Illustrated Buffalo: the queen city of the lakes . advertise their hind tlic onlyparadise on earth. They advertised Ciiicago, Chicago, evcrlastinafly and everywhere-Chicago, and then tookgood notice that all the grist they brought to town came first to their mill to be ground. Their land was soondisposed of. Their efforts to bring in outsiders were successful. The city grow, and at every span added valueto their land which was real, substantial, and solid value,, and which was written down cheerfully as value in theCity Assessors books. Uow different from the values i-reated in a walled to
Illustrated Buffalo: the queen city of the lakes . advertise their hind tlic onlyparadise on earth. They advertised Ciiicago, Chicago, evcrlastinafly and everywhere-Chicago, and then tookgood notice that all the grist they brought to town came first to their mill to be ground. Their land was soondisposed of. Their efforts to bring in outsiders were successful. The city grow, and at every span added valueto their land which was real, substantial, and solid value,, and which was written down cheerfully as value in theCity Assessors books. Uow different from the values i-reated in a walled town, whose people never growfrom additions from without, and who keep bulling the market and swapping their possessions around amongthemselves. This latter method means a crash sooner or later, because the values arc artificial. There is nojjrowth keeping pace with this increase, and sooner or later the bottom of the whole market has got to drop out. No, sir. The way to advance a city nowadays, is not by booming it from within, but by adding to it. from without. And it must be done just as systematically and generously as a man advanoea his private busi-ness. The time has arrived when competition has created new rules for business, and lias laid down new linesof precedent. The chief of these rules is that even if you have the best thing in the world you liave got to tellpeople about it, or the fact will never be known. Your Buffalo merchants dont go yearly to New York nowin packet boats to seek bargains. No, the advance agents of the big metropolis come on a limited, lightningexpress train to see the merchant, and thus customs and methods are reversed. Time was t!ie discon-tented father of a family, master of a trade or of a fortune, sought knowledge of other locations and openingsfor business by going on along pilgrimage, or he waited long months for letters from friends out West in answerto his enquiries. Not so, now. The discontented to-day drops a dozen postal cards t
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