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[Welland Tribune, 13 September 1917]
The new Woolworth Store which replaces the old Mansion House is now complete and the formal opening taking place tomorrow (Friday) from 3 to 5 in the afternoon and 7 to 9 in the evening. No goods will be sold on Friday; the store being open for public inspection only, but on Saturday morning business will be in full swing.
The building which is owned by Mr. Wm. Swayze is complete in every detail and is one of the biggest business premises in the city.
This marks the opening of the 954th store owned by the company and 84th in Canada. Having had such an extended experience in laying out stores for their special business it is easy to understand the complete detail to be found in every department.
There are eleven departments on the main floor and the sales ladies together with the office and managing staff will employ fifteen hands or more.
Every department shows the work of the company’s architect in designing special articles such as the neat safe which is oblong in shape and fits snugly under the counter. The candy showcase which is entirely constructed of glass so that even the bottom plates can be removed and polished to ensure perfect sanitation.
The basement floors a complete storage ware room, every article being stored in numerical order as it comes from the receiving and checking room which is in the basement rear. There are also complete lavatories and girls rest room.
Practically nothing in the store is sold for more than 15 cents and there are many big values in the stock which cannot again be replaced at the same price.
Mr. Ralph O’Neil will be manager of the Welland Store.
BIGGEST RETAIL MERCHANT IN WORLD WAS LONG A FAILURE
Frank W. Woolworth was Gawky Farm Boy-Married on $10 a week and was Reduced to $8-His First Five Stores Failed-Now Employs 50,000 People and Owns Tallest Building
[Welland Telegraph, 26 June 1917]
Three titles to distinction are claimed for Frank W. Woolworth. First, he is the largest retail merchant in the world. Second, he owns the tallest building (and one of the handsomest) in the world. Third, he was the greenest and gawkiest boy who ever came off a farm. He was such a palpable hayseed, indeed, that try as he might, no merchant at first would engage him at any price. He had to work for three months without any wages and board himself, and he was told that he ought to consider himself lucky because he did not have to pay his employer a tuition fee. For a humble beginning that must come pretty near to breaking all records.
When finally young Woolworth did find work, without wages, and after two and a half years moved on to another job at $10 a week, so complete a failure did he prove at selling goods, according to B.C. Forbes, writing in Leslie’s, that his small pay was reduced instead of increased-and the shock temporarily shattered his health. Biography probably contains no more novel experience of an American captain of industry.
It was in 1873 that young Woolworth arrived in Watertown, N.Y., with a note of introduction to the senior partner of Augsbury and Moore, dry goods merchants, but didn’t want them.
At the end of two and a half years he was getting $6 a week. Hearing of a vacancy in another store he went to apply. But when he saw how higgledy-piggledy everything was he decided to name a high salary, thinking to be turned down. He asked $10 a week and was astonished when the proprietor said,: “All right, when will you commence?” He took the job, and on this big salary he felt justified in getting married. After a couple of months, the proprietor met him in the basement one day and unceremoniously told him there were boys getting $6 a week who sold more goods than he sold, and that they could not continue to pay him $10 a week. So his pay was cut to $8 a week-and he a married man.
“This was a terrible blow, and under it my health gave way. For a year I was at home unable to do a stroke of work. I became convinced that I was not fitted for mercantile life. Eventually my former employers offered me $10 a week to come back and tone up the store. I remained with them two years until I opened up my first five-cent store at Utica, N.Y., on February 22, 1879.”
We read that, less than two years after the pioneer five-and-ten-cent store idea was inaugurated, its author finding himself worth $2,000, “which looked bigger to him then, than $20,000,000 would now,” and in need of a vacation, revisited Watertown and “was received like a conquering hero.”
Incidently three out of the first five stores opened by Woolworth proved failures. In fact it was not until he opened a five-and-ten-cent store in New York in 1886, and again lost his health through overwork, that he began to see success written in big letters. Since his first breakdown his health had never recovered fully and at the time, we read, he was running his New York office single-handed, with the result that he was stricken with typhoid fever and for eight weeks was unable to attend to business.
Today-thirty years later-the business boasts a store in every town of eight thousand population or more in the United States, has a daily average of over two and a quarter million customers and gives employment to between forty and fifty thousand people. It has become a $65,000,000 organization whose most colossal advertisement, if not monument, is the sixty story New York skyscraper for which the erstwhile Watertown “failure” paid $14,000,000 in cash. His somewhat Napoleonic ambition, we read, is “to open a store in every civilized town throughout the world.”
G. Franklin Sutherland Now Sole Owner of the Business of Sutherland & Son
[Welland Telegraph, 3 December 1918]
An important business change went into effect yesterday morning when G. Franklin Sutherland took full ownership and control of the well known firm of Sutherland & Son, undertakers and furniture dealers, buying out the interest of his father, George W. Sutherland.
This business was established a quarter of a century ago by the late Alfred Lawrence. Fifteen years ago he took George W. Sutherland into partnership, the firm being known as Lawrence & Sutherland. Eleven years ago, Mr. Lawrence sold out to Mr. Sutherland, and four years ago, Mr. Sutherland took his son into partnership.
Mr. Sutherland states he will take a holiday next year.
[Welland Telegraph, 21 September 1909]
The improved school building in the Garden Ward is now completed, and The Telegraph is very glad to congratulate the School Board on the excellent manner in which they have met the needs of the Garden Ward with a school building that seems really everything that could be desired.
A representative of this paper paid a visit to the school yesterday and found Miss Ball and Miss Morin busily engaged with large classes. The rooms are so bright and attractive and so well designed that School going in the Garden Ward ought to be very healthful and pleasant.
Miss Ball is conducting a graded school in what was the room formerly occupied by Miss Forster. On the roll here are sixty names with an attendance of 45 to 48. Miss Morin teaches junior second half a day and senior the other half. Most of these academicians come from over the waters of the canal, and they have quite a long march of it.
Miss Morin is occupying the south room of the new wing and tomorrow Miss O’Halloran opens the corresponding room on the north.
Splendidly lighted and ventilated class rooms are not only the only asset of the new school. The outside appearance is attractive; there is ample basement accommodations, commodious hat and clock rooms, and convenient lobbies.
The ratepayers will probably be well satisfied with the expenditure in the North Ward.
[Welland Telegraph, 21 September 1909]
A large number of urban municipalities in Canada have availed themselves of the Carnegie Library fund. Out of the fund handsome public buildings have been erected and excellent libraries maintained.
Alderman John Goodwin makes the suggestion that the Town of Welland ought to take advantage of the liberality of the Master of Skibo, and indeed, why not?
The present accommodation at the Town Hall in not too ample and will shortly be required for a department of the municipality. The day will surely come when the town will have to provide a site and building for a library. Why not provide the site and have Mr. Carnegie supply the building?
The matter is one worthy of the attention of the Library Board and should receive from them their endorsation.
Arthur Morwood Assumed the Management of The R. Morwood & Co., on W. Main St. on Monday
[The Welland Tribune and Telegraph, 27 January 1921]
On Monday last, Arthur Morwood, for the past seven years connected with the R. Morwood Co., took over the business in his own name. This business is probably one of the oldest in town having been under the same name and in the same location for over fifty years.
Arthur Morwood has the congratulations of the Tribune and Telegraph in this new enterprise and we wish him the best of success.
[Welland Telegraph, 25 December 1911]
Laughlin Realty Limited have the following for sale: Five old barn buildings and one house, all in fair condition. Call at our office for particulars and make your cash offer. Purchaser to remove buildings from the property. The house is on Cafferty farm, also one barn. The other barns are on the Price farm (Parkway Heights), and Sauer’s farm (Industrial Park). Look them over. Act promptly if you desire to secure any or all of these buildings. -Laughlin Realty Limited, phone 248, P.O. Box 184, Weller Block, Muir Street.
[Welland Telegraph, 25 December 1911]
We are making a final showing of Christmas goods and if you have not selected your gifts do so before they are all picked over.
See our hand hammered brass jardineres, fern pots, etc. Try us for carving sets, spoons and all kinds of cutlery.
The R. Morwood Co.,
West Main Street
Total Number Now is 65 in County-Two Held Over
[People’s Press, 7 May 1912]
Ten more licenses were granted by the license commissioners on Friday and two were held for further consideration. The total number of licenses now existing in the county is 65, with the probability that the other two will be granted.
A meeting will be held on May 14th to decide upon the two which were laid over. Following are the licenses granted:
Wm. Willock, tavern, Bertie; John R. Boag, shop, Fort Erie; Mrs. E.J. Bracken, tavern, Stamford; E.E. Furry, tavern, Stamford; W.A. Stone, tavern, Thorold; D.E. Evans, shop, Port Colborne; Garret Roach, tavern, Welland; G.R. Laird, tavern, Niagara Falls; A.J. Cardy, tavern, Niagara Falls; Mrs. W. Shepard, shop, Niagara Falls. The applications of C.W. White for a tavern in Humberstone and John Rees for a tavern in Niagara Falls were laid over.
S.P. Gourlay Will Let Contract For New Building
[Welland Telegraph, 14 November 1911]
S.P. Gourlay will let the contract in a few days for the erection of a two storey brick block with basement on Cross Street. The building will erected at once.
Mr. Gourlay has had plans prepared and is now calling for tenants. The building will be located on the east side of Cross Street and will contain two large stores and flats in the second storey. The cost of the building will likely be about six or seven thousand dollars.
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