The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1889-03-05

Under THE KLARTxG GASOLINE
Secrets Told By Nan wrhs Kseu
Whas 10 do when strapped.
New yo<k sun-
There are heaps OF fellows burning
gasoline In different parts Of the coun'
try Who call themselves dandy fakirs
bat am not the least modest In my
barking, and I tel you ths.t am thu
king oil them all. said Davy HarTing
ton OF Hoboken one night last week
I"l're been in the huxiness Is years
and / guess whas I've made and
bowed In during thar time woaldn'l
fall far short OF $4,000. Not that
haven't been strapped at times. bat
I've never been on my uppers, and
never see . place that / couldn'
work for q nights lodging and
three square meals in q first.
class house. I never booze, and al
WAYS keep my face clean and ny
clothes slick Let me tell ron. young
man, that don't care what your bszs-
mess Is. If il Is ab0ve ground and IN
the light of day, or the light OF > gas
oline torch, either, the secret OF sue
cess Is i'm making good front, keep
ing your clothes clean, and studying
human nature. Be jolly ii you can,
and turn the laugh on every body that
tries 10 kid yon- The crowd viii al
ways be with you then The jays al
ways like to see the village smarties
downed by fiy fakir, and c0nse'
quentIy IL does me proud to have q
clown say something cunning 10 me
and give me a chance TO down him.
Then the gang gives him yell and he
looks sheepish. He always answers
back in half hearted way. and as he
sneaks TO the rear one of his friends
says. Gosh blame me EFF he didn't
hev ye there. Hank
Then I began TO take in the dimes
and quarters. My pertickler line Is
selling anything there's money in.
Don't care what il Is; it's bound 70 90
if it is new aud good for anything, and
at pinch I will sell things that ain I
new. provided I can make people
think they are cheap. / am always
skinning around, looking for JOB lots.
remember four years ago got hold
OF a lot of German mouth organs that
were damaged by smoke and water in
a Broadway fire. There was % gross
of them. and | took the lot at 81 a
gross. The rock-bottom price on them
was IS 30 gross. / took them home
and sot the boys TO fixing EN- up.
Each one was wrapped IN red paper
and they was done up in dozens in red
wrappers. The wrappers was all
spoiled. and every instrument had &c
be unwrappea and wiped off, There
wasn't one in the hull lot that wasn'i
as good as the day it was made.
Well. couldn't play note when
got them, but sot right down and
tried and in less than week could
play Home. Sweet Home and The
Last Rose OF Summer When ! got
my hand in found II easy enough &c
learn new tunes, and when ! knowed
four tunes took two gripsacks full oil
the mouth organs and started out
1.-The first town | struck was Hack
ensack, and in one night | sold nearly
gross OF them at dime each.
came back home on late train. and
started out next day with bigger
load and struck Paterson. | did vel
there, and went to Newark. Morris
town, Dover. Phillipsburg, Easton
Scranton, Wilkesbarre, and back
through Belvidere, Trenton, New
Brunswick, plainfield and Elizabeth
My boys kept sending me stock
ahead, until one day when | was wait
| ing in Elizabeth for q box to take over
onto Staten Island. got a telegram
telling me that had sold all but Que
and that the baby wouldn't give that
one up. In little more than q
month | had sold the whole 25 gros:
| for over $l4 a gross. and cleared over
$780, 1t was the best job ever did
and 1t showed me that there is moth
ing like music to catch the country
lads No; 1t wouldn't pay me to pay
So 40 for u new lot, and continue ths
business. Fakirs amt built that way
1t don't pay to bum around the coun
try and shout for less than four o.
FIVE hundred per cent. profit.
Il once made stake on lot o.
pongee handkerchiefs, selling then
for 10 cents when they cost me abou
., but the next lot cost me S, and
lost money on the trip. One hundred
per cent. amt enough.
/ THE funniest deal ever made wa;
to buy out q lot of old-style wall paper
at cent roll and peddle that oui
through Pennsylvania. | had Eel
low with me that had al. elegan
voice, and he used TO sing to get /
crowd. / was strapped in Scranton
once with this same fellow. That wa.
| Is years ago. We were walking around
town with bat a nickel to our names
when | stopped TO look at fellow
greasing the axles OF wagon. III,
stepped on my corn and made ms
veil. When | told him what allied ms
he said that axle grease was the hes
| thing in the world for corns, and hs
| told me to take some of il with me
| That set me thinking, and / told my
pal that ii wouldn't be bad fake u
go into the corn salye business.
borrowed a dollar of the bar
keeper in the Lacy house
and bought box of axls
| grease for 20 cents. Then | went to 4
drug store and got about hundred
little pill boxes for the balance of the
money. We filed all of the boxes ou
OF the big box. and that night We
| started business on q packing case
| and sold 90 boxes at p cents each
him singing ana me lecturing. Yes
lecturing is what he call it. Nv,
worked the axle grease snap since, hu
III stake all that I've got in this worit
that the first time ii ever was worked
was when we started ii that night ii
Scranton. IL has got 10 be such
Shestnut now that fellow has got Il
put on lot of front TO do it. becaus.
50 many folks are onto IT, | think i
is the only skin game ever was into
and IL amt such skin either. for i
you get Cincinnati axle grease ii vii
cure corns.
II never worked the brown soa,
racket. ths psi'iS o many young fel
lows out q, {. oa.s Acie in a strang,
i city. You knpu what that is, don 7
yong No. Well, will tell you. The,
take a common bar of brown soap, Gu
1t ap into inch pieces, and wrap each
piece up IN green glazed paper and sci
u tor Persian grease extractor. ",
business Is legitimate or nothing, ane
!, man knows the ropes he can enc
lots of things going cheap that will sci
in the country towns. ! bought hun
dred reams OF cheap gilt-edgea writin,
paper once and sold every bit of il il
Jersey towns. When ! couldn't re
cash | would take chickens and eggs
had wagon then and one o. M,
kids with me. | know lots OF fellow,
who work crooked snaps, like sellin.
dyed rock salt to keep lamps from ex
ploding, ink extractor, nickel platins
fluid, snd such snide fakes, but the,
are all poor ] don't know A crooked
fakir that works for anything but hi,
bed, board, and booze. while lots OF tn,
square ones, Ike Dayy. has got iheil
little houses aud bits of land wfrl