Evening Star Newspaper, February 8, 1932, Page 25

THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. €. MOND\Y, F OPEN WINTER AIDS Construction, Cleaning Progresses Rapidly. Washington's open Winter has en- abled work in the parks to forge ahead rapidly. Officials of the Office of Public Buildings and Public Parks as- serted yesterday that construction work, planting and transplanting and cleaning up by unemployed has made marked headway in the absence of hard frost, snow and with generally in- clement weather. In Meridian Hill Park. the contrac- tor, the Fred Drew Co.. Inc.. has been able to reach the 50 per cent mark in the program of completing the cascades and the ascents on either side of this scries of waterfalls. Substantial preg- Tess has been accomplished on this work, but the officials yesterday jointed out that the easier half of the work has now been done on the hillside ot the park. Even with good weather now, the remaining part of the job will g0 forward more slowly. they said. The fancy basins in the project have yet to be cast and the scheduled time of com- pls of the entire work now in progress is September 1 Warehouse Progresses. The auspicious ed rapid stria actor million- | the signal . 3d. d i and Public up rapidly, tha hard Winte costing $693.48 T Col E g £ of a howes o222 h nize ¢ of the park, n favorable aying d the Bl s Unusual progress b cleaning up the par 5 Gartside, chief of the park division of the Office of Public Buildings and Pub- lic Parks, said yesterday, through the use of the unemployed, furnished and paid by the District Unemployment Committee. Starting about the end of November, an average of 250 men a Week, under a rotating plan. have been supplied for park work. These have been engaged in cleaning up dead tim- ber, removing fire hazards, cleaning up debris in the newly-acquired tracts and generally improving the appearance of these centers of recreation, Mr. Gart- side asserted. The unemployed have been at work on the Brentwood tract, in Soapstor Valley; the Victor J. Evans tr Wesley Heights, upper Foundry Branch, near Foxhall Village; Turkey Thicket, located at Twelfth street and Michigan avenue northeast, and in Rock Creek Park and the Rock Creek and Potomac Parkway. The Office of Public Buildings and Public Parks has a regular per diem force of about 400 men, but due to the lack of Federal appropriations to keep them all at work during the Winter, there are now only abcut 200 of thesy workers on the job. Mr. Gartside pointed out that the ordinary force would be engaged special projects for which appropriations had made and not used cn the clean-up work in the parks which the “unem- ployed” are doing. . Work at Profitable Tasks. The “unemployed” are put to work on tasks in the parks that are eco- nomically “advantageous, Mr. Gartside said. as it would be a waste of money to have these men, with hand labor. tear down an embankment, when a steam shovel could do the job much quicker and cheaper. There is sufficient work in Rock Creck Park alone, Mr. Gartside said, to keep the unemployed engaged for an indefinite period. This holds true of other areas, as many newly acquired tracts have not yet been touched Considerable tree-moving and plant- ing has gone forward during the mild Winter and, except for a few days, this of activity has steadily proceeded, Mr. Gartside said. Had the Winter been bad. road construction in the sec- tion of the Rock Creck and Potomac Parkway, between Massachusetts ave- nue and P street, would not be c plete, he explained. Weather conditions ve permitted preliminary road con- struction work to proceed in the Mall also. The Neptunia, one of Italy’s two great liners which will be put on the American service, will make its yage in September. ai Planting and: wownn ¢ i | Spite Wife Martha, as a rule the perfect, quiet servant, became an unbending tyrant iwhen her beloved mistress sneezed. ey were to gorhome! It was sui- cide to remain down here in this cold, damp p! What was Madame think- |ing of—to be 50 lax with her heaith! l | Did she want to catch her death of darn foolishness? Hot-water bag and warm shawls and aconite—in case there CHAPTER XLIIL ICK left early the next morning. He had to be in Seattle that aficrnoon. Judy was wakened from sleep by a strange noise—a throbbing deeper, more stirring than the pounding of the surf. Memory { rushed upon her. Nick had driven to | the airport of the little town south of them: he had got the plane and was flying up the coast. . . . | 'She snatched up her blue quilted robe, thrust her feet into mules and rushed to the window. Heedless of the cold dawn air, she flung up the sash and leaned ou The sun wes just above the horizon: the sky was a soft blur of primrose colors. And up there, moving like a moth against the great sweep of the zenith, Nick's plane . . my . . scarcely seeming to move, so big | the great arch of the sky. A tiny thir to have this strange drumming from its motor h-ard so far below. The mo- tor—throbbing through her, setting her pulses hammering with ecstatic awe. ick up there . .. so confident, so se- rene and free. . be Nick Carter, Stan's half-brother. her mind. He was just Nick ... who dropped from the sky like a man-god and as casually flew away agzain. Long moments Judy crouched thers by the open window, her eves giued on the plane overhead. The cold morning wind blowine off the ocean lifted the mass of hair from her shoulders, so hat her up-lilted face was in relief, del- icate and white as a cameo. It had pierced the warmth of the quilted silk robe, her bare feet were two lumps of ice in the satin mules when she finally recalled herself and shut the window By the middle of the afiernoon the fair weather had ended. Great, swollen. plum-colored clouds lay heaped on the horizon and the sea had taken on a ymber tinge. The sun sank in sullen and as though sunset b awaited, the storm's f burst with a roar. It swooped down old house, whistling g around the corners. wling down was a trace of fever. And she'd rub hér chest with camphorated oil. . . . Driven by her anxiety, Martha be- came a relentless gale, sweeping them all home. They were packed and on their way before the others had thor- oughly caught their breath, for when Martha was' in this mood Madame meekly surrendered. Judy looked back once as the car While Madame dozed before the fire, Judy curled up in a cheir, read books from the old-fashioned _library—old, dog-eared volumes of adventure and shipwreck which had belonged to the sailor Nicholas. Curled up on the rug | beside her, Side-slip slept with one eye open and one ear cocked. Two days of such marooned luxury. Days apart from everyday life. days of drowsy content, as though Fate paused to yawn before hurrying them along to The old house seemed a little forlorn, the hectic time ahead. | standing dnTw}:I there bfly the cold, vio- The morning after the storm, Judy !10‘5 e t;unse“:c h'?}l\!;n behlnd“n opened her eyes on a freshly brushed s eAe ety eynsdsketatcr z‘gdw h and swept world. Pale sunlight made | U5 WG EMEH, €Eeae windows. rainbow prisms of the raindrops which | FISEEIVR ;) ALY nt i Litle <till clung to the windows. After break- | FeRTOACTLF g o« 00 ught the girl's ast the girl took Side-slip, hysterical ‘flre s CGE. Tt Cas SR SDnlsn; of with joy at the prospect of a run, and |can: anly- in et uf‘l;ge. !:)c:;: started ('r(tsx‘.lhe dunes. i 3 ‘soundmg through the echoing rfooms The sea was :.lz(u‘li runxllulg‘mg 5 i:l:r ]and e sl Bk & & wamn; est indigo streaked with hissing whil foam. It broke high above the usual::":’:;g-'s Neglect and decay its only wat> line. The beach showed signs of | Z St e, aHftwood piled, brown and | Judy wondered idly when she would listening in the morning light. Side- | 52 the old shore house again. But not siip nosed among it, quivering with cu- riosity, ears and tail tremblingly alert. Great Tolls of yellow foam, whipped by the gale to gelat n-like substance. went cuttling in the wind along the sand or waved madly from gorse and lupine shrubs where it had become impaled. Judy climbed to the tunnel led by | morbid curiosity. Much of the Carf fortune had gone into this hole in the Cliff. How odd fate was ... a single false move and a whole lifetime changed. If this railroad had been the success its founder planned. the Car- ters would have been very wealthy Stan might have married Eunice—beau- tiful Eunice, who had wanted money. And a girl named Judy Denning might have lived her whole life out in Sum- merfield, never knowing handsome, willful Stan . . . or the town of Lock- wood . . . or Nick Tonely in here without Nic¥. Sinis- ter. somehow, standing here in the dusk | listening to the slow drip of water. | . there was a draught blowing through. Nick was right: there must be a passage through the landslide. | She moistened her finger and held it | (44 | | started the steep climb up the gr-fle.l | w | ers, in plus-fours, talking in a too-| been | chimneys it. cuff cuffs a rat Quite a draught. . . Then an altogether senseless terror seized her, so that she fled silently om the place. Side-slip dashing at her And that afternoon Mme. Carter zed. It was the signal of change. ling t one sneeze electrified things. & MARTIN M as a terriel The wooden house rocked in the gale Carpets billowed on the floor: doors. left ajar, crashed = Curtains flapped and sheets of hed against the windows as thi would d in the glass Frightening, but somechow G DULIN FEBRUARY SALE DomesTiC Rucs All qualities of domestic floor coverings bear sub- stantial reductions during this special selling. American Oriental Rugs A fine assortment of heavy worsted pile with colors woven through to the back. Many beautiful repro- ductions of Oriental masterpieces. All greatly re- duced. it it s Tk Several grades opportune savings—ranging for the 9x12 size, from Axminster Rugs LT $2.4.50 Colonial Rugs for a Colonial room, we have just received a special shipment of Braided Rugs. Oval or tound shapss, in various sizes up to 9x12 e BROADLOOM e $5.00 Sq. Yd. B e erou o Broadloom— : peat this unusual value again. 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There was the sound of many voices and much high-pitched laughter ~when | Pon opened the door and assisted Lh‘.ln from the car. Martha grimly bore Madame up stairs to her third-floor kingdom, There the old lady was meekly to sub- | mit to a martyrdom of oil rubs undi hot-water bags and peppermint mix- ' tures so hot it scalded her throat. { As Judy went upstairs she looked'| | tel | through the curtained arch of the | drawing room. Ten or 12 people gath- | erad in there—some in dinner dress some in sport attire, just as they had Some one | dropped in from the links. Dart Pow- | strumming the piano. loud voice to a man in tweeds, whom Judy had never seen before, while he | used a cocktail glass to emphasize his har gaze. 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