The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-12-17


not berrudss ths &C., Of being represented for all
time with $500 Of your contemporaries II you wish
10 be represented on the terms Of the Enclosed order.
Kindly sign and return u NJ once. for soon u will be
too late.
you need NOT hesitate from an ethical standpoint.
for more than One ,TAousand prominent New York
men have already given their orders for a like
amount Your prompt reply IL awaited. Yours very
truly, MosEs KINo.
NEW Yoax. Dec. 49," .
The order which must DO signed and re-
turned, before It is toolate, by any appointment
New Yorker who has overcome all hesitation
from an ethical standpoint, is hero sub
Joined:
"Eno's NoTABLH KEW TonKERs or 1epo.19ee.
"An Album of over 600 pages. e1sk inches. COM
prsing over two thousand three hundred
"a, 800 Photographic portraits for
popular circulation.
"EIFTY THOUSAND COPIES.
"a comprehensive and interesting collection of
\ portraits.
subscribers Edition.
Heavy Paper, Full Morocco Binding. Gilt Edrss.
ten 40, Dollars a Copy.
"Mosrs KNo. Publisher
ere Tou will make from . photograph OF myself q
process copperplAte engraving and insert IL in your
NOTABLE NEW YoRKERS IN the whole Fifty
Thounhnu kbO,OUOD DoOHn-hnu Eufnltn me Win one
volume in full Morocco binding. with Rilt edges, I
will pay you FIFTY t5o) dollars on presentation Of
this order.
.BusrNrna.
"DAte, .ADDnEna.
....."....."....1e9s."
We give to these interesting documents
wider publicity han they will acquire by
circulation through the United States mails.
1t will soon be too late. and the door to
New York N~otability will be relentlessly
slammed In the face Of the ethical doubter
or pecuniary procrastinator. The shutters
Of the Temple Of Fame will be put up
promptly in order to enable MOSES to count
his pro1ts. From his standpoint, not
necessarily the merely ethical standpoint,
It ought to be q pretty good thing. For
instance: .
$500 Notables at FIFTY DOLLARS each,
and four TO . page .S115, 900
t7.7oo copies for homes, clubs, libraries.
ofhees, editors rooms, &c. at, let us say,
tl'oo 0 1850
s1se.55o
Less cost Of edition. as stated IN circular. 5000
Leaving Tor NOSE. ..Sl1l,56o
These figures are not official. The pros
pectuses with which we have been favored
leave In doubt the price that is to be charged
for that part Of the edition "for popular
circulation" which does not go In full Mo
rocco with gilt edges at $50 a copy into the
proud hands Of the Notables themselves.
In the foregoing calculation we lave as
sumed the modest sum Of a dollar and a half
as the selling price. II it Is more than that,
the financial returns to MOSES will be- pro-
~portionately larger. Judging without exact
information, we should say that five dollars
is a more equitable price to charge the
prominent men In every profession and all
lines Of business, who are not In the book,
for the privilege and Joy Of contemplating
the features OF the supereminent Notables
who are taxed fifty dollars for appearing
therein. 1t does not seem fair to charge
the actors more than ten times the price of
admission demanded Of the spectators.
1t will be observed that MOSES, unlike
most promoters Of True Fame on the fifty
dollar principle, suggests to his intended
benefciaries a doubt as to the ethical
s%oundness of the transaction he proposes to
them. He suggests the question, it is true,
only to brush it aside with the assertion
that more than one thousand prominent
Notables Of New York nave already given
their written promise to pay cash for Nota-
bility among the Notables. That is O spe-
cious, If not an immoral argument. The
proper answer to hesitators Is that they
have an absolute legal right to crafty fool
vanity in this way or in any other way not
prohibited by statutory enactment or mu-
nicipal ordinance; while, in the ethical
aspects Of the case, they will positively be
contributing to the innocent amusement Of
the town by joining the Notables.
As MOSES remarks, this collection Of por-
traits will be one of the most fascinating
ever published in any city in the world. It
will be fascinating sport to turn over the
portraits, four to the page, and spot the
~ifty-dollar Notables, caught in the act.