But, Mr.West, you must not fail to ask father to take you to the central warehouse some day, where they receive the orders from the different sample houses all over the city and parcel out and send the goods to their destinations.

He took me there not long ago, and it was a wonderful sight.

The system is certainly perfect; for example, over yonder in that sort of cage is the dispatching clerk.

The orders, as they are taken by the different departments in the store, are sent by transmitters to him.

His assistants sort them and enclose each class in a carrier-box by itself.