El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-04-13
HERE AND ELSEWHERE

The dressing of show windows OF
the retail stores OF the cities of the
country has be- come an art, said a
representative of a large eastern house
today, land nowhere do | find greater
taste dis played than right here in Ell
Paso The great department stores oil
the metropolitan cities pay their win
dow dressers salaries that range from
So, 600 to $40, 900 per year Let novice
undertake to display windows such u:
you see in the dig Ell Paso stores and
watch the result. He could no more
arrive at that perfection of combtna-
ton; that arrangement OF color effects
and the pleasing well balanced en-
sem bic than 1 could move that noun
tain over there. | repeat, IL Is art.
Another branch of the mercantile
business tina may be placed IN the
same line is the art of preparing the
great advertisements that are the de-
light OF the up to-date woman. Some
OF the big stores disburse from SlOO. O0U
advertising matter. 1t is nee
essary that every dollar oil
this newspaper space be made
to count, and the proprie-
tors do net risk their trade nor money
in cheap men. Hence it Is that we
have the advertising writer, and the
pay ranges from 81, 0O0, to $4,000 and
even higher, according to the house.
Armour & Co., pay their man Sl5, 600
Swift & Co., about the same: Wana-
maker somewhere between s15'
900 and $40, 900 and Siegel,
Cooper 81 Co., $4,000. f. b
Cooper, of the firm, before the New
York house was esta olished. wrote the
ads for the Chicago house, aud he say;
that judicious advertising made the
success of that great department
business.
"On my tours of the smaller cities
have told customers who complain
of the volume of business that they
should advertise literally, and make 6
study of this branch OF the business
| have been answered that business die
not justify it. My answer always is
If you have goods TO sell, let the
people know it,, and know it plenty.
| They never fail to more than make
cost of publicity. and at the same
| time l stand in line to receive increa
| sed orGerS."
On the Pullman car delivered t.
| the S. ?. by the T. p. Wedn esday was {
large man whose most visible article
of personal dress was a watch fol
of the size of a Michigan log ch ain
Otherwise he would have passed for al
average bird of passage had it no
been for the workings Of his vocal Or
gans. In this respect he was remark
able. He told the porter OF the car
that he was none other than Parsor
Davies of prize ring fame. Enroute t.
Ell Paso he RECALLED On attentive au
OF the gladiators he had managed
and as piece de resistanc;
related how he had been arrested in
Dallas on account of a fight that had
occurred IN Colorado many moons no y
waned and forgotten. He did not tel
how be could be legally arrested 10
Texas for some infraction OF the law
committed in Colorado without a requi
sitiou from the governor OF the latter
state, but he did say that his bail wa!
fixed at 81 900, aud that friend had
given straw bond for the amount anC
that he was now on his way to Frisco
All this might have passed current
had the cars in which the pseudo
"Parsonn travelled not been held hers
over night.
But Excursion Agent Grant of the S
P. was also detained ere, and at moor
) esterday when the porter of the Cal
told him Mr.. Davies was on board, MI
Grant naturally asked where he was
Upon being pointed out, he a
once said there must be some mis- take
1t was mistake, as was proved by
two San Francisco men when both
recognized the man as one Omsnd Day
San Francisco character with re
cord In the police court OF the Code
Gate city. Mr.. Day. however, created I;
sensation while he remained in Ell Paso
The discovery by Americans OF tbs
similarity in the dialects used by some
OF the Malay tribes 10 the Philippines
and the Creek Indians OF this country
and the recent further claim that GER
tain Siamese dialects are also SINH ar &c
that OF some of the American tribes,
recalls story told by Jack" Remley
short time before be and his partner
Miller were killed by the YaQui In
dians last July.
Mr.. Remley owned an interest in an
hacienda on the gulf coast west of Her
mosillo, few miles south Of TiburOn
island, the home of the Canni balistic
Seri Indians. He employed them o n
the hacienda, and learned their lam
guage. In a conversation with the
chief of the tribe one day, he told Mr..
Remley that at the time OF the French
invasion two troops Of A gerian cav