Excerpt from Annals of the Wanamaker System, 1899: Its Origin, Its Principles, Its Methods, and Its Development in This Other Cities That eventful war year of 1861, the first of our years in the ready-made clothing busi ness, resulted in sales of - which seemed a large sum to the two boys who did most of the work and were assisted by two men and an errand boy. It was heavy plough ing early and late for a long time. Good health and the pluck, patience and unconquer ableness that come to the country-born were the largest ...
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Excerpt from Annals of the Wanamaker System, 1899: Its Origin, Its Principles, Its Methods, and Its Development in This Other Cities That eventful war year of 1861, the first of our years in the ready-made clothing busi ness, resulted in sales of - which seemed a large sum to the two boys who did most of the work and were assisted by two men and an errand boy. It was heavy plough ing early and late for a long time. Good health and the pluck, patience and unconquer ableness that come to the country-born were the largest part of the capital in those early days. Had we inherited a business or been able to command the assistance of rich friends we might have had easier times, but never could have had the schooling that cut the backlog of this business. In those days the customs of business started the work at A. M. And kept on until 7 and P. M., except Satur day nights, when stores closed from IO to 1 At that time, 1861, there was no settled sellingprice for goods - there was an asking price, and the most persistent haggler bought his goods far below the unwary. Seldom was cash paid for wages to the workpeople making clothing. The general rule was fortnightly settlements in grocery, coal and other orders, on which the manu facturer had a percentage. Some head-splitting thinking was done by those young bidders for mercantile honors and profits in those days when sales were small and profits were smaller. About the only things of which there were plenty were - Ideas and Plans. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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