Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-04-26
The Space Beaqars.

III The number of persistent beggars fol
space is increasing by leaps
Hand bounds. The fad of the day
,among those who wish to get before
Eithe public seems To be not to make
Appropriations for legitimate. sduars
Hdeals in advertising. but 10 pay slick
Hwriters 10 steal the space under the
flpretense that it is interesting read
Hing
Il Publicity bureaus they call them.
Hand every newspaper office is flooded
3with the trash of all kinds of schemes
Eseeking something for nothing.
Big automobile companies are
kamong the most brazen beggars and
Ethey are little ahead of the railroads,
ksteamship companies boards or trade.
Etrap concerns. MOI a day passes thai
we do not receive a basketful of let
tiers containing good reading" carry
hing advertising for rich steamship
accompanies and big railway COM
Epanies. This matter. if one-tentn
i part were used, would crowd out our
Snews matter and would be worth, at
Irregular advertising rates, hundreds
] of dollars week. Yet il We were -
ask one of these companies for trans
i portation free on their lines they
would draw themselves up righteoua-
&ly and point 10 the law.
~ Well we don't want their rams
ID portation, anyway. and our waste
! Basket is roomy and Unsuitable. BuI
I'VE write this as hint to our aver
n age readers" as to the methods OF
of the columns received daily from Mr.
Edward G. Riggs, Executive Assis-
tant, Information Of the Press Ny
n. H. & H. Railroad Co. Read #, and
see if you think ii is advertising II
81 for the benefit of the raging public:
A reduction of the New Haven's divi
81 dend from eight 10 six per cent, would
be of more than passing moment Il
al many who perhaps may be inclined I.
[ttake lightly the continued agitation d
1Tprofessional agitators. 1t would mean
Floss for the stockholders of the New
j Haven amounting in the aggregate t.
4 k$3, 131. $50
Tower the country it is not likely that il
would be felt appreciably by others thar
lsthe actual holders of the stock. But, I'M
like the case of some other roads o.
tt,ata he
| lIiaven is held within rather narrow
l geographical limits. Ninety per cent
of its stockholders live in the foul
n Connecticut and Rhode Island. OF tn,
Es total loss in income which reduced
~ dividend rate would mean these states
l. would have to bear s2.s23,779.
12 Concentrated within such narrow con
4 money could not help but be felt by tn
community at large. Less money in tn
tpocketbook means ior the shopkeepe
LESS taken in to the till. Nearly thre
J. 4 millions of dollars withheld from thes
states would mean d serious loss. An
~ the holders of stock would not be onl
4 ones who would ruefully have to figul
y up in dollars and cents the cost of II
I'll agitator and his effect upon railroa
II credit The ledgers of the butcher al
1 the grocer would show an account wit
4 4 him, too And it would be on the wror
side.
we NoHueF WHAT ABOUT the publl
{ which spends the extra money to rails
the dividends of the n. Y, y. II. &
from six to eight per cent Is II ne
just as good if spent by some one els
as by these stockholders? How muc
II more than six per cent. are you Graw
ing down for dividend-on any
thing? But IL is rather pitiful cas-
when looked at from their standpoin
u isn't IL?
rs Had You Thought About II?