SEARCH FOR BARGAINS

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 242, 7 July 1921, Page 6

SEARCH FOR BARGAINS

SCENE OF EXCITING SALE. (By "Sylvius.”) It is an interesting commentary on the present commercial situation when a long-established firm of warehousemen suddenly elects to turn its stock of goods into cash bv means of a retail bargain sale. Yet that is what Messrs. I George ami Doughty, of Victoria Street, hare done. They announced the disposal of their large stock of drapery lines at a substantial percentage off wholesale nrices with the result that at 10 a.m. yesterday a crowd numbering between 2000 and 3000 assembled outsiue the warehouse and spread half-way across the road in a solid pack of flustered Another mixed thousand looked on from the opposite sidewalk. Women at a bargain sale are ever so far away from exhibiting those softer and more > charn inc characteristics that have earned for them the appellation of the’ se * Q A woman in a crowd excited with tho prospect of getting a dress length Is. IM. cheaper than she has seen it priced in "the corner shop,” respects her sister far less than a man does hie fellow-man in a crowd. She will nudge and crush, and toe-tread her way to a more advantageous position without the slightest remSd for anyone else. There were plenty in the big crowd yesterday fidgetting, poking, nudging, digging their way towards those implacable cl ° o F B BsalrL£,t which several women were flattened. At 10.15 a.m. half the double door was opened, and for five . nessed a rather painful sight—of a thousand women trying to get through a 3tL door. So great was the press that eve those within a yard or so of the.doors had difficulty in arriving at their goal, whilst those who had come out -wit "soldiers’ baskets” nearly had their arms wrenched off in keeping the baskets above the heads of the crowd. When the door had been open for five it was closed, 'after a struggle, a smiling young constable being pushed out from interior to keep law and order among Se wS Evidently the firm feared for the stability of the warehouse portals, and had Ito summon , a length of that peculiar "blue” that is said to have in Se qualities' when there is trouble in th All ßl dav long there was a crowd 'bargaining within the austere grey warehouse all day long an eager gossiping assemblage of bargain-chasers waited, more ot less patiently, for admittance.