Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 March 1892 — The Art of "Putting Things." [ARTICLE]

The Art of "Putting Things."

Some years ago a young man went to New York in search cf employment and fortune. He carried liis own trunk to a lodging house because he could not afford the expense of a hired carrier. His honest face and speech won for him his landlady’s consent to a week’s living on tick. So far good. Now, then, for the bold plunge. He went to the offices of several leading newspapers and invested his last quarter in an advertisement thus worded: “I want something to do and must have it in twenty-four hours. Address, .‘Push,’ this office.” In a little while he had received about three hundred answers to his unique demand for employment. One business man wrote: “Call at nine o’clock to-morrow morning and I may give you a chance to see how vigorously you can ‘push.’” The tone of that reply pleased our adventurer, and at the appointed hour he presented himself at the writer’s office. The result was a trial engagement, which has continued until this time, The young advertiser is now the confidential man of the house, having proved that “push” is his dominant characteristic.