Show Ei Dealer Did the Trust Trot From FrolD the u Tobacco War in Monthly for March larch When Wh the tile store tore combination first brat began beau to open stores In New N w York a dealer tol n one e of 01 the downtown don wn cross streets was approached and lind salted asked to set seta a figure on h hie business a He did ao so and sod 1 I at twice lie actual value of his establishment I The e prospective pr purchaser r set t lone one of him bin agents Centa to watch the daily dally re rei r rI i of th the mans man store for a aee week The dealer deal r had bad prepared for this thia Very Ver quiet ly I be he had gone around among amona his big friends sad api arranged with them to buy tuy boxes ot 01 cigars and aD f Jars jan of tobacco by the tM dozen dosen or ease case c purchases to be returned at the theena end ena of the week and a bonus given Biven to the purchaser for his bIB trouble the representative of the th United Cigar Claar Stores company waa wa much impressed by the 1 stream of ot purchaser purchasers who left the avenue I to buy of their favorite dealer and the 1 I sale aale Ie was effected at the end nd of ot the w week ek at the dealers deal own cure For a time tim the new owners n could not understand i why business fell off so o astonishingly alter they had hd h taken ken possession but when a couple of or months went by with I no DO improvement the true vue rue situation dawned ria upon them and aad they closed up I the shop |