The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1895-04-18

runway ticH, Ithttu IoI u SlDTb lilne
were scattered through the tract tc
f>rcshadow the coming trImways
To hear of these things through tho
newspapers did the pub ic seriously
incline. When the second sale tool
place, the crowd in attendance wa'
enormous. People fought for places
and offered to pay such amazing price,
that the major, hardened horse-dealei
that he was, almost hesitated to ac
ccpt the bids. When the day was done
the city of Rome had passed complete
Is out OF the possession of the com
pany,
Now it was the general who coun
sclcd Immediate flight, lie had re
ccived a little more inside informa
tion'-the c. Il. r. Il. was not coming
70 California at all I'VE aust get out
Of the country before that is sprung,
said he, 'or we slall be tarrctt ant
fcathercd."
And the many promises of TX
Glorious Climate company" said III:
coloncl-''thc boulevards we were t
hu!ld, parks to lay out, public build
iugs TO construct-how about themP"
The general smiled. Let the Eng
fish syndicate take care of all that,
said he
\ few days later, the trio had disap
peared. So had the laborers upon this
foundations of Rome. AS matter oil
fact, the great boom in southern Cali.
fornia was at an end The impression
began to leak into many people thai
somewhere they had heard something
about "a fool and his money"
As for the three, they certainly were
no fools. But
The general went to New York and
lost it all in Wall street
The colonel went to Ohio and lost il
all trying to found newspaper.
The major went to Europe and lost
it all at Monte Carlo.
Naturally each, when stranded, APP
pealed to the others. Naturally, too,
the reply in each ease was depressing.
1t was seven years after the episode OF
Rome that the three men drifted to.
gether again in Chicago.
The generals coat was again shiny
at the seams and his cuffs frayed as
before. The colonel drank beer and
smoked cheap cigars, The major had
evidently taken To strong liquors.
Each confessed to discomfort, though
none of them was disposed to go into
particulars, All lamented the halcyon
days of the founding of Rome.
There was no such combination as
that at Monte Carlo" said the major.
mo such lambs in Wall street,
sighed the general.
NO such suckers in Ohio" echoed
the colonel.
why not so back there?" asked the
general. II don't mean to Rome, fol-
the coyotes must have jumped that
claim, hut to southern California.
Wake said the colonel. briefly.
Il can get the transportation, " said
the general, My pull with the road
still holds good-one way"
One way" repeated the major.
"Yos-away from New York, where
my swell relatives live. The return is
not SO easy"
shall we so by the California o,
Bust line?" asked the major, with q
grin.
You needn't laugh" said the gen
eral That road was built after all
and intend To get passes over it."
Four days later, as the {. Il, K, r
Overland" was nearing the end of it,
run, the three comrades, deep in .
poker game in the smoking car, Were
electrified to hear a passenger saying;
This station is Rome. Grown quite
n city, hasn't it,"
"Nha-a-t" cried the general. drop
ping his cards, is there Il Rome or
this Gne?"
is there?" echoed the passenger
just look out of the window and see
The three rushed to the platform
just as the train drew up ut hand
some station surrounded by we'll
kept park. In plain letters over tn,
door they read the name:
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