The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1892-04-08
A MAN OF ENTERPRISE.
He Had Wheelbarrows FOR sale, but II.
Didn't Sell One There.

Didn't Sell One There.
"Want to buy wheelbarrow, MADAME"
demanded the aggressive looking man at
the front door of dwelling near jackson
park the other day.
"What in the world do | want with
wheelbarrow?" said the astonshed woman
of the house
sold twenty-seven in this neighborhood
since yesterday morning" he retorted, ''and
most of them to people who are among the
very best in this part of Chicago"
u don't see Why
Pardon me You are aware that the
Worlds Columbian eXpositionis to be held
within half a mile of this house?"
Yes, but what has that 49,
Pardon me again. You have relatives
who will visit you during the exposition.
Very good All OF us have Each of these
relatives, or the great majority of them,
will bring a trunk The ordinary charge
of an eXpressnan for taking a trunk to or
from railway station is twenty-five cents.
Owing to the great increase ia business
that year, or to the probable formation Of
an expressmen's trust, the charge will be
fifty cents The exposition will last six
months You will have an average of one
relative with j trunk for every week dur
ing all that time, and Of course you will
have to pay for taking chat trunk to and
from your house. The relative will pro
test mildly against your looking after the
trunk, but you'll do it. You'll pay 81 for
drayage on every trunk that comes to your
house and goes away from it while the ex-
position lasts. That will bring your ex-
penses for that item alone up to S26.
snow mark The wheelbarrows | am
gplliDU will ppct ol,lx- II E0 aaob 11l,axr ~.
strong, serviceable, light and just the thing
for knocking out an extortionate express
mems trust. All you have to do is to pay
a boy ten cents for wheeling the trunk
Cost Of wheelbarrow, S1.50. Expense for
boy, twenty-sX weeks, 81. Total "a. 10.
Saving effected by adoption of wheelbar-
row plan, S2l .90-enough to buy good
hard coal stove. I'm selling by sample,
madam, you understand, | take your or
der now and deliver in the spring of 1898.
Expect to sell 10000 of them before that
time. James, bring that wheelbarrow in
side the gate so the lady can see it,
He needn't do it," said the lady. 81
don't want it,"
Il assure you, madam, $3.50 is the very
lowest figure at which you can buy the
kind Of wheelbarrow | am selling and if |
didn't get it ut a big discount from manu-
facturers price on account of the quantity
| expect to order could not'-
81 don't want it, sir"
Possibly you see no Necessity of paying
boy ten cents for each trip. There are
boys, | admit, who will do it for five if
promised regular job. Or you may have
boy of your own. In that case you save
the entire ten cents Total saving effected
by wheelbarrow plan"-
81 have several boys, sir. | also have a
husband"-
"Ah?"
"Who is in the expressing business him
self. Owns three or four wagons. Expects
to make a good thing hauling trunks in
1898"
You ought to have told me this when
began, madam" said the man, as he back
ed down the steps. Il have wasted enough
sound argument and good English on you
to have sold three or fourof these machines
TO any ordinary customer. James, come
along with that wheelbarrow over to the
next house Step lively, now, confound
youw-Chicago Tribune