New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-11-09
ADVER TTSING - LACK OF COMMON
SENSE.

There IL but one thing that eyinces such lament
able want Of common sense as neglecting to afver
tire and that is paying for an advertisement tha' is
totally unintelligble.
One man in this city has spent deal OF money IN
SettiDg a man TO paint his lame and number, ana
what be has 70 SELL upon the rocks along the rail-
roads. Fly cents paid any daily paper would have
brought him better return Not ouein ten thousand
viii read snd remember his Advertisements, as they
are wbnled by with the speed OF the wind.
Another fellow bires man with pantpot and
sencil-pla to 90 all over the city and bedsuo t1e
pavemen's With his advertisements. II sha'es the
same fate as that upon the Tocks read it is not re-
men be,ed. 1t is tramped under foot and fOrg 'ten.
Another advertiser hires fool TO wear ha; or car
" an umbrella with hi. name printed upon it through
The streets. Some folks undoubtedly read it, and thnk
" the fool and his money soon parted
Another, and his name is legion, never afvertlses
Mt all and yet expects the busy public t. fndhim out,
and all ABOUT his business when his neGtdoor neigh
Dor does not know that he has any business or any
thing TO sell because be always looks in his paper for
What be wants, and pat onizes the man who has good
sense enough 10 advertise where il viii be likely TO be
read
few days ago we wanted TO go TO Hartford. We
knew there was a steamboat, bat where it started
nom, or when il started, We did not know, and we
could not find an Advertisement.
We could find ore for the railroad, and we Knew
where the cas- started FROM Does everybody know
hiatt II they do not, they will never learn by the
advertisement. We have known strangers to mics the
train by that road, who came down the Hudson riser
road because they did not know that the station was
m Canal street within few minutes walk of where
the csr they were coming into the city upon was
crossing the same street. Ii common sense had any
thing 10 do with the Advertisement il would tell the
reader where TO find the cars, well as when they
start.
Look at the advertisement of the Long island rail-
road 1t says: leave Brooklyn" at certain hour.
What part of Brooklyn do yJu think stranger would
80 TO look for lei That town not 80 very small that
Il axes odds 10 he traveller which end foremost he
pets into it. Brooklyn is seven miles ong stranger
may know that il lies eastward of New-York, but in
his hurry to reach the cars in time how does he know
by reading the advertisement which way to go-whas
line Of stsges 70 take?
There is sea- cey day passes that we do not re-
eeive Letters like the followipg
"In late number of The TRIBUNE the merits of
poe patent shelter all set forth but affords
NO clue as to where or whom can send for any fur
theE information concerning IT. If you nave any ad-
veBtsem Ia, circulars what not thai you can send
me, You VIII confer favor upon me-
No sir; we have no advertisement, circular or
" what not to give you, because in gratuitOus no
zee Of the machine We did not feel disposed to
give the inventor gratuitous advertisement, and
did not retain bis name residence But we beg
leave to Assure him if this item reaches him,
that although he may not be fool he lacks common
sense. But he may take the very comforting as
surance to himself that consioer him no bigger
fool than ninett entwtntetbs Of all his kth and kin,
the inventors manuf, cturers of ne Wy invented ma
Chipss.
THr TRIBUNE is continually publishing accounts of
new inventions or valuable new machines, that would
be Of ncAcuabe advantage to the owpers if they had
common sense enough TO take advantage Of adver-
Using II the owner of the p.sheller had done So
he would have got an order from our correspondent,
upon recommendation for q hundred machines 10
sell
We commended the o,her day patent gridiron
because il is one of the best inventions of culinary
implements thai we have seen in many day, and we
wish it was in every family. We are inquired of
daily where they are for sale. We don't know and
If we did we should not tell
1t Is enough for 10 speak sentiments of an ar
Scle good, or bad if good it will be of just much
advantage the party interested chooses make it.
by exercise Of common sense, or an exhibition of
an ettire want OF that very necessary aceonpaui