The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-02-15

sell them. except through the fal1irs, ev
cry last man of whom, knowing the hole
l was in, refused TO take them at any
price. l determined to fight them out,
win or lose the game. If l had backed
down then, l might as we'll have given up
business
First, made arrangements to stow the
gold bugs as they arrived, Then l blocked
one of the fakirs' moves. l had a lot of
pearl flags on hand that might have serv-
ed we'll enough for souvenirs of the parade.
This the fakirs knew; and they We're de-
pending upon selling them for the money
there always is in such big day When
! sold them to the dealers-as | did on the
very next day-it startled the fellows a
little, but they didn't crawl. Day after
day they hung off-every day is like a year
at a time like that The gold bugs kept
coming in, case after case of them, and
L packed them all away without sign
of weakening. Sink or swim, said |, they
will pay me 81 a dozen or nothing.
Finally, the day before the parade ar
rived. l had 40,O00 gold bugs on hand; and
in the afternoon l had a telegram from
Bristol that there would be 5000 more for
me there that night, but that there was
no way to get them through before the
next day. That wouldn't do l had to
have them in the morning. or they were
like old clothes here | might sell them,
there 1 couldn't. So I went to Bristol I
reached there about o'clock in the even
ing. The rain was pouring down, and
gave me new ground for worry. If it
rained in New York on the next day, my
chance of getting the gold bugs off my
hands would indeed be slim. However, /
resolved to act as though fine weather was
promised.
Here are the gold bugs was the first
thing the proprietor of the - works said
to me.
Put them in the cases. said I.
Not a case on hand" said he. That's
the trouble"
1T struck me right away that trunks
were as good as case. 1 could sell the
trunks again. I ransacked the town for
them and o'clock though it was manag-
ed to get enough. - When the gold bugs
were packed 1 learned for the first time
that the express company wouldn't do
business at such a late hour-never found
out the reason yet-and a new difficulty,
a real difficulty, stared me in the face.
what am 1 going to do?' 1 asked, I
can't afford to charter a train
Don't know, I'm sure was the answer
I got.
Why they're trunks I thought. I'll
take them as baggage although the ex-
cess will cost me pretty penny
THE train left near midnight. 1t took me
every minute to get those trunks to the
station. When the last one arrived, l
felt like saying Saved. The baggage
master objected and the baggage men
swore, but they had to get those heavy
trunks on the train, and they did it at
last.
Il arrived at the Grand Central station
at o'clock in the morning, with three
hours to get my trunks to my place of
business and get ready for the fight with
the fakirs that 1 knew had to come. I tel
ephoned for express wagons, but not
civil answer could get. And the trunks
had to be moved you know. hurried over
to East Twelfth street, reused my own
expressman, and, with his aid loaded the
wagon and carted the gold bugs to the
shop.
when l opened up at o'clock in the
morning, the faldrs were in line at the
door-the whole 200 of them. They had
to come down; they couldn't miss the
days profits, and they had nothing TO sell
but my gold bugs.
- They will cost you 50 a Dozen I said.
1.-THE men paid it, and they made well
by the bargain. Before o'clock that af-
ternoon L was sold out Why, the public
fairly ate those gold bugs up. It seemed
as though we couldn't get them on the
street fast enough. When the last one
left the shop, went home to sleep. Yes,
il was bluff hand, but / played it Well"
Sanders added that he had 10000 more
on hand on election day-all gold bugs.
He was a little in doubt about the re-
suit of the election, and, as a precaution,
had crude metal plating plant in readi-
ness for the emergency of Bryan's cleo
ton.
Silver or gold" says he, 81 was ready.
Those gold bugs could have been changed
to silver in an hour if it had been neces-
sary"