| Show lights of new york aorl g TRUMBULL by S balter M 11 aylesworth and bruce barton are fast friends but before they knew each other very well mr aylesworth wanted mr barton to do some writing for the electrical industry so he took him out for dinner and sold him the idea the next day in the cold light of morning in bruce barton reflected that he hd had more work than he wished to do anyhow and that he foolishly had taken on an additional burden so be sent mr aylesworth a telegram telling him he be was sorry but must reconsider A message came from mr air aylesworth Avles worth saying that everything was all right but would mr barton dine with him again mr barton would and did and mr aylesworth sold him the idea a second time moreover on this occasion tie be had brought with him all the paper in the case and he gave them to mr barton the first thing upon which bruce bartons eyes lighted the next nest morning was this mass of data it gave him a headache just to look at the outside of it hastily he dressed so as to get to the office early and send all the stuff back to mr aylesworth with it went a message that mr air barton had bad reconsidered it really would be impossible for him to do the work and murmuring something about slick talkers mr barton resumed his daily tasks by this time the ordinary man might have been a bit discouraged but not M 11 aylesworth known to his friends as deac he would not have hare taken up the matter in the first place except that he be bad decided bruce barton was the man he wanted for the job so he merely asked ask mr barton to dine with him again at a different club he always changed the surroundings and there for the third time he sold him the idea of writing the stuff and gave him back all the data when mr barton the next nest morning in galloped to his office to send back the papers and leave strict orders that be was out to any invitations to dinner with mr aylesworth he be found a pile of telegrams there were many maily telegrams and more and more coming in all the time each was signed by one of the most prominent names including statesmen masters of industry and presidents of banks some had signed to them the names of editors the tenor of each was the same one and oil all congratulated mr barton on having accepted a job for which he so eminently was fitted and which done by him would be of belle benefit fit to industry tile the country and the world at large at this point in the proceedings bruce carton barton gave UP dp lie he naturally knows super salesmanship when he runs across it but it must have cost deac ayles worth considerable money to send those telegrams A geologist told me this story once on the jersey shore of the hudson a sack was found containing the torso of a murdered man with the severed head arms and legs missing there not only appeared to be no way of identifying the body but no way even of telling where the murder had bad been committed or in whose jurisdiction they thought for a time that the murder might have been committed on some boat but the sack had been weighted with pieces of rock A geologist happened to see these and immediately said they were manhattan schist found nowhere ex capt on manhattan island this placed the murder in new york and working from that the police finally checked up on missing persons made an identification and caught the murderer 0 0 whenever you see the papers a detective said to me the other day that a desperate character has been trapped either in new york or hiding in some other part of the country the chances are overwhelming that he has been turned in by somebody sometimes it Is a woman with a grievance sometimes a suspicious neighbor sometimes a relative who hates or fears him but almost always the police are tipped oft by somebody 2931 bell service |
