Show ONE 0 ROAD TO FORT FORTUNE fa SUFFOLK THAT IH most newspaper op 6 Z men hao halo been approached pro ached at one 0 ll 11 time or another by I 1 4 people with tre I 1 sch EuleS tor for linking for bunc i sometimes these require publicity and anti FO ro alc j ircy of a cotil revolutionizing patent selects a newspaper inan man it in the hope of retting getting thit ity chich the thinks la Is all thit Is 1 really nettled to bring it to success 11 london has al abw ays been the happy hunting ground for int ii who ho wish to act get capital for their projects tho the smoking rooms in the big cotla on northumberland avenue ire 1 r 0 usually ery pry full of Americ americans ins vho aho have hale conio come 01 cr bare mth ath greit it gonei m nuking aking scheme schemm which require mall fortunes to ret get them going thre was a time almost anything american could be floated on the london market but that time Is 1 past and I 1 doubt it if it nill eer return there la Is a general belief that most company am tire swindlers but ns as far as its tny my own onn experience exper lince goes I 1 fand generall generally tint thit tho the men bellevo believe in the schemes they have hale come across tho the atlantic to promote tho the I 1 investing n esting part of tho the british public huc hale been to duped by the wholesale ho losalo railway rallay snIt BW indies idles of america and other trans atlantic schemes for robbing them of 0 their money tint thit tor for the few fen cars ears it has baccomo increasingly cull cult to capitalize anything from the united states the crisis between the ti two 0 countries has effectually killed any r remnant of 0 confidence that the british capt hillst had in amerle Amerl cin in investments and now it the man with a business to sell 1 is wise w ise ho he mill endri endsor or to cell gell it at home and not spend his time ind substance upon london hotels sometimes those schemes ire not blut hat appear to be on the surface some eara ears ago three oung mei me from chicago called upon me wanting some information about the N aia 8 and tho the haunts of the british capitalist ai although a by thought I 1 kreft krew an anything about hira him Is more than I 1 can tell the were all nil lift lin ers and as far as I 1 could see had not let ct succeeded in building a reminer althe practice tor for themselves cs in the well cit of chicago they had a plan however hoener of making a fortune foi tot in a short time and when this laudable ambition had icon teen attained the intended to go in for or nime and fame tn in the law business bu alnesa tho the claimed that there ft as A great deal of money to bo be mido mide lu in seal ashing fishing the tt tte came over to england for or the purpose of alsing money to fit out ton tell small vessels and send them from british Colum columbia bli to engage in the scaling sealing trade I 1 pointed out to the young men tint thit it m as rather strange for or three citizens of the united states to come to a foreign country for the purpose of getting mono gonei together ulta ft ltd the object of disobeying tho the mandate of their on onn government but tho oung men replied that the th had gone deeply into international law a that the united states a was wrong in its contention that sealers could b driven from the bering sea tint thit the united states would irien lon its case if it went to arbitration and that when tho the decision of the international court was given against the united states there would be a tremendous rush into the se sealan alln bu buol alness nesa and so they the u anted to get organized thoroughly before the traffic began and before the cream of the bu alnesa alness wae nad divided among too many 10 Z 04 WAS AVERY PERSON PERSO V the oung men bald said they had devoted much time to the law on the subject and they certain that the case ot of the united states could not be made good I 1 detoro any arty competent tribunal and after events certainly showed that tho the voting men knew know what they were talking about I 1 was unable to alno gl the young fel el iowa any assistance W 1 tho the bus business liess n a as too much out of ray my lino line to make roy my advice profitable to them bit they were ere nice young tel fel loAS and often dropped in to have hale a chat I 1 understood as timo time went on that their h iciness waa was not prospering and that they hey found it difficult to interest caal in their scheme capital la is nc notoriously timid and bhea there Is a chance of litigation between two countries the natural adit ot of caal tal u beems hegeli increase increased d one day there dropped in it upon pa me a 1 with a 4 rote loo he ile nos u r gentle and insinuating ery iery suave person ft ith he wanted man manners tiers ani somo some particulars about the three boung men I 1 asked him hill it if tw they had given me aa as a reference an ani I 1 be he said they fad ad not but ho he knew thy bilu d upon hoped I 1 ou d ho he me tile occasionally an ani I 1 tell him all I 1 knew abou them I 1 said tint that the three boung me were nere string ars to nit rim had brought no letters of introduction and I 1 coul I 1 lot ot vouch for t them bent in any way I 1 ben asked my visitor to tell me it if ho he would aou id be so goo gool what ho he wanted 0 find out ho lie bald said that lie wai wag perhaps it in tho tile wiy of doing business with nith them im all ani I 1 was nos anxious to dis discover coNer whether their I 1 was as good or not I 1 suspected my ciller villerot cil lerot of belonging to scotland N ard or the detec detection tIN 0 arm of the british government and when one of 0 tha the oung men caled called next day I 1 thought it advisable to drap him a bint hint I 1 said 1 I hope you fellow fellos understand that things which can be done in one country without attl attracting acting ill mi ty be il LI in another country countr in fo m a it company vou have base to bo be ver eri careful that you keep within the limits of the law and if it I 1 nere ere vou nou I 1 should make no moio without tho the advice ad vice ot of a cc competent I 1 english solicitor thero there nag vi some alarm in his ills taco face ae as ho looked up at me wb do vou ou say tint thit I 1 bo be asked because yesterday a man mai dropped in hero here to mike inquires gibout vou ou and I 1 suspect v without being leing absolutely certain that he is t u deaf etive of sort did you tell him anthina nn an thing about our business 0 over or here asked the oung man no I 1 did not but I 1 should judge from my visitors talk that h he 0 knows a good deil about our business busine gs at already well said the 3 man I 1 know considerable about the law on both sides of tho the atlantic and we have hale been doing nothing illegal the oung min man left an ani I 1 that m was as the last I 1 ever saw ot of the chicago trio about a week later the gentleman cime in again with nith a smile on his face well he be said our birds have flown to chicago pronouncing the litter word nord with the middle ml idle billable bl bv liable lable as if it were ere spelled hek oh have hale they I 1 I 1 dont know I 1 haven t soca aua ot of them for I 1 a A eek i ves yes he continued I 1 they took tho the bint hint ou gm give e them and occluded the ther would i be eater safer on tho the other side ot of course you told them that I 1 bad had been hero here 1 I told one of them 3 a ou bad had been here I 1 hat list v as w n 1 rv 1 I came NN 0 don t want to hive hie any trouble with these oung fellow fel lowa 3 ani I 1 think the wil enjoy them themselves seles better on the othir side of tho the ocean bavo have they been doing I 1 asked their business beamed straight enough the livent I 1 iven t been breaking the law have the theve well not exactly and vet et he ha h wily been sailing rather close to the wind mat hat did they tell vou olt they were cre doing here they said they wanted to get up capital to fit oui out a fleet ot of ten small ealler vessels to sail froni front british columbia Exact exactly lyl did they add that they had no intention of capturing any seals 0 N o hy should the vic want mant to tit fit out a sailing fleet it if they caught noth ing their object replied the he man was not 0 o catch but to be caught their ethels were nere to be fitted out tor for no other purpose but to he be caught and brought in by the united stites cruisers then thlu when tho the ease came to orbit arbitration bit ration and when the united stated failed to win as provably they will tall fall beav heavy aults tor for damages would bo be brought against tho the united states government by tho the nominal owners ot of these vessels iba three voting oung mei men were ere not to appear tn in any way in the company but they were to shara share la in whatever haten er damages dini acea m acio ei L to be extracted from the united states goern government ment they mere also to appear as the legal of the nominal owners of tho the in the united states courts it the matter went to the courts this they claimed would give th a certain legal standing in chicago ind with the money the were nere to hpe received tho the caso case might not after all hae haie turned out a bad speculation their design came to the far of the birr here naba were nere very anxious that nothing should be done to complicate affairs lucre were nere hardly sufficient grounds to justify the arrest of the oung men and if they had been arrested there would mould probably have been an outcry on tho the other aide ulde that innocent oung men were being tyrannized t rann izea over mer by the brutal british sh Ho however weier they seemed to know very iery well mell that thit they were not in fit business and I 1 was as very glad the took their departure as quietly as thy did 11 I 1 intruded to give tie still another la in stance of a giga gigantic antle scheme for or making a fortune but to that I X chall de do tote a separate article |