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Show Use For a Million. (New York Times.) Seated with, some congenial cronies in a cool corner of a roof, garden the other night was James Connor Roach, aetor, playwright, wit and raconteur. They had been, discussing wealth and- what it meant to be a man. of. millions, when Roach said:, "Now, how many of us here tonight know what a million dollars really means? How many people in general know? . "Some think of. a million as a. check for that amount signed by George Gould and indorsed by Russell Sage. Others picture great heaps of gold. "When I hear poor chaps like us speaking speak-ing of millions I think of the story of three of my countrymen who were "digging "dig-ging a sewer up in Harlem. "They had shovels with very short handles, han-dles, and the dirt had to be thrown higher high-er the deeper they dug; so the longer they worked the more energy had to be expended. ex-pended. "One noon hour they were seated along the fence, eating- dinner, when Pat said: " 'Byes, do tyez know what I'd do if I had a millyun dollars? I'd buy- mesilf a job as porther on a Pullman car and spind the rist of . me . days in luxury. "Mike" removed his pipe from his mouth, sighed as he looked at his empty pail, and said : " 'Well, well now, would yez? I'd buy me one of thim big corner saloons with all the lookin' glasses, and iv-ry time I took a drink I'd see mesilf twenty-four times takin' it.' "The whistle summoned them to work, when Jim gave his opinion. . "Holding his lame old back with one hand and reaching for his shovel, he declared: de-clared: 'If I had a millyun dollars I'd add two feet to the handles of all these shovels.' ".- |