The herald., 1895-01-03
FOUND ON BOARD.
Among tho Commercial Travellers VIII
Do BusineRs in Los AnE.I.a.


The number of commercial travellers in this
city at 2: esent who are, each and several1y-
according to the candid confessions OF their
own friends the most popular drummers on
the Pacific coast, is only equalled by the num-
Der of those who represent the largest houses
in heir ines in the United States.
In cases where there are two or more drum
mers in the same line, each OF which repre-
sents the largest house in the world, THE
HERALD will not pretend to arbi'rate the mat
ter, but will res ectfully refer the gentle
reader vox Populi, Old Subscriber and all the
rest of the inquiring minds to Clerk jenkins of
the Hollenbeck. He knows them all AMI will
doubtless tell you that they are all the most
popular and all represent the largest houses.
It's his pleasing way withal, and sale and
sure one in the long run.
There is l. NJ. Keller, who blew in today and
took himself and his trunks to the Hollenbeck.
It's no trick at all to size him up as the "larg-
est" and "most popular" but he has facts and
fl ures at his tongues end to prove the former
claim, at all events. (He doesn't make the
latter claim. His friends attend to that.)
Mr. Keller represents the house of r. L. Nc
Donald & Co. of st Joseph, Mo-, which is I'M
doubtedly the largest institution in the world
devoted to the manufacture of mems furnish
ings And here you with the figures:
Their factory occupies floor space OF over
two acres. They employ 600 hands, and con-
vert daily into garments 10 miles of cloth and
500 miles of thread. In a single year the
thread they use would he long enough to en-
circle the earth six times and that's the
solemn truth.
There's another lot of clothing al the Nadeau
again. Los Angeles ought to be we'll dressed,
if nothing else.
Indeed the people down here do dress
well" says Isaac Dessan, who represents D. L.
Newberg e. Son OF New York. 1--WE sell as fine
a grade of goods here as we do in New York
city, and the styles are the same. There is
nothing in their dress o, bearing that would
mark difference between a New Yorker and
a Los Angeles business man if you them
parading Michigan boulevard in Chicago.
"And as for business-I can tell you truth
fully that we clothing men have been simrly
astonished at the way orders have been forth
coming this winter. We have had and are
now having the best trade we have ever en-
loved on the Pacific coast. We found it rather
dull up north, but down here things are sim
DIV rushing. If could strike one more city
like this before reach home l shall be abund-
antly satisfied with my trip"
This morning Mr.. Dessan goes to Riverside
with his sample trunks A special request
rom there called him in that direction just
he was about to depart for the east.
But abou. the new contingent of clothing
men at the Nadeau. There is Henry Frank
who represents Horthal, Wiseman & Co. OF
New York, which is said to be the largest
house in that line in the United s ates.
There is Ed ]. Marx OF st. Louis, who sells
mems clothing for Marx & Haas. and is him
self member of the firm. You should hear
Marx talk OF Los Angeles enterprise. If you
ever do you won't have to ask whe her he has
found business good here.
There is Theo. Mansfield of New York, who
represents house that a rival drummer in
the same line i. autho 'ity for calling the finest
clothing house in the country which means
as to goods, of course. He sells mems ready
made garments that are abeled "r. b. @"
There is NJ. II. Duyfus Of New York, who
sells clothing for the Hammerslough Brothers,
and it's only fine clothing that he sells.
All these are but recent arrivals. The old
crowd of clothing men that came in last week
and registered at the same time that Ben F.