MONSTER DEPARTMENT STORES.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVI, Issue 30, 4 February 1905, Page 11

MONSTER DEPARTMENT STORES.

I j With tie exception of landed property. a : everything that is to be had in America is ej on sale at the department stores. Oce may Pj enter the front doer deroid of limiw. eyes. J teeth, hair, may be raised, hungry, iIL -1 of je-rrellery, photographs, famxms n ! Implements, automobiles, dogs. cats, pianos, d' and honsehold furniture, and come out at a; tire other end of the store enpplied -with all a! tiese th.ins 3. a] One nay start a bant account, join a d ciab, acquire scientific knowledge, attend h i concerts, gtren by reno-wned artists, listen ■sj to special lectures, and take lessons in all it i branches of ercditien under the same mana J agemenr which fnrtaers one"s interests in •t shoe leather »nd milllnwr t>; Oae may stock one's farm, one'a cellars, 4! even one's kennels and carriage-houses at j the department stores. Model furnished >_' rooms are on vieir for tile instruction of L' thusc ai>out to furnish their homes. Entire Q : ■mniTwr camps, inelnding teats, sportins uutnts, and lanterns neatly smoked are on □ j sale, packed for shipping. A famished fiat c I <if three, foar, or more rooias may be had I for the as kins. ,_ j These immiaoth ratal! marts are Unman a j beehives. In Ne-re- Tork t Qiicago, Phil*j deiphia, and otiier large cities the number t _ of employees to oe& of these silofse is equal j. j to ta& popaladon of a t tews, bmst i et«e In New York has more 1 than 60*» employees. Tbe acreage ef floor r apec« In these emporiums is equally astonU iahing. One. if ir were aligned to the depth of a city lot, and if the baiidins were oniy one sterey in height, -ureeld cover 160 n city "felons," or. recsJUy epeakios, sereral