. Hardware merchandising March-June 1917. eawo\i3. B OY, I want your best rates perweek for my seven men. So said H. H. Culver to the youth act-ing as clerk in a Western Ontario hotel. We dont take pedlars at this hotel,said the young gentleman whose firstname should have been Courtesy, butwasnt. My men are not pedlars, boy, and Iask you again, what are your bestrates. I tell you that we dont take ped-lars at this hotel, said the clerk. Thereupon H. H. Culver left the hotel,made some enquiries, found the hotelwas for sale, bought it—all within anhour or so. Then he returned to thehotel, and sa
. Hardware merchandising March-June 1917. eawo\i3. B OY, I want your best rates perweek for my seven men. So said H. H. Culver to the youth act-ing as clerk in a Western Ontario hotel. We dont take pedlars at this hotel,said the young gentleman whose firstname should have been Courtesy, butwasnt. My men are not pedlars, boy, and Iask you again, what are your bestrates. I tell you that we dont take ped-lars at this hotel, said the clerk. Thereupon H. H. Culver left the hotel,made some enquiries, found the hotelwas for sale, bought it—all within anhour or so. Then he returned to thehotel, and said to the gay young cockbehind the counter: Say, get out. Yourefired. What do you mean? challenged thejair-oiled fop. \I mean that Ive bought this hotelf<* the privilege of firing you, said Being the gleanings from an interview by a Hardware and Metal manwith A. W. Caldwell, General Manager of theWrought IronRangeCo.
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