The evening world. Newspaper, July 31, 1911, Page 4

' ; THE JOHN WANAMAKER STORE | store cuoses at s p.m. | * - —-_ ~ THE EVENING WORLD, MONDAY, JULY 81, 1911, - Pages in Evening Post, Evening Telegram and Brooklyn Standard-Union | Other Wanamaker Ne: The Broad Field for Choice More Than 7,000 Styles Taking in every kind of good furniture for every room in any house—excepting the kitchen. In some instances many articles of a pattern. In others only one or two. _It will be advantageous, therefore, to shop carly. ; For the Hall * 100 styles—hall stands and glasses, seats and racks, side chairs, mirrors with racks, arm chairs, benches, box seats and lids—-in: mahogany, golden oak and Cathedral oak. August Sale range $2 to $175. and Seventh Galleries. Hall Clocks 40 styles — hour strike, monastery, Westminster or Whittington chimes. Mission, Sheraton and Coloniai styles, in oak and mahogany. August Sale prices range $22 to $390. Fifth Gallery. For the Living Room, Den, Library Leather Chairs, Rockers, Settees 260 styles—club chairs, Turkish, re- volving, wing, easy runabout and loung- ing chairs. Hollow backs, spring seats and loose cushions. Some in three-piece suites. August Sale prices range $8 59 to $275, Fifth and Seventh Galleries. Odd Chairs, Rockers, Settees 475 styles—plain wood, part-uphol- , and with loose seat cushions. Round-about cane, spindle, shield, slat eae gee backs. Straight lines, elab- ly carved, inlaid, and crotch ma- hogany vencer. August Sale prices range $3 to $225. i Fifth and Seventh Galleries. Three-Piece Suites 75 styles—high backs, low backs, backs, winged backs. Deep scated y frames, upholstered in tap: estries, damasks and velours. August Sale prices range $40 to $255, Kifth Gallery. Book Cases 122 styles—Colonial and Sheraton de- . in mahogany, oak, in various fin- » white enamel and walnut. August Sale prices range $6 to $190. Fifth Gallery. Colonial Sofas and Suites 40 styles—- mahogany, solid and veneered, upholstered in silk plush, hair cloth, damasks, *tapestries and panne Hest August Sale prices range $36 to $200, Fifth Gallery. Tables ; 230 styles—small tables, centre tables, tables with drawers, kidney sitaped wri a tables, chest table, revolving top car tables, Plzin and carved lines, straight and curved, pedestal bases, square, claw, scroll or spade feet. In mahogany veneer, tuna, walnut and oak—golden to weath- ered. August Sale prices range §3 to }247.50. Fifth Gallery. House Desks 135 styles—Secretaries, flat-top desks and drop lid desks. Some with secret ds Of oak, birch, mahogany, tuna, . walnut and white enamel. Some tiful Period desks, with inlaid deco- rations. August Sale prices range $6.50 to $200, Fifth Gallery. For the Dining Room 83 styles of dining room suites 153 styles of extension tables. 67 styles of sideboards. 42 atyles of serving tables 75 styles of china closets In ten exhibition rooms: dining room suites » Renaissance, Chippendale, white, Sheraton, Elizabethan, i » Circassian —wal- nut and oak—golden, fumed and Early English finish, also ivory cnamel. » fart designs August Sale prices range $110 to 0 Sixth Gallery. Dining Room Chairs 257 styles —- Chippendale, Heppel- white, Sheraton, Elizabethan, Kenil- worth oak an¢ Colonial and modern Seats of wood, cane and upholstered leather, brass _ studded. Some with leather backs August Sale ‘ices range $1 for a single chair to 220 for a set of six side and two arm chairs Seventh Gallery. Art Furniture For Drawing Room, Boudoir, Sewing Room 175 styles—selected mahogany f tables, pedestals, stands, tabourets,| dish stand: sewing tables and baskets, book racks, | Watt tilting top tea tables, muffin stands of curates, “Lazy Susan” Nests) revolving book stands, serving trays, ! prices range $1.50 to $54. tea wagons, fern candlesticks, book blocks, s, drop-leaf tables, jewel xes, stools, hassocks, mir- August Sale Fifth Gallery. 8) pape: » telephone stands. Rugs, Carpets and Inlaid Linoleum At Remarkab. iy Low Prices A highly important annual event timed to meet the convenience of the throngs of home-makers to whom August and the Wanamaker Galleries together spe!l opportunity in big letters. Royal Wilton Rugs woven on a Jacquard loom. The yarn is carefully selected. The designs are mainly characteristic of the Orient, and two-tone all-over effects. The rugs are admirably adapted for usr in office and foyer hall. Size 9 x 12 ft., usually $35, now $24.50, Size 8 ft. 3 in x 10 ft. 6 in., usually $32, now $28. Size 6 x 9 ft., usually $29.50, now Size 4 ft. 6 in. x 7 ft. 6 in, us $13, now $10. Size 3 x 5 ft. 3 in., usually $6.25, now 44.75. Size 2 ft. 3 in. x 4 ft. 6 in, usually $4, now §. BR ity ga, now $3. Rugs of Old-Time Scotch Weave Browns, greens, 0! aiid lavenders, with borders and geom: reds, English flor 23 and quaint eftects. Size 9 x 12 fc., usually $25, now $14.50. Size 9 x 10 fr. © in,, usually $21, now 13. Size 9 x 7 (t. 6 in., now 50. Size 6 x 10 ft. © in., usual.y $15, now 75. blues | ¥ Wilton Velvet, Body Brussels and Axminster Carpets Wilton Velvet-—26,895 yards, Sev- eral patterns woven double width. Two- tone reds and greens predominate, This particular grade has never sold for less than $1.45. Any part of this immense yardage tomorrow at $1.10 per yard, 4,850 yards. Orien- and borders to match, air designs. Usually $1.45 orrow, We. ster-—5,435 yards, Asm A beautiful orice, full of lustre, exquisicely t, mellow Oriental shades with camel-tinted grounds, and chintz effects fh borders to match Usually $1.25, smorrow, 75¢ yard, Inlaid Linoleum e ds. The grade used by Municipal govern. ic and parquetry effects r extensive line to select Large quantities in each, Usually $1.35 per square yard. Tomorrow §1. Fourth Gallery, New Building, Formerly A. T. Stewart @® Co. AUGUST FURNITURE Begins Tomorrow, August First HERE’S a stillness like that in the air before the nor’ -easter rips loose. Seven thousand samples of furniture have been placed in the three-city-block-long, block-wide galleries of the New Wanamaker Build- ing. Woods that were sep- arated in the forest are once more brought to- gether—oak, mahogany, walnut, birch and maple. Fashioned into ftnest furniture. Every piece as sound in construction as the wood of the tree from which it sprang. Lightly ladened as to price. For the humblest home and the most pretentious town house. July silk sale a sensation. packets. covered with paper. marked. Five Thousand Dress Lengths of Silk and Chiffon in lengths of from five to thirteen yards, each packet containing a full dress pattern, ‘These are seasonable silks of every nameable va- riety and of regular 50c to $5 a yard quality. They are packeted at the rate of 25c to $1.50 a yard, Numbers of seasonable shoppers will get dress patterne worth $12.50 and $15 for $3.50; for of $2.50 and $3 silks at 70c a yard there are quantities. Earliest shoppers of all will even get $20 and $25 dress patterns for $7.50. The Other Five Thousand Packets Comprise Short Ends And are to be sold at 10c, 15c, 25¢, 35¢ and 50c a packet, practically regardless of early yardage price. One-half, three-quarters and ‘one yard lengths of imported and domestic silks, satinsc, hiffons and crepes, whove regular selling price was $1.50 to $5 yard. One Thousand Short Ends of Im- ported Silk Velvets at 10c Each Quarter yard lengths of velvet that sells for $1.50 to $5 yard. Black and all colors. Embryo collars and cuffs and smart trim- mings. Besides all these packets of odd lengths and dress patterns there arc 700 Dress Patterns of Fine Domes- tic Foulards at $1.25 a Yard, Worth $2.50 to $4.50 Bordered and otherwise. 45 and 46 inches wide. Presenting dress patterns worth $15 to $27, for $7.50 a pattern. $5 Petticoats at $3.25. One of messaline, with deep accordeon plaited flounce. An- other of taffeta, in changeable shades, plain colors and black, with fancy flounce. The third of pompadour taffeta, in rose, green, navy blue and gray. $5 Petticoats, Petticoats in black and white striped messaline, with a bright flow- ered border in the pleated flounce. Taffeta Petticoats with a satin stripe and plaited ruffle, in navy blue, Copenhagen blue and brown, Petticoats of chiffon taffeta, and skirts with silk jersey top and messaline flounce. Every packet holds a real “plum’’—a fine silk dress length, a desirable waist length, or a choice odd length for trimming, away below what it was ever before priced! Yes, even lower than the prices that made our It is for your greater convenience in seeing and choosing and being served that we have arranged these silks in They are folded and tied, but they are not You see just what you buy, you see the yardage and former price and present price plainly ECONOMIES In some instances, where we are selling very close to cost, the reduction in price will be so little as ten per cent. In other cases the new prices’ will be ONE-HALF LESS than what you would pay during other months of the year. The average reduc- tions WILL EXCEED TWENTY-FIVE PE CENT. { First Annual “Packet” Sale of Silks Comprising Ten Thousand Packets of SILHS, SATINS and VELVETS In Dress Lengths, Waist Patterns, Linings and Short Ends Useful for Trimming Also 38,850 Yards of Silks and Satins in the Piece at Remnant Prices And any of them is unrolled and spread open yard by yard for the purchaser. Every yard is perfect unless otherwise stated. Every silk fabric you can name is represented—foulards, crepe de chines, surahs, fleur de soie, messalines, pongees, chiffons, silk voiles, liberty and duchesse satins, taffetas, wash silks—please name over to yourself the entire silk wise stated, season's. 200 Dress Patterhs of Fine French’ Silks and Satins at $1.50a Yard Worth $4 to $6 Yard which will be cut in any yardage desired. 44 inches wide. Exquisite evening colors. The most superb triumphs of the Lyons silk printers’ art. Instead of $20 to $30, these exclusive dress patterns will cost) you but $7.50 until the two hundred are gone. 1,000 Yards of Mill-Ends and Sam- ples of Satins at 30c a Yard, Worth 85c to $1.50 in lengths of one to six yards. Plain satin, messaline, bengalines, pongees, lining satins —mostly yard wide. | Black and colors. 10,000 Yards of Gold Printed Crepe de Chine at 58c, Worth $1 Black, white and all colors, gold printed in thirty patterns, 24 inches wide and cs- pecially suited for scarfings .and fancy dress costumes, More Good News!---Important Sale of Petticoats At $7.50-——Special quality black silk jer- sey petticoats, with messaline flounce. White messaline petticoats, whose flounces have festoons of flowers in lavender, yellow, blue and rose pink. Cotton Petticoats. Special skirts of black sateen, with plaited flounce, $1. Black feather silk skirts at $1.50, $1.75 and $2. Petticoats of black halcyon cloth, $2.25 and $2.50, Other petticoats have wool jersey tops, with sateen flounce and elastic band at waist, $3. list. “All the foulards are water-spot proof unless other- v :d. Many of them are bordered. silks are this season’s and most of them are equally next SALE There’s a stillness. The Labor of months is over. From Southern gulf to Northern lakes, from Eastern sea to winding Western river, factories and workshops have settled back into routine work. Etfpty freight trains are slowly rolling over the rails away from the great Metropolis. Our planning is done. Our work is finished. The Wanamaker ser- vice waits. YOUR hour of action is come. ° TOMORROW NOTICE—If desired, arrangements can be made to hold goods for delivery on or before October Ist. All the And These Other Silks and Satins by the Yard Faille Crepe in black and ivory, 34 inches wide, at $1.85, instead of $3. The same, 40 inches wide, at $1.85, instead of $4.50. Black Crepe Meteor, 44 inches wide, $3 quality for $1.85. Heavier than previous offering at same price. Black Crepe Meteor, 40 inches wide, $2.25 quality for $1.35. Black Crepe de Chine, at $2.50 a yard, worth $5 and $6. This is 46-inch and 48- inch width, Black Mousseline Satin, 44 inches wide, at $2.25, instead of $3.50 yard. Black Satin Duchesse, 36 inches wide, at $1.50, instead of $2 a yard. Plain Black Satin, 36 inches wide, at 95c, instead of $1.50. Silk-and-wool Bayadere, in white and lavender, 44 inches wide, at $1.50, instead of $4 yard. These silks will all’ be classified and placed on separate tables— black silks, evening silks, street silks, and so on, in order that our customers may quickly find what they seek. The total of 100,000 yards will be placed on sale at 8.15 tomorrow morning. Rotunda, Main floor, Old Building, With messaline flounce, $4.50 and $5 and $6.75 (extra quality). Third floor, Old Building, In the Basement Taffeta silk petticoats, in changeable and plain colors and black, $3.25. Special $5 petticoats nf fancy striped and plain taffeta. Cotton petticoats of black cotton moreen and black sateen, with plaited flounce, 85c. At $1-—skirts of black sateen, with printed border of white in flounce, Skirts with cotton jersey top and satcen flounce. Basement, Old Building, WANAMAKER MAD, at Be san inst BIGHT CAR LINES REACH THE STORE DIRECTLY ON THE SUBWAY Every Brass Bedstead in the Sale Guaranteed for Five Years Yet prices begin at $7.50—-grading up to $409. And they are the lowest-priced good brass bedsteads ever sold anywhere—the makers of good beds have lowered prices to us to overcome tine cheap, trashy beds now flooding the market. Where round tubing is used in Wanamaker beds it is steel tubing, sheathed with proper gauge of sheet brass, lock-jointed. Where | THE JOHN WANAMAKER STORE ae tubing is used it is of proper weight to lend strength to the “161 styles of brass bedsteads. Sale prices $7.50 to $400. 12 styles of brass cribs. Sale prices $18 to $50. __ Bedsteads include the Bungalow style in tubular and square posts. Regulation height bedsteads—plain Colonial, tubular, continuous post, and a very comprehensive range of Period designs, demi-posters and four-posters. Seventh Gallery. BEDDING Mattresses, Springs, Pillows, Bolsters Six grades of Wanamaker Mattresses—by reason of the purchase of 60,000 Ibs. of hair at a concession—will be sold at lessened prices during the August Furniture Sale Full size mixed hair mattresses, $12, regularly $16. ull size mixed hair mattresses, $14, regularly $18. ull size mixed hair mattresses, $16, ularly $20. ‘ull size black South American hair mattresses, $18, regularly $22. Full size gray South American hair mattresses, $18, regularly $22. Full size, 40 Ibs., black drawing hair mattresses, $24, regularly $30. Box springs, regularly $11, will be sold at $9.50. Box springs, regularly $16, will be sold at $13. Four grades of wire springs will be specially priced. Pillows. 20 x 30 in., selected geese feathers, $1.85, regularly $2.25. ax in., selected geese feathers, $2.65, regularly $3.15. All Wanamaker bedding is made to order in the sanitary, hygienic workrooms in the New Building. Seventh Gallery. For the Bedroom 65 styles of bedroom suites. 50 styles of wood bedsteads. 186 styles of brass bedsteads. 12 styles of brass cribs. 44 styles of white enamel bedsteads and steel cots. 20 styles white enamel cribs and youths’ bedsteads. 20 styles white enamel steel wash stands and costumers. 265 styles of bureaus. 285 styles of chiffonicrs. 146 styles of toilet tables. 26 styles of men's wardrobes. 4 styles of trousseau chests. Sizes of suites vary from 2 to 18 pieces. Wide choice of woods—mahogany, satin- wood, prima-vera, tuna, Circassian wal- nut, satin walnut, birch, golden oak, national oak, bird's-eye maple. sanitary white enamel and ivory enamel with inlaid decorations. August Sale price range of suites, $110 to $1750. August Sale price range of odd pieces, $6.50 to $130. Sixth and Seventh Galleries, Bedroom Chairs and Rockers 250 styles—Period and Modern Art designs, in all the lar woods and finishes. August Sale prices range $2.75 to $35. Seventh Gallery. ' Odd Dressing Table Chairs and Stools 19 styles—solid mahogany, mahogany veneer, tuna, maple, golden oak, white enamel. Seats of wood, cane and rush, August Sale prices range $3.10 to $8.50. Also | Seventh Gallery. Summer 350 styles—willow, reed, fibre, rush, Finished in natural shellac, white enamel, green enamel, Furniture maple, rustic cedar and crex. ilver gray and forest green. August Sale price range, 65c for a lawn settce to $100 for a rusticvedar summer house. Seventh Gallery. Mission Furniture 300 styles—pieces suitable for any room in the house, Spanish leathers. August Sale prices range $2.50 to $65. In fumed onk and selected ‘ifth Gallery. 5,000 Pairs of Lace Curtains The order for the laces way placed by the Wanamaker Commis- sioner in France, in October of last year. The work was done in the homes of peasant needlewomen during the days when Winter kept them from the fields. Every piece of lace hos been carefully examined and passed by our lace expert in Paris to one-half usual. Prices are from one-quarter irs Renaissance, white, $3.75,| 2,000 Pairs Irish Point Curtains 1,000 $4.75, $7.50, $12.75. 500 pairs Marie Antoinette, white and arabe, $3.90, $4.75, $7.75, $12. 400 irs Cluny, white and arabe, $2.50, $3.50, $4.50, $5. : 300 irs Antique, white, ' $2.50, $3.75, $4. ne - Femme, white, 200 Store Bon $7.50, $9.50, $10.50, $12.50. All white, Clean-up of the stock of one of the biggest manufacturers of St. Gail, who has given up his New York office, and is now doing business direct from ‘St. Gall. We shall sell the lot at three-quarters of their regular prices. The new prices: $3.75, $4, $4.75, $5.50, $7.50. $9. Tomorrow, Third Gallery, New Bldg, A -, 500 Pairs of Portieres Of Reversible Plain Velour at a Special Price. Tne velour is the usual $2 a yard quality, in six color designs—light green and red, light and dark green, crimson and dark green, brown and dark green, terra cotta and dark green, gold and dark green, ‘The price of portieres is $14.50 a pair. It takes eleven and two-third yards of velour for each pair. At $2 a yard this would make the cost of the material alone $23.33. Add $5 for making up, and you have a total of $28.33. Which would be about the regular price of these portieres had they been produced and purchased in the usual course of business, But the order for the velour was placed seven months ago at a very low price, immediate delivery being waived, the manufacturer having the privilege of filling the order at odd times. As we received the velour it was sent to our own'work-room, and made up by our own experienced work-people during the light days. Now they are cll finished—the most economically produced portieres of record, 500 pairs of them. $14.50 a pair, On sale tomorrow morning, Third Gallery, New Building. Broadway, Fourth Avenue Eighth to Tenth Street