The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1914-07-16

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covered radical defect in the con.
struct1on Of your portable cottage and
nave invented a way to overcome it.
You are making your hollow walls In
straight sections which merely abut
upon each other. Warpage and shrink
age viii! draw them crooked and leave
wide cracks. over which you will be
compelled to nail permanent cleats,
which is entirely foreign to your idea
of portability"
Benssy Fails looked with dismay
upon his exquisitely accurate model.
"How very annoying:' he murmured.
What we must do" went on WAL
lingford easily and confidently, lis to
make the hollow sections like this"
And he deftly and ruthlessly cut open
upon alternate edges one Of Benssy's
beautifully perfect little sections. tele-
scoping the two parts upon each other
slightly, so as to show the plan Of over
tapping, and then reversing them to
show how much space they saved in
nesting for shipment.
There was general chorus Of polite
ordinations. which covered unlimited
genuine admiration.
THAT surely makes Mr.. Wallingford
one Of the family. Reggie" declared
Hickey. Il vote him In, fellows. Now,
one. two, three.
"Aye! gently and courteously shout
ed his friends in perfect unison with
him.
II thank you." said Wallingford, ris-
ing and bowling gravely. The gentle
mans manners were perfect. There
was no gainsaying that.
There's one difficulty Of which none
Of you has thought" declared Mr..
Cash. rubbing again in reflection the
beard Of his ancestors in the hollow Of
his cheeks. who's going to run the
company? None Of us has the time
nor the taste for that sort Of thing"
II have" offered Wallingford. "Of
course my other interests are so heavy
as to prevent my giving my entire
time to it, but If my partners will per-
init me l shall organize the concern,
set it going and see that it is properly
conducted without charging penny
for my services"
''That's what do call sportin'," de-
clared Hickey. rubbing his incipient
mustache the wrong way in his en-
thusiasm.
ITS more generous than fair" OBJ
Jected Benssy. WED be delighted,
I'm sure. Mr. Wallingford. to have YOU
accept the bothersome management Of
the thing. but we can't possibly think
OF it unless you would accept remuner-
alton Of some sort"
"Oh. If you insist upon it," and WAL
lingfoM waved his hand easily, as if
the question We're too trifling. to b..
considered among gentlemen. II won't
accept salary, but if you want me to-
have some additional stock for nv
services to avoid feeling under obliga.
lions you may make it over to me-"
"But. l say" protested Reggie. his
fat lips protruding in dissatisfaction.
"if we all take the same amount of
stock and we give Mr.. Wallingford
some extra he'll have the most and
as this is our joint invention we must
share alike'
'That's true" Wallingford hastily
admitted. well just throw that idea
aside. We won't need a stock compa-
ny anyhow. for we shall not want to
sell stock or admit any one else into
the business. We can make it a sim.
pie partnership, putting in just what
we need to begin with and assessing
as much more from time to
iime as the business actually justifies.
We shall not need over $4,000 to start
with"
Then, fellows. here's the sportin'
idea, announced hickey. Fifty thou
sand dollars makes $4,000 for each of
US five. Mr.. Wallingford's services
SlQuld he worth af loarA ~. .~...el,