The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1896-11-15
A GRAND EXHIBITION OF NERVE,


Been Eminently Successful.
New Orleans, La, November ls, 1885,
One firm in this city keeps on the road
II commercial travellers, whom 1t allows
| $3.50 month for salary and travelling ex-
pepses That equals $3.50 month, or
| $4,000 year. Another firm has IA on
the road, which means $4,000 month or
$4,000 year. The average number OF
| travelling men sent out by the leading
houses is about six. These cost their re-
| spective houses, on an average. $500
month, or $4,000 year. Let those facts
| stand.
| Every importing, wholesale or jobbing
| house In this city and sells on credit to
the country trade Will gladly give per
cent OF their gross sales to have the pay
ment OF them guaranteed.
| In order, therefore. TO meet this outlay
| OF costs and risks these houses must add
| to the costs OF their goods a sufficient sum
to cover them. and this those who buy on
credit have to pay, for no house can afford
to lose them. This. in some instances.
will amount to 80 and ever 40 per cent on
| sales.
With these facts staring them in the face
the Dwyer Bros, the largest importers
and wholesale dealers OF dry goods and
notions In this city. II not in the entire
| South, resolved to vary the monotony by
| saving the expenses OF travelling men and
| the costs OF risks incidental to the credit
business by selling strictly for cash and
| give their customers the benefit OF this
| 80 or 40 per cent. This OF course reduced
| the cost OF goods they sold TO this extent.
OF course the credit houses predicted that
| this could not be done and that those who
| attempted 1t could do but very limited
amount of business, which would end in
a complete failure. We'll. what has been
the result? BY working new field, in
| dependent aud alone, this house Of the
Dwyer Bros. has been more successful and
come TO the front more rapidly than any
dry goods or notions house in thja city.
| Each year, to meet tho demands of new
customers. they have been compelled to
enlarge their capacity, until their immense
s-story buildings on the corner OF Maya
| zine and Common streets, with an extern
sion through to Canal and Common streets.
would not meet their demand for space.
and they have been compelled to secure
| wnrerooms opposite their mammoth
stores on Common street The stock they
carry Ia the largest OF Its kind In the city
and constantly growing larger. 1t ia
needless to state that their success aston
ishes the natives"
OF course the country dealers who buy
OF this firm hold the inside track when
selling alongside OF their neighbors who
buy on credit and pay additional prices for
their goods.
Every merchant knows that the term
motions" embraces an endless variety OF
| articles so numerous In fact that 1t re-
ouires q thick catalogue to enumerate
them, and those who have not been 40
customed to buy for cash Will be aston
ished when they go through the Dwyer
Bros immense stock and learn how many
notions can be purchased for a small sum
of money and at what extreme low prices
dry goods can be bought OF them.
This firm has received and Is Just re-
ceiving the largest stock Of toys ever
brought into the South by any firm. TIC
secure n choice assortment OF these mer-
chants should send in their orders at once
and they will be boxed and held to order
and will be shipped not later than the 10th
OF December This precaution is given
because last year this firm could not I'll
one bird the orders 1t received Hence
now ia The time TO order before the stoci
is culled at present any order can b.
filled This firm has Its own buyers II
Germany, Vienna and France. Hence
there lis no trash In their purchases. OLE
stocks can not be shouldered on TO them
What they purchase IS fresh. Notions arr
sold by this firm on the same basis tina
dry goods or hardware are.
As matter of history 1t may be vel
to state A. j.. George II. and W. Fl. Dryer
known as "Dwyer Bros" hogan business
here In 1882 with limited capital an(
have built up their business until they
now carry n stock valued al half mil
lion and their sales run up into the mill
ions annually. Their trade extends to nj
the Southern States Their employees mum
her over 100 clerks and attendants. This
firm we're all ITO the manor born and al
belong 10 the Chamber OF Commerce ant
Board OF Trade Their New York office IL
at AZ Leonard street. 1t is representative
Southern house.