Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-12-16
THE 7. P. A.
Doings of the Jolly Travellers in All
Parts of the State.
Progress of Esorts to Establish a Club at Fort
Worth-The Coming Meeting-Personal
and Other Interesting Items.
INVITATION TO CLUE MEETING

ne IOllOWlng CIRCULAR was issued yes
terday, TO every member of Post A of the
T. P. A +. ;.and those who miss their mail
can considPT this publication full invi-
tation TO come to the meeting:
DEAR SIR suppose you are aware the
citizens of Fort Worth have subscribed
$500 to furnish T. P. A. Club, and
now it remains to be seen if the travelling
men of Fort Worth have energy aud
pluck enough to accept the same and
carry it through successfully. Saturday
night, December %, there will be a spe-
cial meeting of the Il. p. A.
to permanently organize the club
and we must have twenty members pres
ent who will sign the agreement TO stand
by the club for one year and run it in a
becoming manner. If your business is
such you cannot attend the meeting
please write me letter stating whether
or not you wish TO become one of the
solid twenty for charter members. Re-
spectfully yours, ,..
ROBERT C. STOCKTON,
President Post A, 7. p. A.
w. B. Wells is registered at the Pick
wick for Sunday, and will start for st.
Louis Monday.
f. J. Anderson has completed ar
engagements to establish Texas branch
of the Gilbert Book Company in Fort
Worth E. J. will still hold the road
however, but will be in town oftener and
stay longer when he comes.
Al. Stewart is back with Sprague
Warner g. Co. of Chicago, and is getting
his old trade back very fast.
O.Seligman has been resting in town all
week, and will not do much more travel
ing this year.
s. H. Soyster of st. Louis got in last
night, and if his wife does not return he
will go to st. Louis to spend the holiday IS
with her. S. II is one of the solid twenty
for the club.
L. Rothchilds, Chicago, will spend
Sunday at the Ellis.
A. X. Ellis, St. Louis, is at the Pick
wick for several days.
J. 6. NJ. Gordon, Baltimore, can be
found at the Piclkwick by his many
friends.
W. wuer, New York, will Sunday at
the Ellis.
man from Galveston, will spend Sunday
at the Ellis =.
W. F. Adams, New York; left last
hiGht IVA ACpiistos
NJ. A. DeWolf, Philadelphia, is at the
Ellis, and will give the trade a hard
working Monday.
J. w. Sugg, one of st. LOUIS hist
ling angels, will spend Sunday at. the
Pickwiclt. -
Charles Refunds, st. JoseRh, No.
will Sunday at the Pickwick.
a great many Of the foreign travelling
IN Iyprl.inn thai,. 70
spend the holidays and make new ar
engagements for the next year, 1t is
hoped all the boys will get raise of 80
per cent. and come back to Texas feeling
happy. The 7. p. a. club will likelXbG
fitted mp by that time, and the BOYS will
have nice, pleasant place to spend their
evenings.
NJ rstein New York will be one >0f
the mauy guests ut the Ellis to-day
G. j . Miller, Chicago, will spend a
quiet Sunday ut the Ellis to-day. &,
fun attendance OF the MEM
bers of the local association is
requested at the meeting ut the
Pirkwirll hotel Saturday evening, De-
camber %. The session will open at s
'cloc6 sharp.
The Que-y is raised, Is there such a
thing rs hotel committee in connection
with the T. p A.? If there is il keeps
very quiet, ana the boys are beginning to
imagine il is Il myth.
The legislative committee have got
great task before them to work on the
Interstate commerce law. The plan
laycd by President Pickering is So plain
and simple and can he worked so easily
that it is to be hoped the committee Will
get to work.. 1t is doubtful if there is 4
wholesale or retail firm i'll the state that
would not sign the petition fit was prop
erly drawn up and placed before them.
The committee owe it TO themselves as
well as to the order they represent, to
do their best work on this affair.
J. a. McHule, who has been every
where credited with the authorship of the
phrase lin the soup is in the city.
Mac denies the charge, but he handles
the phrase with Il carCleSsneSS that would
Indicate he hAs bought out all franchises.
A list is published of some twenty
seven roads that are issuing 50O0-miie
tickets.
The Shoe and Leather Gazette attrib-
utes the extension of the commercial-
traveller systemic the increase .of rail
ways i'll al sections Of the country, en-
abIing the DEALER through travellers, TO
seek the buyer .and bring f,he market to
the very door of'the retailer:| ="
1t may be safely said that not one
drummer in ten likes his situation, says
the Trade Review. After the novelty of
the life wears off, an intense loathing of
the road grows upon him. There is
something utterly repugnant to the aver
age man in being obliged, willy uilly, to
HURRY from place to place as if driven by
an engine. To married man it is
especially so, and therefore most drum
mers are young and single.
1t was mainly through the instrument
tally of the T. p. A an influential or
ganization-that the drummer tax was
abolished. Several little penny Squealers
that CAL themselves organs claim the
orr American Commercial Trav-
eler.
Colonel Ingersbll ostentatiously an
NJ 1nces that there is no God. But as
the Colonel boasts he is a self-made man,
he worships his creator, that is himself.
He can grasp the strap of his boots and
throw himself over the universe.
Friend Ito a gushing lawyer who has
just cut his political eye-teeth on the
chair backs of ward club)-Why do
you commence your letter my Dear
Harrison when you have no personal
acquaintance with the successful candi-
date?
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