The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1886-07-16
"Who's Your Tailors''

That men who wouldn't t drop count
.>erfeit nickel into the fare box of {
street car will beat tailor is fac
which can be shown every day in the
year. That men who will promptly
pay their saloon bills will stand q tail.
| or off from month to month is an6thel
fact which the knight of the goose
realizes to his sorrow. Doctors allow
ten per cent for bad debts. Tailor.
would be glad to get off with twenty.
People expect to pay the grocer and
butcher and milkman, and there are
some men who have been known te
pay DOCTORS bill on sight, but where
ono man pays the tailor when his suit
is finished, twenty stand him off for an
indefinite time.
There are various ways of beating
the tailor, and some of these ways are
constantly being practiced. The young
man about him, selects suit from the
finest goods on the counter, and in 8
very business voice observes:
''Forty-tive dollars. ehP Very we'll.
That cloth suits me-"
His measure is taken. The tailor
knows him by name, and has some.
where at sometime heard that he had
plenty of money. The order is to send
the suit home. If the tailor refuses he
may lose good customer. If he com.
plies he may lose good suit. He
sweats over it for awhile, and then
sends the suit. In due time the bill is
sent after it, but the days 60 by and
there Is no response. A collector hunts
up the young man and gently hands
out the bill.
''llumph! Guess that tailor must be
hard up! Forty-tive dollars! I'll
never pay it! Tho price of that suit
was to be $3O!'
"The books show charge of $45.
SIR"
Cant help what the books show.
know what the figures were to be.
Here's $40 on account, and I want O
correct bill next time"
The young man plays q game of bluff,
and if tho tailor gets the last of the $45
inside of year he is lucky.
A business mana man known to be
doing good business and keeping a
bank accounts welcomed by the
tailor. His order is promptly taken
and his suit sent home ut the earliest
moment. The account is looked upon
as SO much cash. Twenty days later
the tailor wants 10 meet bill, and he
makes out IL statement of Mr.. Business
Mans account, and says to the boy:
''Just rum in to Mr.. Business Man
Office and bring back his check for
$50"
"Bill. ch?" queries Business Man.
"From the tailor? u! see! I'm short
just now, bub. You might come in
next week"
Next week may mean seven-four.
tcen-thirty or sixty days, or it may
mean lawsuit before the account is
settled. That same man would take
the coat of his back to settle an ac-
count for furniture, crockery or car
pets.
Then there comes the young man
with the honest face and smooth
tongue. HIS name is Condolences; he
works in such an Office; his salary is
so much per week: hc wants new
suit; and here are $40 down. He will
pay the balance in couple of weeks.
The tailor is referred to Mr.. A. and
Mr.. b. and forty other citizens. and he
books the order. lie has been beaten q
dozen times by just such chaps, but
perhaps this one is square. The suit is
sent to the place designated. and n
fortnight rolls round. a third week
passes. and then the bill is sent. Moth
ing is heard from il, and the collector
calls.
"Mr. Confidence" echoed the gem
tlcman in the Office. '.Why, he left
here two weeks ago for Chicago and
will not return
Some fine morning millionaire cn-
tcrs the tailor's door and makes an in
spect;on of the finest cloths, and he
orders - suit made in tho most expen-
| sive style. He can draw his check for
$500, 600 tomorrow, and he has farms
and line lands and city lots until you
can't rest. The suit is sent home
Thirty days thereafter the bill is sent by
mail. No reply. Ten days after q
collector calls ut the millionaire Office.
"Gonc South" replies the man in
charge.
"When do you expect him back?''
"In about two months"
In about two months the collector
turns up again.
ayes, he was back the other day, but
has now gone East
"Will he be home soon?"
"Probably not for several months. as
ho will 60 to Europe from New York"
II the tailor depended on that money
to feed Ills family every soul would be
dead of starvation, buried in Potter's
Field and forgotten by the world before
the rich man drew his check.
There is still another smooth-tongued
deadbeat. He is the tramp newspaper
man, He lights down from nobody
knows where, skips into newspaper
Office. tells a tale of woe, and rs q mat
ter OF charity is given a few days work
at clipping or reporting to help him
out. Ho pays visit to the nearest
tailor and explains:
Say. old fellow. Tve got a sit OH
the Herald. and want Il new suit of
clothes. You don't know me, of course,
but the cashier will guarantee me-
Come over and see him."
The cashier will guarantee to keep
back SO much per week from the mans
wages for the tailor as long as he re.
mains, Or until the debt is paid, and
the suit is made and delivered. The
fellow may work two weeks. and he
then floats away toward sunset and the
tailor tigbtens bis belt for conflict
with tile next customer. Free
Press.