Plattsmouth weekly herald. (Plattsmouth, Nebraska) 1882-1892, May 05, 1892, Image 6
AN ODD KIND OFCLUD. !T RESEMBLES A TELEGRAPH FULL FLEDGED COMPANY. An Amateur Organlmtlon, the Member of Willi h Have Their lloueei Connert ; hI by Wlrea, tin That They Hay Com '. mnalrate with Earh Other by Telegraph. One of the mi mt novel or unique or - ganientions In Brooklyn in one that has recently gained u new luatte of life through the infn. Imj of new and vig- rous blood and by a thorough reorgan- Ization. It h aill'd the PhenU Morne Telegraph club, and is perhaps the only ne of its kind ii the United States, The old organization was formed in 1879 and utarted in life under the name of the Phenix club. It was inaugurated by a nnraiier of young people, some of whom were engaged in occupation as telegraphers, and others of different vo - cations, who took pleasure in studying the mysterious language of dots and das has. A private telegraph line was Ublinhed and connected with the res idences of tbe members. A busy wire . it was too. The hum of conversation. if it can be termed such, was constant throughout the evening. Stories were paused over the electrical current, jests 4 jokes bandied, chess and checkers played by individuals who liked this aortof recreation, and in fact as good a time was turn ally passed as if the mem bers were brought in contact with each ther by person in one room.' Jokes of an Innocent character were also carried on over , the circuit, which had the advantage in so far as to allow tha perpetrator to remain unknown of making it unnecessary to flee from the wrath of the person upon whom it was fciicted. Quite a number of these are stock property among the old members, who relate thom to friends with as much gnstoand enjoyment as if they had oc curred only yesterday. One of these is to the effect that two members after practicing with another in the early evening, during which the sender trans mitted the Morse characters as fast as he could, or as telegraphers would say "ruflhod" the receiver, notwithstanding the protests of this unfortunate disciple of America's noted inventor. The latter promised himself that a speedy revenge would follow, and sought to find some moans whereby he could make th, "rusher" aa uncomfortable ns ho lrnd boen previously. Tho practicing finally came to an end, anil the receiver waited until an un earthly hour of tho morning, when he supposed his victim had gono to lied and when the click of a sounder would strike the gloom and quiet with the distinct ness of a blow from a trip hammer. At about 3 o'clock in the morning he weut to the Instrument aud began to call bin victim in a manner which would indi cate that a fire had porhaiM broken out or that the transmitter had serious need of aid in some dire calamity. Lie willed in this furious stylo until ho hud awak ened the Klwper, who jumped up out of bed ami went to tho instrument, e.t liectiiig to hear that something dreadful had happened. He answered the call iuakingly. His indignation can Iki im agined when tho query came slowly and distinctly: "Will you pleaso tell mo tho time; my lock has run down." His answer is not recorded, but it is safe to assume that the immediate vicin ity became as warm as a hot box of an overheated wheel. Tho organization went on in tho even tenor of its way until two or three years ago, when it began to languish, partly on account of a defectiou of members who movod away from the city or 1h cause tho remaining persons would not shoulder in the proper or necessary man ner tho worry and excuse of conduct ins buuu nun organization, iiien came another flub which was purely social in its character and which was also called the Thenix club. It may have been that tho similarity of names caused a bond of friendship to be established or that somo of tho niemliera of this body were capable of handling a key and working the electrical current. However this may lie, the two organ izations were amalgamated and a new order of affairs brought about thereby. The name was changed to the present ono, and under which it started out witli bright and prosperous auspices. A flat, corner of Marcy avenue and Fulton street, has boen made the head quarters of the club, and which may 1 termed the main oflice of this amateur telegraph company. Here aro locate the battery room, which furnishes the powerful fluid by which the wire is worked, and another, which is culled the operating room, in which are placed four sets of instruments nnd a double practic ing outfit. A galvonometer, whereby tho wire is measured, so that the where abouts of any trouble on the line can be detected, is also included in this space. Meetings und social gatherings arc held iu a larger room running off from thin one. Eighty cells of battery work tho circuit, which covers a distance of near ly cighUru milw iu this city, mainly in the upper residence section." The old "string" was overhauled bv an experienced lineman recently anil put in sufficiently sulistantial sliajH' in order to enable it to more readily resist tho wear and tear of a lint! in a large and busy city. The circuit is placed along tho housetops ou the route, and trouble of any kind or, as an operator Mould say, "bugs" aro rarely met with or experienced. Twenty-three so called ."offices" are on tho circuit, all of which ,bave their calls in tho same manner as I do the stations of a telegraph company, i Among the present inombers of the dub are practical telegraphers of skill ad records for sending and receiving. vouoiueruoiu rnairy exists net ween '(them, and it is proposed at some future time to have a tournament for fast trans turitting and also for skill and ability in receiving the Morse characters. Classes j will be established in order to givo every jne a chance. One of the fastest senders ,in the country is tho secretary of tho or jcanixation, Mr. Frank L. Cathn. Brook lyn Eagle. &rl Itx-t lost of Oxford. 1 My not ling t public school h.ia, I have 110 doubt, btrengthuned my love of my university and iuy college. In my time the "lird uiuateru" had not had everything their own way. It vim pos sible to enter Oxford at the ace of nine ten it was notliiug wonderful to gi t a rciiolaruhip Ix-for eighteen or even mrlipr still. And to be scholar and fel low of Trinity from 1841 to 1847 was I something to bo. It won indeed a circle 1 to look back to of which fifty years ago I was chosen a mem Inr, a circle of which a ; nian is much to le blamed if he id not wiwr and nobler for having boen one. But love of the foundation, the feeling of membership, of brotherhood, in an ancient and honorable body, tho feeling of full pofwesriion in one's college as a home, the feeling of personal nearness ' to a benefactor of past times, all that ' gathers round the scholarship that was something worthier than a mere prize. ; the fellowship that was something ! worthier than a crammer's wages all this, I hope, has not even yet utterly vanished, but nnder the hands of one re-. forming commission after another, such -feelings have undoubtedly greatly weak ened in the Oxford to which I have come ' back. ............ In the nnreformed university, the un-! reformed college in which I had the I happiness to spend my youth, we had ! tuna to learn something, because we were not always being, taught. We were not kept through our whole time, vexed bv examination after examination, examined in this subject one term, in that subject tha nejt term, all ingenious ly combined for the better; forgetting of one thing ,bcf ore thenext was taken in. We had one exAifiinatibii, and a search ing one, th I successful , parsing of which could not seen to, any but 'a fool to be the gcr6f;rtndy-Jbnt 'which1, by the reading it required, gave a man tbe beet possible skirt for study in several branches of knowledge. Edward A. Freeman In Forum. A Question to rnrrle Orer. Ho was a "likely" lookimr Afro-Amor- lean, and as he boarded the elovated train at Twenty-eighth street attracted no small amount of attention. He be took himself to one of tho cross scats, facing the rear of the car. As he set tled himself comfortably, one of the two nialo passengers seated onDosito said to his companion in what was evidently intended to be an undertone, but which was nevertheless plainly au dible, "Do your iieople permit colored folks to ride in first class compartments in public conveyances?" What tho re ply to the question may have been will never be known. As for the occasion of the query, he did not betray by so much as the movement of a muscle or th quiver of an eyelash that he had over heard what had been said. But just before Bleeekor street was reached ho straightened himself up nnd auuresseu tno inquirer. "Dis yere ain't no question or the Fiftyent' 'mend ments, he said. "I knows riifht nbiin dat mo and my race has all do rights ob de white peoples to rido in deso yer ! . i . . seeni so mug as we got Ue money and naves ourselves. So dat ain't do nues tion. But what I would like to have you gemmens tell is dis, How kin a man lie colored when he's born so?" Ana as he stalked out of the car the passengers nil looked nt one another and wondered if they had lxin given a new problem in socio-political ecouoiny to puzzle over. New York Times. Where "Ked Tape" Connts. Said one of tho oldest and most suc cessful legal practitioners of the city bar to one of his rising young students a short time ago: "My dear young fellow, never fail to remember that in the successful career of a lawyer there is no ono item bo important to his reputation as 'red tape.' louiuay smile nt this remark. but it is as true as Holy Writ, and tho proper use or it m binding up a legal diKMunent has saved many a court paper from lieing handed back for perfection or revision io us legal sponsor. In ear- 1:.,- i:r i ...... , '" t "i i jirucuceu in mo court or one or tho most particular judges in tin.- commonwealth. I presented, as I be lieved, a well prepared report which 1 asKPU ror confirmation, and to my sur prise the judge unfolding it and looking n over found u hundred nnd one faults and directed me to prepare another one. I...4. J.. c i t " ifuer ioiiii, as no saiu. 1 was utterly nonplussed. "My time was so limited it was utter ly impossible. .An idea struck me. That night in my oflice I put on a showy out side wrapper, with a hand indorsement of the title, with the most lilieral supply of the widest red taio that I could find in graceful bows. Tho next morning T nervously presented it again. The judge received it smiling, adding: 'That is the correct way nil papers for the court should be drawn up.' There's nothing like red tape." Philadelphia P ress. The Governor' yullU. The governor of this commonwealth signs every bill with a quill. This isn't liecauso he is fonder of that particular kind of ion, but it is rather in obedience to a well established custom that has ob tained with the chief magistrates of the last decade.' There are always a few lnemWrs of tho legislature that have the collector's passion, and requests are regularly received by Private Secretary Roads from lawmakers und others for pens that the governor has us4'l for signing bills. Accordingly dozens of these quills nro purchased ever ho often, and the governor makes his signature ouch time with a now pen, which is carefully preserved nnd set a.sido for tho next quill hunter that calls. Boston Ulobo. IsIiikUks. It is said that the manifestly corruotM word, "isinglass," owes its change from a foreign to its English dress to tho pon- nl. .... ...i.:..t. , ii, uuuiug mo utiten term, "huizenblas" (sturgeon bladder), meaningless in Englinh, quietly changed it into "isinglass" und secured its oasy remembrance from association with the "icing" purposes for which it is used and the "glassy" appearance it presents. -Chambers' Journal. i THE REAL LOBBYIST. THE WOMEN ARE NUISANCES JUST THE SAME AS THE MEN ARE. Ther Ha Been a Great Deal of Romance Circulated About tha l.obbyUta. and It la Time That the Truth Waa Known. Tha Real Thing la Tery Disappointing. "Show me a lobbyist" was the request of a friend who was walking through the Capitol with the writer. This visitor was a reader of the newspapers, a man of intelligence, and a believer in most of the interesting stories he had read alxiut the nuinber, ingenuity, boldness, skill and usefulness of the body of lobbyists that is supposed to be almost a necessary part of the legislative machinery. I showed my visitor a lobbyist lie was one of the best known of the lo: about the Capitol. He was leaning ba. ; against the corridor wall, oppoM . ihe entrance of the houso of representatives, with his hands thrust into the pockets of a pair of trousers that were bo ravclud about the heels that they might be sai to wear whfekers without provoking the remonstrances or the most thorough de tester oi siang. u this man bad an overcoat it was hung up somewhere, but the dusty con union oi nis ratner tnm rrock coat. which carried the polish on its back that ought to have been on his very disrepu table looking sboes, justified the conclu sion that he was not finding an overcoat necessary this winter. He was a spare man, wun a gaunt race, crossed bv white mustache stained at the ends with tobacco juice. His shirt was not clean. and he showed a good deal of it, bat ke wore a white tie, which only added em phasis to his otherwise forbidding lack of neatness. When he moved away from his place against the wall to meet a member of congress who had come out of the chamber upon the call of one of the doorkeepers to see him, his gait was a siouctung one, and he might have boen mistaken for any other loafer about the hall if ho had not been so much more re pulsive than the others. Aly friend was disappointed. He could not understand when 1 told him that this man was one of tho best of the lot of lobbyists about the Capitol, that he had been a member of congress, that he was, therefore, entitled to the nrivi lego of tlw floor, and that tho house of representatives lias never yet had the sense to makes its rules so strong as to keep out this man and several othors inst like him who aro well known to bo nothing more than strikers and lobbyists who linger here to pick up odd jobs to neip them hang on to a miserable exist ence. They do not, one ought to be thankful, thrive as they are popularly supposed to do. If the public knew what a mistake the professional lobbyist is they would be driven to sawing wood or working on the railroads, or into doing some other useful and laborious busi ness. Then I showed my friend another lob byist. This was a thin, sliding fellow, with a gray closo beard, who toed in as he walked quickly along the passage, and who glanced furtively about as he weut, ns if watching to pounce down ujion somo one. This man was not an ex-member of congress; but he had been an employee of the house many years ago, and had beeu caught taking money to enable a corporation to reach, through the door of which he had charge, the nieu who wore to be pur chased to get through a subsidy bill. Ho was dismissed, and ho at once went into the service of tho corporation that had led to his disgrace. He is in that employment still, and ho associates with a great many senators and representatives who do not know, or have forgotten that others know, his odious history. Ho is an errand runner nnd a sneaking watcher of members who are to bo encouraged to vote this way or the other on bills to bo retried or killed. He would buy a memlier without hesitation if it wero safe to buy him, but he is cautious. He finds out his venal man before taking any risks. He is not ingenious, nor is he bold. He follows the instructions of the corpora tions that keep him here, and ho gets off in the course of tho year very well in deed if he does not get kicked out of a gentleman's houso more than half a dozen times. Tho female lobbyist is, generally speaking, a myth. The women who coint) to tho Capitol us promoters of the bills for iH'nsions or for claims, come on their own account, nnd the onlv skill they exhibit is that which consists in so persistently bothering the members who liavo introduced their bills for them that they undertake to have them passed in order to get rid of terrible afflictions. Tho marvelous woman of rh!irinir.!r manners that cannot bo resisted is to be found only in the syndicate stories. Tho women who undertake to promote legis lation are, almost without exception, bunglers and failures. Few women know enough about tho ways of legisla tion or tho ways of the legislators to qualify them to undertake lobbv work or to approach members to direct their actions, except by the most vulgar spe cies ot blackmail made nossililn bv con tributory immorality. Uenerally siieakmg, tho lobbyist is a fraud and au unneceisary nuisance. lie exists mainly because most people lo not know anything about tho method. ef legislation, and because nearly every body interested in a bill not public be lieves that the lobbyist is a creature who can tide over difficnlti.es and remove them. Aa a rule the employment of one of tho throng of disreputable lobbyists, and most of them are disreputable on their faces, is prejudicial to the legisla tion they are employed to promote. They thrive on account of the general ignorance akmt the legislative methods of procedure. Washingson Cor. Provi dence Journal. Itrcnkrrit Ahrad. 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