River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1905-11-16

| will certainly get in an ocean of money
| from them
THAT isn't it; the question is. how
am l going to take care of all this
business with my present facilities p
insisted the laundryman.
Expand, expand" was the CRATER
| suggestion.
Indeed, | won't have time to ex-
pand, besides, I'll be in the insane
asylum before three weeks, to say
nothing of three months, if this keeps
| up"
/ 81 suppose you have lots of com
petition" suggested the CRATER.
| Eyes, we have plenty of that
''Well, we will put all the other
laundries out OF business inside of 30
days, and then all you will have to do
is to buy their plants cheap and mo
nopolize the business"
/ "That's all right to talk about, but
your methods would break up dozen
men like me in no time. What's going
to be done? If you keep this up, I'll
| be ruined financially inside of week.
| am not a millionaire, and have
worked hard to establish this little
| business, and there is no use in your
going on with this work, because
can't stand il"
But your bondsmen are all right.
are they not? Perhaps they will see
the necessity of backing you in this
enterprise"
mo, I'll never ask them to do that, .
the laundryman vowed, "and you might
as well let up right away"
"You understand, Mr.. - said the
| CRATER, that this contract is worth
| lot of money to me-" and in order
| to prove it to him, he showed him in
plain figures just how much it was
worth. Then he explained that The
| pottery concern allowed him commits
sion of Is per cent, or 80 cents, for
each jardiniere. The CRATER paid his
| canvassers 20 cents each for every con-
tract secured, leaving him profit of
| 80 cents on each contract, which, to-
| gether with 80 cents more on each jar
| diniere, made him profit of go cents
on every contract taken, and 500 day
meant ito him clear profit of $500,
| or $1,000 per week, as the canvassers
paid their own board and all other eX-
penses, except railroad fare.
This was a revelation to the laundry
man, who by this time began to realize
the sort of game he was up against"
and instantly began to plead for set
| Element.
''How much are you willing to give to
L..
''You tell me the least you will take
and let me out of this muss.'
Well" the CRATER replied, "you can
| figure, if it takes about three months to
| finish this city, that will mean about
| 13 weeks, of six working days each,
which means rs days, and if my profits
are $500 per day, you can see that my
gross personal gain for that length OF
time will amount to $50, 400 cash.
BY this time the CRATER had his vic
tim walking the floor; and, anxious to
settle on the spot, he once more asked
| for bottom figures.
well, I'll tell you. I'll take $4,000
in cash and call the deal off,
This, the CRATER explained, was al
he had, on two different occasions, re-
ceived that amount, he figured on get
ting $4,000, and wouldn't refuse half
that amount if he couldn't do better.
After the CRATER had finished his
story, said l thought he could make
the scheme legitimate and we'll paying
one by going into a large city and con-
fro otino with cayoro1 n ;fforout 1o,1p dry
men to secure, for each one, from 5000
to 10000 contracts, and keep up the
business, in a business way; or, if he
could find laundry concern with a
large enough plant and sufficient
money to back the scheme, they could
all make big money out of it.
He laughed and said: Eyes, I know
that is true, because I struck one con-
Germ, stock company, who had sew
eral different laundries in the city, and
money and nerve enough to carry it
through, and I made money very fast
as did the canvassers, and the laundry
firm.
/ then asked him to explain how ne
could satisfy his canvassers, who
worked on a commission, and who
after the first, or possibly the second
days canvass, would be out of work.
ooh, that's easy" said he; while
they are waiting for me to make an
other laundry contract in new ciCy,
they are all out canvassing under the
management of my brother, for a
clever little household article that gees
like wildfire, and which keeps them all
busy Besides. as / guarantee each
one certain amount per week-and a
good amount, too-of course they are
satisfied"
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