Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 31, Number 363, 27 March 1907 — Page 4
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GIFT BY D. G. REID. With this usual liberality toward his home city, Daniel G. Reid has come forward with a handsome gift to the T. M. C. A., but he wants the people to-do their part by subscribing $70,000. In other words, Mr. Reid, according to therscriptural Injunction, is willing to helpthose who help themselve The most encouraging thing about the gift by Mr. Reid is the fact that it came praeticallymnsolici ted and simply from a desire-on hi3 part to help a worthy cause. Soon after the movement was first started Mr. Reid . chanced to be in Richmond and offered a subscription at that time but
the committee did not see fit to accept It, hoping that it would be possible to raise the entire fund without calling upon non-residents. Finally, when Mr. Reid renewed the offer, It was deemed best to accept it because of the new life it would instill and from the fact that it would practically make the success of the movement certain.
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More About Hail Order Houses s
HOME-TRADE CLUBS
They Should Be Organized and Active in Every Community.
stuff for the succeeding winter. In
this way the demands of this class on the township trustee were reduced
and it is probable the city benefitted
much more than the $100 in the longj run. to say nothing of the lesson ofj
industry that was taught all those i
willing to work the vacant lots and- at i
the same time reduce the weed crop.
PATRONIZE HOME MERCHANTS
The Great Danger to Local Interests That Are Found in the Mailorder Systems Educate the Public.
Again hope is held out that the
West Second street improvement will
be made this season, work to begin
about May first. All those interested
in this wrork are now members of the
"show me'' club and they will believe
it when they see the work actually In
progress. The ways of the Pennsyl
vania railroad company, like those of Providence, are past finding out, and especially is this true in reference to !
the -"West Side improvement.
ELEMENT OF "COURTESY." "Courtesy" seems to be woefully lacking on the part of the metropolitan police board, according to the statements given out the past few
days. First the city council is ag
grieved because the board sees fit to Increase the membership of the police force without consulting the council, which has nothing to do with the matter but pay the bills, and then prominent democrats are aggrieved because the board saw fit to name a democrat to the forco without consulting them. We do not know how far the element of "courtesy" enters Into the duties of the police board but tho members (two in number by the grace of Governor Ilanly) seem inclined to tha belief that they were appointed to run the police department on their own responsibility without calling in help.
That was a happy thought on the
part of the C. C. &. E. in arranging it so that persons who desire to take a sleeper to Chicago can go to Muncie
early in the evening and sleep there
until picked up by the late train, for
where on earth could one sleep better
than in quiet Muncie?
If the traction companies really wan to serve their own best interests
and those of the people of Richmond, they will hasten to make , overtures
and provide arrangements for freight
traffic that will be satisfactory to all
concerned.
(Copyrighted, 1SC6. by Alfred C. Clark) Why should we trade at home? Why should we consider home in any way more than any other place unless it pays us financially? First, because it is our home. The pride we should take in the prosperity of our home town, and our neighbors should be sufficient inducement to give them the preference. Second, because beyond all doubt or question, it pays from a money point. The greatest menace to the country merchant to-day is the mail order business, and with the decline of the country merchant comes inevitable loss to the citizens of both town and country. What at first was considered a great convenience and an exhibition of commendable enterprise ha3 grown to be one of the crying commercial evils. The success of the mail order house Is the result of constant, ex
tensive and intelligent advertising. It
is not by persistent swindling as some tell us, for no business was ever built up in that way. The home merchant
can do no better than to adopt the
same method, the judicious use of printer's ink. While the merchants are the heav
iest immediate losers, and could do
qualnting the community with what he has to sell and with the fact that people could obtain, at home, where they could personally examine them and return them it defective in any way, goods at as low a price as any catalogue house can sell them, every man and woman is to blame who sends away for goods; and everyone who fails to raise his voice in favor of home trade. The editor holds the most responsible position and should be the leader in thi3 movement. The remedy ha3 been outlined in a general way. We will suggest the first
steps. Let merchants buy at home they cannot consistently ask others to trade with them when they do not patronize their brothers in trade. The editors should patronize home, and even at considerable personal sacrifice refuse foreign advertising for lines of good3 In competition with the home merchant. The editor deserves more credit than he receives. Many a well-to-do farmer or city man would think himself perfectly justified in sending
away for all his groceries and cloth
ing if he thought he could save ten
dollars thereby on a year's purchases.
but most editors forfeit many times that much every year by refusing advertising from distant firms in the same lines of business as his home merchants; and sometimes the home merchant even then declines to ad
vertise.
Trade-at-home club3 might be or
ganized, with mottos something like
Club," or "I Patronize the Home Mer
chants," or "I Buy Nothing from Mail
Order Houses," for members to dis
play. The acceptance and displaying of such a card might constitute a per-
so nor member.
Much of the trading away from home is due to thoughtlessness and
ignorance of business principles
Many persons consider only the first
OPPORTUNITY IS PRESENTED. AH those who belong to the Commercial club (and many who do not should join) should unite in an effort to make this organization an increased factor in the affairs of the city. A banquet and smoker is being arranged for next week and at that time it is hoped to Increase the friendly feeling among tho business men and unite them more effectually for the common good. Under the administration of John F. McCarthy, the new president, and with a capable permanent .secretary in the person of Will Ferguson, who is to give his entire time to the club, there would appear to be no reason why it cannot accomplish much, provided the business men will identify themselves with it, pay their dues and attend the meetings.
Grover Cleveland recently celebrat
ed his seventieth birthday anniversary
and Is now living on borrowed time, but isn't it possible he is flirting with
the presidential nomination?
If that unusually early heat prostration .-reported in Richmond on Tues
day had occurred in Muncie or An
derson it would have been no surprise
but in Richmond never.
unueu &iates troops in Cuba are
credited with working changes for the better in sanitary conditions.. Spain
is also aware that Uncle Sam's forces
are good at "a cleanin'."
PINGREE WORK BENEFICIAL It is to be regretted that the law will not permit tho city council to vote aid 1 o tho Fingreo garden work as much good has been accomplished in this line in past years. Council has heretofore voted $100 annually, which sum has been used for seed, and as a Tesult work has been provided for many of the worthy poor, who were thus able to lay in a supply of food
As sheriff of Wayne, representative of a dynamite concern and a member
of a local base ball team. T.lnns
Meredith has ' a combination that
would be hard to beat.
If You Don't Get Good Cigars iVbu It's Your Own Fault AH you have to do is to stand up like a man and ask the dealer for cigars identified by the ''Triangle A" on the box.
Nothing else. Nothing" easier. Nothing surer. When you say "Give me a "Triangle A cigar,- you are absolutely as certain of getting quality, and the same quality every time, no matter which particular brand you select, as if you had your cigars made up to order. ' We nave succeeded in building up a fifteen per cent, share of the entire cigar business of this country. In the face of the keenest competition, take notice. You know weir enough that there's only one way we could have done it : Simply by making better cigars of every grade than any other manufacturer has produced and telling the truth about them. And by making the strongest definite claims that any cigar manufacturer ever dared to make, and living up to them. The one reason why we started
in marking our boxes with the "Triangle A" was to enable you to shut down sharp on the common hit-or-miss way of buying cigars on somebody's say-so, and make your selection with your eyes open. It would be worth your while to take all sorts of trouble in order to obtain "Triangle A" brandsbut you don't have to bother you can get them anyxchere. It's up to you to ask for them. Practically every dealer in the United States carries them. Do your part! Give yourself a square deal ! This "Triangle A" merit mark identifies the product of the most modern improved methods and scientific processes of cigar production, and represents a standard of ouality far superior to that which the same price could heretofore purchase.
r If you have been buying your cigars by guess-work and want to put our claims to a most practical test, just take a new start. Begin by smoking one of the best-known of all the brands that are sold under the guarantee of the "Triangle A"
The New
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Compare it fairly with any cigar sold at the same price that carries' no "Triangle A" guarantee: you won't fail to see why we are so confident of your co-operation as soon as you realize just what the "Triangle A" stands for. - Evervbox is now extra-wraoned in erlassine naoer. sealed
at each end with the "Triangle A" in red. The cigars are kept clean, fresh and in perfect smoking condition until the box is opened. AMERICAN CIGAR COMPANY, Manufacturer
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GERMANY'S ACTIVITY
CLOSELY WATCHED
Are you operating the tread mill to pour the wealth of your community
into the bottomless hoppers of the mail-order house? Are you driving your
local merchants out of business? If you are you are killing your town and
your own interests.
If the street sweeping machine Is
not damaged by running it through
the alleys, for heaven's sake keep the! much toward checking and correcting cost; if they save 25 cents on a ten
practice un. for th nllpv Q M nis growing evn, Dy iiDerai aaverus-
n xxr cir not c"h 1 r nvoQ rV "h rmo t f1f
Now lets hear frm President Mc- ovrv t.fiarfiM should instil it into his
Representative of the United
States Ordered to Inspect Bagdad Railway.
Gowan about the traction freight sit- pupils in the school room, every min-
uation In Richmond.
Piles Cured in 6 to 14 Days.
PAZO OINTMENT is guaranteed to
cure any case of Itching, Blind, Bleeding or Protruding Piles in 6 to 14 days or money refunded. 50c.
Artificial gas. the 20 th. Century fueL
10-tf
ssnoes, Oxfords and Pumps. The
latest styles at Humpe's.
ANOTHER VETERAN GONE.
William McDaniel, Member of VYild-
ers Brigade Succumbs.
News has been received here of the death of William A.. McDaniel, an
aged veteian of Fort Wayne, who
served with many Wayne county men
in Wilder's brigade during the Civil
war. The deceased was a native of
Illinois, but lived for many years at
Thorntown, Ind.
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Said Wit to Wisdom "A full stomach makes a light heart." Said Wisdom to Wit
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In dust tight, moisture proof packages.
NATIONAL BISCUIT COMPANY
ister should preach it from the pul
pit. The debating societies and po
litical conventions should discuss it
The interests of town and country
and newspaper and church, and so
ciety generally, are so interwoven and so identical that whatever injures one will eventually injure all. When the merchants are compelled to bring on smaller stocks, and employ less help, and pay cheaper rent, they are not
alone the sufferers; the whole com
munity feels the loss. The price of
real estate is largely dependent on its
nroximity to a good town. Rents are
dependent on the amount of business.
The merchant can move to some other town and establish himself again more
readily than can the professional man
find many others who have built up
business through years ot acquaint
anceship and establishment of char
acter. If the farmer, or property owner in town, want to sell out they are
the greatest sufferers they can t
move their property to some place
where people are booming their town
and country by patronizing home.
The remedy lies in education and
publicity. In many places that education will come through bitter experience, but, in other communities, where they are quicker to detect the
approaching evil, and heed more read
ily the warnings or ine press ana iriends of home, they may correct the
evil more readily.
Wealth and power are corrupting
influences and the mail order, houses are probably not sending out as honest goods as they once did. They have learned the" tricks of imitation and substitution and how easy It Is to deceive the public. But, if the mail
order man is honest, and his methods cf advertising legitimate in every way, bis success Is of no interest to us and will never benefit our community in the slightest degree. If crops should fail or sickness render us short of
money we eouia not expect mm to trust us for a dollar we must always
look to the home merchant for credit in times of adversity.
Who is to blame? The mail order
house? Not in the least. We alone
are to blame. The near-sighted merchant who has lost trade by not ac-!
AFTER THE PERSIAN TRADE.
THIS SITUATION FURNISHES THE
ONLY OMINOUS WAR CLOUD IN THE OPINION OF GREAT BRIT-
S
dollar order by buying from a mail
order house they consider that clear gain. They should be shown that a
merchant and his family living in their midst, keeps up a house, pays
taxes, adds to the social features, con tributes generously towards public en
terpnses, etc. If by buying at home
their town gives support to several
more local merchants, creating a bet
ter home market, they get back a liberal percentage. Every man and woman takes more or less pride in local affairs and is willing to contribute something toward home improve
ments, if the matter is fairly pre
sented. That is why I say the rem edy- lies in education.
Most mail order houses claim they
are enabled to sell cheaper than country dealers because they buy in larger
quantities and get especially low prices. This is often a base misstatement of facts; let me cite an in
stance: A stock man from eastern Washington! was visiting in Kansas City. One morning, walking with his nephew, who was a clerk in a lead
ing wholesale hardware house, he asked where Bland & Co.'s store was located. "Don't think I ever heard of
them," replied the young man. "O,
yes, I do remember the firm;
have no store, they have an office in
(giving the name of the building), lft nA"7l MC CHD TUC Dl IMIV
ht .I rioT,'): , hnw thov Mn ell I mHUHtlUU IV11 lilt-
Constantinople, March 27. Acting
under instructions from Washington, P. A. Jay, secretary of the American embassy here will leave shortly for Bagdad, Asiatic Turkey; to inspect
the bagdad railway, designed to con
nect the Mediterranean with the Persian gulf. Jay will inspect the work
which Germany Is doing and make a
detailed report to Secretary Root in
regard to Germany's political activity.
Roosevelt is Interested. This is taken here to mean that
Roosevelt is intensely Interested in the alleged German desire to gobble
up Persian trade by building this road.
England feels that this at present is the only ominous war cloud on the
horizon and voice to this sentiment was given last night by Ambassador
they Bryce In New York.
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News of the Railroads by Local and General o.owenkuhn
BEING PARTIALLY REMOVED.
The embargoes which have been
placed against 'shipment of freight on several different lines in western Pennsylvania and southern Ohio, are
being partially removed. The local
office received a great many. Mon
day was the first day on which any portion of them was removed. . TO FULL CAPACITY.
Orders have been sent out by the
local Pennsylvania officials, that here
after all freight cars must be loaded
in their full capacity before they will be moved. This is done to relieve
the car shortage. Small shippers will suffer as the result of this order, but
railroad officials claim that the car situation will be improved.
BAD ON THE ROADBEDS. "The past winter has been an un
usual one, and has been the hardest on the roadbed, of any that we have had in recent years," said an old section foreman of the Richmond divis
ion. This is due to the freezing and
thawing weather, during the whole
season. All Pennsylvania divisions centering in Richmond are suffering alike in this respect and the warm weather is welcomed as otherwise the work would have been delayed for several weeks and the roadbeds would have been in very bad condition. Section foremen will start their work the latter part of this week or the first of next.
ware as low as your home merchants,
for while we sell them goods at less
than retail price, we don't give them'
as low prices as regular dealers, be
cause they buy in such small quanti
ties, just as they get orders." The
stockman was greatly surprised, he supposed he had been dealing with
one of the largest firms In the city.
The mail order business has devel
oped so slowly, and works so quietly
that few persons realize the magni
tude it has assumed nor to what ex
tent it is now sapping the life-blood of
many email cities and towns. Even
now we hear the excuse given for
sending away for goods, that the mer
chants carry such poor stocks. The
wonder is that they carry any. .
Copies of a Magazine Received He
Wilt Be Sent Free to Every Unfortunate in America.
WORK IS BEING HURRIED. The new block system on the Richmond division, is being erectt-d with much speed and it is thought that it will be done and in working order within at least two weeks. The work yet to be done is in making connections along the lines. When Completed the Richmond division will be better able than ever to protect Its patrons. a
Copies of a new magazine for the
blind, published in New York City through the generosity of Martha Ziegler, for whom It is named, "have been received in this city. It will be
Issued monthly, and the first number, which is In what is known as the NewYork point system of raised charac
ters, contains 50 pages. It contains J The Pennsylvania has purchased ad-
letters from President Roosevelt, ex- ditional land adjoining its forestry
RAILROAD NOTES.
contract for grading, concrete aud bridge work between Lelpsic and Toledo, O., to the Stratford Construction company of New York. The company will also grade and bridge forty five miles between Lima and Bellffontaine. The Pennsylvania is to spend $50,000 on its freight offices in Baltimore, Local traffic on the Pennsylvania and C. C. & I railroads is greater than at ary time since Christmas. All trains bring a goodly number of shoppers to the city. The amount of freight handled by the Pennsylvania in the past week has Increased greatly, according to local railroad men. The flood around Southern Ohio has hindered the movement of freight considerably, howev
er.
The Pennsylvania has received a quantity of small pamphlets giving a complete description of the James town exposition. The breach between the manage
ment of the Peru division of tho Wabash and the section men still con
tinues and other employes are daily laying down their tools and refusing to work. The railroad Is hiring for
eign laborers to take the places of the
strikers.
'The Pennsylvania hag notified the
grocery trade that on and after Aug
ust next, storage on all canned goods will be increased a quarter of a cent after thirty days. This would make
the advanced cost $2.50 on every 1,000 cans.
The Nashua (N. It.) Hibernians recently carried a pike of 1789 in their parade. The pike was brought to this country by the late Patrick Niland, one of whose ancestors carried it in the fight fgr Ireland's freedom.
President Cleveland, Helen Keller and others. It will be sent free to every blind person in the United States.
The Real Power.
A 17-year-old boy at Worcester,
Mass., has a lung capacity of S00
cubic Inches. When he grows up and goes to congress he will perhaps learn that it is not the orator but the speaker who affects the course of na
tional legislation.
There are 3,390 Smiths of full age In
New York City, and 6S0 of them have
telephones.
Miss Julia Richmond, a district su
perintendent in New York schools, is having great success with a penny
luncheon of crackers and milk for the youngest children. An investigation not long ago in that city showed 70,000 breakfastless children in the public schools.
There are three Jewish peers in England and eleen baronets, while
sixteen Jews are in the House of
Commons?.
The Danish government subscribes one-half of the capital required for any private railway, line which Is of public
utiliLtf-
If you become hungry between meals, a few mouthfuls of Grape-Nuts will give comfort and . strength. "There's a Reason"
farm In Kosciusko county, Ind., and thousands of trees will be planted, that the company may eventually have enough timber for wooden ties. Forestry reserves are being established in several different states by the Pennsylvania. Auditor R. P. Metheany of the G. R. & I. is in the east attending to official
duties.
As yet no announcement has been made as to who will succeed Frank VanDusen, chief assistant general passenger agent for the Pennsylvania lines. It Is highly probable that this position w ill be left vacant. The local freight officials have heard nothing in regard to the establishment of the tariff bureau ia PittsburgAn announcement is expected in the course of a few weeks. The Indianapolis, Columbus & Eastern traction company has awarded a
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