[279] _Pittsburgh Gazette_, December 4, 1801; _Tree of Liberty_, August 7, 1802. [280] _Pittsburgh Gazette_, December 17, 1813. [281] _Pittsburgh Gazette_, March 27, 1812. [282] _The Navigator_, Pittsburgh, 1814, pp. 258–259. [283] John Mellish: _Travels in the United States of America in the years 1806–1807–1809–1810 and 1811_, Philadelphia, vol. ii., p. 58. [284] Christian Schultz, Jun.: _Travels on an Inland Voyage_, New York, 1810, p. 133. CHAPTER IX THE BROADENING OF CULTURE Cramer’s business prospered. His was the only establishment in Pittsburgh where the sale of books was the predominant feature. He had long called it the “Pittsburgh Bookstore.”[285] Oliver Ormsby, whose store was in the brick house on Water Street, at the westerly side of Chancery Lane, sold “Dilworth’s and Webster’s Spelling books, testaments, and Bibles in Dutch and English, primers, toy books, and a variety of histories, novels, etc.”[286] William Christy[287] and John Wrenshall[288] kept a few books, a special feature of the latter’s business being the sale of Dr. Jonathan Edwards’s _Sermons_, but compared with Cramer’s stock, the supply of books in other hands was insignificant. Cramer was also practically the only publisher of books in the borough. After he had been publishing for a few years, others began the business, but their books were few in number and generally unimportant in character. Cramer’s advertisements were sometimes amusing. He sold his goods for money, or in trade, and in making the announcement employed the axiomatic language of “Poor Richard.” This was one of his naïve notices: “I hope the ladies and all good girls and boys will not forget to fetch me all the clean linen and cotton rags they possibly can. Save the smallest pieces and put them in a rag bag; save them from the fire and the ash heap. It is both honorable and profitable to save rags, for our country wants them.”[289]