Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-11-09

Of !; machine you've got; but | like the odds, My
names McCord
Know anything about bottes? inquired Darlington.
Not from the outside, replied the prospect whats
YOURS nonreflable Ii so. how do YOU do and goodby
Didn't YOU read the advertisement? asked Karl.
Sure: but forgot the details As said before, its
the odds that attracted me. don't like five per
investments I'm natural born gambler, and can't
resist the temptation back long shot. Ii | ever
strike Wall Street III be broke ravfng with income
before the wears out Just cashed in my interest in
the Duplex Pick. Ever see it? y wonder. I'm in the
contracting business, and | know. When the ends
wear down YOU replace them. Big saving put two
thousand in the concern when Hector was pup. You
couldn't exactly say that enthusiasm for the Duplex
was an epidemic until about year ago when new
fellow took charge of the company. and then-wow!
Maybe he didn't send things itng! Last month they
reorganzed the corporation and sold my holdings for
eighteen thousand. After had the check said to my
SELF Look here, McCord says l, if them fellows
see profit in nnetoone buy, why didn't you stay in
for the real cleanup Five minutes afterward |
your ad. It's bunch, McCord,' says l to myself.
Here's chance to do it again. SO came up to find
out what it's all about.
We've been facing the sort of fight that your
pick company experienced" explained Darlington;
"only harder one, and if win don't know how to
calculate when where the profits will stop png up.
If you pause to figure that than twenty million
bottles of soft drinks alone sold"
Leave out the arithmetic, interrupted AlcCord.
you don't have to do the Colonel Sellers act for
follow my lunches"
Karl passed him a bottle THAT'S all there is to it,"
he explained "this little cap top which can be sup
piled with handsome profit at twenty cents gross.
Come into the next and III show you how it's
done Here's pony machine for small plants The
magazine holds thousand caps at clip. The bot
ties pass on this endless belt Now watch the
reach down and grab it. The neck rests two seconds
against that brace, and the plunger takes the fiat
it into place, and anges the edge. Positively air tight
"Costs next to nothing, and speed. Besides it's
hvgienic. \ cap is destroyed when it's removed.
Corks and composition shoppers hard to clean
use it on any bottle?" queried the contractor
"Now, that's what we're up against. The Little
Giant requires bottle with specially shaped neck.
1t must be made with ridge at the lip otherwise we'd
be doing land office business today. But all the big
concerns already loaded up with equipment and
install system the unking of millions of bot
ties and millions of dollars worth of machinery Nat
urly the boters aren't going to throw away all that
money until they have to- 1t isn't like advertised
article No demand has been created for the Little
Giant, and as long the public remains in ignorance
of its existence and is satisfied with inferior thing,
we're not likely to make much progress.
There's only thing to do, then, ventured Nc
Cord "Dssatisfy the public
"Bingo." cried Karl you've hit it right off the
reel That's my plan
Sure, continued McCord delighted with the recep-
ton of his idea: "but have YOU found way9n
Karl nodded assent. And it can't fail, he said
How does the company stand?" asked McCord
In very bad?"
so bad that there's no guaranty we'll see daylight
with your assistance
piled John Darlington. But
| feel certain that stand ~
chance with the scheme that ~
Karl wants to work. III show
YOU the books. VSa2
you have shown clean ~
hands said Nice ord "Thats Ja% n