Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 September 1881 — The Commercial Traveler. [ARTICLE]

The Commercial Traveler.

Go where you will. In the United States £you meet him. ' On railroad trains, on steamboats, in stage coaches in ferries, across obscure streams, in the mountains and on the plains, on ocean and on land, in all seasons and in all sorts of weather, you meet the commercial traveler, and you commonly find him wide-awake, alert, genial,, entertaining, and with an eye to business. He becomes a rare judge of men, aod accomodates himself to all classes. He will know more about a town in a few days after he has invaded it thanipeopie who have lived in it far years. He is eyer welsome at the hotels, and wherever h* goeqhe seems to carry along with hiaa promise of stir, life and progress. Tho -oomruerci&l traveler who has. long been connected with a leading house is regarded as on* of itomost valuable members. He has built Up a trade by j>ersoual_ address and popularity, and any business man worthy of-’the name apprebfstee his service* and deals with him accordingly. He is well paid, is allowed vacations, Mid his salary runs on during sickness. It is both amusing and interesting to bear a group of. commercial travelers comparing notes, regaling each other with stories, ana dividing up some new empire between themselves. The insensibility to fatigue, the unfailing good hnmor and the ready wit of these men always attract the attention of an observer, and they seem to typify many of the traits of the American character which have made this country so great and prosperous as it is.