Just Car Fare

The ways of the New York broker are ftrtful, and his eyes are always open for an i Dpportunity. When he has a chance to I "make agood bai-gain,"he doesn't letgrass ?row undc-r bis feet. i The head of a steamship companyrecently eaid to a Wall street broker: "I wish I could get a certain pier privilege. It's so and so." "Well, why don't you go and get it?" csked the broker. "I can't seem to get hold of it." "The pier business," .said the broker, "isn't in ray line, but how much would you give me for tbis privilege if I get it?" "I'll give you $1,000 a inonth for a year." I The broker said that he would see wbat he could do. The pier was owned by a adelphia man, and the next afternoon the man from Wall street walked into the office of the pier owner in Philadelphia. "I want yon to buy some bonds," besaid. I "Don't want to buy anything," was the answer. 'Tm Belling." "'But these are giltedged. You never saw , anything better." "Can't buy anything. Haven'tanymoney. Got a lot of things on my hands that aren't paying a cent. These are hard times, I teil you. I've got stores that I can't rent, büls that I can't eollect. Why, there's a pier over in your city that isn't doing what it ought to do for me. A privilege there is i just begging for some one to take it." "Well," said the broker, "I want to sell you some of these bonds. We ïaight make a 'dicker' on the pier. I guess I could get rid of it. Wil) you take the bonds off my I hands if I take the pier privilege off yours?" "I don't want bonds." "Wouldn't you take thern to get rid of your pier?" "No; I am carrying all I want." "Well, tnaybe I'll take your pier anyway. How much do you want for it?" "Three thousand dollars a year." The broker thoughthemightaswell take the privilege, even if they couldn't strike a bargain on bonds. The next morning he went to the New York steamsbip man. "I can get that pier for you for a year," he fi.iil. "At what tenns?" "Your own tiíures--.$12,000 a year." The privilege was relet right then and there, the contract .signed, and the broker was just t9,000 betteroff. A short time after t his the steamship man met the brokei again. "Say, X.," he said, "teil me now, just foi fun, what did you make out of that piei busine.-s:''1 "Car fare," answered the broker unblushingly. "Car fare?"