Potash Perlmutter

Potash & Perlmutter

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Title: Potash & Perlmutter Their Copartnership Ventures and
Adventures
Author: Montague Glass
Release Date: April 13, 2006 [EBook #18164]
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POTASH & PERLMUTTER
THEIR COPARTNERSHIP VENTURES AND ADVENTURES
BY MONTAGUE GLASS
ILLUSTRATED
GROSSET & DUNLAP PUBLISHERS :: NEW YORK

Copyright, 1909, by The Curtis Publishing Company Copyright, 1910,
by Howard E. Altemus Copyrighted 1911, by Doubleday, Page &
Company.
THE COUNTRY LIFE PRESS, GARDEN CITY, N. Y.

Potash & Perlmutter
CHAPTER I
"No, siree, sir," Abe Potash exclaimed as he drew a check to the order
of his attorney for a hundred and fifty dollars, "I would positively go it
alone from now on till I die, Noblestone. I got my stomach full with
Pincus Vesell already, and if Andrew Carnegie would come to me and
tell me he wants to go with me as partners together in the cloak and suit
business, I would say 'No,' so sick and tired of partners I am."
For the twentieth time he examined the dissolution agreement which
had ended the firm of Vesell & Potash, and then he sighed heavily and
placed the document in his breast pocket.
"Cost me enough, Noblestone, I could assure you," he said.
"A hundred and fifty ain't much, Potash, for a big lawyer like
Feldman," Noblestone commented.

Abe flipped his fingers in a gesture of deprecation.
"That is the least, Noblestone," he rejoined. "First and last I bet you I
am out five thousand dollars on Vesell. That feller got an idee that there
ain't nothing to the cloak and suit business but auction pinochle and
taking out-of-town customers to the theayter. Hard work is something
which he don't know nothing about at all. He should of been in the
brokering business."
"The brokering business ain't such a cinch neither," Noblestone retorted
with some show of indignation. "A feller what's in the brokering
business has got his troubles, too, Potash. Here I've been trying to find
an opening for a bright young feller with five thousand dollars cash,
y'understand, and also there ain't a better designer in the business,
y'understand, and I couldn't do a thing with the proposition. Always
everybody turns me down. Either they got a partner already or they're
like yourself, Potash, they just got through with a partner which done
'em up good."
"If you think Pincus Vesell done me up good, Noblestone," Potash said,
"you are mistaken. I got better judgment as to let a lowlife like him get
into me, Noblestone. I lost money by him, y'understand, but at the same
time he didn't make nothing neither. Vesell is one of them fellers what
you hear about which is nobody's enemy but his own."
"The way he talks to me, Potash," Noblestone replied, "he ain't such
friends to you neither."
"He hates me worser as poison," Abe declared fervently, "but that ain't
neither here nor there, Noblestone. I'm content he should be my enemy.
He's the kind of feller what if we would part friends, he would come
back every week and touch me for five dollars yet. The feller ain't got
no money and he ain't got no judgment neither."
"But here is a young feller which he got lots of common sense and five
thousand dollars cash," Noblestone went on. "Only one thing which he
ain't got."

Abe nodded.
"I seen lots of them fellers in my time, Noblestone," he said.
"Everything about 'em is all right excepting one thing and that's always
a killer."
"Well, this one thing ain't a killer at all," Noblestone rejoined, "he
knows the cloak and suit business from A to Z, and he's a first-class A
number one feller for the inside, Potash, but he ain't no salesman."
"So long as he's good on the inside, Noblestone," Abe said, "it don't do
no harm if he ain't a salesman, because there's lots of fellers in the
cloak and suit business which calls themselves drummers, y'understand
Every week regular they turn in an expense account as big as a doctor's
bill already, and not only they ain't salesmen, Noblestone, but they
don't know enough about the inside work to get a job as assistant
shipping clerk."
"Well, Harry Federmann ain't that kind, Potash,"