The Washington herald., 1912-06-09

~HE Prosperous Man turned with .
froWn which changed to q smile and
said, i've got It all right Reach
ing for his watch chain be showed the
Average Nan a charm attached there
TO, which on close examination proved TO
be q button, evidently from q motorman'B
coat-a braEs button which from continual
rubbing had been Furnished TO point where
It shons like pursEt gold.
" See that buttonT" qusrisd the Prosperous
Man.
Yea" answered the Average Man. sx-
amining It closely but what has a button
from q motorman's coat got TO DO with how
you got your money!"
Everything answered the Prosperous
Man. pompously. Ny business-my sue
cess-my fortune-au date from the day I
donned the coat that bore that button. Ny
financial success is built on the foundation
Of that brass button you hold in your hand.
That button. my friend. was the top one Of
the first uniform I wore when as a lad OF
% entered the service Of a street railway
company.
Before that time my fortunes had been
varied. I'd worked IN q drug store. been
a grocery clerk and sundry other things that
uluu 70 1 ne cay got mar
ried I started out to secure q life Job and
put in applications for the police force and
the railway company. The street car job
developed first Ipassed their examinations
and went to work Believe me, I've been
engaged ever since in thanking my lucky
stars at least once q day that It did
@Ths first day got a run they put me on
As an extra man. Two months on the job
and got to the point where stopping for one
beH and starting for two became almost
automatic. Naturally the neighborhoods,
the stores on both sides OF the streets ran
on. began to get familiar. Ny runs were
on business streets. for as you know wher-
ever there's a car line you'll usually fnd the
most stores. What with changes OF runs,
etc, in the course Of a year I covered pretty
nearly all the streets in the district got to
the point where I almost knew every store
and every house on every street Of my runs
Having been in the retail business before
becoming a motorman. was naturally In
tsrested in watching the stores spring up
along the way. Finally it got so my favorits
amusement was specUlatinE on likely look
ing locations Mind betting as It were, as
to Just how long It would be before a store
would go in For nearly a year ala this
Funny thing. wasn't it7
I seemed to hit It right nine times out
Of ten. Ought to be a grocery there I'd
say to myself. and pretty soon, sure enough,
on would come a grocery, and It made good,
too Ny vile and I used to laugh about It
evenings. Ny pet diversion. she called 1t,
and guess she was about right
"One day a fellow riding on the front plat
Nsy e-ft e. W., L
they will, even II it is against the rules.
During the talk more to make conversation
than anything else. asked him II he lived
on the south side. He answered No. Said
he had been out on the south side for ten days
looking for a good location for drug store.
Had sold his business up north and was
going to start a new one out south. He added
as an sfterthought that he hadn't found the
location yet. and sooner than keep on vast
Ing time and effort on It he'd gladly pay $50
to the man that found him the right place.
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Advertised with First Fee.
" Il just happened that I'd been watching
q certain corner for over three months aud
how long It would be before some
wise druggist would snap It up. The neigh
borhood had acquired its population within a
short time A grocery store
had gone in and was doing weII-exceptionally
So A meat market had followed suit and
was making a real success Yet the nearest
drug store was eight blocks away. Ts cut
q long story short. for take It. your re not
much interested in details, my guessing on
business locations had at last brought me ,
face TO face with some real money and
seized the opportunity.
IL showed my man the location that night
after working hours and the day he moved in
I collected my $50. Next Sunday turned TO
he classified section OF the papers and read
over the business opportunities columns Alb
solutely nothing like what 1 had in mind
could find So decided to invest portion
Of my easy fifty in little publicity to try out
he idea My first advertisement read some
hing like this: / know OF good location for
a grocery store on the south side. 1t needed,
md the man who goes In now will make
money. have nothing to sell except the In
'ormstion,' Monday morning I took twenty
answers out Of the box. for the ad was q
blind one, that is. carried a number In
Itead Of an address.
With my twenty answers in hand prob
EN- confronted me: II took those men out
md showed them the location they could snap
{ up and laugh in my face for my fee. So
invested little more money. Invent to q
awyer and had him draw Up an agreement
Ehereby the party showed the location to
,ound himself not TO go into business at a
certain address without paying me a $50 fee
GITEII"~N