Evening Star Newspaper, June 14, 1925, Page 82

THE KISS THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, F YOUTH Detective Roche Again on the Trail of Londe, the Arch-Criminal. HE boy who made that fi was a_Zool! grumbled as [{ he fler. “First warm day fe & long time, and the silly young ki builds a furnace that would roast an ox.” Mis her task of arranging a little pile Jetters upon the desk. She was carr. ing a newspaper in her hand. I made the fire, e confesse: “I am so sorry if it doesn't please vor I thought it was rather a good fire she added Too big—much ployer grunted. She closed the discussion little toss of the head “I am sorry,” she said impenitent] “Do you mind looking at this new paper? There seems to be rather curious disappearance reported will wait while you read it, if T may Daniel pointed to a chair an nodded. Then he bent over the new paper and read the parag she had marked “MYSTERIOU! Ann Lancaster looked up fro too big,” with “OF “SOMERSETSHIRE A most extraordinary appearance, in which the land Yard has been invoked by local police, reported from Fawley, a small village on the bou daries of Somerset and Devon. appears that at about 5 o'clock Thursday of South Fawley Hall left home wit the intention shooting a few ral bits on the confines of the park. F was seen to leave a paddock' and enter a small through which a footpath lead village. recently quently o'clock, turned, to look party woods A G case of di: 1id of Sco a Woo Two shots were heard and Killed rabbit was subs picked up in the wood. At as Mr. Oakes had not r for him. Later on a searcl and all possible places sult. The local police have come t the end of their resources and representative from Scotland Yard now upon the spot Mr. only lately and is a young man wealth and a well known athlete. H is of cheerful disposition, exceedingl popular, and there is not the slightest cause to suspect that he is in troubl of any sort Daniel finished the Jeaned back in his ch: Ann wi patiently, as she had learned to do. “I fear,” he concluded at last, a li tle irritably, “that I am losing m: memory—breaking up all round, i fact. I have seen the name of tha village, South Fawley, somewher: within the last 24 hours “Probably in connection affair,” she suggested “No!"" he snapped. “Yesterday e reflected, “vou ha Prof. Moon in to see vou. Y early for lunch to keep an ment with Sir Francis at Whiteha House. You were late b, Yo must have called at one of the second hand book shops, for you were carry ing the volume of De Quincey yo showed 2 “Stop!” he interrupted. “You havi solved the mystery. It was an ad dress label in the hook shop. it on the top of a pile of paragraph an ite. with thi: once.” THEY left the office together, walke up Shaftsbury avenue to th Charing Cross rodd. and entered th book shop at the corne A little pil of volumes stood in front of cne ¢ the shelves covered by a shect brown paper. The addressed was still there. They both bent ove t. * o ok K The Rev. Gordon Maseley The Vicarage South Fawley Somerset “Let us see what his taste in book 1s.” Daniel remarked He lifted the cdge of the brown pa per, glanced, carelessly at first il then eagerly, at the little row of vol umes. He stood transfixed. ager of the shop strolled over “Queer hobby for a_clergyman, Rocke,” the latter observed. ‘“Thi Mr. Maseley sent me £30 and gave me a list of standard, modern work on lunacy he wished sent down t him. I am just waiting for Hobson" ‘Diseases_of the Brain’ to send thi parcel off. 1 expect it today.” “Is this gentleman—Mr. an old customer?” “I never heard of him before,” thi manager admitted. “Does he happe: to be a friend of vours, sir?"” “I could tell if 1 saw ing,” Daniel replied original letter ‘T am not sure, sir." The man made his way to the offic and reappeared moment or tw iater with a sheet of note paper in his hand. ““Nothing “The order to him. ‘Have you hi: he typewritten on doing,’ me L ‘ “THERE SEEMS TO BE A CURI Daniel Rocke divested himself of his coat and muf- her em- ph which DISAPPEARANCE | TLEMAN. the South on ifternoon Mr. Gerald Oakes the gunroom, cross to the one of the gamekeepers went was instituted, and the farther where an accident could have occurred were thoroughly explored, but without re- Oakes ha. succeeded to the property, of considerable left | ward I walked home with her. »point- | 1 saw volumes. Put on your hat, Miss Lancaster, at of | label The man- | Mr. Maseley— his handwrit- announced. re ley, etc.' try’ clergymen in quiet places would sometimes go mnearly out of their minds without a hobby.” Daniel nodded, a little grimly. “The Rev. Maseley's hobby,” he re- marked, “appears to be rather an un- usual one.’ or id m of y- * ok ok ¥ ALE as through one a long who had passed illness and still a. u ' | Oakes, for whom the police of Somer- set and the myrmidons of Scotland Yard were scourii the country, lay on a pallet bed within a few hundred vards of his home in a long, bare apartment, built as an annex to the vicarage. By his side stood Londe, feeling the young man's pulse. “'Quite satisfactory,” he pronounced after a moment’s silence. “I must congratulate you, my friend. You have a marvelous constitution. You are one of my least troublesome sub. Jects. “Exactly what does that mean? the young man in~uired weakly. “It means that you have a constitu- tion like a piece of machinery,” Londe explained. I know exactly 'mptoms how much of my treatment you require.” The young man stared at him wear- ily for a moment “Are you a madman?” he asked at last. suppose you must be, al- though I can’t see how you are able to escape detection.” Not mad,” Londe denied earnestly, ‘although, alas! I must plead guilty to one slight weakness. Except for that, 1 think I can safely say that I am one of the cleverest men in this countr: “One_slight weakne: man repeated wonderingly “Precisely,” Londe assented. “A weakness which, with your help and the help of some books I am expect- ing tomorrow, I hope to be able to cure permanently “My help?” Gerald Oakes muttered. “What use am I, lying here, to any- body? If I could but raise my arm—-" “Yes,” said Londe, would be dangerou “I'd like to get you by the throat and strangle the life out of you!" w the shuddering reply. “You are unreasonable,” Londe as- sured him earnestly. “Many a man who caught a_young fellow like you e | kissing his wife would have been far more violent than I have been Gerald Oakes moved in his uneasily. | was an impulse,” he muttered t-1 “Your-vicar's wife,” Londe went on V| sternly. “And, ording to your | story, the first time you had ever poken to her, except at your own dining_table.” I shouldn't have spoken to her at all,” the young man explained, “but she was frightened at the report of {my gun. 1 didn’t see her coming and d|1 shot a rabbit in the path. 8 y 5 a 1 nd s- s t n. Tt h b. ie od a 5 e- e. the young h o a i “I expect you = = place a She |asked me in. While we were in the 11| drawing room— u | “Precisel Londe interrupted sar I- | cas 3 Spare me the harrowing i Then vou looked U { there was 1'in the doorway." Ten Londe’ smiled i-{ “T might have killed you at once,” { he observed s a matter of fact, I am not going to kill you at all. “You are really an exceedingly fortunate | young man.” !” Londe glanced picked up his hat. “It is time I paid my afternoon call e|upon your mother,” he announced e ! “You will be glad to know that I go e |to the hall every day to talk to her of | and keep her cheerful. She is bearing up wonderfully, considering—wonder fully. She has made one mistake, however, which has annoyed me very much. She has called in help from Scotland Yard.” ok oxox up, and o at his watch and a4 r | | HE young man lay on his couch and watched the somberly clad fig- ure swing down the garden path. He was terrified at the confusion of thought into which he had fallen. He could not remember how long he had n in this hateful apartment. Everything seemed unsteady and obscure since the one dramatic mo- ment when he had drawn away from the lips of that strange, bewildering woman, thrilled, vet filled with an in- stinctive apprehension, and had looked up to find her husband standing in the doorway. Londe's attitude was one of pained and dignified surprise. The yvoung man had begun to stam- mer out his faltering apologies to the grave, advancing figure. Then he had imagined that he was going to be shot. There was something black in Londe’s suddenly outstretched hand a faint jet of vapor, a giving away. of heart and senses, a strange falling away of consciousness The door was quietly opened. The woman came in. Notwithstanding his weakness. the young man’s heart be- gan to beat more quickly. She made a little gesture of silence and came toward him. “I am so sorry, | s a| i e s | o| e o n e o she whispered. a OUS DISAPPEARANCE REPORTED. I IT, IF T MAX.” sheet of the vicarage note paper and in the third person-—‘The Rev. Mase- I should think these coun- lingers between life and death, Gerald by your After- | “For Heaven's sake, tell me if your husband is mad?” he begged. ‘Hush!” she replied soothingly. “No, he is not mad. He is much an- jgrkar than he seems. He Is very je: us.” an't you help me to get out of },here " he pleaded. She was thoughtful for a moment. ‘You need a little more strength,” she decided. “Could you drink a glass of wine?” . “Rather!” he assured her eagerly. She looked out of the window for a moment. Londe was making his way across the park. Then she left the room and returned almost immedi- ately with a wineglass filled with port. “Drink this quickly,” she invited. He took the glass and drank its contents. For a moment a new life seemed to throb in him, and then blankness swept back. He threw up his arms. The clouds are coming again,” he sobbed. ok ok ok attired for the jour- ney, the paragraph in the mid. day edition, which she had just bought, was a greal disappointment. Nevertheless, she took the newspaper into Danfel's room and showed it to him. “I think you ought to see this be- fore we start, Mr. Rocke,” she said, with a sigh of regret. ‘I suppose it's no_use going now?” Daniel took the hand. “End of the South Fawley Mystery. Mr. Gerald Oakes Discovered in Wood Where He Disapps Mr. Gerald Oakes was discovered early this morning by one of his game- keepers, seated with his back to a tree and fast sleep, within a few yards of the spot from which he dis- appeared some days ago. His gun was by his slde, and, although a little exhausted, his health appears to be unimpaired. He is unable, however, to dffer any explanation as to his ab: sence from home and subsequent ad- ventures. He cannot even remember how he found his way back to the scene of his disapearance. The inci dent is the more surprising inasmuch as there is no hiding place of any sort in the wood, and the whole neighborhood for miles around had been scoured for days by the police.” Daniel Rocke laid down the paper. “A sell, after all, then' he ob- served. “I am afraid so.”” Ann sighed, think- ing regretfully of that long drive into he perfumed Somersetshire lanes. Shall T send the car away?"” Daniel appeared to be immersed in a brown study - or two in the country will do us no harm,” he decided. ‘“‘Besides, T am still a little curious about that clergyman who makes a study of lunac ve you got the letter from Ann, alread: paper from her “It came a few minutes ago,”” Ann told him. . “Then we'll start. The butler at South Fawley Hall iooked doubtfully at the card and let- ter which Daniel handed to him. “Mr. Oakes is seeing no one, sir,” he announced. “Give him the letter, please,” Daniel ged. You pres be; i are not connected with the | 2 ot in any way. The butler took the letter and re- turned almost immediately. A few minutes later Daniel and Ann were shown into the library and were shaking hands with the hero of the South Fawley mystery. “Sir Francis is an old friend of my father's,” he said as hé motioned them to chair aturally, I cannot send you aw At the same time I don’t understand your position exactly. You're not a detective, are you?" Daniel shook his head. *I am really a Foreign Office expert on ciphers,” he confided. “and the young lady is my secretary. When Sir Francis was appointed to his pres- | ent position he offered me a post un- | der him, which I have filled for a {short time. My own interest in fit, swever, fs simply concerned with the pursuit of one man—a dangerous criminal, who is also a lunatic. 1 was very nearly one of his victims my- self.” I am afraid if you are connecting him in any way with my little affair vou'll be disappointed,” Gerald Oakes remarked. may as well tell you at “Was vertured. I believe there was, but I can't re- member her,” the young man con- fessed. i “Anything like Miss Violet Mase- ey “Not a scrap!” * ok % x ANIEL and Ann drove off in si- lence. Near the lodge gates they met an elderly lady who was walking toward the house. She stopped the car somewhat imperiously. ““This is Dr. Osborn, I am sure,” she sald. “You have been up to see my son? “1 have been to see your son,” he acknowledged, “and 1 am very glad indeed to find him so little the worse for his adventure. I brought him a letter from Sir Francis Worton." Mrs. Oakes looked at him curiously. “1f you are a friend of Sir Fran- cis’,” she safd, “I suppose you are by way of being a detective. Have you made any discoveries?” ““None whatever,” Daniel confessed. “May 1 ask you one question?” “Certainly.” “Are there any neighborhood?” “Not a soul,” was the prompt reply. “With the exception of Mr. Lord and his wife, who are perfectly charming.” “Mr. Lord and his wife? Who are they?" “The Rev. Mr. Lord is the locum tenens for Mr. Gordon Maseley, who has been away for a month,” Oakes explained. “I have just been to see them off at the station. Very helpful indeed, Mr. Lord has been."” Danlel felt Ann's clutch at his arm. He sat quite still in the car. Londe had ordered the books in the name of Gordon Maseley. Why not? ald Oukes had forgotten. You said that you had been to see them off?" Daniel asked. “Do you know where they went to?" “London,” Mrs. - Oakes replied. “They caught the train at the junc- tion. there a woman?” Daniel newcomers in the BY STERLING HELIG. PARIS, June 4 traffic edy. itative source. The prefect of police of Paris has had the great kindn to let me talk with his chiefs. He has given me figures con. cerning the difficulties of automobile circulation in a rushing city of three and one-half milllons—crowded by an other one-half million money-spending visitors, at times. “In 10 years Paris street traffic will be blocked!” said the chief of the accident department, “and there is no remedy’ The rich municipality, making stud- ies and reports at great expense, sees no remedy. Emile Desvaux, who headed its missiop of inquiry to Lon and there is no rem- don, says squarely: “We shall either have to get rid ot once that I have not been robbed of a penny. “The man of whom I am in search does not commit his crimes for finan- cial reasons,” Daniel declared. “Can vou tell me anything about your viear?"” What, old Masele clalmed in some surprise. right.” “How long has he been here?” Somewhere about 15 years, think.” “Any family?" “One daughter—Violet. charming young woman. curiosity about the ol boy “Would he be likely to be interested in works on lunacy?” “He's interested in any stuffy ol book on an abstruse question, Gerald Oakes declared. Dantel rose to his feet. “I came down on a chance,” he ex- plained. “I see that I was on a false trafl. I shan't worry you with any more questions.” The young man bade them both a courteous but rather tired farewell. “My respects to Sir Francis,” he said. “Tell him if he wants to know any particulars that I strolled out, as usual, at 5 o'clock to shoot a few rab- bits, shot one in the little spinney be- vond the park—he knows it—and a moment later seemed to feel every- thing around me become gray and afterward black. ' And that'll ali there is to be said.” 2" the other ex- “He's all 1 A very Why this WILL WAIT WHILE YOU READ THE P. Mrs. | REAT cities will be choked by | This is from an author- | 'ARIS BOULEVARD TRAFI JUNE 14, Daniel’s adieux were a little abrupt Iy made. He called in the village to| send off a telegram and at the inn to collect his luggage. The landlady handed him a note. | Daniel tore open the envelope “My Dear Enemy: “You really lead me a very restless life. It is, I suppose, this odious press. | A ‘mysterious disappearance would naturally set that mighty brain of | In the first six months of 1914 only | 8,000 owners of new cars applied for circulation permits in Paris. -In the first six months of 1924 the prefecture ' delivered 40,000 gray cards to 40,000 owners of new ca It made 90,000 numbered cars given right to circulate by Paris up to t July-—not to men. tion those come up from chateaux other French cities, Italy, England | America. { What will the figures be in July,| 19347 “It staggers the Iimagination,” says | the accidents chief. “There is no rem. | edy!” | Tourists see taxicabs rushing every. where, seldom at rest, and street congestion onto them. | But, officiall auto taxis paying daily municipal dues—and perhaps 3,000 others laid | up for day-by-day reasons. This comparatively small number— always on#the rush and apparently | FIC IN GOOD 1925—PART | which, . By E. Phillips Oppenheim vours to work. What a pl that you always wait until you see something interesting in the news papers! The young man will be quite all right in time, and I am proud of the suc of my experiment. another one to make before long I think, will interest you still more. If that succeeds, my long quest will be over. “My respects to Gerald Oakes though He get an honest statement [ He will af- m they average 20 francs (§1) per d In the same breath he will claim that the “honest client” tips 20 per cent of the bill (30 francs $1.50, on a d: 's 150 francs taxi total), and while “many don't, ‘good cli ents make it up. In a word, he will confess §2 tips grand maximum. Add $1.10 from the company, and it totals $4 to'$5 per day. You say it does not add? Well, he gets it, all the same! At which you can go from the Cafe de la Paix to Maxim's for 6 cents And if vou give a 10-cent tip you are + prince “I have never seen a taxicab man the time,” says an American, “pay- out of the politely time. “The fellow at home tries to main- tain his rights and the rules to the traffic, worming and making time all the ORDER. Photos conyricht by Sterline Heilis the excess of people who go on foot, or else get rid of the excess of ve- hicles!" Neither is possible. Worse. Even if the pedestrian <€omplication could be abolished, the natural increase of motor cars alone will be fatal. “How can you prevent vehicles crossing dtreets?” exclaims Municipal Councllor Desvaux. The figures look impossible; but American figures will probably corrob- orate them. We hear today, by cable, that the average at the Fifty-ninth street corner of Park avenue, New York, is 26,207 machines passing be- ‘ween 7 a.m. and 7 p.m. Skyscraper’s Ancestor. OR many years the foreigner bas regarded the skyscraper as some- thing typically and essentially Ameri- can. An archeologist has, however, risen to shatter this illusion. He points out that, as far as its origin goes, anyway, the skyscraper is not American at all. The first one, it appears, was planned over three cen- turies ago in a town of the Duchy of Savoy. In the vear 1601, so it is contended, one Jacques Perret, an architect liv- ing in Chambery, designed a building that, although if was never erected, may properly claim to be the ancestor of the modern skyscraper. What a visionary dreamer must have been the architect who 300 years ago planned an 11-story building, 361 feet in height, almost half as lofty as the Woolworth Butlding in New York. According to Perret's measure- ments, the building was to have been 166 feet long and 140 feet wide, and the walls were to have been over 12 feet in thickness. But in 1601 the | methods of building construction were {by no means so modern as Perret's plan. Twelve-foot walls were none too thick to support 11 stories. Here again, however, the ingenuity of the architect showed itself, for he found a way of making use of the walls _ without weakening their strength. “In the thickness of the walls,” he wrote, “are little stairways, cabinets and cupboards, from the bot- tom floor to the top floor; thus there is no space wasted.” Evidently the building was designed {house, for in describing his project Perret wrote, “This great and.excel- lent edifice can accommodate com- fortably 500 persons.” Considering the fate of the design, the project of Jacques Perret was in many ways a remarkably prophetic vision. In drnateness of detail and in fanciful exaggeration the plans of the buflding suggested the sixteenth cen- tury, but in its general lines, as plan- ned, it represented a much later pe- riod in architecture. | for a dwelling, perhaps an apartment. more numerous and choking up the | way—actually relieves congestion! Taxis are so cheap that Paris bus ness men do not bring their own cars downtown (except, perhaps, for the quick morning and night trips), but | “take a taxi” to get about on business through the day. rate (75 cen-| x x k% THE taxt's cheapest times the first 400 meters, and | subsequently 20 centimes per 200 | meters) comes to 2 francs per mile and 8 francs per hour in stoppages or movlhg very slowly by request. When the taxi chauffeurs of America learn that 2 francs is 10 cents at present exchange, they will go up in the air! The Paris taxi chauffeur pays for | his own gas (50 cents per tin of 5 i quarts), about $1.50 per day. He gets from his company 32 per cent to 37 per cent of the day’s takings, shown by the taximeter, and averaging from 100 to 150 francs per day. Say he gets $2.60 for his share of it—which he surely doesn’t average. Subtract his gas cost, and he is, say, $1.10 in pocket from the company Also, he has all the tips—and lucky for him! What they are—you never {an limit. Here there is no rigidity, but there is courtesy. There seems to be unwritten code; they apparently have no fixed rules, but help each other with immense good nature and forbearance.” THE real sinners are private cars in Paris. Even they might do worse. For example, in London 600 persons are killed per year (1924) in street traffic—one to 10,000 population; in Paris (1923) there were 128 killed— only one to 25,000. Emile Massard, municipal council- or, who went to London on the traffic_inquiry, says, “It proves that in London the foot passenger has no protection at all.” Paris accident figures for 1923: There were 51 men, 35 women and 34 children under 16 killed, as follows By tramways, 10 men, 3 women, 1 child; by auto-omnibuses (operating everywhere, in great number), 4 men, 4 women, 2 children; by automobiles 25 men, 27 women, 21_children; by horse vehicles, 12 men, 8 children; by bicycles (greatly used going to and from work), 1 woman, 1 child. There were 14,819 wounded in street * X ok % 1 have | over the viaduct blame [ who had not his eyes wide open all | there are only 14,000 |ing strict attention, slipping in and | his way | | bidden at certain hours. it a nice lad, another man's wife. “Au revoir, hut he shouldn’ t kiss “JOSEPH LONDE." They heard the train go scre: . miles awa t, at first gloomily iously. “If 1 had the strength of San muttered, “I would sacrifice t of every human being in that looked afte almost feroc traffic, 1,041 as follows: By men, 610 women, auto-omnibuses, 349 aming Daniel v, then msor., he life trai tramways, 73 children men, 180 HE HAD DRAWN AWAY FROM THE LIPS OF THAT STRANGE, BEWILDERING WOMAN, AND HAD LOOKED UP TO SEE HER HUSBAND IN THE DOORWAY. as Samson dld the crowd in the tem ple. I'd watch a hundred people die Ann, to be sure of that one man.” “I wouldn't,” she answered simply | “I have more reason to hate him than ,_vnu, and I am content to wait. I can see the signs coming already.” Danlel Rocke said nothing, but the hungry light in his eyes was un dimmed. ( Copyright. 1 Hopeless Traffic Blockade for Paris in 10 Years Ira | use of street congestion Practically, there s no parking space in the crowded center—so that women, 24 children; by automobiles, |private cars “kept” by their chauf- 5,592 men, 2,482 women, 820 children; by motor cycles and sidecars, 21 106 women, 31 hicles dren; by bicycles en, 190 children. Material damage cases, or legal recoves 4,209; by atomobile nd sidecars, 438: by 12,647; by bicycles, 788 Total Pari: By tramways, 5.947; by buses, 2,400, by automobiles, by motor cycles and sidecars. horse vehicles, 14,876; by 1,877, The corresponding London are much heavier. auto-omnibuses, 25,517; by bil The unexpectedly great damage done | 5 men children; by horse ve- 1,473 men, 537 women, 199 chil- | 469 men, 428 wom- | passing | through the Paris police for insurance | were: By tramways, 1,837: motor cycles alw horse vehicle: by treet accidents in 1923 auto-omni 34.484; 91; b cycles, figures by surviving horse vehicles points to a palliative mentioned by the accident | conges- chief to temporarily tion. “We shall have to prohibit a hicles which cannot go a the others,” he said. these idea. central streets heavy, ans and trucks, earts, etc., a All thi: relieve be more stringent equally, both to horse-drawn ds wagons and all slow tor vehicles, both with respect cidents and congestion!” Another palliative is to big bunches past.” justice at crossroads. “Smalil bu of motor busses, taxicabs, cars, etc., even on a principal g There will rapidi, t present are enforced timidl horse- and heavy ny ve- Oon drawn re for- s must and be applied eliver m to ac- et the be less | nches’ private street, are held up so long as they remain a small bunch, to let “big bu pass at right angle. Small by can wait until they grow big. thing to keep the masses rapidly! * o ok x 'HERE is no speed limit in “Conductors of all vehicles remain masters of their speed Such is the only rule nches’ unches Any moving Paris must You must be able to slow up suddenly, or even stop short, to avoid unexpect cidents. At twilight and duce speed hind, when you are going stop or turn. And so on Then go like the deuce! “Speed, with careful driving, in fog, Make signs to those be- to ed ac slow, is the last palliative to help, for a few more vears chief. In this matter chauffeurs’ good will,” the prefect following 1924 in cities” says the of “leaving sense and simple police figure Refusal to obey police. Excessive epeed ... Neglect to keep to rig] Irregular cireulation - - Improper stoppage of (barrage force) Tlicit stationing . Improper backing. Crowding (embarrass) ... Abuse or neglect to horn. Improper stealing ahead. . Diverse embarrassments ~of traffic . = S5 3.319 Total simple police cases. . 11,887 It comes to 18,462 cases of * abuse” brought against the t: accident it to good has given me the es for Taxis. 403 741 028 808 306 165 89 8778 “traffic otality of 90,000 numbered motor cars of Paris—just one in five! It does not include 9,000 against horse vehicles of all A big lot to remain! to_go! cases kinds. They will have More and more in cities parking space will lack—for the increasing number of motor cars. In Paris it is already the chief AN INSTANT'S LACK OF CONTROL ON THE BOULEVARD AT RUE CAUMARTIN, AND THIS “SNARL" IN TRAFFIC BECOMES A “KNOT.” as | re- | feurs park, after a fashion, with the auto taxis on their “ranks” in | the middle of wide streets “Illicit stationing” 1s a popular crime for both categories. A “nonkept car’ has at_all. Kept cars find place with diffi- culty—parking simply not existing and all near-parking territory being '8 occupied. It results that the streets are in a whirl of movement—except where choked by excess of vehicles. Can’t stop! It's doubly true. For example, I frequent the Cafe de la Paix. Daily I see private cars and taxis quite unable to discharge at the Cafe de la Paix. - 1 see ladies obliged to walk half a block In the rain from where thelr car can stop at the shop where they want to go! Not accidents to et the pedestrian ens modern cities. Blocked traffic is the danger. Blocked traffic, inextricable, packed mass increasing, wild with impatience, packing up, the mass of control just where separate and gain your inconvenience! no place pedestrians—n problem—threat- the drivers packing up, getting out it ought to relief—there is A Shouting Phonograph. THERE a combination of phonograph and the sire voice. is the . Whose speaking intelligible words, can be heard for miles. The methods for recording sound have reached a higher stage of perfection than those employed for its reproduction. The chief difficulty encountered in most systemis of reproducing conversation and especially music, from phono- graphic and similar records is cansed by the friction of the needle resting upon the surface of the rapidly re volving disc. This introduces a more or less noticeable buzzing or running |sound, which interferes with the rness of musical notes or spoken words. even in the most improved models. Numerous attempts have been made to overcome this unpleas |ant accompaniment. In none of the devices has complete success been attained, since all involve the factor of friction as the fundamental means of transmission. In the case of the instrument firs mentioned. friction is avoided by the substitution of a current of com pressed air for the needle or stylus of the usual instruments. In a n | openings of various sizes allow the production of all musical notes with any desired degree of intensity or length. In this machine perforations in the disc of a siren are replaced by tangential incisions on the sur- face of a large record cylinder. A second perfectly smooth cylinder rests close upon the surface of the first cylinder and revolves in unison with it as the two cylinders are set in movement. A constantly varying suc. cession of minute openings between their surfaces is presented, due to the incisions on the record’ cylinder. When a powerful blast of compressed air is directed upon the line of con tact between the two cylinders, at such an angle as to be an exact tan- gent to the surfaces of both, sounds are evoked identically as in the ecase of an ordinary siren. It {s possible S0 it is reported, to communicate signals and even words, which can be readily heard miles away. Boy Finds Big Pearl. 'WHAT e called the world's finest pearl, a lustrous, peacock-green sem nearly three-quarters of an inch in diammeter and weighing almost 30 carats, has been found off one of the Gambier Islands, in the South Pacific Ocean, by an 18-year-old native boy diver, says Popular Mechanics. He parted with it for a small fortune, and the buyer is sald to have been offered $50,000 for the treasure. It iS not an uncommorm occurrence for the fishermen to go out in their lit- tle canoes in the morning and return at evening rich, according to their standards. The find of the young boy, however, is said to be the largest in the records of the region. Oxygen Ages Rubber. HOW rubber can be speeded up and made to do in a few hours what ordinarily takes several years was revealed to the American Chemi cal Society in Baltimore recently by J M. Bierer and C. C. Davis of Boston By increasing the concentration of oxygen, they reported natural aging could be duplicated in a short time Country's Heat Loss. EAT losses of the United States industries through radiation, con- duction and convection are equivalent to an amount of fuel costing $1,000,- 000,000 annually, a nation-wide survey has_disclosed, according to a report made recently before a chemical soclety.