The Saint Paul globe., 1901-02-11
FOX TERRIER SYNDICATE.
It's FaiImre Due to the Trusts Grasp
ing Tendencies.
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Newark Call
Ssay. friend said the detected one,
walking briskly alongside. m fresn
from Going a ninety up in Paterson Ior
organizing a syndicate, ana L IN hungry.
Got dime about your
Eth" aueried the reporter, pricking up
his ears. ninety days for organizing
syndicate?"
Eyes. SIR fox terrier syndicate, y
said the man proudly. Il had the mar
ket up in Paterson cornered and stood
to make hundreds of good dollars, when
the syndicate was upset by treachery-
pure treachery,'' with sigh
Hum! Hand out the whole tale, and
if it's a good one I'll give you quar-
ter said the scribe, scenting copy.
s'An right, boss. I was looking in a
Paterson paper for help wanted-male'- =
you needn't grin-when L noticed in an
other column four fox terrier dogs adver
tised for-great dogs to get lost, fox ter
riers. An idea came to me. Thinks l.
folks are giving up as high as s. in this
town to get a measly lost deg back,
when they wouldn't lend a hard working
man a dollar to keep him from stary ,nS.
I'll Just round up those lost dogs and
get the five bones apiece for them. 70
do il I'll have 20 get in touch with the
fellows who swiped them
Yes sold the reporter, for the man
seemed lost in introspect.
''Oh, excuse me, [ was thinking hcW
I'd spend that quarter. / spent my laSt
cent for an advertisement and offered
SIS reward for a lost fox terrier-Wn-t2,
with brown and black spots; answers TO
the name OF 'Dewey'-a pretty good ce-
scription of the whole breed. The ad-
dress was vacant lot in Paterson S
swell residence street, up Sandy Hill way.
I needed a helper, and struck the very
man l wanted-a scrapper, down on hrs
luck, named 'Biiffer.' 'Bliffer WASH [
very fast witted--L thought he want
(sfghing deeply)-but he was man YOU'D
hate to meet in a. lonely spot on dark
night. His part was to meet the long
lost pup in it's finders arms, grab it and
scare the thief to death, and he Was 10
get 81 of the reward for the job.
s'Twenty-flve dollars offered for a lost
fox terrier in Paterson made a bigger
stir among the easy fingered than
imagined it would 1t kept 'Biffer' busy
taking away fox terriers which they had
pinched from rich houses to- see if they
wouldn't fit with that fat reward The
syndicate idea came to me as | saw ter
riers rolling in, and sold a likely pup
to a saloonkeeper for 81 and advertised
fresh, raising the ante to $S5.
st cleaned up the supply of terriers in
the Paterson market and Gagged them
in an old barn down by Riverside The
next night there was a solid column of
fox terriers in the paper at 50 a head
reward-and L had seventy-five terriers
down in the barn.
:. 'Biffer' got uneasy. He counted on
his fingers a long time, and 1nIly fig
ured out that I would get sS7J for the
lot. When he learned that the syndicate
was going to hold the terriers for tiff.
rise he put in bill for a big slice OF the
total, and right there is where the syn
dicate made It's big mistakc-it should
have promised the divvy and sktppe,1 at
the cean-up. Instead it held 'Biffer'
right down to his bargain. 81, and as
events showed set the slow wheels IN mis-
head to turning.
''The second night Sc was offered for
terriers and the next Sc. 5GPatersoH all
over, that half dollar. The market was
firm with no sales. waiting for the $40
mark. Then, when the syndicate,s gar