The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-09-17

passengers and make four trips n day. I
can do the work without interfering with
my business. It's education these people
need When I get their taste for street cars
developed then we'll start real system.
Isn't this beautiful town to promote? It
needs everything. 1t needs telephones 1T
needs street cars; It needs water works. IT:
needs electric lights. There isn't anything
that town oughtto have that 1t doesn't
need
3 '.where does the mill come In r., I asked. %
Its to furnish the power" he said.
Then an elderly man came out Of the bank
building and stepped aboard. Hotchkiss
drove a block further and picked up an
other elderly man. ringing up two fares. we
logged along six blocks and let both Off.
Two blocks further the track stopped, turn
ing into shed. Into this f[otchkiss drove
his team, unnitched from the trolley car,
hltched to a farm wagon, changed his coat
and cap and invited me to climb into tho
wagon.
/" Now we'll go to the mill" he said. Say,
what do you think Of II?
VI fold him thought there was q great
opportunity and he explained his plans. He
said the town had to be made to grow. lie
Manned TO start a settlement of foreigners
about a mile out That, he said would make
His street car system necessary, and tele-8
,,hones necessary and build UP business,
On Watch for lnmigrants.
arm looking for a first class bunch OF for
eigners now he said, Ihch, my NY
watch this town grow UP y,
IA we spent an enjoyable evening at the iiti ~
uotchkiss lived there while his plans Wefe.
being mulured He was having the Gam
strengthened aud Increased in size to develop
more water power. He had Installed fouf
telephones. without a switchboard, the nv
cleus of the /" Metropolitan Telephone com
pany" He was dickering With the town
board to put in some oil street lamps as me
start OF an electric light system,
"My game is to start them with me ruul-
ments and work them up into the posi- -gfau'
nate class slowly but surely he SAID
Ineycr had seen Hotchkss so enthusiastic,
T came back to CHICAGO feeling as II had
been taking electrical treatment and had
a fresh hold on life, Then business called me
Ia New York, and on my return, some
months afterwurd, found Hotchllss IN CHI
caro. He started al once toNtell me about
his /" PAN American Fruit company !" Win
such enthusiasm and rapidly that " "ha
: half hour before could get In edgewisea @
question about AIilhayen'
To Give City Fresh Erult,
,"O!"ahe exclaimed with the accent OF
man remembering something. Q, yes
Nillhayen Why. | traded the NH 70 an
eastern man for part interest IN small put
fast steamboat Yes, traded. You see no
farmers around tho mill found that the new
dam flooded their land and they blew IT up
ono night. Now, could have stood forthe
financial loss, but IT was he ngratitude that
hurt, After all had done for, that town
couldn't stand for such treatment. ButnoW
we have the real enterprise, Did you ever
stop TO think that people up here willing to
nay almost any price for table delicaees,
never get South and Central American fruits
in. their most delicious shape2 Tho relation
or our foreign fruits to the renl article is
about the relation OF a dried apple to one out
Of the farmers barrel, The Pan-Amer!can
company has fast steamboat and VIII have
these frgits on the market IN their best shape