The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1900-06-03
. TELEGRAM SIGNED BUB.
IT WAS ABOUT ONE jim CONWAY
AND IT SEEMED BELLICOSE.

ass bShsC 'ssV
and Mother-in.Law Got Ready Immedi-
ately for Trouble-LAst Chance Of the once
Boy, Who wasn't Consulted in the Matter.
When the senior partner OF q young two
handed firm OF patent attorneys reached the
FIRMS office In West Broadway on Monday
morning last his eye caught sight Of q tele-
gram addressed to his junior partner on the
lattsr's desk. A the Junior partner was in
Washington and wasn't due back In New York
until Z or 8 o'clock In the afternoon. the
senior partner opened the telegram. It was
q night message from st. Louis. and 1t read
a. follows:
Hammer Jim Conway. Punch him your
easy. BuB."
The senior partner scratched his head over
this
"Conwsy-Jim Conway. he muttered TO him
self. Now. who the dickens can Jim Con-
way be, I'd like to know We've got no
client named Jim Conway. and we're not fight
Ing any infringement case in which a Mr.. Con-
way Is the defendant Darned funny tele-
gram. this is"
The senior partner turned the message up
side down and every which way, but the longer
he looked at It from various points Of view
the more puzzled he became
Mighty belligerent sort Of an affair. too"
he unused Now. what has this Jim Conway
done to my partner that he needs TO be punched
for II? And who's this Bub' Bubl That's q
deuce Of an u~ndisnifed name for a man to
put on paper. Great Scott! wonder II my
Junior partner has gone In for prize fighting
at that Jersey athletic club he belongs tor
Perhaps he's been matched to box some fell
lowmember nance jim Conway. and this Bub
chap down at St Louis Ia wiring him encour-
agement. Nope. that can't be right, either.
My Junior partner has been taking on fat at
an alarming rate lately. so that he can't be
training for a boxing contest"
lie took q few turns UP and down the oflce.
holding the telegram out at arms length.
Il hope the boy don't get into a serious mix-up
with this jim Conway fellow, whoever he is"
he muttered nervously. i don't believe the
boy has done anything that he'd be ashamed
TO have me know about. and yet It's blamed
queer that he should be getting telegraphic
dispatches from people by the name OF Dub.
urging him to employ physical force for the
subJueation Of a chap with such a BoweryesQuo
sort OF name as Jim Conway. The question
Is. what's the boy done to Conway. or Conway
TO him, that II should be necessary for one or
both Of them 10 resort to fsticuffs' Now.
II the boy were TO get mixed up In a brawl with
this Conway there'd be the deuce to pay. II
I'D get into the papers, and It might have a
serious effect upon our tidy and growing prac-
tice. I wish that Junior partner Of mine were
a bit more level-headed. He's too clever and
industrious and promising 10 have anything
whatsoever to do with folks who travel under
such names a. Conway and Bub, and I'm going
to give him a mild little personally conducted
talking to when he gets back from Washing
ton this afternoon. Why. / wouldn't have
him get into a street neht, or afght anywhere
else for that matter, for big money not only
for the sake OF the firm. but for his own sake
He's pretty handy with his maulies. and all
that. but this fighting business Is not the thing
for gentlemen, not by q long shot. Just
wish I could find out who this Conway dufYer
Is. anyhow"
The young woman who manipulates the type
writer for the firm came in just then.
by the way. Miss Bringlunch." the senior
partner said to her. have we any person on
the name Of Jim Conway on our list Of cor
respondents'"
NO. sir" she promptly replied. We've
got a Corners. Coleman, Coulter. Connect.
Curran-lots and lots of C's-but nj Conwa' -"
so l thought. said the senior partner.
-Er-by the way. did you ever happen to hear
Mr., Barlock refer TO a person by the name
o~f-er-Bub?"
The young woman smiled as she tied her
black sateen apron In the back.
I've heard him call the neNsboys who come
into the office with parers Bub. she replied.
"Er-yes, ye ;" murmured the senior partner,
so have But this is St Louis Bub Well
The senior partner Owed into the mass of
paJers on his desk. but he couldn't get the
blooothirsty telegram To his Junior partner out
OF his mind. lie was pulling over il stul
radiant when his junior partners young wife
came in along toward II o'clock in the morn
ing She wanted TO find out the exact hour her
husband was due back from Washington.
Hell be here a little after = guess,
said the senior partner. 'Er,by the way,
friends or acquaintances any body by the name
Of Jim Conway
Jim Conway" repeated the junior partners
T !hs;' I F snow a o. ilns ins at ns heard l1G' hin M say ah nSi hHs
about a Mr.. Conway, Why"
oh. nothing. said the senior partner. in a
% constralns from sort 3. q fon nGnf for p ,se {fti sMay tim ,me
The wife of the Junior partner suddenly looked
alarmed.
-. that hat, telsMsml- s shs s ssspsd' =, a a}}nsins
the despatch into his pockets ANYTHING
wrong with JACKIE Hasthe train been wrecked'
And she started to her feet in great agitation,
Calm yourself. calm yourself. said the senior
partner. also rising and smiling reassurtngly.
There's nothing the matter. Train wrecked2
Why, the idea. How did you ever get such a
notion
but that telegram that you handle so mys-
teriously, " said the junior partners wife, not
what teieSram-thisp- said the senior
partner, taking the night message from st.
Louis from his pocket, why. this Is an or
dinpry-er-business telegram addressed to
Jack from 81. Louis. and It's"
the Junior partner wife, holding out her neatly
sloved hand, and the senior partner could do
nothing else but pass II over.
"'Hammer-Jim-Conway.. Pu~nch-him-
your limit. ELECTROMAGNETIC
out. He's--easy. BUD" the Junior partners
wife read. slowly and distinctly, her eyes widen
ing at each sentence; .Thi. then, Is the Mr.
what 4 the meaning Of thisf What In the
world Ia the"
"You can search mo- said the senior part
ner desperately. "Er-that lie. it's all as mys-
FERROUS TO me as II apparently n TO you. I've
been botherins my head about i all the morning.
you. but as long as you asked to see IT. why, OF
course
And the senior partner coushed behind his
hand and looked dismal
The junior partners wife paced up and down
the office with the telegram In her hand.
Jim Conway, and that he intended to fght him.
doesn't IT." she exclaimed beseechingly 10 the
senior partner. I'D Just like to know who
this horrid, nasty rufiian who signs himself
Bub ia, that g all: My Jack fighting a man with
such an awful, 'longshoremanish name as Jim
Conway! Why, that name sounds like the
names OF the roustnbouts we read of In the
,,,ara uho attack their moor wiyaa With cot