Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1889-08-21
ADVERTISING ooDGES.
xz4eNs to Enlven Trade Practiccd by New
York Ctty Merchants.


xzsexs to Enliven Trade Practiccd by New
York CITY Merchants.
4 hungry man who was saunterine
along Eighth avenue one bright after
noon recently walked into a small res.
taurant a short distance above Twenty.
third street, and dropping into seat
at one of the tables ordered some cakes
and coffee and a piece of pie He got
two checks from the waiter when his
frugal meal was over. One bore the
figures Is. 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
10 meant.
''Oh, that's all right" the cashier
said; .'that's thrown in as an extra in
ducement to patronize us. The compe-
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 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
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
sintypes ranged in rows. Beneath was
a 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. IF you want that
removed you'll have to sue me for put
ting it there without your permission"
aud he turned on his heel
The man got the picture out later on,
but not until he had resorted to the
strategy of feeling a 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-
bic novelty in the multiplicity of de-
vices that tradesmen resort to just
now to attract patronage. A trunk
dealer in Fulton street. Brooklyn,
draws a crowd to his store daily by
the exhibition of two big cats that
make a 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 trout 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
I'm the show windows. In one window
is a snow-white Angora, and in the
otter is an Angora with jet-black fur
Asaloon keeper in Nassau street draws
lots of custom daily by showing off a,
big green frog in the front window
The crowd fingers by the hour to
watch the frog dive into a tank among
o 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 goat with
whiskers. He wanted to put the goat
In the window and let it buck against
a lot of rubber figures that it couldn't
break if it tried ever SO hard. A
Third avenue dealer later in the week
put 3 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
IL couldn't get out to the crowd of
small boys who pressed close to the
window and coaxed it to come to them
led 1t into the performance of ma
neuvers that were irresistibly funny.
'"I have tried all sorts of things" the
salcon-keeper said. lin the way of
bric-a-brac and pictures, and l have
found that nothing makes pedestrians
stop and look like the display of some
thing that is alive and kicking. and
Slly goat is about the kickingest thing
Hsxt to a mule that you can find. /
couldn't put mule in the window be-
cause the glass insurance people
wouldn't stand it, and so ] got the
Teat. A live mule would be an i'm
aense hit. though, and don't you for
get tn Y. Sun.