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C. B. Rouss
| Name | C. B. Rouss |
| Ortssitz | New York City |
| Straße | Broadway 341 |
| Art des Unternehmens | Kurzwarenhändler |
| Anmerkungen | Bezeichnet als "Auction Dry Goods". |
| Quellenangaben | [New Yorks great industries (1884) 375] |
| Zeit |
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| 1854 |
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Kommentar |
| Kurzwaren |
1884 |
[New York's great industries (1884)] |
1884 |
[New York's great industries (1884)] |
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| ZEIT | 1884 |
| THEMA | Firmendarstellung |
| TEXT | One of the most useful factors in mercantile life in large cities is the auctioneer. He must have the confidence of the community and also possess a thorough knowledge of merchandise, men and things generally. Mr. C. B. Rouss, No. 341 Broadway, fills the bill exactly, being a gentleman of great shrewdness, perseverance and high character; consequently, his services are in constant demand. The stagnation of business for the last few months has been ominous and disastrous, shaking the metropolis from centre to circumference, dragging down under the car of credit the great masses who staked their chances upon the ledger, instead of the omnipotent dollar. What harvest fields for the men possessing cash, who had coin to put down and name their own prices, under the hammer of the red Hag of the auctioneer, the white flag of the assignee or the black one of the sheriff, beating at every point the old stagers who stagger along under four-months bills, and who have laid in their gigantic stocks to catch the early trade. Are merchants insane enough to believe that even thirty-day buyers are so reckless as to submit to a loss of five per cent, or sixty per cent, per annum for the pitiful privilege of a little time. Mr. Rouss is one of our most famous auction kings, who obliterates fictitious values and sacrifices every conceivable article of merchandise, under his never changing and merciless terms, ''cash before delivery." And yet the regular "dry goods merchant," with his four-months bills, is constantly declaring that his values are equal to those of goods bought under the ring of the hammer of a sagacious auctioneer, like Mr. Rouss, who refuses and. discards all systems of "credit competition." Hence Harding quotes hats at fifty-five that caanot be bought for one dollar regular. Kelly prices ribbons at twelve and a half worth twenty-two to import. Morris pages off his stationery twenty-five per cent, under face value at the mill. Tench, a line of shoes at State-prison prices, thirty per cent, off, and so on through the twenty-eight department; of this business. It is impossible in a short sketch to describe this immense business. The warerooms are paeke.l with vast stocks of the finest goods, but the terms are fixed and unchangeable, viz., net cash next day after examination of goods, no discount whatever, no thirty-day bills. This house was originally established in 1854, and since its inception has always enjoyed a liberal and constantly increasing patronage. Mr. C. B. Rouss is held in the highest estimation by the mercantile community for his unswerving honor and strict integrity and has always identified himself with any measure or project conducive to the welfare of his fellow citizens. Liberality and promptness have always been a marked characteristic of this house, and the success which has attended this enterprise is but the just reward of a commercial policy, without which no permanent prosperity is possible. |
| QUELLE | [New Yorks great industries (1884) 375] |
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