New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-12-27
PARTNER ADVERTISED FOR.
HOW CoNFIDNG MEN ARE "RoPED IN"


Ing the past few years.
A.--S5,000 for half interest; $1,000 cash
"a $500 from gereentage Of profit, wholesale mannf1ct,
81 zro cash prsss 200 per cent ncre2s ng
YORK at once CERTAINTY. Herald Office
These notices usually appear in the Sunday edition.
and while the exact wording signature IA seldom II
ever repeated they always that half interest
In thriving manufacturing business is for sale for $4,000
and that only 81 800 OF this be paid In cash.
Some developments brought ny proceedings
show that this inviting proposition has attracted the at
tention OF many young men. with instructive results
not only to them but the public. Papers In Judgment
recently hed show that one young was tempted by
the faternE Inducements OF this ad rertseent TO give
up good position in his fathers store In the Bowery.
whore no was receiving salary OF SJ week. and his is
undoubtedly the history OF the who communicated
with Certainty. Ho replied to the advertisement and
received the following letter:
WAsHBURNE & CO.. DRUGS, ,
No. 2s7 BROADWAY, COR READE,sT.,
DEAR SIR: Your favor received in answer to my ad-
vertsenent appended. II you will call at my Office at
once VIC may &" able to come to an arrangement which
will prove mutually agreeable as we'll as profitable" My
business Is IN the Wholesale drug llne Oce hare and
factory uptown. 1t already succrss for the past
seven years Increasing trade nocessialos niere.tsd
associate. Yours. resp'y, T. WAsnBURNE.
The young answered the letter in person the next
day after its receipt No 2S7is handsome Ironfront
building. on the west side Of Broadway at Readest 1t
ia divided up into Offices. which occupied
by lawyers and business men Ia good standing Three
flights up the head OF tho stairs tho of "Wash
burne Co., Drugs" letercd the frosted panes Of
glass of the office doors arrests tho attention Of the
visitor. Tbs Young entering found himself In a
well-lehted Office. which was lifted up with costly
chairs and furniture Including revolving top mahogany
desks. Back of this inner Office where tho
furniture OF elaborate pattern than that
first seem and thick carpers covered the floors Rows
OF neatly bound account books confronted tho stranger
and at OF the desks bending q ledger, sat
brighteyod snOoth-faced man, who upon the visitor
making his crrand known, introduced himself Mr.
Mallory the booEkerper He Invited the visitor into the
iuuer olee, when he presented him to Mr. Washhurue
n man between thirty ami forty. with sharp features
and Keen gray eyes. His face smoothly sliayen
cept n slight mnsache lie neatly dressed aud alto
geth,r presented the appearance OF a prosperous
bu,laes, There was IN ar Of thrft and enter
prise about the place which made thH young feel
selections Hhout securing the desired par,nersh p.
Mr. Washburns was exceedingly anlblo and polite.
and proceeded to point to figures that more
than bore ont The rdoi promises OF
In which he engaged was the sale and manufacture
Of "SaucyIca," a specific for rheuu atsin. govt
hat his in'ss had grown 80 enurmnusy Of late that
of ni~r while hs az Washbnmc went "on the road
orders for his medicine. The powders. lie
glrl, under tle supervision OF his sister The books
showed that 'hr slcs 90 yica amounted To $1,000
month. making a regular monthly prohi of 81 90 10
$1,000. with scarcely ny luriGcr INVESTIGATION ne
IN \ Washblruc entered
into written agreement with HIM and secured the
What the yoiug mans experience was is narrated in
hi' deposition before Justice Donohue lie went into
the ONCE entci ed upon h. duties under the
men'. IL" mate d'coterics that pcrg.eSrd aud
worried hun He learned That the S'i;cy lca was a
simple ivture ~ salicyic Hcd aud sofia bought by
wqr d. SN n u" 75 Ec Py s
Tat, the uptown factory" lie kept AZ &C. onnt @"
vrubcr 1885,. bis hSt month. to he SOS 20 and tho
expenses 300 81; the cash sales for December were
/ II tftt lilo . An
| January. 1855. were ~ 80 Al ms point the new
putuct hrrimc dishc ~nrd and closed the books. lie
rlri IL DISCHARGE Mr. Mallory. the hopkkerper thinking
that the business couldn't support his srvi''s. nu
Wa4hhurue dil not 90 on the r0a but, instead star
u,d his partner b. telling him mat owl 70 his a T.
vtriisur contract, having nearly expired. they wonli
have Ia raise money to ouild mp their al
| hsh,d businr.' Wh"I IT ~ kel Why no o'drrs
that all the hal bought largo orders ju-t be-
fore Partnership and consequently IT'D not want any
| 10 think thai the whole thing might be u swnd e.
hal certainly not been pr Irritable. rs he nd received
only $50 and hat advanced -um' 10 pay tho rent on
month, time. lie employcl fr'at Ms. lawyer. u
No w '',u.,.. u" u, l, i,.,,.. i t tbc 'S 80
! tc,tiTr To answer tho following:
80. 1000. ONLY $500 CASH. BALANCE
~. from percentage nr'n.' i9r T,ne,'a te1 '"''
realized. G. y. Herald Office.
1
w,snRrgvE eco. DRUGS.
2s7 hno&Xnw''i IT,, G@n RED 80, ST.,
DvAR SIR: Your favor received ga .u-w-r to nv al.
/ v-rti.rmcut go. s >" Her1H once. arrc dcd. II you
viii call a. my once at once may O." able to CO ne u
an ,rraogemrut witch may Prove inunIy a.. Hlr
well A. profitable. Nv business j. BOO tAc VINO 's!e drug
Irr orcc here ana factory uptown. i ALREADY sue
cs.. the past ten yr1r very rohtbe ana requires
previ'u' experience tnce'.,nt irlde h-r-S.i'aiG'
A- dr mining of the trade on the road ~
oeATe mJ enslnr,' IN the NAM, oicmp"ys'
/ - Ifsu l. " b z.
Tho detective called AZ the Office aud saw Mr. "a'h-
buruc who reiterated tho 'tltrmrn's Of the advertise
msn ami aud sad hat h. cash salns averaged at
least ; 800 month he wa at'l to show his books.
and the Ieisrrs were displayed. showing that tho con.
ccrn had sold goods during March Amounting to
| - - 90; during NAV. SIGH ~ during June.
| .,t.I mat there va. 300 per c-rt margin on tie
| good. aud that Tie net profits never icll below
/ he wa. asked who the Company" was. aud replied
~, 49, ,S ,.s mat form f,r ian. II. hlA never mad
o,,r,urr. once a rw Shrcnr4 " answered IN, aIY"r-
Ii'ruent. buL lac refused to have any nI to do with
A"earch o. the Judgment docket in the County Clerks
ONCE rcvra'Pt large number ~ un'a'hsl lldsmrhts
against Wasnhurue. who figures under 'arloo' nance,
| som, times Ernest. then as EiT'r. and asain -
! Ensene, and AWAY, IN 60 junction with Tie Com
pany." who figures n, J1hn Doe; Auons me Judgment
rr.atHrs were Isaac ". England, Thomas W. Brackcr.
| Charlie, ". Becker. Lewis X Simmons" Thomas
| people living in various parts of tn" eonntry
In the suit ~ william BALDWIN against Ernest \ Wa.h-
irrdai ~, put uppu the stand. He testified that he
lived Al No l,DtJ BfohdWF lual u, Vas slnEe' phlh
h',rd to m. father aud i1otler oi - awrek; was
,rk AZ No. 2S7 BroaIwaY fDr A. T.. Mallory, II No. -
50 MARKS Place. who Owurt TIE husiu"s'; taat Hory
kent an account In tho shoe and leather ma that he
'. ruinz morning. al al; that 10 had been sO!i ont
| hv the sheriff that he had no interest
T., tho Gusipr.s of Washbnrne & Co, having simply sold
to Nh Mallory the 81 his me- thai there were
t.,t man, judgments against lW; tbat 10 lad at one
ti,,r mariner named Van iIuuGrl, WHO had " gone
Wr.t tat he once made pl.5OO m ono Transaction
| from a man nrucd Reed. an that Wa,hourne X Co.
| yer, not making any money then. Ot course Mr..
Wahburues Young partner was In Ohssfdl Ignorance OF
| such A con .ition %! shiT-. . . 49,
ON the strength VI his discoveries Mr Moss had wash
bane arrr,c and locked NJ in ne nt0w street JAN
a.. aut La, since been prosecuting business at
| HE D d stand In broadway. 49, o,