The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-03-19

goods. Do you know that before the wo-
man left the store she had bought sll.o0
worth. of.goods. You see little polite
ness and good nature paid.
"It was my ambition to increase the
bulk OF my business every year.
thought of the scheme OF selling goods
by catalogue. 1t was easy enough TO
catalogue the goods, but II bothered me
to know where to send the catalogues.
Finally / thought of a scheme. l went
to all the express companies in the city
and asked them il they would give me
the names OF their agents in the principal
towns in the United States. They gave
me the names and / wrote TO the agents,
asking II they would be so kind as to
send ne few names of the leading
citizens of their respective towns, giving
my reason for the request. got responses
from every agent and the catalogues were
sent out. l required that deposit should
be sent with every order, and the goods
were sent G. U. ID. The catalogues
brought us a great volume OF trade.
Every order personally inspected before
1t was sent out. was as particular as IT
vas possible to be that the goods should
be exactly what had been ordered. We
sent goods over the country from Maine
to Texas and San Francisco, and never
did have goods returned or any COM
plaint made. In one year we did s525, GOO
worth OF business.
"With the years, however, trade went
up town to Fourteenth and Twenty-third
streets. Grand street, as great thor
oughfare of trade, became history. The
profits from my business l invested in
real estate. 1 bought the house at 8
Park avenue and lived there. AS trade
grew poorer l sold the house and put the
proceeds into the business. Then
Dought the house at 63 Park avenue,
which j sold afterward to G. =. Hunting
ton. i owned other property in differ
ent parts of the city. i sold il all, how
ever, and the proceeds found their way
to Grand street. When 1 didn't have
anything more to sell my wife here sold
some property she had for $40, 900, and
that went into the business. 1t never
came out.
"Long before failed / went to the
landlord several times and told him that
the trade was leaving the street and
could not afford to pay so much rent.
When I.move1 into 269 paid $50 year
rental. When / failed I was paying fer
that store and the one adjoining SIS, 000.
l couldn't get reduction in rent. 1 was
in that store nearly 80 years. When
failed / owed 33 days rent, and what do
you think? The landlord sued me for ii.
sit was pretty hard on an old man
who had tried to do right all his life TO
have everything swept away, but it's
only memory now, ana my creditors
can't say they lost anything by me- How
did raise the monev2 Well, you see,
Mrs. Doyle owns a building at the corner
of Fifty third street and Sixth avenue
stores with the flats above. 1t was all we
saved from the wreck. There is a mort
gage OF $50, ,090 on the property. The fact
that in our old days we owed anybody a
cent bothered US greatly. One day my
wife said:
Michael, hcw much more than S50.-
600 is that Fifty-third street proper y
worth?'
81 told her 1 didn't know. but l
thought considerable.
swell, she said, IL its worth $40, ,0C0
more, Pm going to put a second mort
gage on it, and Wen pay up the credi-
tors" We talked the matter over for
several days, and finally it was decided.
The loan was placed, and its with that
money that my creditors have been paid.
We won't have a large income after in
terest, taxes, insurance, and other ex-
penses are paid, but it will be enough for
us. Our tastes are very simple and Wen
get along all right, won't we dear?"
eyes, % said Mrs. Doyle as she arose and
placed her arm affectionately around her
husbands neck. "Well get along; but
Grand street wouldn't have been such a
bad street for business il you hadn't been
SO generous. Grand street was a good
place to get notes endorsed when you
were there, wasn't it?'
MIR. and Mrs. Doyle live comfortably in
a boarding house at IL Madison avenue.