New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-05-27
MN or MANY ACQUAINT1NCES
HOW NEwsDEALER KNOWS PEOPLES
NAMES AND WHAT THEY WANT.

HOW NEwsDEALER KNOWS PEOPLES
NAMES AND WHAT THEY WANT.
The faculty of remembering faces and names with
unerring precision is unusual one. More people
will recoect the face and forget the than vice
versa. 1t is said that Mr. Blaine not only knew
most of tho farmers in Maine by sight but would
recollect all about their horses II he had once
ridden behind them. Thurlow Weed had the face
and name OF every little crossroads politician stored
away in his memory, and Abraham Lincoln never
forgot the slightest acquaintance. For more lowly
example Of this power a ready recognizer one
who is interested in the subject should stand for a
half-hour by the newsstand OF one OF the Grand
Central Stations waiting rooms. This particular
adept is young man Of less than thirty years with
keen large dark eyes, and memory that appar-
entity foTgets nothing lie greets almost every GUS
toner among his thousands Of patrons by name.
and picks up the special paper which each one
wants before 1t is asked for AL sorts OF odd bust
ness. commissions. etc. seem to be just as readily
carried in his head. 1t will be: Here's your
Critic Mr. Jones; don't forget it,
"Nr. Smith. l couldn't get that back numbe,
Cosmopolitan; all sold out" "Tsat novel doesn't
come in paper covers Mr.. White. III sell this
cloth-bound just cheap and tear the covers off,,
If you say So"
Here's that Sunday Tribune you ordered. Mr..
Hall" Got your Judge for you to-day Mr.. Bon
ner. How the colts coming on?'
"Oh Mr.. Hallam. that cheap edition of Hawthorne
has got into the courts. can get IL just now SeiI
you TX Marvel"
50 this model salesman keeps his head clear and
his nerve and patience in the best order amid the
rush TO catch trains and dozens Of customers some
times calling to him at once.
How do YOU remember all these people and just
what they want" was asked OF the newsletter in a
lull.
'Oh 1t comes of practice and some natural gift
that has grown me. was trainboy on the rail-
road for eight years Then | was several years in
Boston and half a dozen years here. and have got
to know everybody almost That was Robert Bon
ner's brother David | Just spoke TO- lie iVes az
Stamford. and Albert Hall. the tall. gray man win
the fresh face. talking with him. is his neXt-door
neiehbor They both have stables OF fast tr0tters.
'rhat short young man there IS Mr. Edison ~
has an elegant place that is ali 1T by electric Ilgnt
and connected by telephones. burglar aarms-eIery-
him is standing Mr.. AbendrOth, the iron man at
Port chester The man with the round head and
A. irov1e Lock Works. The large man with the gray
head and military air Is j D. smith OF the S y,
Yacht Club The port,y ford man. about MY, IS
H. o. Havemeyer the sugar manuiac,uIeri Wiz lhs
There goes Sam Fessenden, one OF the Nutinss
legal lights and a great friend OF the late Mr..
That couple there is A. NJ. Palmer and Daniel
Frohman; they both have summer places up the
Sound. You know Frederic Bronson re d mas tba
,hrongs besieged him and whirled away to the
ticket offices and ticket punchers by the qoor rS a., rs
writer rushed for his own s tr rryn ne Heara the
Post Mr.. BENEDICT Hows the yacht this sea
"Don't buy that novel, Mr.. Hoyt' It's stuff Here's
g 9od one ne 1u 90, ANYTHING you want; playing
cards Bibles Brltanncas. Henry George all one
to m fd,e. not out" Slam goes the gate and your
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