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RECREATION. 



SNOBS IN BUSINESS. 



Editor Recreation 



Denver, Col. 



Some New York business men practice a 

 kind of snobbery that is simply disgusting to a 

 broad gauge free-thinking hustler, no matter 

 where he hails from. They act as if afraid they 

 might be contaminated if they should come in 

 contact with a caller before he had been quaran- 

 tined, inspected, and then properly vouched for 

 by their office boy: If the head of the concern 

 happens to be in the front office when a stranger 

 enters he will glare at him, retreat into his back 

 room and send the office boy to " see what that 

 man wants." 



I could give many instances of losses that have 

 accrued to such snobs by reason of this affected 

 exclusiveness. An officer of a western railway 

 called on one of the bank note companies here to 

 place a three thousand dollar order for engraving 

 bonds. He brought a letter of introduction from 

 the governor of a western State to the president 

 of the bank note company — these two having 

 been schoolmates. The railway man preferred 

 to see the bank note man and present the letter 

 in person — in fact had been requested to do so. 

 He handed his card to the office boy and asked 

 him to hand it to the president and say that he 

 would like to see that gentleman on important 

 business. This brought out the president's 

 private secretary who said that Mr. Almighty 

 was very busy — and could he not state his busi- 

 ness to him — the secretary. 



Mr. Westerner was nettled. He told the sec- 

 retary that this was not the way in which he 

 treated men when they called on him. His 

 business was with the president of the company 

 first, and he did not care to state it to any one else. 



The secretary returned to the sanctum, and 

 a consultation was held which ended in the 

 president ordering his subordinate to " show 

 the — fool in." The clerk went to do his bidding 

 but the stranger was gone. He had left a mes- 

 sage with another clerk that the latter was afraid 

 to deliver to "the old man." The railway man 

 went to another bank note company where he 

 was pleasantly received and cordially treated. 

 Within half an hour he had placed his order. 



Once when connected with a large corporation 

 in the West, I came here to place an order for 

 $1,200 worth of advertising. I called on an ad- 

 vertising agent in Park Row, and when I went 

 in the principal happened to be in the front room. 

 I had met him once before and knew him, so 1 

 ventured to say "good morning." He glared at 

 me and called the office boy to take my card. 



I surrendered it as gracefully as possible. 

 The boy handed it to Mr. Snob, who looked at it, 

 and told the boy to tell me to take a seat in the 

 hall, that he was busy and would see me in his 

 private office in a few minutes. 



I stepped up to the office, told Mr. Snob to 

 go to hades, and went and placed my order with 

 another agency. If I had been in Mr. Snob's 

 place, I should have greeted the caller pleasantly 

 and asked him what I could do for him. At 

 least, that is the way I treat people when they 

 come to my office, and I am about as busy a 

 man as there is in town. It pays to treat decent 

 people decently, especially if you want to get 

 their money. 



Most men offend their callers in the way I 

 have mentioned, not because they are busy, 

 but because they think it's the swagger way — be- 

 cause they- wish to impress callers with their 

 swellness ; because they wish to appear wealthy 

 and aristocratic and great. But that's just where 

 they are mistaken. Brainy men always take 

 such conduct as an evidence of dudeishness, of 

 senility, of narrow-mindedness. 



None of these New York snobs can ever be so 

 great as Abe Lincoln was, and he was always 

 ready to meet the humblest granger in the land, 

 on equal ground. 



A. G. Ward. 





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