The Prescott daily news., 1907-08-16
The Law of
 ,ravitation.
D.. BERT P. COLEMAN.

ros out in PlKeVllle, one U thoh
 .n towns near the foothills, that
 .n m against it good and hard.
 u0re playing Ten Nights in
 poom" :" and had been doing a rat
 business for a spell. You see,
 z, those people out there are
 nod by title, and Ten Nights in
 Room" looked good to them. It
 ad kind O sociable-like, with
 " n gamblin' and shootin' irons,
 cbaps droppin' in to pass the time
 v and a hot stove with the boys
 around it and swappin' lies over
 liquor.
 !, when it got to be spread around
 country that we were strictly
 sl sbow-a kind O dramatic argu-
 for temperance and signin' the
 qe-why it's surprising the way |,nts fell off. So when we got to lyille we were drawing about as
 AS a chimbley filed full O
 
 s nests.
 be ghost hadn't walked for so long
 guess he'd forgot how, and to @ things real interestin' and i'm
 ant why what does our manager but one night skip with all the re-
 ts We were dead up against it.
 about a million miles from home,
 e or less, and nothing doing to ex the long green.
 | nd to make matters still worse,
 were showed in. Yes, sir, 1t wed like I never see 1t snow be- ] You wouldn't believe it, but
 five days she never let up. Yell sir. there we were-the hull cf us. including the company, and
 and Tommy Bagsby, who played
 heavy" and did the press agent hts. We were stoppin' at the 'ted States hotel, and for a time N treated us like white people, it wasn't long after our manager dooed before they sized us up for lunch of crooks. You see, 1t makes |pt of difference in the show busi- )s how you succeed.
 We'll, sir, there we were stranded the foot hills, and not enough of long green in the crowd to pay hotel bill, to say nothing of trans (tation back to Times Square. We Fe up against 1t for fair-but say you know Tommy Bagsby? No? el, he's It. Tommy's all the mus Id when it comes to the ways and |ans committee. We had been owed in nearly week. living on K, and pretty poor tick at that. len Tommy decided that something lst be done to raise the dough. You see, the snow had come down deep that you couldn't break Fough 1t with keg O dynamite. was piled up mile high in the tiers and out in the middle of the 'eet where the storekeepers had town it when they shoveled of the lewalks. And 1t got so bad that ally horse couldn't pull a sleigh rough it-he just sank down to his ouders and stuck.
 
 well. the town council gets a move ana advertises for bids immediate remove the snow along Main street. a heres where Tommy butted in. seems he had hunch on what it uid cost to get rid of that snow the old-fashioned method of shov- ls It Tn carts and houling it away n teams. Tommy figured it would he 10 about a thousand dollars, so at does he do but put in bid for ht hundred.
 'eii' SIT, the council nearly threw u when they heard Tommy's bid. seemed too good to be true, but nmy just stood right up in meetin' handed them out a beautiful ei' and they agreed to let him have mack at the snow cleaning proposi- Il, h provided they wasn't to pay un. tue snow was good and off.
 inaiiy somebody asks him where was going to hire his horses and 's' and whether he was going to p'oy union men or scabs, and nuiy Just smiles real confident. and s' Kind O gentle and reprovin'. he uidnt have in mind to employ
 horses or carts, and for that mat. any men, either.
 ou ought to "a seen the eyes O III councilmen bung out. At first thought Tommy was dippy, but u .ney decided that maybe he had 'A'eu some new kind of a machine
 uio'ih snow, so they kept mum .o .e' nim go ahead with the job. ou see. it was this way This IS situated, like I said. near the nils, and the streets are pretty ,p, " starts way up at the foot ;. nuse' and then comes down al.
 me ladder. and slopes right