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COMMERCE AND MANUFACTURES.

establishments devoted to the business of dealing in this important article,
and they generally occupy prominent positions in the mercantile resources.
and advantages claimed by them. Newton & Weller occupy this position
in San Antonio, we might even say in. Texas, as their establishment, so
far as regards stock carried, business transacted, and experience, is the
foremost one in this State. Newton & Weller established themselves in
business this year, 1885, with ample capital. From the start they have
been more than ordinarily successful, bringing to the business a strong
reserve fund of enterprise, determination and energy, sure guarantors of
prosperity and popularity. They have fixed their goal, and if industry,
close application to business and legitimate ambition are factors ensuring
success, they will gain it. They conduct their business in a straight-for-
ward, honest way, satisfied if they give satisfaction and receive legitimate
profits. Their business premises are commodious and convenient, in a
four-story brick building, 25 by 80 feet in size. They utilize 6,000 square
feet of floor surface in the prosecution of their business, which is divided
into two departments. The first is devoted to china, crockery, glassware,
bisque, Parian and bronze, articles of virtu. The second department is
devoted to fancy goods, toys, and house furnishing goods. The stock is
large and complete, comprising French, English and German china;
French, Bohemian and Belgian glassware; French, German, English, Ital-
ian, Japanese and Chinese art pottery, keramics, etc. ; full lines of the best
English and American tableware, chamber sets, silver-plated ware and
selected English and American cutlery. The imported goods are direct
from the most noted manufactories of Europe, including Sevres, Dresden,
and Berlin. Wedgwood, Minton, and plain and decorated china. Among
the specialties are dinner sets and table glassware, imported and domestic,
and complete assortments of hotel, bar and store outfits. All styles of
lamps and lamp trimmings, chimneys, wicks, etc. They carry stock aver-
aging $20,000 in value. Their trade extends through Texas and into Mex-
ico, the annual transactions reaching $60,000. Their long experience and
taste are well illustrated in the elegant assortment with which their estab-
lishment is crowded. There is scarcely anything that is useful or orna-
mental in china, glass, pottery or keramics that is not to be found in their
stock, and their arrangements are such that they are enabled to offer cus-
tomers the most attractive prices. They employ four hands. These gen-
tlemen have assumed a most enviable position among our prominent mer-
chant citizens.
C. W. CLAWSON & CO.—(Successors to Dowling & Flood,) Druggists
and Apothecaries; Corner Houston and Losoya Streets.
In an enumeration of the industrial enterprises of cities, a line must
be drawn between those branches which are merely mercantile, and
those which are allied to the professions. In the latter class are ranked
druggists. Under the Christian emperors, about the year 400, we first
find mention of apothecaries. They then practiced physic in a crude way