Canadian grocer April-June 1918 . ll. You cook your ownmeals, and make your own bed, and by the time you rollinto Winnipeg to meet the gaze of the daintily dolled upfeminine population down to see the harvesters detrain,you feel like a regular Westerner equal to anything frombroncho-busting to cow-punching. (Chances are you gostooking instead, or firing the thresher with straw, butanyway you get busy. You have to, out West.) On to Edmonton and Business Jack Gavigan did not linger long in Winnipeg. Hismates on the train scattered as men must after they passthe gateway to the Great West. He held
Canadian grocer April-June 1918 . ll. You cook your ownmeals, and make your own bed, and by the time you rollinto Winnipeg to meet the gaze of the daintily dolled upfeminine population down to see the harvesters detrain,you feel like a regular Westerner equal to anything frombroncho-busting to cow-punching. (Chances are you gostooking instead, or firing the thresher with straw, butanyway you get busy. You have to, out West.) On to Edmonton and Business Jack Gavigan did not linger long in Winnipeg. Hismates on the train scattered as men must after they passthe gateway to the Great West. He held on as long as hiscash held out, and he arrived at last in Edmonton. TheG. T. P. was not yet through to Rupert. The constructiontrains were rolling out and rolling back. Edmonton was ahurly burly Western centre with all sorts of chances goodand bad for the picking up. In the maelstrom plunger Jack Gavigan, got a jobwith the Star Cash Grocery, and solicited the hotel andrestaurant trade with all his energy. There were reasons z^/y. for his activity. He needed the money. One way to learnto do things in the West is to need the money. Many acollege boy has discovered latent gifts of salesmanship inhis composition by means of this infallible incentive. Ieven knew a high and mighty editor out there who becamequite an irresistible collector of advertising accounts in arrear through needing themoney. Its a wonderfuldeveloper of the businessfaculty. An crmy of youngsters with express wagons took care ofdeliveries at a nickel a load. Grocery Manager Next From the Star CashGrocer Jack Gavigan gradu-ated at once into the man-agership of Jas. Ramseysgrocery department, actingalso as buyer. After sixstrenuous months startingthe business and breakingthe ground he found him-self plus a lot of experi-ence but minus the job. TheWest has a wicked little wayof doing things like that tothose whom it would tryout to the fullest. How youmake out depends a gooddeal on how you can takelittle jolts of t
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