Life — March 5, 1896 — page 2: what you’re looking at

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- LIFE: CALIFORNIA. Special Trains will leave New York in March for California via Southern Route, with incidental visits to New Orleans, Hous- ton, Galveston, San Antonio, El Paso, etc., and also in April, via Denver, through the heart of the Rocky Mountains, Salt Lake City, etc. Los Angeles, Santa Barbara, San Diego, Pasadena, San Francisco, Yosemite Valley, Alaska, Yellowstone National Park, etc., can be visited in connection with these tours. The tickets allow entire freedom of move- ment on the Pacific Coast and for the return trip, and can Le used returning on our special trains leaving San Francisco on advertised dates or on the regular trains. Choice of routes. These tours are intended for those who wish to travel in the most comfortable and leisurely manner. ‘Yours to Europe, Florida, Nassau, the South, Mexico, “Adwaii, Japan, China, ete., in season. Railroad and steamship tickets to all points. Send for Descriptive Book, mentioning in- formation desired. RAYMOND & WHITCOMB, Lincoln Building, 31 East 14th Street, Cor. Union Square West, New York. 296 Washington St., 1005 Chestnut St., Boston, Mass. Philadelphia, Pa. THE first number of Lire’s Comepy, devoted to The Emerican Girl, is now out. It contains 32 pages of beautifully printed illustra- tions on heavy calendered paper, with a specially decorated cover printed in colors. price, 25 CENTS. Subscriptions One Doliar a Year. Postage Paid. Drawings by Gibson, Wenzell, Van Schaick, Johnson, Sulli- vant, and others. MITCHELL & MILLER, PUBLISHERS, 19 & 21 West ist St., New York City, LIFES’ COMEDY. Men’s Woolens. ' BROADWAY PAL OuKa POURTH AVE. Succtssons roAT.Sitwanr & SPRING SILKS and DRESS GOODS are surprising and delighting all comers. ) beauties have been brought out in the Printed Warp, the Shaded and Chameleon Effects. brightening the great Rolunda as you never saw it before. Marvelous what Here they all are, lightening and English Trouserings. Dress Worsteds. “Clay's” Serges and Thibets. Black & Blue Diagonals, English, Irish & Scotch Suitings Stripes, Checks & Mixtures. Corduroys and Whipcords, for Riding Breeches. Golf and Bicycle Tweeds, Covert Coatings. White and Colored Ducks. Russian Crash. Recadovey A196 ot. NEW YORK. NEW DRESS GOODS: Mountains of them, including every fresh fancy from the looms of everywhere. Silk-and-Wool | French warp- printed effects, 46 in., $4. French Crepon Brilliante, tri-color hair- lines of silk, on grounds of an, brown, navy, sage and black, so in., $3.75. French Cabli Broche, silk - Ue wool, etamine grounds, with raised figures, rich color combinations, 47 in., $3.g0. Silk-and-wool German Persian, two sty] multi-color chameleon effects, 47 i $2.50. Engitsh Mohair Sicilian, fine sharkskin weave, oto soin., 8c. to $1.75. Mohair ‘Glace, mixtures of gray, tan and blue, very lustrous, 4o in., $1.ag; better _grade, 8in., $1.75. silk-and-wooi German Suiting, light and dark tan, reseda, goblin and sage grounds overshot’ with threads of silk forming a neat broken check, 46 in., $1.28. Scotch Suitings, new gray'and brown com- binations, heather effects, very stylish and serviceable, 56 in. $1- Two-toned Engilsh Hopsacking, extreme- ly neat effects, 45 in., 75¢. BLACK GOODS. “English Mohairs, lustre, soc. 46in. English Mohairs, extra quality, 6g¢. in; English Mohair, high lustre, 8c. igured Mohairs, fine weave, soc. Extra rich, figured Mohairs, sostyles, 75¢. Extra quality Sicilians, $1.28, $1.50. Royal Serge, pure worsted, goc. Novelty, French Imperial Serge, «4 In-, 38¢. Sik = and + Mohair “Grepons. billowy weaves, $3; former price, $4. NEWEST SILKS: Practically no end of styles. We Ro wherever silks can best be had and choose the cholcest. That Is what is putting our silk store so handsomely ahead. FROM JAPAN hundreds of styles of Habutal_ wash silks, the best of their kind. Then there are fancy sti figured effects with taffeta fini caded washable, plain, colored and’ white and printed Japanese Silks, in all the desirable effects in colors and black and white, including the Turkoman print with border, now so popular for waists. Prices range from age. to $2 yd. BLACK SILKS—More than one hundred kirgis of black Silks in stock, and the ees as low as can be found ‘anywhere fo equal quality and style. The quali- fie must be right to pass the rigid in- spection given every piece that comes| here. At random: Gros Grains, 75¢. to $3.25. Faille Francaise, 70¢. to $3.50. Satin Duchesse, 6sc. to $3. in Rhad: c. to $1.25. , Bgc. to $1.25. Satin Luxors, 70c. to $2.50. Taffeta Brocades, 7§c. to $1. Gros grain Brocades, 68¢. to $2. Brocaded Satins, 8sc. to $6. Royals, 756 to $2. Hundreds and Hundreds of new styles and qualities on hand and arriving of from soc. to $15 a yd. COPYRIGHT FOR GREAT ORITAIN BY JAUED MERDERGOU Fancy Colored Silks, ranging in price Stern Bro§ are now exhibiting Spring Importations of Their celebrated Alexandre and Lupin ‘| Kid, Pique and Suede Gloves For Ladies’, Men and Children, In the Latest and Mod Desirable Colors. West 23d St Comicbooks.com