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Edward Hungerford. The Romance of a Great Store
The Romance of a Great Store
Table of Contents
Introduction
Yesterday
I. The Ancestral Beginnings of Macy's
II. The New York That Macy First Saw
III. Fourteenth Street Days
IV. The Coming of Isidor and Nathan Straus
V. The Store Treks Uptown
Today
I. A Day in a Great Store
II. Organization in a Modern Store
III. Buying to Sell
IV. Displaying and Selling the Goods
V. Distributing the Goods
VI. The Macy Family
VII. The Family at Play
Tomorrow
I. In Which Macy's Prepares to Build Anew
II. L'Envoi
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Edward Hungerford
Published by Good Press, 2021
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It is entirely possible that the record of the Macy store might not be set down as one of final and overwhelming success, if it had not been for the driving force of a woman, who was brought into the organization not long after the opening of the original store in lower Sixth Avenue. This woman, Margaret Getchell, was also born in Nantucket. She had been a school-teacher upon the island, until the loss of one of her eyes forced her to seek less confining work. She drifted to New York and, taking advantage of a girlhood acquaintance with Mr. Macy, asked him for employment in his store. He knew her and was glad to take her in. She, in turn, engaged rooms in a flat just over a picture-frame store, in Sixth Avenue, across from her employment, so that she might devote every possible moment of her time, day and night, to its success.
So was born a real executive—and in a day when the possibilities of women ever becoming business executives were as remote seemingly as that they might ever fly. For decades after she had gone, she left the impress of her remarkable personality upon the store. An attractive figure she was: a small, slight woman, with masses of glorious hair and a pert upturn to her nose, while the loss of her eye was overcome, from the point of view of appearance at least, by the wearing of an artificial one, which she handled so cleverly that many folk knew her for a long time without realizing her misfortune.
