The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-10-02
PRACTICAL PHILATELY.

wv. TAX stamps Gives n New Impet-
70 the business of Two Clever,
ambitious Girls.
-, york. Oct. 1.-The two New York
-,-,- who established a postage stamp bus
-. IN Gotham little more than a year
have felt a fresh impetus in their
go, since the war-tax stamp has become
necessity for checks and kilograms.
me names of the clever girls who orig.
-, fine idea Of making living through
49,. branch of practical philately are An
Nd Ethel Earle. Their business of
ua.rlying postage stamps to private fam
a. artists and professional people has
.i-tlr5sd into the business section of the
a., and they now have agents who sup
MANY business offices regularly with
hostage stamps. O,
IA Miss Earle in an interview. They
-, their monogrammed and crested sta
-, hut stamps are rarely found In my
- escrtoire no matter how provident
~ thinks she is. The idea of establish
a., such a business came to me one even
10 when l heard a friend telephone for
''7 messenger to buy a stamp and mail a
,++ar for her. The drug stores where
4 ltomns have usually been sold as a favor
80 customers, now seldom keep them, since
~ sub-postal stations have been estab-
n Iisbed and these are several blocks apart
I-rdar the circumstances, in order to mus
4 tor courage to buy a stamp at the corner
4 cbemlsts. one now feels obliged to make
nurchase Of some toilet article as conf
4 pansation for the favor bestowed, and this
u The case of only one or two stamps,
rben we long for the favor of a dozen
or more. Thus the Idea of a postage stamp
4 deliverv presented itself to me.
We carry about a supply on l, and D.
cent stamps, also special delivery stamps,
and now comes the internal revenue
stamp which makes us still more in de-
mand than ever we were. Especially is
tbis the case since the revenue stamps are
attained under such difficulties, always in
more or less delay on account of the rush
at the revenue office, where purchasers
have 10 stand in line for hours. We have
,ad a host of letters from our patrons
since these stamps have became a neces-
sty. bidding US call at once.
I'VE also keep stamped envelopes and
newspaper wrappers in stock and have
even extended our business into the sta1
tionary line, so that We take orders for
note paper and even for engraved cards.
our best customers are in the large
apartment houses and in private resi-
dences, in the studio buildings among the
artists and professional people. We call
on certain days, usually once a fortnight
and our charges are for the delivery of
the stamps, not for the stamps themselves
The charge for the cali is 10 cents, al
though in some cases we only charge half
that sum. Among the artists we usually
make our fees less
These ambitious girls have hundreds of
names on their list of customers, and make
an excellent livelihood. They started with
working capital of $25, and now invest
several times that sum when they go into
the business section of the city.
The idea is parallel with the Clean Towel
Supply Company, a business that was
started in New York several years ago
by woman, and has since been taken
up by men, and is now run on an extended
scale In all large cities.
Haryot Holt Cahoon.