OCR Text |
Show "What's in a Name"? Senator Duncan U. Fletcher of Florida Flor-ida can now answer Juliet's famous question, "What's in a name?" A complication arising over his own brought about results that but this Is what the senator has to say about the matter himself. "Last month, while In Florida, I telephoned tel-ephoned some distance across country to the railroad terminus, reserving me a berth in the sleeper going north that night. When I entered the car about midnight I found the berth al ready occupied. On awakeniiif? the Dccupant and telling him there was some mistake I learned from him that his name was Fletcher and that he too had telephoned that day, reserving reserv-ing a berth. The agent, thinking the two one, had merely made one reservation. reser-vation. The other Fletcher, a most courteous young man, offered to vacate va-cate In my favor, but I declined and, going Into another sleeper, found a vacant berth. "You remember the early morning " " - "Wla nonnirer train about six weeks ago In which several people were killed? That was the train I was on. The car I was In came out of the wreck unscathed, but the car the other Fletcher was In was smashed to kindling wood and he was killed while asleep In the berth I didn't get!" |