The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-03-02
CHAPTER XVIII.
 Work ReOinS.

| wrote two letters.
 My dear MT. Goldsmith" ran the
 first one, tI have put up the $25,o0G ss a guarantee that can put through
 the construction work in three
 months. From the success of my in itia1 trials, I feel pretty sure that l
 can get away with it. You told me not to report until I had something to say, so spent a couple of weeks studying over the matter and made them a proposition at their direc- tors meeting yesterday morning which they accepted. I enclosed a copy of the agreement by which you can see that we get $2,5OO a mile for the completed road-if we make I good. The course in psychology T I took at Yale leads me to believe that we will.
 Trusting that you and MT. Elkins
 are well, and that you will approve of my action in this matter, I am l Yours sincerely, Chester Taylor
 The second letter was to Edith
 Twining. It read:
 My dear Miss Twining:-As you
 have probably heard from MT. Lang
 ham, I was suddenly sent out here | two weeks ago. have at length you since I may not give myself the
 pleasure of calling. l To-day have performed a mod
 ern miracle. I sat up all night to | print a few hundred notices I want ed distributed, and according to the reports of the little black meE who
 did the work for me, they have dis 1 tributed over seven millions. I had to be Solomon indeed in order to award the prizes of waterme1ons, but finally solved the problem, not by disecting, but my distributing about half a car load.
 'HThe directors of the Warsaw Rail- l way for whom I am undertaking some work for Goldsmith & Elkins are beginning to believe in me, and I am even beginning to believe ia l myself. That belief would be greatly intensified, however, if you could find 1 time to write me, if only a line. sI trust that you and MT. Twin 
 Yours sincerely,
 Chester Taylor" Early next morning Chester was to be seen at the construction office of the street railway company, together with two young residents of Warsaw. "You chaps will have to do the Jo1Iying,'' Chester was saying. "You know the niggers and their disposi- tions better than I do. I'll keep the list of names.''
 s"You seem right confident that they'll be here,'' drawled one of the young Southerners. t' .Look!'' said Chester.
 Down the road a steady stream of earkies was advancing. Warsaw seemed to have given up it's entire | quota of big, lazy. 1oose-jofnted, shift less wharf-rats and vagabonds; Hay
 densville had poured out it's deni-
 zens; sturdy troop had mustered to uphold the honor of Coon Corner:
 and the pride of Mason City stood forth. Barrettsville and Blue Ridge l arrived in a body a few minutes later, the latter bringing some wom- | l complement of men. Libertyville e struggled in, and even Picxslay Hol-
 low, notorious for only bad niggers, showed a determined front.
 The handling of a crowd of five hundred or more unruly negroes, in
 an excited frame of mind, is ta- from being an easy matter. as Ches- ter was not long in discovering. The morning was consumed in getting the rames of the fifty best men from each of the centers on the pay-ro'ls,
 and rejecting the vicious and incom- petent But it did not pass without exciting incident. When the voIun- teers from Pickslay Hollow were
 called to the front, a gigantic coal black negro clustered up to Chester.
 Say, boss,'' he exclaimed roughly,
 "Ah's goin' to be de foahman- ob dis
 yeah gang. You jus come to me fer
 de names. We'se goin' to win dat harbecue."
 .tstep asfde,'' said Chester curtly. | CCont1nued on Page e.)