The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-06-17

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machine has been examined by the ex
perts of the Alden crowd and it look
as If they Were going into it. I'll keel
You posted. 1t was signed by JOIN
Cord, the Wireless agent at Boston.
+" Alden s rich,'' said Rixton, as h,
laid down the note. "And Larsen Z
got good machine We ought TOW,
bought it when we had a ehance.''
They re aikely to put up the big
gest night we ever were up against,
declared Fergus, the treasurer.
Rlxton sent Cord s note to the ole
man In Rome, and just week later
the operator at the factory came rush
ing into the Office of the general coun.
sci with hurryup cablegram essay
nothing, do nothing about Alden mat
ter it read "SaiIing tomorrow
Tabb.''
So Rixton, shaking his head at the
old man s strange order, called off all
his men and settled down to await the
arrival of the steamer In the mean
time further reports came in from Cord
at Boston. Half an hour before Tahb
walked into the office one morning the
last message was taken from the wire
alden about ready to sign papers,
Cord telegraphed. "Must act at once
or too Late
Tabb came in, shook hands all around
with that limp palm of his, and pre-
scented each member of the executive
committee with carved Italian cameo
scarf-pin as a souvenir of his voyage.
g Let me have all Cord IS reports he
ordered Rixton, "and the Boston cor
poration directory. And tell John to
have my horse here at eleven o'clock.
Promptly on the hour, the heavy,
rawboned white horse, which Thomas
Tabb used under the saddle, was
brought to the front of the factory and
its master elambered up on its back. It
went off up the river-road at a racking
trot, the old man bouncing about like
sack of meal From the pommel
dangled the long brass trumpet which
made regular part of his riding equip
ment, and the presence of which gave
the country people about Metropolis
good reason for declaring that Thomas
Tabb was ga little cracked
But when the far-off, triumphant
blast of that trumpet came to the ears
of Rixton through the open window, he
grinned across his desk at Livingstone
and said: ''Well, the old man. got it
all figured out, hasn't he?'
At one o'clock the executive commit
tee met.
"There are three chief men in the
Alden crowd Tabb began. 'Alden
the fox to do the sehem
ing; Brewster-the lion to put up an
front and do the heavy roar
ing; and little Bartlett-the bulldog, to !
close in and get good grip when the
fight gets hot. It's a good trio. The
only fault with it is that it is a trio.
Here's the way I'm going to meet
,hem''
Then he lowered his voice and for five
minutes outlined scheme so simply
.idiculous that the others could scarcely
keep a look of amusement and in
out of their faces.
s.Do you mean that you re going
lown to Boston to borrow million dol
ars from the Alden crowd?' gasped
3ixton finally.
.C-c-c-certainly, t-that's what
nean.'' suffered the old man, his mind
working so much faster than his tongue
hat the words got iammed.
Livingstone snickered aloud at that
n, Thomas Tabb's voice changed to a
asty rasp, while his blue eyes flashed
bout the big round table like the
of battleship in action.
.sF'ergns.'' he ordered, turning sud
enlv to the treasurer, 'go upstairs and
ut yorrr clerks to work on a complete
nancial statement of the company.
how how much V7e have to spend every
ear in fighting competition, how much !
dyertising costs, and the big amount :
eve GOT invested in patents and tools
nat are out of date. Get it done by
We o clock I'm going to Boston to-
light and I'll take it with me. That III
e all. - :
The members of the executive com
ittee got up and half-slunk out of the .
pom, leaving the old man collapsed IN !;
is armchair, like spent athlete, !
..I'II show 'em how crazy I am! - he 7
as Rixton closed the door. /
The next morning but one Thomas :
abb walked into the Office of Thomas =
arson. a note broker, on Broad street, 4
Boston. Farson was his distant =
,usin.
s.WeI, Tabb, what brings you East =
soonP'' asked Farson. thougnt =
IN had Just got back from EuropeF 7
son nv way to New York after -
oney," Tabb answered. That busi-
sss of ours is a rat-hole. h
s4Better let me get it for you !,
81 want a million dollars.
There s. plenty of money in Boston h
nt 5 talk it over. "
Tn ten minutes they had reached the y
lint where the different financial IN .
buttons to which application for SO II
roe a loan might be made were being :.
,,sSod As the name of each was i
entioned. Thomas Tabb shook his Il
Then there's the Exporters Ma, II
mall, Farson went on. ''That 1he ii
den bank. - fl
ssWeu. I suppose it II do as well as -
v We might go over and talk to y"
President p, Atkinson, of the Exporters IL
ational looked up from his desk k;d IN m
dark little banking-oIhce; 49, fo
aatbed of conservatism and es1ao-
o,I+b &c the two men enlefeu'