Show Springtime Is Great Season 7 For Business In Overcoats I i PAWNBROKERS In Salt Sal Lake will do a rushing business in overcoats as long as W the weather wether of yesterday holds good god All l of the uncles in Salt Sal Lake handle a great geat many may of 01 other peoples overcoats in the first warm days following the winter and tion they are ar preparing for a big recep reception reception tionA ton A Second South street broker was on the Job Sunday Sunda but business was dull dul This is great gret overcoat weather any how he remarked apropos of nothing Great Groat overcoat weather wether was the reply Who would want to wear wea an overcoat a day like this Nobody except an invalid the pawnbroker said tats Just what Im Im driving at Im speaking from Im my standpoint standpoint This la Is great get overcoat weather for me The sort of weather wether understand that drives drive men to the pawnshops with wih their heavy coats They dont need nee them any more so when they the dont need them I get them see se seI I 1 have about one hundred overcoats in the shop now the pawnbroker con continued and I dare say sy before March 15 Ill Il have between seven and eight hundred Thel come in steadily now And the nearer the approach of spring the greater the soakings as it were You know pawning an overcoat is a habit with a lot of folks They only get from 2 to 5 on a a coat and that money last lat them very long but they dont need the coat cot so they argue that its Is foolish for them to keep kep an overcoat hanging around all al summer About Abut of them will wi keep ui uru u uthe the interest until the fall fal season An Another Another Another other third pay pa interest for a month or two then decide that have enough money niney to buy a new overcoat before the snow flies fles again These toss their pawn ticket into the waste wastebasket wastebasket basket baket The confirmed soak coat fiend will keep the tho interest paid up for part of the fun with him Some of the pawnshop fiends dont stop sop with wih overcoats I know men in inthis Inthis inthis this town that would pawn anything they could lay their hands on Its Is Just Justa a mania to pawn something al all alI allI I know a a railroad man who has a ring that he can pawn for 6 He gets paid once a month and on the morning of pay day he cornea come around and gets his ring out Occasionally I dont nt see se him until the tho next day but generally general he gets around that same night and puts the ring in for another 6 and it re remains remains remains mains me for another month Once Onee a long time ago a fellow came in here and asked me to fix fx up a scarf pin for him The Time repairs cost seventy five cents and while I was fixing it I I discovered that the pin was brass and anC worth two cents cent He paid for forthe forthe forthe the repairs though and not long after came in and anti asked me to lend him a adolar dollar dolar on the time pin I knew it I was brass bras but somehow I decided deide to take a chance and I gave him the dollar dolar The customer was gone about abut two months When hen he returned he had a abig abig abig big roll rol of money and he lie asked for the time pin I had a hard time finding it It but butI I finally did He was tickled to death deth and he lie said sid to me aa as ai he pulled pule out the therol roll rol of money monc Id d give all al Ive Ive got in inthis Inthis inthis this hand before Id Id lose loe that pin No NoI I ask him the story stor Theres ro romance romance romance mance about lots of things in the pawn pawnshop pawnshop pawnshop shop but we ilont dont delve Into it I We hear tOt too much fiction |