Profit In Soda Fountains.

A iNew Orleans man named May told me that his yearly profits frorn his soda f ouutain were $30,000. One San ders. a Detroiter, who owns an $8,000 f ouutain, the fiuest displayed at the World'a fair, does a rushing business, and his sales run from $300 to $700 per day Che year rouud. Iu Buffalo Stoddard Bros, einploy 30 girls to haudle ice cream soda, aud it takes 3,000 glasses t.o aceoruiuodute their trade. They eell at 5 cents a glass, aud there ís a uet prüflt of just 100 per cent. ín Boston Thompson 's ypa, the greatest soda resort at the Hiib, eusily clars for its owuer $50,000 a year. There are in the United States 100,000 fountains iu operation. and rnamifactnrers are getting more orders uow thau they ever got f ore.