The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1877-05-24
A Business Item.
From the Burlington Hawkeye.

We thought from the way he came
into the Office and slammed his cane
down on the table, and took the best
chair and spat on the stove and said,
Well, Gully, how does the old thing
work." that he was a circus agent but
his card showed him to be modest, un-
pretending advertising agent of Wis
consin paper. He had just come from
Chicago, he said. We said: "Ah?"
not because there was any particular,
original brilliancy in the remark, but
| because that is what we generally say,
with rising accent on the final syllable,
when man tells us he has been to
Chicago. eyes" he said he had been
to Chicago Had We man up there? ?"
"No," we hadn't. "Well," he said
"don't send one there. Just waste of
time. I've been there nearly three
weeks, and just club myself every time
| think what fool was to throw away
so much time that | might have put in
| somewhere else to advantage"
Didn't he do anything in Chicago?"
we added, rather timidly, for we began to
see that we were in the presence of a
Master Mind.
"Naw-w-w! he snarled in a most
contemptuous tone; "hardly made ex-
penses; didn't pay salary. There three
weeks and only came away with 50, 76O
worth of ads All cash, of course, and
that makes it little better, but didn't
pay for all that time. How much
| Chicago advertising are you carrying?"
We couldn't tell him, indeed, without
consulting the business manager, but we
are confident that the Haockeye had, at
inside figures. at least three or four dol
lars worth of live Chicago advertise
ments. We began to think what a
jewel this man must be on the business
staff of daily paper. "Was he going to
St. Louis?" we asked.
He burst into a snort of derisive
| laughter, FOR all elio world like the opPo-
sition benches in Congress.
Been there" he said, "and amt
going back until times get better.
Deadest place you ever struck in your
life. Nothing doing. Just nothing.
Why, l was there ten days, ten whole
long days, as l am truthful man, and
only got-let me see-I will give you
the figures and he pulled out his note
book and ran over the leaves and down
long columns of figures-"yes, sir, | was
in st. Louis ten days to an hour, and
only got 81, 527 so, and 81, ,S96.73 / have
to take in trade, and only 81, 130 cash-in-
advance ads. Don't you send a man to
St. Louis if you do not want to pay his
fare home"
(Which way was he going from Bur-
lington?" we asked, deeply impressed
ooh, out along the line of the B. &
NJ" he said, "out to Omaha, and may
be out to Lincoln and up to De:
Moines"
"Now, don't 90 there" we begged
him, "don't 60 out that way at all. L
won't pay you; we know this country
and we know you won't gain a cent OF
that trip"
"Why notT' he inquired defiantly
and in rather incredulous tone of coun
tenance
Because" we said, "the Hawk-Ey
had man out all through that countr,
one gay lately. 1t may appear incredi
bic, but sir, that man was gone fifteel
minutes, and returned with only S72. .OO
cash ads, couple of national banks. 81,
Nebraska farms, Kansas cattle rancho
ana the Iowa state treasury. and tn
captain discharged him for not aarnin
ms wages. 1t is as dead a"
But he was gone, and we heard hir
DOWN stars, questioning the busine.
manager If he thought it was necassar
to import thoroughbred liar to edit hi
paper.