Show stopped slopped the fast flyer 9 at a recent dinner at tho the white house the following story was waa told by one of 0 tho the guests on secretary tatt taft who was present and who by the way tips the scales at beyond tho the three hundred pound mark the secretary was returning to washington from chicago aboard tho the past fast flyer ld that only stops at largo cities lie ile had urgent bustness business with an old acquaintance of his who lived at a small station about two hundred miles from washington the population of which la Is about five hundred ile ho asked tho the conductor it he be could stop tho the train for him at that place but ho he replied that it would be impossible for him to do so that ho he certainly ta in would loso lose hla his joli job it if lie he did well after afta much worrying over his disappointment polut ment sir taft thought of 0 a scheme by lie could gala gain his end and when the train next stopped ho he sent a message to tho the superintendent of the road saying will you stop your past fast flyer at De demizien nizien for a largo large party on way to washington it if so instruct conductor to stop today about an hour passed when the conductor passing through the train stopped at the Secre seat and told him that thal he bo would bo be able to got oft at denizen as he had bad been ordered to stop hla his train thero there for a largo large party going to washington the see sec rotary smiled with that childlike expression of innocence for which he be la Is famed thanked him and settled down again behind his bis paper two hours houra later the porter of the train called denizen denizen much to the tha surprise or 0 the passengers mr tatt taft gathe gathered reI up his band handgrip grip and started for the platform of tho the carr where ho he was standing when the tr train nin came to a dead stop As ho he stopped stepped off the train there was no one in sight but the surprised looking station agent |