New Ulm weekly review., 1883-11-28
One Half a Million of DoIIors for Post.
age.

George Stinson & Co., the celebrat-
ed Art Publishers, of Portland, Maine,
undoubtedly pay more money for
postage stamps than any other firm in
the world, f or the last five years their
postage bill has averaged over two
thousand dollors per week, making a
grand aggregate of over five hundred
and twenty thousand dollars; this is
about the three-bu ndredth part of.all
postage of every description collected
by the United States government duc-
ing that time, and in this connection
it must be borne in mind that the
country now has over fifty million
souls, and fifty thousand post offices.
But the enormous gum paid for post
age represents only cost the of sending
the light packages, letters and circu-
lars, for large, heavy packages are
sent by express and freight. Messrs.
Stinson & Co. publish every descrip.
tion of f'pictures of the better class,
and their trade now extends over the
entire world. AS an illustration of
the fact that their trade reaches the
furthermost parts of the earth, the
following may be interesting: A short
time since an order for an assortment
OF over three thousand large and ex.
pensive pictures was received from
Tasmania, away down under the Son tn
Pole. Not many years ago Tasmania
Was a penal colony of England, and It's
population was entirely Of convicts
and their keepers. Since the removal
of the convicts, it has become a thrift
ty colony; this place is so remote, that
three months are required for an
answer to a letter. Tons of pictures
are sent to South America by Messrs.
Stinson & Co., and West Africa sends
to Portland for works of art; they
have trade in every quarter of the
globe where civilization has gained a
foothold. Commencing at the bottom.
they have worked their way up to the
top, step by step, and thereby, added
to the greatest push and enterprise.
they have that solid, practical exper-
ience that is always necessary to the
best results, in all things. They carry
in stock millions of pictures. and are
at a moments notice ready to fill a five
cent order, or one for thousands of
dollars; they employ some five hund.
red artists, clerks, and workmen; their
machinery and appointments are on a
magnificent scale, and a trade of ten
thousand d dollars a day, on an ave rage
is required to keep them moving in
full blast. Their assortment of steel
plates is especially fine, and ranks
very high in artistic merit; many
thousand of dollars are often spent on
a single plate. They appreciate the
value Of printer s ink, and know how
to use it to the best advantage; there
fore they advertise largely and liber>
ally in the NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
advertising was an important factor III
laying the sound foundations of their
great success, and without il, they state
that it would have been utterly i'm.
possible for them to have reached their
present position.
Stinsons& Co. are a striking illustra-
tion of what can be accomplished by
energy industry, and good judgement.
There is Groom at the top honor
to those who fight their way up. This
firm believes in standard goods and
low prices, and on that principle their
business is conducted. American
.qomes should be made beautiful by
refined and meritorious works of art
no one has any excuse for not adding tc
their homes the charms Of pictures
for fine works Of high art are within
the reach Of all.