The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-01-07
ART In The STOCK LAUNDRY;
OR, HOW TO BE lESTHETTC4LLY
IMPRESSIVE on CREDIT.
Gaborlan Outdone by the Modern Method
or Getting Fine Furniture on Bank
Reference and STAYING on Payment
with Checks Which Return Marked NC.

with Checks Which Return Marked NC.
Since it began TO be understood how
Munroe & Munroe, the Montreal coll ar
dealers, who we're promoted to be brokers
in the laundry business in Wall Street, and
whose affairs are now in the hands OF
receiver. got their Office furniture. Wall
Street men of literary tendencies have
turned their memory back to one of Emile
Gaboriau' novels wherein set Of Partisan
get rich quick" men OF the COS needed
TO procure Office furniture They rented
il by the week from firm whose business
it was to outfit people who needed sumptu-
Gus Offices temporarily
The firm Gaboriau pictured could on
short notice. give any Office the appearance
Of glittering wealth 1t rented out massive
desks, cashiers grilles, safes and pictures.
II kept constantly on hand supply OF
curios for special purposes mineral specl-
mems for mining companies, Oriental curlos
for people in the China trade. and chunks Of
crude rubber for rubber companies. such
objects. scattered carelessly about the
Office. gave an air Of busy industry and
genuineness to any old enterprise.
It IS not necessary to go so far as this in
these days Modern finance has brought
improved methods For example
1t came out in the bankruptcy hearing
that the worldly capital of Munroe and
Munroe when they quit the genteel occupa
ton of gents furnishers in Montreal to
take up an even more genteel occupation
in New York was about $1,000 The furnl-
ture in their Offices would have cost more
than that--if it had been paid for 1t was
fine furniture and reflected great credit
upon the good taste fostered by furnishing
personal adonment to gents.
Entering the apart ment, almost profaned
by the name of Office, the visitor burning
10 invest in copper stocks beheld a SYM
phony IN red and dull green. His feet sank
in a soft duh red carpet There was grill
OF chustely ornamental iron work to keep
the cashier from Ascending with the firms
heavy bonded debt.
But the desks and desk funlshinsg were
the best things in sight They were OF
hca W mission design. stained dull green.
70 the discriminai ing Gust omer they sug-
Rested at once one Of those exclusive EN-
poriums Of gents furnishings where
cultureen salesman with pre-Raphaeite
haircut reaches reverently into green
stained drawer. which takes the place OF
Il vulgar counter, pulls out deep magenta
| cravat. ties It becomingly over his hand
and says in an Andrea del SaTto voice:
An exquisite little conceit, sir.
II certainly was swell
The up to date Office appliances audth
| filing devices used to keep tab on the ex-
| tensive business of Munroe K Munroe
/ came from Yawman 4 Erbe OF 800 Broad
way Charles Z, Matthews of 275 Canal
street furnished he elegant grill which
confined the cashier and several other
neat and tasteful touches about the place
/ The mission furniture, including a set of
| big, easy, leather lined chairs, an impos-
{ ing sofa and desks OF which you couldn't
/ see the writing part for the ornamental
CROSSWORD came from Joseph p. Ntzhugh,
} 4 Co. Of West Fort y-second street There
we're still other firms They are all hoping
against hope that they will be able to get
back little of the furniture. anyway.
II wasn't necessary to apply the Ga
boriau system of rented elegance. 1t is
great deal easier in these days. The
experience Of McHugh Il Co. is typical
Manroe & Munroe approached McHugh
h Co. about Oct. l. They wanted bill Of
goods sent up 10 their Broad street Offices.
They mentioned as a reference the National
City Bank, tho institution which after
ward lent them $50 900 daily on their I'M
secured notes AIcHugh & Co. had sold
goods 10 the National City Bank With
that reference there seemed to be no doubt
that the firm was financially good The
I furniture concern sent ZIP about $500 worth
of goods. together with Il bill. Munroe 4
Muuroe made few more purchases in
the course of week raising The bill to $3.50.
The bill wasn't paid in October. Still
the furniture men didn't think it worth
while to press such excellent customers.
In November a short and very polite re-
minder was sent No answer.
And still McHugh Il Co. were not wor-
ried until on Dec 3 along came a collector
from Yawman 4 Erbe. who had heard
that McHuRh had trusted Munroe & Mum
roe; also that things didn't oox quite right.
He dropped ia 10 give friendly little bust
Joseph McHugh decided to brook the
possible wrath Of the National City Bank
and sent collector down to Munroe Il
Munroe
why certainly said that firm .obligingly
and drew at once check for the fun amount
on Montreal bank.
NcHugh & Co. deposited the check tina /
afternoon Dec and thought no more
about il for week. At the end Of the
week back came the check marked N. G. -
member OF the McfIugh firm went down
70 investigate He found a clerk from
the Sheriff office stretched out on the
star mission sofa his feet, disposed at ease.
scraping the green stain from its elegant
woodwork Other limbs OF the law were
using the padded mission chairs 10 stand
on while they rimmaged through the top
dra wers Of a cabinet for which Yawman Il
Erbe had been stuck. trying 10 find some
thing to attach. The Office boy, trying to
I'm out his weeks service. was practising
with his pea shooters on a big copper
bur which was the best thing Munroe d
Nunroe had in the way Of elegance The
bull had bsen put there 10 show what they
intended to do with the market. The
conner showed that they we're interested
in that metal just like other frenzied fin
I ancicrs.
In the week between the delivery OF that
check and lis return with the two fatal
letters across it's face, Munroe Munroe
Ind quit laundering copper stocks and gone
bust and the law had taken possession.
McHugh & Co. feel that the check was
at least well timed. They have a dim hope
that they may he able to get back some OF
their goods and efIace the marks Of Legal
shoenails.
Yawman 4 Erbe were stuck for about
800. Charles Il Matthews also contrib
uted literally, he won't say how much
or how he was done judged by hls faca
expression during INQUIRIES his attitude