Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1879-03-19

ParaIyzing Arguments by Local
Agents..

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Agents.
Tho business world OF the Base Range
cannot have failed to note the s%anguinary
struggle Of the safes which has been rag
ing here for the last few weeks. Lambert
Molinelli & Co. are the agents for Halls,
while j. d. Bruner represents McNeips *
Urban's. The rivalry is immense. Not a
man in the community who has use for q
safe or who may ever hope to have use for
one is allowed to escape. The representa-
tives respectively extol their W while be-
lifting the merits OF the other. Yesterday
Lambert Molinelli and Mr.. Bruner came
together on Main street in the presence Of
. promiscuous but admiring crowd. The
safe racket was OF course the subject OF
the wordy ~rencountcr. Mr.. Bruner, IL
ever he set himself up for a talker from the
knobs, got over matched. After q running
fire Of three seconds the odds were two to
one ON Lambert with no takers. The
Reno fire, in which both patterns were
tested, was incidentally alluded to.
A GROWING ARGUMENT.
Mr.. Bruner was willing to make oath
that in the hurry to shut the door Of a
Mcneil & Urban ct the time'of the Reno
blaze, q rooster was closed in. The build
ing, which was in the thickest Of the con-
iagration, was burned to ashes, but, mar
velous to relate, when the door Of the safe
was opened, five hours later, the rooster
skipped out and began to crow A. Justify
Is though he had not been through the
fiery ordeal.
The Mcneil K Urban advocate evidently
regarded this as a clincher and prepared
to subside.
A sympathetic smile stole over the coun-
tenance Of the crowd, a majority Of whom
seemed to betray fears that Lambert would
have to fly out Of the pit.
A FREEZING R%EJoINDER.
But Lambert was equal, and more than
equal, to the emergency. Throwing a
good deal Of emphasis and enthusiasm into
the business. he. too, had a true tale Of the
Reno fire to relate. In Chamberlain's
Depot Hotel, the largest building de-
stroyed. a ~faverite cat of the household
was accidently locked in a Hall safe. The
hotel was constructed of immense timbers,
and the fire ragged with the utmost fury for
seventeen hours in this particular quarter
Of the doomed citv. All of the heavy tim
bers in the structure fell squarely across
the safe Halls and remained in that
position until wholly consu med. And
what do you suppose became Of the cat2
Do you imagine that it was singed? Not
much-not a hair was scorched. IN the
contrary, when the safe was opened the
next day, the poor unfortunate feline was
found dead, frozen a. stiff as a poker.
By this time the Mcneil & Urban fanatic.
finding himself raised out. was quietly
sliding off on his ear in the direction Of the
Consolidated works.
Being left master Of the situation, Lam
bert offered to produce the afidavits OF
seven hundred eye witnesses that in De-
cember last a car load of Mcneil x Urban
safes were actually melted down by the
sun while crossing the Isthmus. He also
had dead loads OF documentary evidence to
show that it was Of common occurrence in
New York for burglars to enter the Mcneil
4 Urban variety with butter knives.
At this jnncture the reporter withdrew
and sought consolation in the society of
An insurance agent.