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NOVELTY FURS
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savings. That would buy pelts enough for a start. Further, Max had learned some things about American business. “Those banks, now,” he said; “when they see a young fellow is bound to get ahead, they will lend him money just on his note.”
The restless and courageous Adolph needed little persuading. Within a week — for they must strike while the fur season was on and the scarf still a novelty — they had rented a single room in La Salle Street, installed a hired sewing machine, employed an operator, and gone to work. The young partners made up a few dozen sample scarves. Max carried them forth on his shoulder. They sold on sight. Before the season ended, their Novelty Fur Company made for both Max and Adolph a thousand dollars over and above living expenses.
The slack season of 1893 gave Adolph Zukor the leisure to visit the World’s Fair. In a little side-show tent of the Midway Plaisance flourished the first movingpicture show which ever charged admission to the public; a crude affair. The perfected moving-picture machine of to-day is the compound of many inventions, the life work of many inventors. In 1889, however, Thomas A. Edison had by one of his simple geniustouches made practicable the apparatus for taking the photographs, and had carried projection to the point where he could show the image through a glass slide. Projection onto a screen remained only a hazy dream. By 1892, he prepared to manufacture commercially his