The herald., 1897-09-16
THE LOST is FOUND
JULES g. MOLLERE OF NEW Or
LEANS CAPTURED
Railroads Foxy Game Keeps Many
Letter Carriers Away-What
Those Here Are Doing

The anxiety. not to say chagrin, that
has racked the souls of local letter car
riers in general and the reception COM
mittee in particular for twenty-four
hours is relieved. Jules G. Mollere of
New Orleans has been located and cap
tured beyond any hope Of escape.
When he stepped from the train Tues
day morning he was the sole and only
delegate that materialized out of the $50
which were expected and had been pre-
pared for, in the way of chartering street
cars and tallyhos, brewing punch, ETC..
and the entire reception committee made
a simultaneous lunge in his direction
he should have all they had to give for
himself.
But he thought differently. Self-pres-
ervation is natures first law, and Mollere
slipped through the outstretched arms of
the reception committee, fled for his life
and was seen no more. Some of the car
riers thought he had chosen the lesser
of two evils and journeyed on by the next
train to New Orleans and the yellow
fever; the rest didn't know what to
think. But yesterday when the Phila-
delphia delegates arrived at 1870 and E.
f. Richards, with others, went to the
train, he spied the elusive Mollere in the
crowd, told the rest, and by concerted
maneuver he was surrounded and
gathered in.
They decorated him, metaphorically,
with an Oregon boot and handouts, and
he Is still theirs. OF course he told his
captors that it was not that he had loved
them less, but his mo ther and sister more
that he had deserted them the previous
day.
OF course they were skeptical, but mer-
ciful as well, and when in the afternoon
the Philadelphia contingent went for a
tallyho drive to Pasadena Mollere was
lashed to a seat-and went too. And when
they returned in the evening he went to
the chamber of commerce surrounded by
a Gordon of the reception committee, who
had learned discretion from past eXpe-
rience and who are going to either keep
Mollere away from his family the rest
of the time he is here or else go with him
to see and be convinced.
Incidentally it is now becoming ap-
parent why more of the delegates did not
seems that the roads west of Chicago
played the same artless little game with
the letter carriers that they did with the
Christian Endeavorers. They arranged
it so that to come south either the rate
reduction was forfeited or the extra sum
of $23 must be paid for the round trip here
and back to San Francisco.
The fifteen men who came in on the
Tuesday noon train and who came from
Minnesota, Missouri, Michigan, Illinois
and other places, are travelling on those
tickets which include several side trips
hereabouts and are good until the 30th
Yesterday they went out over the Orange
belt to Cotton, Riverside and Redlands
and returning about $3.50 went to the
chamber Of commerce to meet the rest
of the visitors and the local carriers for
an informal hobnob and some lemonade
and fruit.
The Philadelphia delegation, which got
in yesterday noon and is travelling back
over the Santa Fe. as it came, in it's own
car, spent the afternoon at Pasadena
and came back in time to join the others
at the chamber of commerce in the even
ing.
Today the Philadelphians go out over
the Orange belt and the kite-shaped
track, and start for the east Friday
morning; the others go to Pasadena
in the morning, Santa Monica in the
afternoon, and some of them start for the
north in the evening.
E. F. Richards, who was one of the Los
Angeles delegates to the convention in
San Francisco, says he doesn't under
stand where anybody got the idea that
there would be $50 of the delegates COM