The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1884-01-10
ONE-HALF A MILLION OF DOL
LARS FOR POSTAGE.

George Stinson & Co., the celebrated
Art Publishers, of Portland, Maine,
undoubtedly pay more money for postage
stamps than any other firm In the world !;
for the last five years their postage bill
has averaged over two thousand dollars
per week, making grand aggregate of
over five hundred and twenty thousand
dollars; this is about the three hundreth
part of all postage Of every description
collected by the United States govern
ment during that time, and in this con-
nection it must be borne in mind that the
country now has over fifty million SO uls,
and fifty thousand post Offices. But the
enormous sum paid for postage repre-
sents only the cost of sending the light
packages, letters and circulars. for large,
heavy packages are sent by express and
freight. Messrs Stinson & Co. publish
every description of 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 t ! g earth, the fol
lowing may be interesting: A short
time since an order for an assortment of
over three Thousand large and expensive
pictures was received from Tasmania,
away down under the South Pole. Not
many years ago Tasmania was penal
colony of England, and its population
was entirely of convicts and their keepers.
Since the removal of the convcts, it has
become thrifty colony; this place is 50
remote, that three months are required
for an answer to a letter. Tons of pict
ures are sent to South America by
Messrs Stinton & 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 experience that Is always
necessary to the best results, in all things.
They carry in stock millions of pictures,
and at moments notice ready to fill
five cent order, or one for thousands of
dollars; they employ some five hundred
artists. clerks and workmen; their machin
cry and appointments are on magnlfi
cent scale, and trade of ten thousand
dollars day, on an average, is required
to keep them moving in full blast.
Their assortment of steel plates is es
pecially fine, and ranks very high in
artistic merit; many thousands of dollars
are often spent ON single plate. They
appreciate the value of printers ink, and
know how to use it to the best advantage;
therefore they advertise largely and
literally in the wspapers-newspaper
advertising was an important factor in
laying the sound foundations of their
great success, and without it, they state
that it would have been utterly i'm
possible for them to have reached their
present position.
Stinson & Co. are striking illustration
of what can be accomplished by energy,
industry, and good judgment. There is
''room at the top"-all honor to those
who fight their way up. This firm
believes in standard goods and low
prices, and on that principle their bust
nees is conducted. American homes
should be made beautiful by refined and
meritorious works of art; no one has any
excuse for not adding to their homes the
charms of pictures, for fine works of
high art are within the reach of all.