New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-04-20
THE PASSING THRONG.

Robert Corning. Of Buffalo. az the Fifth Av.,,,.
Hotel. yesterday said: Il ran across an Old srsooI
friend on the rain yesterday rno-.
THE TALE ! had lost sisht Of for years 49,
OF LIES the talk naturally dr1fted On ~.
WORK we had both peer doing sinca -
happy salad days Ny tale va,
soon told. and while not devoid Of certain siIcc4ss
ful features was Of a cut am dried character IA.
when he came 10 unfold the story Of his life !,
really sounded like a fairy tale. After isavtnr
course. Benedict returned hGne and entered ~.
bank. which was sor' Of hmily institution. Be-.
father practically the sole manager and directors
To him In the course Of his Tgular business -ans
a man who desired 70 build in the little corn,r
village n pearl button factov. The security ~
sition good one. and mmey was adva need =
the pearl button msnUfactor, and the trsds
veiI But one ane day the manufacture fs1ls a.
H thsr ft tbaf The hank so SVg no. me b business
sponsible. For two or three years after that fhs
some genius made tbe daco.rgy tbsi Pssi uni,
useless shells OF the Mississippi River muses. %
much Cheaper rate Than e b%ton S sna sold 90 :,
Of DO Rozend fr IsS'o5S started gp on h
fell out Of the pearl button hsness in other paris
OF the country.
There were my friend nd his uncle with .
pearl button factory on theirhands with the bust,
ness completely ruined So thsv
A FORTUNE cast about thin for something el,e
IN TO manufacture in the former but
DREAM. ton factory. The they locked
about the les likely IL seemed thar
they would find what they we're looking for. when
one morning Benedict woke a sound sleep IN
which he had dreamed of a carpet stretcher and
tacker that could be manipulated standing I'D. So
vivid his dream that in that instant bervas,
waking and sleeping that psrakes % both. he now
swears. he saw the stretche actually before hin
I'm operation his bedroom carpet Being devoid
of any knowledge of mechancs. he sent for one OF
his workmen, described wha he wanted and told
him TO see what ne could O. ne model turned
Washington and patented It lie then. somewhat
the carpet stretchers He bGght the material for
his first thousand at thirty days. the goods were
next ten. and the money in hand meet the
thirty day order so that No a cent was actually
advanced in cash for the Few venture. To-Day
they being turned out atthe rate Of four thou
sand day and are selling Ike widire. while
veutiOn First he gets "A -ovolry- on evarv -.
manufactured. and. besides his. he receives divf-
accounts for II by the fact hat he was worrying
night and day over what put in that blessed
mind. and I think teeoathy lust have entered into
II. The story Is absolutely tue in every detail"
VI. o. Hersey. OF Boston Who has Just returned
from business trip throua the Northwest was
at the Hote Manhattan yesterday
PROSPERITY lie said: Everywhere I found
IN THE conditions :, all branches OF trade
NORTHWEST. to be OF III best There seemed
be employment for every one
and a consequent contentmnt with life. which 7
should think would be a chching political argu-
ment in favor of the republican nominee IN the
coming campaign. Just eek to-day was
In Oshkosh, WIS., and no les tnan forty inches %
snow lay upon the ground while raw, disagree
able, windy and intensely cG winter weather pre-
vailed. In Chicago, too. Hound five inches Of
snow. and cold weather, VILE here in NewYork,
just week later. IL Is ahOst like summer. and
for me, at least: l assure you. the contrast IS
almost too great