The herald., 1894-12-30

| tie travelling men who come here are
better advertisements for Los Angeles
than money could buy.
| In ons day last fall there wore 449
sample trunks, belonging to ~ drum
mers, taken TO the Nsdeau's sample
rooms. That same day 200 trunks. with
Is owners, left the hotel after pros
tracted visit.
The truth 10 that the average person
| doesn't begin to realize the immense
amount OF business dons in this city
every week by the com mercial travellers.
To man they consider it tho beat COM
morcial city west OF tie Rocky mount
aims. and this i. not stretching it one
jot or title.
They are, as q rule, fine set Of fsl-
lows, these commercial travellers; men
who make money aud spend money, and
men who cay good word for Los An
geles wherever they can whom they are
out OF town,
They ought to be better known to the
general public than they are, THE HERs
AID thinks, and 1t means to introduce
them to it's readers. They arc not
bashful men, as . rule, and will not
mind little kindly meant notoriety.
You viii be glad to know them. Shake!
SOME OF THE HoLLENBEcK's SAMPLE MEN.
There's whole batch OF 'em at the
Hollenbeck. stC!erk Owens introduce
these:
One of them is r. A.. Grove, who
travels for Harris Shoe Manufacturing
company OF Boston. Mr.. Grove will
please raise his hat. There. He hasn't
been out here for some time. you know.
so that he is q sort Of stranger even to
the men about town.
W. B. Peck represents the Popkin
Cloak and Suit company OF New York.
He says he thinks it is like vacation to
come out here. Il only nave to open
my trunks" he says. "Your enterpris.
ing merchants do the rest. l 60 home
with bulging pocke.s."
Gsorge B. Ferguson comsn do1n from
San Francisco every three months, and
he is never in hurry to get away. His
line is. foreign dry goods, and his house
10 that OF Kahn Brothers. Klein & Go.
When Ed Casey comes here he stays
for month. He is here now represent
ing Murphy, Grant & Co., OF Saa Fran
cieco.
1t is . whole year since ". F. STAN
nard WAS heys before. He comes all the
way from New York and carries in his
trunks an outlay Of photo supplies that
are made by the American Aristo COM
pany OF Jamestown. This is the firm
that manufactures that beautiful photo.
graphic printing paper that il suscepti.
bic OF go many delicate shades and
tints and such splendid polish, so to
speak.
There is another Photographic sup.
plies man in the city now He comes
oftener than the other man, because he
does not have SO ia: to travel to get
here. This is H. V. Brown, who travels
for H. A. Hyatt OF st. Louis.
TUE .NADEAU CONTINGENT.
R. II. Wood comes here all the way
from Philadelphia every six months.
He will give you tips on the latest styles
of gentlemen's ties. He has the agency
for J. B. Stetson'5 and Miiier's hats
west of the Missouri river.
The oldest drummer on tho coast is G.
J. Jones of San Francisco, who has
travelled for Main & Winchester, the
harness and saddlery Manufacturers of
San Francisco, for about 30 years. II
you are not acquainted with Mr.. Jones
you are not widely acq tainted on this
coast.
Gerson Goldsmith, who represents q
big clothing house in San Francisco,
says tina: business was never so good
anywhere in the state AZ it is now..
T. B. Willis is representing q. Chicago
lace house in this city these days.
You don't want to 90 away with the
idaa ramenbA that thosa ara al tho
commercial travellers in Los Angeles.
page of THE HERALD could be filed
with the names of ali the drummsra
who como here. It's considered the dull
season just now, yet the city is full Of
these jolly fellows. Maybe you'll meet
some of them in . business or social
way soon. II you don't, and yet care to
mako their acquain tancs, Just watch
The HERALD's Gsrgoyle column in the
future.