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    "ocrText": "Reprinted from Home Life,\" January, 1903.\nhis employees should have comfort-\nable and inviting rooms in which to\nwork. He is imbued with the altru-\nistic spirit and thinks there are great\npossibilities in each human being.\nIt will thus be seen that Mr. Ro-\nmeike's business has not only a big\ncapital back of it, but is SO systema-\ntized that if he should become ill or\nvisit Europe for a few months, it\nwould go on like clockwork, the high-\nest perfection of a press-clipping es-\ntablishment.\nMr. Romeike was asked recently\nwhether the many small press-clip-\npings concerns that have \"sprung up'\nhad injured his business to any ex-\ntent. \"Not at all,\" he replied, \"hut\non the contrary they will, in the long\nrun, materially increase my business.\nThe general public will suffer because\nHENRY ROMEIKE.\nmany do not know that it not only\nrequires capital, but time, to establish\nROMEIKE'S BIG BUREAU.\na press-clipping bureau. A dozen\npapers and an office boy may be\nThe Largest Press Clipping\ncalled a press-clipping bureau, and let-\nBureau in the World-How\nter-heads may give the address. The\nsubscriber, lured by 'cut rates,' thinks\nCatchpenny Bureaus Get\nhe is going to get an efficient service\nMoney in Advance, and Pat-\nand cheerfully pays in advance.\nrons Have no Redress-Rom\nAfter he has received a few stray\neike Exposes Their Methods\nclippings he waits in vain for others\nand soon discovers he has made an\nHenry Romeike, the originator of\negregious mistake. He never gets\npress clippings, is a thorough cosmo-\nany satisfaction, and in the end he has\npolitan, speaking several languages,\nto subscribe to a bureau of long\nand possesed of a wonderful amount\nstanding and good reputation. I feel\nof energy. In his dictionary there is\nsorry for the victim, and can only say\nno such word as failure, and his name\nthat cheap rates do not insure a good\nis almost a household word in Eng-\nservice. No one can give something\nland and the United States. It would\nfor nothing. I welcome legitimate\nrequire a volume to recount how he\ncompetitors, and the fact that many\nstarted the first press-clipping bureau\nimitate, in a way, my methods is a\nin London, and finally succeeded\ncompliment that I appreciate. If any\nagainst great odds in establishing his\none will reflect a moment he will see\nbusiness on a firm basis and winning\nthat a business of this kind cannot be\nthe patronage of lords, dukes, mem-\nconducted with a few papers and a\nbers of parliament, and the public in\nfew readers, in fact, with no capital.\ngeneral. Like Alexander he sighed\nIn London, when I started the busi-\nfor other and bigger fields to conquer,\nness, I soon discovered that capital\nand in 1884 came to this country and\nwas necessary and I obtained it. It\nbecame the pioneer in the press-clip-\nwould be well if some subscriber to\nping business. He has many imita-\none of these miniature bureaus would\ntors, some doing a good business and\nvisit the place and investigate. He\nothers of the catchpenny variety who\nwould find a small room, two or three\nget money in advance and send out\nreaders, and a few papers piled\nonly a few clippings in return.\naround. I am sure he would go away\nIt is one of the sights of Gotham\nimpressed with the fact that he could\nto\nvisit his large establishment at\nnot possibly get a good service from\nNo. IIO Fifth avenue, in the Judge\nsuch a concern. He would also be-\nBuilding, and see his seventy-five\ncome aware that he was the victim\ntrained employees at work, assorting,\nof a polite confidence game. These\nreading, and sending out clippings to\nconcerns cannot be reached by the\n5,000 subscribers. His genius has per-\npostal authorities because they do\nfected the system to such a degree\nsend a clipping occasionally.\nthat if by any mischance a reader\n\"I knew a man who started a bureau\nshould miss an item, and complaint\nwith his office under his hat. He re-\nis made, he can find the one who\nceived his letters at a certain address.\nmade the error and also the missing\nHe has been in jail several times, and\nitem. By his excellent method 680\nis now dodging the police. As I said,\ndaily and 3,000 weekly papers are\nI welcome legitimate competition and\nread and entire satisfaction given to\nI also welcome visitors to my place\nhis many subscribers. His motto is:\nof business. It gives me pleasure to\nNever be content with moderate suc-\nshow my expensive chemical dupli-\ncess, but push on and strive to in-\ncating department, where articles that\ncrease efficiency and thoroughness.\nare scarce can be duplicated direct\nEvery year he increases his small\nfrom the paper; my artistic scrap-\narmy of educated and trained em-\nbook department SO complete that I\nployees, and his expenses now\ncompiled twenty volumes or a his-\namount to nearly ten thousand dol-\ntory of the Spanish-American War\nlars a month. The merit system pre-\nfor the Library of the War Depart-\nvails and many young women who\nment; my obituary, literary and scien-\nhave graduated from the public\ntific departments, and, in fact, my en-\nschools are now filling important and\ntire establishment. There are no se-\nlucrative positions in his establish-\ncrets in the business, but the public\nment. His spacious office, on the sec-\nshould know that it cannot be con-\nond floor, is splendidly ventilated, has\nducted without capital and a large\nplenty of light, and his idea is that\nforce of trained employees.\""
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