The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1863-08-20

This mercantile agency is a curiosity: IL Is a business my
reference. This contains the names Of all the principal persons
in trade in all The cities q the United states and Canadas-
Each subscriber pays FROM one to 1--WE hundred dollars every
yfI COO ST 5 Information Z a some dry gods h1gses pay as high a,
posted in reference to almost every trade in the Union. a loss
communicated 70 thu subscribers. Millions are savei TO New
r@sorc Arthur and Ls~is Tappsn retired from business, it
wasoTenly CHARGED upon them that they hated the South 20
Of So1thern men.
Que Eerrr dealer South, who deemed himself injured by their
rr~rt of his Sanding and resources, sued in New York Court
and recovered $4,000 damages.
Their successors in the business dun. Boyd & Co.. employ
Canadas as well as the cities and towns Of the United States.
ofrrest houses that do a fry million business in cotton and
sbo.e Se p Of Of smith; s is NJ Sfe eRessf 1915 = s. n q %ay s'fse' corner
A merchant. named Jones, from Scatwood Minnesota. calls
"CaH hack in half an hour" says wh ,eIer, Who at once
goes to Dun, Boyd r Co. There he Ascertains that Jones is or
il not mani-d-that Jones Is counting a girl, who will have
$4,000 when her father dies-that Jones does or does not
d.inS-that he spends one night at bucking the "Tiger"-that
the night previsas. Jones did not sleep at the Aston, where he
p,etends to stop. but at a particular friends house up town,
yeaIssseven months and three days oId-that he voted for Lin
eoIns 9rctl9n-that he belongs 70 IN. local churGh, ~ mas at
year 1851. Ofeourse Wheeler & Co, don't sell to this genius
To- procure such varied Information, and from all sections,
daily amount to over 1000
They do not pay high salaries. Their clerks get $3.50 to $500.
Their business IS mostly copying names-chahges Of firms
suits con msnced-nortgages Of property-deaihso Of children
marriage Of men on their bOOks-every change, in fact, Is noted
and recorded in Dun. Boyd & Co.'s books
An agent % the old concern once called on a merchant in
Broad street, and asked him To become a subscriber. He ex-
ptanef is advantages. The merchant hesitatei-at last ne
says - Tell me all about James Samson and 1 will subscribe"
The name IS not on the agency books, but give me two days
AMI 1 will dnd out all about him" The merchant agreed. The
clerk got the name correctly and said, / will find out all about
him II he is in the United States" A week elapsed. The
clerk Of the agency cailei, and reported as follows: :" James
Samson is a pedder, aged 30i he comes 10 Albany to buy his
goods, and then peddles them out along the canal from Albany
20 Buffalo. He Is worth $4,000; owns a wooden house at Lock-
por in his Own name; his family reside in IT,: has a wife and
three children, two boys and one girl; boys named Henry and
Charles, aged four and six years, girl named Margaret, two
years old; no judgment SUIT or mortgage on property drinks
two glasses cider brandy, plain, morning and e~vening-never
more drinks water after each ehews fine cut ) never smokesi
good teeth generally; has lost n large double tooth on lower
jaw, back. second from throat on left side; has "a scar an inch
long on his left Ie knecpan; cause, cut himself with a hatchet
when only three years Old; can be fund when in Albany at
Pete Msson's, SO State street. purchases principally jeweIry
and fancy articles; belongs TO the Shoe"
This - evidence Of how systematically the business ia carried
on The report was conclusive. 1t satisfied the Broad street
merchant. The event was fifteen years ago. The merchant
subscribed $3.50, and has paid IL yearly ever since
OF course other and similar concerns have sprung up in this
city. but none 80 large, so extensive and so valuable, as the
TaPPan--OM HeTchTnks Of " Y.