The sun. (Wilmington, Del.) 1897-19??, 1901-05-07
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Pleasant man with the sun-peeled
nose, until last Sunday, in Atlantic
City. Then it struck me that it would
be mighty fine thing if the United
States government owned and oper-
ated the telegraph lines, SO that con-
gress could pass law making pro-
vision for the transmission of money
by wire on Sundays as well as on week
days. just why the telegraph com
| panies decline to use the wires on
Sunday for the relief of broke persons
at distant points from their headquar-
ters is something that / can't under
| stand. A man is as liable to stack up
against financial insolvency on Sunday
AS on any other day of the week, isn't
he? And yet, for some inexplicable
reason, the telegraph companies won't
| wire money on Sundays, and if Baron
Rothschild were to wake up in Des
Moines on Sunday morning and find
himself without enough funds in his
clothes to get him through the day,
he'd have to try his luck at touching
the Des Moines citizens for enough
coin to last him until the following
morning, for he couldn't get sou
marllee by telegraph, no matter how
hot he makes the wires.
This rule of the telegraph compa-
MES gave me Il pretty warm day of it
last Sunday at Atlantic City. | went
down there alone on the previous Fri
day. My wife was not able to accom-
pany me, because she was entertaining
II lot of her relatives from the west,
and she had already put in three
weeks at the seashore, anyhow, earlier
in the summer.
81 was floating around on the
board walk on Saturday night with a
lot of Washington chaps I met down
at Atlantic, when in the neighborhood
of ten o'clock / put my hand III my
breast pocket to get my wallet in or
!. der to pay for a round of-er-sar-
saparlla. The wallet wasn't there. I
did the livelest hunt through all the
rest of my clothes that you ever saw,
but the wallet was gone. l had either
dropped it, or it had been deftly re-
moved from my inside pocket as T
threaded through the crowd on one of
the piers. There was about $50 in the
. wallet, and the Washington chaps
with whom I'd been drifting around
had seen me skin bill out of it only
about Is minutes before. But it was
absent. all right. My Washington
s friends wanted to lend me money, but
: Pm not much on the borrow, except
D in the most extreme cases, and so |
. left the crowd, went to my hotel and
wired my wife in Washington to tele-
graph me $50 the first thing on Sun
, day morning. / didn't know then that
; telegraph companies refuse to trans
: nit money on Sundays. went to bed
D in the serene belief that I'd find in
my letter box downstairs on the fol-
lowing morning a notification from
one of the telegraph companies that
: 30 large. iron dollars were awaiting
n my demand for samewith proper iden-
l. tification.
J. "Instead of that found telegram
Q from my wife to this effect:
"'Can't wire money on Sunday. VIII
try other means
n "'She can't wire money on Sunday
d hey" ] growled to myself. well
d she's become pretty religious all OF
r; sudden and it was some time be
y fore the fact began to dawn upon ms
q that it wasn't any newly-formed re
2, ligious scruples on my wfe's part, but
= rule of the telegraph companies thai
! made it impossible for her to wire me
4 money on Sunday. I was informed
ir that this was the case when / made
y inquiry upon the matter at the hote
ID telegraph office. I was red-hot ant
s. Tuning. I was fiat broke in Atlanti,
city on Sunday. Moreover, I had Il
be back in Washington on the follow
ing morning, and | hadn't bought ;
I'd round-trip ticket, and there was m,
I'd hotel bill to be settled. I'm afrait
lie that I ate my mustache and breathet
D. many sulphurous things with refer
ence to telegraph companies when al
of this flashed over me.
asMy wife says in her dispatch tina
hs she'll try other MEANS ] reflected, a
n I sulked around the hotel veranda aft
re err breakfast. L wonder what thos
n means are going to be? Maybe she'l
~, take the first train down herself. May
~ be she'll send the housemaid dow
" with the money. Maybe she'll tie
". purse around the neck of the fox tel
rier pup and ship him along in tn
baggage car of the first train. May
IN be she'll send it by carrier plgeoi
ND Maybe she'll charter Prof. Langley
70, airship or aeroplane and fetch it dow
%. oa that way. Maybe She but at tina
=; 81 point had to give it up. was dete,
dc mined not to tackle any of my Wasl
ret ington friends for enough money
,er see me through until the mornln
ed for that's a kind of business l don
rtl like.
airs aWell, there T was all that Sunda
I'M morning without the price OF q
re-, in the surf in my clothes-without Il
M price of a cigar, for the matter of tina
II Wa. the 6rst TINA had haen alb