Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-09-24
outside brains were almost entirely inter

outside Drains Wer0 eimost ehtireiy iHter-
egted.
Now listen to this! The 20 per cent OF
local origin are right now as prosperous
as can be. while Of the 90 per cent Of out
siders. many are doing only fairly well.
while some have actually gone to the wall.
And this, tooin the face of general pros
perity all over the town and in every line.
30 the men with whom I talked put this
forward as a reason why those at the head
of the Greater Washington movement IN
stead Of going outside for capital, should
interest local retailers in the formation Of
an up-to-date, progressive concern From
what have been able to figure out. after
looking the ground over as thoroughly as
possible In the limited time at hand. 1t
seems apparent that Greater Washington
can sell In Lynchburg only those manufac-
tured products and jobbing lines of the ma
tional capital which are not sold in Lynch
burg.
should have added to that certain fancy
products and name goods which can not
be run in with the general proposition. And
where Washington dealers absolutely con-
troll a line Of standard goods. the opportuni-
ties are practically unlimited. / may men
ton in this connection that Mr.. Cross
Golden's man, has sold south OF Lynchburg
in competition with Swift Armour and all
the other big packers. And he has done
mighty well, too.
Never Heard Of Washington Jobbers.
Up in Chatham, the town that mention
merchants had never so much as heard Of
Washington jobbing house of any kind. Be-
fore the special pulled out the travelling men
representing Greater Washington wholesale
houses had sold goods to several retailers,
and two of the statesmen secured large or
ders from wholesalers The merchants OF
Chatham had been buying in Baltimore ex-
clusvely. but hereafter they may be con-
sidered as customers of Washington if they
can get the proper kind OF treatment and a
square proposition on the present unsatis-
factory freight rate problem.
The stop here has been extremely SattSfac-
tory to every one, all of the statesmen doing
more business than they believed possible
here, close to Lynchburg. In fact this
unexpected and unanticipated' proposition
tells the story Of the trip so far. Just to
show that this Is another concrete state
ment and that there are no genial, sunshiny
distractions on our private car Rainbow.
I'll mention that of the orders taken here
some are quite worth while. Mr. Cross.
Golden & Company's man, sod three tons
Of lard and severai hundred pounds of ba-
con and hams; Mr.. Decker of the F. G.
Smith Piano Company took orders for five
pianos; the Washington Dairy Company,
represented by Mr.. Donnelly one of the pro-
prietors. signed up for three or four big
annual contracts for butter. butterine. eggs
and cheese and Mr.. Niles of the Semmes-
Kelly Company sold to new customer five
barrels of vinegar. besides grocery order,
and with an order for a carload of vinegar
promised for the near future.
And that's the way things are going all
along the line.
Yesterday we lay on a siding in the broil-
ing sun with the thermometer In the Rain
bow sitting up around the ninety mark
Bye the way, isn't that name joyous one
for a travelling residence of a bunch of en-
thusiastic Greater Washington boosters on
a city advertising" trip like this? Here's
hoping that there'n be the traditional pot
of god at the end Of this particular Rain
bow and that Greater Washington, while
wandering around looking for business, will
find it, Treasure trove, you knoW-treasure
trOVe.
Some More Frost.
had a mighty interesting chat Saturday
afternoon with J. E. Jeffress. local manager
Of the American Tobacco Company's olga
rette factory here Mr.. Jeffress Is young
man. but he apparently knows his business.
He told me that couple or three years
ago he went up to Washington to establish
a cigarette factory there, but received such
q frosty reception-more of those chillblains
I imagine-that he left town in a hurry
with his coat collar around his ears. and
went to Norfolk. where the business men
of the town fell on his neck with JOY and
gave him the choice of all sorts of land for
his plant. He says the American
Tobacco Company stands ready to-
day to put In cigarette factory IN
give employment to from 600 to 1000 girls
real cigarette girls-at an average salary of
SO a week Mr.. Jeffress thought the
daughters of government clerks might care
for the Jobs. 1 didn't say anything, but
certainly did smile inside of me somewhere
Whew! I can see the hair of every. staid,
government clerk in Washington standing
on end at the mere idea Of the thing.
don't mind saying that my idea of this
cigarette girl proposition was whole lot
idealistic Perhaps twas because once
upon a time ! read, with beating heart
that famous scream entitled Married to
Fifty Millions. or Beautiful Beatrice, the
Cigarette Girl" When l left the factory
after my talk with Mr.. Jeffress, 1t was just
about closing time and l waited to the
employees come out. If there was a beau
tiful Beatrice among them she didn't cross
my line of vision. Perhaps she went out
the back door Anyhow / was some dis
appointed and pondered long on fiction and.
it's uses. Another dream shattered!
The merchants of Danvile generally,
seemed to be greatly pleased with the ex-
hibit and those that visited the train today
declared that Washington should by rights
be the mart for the south in many lines of
goods We told them there wouldn't be any
quarrel long as they took that view of
the case. We explained, too, that the
Greater Washington special was only a
starter and that If they kept their eyes and
ears open in the future they'd hear a lot