The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-01-23
looked up. He simply reached for a
blank sheet of paper and wrote:
Give this boy all the papers
: he wants on credit
: W. P {


.rr
Then he went on with his leader
writing r paid no more attention to
me. not even when I thanked him.
I showed the note TO the delivery
man, who simply Whistied. bat gave ne
the Paper willingly now. | got them
on to the train and we got away on
time, after all.
Now, 1t is curious how these things
stick in ones memory. 1 can remem-
Der very well the crowd that waited at
the first place we stopped. The people
were terribly excited. They wanted
those papers faster han 1 could give
them cut. There were so many waiting
that 1 could not serve them all by the
time the train pulled out 1t gave ne
another idea. / raised the price TO 10
cents e we reached the next place.
and l sold them as fSst as I could at
that. / got rid OF some hundreds Of
papers at the first three or four places.
Further on several men offered me %
Genus, and they were so eager that !
made the nearly fatal mistake of get
ting down among them. Well. you
never saw such a mob. They knocked
me about shamefulIy. and 1 had 10
night my way back to the train in time
10 get on before it pulled out. Then il
grew worse as we went further on.
fer. you see. the day was advancing
and more people were up to hear the
news. n the thought that the train
might pull out at any moment always
made them crazy 10 be waited on.
ThOse kilograms did their work well.
Why, when we pulled into Port Huron
two-thirds of my stock were gone.
BATTLE OF THE SAND PILE.
Just where the train entered the
outskirts OF the town there was a big
sand pile. In selling papers in that city
l never used TO ride into the regular
station. The engineer would slow up
on the curve near the sand pile and
l used to jump off and work my way
up through the town yelling the news
as l went. L did not yell any news this
day. 1t seems that some persons must
nave known about my habit of jump
inS, for we pulled around the
curve there was an enormous mob
waiting. Why, I never saw the town
turn out so many people. At first I
did not think they were waiting for
me; 1 thought there vas some celebra-
ton on hand. But 1 knew what they
wanted a minute afterward. When J
jumped down on the sand they gave
one great yell and came for me all
together. 1 was frightened and l think
| could have u AVA If l had had
time TO think, but they closed in en-
me on all sides and 1 couldn't set away.
The rush was something terrible.
They screamed at me and pulled me,
they tore my clothes and fought one
another TO get to me. They did not even
allow me TO sell the papers in the regu-
lar way. l did not have to take ad-
vantage of the situation and raise the
price. They put it up for men. Men
thrust % cents, 50-cent notes, dollars
and two dollars into my face and my
pockets and dragged papers away from
Some of them would get a paper
and then have to fight for it after
wards. 1t was feEdish, and they still
kept It up after the papers were all
one and 1 stood there with my hands
and pockets fun of money. Why, I
never got of the sand pile and / was q
sight when they got through
We'll, when | pulled myself together
and pinned up the rents 50 I could go
into town and counted my money, I
found I was about $150 ahead on the
day. l went pack and paid my bill at
the paper Office. and the money. well.
1 did things with that, t0o. But what
was more to the point, I saw that all
that happened had really resulted from
these kilograms. L thought if the tele-
graph would do such a wonderful thing.
there must be something in it worth
studying. I did study it and tina prac-
tically is what led me into the business
of inventing-
THEODORE WATERS"