Sacramento daily record-union., 1888-08-03
COMMERCIAL TRAVELLERS.
a Chat With Prominent Member oI
that Fraternity,


that Fraternity.
That Sacramento is regarded as one OF
the best trading communities on the coas:
is evidenced by the daily influx of COM
mercial men, which is steadily growing.
One of our leading hotels booked no less
than forty travelling agents in one day last
week, and retail dealer informed a reporter
that he alone had given an order to one Of
these agents-representing firm that deals
in holiday goods-for So 900 worth OF goods.
These commercial men are generally keen
witted and observing. They travel all over
the country, and have unusual opportuni-
ties for observing the condition of the peo
pie and the drft of trade. and they invari-
ably say that they look forward with pleas
ure to their arrival in this favored part OF
the Pacific coast.
Among other arrivals in Sacramento yes-
terday was Colonel Harry Comstock, a gem
tleman who enjoys the reputation of being
perhaps the besttraveled commercial man
on the continent. He has spent wears in
India, China, Egypt, and other far foreign
lands, while pushing American manufart-
ures to the 'front.' and is better known
among the nobility in ttoJe distant lands
than many OF our diplomatic agents, as his
dealings have always been with Govern
ment officials. 1t Is owing largely to Colonel
Com5tocks energy and business abilities
that American made arms are so largely
used in the armies ofChina, Japan and other
foreign lands, as it is in this department
of commerce that his talents have been
usually employed. Our readers will per
haps recall a very interesting and extended
interview with this gentleman. published
in these columns a couple of years ago on
his return from three years journey
through the interior of China III which
the habits and custums of the people were
more fully and clearly described than by
any other modern traveller in that mvste-
rious land.
Since then Colonel Comstoek has estab-
| iished himself at Syracuse, n. Y, as one
of the firm manufacturing the New Baker
fowliug- piece. His long experience rs a
commercial traveller. he says, had con-
vinced him that great demand existed
for gun that would equal in shooting
! qualities and durability the higher-priced
| arms and at the same time be within the
| reach OF sportsmen of moierate means, and
| this demand he claims his firm is now err-
gagged in supplying. In the manufacture
of the New Baker gun the full value is put
| into the material and shooting qualities
so that the sportsman gets the best possible
| results at the least possible cost. Persons
who have used these guns speak in the
| highest terms of their shooting qualities.
| Having placed some orders here, Colonel
Comstock departed for San Francisco
whence be will go through Texas, New
| Mexico and the Southern States, and viii
! be ii Sacramento again in the spring.
| Speaking of Sacramento, he said yester
| day that nowhere-in all his travels-has
| he ever found more delightful climate al
| all seasons of the year than in the Sacra
mento valley, and nowhere in the Union
\ (for its population) has he found COM
munity more business-like and hourishing
| than the Capital city.