Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-01-24
bT SURPRISING RESULTS
I BY NODD|AG At VtNOU
hn Found He Had Been Used
by Auctionecr to Run
Up Bids.
Every young business mxn has his

Nery young business mzn has his
rk hour" when it seems as II the wo
h} centred its activities on driving him
ID the wall, but few of them have 81 ex-
reriencc when this hour is reached which
equals that Of a well known manufactur-
inr jeweler of New York. This is the
story, As it was related by him yesterday
to . New York Times reporter:
Things looked pretty bad. IL | had
- bilh receivable at the time they were
n receivable at the moment they were
= st needed. There were plenty OF bills
q bnble, however, and they were all due,
= was rent. MY entire cash resources
q ounted to 10 cents. This happened
y kzly so years ago, when five cents would
81 4 buy something, so sent my errand
b@y out for a sandwich. The other nickel
I keps for carfare home.
: After eating the sandwich got to
bs4odins over my troubles, until it seemed
thlt l had to seek relief In some KIND of
physical action / decided TO take walk.
but "a the time was July and the day very
hot, it was not long before j was looking
for a cool place to sit down and take a
rest. Finally / spied store IN winch an
auction sale of oil paintings Was being
held. II looked cool In there, and know
ing that the only thing which could hap
pen to me was to be asked TO 60 out, /
decided to take my rest there
THE interior of the place was some
wiat dark after coming IN from the glare
of the street, and In finding place 10 sit
/ stumbled over a large ornamental
cuspidor and caused quite q little commo-
ton The auctloneer looked over IN my
direction, but, Drawing his glance. / sat
down. had not been sitting there long
when be nodded to me j did not know
kim, but wanting to appear friendly and
thus hold my seat, / nodded back Tins
happened several times. Finally he waved
his hand at me, and encouraged by tins
sign Of frieradIlness-as well as finding my
char confortable- waved back.
Finally, however, 1t began TO dawn on
me that all might no. be well with the
world, and / decided to make my exit
( casually glanced over my shoulder to see
If there was any one to bar my way, but
the only man ] saw was the barker, who
w8 standing near the door. / got up to
leeRe, but as did so this man came to me,
To me by the arm and asked me where
l las going, / told him that | was going
o4, but he said that could not, as the
h|kkeeper wanted to see me.
xTo malss, q long story short, let him
t me to the bookkeeper, who asked for
ID name and address, which ] gave.
Y en be hac written them down / asked
y what he wanted to know for. He re-
d b that it YVES necessary for him to have
d information as ] had just purchased
q, paintings 30 the value of S., 400. Then
Hailed what the a,ictioneer had been
b41ng TO me for. For moment | WAS
sdbewhat at sea, but realizing that they
cdld nos collect s., 400 from man whose
cah reserve was then 5 cents, / decided to
goAoIne and let matters take their course.
never heard another thing about It,
az6t afterwsrd dawned or me that, with
ot my knowing it, the auctIoneer had
bFn making nae of me to force prices up.
NJ visit TO the bookkeeper had been IN
Std on merely TO make things look