St. Johns review. (Saint Johns, Or.) 1904-current, 1905-08-25
PORTLAND, August 73, 1905.

EDITOR OF THE REVIEW:
In your paper of August rs you
have an article entitled "Should
Have a Route" to which ! take
the liberty of making reply,
trusting that it will be published in
full.
THE REVIEW STAGES that they be-
lieve there would be money i'll a
private express route between st.
John, and Portland, If one would
properly advertise and push the
business; that within the past
month they have had several calls
in regard to the same and so tar as
they knew there was no such com
pany doing business, etc. We do
not wish to criticise the valuable
advertising qualities of your paper
outside of your Office force, as
probably there is not one party in
ten at st. Johns or vicinity outside
of your Office that has not heard OF
the Portland * Suburban Express
Company and that we have teams
to connect with our cars III Portland
and that there are just as good ex-
press handlers in your own COM
munity as any that THE REVIEW
may have had in mind at the time
of writing the above article. We
have endeavored to properly adver-
tise our business; we have had a
running ad in THE REVIEW from
the very first issue and have en-
deavored to push Our business ac-
cording to the views of THE RE
VIEW, but evidently you do not
read your own advertising columns,
or you have some motive III not
trying to aid your own advertisers.
Probably, IL YOU would remember
"A bird in the hand is worth two
IN the bush, and requested us to
increase the size OF our ad, we
would undoubtedly have done so.
In fact, II you will inform us the
size required to reach the eyes Of
your Office force we will consider il
lt once.
You say YOU know of no COM
pany doing business between Port.
and and St. Johns that can handle |
perishable goods, etc, without crat.
ng. We wish to say that we have
handled showcases, plateglass mir.
'ors, in fact nearly everything that
yoes to make up town, both fur
iiture and store fixtures, aud many
lines fine furniture not even
and at reasonable prices,
90. AT the present time we have
10 claims for damages against this
ompany for breakage and damages,
n fact we have had very few since
ve have been ia the business and
II claims have been settled at once,
$ we endeavor TO treat the custom.
when once secured so that he
iill always remain customer GA ,
hh w hhS manu. SlNs
We greatly appreciate the sup. |
ort given our company by the citi-
ens of ST. Johns and vicinity since {
utting OH the freight cars. (Here I
wish 10 say that we are operating {
ltirely independent OF the Portland 4
Railway; We pay them c
" trackage, extra cars, etc, the Y
'me as TnR REVIEW pays their ;
'ntO As regards rates we will
'mpare rates with any railroad or a
spreSs route running out of Port. r
nd In a great many instances q
" rates are IS per cent cheaper. 7,
few words in regard To our rates b
III probably convince you. We o
ok up and deliver TO merchants AT D
/. Johns any article or articles h
lder 800 pounds for 2Se, the same S
te as charged by any local express D
mpany for the delivery to anv cl
llroad or boat. or a distance of
I'm one block to one and one.half C.
les in the city, Trunks we get fe
the union depot, the dock. or C
thin reasonable limits and deliver a
the line at ST. Johns for soc. lie
le price form .rly, before we VI
rted our business, for delivering be
he at 81. Johns by team was p. ri
iquire outside REVIEW Office II
. were not here at that time kt
You may say that we cannot de.
er direct. ANY OF your local ex- nc
have several good ",
5 at 81. Johns-can handle them or
sSc for any reasonable distance
king a total charge of 7Sc as of
INST s. as previously stated. fro
Is to handling goods direct, is
dis shipped by way OF our lines ins
arrive at their destination. re. wi
dless of the extra handling. in III,
Ter condition than il they were cor