The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-06-17
TRICKS TO ENLIvEN TRADE.
Your Picture for N othing-Cats, Frogs
and Goats in Shop Windows.
From the Neto York Sun

Your Picture for N othing-Cats, Frogs
and Goats in Shop Windows.
From the Nelo York Sun
A hungry man who was sauntering along
Eighth avenue one bright afternoon re-
short distance above Twenty third street,
and dropping into a seat at one of 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 cashier and
asked, in some surprise what it meant.
''Oh, that's all right" the cashier lsaid
''that's thrown in as an extra inducement
to patronize us. The competition 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 a camera rugged I'D
against the fence in the little yard. A pho
tographer stood beside it, and in less than
five minutes he finished a cheap tintype.
When ne left the restaurant the proprie-
tor proudly pointed to two large frames in
one corner of the establishment. 1t con-
tanned over 100 tintypes 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 collec-
ton.
"Take that out of that frame right off, y
he said, Indignantly.
'Oh, l couldn't think of it." said the pro
prietor, coolly. "If you want that removed
you'll have to sue me for putting it there
without your permission; y 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 keepers back was
turned.
The free photograph with coffee and cakes
is the latest and most remarkable novelty
in the multiplicity of devices that trades
men resort to just now to attract patronage.
A trunk de-ier in Fulton street, BROOKLYN,
draws crowd to his store daily by the ex-
hibitior of two big cats that make pecu-
liar kind of noise that is called talking. -
Ttey are called Australian talking cats, and
me 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
III front of his store blockaded
with women every fair day during
the afternoon promenade of THE fash
ionables. They crowd around to admire
two superb Angora cats that nestle at the
edge of the flower gardens in the show
windows In one window is a snow-white
Angora, and in the other is an Angora with
jet black fur. A saloon keeper in Nassau
street draws lots of custom daily by show
ing off big green frog in the front win
dow. The crowd fingers by the hour to
watch the frog dive into tank among a
lot of goldfish and little turtles. An enter
prising German further down the same
street gives passersby 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, aud
let it buck against lot of rubber figures
that it couldn't break if it tried ever so
hard. A Third avenue dealer later in the
week put 2-months-old billy goat in his
window, as an announcement to thirsty