Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-09-24

CHANGED to be the manager, if he could un-
dertake the job that day.
Sure was the reply. Where are the
goods coming FROM"
philadelphia"
Where did you have them billed to?'
1.-The Harlem River station"
That's peculiar. Not ten minutes age
another nan who has moved from Phila-
delphia and had his goods sent to the Har-
lem River station dropped in and engaged
me to haul for him. Where do you want
your stuff taken?'
1905 West 103d.'
Pretty near the same, was the reply
''The other man has taken a nat at 105
West 103d. How many vans will be neces-
phia?''
Three said the man.
Say, this is getting to be sort of un-
canny," exclaimed the van manager. DO
fellow made me? Have you piano?'
mo"
Neither had he. BY the way, I see on
your receipt here that the Blank Company
moved you in Philadelphia. WE'LL that
company moved the other fellow, too. And
good Lord, If you didn't come from houses
with nearly the same same, numbers-yours was
1910 and his was 4S12!'
The man and his wife who went to 2OJ
West 103d street had no more than got set
tied when the wife said one evening at din
ner:
IT made a surprising discovery while I
was downtown shopping this morning.
almost ran into school friend of mine
from Pittsburg. Her husband has just
moved here and they've taken an apart
ment in this street just two blocks away.
And she said to me, when we got to talking
about the worries of moving and all that,
Who moved you into your apartment
told her. And what do you think she said ?
Why, the same company moved us, too
Since she has been in 103d street, this
woman has discovered four friends of her
school girl days living in the same street,
and all except one preceded her to the city
By several years.
Chasing a Bill.
An iron manufacturer of Boston was en-
tertaining a wealthy Spanish customer
from Havana. They had several rounds of
drinks, and, before the Boston man handed
a ten dollar bill to the waiter, he loosely
kissed it goodbye.
wait a minute" spoke up the Spaniard.
as he took the bill out of the walters
hands. Since you seem to think SO much
of that bill, I'll write my name on it for
good luck to US BOTH
Which he did, in ink, and then handed
back the money to the waiter, who soon
brought the change.
Two months later the Spaniard was in
New Orleans. He walked into a cigar
store to buy a pocketful of his favorite
brand of cigars. handed the cler ka twenty
dollar bill and received among the change
a ten-dolar bill He was carelessly folding
it when his eyes caught some writing across
the center of the bill. His curiosity aroused,
ne took close look-that writing was his
own name! The god of chance had put
into his hands the very ten-dollar bill en-
which he had written his name in a Boston
cafe eight weeks before.
The Spaniard is not only man OF wealth,
but also of leisure, and he determined to
discover, If possible, the wanderings of the
bill from the time he inscribed 1t to the
day he received it in New Orleans. He
went to an infinite amount of trouble, set
all sorts of machinery to work and spent
not little money, but after it was all over
he felt that he had been amply rewarded
For, while he was unable to follow the