The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-08-31
o suggest such a thing. 1mpos,tble.

to suggest such thing? Impossible
Inn possible? answered l, politely. oh.
no. IL you will pardon that contradictions:
not at all impossible. Indeed, I understand
that several colored congregations ARE IN
negotiation with Mr.. Blank for the. property.
hope 1t Is not true.
hope SO. too. you may well believe.
such thing as a colored congregation TAX
ing the church would certainly injure the
neighborh0Od, was the invariable rejoinder.
In every case left those property own
ers deeply perturbed, but my work did not
end with this. 1t only began with exciting
gloomy forebodings. 1 had already notified
q number of colored congregations that
church In select neighborhood was for
sale. and limited that it might bespurchased
on long terms for about $40 900. less than
1t was actually worth Needless to say.
that brought out the cOlored church goers
In legion. They swarmed all over my
dealers office and he sent them in docks
to inspect the church and make different
Inquiries in the neighborhood Besides this
I hired several old colored people of respect
able appearance and sanctifled air and sent
them on tours of inspection as WELL Within
"a hours every property owner living within
Ave blocks of the church was convinced
that the colored people were going to pur-
chase it.
For a week colored committees con-
tinued to visit the property morning, noon
and night. CONSERVATION took firmer hold
on the residents in the neighborhood. It
looked as If the intrinsic value of real estate
and the social value of an exclusive COM
munity were trembling in the balance
Something had to be done, so a meeting of
the property owners was held, the upshot
OF which was the raising of sufficient
amount OF money to purchase the church
and thus prevent an influx of colored church
goers Instead OF six months 1t did not
take more than seven weeks to dispose Of
the church, so I collected the $500 wager
as well as very satisfactory profit from
the deal.
Zone summer few years ago 1 spent a
vacation on farm not farm from Monsey,
N. Y. The owner of the farm had two daugh-
tiers. one unsteady inclined and the other
very much infatuated with her own charms
of face and figure. The first wanted q
piano and the other sighed for a diamond
ring but the agriculturist was too hard up
at that time to buy them, although he
wanted his girls to have such things. Now,
l never lose chance to make a trade,
no matter where l go or how insignificant
the values involved, for, as 1 said, swap
ping Is a passion. &c. I sad on my
hands at the time about rs cheap pianos
which had leen seized by a client on a
judgment held against a bankrupt manu-
facturer and plenty of jewelry. 1 offered
to supply the girls Of he would trade me
20 acres OF land for piano and diamond
ring. The land was worth $50 acre,
and the piano and ring were worth less
than-but never mind that. Suffice to say
that the dicker was made and I lost moth
ing. Next spring 1 built fancy little
Queen Anne cottage on my land at a cost
OF $1,000 and then snapped it off for a
small steam yacht which I sold some time
ago for $4,000. SO you see how easy it is
to make swapping pay when you know
how.
There is one professional snapper in
New York who started out less than five
years ago to trade, principally in second
hand typewriters. When he had accumu-
lated ten or twelve he hired a young man
at 50 week and small office in an old
fashioned building where rents were cheap
and opened typewriter exchange, selling
the machines for two or three times as much
as they cost him and renting them out
at 50 month. He built up a flourish
ing business in very short time, as he
continued to add to his stock and today he
has big branch establishments in several
large cities. His income from typewrit-
ers alone must be something like $40 900 q
year.
Another exchange broker now located in
New York was formerly a fakir who in his
peregrinations fetched up at every corner
of the United States. When he came here
to stay he had about $4,000, rather a small
capital to pit against large swappers; but
he was endowed with a wonderful genius
for swapping, and it was ont long before he
struck 1t rich. The first thing that came
his way was the stock of bankrupt man
ufacturer of a patent liniment which was
advertised as a sovereign remedy for about
every ailment known to medical science.
He bought 1T in at auction sale, being one
of only three bidders, for $500, together
with the patent and lease Of plant. The
stock consisted of 1000 bottles full Of the
wonderful cure-all about 5000 empty bot
ties, two or three blk mixing kettles, and
$50 pounds Of the chemicals of which the
stuff was made. 1t looked like an elephant,
and 80 1t would have been to a less astute
man. but he knew what he was about Call
ing together half a dozen patent medicine
fakirs, who were out of job and whom he
knew to be partially honest, he gave them
each 1000 bottles of the liniment, which in
the meantime he had relabeled with some
absurdly preposterous name; hired bar
ouches, each drawn by four horses; en-
ployed negro banjoists, leather lunged vocal
and slieght- Of hand performers and sent
them through the country to sell the stuff
in small towns. Within week the II, 900
bottles were consumed, and he was work.
ing a dozen men night and day turning out
more liniment. With the capital obtained
from this first success he was able to ad-
vertise extensively In the newspapers and
put his liniment in the drug stores every
where. More than 100000 bottles of the
shrewd snapper took hold of the plant.
Eventually he sold out to a company for
something like $4,000. With this sum he
was able to operate on a large scale. and,
success having attended most of his efforts,
he is now worth more than $5O0,00O One
of his recent swaps, which netted him con-
siderable profit, was big tramp steamship
for an apartment mouse in fashionable
section. New York Sun.