The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-08-26

with messenger boys and everybody else
The had been printed al
right because the men who got them Oul
did not know Of their good luck until
thew reached their homes. Blu they had
sent word down by their children OF
friends that they would not return 70
work. But the papers might as Wen not
I have been printed, because the nSWSDOyS
(, would not sell them, the eXpressmen
would not deliver them. and the trains
would not carry them All hands had re-
ceived a hundred thousand dollars apiece.
and who would work when he had mat
much money!"
"All the telephone exchanges are clos
ed" he went on; 'all the messenger boys
have retired to enjoy their wealth; there
are no telegraph operators at work no
trains running, for engineers n cOnduc-
tors and brakemen and firemen with SlOO,-
900 N pocket can afford TO leave their
work and take a much-needed rest All
the restaurants are closed. because cooks
and walters and diShwaSherS a gone
on to enjoy their money; the hotels are
helpless, because nobody but the land
Io~cS and guests emain n even those
landlords who do not preside over their
own hotels have quit their houses and
are out TO have d goo time as gentlemen
OF elegant leisure and extensive acQuaint-
2nce- The steamers will not sail from
their docks today, nor tomorrow, for
there IS no force to man them; no goods
are delivered, for every Woodworking
teamSter and SteVedOre and dock hand Is
MS bread by the sweat or his brow, or OF
any other part of his person; all build
ing IN town has stopped, and contracts
are at end, all the labOrerS on the streets
have quit work and are looking for places
Where they can spend the summer; there
not a cab or carriage TO be had for
love or for money, and the poor horses
are nkelE to StarVe In their stalls. Tor
coachmen n hOstlers are too rich to
wn-E at such mental labor; the theatres
not alreac~7 closed for the summer are
done now. because TOR once the actors
ana actresses nave money enough 10 burn
and they have quit playing and started
ire fires the music halls are still; the
saloons are closed tighter n the tenn
perance people or the police could ever
close them, for there is nobody to mix
the festive drink or serve the simple
straight; the factories have shut down;
the tramp has quit tramping; the under
taker has shut up shop, for he no longer
has to bury the dead of others in order
TO make his own living: there won't be
any baseball this afternoon: the races are
of, for the jockeys don't have to ride for
their dollars; the schools won't keep any
more, for teacher can live without teach
ing; the churches hav put up their tut
tiers, because preachers can render great
er service with their money; and there's
nothing on earth, Jane. for us to do but
to send for the children TO come home
from the seminary and college, right
away, and We'll go of SOmeWher and
enjoy ourselves as the rich always do.
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being perfectly Independent, isn't it,"
Mr.. Tankerman rose and walked up and
down the narrow apartment, looking up
on his environments with a large and in
creasing contempt.
Mrs. Tankerman was thoughtful.
John. she said, with that deep insight
into the predetermined that only a wO-
mans intuition can fathOm. how are
the children going TO get home if we DO
send for them? Walk? And how are we
going TO send for them2 Will you carry
the message? 1t is go miles to where
the. are, John"
to universal wealth thrust themselves I'M
pleasantly upon Mr.. Tankerman. He had
before been brought face TO face
with them, and now as he met them for
the first time and began to realize what
really were, he made a violent effort
to be calm He stopped walking up and
down, and stood looking gravely at his
wife. The possession OF wealth had be-
gun to exert its influence. A new thought
had swept upon him on the wave of a
emotion. The John Tankerma4
Of today was a rich man as compared
with the John Tankerman of yesterday. f.
what were the Tankerman thousands
TO the millions of other people not a whit
better than the Tankermans were.
My dear" he said. when the thought
permitted speech. I'll tell you what, Ia
is capital now. You do the cooking.
housekeeping and ironing. and III go and
hire out to do anything. and We'll be mil
before the summers over Then
we'll be somebody as is somebody. What's 4
r paltry S100,O002'
Thus soon had the possession of enough
developed the desire for more.