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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
['Mat, 
THE GREAT AMERICAN TEA 
COMPANY, 
Since their organization, liave created a new era in the Tea 
Trade. They have introduced their selection of Teas and 
Coffees, and have sold them at the smallest profits possible. 
They warrant all the goods they sell to be perfectly satis- 
factory. If they do not prove so, the purchaser has the 
privilege of returning them within 30 days at the expense of 
the Company, and have the money refunded. 
The Company have selected the following kindsfrom their 
stock, ■which they recommend, to meet the wants of Clubs. 
They are sold at Cargo Prices, the same as the Company sell 
them In New York, as the list of prices will show. 
PRICE LIST: 
YOUNG HYSON" (Green), 80c, 90c., tU SUO. best $1.25 V a. 
GKEEN" TEAS, 80c, 90c, $1, $1.10, best $1.25 » a 
MIXED, 70c, 80c, 90c, best $1 W lb. 
JAPAN, $1, $1.10, best $1.25 V lb. 
OOLONG (Black), 70c, 80c, 90c, best $1 9 B. 
IMPERIAL (Green), best $1.25 %l a. 
ENGLISH BREAKFAST (Black), 80c, 90c, $1, $1.10, best 
$1.20 V B. 
QUNPOWDEB (Green), $1.23, best $1.50. 
COFFEE DEPARTMENT. 
Our Coffee Department Is very extensive— the largest, per- 
haps, in the country. We run three engines constantly, and 
sometimes four or five in roasting and grinding our Coffee. 
Our Coffee buyers are experts, who examine most of the 
Coffees imported, and select the best and finest flavors for 
our trade. We employ the most experienced and skillful 
roasters,- who exercise the greatest care that it shall be cook- 
ed in a perfect manner. It is always fresh, for our orders 
crowd our facilities to their utmost capacity. A considera- 
ble portion of the Coffee put upon the market of late years 
is picked while the pods are green, and subjected to artifi- 
cial heat to open the pods. This is not so good as that which 
ripens in the natural way upon the plant. Our Coffee buyer 
thoroughly understands this business, and can readily dis- 
tinguish the naturally ripened from the artificially cured ; 
and he only buys the Coffee which is naturally ripened. We 
examine the cargoes as soon as they arrive, and our trade 
is so large that it requires all the finest lots. This is what 
gives our Coffee a superior flavor to many others, and the 
same flavor it used to have In days long gone by. It is a com- 
mon saying that most Coffee does not taste as well as it 
formerly did. The reason for it is, that a considerable por- 
tion of it is picked before it is fully ripe. We sell nono but 
the fully ripe, rich flavored Coffee- 
COFFEES ROASTEdInD GROUND DASLY. 
GROUND COFFEE, 20c, 25c., 30c., 35c, best 40c per pound. 
Hotels, Saloons, Boarding-house keepers, and Families who 
use large quantities of Coffee can economize in that article 
by using our FRENCH BREAKFAST AND DINNER COF- 
FEE, which we sell at the low price of 80c per pound, and 
warrant to give perfect satisfaction. 
Consumers can save from 50c to $1 per pound by purchas- 
ing their Teas of 
THE GREAT AMERICAN TEA COMPANT. 
Nos. 31 and 33 VESEY-ST. 
No. 640 BROADWAY, corner of Bleecker-st. 
No. 461 EIGHTH- AVE, north corner of Thirty-fourth-st. 
No. 299 SPRING-ST. 
No. 205 FULTON ST., BROOKLYN, corner of Concord-st. 
No. 133 GRAND-ST., WILLIAMSBURGH. 
COUNTRY CLUBS, Hand and Wagon Pedlers, and small 
stores (of which class we are supplying many thousands, all 
of which are doing well), can have their orders promptly 
and faithfully filled, and in case of Clubs can have each 
party's name marked on their package and directed by send- 
ing their orders to Nos. 31 and S3 Vesey-st. 
Our friends are getting up Clubs in most towns through- 
out the country, and for which we feel very grateful. Some 
of our Clubs send orders weekly, and some not so often; 
while others keep a standing order to be supplied with a 
given quantity each week, or stated periods. And in all 
cases (where sufficient time has elapsed) Clubs have re- 
peated their orders. 
Parties sending Clubs or other orders for less than $33 had 
better send Post-Ofllce drafts, or money with their orders, 
to save the expense of collecting by express; but larger 
orders we will forward by express, to collect on delivery. 
We return thanks to parties who have taken an interest in 
getting up Clubs ; and when any of them come to Now York 
we shall be happy to have them call upon us and make 
themselves known. 
Hereafter we will send a complimentary package to the 
party getting up the Club. Our profits are small, but we will 
be as liberal as we can afford. We send no complimentary 
package for Clubs of less than §33. 
N. B.— All villages and towns where a large number reside, 
by clubbing together, can reduce the cost of their Teas and 
Coffees about one-third by sending directly to the 
GREAT AMERICAN TEA COMPANY, 
Nos. 31 and 33 VESEY-ST. 
Post-Offlce Box, No. 5.C43, New York City. 
GETTING TJI» CLUBS. 
Some parties Inquire of us now they shall proceed to get 
up a club. The answer is simply this: Let each person 
wishing to join in a club, say how much tea or coffue he 
want9, and select the kind and price from our Price List, as 
published in the paper or in our circulars. Write the names, 
kinds, and amounts plainly on a list, and when the club is 
complete send it to us by mail, and we will put each party's 
goods in separate packages, and mark the name upon them, 
with the cost, so there need be no confusion in their distri- 
bution—each party getting exactly what he orders, and no 
more. The cost of transportation the members of the club 
can divide equitably among themselves. 
The funds to pay for the goods ordered can be sent by 
drafts on New York, by Post-Office money orders, or by Ex- 
press, as may suit the convenience of the club. Or, if the 
amount ordered exceeds thirty dollars, we will, if desired, 
send the goods by Express, to "collect on delivery" 
We publish some of our Club Lists to show how it is done 
and as a matter of reference. 
Alter the first Club we send blanks. 
Direct your orders plainly, THE GLiEAT AMERICAN TEA 
COMPANY, Nos. 31 and 33 Vesey-st, Post-Office Box, 5,613— 
as some parties imitate our name as near as they dare do. 
From The Great American Tea Company's Advocate. 
A Word with. Our Customers. 
We have no doubt that our customers, scattered through- 
out the length and breadth of the land, as they are, embrac- 
ing every State in the Union, except those on the Pacific 
shores, will be interested to learn how we have succeeded in 
our great enterprise of furnishing Teas and Coffees, to all, 
at the smallest possible profits. To afiord them this infor- 
mation we propose to give a few facts connected with our 
business. 
Years ago, in the early stage of our enterprise, we based 
our calculations and graded our rates of profit upon the 
basis of a trade of $100,000 per week. This amount we ex- 
pected to reach by enterprise and fair dealing. We well 
knew that it could be accomplished only by filling every 
order promptly, and to the letter; and at uniform prices. 
These principles we have adhered to strictly, and have car- 
ried out the ojte price system: in all our transactions. 
After years of anxiety and incessant toil, we are enabled 
to say, without boasting, that our standard of sales, which 
we erected years ago, has been reached. The New York 
Tribune, in an editorial published in their paper several 
months ago, placed the amount of our eales at that time at 
$93,000 per week. Our business increases regularly and con- 
stantly, and never faster than at the present time. We there- 
fore look confidently forward to a large increase during the 
present year, ov^r and above the average of $100,000 per 
week. At the present time our sales are fully equal to 2,000 
chests per week, which is equal to about one-fifth of all the 
Teas imported into this country. This we consider a great 
success for a specialty— probably the greatest ever achieved 
in this country, in any similar mercantile enterprise. 
With our increased trade we increase our facilities, so that 
all our orders will be filled as promptly and correctly as 
heretofore, and perhaps more so, because our system be- 
comes more and more perfect with time and practice. 
We employ at least two hundred persons constantly, and 
by our perfect system of division of labor Into departments, 
we make a great saving of expense, of which we give con- 
sumers the benefit, by furnishing them with the great neces- 
saries of life— Teas .vxt> Coffees— at the unprecedented low 
flgureswhich we publish in our Price List in another column. 
While we feel sure that we have given, and as we shall 
continue to give, our customers the fullest and amplest 
return for their money, we thank them, one and all, for 
their patronage. 
Complimentary Letters from Clubs. 
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, March 12, 1SG7. 
Great American Tea Co., 31 and 33 Vesey-st., N. Y. 
Gentlemen: I have received my first box of Tea, $44.25, 
and with pleasure inform you that it has given the pur- 
chasers a feeling of old times, as they have experienced in 
drinking Tea before the war; satisfying them the Company 
Is not a "Humbug." I send to-day my second order, $12.40. 
Please forward to me with bill for collection. 
A. C. MESSENGER. 
Woonsocket, R. I., Feb. 4, 1S67. 
To the Great American Tea Co., N03. 31 and 33 Vesey-st., N. Y. 
Gentlemen : I now send you my 5th order for Teas, which 
I hope will be as good as heretofore; it is just one year since 
I sent my first order of $20, which I think was the first order 
you got from here as a club. During the year I have sent 
you upwards of $400, and I hive not heard a complaint yet 
from any one, but all speaking well of your Teas, and arc 
well satisfied. Accept my thanks for the complimentary 
package. Inclosed you will find$13433 for tlris order. Hop- 
ing you will forward as soon as possible, I remain, 
Yours respectfully, JAMES WOODHOUSE. 
Direct the Teas for me, Woonsocket, R. I., by Earl's Express. 
Geneva, N. Y., Feb. 14, 1SG7. 
The Great American Tea Co., Nos. 31 and S3 Vesey-st., N. Y. 
Gents : We have now been receiving Tea from you about 
one year, and find, in footing up our books, we have received 
of you Tea and Coffee, to the amount of $7,911.25 for this 
small village and vicinity. The public have perfect confi- 
dence In your Tea and Coffee, and the misrepresentations 
against you which we had to contend with at first, are now 1 
harmless. We congratulate you on the general success of 
your enterprise, hoping the hitherto pleasant relations which, 
have existed, may continue between yourselves and 
Yours respectfully, LUM & SON. 
Angola, N. Y., Feb. 1G, 1SGG. 
The Great American Tea Company. 
Gents: Your Box sent me by Express has been received. 
Your bill was paid on delivery. I found no mistakes, and I 
am glad to inform you that the Tea is giving good satisfac- 
tion. I had to make some effort to raise the club I sent you, 
but as the ice is broken, and nobody drowned, you may ex- 
pect soon to receive a much larger club order from this place. 
Yours truly, JOHN M. SLATER. 
Stoughton, Dnnc Co ; , Wis., Feb. 25th, 1S67- 
To the Great American Tea Co., Nos. 31 and 33 Vesey-st., N.Y 
Gentlemen: The Tea I ordered came to hand all right, 
and gives general satisfaction. Please accept my thanks for 
the complimentary package. 
Some of my neighbors that appeared to be afraid of being 
humbugged when I got up the club, are now forming a club, 
and you will probably hear from them soon. The ball is 
now started In this vicinity, and will probably turn the Tea 
trade in a new channel. I expect to send another club order 
before the Tea that we now have is all consumed. 
Yours truly, E. E. ROBERTS. 
Second National Bank of Detroit, 
Detroit, Feb. 2Sth, 1S67. 
To the Great American TeaCo.,Nos. 31 and33 Vesey-st., N.Y. 
Gentlemen : I received in good order Box of Teas and 
Coffees from your House yesterday. They are quite satis- 
factory to all parties. For the complimentary package of 
Tea please acceptmy thanks. I shall send you in future with 
all future orders, a draft on the Mercantile National Bank, 
N. Y., and thus save for myself 75 cents for return of money 
I hope to send you another order in ten days. 
Yours truly, R. WATSON LEAGE. 
Office of the Northwestern Record, 
Sheboygan Falls, Wis., Feb. 2Sth, 1867. 
Great American Tea Co., Nos. 31 and 33 Vesey-st., N. Y. 
Gents : The last order I sent you for Teas was on my own 
responsibility, but I Incurred no risk, as it all went off in a 
very short time to members of former clubs. There are 
three clubs now forming in this county. All who purchase 
once are sure to keep doing so, and the trade Is increasing 
here. Another order from this place soon. 
Yours truly, S. D. LITTLEFIELD, 
Editor Hecord. 
Treasury Department, Third Auditor's Office, 
March 2, 18G7. 
Great American Tea Co., Nos. SI and 83 Vesey-st., N. Y. 
Gentlemen: I have the pleasure of enclosing you our 
second order, $130.13, which is more than double the first 
one, and the next one may increase proportionately if these 
give as much satisfaction as the first. 
You will please forward as before, by The Adams Express 
Company, C. O. D. Very respectfully, 
Your obedient servant, 
H. C. HILL. 
CLUB ORDERS. 
Homer, Winona Co., Minn., Feb., 1SG7. 
To the Great American Tea Co., Nos. 31 and S3 Vesey-st., N. Y. 
Gentlemen : The Box of Tea came to hand all right, and 
has given general satisfaction as the accompanying order 
trill show. I hope the next time to increase the list still more. 
Very respectfully, C. W. MERRITT. 
2 lbs. EcstGmen E. E.Hoffman at $1.25.... $2.50 
2 Best Young Hyson. Patrick May at 1.25.. . 2.50 
3 " " S. Eldridgc ;.at 1.25.,,. 3.75 
1 Best Japan C. E. Richardson.. at 1.25 1.25 
.at 1.00.... 1.00 
Best Oolong Jacob Beech. 
Best Japan Wm. Chalmers at 1.25. 
Best Young Hyson. S. M. Fall at 1.25.., 
Best Green Tom Gallien .nt 1.25. . 
" " N. B. Sandford at 1.25. . , 
Best Young Hyson, W. Harrison at 1.25. . 
Best Imperial S. A. Ailing at 1.25... 
BestJapau '* at 1.25.,. 
" " S. H. Brnnell at 1.25.., 
Best Young Hyson. " at 1.25... 
" " " Mrs. Gras3 at 1.25. . . 
Best Oolong Mr. Gates at 1.00. . . 
.at 1.00.... 1.00 
. 2.50 
. 2.50 
. 2.50 
. 3.25 
. 1.25 
, 2.50 
. 8.75 
. 6.25 
C.25 
, 10.00 
. 1.00 
$51.55 
Oxford, Chenango Co., N. Y., Feb. 21, 1SG7. 
To the Great American Tea Co., SI & S3 Vesey-st., N. Y. 
Gents: The Teas which you sent me proved perfectly 
satisfactory to all concerned, please accept my thanks for the 
complimentary package. 
Yours truly, DAVYD. McGEORGE. 
1 lb. Young Hyson M. C.Ward at 
1% Imperial John Lord at 
2 French Breakfast Coffee " at 
S Oolong C. M. Halns at 
3 Mixed " at 
1 Oolong Solomon Morcy..at 
1 Gunpowder John Gordon at 
2 Imperial " — at 
5 Imperial William Doty .at 
1 Uncolored Japan Lewis Kctchem.at 
1 Young Hyson *' .at 
2 Young Hyson F. T. Seely at 
3 Oolong Samuel Kinney.. at 
1 Green Daniel Jacobs . .at 
2 Oolong Chaney Hains...at 
2 Young Hyson " ...at 
2 Young Hyson F. W. Comstock.at 
2 Imperial Martin Bartle....at 
8 Oolong ,.D. D. McGcorge.at 
$40.10 
