Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 May 1920 — NEW YORK’S BEAD KING [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

NEW YORK’S BEAD KING

Tills quaint old man runs a quaint old shop In lower New York. He is Peter Bender, and his place of business is 111 East Ninth street and it is signified by "unusual.” As Mr. Ben-, der says: “If you,can get it anywhere else, don't come here —I only sell what the other stores cannot get.” Mr. Bender originally had a stock of embroidery, cottons, silk and linen floss and other fancy goods, but of late he has specialized in beads, and beads he has, of a thousand varieties. From the carved ivory of the Orient to the beauteous beads of the American Indiqs, are these little trinkets for bags, etc. Some are as high as $6 an ounce, while others cost but a trifle. From all over the WQrld does Mr. Bender secure his beads, some of his orders amounting to over a thousand dollars. Mr. Bender has been “at the stand” for 37 years, and his receipt for success is “First pick out your business, then learn it so thoroughly that you know ■more about it than any man alive, and you can't fail.”