Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-02-09
FOR CHURCH FUNDS.
An Ingenious Method to Pay OF
Building Debt.

From the New York Herald.
The newest scheme for getting church
funds is that recently adopted by the
members of the Embury Memorial Metho-
dist Episcopal Church of Brooklyn, OF
which the Rev. WELLESLEY W. Bowdish is
pastor. The plan has been in operation
only a few weeks, but the results thus lar
have been satisfactory. and the members
Of the church are enthusiastic over the
financial prospects
The plan consists in giving to every
person who pays 81 toward the church
building fund book containing coupons
representing S10I worth of discounts and
list of firms, in almost every kind or pusl-
ness. which will honor the coupons as
cash. The terms of the discount are very
simpIe although they seem tribe IN
yolyed at first The great attraction or
the plan is that every purchaser or two
dollar book is able to save Sloo py 1ne
time he has used all the coupons. Inc
church managers reason that almost any
body will give s. for chance to make $iVo.
Every book is neatly bound. Included IN
it is a list of firms in Brooklyn and TINS
CITY who will give from to ~ per cent
discount on goods purchased for cash by
any one presenting the book and detachlns
commons equivalent to the amount or the
discount.
Dealers and Discounts.
These coupons are arranged In sheets OF
thirty-three each. They look like postage
stamps, but they are only about one-third
the size OF stamps. The one-cent coupons
are printed in blue, the threes in light
brown, the fives in green and the tens In
very dark brown. There are 52S coupons
of each value, and altogether they repre-
sent s1o0.32.
with those in artificial limbs, goes on
through baby carriages, bicycles, boots and
Shoes carpets, dry goods, drugs, furs.
gloves, groceries, and so On, alphabetically,
10 wood carpets. There are dentists, too.
who agree to give the discount. Opposite
the lame of each firm is printed the
amount of discount that will be given to
the holder of the tcok.
For example, the artificial! limb dealer
gives crly per cent eff, while the baby
carriage dealer gives 10. One manufac-
turer of corsets offers q per cent discount,
Will. long list of dentists offer 10 per cent
discount One firm of dry goods dealers
gives a reduction of per cent to book
holders.
Brooklyn photographers offer 10 per cent
discount. Their brethren In this city beat
this by giving all the way from 10 to so
per cent. One New York firm dealing in
smokers articles announces 10 per cent dis
count on tobacco, on cigars, and con-
cludes peremptorily, No discount on
cigarettes.
Even Tombstones.
Mausoleums may be had in this city at
per cent discount, statuary and monu-
ments at per cent off. Laundering will
be done subject to 10 per cent discount at
eight places One gas fixture firm and one
book publisher offer % per cent off. Elec-
trio and Turkish baths are to be had at
20 per cent discount.
In the notices and instructions" printed
in the book are these paragraphs:
THE Bureau of Merchants in this book
was made by request Of worthy people in
terested in all humanity, with no selfish
motives. and every firm represented is war
ranted not to take advantage OF the people.
Not che store requested the favor OF rep
resentation herein.
You can make mcney-through this book
by spending money.
One dollar Of each 81 received for the