Category: Science-Fiction & Fantasy

Pleiades Club—Telegraphers' Paradise on Planet Mars

In offering the “Pleiades Club” to the public, I have no apologies to make. Some may object to the declarations contained herein, but they are all consistent with intelligent beliefs, and not contrary to fixed or orthodox faith. “There is no death,” and my thought is to streng...

Chapters

5. CHAPTER II.

As closely as the most patriotic mathematician could reckon time and compare it with a corresponding period on the Earth, it was Fourth of July and the dwellers on Mars decided...

6. CHAPTER III.

It was certainly a choice gathering of spirits who flocked together at Telegraphers’ Tabernacle to listen to the doings of the boys from Dixie who were members of this honorable...

9. CHAPTER VI.

While the telegraph boys of Chicago were enjoying themselves and making merry, a great noise was heard up the line, and a cloud of dust was discernible, acting as a precursor of...

8. CHAPTER V.

The audience at the meeting of the telegraph people assembled in session at the Pleiades Club on the planet Mars to listen to remarks from Peter A. Rowe and others, were quite o...

10. CHAPTER VII.

The Pleiades Club, of which so much has been written lately, seems to possess some value based upon the fact that it brings to the attention of the old and new-timers the names...

12. CHAPTER IX.

All of the telegraph people residing on the planet Mars had gathered around in the grand stand to get a front view in the tournament which was scheduled to come off February 22,...

4. CHAPTER I.

Eternity is an awe-inspiring theme and one which our little finite minds are unable to comprehend. It is a subject, however, which should never worry or distress us, when we sto...

7. CHAPTER IV.

It was Chicago day on the planet Mars and from every quarter of our nearest starry neighbor came flitting the individuals who at one time or another worked in the Chicago telegr...

11. CHAPTER VIII.

As the planet Mars has more than 600 days to its year, and as time is of no moment in that delightful abode, Washington’s birthday could be celebrated anytime convenient to the...

15. CHAPTER XII.

There was a large number of sailing craft on the Hesperian canal, on the planet Mars, all headed in the same direction and all evidently bound on the same mission. There were al...

17. CHAPTER XIV.

There is no way in which material things can be smuggled into the sacred precincts of the planet Mars. There is no gold, silver or paper money, and nothing to buy, even if one p...

21. CHAPTER XVIII.

It had been decided by the members of the Pleiades Club to send out a special train with attendants to gather in any and all stray members found loitering, so to speak, at the d...

13. CHAPTER X.

This refrain was sung with much gusto by the members of the telegraph club in session at the Telegraphers’ Tabernacle, on the planet Mars, on the afternoon of the day set apart...

18. CHAPTER XV.

“We are no kickers,” he began, “but Charles A. Tinker just gave us all these late copies of the Age, and we notice that among the records of the club, of which you are secretary...

16. CHAPTER XIII.

The bright azure sky on the planet Mars, which serves as a bulletin board for its whilom dwellers, was covered with news from Mother Earth and the wireless electric pen was busy...

23. CHAPTER XX.

There was no great preparation among the whilom dwellers on the planet Mars for their exodus to the planet Jupiter, and the long journey was to be taken without any formality.

14. CHAPTER XI.

The bulletin board, which was the azure blue sky of Mars, contained the names of many new arrivals by fast express train from the terrestrial planet. These bulletins were seared...

22. CHAPTER XIX.

In most every western city in the United States there exists a Pennsylvanian Society to which any genteel person is eligible provided he or she hails from the classic precincts...

19. CHAPTER XVI.

Much activity was being displayed by the New York members of the Pleiades Club on the fields surrounding the Telegraphers’ Tabernacle, and the air reverberated with the sound of...

20. CHAPTER XVII.

The following list of Canadian operators who lived, flourished and passed away, either in this country or in Canada, has been furnished by John Fletcher, superintendent Canadian...

3. Chapter XX--The Journey to Jupiter 78

In offering the “Pleiades Club” to the public, I have no apologies to make. Some may object to the declarations contained herein, but they are all consistent with intelligent be...

1. Chapter I--On the Planet Mars 7

2. Chapter XV--Debut of Henry Ward Beecher on Planet Mars 62