The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-03-27
HE LOCATES THE SKIPS.


| termination to make It business.
"a firm soon finds out which OF
It's collectors is worth something to
his firm. by and by he demonstrates
that he would make a good skip To-
cater and the first thing he knows
he has been taken from the collect
ion department and has become
very valuable man 10 his firm. A
very valuable man TO his firm. A
$75 per month be allowed an expense
account of at lcaast 81 per day and
get commission on the money col
lected and In fact in q short time
the skip locator will be getting SAL
ary that will make the average Of
flee man turn green with envy.
Take a firm ike ours where we
have about 10000 city accounts and
lit is necessary that we keep right af-
ter some of our people all the time
if We do not want to lose track of
them and be considerable out OF
pocket. In Chicago where people
move every May from force of habit
It is not an cas-, matter to keep track
Of our customers. They are careless
hbout leaving their. addresses when
'lthey move. They do not mean any
harm, but forget to say where they
lare moving When. the collector ar
.,rives bright and early some morning
he finds new family in the flat or
lcottage. No one seems to know where
1.-THE former occupants OF the premises
have gone. Then II takes some time
for to discover them.
IAN installment> house prepares
for just such circumstances. Take
some OF the State street stores
where they have open accounts and
It is hard matter for them to trace
mp skips, for they do not go into the
matter as we do. We are prepared
for we figure that there will be about
So many every year who will get out
lof positions have runs of hard luck
and skip owing us money We find
out where he was born, where
his relative live and what he has
been doing and what he is doing at
the time We get pretty good his.
tory OF his case and then when he
skips we are enabled to trace him
through relatives and friends.
There is one thing that a man can
never get away from and that is his
lbirthplace-that is to say II 1t Is a
small town. or course II man is
from Chicago. New York or some
big city like that 1t Is different, but
the man from the small town can
never get so far away from his birth
place that some one there will not
know where he Is at That is one OF
the ways we have Of keeping track
lof skips. We always send to his home
town and some will turn up who
knows just where he is. 1t seldom
falls. When a customer skips out we
send tracers after him, put the skir
tracer on his TRACK and ne is pretty
apt to be fofId liza Short time
have a good man In my department
who devotes all Of his, time to, thii
sort of work. M
But Il is business as In man,
Others, No sooner do you get maj
who is valuable to You than he be
comes valuable to some one else ant
Is ,gohbled Up by some other firm
The collector who makes himsel
useful finally graduates in the ski
| department. becomes more prosper
GUS dresses well. Mas Sparkling Of
; lhis craiat and is doing well and the
Etlie Very first thing we know he ha
, found some other work In which b
Iis able to make mbrs, He has be
} Icome valuable "a 1lhof firms and =
lother men and thar " the WY
tspsk' 0hIeusc en- l>ls.4