Monmouth weekly herald. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1854-1860, 1858-03-25
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WE HAVE RE-TAKEN THE FOUR STORY
w and Basement Store, IS BARCLAY STREET, oc-
cupied by us during the last four years, and shall
continue to devote ourselves to the Commission
Trade in Domestic Fruits and Country Produce.
To provide amply for our increasing business, we
shall hereafter devote the first floor and basement OF
our Store to the heavy, bulky, and perishable arti-
cles, converting the second floor into a Salesroom
for Fancy and Staple Bread Stuffs, and r~eserying
the two upper lofts entirely for storage.
Producers and Merchants will please observe that
we are emphatically a Commission House, confirming
ourselves rigidly to this class of trade. We believe
it to be injudicious to combine Speculative and Com
mission trade in the same concern, and make it a
point of honor not to sell property Of our own in
competition with that of our consignors.
Our policy and our ambition is to establish a per
manent business, that win pay us adequately though
moderately, for the labor and risks incurred, and
save to our consignors the profits Of intermediate
agents and traders. We mean to charge such a rate
of commission that we can afford to give first rate
attention to property intrusted to our care, and make
prompt, frank, and honest returns therefor.
Our steadily increasing business indicates that our
consignors generally deem our services worth their
cost. While SPECTATORS, and men of more ambI
ton and enterprise tina good Judgment Or solid cap
ital, have occasionally made their piles the ter
,rible experience ofthe past year has foecibly shown
that prudent policy and cautious judgment, com
bined with systematic and energetic business hab-
its, are not without their ultimate reward.
The recent Ahparalleled revulsion having made a
pretty clean sweep of the weak and poorly managed
business concerns, including many that we're geaer-
ally reputed strpng and sound, entailing losses, en-
barrassment and distress upon every part OF the
country we may now fairlysanticipate a period of
general retrenchment, and reform in the conduct OF
trade, and the business habits of community. Bet
ter occasion never existed for shortening credits, fix.
ing the rule and establishing the custom, of ~exacting
the fullest and most explicit OF the pc
cuniary and business character of parties seeking
trusts of property in whatever form, and we suggest
to those having proper business reasons for lnqnir-
ing into OUR affairs, that We are always ready to IA
1%cilitate such.inquiries, by giving promptly and fully
the essential facts. e Hns4
The trade. in Produce is noininally, for cash, but
prevalent custom varies the time Of payment from
six to thirty days from deliver y, constant risk being
thereby incurred in the business. We mean to do
our share towards placing this class OF trade upon
an actual cash basis but a single concern cannotde-
part widely from the ruling custom without preJu-
cling the interests of its consignors.
There is a good. deal of commission trade done in
this market without a clear understanding between
principal and factor of the obligations of.guarantee.
We prefer TO make defnite statements. GRAIN and
Flour and some other heavy staples are usually
sold in large quantities, at a small commission, with
out guarantee, and subject to charges for storage,
carriage, &c. BUTrER, CHEESE, EGGS, POULTRY,
GAME, VEGETABLEs, and FRuITs, are usually sold at
a higher commission, covering guarantee and stor-
age. Commission Merchants are bound to. exercise
and customary caution IN making sales,
and if loss occurs through their negligence, from
credits to irresponsible persons, their consignors VIII
have a legal claim on them for the amount, whether
the commission has covered guarantee or not; and
respectable Houses usually sustain moderate losses
themselves, rather than throw them apon their con-
signors, though their commission may not cover
guarantee
81 01r forp,c = ac Ec1fowc
Grain, Grass, Flour, Seed, DC, at wholesale,
without Guarantee, 8 per cent-subject to all
charges actually aecraing thereon
On Butter, Ghsess. Eggs, Poultry, Game, DF1ea
Eruits, &c, Commission and Guarantee, covering
0nStorage, when not limited IN price, s per cent.
Policies, 4pRss, &C., at wholesale, 3 per cent
bed off in small lots, 10 per cent.
0 Peaches, Berries, and other Perishable Fruits, 10
per cent. 9 H&tA@ AG t9
We shall always charge the Commission & Guar
antee unless advised to thescontrary by our eonsign-.
Returnable packages wilIbe promptly returned
or accounted for. Peach Baskets viii be returned
with the greatest possible prompthess, and we will
pay for one-half that may loose through the season.
In Strawberries and Blackberries, if pint and half
pint baskets, of best quality, are used, we VIII pay
for ore half the baskets lost by Us. Each return of
packages will be accompanied BY q msmorandam OF
the number.
Account Sales of Fresh Fruits and Vegetables,
as heretofore, be forwarded weekly, so that any
occurring may be promptly rectifed.
Consignors at a distance may rely upon prompt
cash remittances, at maturity of time sales, Gf sold
under Guarantee Commission and without delay
sold for cash.
We intend to acknowledge receipts Of distant con-
.signments within a week from their arrival-and
consigners not hearing from us within that period
from the probable time of arrival, arc requested to
write to us accordingly.
Ordinarily we will accept or advance to areasona-
able extent on property received, but we are not
bound to do so except hy special agreement.
DREW & FRENCH,
IS BARCLAY STREET, NEw-YoRk.