Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-06-16
GREAT LUCK OF JOB LOT BUYER
Purchases Anything from Cannon to
 Rubber Boots.

II buying and selling any old thing that
 comes his way-he is better known as
 "Dackert the Dickerer-was in Wash ington while ago to attend depart
 ment sale of condemned typewriters,
 reports the Washington Post. Dack- ert is an acute business man who makes money and plenty of it through his catholicity of taste in buying-and
 selling-things. Anything which comes his way for which there seems to him to be the slightest chance to get a price ''Dackert the Dickerer" will buy I-for his price. He has bought and 1 sold job lots of secondhand street sprink1ers time and again at profit, and he has bought and sold more hopeless-looking old steamboats than
 he has fingers and toes--and made big money out of them.
 s'I made a buy few years ago that
 I thought was going to chisel me-" he said, in relating some of his experi-
 ences while in Washington. '"The gov ernment, through the military author1- l ties, auctioned off at western post
 a lot of out-of-date cannon, brass af- l fairs of the type known as Napoleon
 cannon. I didn't have 1t figured out how could scare up war with any
 body, but I bought in these cannon
 anyhow at figure at which l could
 have made good by selling the brass in case I couldn't get rid of the things
 any other way.
 ssWell, I sat down and waited for
 some of the South or Central American republics to get scrapptng with each
 other, and for their swarthy agents to
 show up in this country for the pur- pose of buying munitions of war; but it happened that the republics down there were positively hugging each other in brotherly amity ana peace, and it. began to look a sure thing that
 my Napoleon cannon 'ud have to go to the scrap heap if I expected to get my money back on them.
 However, in the month of May an idea, with respect to those cannon hit me, and hired talky young fellow to carry 1t out. Sent him through lot of middle western towns, and had him put it to the authorities of these towns how badly they needed can- non to be placed in the town public square or park for saluting purposes on the Fourth of July and other patriotic and ceremonial occasions. 1t went all right, that scheme. My oily young man was out only six weeks, but he got rid of every one of those Napoleons and at mighty tidy figures at that. "What dye think you'd do with a l big circus tent if you had 1t on your hands was up against that question few years ago, and it kept me awake a lot O nights, not because I'd paid so much for the tent-for I hadn't-but because I hate to have any of my boys lying around loose and not working. don't store up anything for any, very sizable period. I got this tent from l a big show that was about to start for Europe. It was patched hn quite few spots, but it was in good shape. The only reason the show handed 1t over to me for a song or less was that the outfit had been supplied completely with new tents before starting for the other side.
 T had the tent and poles and the running gear of the thing slowed in warehouse, and used to go down there once in while and gaze at it and wonder what in the dickens I'd ever be able to do with 1t, since no cir GUS that had offered 1t to-and that was all of them-wanted it. It was too big for any ordinary camp meeting and it could have been cut up into about 500 gypsy tents.
 "Just when it began to seem to me 1 that the only way I'd ever get my coin back on that tent would be to send it to mill to be turned into paper, To, and behold! I see an ad in St Louis newspaper that makes it all right The organizers of a big summer school in central Missouri were advertising for just as big a second hand tent as could be purchased for reasonable figure. I 1 got just sixty times what I'd paid for the tent from those people. I'm sorry to say that the second day after it was raised by the summer school folks one of those western tornadoes came along and ripped it into ribbons.
 | Tt may be that I'veFhad a lot of bull-headed luck in this game, but it's a fact that something always turns up | to give a value to some of the most l impossible truck get hold of. Six or seven years ago I bought 5000 and some odd pairs of mems rubber boots that had been wet down some, but not at all damaged, in fire that ruined the manufacturing plant. Now, rubber boots are pretty slow sellers at the best | of times, and by the time you've got l rid of 5000 pairs of rubber boots you'll be about ready to go off on a vaca- tton, especially if they've been made ] just teeny little bit off color by wa 1 ter from fireman's hose.
 'fBut got the things at such a scan- dalously small figure that just had to buy lem, willy nilly. Stored lem in warehouse and began to keep up such steady thinking as to how I'd ever get rid of them that didn't hear my wife half the time when she was ask ing me for money. circulated around among the dealers, and they gave me the hoarse hoot and the happy holler, and told me they'd have been sell ing me gold bricks years before if they'd known was such a come-on.
 ''Then the news of the pay dirt they were striking up around Dawson got out, and the Klondike fever was on. sent two men out with those rubber boots. One went to Portland, Ore, and the other to Seattle, Wash, the two nOiDfS at which fho chiaf ol1tfittiDo xro e