The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1885-05-21

New York Mail aad tx ress.

about NY first work was in Cincin-
natl. in the same Office with Olson,
remarked a we'll known telegrapher. Il
was fresh, then, and the fellows laid for
me. ne night | WIS Just throu gh,
when so ne ouc called he. 'iiello. Who
IS that asked. ttsburs. oct
ready to take "a lot OF press matter, was
the reply.
II guess there were fifteen instru-
mcnts in the room, an every one was
LLsy sending or receivinE could
take pretty well even then, Tut never
had sach a hot wire before OF since.
was whole sentence behind copying
by the time the trst 100 words were in
! broke to catch up. The sender wanted
to know what was the matter, and
when | WAS up ] told him | had been
getting more blanks. lie started off
harder than te'ore. lie wasn't sending
less than fifty words a minute, and it
seemed to me nearer seventy, broke
again and he began to get mad. said
was putting in new pen. lie swore
and Ercd away | broke every half
minute, sometimes oftencr. by the
time had received 100 or 100 words
we were both fighting mad. ! swore
that he wasn't sending plain. lie main
tanned that he was AMI finally, after
dozen breaks in almost as few words,
he got furious.
Tell the operator to come there.
You'd better try shoemakin'. he said.
Il didn't like to give up, but at last |
turned around and asked for somebody
TO rel eve me. You never saw buster
crowd. kept on the best | could, the
l.. ittsburg fellow keeping UP an ines
SAINT growl all the time lie wanted me
to get messenger. or a brakeman on a
place had taken 1900 words before
he let up.
sig, said |.
"';, he answered.
The boys howled. 1t was FdisOn'S
signature. He had switched on "a test
instrument and had sent me column
from one of the afternoon papers lie
had not hem twenty feet away from
me, but of course did not notice that a
person in the same rom was sending
the dispatch, lecause there WAS so
many tickerS going all around me-"
Col. Saoemakcr's Load of Coal.
New York Financial Journal.l
Col George Shoemaker, great uncle
of llenry f. Shoemaker, of Wall street,
brought the first anthracite coal to Phi
adelphia He hauled load by wagon,
which he had broken from prOtruding
mass on his lands near / ottSvillc,
ninety miles distant. People who irs
migrated from England and Wales
knew that bituminous coal was oo!n-
LuStible, but the anthracite WAS no'b
lny but rock to them or the other ir
habitants of the country where t
abounded. If any one had triei to
burn it success had not attended the
effort for lack of knowledge of drafts.
Col Shoemaker had dlsco,e cred that if
air could pass through the anthra lite
from beneath it would burn. He took
his load to factory where fuel was re-
quired and eXpatiated On its properties.
y forbidding look settled on the crowd
that gathered around him. and the feel
ing finally broke in murmurs.
HE is an inn oster, the men sur
rounding him cried out. Those blal'.
stones will not burn.
The sentiment against Col. Shoemaker
in reascd to such an extent that he was
O. liged to hide his coal in cellar
and leave the city. After he was gone
blacksmith put some Of the black
stores on the top of his fire, but they
would not ignite He did not rake
them off when he went to his midday
meal, and by chance he left an opening
under the Jorge uucIosed. The draft
that was createl caused the stones to
take fire, and when the blacksmith
came ac& they were all aglow, The
Shocmakers continued to mine coal and
manufacture iron until they sold out
their interests to the Philadelphia u
Reading Railroad company.