The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-10-16

, let Smith, do our important outside
business down town." The change was
accordingly made. and Breezy became
| a sort of confidential clerk, doing most
OF the firms business with the banks
and the down town offices. Character
| istically, he allowed DO opportunity To
! escape TO learn the firms manner of
doing business and its needs. He was
not cnary with suggestions. either, and
was told by the firm more than once
that his advice had not been asked,
and that il was therefore not very
valuable. This logic Breezy utterly
failed to comprehend
His old friends smiled as he dashed
by them daily on his bicycle, his hat
crushed onto his head and his face al
most on the handle bars
The firm sent him TO the newspape
offices to take advertising copy. The
advertisements which he carried lie
criticised freely on The road doWa
town. Most OF his criticisms were OF
a decidedly adverse nature, and his
opinion of the man who wrote them,
the head of the firm, grew more and
more COntemDtuoUs. He mad learned
some LESSONS in advertising by his card
making.
One morning they sent him to a
downtown firm Of producers with am
order for twenty tubs of butter With
the order they gave him copy to take
TO all the morning papers, making
commonplace and altogether unattrac-
tive mention-thought Breezy-of a
proposed special sale of these twenty
tubs Of butter.
That's the weakest thing yet" he
SoliloquiZed as lie sped down the
empty avenue. ''Butter'n so up GEMS
a pound one of these days"
A. he Stond in tho Office Of tho com
pany he heard a man say something
confidentially TO the produce man and
a customer that made him wink nard.
II was that butter would go up in a
few days. The customer did not seem
to take it very seriously, but Breezy
construed it into mighty tip.
Just what l thought" he said TO
himself. That slow firm, buying only
twenty tubs" 1t occurred TO him Ihat
he might telephone to the firm and
give them the tip; but he Immediately
rejected the idea.
They'd only laugh and tell me Tat
wasn't running. their business"
Then was born a great idea. An IL
slant later he was decided. The PRO
Queer whistled when Breezy handed
him an order for a hundred tubs.
"It'll take all we have" he said.
Breezy sat down at the desk
The foreman at the newspaper
composing rooms looked at MIN
in surprise as he gave directions about
border and type, technicalities which
he had learned as editor of the school
paper.
The tubs were all delivered in the
afternoon. Thompson came out in the
warerOom and looked at the first batch
Of twenty. Il wouldn't have ordered
twenty" he said, shaking his head I
told Jim they wouldn't go" He WASH
in when the rest came. Are they
turning the store into a butter hOuse?'
said the shipping clerk. grumbling, as
he helped the men bring them IN.
Great heaven" calculated ThOmp
son the next morning when he came
into the warerOom. Where does all
this butter come from?'
The shipping clerk looked unintelli
gent, and made no answer. Thompson
brought in the head of the firm, Mr..
Leslie. He, in turn, stared dumbly 1T
the tiers of tuos.
What the - he began eXcitedly.
II told you TO order twenty didn't u"
You advised me not to buy more.
said Thompson stiffiy, and 1 didn't"
Cant you cOunt?" exclaimed Leslie
wrathfully, pointing to the tubs
There's a hundred there. if there's
onei"
When Breezy was finally called IN he
faced both men easily.
How many tubs of butter aid you
order?" asked Leslie.
zone hundred