Galveston Tribune. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 32, No. 148, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 16, 1912 Page: 77 of 85
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The
Woman’s Dept.
A Store of
Modern Thought
And Ideals
Realized.
This section of the store
was inaugurated at the time
of the formal opening of the
store we now occupy, in the
Fall of 1907. At that time
ready-to-wear garments for
women had become looked
upon with more favor than
ever before, due to the great
progress that the industry-
had accomplished.
Galveston had no store that
specialized upon ready-to-
wear garments, such as stores
held in favor in other
cities, and so frequent and
persistent were the demands
made by our customers that
we add this department to
our store, that when we
planned we devoted the sec-
ond floor to the display and
sale of reacty-to-wear garments
and a few lines of women’s
furnishings.
Since it’s inception we have,,
added many lines necessary
to make the store a complete ,,
one for milady’s shopping.
Muslin and knit underwear,
corsets and accessories, gloves,
hosiery, bags, veils, neck-
wear, handkerchiefs, umbrel- .
las and parasols and millinery...
have been added to the usual ,
ready-to-wear lines, such as
coats, suits, dresses, costumes,
furs, skirts, waists, etc.
The fact that the depart-
ments have been so greatly
augmented is obvious of this
section’s success, but we will ,
go further into the facts, and
say that the sales of this de-
partment during 19 n amount-
ed to a little more than three
times the sales of the first
year.
A system of wardrobes is
used to take care of the ready-,
to-wear garments. These cases
are dust and light proof, each
garment is on an individual
hanger, which preserves the
dress or suit in it’s initial
state until it is bought. Shop- ra
worn goods are rare here, and
when they do occur they are
readily disposed of.
Mirrors form an important
part of the department’s floor <.
space and they are so arrang-
ed that one may see a gar-
ment when tried on from every
view-point. The floor in the
garment section is carpeted, --
and this rich green carpet
together with the dark green
bog oak cases, and rich wear-
ing apparel makes a splen-
drous store interior.
Generous use of floor cases
is made in the women’s store, -
and displays are plenteous.
We believe in showing the
goods, and because of the
carrying out of this store idea
throughout the women’s sec-
tion is at all times a most
attractive' spot. In fact we
believe we are justified in
saying that it is one of the
show places of the city.
In the alteration rooms are ^
also located the tailor shops
(for only men tailors work on
our tailor made coats) and
convenient to these are the .
fiting rooms. We have given,
ample atention to them and
the rooms are all located on
the outside of the building
where the light and air are
generously admitted.
Tho’ it is the policy of the
Robt. I. Cohen store to sell
nothing but quality goods, it
is our endeavor to cater to
both masses and classes, and
provide reliable garments for
people with limited as well
as unlimited amounts at their
/disposal for dress.
So you wiii find here gar-
ments, from the very cheapest
price that is consistent with
quality, to the very finest.
Simple day dresses are sold
as low as 98c, and the very
finest seek your favor ticketed
to sell for $85 to $175. And
so it is in every line. We
try to have “What Every-
body Wears.”
Resident buyers in New
York keep the women’s sec-
tion in close touch with the
fashion changes in the me-
tropolis, and ever alert for
quality goods that may be
bought for less than the usual
pricet
HEREVER possible it
is the policy of this
store to buy and sell
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First: You must have the goods; you
must have what people want when they
.want it.
Second: Place your goods before the
public properly, temptingly. No one
need imagine that he can succeed by
persistently deceiving .the people. This
second proposition involves good adver-
tising, good displays and good store
service.
Third: Team, work inside the store.
That’s the Cohen slogan. It means the
covering of every base and field posi-
tion with a good man and then bring-
ing all into action with system. There
are fifty two employes punching the
time clock this week—there have been,
at the height of the season, as many as
seventy-five. But there was never room
for a single one in the Cohen store that
could only “trot in single harness.”
Teams don’t win pennants nor stores
trade in that way.
THE ESPRIT DE CORPS.
But one must read between the lines
to obtain the full force of Mr. Cohen's
prescription for success, notably so in
his reference to what he terms “team
Work,” for back of this admirable esprit
de corps lies an incentive that must in-
spire the best in those connected in any
way with the establishment. This in-
centive becomes apparent when the
statement is made that six of the pres-
ent members of the selling staff have
been with Robt. I. Cohen for a sufficient
length of time to warrant their obtain-
ing an interest in the store and its
profits—this in addition to the salary
earned by them. This is the Cohen idea
of co-operation, and the splendid results
that have flowed from its inauguration
Warrants its continuation.
STILL IN THE RING.
Because Robt. I. Cohen has earned a
success beyond that embraced in the
hopes of many who embaric in the mer-
cantile business it does not at all sig-
nify that he has ceased putting forth
effort and is now content to drift with
the tide. Pie is not built that way.
Continually on the lookout for new
ideas and schemes that will draw to his
store any additional patronage, he has'
inaugurated what he terms a series of
Saturday Night Specials, announcing a
number of articles at prices far below
their ordinary valuation, ’ these to be
Sold between certain iours in the even-
ing; this sale has not only brought the
store added popularity with the shop-
pers, but serves the purpose of keeping
the store clear of shop-worn or out-of-
style goods which would otherwise ac-
cumulate and become more or less of a
loss to the establishment.
Mr. Cohen pays occasional visits
abroad and always brings back with
him something from across the ocean
that makes a hit with the people of his
community. Instinctively, it may be,
he knows just what will catch the pop-
ular fancy, and never yet has his judg-
ment erred in these matters. ,
This is not the life story of Robt. I.
Cohen, it is merely a brief sketch of a
successful career now at its richest ex-
perience, for in the prime of his busy
life, possessed of every faculty, tuned to
concert pitch, the promise is that the fu-
ture holds much for the man and the
business to which’ he has given so much
of his being.
Union Made
Goods
| HIS is a Union store, ob-
serving Union store
hours, employing Union help
and contracting with con-
cerns that are recognized by
Union Labor.
|Y|EN MAY find here
Suits, Hats, Shoes,
Shirts, Neckwear, Belts and
every other line of wear-
ables that are obtainable with
the Union Label.
What Everybody Wears
^ cahiskayay edition. G All VEST O’N TBIBTENE: section ten. -
-1 . THE UOBT. I. COHEN STORE. |
Ready to Wear Dept. 2nd Floor.
“None But the Best,” is the Stacy-Adams
Slogan. Their by-word in the making of shoes
and in their distribution of this famous line
of foot wear.
You’ll only find the best of stores selling
them, stores that are equally reliable as the
shoes themselves.
Stores that cater to men who are willing to
pay $5.50 to $8.00 for shoes, to get the best
that can be bought.
This summer s styles in Stacy-Adams shoes
include all the new ideas that Dame Fashion
has smiled upon approvingly.
Galveston.
Quality Tells—
Price Sells.
What
Everybody Wears
None But
The Best.
None But
The Best.
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