Lower coast gazette., 1913-11-01
In Letters Of Brass.
BY Eustace /. Williams.

house OF Scott & Co., was explainin
things to the new city drummer, d
Wis.
!, Now that youngster that just ski
ped downstairs at the chief clerk
, order Is young Treadwell. He ha
> been promoted again. like to Sc
that boy succeed"
, "Why?" asked Davis.
Well, he's a willing y%oungster-pc
lite to Observation-Disclosures
nonsense about him. He had AWAY
had his OWL way when he came her,
Ibis father is rich. When Tom want
ed to leave school and 20 to work
MS father told him to 20 and lool
lor 1t, so he came to ask a Job from
the old gentleman, who was an init
mate friend of the family. Mr.. Scot
told him he must start at the bottom
so he began helping Maloney with
the furnace. The year after that
when came back from the West, he
was here on the first floor. After
ward he was under old Sudders up.
stairs. and since | got back the other
day, I've noticed that he is a sort of a
handy man for everybody"
He's likely to go up a good deal,
higher?!"
Higher! He says he e to
have his name in letters of brass on
the big sign!"
Good for the boy-that's assur-
ance. Maybe Mr.. Scott will try him
on the road: Mr.. Charles tells me he
is leaving"
Pm sorry for that said Benning.
Dick Charles is the only one who
ever could sell any goods on the New
York route. What a blizzard a Boston
drummer with shoe supplies gets in
to when he strikes Elmira!!"
is it so hard as all that?" asked
Tom Treadwell, who had just come
upstairs from his errand.
Hard is no name for it, said Da-
Wis. Just you apply for that route,
young man, and then you'll know what
tough means"
I will,' said Tom, and he did.
The next afternoon there was a
scene of merriment in Mr.. SCOTS pri.
Vate ofice-the first ever witnessed
in that decorous room. In the middle
staea5ushfo nlsaI was IuIu, eonsIderaDlyi
embarrassed. Round them were Ben
ming, Leigh Davis, and several other
employees, while Jones, the steno-
grapher, who was sort of a privileged
character, seemed almost overcome
with his mirth. Bowles, head Of the
Innings department, saw this through
the glass partition, and stepped right
into the Office.
Here, Bowles,' said Mr.. Scott, lay
ing his hand on Toms shoulder, Il
have engaged another drummer for
the house."
you have, sir? Ohio, ! see! Why,
Tommy, you don't mean to say-well,
I declared"
HE is going on the New York
.route!!' said MI. Scott. He has ac-
tually asked for it,"
Well! Good luck to you, Toni"
said Bowles. "You are SURE to come
back with a diminished head
The next morning Tom arrived at
the store with sample-case in hand.
He was to start on the following day,
and being very eager to get ready, had
now arrived before anybody except
Maloney. the old porter.
"Mornin' to We. Toni" said Mal0-
ney. "And what have We there?'
"SampIe-case, Maloney," replied
Tom, proudly. Il am going to take
the road down toward New York"
"And so l hear 'em say. It's a great
by We are gettin' now, nineteen, I'm
thinking. But down toward New York?
Then yell surely make Elmira. It's a
good town, Elmira is. Now ! used
to work down there in old Harley,
mans factory, and a noice gentleman
he was, though a gruff one, but he
had the right stuff in i'm at last"
"All right, Maloney, / may call on
him when / am down that way"
Tell him you're a friend of mine.
And tell him | tould We to call and
give him my respects"
That day the other drummers dis
covered Toms new sample-case in the
basement, and set about packing it for
him. But for this even Maloney might
not have waited.
IF he ives travelling for a five-and-
%ten-cent store the case could not be
filled with a more striking variety
said Benning. "And here-let's give
him these ladies' shoes silk Innings
from Paree. l heard the old gentleman
say. he didn't want Them
CHATS good" said Jones, with a
chuckle, and thrusting the samples in.
to the case, he replaced it where il
had been found.
Tom waited till after the closing.
hour before he brought up the case
intending to pack the samples Mr.