Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 24, 1916, Page 8

THIRTEENTH INSTALLMENT. "To be miles from home without street car fare is a luxury for the daughters of millionaires. Gloria Stafford would have taken her first experience as a great joke if she had not been devoted to so important an errand. The footpad who stole her handbag also stole her transportation. She felt that she might as well have been lost in the Florida everglades again. | “Of course, she could have had pro- tection by appealing to almost any of the wayfarers. But, after her encoun- ter with the pickpurse, she looked on sverybody wtih suspicion. She slipped through the crowded streets and flit- ted along the deserted byways on the aunt for the murderer of her lover, She was afraid of everybody and| sverything, but most afraid of losing that man. At last she saw him again ahead of her. He was wandering rather aim- lessly. He had apparently dropped in at one or more of the little swinging doors that flapped on cvery corner. Gloria hastened after him, but before she could quite catch up he clambered on a surface car. The conductor had| help him aboard. He was so busy &t that task that he did not see Glor- ia’s wildly waved hands or hear her command, “Stop that car!” 1f Gloria had caught the car she could not have paid the fare, though she might have given the conductor a nickel’s worth of flirtation. At any rate, she missed the car. Several other cars came near not missing her as she stood irresolute in the middle of the street. : Then a taxicab bustled along. Gloria felt more at home. She did not have | to pay the taxicab till the end of the | yoyage. She could probably have the | fare charged. From the look of the | ramshackle thing she could buf' the cab for next to nothing. She told the taxicab to follow the street car ahead _and keep near it, without passing The taxi driver was greatly impressed. . “What's the fn?rr‘le miss, Are you a | lady detackatuff?’ A ] l‘({lorin looked wise and said nothing. | As she hopped in Dr. Royce | caught sight of her from a distance. A taxicab was rather ~conspicuous down there. He wished for another, | er a pair of wings. Then a motor ambulance came along, banging its bell. Dr. Boyce | had a wide acquaintance in am- | bulances. He dared to stop this one and ask the interne for a ride. | And so they went—the taxicab | pursuing the street car; the am- -ug:hnce pursuing the taxicab, It | was an appropriate place for an am- bulance. It was quite likely to be needed. But the ambulance had to | turn into a side street before it over- | took Gloria, and Royce was com- | pelled to drop off and pursue afoot, the street car that carried i en i ecae | haracteristic clinches or Trask stopped so abruptly that|dancing in ¢ eat Gloria's taxrub shot on past it, al-|sprawling about thcmttalswl)crst- flmoh" ~ most. annihilating Trask as it whizzed Gloria caught a glimpse of Trask leaving the car, grazing the taxicab and reeling down a dark street. She unded on the glass and put her g:ld out to check her driver. She & ered him to back up. He backed flo the very street car that Trask d l‘l“t left. There was a crash, tinkle of broken guass and Gloria evicted through the broken door. The chauffeur got down and began the usual wrangle with the motorman | and the conductor of the street car; N pauen{_eu piled out; a crowd | gathered. Two policemen ran up and gan to make notes, Gloria tugged “at the coat of the chauffeur, but he | was too busy to pay any attention | and she had no money to pay him. So she left him and ran for Trask, "not entirely sorry that she had saved | her fare. " The delay had enabled Dr. gain some ground, but he ‘Royce to it it again trying to ask the ex- citéd chauffeur where his passenger was. ‘ Gloria could see Trask's tall, griz- Q‘M head over the heads of the crowd d she was nearly at his heel when a bélated truck, bearing a long steel girder, drove across her path. It | wmed to take forever to move by. L When at last it cleared the way Trask was almost out of sight. e hesi- d before two or three saloon doors d Gloria had retrieved most of her K008 CIT IN ON RBAL ESTATE MEN “Many Families Who Oan Only Afford One Buy Motor Oar Instead of a Home. . BUSINESS GOOD, THOUGH 8 by ———— i “If it were not for the automobiles 1 could do twice as much real estate " business,” said an Omaha real estate man a few days ago. “It is remark- ‘able how the automobile business has \cut in on this real estate business. It nds to reason that when a man ds his only $1,000 for an automo- he does not spend it for a home or a lot. And anyone knows that there are thousands of families who _cannot afford both a car and a The same real estate man gave a ing example of the point he was aking. He took atpmlpeclive buyer see a number of modest homes. inally the prosglgct found one that 5t suited him, The price was rifin. and the prospect remarked that had at last found just what he nted. He brought his wife out and d out the fine points of the and its di lity as a modest home. I know John,” she said. “But P10} Mo Jaquiamal nok udyy ave either & home or a car, and e car. mtledit. The real estate crest fell, and he lost tdhe ul:i prospective roppe rs and hom car. man tfoel not is getting all the best of le ones who popularity lost distance. turned and dashed into a barroom. startled herself with her own behav- ior, but instinct drew the line at en- tering such a es attracted by the sign, “Ladies’ en- trance,” over a side door. She did not know that it led to a large dance hall at the rear of the barroom. 1 tared along the grimy corridor until she heard the music and the shuffling of feet. have retreated if a brace of typsy gun- i the street and cut off her escape. She back into the dance hall—a large, THE ZEST OF BATTLE FILLED THE AIR. THE_BEE G K. Then, suddenly, he Gloria was headstrong and’ she lace, Her eyes were She ven- Then she understood and would men had not come lurching in from backed away from them in terror and noisy, dirty room, filled with vicious or shabby characters. Couples were was of such a differ a sudden appearance caused a silence. She turned and stared. A burly ruffian, called Choey, a wa- terfront beau, smoking a cigarette nub, saw her and, leavin his com- panion, went to Gloria wit admiring enthusiasm, and roared: “Cheese, kid, but you're chust style, an’ chust in time for a toin.” Gloria declined his invitation with my " terrified thanks and started for the|F but Choey seized her by the waist, whipped her into his arms and fox trotted away with her, She was more disgusted than nfr;ud. She re- sisted vainly, pushing against him and truggling. }Ye laughed; the .crqw_d ll\lg?led. he struck up at the villain's face, but he held his head too high for her to reach, and, laughing, whirled her round and round through the crowd. { About this time Dr. Royce was in hot pursit of Gloria, He had caught a glimpse of her hat, and he thought he saw it turn in at a door. He was almost more angry than anxious. He tried all' the doors. At length he reached the dance hall. He glanced at the crowd and felt sure that Gloria could not be there. He was about to retreat when Choey’s late companion, Moll admired him and danced up to him, inviting him to_invite her to a . Royce shook his head with po- most astonishing Gloria. ~She had lite regrets. And the he saw Gloria—a door, obautdmobiles. The jewelry men are complaining the same way. Both the jewelry wholesalers and the retailers are noticing this, and it is being felt out in the state, as well as'in Omaha and the larger cities. 'Jewelerg point out that both automobiles and jewelry are luxuries and that many women are sacrificing diamonds for the sake of autos. Nevertheless, the times are so good in Nebraska that there is business enough for the auto man, the jeweler and the real estate man. This is evident from the fact that in spite of the hot summer weather, which brings the summer lull in the real estate business, some good resi- dence property is: being sold, some good sized business blocks are still changing hands, and newly platted tracts of city lots are going passably well, considering the time of year. Nathan Horn Purchases Five Houses From Tukey & Son Nathan Horn has just purchased five houses for aj proxmnt:%s\Z.OOO. The houses are located at 2021 Burt been so enraged by her captor's n- | sistence that she seized him by the neckscarf ,and leaping up, caught him by the hair and dragging his head down, slapped his face. Choey was a believer in the equal- ity of women, and he made ready to return blow for blow. Royce made a| wild rush and blocked the attack. He drew Gloria’s arm through his and started out. | The crowd stopped dancing and watefied. Choey was not in the habit of surrendering. He let out a yell and seized Gloria's other arm. Royce broke his grir by jiu jitsu and flung him off. He fell against a table, up- setting the occupants, who rose and struck at him, then at one another. Choey leaped at Royce. The zest of battle filled the air. Royce put Gloria back of him and met Choey half way. Royce was a college boxer and Choey had a schooling in the East Side rings. It was a pretty exhibition of two schools of science. The spec- tators were of divided opinions and began to'take sides. Men and women quarreled and smote. The whole place fell into up- roar. Royce was attacked on.all sides. He scized a chair and cleared a space for Gloria. It was wrenched from him. Bottles were thrown. Royce went to his knces and rose with a gash on his head. Gloria did her best to protect him till he got up, but she was a novice in such scenes. Through a terrific melee Royce slowly fought back- ward to the door. Even the musi- cians entered the fight. Gideon Trask, never dreaming that he was the cause of it all, watched the bat- tle from the barroom door, through which the aproned barkeepers en- tered the fray. Choey's neglected lady friend be- gan to fear for him. She forgave him the slight he had put on her, and when she saw him slip on the wet floor and go sliddering under the feet of the trampling herd she was alarmed for his manly beauty. She dashed from the woman's en- trance and down the street to where two policemen stood. She ran up to them, yelling: “Say, dere's a swell guy in dere, moiderin’ de whole buncK." The policemen ran with her, rap- ping the pavement. One of them stopped to telephone \thc station for " BRIEF CITY NEWS “Townsend’s for Sporting Goods." Electric Fans, $7.50—Burgess-Granden Co. Have Root Print It—Now Beacon Press. Half-karat White Diamonds, $75. Edholm. Money Avallable for Loans, day of In- spection, by F. D. Wead, Wead Bldg. Movie Program,” classified sec- . It appears in The B sively. Find out what the various ploture theaters offer. Divorce Decree Granted—Ada Anderson has been granted a divorce from Arvid An- derson. Elsasser on Loulsiana—A postal card from Albert Elsasser states he Is now on the United States battieship Loulsiana, on the east coast. Major Barker Sprailns Hip—Major John Barker, veteran employe of the' health oftice, 1s confined to his mome with a sprained hip. Socialists to Banquets-The sool will hold Its fifth annual banquet hall in the Lyrlc bullding next We evening at § o'clock. Motorists Fined—Eight violators of traffic regulations were arraigned before Judge Charles Kubat in police court and fined from $2.60 to $6 each. Flles Bankruptoy Petitlon—Jullus Zelig- son, dolng business as the American Bot~ tling company, flled a petition In bank- ruptey. Liabilities, $10,366; assets, $1,880. Youth Breaks His Arm—Eddie Baysi, 3- street, 1559-63 North Seventeenth street, 1558 North Sixteenth street and 4219 North thn:ly-fourlh street, J. B. Robinson acted as agent for Mr, Horn, and the property was purchased of A, P. Tukey & Son, is is the third group of houses Mr. Horn has urchased through A. P. Tukey & on in the six months, Officer Slashed With Knife While Making Arrest of Negro While trying to arrest Leroy Bush, negro, who had been raising a dis- turbance at the Underworld cafe, at Ninth and Davenport streets, Police- man M. P. Ryan was severely cut about the face by a knife wielded by the negro. Ryan emptied his pistol at the prisoner and finally stopped h‘i;n.:lwugh none of the bullets took effec year-old South Side boy, suffered a broken arm yesterday afternoon when he fell from a fence near his home. He Is at Clarkson hospltul. Larmon Starts Floral Si Les Larmon, the | :_OMAHA, the patrol wagon. Two other po- licemen galloped in from side streets. Royce and Gloria had struggled through to the door just as the pe- MONDAY, JULY 24, 1916. By Mr. and Mrs. Rupert Hughes | she went out very haughtily. Lbe glad or sad now that she was com- PEATURING TRE 'o'u"; was threatened with a back-handed blow. Policemen had to act quickl and vigorously in riots, and these of- ficers were not accustomed to find- ing well-bred young women from good homes in that quarter. All the gang, men and women, in- cluding Moll, pointed to Royce and | to Gloria as the disturbers of a peace- ful gathering. While they yelled and wrangled a patrol wagon rolled into the street and backed up to the curb,; The reserves tumbled out. A second wagon was on the way up. he police began to hustle every- body toward the wagons. Gloria was willing enough to leave the place, but the thought of taking a ride in| the pati.l wagon was absolutely in- | tolerable. When an officer tried to| shove her along she brushed his| hand from her arm and snatched off | his hat, crying: “Take off your hat| when you speak to me.” The officer was énraged, then amazed. He picked up his hat, put it on took it off, and, then bowed to her in mock politeness. Then The whole crowd was rushed into the two patrol wagous, except Trask, | who had hidden back of the bar | when the officers descended. . As Gloria sat in the wagon cling-| ing ‘to Royce's arm and shivering with shame, a blowzy female with a long feather in her hat leaned over and plucked her by the sleeve. Gloria | winced. The crone laughed andj| said: “Don’t give your really truly name, dearie.” Gloria blushed a little deeper, but she was thankful for the hint, and said so. She advised Rovce to do the same, and she set about trying to imagine a good nom de patrol wagon. It was wasted energy for, though she didn't know it, she was going right back to the night court she | came from—going as a guest and not | as a spectator. At that very moment the police wires were notifying Judge Freeman that a raid had been made and a load of prisoners was coming. The courtroom was empty. The at- tendants were yawning. The judge was sentencing a young pickpocket. He dismissed court, rose and went to his retiring room. Gloria's father was there, impatiently looking at his watch and wondering where on earth his daughter was. He had searched for her in vain and returned to the | place of her disappearance. The judge was taking off his robe | when the attendant called him to the | telephone. He listened, nodded his head, put up the telephone and turned to Pierpont: “We have to wait a little while. They have just raided an East side dance hall.” ! Pierpont looked at his watch for! the unnumbered time and paced the floor, humming, “O, Where Is My Wandering Girl Tonight?” The old crone had fallen asleep on Gloria’s shoulder, her hat feather was tickling Gloria’s nose. Gloria and Royce looked at each other. She snuggled close to him for shelter. He ! was very tender with her. She re- coiled, remembering, and said: “0, I forgot I'm not speaking to you any more.” Royce tried to appease her. She turned her back on him. She hated him immensely, considering how much she liked him. Then the wagon backed up. out!” Gfi)ria recognized where she was. She did not know whether to ing into Judge Freeman’s power. | The prisoners were hustled down an | alleyway and through an iron door and upstairs like frightened sheep. Then they were herded into a big room of evil odor and appearance. Gloria cowered before the disgrace of being one of the common yictims of the law. The law looked differ- ent to her from here, and she felt; almost a sympathy for the disrepu- table crowd that had been gathéred in_with her. Then she saw Frank Mulry. She had forgotten his existence, to say nothing of the fact that she had SHE SEIZED MUTRY’'S HAND A ND WRUNG IT. licemen poured in, at their backs. Royce being the first man they found, they seized him roughly. Gloria interecded with anger and abused justice and asked the judge to detain him. Mulry had not seen her when she whispered to the judge. | The sight of her now as one of a huddle of such wretches made him question his eyes. He had fled from the snows of Westchester to the palms.of Florida to escape her, and back again, only to be caught in a cefl as a fellow prisoner. But Gloria forgot her own dubious position in her triumph. She | flll the position of assistant custodian and head janitor, a position left vacant by the death of Boone Kelly a few weeks ago. Speaks at Lefler Methodist Church—I. J Copenharve, president of the Trades Unlonist Antl-Booze League of Nebraska, will occupy the pulpit at Lefler Methodist church at Allbrllhl Sunday to speak on the liquor ques- tlon, Workingman Injured by Fall—James | Dickerson, a carpenter, fell from a second | story window at one of the lower Douglas street lodging houses and fractured his col- larbone. He was taken to the St. Joseph's hospital, | Easterners to Stop Here—A party of 100 eastern tourlsts, traveling on a special traln, | will_pass through Omaha Sunday enroute | to Yellowstone National parq. They will| be here thirty winutes during the after- noon, Goes to Estes Park—I. R. Lines, assistant | secretary of the Young ) soclation, has gone to E where he will spend his va physical culture class in U summer schgol there Colo., | tion with u assoclation Swipe Watermelons—Levi Goodshaw and B. Batey evidently belleve In paying good prices for their refreshments, as each was taxed $6 and costs In pollce court for taking two watermelons from a rallroad car at Ninth and Jackson streets. concerta will be given Sunday afternoon at Hanscom and Elmwood parks. It will be the first concert to be held in Elmwood. The music will start at 2:30 p. m. Iater- esting programs have been arranged for both concerts, for years employed at the Henderson floral shop, resigned Saturday night. He will re- open the shop next to the Fontenelle hotel next month. Miss Powers Entertains—Miss Ethel Pow- ers, 3823 Burt street, entertained yesterday afternoon in hopor of Miss 8 Bdgar, Neb, who s visiting at the R. L. Tinkham home, Fingers Are Smashed—Byron MeDermott of Bellovue, working at the Beacon Press, and Howal fingers when his hand the machinery. v Brings Prisoner fo Omsha—Buck Mus- grove has been brovght to Omaha from Macey, Neb,, by Deputy Marshal Morgan on a charge of introducing liquor on the Omaha Indian reservation. Soclalists Gather Here—The Stato Soclal- Ints' assoclation will hold its annual conven- Monday. . Two Bream Head Janiter—An exam- Ination was Ireld In the federal bullding to Hastings & Heyden Report Sales in Benson Gardens Hastings & Heyden report the sale of the following® tracts in Benson Gardens: Archie L. Ralley purchased tract No. b4, c:n.l'l:llnx of one mcre and a bungalow, for - | Cross organization collect and receive Munleipal Band Concerts—Municipal band | = American Express .@iding Red Cross Special instructions received from the executive offices at New York by local agent, W. S. Warnér, indi- cate that the American Express com- pany, together with connecting ex- press companies, has thrown open its entire organization to the aid of the American Red Cross in getting mili- tary relief supplies to the Mexican border. As the various chapters of the Red supplies, they will forward them to their concentrating depots, which have been established at the railroad centers: New York City: Cincinnati, Chicago, Kansas City, Denver and San Francisco. There the supplies will be assorted. There the supplies packed, if necessary, for further ship- e ment to the distributing depots in Douglas, Ariz.; El Paso and San An- | tonio, Tex. From these distributing | depots final distribution will be made to the troops at the front. The American Express company is rendering further assistance by hav- ing its 10,000 employes all over the country give prominent display to the | Red Cross placard soliciting contri- butions of supplies, and designating | just what character of matter can be | used to advantage. Train Kills Three. | Fairment, Minn,, July 23.—Martin Smith, | a farmer near here, and two harvest hands, | whom he had employed late today, were in- stantly killed tonight when a Milwaukee passenger train struck the farmer's auto- mobile at a grade crossing a few miles !rom’ Falrmont. British Win in Africa. London, July 23.—British troops operat- ing in the eastern section of German Kast Africa have occupled Muheza and Aminl and have captured the whole of the Usanbara rallway, according to an of- ficlal announcement made here today. The Midnight Riot Novelized ‘rom the Motiom Picture Drama of the Same Name by George Klein STAR, MISS Copyright, 1916, by Adelaide M. Hughes, The police yelled, “All{off i1y got him, and I'll get him yet. BILLIE BURKE. advanced on him and murmured: “And now, Mr. Mulry, I have got you at last. I want to have a few words with you.” “Sit down,” he said, offering her a place on a bench. “No, thanks,” she answered. He rose, and she demanded: “What do you know about poor Mr. Frenau's death that you are afraid to tell me?” Mulry could not escape. She would not relent. “Why did he write me those letters before he went away? Why did he deceive me as to where he was going? Where was he actually going?” Then, in that strange place, inspi- ration came to Mulry, and he spoke the beautiful fie he had not been able to think of before. He said: . “Miss Stafford, poor Dick had noth- ing dishonorable to conceal from you. He was ill. His doctor told him he |must have an operation for appendi- citis. He would have to be in a hos- pital. He was afraid that if he told you that it would endanger yout health. You were so ill then, and so frail. So he concocted that imaginary business trip, and wrote the letters, and as T was going on a journey to our branch offices, he had me mail them. I only learned of his death when I returned.” Gloria almost swooned, with joy. The explanation.was so like what the Dick she loved would have done that she could not doubt it. It was too beautiful not to be believed. It lighted the whole dingy cell with its radiance. Her Jove for Freneau came back in a blaze of splendor. She seized Mul- ry's hand and wrung it. She had much more to say to him, but the po- lice began to yell to the prisoners to come alofig. It was a cruel return to hdrsh fact, but she had once more her ideals and her mission, and she marched into the court room with the pride of a lithe empress going to her execution. She was lost in the crowd, and the judge did not see her at first. Nor did her father, who sat at his side. The 1golice told their story and thrust Doctor Royce forward as the chief offender. When the judgesaw him he was astounded; and then Gloria emerged and the judge sprang from his desk. Pierpont leaped from his chair. Of all tfie places in the world to find his exquisite child! The judge asked Gloria to explain. She moved around behind the bench. The officer whose hat she had taken off tried to stop her and force her into the witness chair. She slapped at him. He backed away. The judge, smiling, permitted her to march through the clerk’s gate and back to his own desk. Pierpont confronted her, and she g_aused to straighten her hat and kiss im. Then she shook hands with the gasping judge, drew up a chair, and sat down to explain while the police- man and the prisoners gaped at her. Gloria told her story, rising now and then to point to Choey and the other thugs. The judge tried to keep his face straight as she denounced Choey and described his treatment of her and Doctor Royce. Judge Freeman calmed Gloria and spoke: “Miss Gloria, what does your honor wish to have done to this man?” “I think Doctor Royce has done eno_ggll to him, Better let them all This was an unexpectedly popular suggestion. The judge pondered. The prisoners pushed forward appeal- ingly. The judge smiled and ordered everybody discharged. They broke into loud cheers. The judge banged his desk with the gavel. The officers cleared the-court, pushing the whole icrowd out by the spectators’ gate. Doctor Royce was called up to the bench. Pierpont shook his head over Gloria and was cold to Royce. Gloria spoke: “Don’t blame Doctor Royce. If it hadn’t been for him heaven knows what would have be- come of me. It's all your fault, judge, for letting that murderer off. I nigr- ve got new reasons to go after him.” I’icrgont was too tired to way any- thing but “Let’s go home,” or to do anything else. (TO BE CONTINUED) T=62l residents of Nebraska registered at Hotel Astor during the past year. Singla Room, without bath, 200 to §3.00 Double $3.00 to $400 Single Rooms, with bath, #3.00 to $6.00 Double #4.00 to §7.00 Parlor, Bedroom and bathy $10.00 o $14.00 TIMES SQUARE s 2 th Streets==" et &‘.‘.‘.{'fiofl ocil, s0d ol iy et v ‘Nlnl M. Hartell purchased lot 16, block for 1 Strimple purchased tract No. 108 for §1,135, o % h:‘rl‘logll W, Hislop purchased tract No, 69 Tidwad P. Hislop purchased tract No, 8§ o idorgs Donah haned r nahue purchaned lots 2 1, blotk & for 48,373, " e e 'An;o'% Kubtlius purchased tract No. 198 or. 3 llard_ W, Chase purchased tracts Nos. 174 and 176 for $900. Dora E. 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