Bisbee daily review., 1911-01-24
HOW LUNGERS IF F9RT
 STANTON GOT FREE TRIP

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 story is old it has lost none of its humor by age as win be found by the reader.
 President Eddy, of the F. P. \. E. system, recently received a request typewriter on a letter head of the Amalgamated Association of Consol- dated Lungers of New Mexico. Fort Stahton. \. M., and dated November IS, reading as follows:
 We, the Amalgamated Association of Consolidated Lungers of New Mex ico. Port of Fort stanton, commonly known as the Omcers' Mess, take our pen in hand to indite you these few lines, which you may use to hang your clothes on or fish with. which ever you prefer.
 Each and every signer of this document is a hunger, duly qualified to hold membership in our short lived. but gallant society, having met the requirements with coughs, representations, hemOrrhages, night sweats, etc, laid down by the rules the order sad as 1t may seem to one living in the gay metropolis before the lime lights of civilization, progress, and modern advancement, no member or our association has experienced the joy of witnessing, hearing and absorbing a theatrical performance in the last 12 months, one year ago being the date upon which our youngest member forsook the delights of society in quest 0s health on the isolated plateau Of New Mexico. But sadder yet, ah, much, much sadder, is the fact that some Of us, before many moons are born to blush unseen must traverse the unknown path to that great be- yond where all good lungers go.
 Trusting that you have borne with us gently and patiently til now, we will hasten to tell you where you come in. We desire you to cause 10 be issued to each and every one of us, or to the society as a body certain psste-board credentials which will be honored by your train rob pers-we should say conductors-for our travel to Fl Paso and return from Capitan. Our claim to the right to have this transportation is based solely and wholly on our brown-in-the-bottle. unadulterated nine ty-nine-and-one-hundredths-per cent pure nerve, crust or gall, whichever you may wish to call it. ut makes no difference to us so long as we get the passesl.
 Before acting on this modest re- quest, we beg of you to consider Think of the good you, as the re- presentatiye of a great and monied corporation. will be doing for band Of onelunged, semtcomatose, One-fOot in the grave has-beens. Such an op- portunity may not came to you again in a fife time. Think with what a clean conscience you can retire to your more or less downy couch fl you grant us. this little boon. Think how, when the great day of reckon ing comes, you can hold up youI head among the elect and eloquently say:
 T seen my duty and done it.
 We desire to assure you that you need not hesitate for fear of atten dant casualties. We number among us four doctors, a minister and aE undertaken all of whom will trave with us. An extra coffin or tw' shall go on the same train. in tn baggage coach ahead, and our medi cal stan will be supplied with the Mui phy apparatus for stopping hemorr hages. Each member will go arme, as usual-with two spit cups
 We desire to go to Fl Paso oi November 2S and return on Decem Der l. taking in while there the pro duction of R. U. A. Mason?" If yo can acquiesce in our little sugge' ton regarding railroad fare, you wi be elected to honorary membershi of our association, and fondly spoke of and remembered while we liv' Such a service could not be forgo ten; our esprit de corpse would nc permit it. On the other hand-a the man said when he changed Ei cuHs-if you refuse, we fear yer very much that when we present ou selves at the ticket office of you great pathway of commerce at Ca ian, and the agent asks for none it will be the first time in our live that we were not able to cough uI
 Should you find it in your hea to cause such pasteboards to be sued, we assure you that each ar every one of us, while breath last will do his utmost to cause all tOu ists leaving Capitan to travel ov
 your line.
 Hoping with all our lungs th
 you viii do your modest share
 wards helping a little ray of su