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NORMAN DAILY TRANSCRIPT
The City of Numbered Days
By Francis Lynde
Cwrijkt kj
Charits Scilkner'i i«u
SYNOPSIS.
Broulllard, chief engineer at the Nlquma
Irrigation dam, mei-is .1 Wesley Cart-
wright and his daughter, Gene\i«\<. ;in«l
explains the reclamation work to thein.
Cortwrlght lees In the proJ«'< t a hlg
chance to mak - money. Cortwright or-
ganisef a company ami obiulns govern-
ment contracts to furnish pow r and ma-
terial for the dam construction A busy
city springs up about tho site. Stev<> Mas-
singah' threatens to start a gold rush If
Hrouillurd does not infltn nr President
Ford to build a railroad bran« h to the
place, thus opening an easy market for
the ore from tho •l.ittle Susan" mine On
a visit to Amy Mas>ingale at h«T father s
mine Broulllard tells her of his need for
monev to pay off his dead father's debts
and that to be free he would sacrifice
enything save his love for one woman.
Though his Influence Is vital to the build-
ing of tin railroad extension she tells him
to be true to himself He decides for It.
Mlrapolls, the city of numbered days,
booms. Cortwrlght persuades Broulllard
to become consulting engineer of the con-
solidated electric power company In re-
turn for $100,000 stock. Rumors that the
government will call a halt on the dam
cause Grlslow to tell Broulllard that he Is
leaning to the Cortwrlght side to make
the city permanent. Broulllard denies It
Permanent building In Mlrapolls and a
real estate boom are In full swing when
the stoppage of work on 'he railroad
threatens a panic. Broulllard spreads the
Masslngaie story of placer gold In the
river bed and starts a gold rush.
Look here, young man, woulcj
you commit a shady deed In or-
der to save your sweetheart a
lot of financial worry—if you
knew you wouldn't get Into
trouble, but If you knew also
that the deed would cause oth-
er men to lose money?
CHAPTER X—Continued.
of figures that you understand best,
Mr. Cortwrlght," Broulllard said half
musingly. Then, with sudden vehe-
mence: "It Is altogether a question of
motive with me, Mr. Cortwrlght; of a
motive which you couldn't understand
in a thousand years. If that motive
prevails, you get your railroad and a
little longer lease of life If it doesn't,
Mirapolis will go to the d^vil some few
weeks or months ahead of its schedule
—and I'll take my punishment with
the remainder of the fools—and the
knaves."
Ho was on his feet and moving to-
waru the door of exit when tho pro-
moter got his breath.
"Here, hold on, Broulllard—for
heaven's sake, don't go off and leave
it up In the air that way!" he pro-
tested.
But the corridor door had opened
and closed and Broulllard was gone.
Two hours later Mlrapolls the phre-
netic had a new thrill, a shock so elec-
trifying that the rumor of the rail-
road's halting decision sank Into insig-
nificance and was forgotten. The sud-
denly-evoked excitement focussed in a
crowd besieging the window of the
principal jewelry shop—focussed more
definitely upon a square of white pa-
per In the window in the center of
which was displayed a little heap of
virgin gold in small nuggets and coarse
grains.
While the crowds In the street were
still struggling and fighting to get
near enough to read the labeling pla-
card, the Daily Spotlight came out
with an extra which was all headlines,
the telegraph wires to the East were
buzzing, and the town had gone mad.
The gold specimen—so said the pla-
card and the news extra—had been
washed from one of the bars in the
Niquoia.
By three o'clock the madness had
culminated in the compete stoppage
of all work among the Town builders
and on the great dam as well, and
gold-crazed mobs were frantically dig
glng and panning on every bar in the
river from the valley outlet to the
CHAPTER XI
Bedlam
"It looks like a run on a bank." said
Broulllard.
"It Is," was tho crisp reply. "Garner
has beaten everybody else to the home
plate, but he couldn't keep his mouth
shut. He's been talking, and every
man in that mob Is a potential panic
breeder That thing has got to be
nipped In the bud, right now!"
"Yes." Broulllard agreed. He was
still wrestling with his own besetment
—the prompting which Involved a de-
liberate plunge where up to the pres- power"dani flve miles away
ent crisis he had been merely wading
in the shallows. A little thing stung
him alivo to the imperative call of the
moment—the sight of Amy Masslngaie
walking down the street with Tig
Smith, the Triangle-Circle foreman. It
was of the death of her hopes that he
was thinking when he said coolly:
"You have sized it up precisely. Mr.
Cortwrlght; that Is a panic In the mak-
ing, and the bubble won't stand for
very much pricking. Give me a free
hand with your check book for a few
minutes and I'll try to stop it."
It spoke volumes for the millionaire
promoter's quick discernment and de-
cision that he asked no questions. "Do
it," he snapped. "I'll cover you for
whatever it takes. Don't wait; that
crowd Is getting bigger every minute."
Broulllard ran downstairs and across
the street. It was no part of his inten-
tion to stop and speak to Amy Mas
singale and the ranchman, but he did
It, and even walked a little way with
them before he turned back to elbow
his way through the sidewalk throng
and Into Garner's dingy little office.
"You are selling Mlrapolls holdings
short today. Garner?" he asked when
he had pushed through tho crowd to
the speculator's desk. And when Gar-
ner laughed and eald there were no
takers ho placed his order promptly.
"You may bid in for me. at yesterday's
prices, anything within the city limits
—not options, you understand, but the
real thing. Bring your papers over to
my office after banking hours and
we'll close for whatever you've been
able to pick up."
He said it quietly, but there could
be no privacy at such a time anu in
such a place.
"What's that. Mr. Broulllard?" de-
manded one in the counter Jam.
"You're giving Garner a blank card t^
buy for your account? Say, that's
plenty good enough for me. Game/,
cancel my order to Bell, will you?
When the chief engineer of the gov-
ernment water works believes in Mir-
' with the discovery of these placers —
or, rather, with the practically certain
rediscovery of them by the mob Mir
a polls will Jump to the front rank as
a gold camp, and the reclamation serv*
j ice will have to call a halt on the Buck-
skin project."
Leshlngton's long, plain song face
grew wooden. "You say 'practically
certain.' The question is: Will they
be rediscovered? Bet any of you a
box of Poodles' Flor de near Havanas
that it's some new kind of a flip flap
invented by J. Wesley and his boom
ers. What do you say?"
"Good I.«ord!" growled Handley.
"They didn't need any new stunts
They had the world by tho ear, as it
was."
"That's all right." returned Leshing-
ton; "maybe they didn't. I heard a
thing or two over at Bongras' last
night that set me guessing. There was
a piece of gossip coming up the pike
about the railroad pulling out of the
game, or, rather, that it had already
pulled out."
Once more silence fell upon tho
group in the mapping room, and this
time it was Grlslow who broke it.
"1 suppose Harlan is getting ready
to exploit tho new sensation right?"
he suggested, and Anson nodded.
"You can trust Harlan for that.
He's got the valley wire subsidized,
and he is waiting for the first man to
come in with the news of the sure
thing and the location of It. When he
gets the facts he'll touch ofT the fire-
works, and the world will be invited
to take a running Jump for the new
Tonopah ' Then, with sudden anxiety
"I wish to goodness Broulllard would
turn up and get busy on his Job. It's
something hideous to be stranded this
way in the thick of a storm!"
"It'b time somebody was getting
busy," snarled lindley. "There are
a hundred tons of fresh concrete lying
in the forms. Just as they were dumped
—with no puddlers—to say nothing of
half as much freezing to solid rock
right now in the mixers and on the
telphers."
Grlslow got up and reached for his
coat and hat.
"I'm going out to hunt for the boss,"
he said, "and you fellows had better
do the same. If this is one of Cort-
wright's flip-flaps, and Broulllard hap-
pened to bo in the way, 1 wouldn't put
it beyond J. Wesley to work some kind
of a disappearing racket on the human
obstacle."
The suggestion was carried out im-
mediately by the three to whom it was
It was between two and three
o'clock in the afternoon of the day in
which Mlrapolls went placer mad j
when word came to the reclamation i
service headquarters that the power 1
was cut off and that there were no
longer men enough at the mixers and
on the forms to keep the work going
if the power should come on again.
Handley, tho new fourth assistant,
brought the news, dropping heavily in-
to a chair and shoving his hat to the
back of his head to mop his seamed
and sun-browned face.
"Why the devil didn't you fellows
turn out?" he demanded savagely of
Leshington, Anson and Grlslow. who
were lounging in the office and very
pointedly waiting for the lightning to
strike. "Gassman and I have done
everything but commit cold-blooded
murder to hold the men on the Job.
Where's tho boss?"
Nobody knew, and Grlslow, at least,
was visibly disturbed at the question.
It was Anson who seemed to have the
latest information about Broulllard.
"He came in about eleven o'clock,
rummaged for a minute or two in that
drawer you've got your foot on, Grizzy,
and then went out again. Anybody
seen him since?"
There was a silence to answer the
query, and the hydrographer righted
his chair abruptly and closed the
opened drawer he had been utilizing
for a foot-rest. He had a long mem-
ory for trifles, and at the mention of
the drawer a disquieting picture had
flashed itself upon the mental screen.
There were two figures in the picture.
Broulllard and himself, and Broulllard
was tossing the little buckskin sack
of gold nuggets into the drawer, where
it had lain undisturbed ever since—un-
apolls futures and bets his money on til now.
'em, I'm not selling." i Morover. Grlslow's news of Broull-
The excitement was already dying lard, if he had seen fit ; > publish it,
down and the crowd was melting away ' was later than Anson's. At one o'clock,
•from Garner's sidewalk when Brouil- ; or thereabout, the chief had come in-
lard rejoined Mr. Cortwrlght in the to the mapping room for a glance at
second-floor room across the Btreet. ; the letters on his desk. One of the let-
"Well, it's done," he announced ters—a note in a square envelope—he
shortly, adding. "It's only a stop had thrust into his pocket before go
gap. To make tho bluff good, you've ing out.
got to have tho railroad." ! "it looks as if the chief had gone
"That's the talk," said the promoter j with the crowd." said Leshington when
relighting the cigar which the few j tbe silence had grown almost portent
Frantically Panning on Every Bar In
tho River.
"Perhaps I will give It before I go,H
he parried. "But Just now I'd much
rather talk about something else. Tell
me about yourself. What have you
been doing all these days when I
haven't been able to keep tab on you?"
"Flirting—flirting desperately with
Tig, with Mr. Anson -\nd Mr. Grislow,
and that nice boy of yours, Herbert
Griffith, and with—no. not with Mr.
Leshington; he scares me—makes a
face like a wooden image and says
'Little girl, you need a mother—or a
husband; I haven't made up my mind
which.' When he does make up his
mind I'm going to shriek and run
away."
"And you flirt!" he protested re-
proachfully. "Now tell me about the
"Little Susan;' is the Bluegrass farm
looming up comfortably on the eastern
edge of things?"
In a twinkling her frivolous mood
vanished.
"Oh, we are prosperous, desperately
prosperous. We have all the .improve-
ments you can see and a lot that you
can't see. And our pay roll—it fairly
frightens me when I make It up on the
Saturdays."
"I see," ho nodded "All going out
and nothing coming in. But the money
is all here, safely stacked up in the
ore bins. You'll get It all out when
the railroad comes."
"That is another thing—a thing 1
haven't dared tell father and Stevle.
When I was in Mirapolis this morn-
ing I heard that the railroad wasn't
coming, after all, or, rather, Tig had
heard it and he told me. We were dig-
ging for facts when you met us on
Chigringo avenue—trying to find out if
the rumor were true."
"It means a great deal to you,
doesn't it?" ho said evasively.
"It means everything—a thousand
times more now than it did before."
His quick glance up into the sud-
denly sobered eyes of the girl stand-
ing on the step above him was a voice-
less query and she answered it.
"WTe had no working capital, as 1
think you must have known. Once a
month father or %;vie would make up
a few pack-saddle loads of the rich-
est ore and freight them over the
mountains to Red Butte. That was
how we got along. But when you sent
mo word by Tig that the railroad com-
pany had decided to build the exten-
sion, there was — there was — a
chance.
"Yes," he encouraged.
"A chance that the day of little
things was past and the day of big
things was come. Mr. Cortwrlght and
some of his associates had been trying
to buy an Interest in the 'Littl Susan.'
Father let them in on some sort of a
stock arrangement that I Jon't under-
stand and then made himself person
ally responsible for a dreadful lot* of
borrowed money."
"Borrowed of Mr. Cortwrlght?"
queried Broulllard.
"No; of the bank. Neither Stevie
nor I knew ibout it until after it was
done, and even then father wouldn't
explain. He has been like a man out
of his mind since Mr. Cortwrlght got
hold of him—everything is rose-col-
ored. But you see how it al' depends
upon the railroad."
"Not so much upon the railroad now
as upon nome other things." said
Broulllard enigmatically. * "You say
your father has borrowed of the bank
—is Mr. Cortwrlght mixed up In the
loan in any way?"
"Yes; he arranged it in some way
for father—I don't know Just how. All
I know is that father is responsible,
and that if the railroad doesn't come
he will lose everything."
Broulllard gave a low whistle. "I
don't wonder that the quitting rumor
made you nervous. But I think I can
lift one of your burdens. What you
heard in town this morning is a fact:
the railroad people have stopped work
on the Buckskin extension. Don't
faint—they are going to begin again
right away."
"Oh?" she gasped. "Are you sure?
How can you be sure?"
"I've given the order," he s&.d
gravely, "an order they can t disre-
gard. Let's go back a bit and I'll ex-
LANDLUBBERS TO
BE TRAINED FOR
NAVAL SERVICE
Hundreds of Civilians to Be Giv-
en Chance to Learn the
Sailor's Life.
WILL HAVE MONTH AT SEA
Amateurs Will Be Taken Aboard Nine
Battleships arid Given Course of
Training—No Menial Labor
for the Rookies, Says Sec-
retary Roosevelt.
rfew York.—Ye, ho! My lads! For
(lie naval Plattsburg!
Abourd nine United States bnttle-
fitiiut many hundred enthusiastic
young landlubbers will learn some
thing about the gay sailor's life off
the Atlantic coust uext month.
Like their brothers In the military
trululng camps for citizens, they will
partly fit themselves to volunteer for
service iu Uncle Sum's defense when
war comes.
And incidentally, from all signs, they
^ivill have a Jolly good time, a brac-
ing vacation and a month of exercise
aud salt air which will put them back
luto civil life ready for almost any-
thing that conies along.
The amateur tars ut this point will
assemble and go aboard the Maine,
now receiving ship at the New York
navy yard, and the Kentucky on Au-
gust 15.
On the same day the Virginia will
pick up Its contingent at Portland
Me.; the Kearsage at Boston; the 1111
nols at Newport, R. I.; the Rhode
Island at Philadelphia; the Alabama
at Philadelphia; the Louisiana at Nor
folk, Va., and the New Jersey at
Charleston, 8. C.
All will then proceed to Gardiner':
bay, at the other end of Long Island
sound, holding ship drills on the way
At the bay they will participate In de
partment strategic maneuvers with
made, but for a reason of his own the
hydrographer contrived to be the last
to leave the mapping room. When ho
found himself alone ho returned has-
tily to the desk and pulled out the
drawer of portents, rummaging in it
until he was fully convinced that the
little buckskin bag of nuggets was
gone. Then, instead of following the j plain. Do you remember my telling
others, he took a fleldglass from Its | you that your brother had tried to
case on the wall and went to the south
window to focus it upon the Massln-
gaie cabin, standing out clear-cut and
distinct in the afternoon sunlight on
its high, shelflike bench.
The powerful glass brought out two
figures on the cabin porch, a woman
and a man. The woman was standing
and the man was sitting on the step.
Grislow lowered the glass and slid the
telescoping sun tubes home with a
snap.
"Good God!" he mused, "it's unbe-
lievable! He deliberately turns Ills
thing loose on us down here and then
takes an afternoon off to go and make
love to a girl! He's crazy; it's the
seven-year devil he talks about. And
nobody can help him; nobody—unless
Amy can. Lord, Lord!"
minutes of crucial suspense had extin-
guished. And then, without warning:
"You're carrying something up your
sleeve, Broulllard. What Is it?"
"It is the one thing you need, Mr
Cortwrlght. If I could get my own
consent to use it I could bring the
oub, "though that wouldn't be like him.
Has anybody found out yet wv >
touched off tho gold-mounted ak
rocket?"
Grislow came out of his brown study
with a ''tart. "Levy won't tell who
CHAPTER XII
Epochal
At the other extremity of the trajec-
tory of Grlslow's telltale fleldglass
Broulllard was Bunnlng himself luxu-
riously on the porch step at the Mas-
slngaie house and making up for lost
gave him those nuggets to put in his time—counting all time lost when it
railroad here in spite of those New ! window. 1 tried him. All ho will sa> spelled absence from the woman he
Yorkers who seem to have an attack
of cold feet."
Mr. J Wesley Cortwright's hesita-
tion was so brief as to be almost im-
perceptible. "1 suppose that is your
wpv of saying that your share in the
to hie stakes Isn't big enough. All
Is that the man who left the sample 1 loved. But Miss Masslngaie was In
Is perfectly reliable and that he die- a charmingly frivolous frame of mind.
Franklin D. Roosevelt.
fle
fated the exact wording of the placard
that did the business."
"i saw Harlan, of the Spotlight, half
an hour ago," cut in Anson. "He's
plumb raving crazy, like everybodv
right: the game can't atop in the mid | else, but there Is something faintly j mands of his work to account for his
die of a bet How much is it going resembling method In his madness. He j late neglect of her. "If 1 wanted to
to cost U3 to stay In?" ' figures It that we government people j be hateful I might insiBt that you
"The cost isn't precisely in the kind j are out of a job pcnBtnently; that | haven't given the true reason yet-
That Is the fourth different excuse
you have Invented for cutting me out
of your visiting list, not counting the
repetitions," she gibed, when he had
finally fallen back upon the time de-
bribe me to use my Influence with Mr
Ford?"
"As If I should ever be able to for-
get it!" she protested.
"Well, that wasn't all that he did—
he threatened to turn the valley into
a placer camp, to disorganize our
workinj force, even stop or definitely
postpone the building of the dam."
She was listening eagerly, but there
was a nameless fear in the steadfast
eyes—a shadow which he either
missed or disregarded.
"And you—you believed this?" she
asked faintly.
"I was compelled to believe it. He
let me pan out the proof for myself."
"It is dreadful—dreadful!" she mur-
mured. "You believed him. and for
that reason you used your influence
with Mr. Ford?"
He got up and took her in his arms,
and she suffered him.
"A few days ago, little girl, I couldn't
have told you. But now I can. 1 am
a free man—or I can be whenever I
choose to say the word. I did It for
love's sake."
She was pushing him away, and the
great horror in her eyes was unmis-
takable now.
"Oh!" she panted, "is love a thtng
to be cheapened like that? And your
freedom—how have you made a hun-
dred thousand dollars In these few
weeks? Oh, Victor, 1s it clean money?"
After what he has done In hi*
efforts to please her, how will
Broulllard square himself with
Amy for what she considers his
dishonorable act?
other vessels of tfie Atlantic
Division drills will take place.
On August 27 the nine training shij
will set sail (or steam, if you like
better) for Tangier sound, a part
Chesapeake bay, where they will hold
target practice and some of them w
coal at Hampton Roads.
About September 5 they will start
for their ports of embarkation and
here they will be Joined by flotillas of
motor boats owned by citizens who
have patriotically offered to train for
coast defense In time of war. The
motor boats and training battleships
will hold Joint maneuvers, studying
problems in the defense of naval dis-
tricts. The disembarkation will take
place September 12.
Bunch of Landlubbers.
Some of the men enlisted for the
cruise are the veriest landlubbers.
There are bankers, brokers, lawyers,
ministers, mechanical, mining and civil
engineers, business men of various
sorts, artists and several bona fide
oewspaper men in the New York de-
tachment.
Readers of salt water fiction know
that the first thing a newcomer aboard
ship has to do Is to holystone the
decks. In land parlance, scrub th<
floor.
But not this time. There will be
no inenlal labor for the rookies. They
aren't above It. They have promised
and are willing to do anything they
are ordered to do. But Assistant Sec-
retary of the Navy Franklin L>. Roose-
velt. who has the cruise under his par-
ticular wing, has decided It would be
a waste of time.
He decided the men going on the
cruise, mostly above the average In
Intelligence, training and education,
need no lessons In pealing potatoes
and shoveling coal. Instead, they will
get work Just as hard, but more infor-
mative. They will be trained Inten-
sively. as the naval officers say, to take
Jobs as petty or commissioned officers
in time of crisis.
In general, according to Mr. Roose
velt, they will be organized, messed
nd berthed after the methods
ployed with the mldsltipmen of Annap-
olis Naval academy on practice
cruises.
The object will be to get them into
the habits of ship life and to drill
and Instruct them a? the lighter guns
of the ship batteries. They will be
taught signaling, boating of all kinds,
fire control and torpedo defense sta-
tion work, quartermaster's duties and
marine electrical engineering, Includ-
ing radio work.
There will also be frequent emer-
gency drills, such as fire quurters and
general quarters. Besides this they
will have field artillery aud naval
drills on shore to give them a rudi-
mentary knowledge of the handling of
anns.
Lectures will also be a feature of
the end of the cruise. Between Au-
gust 20 and September 5 some of the
best schoolmasters In the navy—and
rmy and navy life is mostly teaching
hool in some manner or other—will
talk to the volunteers on subjects
•aring on the navy's work.
Limit the Volunteers.
Secretary Roosevelt also promised
to cut down the number of volunteers
allowed on different ships so that there
III be no overcrowding or discomfort
In the way of hammock room, or delay
in serving food.
As at the army training camps, there
ill be optional courses lasting a por-
tion of eactKflay. The subjects will
udude navigation, signaling, radio
work, steam and electrical engineer-
ing.
The cruise will have several Impor-
tant advantages over Plattsburg. No
mosqultoe^ no sleeping on the wet
ground, no trench digging!
Thomas V. Siocurn, a well-known
yachtsman. Is head of the civilian com-
mittee In this city which has charge
)f getting recruits for the cruise. Mr.
Slocum, whose Ideal is Paul Jones,
for whose ship Ranger he has named
his yacht, is very enthusiastic when
talking about the cruise.
Think of the advantages," he said
recently. "A summer vacation at sea
essels that cost millions of dol-
lars, the sea air, the wholesome food,
the healthful exercise. Besides the
gainful experience, everyone will come
back with a larger knowledge of the
navy and what our sea defense means
and will come back with a rudimentary
training in that defense, an Increased
pride in his country—and a better pa-
triot.**
No obligation to fight Is Incurred by
going on the cruise, except the duty
every American citizen lias to defend
his country when called upon. How-
ever, at the end of the cruise the re-
cruit will have a chance to announce
his intention to volunteer for service
in the navy In case of war occurring
within the next four years, and most
of the men will do this.
To Be Given Certificates.
At the end of the course a recruit
will get a certificate signed by the
commanding officer of his ship specify-
ing the nature of the duties he has per-
formed, the efficiency he has displayed
and the rating he is best qualified to
fill.
The expenses of the cruise are very
small. The rerrult must pay his own
transportation to and from the points
of embarkation. Once aboard the ship
he must make a deposit of $30 to coveT
board and clothes, but part of this will
be returned to him if It Is not all used
up.
Each man must take with him two
pairs of black shoes, underclothes,
toilet articles and other necessaries.
Washable uniforms will be handed out
aboard ship.
The recruits can't spend much
money on the cruise. However, there
is a ship's store, where they can pur-
chase soap, tobacco, stationery, toilet
accessories and a few other things.
The' motor boat mobilization is stir-
ring up much Interest In this city and
more men will take par', in it than In
the sea cruise. The "mosquito fleet"
of scneral hundred chuggers will be
Inspected and classified by navy offl-
SHE IS AN ENGINEER
Miss Antoinette Vanasek, one of the
few woman stationary enginers-ln this
country, has quit engineering for a
while to become chief matron of the
public baths of Long Island City.
When she's engineering she wears the
duds of an engineer, overalls and all.
Miss Vanasek, who Is twenty-three, Is
taking a vacation from the Intense
heat of tending a stationary engine.
STRAY DOG'S LONELY VIGIL
In Five Years Canine Has Never
Deserted Grave in Ohio
Cemetery.
Fultonham, O.—In the cemetery a
homeless cur mourns on the grave of
George Baker. The people cull her -
"the graveyard dog." Five years ago
the animul went to the cemetery fol-
lowing the funeral procession of
Baker, an aged farmer, who died at
his home near there. Every night the
dog keeps a close vigil over the grave.
It sleeps for hours at u stretch during
the day on the little mound that marka
Baker's resting place.
Villagers long ago gave up hope of
coaxmg the dog away. She leaves the
cemetery only long enough each day to
search for food. Friends of Baker say
he never owned the dog. Cemetery
trustees refuse to drive the animal
away and she seems likely to spend,
the rest of her days In this strange
and unusual manner.
Harold Vanderbllt has shown his
Interest by having a scout cruiser
built Just for the purpose of the mobil-
ization.
Many other young men of well-
known families art actively Interested
In the cruise and the boat mobiliza-
tion. These Include Vincent Astor,
Hermann Oelrichs, Paul Hammond,
William Greenough, Orsun Munn,
Thomas Lamont, Harry B. Hoi lings
Jr.. Robert Jacob, B. H. Borden, Stew-
art Davis and Charles II. Jackson.
Young men from the same com-
munity or the same school or college
may enlist as a sort of club and be
assigned to the same ship. However,
enlistments are closed now, but they
will open again next spring. The civil-
ian cruise Is to be a permanent annual
fixture.
HUSBAND DINED "OTHER MAN''
Divorce Denied As He Encouraged
Wife of Associate With Co-res-
pondent.
Los Angeles.—Judge Wood, of Los
Angeles, refused to grant to Frank G.
Gegoux because the testimony showed
that the husband gave a birthday
party to the "other man" In the case,
Kdward G. Branzler, after he had ills-
covered the relations existing between
the two, and encouraged the Intimacy
by permitting them to be together at
hotels along the coast while he pur-
sued his own pleasures.
The judge held that Gegoux was not
in court to defend the action, and it
developed from the testimony that one
of the considerations of the settle-
ment of the $.r>0,000 alienation suit
brought by Gegoux was settled out of
court last February, was that Mrs.
Gegoux should not contest her hus-
band's suit for divorce.
DUTCH RUBBER OUTPUT UP
East Indian Crop Expected to Reach
9,205,825 Kilograms During
Current Year.
Batavia, Netherlands Bast Indies.—
The rubber production of the Dutch
East Indies, upon which America now
draws to a considerable extent, is In-
creasing by leaps and bounds.
According to figures Just published
by the Batavia Rubber Trade associa-
tion the crop harvested last year In
the Island of Java alone was 0,059.098
kilograms, as against 3,200,274 In
1914, and It Is estimated at as much
as 9,205,825 kilograms in the current
year. Other parts of the Dutch East
Indies yielded 2,285,389 kilograms of
rubber, as compared with 1,821,320 In
1914, while the estimate for 1910 Is
3,752,000 kilos.
BARBER HAS SHAVED 243,96C
Tcnsorial Artist at Lorain, O., Say
He Has Had That Many in
His Chair.
Lorain. O.—Theodore Curtis, a Lor-
aiu barber, has Just celebrated the
twenty-fifth anniversury of the begin-
ning of his career. Curtis, who has
kept account of every man he has
shaved, says he has removed the whis-
kers of 243,900 men.
"I have also ^ut enough hair to
make 11 mattresses and to pad 43,502
crutches," said Curtis.
The barber has shaved some of the
country's widely-known men, includ-
ing Presidents McKInley, Roosevelt
an<3 Tuft, Senators Mark Hanna, Matt
Quay, Albert Beverldge and Ben Tlll-
man, "Doc" Cook, Buffalo Bill, Jesse
Willard, Tod Sloan and Harry Thaw.
"I would like to add Charles Evans
Hughes to my list of notables," ol>
served Curtis.
Boy Climber Roasts on Tower.
Corry, Pa—While Floyd Lord, thir-
teen years old, was at play, the other
day, a companion dared him to climb
a 50-foot tower at the electric light
station. The lad reached the top,
touched a wire containing 10,000 volts
enu died Instantly. The body was held
suspended until current was shut off.
DENIES THAT SHARK ATE HIM
Mr. Baldwin Positively Refutes Story
of His Taking Off by Man-
Eating Fish.
Berkeley, Cal.—George H. Baldwin
positively denies that he was eaten
by a shark, despite seemingly over-
whelming evidence to the contrary. Re-
cently a man-eating shark was killed
off Catallna Islnnd, and when Its in-
terior wAs examined fragments of a
man's coat were found, to which was
attached a pin of the American Society
of Civil Engineers, bearing Baldwin's
name. Ills demise was announced In
some newspapers and his wife began
to receive scores of telegrams and let*
ters of condolence. Mrs. Baldwin some
months ago gave away one of Bald-
win's old ooats, from which she forgol
to remove the pin.
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