WINDOW-GAZING 18 A BUSINESS

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1716, 22 November 1887, Page 3

WINDOW-GAZING 18 A BUSINESS

{Professional wlndow-g»ztng is a Phila" delpbia idea, according to the "Nqwb" of tbat city. It says : Two young men who spend the day and a large part of the evening on Oheßtnut street are paid to do bo. They are both well-known figures and generally travel together. They are professional window-gßzars. The young men, In common with everybody else, know that to attraot a crowd to a window all one has to do Is to stand and geza Into thai window. In a short time ten or a dczan people hp gazing with him. They w«fo down fco hard pt.n— pp their uppers, bo to speak* One of them went to the proprlefcet wf a men's famishing house on Chestnut etreot and told him that for bo muoh a week be would guarantee to attract more attention to h's window than all the diapl>ya tbat could be laid out The proprietor was Btruok with the Idea and gave it a ttitl. As a consequence there wai a crowd at his window nearly?ail the time, The young man would walk up to the window with his friend and stand pozlag there until a crowd ot a dozsn or fifteen were standing wtth them. To keep the crowd moving he would walk away and th*t started the break m the crowtf. The performance wbb repeated every ten or rninntes. The yoong man went to othev eiof^ii alone; the street, unfolded hta pan and pointed put the jjucoeeo of it. In a ohort time he had the who'e eirept from Ninth to Broad on his beat and he had to take b)n friend into partnership, and he makes pio^ty pf money. If other wlndow.gacsrß do noi gpf on to (he ttfca f»nd e;et Into the business these two originate* a will gHortly establish brmchesof tW'GftZW' ti? Othey pitlec.