The Alaska citizen., 1910-09-19
George Randolph Chester
 In Saturday Evening Post.
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 Too bad" sympathized Mr. Trim
 mer. now quite sure of his ground,
 finding that Bobby was not posted,
 ~It was a splendid plan We had. You know. your building and mine are precisely the same width and pre-
 ciscly in a line with each other. back
 10 back. with only the alley separ- ating us. the Trimmer establishment fronting on Market street. and the
 Burnit building on Grand The alley k fully five feet below our two floor lines. and We could. l am quite sure. get permission to bridge if al clearance of not to exceed twelve feet By raising the rear depart lmcnfs of y0ur store and of mine a
 foot or so. and then building
 flight of broad. easy steps up and
 down. We could almost conceal the presence of this bridge from the in side. and make one immense ostab- Ii4hmcnt running straight through
 from Grand to Market streets. The
 floors above the first. of course,
 would bridge over absolutely level and the combined stores would com prise by far the largest establishment
 in the city Of course. the advantage
 of it from an advertising standpoint
 alone would be well worth while
 Bobby could instantly see the al
 most interminable length of store
 area thus presented and it appealed
 10 his sense of big things at once.
 What did father say about this?'' he asked,
 "Thought it a brilliant idea said Mr Trimmer In fact. l think it
 was he who first suggested such a | possibility. seeing very clearly the
 increased trade and the increased profits that would accrue from such { an extension; which would. in fact, be simply the doubling of our al ) ready big stores without additional , capitalization We worked out two
 or three plans for the consolidation, but in the later years your father was very slow about making actual extensions or alterations in this bus.
 mess. prefcrring 10 eXpend his ener.
 gies on his successful outside enter.
 prises. feel sure. however, that 9 he would have come to it in time $ for the development is SO logical, SC : much in keeping with the business F methods of the times"
 r Here again was insidious hattery Q the insnuation that Bobby must be , thoroughly aware of business meth Q ods of the tines
 |, Of course, the idea is new to me, D said Bobby. assuming as best he l could an air of business reserve Q which seemed appropriate to the oc e casion; but should say, in gen | eral way, that I should not care tc a give up the identity of The John e Burnit Store
 $ That is fine and a proper spirit, = t1 a thusiasm. T like to see it in a n young man, but I've no doubt that | we can arrange that little matter. Ol ,. course We would have to incorpor s ate, say, as The Burnit-Trimmer Mer + cantile Corporation, but while hay s ing the name on the front of both | | it mic hp la1 for business as well as sentimental l reasons, to keep the old signs al k the tops of both, just as they now u are. Those are little details to dis $ cuss later; but as the stock of the t new company, based upon the pres <, ent invoice values of our respective | your hands and mine, this will be 8 |. very amicable and easily arranged r matter. l tell you, MT. Burnt, this + is tremendous plan, attractive tC : the public and immensely profitable t to us, and l do not know of any c thing you can do that will so wei l ''' '44io '4io" Nou tp bt ft VI pI LII , a successor of John Burnt; for, ot e course, t would scarcely be a credit J. to you to carry on your fathers bus g mess without change or advance" s It was the best and the most craf y ty argument Mr. Trimmer had used | and Bobby carried away from the
 Traders Club a glowing impression > of this point His father had built
 up this business by his own unaid l. ed efforts. Should Bobby leave thai '. legacy just where he had found it e or should he carry it on to stil t greater heights? That answer was q obvious.
 r. Over at the Idlers' Bobby made ( 5. quick change of clothing and ther n hurried around to the theatre. where y to his veXatiOn, he found Agnes Fl e liston walking in the promenade foy Il CT with the well-set-up stranger. He r. passed her with a nod and slipped l. moodily into the rear of the EllistoI e box, where Aunt Constance, peren s nially young, was entertaining Nicl i Allstyne and Jack Starlett, and keep l. ing them at keen wits edge, too