Sunday morning globe., 1901-10-27

in anything they devote their mind to and
follow energetically is illustrated by the
New York man who advertises in his win
dows in this fashion:
IF you've got anything that you can't
saw off on anybody else, bring it to me. I'll
buy any old thing, and I've got money to
burn, and another sign IF you find your
self stuck with anything that you think
won't do. here ! am. I'll buy anything
from a chariot to a church"
Here is what he says for himself
"Ive been doing that thing for twenty
years or more now, and don't mind saying
that Pm none to the bad. Mania for buy
ing Well maybe, but not the way you
mean it II it's a mania, then I get what's
coming TO me out Of it, and thatseuough.
"What do ! buy Just what that sign out
there says-any old thing ] bought FIVE
street spriuklers over iu Jersey town the
other dly. The town put 100 Use a number
of street sprinklcrs that travel along by
trolley on the trolleyed thoroughlares, and
so these five ordinary spriukhug carts were
thrown out of work. got EN- for almost
nothing Now you wouldn't think that "a
fellow could do anything with bunch of
street -priuElcrs, would you,
We'll I happened TO know of a town
down South That was figuring on buying a
lot of spriuElng carts. Immediately got
into communication with the authorities of
that town. and ] made dickgr with 'em
II cost me q few dollars 20 have my five
spriuklers tidied mp with red paint Then
! sent em along 90 this Southern town. and
they were accepted at my terms which
were pretty reasonable. as ! could well
afford TO make them. IcIeaued up nice
little bundle with those spriukiers
Same way with q steam roller that I
bought up 100 Boston a couple of years ago
It was old and cranky and of an out-of-date
pattern and got il at a junk price 1
bought a second hand boiler for IT, paid a
machiuist out of work "a few dollars to tim
her itup. and when he got through with it
it worked like "a new lawn mower. I knew
of a town out iu Wisconsin where the au.
thorities were thinking of blowing the
municipality of to a steam roller and
nailed EN- I cleaned up quite a few hun
dred on that old thing
Two years ago last summer I put down
a few thousand for AN old, bum-lookiug
steamboat that had been ploughing the
Hudson for more than thirty years. She
was pretty badly rundown Old frigate, at
that but 1 knew where To- get, cheap. a
good secondhand engine for her, aud had
that put iu. Had her painted up SOS She
looked like a new red sled and then be-
gan to puuer around 20 see who wanted TO
buy a fine ciipperish steamboat as good as
new, at bargain.
Found out that @ company that runs
boats along the minor ports of the Potomac
was hunting around for the goods I had on
hand and .1eir man came over and looked
at my nice little packet lie took her at q
figure that Melted me "a number of th1u-
sands. She was l1wgd down Co the Che-a.
peaEg during the mild season, and she's
working NOW like Daga gathering wood.
and doing aII that's asked of her.
"Im generally ou the lookout for bur-
le-que and extravaganza companies that
arc going Go pieces. buy their smaller
litHoulph tha, are just tcenchy
bit suggestive you know figures iu tights
and an ,hat-aud have the figures neatly
cut out and mounted ou heavy cardboard
of some dark. solid color I get two bits
each for these posters, and d De ashamed
TO tell you how much I make off 'em.
They're rcta.led for half dollar in the
popular art stores, and are bought by bach
cIor4 90 ornament their deus. by saloon
keepers and SO on. There was % time when
such theatrical paper was deadcrn sam
Patch after Tine company that had ordered it
had gone to smash. but IIl take all they
give me ut 10 tand holler for more.
"a i.w years ago 7 got hold oi about ten
thousand gallons iuk of various c0lor- Iar
"a price THAT makes me blush t0 think of
It tWa- goo. iuE. alright and gotit from
"a stationery manufacturing fm chat died
of dry rot and went out of business For %
time 10 looked a- if was going TO be stuck
with th5, iuk. Couldn't get any of the
dealers .o look at me when I offered it TO
'cm at amy old price.
"THa iuk wI- boo quar-. bottles. ] had it
dumped into small bottles. slapped my own
labels a- maker of iuE onto the bottles
and offered IL 60 the trade that way at fire.
sale figures. They be up and went on
the rgl, side of the daybo0k big on that
ink DEAL
"Whcn the great tragedy took place at
Buffalo had several hundred of thousands
of autographs of President Mckinley on
hand ] bought them for almost nothing at
the wnd-up of the last campaign. There
didn't appear 90 DE any reason why should
buy them then, with the President going
into the White House for the second term.
yet bougH, them. They are an gone now,
were put into use for mourning purposes
all over the country / took advantage OF
the occasion. of course, as a business man
but I don't mind saying that / would give
to-day twenty times the profit made out
of the venture if the occasion had never
arisen BOO the way it did
Early this year when Jerome was plant
ing the fear of the Lord IN the bosoms OF
the gamblers the small fry IN the business
went out of trade by tlc dozen and closed
out got hold of "a large number Of pretty
neat gambling conuriyances at that time
aud at very inviting dgurcs-iaro layouts,
roulette wh seis and uheIike. These tools
aye all working now, not BOO or around New
York but out West That little buy helped
me along quite lot
"a few months ago over Zoo Philadelphia
got hold ofa big lot of high-grade 1909
bicycles 9i various makes that were shop
worn B.kiug is pretty dead over there iu
Sum5ery'io. aud these wheels passed ,o
my name at removal sale rates. had em
touched mp as to their cnameling and
hurled tHe whole bundle down 20 the ar.