CHESTER, - Delaware County PA History

CHESTER,
PENNSYLVANIA.
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STORES AND HOTELS.
~UR business houses are sufficient in number and variety
\:::) to supply nearly all the wants of our citizens, and most
of them do a prosperous business. Architecturally thel'c
is room for improvemell'. in many of them, but in this respect
there is a gratifying advancement in those recently erected.
The following list embraces about all the mcrcantile branchcs
carried on, and states the number of each:
RETAIL AND WHOLESALE TRADE.
Bakcries, 20; lumber dealcrs, 6; coal dealers, 16; barbers, 35 ;
victualers, 30; blacksmiths, 16; wheelwrights, 10; bottlers, 6 ;
contractors and builders, 35; carpet dealers, (exclusively) 2;
carpet weavcrs, 6; china, 10; clothing, 12; commission stores,
16; druggists, 24; dry goods and notions, 40; grocerics, IS0;
hides and tallow, 2; flout' and feed, I I ; furniturc, 7; men's
furnishing goods, 9; hardware, 4; harness maket's, 7; ice dealers,
2; hotels, 40; restaurants, 20; boarding houses, 50; jewelers,
7; laundries, 6; mattrcss factory, I; machincry and
~netals, I; livery and sale stables, 8; millinel's, 14; photographers,
4; plumbcrs, 9; roofers, 10; sail makers, 2; sewing
machines, 6; shoe dealers, 30; stonc and marble works,S;
stovcs and hcaters, 9; tobacco and cigars, 94; trimmings, 30;
books and stationery, 2; fruitcrers, 4; hydraul~c I'ams, I ; bookbinders,
I; carriage and wagon builders, 5; auctioncers, 2;
oils, 6; confcctioners, 19; florists, 2; dry goods, 36; fish' and
oysters, 8 ; job printel's, 5 ; junk dcalers, IS ; leather and findings,
I ; mcrchant tailors, 6; opticians, 3; painters, t 7; paperhangers,
9; qual'ries, 2; tea, coffec and spices, 5 i undertakers,
6.