Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1890-05-27


script, or previously agreed upon between the
parties Essssss,sssSSsz
10F4bes silent advertisements that pas over the
cOuntSF eanot be oveSsestimated-for twenty
and thirty and forty miles in dozen directions
thaW3l lean in trade that had long been look
ing for dollars worth for one dollar. sim
lgie item often catches antire naborhood. apd
Uhenitha once trade with the represertativ 81
tru valus tina vii silk to that concern for all
time. To the hoples ireclamable who has not
the hart to stand up like man and chose the
tru mercantile laws of Suces thes ernest appeals
VII pas unheded and the comercialt cycl6fIes
viii number him upon the ilfated sheets of Dun
and Bradstreet, Still the ritter sounds the sig-
nal of warning for the legions that "crowd ON
3AoWn," as well as tina who stop to read and
reson.
3 Tho TteF stood by the sido Of two trAmps
when the Foundation OF the Babel of Broadway
was IAid. DO q kno hlm1 sed the big felo.-L
Yes, sed the singed cat looking buzard and
can give his name and trade In two words,
lbroad walls 6 feet0, as tina went up, and one
sed to the otheE; ''The history of this land
mark lay in four letcrs-pluk." Another gang
OF loaiers were telling what they knu OF tho
great sky ecraper." Yes, sed red nose,
kno him %el-ten years ago, walking up and
down, to-day worth milion-le sells cheap
and gets the mony." Agen one who knu al, sed
to avery far sited looking dry goods brokers'
i"'t'te known the oner of this pile of brix and
iron and grant for years; I knu him In tho
days Of his poverty and in the after years of
his fame.-he hestrugled along adversity's terrific
paths and termed ther the open seasame to
fame.% Once again I stood by two familiar
faces. and enc sed to the other: 81 have often
met him and herd him 50 that the cheper he
sold the CRATER the results" and this was What
bilt the Aonark of'Broadwny. l knu nun OF
thes illustrators; and tho tina al thaut tha kuu
me, not ono glanc of recognition, yet 1t proves
thata al of them had. CLEANED sum facts beyond
hearTa and felt the touch of Kin to him, who,
like themselves had tasted and drank to tho
bitter dregs the cup of humiliation and adyer-
stty. Not.pue knu of the stepstones from the
! ashes OF ruin to the top, along which the wurs
than peniles bankrupt strodc with determins
alton that never bent, viii that was flxt, q
Vengenc that never slept, resolution undaunt-
ed and hrty-onc thousand belo zero. Yes,
often met thes joyial, clever feloes, who In i'm
IRgination were old familiar friends, aud cud
tel how he got up from oblivion to the shining
lheights-from the cornfleld to the acme or tho
American Metropolis. One old timer nearef
the mark than any of them said: ''Ie bleIved
ipmerit-as the longest pole nockt the persIm-
ons sthaqt the genuin argument of real vail
uee hEd ledthe genius of net spot cash into
mercantile fame a little too strong, but sfil not
far off from thetrue line. A fallen
genins who had coined 70. Stewart share of
his worldwide fame sGd that the great mer+
camille master had laid the Foundation OF the
after ,pnaproachable totals and the balauc CRU
tcaud beyond calculation. At the meridian OF
his fame the changes of life deprived the great
monark of the supervision of detail and from
that hour dated the decline of the Stewart Dy-
nasty. Still crater than he in his own peculiar
wa was Claim, whose marvellous figure and
who's record, second only to the Merchant
Prince, was awa beyond al precedent whilst
the cyclones of credit warped and twisted nf
only for a,day,) the Calm concern, to the mer!
camille autocFat of Broadway. tha wer simply
harvest fields of glory wlierr Stewart laft to
scorn. but in wclcom the titan yields. Another
age ma witness still crater struggles. and dout-
les will, but no one living now will SO them
In'the emutSitudIUous directions to tho great
gate ther ar 60 many Landmark that even gel
MUS itself often stops TO ask questions andr read
the warnings Of the sineboards as It matches
ou'by the hetacombs, the huge pyramids Of the
bleached bones that wer ono the acme Of terr
fcction; and yet al thes remnants of "other
days" wet ONE chnk ful of enthusiasm and am
biti0hi aud cud hav'tlimbd to the very top;
only that one cogiyell was wanting sprine
weak or broken. OF perhaps natur had left out
that one ipeotnprchensible. indispensable that
chatacterizes 81 the Marvellous metOrs of his
tory :; that. ono thing that distinguishes tho
knhtkD from Tie he'tnLh6wn; boil it downAun4
Her6uy; ui1derseIl. Z The LeViathan of mercan.
tile fatne:has been Eumed up in the mOnosyIa4
BILE Ofcash., Ho'merchant can climb to the
top when.the Raquetar asks but rs, often G5;
ealing agen TO mind to the level heded time
killer who remRrltt that he herd him say 'ttha
ehcpeF'he sold the more muny he made" e
not in, profit, In that that was better and moro
laStings ~ !" lia rf
It'll threadbdrc aingsoug Of that class Of
merchants who ar standing still In life'S daily
paths that ther ar not the chances NOW such aS
Ia waiting the comand of Clafin and Stewart
that the auction rooms ar not choked M slH
days in the week as tina wer in the years Of
speculation Wien thes two mercantile masters
swept up from the Omega TO tile Alpha OF tie
cOmercial Lexicon, that gold was then worth
2s5, and that values Dubbed and quadrupled by
simply holding on. The answer to this is that
the harvest fields and battle fields are as preg-
nant to brothers, genius and ambition, win Al.
ways win, gided and garded by the iron rules
Of clos margins for omuipotent bullion: the led
ger chRmpion failed then as he dus now-nine-
teeh out 0f4Wcnty and as It viii forever be when
the'credit ireclamablc gets between the tWoi ir-
esistable grindstones of credit and paftnerBhip.
AS many fel then in that prolific age .aE now
under the fatal flag of four months and the dry
rot swept from the paths of comerce as many
during the four years of the great Rebellion a.
now In the sweep Of sgresiv "cash befor deliv4
cry" or the hard times of regular terms That
ther wer streaks of LUX then is tru enuf but the
uncondido onal laws of ''the best valus" for net
spot Gosh vii comand suces now and alWsJsj
ninety-nine out of one even hundred-almost
every merchant is familiar with the romantic
story Of the majestic march of the ''FIve per
cent system" from the resurrection of Church
street 20 the mercantile Mastodon Of Bread
way, and everyone knows the unchauging law
by which we swept mp with such unering ana
marvellous swiitness- -underby-pnderseI.
CHAs. BROADWAY RoUss,
New York City.
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