| Show TRADE IN SMALL WAY e many people do business in wall street whose names arc are not household words various wares that AL are offered for sale 5 HE little traders ot of wall street have no rat ing at bradstreet a they do not know any thing about stocks or shares or bond issues or percentages or divi bends or inflations or depreciations or the cur rency or corners or pools or trusts or anything that per bains directly to the kaleidoscopic dot larand aarand cent existence of the slaves that mark time by trinity a chimes but they are a permanent feature ot of the new world money mart nevertheless ess the success of these traders arside or side walk merchant merchants in the street of mil lions can be accounted tor for the big wall street man will not shop for the smaller necessaries of civilized life outside of business hours that sort ot of must be brought to him 10 09 41 4 L W sells newspapers or he will go without it Is from the little trader that he buys collar but tons bachelor buttons sleeve links and shoe strings indeed in wall street every commodity on earth is sold from a hot lunch with a cold dyspepsia thrown in to pencils writ ing paper and hat and hairpins tor for the typewriters the sum of money earned by all the little traders in the course of a year must be considerable their margin of profit is much wider than Is that of the small storekeeper or the man who Is popularly said to be in a minor way of business which means that he Is just making ends meet the street merchant frequently can land a small fortune on crazes fads or ties that would accumulate the dust of ages if carried in stock in an ordinary store one day almost every man on the street may be seen carrying home an absurd patent dancing doll an other day the air will be filled with the fiendish shrieks of toy bagpipes or with the fearsome raucousness of mechanical ch anical frogs warranted to hop fit teen minutes with one winding some of the most the minor wall street merchants be long to the gentler sex they catch all the trade they can attend to news papers bouquets and gimcracks are their favorite wares 1 I or some rea son they do not often deal in freaks or oddities the self reliance of these women ought to be proverbial they hold their own against all competition indeed they will drive male compel tors from the field one woman sells newspapers excle another has mercantile ambi eions that are someR somewhat hat aesthetic she deals by preference in flowers flo aers and at knickknacks but wont stick APIN 40 the flower vender at gingerbread it if there theres s money to be made an elderly woman who sells news papers Is one of the most familiar figures in the street she begins with the morning issues of the papers and bandies handles all the afternoon editions as well she is built on a generous scale massive robust and wide she s well able to take care of herself I 1 make a living she said but I 1 am not rolling up a bank account I 1 suppose I 1 make as much as if I 1 kept a small store and I 1 have not the responsibility of rent and insurance and help and big wholesale bills and all that I 1 in I 1 ox 01 thin I 1 p 0 t the emall 11 storekeepers of new ork lork they work fo tp VIP lir flo I 1 pin pi n days in the wee I 1 i wr arl rk for myself my old man he runs the house and I 1 come down don tn and it the daperl the 01 old giai ai ices ciery everything thIng he males the help be aabel the dishes p egares ad aid cipols aco hi ap an I 1 v arves the meals and all the rest ot of it lie ile a an invalid I 1 see lots of life any number of people know me I 1 am quite sure ther there are many millionaires among my cus bomers well their millions don t worry me when I 1 see them ling ung and rushing to work in the morn ing and rushing and scrambling home at night all tired and palo pale and with their lungs full 0 of bad air and their stomachs empty and their brains jumpie a with worry I 1 think oh ye poor slaves A woman who does not believe in long hours has built up a trade in the cower flower line oh I 1 believe in living not merely in existing she said some days I 1 don dont t feel like working then I 1 don t work I 1 have my extra busy times which mahe make up for days of idleness I 1 choose my wares and don t go into business haphazard like some of the others when the violets are in for instance I 1 can make more in a few hours than I 1 could some days by selling knickknacks and odds and end ends or papers all day long I 1 think that all the flower girls make fair in comes the garter man Is among the male vendors n dors a familiar figure down town you all know him he ile has an artificial leafor leg tor align a sign and sometimes dona dons knee breeches and uses his own well turned calves for exhibition purposes he ile sells many hose supporters in the course of a year and makes a good in come another conspicuous figure Is the awful looking old man faded and shab by who invites sympathy and small coins by standing on the sidewalk sidewalks and gently waving a handful of cheap pencils or shoe laces or anything easy to carry this operator has probably caused more execration and the shedding of more band langu language ager than any six ordinary old men this Is owing to the nature and quality ot of his pencils the purchaser should never forgot that the pencil is made to sell bell and not to use and no one should have the heart to berate such a miserable looking old man who on a drizzling day when his poor skinny hands are red and raw stands shiver ing in the wet of the little traders in wall street many deal in fruit horrifying lozenges fresh banan and hideous nut candies candles the mes boys are their principal cus bomers most of 0 these venders ata italians and they have great battles with the messenger boys who make dally daily raids upon their stocks nest next to the small boy the vender bates hates a panic in the street at the first symptoms of it he picks up his traps and hies himself to do business on the bowery where the surroundings aber less gilded but where people do not go craz when the panic Is over the vender returns to the street and onca one more his sleepy voice mingles with the chimes of trinity as be he announces that his banan are fresh fruit and that his candies are newly made new york press one of trade trades s superstitions owing to the strike of bookbinders the autumn season was practically cut in two the lull which followed the activity of the early part of the season threatens in its turn to give place to a flood of belated books yet it Is possible that now many will be held over until the early spring season the persistence with which the two publishing seasons are kept Is aggravating sometimes not only to the reviewer but to the public there Is no insurmountable reason why the issue of books should not go on at a fairly even pace throughout the year indeed some publishers have already found that it t Is wisest to publish a book in the so called dead season people do not want books only in spring and autumn it ie Is a mere superstition of the trade london mall calling down an orator whenever a prosy orator begins to bore the missouri Miss ourt state assembly his brother members have an original method of inducing him to end his hi speech beside each desk Is a cast iron spittoon so shaped that it may easily be raised by a shoe toe when thus disturbed in chorus they make a deafening clatter and it Is impossible to detect the offenders there are members and when a few score toes get to mon moving ing the orator of the occa slon needs more than ordinary deter mi nation to keep him on his legs member of lincoln family abraham lincoln the oldest male survivor of the family f om which descended the president Is at lacy springs I 1 a A |
