The Evening critic., 1882-03-23
spring Overcoats
Not Found Yesterday Nor the Day
BciOrc. VIII u be Found To. Day?

Wo allude, of course to the $500 that was
placed in one can, and only onesboth yes
tcrday and Tuesday. This morning, bright
and early, it win again be placed on our
shelves in q can of either tea or coffee, and
the person who selects that can will be
$500 better of one moment after it is done.
Other cans will contain various sums-two
or three $3.50 each a few either $500, $40,
$50, S125, 800, SO, $50 or $50 each. The
balance will contain sum of money each,
none over $40 and not less than 10 cents.
So, figure it as you please, no one can will
cost you over 80 cents, and for that 30
cents You will get q can of as good tea as
money will buy, weighing, with contents,
one and one-half pounds, or a can of pure
Mocha and Java, the best coffee in
America, weighing, with contents,
three and one-fourth pounds. Think
for a moment-the best coffee in America,
and we mean what we say for fraction
over twenty-seven cents per pound. If
you buy six cans of either or both for s.
you will get it a great deal cheaper Figure
it, If you buy twelve cans for $40 it is
still cheaper. Continue to figure. If you
buy tweDtyfi five cans for $50 it is cheaper
still, while if you buy sixty-fve cans for
$50, taking the worst possible view of il,
viz, that there will be but ten cents, which
cannot happen OH any shelf or section in
our store, in each and every one of the
sixty-fve cans you buy, and the average
price per can is about sixty seven cents.
Now figure again: One and a half pounds
of as good tea, less weight of can, as money
will buy, for sixty-seven cents, or three
and one.fourth pounds, less weight Of eau,
of the best coffee you ever drank for sixty
seven cents, about twenty cents per pound.
matter before? If not, and our fig
ures are correct, do you not think
we sell not only the best, but the cheapest
tea and coffee sold to-day in the District
of Columbia? We have made some pretty
broad assertions in the above, and we have
money-plenty of ito back them up. We
do it to convince the people that we are
anxious to build up and retain a permanent
trade here, SO that having once tried our
goods, they will continue to buy from our
agent after We discontinue giving anything
but tea and coffee in each can, and have left
the city, which will be April 10. Don't
come with the idea that you are going to
find 500, $50, $I75, $3.50 or $500 in the
can you buy, but come for the tea or coffee
alone. Then if you should find something
handsome in the can you will be all the
more pleased. Below we give a partial list
of those who have found s. or upward, in
cans purchased yesterday and she day be-
| fore. We do not take the names Of those
who find less than S.. A great many find
| 81, 81, or 50 in the cans they buy.
Money Found Yesterday by
| Charles Flanders 800 Ninth street north
west $50 in tea; John z. Harris, waiter
| National Hotel, S5 in coffee; w. Hanuen,
waiter National Hotel, S5 in coffee; Nathan
Young, Baltimore $50 in tea; A. A. Brown,
Denver, Col, $50, gold, in tea; IL. U. Shern,
1900 Maryland avenue, 500, gold, in coffee;
Mrs. c. Glaze. oil F street southwest, s.,
| gold, in coffee; Joseph II. Stilson, Nebraska
| stopping at National Hotel), So in tea.
Money FOund Monday and Tues,Iay
Edwin L. Smith, Philadelphia, $40, gold,
in coffee; Frank Palmer, Pittsburg $50 in
tea and solitaire ring, value $50, in coffee
NJ. V. Casey, Treasury Department, 55 in
coffee MR. G. has had several presents)
Samuel Ii. Hunt address not known, $50
gold, in tea; G. S. Reed, 1888 Eleventh
street northwest, S., in coffee; Wm Bagby
| (plumber), 903 Fourth street northwest. s.
in tea; Miller & Jones, importers, 132t
to 1897 Pennsylvania avenue, So, gold
in coffee; William II. Crook, executive
clerk to the President, S., gold
in coffee; Mrs. S. l.. Smith
Treasury Department, 5000, gold, in
tea; Hebbitt House Club. Hebbitt House
Supposed to be Ebbitt), s., gold, and dia
mond ring (by mistake) both in coffee
| w hhI1uiu y. sociipHer, plcyCic SCuooi. lIoo
street northwest, $40, in coffee; NJ. G. Nc
Cormick, PIG Sixth street northwest, So, in
coffee; Thomas Jacobs, No. 2 + street north
west, $3.50, in tea; S. C. Raub, 1416 Ohio
avenue, $40 in tea; Mrs. NJ. Patton, 1907 G
street northwest, s., in tea; NJ. V. Casey
Treasury Department. $50, in coffee third
or fourth present for Mr.. g.; Lizzie Sprohs
4s3 c street northwest, amf .hyst ring
value $40, in tea (mistake); G.. w. Paris
colored, So G street northwest, S., gold, il
tea, and N. G. Summerfeld chief clerl
Railway Mail Service, $780, in coffee
Look for additional names tomorrow
Orders by mail promptly forwarded to al
parts of the United States. Address
IMPoRTERs' TEA COMPANY,
$40 Market Space, Washington, ID. Q.