Show A eror how wu world tt t atry proper basini mini A ri lor isun the hero of this story will work no boore rackets lie is dead he was one of the unprincipled men and ilao the most arrant joker thai ever lived in new york he was coming over the ferry from jersey city one morning with a frand bob said he how money havo you two dollars was the reply that enough for a dinner at delmonico B but you come with me aud ce abw I 1 will raise a 10 bill we will turn down wall street and when we reach a big brown stone building which I 1 will designate aw will stand on the fi dewalk until I 1 caroe out with a big red faced german who will gesticulate wildly wrinkle his brows and act as though ho waa in great mental disarm then wo will go into a near by remain five min ulea and when I 1 come out I 1 will hare the 10 bill the pro gramme waa carried out exactly as had been indicated and ten minutes later the men were boated in coa discussing the merits of a terrapin and a quart bottle of extra dry now bob said ho joker 1 I will explain the operand by which the scads were secured you must know in the first place that 1 have been in the habit of patronizing a on ann street where the tiger is by the impecunious while there one day I 1 met a dignified well dressed german gentleman alio was also engaged in the pleasurable and hazardous occupation of with the beast with claws we exchanged chips and became quite chummy I 1 made it my business to look him up and 1 found him to be the vice president of a largo german insurance company hap pening to be short of cash one day I 1 dropped in at his place of business A very prim and precise clerk stood behind the desk in the outer office I 1 said politely can I 1 see mr schmidt the clerk froza roy young blood with am stony stare and replied you cannot seo him sir he is busy in hees arivalo office well my business is urgent please step in and bay that a gentleman from no ann street wishes to see him if a thunderbolt had entered the private office this dignified vice president could not come out quick cr in fact he came out like a jack in in the bos his hair stood on end like the familiar quills often alluded to in connection with the porcupine and his face was purple with excitement and fear As he emerged I 1 stepped up to him slapped him upon the shoulder and cried copper the ace old man hows biz raising his hands in affright he pulled me into his private room and paid hu S B eh mein frent you will ruin roe alretta well old man all I 1 want is a fifty I 1 said de beety is alright said he producing bis wallet but you must be very careful ven you come in here I 1 am de wico of de company 1 I promised discretion in the future and belt him the next time I 1 was short I 1 worked him for twenty five scads the third time fur fifteen cases and this time I 1 managed to acet a out of him I 1 presume ho can be worked but more on thia racket for a V but understand hob I 1 have heretofore worked him as a private individual after this I 1 shall claim to him that I 1 am a newspaper man and work him with tho idea of disclosure through alie columns of the press the first toiuo I 1 work the press racket on him I 1 will strike him for a hundred bollara do llara then the two friends filled their glasses anew and drank to the health and prosperity of mr schmidt the vice president of the german insurance company A bridge hran ess The is to be crossed at quebec liy a gigantic railway bridge which will very materially affect the of the two great railways of canada the grand trunk and the canada pacific as well as an of the railway system of the new eng land beatea the great depth of the st lawrence river opposite quebec has bi therlo been a powerful argument against ahe construe lion of a bridge but engineering skill has overcome abia obstacle with a scheme to build a cantilever bridge which ill cost cloae upon the width of the river from shore to shore at quebec ia feet about buur and three quarter miles two main are to be constructed granite in 40 feet of water about feet from each shore these two piers are to support a cantilever bridge of a span of 1442 1 act the total length of the bridge with the api will be feet anear ay iy eix and a half miles the top of the bridge from high water level will be feet and the largest ocean steamer will bo able to jasd under it the principal object of the bridge ia to connect the from halifax and st john to quebec which ia run by tho canadian government at a great annual loss to the country with the canadian pai cefic railway this 9 tho only link uncompleted necessary to give the canadian railway an uninterrupted line from the atlantic to the pacific ocean through canadian territory |