ju?e, 1920, claas.
The National Guardsmen given ap?
pointment to the academy included:
Frank L. Laiarus. 700 West 178th Street,
New York City, who served as corporal
of Company E, 71st Infantry; George
S. MacGregor. 1235 Hancock Street,
Brooklyn, a sergeant with Troop C,
1st Cavalry; Harry W. Osbornc, 295
Amherst Avenue. Jamaica, L. I., a pri?
vate in 5th Company, Coast Artillery
Corps; Raymond S. Frazier, Platts?
burg, private. Quartermaster Corps;
Stanley B, Johnson, Middletuwn, ser?
geant, Quartermaster Corps, and Vin?
cent W. Kilfoil, Watervliet, private,
Quartermaster Corps.
Those appointed from civil life are
George A. Duerr, 348 Fast Sixty-eighth
Street; Charles L. Booth, 457 West
!28d Street; Gerald K. Galloway, 50
West 104th Street; Joseph M. Murphy,
| 11 West 107th Street, and John E. J.
I Clare, C4 East 127th Street, all of New
York City; Herbert S. Water, of Mdunt
Veroon, and James B. Kraft, of Buf?
falo.
Button Clew Causes Arrest
After the safe of the Colonial Theater
in PeokskMI had beta blown open and
fobbed last Sunday night the police
found a button. That clew led yes?
terday to the errent of a man who
said he was George Kberbardt, twenty
four years old, of the Hotel Sylvan,
121st S?.r?>et. and Third Avenue. He
confessed, the po?ce ?ay.
A watchman in Peekalri!) said three
men warmed thtraselv?! in his shanty
just before tb? robbery. He heard one
of the trio called "Humpy," Kberhardt
is known by thai name, arid detectives
arrested him. Then it was s'.en that
bit overcoat lacked a button. The
button found at Peeksklll matched
fcfloaa ?a bit ganaacW i% it said?
Miss Lillian JedUcka
The student-nurse of the Flower Hospital, whose voluntary offer of her
blood for transfusion broke up the "blood profiteering" ring which
has raised the price from $25 to $55.
Williams Fights
Bread Price Rise;
Would Cut Profil
Retailers Will Be Asked to
Keep Cost to Consumer j
Stationary in Event That ;
WholesaleFigureAclvances
Julius H. Barnes, head of the United
States Grain Corporation, will be asked
by Federal Food Administrator Arthur
Williams to-day to attend the confer?
ence next week of the administrator
and wholesale bakers regarding a pos
j sible increase in the price of bread.
Mr. Williams said that he had been
? informed by the bakers that the price
! of flour had advanced from $12 a bar
, rel to $15. About 270 loaves are made
from each barrel. The administrator
! said he was puzzled by the reported
' advance at a time when the United
; States Grain Corporation was offering
j flour to the public at greatly reduced
? prices.
He declared that he wanted to dis
| cuss with Mr. Barnes the justification
1 for any increase in the price of bread
j and also the varieties of flour available
! for bread baking. If necessary, Mr.
I Williams said, he might suggest that a
! different variety of flour than that
? used at present be empolyed in bread
I baking, provided the best quality only
: went into it.
Has Faith in Retailers
Mr. Williams said that ho places
I great reliance in the 25,000 dealers who
j handle bread in this city.
"I will impress upon these dealers
I the necessity of holding down the
i bread price," Mr. Williams continued.
"I will probably have retailers at the
I conference next week. If it is proved
beyond a reasonable doubt that the
: wholesale bread-bakers must have more
?money for their product or suspend
! operations, I will try to have the re
j tailers cut down their margin of
i profit."
"Bread is the food barometer. If ;
' its price advances the general unrest
1 will b? given stimulus. Perhaps, '
! when retailers see this, they will con
I sent to handle bread at no profit at all
! during the three winter months. The
! flour price will drop with the coming
I of warmer weather, enabling the re
. tailers to recoup any slight losses they
t might have sustained.
"I am pleased with the spirit of the
j wholesalers in deferring any advance
: until they have taken the matter up
' with representatives of the public.
. j This atmosphere of cooperation has
" ? prevaded the entire foodstuffs market
and is helping us out of a difficult
situation." i
No Advance for Thirty Days
Wholesale bread bakers, who supply ?
hundreds of grocers and delicatessen
stores, said yesterday that they had
enough material on hand purchased at
i the old scale to enable them to make
! bread at the present price for thirty
i days at least. It was said that the
outcome of tho jConference with Mr.
Williams would not effect the cost of
bread to the consumer for that period.
Members of Mr. Williams's staff can?
vassed the city yesterday, obtaining a
line on bread prices. A fairly wide
: range was discovered, the figures at
i some of the stores with elaborate fix
[ tures being considered extremely high.
: It was brought out, however, that house
. wives could obtain good and inexpen
| sive bread by shopping. Some of the
1 prices reported by the investigators
i included: Macy's department store, 16
i ounce loaf, Btore wrapped, 9 cents;
j ,'12-ounce loaf, 16 cents; Butler's 16
j ounce loaf, factory wrapped, 9 cents;
i Atlantic and Pacific stores, 14-ounce
', loaf, factory wrapped, 8 cents; 20
? ounce loaf, 12 cents; Reeves's, 16-ounct
; loaf, factory wrapped, 10 cents; 20
? ounce loaf, 14 cents; Roulston's, 16
i ounce loaf, store wrapped, 9 cent?
i and 82-ounce loaf, 17 cents.
?? , ?
Messenger and Cash Gone
1820,000 Missing as Bank Em?
ploye? and Chum Disappear
BOSTON, Jan. 16.-The disappear
anee of Oscar P. Jesseman, a ?anl
\ messenger, with $20,000 in cash wa
announced by the police to-day. Jesse
i man was employed by the Old Colon;
I Trust Company. He has been missin;
j since 11 a. m. yesterday, when he wa
j intrusted by the bank with the deliver
of a package containing twenty $1,00
! bills.
The police order for Jessemsn's ai
' rest says that Frank Tyrnn, his clos
friend, also is missing. Both youth
have been Interested in amateur tin
; atrical?, Tyrnn as a female irnper
sonator and Jesseman played juvenil
I part?. Jesaeraan ia tweuty-Uiree yeai
11*
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Alleged Kidnaping
Like Dickens's Tale
Of Little Nell
Parallel Conceded by Father
of 6-Year-Old Ruth King;
Admits Child Influenced!
Man to Take Her Away
Held as a fugitive in Jersey City :
and charged with kidnaping in Brook- !
lyn, Charles Bonesteel, the man who |
took six-year-old Ruth Eleanor King j
from her parents' home Tuesday, said j
yesterday he intended to waive extra- :
dition, face the Kings in court and j
make them admit his prior right to
the little girl. In this apparently he
will have the enthusiastic support of
Ruth Eleanor, who fought separation
from her "Papa Bonesteel" in Jersey
City Tuesday night, and yesterday
again reiterated the statement that the
man who had been a father to her
since she was four months old meant
more to her than her own father and
mother.
When King signed a complaint yes?
terday in the Fifth Avenue court,
Brooklyn, charging Bonesteel with kid?
naping, he remarked that his little
girl's power over Bonesteel, a stone?
cutter and farmer, was remarkable.
"it is Dickens's story of Little Nell
all over again," he said.
When he heard of King'? action
through the Jersey City police Bone?
steel said the quicker he was taken
to Brooklyn the better it would suit
him.
Tells Child's Story
"I have good cause for action against
the Kings," he said, "on the ground of
false arrest. King: need not promise
leniency. King's mother is a wealthy
woman of Hartford, Conn., but I am
going to bring out about how I came to
be a father to Ruth.
"Five and a half years ago, when
we lived at 229 Lee Avenue, Brooklyn,
my wife, from whom I havfe been sepa?
rated two years, saw an ad in a paper
offering a baby for adoption. She got
Ruth from the Kings, and they agreed
to pay $3 a week for her care. They
paid $2 two or three times, and never
anything after that.
| "I have a farm at Glen Eyre, in Pike
I County, Pa., and five years ago we took
Ruth there. A year later I was sum?
moned from Glen Eyre to appear in
the Brooklyn Supreme Court. I went
.....*.?**> ?uon?c ABiiy. mrs. jung was
there. The justice questioned her, and I
then swore me to? take care of the '
child and to send her to school. From !
his own hand he gave the baby to me,
saying she was mine to care for.
Denies He Was Destitute
"I don't know whether my wife is
living or dead. I came to Jersey City !
two years ago. It is not true that King
found me and the baby here in almost
destitute circumstances. I did not
pawn my overcoat. I was earning never
less than $25 a week then. But King
said he had a nice home, and told me
his wife was anxious to have Ruth
with her because the world was going
to end December 17 and she wanted all
her children with her. She has a boy
about four and a girl about two.
"So I went, over to Brooklyn to live
with the Kings and agreed to pay
board, quitting my job in Jersey City
and losing more than $100 in wages.
"Ruth caught a cold recently and
coughed at night. Right then I saw
Kinjr did not love her. He rebuked her
severely for -coughing and disturbing
his sleep, and Ruth asked me several
times to bring her back to Jersey
City.
" 'Take me home where I belong,'
she said to me."
Slayer Sentenced to Die
"Sam the Landlord" Must Go to
Chair Week of Feb. 22
Samuel Michalow, known as "Sam,
the Landlord," who was convicted sev?
eral days ago of the murder of Mrs.
Elizabeth Niznick in Yonkers last Octo?
ber, was sentenced yesterday by Su?
preme Court Justice Tomkins, in White
Plains, to die in the electric chair dur?
ing the week of February 22. Michalow
did not actually kill the woman but in?
stigated the murder for the purpose of
robbery.
He cannot speak English and did not
understand that the judge had sen?
tenced him to death until after he had
been taken to a cell. Then he said he
did not believe an appeal would do him
any good. Hie counsel, howaver, ?aid
ao appaeJ, would be telta*.
Staten Island
Car Lines to
Stop Monday
City Will Take Steps to Pro
vide Transportation, Savs
Burr; Told of Tie-Up Due
to Refusal of 7-Cent Fare
But Up to Estimate Board
Decision on Legal Measures!
To Be Taken Is Expect- j
ed at the Meeting To-day j
All the trolley lines of the Midland I
Railroad Company, comprising virtu- j
ally the entire surface car transporta- :
tion of Staten Island, will cease oper?
ation next Monday at midnight.1 The
announcement was made yesterday at '?
the offices of the counsel for the road, !
Bertram E. Eadie, at St. George, S. I. '
Corporation Counsel Burr, when told
last night of the announced shut-down, ,
declared: "The city will protect its \
interests and take whatever steps are
deemed necessary to give the residents. ;
of Staten Island ade?._ate transporta- j
tion service." ?
Mr. Burr said that the whole matter ;
of Staten Island transportation would
be taken up by the Board of Estimate
at its meeting to-day, and jjhat he
probably would be instructed then just ;
what legal measures to take. The sit- j
uation was presented to the last, meet- ,
ing of the board' by a committee of !
fifteen citizens of Stale? Island, who t
recommended that an increase of fare ;
to 7 cents be granted .for six month?;
in return for the giving up of the com?
pany's perpetual franchis':'.
After attacks by Mayor Hylan and j
Comptroller Crai'g or. the figures and j
facts presented, the petition of the cit- |
izens' committee was put over for a |
week without action, and Mr. Burr |
was ordered to look out for the city's j
interests, even if it was necessary
to apply for a receivership of the de?
faulting line to do so. Several mem- |
Ders o? ine Doara, uiciuuing t-'alvin
Van Name, Borough President of Rich- I
mond, registered their oposition to an ;
increased fare grant, and said that
city bUr.es would solve the situation. ;
Mr. Van Name said last night ho had '
been convinced since Friday that the !
Midland road was losing money on a ?
five-cent fare. He would not. however, ?
commit himself to anv effort to per- j
auade the Board of Estim?te to reverse !
its stand. ?
Notices of the intended discontinu- :
anee met the gaze of the 18.000 com- j
muters, who use the cars, last night.
Many of them appealed to Louis A. '?
Dreyfus, president of the Staten Island ,
Civic Le^ue, to take some action, but
he said that organization had expended j
its last endeavor when the Board of |
Estimate ruled against an increased
fare last Friday. About 60,000 persons,
more than one-half of the population
of the island, live in the, territory j
affected.
Officials of manufacturing plants, ?
including the shipyards on the north !
shore, said last night they would be
crippled by the shutdown. They esti?
mated that from 20 to 25 per cent of
their employees have no other means i
of conveyance to and from work than
the Midland lines. They agreed that j
buses would not be feasible.
The trolleys to be discontinued, j
include the Silver Lake division, Rich- j
mond branch and Manor Road line. '
Cars on these routes are? operated
from St. George Ferry to Port Rich- j
mond; from Broadway, West New
Brighton to the Four Corners; and1 St.
George to Richmond and Midland
Beach.
With two exceptions, the trolley
lines do not. parallel the steam rail- j
roads, the only other transportation on (
the island, outside of occasional buses.
The cars run to all the large ship
I yards and industrial plants along the
| rim of the island, and through the vil
? lages along its center from St. George
I to Tottenville.
j Interborough Records
Ready for Examination
City Experts Begin the Task
! of Scanning the Figures on
Operative Expenses To-day
\ After summoning James L. Quacken
j bush, Interborough attorney, to his
j office, Comptroller Craig ann#unced
| last night that the city's examination
j of original records and vouchers in the
j Interborough offices at 165 Broadway
j would begin this morning. This is the
| first actual step taken by the Board of
Estimate in its investigation of the
city's traction companes. :
Comptroller Craig said he had beenjj
faced with apparently insurmountable j
difficulties in getting the inquiry under I
way, and had telephoned to Mr.
Quackenbush to tell him orally just |
what was wanted of him. Twenty I
minutes later, the Comptroller said, the
Interborough lawyer appeared at Mr. ?
Craig's office. Corporation Counsel |
i Burr also was present at the con- '?
! ference.
"The conference removed our diffi
culty, and the afternoon's work short?
ened the time of the investigation by
three months," Comptroller Craig said.
He was told by Mr. Quackenbush that
the original vouchers bearing on the
cost of equipment and construction
of the original subwny were ready for
examination by the city accountants.
Duncan Maclnnes, chief accountant
jof the Finance Department of the
| Comptroller's office, will head the
squad of five or six who will start the
work to-day. Seventeen thousand origi?
nal vouchers, it was estimated yester?
day by Corporation Counsel Burr, to?
gether with checks and other papers,
will have to be examined before the
information wanted for the next public
hearing on Wednesday is obtained and
gathered together. The workers have
instructions to eliminate all vouchers
not properly chargeable to equipment
and construction.
Comptroller Craifr said that the
Board of Estimate was going ahead
even more rapidly than its program of
the week called for. To pass judgment
on the company's claim that operating
costs require increased fares, Comp
troller Craig yesterday asked Mr
Quackenbush to prepare information tt
determine present costs of operating
power, material, replacements, ropairi
and wages, "in such a way that tin
figures would stand the acid test."
Mr. Quackenbush also agreed, ac
cording to Mr. Crniir, to assemble fo
| the city exnmiriers the facts of thi
i Manhattan Elevated Company, partial
Urly with regard to olcctrLacuUoa ?a
[tUrd-teMkliifb
Begins This Morning?Ahead of Time
It is of far greater importance to the people
than any FURNITURE SALE in our history
"Anybody who expects to need furniture during the next two or
three years ought to get it now." So said an expert who is
making an investigation of the lumber and furniture industries
"Within the next five
years," he said, "there will be
5,000 less lumber centers in
the South?lumbered out?
and 90,000 men less engaged
i in lumber getting.
"Today furniture manufac?
turers are almost entirely
stripped of workable lumber,
with far less than normal sup
; plies to draw upon.
"October is the big logging
month in the South. Heavy
rains last October prevented
any timber of consequence
being cut.
|
"Gumwood sixty days age
was $85 a thousand. Today
it is $125?and you can't GET
! ? it even at that price.
?
"Mahogany and mahoganj
veneers are scarce and at pro
hibitive prices. In 1917, ve
neers sold at $10 a thousanc
feet. A week ago they wer(
$21. Yesterday they sold as
high as $50.
"Walnut veneers are scarce.
The best grain is in the
stumps, near the ground.
Cutting for airplane material
! during the war when length
was needed, the stumps were
cut so low there was mighty
little left for furniture use.
"One chair manufacturer
was asked by a large concern
to place an order. He gave
! an order equaling the reserve
stock he used to keep on hand
in the old days.
" 'Why, that's more lumber
than I have,' said the lumber?
man, 4and I'll
have to split it up mmm^^^mmm
among all my cus- fmm""fTSfS
tomers.' ?!,a??
"The furniture "WBB?
industry of Amer- Iflfi
ica is in a very iiWBBj
difficult position. J|
"Prices will _V??
never go back to r^^SSI
the figures of five ^5sJ??^?S
years agO. They V-mmeemsmememm
are still rising."
We might add
i There was no furniture
! market in Grand Rapids this
! month.
They went through the!
I form of holding one, but there
was no furniture to see, no
furniture to buy.
And these are some
of the reasons why?
Many retailers (we were
not among them) cancelled
furniture orders after the
armistice was signed; and
manufacturers went after
more certain business and
easier-to-make goods.
^^^^^^ Phonograph
iP^joMe"" manufa c t u r ers
Jj | ^fi> placed broadcast
A^ \h large orders foi
?9 l|ji There came a
H|?|j|~ tremendous cal
" ""*'"* I for closed motoi
j????^\ I cars, and platt
ISS-g^ I glass used foi
****************** mirrors becam?
less and less ob
tainable by makers of bed?
room furniture.
Plate glass is sold ahead
for a year, at highest prices
in its history?a fifty per
cent, increase having gone
into effect since December \
last.
The supply of shellac-^
which comes from India?is
far below the demand.
Nail makers are doing g
favor by selling them for ?6 a
keg. They were $4 in Decem?
ber.
Castors ? pulls?knobs?.
I upholstery fabrics?leather?
EVERYTHING going into
the manufacture of furniture
i has gone up in price, and is
hard to get.
Furniture manufacturers
used to be glad to have re?
tailers buy their goods.
Today retailers are glad to
I have the manufacturers sell
j ?and deliver?their goods to
! them.
We foresaw the furniture shortage a year ago. And
we set out to makesure that it should not interfere with
the February service the people expect of Wanamaker's
It never fails.
Square your shoulders, throw up your head, and
step forward to the difficult task, and you'll win out.
vSome call it luck. Some, good fortune.
Call it anything you like, but?
We set out a year ago to prepare for this February
Sale, with 30 years' experience in the furniture business,
and a knowledge of the market.
We went here, and there, everywhere ; looking, buy?
ing, easing up a situation here, smoothing out another
there, finding new sources of supply of the kind of furni?
ture our customers want, trying to'keep prices down,
trying to get good assortments, making slow progress,
when?
Only a couple of months ago?
there came to us a totally unexpected offer
involving almost half a million dollars.
? ?
The buyer was to pay cash, and move the goods. The
price was lower than has obtained on furniture of equal
grade for fifteen months.
We examined the furniture. Found it to be OUR kind.
Paid cash for it. Crated it all. Trucked it to the railroad?
more than 470 tons of furniture, in more than 7,000 crates
and packages, requiring more than 120 cars to bring it to
New York?
I the greatest single purchase in retail fur?
niture history ever made by one firm.
The February Sale was sure.
This furniture is now on our floors and in our ware?
house, and, together with our regular stocks on hand and a
; stream of cars coming from factories all over the country,
makes us READY?ready to begin to fill the demand for
good furniture, and for a saving in its cost, NOW.
AND?
So we start the sale today (1) because we are ready,
and (2) because it will make for economy of operation in
handling the great volume of business, to spread it over
I these few extra days in January.
? This latter fact has been figured in the prices, so that
! our customers will benefit by the economies of the earlier
i beginning of the sale.
The few extra days will be welcomed by home-makers
who want furniture now.
Choose now, and take now, if you want.
Choose now, and take after February 1st. if you prefer.
For, to those who have not planned to purchase before Feb?
ruary 1st, we have arranged to extend the courtesy of imm??
diate selection and February purchase.
j More than a Million Dollars of Furniture Here
| The WANAMAKER kind, at genuine savings of 10 to 33 Per Cent.
What we have set down above about furniture conditions we have set down because we felt
it our duty so to do. We are not primarily SELLERS of goods. We are engaged in the very
serious business of supplying the peoples needs. Any information we get about goods the
people need is at the service of the people for their enlightenment, to be acted upon as and
when each one sees fit. We have never been so happy at the result of our work as we are with
the service we are ready to render, beginning this morning, in this February Sale of Furniture.
Bedroom furniture, dining-room furniture,
living room furniture, library furniture, hall
furniture, upholstered pieces, porch furniture,
small novelty furniture?EVERY PIECE of
home furniture in the Wanamaker Galleries on
the fifth and sixth floors of the New Building is
in the sale at a reduced price?except the office
furniture and the antique and special order
furniture in Les Galeries Belmaison and Au
Quatri?me.
No furniture sold to dealers.