The sun., 1907-04-07

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TO leave his st. Paul for his New York Office
ne stands not on the order of his going He
| goes at once, and seldom OF never does he
let the Great Northern officials in this city
| KNOW that he's on his way. Unless. the
! papers note Mr.. Hills departure from St
raul the first the Great Northern offie'als
here know Of it in most cases is his en-
trance into his Offices in this city. Often
the first knowledge OF his arrival comes
from seeing him at his desk, for Mr.. Hill
invariably walks direct 20 his private ONCE
and begins work as II he had been at his
uesk the day before. The time for chat
ting with the other officials comes after
looking over thS work.
Il was the usual O'Clock subway express
crush. Clinging to a strap was a tall. dark
young man with pleasant eyes. As the
train rounded the Spring street curve a
woman standing in the aisle lost her balance
and bumped into him. He doffed his hat
| politely and said:
Madam. am a true Southern gentle
man. Please take my strap"
She had sense OF humor too and she
TOOK the prom strap with thanks.
OF course, said the cigR- man, when a
manufacturer began giving away with
cigars sold little fancy packets of matches
with the name OF the cigar thus advertised
stamped on every match, it could only be a
short time before every Cigar dealer would
be compelled to give matches Of some sort
TO bis customers, as now every cigar dealer
does. with purchases however small; and.
matches are now put up in a good many
styles especially adapted for cigar store
trade; One sort OF matches put up in boxes,
OF which We give away many, costs us by the
gross within an extremely trifling fraction
OF quarter OF a cent a box, practically a
quarter OF cent; and that doesn't seem like
In rwf~, \ - -
by itself, but even at that cost our match
bill amounts to a good many dollars in the
course OF year. But, to be sure, we give
the matches very cheerfully we had a great
than not have him come in for his cigars
and tobacco"
At nearly all OF the large dinners this year
a hashlight photograph has been taken Of
the feast, photographs being developed and
ready for the diners by the time the dinner
has been over, Such thing has not been
allowed before by the places where the big
dinners are held, That such photographs
have been taken this year has been due to an
ingenious contrivance which the fashligh.
man now has for collecting his smoke. This
Is large inverted baRlike arrangement into
which the smoke ascends and is caught 80
successfully that not a vestige can DO de-
tected afterward. Now the hashlight man,
instead OF being tabooed, seems 70 be one
of the adiuVcts Of the large public dinners. A
Conductors aren't the only fellows
that have to be on the lookout for spotters,s
said the man in charge Of ono. OF the chain
Of cigar stores operated by a large company
Did you see that man that just came in
to light his ciRar7 Well, he was a spotter
for the company and he has to light fresh
cigar in every store that ho visits That
gives him the chance TO look around. It's
dollars TO doughnuIs now that tomorrow
III get notice from the company that was
reading a paper at this time to-day, only
it happens that the paper was the conf
psnys new catalogue. We've got a good
way Of telling spottors, but I'd be giving
away something II was to tell"
He was sitting in the mems dressing
room OF the Providence sleeping car at
taohed 70 tho midnight train just about to
leave the Grand Central Station, and no
was making his moan to all who would
Estcn.
talk about your hard luck stories,-
be said. i've got the real thing. About
an hour ago l telephoned TO the sleeping
oar once to see II could get a berth on this |
car and was told that they were all sold !
l had 70 take this train, though, and knew
I'd be sleepy and not be able to sleep, and
hungry and not be able 70 get any grub.
So said 70 myself: IN just fix that.
III go into a hotel, eat a double Welsh
Ill be neither sleepy nor hungry
IAN Of which did. Then came aboard
the train just now and the porter tells mo
a man gave up a nice lower berth at the last
moment. And me full OF Welsh rabbit
and strong tobacco smoke