The Washington bee., 1899-04-22
STUDENT TAU)RS At YALE
Two Wide-Awake and Enter
prising "Theologs'' Startle
"Old Ety."
EARNING THEIR WAY.
William Lysander Burbank Collins
and Robert Stuart Young are the
Men of the Tailoring Firm.

went Into Business Simply as a Means of
Earning Their Passage Through the
Divinity SchooI-wnI No Doubt Be as
successful saving souls as Selling Suits
Two wide-awake and enterprising
young theOlOgS in the Yale Divinity
School have startled old Eli and the
world at large by hanging tailor's
sign on the door in the dOrmitOry
known on the Campus as West Di-
vinity Hail.
William Lysander Burbank Collins,
the head of the firm of tailoring di-
vines. who will not write ID. d." af-
ter his name until 1901, is an ideal
theological student in appearance.
Tall, spare, almost bony in his lean
ness, with slOping and STOPPING should
ers, full dark beard clipped close.
which is less expensive than shaven
face, and eyeglasses that denote the
burning of midnight oil.
He is thirty years old, and halls
from keene. y. H.. Denman ThOmp-
sons native town, and before he was
twenty-One built and paid for a home
for his parents. after which he set out
for an education and was gradua ted
from AmhurSt.
Room 40. West Divinity. presents
curious mixture of the tailor shop.
study and young gentlemen'S den.
The table is heaped with text books
ana learned treatiSpS on theology.
mixed hOpelessly with sample books
and sample cards. showing the latest
patterns for fancy vestings. the swell
lest thing worn i'm New York. price 81
to SD, as one announcements of the
student tailOrs' says seductively.
Student Collins. in reply to ques-
ton said
''TailOrin"? Yes sir; why not? Isn't
IT an honest calling? Isn't it hOnOra-
BILE? Isn't it respectable?
We're doing smashing business.
too. We've got to live. and my part
ner's got wife and baby to look out
for too.
My partner. Robert = Young. is
only twenty-fOur years old. He's from
Peoria or kankakee, or somewhere
in Illinois,
ITO tell the truth. the idea is his
He did tailoring at the college and
sold $1,000 worth of goods last year
We began in November and we've
sold over fifty suits. over $500 worth
already. but we've only just begun to
advertise. | believe i'm Advertising -
At this moment customer came.
lie was fellow-divinity student. He
wanted serge suit
Now. I've got lot of new samples.
old man. and | want to show 'em to
YOU began the Rev. DR.. Collins.
briskly. Il tell you they're dandieS
This is line from one of the largest
houses in Chicago. and I'll make yOu
Il special price on EN-"
The salesman was running over a
large book of tailor's samples with
the deftness of an expert.
MY partner handled them last
year at his college. and I'm telling
you they are daisies. | want to get
Il sample order. and so | will let you
have 'em dollar off. Here's the
most popular blue serge at S15-I'll let
you have 'em at S14
"Well. they have got a serge down
at one of the stores for so that looks
just like your $15 suit" faltered the
customer.
"A tailOr-made suit is always better
made: the button-hOlps don't break
out. the buttons don't come off. the
trimmings are of better material: yOu
can always have 'em altered and they
always tit better the tailOr-saIpsman
divinity student ratified Resides
blue is the most expensive die used L:
it's so full of aluminium.
"The sun will oxidiZe the color in
these cheap sergPs and turn them
brown. They can't sell any of these
SergeS ready made downtown any
cheaper than I'll make 'em to order.
If the Rev. William LySandpr Bur
bank Collins throws himself into the
struggle for the salvation of souls as
he does into the sale of fourteen
dollar suit of clothes. there will he q
great awakening in the neighborhood
Of his ministry.
The firm have gone into the business
of clothing their fellow students sim
ply as means of earning their pas
sage through the divinity school and
their preparation for that greater
work Of clothing souls with the raj
ment of righteousness.
Apparently they will not have to
wait on table at some summer resort
hotel during next vacation but may
themselves luxuriate on the verandaS
at Newport. Saratoga or i'm the Cat.
skills-DrOvided shocked conversation
doesn't break up their business.