Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-03-11
GREEK coLLIDEs WITH GREEK.


Bright Correspondents Thrown on the
Scent ofa Good Bit Of New. by shrewd
Standard Oil Mana Story Tint Was
Applied TO His Case.
fFRoM STAFF coRREsPoNDrrr
HARRISBURG. March 10.-"we were drink
ing" It was one Of the brightest of the Har.
risburg correspondents who spoke. "Tbe par
tlcnlar people who were drinking.u he re-
marked. ''were myself a reformer, and a men,
ber of the Legislature from the Western part of
the State, who is suspected of being aStandard
OIL man. The Ieformer is also member of the
Legislature. He had made up his mind there
was something in the wind, and he gave me
tip. had drank Just enough to take it in. It
began to be about A. M, and the Standard
on man said: Well boys, must leave you
'Where are you going? inquired the reformer
and myself. oh, must leave evasIvely re-
Piled the Standard man. The reformer
punched me. and swearing softly, said to me:
What did tell you Then we both remarked:
Wen go with you' The Standard man re-
piled: 'All right, boys; wait till go to the
hotel for my grip You'll call for Us on your
way backT Sure. Take one and I'll be with
you before you down it, The reformer and 1
took one and conferred. The Standard man
put his head inside the door and remarked:
All aboard
"Just as we arrived at the depot two trains
came in, one from the east and one from the
west. Senator Delamater and Chairman An
drews came up the steps from the depot plat
form. They took the Standard man aside to
tell him something about the weather in a con-
fidential way. The reformer fell over against
me and nearly tainted. Didn't give you
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out SO far that they nearly ran down his
cheeks. Sure I said. Then the Standard
man came back to us and said: We'll, boys,
there's my train; I'm going now'
There were two trains, one going east and
the other west. We had made up our minds
the Standard man was going east and we were
determined to know all about it. 'AIl right
we said, ''sos are we.' We went down to the
trains together, and the Standard man said:
Where are you going, boysT We're going
with you,' we said, and the Standard man
never cracked smile, as he replied to US,
Come on, boys and then said to the porter:
Give US section The reformer, of course,
had a Pennsylvania Railroad pass on his person,
and as stood on the reform question had
another. Otherwise we were broke, but the
Standard man was putting mp for the section.
tired to the smoking compartment. The
Standard man produced pack OF cards and
ordered bottle of wine. We had discovered
by this time that we were going west instead
Of east, but we were determined to hang on.
'DThe Standard man ordered another bottle
OF wine, and this confirmed the reformer's worst
suspicious The manipulation of the paste
boards and the gradual decrease of the wine
supply made the time pass merrily. The re-
former after awhile said to the Standard man:
old fellow, let me have S2Or Sure said the
Standard man. Have one yourself he said to
me. No, don't want any, 1 said, and then
leaning over to the reformer 1 whispered:
'That'll do for the two of u.s. The size of the
roll produced by the Standard man made the
reformer's eyes stand out again, and he
punched me in the ribs and breathed into my
ear: Amt we on? .Ain't we thought 1 re-
piled.
"The Standard man ordered another bottle of
wine. We began to get very mellow. The
Standard man after awhile called the porter
and asked him where there was a night tele-
graph office. AT Lewiston Junction, sah' The
Standard man said he wanted to get off mes
sage if it would go that night sure The
porter was certain, and the Standard man
played with his cipher book awhile. and wrote
something on telegraph blank. The reformer
all this time was giving me a wild series of
nudges and knowing looks. The Standard man
stepped out of the compartment and said to the
porter, just loud enough for us to hear: Now
get this OF, sure Here's dollar, and you can
keep the change When we heard this I
thought the reformer would have fit.
1.-THE Standard man came back and rung up
another bottle of wine We were having a big
time, and the reformer was making nv ribs
black and blue between patriotic songs and
other things. After a while the Standard man
burst out laughing, when there didn't seem to
be any occasion for it, and we demanded, as
friends, to be let in on the joke. Boys said
the Standard man, this reminds me of a story
Of course we wanted the story. and he said:
Once upon time, very respectable, though
poor, Hibernian died in a town where he was
known only by reputation. 1t was determined
to give him good funeral, and in the absence
of relatives, a lot of mourners were hired to
walk behind the hearse, clad In black and with
heads down. A part of the bargain was that
any man who looked up forfeited bis pay.
After while very loud smell greeted the
nostrils of the hired mourners. Boys" said
one of them, that must be an old corpse in
frontT' After standing it as long as they
could, they agreed that one of them. should
look up to see what was the trouble, and the
rest should make his loss good. He looked up
Boys" he said. you can all look up now, as
we've lost the hearse and we're following gar
bage Cart"
"Right there tainted. When was coming
to heard the reformer weakly murmuring:
Where does this train stop next?' The Stand
rd ma hav wi 0f l.,
the other corner. We bade HIM sad farewell
at Altoona, and stayed there until we had spent
the $40 we had borrowed. That isn't all of it,
though. We toundout week later that we
were worse sold than we thought. The Stand
ard man only stayed in the westward train until
1t met the train east, when he transferred him
self to it and went off to New York to consult
Mr.. Rockefeller about the cottonseed oil bill
and other matters before the Legislature that
the Standard is interested in" SIMPSON.
A SWEET YOUNG HORSE THIEF.
A l. L. g.