New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1850-12-28
GEN1n,s ANNUAL MESSAGE TO HIS Coz.

VENTS, THE PUBLIC.
TIME the post-rider of the spheres,
Whose courser5 are the winged years
old Fifty to the goal has run,
And backed his new stsed, Fifty-oue-
AS on he sweeps with steady pace,
Suppose his last stage we reiface,
Ard-leaYing subjects more sublime
TO bards who would Olympus climb.
Make HATS the subject OF our rhyme.
The theme is one that may be pressed
With much advantage. (mark the jesl
And So while rhyme with reason weds,
Wen give our subject separate heod1.
Beginning, II you don't object,
With
CFNIN'S BUSINESS RETROSPECT.
If the past year, on review,
Wear-and It does--a golden hue,
Whom else should GyNIN In ank but you
The stimulus your praise supplied
Strene thened his hope and stirred his pride
Sustained by deerIEued will,
He never dreamed OF standing STILL
And each improvement n his art
Was but point from which to start
steppine-stone from which 10 bound
To something better yet unbound
A glorious year the past has been,
AtGENiN's, Broadway, 2I1;
Ofpatronage, constant tide,
stl strengthening, deepening, growing wide,
To Californian streams akin
Has poured golden tribute in;
His building new, Of stately size,
Thai ten months since you saw arIse,
With workshops vast, and store below,
Tie largest that The trade can show.
His troops offnends accommodate
Ranh upon rank they come, and yet
The pressure5 one lie CAM regret
The hats he sells them 70 hit
Their taste In style and price and HI.
And the whole number, 10 4 man.
His BUSINESS PLAN
II NAV be a good way to thrive
-Four dollar hats TO sell st five
But business comes 10 GENGa'S door
BY selling those worth five 81 -Four
Cash purcbases-enormous sH'e5-
And personal care i'll the details
OF all the branches Of the trade,
Are the enchanters by whose aid
He sells his Hats OF matchles5 mold,
Cheaper thsn e'er such Hats were sold
And keeps stock, The best assorted,
FABRICS HOMEMADE AND IMPORTED.
His Childrens Hats, fhome design
Jghtness and gfacefulness combine,
And not more varied were the flowers
That in fair Eden's garden bowers
In fresh. unsulled beauty grew,
Than are these II ats, In shape and hue.
The PARIS modes his agents there
Transmit the moment they appear;
And fancy Hats and Caps and Canes
Ofthe last fashion, while il reigns,
Fer France has time to look them DER,
You'll find arranged in GsNIS's store
His Ladies Has-youye heard Of them
Each In design perfect gem,
For never was that ch1peaU tvinnd
That crowned the hrows Of Jenny Lind
His stock in the Umbrella way
Affords beautiful di,piay,
OF silk and cotton strong Or slight,
We'll balanced too, and wtter-tight
Foreign, ard manufactured here,
Aud. what's important not too dear
And then his hjulis and Vicl0rines.
None finer could be womby Queens
Ernine, Chincills, Sable, Bear,
And Mink and Marin, too are there
The ample robes your scighs to grace
The spoils fmany daring chase
And now-to start with conscience clear
(lrtn .i,rifr tprasl ,pld pTfn a
GENIE a word would say. aside,
TO CUSTOMERS DISSATISFIED.
Ofa the thousands that have bought
The fabrics IN his factory wrought.
Some, although d" few and far between
Perchunce have disappointed been.
Ifso-albeit he has not heard
That disappointment has occurred
He stands prepared (if proof there be
The oversight TO remedy
For It's his rule, repeated Der.
To every salesman In his store
To think no time or pains i'll spent
That give customer content.
One theme reinains-and then we We done,
It's
GENIN'S PLANS FOR FIFTY ONE.
These plans already half mature,
He feels new patrons will secure.
Hats. such as never here were made,
He means this year TO show The trade;
Malchess at home, and in advance
OF the best fabrics made in France
Real gems of art-and yet tie bill
Shall be The old -Four Dollars still
New friends and customers adteu,
The Seasons blessings be with you
Long may you live--loBg may you wear
Your GENIN HAS, devoid of care
While every year, et this same season
Wen have q dish of rhyme and reason.
GENlN, GA Broadway,
OppOsite St Paul g