To be the addressee of the valuable information given by these men of business of agencies,

To be the addressee of the valuable information given by these men of business of agencies, bringing an annual payment, are registered as subscribers and are supplied by books of estimations as them name. Besides this book special typewritten messages with difficult details, respecting [260] credit of firm are sent on
Inquiry of the subscriber. The volume of the information registered in these agencies concerning any credit, is received through effort of officials of the agencies known as reporters. These skilled people, integrity, and an insight - searching after trues. Usually each reporter has an excellent line of trade, appointed to it for research and research. It brings to it in a close acquaintance with each dealer in its specific area. He is a Charge d"Affaires avec lettres of the banker and the dealer for the facts. Its business should not collect simply the information, respecting resources of business men but to investigate hearings which in itself can be harmful to the credit, and deny them where only probably and to sustain and support the house credit. Too often it is supposed, that the reporter searches for weakness certificates, when actually its business - most often business of detection of elements of force. Information freely give it as he interviews the men which firms and event - storehouses for riches of the information of the credit. It it becomes fast the authorised representative of the dealer directly which not only says it everything, that he knows about clients and their accounts after its books, but its own business affairs also. Really, the relation becomes so very mutual, that the reporter often supplies the information to the dealer in interview on some question of the credit of the urgent notice. Thus acknowledgement of the facts or a hearing refutation can be made. He examines books of offices of the public report to find the certificate , judgements, and property transfers and to make record of the same on agency books. It is a reporter who at last has collected the information which defines ability of firm to have and hold a credit line.