The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-12-17
[HE OWN Err SAT BY
lE HOUR AID PROUDLY
WATCHED THEM

own stock. The origin issue had been J0O.
ogo shares. at 81 per share, ten shares being
gwen outright for time with every machine
marhipc 1 nS w%o0 on tbo rather poor sewing
ment which made their machine highly
valuable they found that Others bad been
busy picking up Standard stock, AMI that the
company was minority holder of lis own
stock beng short several Thousand shares II
soon developed who had bought the stock, for
agents OF the sewing machine trust, throwing
aside ALL disguise, came into thc open and
bought right and left al any price. The
Standard people frautically tried TO outbid
them
1t was fight for existence on one si,le and
monopoly on the other. If the trust won and
got a majority of the shares they took the
Standard company au,l the valuable improve
mcut INTO camp, the Improvement went on
the trus; machines and the inventors we're
squeezed. If the Standard succeeded in
bnying few shares it could bold its Po-
sition and iu a few years wipe the trust OF
the iace of the earth with its superior ma
chmc, Both sides ransacked the country ani
bought shares at ruinous prices aud the con-
test quickly narrowed down to the possession
of 25OO shares-both parties had approx
matclv 24S.000 shares. and the one that got
hold of the missing block of $500 would win
tho mastery. Somehow il was learned BY the
trust agents and the Standard people that the
blocl was owned right in town. and sleep
less hunt for IL was begun.
George Sberwln sitting IN his poultry
ward smoking pipe and medltatDg IS he
threw corn TO his favoritc rooster. His medi
tatious were interrupted bv a man who came
running from the house. vt the same time
another man tumbled over the back fence.
81 understand YOU are the owner of 900
shares Of Standard stock. they. said simul-
taneouslv, glowcripg at one another
Sberwlp chucklcd,
''Do You see that rooster tberel" be said,
''bis names Stitch named for the Stand
ard sewing machine. Now, supposug Stitch
stands for $500 shares of Standard stock,
what II YOU give for my ToosterI'
Fifteen Thousand dollars said the
Trust promptly.
Thirty. beloved the Trust.
Fifty thousand dollars. said the Stani.
ard man. white faced. Sberwiu recognized
him the president of the company
"I1l have to consult my principals.
pleaded the Trust man, ''Will you hold
or for half an hour''
.IFifty thousand, one-two--three. do l.
hear any morel Sold-to the president OF
the STANDARD Sewing Machine company, and
n mighty 6nc Wyanlottr rooster you We
bought for the WoiS WoneX Won dG1laFsd nn the
into the house TO complete the transaction ~
''Geordie, what S the mattcr',' asked his
wife, half CRYING. She had sent the president
Of the Standard company out in the yard to
sec her husband, the worthy declining to wait
in the parlor. an tho noise of the bargain
ing had come ominouslv TO her ears.
matter? Why. We found the hen that
laws the golden eggs, aud tain t a hen. either
1t s my rooster stitch who stood for
$500 shares OF sewing machine stock that
We Just sold for $4,000. -
"Geordie,' said his wife wildly.
81 ain I crazy, ma, I've been doing lit'
tle speculating in stocks right here IN town,
and TO keep YOU from Worrying ,ye made
vou think il was hens dabbling IN.
Stitch has stood all along for Sewing Ma.
chine. Wire for the wire mill, AMI Twist
is the thread factory, ct cetera, ct cetcra.
When the news got TO the Office there was
quick revision OF opinions about old Sher-
win. the bookkeeper.
..Cra2v9 | wish | came from the same
lunatic asylum.'' was the envious cry
'-What are You going 10 do with Your
wealth. George'' they asked the man. busily
writing in his ledgers usual.
1Goinq TO huv back nv Wyandottc rooster
and move to paradise" he said wiz, a.
chuckle