Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-12-08
ALL THINGS ARE COMING
TOWARD TAILOR FLAN
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the coal man, and we're not going to
take it back. If you don't come out
and sign these receipts we'll dump
the coal in the middle of the road
Mrs Flam went to the door, tooth
ache and all, and explained that in the
past two years at least hundred tons
Of coal had been ordered by Metcalfe
to be delivered at the house.
About thirty-five tons have been
dumped on our sidewalk" she cried,
"but the coal dealers came back and
shoveled it up TWO days later, when
they found it had been paid for with
bad checks If you dump it to-day,
you'll only have TO shovel it up again.
See! Hore comes another piano! l
must run into the house. For l got a
heaache and a toothache and I'm pref
ty sure there'll be a few more pianos
to-day, ana l can't stand it any
longer"
Mrs Flam ran into the house and
hid herself. A wagon containing an
upright piano stopped in front of the
house as the coal carts drove away
The piano man ran up the steps, and
pulled the bell Tailor Flam peeped
out of the window and grinned. The
piano man continued to ring the bell.
Flam waved the piano man away.
The piano man shook a receipted bill
at Flam and shouted: Piano for Mr..
Metcalfe."
Flam grinned and turned back to
his work. The piano nan continued
to work the doorbell, and finally one of
Flam's children. boy of six, came out
of the basement door and told the pi
ano man all about Metcalfe and his
orders. The boy added:
Ven you don't take it away der
boys from der street will play it nit
his feet. Last Sunday We had three
barrels ice cream from Metcalfe order
to Morris ice cream parlor on Seventy
fifth street. Der mems wouldn't take it
off der stoop und der boys on der
neighborhood eatened one can. We
had fifteen box of candy yesterday
night und lots more all week und
much more other days. He don need
no money, dot Metcalfe."
The piano man cought the idea and
drove away. Then young Flam went
into the house and told his father that
the new man brought not thing what
the boys would eat"
All day yesterday wagons continued
to stop at the door. Baskets of cham
payne, bedsteads, dressers, carpets, pic
lures, stoves, boxes of bottled beer, tur-
keys, shoes, a barrel of molasses and
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the goods had been sent c. o. D. evil
IDENTIFY because the merchants refused
to accept checks.
1T is getting worser," said Tailor
Flam yesterday afternoon. You see,
this is furnished room house. | let
out rooms. | don't know the names of
all of my tenants, but l know that
none of them is Metcalfe For two
years goods have been coming here
addressed to w. Metcalfe' No such
person ever lived in the house. Every
thing that anybody ever saw has been
sent to this house and the people who
deliver the goods won't listen to what
l tell them because they say that the
goods have been marked paid and that
they don't intend to take the goods
back
They try to tell me | don't know
what | am talking about and then they
leave the goods on the stoOp or in
the hall, and when it's anything to eat
the boys in the neighborhood come
around and say, Mr.. Metcalfe sent us
another party and then they eat it,
and what can | do? That man who
brought rats said that Metcalfe told
his boss that he owned a dog that
killed rats at the rate of dozen min
ute and that he would buy thousands
of rats if the dog liked that kind So
he ordered those rats as samples and
paid SO for them with a fake check
Yesterday a man came from Great
Jones street with a live monkey and he
said that his boss would not take Met
calfe's check and that he had brought
the monkey cash on delivery. He in
sisted that l would have to pay $40
for the monkey. What l want with
a live monkey? Then he went away
and the boys asked him to leave the
monkey by check. because they wanted
fun and they don't know what is cash
on delivery.
SATURDAY man brought TWO Dig
bloodhounds. He wanted to tie them
in the yard. He said they had been
paid for and / told him TO take them
back, as they might eat up my children
before he would find out they were
bought with a bad check He took
them away and I went to the door again
and found a man from some depart
ment store with four silk waists. Then
man came with a pair Of trousers and
then another brought a typewriting
machine. We had SO typewriters here
in the last two years and about a hun
dTed sewing machines. One man brings
baskets of fruit and another comes with
white mice. and then another brought
a trained dog and showed me and ny
wife what funny tricks the dog could
do and | told him that Netcalfe could
DO funnier ones. Then while we were
laughing an undertaker's wagon stop
ped al the door and two men brought
out an ice box and carried it up on the
stoop. They said that Metcalfe had
paid $50 down with a s65 check and had
ordered a funeral for his wife He had
got SIS change from the undertaken.
Half an hour later man came from a
florist with the Gates Ajar' and on ii
was the word Wife. Then another
florist brought cross with the word
Mother and another came with Sis
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