Show A Deal on Wall John Brewster senior partner of the “Brewster and Warwick’ shoe manufacturing concern asked for the morning paper As he glanced over the sheet still damp from the press his eye fell upon an article that caused him a sigh of satisfacv rock The new tion building of Brewster and Warwick had been completed new machinery had been installed and the factory was now running full blast For months rival shoe factories had watched this great brown building grow and now that it was finished they were almost green with envy As Brewster entered the new building that morning he noticed some men with surveying instruments working in the adjacent lot but knowing it to be for sale he thought no more about it and hurried into his office where a pile of letters and telegrams awaited him The night previous Wilcox and Tanner of “Wilcox Tanner & Co” the most bitter rival of Brewster & Warwick in the manufacture of shoes met in their private office and decided upon a plan to beat their rival The vacant lot next to the big brown building was to be purchased and a factory built upon it which would far outdo the one so lately completed An engineer surveyed the lot and five-stor- reported to Wilcox and Tanner at noon but when they heard that the magnificent building of “Brewster & Warwick was one inch upon their lot they instantly changed their plans The lawyer of “Wilcox & Tanner called upon Air Brewster that afternoon and stating the circumstances gave “Brewster & Warwick” one week in which to pay fifty thousand dollars for the one inch of land or to move their building then bidding John Brewster a pleasant good afternoon he left the office Brewster found everything to be as the lawyer had stated but after an hour with a contractor he determined not to pay the exorbitant price asked by his competitors On the third morning after they had sent their lawyer to “Brewster & Warwick” “Wilcox & Tanner” were surprised to see the broad side of the new brown building dotted with stone cutters who were steadily chipping away a small portion of the whole flat surface of rock Chagrined' at being balked in this plan and determined to ruin “Brewster & Warwick’ in some way they kept to their original plan and built a much larger and grander factory so close to that of “Brewster & Warwick” that not came a ray of light even |