Bridgeton pioneer., 1917-09-06

| ew that he would give him a commits
sion If he would make a sale. Billy
sold the property and received $500
commission.
This uncle of Billy's was a practical
matter of fact man, and Billy asked
him how he could best invest the mon.
ey paid him.
Billy" said his uncle, every man
should use what he has OF which to
build. The only thing you have is the
entree into society. There are persons
who would give you a fortune for an
introduction to the gilded world. But
you couldn't deliver the goods. Still.
in society lies your field. My advice
is for you to spend your $500 in suit
able clothes for yourself and wife and
other necessities in keeping in with
the swells. Meanwhile keep your eye
skinned for chance to make a prof
liable deal. Some financial magnate
may take fancy to you and give you
tip"
Billy saw the drift of the advice.
and Billy's wife advocated following it
with all her heart. Billys investment
in clothes was confined principally to
a dress suit, and the rest of the funds
devoted to apparel went to his wife.
After this the names of Mr.. and Mrs.
William Saxton were to be found quite
often in the society columns of the
newspapers.
One day James Edgerton, a business
! acquaintance of Billy's, called upon
/ him and told him that he was about
to place a very large order for goods
dealt in by the John Goldwin COM
pany He intimated that if Billy could
get him satisfactory figures he would
give him the order. Billy figured that
the commission involved would amount
to a small fortune He called on Mr..
Goodwin and submitted the matter.
Goldwin was eager to secure the or
der. When the bids were all in Ed.
gerton said to Billy:
by the bye Saxton, is Mrs. Mont
gOmery SaXton relative of yours?''
"She is my'aunt."
II see by the papers that there is to
be wedding in that family in June.
and all the swells will be there. Are
you going?'
Certainly"
Then the conversation turned again
upon the bids. When Billy went home
that evening he told Eunice about this
mention of the wedding
did you tell him you would get him
an invitation?' asked Eunice.
"Why. no; | didn't think to do that
He is only business acquaintance.
Stupid! Go ask your aunt for an
invitation for him and his wife, if he
has a wife. and tell her that this order
you are expecting from him is de-
pendent upon her sending him one"
Billy hurried off to his aunt and upon
making known his reasons for asking
for the invitation received it and the
next day when he called on Edgerton
to talk business tossed it on the desk
before which he sat. Edgerton put it
in his pocket, and before Billy left him
he had the order he coveted But there
was a condition attached to it-he
must place it with Sampson, Bliss &
Co., firm Edgerton wished to favor.
Billy reported to Mr.. Goldwin the
result of the negotiations, much to that
gentleman's disappointment. Goldwin
had mentioned the matter to his wife.
and when she asked him if he had re-
ceived the order he was obliged to
make known why he had not received
it. He told the story Billy had told
him, including the exchange of the
vro1Hsnr fnx ho Nd
There followed storm in the Goldwin
family, during which Mrs. Goodwin
said she did not believe that Billy had
been forced to give the order to Samp-
son. Bliss & Co. and if her husband
had followed her suggestion to invite
the Saxtons to dinner his firm would
have received the order.
This put suspicion into Mr.. Gold
wins head that Billy had favored an
other concern in preference to his en-
ployer's, and it ranked in his &1Rrt
Billy's services were easy to r<li6ce,
and when he went to his Office thenext
day his employer showed his spleen by
discharging his clerk. Billy was told
the reason for his dismissal and was
very much hurt thereat He told Ed
gerton about it. and Edgerton went to
Sampson, Bliss & Co. and secured him
a position at double the salary he had
been receiving.
Billy's commission on the order was
some $4,000 and new salary at $50
week. But this was only the begin
ming Of successful career. 1t was
known that he had controlled an order
amounting to several hundred thousand
dollars, and a number of concerns Of
fered him better salary than that CIV
en- him by his new employer. But by
the advice of Edgerton he declined
them all. The truth is that Edgerton's
wife was a woman well calculated for
social sinner. but had needed start.
first appearance. to enable her to get
her tentacles on those she would utilize
for climbing. The invitation that came
through Billy SaXtOn was all she re-