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Show w Hooked the Main Chance Because He Liked Fishing In tho February American Mogo-zinc Mogo-zinc Is an nrtlclo by Hugh S. Fuller-ton Fuller-ton which shows how prominent nnd wealty business nnd professional men In this country hooked tho main I chance. Ono story Is parndoxlcrl, for a railroad man now chairman of tho board of ono of our grentcut railroad systems took a Job that nobody else wonted, Rlmplv because thcro was a lako behind tho station In which ho could fish. Ono day after a fishing trip ho receded re-ceded a wlro to stop a northbound srclal as a forest flro was sweeping across tho line. Ho barely had time to (lag tho train on which wcro somo of tho first olliclals of tho road. "Tho wlro to tho north wont down, , a pall of smoko feu over them, nnd I tho glare of tho burning forests grow , bright). The officials decided to mnko , headquarters at tho little plno sta-( sta-( tlon, and tho agent turned over his mess of fish to them. For threo days I that tiny station wns tho only source I through -vhlch tho 'world received jnowg of one 'of tho greaten forest fires thot rvor swept tho North Woodr. Tho young orcn-.to- or'-"l seventy hours without sleep ordering relief, directing tho fire-flghtlng work, sending messages arranging detour-.lng detour-.lng of trains. Tho olliclals fled as tho blazo grew near, tho boy remained. remain-ed. Then heavy rains ended tho peril. "Tho boy realized ho had reached tho turning point. Ho hod dono magnificent mag-nificent and heroic work under tho order of olliclals. Ho expected reward, but In tho bustlo of reopening tho road ho was forgotten. Ho wnlted ono month, then hnd an Idea. Ho know better than to wrlto and tell tho officials wliat good work ho hod dono, so ho caught a flno lot of fleh and, packing tho best in wiro emas, ho sent them to tho officials that ho had met, "Ho received R brief, dictated note of thanks. Ho wnlted n week nnd sent another box of flhh. Theso refreshed re-freshed tho president's memory, llo wroto a personal letter, apo'oglzlng for failure to thank him for his magnificent mag-nificent work during tho flro nnd expressing ex-pressing delight over tho fish. "One moro box of fish, which Included In-cluded a twenty-six pound muskel-lunge, muskel-lunge, caused tho olllcla's to rem cm her ho wns n hero. Ho was called to tho city and given on important po Mtlon." |