New Britain Herald Newspaper, August 1, 1928, Page 14

A iy Lt NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 1, 1928, cabin some hundred yards back |time ‘had come, Toney exclaimed, PLAYGROUND ACTIVITIES - SWEETHEARTS By IDAH McGLONE GIBSON Author of “My Son’s Sweethearts,” “Confessions of a Wife,” Etc. Copyright, 1928, by Central Press Assoclation, Inc. READ THIS FIRST: Lynda Fenton, a singularly inno- eent girl, is private secretary to Ralph Armitage. Her father, a drunkard, tells her that her mother deserted them, and that all women Rave their price, Lynda meets Emily Andrews, | who cherishes a secret fondness for | David Kenmore, Lynda’s companion | from childhood. Emily plots against | Lynda from the very beginning. David tells Lynda he loves her, but &he decides she doesn't want to be in love with any man. David is away on a trip. Lynda's father deserts her, Ralph Armitage pays her artful compli- ments, and Claire Stanhope comes to live with her. Claire tells of in- nocent love for Fred Blaque, a married man. June Challer, who has annexed money, invites Lynda and Claire and Emily to a big party. It's Lyn- da's first real affair, and she's en- thused. Emily secretly sends David a let- ter, suggesting that he come home for the party, so that Lynda may be made-to feel at ease. Then she sends an anonymous note, saying “Ralph Armitage is rushing your girl David writes to Lynda, ad- monishing her to beware of Ralph Armitage. Ralph has met with an accident, and Emily rushes to Lyn- da te gossip about it. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY . CHAPTER XXVI Lynda Goes to Ralph’s Home Lynda smiled when Emily asked her it she blamed Ralph Armitage for having a good time, “Would you really call dislocating your collar bone and breaking your ribs a good time?” she asked. “You're darned literal, Lynda.| You know very well I meant flirt- ing around with the girls. He gives us all a good time when he is tak- | ing onc himself. I will say that for him. He isn't selfish about it. He'll be asking-you to come out there. See it he doesn't. Perhaps he isn't hurt as much as he would make out. Perhaps it is just to get you out there, Mind your step, Lynda, mind | your step.” With this Emily left, smiling ma- liclously. Emily had hardly left the office befors someone asked over the phone: s this Miss Fenton, Mr. Armi- secretary 2" “This is Mr. Armitage’s man. He wanted me to ask you whether you: would bring his mail out to the | house tomorrow morning?" “Will you please tell Mr. Armi- tage that I have already taken his personal mail to his father? I will bring the morning’s mail out to him tomorrow,” said Lynda, her Kknees getting rather wobbly as she said it, for she remembered what Emily had just told her. “Mr. Armitage says that you are to bring all his mail tomorrow, and be prepared to stay until after luncheon.” “Will he be able to dictate, you think?" “He says he will, Mi#s Fenton. T/ am, to bring the car in for you at half-past nine.” Lynda hung up the receiver. | Lynda had hardly Teft the phone befors & message came from Mr. | Armitage, senior, asking' her to come aguin to his office. As ‘she opened the door, he ex- claimed: I see, Miss Fenton, that the eve- ning papers have gotten hold of my son's accident, and it is probable that you will have visits and tele- phone calls from the reporters soon. They will want a follow-up story. T think you had better shut up the office and go out for the afternoon.” Lynda. bowed. “Ralph has just told me that he has instructed one of the men to come down here tomorrow morning and take you out to the house.” “Do you think he will be well enough to do any dictating, Mr. Armitage?" “Yes. The doctor has bandaged his ghoulder and set his ribs, and bandaged his arm to his side. When T came away this morning he seem- ed still to be in a great deal of pain. fince then the nurse has phoned me that he has had a little sleep, al- | though he seemed very restless, when T called up right after lunch- eon. It will he much better for you | to go out there than for him to | rome here—something he might be | headstrong enough to do. | As soon as possible, Lynda start- | ©4 home, and by the time Claire arrived, she had a nice little dinner ready do | {drowned late yesterday. Lynda wanted to wash her hair, | and started to her room right after | dinner was finished. " “I'll_help you,” said Claire, “and you will find some new toilet arti- | cles in the bathroam, which for us this noon. Some for your own particular self will find ocJ vour dressing table. They were hav- | ing a marked-down sale today of‘ perfumes at Robinson’s, and 1 bought some. I knew you would he} glad for me to do it for you. If I| were you, Lyn, I would use a spe- | cial perfume. In some way, you a ways remind me of white violets. When you get a little more salary, | you can have that perfume made; there is a man in town who individual perfumes. See, I've| bought you two perfumizers, as T call them, one for perfume, and one | for toilet water. That will give an elusive fragrance that will always | be just perceptible, but will not give the person near you the idea that vou have been bathing in your a- vorite scent, or even dampen your handkerchict until it is soppy, as if | vou had lost vour sweetheart.” | Lyn immediately sprayed herself | with the perfume, and was delight- ed. That night, for the first her life, Lyn revelled in a bath which was made fragrant by scent- ed bath salts and fragrant soap. She used the powder and perfume, and Claire helped her with her hair, and as it was drying, she was sniffing the unaccustomed luxury of makes | time in | tation out at Mr. Armitage's — . —————— perfume sprayed over it. Lyn brushed her bob until it shone blue-black as a raven's wing when the sun touched it; then when she had put on a pink smock Claire, saying naivebs “I reaily didn't know it was pos- sible to be so nie Claire, from her more worldly wisdom, did not tell her that Ralph Armitage would probably think that no other girl in ail the world could be as nice. curious to know whether his acci- dent was as bad as reported, and was glad to see that Lynda had was surprised when she for the office the next g, bright and early, saying casually: “L thiak I am going to take dic- house departed today.” At half-past nine she was all ready when the smartly-uniformed chauffeur tapped at the door of Ralph Armitage's private office. She demurely handed him bundle of muail, and walked with head up, and her scarlet lips part- ed, out through the long rows of desks, from behind which the girls regarded her curiously. “And everywhere that Armi went, nda was sure to go,” said Emily Andrews in a shrill whisper, as she passed her desk. 1.yn stopped stark still Emily had the grace 1o blush. (TO BE CONTINUED) Personals Olat Olson of Garden street is in Vermont with his family where he is spending his vacation. Mrs. 8. E. Kiley of 23 Summer street is on lier annual vacation. Mr. and Mrs. George Comstock and son, George, Jr., of Maple Hill, are home after an au‘omobile tour of upper New England. W. R. Pond and family of Maple Hill will spend the week-end at Nar- | ragansett Pler. Mr. and Mrs. Herman Vierling of Greenwood street leave Saturday for a two weeks' vacation to he spent at Asbury Park, Clifton and Jersey City Heights. Shirley Pond of Maple Hill s spending the weck as the guest of Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Allen at Grove Beach. A. W. Berg, sales manager of the Connecticut Light and Power Co., is spending his vacation at Newport, Lake Sunapee, N. H. Mr. and Mrs. Walter Schwartz of Winthrop street have returned from a two weeks vacation spent in Schenectady, N. Y. Miss Madeline Kindelan has re- turned from a six weeks' tour of | Europe. She visited England, Hol- land, France, Switzerland and Bel- gium, Brldzep—o‘rt Girl Saves Two and Then Drowns Fairfield, Aug. 1 (UP)— Ex- hausted after rescuing twe compan- ions at Fairfield Beach, 14.year-old Helen Clabby of Bridgeport was After helping Viola Tinney and Frances Carroll, playmates who had strayed into deep water, to shore, H:len, apparently exhausted, was unable to reach shore. Her body was found in shallow water nearly an hour after the rescues. Pulmotors and first ald methods were of no avail in restorinng respiration. Offer Final Dividend For Defunct Bank Co. | Boston, Aug. 1 P—Bank Com- missioner Roy A. Hovey, in a peti- tion filed in superfor court today, asked to be allowed to pay a sixth and final dividend of 2.07 per cent to depositors of the commercial de- partment of the Cosmopolitan Trust comphny, which was closed eight years ago. These depositors pre- viously have received 36 per cent of thelr claims, payment of which re- quired the sum of $2,279.105. The additional dividend will require £120,696. Depositors in the savings department have been paid 92.04 pr cent of thelr deposits and liqui- datlon fn that department closed. The hank commissioner’s petition to close the affatrs of the company will Clalre seemed to have recovered | her usual spirits, THE DAILY POOR PA BY CIAUDE CALLAN Ma's thinkin® about my second wife again. She says a man gives his first wife his heart an’ his second one his pocketbook.” (Copyright, 1928, Publisners Syndicate) he granted unless objections are filed before August 29. ARGUMENT AUNT HET BY ROBEKT QUILLEN “I don’t waste much sym- pathy on that Jones tribe. PLAINVILLE NEWS (Continued from Page Seven) Plainville Camp ground tonight as the Chautauqua program continues. Tomorrow will be ‘Shakes- peare Day president of the Chautauqua asso- ciation, wil speak on “Shakespeare's Tools” at 3 o'clock in the afternoon and at 8 o'clock he will give a recit- al of “The Taming of the Shrew.” The regular schedule of classes and rehearsals will be maintained, License Returned The operator’s license of Ralph B Thrall of 1 West Main street has been returned to him by the com- missioner of motur ‘vehicles. Boy Scout Meeting Boy Scout Troop 1 of Plainville will hold an important meeting Fri- day night. All members are urgent- ly requested to be present. Personals Mrs. E. W. Farrar and daughter Lois left for East Northfield, Mass., this morning. They will attend the general conference of Christian workers. Miss Bertha Steward, vho has been spending the month of July in Boston, will join them at East Northfield, The Misses Margaret and Kathar- ine Huane of Bristol and Mrs. M, J. Fitzgerald of West Main street have returned from Detroit, Mich., the Great Lakes, and Canada. While in Detroit, Mrs. Fitzgerald was the guest of her son, John J. Fitzgerald, and her daughter, Mrs, N, J. Justin. Prayer Mecting The regular mid-week prayer meeting will be held at the Baptist church tomorrow evening at 7:4 o'clock. Mrs. A. W. Thomasen will be the leader. Decorated breakfast table, two rockers, six oak dining chairs. 21 Broad street.—advt. Engineers are preparing to store to Rome two galleys of im- perfal Rome which have been lying on the muddy bottom of Lake Nemi for nearly 2000 years, JUST KIDS REMEMBER TO Lok UP AN DOWN BEFORE o e e~ o ol Bar——— Pa says Fate kept ’em poor, but acts o’ Providence don’t make a house smell like that.” (Copyright, 1928, Pudlishers Syndicate) She also was a little | the | Truman J. Spencer, | re- | HEY =~ MISTER BRANNER - wowr WHOQ'S 'FOUR KODIAK BEAR - FALL BEFORE GUNS ‘Hunters Reach Goal of Their Travels in Alaska (BY J. VANCE) We have been leading up, for quite a while, to the climax of the 1 got | over her pajamas, she rushed out to | hunting trip which Joe Lamb and I, of New Britain, Dick Topham, of 1 Boston, and Bill Pape, of Water- bury, took into the Alaskan coun- try with the chartered vacht “West- | ward,” said climax being the at- | tainment of our objective, the ac- quisition of one or more specimens of the enormous kodiak bears which live in the snow-covered | peaks and the grass-grown tundras of the Aleutian Islands and the juot talked much about it. Indecd, | Alaskan peninsula. We got four o them, as has been hefore explained. | three of the party bagging the four fand I failing in my quest. Through | the kindness of the other three I | shall have a specimen, though I did inot shoot him, Joe Lamb hunted long and harl | for his bear. He worked as earnest- Iy as any hunter who' has ever | visited Alaska, unquestionably, and he was, after 27 days in the snow, rewarded by the best specimen | which we obtained, about 11 feet {long, with a skull 17 inches in length. During a part of the time I was with him and part of the time I was qff by myself in another territory. Though not present at the shooting, I can visualize his exper- ience, through knowledge of the country and the game, together with the facts that he has given {me, though I was about 200 miles |from him when he finally came up with the object of his quest. Joe and I formed the first expe- dition ashore, going into the coun- ry at Iniskine . Bay, otherwise known as Snug Harbor—why, no one knows. We were forced to fix up an old dory to use for water transportation as the “Westward" had left us to deposit Bill and Dick at other points farther west and south. After the dory was fixed a start up country was made to the tune of an outboard motor on the stern. It was a_ beautiful, though frosty morning. Seven o'clock or so and the sun already shining nicely after being some five hours high. Flce Before “Willeewaw” But we did not get far, five miles perhaps, when with 4 whoaop and a howl a “willeewaw” descended from the snow and stormed along the water. A “willeewaw” {5 not an ani- mal, it is blows at an enormous velocity, comes up in an instant, blows for an interval, ceases and shortly, as if 1t had forgotten something the first time, whoops her up again. It | continues for days sometimes and | dies as suddenly as it came. . We saw it coming and made for a point which' stuck out from an island nearby. Had we not made it our dory would unquestionably have been swamped. Our point was cut off from ap- | proach by land by unscalable cliffs; it offered a refuge from the water side and a couple of cotton wood trees with a liberal sprinkling of alders for fire wood. Otherwise the “hhsl of the “willie” swept over it fmercilessly. Having arrived, there we stayed, getting scant comfort from a fire of green alders. The wind blew the heat as well as the smoke. If one wanted to get warm |one got smothered and that was |that. We did concoct some coffee and fry a little bacon. We could not, at first, make even our little pup tents stay up. For 24 hours we roosted on our point, with no place to go hut there, Thus passed our first hunting day in Alaska. Many other similar ones were to follow, | but our initiation was thorough. Mosquitoes in Alaska The next day we made a trapper’s HERE ? ME AT worse. It is a wind which | PAT'S FATHER JWENT AWAY oo e AT GOIN HE'S STAYIN' WITH MY HOUSE! from the shore line and about eight miles from our point. That night we got an initiation of another sort— mosquitoes, Yes, we Were camping in a cabin whose eaves were even with the snow line—and we had mosquitoes. . Possibly the fact that the trapper had a meat storage hole under the floor which had filled with water from melting snow ac- counted for their presence. At any rate as soon as the cabin warmed | up from the fire of our portable stove the birds came from some- lv\-}wm-—birdn. did T say? Eagles— ! with snow shoes. They hummed and | they sang, they bit and bored and i slashed—they sure seemed to like | imported meat. .We eventually (fooled them, however. Onto the | floor went our pup tent which had a | mosquito netting flap and we [erawled in to be bothcred only by their howls of frustration, Would that some of our friends of New Britain had seen us sleeping in a pup tent pitched inside of a perfectly good cabin. I can im- agine some of the less kind exclaim- ing "I thought those fellows were crazy when I heard they were going to Alaska. Now I know it.” We were not half as crazy as if we had stayed outside, though we might have gotten some good target prac- tice with our automatic revolvers. I strongly suspect that some of the more experienced of the mosquitoes tried to turn the tent over and get at us from the bottom. But the fellow that made the tent had thought of that. Hé had sewed a :u: proof bottom cloth into the out- it. Ups and Downs of Hunting But enough of the beauties of na- ture and on to the hunt. By this time Joe and I were mad enough to shoot almost anything and we madly hunted. We donned snow shoes and scaled up and down slopes with an abandon that would have been truly terrifying had our wives seen us. The abandon going up consist- ed mainly in not considering how we made it as long as we did. Com- ing down it consisted in utter disre- gard of any prominent part of our anatomies, most of which were cut or rubbed off anyhow after the first few days. Occasionally we would vary the procedure by falling through a snow bridge in the bot- tom of a gully with a creek, or walk five miles or so through glacier mud along the beach at low tide, equipped with rubber boots and & coating of clay (over our hunting clothes), S When a fellow climbed a ledge he soon found that it was against the rules of the game to grab hold of bush to help him. The alders grew Wwas used, they might be handled. But just in the most essential place {a devil club invariably grew. These instruments of torture have an en- tire stalk covered thickly with very small thorns. Scarcely thicker than a hair and not over an eighth of inch long, they go into the skin easily, nothing to it at all. But the next day—boy you know you have had hold of something! Every lit- tle barbed and hair-like thorn is loaded with poison and your hand is literally covered with little ul- cers. It isn't always your hand. That's where you get the stickers when you are climbing. Coming down you get them as well, but not. in the hand so much. But then, we didn’t sit down often anyhow. The best thing about the weeds is that they do furnish a good strong grip. {7 mot so'that T wouldn't even take hold of a cup of coffee. -at meal times without Jooking to make sure it wasn't a devil club. Taken all .in-all. rocks, snow, cliffs and mud and devil clubs, it's some country. Joe Gets His Bear ‘Without further preamble then, T shall Jeave Joe to 27. days of this; changing camps, walking, creepin crawling and picking devil club thorns, until we come to the final scene. He was camped near Point Harriet on the’ west. shore of Cook Inlet. Tor days he had been fol- lowing bear tracks. Suddenly the ' weLL WELL WELY el wet at spots and, if careful discrimation | “watch that clear space, I hear a bear.” And Joe watched. Into the clearing, 50 yards away swung big “Flatfoot.” Pigeon toed and stolid he came along, his great head swinging from side to side. Joe's 30-06 was up to his shoulder and he pointed at the vital spot behind the bear’'s fore-shoulder. Bang, crash, and the brute was down. Three guns i then opened up, Joe's and those of the packer and guide. It developed that Joe's shot would probably have killed it, but no chances were being taken on the brute running away or toward the hunters. The hunt had lasted too long for the one, life was too valuable for the other. Of what avail is it to describe the return to the camp with the heavy skin and skull, of coming aboard the Westward which had returned to take Joe out the very next day? All of that is unnecessary, Joe had his bear, his efforts were capped Wwith success. And like most other crises, it had taken long to develop but was over in an instant. Dick and Bill got their bears in a cove near Kukak Bay, several hun- dred miles further down the coast. Their experiences, in the main had been similar to ours. It happened one morning that they ran ashore in their dory to look over the coun- try for a possible camping trip. After several weeks of hunting they had seen no bear, but scarcely had they placed their feet upon the beach in this spot than three bears were visible, playing on a snow bank far above them. Although the bears were in plain sight from where they stood and did not move more than a few yards in the in- terval, it took the party three hours to get to the spot where the bears were. Even with the incentive of a bear to urge them on and the conse- quent increased speed of travel three long hours were consumed traversing.the interwening country. Some country, indeed. The shooting of the bears was comparatively simple once their lo- cation was known. They had re- tired into a small patch of alders where they were snoozing. The largest bear, .the mother, was the ! target of the first shot and several succeeding ones, again from three guns, though Dick Topham, it is be- lieved, Kkilled the large cne. Then it became the turn of the two cubs. | None of the animals had located the hunters and one of them attempted a charge, though the cubs did con- siderable milling about. Can I imagine, as my reader fol- lows these lines, a murmur of pity for the *“poor little cubs” It so cheer up gentle reader, the little things were nearly ten feet long and three years old, perfectly capable of killing a man and probably much Leavier than the ordinary cow. Kill- ing for the sake of killing is a coward's pastime. Killing one of these bears, though it only be a cub, is sport of the first water for only the hardiest of men armed with the best of rifles, 8o, in the west there are four Kodiak bear skins being tanned and mounted for members of our party. Some day they will be here and the probabilities are that an opportunity will be offered to all of you to judge just what the poor little cubs and a bear similar to their papa look like. PURCHASE CONFIRMED New York, Aug. 1 (UP)—It was confirméd today that Donald Wood- ward, wealthy Washington depart- ment store owner, has purchased the tri-mctored monoplane, Friendship, | in which Miss Amelia Earhart flew | across the Atlantic. ‘Woodward, an aviation enthusiast, | and Harry Rogers, -president of the Rogers Air Lines, Inc., plan to sail for Europe soon and will pick up the | Friendship in England and fly it to | the Fokker plant in Amsterdam | where it will be given a complete overhauling. ASSYRIAN CLUB ENTERED Sergeant P. J. O'Mara {s {pvesti- gating a report by Paul Joseph that | the Assyrian club over the Palace theater on Main street was entered {and two cartons of cigarettes and a |small amount of candy taken. TO RESIDE AT THE ny m WOME OF WIS FRIEND, 5 @ Boys' Pla League Smalley Park swamped the Bur- ritt team yesterday in the last game of the first round of the Playground league. The score: Smalley Park 710 153 13x—21 25 1 Burritt 010 000 100— 2 8 6 Batteries: Black and Nojack; Sar- tusky and Karpon. ., Honie runs, O'Brien, ‘Lippi; ¥ base hits, Malley, Vohnert. Smith won a slow game from Wil- low Brook. The score: Smith 205 001 01x—9 12 3 Willow Brook 210 016 100—5 6 3 Batteries: Meuck and Albanese; Golden and Humphrey. The Vance playground team show- ed their sportsmanship by recruiting a team around four regulars to play the Nathan Hale team which was late in arriving at the Vanca grounds. The game was a contest of two base hits. The score: Nathan Hale 423 410 300—17 22 1 Vance 000 400 201— 7 12 5 Batteries: Tutko and Maurcini; Shubert and H. Rhitter. 2 base hits, Rhitter Mancini 3, Tutke 2, Andirin. League Standing Jarvis, Washington ... Smalley Park. . Nathan Hale. .. Vance . Smith Burritt . 5 Willow Brook. . The Washington girls’ team de- feated the boys' team yesterday aft- ernoon by the score of 7-6. The boys were handicapped by batting left handed in the case of right hand batters, Girls ......., 010 203 001—7 12 1 Boys . 001 200 300—6 14 1 Batteries: Weimer and Kalinocki; Todzea and Mlynarski. Girls’ Playground League Nathan Hale moved into second place by running away with the Vance team yesterday. Nathan Hale 050 623 404—24 29 1 Vance 032 020 100— 8 11 7 The game was featured with few extra base hits. Emma Nojiol hit a home run but was called out for not touching third base, Smith defeated Willow a close contest yesterday, out in the last inning. Smith ..024 200 4—12 15 8 Willow Brook .004 050 1—10 15 ¢ Burritt-Smalley Park The Burritt girls' team pulled a surprise by defeating last year's champions. The losers could not overcome the early lead of their op- ponents. 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