The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1909-05-18
FORT SORTRR PUSSY
TALKS OUT IN MEETING ABOUT
EWING'S AIM.
What the General Manager is Get
ting From the Association and
Wants n Lot More.

Intimating that Felix G. Ewing.
general manager of the association,
was yaccinated for n Moses and IL
didn't take, and that he ran for
Solomon and got left at the post, +"
Joel b. Fort is out in an extensive
card. replying to Ewing's intimation
that the association orator was sore
because he had lost his job.
Says Mr.. Fort, who. by the way. is
a brother of President Charles II.
Fort
IL never asked a single member to
retain me, or pay me a cent. The
general manager can't say as much.
Every single cent that was ever paid
me by the association was given
without my asking. The general
manager can't say as much. Under
such circumstances il we're puerile to
descend to the low plain of Stun
politics. and charge that since my
salary was at his suggestion dis
continued. "the world to me had not
seemed the same and all too for no
other reason than that / criticized
his policies.
II had known that the president
and the governor and all public Of
fcials were opened to criticism. but l
had not stopped to think that the
general manager. Felix Grundy
Ewing, wrapped in the mantle of his
own sanctity and perfection. was
above criticism.
MAY l be permitted by his Lord
ships Indulgence to add that while
he was in the hospital in New York
the board was asked to give him five
thousand dollars. and that it was
cheerfully given; that when he re-
turned he asked to be placed on n
salary and was given five thousand
dollars per annum and his expenses:
that at. the last meeting of the board
in October his salary was kept at iive
thousand dollars and a stenographer
and expenses; that only a few days
ago he had sixteen members of the
board pledged to increase his salary
to ten thousand dollars and expenses
and that he saw that IL was not an
'oppOrtune time to make the in
crease. and arose and had the matter
dropped. Dropped to await the OPP
perfume time would suppose.
Where ] did not ask one hundred
and fifty per month, he asked and re-
ceived ivc thousand dollars per an
mum and was clamoring for ten
thousand dollars when that inop-
perfume time stepped in and spoiled
the whole kettle of fish, II $50 per
month made a change in the world
to me will he not do us the kindness
to tell us how beautifully his future
was decorated with a ten thousand
dollar lining.
"Of a truth is not the Planters
Protective association. of all the cor
porations on earth general managed
to a queens taste?' Look at this
list: General managers salary,
$4,000 and expenses; stenographer's
salary. $500; assistant general man
ager (east) salary $4,000 and ex-
penses; assistant general managers
(middle) salary. $4,000 and ex-
penses; assistant general managers
(west) salary. $4,000 and expenses;
$4,000, and say $4,000 for ex-
penses.
$50 you see that our general man
aging is now costing us about s20,-
600 per annum till the 'opportune
time and then IL will cost us five
thousand more. Where will you find
another corporation so thoroughly
and extensively general managed?
Il reminds one of Abraham Lincoln's
steam boat. The whistle was so
large and the boiler so small that
when the whistle biowed IL stopped
the boat. We should arrange at least
so the general manager can blow his
whistle at me. without stopping the
boat. New Era.