Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-04-17

wholesale order and we do only retail business.
Some fine day you'd be landin one of them sixty
horsepower walops. and I'd be f1attened up against
the wall thin I'd have to be taken off with putty
knife and passe partouted. You may need that sort
of exercise; but don't. If had to mix it with you
twice week, I'd want to myself in mattress.
Well, perhaps I'll try the other things. then
IT'S the first time since I've been runnn the studio
we've ever had any trouble finding things hearty
enough to satisfy customer. He losses the heavy
dumbbells around like they was made of PAPER
mache, and swingin pair of ten-pound clubs for
half an hour at stretch hardly turns hair on him:
l loads up chest weight machine with all the lead
had in the place and he amt moren got hold of
the handles before he has it pulled out by the roots
and on the floor.
There's only thing left" says 1 and that's
pushn the safe around.
And if hadn't happened to think of two hun
red-pound mat artist who'd been against such talent
Hackenschmidt, l guess he would have got dis
couraged; but when puts this special instructor
in wrestIn Fluid finds the game just what he wants
And to them two heaves throw each other around
was worth dollar admission
Meantime Fluid is gettin real chummy with
That jolt the jaw had made him my friend for life,
and don't know as l ever acquired one that l ap
preciated less for it hadn't changed his nature any.
l don't want to say anything mean about Fluid;
but Well, all he lacked was the tushes.
Even in his most friendly moods, when he was
din' to me the story of his life I'd be thinkin what
a shame it was that early in his career some one
hadn't accident lily hit him the head with maui.
he CaeQ n1InSeu an american, ana maybe ne was,
having been born in BROOKLYN but he part
Swede, Pole. and the rest heaven only knows
what. AS Mr. 1. Zangwil would say, he was prod
uct of the goulash kettle
SEEMS he'd been taken west young and grown up
- in Michigan copper mine, afterwards driftin'
to Montana He got his first start by swindlin
half baked inventor out of patent hydraulic nozzle
arrangement, and proud of it. Next he got into
the contractn business and turned out to be such
at handlin coolie labor that he got offers from
every big corporation that heard of him. He had
few simple but interestn rules for conductin that
sort of enterprise.
Drive emil" says Fluid. That's the way to do
the trick. Drive the life out of EN-! Work EN- until
they drop. And hold onto the boarding and supply
contracts. Why half the profit comes from that.
You see, I'd have maybe a thousand in my
gangs, and I'd be payin' EN- dollar thirty day.
Then I'd feed EN- cheap sleep EN- in tiers under tar
paper shelters at so much week, and what didn't
get back for board would come in over the store
counter or the camp bar. I've paid out seven thou
sand dollars a Saturday night and by Monday
morning I'd have most of it back. 1t was almost as
good as owning EN-. Seer?
Almost" says 1. why, you had the Legree
game beaten both ways"
Then Fluid tells me how he worked his way east.
He kept taking bigger contracts and always
maxim good. 1t was the Jersey tunnel business that