The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1894-01-13
WORLDS FAIR PHOTOS
And the Intelligenoer's Sights and
Scenes Of the World
ARE STILL IN INCREASING FAVOR.
What the Parts of Each Book to be
Issued To-day Will Contatn-some
Expert Opinions on their Merits as
Works of Art-iu SO Fortunate as
to Get Them are Surprised and
Delighted with Each Portfolio.

dropped into the INTELLIGENCER Office
yesterday and said he would like to see
those art portfolios about which he had
heard SO much. The back numbers
were spread before him. Having gone
over them critically he gave them the
very high praise, 81 had no idea that
they were anything like this" he said.
are to come, and I thank the INTELL1-
GENCER for giving me the opportunity.
They are not only wonderfully cheap,
but they are wonderfully good. More
over. they are exactly what / want, but
I did not that you could fur
nish anything OF the sort at the price"
The price need not bother anybody.
These art portfolios are serving their
purpose, pleasing the old friends OF
INTELLIGENCER and making new. An
extract from a letter from n OF the
most cultivated men in West Virginia
is worth quoting: For my own graft
tication and the instruction of my chill
dren I have bought all the publications
[ could find containing Worlds Fair
pictures. I am free to say that the
price at which yours are offered preJu-,
diced me against them, but | concluded
to invest Ten cents on n portfolio.
Now I wish to say as frankly that the
pictures are the very best | have seen
and altogether satisfactory. The de-
scription accompanying each photo
graph is itself a work of art, we'll writ
ten, clear, brief yet covering the whole
subject. Thus encouraged l sent for
the first number of your Sights and
Scenes of the World series, and o
the two are rivals in my family. You
can hardly imagine with what eagerness
both are looked for every week. You
have done at least ono family a SER
A lady, writing from over the river
says that five of her neighbors, seeing
her copies of the INTELLIGENCER's art
portfolios, are now on the subscription +.
list. She adds:, II am q little in the
photograph line myself, but since |
see what / can get.from the 1NTELL1-
GENCER [ have no use for the little pic
lures I took with my little camera at the
Worlds Fair. I would have thought
each part cheap as dirt at fifty cents,
and I.don't understand how you can fur
nieh them at ten cents a part. l am
also pleased with my Sights and Scenes
OF the World Ishall send both works
to you to be bound when they are com
pleted."
Here is something short and sharp:
81 enjoyed the Worlds Fair immensely.
Now that 1 am getting your Worlds
Fair art portfolios I am beginning to
understand it. I would have given $500
if I could have had such a thing before
l went to the fair"
One who has been out of work for a
month and has not laid up much treas
ure writes: Gin these times [ cannot
afford to buy anything that is not abso-
lutelv necessary, but we are all SO much
interested in your Worlds Fair art
portfolios chat [ pinch my tobacco.
money enough every week to keep the
pictures coming; and now the children
scramble for each new number"
The mails bring very much in this
vein, and more of the same kind is
heard over the country. The strongest
proof of the merit OF these art portfolios
and of their hold on the public is that
the demand increases steadily, and it Is
to increase the supply OF back
numbers. Present arrangements en-
able the INTELL1GENCER to supply the
parts at once over the counter to those
who bring their coupons or accept the
standing offer to get all the numbers up
to. date. To-day part seven of the
Fair portfolio and part four of
the "Sights and Scenes of the World"
will be ready, and those who bring in
their oupon will be supplied with each.
who mall their coupons will have
the parts SEN by mail. Note the at
tractivo list of subjects in each of these
portfolios:
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