A Story About John Wanamaker

I ran across ruy oíd frieud Jim Biddle of the Biddles of Philadelphia yesterday, and we feil a-talking about John Wanainakcv. Said Jim : "A good ruauy years asó I was clerk iu a store in Chestuut Ktreet ai a salary of $75 a inourh, One day a dray was driven up to the door, and the driver, coming into the store, handrd me an order for two bolts uf cloth. It was signed 'John Wanamaker. ' John was a struggling beginner then, and the house decided that it did not know hia wel] etiough to sell him the cloth on time, so I was instructed to send word that we could not deliver the