The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1893-12-27
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rhe Man who worked For It Is Wiser Than
he was

rlle Man Who Worked For It Is wiser Than
he was
A penny saved is ia penny gained,
said Donovan Rosa as he stood at
the bridge entrance ON Sands street,
clearing the sweat from his forehead
with his bandana.
i picked oakum and broke stones
for living, but never before sweat
SO hard at making or earning cents
as | sweated today, and here Rosa
showed the nickel which was the re-
ward of his labor.
What do you meanG What is it
all aboutin
1T means this, said Rosa, Il lost
8 cent piece yesterday, and have
sweated my life out of myself today
looking for it. As 1 took the first
step in the line of recovering it /
saw that there We're many steps
more to be taken, so to give myself
the experience of the thing made
mp my mind TO 60 through the mill
and see to the end of it. The story
is this. You can use it. twill be
information for many a Brooklyn
man and woman who occasionally
puts a cent piece instead of a cent
ticket into the receiving box of the
Brooklyn bridge. Yesterday morn
ing was coming from New York.
| was to go to Hancock street on the
elevated road. gave to the ticket
seller a 10 cent piece. got ticket
and cent piece from him. 1 threw
the 5 cent piece into the chopping
box. Twas gone He would not
let me pass until 1 threw ticket
in. Then threw the ticket in. He
told me he could not touch what was
in the box, but that if applied to
the Office, 81 Sands street, Monday
morning. could get my money back.
Monday morning went to 81 Sands
street and was told the box of yester-
days receipts had not been opened
yet. went to New York, and COM
ing back from New York now, Mon
day evening, thought / may call
into the Office and get my 5 cents.
did call and was told should get am
order of verification from the agent
that is, the ticket seller, and the
guardian of the box. Back 1 came,
and as l was going up that stairs,
which thought was the nearest way
to go to the ticket seller, police
man ran after me and told me could
not get up that way. told him the
business was about and whom
wanted to see. We'll, said he, you
have to go up those stairs, pointing
to those three fight stairs on the
street. Up went. told the ticket
seller I wanted an order from him
for the cents. He couldn't give an
order. l went back to 81 Sands
street and told my story. was told
to get from the agent voucher that
l had dropped cents into the box
yesterday. went back to the agent
and told my story to him He had
to call the man who had charge of
the box yesterday. That man re-
membered the occurrence. Then it
was necessary for him to write
voucher. and how to do that and sell
tickets to passengers from the incom-
ing train was the difficulty. 1 wait
ed and waited, standing there as
train after train unloaded its passen-
gers, the advance crowd of one train
catching up to the stragglers of the
preceding train. The sweat was lit.
terally bubbling out of me. At last
there came lull in the traffic. The
ticket seller called the box guardian,
Mr.. Ryan. Mr.. Ryan stated that he
saw me drop the nickel in the box.
The ticket seller wrote verifcation
of having put nickel into the can
ceiling box. / took that yeriication
to 81 Sands street. was directed to
the auditors department. The re-
ceiving clerk there took it to the au-
ditor in an inside room and came
back to me with the money, aad
here Rossa showed the cent piece
he had worked so hard to recover.
renarling that it was the hardest
earned nickel he ever saw.-Brool,-
lyn Eagle.