St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-07-17
TWO GAMES OF CINCH
IN WHICH MARY WORTHLESS TERRIERS
DAILY TAKE PART.
SELLING WHISKY IN BOND.

A Neat Commercial Came in
Which One Side Has Nothing
to Lose-Not the Only Suckers
ON Earth-How Transfers Car
ry Two Passengers. E0}
There are a great many games of
cinch being played in this country, but
the greatest game of cinch and dead
sure thing that has ever been put before
the American public is the new style of
bonded whisky selling that has been in
augurated lately by some enterprising
people of the worlds fair city. it is
neat in conception and its originators
say that the execution is wonderful
for their treasury. The firm mentioned
employs about thirty or forty statesmen
who go through the country selling
whisky in bond on certificates. The
purchaser pays so much down on five
barrel lots. say $50, and issues
notes for the balance payable when
the whisky comes out of bond. When
he gets ready to take the fire.
water out tor the purpose of dispensing
it over the bar he must first pay the
government tax of 80 cents on gallon,
which otherwise the company would
have to pay. and then return the GER
tlficate which he purchased from the
agent TO the firm, which will then ship
the whisky with the 0 UPS attached,
and the customer is not allowed to re-
move it from the depot until he satisfies
the mortgage. Up to this time the COM
pany has not paid one cent, simply own
ing the whisky. Having already quite
an Interest in the stock in the shape of
payments down and tax, the customer
is sure to take it out. Now he has a
large quantity of whisky on hand, and
though it be good, bad or Indifferent.
suitable or unsuitable to his trade, he
must dispose of it or be at con-
siderable financial loss. The COM
pany he purchases from has cinch
and be has got the whisky to get rid of
in the best way he knows how. The
agents who sell this whisky are not al
lowed any salary. but work entirely on
commission, and there the company has
another cinch. All the dealers through
out the Northwest are at the mercy of
this scheme, and the way it is interior
ing with their business is simply awful.
An agent for st. Paul wholesale house
being asked if this would not soon play
out as the workings of the scheme be-
came gradually unfolded, said that it
dad not make any difference. AS he ex-
pressed it, LAS soon as one set of suck
ers get caught OH the scheme and go
broke there is another set to take their
place." For a good, nice, clean cinch
game this beats any trust ever organ
lied. 81 49,
A game of cinch, only on a smaller
scale, is being played on Tom Lowry
every day. Tom has his system of
transfers well guarded and hedged
about with all possible safeguards, but
III spite of all he is being beaten day
after day. Two instances which hap
pened on the West Seventh cars Satur-
day will illustrate the fact and may
open Toms eyes to such an extent that
he will evolve a scheme to beat the
Schemers. A firm is doing business OH
Robert street, one member of which is
living out West Seventh street and the
other lives in West st. Paul. The
West Seventh street partner goes
to supper, and after supper
takes the car to his place
OF business. On the way down he asks
for transfer to the West side, and
when he gets off on Robert street he
walks into the store, gives his partner
the transfer, who rides home to his sup
per OIL it. and thus two rides are OBJ
tanned for nickel, and Tom Lowry'S
treasury is accordingly short. The Sec
ond instance observed is similar, being
the case of passenger who rides down
town every day and gets a Lafayette
transfer. but never uses it. He has an
arrangement with another man who
lives at the other end of the city who
works different hours to exchange
transfers with him, and each one rides
two ways a day on a single nickel.
Some one is even smarter than Tom
Lowry