The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1885-01-31
A CURIOUS ENTERPRISE.
Money Made Out of the Wish "tO See
Ourselves RS Others See U.s."
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Ourselves RS Others See U.s."
New York Post.
About two years ago a young man of
Russian descent and Cincinnati birth
was standing one morning on Partisan
boulevard, wondering whatever was to
become of him. He had only two francs
in his pocket, and had already tried in
vain every means he could think of for
getting a living While he was CON
templating the black prospect for him,
gentleman stepped up to a newspaper
kiosk close by received copy OF a
paper costing two sous, laid down a
franc in payment, and walked away. 1t
was not for nothing that this young man
had been born in America, since to wit
ness this mysterious transaction was for
him the same thing as to realize that
there was place and fortune for mid
dleman between the two parties to it,
The explanation, as he learned after
ward, was that the gentleman was an
artist, that the old woman carefully
searched each mornings paper for any
remarks upon his pictures, and that
when She Iound one be gave her q franc
for the paper containing it.
What theapple was to Newton, or the
deers skull to Geo roy SAINT Iiiiaire
this monetary spectacle on the boulevard
was to Henry bomoike; in so far, at
any rate, as it pointed the way to fame,
He managed to get TO London, invested
his last penny in q copy Of The Daily
Telegraph during the picture season, cut
out the notices Of artists works and
positively peddled them from studio to
studio. The next day he WAS in posi-
ton to buy several papers, and the next
week large number, and to extend his
operations To other persons than artists.
at the present moment, so accurate was
his idee mere, and so skillfully has he
followed it up, that his handful of news
paper snipping8 has become nothing less
than THE Artistic and Literary ORE
spondence, and Universal Compendium
of the Press, with Offices where a score
of clerks, male and female, are busily
engaged all day long in cutting up great
heaps Of newspapers, pasting the cut
tingS upon printed forms, and mailing
them literally to all parts of the world.
Three Thousand English newspapers,
! roo American ones, and several hundred
published on the European continent
are thus regularly searched through and
dismembercd unaer the direction Of the
e ingenious American.
Tho papers as they come in are eX-
amined by RomeiGe himself or one Of
his head clerks French, German,
Italian, and Isussian are read in tie
Office, passages referring to any per
son or sub cct on the books OF The
bureau are marked, numbered, and a
printed slip, corrc8pondingly numbered,
and having blank spaces for the date,
name, and address OF the newspaper,
and name of the subscriber, is placed
between the leaves, and finally the
D paper is handed 10 the Lows or girls
| Who cut out the passages, stick them
on the slips, enter them in bool
and mail them. The charge made fol
] 100 notices ito see ourselves as other
! see us, or on any matter whatever
, 50, or SEQ for 500 From its humble
, beginnings, the artistic and Literar,
u correspondence" has grown into an in
StitHjon Of recogni ed merit and i'm
n portance. Among its 1000 subscriber
are a majority of the members OF par
. lament, numbers of actors, artists
n noyelists, poets, institutions, and ever
e person who makes a hobby Of an
n public matter.
When Lord Ducerin was appointe
viceroy of India, he telegraphed to Hc
meike from Constantinople to forwar
him all illusions to India. Lord Ran
# dolph (hurchill was provided wit
. 5000 cuttings about himself in eigh
- months; Barnum received 900 notice
1T of his white elephant in three days; Nh
d Chamberlain has been supplied wit
opinions concerning the Shipping legi;
lation, and Lord Derby con erning Me-
D. Guinea; the Irish members have stanC
ii ing order for cuttings upon whie
r troublesome questions to her majesty
ministers may be founded Not a fe-
persons are actuated by the same me
tive as the lady not the majors wife
who writes for all illusions to Mai -
of the --th, now serving in Egypt; an
:. Oscar Wilde, it need hardly. be added j
70 conclusion, has been a patron of the Ell
lg terprise from the first