The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1877-02-28
well, then don't eat it, was the re-

well, then don't eat it, was the re-
ply.
MIR. Vanderbilt said T, If you
hadn't taken the wheel in hand we
would have run into the oyster smack
Quite likely
drunken pilot.
Il don't admit it,
You must, because you said so your
SELF
Then was .- fool
You even made reference to that
very pilot in connection with q coils.
ion last Spring.
There was a thick fog then.
have looked into the matter, and there
was no one to blame. Are you
lawyer"
NO !; am not, but part owner of
the brig your boat ran into. If you
employ incapable people, which can
prove by your own words, you will be
sure to lose your case. l can bring
every passenger here to affirm your
statement. have three or four &C
ouaintances among them
You haven't said word to them !!
You ain't lawyer! Now, you show
me plainly who you are. Come into
my office, and we will talk it over.
The coach and the passengers may
have to wait ten minutes
went into sanded office, when
Vanderbilt gave me acigar. l showed
him some letters Oh my person, which
answered for an identification. He
was polite enough now. The DAM
age done US by that collision cost the
hot
to repair the brlg!'
Il have not the exact amount. We
have laid our damage at S., OO0.'
Well, you never could get half OF
that
Yes, we could. The repairs cost
81, 500, and the time lost in getting
the brig ready we put down at $500
mOre.'
THAT amt 50. She was fixed upon
the wharf where she was discharging
cargo. Now 1 will make you an offer
set off our loss against your own
| bills for repairs and | will settle on
that
sWell,' said T., 4 know am not far
out of the way when say 81 500.'
Good. I will pay for our people $500
in quit OF all claims. He1e. You make
out an agreement to that effect, and
| sign it for yourself and owners, and
| that will be the end of it. will send
you check for the money. Ifyouare
not willing, say so, and will fight the
case for the next ten years. That is
my way I considered fol Il moment.
AS the lawyers fees and annoyances
would have been considerable, I &C.
copied the proposition. Two or three
days afterward came the check, and
with it pass over the road to Phila-
delphia, for the year, which pass re-
turned, for never was what you boys
call dead headed.' We sent, however,
to Vanderbilt, on the part of the own
ers of the brig, a cask of choice Ma
deria, and so the matter ended.
It might have been in 1865 when l
met the Commodore at Saratoga. | lam
fond Of whist, SO was the Commodore.
There used to be, ten or fifteen years
ago, set of players in Philadelphia
who were the best whist players in the
United States. have seen some ia
nous games in the English club houses,
played by leading whist players but
think the Philadelphia game was quite
as good. remember that one Of these
Philadelphia players, for mischief's
sake, Was in the habit of rafting about
all sorts of things during the game,
against all the rules, but who had such
a knowlt dye of the game, that with
good players he could almost invaria-
bly, name the nine last cards in the
other peoples hands. At Saratoga
the Commodore who never liked
anything better than to tackle
with strong opponents, was in the
habit of playing his rubber with these
gentlemen from Philadelphia. Now,
player, and never got beyond an ap-
prentice game. I don't mean to adj
vance the idea that now am equal to
cope with those Philadelphia whist
players-but they do say that in my
time I could hold my own with the
best of them. l don't think any of
you or your fathers will ever play
whist decently. None of you have the
genius of the game. never lose my
temper at whist
"Oh, grandfather -
Except when people are dreadfully
stupid and wanting in the simplest
principles of the game. The Cemmo-
dore was my partner often, and his
luck more than his play used to carry
us through. If he had stuck to whist
entirely, he might have done pretty
well, but playing Boston spoiled his
game. Well, once we were playing to-
gether and every game it seemed to
me he might have saved the Commo.
dore lost by his bad play. When we