The Daily Tombstone., 1886-04-13
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country, and that their expetse ac- counts alone will average $500 q year each. This for expenses alone means an outlay of $120,000,000 a year, and if you will count in an aver age salary of $1,000 a year each it will swell the total to $200,O00 900 a year. This immense sum is scattered all over the United States. It keeps up the hotels, and is one of the most important items of railroad passenger receipts. The character of the travell- ing salesman has changed within decade past. You will find very few boys and fewer drunkArds upon the road. The competition is so great and the expense so heavy that firms have to send out their best men, and sal aries of 5000 and $5.000 year are by no means uncommon.
 Said this salesman: "These trayell- ing men sell all sorts of gouds. Some of them carry half dozen heavy trunks and others carry their samples in their overcoat pockets. One man I know gets 5000 year for selling the skins which butchers put around sausages. He dresses like a Broad- way swell and carries his samples in d bag no larger than lady's shopping satchel. The best of such skins are made in Europe, and butchers buy of him everywhere. Then there is man 1 know who travels from Boston to San Francisco and sells nothing but one grade of boot blacking, Some travellers sell by pictures of the arts icles they have 10 sell. Clothing forms the largest class of drummers, and next come those who sell boots and shoes. Then We have the dry goods salesmen, the grocer, the hardware men, hats and caps, and others as numerous as there are trades and factories"
 Travelling men," this gentleman continued, "are as rule bright, gen erous fellows. They spend freely and many of them when they become old and leave the road find themselves poor. We have now project to take care Of disabled travelling men. It is travelling mems home. to be en. dowCd hy travelling men and to he devoted to their use. Tn idea is that each one of the 5000 travellers is to give $1 a year for the next three years to such an institution. This will make total of $240,000, and from this We will buy farm in Kentucky or some other good locality and erect com fortable buildings with reading-rooms, parlors and chambers, 90 that the oc uupants can have all of "the comforts of life during their declining years. We will further endow the home by a wear or two more of contributions and | the institution will be under the care Cf competent board of managers, This project is, I understand, to be submitted to the next annual meeting of merchant travellers. It has many supporters among travelling salesmen and will not be surprised if it is car ried out."-Cleveland Leader.
 Ike Isaacs has on exhibition at the Delta, photographs ot every sporting man, slugger, wrestler, foot racer of any note in the world. It will repay the visitor to go and examine the same as many represent life like pictures of men about town.
 Tim Taft says that hn runs the only legitimate opposition line from this city to Fairbank, and that he vii continue to run the same if 1t takes all summer to get there. Fare Poets. Book yourselves at Harry SteYenson's Willows Saloon.
 It is a noticeable fact that only g very few of the young men who signed the request to Rev. MT. Has kins to give course of lectures, at- tend tho same. The attendance from o her sources however is very large.
 A speciality company consisting of thirty-four people, with a brass band of twenty five musicians will enter tain the public at Schieffelin Hall, on