fifteenth installment
[ kept after Gilbert for years
to tell you he was your father.
Ho kept putting It off, kept stall
in'.:. torturing himself. At heart,
jt i n, he was sound, but impracti
cal 1 don’t seem to startle you
with this news.”
^ Judge, I’ve been aware of it
for some time.” John! turned. He
was crying. He dashed away the
tears. "I enjoyed going around
with my dad. But—well. I said
something once I would have giv
wi my right hand to recall. I
Know the thing was working out.
iV w it’s too late.”
Of course you have rights, in
the estate.”
1 have not thought of rights,
Judge.”
But you haven’t a leg to stand
n:\ John. Gilbert never changed
ins will. I’m one of the trustees.
There’s not a scrap, not an atom
of legal evidence, to support you.
The best evidence you have, John,
is vour appearance. My good boy,
you are the image of Gilbert Van
Horn as a young man. The por
trait in the library, the one on
the east wall, is you. But you
have nothing tangible to support
your claim.”
v^uimir junn cunsiaerea a
while. "That’s a new one on me.
I'm not claiming anything. Great
God, sir, I’m down far enough as
it is. The fact that he will never
be here again is all the trouble I
can stand. What a hero—” John
stood and looked through the win
dow; the park was blurred before
his eyes.
"The estate’s left to Josephine.”
"Well, I’ll marry it then.” John
looked at Judge Kelly, a smile
flickering on his lace.
"She’s difficult, John, I’d have
been better pleased if the thing
had been divided.*’
"Forget that, Judge. I appre
ciate your feeling. Who else
knows about this—this—relation
ship?”
"Not a soul, so far as I know.
Malone has a theory—only Har
board might know. Gilbert con
fided in me, as his father did. God,
what a city. The old name, the old
tradition, gone.”
"Come, Judge, you take things
too seriously. I’ll change my name,
some day; perhaps.”
"Then you won’t do anything?”
"What can I do?”
"Marry Josephine, John, and
we’ll tell her afterward.”
As Judge Marvin Kelly (rode
down town he shook his head, his
head frosted with wisdom and fill
ed with doubt. What a mixture
life is!
John slept fitfully that night.
The next day he would insist on
seeing Josephine, he was eager for
her. Three days had passed since
her return. The papers were still
l 11 r . i i • t» . .1. „
iuu t_»A tilt UljdattA • luuapj
was foolish enough to want to
look her best when meeting him.
Women are queer. He slept
dreaming of his father, a poignant
clutching at his heart. He dream
ed of the sinking ship, of Van
Horn, a hero, a hero, and of Jose
phine. They would often talk
about his dad in after years.
John stepped out of his shower.
Breakfast had been sent up. Then
the mail came. He would be at the
shaft at nine, the privilege of
easier times and of his step.
"A letter, Mr. Breen. Special,
registered.” He signed the, receipt.
It was a heavy envelope. John
laughed, he was feeling better,
something from Jospphine. He
was awkward, he tore the thing
open, a heavy nub fell out, wrap
ped in, tissue paper. He opened
the little packet—it was the en
gagaement ring—Josephine’s ring.
John gasped. In his hand was a
sheet of her blue note paper.
Dear John,
•w —- -
I am marrying Gerrit Rantoul.
I owe my life to him. Don’t blame
me> John. It is best for us both
now that poor dear, brave Gilbert
ts gone. Forgive me. Josephine.
* * *
Years of slavish toil followed
for John. He sunk himself in his
work. Occasionally he heard of
Josephine* and Ran,toul, married
and in the vortex of young and
gay America just before the war.
Finally the acqueduct was fin
ished. Talking it over with Har
board and Pug Malone one night
Judge Kelly went to a littered
desk. He searched for a moment,
then found a card. "My friend,
Almon Strauss, has started some
thing interesting. The Bureau of
City Plan. An engineer jiamed
Colfax is in charge. I think there’s
a place for John if I say the word.
A place for an enthusiastic endow
ed with a modicum of, brains. My
sad past, gentlemen, leads me to
the belief that the wiser a man is
the less enthusiastic he gets. Solo
mon was an utter pessimist.
"Enthusiasm starts wars, and
wisdom ends them.” Harboard had
lit his pipe. Malone, also smoking,
thought deeply. "John Breen
was thrown into this city with
nothing but enthusiasim; he may
find wisdom, and perhaps some
happiness, within its walls.”
* * *
For a year he had been at work
with Colfax, as assitaant engineer
of the Bureau of City Plan. The
city enfolded him, enthralled him.
He seemed to be playing with a
set of magic blocks, scheming,
planning, and soon they would
build.
One day, John had checked
over reports of a field survey ac
counting for many acres of land
safely under water and purchased
by a commission spending other
people’s money. Colfax smoked
interminably, cigar after cigar,
his teeth champing at the rolls of
weed, tossing the butts when
burned to the middle.
"Do you sense this thing?” he
asked, waving his hand in a gen
eral sweep. "I mean the thing
that has us all—this lighting a
brand hesitated in his reply. Col
fax seemed unnerved, the night
was insufferably hot, and he, too,
came to the office with the din of
war added to another clamor
coming to a surge within him.
Colfax, thin but of fiery energy,
seemed to radiate a restless, gnnw
ing sorrow.
"What I have said about the
city bears out the rottenness a
broad. Everything is wrong. It
will drag us back in the wash of
war. The reformers will fail, the
people will fail, and the grab and
gouge and hell of blood and hate
will swing around the world, kill
ing everything we do. This stuff,”
and Colfax brought his first down
with with a bang on bundles of
reports, "this might as well be
burned, for the good it will do
while I am here, or you too.
"I have worked years, given all
that is in me, to set a standard. I
seek a city to set up as an ideal
habitation of men. You know my
theories about the heating and
and sanitation of groups, you
know the Colfax formula for the
regeneration of waste materials
and the return of nitrogen to the
sail in an endless cycle. We must
strive^ *Mr. Breen, to the time
when the terrible waste will be
overcome and men may live for
something other than their appeti
tes and greed. When plenty will
be common and the poor will only
be the poor in spirit, or in mind.
You know this, you have seen the
plans and the fitting of them to
meet the transition from industrial
truce to industrial peace and free
dom.
Colfax suddenly stood upright
and walked to the window looking
out over dark roof tops. A strangt
feeling of prediction filled th<
small, white painted office. Johr
had stepped to the window besidt
his chief and also looked out, as il
seeking an answer.
"I have become convinced that
my work is done,” Colfax con
tinued without looking at John.
It is rip use continuing, at least
for me. I have written Almon
Strauss, a great man, Mr. Breen,
not afraid to remain in Paris. For
the next month I will set things
to rights, turn over the records,
and you can go on, or not, as you
see fit.”
"But—” John stammered. It
seemed so unnatural.
"It is better so—”
It was dark when the two men.1
left 'the Bureau. Colfax, who
roomed alone, north of Fourteen
th Street, in shabby fashion, turn
ed on his heel at the corner.
"Good-night, Breen—John.” He
half hesitated and then did an un
usual thing. "Here,-shake.” He
wrung the hand of the youi\ger
man with a strong cold grip—
"Good-night—”
John Breen got home late that
night. The ride uptown in the
subway had been sticky, tiresome.
Bits of paper and dust and dirt
cluttered the trains. He felt tired
disconm crprfl. rmcinpcc r\f rVw-*
Bureau, being financed by the
mysterious Almon Strauss, a man.
he had never seen, appeared futile,
worthless, impossible.
Then he was only half asleep.
A deep rumble tumble and heavy
crash of sound roared up the river.
What had happened? After a
while it was silent. Apparently
some colossal explosion. He wait
ed and went to sleep. Black Tom,
frightened with T. N. T., had
gone off and the lower sections of
the city were in disorder, glass lit
tering the streets. The crimson
aurora of the fiery detonation had,
for a few minutes, lit up the quak
ing town. Blackness decended on
Wall Street and Broadway. Offices
were deserted. Only on Park Row
was there action; men scurrying
for news and the clang of patrol
wagons and ambulances rushing
special officers and doctors to the
streets. But the larger part of the
prostrate city was asleep.
A smaller detonation to place
'north of Fourteenth Street. Still
trembling with the shock of the
explosion, a beaten man placed a
pistol at his temple and pulled the
trigger. Colfax, director of the
Bureau of City Plan, crashed over
on the crest of noise. He thought
the city1 had been blown up by the
Huns.
The morning papers quite for
got the suicide.
"Colfax is dead.” John Breen
phoned Judge Kelly.
"Too bad, John. Too bad. Bet
ter go up and look over his papers.
He has no relatives.'*
That day John gathered the few
belongings of the strange man. He
lived alone. His name had been
changed, by due process of law.
inumDing ms nose at iact, ne,
who was Vladimir Kahlfuss, be
came Victor Colfax. It explained
much to John. The man had been
swamped by his own sincerity, a
victim of the times: oc all time.
As John rode home in the sub
wav that night, in the crush, he
saw everything on end. Car after
car, crowded to suffocation, slip
ped by him, the uplifted hands of
passengers seemed a symbol of the
complete surrender of the masses,
white impotent hands held up,
thousands of hands, white hands.
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G. A. R. Greeted at Lincoln’s Home Town
Seventy-five thousand people crowded into Springfield, HI., home town
of Abraham Lincoln, to witness 800 members of the Grand Army of the
Republic in parade and annual convention. Photos show the “thin blue
line’’ on parade, and insert, Wm.P. Wright, Chicago, newly elected National
Commander for 1932.
State Has New Source
Wealth In Talc Deposits
Science is constantly adding-to
the value of North Carolina’s great
va/iety of minerals, particularly in
the case of new process which, are
creating demands for materials
hitherto not used, State Gealogist
H. J. Bryson asserted in summariz
ing latest developments in the min
eral field.
One of the most important deve
lopments in recent years, he said, is
the use of talc in the manufacture
of battery boxes, since there are
approximately 12,000,000 of those
containers manufactured annually
and since talc is said to be the only
suitable material obtainable at the
price, it is enthusiastic over the
prospects for wider markets.
"Talc produced from mines in
Cherokee county ranks among the
best in America,” the state geolo
gist declared. "Producers in that
section say it ranks with the Fren
ch and Italian talcs. This talc is es
pecially suitable for the cosmetic
trade. The pyrophyllite, a variety
of talc, deposits of Moore county
are the only commercial deposits of
this mineral so far known in the
United States.
vmvene deposits or eastern
United States reach their maximum
development in North Carolina.
This material is being used for cer
tain refractory purposes wich may
lead to a large production. This
year about 15 carloads have been
shipped out of the state for experi
mental purposes. Reports from
those making the tests reveal that
it has certain properties that will
make it a valuable mineral in\ the
future. The deposits in this 'state
are probably the largest in eastern
United States.
PARIS COP’S KISS HALTS
BUSY CITY TRAFFIC
Paris.—A kiss that paralyzed
traffic in the heart of the down
town section of Paris was adminis
tered by a petite Parisienne t;o a
very stern looking "cop” directing
vehicles and pedestrains in the
square in front of the Opera.
The charming lady, in a pretty
frock and a perky hat, started: out
as if jay-walk, heading directly for
the minion of the law.
When she reached her destina
tion, she rose on tiptoe, smiled and
fiuckered her pink lips. Tr affic
halted, the copper stooped and kiss
ed the lady on both cheeks, sifter
which she beamed broadly and pro
ceeded diagonally to the opposite
curb. The hero of the ep isode
blew a loud blast on his traffic
whis^je, drew his face into i;tern
lines and yelled out, "Get a 0 love
on there; hurry up!”
Lost 20 Lbs. of Fa t
In Just 4 Weeks
Mrs. Mae West of St. X ouis,
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one box of your Kruschen Salts
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For your health’s sake ask for
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store or any drug store— th e cost
for a bottle that lasts 4 wc:eks is
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bottle you are not joyfully satis
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You’re O. K., Helen
and you’re nominated for
the all-time “Miss America”
By Betty Best
I WANT to throwj
my hat in the air'
and yell “yea” every]
time I hear her name.]
For she is my ideal
of the ideal every]
American girl shouldJ
emulate. She’s my
nominee for the all-]
time “Miss America,”
is Helen Wills.
Helen’s just there;
that’s all. She hasi
proved herself the
queen of tennis play-!
ers. She has always
Helen stood for the finest
Wills sportsmanship. She’s
talented — my, how,
she can draw and write. You may
remember her contributions to j
well known magazines. And with;
it all she has remained the same'
modest person who not so long,
ago started her clay court career,
ji A Fighter Who Is Fit _ '
! No doubt Helen owes much-of
1 her excellence with a racquet to the
excellent condition she maintains.1
She isn’t an unusually hard
trainer. Being moderate in all
things and regularly following a
common-sense program 01 living,
she never has to subject herself to
' an arduous training "grind.”
In her eating, for instance, she
iis by no means a faddist. She eats
pretty much what anyone who
wants to keep fit would choose.
Inquiring about her diet at the
Forest Hills Inn, Forest Hills, L. I.,
where most of the tennis luminaries
stop during the tournament sea
son, I found from Mrs. Maude Hal
pin, manager of the Inn, that Helen
eats a fairly heavy breakfast.
True to her native California,'
shk begins her morning meal by
drinking an extra large glass of
orange juice. She then has two
soft-boiled eggs, several strips of
crisp bacon, buttered toast and
drinks a hot cereal beverage. Like
many famous athletes she takes
no chances with coffee and other
Stimulating drinks.
For lunch she eats Iamb chops
and vegetables in small quantities.
Dinner is. heartier, soup, entree,1
vegetables, salad, and dessert.
Sensible, isn’t she? Which, re
minds me—there’s another charac
teristic of hers that I had over-:
looked mentioning before. Well, I.
don’t know Mr. Moody, her hus
band, but I’ll bet he is one regular
fellow. Our all-time "Miss Amer
ica” wouldn’t be satisfied with
anything. else.
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F iir e Prevention
Week Oct. 9-12.
It is my firm belief that fire
prevention should be accepted as
a major civic duty by every good
citizen of the state. During the
year 1931, two hundred and four
een North Carolinians lost their
lives by fire. Iq addition, during
the same year fire destroyed proper
ty valued in excess of thirteen mil
lion dollars. This is the direct
loss; it is destruction, of lives and
property.
THEREFORE, in compliance
with Section 6080 of the Consoli
dated Statutes of North Carolina,
I do hereby set aside the week of
October 9th as Eire 'Prevention
Week, and do urge the people of
North Carolina to accept the re
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connection. I call upon them to
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thousand nine hundred and thirty
two, and in the one hundred and
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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 8TH, 1932
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