The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-04-05
a FUNNY STORY.
How Mount vernon's First Cable Car
Venture Came To Grief.
Skaxit County Logger.

NOW mount Sernon's First Cable Car
Venture Came To Grief
Skasit County Logger.
meeting was held in this town Mount
Vermont on the 18th inst. for the purpose
OF organizing company to secure . charter
TO build and operate electric and cable rail-
ways and to own and build such other
necessities a. are deemed by the company
to be necessary to the operation Of first
class railway. Charles Won Pressentin was
chosen Is chairman and r. ID. Cleaves sec
rotary of the meeting. After q heated
campaign. which some of the more oonser-
vative citizens thought several times would
rupture the entire scheme, but which
finally after the excitement was somewhat
abated. blended back into more normal
condition. and resulted in firmer friend
ship than ever before. the following officers
were elected:
c. ". Pressentin, president; y. D.
Cleaves, vice-president; J. B. Moody, sec
Rotary; Thomas Weir, treasurer, and w.
J. Brown. musical director.
Board Of Directors. G. III. Landers.
Orrin Brenn. A. Ford and J. r. MiIlet.
Stock Holder Edward Adolph Behrens.
After the organization was completed
and refreshments taken. in which harmony
fully prevailed. arrangements were at once
begun for the operation of an experimental
line and At a:i5 p. m the first train, fully
and ornamentaliy equipped. pulled out At
the corner Of Front and Deck Hewland
streets for up town. The first passengers
were President Pressentin and Vice Presi-
dent Cleaves. whose safety were vouched
for BY Conductor J. B. Moody and Grip
man Thomas Weir.
The train had not gone far, however.
until the officers found that their lives
were in danger on account Of the inexperi.
enced operators being unable to control
their internal machine. Near the Odd
Fellows hall an unforeseen calamity appeared
when one of Ed Engiishs fine i'm
ported razos-backed hogs undertook
20 cross the track, bat was overtaken and
knocked into q demoralized mess Of
bologna by the train. which seemed to in
crease its speed. and whipping around the
corner OF Market and kIement streets Just
in time to make . collision with Bulldog
Davis New Concord stage. the Juniata,
drawn by his favorite span of Arizona
eayuses. Here the gripman lost his grip,
the conductor his equilibrium, and the
passengers their intense desire for trial
trips on newly constructed motors, and all
went into . confused mass Of cayusss,
officers, cables. Juniatas, whiffie- trees.
Pullman palaces and Bulldogs. which viii
take frst-class anatomist and scavenger
some time TO reconstruct Thus ends one
OF the greatest efforts the enserprising citi-
zens OF Mount Vernon ever made, and
there lies the wreck Of one Of the brightest
imaginations she ever produced. and the
financial shadow Of q once prosperous citi-
zen, but now broken stakeholder.
Short. but Full of Meat
ST. Louis Republic.
sALApo. Tex, Feb Cd notice among
the Notes for the Curious" you publish
Q sentence claiming TO be the shortest
sentences containing ali the letters in the
alphabet In the English language. II has
thirteen words and forty-seven letters.
Someone sent you . sentence which was
In your issue OF the s0th inst Ii had nine
words and thirty-fve letters, and con-
tanned al OF the letters OF the alphabet.
have one to beat either OF them II has
eight words and thirty Hour letters. II is:
John v. Fox quickly seized Matt Browns
pig" w. z. woopALI-
Yarns CEsrEg, Kan, March 2-Encioeed
find q sentence Of seven words and thirty
iwo letters containing every letter Of ths
alphabet:
James P. Wiz quickly brought I've
dozen" WILL NJ WYsx.
r. s.-Thsre is q man OF thar name
f..wix'') living IN this county.