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Updated: May 14, 2025
After you provided me with a complete outfit, like a father fixing up his son for his wedding-day, and you gave me five dollars into the bargain, you told me not to call on you again until I was well established in life. Do you remember that?" "Of course I do," he answered, with a beaming glance at two old Talmudists who sat at their books close by "Well, here I am. I am running a cloak-factory."
I answered, with a beaming smile, "I told you I was in the cloak business, didn't I?" "I don't think you did. Anyhow, I did not know what kind of a cloak-factory yours was," he said "What kind do you mean?" I laughed. "Well, I am glad to know you are so successful. There was somebody who recognized you last time you were here. Your secret leaked out." "Secret!
For the moment I did not seem to be the man who owned a big cloak-factory and was worth over a million American dollars The chairman had been speaking for some time before I became aware of his existence. As his address was in Russian and I had long since unlearned what little I had ever known of that language, his words were Greek to me
We did profit by the abundance of the period. Moreover, there were many among us to whom the crisis of 1893 had proved a blessing. To begin with, some of our tailors, being unable to obtain employment in that year, had been driven to make up a garment or two and to offer it for sale in the street, huckster fashion a venture which in many instances formed a stepping-stone to a cloak-factory.
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