The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-10-22

brokers' telegraph operator. but the
commercial operator as we'll The
| opeators sympathized with him Just
as all the others did
1t was on the nth day after the
/ arrival of Scoons that Mr.. Dayton show
ed his first decided sign of improve
ment. He seemed more wide awake
and more alert. His armchair was near
the telegraph Enclosure. Suddenly he
! pocket went into tho brokers' office
and handed message 10 the opera
tor with request that he send It at
once. The operator did so. Then Mon
tie went back 10 the Western Union
booth and fled d message there. II
was duplicate of the one he had put
on the brokers' wire. He stood by the
window until assured the message had
been sent. Next he handed the most
remarkable telegram TO tina, operator
he had ever received 1t was partly
in cipher and partly taken from a
printed book. There were 500 words in
It, He gave directions that the mes
sage should be repeated back. so az
to make IT absolutely sure no error had
occurred. Then he promised the oper-
ator that II nothing wns permitted
TO 80 ahead of this message ne would
be glad 10 show his appreciation with
q handsome gratulty.
This message would keep the wire
busy more than half an hour. Tho
operator had Just started on this tele-
gram when Mr.. Latin came busting
up with a message he wished to have
sent with all haste. A little later Mr.
Terrell had message 10 send aud
then came Scoons with several 10
speed over the wire Then followed
Milt@nhaus, scramper and Korn. The
a t1n No.
era PHI Some of them teleEraphed
some telephoned. The long distance
wires were In as urgent demand as
the telegraph wires.
After sending his message and see
Ing MI Lafiin, Mr.. Terrell and Mr..
Scoons try to send theirs. Dayton took
walk. For man Of such sedentary
inciinations the week past he seemed
quite vigorous. He went out 10 the
Boone Log Cabin. The mile and a half
out and mile and a half back put
little color in his checks and a little
spring in his gait That evening he
ate very respectable dinner for an
ailing person Before dinner he had
gone in and taken a look al the quota
tions-the closing prices for shares
Next day he played golf, wandered
around the country, visited the brok-
er's office, went down to the private
cars to bid good-by to Scoons, I.aflin,
Terrell and the others, and, that fin
ished. he, too. departed that night for
home. He had nothing to complain
of about his railroad trip this time,
for he slept like gentleman with
an easy conscience and a good diges-
ton.
1t was little after noon on the fol-
lowing day when he entered his Office
His partners greeted him joyousIy. So
did the employees, for they all liked
Monte. He took one look at the
quotation board and smiled. He could
hear the roar from the Stock Ex-
change half block distant The
street was in turmoil. A big bull
movement was under way. The ad-
vance was being led by L., b & NJ.
D., P. & X and B.. Y. & p. Of1cialI
confirmatio had come OF vague rum
ors that had circulated the previous
afternoon of plan for the consolida-
ton OF the three great systems Every
body was predicting par for l.. b. a:
NJ. A few days before a lot of them
taking gossip for gospel. had been pre-
dieting bankruptcy. D., p. & Y. was
up 6 points. B., \. , p. was up So
hundred thousanu shares of these
three properties had been traded in
within two hours of the opening.
Mr.. Montgomery Dayton plunged at
once into business. taking up his old
work just as II he never had laid il
down. There was plenty to do, for his
firm had been q heavy buyer the day
before. Early in the afternoon when
the market was al its strongest, Mon
! tie appeared on the Exchange. Quietly
at first and then rapidly lie began to
realize Before the board closed he
had cleaned up Late In the after
noon he and his partners figured what
II meant in dollars and cents. The
profit was in excess of 100000. Tina
evening on his way po town he called