Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-09-24
more about Washington than they ever

more about Washington than they ever
expected to know.
had a chat with some Of the big men Of
the town about the advisability of the bust
ness men Of Washington running q series OF
excursions up there from southern points.
rebating the fares when certain amount
OF goods was purchased. These men
thought the idea splendid one. but spoke
Of the necessity Of completing our jobbing
lines before we went out hard and sys-
tematically after business
Tom Cross, the Golden & Company repre-
sentative with the special. is out of his
proper sphere. He should have been q
side-show barker street fakir. At ev-
cry stop he starts his silver-tongued spiel
and the visitors crowd around his table
and try to hand him money. The other
day a girl student in the Episcopal school
at Chatham. Va, after listening to Cross
for awhile. tried to buy a Golden Rod ham
with her quarters pocket money. She said
she wanted 1t for a souvenir and nearly
shed tears when Cross explained that his
firm didn't do retail business and that he
didn't think a ham would make a very
permanent souvenir, anyhow.
Assistant Secretary Clum of the Jobbers
and Shippers Association is already loaded
to the guards with statistics. He had the
nightmare last night and explained at the
breakfast table this morning that he
thought a freight differential was sitting
on his chest quarreling with him.
Three hundred girls from the Episco-
pal seminary at Chatham went through the
train at that point. Mr.. Miles Of the Sem
mes-kelly Company made the hit Of his
young life by producing candy and pickles.
Five thousand "crickets" have been al
ready distributed by Victor Becker of the
+. G. Smith Plano Company and that por-
ton Of Virginia through which the special
has passed is one grand sweet song, pre-
sumably of the merits of the Bradbury
MIA fnf hn crin kofS
all carefully labeled for advertising pur-
poses.
Mr.. Becker is also spreading the Roose-
welt spelling sreform propaganda through
the distribution Of those little booklets pub
dshed by the government printing Office
not long ago and which contain a list of
the 300 approved words In which changes
have been made.
Mr.. Eskridge Of Guy. Curran & Co., al
most wept when on Sunday at noon he
was obliged. owing to long-standing bust
ness engagements, to leave the special and
to make every effort to rejoin the party
again few stations up the line, as he
has already done enough business to pay
his expenses for the entire trip and leave a
good balance besides.
Mr. Eskridge learned that the southern
trade requires goods in different weight
and prices from other sections. and he be-
lieves the information that he could col
lect concerning the new territory about
to be entered would prove of great value
to his firm In the future. The party on the
special were very sorry. indeed, to see
him go as he was one of the most ener-
getic hustlers on the train and did good
work outside of his regular line In spread
ing the Greater Washington propaganda.
The menus made up by Mr.. Tucker in
charge of the special, are enough to make
one dizzy. Last night he evolved the fol-
lowing
GREATER WASHINGTON SPECIAL DINING CAR
SERVICE.