New Britain Herald Newspaper, October 31, 1928, Page 19

" - The Phentom Beauts$50000 Dethons-Resurecion | A "Phone Call. A Ferry Disaster and' the . Disc dD S Strange Disappearance and Damage Suit y ‘¥ That Caused .= B ¥} That Cause ST _ \ . 3 : ’ All Q) All Pretty i [} . Isabelle’s ! Trouble AKLAND, California, faces » O San Francisce acrom the bay. Esch day near nine and five o’slock ferries plying be- ween the twe cities are loaded ' with offios workers, professional men, shoppers and executives— and at those hours are aslways [ crowded. Out of this throng, stormi foot of Market (4 noon last weited guel booth i=‘ , and called . ‘ happened teo the ¥ crowded boat. Sweeping up from some remote and mysterious shift- ing of the ocean ] floor- somewhere : in the Pacific, a tidal wave rose to the gun- THE QUICK wales of the “Peralta”— » AND THE and crawled relentlessly ; “DEAD.” aboard. It was & com- lsabelle Rebert. paratively mild tower of son, Whese (water, as tidal waves go $80,000 Damage ut it was enough to ¢ Suit Vanished in cause bavoe on the ferry- gqfety. Her Alive and did not ki xacH; i 5 tors S Kul:: . hlt::dhnp'::'ncd.. 1'.herz :‘,",;:“‘-5‘5:',3::-"” ”".ml was no shock of & col- ¢hg list of the drowned and mise- i lision—and there was no g [t stood at twenty, dropped to fif- the disaster for the bodies of the missing. 5 [storm brewing. But the (een, to ten—at last to five. per It was not until months later that de- dead"—if the charge against her D i |forward deck of the gong'were known dead. Two others were tectives working on the case were able to prove true. ! “Peralta” was suddenly peported missing—and one ef these was advance their theory of the way Issbelle's ~ The company which opersted the l:z awash with three—four— [qsbelle Robertson, the girl who had tele- mind worked from that moment. They was not much concerned over the six_feet of water. honed from the pier just befere the believe that her first impulse, of courss, They felt, in the first &‘h«. that me ene The vessel dipped for r.,.., left. was to telephone her mother and ease coul them truthfully with negli- ward. plowing her nose When the girl, s beauty u"m operater the tormenting fear for Isabelle’s life gence. And in addition, even if the suit into the bay Women ; 4 San Franciseo shop, did not come that must already bave been approaching were successful, they would ot be eut s [screamed. Exclamations pome that night, her mother, who had re- bleak certainty. Ecualhbc heavily insured with the fflof dismay and fear mgyrried after father's desth, was Then—eay the men who carefully ng LI;] Co-pcn‘:M ¢ yblended into « panicky powed with grief. She notified the su- pieced out the mystery—the girl from f the Key .Iim- Company INVOLVED WITH DAUGHTER. [ turmoll thorities that her daughter had been on the beauty parlor hit upon another, an was unconcerned over the damage swit, Mre. Bornies Hulfman, Mothor of = 3 i i | From the bridge were the ill-fated bost Evening re ear almost fantastic idea. The reports of pos- Lloyds was not. b7 o Former “:fl"lfl- Whe Foll |"“"‘ ¢ L i {|snapped tense commands. ried her name among the m sible damage suits in the papers, coupled were some things about lsabelle’s "' of Lioyd's lnvesti “'.‘”" ; lito reverse the ship's en- next morning the press implied thet she with the lure of all the frills and fur “death” which didn't satisty their ta, lh.:n Horg With w"""‘wh gines. To man the life was -Inulry certain to have been belows of luxury that s young irl's heart Deciding to make sure they sent & el boats. To calm the r» drowned. . il g:n::'d:d':"nn too much for Isabelle. tivlnll to the Huffman h‘z‘. d dis if C terested ives eharged. @ appesred, gave his nam Flem- AS the other end of the wire her ;er:::.:: gl:e"t::.m: n:":‘h.- IOh'.l n::u‘ lnbcl‘ i hbm.m n At .n; rate, she was dead in the eves ing and asked u.t:nn room, .'l'h.:fl hap- mother, Mrs. Bernice Huffman, re- sponded. Mrs. Huffman hesrd: ) “Hello, mother. This is Isabelle. It's almost §:16—I'm taking that bost and I'll see you about six. YVes, I'm calling from th“ltm hgfldiu. Bye-bye. then, n'."lh:u ferry fllled rapidly with ta uman it e the ~Hesaita” puttered net toward Oakland over a gently white- ox| of water. Ilm. its shoulders out of the “Peralts” were herself. of her family for three long weeks. And pened to be one vacant, and the mew temporariiy helpless in For she had met taken the 5:18 ferry, during those weeks, at the suggestion of zondcr quickly ingratisted himself with the face of the sudden (nstead, on the very point of -uhrkhf, a lawyer in San Franciseo, Mrs. Huffman the family. By shrewd inquiries the true catastrophe, she had heard her name shouted cherrily filed suit to recever $50,000 damages state of affairs came wut. In addition Now wild confusion in the crowd and had arn-:uu find & from the Key S8ystem Transit Company. Mrs. Huffman gave him to understand reigned. Men and women sallor “hoy friend” whem had net [sabelle was then living quietly in the that Isabelle had gone recentlv te umped overbosrd. The seen in some time, little town of Vallejo, two hours up the Dlfio. water near the boat be- “Let's go te & movie® he sted, bay from San Francisco. Reports that 9 new boarder them -w came dotted with bohbing And they did. As they left the thestre her mother was suing for & huge sum disappeared, and a few days heads. Hats, coats, papers, newsboys had eried the ferry disaster in may have strengthened her determination Huffman received a cryptie uhr floated near them. their ears They bought a paper, and to remain “dead.” “'l‘ho{ have found me. Isabell Meanwhile s govern- [sabelle was rat frightened to see ber But she overlooked ene thing—home- And it was not leng before the gir! was ment tug sped to the ress name among the missi sickness, and the fear that grief might cffiels_ll{ “resurrected.” cus. Twe other ferry. She nervously Mn&v rast of the 80 wreck her mother’s hesith. This, de- niaterialization from s reared o ' e e o o toad lative of one of the clared investigato hat led her to Wil cort har and bor e ot L 0 over : ts o by and low- count. How a relative of one e ¢ investigators, was what led her will eos er mother erh"::l bracing. The passengers o: i :::d llhbo.t{ Slowly victims had Indicated thst he would sue telephone Mra Huffman one night over their chance at thousand ‘-.l'b:‘ the ta” alughted, talked or fidgeted ISABELLE. arder came out of the the Key shaum Transit Compsny for long-distance. Mother and daughter both y for bome landing. An Uncenventional Camers Portrait of the Girl ‘haos and one by one the damages How s thorough sesrch was The mother was overjoyed. But she tained their innocence, thus abruptly, an appalling thing Whem Detectives “Brought Back te Life.” floundering omes in the being made, even then. at-the scene of was also filled with fear. What would difficult problem fer the courts te selve. in the Heart of Ancient' Rome RN Found! The Tiny IIAGM stumbling on s little “lost™ ity which for ages has been buried beneath your fest! That is what hap- pened in Rome recently when archeel ogists st last uncovered & large building which was once & busy center of life, where people lived and loved, quarrelied and bergained. Some hints bad beer found as to the former existence of the city, but it had been taken for granted that it, along with many other parts of Rome, had ceased to exist. Present day Romans are used to living in the midst of the ruins left by their fa mous predecessors. But those ruins are : a source of never-failing interest to the ercheologists, who find them s fertile source of information as to the lives of the ancients. One of the best known of the remain monuments of old Rome is the Pilla: of Trajan. Most of the inscriptions on the llar were easily enough understood. | ut one, which stated “the hill had been dug off this far” defied explanation. For 4 2 eonturies ecientists have theorized, but . - flly mhm.‘ mdou of tb'h last l{n n;n Covered that tae Bmror Teajen bad ol An Actual Photograph of the “Lost™ City as It Appoared Aftor It Was Escavated. summits of the hills, et that time connect- Considering the Lapse of Time Since It Was Built, It is in & Remarkably Good State ing the Capitol the Quirinal, carted Presorvation, . = ] ‘,"Jnum o obigin 8 e saomsiion G, - > IN OLDEN DAYS. % of Mars. pl n the first of its five stories were the entire bullding, there was the office Aukfid'l&m-d&fltynllummum The newly guined platesu was then rows of shops. On the second story were for the market ) in the -rned into & city in miniature, through homes and more shops. The stores of Eu:ufinn h‘a"v‘o" disclosed the ruins Davs lM‘ '-l'l;fl il e Lite A Weonderful Head of the God #hich & connecting street wound its way. the wine merchants can still be recos of many staircases which lead up and PH' ¥ '._"""‘I' by Alcsmonse :h hu‘go 'n.:d—'glrgl: Il’t:ulldlng d'll erected nized, with outlets in the floors for spilled down. Now the long corridors lfl: stairs the noise and bustie ef a busy eity mar of ages slowly covered the little city ¥ Noar the Ruine "‘ Ik, (Al o, 8, modern apart liquid, which then ran into brook. In are slent nd empty. "But i the duys of ket. Time put an ead ta thaty s 1 did f0 within'a chty, and proserved i for our ' glt iyComidored One of e ment house ia combination with a market the middle of the top floor, looking over Emperor Trajan the place swarmed with the mighty Roman “woire the dust -~urious eyes. e oI, 3900, Iutervactenel TUON® Barvics *-- Fernt Buiect g Presmnd