Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1890-02-23
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Aoney Than MAAAE0fG
ut will probably surprise most peo-
ple.' said one'of the partners ineAtdry.
goods hrm the otherday, ..to know that
frequently some of the subordinate I'm
pioyes receive larger remuneration than
tho man In whose hands rcsts the main
responsibility for running bnsinesa
The men who usually mako the most
money In the very large firms arc not
the superintendent and his chief IS
s%istants. but the buyers OF departments
THE nominal salary OF buyer Ia
this house Is much less than that of the
superintendent, but the spperintend-
ent's salary, with the exception Of =
New Years present from the firm, Is
practically the extent OF his Income.
The buyers salary, on the contrary, Is
usually the least part OF his earnings.
Tho responsibility OF d buyer ends with
his purchasing for. his department all
b the trado could possibly demand
OF the quality desired by the customer.
and at a price which will allow tho firm
q good profit while making the article
cheap for the purchaser. II; moreover,
he can undersell some other firm. he Is
pleasing his firm immensely,., and Ia
sure to get a substantial check as .
New-Year's offering.
I'm addition to this The jobbthg firms
which sell to tho retailers must compete
with each other to secure tho favor OF
the buyer. To illustrate: The buyer in
our china department receives q salary
,otS3, 900 a year, and he annually can OK
pect from tho 1fm q ptesentiqtSLooo. I
havo not tho slightest doubt that no
gets fully as much, If not more, in
presents from tho firm from whom no
buys. Dishonest Well. perhaps SO,
strictly speaking, but tho fact is that
h custom, although not openly adj
mitted, is very general Tho firm
knows 1t, but, as l have already said
their interest in the matter ends when
tho buyer secures the right kind Of
stock at tho right price. Tho way in
which tho jobbing firms give those pres
onts makes it next to impossible t. get
direct evidence, even If tho firm SO de-
sired.
cit might be said that II. they did not
have to mako these gifts they could az
ford to soil their goods for less money,
and thus increase tho profits of the re-
tail firm; but tho fact Is that, after all,
considering the Immense sales, tho
money given in this way by any ono
firm would not materially affect tho
prices II they were turned in to our ac-
count The very fact that the custom
Is so general and that the retail firms
know 1t Is an answer to most objections.
1 have oven known of cases where tho
buyer Of o department. who was par
.ticularly successful, refused to take q
partnership because his profits rs an
employe wcre larger han he had any
reason to hope for as a partner. There
are a number in this town. whose in
como ranges from $40, 900 to So5, 900 n
year, while there are mighty few super
intendents who touch the lower OF these
fgures."-N. Y. Sun
OF GENERAL INTEREST.
IA London paper tells OF q dog which,
having run away from its. now master,
travelled fifty miles over nm unknown
country to its old home, arrived there
tho day after starting. ~
An officer who bought for a triie an
old desk In Montreal was led by marks
on tho cover to make On Investigation.
that proved the article one Of such
historic interest that tho English gov
ernmcnt has given him ole thousand
dollars for 1t. ,:.E
"A big poplar tree was feIled ut
Utica, Ind, recently, and as 1t struck
mo ground o large limb broke of, in the
heart of which was found tho antlers of
q door, q cows horn and "a number OF
curious shells. Tho mystery is how
thoy got thore.
"A prominent ranchero of the Upper
Plato valley, Wy. T., lately issued m
odd challenge to the botting fraternity
of tho universe. Ho will wager his
place and stock against SO, 900 that in
any stated hunting seagon within throo
years no will, unaidcd, kill fifty grizzly
bears in tho Elk Mountain and Medicine
Bow ranges.
"A family in Henry County, Ca, con-
sists OF threo mothers, throo sons, two
grandmothors, threo grandsons, ono
groat-grandmothor, ono .:~daughter-in-
law, one husband, ono granddaughter.
in-law, two brothors, one daughter,
two grca~t-grandsons, N wife, two
widows, II grandmother-in-law, and
thcro arc only ak in the family.
"A Murfroesboro Tom woman wont
into the post-ofce and demanded n
letter. When told that there was mono
"a Seiu u huDW IilOIo was uuu WuuO
the clork look four or five times. When
she became finally convinced she left
the Office in q great rage, saying TINT
sho was going to make that old colored
fortune-teller refund tho money she had
paid hor.
-Parlsians have lately been enter
tanned by a remarkable nrtist who dis.
plays wonderful skill in her peculiar
form Of painting. With plates Of va
! riousc olorod sand before'k6r she takes
tho sand in hor right band and causes
It to fall In beautiful designs upon a
table. AIbunch Of: gssRos is pictured
with violet sand, O., leaf with greoii
sand, tho stalks with brown sand, and
relief and shadows BY othor sands; whert
tho work is brushed away a bouquet Of
roses and othor objects arc represented
with tho samo d~oxterlty and dolicaoy. /
Tho most polite nation in diplomat
10 intercourse is belgium. Whom tho
Belgian authorities addressed a letter
to this dovorninon asking IL the Unitod
States still claimed as citizens ali chill
dron OF alton parents born hero, tho com.