The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-07-04
WITH MEN OF BUSINESS
THERE WILL BE NO MORE QUOTA
TIoNs ON SUGARS THIS WEEK
How Wholesalers VIII Zebra the
Fourth-A Prominent Banker
and Hi: Cigars.

There will be no more quotations on
sugar this week. hank goodness" said
James Broden, OF NJ. O'Connor & Co., yes
terday. "You see. whenever a legal holt
day comes as late in the week as Wednes-
day or Thursday or after that, the sugar
refneries close down and do not resume
operations until the following Monday.
Well. tomorrow is the Fourth OF July and
they will shut down on that account. 1t
will give the jobbers and retailers a chance
to catch their breath after the recent un-
certainty of quotations on soliditied sweet
ness"
There will be little doing on South
Meridian street to-day. The head men In
wholesale establishments will come to their
offices for an hour this morning to look
over the mail and attend to receipts from
the express companies. but business VIII
be practically at a standstin in the great
wholesale district of indianapolis.
Our company has just been awarded the
contract to furnish the hardware for the
new federal building that is being erected
at Carrollton, KY said Charles E. Hurl-
bert. buyer for the Indianapolis Hardware
Company. yesterday. Speaking of the
- "a - VI aI va -
pie about the hardware companys place of
business intended TO celebrate the day in
the proper manner Il shall pass the
launch out at Broad Ripple" he said.
X *
1.-The hog market is from 5 to 10 cents
lower just now said Robert F. Helm at
the s~tockyards yesterday. Il attribute
this condition largely to the hot weather.
Cattle are from Is to Is cents lower than
they were the early part of last week. l
think, however, that prices will swing back
by the end of this week"
XXX
A prominent banker of this city has his
cigars made especially for him by a local
manufacturer. The cigars are made in
lots OF a thousand at a time and then de-
livered to the banker as he calls for them.
He consumes-by his own efforts, assisted
by his friends-one hundred cigars every
week. Until recently the man of money
believed that he was the only person in
Indianapolis that smoked that particular
brand of cigars. To his amazement, when
he happened to order some cigars at a
restaurant the other day they were taken
from a box bearing the same label that
appears on the goods he purchases for his
private use, except that the restaurant
cigars were of the Perfecto size. while his
own are a little different. Meeting the
manufacturer Of his cigars the banker ac-
cOSted him with: How is this, Charley;
! thought you were rot making any other
size of those cigars like l use except the
one you make for me?"
Il don't make any other size" retorted
the manufacturer.
Come now, it's no use to lie to me about
Ii" said the banker with a merry twinkle
in his eye. Il bought some of those cigars,
only they were Perfectos, In a restaurant
to-day"
Wei. now. I'll admit that I do make
some of those. cigars for another party"
said the manufacturer, but they go TO the
not have bought them anywhere else. I'll
bet you a hundred cigars that you can't
find them anywhere except at the Columbia
Club
I'll just take that bet" said the handler
of money. The pair walked TO the res
taurant in question, and sure enough there
were the cigars, two boxes of them side
by side in the case. ,
We'll. III be hanged" calculated the
nonplused manufacturer OF cigars. that
fool boy of mine must lave given this man
two boxes of those Columbia Club cigars
by mistake"
While this conversation was in progress
the restaurant proprietor listened with a
mystified air on his face. When he asked
for an explanation and was informed that
he had been given two boxes OF a different
brand than he ordered he burst out with,
Ill send them right back"
You will be a big fool II you do that"
said the banker, for they are a brand
that is made especially for the Columbia
Club and can't be had anywhere in the
city except here and at the club"