The Van Buren press., 1895-11-30
Senator Jones' Good Luck,

The Washington correspondent of the
Chicago Record says Senator James X.
Jones, of Arkansas, is going to be a
Il The lio recently recent.
appeared in the Record. s.Senator
Jones, of Arkansas, has always been a
poor, plodding country lawyer. satisfied
with limited practice and small fees. He
came modestly into the Senate without
footing or trumpets. He appeared
seldom in debate, but made himself felt
in the committee room and WAS soon
recognized as a man of ability. so that
when wise, prudent and conservative
manager was needed for the tariff bill
in 1894 he was selected as chairman of
the sub committee. He has lived
unostentatiously since he came to
Washington. His family have not
appeared in society and have been
regarded as plain, unpretentious
people.
but hear that Mr.. Jones is going
to be millionaire. ali as reward for
his patience and faith in an eccentric
inventor by the name of Graves down
in Arkansas, whom he has befriended
and supported from his own slim income
for many years. Graves is man Of
inventive genius, but ne er do well
and entirely without money making
faculties. He has produced several
useful mechanisms but they have never
paid him anything and he lived in
penury and often in privation until
Senator Jones accidentally saw a method
he Rad contrived for COMPRISING cotton
into circular instead of angular bales.
Ii occurred to him that this was a very
important matter and ne encouraged
Graves to develop the idea. In the
meantime furnishing him money TO feed
himself and his family and buy materials
% carry on his experiments. As a con-
sideration for this assistance the
inventor assigned to his benefactor
half interest in the patents.
Mr.. Jones one day happened to
mention the circumstances TO his
colleague. Senator Camden. The latter
sfterward related the story TO William
Johnston, the proprietor of the line of
big cargo steamers that carry cotton and
cattle between Baltimore and Liverpool.
Mr.. Johnston was so much interested
in the subject that he Immediately
started for Little Rock, where he
obtained from Senator Jones and Graves
al uptlOu upon al tuc pdtcue iiSuto dhu
at once organized a company to manu-
faeture and operate the machines.
Jones and Graves being given 49 per
cent of the shares of the company.
The economy of the machine was
soon demonstrated. 1t packs the cotton
so that so per cent of freight charges
can be saved. The bale has the shape
of cylinder instead of cube, and the
same amount of cotton that fills the
space 40 cubic feet in an angular bale
occupies only % cubic feet when shaped
like a cylinder. The first shipment of
cylinder bales was made early in the
present season and about 1000 have
been sent thus far. Although as heavy
as the old fashioned bale they are much
more easily and quickly handled, for
they can be rolled in and out of ware
houses and railway cars. The company
has engaged as its superintendent Mr..
Anderson, who was connected with the
electrical department at the World
Fair, and they are beginning to place
the machines upon the market. Mr..
Johnston believes there is more money
in it than in any other invention since
the telephone.