The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1914-02-16
CAIRO CONTROLS
ALL TRADE PART
Of FIVE STATES
Aas /
Prices and Variety Coupled With
Quantity Are Factors Which
Hold aPtronage.
49, BRIGHT, ENERGETIC
CAIRO TRAVELLING EEN
Scour Country Thoroughly-Padu.
cab Firms Moving to Cairo
Yearly.

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| nois are gradually looking toward
Paducah as the logical marketing
place fer the territory in which they
reside, and already Paducah whole
sale grocers have won scores Of
customers away from st. Louis coa-
| Germs, which, until the Illinois Gen.
trail railroad placed Paducah's
rates on the same basis as those os
st. Louis, had monopolized tho
Southern Illinois trade, says the
Palucah Sun.
The new rates have enabled locai
wholesale grocers to compete with
st. Louis houses and representatives
of the Paducah concerns are WORK
ing vigorously to recover that waich
srould have always belonged to
| this city.
| 1--WE arc gradually taking trade
away from the st. Louis houses
| pTUnilHeuL NHuicSdteI Sdiu w t"c
Sun yesterday land it is only n
matter OF time until we will be shiD-
ping more goods into Southern Illi-
nois territory than is coming out OF
| St Louis wholesale houses now"
This statement by the Sun is sur
|prising in view OF the fact that 1t
has always been understood thai
Csiro wholesalers, with very few ox-
heeptacHsi enjoy monopoly Of the
| trade in, not only Southern Illinois.
but Southeast Missouri, Northerh
Arkansas, Western Tennessee and
kentucky.
However several local wholesa ers
who were shown the Paducah Sun
laughed at the statement saying it
was ridiculous because Paducah
could not compete with Cairo or St.
Louis in prices. Occasionally Pa
ducah representative of some house
was met on the road in Southern
Illinois. but never north of Parker
City. In fact it is very rare that
on9 is seen or heard Of as far away
from Paducah as Parker City. Rep
resentatives OF the few small Pdlu-
cah Wholesale establishments really
enjoy monopoly of trade at Joppa,
Metropolis, Golconda and the few
Ipostoflice stores at the different
cross roads intervening.
1t is in Western Kentucky ard
Tennessee, but never elsewhere, that
Cairo travelling men ever hea: or
or see a Paducah travelling man.
That there can be no possibility
OF mistake in this statement can
t be gained from the knowledge that
t there are 1874 bright, hustling, ener-
getic, business getters travelling out
! of Cairo is representatives of the
) large wholesale antcrests. These
,t1S4 men. members of the United
+ Irommercial Travellers, are keen,
, shrewi. observing and know what
| they are talking about" said Rob-
J ert ]. Greaney, secretary-treasurer
of the association, when interrogat-
ed last night in relation to the
statement made by the Sun.
PadIcan cannot compete with
Cairo neither in price nor assoft-
meut in any line. said Mr. Greaney.
, L is in the Jug trade perhaps.
/, whore paducah has it on Cairo hut
this is Goubtful since George Il.
Goodman & Co, the biggest waQie-
. sala liQdar dealer in Paducah has i
= branch here which, does a crater
y business than the main Paducah
$ house. Mr.. Goodman was keen
sighted enough long ago TO SEQ
what great advantage Cairo Offered
/, in shipping facilities ana geographi-
cal position and moved his Mempnis
establishment TO Cairo. The Harris
Saddlcry company. another Padueah
j concern, moved to Cairo several
years ago after hard struggle to
:. hold up its mead. but now is a thsiv-
!. ling. wealthy concern operating is
: plant day and night in order to keep
: lup with orders Others might be
+ named that moved to Cairo from
, paducah-and reference is made 10
: Iretailers in this latter.
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