The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-01-30
"rO WHAT BASE USES"
Fashionable Men About Town Who are
Paid to Boom Tailors and Wine Dealers.

"ro WHAT BASE USES"
Fashionable Men About Town Who are
Paid to Boom Tailors and Wine Dealers.
New YORK, Jan. 15.-The suit now
pending in the courts here eagainstyoung
Claggets, man about town, brings to
light peculiar practice on the part of
swell and shrewd advertising firms.
Claggett, being something OF high liver
and fond of expensive wines, lad be-
come quite figure about the uptown
resorts for the fashionable young men to
copy their manners after. His dress
was faultless, nnless exception be made
to occasional gandiness, and at one time
he was in great feather as rival of
Berry Wall for the title of ''the dude of
New York" Claggett's income was not
more than sufficient to keep him fashion
ably dressed and vel! fed.
Gradually he began to set the fashion
in dress, and made name as the lmbiber
of large quantities of wine of various
grades. His occupation was an interest
ing one. He was employed by big tea
importing firm, downtown, to taste and
pass on the merits of samples of tea. His
sense of smell Was most accurate, and be
could price pound of tea with a few
leaves placed foot from his nose.
Seemingly a trivial occupation, that
of tasting tea is not only profitable
business, but technical one, requiring
an artist in the matter of smell to deter
mine the purity of different grades Of
tea.
Claggett got to be much talked of, and
his name soon reached the ears of firm
which imports certain brand of cham
palgue not yet well introduced intro
duced in this country. 1t occurred to
this firm of importers tGat Claggett
could be OF service 70 them by making
their champagne popular to the wealthy
fellows with whom he associated in the
evenings when not engaged tasting or
smelling tea. A contract was made
by the terms of which Claggett was to
drink publickly no other brand of im-
ported wine, to praise up its qualities
and to do all in his power to introduce
the firms article wherever he took
drink. For this he was to receive the
sum of fifty dollars weekly and as much
of the firms wine as he chose to consume
himself in the presence of associates.
The contract WAS signed by both parties
ard Claggett went to work to fulfill his
side of the agreement. Itappears, how
ever, il the light of subsequent events
that Claggett has undertaken TIE iob for
no less than two other importing firms.
He drank ali three brands and is not
known to have expressed publicly any
preference whatsoever, and at least did
not stimulate the sale of the particular
brand which he had received fifty dollars
week to make popular with the boys.
The firm politely wrote to Claggett
that he had failed to keep the contract,
and the tea smelling swell replied that
be didn't care q farthing about the firms
wishes, and didn't see why they should
bother him with letters. Now he is be-
ing sued in the courts here for breaking
the contract.
It is well known that for several years
Berry Wall derived comfortable income
from an importing firm and firm of
tailors for drinking certain brand of
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that particular firm of tailors. The pay
of member of Congress is said to have
been Wallis income from these two
sources up to the dsy of his marriage,
and be might have continued to enjoy it
had he remained single. he was an ad-
vertlsing sandwich for firm of haber-
dashers as well, and when any one was
struck with Wallis new fad in neckties,
he was promptly told where others like
them could be had.
T. Lous Onstsvis, the Latest and most
fashionable evolution Of Gotham swell
who has striven manfully to be con-
sidered the prince o: good dressers ard
extra7agant hvers, is said to have been
bagged months ago by two advertising
men, one OF whom is the agent of an
English firm of tailo.s, While the other
represents certain braid of ale. Many
Of the sveus VINO are talked about every
where in New York have lent themselves
to this device of advertising special wares,
and in the future IL may be necessary
for every large tsilor-store and wire-im-
porting firm to have in its emplcg a
special a dverti>:ng sandwich in the per
SOL OF swell spendtnrift to lounge
about clubs, hotels and saloon, privately
working up boom in champagne and
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