The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-09-28

in the evening and drop into poker
games-not big and sensational, but
quiet and persistent And for these
you lie in wait
Mayhap your mission sends you on
the trail Of that workeR General Dick.
Day after day OF repeated calls upon
The general elicit the Information that
other affairs have engaged his atten-
ton and he has Ueen unable to act in
this particular case, but win do so yet
Yes, he stilS has the brief of your
friends case with which you supplied
him on the occasion CT a former visit,
cataloguing the Endorsement filed at
the department. You 90 away, Offering
up a prayer Of gratitude because. please
heaven. you have been able at least to
run your man to earth; for sometimes
You pass whole days waiting for him
al this place or that, while he is de-
tanned elsewhere. Here is the record
of q typical day:
At his law office at $3.50 i'm the morn
ing: his arrival is uncertain, as he has
committee affairs coming up at the
capitol. His secretary is going there.
Whittier Caesars minister goes. there
must Caesar be. You go likewise Men
and women who Travelled days and
nights to ask this mans help are sit
ting in the reception room of the law
office. living monuments of waiting
some with pension claims. some with
war department business, some with
Ohio politics and other troubles on
their mind.
You twist through winding passages
in the labyrinth Of the. capitol where
the desperate hOpelessness of finding
your own way in is equaled only bv
the Wild impossibilitv Of finding your
way out. The trail leads to a commit
tee room. Secretary March attacks a
mountain Of correspondence and YOU
lie in wait for the prey that just then
is in upper regions on the senate side.
The scythe of time has a dull edge
for him who waits An hour is finally
cut off, and YOU light a fresh cigar. The
secretary Of an organization interest
ed in military legislation arrives to
confer with the general, who does not
appear
Another hour passes, and it is noon.
You have had an early breakfast and
begin to think Of luncheon. but YOU
can't risk leaving that committee room
and missing the man you are waiting
for.
One o'clock.
Two O'Clock
The door opens just enough to admit
a head. It belongs TO Nevins of Ohio
He asks for Dick. Had an appoint
ment with him at 2; viii wait for him
on the house floor"
Again the weary scrutiny Of the
clock Finally General Dick, chewing
q toothpick, strolls in from luncheon.
MS secretary has "A bundle of letters
awaiting him and a bigger bundle held
back until there ifs more time
The military legislation is brought I'D
by the caller interested. A committee
of opposition is to meet the following
day. The general viii see what can be
done in certain quarters.
The bundle Of mail claims his atten-
ton Between readings he exchanges
comment with man who has dropped
in from Canton.
The general calculates that he can
go to the war department, census bu-
reau and other departments and re-
turn t. the capitol in time TO vote on
a bill pending. He asks for the en-
Velope containing the papers of cases
in the census bureau. the pension en-
velope and the postoffice envelope.
These envelopes. by the way. are the
size of young pillow cases
The secretary has brought the census
envelope. but not the others. and pro-
Doses telephoning that a messenger
nom the law office meet the general
with them
Meanwhile some allusion strays in
concerning the message from Nevins.
Wants TO go with him to the war de
partment." reflects Dick.
The man from Canton tells more OF
his troubles. A messenger from the
waiting Nevins appears with q ridicu-
lQus little strip OF paper torn from a
newspaper margin and penciled with
can't you come at once?"
The blasted hope and wild despair
N.ittep on your face wiring the soul Of
t1iek. who declares that he VIII stop
that afternoon at the department reIat-