Show BIRSKY and ZA PP by MONTAGUE GLASS CLASS BEEN max Mal kafer in tho the 1 hubany tills this ni orning said louis birsky the real es estaver tater to barnett uio waist aurer us its they met for luncheon at the ithe corner aaboe ta in Wasser bauers he alje tells rne me lie ho Is 19 going to make from his lils boy a painter isome people dont give in a swear what becomes become of their children commented Is isit it such abad a and job tobo tobe a point paint br rr birsky asked seemingly max mar Mal kafer kater dont so no replied maybe lie ho bould enjoy it to see his son BOH break his meek from a ladder birsky 1 what are you talking nonsense brenk break ills lils neck from a ladder aladden birsky exclaimed A scaffold Is just as dangerous went on yesterday I 1 nm ant seeing it couple fetters fellers painting front from the side lot a building ton ten stories high and oen even though one of them was an air lint ital lener I 1 got so dizzy wa watching felling lem cm that before I 1 could eat my lunch at all it cost roe me 10 cents for some if I 1 would got to earn my living as n painter 1 would a whole lot sooner be tin an aviator because while the funeral expenses Is the lie same as for a painter tin an aviator dont linger long enough to run up a doctors bill on his widow you got the wrong idea birsky said Malka fers boy houi be not a house painter but a picture painter 11 A picture pain painter terl I 1 cried and I 1 thought max was h n business man why dont lie he learn the boy a trade where lie he could mako make real big money like a buttonhole maker or a poet that only goes to show what you know from poets birsky retorted jake Margo from tho the fashion store indianapolis told me that right now there Is a feller which frim only bring boing a poet Is now owning most of the gilt edged real estate in the city of indianapolis sure I 1 know declared declare but this hero here feller was tin an old established poet when hart shaffner marx and kiah nathan fisher was new nev beginners already then again there Is a bigger opening for a poet than there Is for a picture painter take the canned soup business tho the breakfast food business and even some railroad com companies all them thein concerns has ing got working for them poets which they already pay them a good yearly sat nry ary whereas n picture painter must got to work piecework and what for a wages could a pieceworker on oil pictures make when with my own eyes ces I 1 BOO it a bill from a wholesaler in fit welt fischa art store which buys 16 1012 1612 12 doz assorted oil paintings in email small sizes for a dozen including shadow boxes and frames terms ten tell off on sixty days ninety lays days net tell me about picture painters painter sl 1 I 1 say there Is a popular price line of pictures and then again there Is a high grade pictures birsky said bald ID even yen so rejoined you must got to admit that a concern like n 11 altman co carries a high grade una line of goods and when it II altman died the stock was good up to the stuff in every department oz ex iti give my bookkeeper instructions aishe should say I 1 just went to newark adept the picture department and when it como come to the pictures they closed aern cm out dut to the metropolitan museum of axt art for practically nothing birsky shrugged his shoulders what Is the vao use arguing with tn like you lie he said aid dont you know that them pictures which 13 altman left to the met museum taken out of kotock tit at all they were private pictures which ho he collected so lie ho collected them commented well the way it la Is avith them rich fetters fellers A big concern like jl 13 altman gets the credit for giving them pictures to tile metropolitan whereas the people lie ho collis collected eted them from no lody kody never hears about at nil all itts its he die t I 1 same imme way with them charitable people anch Is running nil all them hero orphan asylums and homes they bother the life out of you you should give em cm for ten or fiffe ett dollars to their and ani when you coffie to look tt it UP tip in the annual report so BO that you can prove to a customer that you already paid out more imore than youcan n if 0 rd to charity ull till y you see gee Is collected through felix GO and the customer sticks you another ton tell dollars for i free soup society be before forelle he would buy from you another dollars worth goods gooda so tile the idea you got when I 1 tell you that 13 altman collected the pictures and give giro lern em to tho the metropolitan Muse museum I 1 birsky exclaimed do you think tho the people which 11 altman collected them chein pictures from kavo gave them to him tor for nothing Why mot said last week birsky your wife comes colnes round to my iny wife afe while I 1 am downtown and says bays she Is collecting for an immigrants home old clothing and my wife gives away on me two suits and an overcoat which I 1 be ashamed to wear getting an accommodation at a bank so eo becoming they looked theres collecting and collecting birsky explained when I 1 say D B altman collected pictures I 1 mean lie he bought them and paid his good money fortham for them and the people which ho he collects from makes a profit on the transaction asked makes a profit 1 birsky said 1 I should say they do then that Is the first time that I 1 hear such a tiling thing cried because when someone tells tella me down 11 nt t tile the store that there la Is a collector wants to see tile me it dont make no difference it if the collector Is collecting for a bank a hospital the cloth sponger a home orthe or the landlord I 1 give my bookkeeper instructions site she should say I 1 just went over to nevark well pictures la different 11 barsky continued A feller which collects pictures like aj C altman sometimes pays enormous prices tako take for example mr widener selig bellg the philadelphia millionaire and lie he Is paying for a picture of a mill one hulf half million dollars I 1 what kind of n mill asked the difference what kind of a mill barsky said 1 I believe it was it flour mill A flour mill lie he pays half a n million for its picture zap said sald why for n quarter of tile the money plenty people would have been glad to sell him a rolling mill and throw in a dozen dozea pictures free and yet you say max should make from ills boy a buttonhole maker birsky continued take that picture painter which turned out A retailer which handles them still mill pictures runs an awful risk birsky its the same danie like lie he would bo be currying a line of steam yachts if lies lica only got two on hand hos overstocked over stocked bad already sure I 1 know birsky said but fluch a retailer also stocks a line of medium priced pictures too for every mill picture lie ho sells bells I 1 bet yer ho he gets rid of a dozen clorse shows or an g goluses ge C luses U s of course if tho the feller carries angelus pictures as a n side line s something 0 i n et hi n g else again birsky said theres big money in player pianos birsky because white in former times people take a piano ns as a gift on account of giving their children music lessons to get tho the use out of it nowadays they could pay a large price for a player plano piano und and send their girls to business co college bege and still save money on it consequently the demand for player pianos Is enormous particularly as hire just lately got eui em working by electricity which could run for ten cents the kilowatt hour some of the things that gets off at a concert birsky shrugged its his shoulders again what you understand from art I 1 lie exclaimed A Schwarz zor cr from the cannibal islands which dont even wear underwear knows more about fur overcoats than boudo of pictures 1 listen birsky retorted it if them millionaires which Is buying these here high priced pictures knows as 0 out their art investments as tho the does docs about fur overcoats bod you could take it from me barky when them millionaires heirs comes to settle up tip tho estele birsky find that instead of a five him hundred thousand dollar mill the old man got stuck with a hundred dollar sweat shop when you come to compare pictures with fur overcoats birsky you never spoke a truer word in your life because while its an old saying and a true one that a cut cat cornea conics to life nine noluo times birsky nobody but a fur overcoat manufacturer knows whether the tat cat Is going to come to life as persian lamb siberian mink hudson bay seal real beaver broad lull all nutria ermano skunk or sable so it if I 1 would be a millionaire birsky instead of oil painted pictures I 1 would go to work and collect railroads and electric light plants and traction companies because while its truo true that no millionaire ever got indicted on oil account of buying up a lot of competing oil paintings or making agreements with the owners of competing oil paintings to lo keep up the price and limit the output at the same time birsky on a oil painting no millionaire could float a issue of first refunding 5 per cent gold bonds of 1085 underlying der lying of first mortgage 4 per cent bonds maturing in 1070 1976 which Is a first mortgage only on the back door of the mill and on oil the rest of the mill Is subject to an all issue of gen geneine wine all wool first mortgage 3 aa per cent bonds maturing C W f at 1 U n ee A picture Pain painters terl cried and I 1 thought max Mal kafer was a business man tile the mill and if lie he gets only one order lies hes a new beginner understand roe me business could bo be bad with ith jilin for the rest of ills his life you may bo be right birsky sald said but I 1 dont believe it picture painter gets near the retail price of his goods because tile the profit to the retailer must got to be enormous otherwise lie live nt at till nil january 1 1017 such things you could only do with a railroad anabe lieve me birsky if you got indictments hanging over your head for the rest of your lifetime theres more money in collecting railroads than in collecting oil painted pictures and dont you forget it copyright new york tribune |