The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-10-29

East Sixth street. This store room
, soon becoming too small to handle his
| business, Mr. Zandition conceived the
| idea of removing portion of his stock
TO small towns throughout Kansas and
| or establishing small stores in the west
| ern part of the state. This venture
| proved to be very successful one and
very profitable. The profits resulting
! from such transactions were reinvest-
ed in other stores until a large number
OF these small stocks were being han
died in Kansas, at an immense profit
| In fact, Mr.. Zandition made so mcuh
money out OF these small stores that he
was able to satisfy all of his former
| creditors, and has settled with them
| all.
Very few men in the face of an in
deotedness such as Mr.. Zandition owed
would have had the nerve to start in
as he did, and still fewer men would
| nave succeeded as he has succeeded in
the face of the difficulties he met. All
this, however, required several years
of hard grinding work, and at the be-
ginning of this summer Zandition found
| that while his efforts had been crowned
with success, that he was in danger of
losing his health in trying to PERSONAL
~ manage dozen or so stores in diff
ferent portions of the state. Unwilling
~ he combined these small stores into
three stores at Salina, Pittsburg and
I Topeka.
He has just sold out his stock at
P1ttsburg, and intends hereafter to
give all his time and attention to his
stores at Salina and Topeka His new
store at 612 and GA Kansas avenue,
will be modern in every particular
He will spare no money or trouble o
make this store the finest in the city
OF Topeka. He has just returned
from New York, where he has pur-
chased a very extensive line of ladies'
and gentlemen's ready-to-wear gar
ments to meet the wants of the great
n fOI mr. ~
diton attributes his success, and he
intends to continue in his efforts to
please them. Mr. Zanditon has been
in the clothing business since his boy
hood, and is one of the shrewdest
buyers in the west, dealing directly
with the mills, not with the travelling
men or jobber, buying his own goods
by the bolt, and having them made up
for his own trade exclusively. He
thus cuts out the jobbers' profits, the
benefit of which he gives his custom
ers
He intends to continue his plan of
transactfng large volume of business
on a small margin of profit for cash.
Another of Mr.. Zanditon's hobbies
is the attraction of out-of-town trade
to the Topeka stores, and he intends
to give special attention to mail order
business throughout the state He has
learned, through his recent experience
in the smaller towns. that the aver
age country merchants do not keep on
hand a sufficient variety of mer-
chandise to satisfy his customers, and
he intends to supply their wants in his
new store
In addition to this. there has been
established a jobbing department to
supply goods to the merchants outside
of Topeka. Experience has demon |
strated that Topeka is an excellent |
point for handling a jobbing business |
in clothing and ladies' ready-to-wear |
garments, for sales to merchants |
the state. No goods, |
however, will be sold to any other re- |
tail merchant in Topeka, as Mr.. Fan
diton appreciates their good will in
the past and desires to retain it in the
future.
"I have just one ambition" said Mr..
Zanditon today, land that is to trans
act the largest retail merchandise |
business in Topeka. I am going to
do It, I want to show the people of
Topeka that 1 can build up a perman-
ent and lasting business on my idea,
which is. Large Volume, Small Pro-
fits; Cash Sales"