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A PSYCHIC MESSAGE
*_
cJT ROUTED A RAILROAD OFFICIAL TO
SUDDEN ACTIVITY.
jJTlie Story of a Special Train That
Was Sidetracked and How tlie
Passenger Ten (lie Manager Clot
Warning of t!te Misiur.r.
A number of railroad officials were
Chatting after a business meeting.
>#rhen the discussion chanced to drift
Upon the question whether ra it road
sa&sm are superstitious.
Presented with the opportunity to
i'lisphcy their knowledge, some of the
jMtsseuger men drifted into the realms
df esoteric Buddhism and pscychic phe
nomena. with a touch of spiritualism
thrown in for full measure. Finally one
of the party, a passenger traffic* man
£ger. insisted tliat he was neither su-
nor 91 id he understand
.jsycliic phenomena.
“Just the same,” he concluded, “I
tuid one of those psychic things happen
£o me when l was engaged in trying to
induce every one in Nashville to travel
the Louisville and Nashville.. The
Sirau Opera company was coming to
town for a week’s engagement, and the
outfit, scenery and all, was coming
over our line, thanks to the persuasive
fffiility of the Louisville and Nashville’s
gentlemanly representative, who at
that time was your humble servant.
“The day before the grand opera sea
son should be upon us the advance
agent called upon me and, rubbing his
•lands gleefully, declared that the ad
vance sales had been enormous.
“‘A good first night,’ be declared,
*woukl make tlie engagement a record
breaker. If everything goes well to
morrow night they can’t stop us. I
IBiippose that scenery is on the way all
right and will show up on time?’
“I assured him that it was as he sup
posed, and he left me in a happy frame
of mind. The next day as I was sitting
In my office thinking about nothing
particular the conviction flashed upon
me that it was up to me to get the
<Jrau scenery to town in time for the
evening performance. I laughed at
tlie conviction at first, but it recurred
to me with irresistible force, and I
could not get it out of my head that
the scenery was doing time on a side
track somewhere between St. Louis
feud Nashville. I remembered that the
opening opera was to be *Aida.’ which
requires the double stage aud there
fore an endless amount of scenery. Ac
cordingly if that scenery did not ar
rive no makeshift would supply the
want of it.
“By early afternoon I had worked
myself into a state bordering upon
nervous prostration, and finally I bolt
ed for Major James Geddes’ office. The
major was then a division superintend
ent. and. after apologizing for mixing
up in a matter that was really none of
ttny business, I asked him if the Grau
scenery was on the way.
“ ‘Certainly it is,’ he replied convinc
ingly. Tt left St. Louis early last even
:ing and is coming special on a fast
‘schedule. It will be here within an
hour from now.’
44 ‘How do you know all that?’ I de
manded.
“ 'Know it, know it?’ shouted the ma
jor wrathfully. ‘How do I know I’m
alive? Haven’t I got the reports
Showing the makeup of the special, the
Hiue it left St. Louis and lh“ schedule
on which it is running? You had bet
ter go back to your office, young man.
and keep on selling tickets. Don’t med
dle with the operating department un
less you can talk sense.’
“ ‘Just the same, major,’ I insisted, ‘I
have reason to know that the Grau
scenery is not on the way to Nash
vine/
“The major’s wrath knew no bounds.
** ‘Where is It, then7 he snorted.
“ ‘Somewhere on a side track between
here and St. Louis.’ I replied.
“ ‘Young man,’ said the major, ris
ing, ‘you are such a blamed fool that I
will break my rule and take the trou
llle to convince you that you are one
instead of kicking you out of my office.
Oome with me.’
“We rushed upstairs to the train dis
patcher’s office, where the major or
dered the dispatcher to show me prog
ress of the Grau special.
“ ‘lt’s not progressing. It has been
lying on tbe side track at Riolado for
five hours,’ replied the dispatcher, ‘and
I've been scouring the system for an
engine. The special’s engine went
dead/
“The major forgot me, forgot every
thing, except that special. In a trice
he bad another engine tearing up the
track to get to Riolado from a point a
miles away, and then he cleared
,the track and gave the scenery the
•right of way clear to Nashville. That
.run of 185 miles from Riolado to
Nashville stands as a southern record
today, but it burned up nearly every
car in the outfit to make it. The spe
arrived thirty minutes before open
ing time. I had an army of wagons
and men -waiting for it, and before the
certain was rung up every stick of It
was in place.”
“What did the major say?” was ask
•tf.
“The next day he sent for me and
.said, ‘Young man, the next time you
“have one of those nutty hunches hit
Hie main line and see me before it
works off.’ S. G. A. in Chicago Rec
v ard-Herald.
Learning: to Dodge.
Wall Street—So your son is studying
&w. Do you expect that he will stick
i Sptt? Speculator—Oh, no! I just want
itdm to know enough about it so that
tae will be able to evade It successfully.
Free Press.
The Omnibus.
The omnibus Is probably the slowest,
Hhe- least comfortable and the most
uncertain type of vehicle built slues
ark.-eLuodoa Express.
BTUYVESANT FISK ON ECONOMY.
Says There is Mismanagement in
Public and Private Life.
“I wish to preach the Higher Econ
omy,” writes Stuyvesant Fish, Presi
dent of the Illinois Central Railroad,
in the Arena. Such economy, he
points out, is needed in the house
hold, in the State and in corporate
management.
‘‘As to the household,” says Mr.
Fish, “no one will question that our
people are spendthrifts, earning
money freely and wasting it to such
an extent as to make it proverbial
that what is thrown out of our
kitchens would support a frugal peo
ple in almost any country in Eu
rope.”
With regard to public economy
Mr. Fish says: “There is not only
/ 3 -• p;
1 ' y
Stuyvesant Fish.
waste and extravagance in adminis
tration, and what is now commonly
called ‘graft,” which is a combina
tion of bribery and larceny, but,
what is economically worse, the laws
are so framed as not to get the best
use out of the taxes paid by the peo
ple. What we have to fear is not so
much the magnitude of the appro
priation as that our laws require that
an uneconomical and therefore bad
use be made of them.
In proof of this Mr. Fish cites that
in the Post Office Department there
was a deficit of $14,572,584 in 1905,
due ,as he thinks to laws and not
administration. Government free
matter cost $20,000,000, rural free
delivery cost $20,819,944, and the
loss on this he estimates at $15,-
000.
“Is it surprising,” asks Mr. Fish,
“that under laws which not only per
mit but require such a waste of pub
lic revenues there is a deficit and
that the deficit should be growing
rapidly?”
“I need not repeat that the coun
try is prospering and likely to con
tinue. While fully appreciating these
facts, we cannot shut our eyes to the
trouble that has been going on in the
center of financial system.
“Having looked into the matter
myself carefully, I beg to say to you
in all seriousness that not only in the
insurance companies, but in many
other corporations, there is need of
the advice, and probably of the knife
of the trained surgeon. Without pre
tending to any superior knowledge
on the subject, I think that the root
of the evil lies in too few men having
undertaken to manage too many cor
porations: that in so doing they have
perverted the powers granted under
corporate charters, and in their hur
ry to do a vast business have in many
cases done it all.
“While the evil applies to corpora
tions generally throughout the whole
country, my meaning can perhaps be
best illustrated by taking the case
of the three great life insurance
companies of New Y r ork—the Mutual
the New Y r ork Life and the Equita
ble. A year ago these three com
panies had, as shown in the Direc
tory of Directors published by the
Audit Company of New York, nine
ty-two (92) trustees or directors who
lived in New York. Of them one was
a member of seventy-three (73)
boards; another of fifty-eight (58);
another of fifty-four (54); another
of fifty-three (53); another of forty
nine (49); another of forty-seven
(47); another of forty-three (43);
and another of forty-one (41) : And
to sum up, those ninety-two gentle
men held fourteen hundred and thir
ty-nine (1,439) directorships in cor
porations which were sufficiently
well known to be recorded in the di
rectory above referred to.”
In conclusion Mr. Fish finds that:
“We, who —as breadwinners, as tax
payers and as stockholders —pro-
vide the wherewithal, suffer because
we have set others to rule over us
without holding them to that strict
accountability for the discharge of
their trust, which the common law
and common sense alike demand.
Indeed, things have come to such a
pass that in certain quarters it is
now considered indecorous and ill
bred for us, the many, to even dis
cuss much less to correct, the short
comings of the elect few. Such was
neither the theory nor the practice
on which our forefathers ordered the
economy of this Republic.’”
Items of Interest.*
Berlin has 29 suburbs.
A bootblacking machine has been
invented.
Berlin had a newspaper exhibition
showing 6,000 different periodicals.
Of all the American those of
French extraction spend the small
est proportion of their income on
food.
Salmon, pike and goldfish are said
to be the only fish that never sleep.
The Nantucket south shoals light
ship is farther from land than any
other In the world, being fifty-two
miles from the island.
Did Not See Himself.
“Funny, isn’t it, the persons these
receptions attract?”
“Ya-as, and such odd looking
freaks. I’ve seen quite a few at this
one.”
To the Dogs.
Hocus —Y’es, poor Joe’s down
pretty low; he’s a barker for a cheap
theater.
Pocus—Gee, he must be going to
the dogs, at that rate.
Could Not Forget.
The Wife —It seems a century
since our marriage! I have even for
gotten the first day when we saw
each other!
The Husband—-It is not so with
me. I remember perfectly well that
it was at a dinner and that there
were thirteen at the table.
Not All Included.
Custom House Official—Have I
inspected everything now?
Long-Suffering Victim Yes,
everything but what I had for din
ner. Here’s the menu.
How She Served Him.
Hilda —George acts very strange.
I don’t know what to make of him.
Grace—Make a fool of him. I
did.
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