The service of this immense establishment is arranged as follows:  There is one general superintendent, with nineteen assistants, each of whom is at the head of a department.  Nine cashiers receive and pay out money; twenty-five book-keepers keep the record of the day; thirty ushers direct purchasers to the department they seek; two hundred cash boys receive the money and bring back the change of purchasers; four hundred and seventy clerks, a few of whom are females, make the sales of the day; fifty porters do the heavy work, and nine hundred seamstresses are employed in the manufacturing department.  Besides these, there are usually about five hundred other persons employed about the establishment in various capacities, bringing the total strength of the personelle of the house to twenty-two hundred.

The accounts of each department are kept separate, and the sales of each for the day constitute a separate return.  These sales will average something like the following figures: 

Silks       $15,000
Dress goods   6,000
Muslins       3,000
Laces         2,000
Shawls        2,500
Suits         1,000
Calicoes      1,500
Velvets       2,000
Gloves        1,000
Furs          1,000
Hosiery         600
Boys’ clothing  700
Notions         600
Embroideries  1,000
Carpets       5,500

The total daily receipts average $60,000, and have been known to amount to $87,000.

Salaries of subordinate clerks range from $5 to $25 per week.  The cash boys receive $5 per week.  If not fined for misconduct they receive a reward of $1 per month, and a further reward of $5 at the end of each half year.  They are promoted as fast as their conduct and vacancies in the force of salesmen will allow.  The number of employes being so large, the proprietor is compelled to keep them under the constant espionage of two experienced detectives, and each evening when they leave the store they are required to do so through a private door on Ninth Street, where the detectives are stationed to see that none of them carry away articles which do not belong to them.

The number of visitors to the establishment in the busy season is very large.  On special occasions, such as opening days, it is said to have reached fifty thousand, but the general average is placed at fifteen thousand, and they represent every grade in life.  Rich and poor mingle here freely.

The floors are arranged simply, and with regard to business rather than for show, but every thing is elegant and tasteful.  The sub-cellar is used as a store-room for goods in cases.  Here the fabrics are opened and sent to their departments.  The cellar is the carpet sales-room.  The first floor is the general sales-room, and is the most attractive place in the building.  It is three hundred feet long by two hundred wide, and is provided with one hundred counters, each fifty feet in length.  Behind these counters the goods are arranged, with no effort at display, on the shelves, which rise but a few feet