The Bozeman weekly chronicle. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1883-1889, 1886-05-19

$50 you are an editor?7 said one bright,
energetic-looking young fellow, who looked
for all the world like a rising young mer-
chant or broker "Well, | made quite a
little pile out OF your brethren of the pen last
summer. | was strolling up Fulton street
one day when CHANGED to spy one OF thoss
toy ty; ewriters in a window. 1t was sim
ply wire with an alphabet Of rubber letters
strung on it and retailed for ST. An idea
struck me and | went into the place and
made bargain with the man to buy 100 of
them for 500, paid $40 deposit, and took one
of the machines home to play with. 1t struck
me that the average editor considers himself
particularly we'll posted and would, there
fore, be uHwary and good game. had lot
writer Exchange and Repairing company
made a speciality Of dealing in second hand
typewriters, and that it now had ON hand
large number of machines more or less
used, but all in good condition These put
down in three classes, at $2j, $40 and $50, re-
spectively, and wound up with a glowing
eulogy upon the merits of the typewriter as n
labor saving device. 1 took these circulars
and mailed them to a carefully selected list
of papers, each with a letter TO the editor,
telling how charmed l was with his particu-
lar paper, how l appreciated its value as an
advertising medium, and offering a type
writer of any Of the three classes for half
cash and half advertising. 1t was not long
before the answers begaz to come in, and
nine-tenths of the letters contained cash To
make long story short, in less than three
weeks l sold my 100 typewriters, which cost
me GO cents each, at an average of $50 apiece,
and all to editors But then now the abusive
letters began to pour in. They were posi-
70,
that | was an Internal swindler but that if
I'd send a circular to the editor of the rival
paper, in the next town, I'd catch him, and
the writer would call things square sent
the circular and caught the editor The
young man paused, and one of the company
broke in with:
"That is like Bob's old game of advertising
fine steel engravings of Washington, Frank
lin and Garfield for fifty cents each and send
ing one, three and five cent postage stamps
in reply
Advertising pays" commented a hand
some young fellow, with a drawl in his voice
and n dropping blonde mustache. "Last
spring I had nothing TO do, and only about
$500 in my pockets. I knew if / stayed in
New York / should blow it in at faro, so I
decided to take a run up to Poughkeepsie.
provided myself before going with a lot of
photographs Of goodJooking girls and put up
at the best hotel in the place. Then sent
Personal advertisement to big newspaper
in New York, Philadelphia and Boston:
YOUNG LADY, RECENTLY GRADUATED FROM
a Vassat possessing decided aramasc anlilty, nIt
teman who will assist ner in hitting for the stage
Address VIOLA box 10. Poaghkeepsie T. o.
~The answers came in perfect stacks. did
not know there we're SO many enthusiastic
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The best and opened correspondence. can
write Iady's band After had hooked my
fish | sent ON a photograph. Then [ ex-
planned that would need from S2a to 500
to get to New York Boston or Philadelphia,
as the case might be, and as | thought my
victim would stand, and the notes began to
come in. cleared over 81, 100 in two weeks
and concluded to close things up. wrote to
my New York admirers that would come
to town by certain train, and asked each to
meet me at the Grand Central depot with a
red rose in his left buttonhole, for identified
tion. As walked down the platform | was
greeted by the comical sight cf no ,ess than
forty well-diessed men, with red roses in
their left outtonholes, each trying to look
unconcerncl and each suspecting all the
1thers.a
every cIever," commented ore of the
group and served the old rascals right, too
But think Archie's picture trick was about
as neat as any"
0What was thatg' inquired
GWhy, you know Archie is a very clever
fellow, belongs to good family, is Har-
ward graduate; he's always up TO some
scheme which is simply Napoleonic in its
Dol lness replied the first speaker. @Not
long ago an old gentleman, who is wealthy
iron manufacturer out west and a great art
collector, came to New York and registered
at one of the big uptown hotels Archie had
his eye on him, and early the next morning
called He saw the old gentleman and repre-