Evening Star Newspaper, November 20, 1928, Page 31

RASIVPRESSRE NEETS OBEETON Col. Ladue Doubts Practica- bility of Installing Pumps for Fire Service. The plan advanced by Asa E. Phillips, consulting engineer, for obtaining high | ressure water service in the downtown igh value district will be given careful consideration if it is presented to the Board of Commissioners, according to Engineer Commissioner Ladue. Although unwilling to give any com- ment on the plan without first having its feasibility thoroughly studied by ex- perts in the District’s engineering sery- ice, Col. Ladue expressed doubt as to its_practicability. Phillips’ plan calls for installing elec~ tric pumps to increase the pressure in Mains now serving the downtown sec- tlon to bring the water pressure up from an average of 46 to an average of 86 pounds per square inch. His plan was prepared for submission to the Board of Trade, but has not yet re- ceived that body's approval. Col. Ladue explained increasii the pressure on the mains downtown in order ot secure better fire protection might have the effect of bursting all the plumbing connections in the lower stories of the buildings in that sec- tion, or of compelling tenants in the lower stories to install pressure-re- ducing devices into their water con- nections, One Objection to Plan. “This,” Col. Ladue said, “is, however, less than a curbstone opinion. It is simply one of the objections that would have to be carefully studied before such & plan could be put into operation.” Col. Ladue explained the District is already undertaking an extensive pro- gram of enlarging and improving mains in the high value area and installing more fire hydrants. During the current fiscal year, a 36- inch water main 5,900 feet long will be installed on M street from Eleventh street to New Hampshire avenue, at A cost of $177,000. Other main laying Jobs, all suggested by a committee ap- pointed by the Commissioners to re- Rflrt on the feasibility of installing a igh pressure water system in Wash- ington, include the following: A 12-inch main 900 feet long on Eighteenth street. from Pennsylvania avenue to F street; a 12-inch main 2,800 feet long on Georgia nue from Falrmont street to Park roa 12-inch main 2950 feet long on Tenth street from K street to Pennsylvania avenue. New Fire Hydrants. During the current year there is also an appropriation of $50,000 for install- ing fire hydrants in locatio tion for such purposes is regularly $25,- 000 annually. There is also eox’nmgr- able work under way in replacing old mains, Col. Ladue said. The work will be continued in the next fiscal year under items authorized by the Budget Bureau, although the extent of the work and the amount authorized must remain confidential until publication of the budget figures when the President sends them to Congress. The execution of this improvement :ctrk. acco{:ixgng chol. Ladue, does ot mean thal r. Phillips' suggested scheme could not also bep;ut “l‘r'x%n ef- fect if investigation showed that it was advisable. If Mr. Phillips' scheme should ‘prove to be practicable, it might win favor from $he Commissioners if ;:u cost involved would not be exces- ive. The Phillips’ plan will probably not be considered unless it is Forwnrd};d t the Commissioners as expressing the policy of the Board of Trade. Up to th present time it has the status of th- opinion of a private citizen. In mak- ing the details of the plan public, M: Phillips explained he did so in order to have the benefit of comment and criticism from Government officials and other citizens before submitting it to the Board of Trade for final action. —_— To co-ordinate the highway activi- ties of the government, the state and local authorities, a convention will b- held in Mexico City in September. William B, | I THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTOXN, D. ( | And that comb behind the seat of your | done. | I think that you probably killed Sheila i MARSH MURDER Copyright, 1928, by Bell Syndicate, Ine THE STORY THUS FAR: Don Ellsworth’s wife, f mous _actress Sheila O'Shay disappears, ieaving no trace. Dr. Cavanaugh, the great criminal psychologist learns that their mar- ried life has been very unhappy. Peter Piper a reporter on the Herald to see Dr. Cavanaugh. Insiead he me Barbara Cayanaugh. the attractive dai ter, and finds that she was engaged to Ellsworth before his marriage. An_unidentified body is found in the tule ide the city. It is burned bevond but (rom a small patch oi scalp naugh identifies it s the body of hay. Barbara faints whon she hears him tell this to Peter. reter, alreal half in love with v knows something bout the murder Ingtinct 1z to pr her Mrs. Kane, Shella O'Shay's waiting an is ‘arrested and admits that her misiress forced Don Ellsworth to marry threatening a breach of promise have been taken, a_throatening letter signed Ormes." “Peter goes on the trial of Tie runs him down at an uiomo- _(Continued from Yesterday's Star.) CHAPTER XXXVI 14 H, Peter!” B:irogara cried. | Her voice was tne thin, | small voice cf a terruled | child at the touch of a re- | assuring hand in the dark. “If I only could!" She leaned forward, her hands clasped tightly beiween her knees, her pinched, white fece irradiated with a flood of rosy color. r eyes, seeking Peter's, were wells of g'cry. Peter forgot that Sh O’'Shay had been murdered, forgot that she had ever existed. His world was narrowed to one consuming blaze of divine as- tonishment. “But Barbara! You can’'t mean—-" he stammered. “Of course.” Barbara nodded her head twice, with slow emphasis. “I mean just that. I should think you'd have seen it from the beginning.” Peter, still with that look of awed wonder, leaned down to kiss the bright, bowed head. But before he reached her he forced himself back, hold- ing to the mantel plece as if he feared to trust his own unaided will “But listen, you amazing child, you can’t mean it!” he said. “You don't know a thing about me, really. I'm just a hard-boiled newspaper reporter.” (It was a fixed delusion with Peter that he was “hard boiled.”) “I earn $50 a week, and the only car I own or am ever likely to own is one you'd be ashamed ever to collide with. I never thought of it before, but for all you know I might be nothing but a fortune hunter.” “I know quite enough.” A shadow of the old gamin smile, hovered at the corns:s of gll’bll‘l' mouth. “Are you "Lryinz to persuade me to marry you or merly the fa- | trying to persuade me not to—which?" things weren't as they are, I'd try to have too much sense to ask you. But I've got to have the right to help you—to stand by to the last ditch. Of course, I'll do that anyhow, but it'll make things simpler. That's why I want you to marry me.” “Oh, no, it isn’t!” Barbara's shin- 3 gaze was still fixed on Peter’s face. 's because you love me.” Oh, that!" Peter's score was the most sublime assurance. “That goes without saying. Who wouldn't?" “Still,” sald Barbara. “I'm glad you said it, even though I knew. I ought to be sorry, but I'm not. I'm glad— glad that I shall have it to remember The | always. Because I'm not going to marry you, Peter.” “Don't be absurd!” Peter said angrily “Please, Barbara, get this straight. Even if you hadn't looked at me like that, you glorious child—I don’t know how it ever happened, but somehow it has—T'd have wanted you to marry me anyhow, Then, if we got things m-:i;mmed out and you wanted your freedom, you could have it. Nothing, nothing at all, could possibly make any difference to me, except as it gave me something to do for you. That's the way I feel about it. Now, will you marry me?” “Don’t!” Barbara buried her face in her hands, “You make it so very hard.” Then she looked up, her small chin very stubborn, her eyes very ste: “I can’t marry you Peter—not ever “Why ‘not?” Peter glared down at her - belligerently. “Because—" Barbara took a deep breath, then went on steadily. “I'm going to tell you something I_have never hinted to another soul. I told you how Dr. Cavanaugh adopted me out of the orphanage, I rather think that I am really his daughter.” It was so far from what Peter had expected her to say that he could only stare at her in blank amazement. “But, darling child," he said when he had caught his breath, “Can you think for one moment that that would make any difference to me? “It would to me,” Barabara said. so low that he had to bend toward her to catch the words, “But it mustn't. I don’t care a fig whether your parents had a marriage license or not. As the lawyers say, it's incompetent, immaterial and irrelevant. Dr, Cavanaugh is a very great man— you might well be proud to get some of your heredity from a.brain like that. Even if he did your mother and you a social injury by not marrying her, he’s done his best to make it up to 4 “Yes,” Barbara said gravely, “He 1s a great man, and he has been good to me. 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Made by Kellogg in Battle Creek. car, and destroy it.” Her hands reached out in a gesture of frantic protest, but he disregarded them. “I sald I didn't care what you've [ meant it. As a matter of fact, O'Shay and "that we may have the deuce of a time getting you out of it. Now will you marry me?” “You think thai of me" Barbara said wonderingly, “You think that I killed her—I, with these hands, com- mitted murder?” She held out her hands, palm upward, and looked at them, curiously. *“You think I am a murderess, and that I may be hanged for it, and still—still you want to marry e Peter did not know that he had moved until he reached her and lifted her trom the chair and held her close, his cheek against her hair. *“They shan't hurt you Barbara, No- body shall hurt you. T won't let them.” FStaring into the distance above her bowed head, Peter defled the world “I think,” murmured Barbara, ‘that it might be worth dying for, to know that somebody felt llke that.” Then, very gently. she slipped out of those en- cireling arms. “But I won't do it, Peter. No power on earth—not the power of love itself—can make me marry you. That is the ultimate truth, and you will have to belleve it." Peter looked long and steadily into her eyes lifted bravely to his, but they | did not waver. “It only makes things a little harder, darling,” he said at last. “You know that I'll do whatever I can, an; y. And we mustn't be frightened. Was standing in the driveway when you got out of your car; I'm sure that nobody else saw you, Perhaps, when all this is over and forgotten, you'll be willing to decide differently.” “I can't. 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