Show VALUABLE FOUNTAIN PEN Originally Cost Cos But t 1300 Chicago Among stories of specUlations with fabulous profits the one of how Ii i U fountaIn pea was traded In ns as u a 1300 asset is 15 told to his friends b bR by R B S Huddleston The corporation or of orI I which he Is the manager Is n a large mahogany wood Importing firm and he has just returned from Mexico with witha a 8 cargo of the valuable lumber The pen which he had purchased new In Chicago for 4 had passed through several seasons of hard sen servIce Ice but was still in good writing con condition when he disposed of It at a 1206 profit In Mexico We were wen just finishing our cargo of oC ny at n L sleepy Mexican Mexican can port when the fountain pen proved itself such n a bonanza says nays Mr Hud Huddleston Huddleston in telling th story ston Everything seamed to drag and no argument I could use uce would make the themen themen men work faster I had figured things up and it was a certainty that It if our steamer did not got gat away before n a cerI tam day the company would lose Jose 1 I It was also an equal certainty I from the rate at which things were moving that we would still be at our wharf that day There were no labor unIons In far faraway faraway away Mexico to regulate hours of work and the number of our ou but the men were Imbued with the true spIrIt of theIr count country and refused to hurry It actually seemed that even with a doubled force torce or of stevedores we were not DOt making any taster faster progress Offers of bonuses and rewards only evoked fervent protests from the men that the they were already almost ex cx bausted from the strain or of overwork Finally one day I was writing a aletter aletter letter to Chicago explaining the delay and gratuitously some frank opinions on the native laziness of Mex leo A shadow fell teU a cross my paper and I looked around to find the boss stevedore eying me Intently I had noticed before that bin work dragged whenever I started writing and I Imagined that It was because I was not watching him Fine pen you ou have haye boss he be yen en I Yes damn fine pen Why dont you get t to work I growled with a frown 4 I 1 ala always s wanted a pen lie be hinted 4 Get the steamer loaded before betor Thursday and its your ours I promised in n a second You shoUld have hae the stevedores wo k after that The boss was a von erl table slave driver I wrote on every possible occasIon and always was care careful careful ful he should see the pen You kno know Its you yours Mike I would say an nI he would grin jo joyfully tully and almost break beak his back carrying a double loaa loat or of mahogany The ship was loaded on time Ume and we f saved aved the thc 1300 I found when I got back to our Chicago office that my figures correct and that the expected delay would have hae caused an actual loss to the company of that amount |