"A COLOSSAL EMPORIUM."

Mataura Ensign, 24 May 1909, Page 4

"A COLOSSAL EMPORIUM."

NEW YORK ENTERPRISE. Amercan shoppers are greatly exercised by the announcement that New York will (shortly possess a colossal store which is likely to "beat creation. ' Nothing short of an emporium colossal in design and magnificent in execution is likely to stagger Americans in the store line, but such an emporium will be erected and ready for business next year. It will lie a thii'leen-storey building, and to ii note, the official description, "the most gigantic, impressive, comprclicnuvc aggregation ot eommcreialism in its various departments of all embracing industry ever present,ed to the .American public." It will be built in the centre of the eitv at a cost ol £1,000,000. Oil ground valued at £I.;UO.UOO. The rent to be paid is o per cent, on the g.rouml valuation and 0 per cent, on tin 1 cost of the building. It will conUiin 27 J acres of Horn' spa".\ and in the basement, will be a station of the Hudson and Manhattan Bailroad. Forty-olio passenger lifts dispense with all stairways. The store has been designed by Mr Graham. ol the Buruham linn of architects. This firm has had great, experience in handling the problems which present themselves of departmental stores of tlio first class. It. planned the "Waimitnaker Stoves at Philadelphia and New Yolk, the Marshall I'Vild Store at Chicago, and the Selfridge Store in London. Mr Graham bus jusl returned from a six months' trip to Europe, during which he superintended tlie construction of the Selfridge Store, and inspected many big establishments on the Continent, with the idea of gathering data and facts for tile store to lie erected here for the Ginibels. Vivo thousand men and women will be employed. In addition to an hospital lor accidents, rest and recreation rooms, restaurants, a nursery for children whose parents are .shoiuiing, and other accessories common to American stores, there will be a big organ, a bandstand and an illuminated fountain. Six brothers are actively engaged ill the linn—namely, Jacob, Isaac, Ellis, Daniel, Charles, and Louis (liiubel. They are the second and third generation of a well-known New York and Philadelphia business family. All the necessary money has been provided and the coiltracts completed.