New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-08-08
INVALUABLE TO TRATELLERS.
GREAT ADVANTAGES OF THE TRIBUNEs FOR
EIGN ADVERTISEMENTS

GREAT ADVANTAGES OF THE TRIBCNE's FOR
EIGN ADVERTISEMENTS
To the Editor Of The Tribune
Sir: deem It duo to your great newspaper to
its advertisers. and especially those who contem-
plate going TO Europe now or at any other time 70
testify in this way to the great advantages to me
and to others whom | met with in London of the
page containing the London advertisements Some OF
the many guide books in London will tell you where
to go 10 purchase certain articles that YOU may
wish. but there Is not one that Is comprehensive
to the stranger as the advertisements that found
In your paper. Having confidence ttat any firm or
Individual advertising in Tho Tribune was reliable
and trustworthy. simply tore out the page having
the London advertisement folded II up aud put II
into my pocket ready for reference when SHOULD
reach LONDON. for knew that would need to 20
10 good hotel with my daughter and niece; that
We would nc,i to buy jowelry "a few things for
gifis,, dress goods. cloaks wraps shoes hats
gloves handk"rchiefs. linen goods silk goods UNI
brellas. etc.
on my why Of the swift and palatiaI
steamships Of the American Line famiarIzcd
myself as TO the location OF tho streets I'm the bust
ness part Of the city such ~ Regent Now Bond
Fleet. the STR Id Chearsde and others- aud when
! left the train at the Waterloo Station co I'D
readily find my way 10 the place of any one of
your advertisers. The hotel was just tho thing all
that any stranger could wish for. the shops con
tanned everything 40 advertised, and Their. was no
putting up OF prices because hapI ened to be an
American visitor and. supposedly. with plenty OF
money TO spend. The goods were found 10 be OF
the best quality and up 10 the standard represent
ed and at the same prices A. charged at any other
shops for the same goods The advantages 10 mo
and those with me- and supported hy the state.
ments Of others whom I met with tho foreign nd
Nertisement page of The Tribune or with the ad-
vertisements cut out and pasted in a memorandum
book. were ! could rely upon the advertiser az
being trust worthy, and that should not b. i'm
posed upon, the advertisement told me ~ a glance
just whore 10 80 for what | wanted for II stated
what limos the dealer covered and It also saved me
n vast amount cf time. for an that I had to do was
Ia refer 10 my street map Of London and familiar
lie myself with the best way Of reaching the place
from my hotel And every moment saved in shop
ping means so much more time TO devote To sight
seeing.
reached the conclusion that these ADVERTISE
ments are not valuable alone to strangers, but
they Of great benefit TO the advertisers by tho
increase OF trade as 7 can testify To by my own
observations I'm the shops where | met many &c
quain,anccs doing the same that I was-not shop
ping but really making purchases. And that
part OF the American public who visit London,
Paris and other places must naturally have a feet
Ing Of gratitude that there Is one cw-York paper
In which foreign hotekecDcrs and merchants tell
OF their places and what can be obtained In them
ONE JUST RETURNED.
Eew-York. Aug. i. 1891