The Importance of Location

You might conduct a hotel like clockwork and provide satisfactorily for 500 guests every day. Yet if you should locate your house in a small village where there is no railroad communication or public travel, the location would be your ruin. It is equally important that you do not commence business where there are already enough to meet all demands in the same occupation. I remember a case which illustrates this subject. When I was in London in 1858, I was passing down Holborn with an English friend and came to the Penny shows. They had immense cartoons outside, portraying the wonderful curiosities to be seen, all for a penny. He finally begged to call our attention to some wax statuary