National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1873-01-17


{, ! shall examine closely, yigorousl,
y into the whole matter. Won Trap want
ms on the Board Of Direction, and N
D occupation il 80 very desirable. II il il
; oil v'ght l might yenture'a small Sum.
and then | talked of Ceyl6h; src sos
: coral, sunken treasure, not as well IA,
did Won Trap, but with a certain effect
. Whether all the stock was taken ol
not, ] s,ippost ! nhsll ne-er he able t,
discover. What Is certain vas that there
were some good names standing fol
shares. =. i. G. stock, though not oi
the regular st. was bought and sold b,
! bfOkers, ana Was, fUf .ine, qnite
fancy stock. Some people took share,
in it, the dividends to he paid in pearls
: placing the shares in their wives OF
daughters names. and in many draw
ing room, pretty women would talk o
their prospective pearl parufes. and
wonder how many pearls it would tax,
to span their graceful necks. As had
soi,e taste IN designing, my tracing OF
ornaments Of decorative iiature, suit.
able for earrings, pendants, and brace.
lets, all of pearl, were eagerly sought
after.
The first difficulty was about the
patent. No sooner was the +. 7: G.
the purchaser than injunctions, from
America and Europe, and even Asia
and Africa. believe were showered on
us. The whole world clamb.ed infringe
ments. Some We had to buy of, while
others We had to fight in Court. Then
came delay OH delay AS to the building
o' the submarine boat. | spent days
and weeks. IN ttafelinr bat~.en the
office and the macliine-shop, ana quite
ruined my self in buying new clothes,
those wore being soiled by the rust
and oil in the airgS shop where it was
building. After that came .lie chemical
annoyances. There was no doubt about
our being able to make air and of the
finest, purest, and most exhilerating
character, i'll the Office. We nsed to
prepare II ~ the ten cubic feet, in a
nicely -lacquered easoInetet. and bteathe
1t too, and enjoy the experiment very
much, and we made every one who came
in try it. ana al tie visitors declared it
to be the freshest and incest air tlttv
had ever used, and some people OF
philanthropic turn Of mind were san
guine " that if rs they said, "we could
only turn stream of our prepared air
INTO baxter -stteet, oy into tenement
houses, i'll the SUMMER we would SAFE
the city from all sickness, besides ameli-
Grating the condition of the poor" But
there was hitch somewhere. suspected
by me alone. oometiii.ts itrw that | go
over the whole matter, | am inclined TO
think that the German chemist was
Mephistophiles, disguised as an alchem-
ist One day he would burst into the
othce drag me into the private room,
fall on my neck, and with teafs n his .
wanting to kiss me--would de- .
clare, THAT all was besser as goot; that .
he, his wife and his children had been
living, for the last ten hours. in an at
of his own preparation, that
thef wete doing ~nll, and that the last
obstacle in the manufacture had beeN
but adding "that he must
have 4 thousand dollars more before he
could go on" That very night he would
wake me and the neighbors up by howl
ing my name ut the door, and shDuting
g that his child was III dting, from
here having been an overdose of nitro
gen in his mixture
Very soon my thousand dollars went, :
md with it some of the stockholders, ,
y ho preferred having their stock forfeit
d 10 paying frttlcr arssssmepts, I .
must confess that, so far, Won Trap ,
lad stood manfully by us. He had /
fought an immense stock of pick-axes, 0
yster-rakes, crow-bars ut nominal :
rlces. which weie on exhibition in the a
ffice. .
Little by little my ten thousand dollar +.
lterest became fifty thousand, and :
hortly / became the largest share h
older, Won Trap complimented Inc il
ii nij tlt.cl, AMI offered me the Pres i.
lency, which | declined. | still had q,
faith in the p. p. c., so much h
, as to write brilliant prospectus, |,
hich | had neatly printed on tinted o.
aper, with a red line round the edges, @,
hich was distributed 10y the thousands, a
'e advertised, it, too-1he Peregrina to
earl Company--in all the leading pa. in
ars, and the reader may have seen al
)tices of it. Here commenced my i,
rst coolness with Won Trap. He would is
rite the advertisements himself, in the ~
gular patent medicine, lottery scheme W
vie, which was against my Judgment. n,
L, CT
he contractor who was building the o.
lbmarine boat was always calling for So
lvances, threatened I" to leave right off m
zen, and not drive in another rivet or m
rn bolt unless SO many thousand n,
illars we're paid. We had made so n,
any alterations and improvements" In
said /" that it would cost twice as Oh
uch rs the original drawings and nj
ecifcations called for" in
Later l noticed that my friend Won sb
'ap had not been i'll the office for ten
VS.. Presently, in the streets, heard
5 name used in connection with that
novel process for facilitating City
lnsit. II was described as something IN
.rvelous-an electro-motor, by means LEI
which passengers could be conveyed LIE
I'M the Battery tc Spyten Duyvel in no
rec minutes, and AT cost not exceed I'M
Z seven-eights of cent per head. Le
ii | labored on, was President. Secre- no
y, Consulting Engineer, correspond th'
!, clerk and errand boy did every up
ng but sweep out the p. p, c. offices. th'
e chemist now almost drove me mad. ac'
became Unsuitable in his demands, res
l seemed to hold me personally re- Or
'nslole ior the "noie company. II
was not the evil one, at least he was me
personification of greed and avarice. chi
lere the thousands of dollar, he had LIE
eived went to was mystery, as he me mo
) always squalid, wretched and dirty ,he
/ degree. Now he lured me on with hes
secret, which he assured me was tlal
hin grasp, and wrung from me my spi
few dollars. AT last, after day of OF
MIXING labor, he came to me with or
pondercus demand for more money, tiv'
ch l refused. "Give me-" / said, mol
n ,,rocoss ,,arfaotaJ :, o,-.r,, 1o.o;1 ly.