Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1891-02-19
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The Genius Who stacks Up the ..Eaiirss
and Start linn en- To Fortune.
Out of the Ia ing crowd. through the
giant ninepins Of rolled paper and groups
Of blackened machiDists and crowding
trucks and past pie shops and screened
gambling dens till your hurried pace drives
YOU to the street center, where at last YOU
lind no obstacle to quick progress but mud,
and then-quiet.
You are in lower Ann stree, with life
last throbbing left behind and deathlike
quiet in the swamp" beyond
Dodging push cart loaded to the brim
with musty novels, their musty titles max
ing known their morally cobwebbed con
tents, you rush on with Broadway haste
your nostrils filled with fetid rag odors
from nearby junk shops, till your nervous
eye reads among mass of fellow creak-
ers, the sign Il. Brasher, Peddlers Sup
piled"
Through a grimy, dark entrance You feel
your way. aided by the faint burst of light
a smoky sky pane gives to the space ahead
when you suddenly find yourself in a
square room, piled ceiling high with shelves
on which are small paper boxes and pack
ages and Irvine and bundles innumcrable,
for their contrast with the neigilboring
labyrinths of old bottles and tea lead-all
this at one glance, and l.isa our eve lights
on the other ham i q upaut of this queer
place and your s'a,. OF surprise at sight of
him is ansgc red by his quiet glance of
pride of proprietorship at his reeking
shelves, and you glow you are confronting
the ''peddler's friend"
Hafe a tal1aannf cftrprfen fhfa r,,fff.tltar
of street shouters. Six feet tall, with
gentle, quiet voice that comes through
pearly teeth, smooth shaven ami spotlessly
linened, ANA he tells you how he started In
at years OF age 70 earn his bread and pie,
and you are surprised again t. find that
he's been at il twenty-cight years, and you
are convinced that mushrooms and soft
crabs must be his present diet, when lie
confidentally tells you that he can call on
his bank now for $4,000
''Sore eyedn merchants, he says, are my
opportunity always-importers who bring
novelties here that won't sell till their op-
ties are disturbed &C constant sight of
dead" stock
"'rhen they send for me- make them
an offer II it's accepted my stock com
pany Of falSirs win wheel their wagons up
III AAbAAA VI Viz > THAflt ntAA lfNt
and sell TO the public odds and ends that
they would never have seen bat for me-
They're great public - they want
quantity, not quality; "A sensational name
takes them always; something that's going
Those Mctiinty ghosts were hoodooed from
the start. though regular stills for sell
ing-guess they've joined their father down
below. Fountain pens are mightier than
Sold $4,000 'krazy Sonutars, as the boys
call 'cm. Made myself solid with the
Grand Army in Boston: had forty boys
there To sell medals and metal top canes
My boys are 'hustling' in Chicago. St.
Louis. Baltimore, New Orleans-in fact,
wherever there is a public
prices are five, ten, fifteen and twenty
five cents-never twenty. What don't sell
at quarter slnmps to fifteen. and ten
ner' that fails to fetch generally reaches
the popular pocket at five. What don't
catch on we Stun shelve it, you know;
but know what's what. and we do pre-
cious little Summing
My boys are all steady, honest fellows.
stock them up; they sell, the risk is
mine. It's steady living all year round
for them have sixty Of them off and on,
anu Vtt ph iP~''"u' WIN " 'theth iaN
unstable merchandise and novelties every
year.
Occasionally the boys get the common
ailment Of big head 4 few days or
weeks Of good sells may line a fellows
purse with twenty-five bones, lie then
rests on his oars, eats at liitehcock's and
dissipates at Miners or the London till
it's all gone Then he's ready for work
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