Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-11-17

and strive by faithful service to rise
| in the accepted and time-honored way.
| You are wasting your time in New
York
Curiously enough, Ford found his
evaporated courage recrystalllz1ng
under opposition.
81 can not believe that have made
the plan, and the present condition OF
the system, sufficiently clear to you,
he insisted; whereupon he Went
patiently and good-naturedly over the
argument again, emphasizing the des-
perate straits to which the Paclhc
Southwestern was reduced.
eve know all that, Mr.. Ford was
the unyielding reply. "But granting
| it to the fact, don't you see the abso-
lutte futility, of asking for thirty-five
millions additional capital at such
crisis?'
"No, I DON'T said Ford stubbornly
II know-as I can not explain to you
| IN detail in a half-hour interview
that this plan of mine can be made
successful. For two years, Mr.. Col
! BIRTH, have been the man on the
ground; no word that l am saying to
you is speculative. Every clause OF
the proposition has carefully estab-
lished fact behind it,
| mo doubt 1t seems so to you, came
1.-THE rasping voice from the chair
depths. "But thirty-fve millions! =
was a quavering gasp. And at a
time when our earnings are falling on
steadily and the stock is going down
day by day. lists simply pre-
posterous! I must really decline 10
discuss it any further"
Ford had his packet OF data IN
hand.
q have all the exhibits here, care
fully tabulated and condensed. Won
YOU reconsider far enough to examine
them, Mr. Colbrith?"
A thin white hand Of negation and
protest waved out of the depths Of the
engulfng easy chair.
| 81 am sorry to disappoint you, Mr.
Ford. I know your father, and we
we're great friends. You are like him.
he added rsminiscently. HE might
have died Itch if he had gone into
/ corn buying with me when we were
graduated. as l wanted him to. Bu
he was too enthusiastic. He wanted
to turn the world upside down-jus1
as you do, my dear young man; JUS
as you do
Ford got upon his feet. The time
had arrived for the firing of the sho
4 of last resort, and he aimed 1t DELHI
Ierately.
! 81 came hrst to you. Mr.. Colbrlth
4 because it was my duty as q subord1
nate, and your own appointee, and be
cause you were my fathers friend 81
many wears ago. I may say, frankly
i that / did, it against good advice. Mel
/ who profess to know you have coun
selled me to appeal directly to thu
1 hoard. What l wish to know now Il
IL YOU are willing to take the entire re
sponsibility Of turning this plan o
. mine down. Will it not relieve you o
. all responsibility if you will call
meeting Of the directors. and let M
lay this absurd proposal OF mine be
fore it? You can surely have no fear
for the result"
The shot told. The president strue
gled to his feet and took a nervou
turn up and down the long room
J, When he replied. it was with the in
/ decisive mans reluctance to commit
. ment Of anv sort.
sIfs call the meeting, I shall b
. ridiculed: and If don't call it, sur
, pose you'll go to Brewster, and Magnu
and tell them I've muzzled you. Hay
, it your own way. I'll issue the ca
for ten o'clock, the day after tomo1
row. in McVeigh and Mackie's office
, in Broad street But warn you In at
, vance. Mr.. Ford, shall not be abb
/ to help you in the least. And I ma
add this, that when you reach thu
part of your proposal where you ca
. for thirty-fve millions additional cap
tai, you may as well put on your he
and go home. That will be the end {
it,"
4 : Sand of .nleaasIanghed the enthusiast