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AN ATTRACTIVE CIRCULAR.
In an attractive circular, printed on wedding
stationery, M. A. Hanna & Co. announced that
the firm would be represented at the eleventh annual
convention of the Michigan and Indiana Retail
Coal Association, at Jackson, Mich., by 0. P.
Rank, sales agent, Cleveland. 0.; Joseph Micheltree,
resident agent, Toledo, 0.; T. L. Cole, traveling
salesman for Michigan, and C. N. Hickok,
traveling salesman for Indiana, and that they
would be pleased to meet members of the association
and their friends in parlors E and F, at the
Otsego. The circular also carried the following:
THE COAI. SALESMAN'S SOLILOQUY.
With apologies to the late William Shakespeare
and the late Hamlet, Prince of Denmark.
To go or not to go. that's what puzzles me;
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to stay at
Home, and kick myself all summer
Or to take arms against a sea of doubts
And by going, end them. To eat; to sleep.
Oh no; (I'll sleep when I get home) and by a sleep
to say we end
The headache, and the thousand shocks
A coal man's heir to. 'tis more luck than
I expect. To eat, to sleep;
To sleep; perchance to dream; ay. there's the rub.
For in that sleep what dreams may come
When we have shuffled off a quart or more
Must give us pause; there's the effect
That makes calamity the salesman's life,
For who would bear the kicks about his run-ofmine,
Cars on the road too long, the buyer's contumely.
The pangs of canceled orders, the train's delay.
The insolence of office, and the spurns
The patient salesman of the unworthy takes
When he himself might his departure take
Witn a bare order book. He would not bear
To grunt and sweat under this weary life
But that the hope of orders yet to come in
The undiscovered town beyond whose bourne
No salesman yet has reached, spurs him on
And makes him bear the ills he has
And fly to others that he knows full well.
Thus perseverance does make heroes of us all
And thus the native hue of disappointment
Is burnished o'er with the bright cast of patient
energy
And enterprises of great pith and moment
With this regard their currents guide aright
And take the name of action. Soft you now!
The fair Jackson! Nymph, in thy conipany
Be all my sins forgotten.
Imports of fuel into Spain for the two months
ending February 28 were 306,669 metric tons of
coal and 26,792 tons of coke.
THE COAL TRADE BULLETIN.
p RETAIL TRADE NOTES. P*j
The Brooklyn Consumers' Coal Co. has been incorporated
to do a retail business in coal and
kindlings. The capital is $25,000 and the incorporators
are H. J. Hirst and Roland Beesley,
Brooklyn, and Edgar Martin, New York City.
*
The Wick Coal & Ice Co. has oeen formed at
Cleveland by A. A. Wick and others to do a retail
coal business. The capital is $10,000.
The Missouri Pacific has restored the competitive
rates on coal from Arkansas points, thus
saving the shipper $3 to $4 a car.
The Bedford Coal & Mill Co. has been incorporated
at Bedford City, Va., with a capital of
$25,000 to deal in coal, wood, etc.
The Bingham Coal & Cartage Co. has been organized
at Toledo, O.. with a capital of $15,000 to
do a retail coal business.
*
C. C. Isley & Co. have succeeded to the lumber
and coal business of Howell. Rhinehart & Co., at
Cimarron, Kas.
The Farmers Grain & Coal Co. has been incorporated
at Pocahontas. Ia., with a cap . - stock
of V1..,000.
*
J. P. Harding has been succeeded in the coal
and lumber business at Wallace, Neb., by Harding
& Spencer.
*
At Lincoln, Neb., the Yates Lumber & Coal Co.
has been incorporated with a capital stock of $25,-
000.
*
The Kansas City Coal Co. has been incorporated
at Kansas City, Kas., with a capital stock of $2,000.
W. H. Esworth has purchased the coal and lumber
business of S. B. Purdy at Fort Collins, Colo.
The Burlington Fuel Co. has been succeeded in
business at Burlington, la., by A. E. Davis
*
George Brill has purchased the feed and coal
business of the Poast Co., Omaha, Neb.
J. F. DePue has purchased the coal business of
Leeman & Leeman, at Holton, Kas.