. Crockery & glass journal . nto cater to the dry goods house, and their entry wasreally the beginning of what is now known as thedepartment stores. They put a stock of goods intoR. H. Macys store in Boston. When Macy came toNew York to open at Sixth ave. and Fourteenth kept up their connection. Mr. Macy died in 1877,Isador and Nathan Straus with C. B. Webster tookover the whole business in 1888 retaining their owninterest with L. Straus & Sons. More recently theybecame connected with Abrahams & Straus. OscarS. Straus, the talented diplomat, is a brother who hadinterests in common with
. Crockery & glass journal . nto cater to the dry goods house, and their entry wasreally the beginning of what is now known as thedepartment stores. They put a stock of goods intoR. H. Macys store in Boston. When Macy came toNew York to open at Sixth ave. and Fourteenth kept up their connection. Mr. Macy died in 1877,Isador and Nathan Straus with C. B. Webster tookover the whole business in 1888 retaining their owninterest with L. Straus & Sons. More recently theybecame connected with Abrahams & Straus. OscarS. Straus, the talented diplomat, is a brother who hadinterests in common with his father and brothers,but relinquished them when he became commissioner of labor. Isador Straus was educated in preparatoryschools at Washington and Lee University. He hasfilled the president chair of the Crockery Board ofTrade, of New York, and sat as director in severalbanks and financial institutions, was elected toCongress in j 893, was president of tbe EducationalAlliance, vice president of the J. Hood Wright. ISIDOR STRAUS. Hospital, a member of the Chamber of Commerceand one of the visiting committee to HarvardUniversity, besides being interested in a large num-ber of philanthropy societies. Personally Mr. Straus has always charmed everybody, a strong and busy business man but anybodywho had business with him found it easy to ap-proach him. At this writing it is probable thatboth Mr. and Mrs. Straus have perished, althoughthere is still hope. PLENTY OF MONEY FOR ART. IF the people of the country are to poor to buy din-ner sets for common every day use, there arepeople who have plenty of money to buy art a sale at the American art galleries last week, aman named John Getz paid $4,000 a piece for twoChinese vases and is reported to have said he wouldhave gone $2,000 more if he had had to. Anotherbrought $1,675 and a Monochrome bottle sold for $1,-275. A peach amphora biought $1,200. Intwo hours art treasurers brought a total of $40, a lot of comme
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