Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1901-05-11
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- NEVER took any socialistic fads
to my BOSOM" said the Mount
Pleasant man with the sun-peeled
nose, until last Sunday, in Atlantic
City. Then it struck me that it would
% mighty fine thing il the United
states government owned and oper-
ated the telegraph lines, so that con-
gress could pass a law making pro-
vision for the transmission of money
ey wire on Sundays as well as on week
Gays. Just why the telegraph COM
Fanies decline to use the wires on
sunday for the relief of broke persons
NJ distant points from their headouar-
sers is something that / can't under
stand. A man is as liable to stack up
against financial insolvency on Sunday
NJ on any other day of the week, isn't
he7 And yet, for some inexplicable
reason, the telegraph companies won't
wire money on Sundays, and il Baron
Aothschild were to wake up in Des
Aoines on Sunday morning and find
eimself without enough funds in his
sothes to get him through the day,
Asd have to try his luck at touching
she Des Moines citizens for enough
soin to last him until the followinp
@orning, for he couldn't get a sou
narkee by telegraph, no matter how
Aot he makes the wires.
This rule of the telegraph compa-
sies gave me pretty warm day of it
sAst Sunday at Atlantic City. I went
, acwn there alone on the previous Fri
DAY. My wife was not able to accom-
Pany me, because she was entertaining
p lot of her relatives from the west
and she had already put in three
weeks at the seashore, anyhow, earlier
IN the summer.
- was floating around on the
board walk on Saturday night with a
Dot of Washington chaps I met down
at Atlantic, when in the neighborhood
of ten o'clock / put nv hand in NV
breast pocket to get my wallet in or
Saer TO pay for round of-er-sar-
SaParilla. The wallet wasn't there.
lid the liveliest hunt through all the
rest OF my clothes that you ever saw
but the wallet was gone. / had either
cropped it, or it had been deftlv re-
moved from my inside pocket as
threaded through the crowd on one of
ehe piers. There was about $50 in the
wallet, and the Washington cbaps
with whom I'd been drifting around
mad seen me skin bill out Of it only
ABOUT 10 minutes before. But L wss
e5sent, all right. My WASHINGTON
friends wanted to lend me money bn+
Am not much on the borrow, EXCEPT
IN Inc 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
nay morning. didn't know then that
seelegraph companies refuse to trans
snit money on Sundays. went to bed
In the serene belief that I'd find IN
my letter box downstairs on The fol-
sowing morning a notification from
ens OF the telegraph companies that
DO large, iron dollars were await;n,
my demand for same with proper iden-
Nncation.
SInstead of that found a teleorar,
from my wife to this effect:
Can't wire money on Sunday. win
1ry other means
She can't wire money On Sunday
hsyT growled to myself. We'll
shes become pretty religious all Of
q sudden and II was some tina ba-
tore the fact began 10 dawn upon me
that 1T wasn't any newly-formed re-
bgious scruples on my wife's part. hut
, rule Of the telegraph companies that
made u impossible for her to wire me
money On Sunday. I was Informed
that this SVas the case when MAD.
inquiry upon the matter at the hotel
telegraph Office. was red-hot ana
Tuning. was FIAT broke IN Atlantic
City on Sunday. Moreover, I had 40
be back In Washington on the follow
Ing morning, and hadn't bought a
round-trip ticket, ana there was nv
hotel bill TO bs settled. Tn afraid
that ate my mustachs and brsathsa
many sulphntcus things with refer
snce to teisgraph companies when al
pf this naGhed over mS.
my vile says In her dispatch fh,
Sheu try ether msaaAs reaestsd
! Eulked around the Aotai vsxanen
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