Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1935-06-06

got some boys ashore to show me
where these here cells was doin' their
stuff. After giggin' for 'em for three
weeks had enough to start, an
build me pond so / could get them
at work. But amt no engineer, an
though I tried every way I could think
Of to get the Juice out Of them wrig-
Cling fish an into storage battery,
1t wasn't no good.
but l amt no gutter. What does
a promoter do when a scheme blows
up on him? says to myself. He
onloads 1t onto somebody else I an
swers back. An that was what 7
started out to do. got Teller who
runs newspaper down In one Of them
island towns to do my printin' for
me, an we sent out circulars about our
eel farm, an how before very long
all the machinery in them parts would
be run by eel power, an when a eel
give out, which he seldom done, you
could get enough meat off Of him to
pay all the overhead.
by an by got few bites from
people who lived on some Of the big
islands, but most of em wanted to
know how they was to tell If these was
real electric cells 1 had to sell, or just
common cells without no kick into
EN-. So wrote 'em all that If they
would get somebody on my island
that they knew an trusted to see a
demonstration I'd prove that my cells
was the real Mccoy an would supply
power as advertised. BY that time 1t
struck me 1t might be a good plan to
find out something myself about them
fish before l took a chance on public
exhibition.
well, l got some ship engineers;
an other educated fellers to come an
see the rest, an to bring compasses
along which would point to any place,
an SO prove cells was electrical. An
blast me If airy eel made the least inn
| preston on any compass you could
rig-not even on magnetlzed needle
fioatin' on crock in basin Of water.
"Of course didn't want to be stuck
with lot Of useless cells on my hands,
so ! did what anybody else would Of
done In my place. advertised I'M
newspapers In countries thousands Of
miles away-countries where they
didn't have no electric power, but
needed 1t bad. An by an by began
to get letters Of inquiry, and not only
that bat letters with money In 'em.
kept up supplyin' 'em with infor-l
nation about our plant an how we
was improvin' the breed of cells, am
how before FIVE years you could send
cells all over the world to run little
local electrical machinery, an the
money come In so fast that f1ggeredl
had my fortune all made.
AN then one day quiet little fellerl
comes along an asks to see the cells
work. l tried to stall him off, but heI
Insisted, SO / took a chance an lett
him come to the plant. He just looked
at my stock once, an then says Il
What country does this island belong
tor
swell, told him. What else could
do? An the next week a cablegraml
come to the main office, an bunch Of
local cops come out an looked me
over an give me two days to get out
Of tbe place an take my cells with me.
What do you think of that7
Here / was dom what many 81
supposed big business man has done,
an got kicked practically Off the
ocean for 1t, an had to go back to
work as a deck hand. II amt right,
tell you. No wonder there's so many
Reds an Soviets and things CROWN
up all around u.s." =
q, Bell syndicats.--wNU Service.