Evening Star Newspaper, March 8, 1925, Page 72

THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON. MARCH 8, 1925—PART 5 U. S. Red Cross Worker Mystified by Silent Arm of Death in China Achievement of Secrecy and Vengeance—The Disappearance of Number One. DR wAier R aiiie 3 e A ot Ao T S R apaciously; he sympathized with me;|had refused to give up the woman 1s the only white man. so far as | could see beyond a doubt that if was | he told me that it was far warmer in | Fer husband and his family had fo is xmown, ever to cross China on |that of my trusty Number Onme. 1| 4 hed than up; then went straight to|lowed Number One down across th Toot, fs the authos ‘and, sompiler | Yelttalok « 8 o y 4 the point io explain that my pony | Yangize Kiang, and — - of a number of works upon the * % % 4 g : ¥ % | was lame. Number Two would say no more geography of the country, its re- NHE. others came mow, six of them. ) | “Mafoo. what thing?” 1 asked. And|Wher he had falteringly told me this T ey, e At ety the mafoo grinned from ear to ear in |tale he Implored me not to divulge : peoyp r his ex carrying the body on a broken | | reply, but said nothing. any of the information to a sou plorations and researchés he was |door, the arms and legs bound with | % L, . | This particular animal had never|promised made a Fellow of the Royal [ropes. and it was élear that the poor ; / NI e b | been known to be lame. It seemed ; P Geographical Society. His long |fellow had first been tied and gagged | 4 B 81 i 4 il e und intimate familiarity with the |andetlien been subjected to dreadful S Doy Ratiwien T Aeat | ey e land aads to ‘the dramatic force |(orture before hix end had come. T e e e e e e of this article. To say that 1 was {;u sy b e s i | the night before he was exceedingly | day, and somehow was & day out ot Last week Mr. Dingle' related |overcome ia to state the cass mildly. | 2 \ o, 15 : TS A AR tired, but the animal certainly was|my reckoning—I rode out to the scenc il A S TR BT T Rl S et Lol i / D . 1520 N\ not lame, nor did he show any trace|of the murder. The battered door unnan, Ne had the narrowsst: jlanguage; and .y 4 - / 3 R ~ B know the reason, which, with usual|the unfortunate fellow were t escape from death at the Village |dangers with a man without feeling il . 5 t e . i o Rl MR e ot g N , Chinese shiftiness (when it suits|and in the gutter I noticed a humar of the Ten Thousands Winds. |Some pai s pass 4 \ LRI them) was not forthcoming. I was|skull, but the body had been interred With quick wit he dissolved the |manner of passing?! But what an " 7] \ | C . actually annoyed, disappoi | = P T 3 { noyed me most of all was that I could ually annoyed, disappointed, for 1|to make up the number of 267 ap- hostility of four loutish creatures Ted meimen, il thought we should be able to get the | pearing in my dirty little notebook ready to beat out his brains at “l‘“ *; & ““‘“’ 2 "““l““"lj“ St burying work done by the week end,| & few evenings later I was called the behest of a with-like old [the afair How did {t happen—why | but that did not matter. The mafoo o the telephone woman. He did this by bursting * |2/ 1t bappen—wbo HRd kiiel, the o i . "\ .l merely grinned. “Hello, hello! Are you coming None of these questions would they 3 \ 4.8\ R . It would, I thought, certainly be|see me off tonight?" was all I heard |answer, and even my Number Two, O ¢ 0 \3) 3 possible to get another pony” But| “Who are you?" I asked ostensibly the bosom friend of the i 1 as my leg was paining me, as I looked | “Who am 17 Oh, I am ‘It Is Not victim, was dumb and white with out and saw that it was snowing, as | Necessary for You to Know Whon fodr: L Wihien BiWas Drevaddl for dis 5 I felt that a day resting in bed could | T think you had better come down 1o spirlt would haunl the village | 10 Jti ot 06 TS PIhat he knew \ 4 4 z N - not fail to do me good after my|see me away. Am going by forever. | nothing. - Prom Bone . oEStha sthers k. N \ 3 > strenuous three weeks in the saddle. T | Tuckwo—9 o'clock. Righto, 111 se He was then welcomed, and |co01a"™F secure any information, and R A 2 5 77 told my boy that 1 would stay in bed | you at 9—at the Tuckwo at 9. feasted, and, as a climax, Little |alnough (hey wers all earning better \ ¥ 1 \ » that day, and felt grateful that L had | And then the fellow rang off. So I Precious Pearl was formally be- |money in war than they ever did In s 7z ; a reasonable excuse for doing 0. | tumbled intc—a rickshaw. and wer stowed upon him. Mr. Dingle |pesce, having the opportunity to p Ay ‘ ? X s “But if a Chinese comes here and|along to the Bund, loitering near the extricated himself from arn aw pilter In the -regular conduct of says that he is my Number Two, wharf until 9 o'ciock, when suddenl into laughter Little Precious Pearl, great-granddaughter of the old woman, begged for his life on the ground that his laughter showed him insane and that his ward situation by sending her to |affairs and loot whenever they could, 4 " N, 3 5 g #ald to the boy, “let him come up.” a hand was placed upon my shou & mission school to be educated. |with comparative security of their ‘ I dismiseed the mafoo and settled |and a well dressed Chinese — - heads, they told me (in the essential- * down to my ham and eggs. me. BY EDWIN J. DINGLE, F. R. G. §. |1y Chinese fashion when anything Yl ) | g ) A %5 . | “Don’t be alarmed.” he said sm ECENTLY ¥ 4| €oes wrong) that they would resign | ) N A g "THEN I must have slept, for when I {ingly. “I have wished to see you for 2 TLY there was divulged| ,"pjoc \ b awoke it was well on toward | some time. It is not necessary fo ome e “:“X";’ grim thuth | “But why can't vou say anything? * \ J > noon. Evidently nobody had either|you to know who I am. All I want to o ecret Which in its Anall{ ueked indignantly, feeling that some R A telephoned to me or come to see me, (do is to deliver a letter to vou. Here had lain sealed for years |US1Y plan was being silently enacted \ ) E y for my boy had not called me. In-|itis. Good-bye, and the best of luck seale T YeArs. |\ tore my very eyes. and yet could | i e : / 3 stantly on waking I rang my bell| I watched him down the gangwa This had remained the most profounc | et no trace of what was passing. 6 " above my head, and before the boy |hoping thal he would turn when he @nd tragic mystery of all my expe-| ‘Why not speak to me and make yous | { could enter the room he had’ to un-|approached the brilliant lights of the rience in China. report and then let us take the Num- 7 2 - ; - lock the door. 1 heard him insert|steamer and that I should see I t had happened toward the end|per One and bury him in grave No. " and turn the key. face. He did not turn, however the Chinese revolution I was 347" | / “What thing, you makee lock the|far as I knew, I had neve t e engaged in Red Cross work and was| It was clear to me now why they X door, boy? lon this indivdual in my 1 directing the burial of the dead. We [had changed my figures of the dead | of 2 i . “Oh, I think so master wantchee|long letter that he handed m t were deeply stained and field-weary, [that the grav. contalued—at all > 3 B plenty sleep—think so master want- [ten in Chinese, showed that he knew fatigued to exhaustion. We had|events, this grave No. 34—adding one . ] chee plenty, plenty sleep-=belong velly [all about me and my ways of living been burying week after week. My [more body than we had up to now Q \ tired.” and in it I was told to hold my tongue coolies were known by number—in |actually buried. \ I had never known him to lock the | The message was written three times of seniority and dependability The coolies would not move. One door before, but I thought nothing |to impress me with its importance I Where's Number Ome,” I asked |by one they began to mumble to each further of the episode. Upon being |Smiled to myself, but at my feet there near the close of a particularly hard [other. Just then I heard another questioned the boy told me that no|fell from the envelope a small folded day-—asked almost by instinct, of my | voice, as if from some one up the man had come to see me, “but have |sheet, addressed to me, which, when yawning coolies nearby. No one re- |street, but it was dark, and conse- got one piece letter,” and he pro-|ovened, I saw contained this C se plied. 1 began again to total the |[quently I could not see well. Al- = A, s duced a Chinese envelope of red and |proverb, meaning that no matt number of bodies of which we had |though I had a good working knowl- | “LOOK YE—THERE HE IS! white. which contained a piece of |strong my desire might be to report disposed. A miscalculation evidently;|edge of the Chinese language, 1 could ¥ i T crumpled Chinese notepaper as thin |the affair it would not pay me to do or else some person had altered my [nct catch a word of what had been [o'clock, my usual time for rising, I|felt that my leg was sufficiently in- | way, insensible to the time of day, 1|groom) awaited without and wanted|as thinnest tissue. so0 total. This could have happened|said. The sound came again, and|felt extremely disinclined to get up.|flamed to cause me some alarm, and | planned how I would begin to work, |to speak with me “Dear Mr. Dingle,” ran the letter. Before fathers and mothers, u when T left my dirty little notebook |then T caught, in the common col-|Lazily I lay where I was. The boy |it gave me some little temperature.|for 1 would not believe myself suffi- “Let him come in," I said. And in|“You are not a fool. Therefore on a stool in the middle of the nar- [loquial, “Go home. home. great|brought in/the paper with my morn- |So I told the boy to bring my break- |ciently ill to lie in bed all day. When | walked a ruddy-faced man with about | your brains. I am the n you saw |not dare to scratch Tow cobbly street. brethren. go home. or all of ve shall|ing tea, the coolie prepared my bath, |fast to my bed. - the boy brought my food, however, |14 coats on, so bundled up that he|yesterday laying out the dollars to| Sk At all events, my figures and those | be treated in the same way. Go| which I carelessly allowed to cool. 1! There, in an unconscious sort of |he said the mafoo (the Chineselcould scarcely breathe. He iled | the coolies. You are kindly asked|~«r of the Chinese unit did not agree, |home, [ md.mc.' And then, |drlh'r not to have anything to say of this ‘ for in my records Grave No. 34 |away, “Heed my warning, heed my affair when you get out again. If you| o " Sh8 e e el £ showed an aggregate of 266, while |Warning.” wish to be recompensed, be on “m‘h:’rr w.r-‘ ;L#r:!::??xfdl::‘;,l,‘;h ‘m . ’ . ° the Chinese claimed 267. My total| Without any hesitation, then, the right aideiof ‘the atoris stas of the|S S nams Of tne otithe High om- had obviously been changed by some- | Whole gang straightene - weary 10 S I 1 SS 1 ‘K"""“’“ Guild at @ p.m. on the 218t | when ushered in the visitor smile SR se s Cicl | limbs and one by one, some facing l l l I l I I I l I [wrom—= n n th or smiled | the smile o ¢ hybri he was th \s 1 sat there moing over these|me With the usual salutation of re- ‘3¢ s ot ‘neceasary for you itolj . SIS of dhe hybrid—he was the conflicting fizures, I awalted with |SPect, others with never a word and . know whom " e g i irritation the arrival of my |OPIY an angry scowl walked up the I oy Dosh iauiing The wotiingl,, 'on Ko SV when he Bad taiked r One. He was a fine upstand- | Street whence T heard the voice. 1t was evidently that of an Englishman, | BIUESONet., slnoe aw you last hinese, who - was sufielently | was then I saw the hybrid again a German or a Chinese educated in|iol 79 1 have had a good deal of ol taantoned sRII t0 yeie itk Cubs Clearly it was he who had spoken = England or Germany. I foolishly tore | §¢ neepondence. But 1 was the ma fatital 't hiy UNe | He sat down on the curb and began up the paper and burned it in the | o urled up in the nape of his neck. | f %, G000 BF f1e SHTD ot on (6 S g Sbah sr_."b_" the | One had stolen, and as I love her dear! I had known him intimately since the | FIth the dexterity of a banker, to LTHOUGH the neighborhood is of the ironclad Monitor, which turned | °P" e ke |1 determined that 1 would not only revolution began, and we had been {010, OUC 10 the coolies as they went not ready. the house nearly the naval tide of the Civil War. e T Dok Ta L S upset me .3 ;ecinture ther, but that T would get through many a scrape together. P R is, and our new Potomac They succeeded In getting a $35.000 | 11! e Admit. I Was more|Number One. 1 simply had to g like most of his race, he was | Aega L Lane Park tenant will soon take appropriation from Congress for the |han usually surprised, therefore.|pin, anq could think of nothing else a good horseman, and by clever rid- ¥ possession. The new tenant, to erection of the memorial, and an|Yhen the door opened a couple of | " tharefore became coolie to you ing both of us had miraculously es- T once I made toward him, for|be known as the John Ericsson Me- authorization to augment this sum by | MinUtes afterward without any warn- | ok for three weeks to get to know caped death only three days before from the first I had sensed him as | morial, and having the distinction of contributions. Congress passed the | ::‘b‘;’;io';‘,’n:(’“[’c :f]‘(‘)“’;]:’r“m “: ‘m'"f("’f_‘}uur habits. It was I who waited on when under fire together. He had |some strange messenger of iniquity.|being Lincoln Memorial's closest act on August 31, 1916, and the citi- | L0 i 5 an 10 enter | vour table when yvour boy was g received & wound in his left arm |All watched me striding up that cob. | nelghbor, will be entirely settled by 4 e with B A ka1 Eckberg of New |25 hastlly as he could, and the door |1t wag I who then arranged that the and 1 had had my right shin grazed |bly street, and when within 15 feet | October. Tts house, rather its founda- York as their chairman, proceeded |¢!05¢d behind the pair fellow 1 was after should be put in by a bullet. of this sly, sleek specimen of human- | tion, was started toward the latter part { ? to _swell their funds. & For a moment I did not recognize | charge of your gans. Your Numk I knew that he had entered the|ily my Number Two came sweeping|of last year, but its completion was : The war intervened, but after its|this stranger. He was dressed for-|qyo (ne is secretary of foreign house near whose rickety front|down and begged me not to interfere. | postponed by the rampage of Jack termination they returned with $25,-| &80 Style. He was highly decorated | iy noy ot —) was employed by porchway we were now seated. He| Now, in many years of travel in|Frost,With his certain disappearance, 000, amassed from nearly 1,900 With @ bright red tie that harmonized |, 3 had gone in and out of all the houses | unfrequented parts of the Chinese|however, work will be resumed American citizens of ScandinavianjW!!h & big red nose, and his short- | s 1 who was responsible for up and down that whole bullet-ridden | Republic, far out toward Tibet and |Though it will not be wholly settled ; descent, whose contributions ranged | ToPPed black hair stood up like the | of your pony. It was I area, systematically hanging out the |Mongolla, often being where it looked | until October, we must remember et AE ceits o 3T 6ud. auills of a porcupine. It was onl¥ ol arranged with ‘vour bos . that flags. One color meant death, an-|as if death must overtake me in a|that this is not a temporary dwelling The Committee of Fifty was com- | WheR he spoke that I recognized him|pe sheuld doctor your drink, for You other meant seriously wounded -and |dozen different ways, I had endeav-|and cannot be importuned posed of many notable men, among |25 MY Number Two. He was scarcely | sjapt practically 36 hours without helpless cases, another meant less :'r;:)l:oe:nc“e“::lhm;wr‘:v‘v‘t Smnoa Wi g gre-hgens ot om e whom were Gov. A A. Burnquist of::*;';f_"l“"” SR ’0’“5“‘n;.]o\m; The person who handed you eriously wounde, e v v y way. s » ange Minnesota, ex-Gov. . Carls - ¥ | the lette he boa' s o carry ont the bodies and attend,|Pleadingly before me, 1 admit that I|ready work on this improvement has Lind, both ex-Governors of Minneso- |S°Mething in the wind; that there Was|wag also one of your burving ¢ under the direction of a Chinese [felt some dull foreboding of evil.|been started, so that visitors to the ta; Dr. Gustav Andreen, president of |POSSIDIY some discontent among the|ror three days, but neither vou nor doctor, 1o the less serious cases. Bad |And for this I believe the horrid hy- | Lincoln Memorial grounds undoubted. Augustana College, Rock Island, TiL.;| PUryIng coolies. but he also knew |fhe Number One knew anothing abaos I began to sense & pecullar alr of |, @ rfere.* sald Number Two. “There| Not that the Ericsson Memorial has e Ayor Bemusl A SR el riigtin: astetndd 1 had nat. |8°F him e T e s makced 'emcn |18 (rouble ahead. T may suffer my- |necessitated tne digking out of the : Ron, ‘city enginect ot Chicago; Dy, |Urally felt that my Number One, whom | gyt et BINtECh of them where Number One had |Self for telling you. but—please don't, | 0ld sea wall and the construction of W.'A. Granville, president of Penn-|] 1ad known only in a casual fashion | «yes T do mean to say that I was < e g don’t interfere. Have a care!" a new river drive, No. These chang SYlvanan Cokle 5 5. Henschen | Pefore the war broke out. was one of | a1so the whi a = B ered the oer pa L el x| Well, what was the use, anyway?|are being made to beautify the Lin- ‘. : e Biats ek or RS SCHED) (e comifion, DeppIe Bdat e dhaniliiee L8 LD MO0 Sour life, for scratched the other ear"—a trick the . 3 G 3 ctn{ts ool Laciiftats 3 , of the State Bank of Chicago: Gustav : L Since in the first arranzements made it.was There lay the unburied body of my |coln Memorial vicinity and Srhe : . i1y Prat [been on that burying party together e e \ Chinese have when they turn their [T 5 3 158e bt its ‘srounds for Souriste. But SRS, 3 N. Swan, Swedish vice consul; Prof.| Pl o8 that bUTSINE Party together |in the cards that you should be got heads 8o that they Gatensibly ahalyjfsichful pative headmas, ‘sndwing ) oo S0 ot ol U Py Si it ot B g & 8 David Nyvall, president of 'North | had ot to kn o € had | rig of at the same time, for dead men not hear what you are talking about. {10W the Chinese do things. In ordi- | £0° 0 C8807 lef beneficiar AL Park College, Chicago, and Dr. Henry |#IWa¥s struck me as being a man of {tol] no tales, But you treated the A nary circumstances 1 should have |fications, will be chief 3 G o o considerable natural gentleness, was | SRR S L S done my hP!( not to let this warni This s the reason. The Ericsson Me- . g » 9 -t e s e able to read and \\‘TT(P w(-H. 'kl t'\;'II T e odecon that I put my foot gone to sleep,” volunteered one, grin- [ done my bes < 2 "€ | morial, which is to be situated ap N i * % % ¥ ? oW |down ning as he spoke and looking away, [Influence me. But I was spent, ph &poke , use |and aunts, itch as ye may, v SARS passed. Last Spring, b in Shanghai, I was in my private was my-wife whom your Number have my wife now, I something of first- o e ically and mentally. The sun was|Proximately 900 feet south of the 5 4 F . 2 5 & e ame ol thinking that I had not seen his grin. [ I211Y_ and ‘mentally. The sun was winds were stealing across the earth So I endeavored once more to get my men to carry the corpse to grave No. 34 and cover in the trench as speedily as possible. None would listen, how- ever, though I perceived that several of them were willing to carry out my wishes, but that some influence stronger than mine was directed by this ill-clad, slinking hybrid. “Go_home,” said Number Two to me. “Go home, and I will come to visit you in the morning. Thus there was naught for me to do but to find my way home, utterly dispirited and alone. My pony was restless on the home- ward ride, some 12 miles over country * ok kK /AT that moment an evil-eved hy- brid of about 28 years crept up to the Number Two. He said noth- ing, but with a scowl he pointed ominously toward six mickety stairs at the left which led to an upper apartment of a little Chinese house. The squaint-eyed hybrid smiled, but still sald nothing, and one by one my coolies essayed to depart in a mutual search for the chief of the gang. The hybrid interested me; he was obviously a treacherous fellow. Turning to him, I asked him| whether he had seen me before. He answered in Chinese thag he had. For 1hree days, he told me (never lbok- Lincoln Memorial, is (if we may pre- maturely imagine its presence) di- vided from the Lincoln Memorial by the river drive. It is, moreover, resting on the sea wall and extending out on the river. When the proposed modifications in the neighborhood materialize, how- ever, the Ericsson Memorial will be a fulcral point on the new drive and within the sea wall. Observers will not need to tremble lest it splash into the river. * ok ok ok 'HE new drive, by being 150 feet farther out than the existing one, will permit the ground extending from the Lincoln Memorial to slope | out gradually to its neighbor, instead THE GROUP OF THE ERICSSON MEMORIAL. tor and the site was aclorded to them by Congress, provided these Fine Arts, Both of these considerations re- quired time for settlement. Desirous of a complete spiritual harmony in the project, the citizens' committee Was anxious to procure a sculptor of Scandinavian descent. A contest was opened, but it was not successful. It was followed by another, an open competition, in which James Earle Fraser of New York, after two and one half hours of deliberation/by the jury, was awarded the contract. A study of Mr. Fraser's statue in- dicates that nothing was lost by the choice of an American for this work. were approved by the Commission of | that any European monarch could well envy. Number Two told me now thatsthe man had been a high official in the Peking government and had stolen the wife of a fellow-official some time ago. holding her up to the time of his death for a ransom of $50,000. Half | this amount had been delivered to him in a coffin (a favorite way Chinese have on occasion of handling contra- band goods, for rarely is a coffin opened by the authorities). but he were strong enough to overcome their adversaries in their struggle for right, and each was material in the success of | the other. HE privilege of selecting the sculp- | the matter of manners had a charm |caved half the ransom mones. and the scoundrel who ran off with her is now | out of sight. 1 question whether any one else will try to steal from me again the wom: I love—for that's the way we Chinese do things in China, you know." And the German?" I asked. “Oh, poor old Fritz! He wa ot in the war in France. He marri my eldest sister when we were stud ing together in Germany, Yyears be fore.” the structure, I would engage to b ready to take up position under the rebel guns at Norfolk; and ficient, too, I trust, that within a few of forming a steep bank, 10 or 15 ing from to 60 feet in length, ]| This brings us up to April, when - o Ericsson, like Lincoln, had no uni- |hours the stolen shi 2 " " Tourists 55 ee -| This b us April, For no Scandinavian could have | varciie oduestion - ships would be sunk face with his hand, he had been |had but recontly retreated In places| D60 NEL B I fo85 MOT QNN | wero driven fn. The tops of these | cverything will be ready for James|brought out the spirit of nis peoble, | 1 sy, ‘oucation, Before e was and the harbor purged of traitora T O R O e N0 oractiy bimged Bt (b uw ) (s Lisosin Sewmetal, [piles, 14 in number. were made level | Karle Fraser. sculptor of the Ericsson | & exemplified by John Ericsson. Det' | with his father, learning with his 1t | poad s lla™ the fact that the pr Hadbeen cingmplout - Wi trenches, but still I gave my pony his| WoOrk on the proposed drive has|with the present surface. This Work | yiomorial ter than the Amerioan sculptor. Al|tle hands how to create a vacuum and | bomectio ghe e "muts in. oo s e e oS I qo® s |head until I came to & place where a | DOt Yet been started, but the foun- |was done by the Raymond Conerete | n ot = . RS description of the monu ©l°| raise water by the condensation of |gubmit. shomd e i ihel LooPoctull the dead, pulling from unde® his| it o o ot sorts began its|dation for the new seawall is com- | Pile Co. of New York. | Now that we know what has been | lows in his own word 5 flame. - Yet his desire for and absorp- | cumstance that fre pomorecl o h2, & ragged gown all kinds of personal twisted way on past the native city | Plete. Riprap stone, very large in| Now, when the job is resumed, a|done for our new tenant and its Naturally the monument was nec-| tion of knowledge were tremendoue, st um ts projector possesses L 5 to the forelgn concession, where I|Size, Was dumped into the river, and |mat of concrete will be constructed | neighborhood. also what will be ac- |essarily related to the Lincoln Me-|mo 5 friend who once sald to him, 1t | bypy ol &nd constructive skill shar- I know where your Number One {0 t! A on ‘this the new sea wall wiil be|to rest on the piles and act us the | complished, iet us go back to the |morial in the sense of design. Thel i s pity vou dfd not graduate from | €0 DY NO enginecr now living. P O cuarters Wandered Into wne| Listening for a moment, T heard |bullt. platform for the pedestal. It will be | beginning of the story. | monument proper was composed from | ;" technological Institute. he replied:| "I have planned upward of 100 ‘women’s quarters’ . . . . he will come o ing straight at me, and shading his |from which the revolutionary army the gallop of a horse behind me, and| The old wall has not been dug |made by pouringssoft concrete on the | This transports us to the period |the assumption that an Inventor's|.n, it was very fortunate. Had I|™MaTIne engines and 1 furnish dai moon,” and he leeringly pointed with out vet. ve for that area on [piles and by allow this to harden | before the war when a group of 50 ,greatness comes through a compel- | oy ein g course at such instituti working plans de with my- own nstinctively 1 pulled up to see who as yet, save for tha a on |piles and by allowing this to harden | befol v | e at such an institution i ins y- own his chin, by an upward movement |Instinctively urgent business at that| Which the foundation for the Ericsson |into a solid block of stone. Albert| American citizens of Scandinavian |ling combination of mental .ll}l'lbllle: I'should have acauired such & bellet | 1ands of mechanical and naval stroc. e e yoepealing that|time of night. The other horseman Memorial is to rest. ' Here, when rock | Ross, the architect of the project, | descent decided ~they wanted toiIn the case of Ericsson vision ad-|in authorities that I should never|Lires of various kinds, and I nave Number One would soon come NOW.|,.ined in also, flashed an electric|bottom was reached, huge plles, rang- | will construct both mat and pedestal. | memorialize John Ericsson, builder yenture and labor were used 45 sYm. | have been able to develop originaiity | 1O1¢ €0 for 30 vears. Besides this, | He then slunk away. L ols of 3 and make my own way in physics and | 2 ceived a military education At that moment I héard the excited | toFch in my face, covered me with a Vision is that of an inspired woman.| 170 SOe MY own way In physies and |, ;g feel at home in the seromes ot volce ‘of Number Two above the S e pareet Adventure is the Viking, Labor i1y ixe " iteoln, he met with opposi- |rtillery. You will not, sir, attribute others, and saw his head through a ace where the upper window should ave been. He shouted to me that they had found him—Number One. I felt relieved, and my pony, whose bridle was thrown over my right shoulder, seemed to know now that he would soon be fed. So I lit my pipe and waited in better spirits, thinking that my trusty man was attending to the wounds of some poor war- stricken devil. 1 did not move from where I sat, but 1 badé a coolie go and deliver a special personal message that I wished Number One to hurry, unless 1he case was serious, in which case 1 also would come. But the messenger had not reached the foot of the stair- way before I heard a half dozen men shouting together in their usual course sing-sing as they carried their burden Now we are coming, now we are coming....vou take his head....mind his feet....swing his feet right round -...come on, hurry along.” 1 at once knocked out my pipe, hitched my horse’s bridle to a tree and made preparations to superintend this little affair, when the hybrid mysteriously appeared again. He grinned at me, looked toward the stairs, glanced at me again, as if to speak, and then walked quickly from me, calling back over his shoulder in Chinese. “I told ye, great foreign devil, that your principal factotum was coming....look ve, there he fs.” I watched him then tear up the street as fast as his thin legs would carry him and, as I turned again, a man stumbled down the stairs with fresh stains on his clothing, carrying | some object. This object I discovered on closer examination was a human head, swinging about 18 inches of black hair: the coolie bearing it had twisted the thick queue of hair about Now, 100k here,” I heard, the face of the speaker being covered with a black hood, “you've seen all that's happened out there. I warn you that you had better keep your tongue be- tween your teeth, else some trouble may befall you. 'If you value your life, say nothing.” I commenced to speak, but my strange accoster was gone like a flash. >k ok WENT stralght to the club. and atter a couple of whiskies and |sodas turned to read the telegrams pinned on the general bulletin board at the entrance of the reading room. Here I met a man whom I had not seen for years—a German, who had been in China even longer than my- self. He talked for a while on gen- eral matters, then he quietly said: “You had a rather strange experi- ence this afternoon, didn’t you?” As he spoke he did not look me straight in the face, but peered slyly around the corner to see whether anybody overheard us. ‘What do you mean?”’ I answered. “I am in Red Cross work, and doing war correspondent’s ‘pidgin’ as a side line. What experfence do you refer to?" The German suavely smiled. He came a little closer to me, turned his head to see that we were not over- heard, and then, almost in a whisper, sald: “Let me warn you thatlyou had better look out, for if you interfere they will get you, too.” At my blank expression, the Ger- man went on: “You and I have known each other for a good many years. Take my tip, don’t interfere. Good-night.” The following morning I wakened to find my head spinning, so that at & the ornament connected with the monument is Scandinavian. - The group is placed 6n a pavement com- posed from the mariner's compass, to be made of colored granite. The fi {ure of Ericsson Is in the foreground and is smaller than the symbolistic figures have been placed against the Norse Tree of Life, “Ygdrasil.” This compact, yet simple, composition, will necessarily be large—35 feet in height; as the circle to be filled is 150 1 feet across. It will be dome in one- colored granite, “because,” says Mr. | Fraser, “I find that other stones and { marble deteriorate so quickly in our cli- mate that the life of such a monument is little over 100 years, whereas the granite should be fresh and solid for thousands of years. Mr. Fraser, it may be stated here, has executed many noble works, among which are the Hamilton Statue on the south facade of the Treasury Building, the Roosevelt bust, the equestrian statue, “End of the Trail” ; the John Hay ménu- ment at Cleveland, Ohio; a victory fig- ure in Montreal, Canadai a soldiers’ statue in Winnepeg, Canada, and Bishop Potter in the Cathedral of St. John the Divine. The second consideration, that of the location, delayed construction for an- other year. The citizens' committee wanted one site, the Fine Arts Commis- sion another. Finally the southwestern corner of the Mall, where the Potomac River driveway turns into the Lincoln Memorial circle, was selected. Was this a judicious choice? Does the Lincoln Memorial resent the intrusion of a neighbor on its solitude and majesty? A peep back into history will convince us that the monuments of Lincom .and Ericsson should commune. Both were men who forged aliead by their own Both were the vic- tims of persecution. Both poraries. The Government officers did not like his excursions on the troublous seas of discovery. Nor did he meet with encourage- ment from other sources. In 1854 he oftered his new system of naval at- tack to Emperor Napoleon IiI in the hope that Russia, Sweden's ancient enemy, might be crushed. But Na- poleon responded with a note of ap-- preciation—not acceptance. So, for seven years his plans were shelved until he was un- able to withhold them any longer. His unselfish motives, his patriotism, his sincerity and directness, can best be manifested by the letter he wrote to Lincoln in reference to the build- ing of the Monitor. “New York, August 29, 1861. “Sir: The writer, having introduced the present system of naval propul- sion and constructed the first screw ship of war, now offers to construct a vessel for the destruction of the rebel fleet at Norfolk and, for scouring the Southern rivers and Inlets of all craft protected by rebel batteries. * “Having thus briefly noticed the object of my addressing vou, jt will be proper for me most respectfully to ‘state that in making this offer 1 seek no private advantage or emolu- ment of any kind. Fortunately, I have already upward of 1,000 of my caloric engines in successful opera- tion, with afuence in prospect. At- tachment to the Union alone impels me to offer my services at this fear- ful crisis—my life if need be—in the great cause which Providence has called you to defend, “Please look carefully at the in- closed plans and you will find that the means 1 propose to employ are very simple—so® simple, indeed, that within 10 weeks after commencing Tepresented by the iron molder. All| o€ gNGeIn. he met with opposi- | (hege statements to any other aomie than my anxiety to prove that you may safely entrust me with the work I propose. “If vou cannot do s8 then the country must lose the benefit of my proffered services. 1f, on the other hand, you decide to act, please tele- graph and I will at once wait upon you in Washington. 1 respectfully submit that in the former case you return the plans, honored with your signature, to testify that I have dis- charged the duty of laying this im- portant matter before you. “T cannot conclude without respect- fully calling your attention to the now well established fact that steel- clad vessels cannot be arrested in their course by land batteries, and that hence our great city is quite at the mercy of such intruders, and may at any moment be laid in ruins, unless we possess means which, in deflance of Armstrong guns, can crush the sides of such dangerous visitors, “I am, sir, with profound respect, your obedient servant, “J. ERICSSON. ™To His Excellency, Abraham Lin- coln, President of the United States.” The plan surprised Lincoln, as it subsequently did everybody at the naval board; it was so novel. Some advised a trial; others ridiculed it The conference was closed by Lin- coln’s remark “All I have to say is what the girl sald when she stuck her foot into the stocking: It strikes me there's some- thing in it!” Thus the man who had been re- jected and condemned for years was finally allowed to save the day fer the Navy.