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76 THE HOUSE THAT SHADOWS BUILT
By now, through piece-work and odd jobs, Adolph had paid all his debts except that to the bank; and business was picking up. With the backing and endorsement of Morris Kohn, he tried a new enterprise. It involved risk, but “Nothing venture nothing have” was almost the first motto he learned in English. Adolph moved his establishment to an upper story in State Street. On the ground floor was a silk shop. Zukor hired space before its front windows for a show case displaying an array of his own fur novelties. Chief of these was a double stone-martin scarf. It differed from the single scarf through which the Novelty Fur Company had made its initial success in that it had two heads: one over each shoulder. The fashion budded and blossomed, as that for the shoulder cape had budded and withered. In a month or so, Adolph Zukor found it necessary to enlarge his working quarters. Before the end of that season, he had discharged his debt to the bank, was running ahead of the world.
i And so on January lo, 1897, Adolph and Lottie went to the Temple with the whole Kaufmann family, even to the remotest cousin; and Max Schosberg came from Peoria to stand up as best man.
In the month before the marriage, Morris Kohn revealed a plan which he had revolved for some time in his head. Manufacturing, he believed, was the profitable department of the fur business. He had long wanted to enter it, but he lacked experience. Adolph could bring