Canadian grocer April-June 1918 . item aloneamounted to very considerable figures. Then of course there is the service tothe boats calling regularly at the port;this is not a matter of a few weeks butlasts throughout the season of naviga-tion. It is not the big item of the initialoutfitting but it is a sizable item when-ever it appears and one well worth themerchants attention. A Business in Brooms Alone Probably the average merchantwouldnt think of this trade as one mak-ing a large demand on brooms, but it iseven so. A ship comes down with a loadof coal perhaps and goes back with aload of whe
Canadian grocer April-June 1918 . item aloneamounted to very considerable figures. Then of course there is the service tothe boats calling regularly at the port;this is not a matter of a few weeks butlasts throughout the season of naviga-tion. It is not the big item of the initialoutfitting but it is a sizable item when-ever it appears and one well worth themerchants attention. A Business in Brooms Alone Probably the average merchantwouldnt think of this trade as one mak-ing a large demand on brooms, but it iseven so. A ship comes down with a loadof coal perhaps and goes back with aload of wheat. That ship has to beswept and garnished from top to bot-tom, and brooms and whisks are in greatdemand. Or it may be a load of oatsone voyage and a load of wheat on thereturn. The same thorough houseclean-ing is required. The Preston Companydisposed of some hundred dozen broomsin this way last year. That will givesome idea of the extent of this business. But this is not the only activity ofthe sort engaged in by this firm. They. operate also a supply boat that goes upthe bay to Honey Harbor and other re-sorts along the shores of the GeorgianBay. The boats are used in this tradeand they carry all the supplies that thecottagers and campers would be likelyto need. This is another of the activi-ties of the company that has been a pro-fitable venture. Perhaps the merchant will argue thatthis is a large firm and can do thisbusiness where other merchants wouldbe shut out. It is a large firm withlarge resources, but lest the grocermight think for that reason that tradeof this sort is not for him there mightbe mentioned the way in which anotherand smaller store has gone after thesame sort of business and made a successof it. J. H. Stanley, of Port Colborne,Ont., is another merchant who saw anopportunity in this business and wentafter* it with all his might. Some fewweeks ago Mr. Stanley sold his businessand joined the flying corps, which is apretty good indication that Mr. Stanleywas
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