Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-06-09
IN A DREAM,

new York Tribune Robert Corning.
or Buffalo. at the Fifth Avenue Hotel.
yesterday said: II ran across an old
school friend on the train whom I had
lost sight of for years. and the talk nat
urally drlfted on what we had both been
peen doing since our happy, salad days.
MY tale was soon told, and while not
devoid of certain successful features was
of a cut and dried character, but when he
came to unfold the story of his life it
really sounded like a fairy tale. After
leaving school which he did before COM
pleting the full course, Benedict return
ed home and entered the bank, which
was a sort of family institution, becom-
ing it's cashier, and upon the death of his
father practically the sole manager and
director. To him in the course of his
regular business came a man who desir-
ed to build in. the little country village
a pearl button factory. The security
offered for the loan was sufficient, the
business proposition a good one, and so
money was advanced to the pearl button
mandatory, and as the trade increased
the obligation to the n increased as
well. But one fine day the manufac-
turer failed, and Benedict and his uncle
took over the business, as they felt tina
the bank should not be held responsible.
For two or three years after thai the fac
tory was conducted on a paying basis.
until some genius made the discovery
that the hitherto useless shells of the
mississippi river muSsels or clans could
be made into pearl buttons and sold at a
much cheaper rate thar the button then
on the market. Dozens of factories start
ed up on the bank of the Mississippi, and
Irrncfnt tho hoftnr, fnJI n,,f IF Tho ,,aa-l
button business in other parts Of the
| country.
There We're my friend and his uncle
with a pearl button factory on their
hands, with the business completely ruin
ed. So they east about them for some
thing else to manufacture in the former
button factory. The more they looked
about the less likely it seemed that they
would find what they We're looking for,
when one morning Benedict woke from
a sound sleep in which he had dreamed
of a carpet stretcher and tacker that
could be manipulated standing up. So
vivid was his dream that in that in
slant between waking and sleeping that
partakes of both, he often swears, he saw
the stretcher actually before him in OPP
GRAFTON o n his bedroom carpet. Being
devoid of any knowledge of han
he sent for one of his workmen, describ-
ed what he wanted and told him to see
what he could do. The model turned out
worked to perfection. and Benedict took
it to Washington and patented it. He
then, somewhat in fear as to the result,
started in to manufacture the carpet
s~tretchers. He bought the material for
his first 1000 at 30 days, the goods were
completed in Is days. sold and paid for
in the next 10. and the money was in
hand to meet the 30 day order, so that
not a cent was actually advanced in
cash for the new venture. To-day the
are being turned out at the rate of 1000
a day and are selling like wildfre. while
Benedict is drawn ga double income
from the invention. First, he gets a
royalty on every one manufactured, and,
besides this, he receives dividends from
the stock he owns in the factory. He
accounts for it by the fact that he was
worrying night and day over what to put
in that blessed factory, but it reaches
further than that to my mind. and T unlnk
telepathy must have entered into it. The
story is absolutely true in every detail"