Show fa A I I Played the Ghost Part I L L. C. C Whitney the popular secretary secretary secre- secre 1 ft tary of the Merchants Merchant an and Manufacturers Manufacturers' ers' ers association was for a long time the agent here of the Pere Marquette Marquetta line says a a. Milwaukee dispatch Mr J Whitney is exceedingly diminutive in r i stature a fact which in itself has bas 1 t been the moving cause of many good 1 stories He Is not only very short but slender as well and his mustache Is tinged with the gray which comes i to fathers of large families A new clerk In the railroad office 1 h was asked anxiously by by one of his hia fellow on the afternoon oJ ot pay day If the ghost had walked yet t Why yes hes he's just gone upstairs replied the new clerk He Ile referred to Mr Whitney for he had not been In Inthe the city long enough to become used i 4 to the slang of the theater and news newspaper paper office or to be familiar with the fact tact that the phrase ghost walked f t Is synonymous with the receipt by k of their pay envelopes He I f thought the ghost must of necessity refer to Mr Whitney and it struck 1 him as so appropriate that he applied sr it without question Mr Whitney has a a. Keen sense of at humor and he tells the story on him him- self t r J 11 |