AT THE BARGAIN SALES.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1354, 3 February 1912, Page 5

AT THE BARGAIN SALES.

RECORD BUSINESS DESPITE THE STRIKE. Apparently it requires more than an absolute dislocation of the city transport strvico to deter the fair sex from attending a big bargain salo at a drapery store. A representative of The Dominion, who bad been assured by tho nuin in tho street that tho (-ram strike would, to uso his own expressive phrase, "Knock tho drapery sales galley-west," saw tho manager of ono big house 'yesterday afternoon, and asked him if the strike had. really atfected tho linn's big end-of-sea-son sale. I'lsa manager smiled, tind shook his head. "To-day's returns liavo yet to bo made up, of course," ho said. "Hut the returns of the first two days of the sale—Wednesday and Thursdayshow that all previous records have been eclipsed hy something liko 10 per cent, in the receipts. So far as the sale is concerned, therefore, wo have not boon aware of a tram strike. 1 know of ono lady who got up at \ o'clock in the morning, came into .Tohnsonville, and in to town to nt/ond the Mile. If a woman will do that to get a bargain, you may bo sure that a tram strike will not prevent those in (ho city and suburbs from nttending a sale."