Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-02-24
9Fut advertisements.
Let Us Be Sure to Get What
We Pay For.

THERE are some purchasers wiling to pay
Il for name and be in the fashion Others
prefer to get the article they want, and to paw
Tor no more. In the year 1866 the city of New
York hranched out into golden eating house.
We beg the pardon of finely cultured people
for using the English name. The windows
were French plate, at seventy dollars a
light. The window frames were gilt.
was frescoed. In this pretty place, just where
you turn out of Broadway into Union Square,
the visitor found no dishes that were not
French porcelain, and no plated ware. Solid
think himself an English Duke or a German
Prince. there were services OF solid gold Tor
said to bel if he was willing to pay for it.
All shoddydom went once, to say they had
Then people found Delmonico'S and Taylor's
good enough, and the gilt concern was bank
rupt and is now the Wheeler & Wilson ma
chine store. 1t was sad, but it was a fact:
people would not pay for looking at fresco and
dishes Now here is the moral, with another
illustration: This writer once went to Tiffanv's
old p ace on lower Broadway, to get watch
The salesman said, Here is the Jules Jurgen-
sen, OF Copenhagen, and here the Dent of the
maker OF the Houses of Parliament clocks
and here the Frodsham, used BY the Admiral.
ty, and here the great Swiss names, and ali IN
in the hundreds, and all good. And then here
is q watch withiour name on it. Frankly, we
don't make it. and we could not get our name
on Charles Frodsham. But it is made for us
by the old foreman of the best maker in the
world. We buy the movement otly, and save
the duty on the cases. We case them here,
weight and standard of gold. We can sell you
these at Just half what you must pay for q
tiqHie:n TWAS the best watch ever had.
But frequently the great makers of goods
VIII stamp them as you wish. Calling last
week at one leading book store lady was ask
ing for the John NJ Cooper business pen. Mr.
Cooper was dead and in life he could no more
have made steel pen than Tiffany & Co
hnrr 40 a fob. Dee
fine Esterbrook, stamped with the name OF
any firm buying in great quantities. The A T
Stewart 'night.goWn cotton" was sold over the
counter when the merchant did not own q
dollar in the mills. The Macy dress braid only
meant that Mr.. Macy bought by the ten
thousand gross A Macon almanac. the hest
made In the South, bears the name Of every
firm that will take thousand
In pianos, the same rule holds. There are a
few rich makers who are really deseryedIv
great. But not one of them holds a life lease
on the best workmen, and when the foreman
who has always made the piano chat the per.
son whose name it bears never touched tilf fln-
ished), this first mechanic OF the" shops.
when he has saved the capital. starts ia own
mandatory. Ee may be foreigner, brought
oyer TO teach the principal the ways Of Europe.
He may be just come from the shops Of the
great European makers, with capital, tools
materials and capacity. He can't build r
palace with theatre up stairs, as some do.
but he can have a shop that can turn ont the
his work to the middle man or salesman, who
gilds his name on the front, but he sells direct
to the country dealer or buyer, at fair prof1t
on honest work. The palace OF the salesman
on Fourteenth street or Fifth avenue cost haIf
million, and somebody has got to pay interest
and taxes on that One German, or Enplish
or Yankee mechanic does his work in a shabby
shop OF rough brick in the suburbs, where he
pays only county taxes, and only interest ON
the best OF lumber and material He can
OBVIOUSLY, sell the same article at less that it
sold for when the salesman or middle-man
who never did stroke of work, got fifty
the same instrument year-y.
Eugene Sue, in the Wandering jew" was
the first to make his heroine. JUST in insisfino
that the name Of the mechanic, not of the
proressed manufacturer, should appear "a
every article of art in her house, In Sc1Ipture
and painting, 1t Is the agtist whake name is on
1t that does tho w6Fk, but nine-tenths of the
publishers can't set line of type, and a large
per cent OF makers are the rich sons of sue
cessful mechanics, but can't now do the work.
, This Is not so much the case with organs, for
here the instrument in its cabinet or portable
form Is almost OF American origin, and the
men stu live who first taught the reeds to
sing. But there are few good 'Iaatents on
musical instrumental and, like sewing
mafhlne7, the new makers only need
70 get the old machinery. If an eminent
firm, knowing just who to go to for a
tine and perfect instrument. can get
splendid article at fair profit on material and
making, and will sell il at a fair coInpensation
Ior nanqpng and advertising. then the Gus
toner gets his moneys worth. II has long
been known that the common English or Ger
man piano would not stand the heats of East
or West India, and that to go in box through
the Red Sea was to arrive out of order As
Bass made his best stroke in impartiug keep.
ing qualities to East India ale, so did the
English makers learn and profit by the secret
OF making piano to stand the climate,
"a Indis me os.oss ate Aos y sorrid
summers az sagepe1F try an instrument. The
greAt MAKERS do not count local trad >
portant, and proposal to xe iustr 9 a. mn.
% order Woaia '-.-e6 with contempt. But the
-4lon who once made their masterpieces
win do so. and piano can be had, and an
organ. that will have the finest qualities when
unlocked. and Keep them until the school girl
teaches her own children. These are chedDer
and, for the South, they are better. What will
you do about il?
Now frankly, I have IN AKA to grind and
my friend is Joseph ?. Hale, of New York, the
maker or the Southern Gem" piano am
not q maker: nor dealer, but buyer. / am
York, that l can buy Chambers Encyclo-
pedia at One-fourth the European cost. I am
grateful to a Philadelphia house that sells to
me dry goods at Wholesale rates. l am CRATE
ful to Messrs Ludden & Bates of the Southern
that can get fine piano, by an old
maker, and by one who owns three Of the
largest piano factories in the orld, and at
the price Of the cheap ones became con-
WINGED that maker who could employ twelve
hundred men and turn out one hundred and
pianos q tDeek, and who does supply
one-fourth Of the pianos now sold in America,
who Is indorsed by Messrs. Oh ckering & Sons
and hundreds more, Is truly a wholesale maker.
He has broken down the fancy piano prices
forever. and ann grateful to all men who make
nne. reliable goods. so that we, the people, can
get them at JUST rates.
feb24-it MEMO.