New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-21
Buy on Time and
Repent in Haste
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mental calculation.
On that occasion the did purchase ater they
returned to find themselves precpated into mathematical mae
s,rom For Mr. Titebaum didn't take his saeswoman view OF
the bargain He wanted $22 SO cash for the coat
But" objected the customer, the saleswoman offered to
Il, for $1,000 cash"
'IIow's hat9' demanded Tilebaum How nineteen'
Ten per cent off at 90 cash. said the and
indicating the saIeswOman added She reckoned it $1,000
Ttlebaum turned on her. What's per cent off $2Z?
Nineteen, amt it?'
DO it, exhorted Ttlebaum DO Here's pencil and
paper. Do it'll"
Taking the implements she essayed the problem Perhaps
In did not crown her ehor
You do it, she said presently, returning the Penc 10 mel
employer You do it better can.
Mr. Tebaum turned the and with perfect SIN
cerity apoogized You'll have my help ohe am
been trained to this; she's school teacher
Which was in itself almost worth the SI9OO paid for the
coat Considered solely garment and the representa-
tons bad purchase at that price But the
lining instead of being silk only cotton Venetian And any
claim of wholesale price $45 value utterly unounded and
absurd
Mere prose is not good enough for the T. Kelly Company OF
263 Sixth Avenue which celebrates itself in this tripping couPe
Easy to
The Kelly Way.
The Kelly way of craftsmanship sold a adys coat rep
resented as an alwool chevot lined with Endive satin
and trimmed with beaver cloth ten cent oft SZ/9o
reckoned $40 The appraiser
found certain disappointing about the garment tor
ample that instead being wool cheviot is about d per
cent cotton and lined with and not with endve
or anv other variety of salad AS should properly retail at
or less instead the than $500 which paid
would appear be easy indeed to pay the Nelly
way
Further ND the thoroughfar Brothers Cohen of so
Sixth Avenue do the nstamen plan what they
term Sample Suits so and $500 10 The tribune Pur-
basers however the salesman offered the credit system
4IaS ii to bS mo hal
SIS article he declared that much better and would
twice as long AS Usual with his Species however his standards
ed at the sight of cash sold for SIS Analysed the suit
can be estimated as possible So article By comparison with
the standard Monroe suit at SIS, however, it suffers
Two Great Brooklyn Stores adverses J. Mchaes the
90 weekly man. who further poclams himself Friend OF the
Peoe In his place at 1872 Smith Street The Tribune shoppers
bareaned for chds which represented regular
value for 100 Also skirt alleged to be regu
lar So 90 garment on sale S. These selected from
amidst stock anquatcd and discarded styles dresses and
skirts learning that cash down be paid the saesoan
conceded of 10 and finding that this made the
Two sales come to So TO- she proved the right to the title Friend
of the People by knocking off the odd ten cents
Now if Michaes really the atrustc which he
advertise. himself to be- he could his public spirit better
way than by advising his patrons shop elsewhere For the
pose of comparisons The Tribune made purchases retail
store as nearly the Mchaes garments possible and then
submitted the four articles appraisers The appasas show
that the two skirts practically the quality material and
general cost labor AS for the the quality OF the Mchae
goods poorer but there padded lining the coat which
brings it I'D to the general standard of the other Where the
striking difference in the prices Here they are tabu
lated:
Of The NatonalO