Norwich bulletin., 1922-12-13
JOHN WANNAMAKER DIES Al AGt OF 84

a time at Tower Hau famous old Philadelphia clothing house, where his personality and business ability were
 developed for his venture in business for himself. The Brown & Wanama- ker store began business with first
 days sales account of SPA, and ended its first year with record of SPA, 4,0OO
 business Mir. Wanamaker and h:s brother-in-law were during their first few months of business unable to afford a horse and wagon for delivery, and NIT. Wanamaker himself pushed two- | wheel cart to deliver his goods. His partners health 6aiing, most of the de- l tails of the business devolved upon MT. Wanamaker.
 Aside establishing his one price pol! 1 icy and making shorter business day,
 MT. Wanamaher established in the new
 store two systems, one of sales and the l other of organization. He learned t ! was cheaper to manufacture some
 classes c6 goods than to buy from man ufacturers and he became one of the 1 first retailers to do this He found t I difficult to get employees who were properly instructed in their duties and
 he organized training schools where his l workers were taught the "Wanamaker l system"
 l Mr. wanamaker interested hi- eli in many civic, activities. He was the first salaried secretary fn America of the Young Mems Christian Association, in | 1858; one of the founders of the Chris tian commission during the Civil war.
 and one of the organizers of the Cen
 tepnial Exposition in 1876. In the lat ter year he began the development. of
 his department store, establishing the
 house of John Wanamaker /and- com pany on Chestnut street, Philadelphia
 and twenty years later established a
 similar business in New York as sue
 cessor of A. T. Stewart. It is estimated
 that during his entire business career MT. Wanamaker had distributed into American homes merchandise reaching nearly billion dollars in value.
 He was known as a great believer 1T
 advertising. in newspaper advertising
 above all other varieties. He spent mil
 lions of dollars in it. One of the fea / lures of his advertising campaign wa!
 his development of the 'tStore New Page which he led with an editoria , over his own signature, invariably writ
 ten by himself, to keep the public II
 touch with the policies of his business His friends often saw him writing sue! an editorial on his way to the store il the morning scrItGbling it on the bacl < of an envelope or any odd scrap of pa = per he had in his pocket
 In political life, MT Wanamaker wa prominent as an independent republi 7 can. In 1882 he was offered the re : publican nomination as congressman-at Q large for the state of Pennsylvania, nu s declined it, and in 1886 he declined t ? be an independent candidate for mayo t of Philadelphia. He took an active par in most of the presidential campaign s and gave a great amount of work [ l. the republican national executive com 3 nittee, of which he was a member dur - ing the Harrison campaign. Upon tn s election of Harrison. MT. Wanamake d was invited to enter the cabinet: an l. although there was much criticism { d the effect that merchant was unf
 for a cabinet, position, MT. Wanamake q became postmaster general and wa n acknowledged later by his critics | .- have worked many desirable reforms i J. the postal system. Organization, sys !. tenn, method and business mec41anisY 1, tso essential in the post office depara J. nrent were all in Mir Wanamaker's lin, n He spread the fast mail service an 2 opened sea post offices in which foreis n mails are distributed and made LID a e the sea. and, among other things, sovt q cated the parcels post and postal sax s ings which were sEtex realized, and als y urged government ownership of tele n graph lines
 ,rl Early in his career Mir wanamake