Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1910-07-29

| y oAly ne wanted me to transfer
the patents to the company; in other
| "ofos' to make him present of the
| controlling interest l bucked at that,
ana we come near havin' a fall-out. If
| there was any market for pipe now
Ihere is market" said Tom. hope
| ruby i got pointer on that before
! le1t Boston Did I tell you l had a
niue talk with Mr.. Clarkson the day
| came away?"
No"
well, I did. told him the condl-
! lloils and asked his advice Among
| other things, [ spoke of this pipe pit of
| yours and he said at once, There is
| your cnance. Cast-iron water-pipe Is
| IKE bread, or sugar or butchers meat
It's necessity in good times or bad
| II tnat machine is practicable you can
| make pipe for less than half the pres
| ent cost Then we talked ways and
| means. Money is tighter than a shut
nst-up East as well as everywhere
| else. But men with money to invest
| VIII sui bet on sure thing. Mr..
GARRISON advised me to try our own
| banks nrst. Failing with them, he au-
thorized me to call on him. Now YOU
know where I'm digging my sand"
The old iron-master sat back in his
| chair with his hands locked, over one
| knee, once more taking the measure of
| this new creation calling itself Tom
Gordon and purporting to be his son.
Say, Buddy" he said at length, ARE
there many more like you out Wonder
in the big road?-young fellows that
can walk right out O. school and tell
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Toms laugh was boyishly hearty.
Plenty of 'em, pappy; lots Of 'em.
| The old world is moving right along;
it would be pity If it didn't, don't you
think? But about this pipe business:
l want you to make over these patents
| to me-"
! They're yours now, Tom: everything
| I've got will be yours in little WHILE"
said the father; but his voice betrayed
| the depth Of that thrust. Was the new
! Tom beginning SO soon to grasp and
| reach out avariciously for the fruit of
! the old tree?
| You ought to know that 1 don't
mean 1t that way" said Tom, frowning
a little. But here is the way it sizes
up. There is money in this pipe-mak-
| Ing; some money now and big money
! later on. Farley has refused TO go into
| it unless you make it company prop
| osition; as president and a controlling
| stockholder you can't very we'll go into
it unless you make 1t a. company prop
| osition; as president and a controlling
| stakeholder you can't very we'll go into
| 1t now without making 1t some sort Of
| a company proposition. But you can
transfer the patents to me, and l can
| contract with Chiawassee Consolidated
to make pipe for me-"
| THAT would certainly be givin' Colo
mel Dubbury a dose of his own medi-
| cine; but don't like 1t, Tom It looks
as If we were taking advantage of
| him"
| mo. I'd make the proposition to
| him, personally, If he were here, and
| the boss; and he'd be a fool if he didn't
| just jump at it," said Tom, earnestly
| But there Is more to it than that If
we make a go of this, and don't protect
| ourselves, the two Farleys will come
| back and put the whole thing in their
| pockets. l won't go In on any such
| terms When they do come back, I'm
| going to have money to fight them with,
| and this is our one little ghost of a
| chance. Ring up Judge Bates and get
| him to come over here and make a To-
! gal transfer of these patents to me-"
| The experiences of the summer were
all hardening. He plunged into the
| world Of business, into a panic time
| connection which was in grim reality
| a fight for life, and there seemed to be
| little to choose between trampling or
| being trampled. By early autumn the
| iron Industries of the country were
| pasning. and the stacks of pig in the
| Chiavassee yards, kept down little
| during the summer by few meager
| orders, grew and spread until they COW
cred acres. AS long as money could be
had. the iron was bonded as fast as 1t
was made, and the proceeds were turn
7 cd into wages to make more. But when
money was no longer obtainable from
| mis- source, the pipe venture was the
| only hope.
| with the entire foundry force at the
| Chiawassee making pipe, Tom had gone
| tnto the market with his loW-priced
| product But the commercial side of
! the struggle was fire-new to him, and
he found himself matched against men
who knew buying and selling as he
knew smelling and casting. They rout-
| ed him, easily at first, with increasing
| difficulty as he learned the new trade,
but always with certainty. 1t was Nor
man, the correspondence man, trans
| formed now into a sales agent. who
| gave him his first hint of the inward
ness.
! Were too straight, Mr.. Gordon;
that's at the bottom of it, he said TO
| Tom. over a grill-room luncheon at the
| Marlboro one day. 1T takes money to
make money. Four times out of five
| we have to sell to a municipal COM
! nittee, and the other time we have to
monkey with the purchasing agent OF a
| corporation In either case 1t takes
money-other money besides the differ
/ ence in price"
Tom was in town that day for the
/ purpose of taking train to Louisville,
/ where he was to meet the officials of an
Indiana city forced. despite the hard
| times, to relay many miles OF worn
| out water-mains. He made pencil
| computation on the back of an envel-
| one. The contract was large one, and
his bid, which he was confident was
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