Eager Shoppers Foregather at Stalls: Cheques and Coupons Cashed in on First Day "Song yi hao! Song yi hao!" (big business!) the vendors at the Race [Course Market shouted 10 each other, surveying their rapidly—emptying stalls with broad smiles' of satisfy tion, Until the opening on Thursday morning these same men had been skeptical of the success of the mar ket and half-frightened of putting their money Into a new, untried venture.
Everything depended on the first ay. Would people come, and if they did, would they come ' enthusiastic fand prepared to buy, or would they tum up only to gaze and go away?
the wee small hours of Thureday morning—3 o'clock to be exact ihe huge erection was flooded with Tight, the Neon sign at the entrance on Bubbling Well Road by the Little Club Mashed out an invitation to Jearly morning shoppers, and the stall-holders stood behind." their laden counters anxiously awaiting develop ments. ce-operation gf the Municipal Coun. il, the Company undertook the work Jot' building a modern, hygienic maret along the" lines' of those in Europe and the United States. In particular, Mr C, Harpur, Commise jsicner of Public Works, Dr. Jordan, [Commissioner of Public Health and Mr. F, W. Ambrose of the Municipal Health Department, had a great deal to do with Improvements made while he construction of the building was under way.
Mr. A. Corrit is responsible for the jengincering design which impresses leven the least sclentifc mind with Its practicability, and Mr, George Koster, who was formerly attached to the' Realty Investment Company, was the architect. Weeks were spent in designing the stalls alone, and for these the credit must go to Mr. Thomas Anthony and Mr. Louis Percel who were responsible for them under the direction of Mr.
Koster.
'Spacious, brightly lighted and spotlessly " clean' with its white-painted pillars and scrubbed jerete floor, the place looked like a marketer's paradise too good to be true. In a very few minutes Mr. R. M. Vanderburgh, president of the Realty Investment Company,
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