The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-04-22
THE MONNING NEWS: FRIDAY. April. %. 1888


negative Of a battleship. taken as she lay
at anchor at this port, a negative of a
ships crew, and a photograph of Consul
General Lee. Two days later photographs
of the Maine az she lay in Havana har-
Dor" the Martyrs Of the Maine" and the
consul general We're offered for sale ana
sold In great numbers. The large litho-
graphs of the Maine strangely hard 20
identify, by the way) were put on the
street" on Tuesday. They were made
months ago for "a Western house, to be
used as a supplement, The fakir CHANGED
TO learn that there had been an ''overrun'
of 10000, bought them on Saturday, had
them mounted on Monday night-he had
his corps of street men spent the night in
this work-and sold them on the street ear
ly on Tuesday morning.
Of the photographs, there have already
been sold, in New York and neighboring
cities, some 10000 at five and ten cents
| each. On the firt day of sale they were
handled by forty men, each of whom
sold between fifty and a hundred; in all
there were sold on that day 1900 Not
withstanding that there is an unaceounta-
Die discrepancy in appearance between the
Maine of the photograph and the Maine Of
the Autograph, there have been 1900 of the
latter sold.
The novelty What We viii do" with
which, by pulling a string, the manipulate
or could have an effigy of "Uucle Sam"
chastise an effigy of the King of Spain
after the manner of a material parent
proved to be a fiat failure. In explain
ing this the fakir said: There was moth
Ing about il TO show patriotism. You
couldn't wear it; you couldn't put it
on mantepiece. 1t was only toy
for children, and, of course, didn't sell
More than all, it cost twenty-five cents"
The novelty was withdrawn after a gross
or two had been sold.
The button covered with bad minia-
lures of the national flag in silk which a
street man on Newspaper Row is invit-
ing passersby TO buy to show their
patriotism WITH were cleft over from
the presidential election at which Grover
Cleveland was defeated by BENJAMIN
Harrison. They were found on high
shelf in dark corner by the fakir at
a time when he was looking through his
old stock for something patriotic to
give the street men for SALE There were
go gross of them, and all that renal
unsold are in the hands of RED" Frank
lyn, who cornered the market with his
earnings, and sells them for 81 a hun
dred on Newspaper Row.
Who Did ira card bearing a draw
ing of the Maine at anchor in Havana
harbor-is an interesting novelty that has
had an enormous sale. 1t is an old toy,
| called snap Shots" i'm new form. In
snap Shots" one touched a match at
| the end of a gun, and the fire ran along
thread of silver nitrite, between the
! picture and the card upon which It was
mounted to a cap which exploded, to
the utter destruction of little bird sitting
| happily on a fence rail. But in 'sWho
| Did It?'' the fuse runs from the foot of
Moro Castle to the battleshp, the for
ward part of which the explosion of the
| cap blows to atoms.
Who Did It7'' was suggested by a New
| Jersey man." who went to the fakir's
place of business with a paper model of
the Maine, which was blown up by fire.
| cracker attached to the stern When this
was shown, street man suggested the APP
| plication of the snap shots" principle to
the idea. A contract was entered into there
| and then, and then the who Did Its?''
! were soon being turned OUT in great
numbers. One hundred gross were sold on
| the street In a single week. This novelty
| win be supplanted within a few days by
! " How 1t Was Done" which differs from il
only in that the fuse runs from the hand
| of a Spaniard seated on the rocks at the
| base of MORO Castle. One thousand gross
| are now in progress of manufacture. 1t is
said that they will be sent broadcast
| through the country for sale.
/ Maine hats"-tiny hats of blue, with
maine" branded on the ribbon, and tails
of red, white and blue-have not come up
to the mark" as good sellers" According
| TO the fakir, they were made for the "fair
sex" trade. Every woman in the land it
was thought would want TO wear one. Few
| women the event proved had any such de
sire, and the manufacture Of the hat has,
consequently, been stopped you can new
er calculate for that trade" is the fakir's
reflection.