Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1889-07-30
ADVERTISING pooaes.
Tricks to EnlIven Trade Practiced by New
York City Merchants.

tricks TO Eniiven Trade Practiced by Nsv
York City Merchants.
A hungry man who was sauntering
along Eighth avenue one bright after
noon recently walked into small res
taurant short distance above Twenty
third street, and dropping into a seat
at one OF the tables ordered some cakes
and coffee and piece Of pie. He got
two checks from the waiter when his
frugal meal was over. One bore the
figures 10. The other had the legend:
This entities the bearer to one photograph.
The customer handed it TO the CASH
Ter and asked. in some surprise. what
1t meant.
"Oh, that's all right" the cashier
said; "that's thrown in as an extra in
ducement to patronize us. The con-pe-
tition around here is SO stiff that we
have to do something TO hold on to our
business. Step out in the back yard
and our artist will take a snap at you
free"
The customer found camera rugged
up against the fence in the little yard.
A photographer stood beside it, and in
less than five minutes he finished o
cheap tintype.
When he left the restaurant the pro-
prietor proudly pointed to two large
frames In one corner OF the establish
ment. 1t contained over hundred
tintypes ranged in rows. Beneath was
placard bearing the words: my
patrons.
A few nights later the same man
entered the restaurant again, and was
amazed to see his photograph added to
the large collection.
Take that out of the frame right
Off" he said, Indignantly.
''Oh, couldn't think OF it," said the
proprietor. coolly. III you want that
removed you'll have to sue me for put
ting 1t there without your permission.
and he turned on his heel.
The man got the picture out later on.
but not until he had resorted to the
strategy OF feeling friend to rip it out
OF the frame when the restaurant keep
er's back was turned.
The free photograph with coffee and
cakes is the latest and most remarka-
BILE novelty in the multiplicity OF de-
vices that tradesmen resort to just
now TO attract patronage. A trunk
dealer In Fulton street. Brooklyn,
draws crowd TO his store daily by
the exhibition OF two big cats that
make peculiar kind OF noise that is
called talking" They are called
Australian talking cats, and the city is
flooded with circulars announcing
where they can be seen, with price
list OF trunks tackled on to picture OF
the two pets. A Broadway florist has
the street in front OF his store block
AIDED with women every day during
the afternoon promenade OF the fash
ionables. They crowd around to ad-
mire two superb Angora cats that
nestle at the edge OF the flower gardens
in the show windows. In one window
is snow-white Angora, and in the
other is an Angora with jet-blaclS fur.
A saloon keeper in Nassau street draws
lots OF custom daily by showing of
big green frog in the front window.
The crowd fingers by the hour TO
watch the frog dive into tank among
a lot OF goldfish and little turtles. An
enterprising German further down the
same street gives passers by plenty TO
laugh at in watching the antics OF five
playful kittens on the carpeted floor of
his show window.
The other day an uptown liquor
dealer advertised for a goat with
whiskers. He wanted to put the goat
In the window and let it buck against
lot OF rubber figures that it couldn't
break II it tried ever so hard. A
Third avenue dealer later in the week
put a two-months-old billy goat in his
window as an announcement to thirsty
wayfarers that there was good beer TO
drink inside, The apparent inability
OF the young goat to comprehend why
It couldn't get out TO the crowd OF
small boys who pressed close to the
window and coaxed 1t to come to them
led 1t into the performance OF ma
neuvers that were irresistibly funny.
II have tried all sorts OF things" the
saloon-keeper said. ''in the way OF
bric-a-brac and pictures, and l have
found that nothing makes pedestrians
stop and look like the display OF some
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