The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1893-03-30
A VICTIM OF 4 CORPORATION.
Low n President and General Manager
Was Frozen Out by His Companions.

low N President and General Manager
Was Frozen Out by His Companions.
Speaking of corporations" said
prominent st. Louis banker, 81 recall
with painful reminiscence the first one
of which | had the honor to be stock
holder. 1t happened in 1865, and was
Just fifteen years of age. OF course
had no idea that it was really corpora
ton in which l had invested, but as
look back upon the incident the realiza-
ton rushes upon me that was vlctim
Of corporation methods.
SIT happened in this way. AT very
early age my tendency for mercantile
pursuits developed. At school ] noticed
a very general demand for candy and
cakes and an exceedingly limited supply
in the market. Many of the children
possessed coppers and nickels, but it
was nearly q mile from the school house
to the country town, assi the boys were
compelled to forage @Grs!. the neighbor-
ing susa4 cane fields ana dorchards to sat-
isfy the youthful stomach. After care
full survey of the market decided that
the school was confronted by q condi-
ton, not theory.
SIN few days I had secured the CO.
operation of half dozen boys, with
capital of thirty cents, in which held
ten cents of the stock, and was conse-
auently named as president and man
ager of the candy store which we pro
posed to open on the grounds. We found
an enormous dead and fallen tree, whose
butt end offered little resistance to ou.
penknives. At noon one day notified
the stockholders that meeting would
be held Immediately after school, and at
that meeting 1, as president and man
ager, cut an opening into the dead tree
fashioned O shelf therein and attached 9
door, while the stockholders looked on
in admiration. then proposed that early
in the morning each stockholder shouic
bring with him five cents worth o.
candy wherewith to stock the juvenile
store.
ssTo my astolnishment it was movet
and seconded and carried that the cand.
. should be purchased and delivered a
!, once, so that the store might have al
s early and perfect opening. Tired as
n was repaired to the town, invested m,
4 ten cents in cheap candy, returned 7
Q the school grounds where already tn
Q twilight was making ghostly figure
:. among the trees, and deposited my treas
r ure in the store. It was quite dark whe
n / reached home, and being unable to az
+ count for my whereabouts the pres
5 dent and manager went to bed supper
less and with back stinging from tn
"a effects of switch literally applet
a Next morning hastened to the scho'
a grounds in order to be first at the GER
or monies. Imagine my surprise when
IN found there, seated in row, all u
"a stockholders. I congratulated them {
u their interest in the enterprise, and the
ut threw open the door oL.the candy stor
10 1t was empty! -,
OF "For moment was speechless. II
stockholders bent their heads and sa
nothing. They looked suspiciously co
tented, and when intimated that sor
,e, good man among us had gone wrol
III they were all prepared to prove that
a daring burglar had, in the midnig
OF hour, deprived the corporation Oh It's
cn SETS
alf "Ten years later one Of the stockho
by ers admitted that he had helped
NJ brethren in disposing of the stock. -
ity Louis Republic.