| convenient to the most elegant and fashionable, will attract | | a multitudinous throng, and add even a new attraction to the | | brilliancy of Broadway in the most delightful part of the | | thoroughfare.  Besides an immense trade extending to all | | parts of the United States, LORD & TAYLOR deal largely in | | carpets and oil-cloths, in upholstery and house furnishing | | goods, and especially in trousseaux, cloaks, and ladies’ | | furnishing goods of all kinds, in which, perhaps, their | | business is heavier than that of any other house in the | | city.  The furnishing of hotels and steamboats is one of | | their specialties.  The headquarters of their wholesale trade | | is at the old Broadway and Grand street store, while their | | stock of carpets and oil-cloths is mainly limited to the | | Grand and Chrystie street establishment.  Since the | | organization of the firm, five partners have retired with | | fortunes, to make room for younger men, thus affording | | opportunities for others to profit by the experience and | | success of the house.  These changes have also had the effect | | to maintain the original vigor of the firm without detaching | | from the maturity of judgment that has marked its | | operations.  Some idea of the magnitude of the business of | | the house may be inferred from the fact that the pay-roll | | contains the names of more than 1,000 persons. | | | +-----------------------------------------------------------
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GEO. W. WHEAT & CO, PRINTERS, No. 8 SPRUCE STREET.