New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-08-06
THE MAJORS NEW TRUST.
A GREAT PROMOTER TAKES THE LAND
LORD INTO HIS CONFIDENCE.
m Thc CUlcls0 NcWs.

From Tho Chicago New.
II WIS the landlord again with his bill for the
door when tn. Major advanced with uutsUctc hcd
A4ad uI. greeted him win.
sod morning To- ycu AVID good morning You
have com" for Ga" rent. and. "i course; you nav
about 10 send a telegram asking You 10 call -
Io'"y month. rent 40 mu'h. ,9iit.t TO "a t cen.
wan a man in "a business Wy. i-Nc".' mo, me
lay thc hlil away, where IL WI Toe sale 'a i ui
disturbed for months and years to come. There
.rm .i,,r the rontr' announced the landlord in
"EN1,tIs cxlcty-I sec Three months ago;
when IL Wa Impossible for me to rAi-e $.o, you
showed your futh ~ my INTEGRITY 10y rsnuAs me-
tL.o Office You dJ not lose your idNh as UNI
passed on. You have not lost it yet. II you , d,a
not E"t y""r rent for me h.Ni SiN, menus 9Wr
would stiu 20 on trusting me and feeling maj our
money WIS safe 1t Is needles 10 Ad4 ,i'.t '!'
ef1.,tul-that your confidence III me mas 'oucneu
Look here. now. but I'm after my rent" ex-
claimed the landlord. with throat II DIS t1 4
'les touched rcrder chord resumed the Ma! VA
Il I,i. to boz, trusted Ike m,u to haV, confidence
f. me-. when you called here "a few ". rs ago !
=, u ,.,.,i. aid ir-.lrar.c ana haI become pro
motor ot enterprises. but you were IN MUIR! ana
mon, hen. but to-day You ook gpon N9P2son OF
ir NICE. Your hand, sir Sh1tr. ''ii+Id uil' II,
doe, mn. q world Of good to be- able 10 repay. you
To- your UNITING confidence ~ Major oroio0I
l5ri ' al Ms you iI ,.''' brriirih,ared
My dear man. ] Oil not take you IN on my iirst
~ , tboneY,.I Of failure and was determined that
y,u should not Jose a dollar through M" waited
whom You walk down those stairs you VIII h''e Il
positive contempt for corner lois ""i "a 10 =
5000 apiece. TREASURER ana G'i.'ii,1 -. ma 49,, /
~, great American KAt and Mouse Trap Ir1St'
@rut where's my .rcn'' oil not come up here
'lt Was the incest. 81. kost job Of th"m allr,'
chucklod the Major as be paced the h"or WIN
y, 'i',',E There l.u.t nous IN America without
49, r.'. and mic Or late yol1s competition has
forced prices down ull no manuiaci1icT mas prrm
must have traps owing u tn" low price. 'hi$ on
;r,p turned ont for every i've hundred roI'"ls-
,,I.r -. me situation sir tn Gre u Was. ana
V4s Major Crofoo' equal 20 lt? J am pfoud I" say
he was proud to Say i. IT," hr,t s,,P vas 80.
DO YOU want ul' tO sue t"l 10Y ''4' account
ir,,rruptcd The impatient landlord. ,....,-
I'm. nr-t step was 90 protect ne inhnul . Ir
or 80 calmly continued tho Major. Forty TWO rat
~, mouse trap makers in America cutting pii,'s
I'M YOU could buy trap for iF" ''Ni. fi E'l -
Io,nd Of tea ,hfoNu In. Forty two circular icy, Joy
ah,,, , combine ana prices jump ~ per cent y !
m"r. throat @ut,inf Every trap goes AZ u rron'
o'.TpTIbIlc mus, have traps or be oy"rrun number
o. traps 10 bc sold IN tic next year lon''"n -
But Major Crofopt does not SOP a. ia" nap ST.
a. 1uUoO.orO rat and nous" ~ iis plyNE i OILY
% ivo cents Zach Dit u" p'S"5 ~, ava h,G 10
use for "a trap unless you've" got 'h'"-" IN ne
house. Cheese makers w"r" trying 10 ID t3,h 3I''f
up and the price was down 10 "a en-. ~ l1s
~ 4 cent pound 20 every m k"r MAJOR f'i"'t
steps In and there IS chccs" trust ard prices -" np
until there Is four cents pfoit on every pound ic
pf cheese for batting rat and nous" traps liIh0N
pounds annually. And 50. my dear man there you
nrc and THERE you are, and let 10 ahahe hands
FIN be hanged II do II you don't pay this rem,
III have yOu out OF this oi'ce inside OF thrcc
DO you know the present number Of rats and