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The Washington times., 1906-08-19
cossIoN MERcANTs GREA GREATER WAsHNGTON ENTERPRISE

Jobbers and Shipperg' Association
an agency potent for the city's
good, they have taken an active in
terest in its organization and vel
fare. Mr.. Carter IS a member OF
the associations most important
committee-that on freight.
Show Places Of City.
The various establishments
the company in and near Wash
ington are among the show places
Of the city. They are valuable as
object lessons, in that they show
how well adapted is the National
Capital to the conduct Of impor-
tant commercial and manufactur-
ing enterprises. From this stand
point they are the personifcation
Of encouragement to the ambitious
and reproof to the doubters.
The company's officers are proud
Of its business and its accomplish
ments. They are glad to show
what is being done. The customers
OF the house are welcomed in
Washington and at the several
plants. Methods and conditions
are open to the inspection of the
world.
We handle the best" said Mr.
Carter. Our buyer has instruc-
tions to obtain the best cattle,
sheep, and hogs. although this may
involve the payment Of higher
prices. The same rule applies on
all our purchases. It runs through
our stock and our business policy.
It represents a principle, which has
contributed largely to Golden &
Company's success.
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GOLDEN & COMPANY, PACKERS AND. co

y T TAKES time to build bust
ness-and something else.
The business of Golden &
Company is a product OF
time. plus capital, brains,
energy, and confidence of an in
creasing patronage. Now. after
more than a third of a century, it
is one of the distinguished features
of Washington's commercial life.
In 1852 the business was found
ed by r. A. Golden, its present
head. 1t throve. prospered, and
increased, while still under the in
dividuaI management Of Mr.. Gold
en-. In 1894 four Louisiana avenue
houses were amalgamated into the
present corporation OF Golden &
Company. These were Golden,
Love & Co. Chaplin & Sacks. the
Hrlman Packing Company. and the
Columbia Packing Company.
The officers of the company are:
r. A. Golden, president; W. G.
Carter, first vice president; A. A.
Chaplin, second vice president, and
George P. Sacks, secretary and
treasurer. These officers. with c.
W. Botsch, compose the board of
directors.
The business done is on an enor-
nous scale. The company is the
largest receiver of butter. eggs,
cheese, poultry, and the like in
Washington. and the transactions
in these lines alone make an i'm
posing volume of trade But this
is not all. The company operates
one OF the most modern and up
to-date abattoirs and packing
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houses in the East, the plant be-
ing located on the Columbia pike,
In Alexandria county, Va.
It's Copyrighted Brands.
It handles a number of copy
righted brands of its own products.
among these being Elk Grove but
ter, Golden Rod hams and bacon.
and Golden Leaf lard. These
brands have attained a deserved
reputation. They are known and
appreciated in many States. In
this part Of the world everybody
knows and appreciates the excel
lence Of these products. The prog
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are received the goods are packed
and the next delivery in that sec
ton carries them 10 the retailers
door. Every dealer in the city is
visited at least once a week. many
Of them twice, and some Of them
three times. The retailers have
come TO depend upon US. and we
strive always TO deserve their con-
Stock Very Complete.
The stock is what it should be.
We handle everything made Of to-
bacco. The cigars range from the
cheapest to the best and we have
lots Of both kinds. Our humidor,
among the most modern and best
in the country. has a capacity OF
I 25O.OOO cigars. In the humidor a
uniform temperature of IS degrees,
Fahrenheit, and a uniform humidity
Of 70 degrees are preserved auto
maticaTy. The higher grades OF
cigars, imported and domestic. are
kept in the humidOr. When they
are sent out OF the house. in re-
sponse to an order, they are in the
same perfect condition they were
i In when we received them. Not one
bit Of the original fragrance has
been lost; the aroma IS just what
L It was when the cigars left the
factories IN which they are made.
ITO the remainder OF the stock
experts in the company's employ
devote equal attention. There is
tobacco Of every sort and for every
purpose to which it can be applied
The use OF snuff is no longer a
fashionable pastime. but it is still
used and we sell a lot Of It. We
have pipes Of every grade and every
kinda big and generous stock oi
them. There are cigarettes in every
shape in which they have been built
land made OF every combination c
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ourselves in a position to supply
them. Our goods are dressed and
packed in a way that pleases the
customers Of our customers. We
keep constantly in touch with our
trade, through our statesmen and in
other ways, and provide what they
want"
The business of Golden & Com
pany is among the most extensive
done in Washington. It's officers
are progressive and wide-awaAe
business men, alive to the inter
ests of the community with which
they have cast their lot. Because
they see In the newly organized
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sides making large shipments here
and TO other points.
The 0Ut-Of-TOWn Trade.
THE out-of-town trade is an i'm
portant part of the business. Four
statesmen are kept constantly on
the road in nearby States, hand
ling for the most part our brands
of butter and pork products. This
business is constantly increasing
and necessitates constantly increas-
ing facilities to handle it. These
are provided as need arises.
Our foreign business being very
largely in the Southern States, it
has been to our interest to learn
the needs Of that trade and to place
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what they want at the right price.
We succeed, too.
And yet, we do not resort to
any suicidal policy Of price-cutting.
We don't have 20. We sell goods
at the right price-at the price that
means a profit for us and that per-
mits a profit for the retailer. Our
energies are devoted TO helping our
customers in other ways. Down in
this Office we understand we must
help them If we want to help our
selves.
A Profitable Policy.
1T is profitable. this policy. The
proof Of 1t is found in the satisfied
customers we have on our books
and the new customers we are add
ing every day. We are reaching
out into new territory-not with
startling rapidity, but as means per
nit and our facilities for handling
new business grow. We don't want
any we cannot make profitable 10
ourselves and satisfactory to the
customer-and, TO our mind, the
one consideration is as important
as the other.
THE company started out 10 han
die tie local, business here on just
the same principle. We are a
wholesale house from the ground up,
and there is no retail attachment
We sell to retailers and do not
seek TO become their competitors
II we did we should not expect
their custom.
we get them the goods when
they want them. The delivery sys-
TEN is just as efficient and just as
complete as time and money can
make It, In the city the wagons
make two deliveries a day in every
! section. The statesmen report twice
! a day. and just as soon as orders
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.tobaccoes, from the straight North
Carolina and Virginia weeds 10 the
imported Turkish
Looking After Customers.
"But, after all. the success We
have had comes from our attention
10 our customers orders. That Is
where we have made our hit Any
body with some knowledge Of the
business and some money can ac-
cumuiate a good stock of tobaccoes.
but it requires something more TO
induce shrewd men in the trade to
buy from you regularly.
They want promptness at fair
prices and intelligent attention tc
their special needs. If they don't
/ get these they are going somewhere
else with their purchases and their
money. That the Washington To-
bacco Company has been able TO
get this business and keep it. makes
lus think we have come pretty near
solving the problem
I'VE keep on at it-keep on try
ing to understand better what our
customers need and how We can
help them most. Our experience is
at the command Of our customers;
we can help them and we do. We
are in a position 10 tell pretty ac-
curately just what brands and
grades of goods will sell in any
locality, under any special circum-
stances that may arise. Our Gus
toners profit by this experience, II
they care TO avail themselves Of it.
. We sell them goods they can sell
and at a profit
D That's business as It is done to-
, day. The time has passed when the
, merchant believed he had done a
J, good stroke when he sold a Gus
toner something he didn't want and
. couldn't set rid OF. This company
. helps its customers every way it
can"
One thing is very certain-that
r Mr. Luchs is correct in saying that
J DO It Now" is the guiding prin-
, ciple Of the business. When work
stops in the Office Of the Washing
ton Tobacco Company the days
work is completed-not merely end
ed. The goods ordered are on their
: way TO the customer-whether he
I lives in the city. or ten, or a hun
? dred, or five hundred miles away.
That's the way We do business.
( saws Mr.. Luchs. 1T pays"
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And yet, we do not resort TO
any suicidal policy of price-cut-
ting. We don't have to. We sell
goods at the right price-at the
price that means profit for us and
that permits 4 profit for the re-
taller. Our energies are devoted
to helping our customers in other
ways. Down in this Office We
understand we must help them
if we want to help ourselves.
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Show. Places of City.

The various establishments of
the company in and near Wash
ington are among the show
places of the city. They are val
liable as object lessons, in that
they show how we'll adapted is
the National Capital to the con-
duct of important commercial
and manufacturing enterprises.
From this standpoint they are
the personifcation of encourage
ment to the ambitious and re-
proof to the doubters.
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nally TO supply the relhli-
ers of the city, it has branohed out
into other and wider fields. until to-
day its representatives penetrate
four States and handle the business
everywhere they go.
The active head Of the company IS
Monroe Luchs, vice president and
general manager. Mr.. Luchs knows
the business from the ground up
and keeps IN closest touch with its
every detail. He has told The
Times something Of what the com
pany is doing and outlined the pol
icies that in his opinion have con
tributed to its success.
Eighteen statesmen are employed
BY the company" said Mr.. Luchs;
about half of whom handle the
country trade. Not all Of these
latter are needed constantly on the
road, but four devote all their at
tention to our country accounts.
That they have made a success Of
their work, the growing business
Of the company outside Of Wash
ington abundantIy tesufes.
Agents Of Enterprise.
They travel now all over north
ern Virginia, southwestern Virginia,
eastern West Virginia. and southern
and western Maryland It is not
too much to say their efforts, backed
by our efforts here in the Office and
warehouse, have given the Washing
ton Tobacco Company an easy SUI
premacy IN it's lines all through the
territory traversed. Some Of the
towns which once We're visited con-
stantly by representatives of other
houses are visited now only occa-
sionally. Many Of our competitors
have withdrawn from the field
I'VE have attained these crafty
ing results by paying special atten-
ton to this branch Of the business
Il forms a distinct and separate
department The orders pass through
different hands and receive the
earliest and closest consideration.
1T is a rule of the house thai
each days business must be han
died each day Every order is
shipped the day it comes into the
Office. Every effort is made ia
please and satisfy our customers
We try our hardest to give them
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Its Copyrighted Brands.

The company handles a num-
Der of copyrighted brands of its
own products, among these be-
ing Elk Grove butter, Golden
Rod hams and bacon, ard Col
den Leaf lard. These brands
have attained a deserved reputa-
ton. They are known and ap-
preciated in many States. In this
part of the world everybody
knows and appreciates the excel
lence Of these products.
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It is a rule of the house that
each days business must be han
died each day. Every order is
shipped the day it comes into the
office. Every effort is made to
please and satisfy our custom
ers. We try our hardest TO give
them what they want at the right
price. We succeed, too.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1906-07-20
SEVEN CHILDREN DROWN.
All but One of Cedar Rapids, Ia.
Picnic Party of Little Girls Lose
Their Lives.

Cedar Rapids, Ia, July 13.-Eight
little girls at picnic on river bank
only three blocks from home went
wading Thursday afternoon. The
smallest one slipped into a deep hole
in the river and in trying to rescue
her six others were drowned. The
dead are: Lucille Sweeding, seven
years DID, Hazel Sweeding, IA years
old; Gladys Sweeding, 10 years old;
Josie Sweeding, II years old; Ruth
Coyle, Sioux City, II years old; Cora
Coyle, Sioux City, nine years old;
Clara Usher, 16 years old.
Ruth Klersey, the only survivor,
said they were wading when Lucille
Sweeding slipped off a shelf i'll the
river bottom. Hazel Sweeding rushed
after her and slipped into a hole
Then the next girl rushed after her
and so they kept trying to. save each
other until all of the. girls except
Ruth Klersey had drowned. she
then ran home and gave the alarm
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1906-07-20
A Theater Not a Public Place.

New York, July 13.-The manager
and proprietor of a theater has right
to say who shall enter his place OF
amusement and who shall not, his
playhouse being private and not q
public place, is the gist of a decision
handed down Thursday in the appel
late division of the supreme court. The
decision dismisses the complaint of
James S. Metcalf. the dramatic critic
against Charles Burnham, a member
of the Theater Managers association,
for excluding Metcalf from Burnham's
theater.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1906-07-20
RoJEsTVFNsKY ACQUITTED.
Russian Admiral Not Guilty of Sur
rendering His Vessel to the
Japanese.

Cronstadt, Russia, July 11.-Admiral
Rojestvensky whose trial on the charge
of surrendering to the enemy after the
battle of the sea of Japan began be-
for a court martial here July was
acquitted Tuesday after the court had
deliberated for nearly ten hours. -Four
officers of the torpedo boat destroyer
Bedovi, who were placed on trial with
the admiral were found guilty of hav-
ing premeditatively surrendered the
Bedovi and all four were condemned tc
death by shooting. But on account OF
extenuating circumstances the emperor
will be requested to commute the SEN
fences of the four officers to dismissal
from the service and to be deprived OF
certain rights which they would other
wise enjoy.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1906-07-20
THE ALTON FINED $4,000.
The Railroad Granted Rebates to
Kansas City Packers.
FaithOrn and Wann, Two Former
Officials, Must Pay $4,000 Each
An Appeal Taken.

Chicago, July 12.-Judge Lands, In
the United States district court
Wednesday sentenced the Chicago Il
Alton road, which was recently con-
victed of granting illegal rebates at
Kansas City to pay fine OF $2O,OoO
on each of two counts, or total of
$4,000. John Faithorn and Fred A..
Wann, former officials of the road who
were also convicted, were sentenced to
pay fine of $4,000 each on two counts.
or total of $4,000 each.
The defendants were fined on two
counts of an Indictment containing
ten counts. The specific charge on
which they were convicted was that
they had given to the Schwarzschild &
Sulzberger company rebate of one
dollar per car on all shipments from
the Kansas City plant of the packing
company. The defendants claimed
that the charge was made against
them by the packing company which
had the right to levy 1t because it
owned the track near the plant and
therefore had the right to charge the
railroad for trackage. Judge Lands
in his instructions practically directed
the jury to bring verdict of guilty
and after it had been rendered the
attorneys for the railroad and for the
individual defendants asked until
Wednesday to show that the rebate
was public and not a secret affair
Wednesday the attorneys for the
railroad said that they had not been
able, to bring witnesses into court 20
testify because they feared prose-
cution themselves
The court in passing sentence said
that he could see no eXtenuatinS cir
cumstances in the granting of the re-
bates. After the entering Of the Sen
tence the defendants gave notice OF
an appeal. The fine inflicted by Judge
Lands is identical with that imposed
on the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy
railroad in similar case by Judge
Bethea in the United States circuit
court.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1906-07-20
LIFE IN OCEAN.
Professor of Cambridge (Eng.) Uni
versity Tells Some New and
Interesting Facts.

J. Stanley Gardiner, of Cambridge
university, has been exploring the
Indian ocean and gives it as his opin-
ion that at one time there was land
connection between Ceylon and Mad
agascar. But it is In describing the
wonders of the deep that his report
grows most interesting. "A very con-
siderable variety of deep-sea fish was
brought up" he says. "At least half
the number we secured seemed quite
new specimens, and, l believe, are
not described in any textbook. Some
Of these had enormous eyes, some
only rudimentary eyes, the size of
a pins head, while some had no
eyes at all.
"One Of the most interesting dis
coveries we made was that floating
fife is exceedingly abundant at all
depths down to about 1000 fathoms
in seas $500 fathoms deep. BY float
ing life l mean animals which form
the food of whales and deep-ocean
fish, and which up to the present
have been believed to live on or very
close to the surface. A variety of
enormous squids was fished out as
we'll as jelly fish and gigantic prawns
fully six inches long. Some of these
latter were blind, while others had
huge eyes, but nearly all Of them
had phosphorescent organs, which
would naturally be due to the fact
that they live at depth where al
most total darkness prevails.
"The blind varieties had enormous
ieelers, OF tentacles, some of them
extending to twice the length of
their own bodies. Some forms, such
as the water flea, which is only about
the size of pins head in surface
water, we discovered six or ten times
that size in 600 or 700 fathoms."
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1906-07-20
Curtis Jett,s Confession.

Beattyville, KY, July 12.-Curtis
Jett at the afternoon session of the
trial of Judge Hargis for murder took
the witness stand, admitted the assas-
sination of Marcum and told the man
ner in which the crime was commit
ted. 'Mr. Marcum had prosecuted
me in several cases and was my Bit
ter enemy and I am the man who
killed him." said Jet. He then told
of the assassination, tallying with
the description given by B. J. Even.
Jett said he had not conferred with
White in regard to the killing.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1906-07-20
MAYOR Rose Gets writ Of Error.

Kansas City, Kan, July f1.-Mayor
w. w. Rose received telegram Mon
day night from John H.. Atwood, one
of his attorneys, saying that Mr.. JUS
tice Brewer of the United States su-
preme. court had signed a writ OF
error in the case wherein the Kan
sas supreme court fined Mayor Rose
$1,000 for contempt. Mr.. Atwood
met Mr.. Justice Brewer in Hot
Springs, Ark. The granting of the
application for the writ of error by
a Justice of the United States supreme
court acts as a supersedeas and a
stay Of execution Of the Kansas SUI
preme courts decree.
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they Need Inspection at Home.

Bristol, July 12.-At the sanitary in
spectors' conference here Wednesday
a delegate named Bottomley said if the
British public only knew quarter of
what was going on in the slaughter
houses of this country the Chicago
scare would become insignificant by
comparison. He knew, he said; of a
COW suffering from pulmonary con-
sumption that was sold for SIS, killed
and eaten.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1906-07-20
KiIIed Inv snfety pistoI.

Argania, Kan, July 12.-Frank Pen
nypacker, 20 years of age, accidentally
shot and killed himself while showing
a friend a revolver that had a patent
safety attachment. To demonstrate
the safety of it, the young man point
ed the pistol at himself and pulled the
trigger. The weapon was discharged
and the ball entered his heart, caus-
ing instant death.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1906-07-20
Kansas Owes state Treasurer.

Topeka, July 14.-Instead of T. T.
Kelly, state treasurer, being indebted
to the state for $10,575.S7, the value Of
missing coupons, the amount sued Tor
by C. C. Coleman, the attorney general
the state of Kansas owes Mr.. Kelly
$40. This is the decision handed
down by Judge Dana of the Shawnee
county district court Friday morning
Judge Dana finds for every point
made by Kelly, and while he does not
specifically mention the $2.10, it fol
lows that this is the case, because it
was Kellys contention, in his answer
and pleadings, that instead Of his be-
ing short in his accounts, he had in
fact overpaid the state this amount
and as a consequence the state owes
him $40.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1906-07-20
PROVERBS AND PHRASES.

He who would gather honey must
bear the sting of bees.-From the
Dutch.
When you make de Jail too nice you
better strenkin de hogpen.-American
Negro.
A sensible housekeeper begins to
sweep her stairs from the top.-Froml
the German.
An honest man does not make him.
self dog for the sake of BONE
From the Danish.
1t is good to be priest at Easter,
child in Lent, peasant at Christmas
and fool in harvest time.-Fromi the
Danish.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1906-07-20
New Fruit of Value.

A new fruit that seems likely to
prove of considerable value has been
developed by the cultivation of the
very familiar "maypop," plant which
is very familiar in the southern states,
quite ornamental, easily grown from
seeds and affords a handsome cover for
arbors and verandas. 1t is known to
botanists as passiflora incarnata. The
fruit in its improved form is somewhat
bigger than hens egg and decidedly
palatable. 1t looks like May apple.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1906-07-20
Baptist Young People Elect.

Omaha, Neb., July 14.-John H.
Chapman of Chicago, was Friday elect
ed for the sixteenth time president
of the Baptist Young Peoples Union
of America without a note of opposi-
-tion. Nearly all the other officers
were reelected. The number of dele
gates now registered, which is con-
sidered nearly the total of attendance
for the meeting is just under 1000,
not more than two-thirds the number
expected.