New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-04-10
Deadbeads' Lively Wits
Win Too Many Passes

I impress some acquaintance he is lunching
with.
This years special development in dead
heads is the newspaper man from the West
or South who IS acting as courier for n
hatch Of country girls who have won the
, beauty contest on his paper and who are
being sent on a trip at the papers expense.
Will We kindly accommodate them at this
afternoons performance? Sometimes. mind
you, there are as many. as fifty beauties
who are DESTROYS Of honoring our show
| without paying"
But theatres are not the only places that
, have heard Of dcadheads. There is proba-
bly, no business that has not 10 do with
them.
There is a large cocoa manufacturing
house In New York that gets such letters
ss this from ministers: Please send me
3 liberal quantity Of samples Of your cocoa
as soon as possible. Ny wife IS giving an
afternoon affair next week. and as sic is
gong TO serve cocoa il would be great
accommodation 10 Us as well as q good
opportunity of advertising your brand in
our town"
A drug manufacturing concern frequently
receives the following sort OF APPLICATION
from physicians: kindly send 20 the drug
store whose address I inclose and who puts
up my prescriptions as large quantity Of
samples OF your quinine extract as YOU can
spare"
Inquiry into the latter variety OF appeal
has revealed the fact. that the sample drug
is used in putting up prescriptions and that
the practitioner who asked for it is a
shareholder Of the drug stores profits
The transportation deadhead has been
cut down greatly since the interstate com
merce law was enforced But there are a.
few varieties left. For instance. when a
consignment of cattle is sent by rail a
droyer is sent deadhcad 10 care for them
But the road stipulates that in case OF any
accident to the train. causing either injury
or death "a. the free passenger. no damages
are 10 he claimed against the company on
mis- account. ..'-
In the old days boxes Of oranges used to
come mp from Florida marked Dill hav-
ing been sent Jy the employe Of a South
ern railroad To some lucky friend who lived
up North far from the orange groves But
that no longer goes" The only kinds OF
freight that get free passage are, first, the
household furniture Of an employe removed
by order OF the road from one city to an
other, and. second. goods OF any kind sent
10y charity society I'm one part Of the
cou1try as gifts TO needful ones in some
other part.
An interesting story is told. though. Of a
man who ran political campaign paper
here one fall. certain express company
offered him the privilege Of sending any
thing he desired I'm the way Of Packages
through its facilities. 1t gave him a note
20 that effect. Not caring for the privi-
lege. he sold the note for $40 To a friend
who could make good use of Il.
Even the government itself is tormented
by the deadheads IL fact, II has a great
deal more to do with them than ono would
suspect. Helpless Americans abroad are
the dread Of Americas foreign consular Of
fees Many of them have had to be sent
home at the governments expense
Then there are cases like that OF the in
zane Russian woman found in the streets OF
Chicago one night, alone and almost un-
clad. She was taken In custody. a trained
nurse was hired. and the two were sent as
far as the borderland of Russia. There the
attendant turned her helpless charge loose
I'm tho open country and returned TO Chi
cago. tie expense Of the whole trip being
put up by the United States government
Nor is this the only government that pyo-
vides free transportation. Bavaria will
bring back To their homes any emigrants
Rho write TO her from foreign shores that
they are sick or destitute and wish 20 re-
turn
Tho uos-il iIIii,s o. getting something f"r
ny'L.Hs are s!ea:er 70. the man III qGi,h