As their talk proceeded, President Jessup found that the gentleman was a Mr. Lynch, advertising manager of a firm manufacturing jewelry, located in Providence, Rhode Island.  He had been in this position for five years and during that time had planned, assisted in designing, and sold to a national market several profitable jewelry specialties.  Lynch’s graphic story of how these advertising campaigns had been planned, executed, and carried through to success fascinated the President of the western concern.  To his mind, his own enterprise, the manufacture and sale of steam and hot-water heating plants, had long been in the doldrums.  He himself had spent many sleepless nights trying to plan some way of extending its business; of opening up new markets; of creating a wide new patronage; of manufacturing something which would bring in more profits than their regular line, and finding a successful sale for it.  It now seemed to him that he had found just the man to assist him in carrying out these vaguely formed plans, which as yet were little more than dreams.  He told Lynch something of his ideas and ideals, and, as the two men parted for the night, he said: 

“I have just a glimmering of an idea, Mr. Lynch, that we might be able to make an arrangement whereby you would be greatly profited in increased opportunities and bigger income, and perhaps we also would reap an advantage in increased business.  Think it over.”

SELECTION BY PERSONAL PLEASURE

Long after he had retired, President Jessup pondered over the situation, and the more he pondered, the more he became convinced that he had found just the man he wanted.  True, he had not had in mind, during any of his midnight vigils, the taking on of any new help—­his payroll was already heavy enough.  He had a good advertising manager and a good sales manager, men who were competent to take care of the business of the concern.  In response to their efforts, patronage was growing, not rapidly and spectacularly, yet steadily and substantially.  Now, however, he saw an opportunity to produce something which would be different enough from the product of any of his competitors to warrant him in undertaking a national advertising campaign.  Up to the present he had had only a local business.  A few hundred miles from his factory in all directions could be found all the heating plants which he had manufactured and sold.  His dream was to produce some special form of apparatus which would sell wherever there were homes, stores, offices, churches, theaters, and schools to be warmed.  Mr. Lynch was just the man to study their business carefully, decide upon some such product, help to design it, and plan and execute the national advertising campaign which would develop a local into a national business.  Jessup dropped to sleep with his mind made up.