Clipping:The growth of the sporting goods industry
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| Date | Saturday, April 8, 1882 |
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| Text | It is over fifteen years ago since Andrew Peck first brought an advertisement to The Clipper office, and then it was one about baseball materials. At that time the sporting-goods business, as far as American manufactures were concerned, was in its infancy. What a change has occurred since then. Now there are over a million dollars invested in American manufactured sporting-goods, some of which are exported to Europe. A striking illustration of the rapid advance made in this special line of business is exhibited by Messrs. Peck & Snyder of this city, who on Saturday, April 1, took possession of their splendid sporting-goods emporium in the Vanderbuilt building on Nassau street, their new store occupying a frontage of seventy-five feet on Nassau street, with a similar depth. ... Looking around at the handsome cases containing finished materials and the best paraphernalia for all the sports and pastimes in vogue, such as archers’ bows and arrows, baseball and cricket players’ bats and balls, lacrosse bats, footballs, lawn-tennis players’ nets and bats, fowling pieces and rifles, trout, bass and salmon rods and fisherman’s tackle; in fact every class of outfit for the votaries of field sports, together with chessmen, draughts, backgammon boards, cards, etc., for indoor recreation, added to which are the endless variety of games for parlor amusement, and an exhibition of sporting goods as at command unsurpassed by any store of the kind. Hundreds of thousand of dollars are invested in this one firm’s business, and already their manufacturing departments employ over a thousands of persons. |
| Source | New York Clipper |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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