The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-01-24

sons IS employed IN one of the BROOKLYN
essaDilshments What Duvai's cheap eat.
ing houses are to Paris, Dement'S are "a
New York, except the Scriptural texts
which adorn the walls of the latter places
are decidedly absent in the Duval estab-
hshments.
Queer Soap Man.
saw in this city the other dav Phila.
deiphian who may be spoken of as a
character just as the French speak Of a
parsonage" l refer TO Frank siddals.
the soap man. Mr. Siddalls is n small.
clerical looking individual. with ab-
breyiated whiskers in front OF his
ears, q mild, Quakerish face, which
he ornaments with spectacles. and
soft voice which turns away wrath and
secures much business. ] nrst heard of
Mr. -lld4.ls when the World vas raising
$1,000 70 complete the Bartholdi statue
PEDESTAL Every days mali brought .
contribution Of 81 20 ths fnnd in the shape
Of a check from Mr.. siddals Finally a
letter came announcing that Mr.. Siddalls
would continue % send 81 per day uutil
tue tlnd Mas completed. 4 asceFtAlned
that Re he was a man 90 has word and |
sas THAI se had q sure thing on the CON-
pietion Of the fund. even il il took 10000
days. ol course. Mr. sildalls' name ap-
pe-rei On the list Of contributors each day
ami therein lay the advertisements sub.
sequentiy Mr. Siddalis vas heard OF per.
chas. ng pair OF horses from Manager J.
~. Hill. for Whlch be paid S50.0O0 placing
the same % his soap advertising ac-
count. About tins time he also bios
somed out with his celebrated injunc-
ton - the human family. "Don't be a
Clam" Although Mr. Siddalls spends
thousands of dollars yearly with the news
papers, he does not take kindly to adver-
Using agents and people who have schemes
- a. t.Fna =. III.
a druggist. and while in that profession
discovered n scientific method of making
soap. He began business by inserting q
large advertisement on credit in the Phil
adelphia VI e. He told a gentleman the
other day that IL the Times had sent its
lapsed. But the Times had faith in
him and trusted him TO the amount
OF $4,000. That made Mr.. Siddall.
and his soap. His business methods ara
rather odd. he never sells bar of soap on
'sr~.i'fy--snd- ihareaar- avoids an elaborate .
system OF bookkeeping. Every order must
be accompanied by the money or a check
Some years ago John Wanamaker was
astonished TO find that his order for soar
was not filled, and when he learned that
cash was required he refused to purchase.
But the heavy advertising of the SOAP
caused il to be called for in Wanamaker's
establishment so often that he was com
PEELED to buy il from the druggist around
the corner. He held out for ten years, but
il is now said that he sends his check for
the soap just like the rest of them. Mr..
Siddalls is now rich enough TO lend
money to Mr.. Wanamaker, and he
owes everything to the newspapers. And,
moreover, he doesn't deny it.
New Workers Take Back Seats.
The fact that New York city is managed
and directed by people who are not New
Workers by birth is impressed upon me
more end more as the days go by 1t is
almost a curiosity TO find man Of poten-
TALLY in this city who will admit that he
was born here. The great enterprises are
conducted by men who came here from
the country, or from other towns, bring
ing with them strong constitutions, ca
pacity for labor and determination to sue
coed. The average New York boy either
migrates to better his condition or withers
up and takes second place in the great
struggle for fame and fortune. The
achievements. of the unknown country
boy in this city would make splendid
The number of Southerner who have
come here since the war and built them
selv~s up is amazing. 1t used to be
thought that the average Southerner was
averse TO business, and that wien he came
in contact with a Yankee trader he went
have 10000 Southerners in this city, who
are represented by as many sharp, aggres
sive. wide-awake business men as can be
found in the same population in any part
of the world. OF course, the Southerners
who come here are in some sense the
picked men of the South in the matter OF
energy and ambition. AT q dinner given
by ex-Postmaste-General James at the
Union League Club some time ago this
question came up and OF the twenty-five
persons present-all conspicuous represen.
tative men-it was found that only one
would acknowledge New York City as his
birthplace, and that person was bishop
John L. Newman, of the Methodist
church, who has never lived here at all.
He happened TO be born on the island Of
Manhattan, bat he migrated at a very
early age. At that dinner remember We
had General James, Chauncey NJ. Depew,
Walter III. Webb, of the New York Centrali
George Bliss Charles K. Miller, editor OF
the Times; Commodore Van Santyoord,
Samuel Barton, formerly William III. Van
derbilt's broker; Harold Frederick, of the
Times, and men OF that ilk. | have made
experimental inquiries at other represents
alive dinners during the past eight years,
with the same result | remember that in
the World office, some four years ago, We
took census, and out of the editorial and
news staff of ct least seyenty-five persons
only five native New Workers could b
found. AS matter OF fact, there IS nos
daily newspaper of consequence in this
city that is not owned or directed and
manned by outsiders, with the exception
of the Herald. And as Mr. Bennett has
lived more in Europe than New York, and
was educated and reared there, he cannot
be held up as model New York journal.
list All this simply shows the cosmopoli-
tan character of the great city. 1t draws
unto itself the vigorous and ambitious in
tellects of all the world. The youth from
the rural regions with sunshine and lime
and ferruginous compounds in his body,
pushes the PUPPY, citv-bred boy from bis
stool and leads in the grand procession
of Progress.