In the r?le of manufacturer he was regarded as a joke. By hard
work, perseverance, thrift, and ingenuity, however, we had
completely changed all that. By the time I moved to the avenue
our beginners could get any amount of credit. The American
merchants dealing in raw material had gradually realized our
energy, ability, and responsibility--realized that we were a good
risk, while we, on our part, had assimilated the ways of the
advanced American business man
Another man who came to see my new establishment was Eaton,
the Philadelphia buyer who had given me my first lesson in table
manners. He had a small, but well-established, business of his
own now, and it was with my financial aid that he had founded it.
Our friendship had never flagged. Sometimes I go to spend a day
or two in his cozy little house in North Philadelphia, where I feel
as much at home as I do in Bender's or Nodelman's house
I assigned one of my office men to the special duty of looking up
and inviting Mr. Even, the kindly old man who had bought me my
first American suit of clothes and paid for my first American bath.
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