One of the mercantile establishments of Vancouver, of which its citizens are generally proud, is that of the gents' furnishing establishment of Johnston, Kerfoot & Co., Cordova street. This firm has been engaged in business in this city for about eight years.
Many of our readers will remember the small way in which Mr. Johnson started and how he branched out until he was obliged to move to his present location, which, since he went there, has been practically doubled, and still more room is wanted. The firm of Johnston, Kerfoot & Co., is noted all over the Province for the excellence of its govcs, the reasonablenees of the price charged and the freshness and general excellence of the goods kept for sale. The stock is selected with great care, the firm being so experienced in this line of business that none but the very best is kept by them. The assortment they keep is a very large one. The establishment is indeed thoroughly replete in all departments and everything can be found here that a man desires in the
way of clothing. Young or old can be supplied with every article of apparel they need.
The store at all times is a busy one, but on Saturday nignts, when lit up, is a veritable hum of activity. Everything that will make a gentleman, in the way of clothing, is to be found in the store. The Firm also keep umbrellas, gloves, hosiery, collars, handkerchiefs, hats and caps, trunks and valises, and all else kept in first-class establishments such as theirs is. There are but few firms that can beat, in the way of gent’s furnishings such a stock as is that of Johnston, Kerfoot & Co., whose mammoth advertisements appear elsewhere.
Both members of the firm are well-known business men and are both of them full of vim and energy. Theirs is the big clothing store of the Terminal City, which by enterprise has been so built up till now it has assumed very large proportions. The members of this firm deserve the greatest credit for the way they have pushed up their business to its present dimensions, and it may be said, for the information of others, that the big clothing establishment on Cordova street owes not a little of its advance to the wisdom its proprietors have shown in the matter of advertising. In this, as in all else, they have risen to the situation and the result is seen in their flourishing and progressive house.
