LAWFUL ENTERPRISE.

Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 360, 2 April 1903, Page 6

LAWFUL ENTERPRISE.

ffy Podc* •* a. forror»(l«B A«e*t far | 0«ttla« la tfce Lowest BM Mi Ow«t*e< Work. Apropos of the methods employed In 4k« franchise grab in Pennsylvania, fld&sy W. Curtis, a New York broker, told a story recently, according to the H«w York Times, of a scheme worked $B ob* of the western cities in the aarly 'Bo's for the purpose of giving «fca eontracts for the building of city waterworks to a favored concern. All •A* bids had to be submitted before Jb o'clock soon, when the city coraptroUer's office was cloaed and the repMaentatiTes of the various bidders erere looked out. A little alley led to a rear window ' •f the office, and here appeared the •fast of the company that was to get sat contract by hook or by crook. Ha fcad Ida bids all made out except the figures. When' the bids had been opened and the lowest bid had been fenad he received a signal and filled oat hie bid a few cents below that of tfct lowest bidder. Then he handed ail bid through the window to the ■lark, who duly opened it and awarded trim the contract. Then the doors erere opened and the waiting representatives were informed of the reSuK. - _^j \f A Sailer Poet *••*•«, ' 'An English literary writer says that •he time is fully ripe for the advent of a sailor poet and the marine engineer poet. "Whether they write in terms of rhyme or not I care not. A virgin laid awaits then, a noble inheritance, ■Aavtoring for ages. They can, if they •com, utterly refute the false and-fool-ish prattle of the arm-chair philosophers, and prove triumphantly that so efer from the romance and poetry of. A* tea being dead it has hardly ye* ■sett given any adequate jggmcAaa frmateTer." '\ • I Batatast atlas's latemeWW. ~i] ' Th» king of the Belgian*tpofUta* flsost expeaaive automobile ever built. ft is a palace on wheels and contain* • parlor, a sleeping chamber, fcofls*. rooms and aerraata' quarter*. Xtel taaerroir holds 25 pllni nf ftflMpiL She coat of the car was $50,000, . tsx j