The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1870-11-09
"Man's wake is on the deep,
His cloud is on the sky,"

Distance stretched away with plain, and
hill, and vale; innovation conceived the loco
motive; intellect polished the shaft, adjustd
the wheel, the fire was kindled, and bark how
man thunders on his iron way! Time and
space stayed the communication of thought,
innovation conceives the electric rod, calls
from their cloudy caves the thunders driven,
chains them with a slender wire, intrusts
them with the commission, and sends them
on their yiewless way.
"The Worlds broad zone has dwindled to a
line" Innovation is ever busy comforting
practical benefits on society.
| As in science so in mercantile business, in
novation is ever busy working new improve
ments, new methods, new attractions; and
| while many of its changes are for the worse
| yet review of the courses of the few sue
| cessful merchants of modern times, would
| show thai they unanimously belong to the
| class of innovators. One of the most marked
Of the new ideas introduced into business in
our day is the "One price" system, against
which az principle scarcely any one has an
objection, but which nine out of ten of all
buyers claim should be waived in THEIR PAR
TICULAR CASES. Another new idea is
| "Terms cash." the advantages of which all
grant, but a wonderfully large number dislike
to have applied to their individual purchases.
| Another modern notion is advertising"
| We have before us a very learned sermon
preached in London only thirty years since
s1'Thn Gin and fOllu of cd uar ticp nd to
day, in spite of the fact that the most extern
sive advertisers are from the highest rank in
business life, and are our most successful mer-
chants, yet the number is legion of those who
look askance at the store of the man who, to
use their expression, "Blows his own horn"
We have been led to those reflections by a
conversation reported to us as had between one
| of our most respected citizens and leading
wholesale dealer in town.
| Speaking Of some place an entrance to
which for him would an impossibillty, this
good man said, "Why would as soon think
of going to CoGIA HAssAN's."
| To which answer was made, F." Perhaps if
you took an hour to look over the CoGIA
| HAssAN store and see the perfect system that
regulates every thing there, and remember
that your youngest child can so there and buy
any article at the same price that would be
paid by the shrewdest buyer, and that price
is as low or lower than the same article could
| be found elsewhere if that buyer ran the whole
town over, perhaps you would not use
that expression again."
| Now there are no doubt many others in
| Portland to-day who because CoaIA HAssAN
advertses without stint, hires over fifty clerks,
| and uses any and every measure to make his
name household word, therefore there must
| be some humbug about the place. TO such
we simply say Take half hour, introduce
| yourself to the proprietors or to the floor
walker, who will be happy to conduct you
through the various departments, and ex-
plain their methods of working, and you may
| find it the most profitable time you have spent
in many day, at any rate you will be certain
| to say you never saw such variety of goods
from the cheapest to the finest quality, in any
| one store.