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CHAPTER II.

Stephen B. Munn will be recollected by many in this
generation. He lived in Broadway, No. 508 — on the
same block where the St. Nicholas Hotel now stands,
as late as 1866.    He died in that year.

Stephen B. Munn was a Connecticut boy. He lived
and worked upon a farm until he was 17 years old, and
then he went into the " tin peddling " business, as thou¬
sands of others have done, and made their first step on
the road to fortune. A tin peddler is a traveling mer¬
chant. He generally connects himself with a " tinner,"
who also has a store to supply his " peddlers." The
peddler first secures a horse and a tin-peddler covered
wagon. The latter is judiciously divided into various
receptacles, and a great many tin boxes, to contain nee¬
dles and small articles of merchandise. These goods are
peddled out by the " tinmen," who calculate to make
a large profit. A " tinner " of means would frequent¬
ly have out twenty tin peddlers." These wagons and
peddlers took different routes in the Eastern and West
ern States, and some have boldly gone to the South¬
west and South. Besides a large assortment of tinware,
these wagons carried a regular assortment of merchan
dise — a real variety store on wheels. A smart Yankee
tin j/r.ddler was sure to inake nioney, and be sure to ar-