The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1896-09-05
STEADY DEMAND FOB NAMES.
Good Ones Bring Cash and the Traffic Is
Extensive.

Extensive.
The market fDf names HIS firmed up
wonderfully since the days when lago
said there was nothing in them. Chi
cage is one of the biggest ntme-jobbing
eenters in the country. There are
great number of concerns, large and
small, in the city which are engaged in
this traffic With some of them the
name business is kind of side line in
connection with a clipping bureau.
One of the largest has confined itself
mainly to names of business houses of
various kinds, which are furnished to
other business houses for advertising
purposes. The quotations for names
of this character range a the way
from $1.25 to S. per LOCO, depending
upon the number of eoncer IS engaged
in the particular line for which the
names are desired and tie time and
trouble required in securing them.
The bicycle business has grown to
be one of such far-reaching influence
that newspaper clipping bureaus, both
in Chicago and in the east, publish a
sheet once week giving n list of all
the bicycle factories reported since the
last issue. As might be imagined, this
business presents a numbes OF curious
phases, and clipping IL frequent
~ get all sorts of queer orders from
people who want the names of persons
who are likely to be interested in some
given subject or article. For long
time one of the clipping bureaus had n
standing order from manufacturer of
artificial limbs for the names of all
who might lose their legs or arms in
accidents Another man, a maker OF
artificial eyes, takes the names OF
everyone who has lost IN eye.
Another man, baby carriage manu-.
facturer in Michigan, takes the names
of all newly-wedded couples, and in due
course of time forwards a very neat
pamphlet describing and illustrating
his goods.
People doing mail order busneGs
sometimes sell to other concerns not
in a competing line the MINES which
they accumulate. The advertisement
of one of these reads: eve have several
! thousand mail order names received
with cash within a few months" Names
/ of people who are in the habit of order
ing goods by mail and accompanying
the order with cash have an obvious
value.
The secretaries of associations of a
| certain character have their lives made
miserable by constant requests for n
| list of their members. The Western
Hay Fever association furnished nota-
BILE case. No doubt there are some 200,-
coo unfortunates in the United States
who begin to sneeze about the 1st OF
August and keep it up at pretty regular
intervals until frost comes. The num-
Der of philanthropists who would like
to cure them of the malady is almost
as numerous as the sufferers. them
selves, and each one is anxious for these
names for the purpose of presenting
his particular nostrum.
Repeated instances in the history OF
Chicago burglaries go to indicate tina;
professional housebreallers keep well
informed as to the movements of PEG
pie who have jewelry to steal, and when
ever the plans for n new mansion arc
! published the information is carefully
noted for future reference. There may
be a private news agency which fur
nishes burglarious intelligence of this
character, but if there is it does not
dvertise.-Chicago Tribune.