The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1884-01-19
OnesHnlf Million Of Dollar.
for Postage.

for Postage.
George Stinson & CO., the eele5rat-
ed Art Publishers, of Portland, Maine,
undoubtedly pay more money for post
age 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 a
grand aggregate of over FIVE hundred
and twenty thousand dollars; this is
about the three-hundredth part of all
postage of every description collected
by the United States government dur
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-ofiices. But
the enormous sam paid for postage
represents only the cost of sending the
light packages, letters and circulars,
for large, heavy packages are sent by
express and freight. Messrs. Stinson
d 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 the earth, the following may
be interesting: A short time since an
order for an assortment of over three
thousand large and expensive pic
lures 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
eonvicts, it has become a thrifty col
ony; this place is so remote, that three
months are required for an answer to
letter. Tons of pictures are sent to
South America by Messrs. Stinson &
Co., and West Africa sends to Port
land 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 re-
suits, 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 idol
lars; they employ some five hundred
artists, clerks, and workmen; their
machinery and appointments are on a
magnificent scale, and trade Of ten
thousand dollars day, on average,
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
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; there
fore they advertise largely and liber-
ally in the ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
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
impossible for them to have reached
their present position.
| Stinson & Co., are striking illus
tration of what can be accomplished
by energy, industry, ard good judg-
ment. There is Groom 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 business 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.