The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 21, 1920, Page 5

The Call of the Offshore (Copyright (Continued From Our Last Issue) | Fenwick was startled out of his in difference Do I go asx me L have said p master, have I « hundred and fifty a month wages 4 of primage? It an that pat salvage pr Fenwick? but the employer defensive. » or master ng about another > proposition ts ot position the was alertly Tan’t it | wes cared reward enough abeth sea? unless T own in her and re ceive my 5 per cent of freight like every other akipper of the fle Unem, yu'd be mighty thanktu for the berth if Joe Dabney hadn't Med you up with fool notions,” said Runlett. “You say you want to own in the vessel. All right. Now, listen. There is nothing doing on a cash basis, understand, Fenwick, I admit no legal claim against the schooner But I am willing to let you own tn her, $20,000 worth, a fifth of her, eerding to your own valuation. This Vessel happens to belong to me and the Wetherell estate, all but a weattered Bixty-fourths, Call it a compromise, or whatever you please it's my last word. “You wouldn't submit such an offer if you honestly believed I had ‘not earned salvage,” slowly answered | Penwick, who was greatly surprised. *¥es, we can get together on that Td much rather have the money, but it makes me sick to think of begin Ring a squabble for it which may @rag along in the courts for years. What about the men who helped me BAVe the schooner? Where do they | come in? “That is your lookout to pension ‘em for Ii You $20,000 for the job? “Probably not. It is up to me to @ the square thing somehow. One more argument, Mr. Runlett. This fifth interest is to be clear of all @asensments, sir, including the recent | repair bills for the Elizabeth?” | “Yes. you young Shylock. If I don't look sharp, you will snatch the whole fleet away from me.” “Then it is clear sailing between Us, Mr. Runlett, and here's hoping for better than 70 cents a ton next| trip. Owner's profits sound good to me.” Expect me after paying CHAPTER VI / ‘The Giri in the Crimson Sweater ‘| Dy Spring Haven iay deep in snow. | the intervening roofs Fen saw the topmasts of one smail oner which he hoped might ha: | peared to be laid up for the wi | ley. By Ralph D. Paine 1918, by Ralph D. Paine) wick. The venerable coaster ap | ter wnt was men The shipyard itself was no more The marine railway the shops closed, the mated mpty Dudley but Aunt from a flutter After maid What © s schooner anybody left in the John Moon, of you step into the what he has to say John Moon had plenty to say The sume nor’easter that you offshore caught some of th Ue fellown, Four of ‘em limped in and kept us busy. [couldn't ask ‘om to settle their bills tn advance here was canvas and other material to buy, and I had to put on several more men. You left me enough in the bank to pull thru by stretehin every dollar, advancin’ some of my own, and usin’ the Fenwick credit as far as it would go hut you made owt a check for $800, unbeknownst to me, and it made things awkward. Several checks I made out were no good, went to protest right here in Spring Haven, stamped across ‘em No funds’ in red ink.” The foreman paused and wiped his face with a sleeve of his coat. There was anguish in his soul. Dudley Fen wick under and compassionate ly exclaimed My ‘There hous did no! inside into Penw t paw his ck re she hovered tr father's had went Mary « window ot he seen him he with Cap'n Aunt Mary? yard?" Why don't and course office hear owed tit stood John way to for $800 count the absolutely was no notify you that the check had been drawn against the Those bad checks of yours gave yard a black eye, of course.” Hit us between wind and water. Dudley. And there's a different spirit tn the bank now. They talked ugly All | asked was to wait ull you got home The mortgage on the yard was referred to and the new cashier 8 for foreciosin’ at once, He's a) new hand. Some kin to Amos Run lett.” “And they refused to wait for me,| John?" | “Precisely Elmer Gallant brought) the Mary Fenwick in for some ew sails before he loaded plaster at the best freight he had picked up in a} year. I couldn't fit him out, Dud: | The blocks were knocked out | from under me as far as raisin’! money went or gettin’ trusted for a | penny’s worth of anything. “What about those achooners th att fault th own was better wa What have y T am promised Elizabeth Wetherell ‘ou got, Dudle $20,000 tt nt of asa in the pron ett sinst Amos Runt os managing HT pple may as we friends, Dude We tweer ha turn “Twenty Voune! in a Wetherell Amon Runlett made you take of mo resumed the mident, 1 plump finger as a secrecy, he ang the ship-broke ably disposed as for Wetherell fleet. It is not ral public ish will soon building stee! thousand you say, and it inste ng a warning The banks not ag favor toward the knowr to continued mer} en as yet. Th r ask for bid m collier a dozen that between mand days have been all the capital required “Then Amos Runlett when {fered me $26,000 shares?” angrily demanded Dudley ‘That nut for you to crack You mentioned selling. I doubt if you can find a market, and the price would probably lom to you. Rorrow on th to Too bad nite Fast two make the Norfolk in able to ships Ro ney can secure knew this he in mean a stuff i¢ u find ponamary a question of honor affirmed Dudley 1 share of th men who helped me save the er, Until I find out where I 1 it have to and them. ey Mr prom the oon stand Titus, sed a salvage to the ale reward “That is praiseworthy of you,” banker maid the And the shipyard? Another thousand square John Moon's a the bank fore there, to wu lose on the mortgage? Not unless you default. Two thousand, then, is what you wish to| borrow from the bank? “Not a cent more, sir (Continued in Our Next Issue.) |\Geddes May Come unta divide $1,000 among the five of| : THEATERS 1—Florence Rockwell, at the Met. 2—Emma Moore. 8—Jane Morgan, with the Wilkes Players. Orpheum, wo of the Four Salores, Palace Hip. METROPOLITAN * The weird strumming of sista | guitars, the plaintive notes of Bsome Oe,” and the glitter of moonlight on |southern will carry to acrons the mas Sun when Oliver Me “The Bird of P It premiere at Carus, The Hird of Purndise.” MOOKE—Orpheum — vauder Emma Carus, WILKES—Wilkes Players | Woman in Koom 15. | LEVIS ORPHEUM-—Levy's Mustonl The New Mayor featuring beaches: ern | in “The of romance far day evening Kreatest success r w Metropol There 4 in PANTAGES — have th an wT eaderitle, featur. Hrowne's Neleolrenmn 3 * something essentially = |human in Riehard Walton Tully”s tragic story of the Haiwatian intands. The playwright has captured the at mosphere of that Jangur-loving spot in the Pacific, and has written about jit a drama, whose poignant, » ro mantic atmosphere has appealed to English speaking audiences all over jthe world. ” son, whom he is keeping dark, The ponsibilities for fast strained comedy limiters Able does nothing to limit them Oncar Gerard and Floy Ward those two sterling funmakers kept bury tickling the risthilities of |the audience in the roles of a cook and a butler, auline Arthur will lead the large beauty chorus in the featured mu jen! attraction, called “Up in the Air.” It is a pretty and surprising specialty, in which mezzanine tail-| unre are And are The play concerns Luana, a beau jtiful native princess, who marries {Paul Wilson, a young American doc | tor. After marriage Wilson becomes [a beach comber, a pariah among his jown people and rapidly sinks down jthe ladder of social recognition, In|*pinners and lobby loopers will be act on 4—Oscar Gerard, comedian at Levy's } White JRPHEUM THIRD ~ AND.~ MADISON HERE NOW—CONTINUOUS SHOW SUNDAY WITH PAULINE AND THE LARGE CHORUS IN UP IN THE AIR That Elaborate and Surprising Aviation Novelty ARTHUR BEAUTY Orpheum Vaudeville bill, bunko man buys the country opera house and the two rubes and the actress go to work for him An athletic purprine, with dare-devil stunts in midair presen by Vera and Tom Patts. The Pantagescope will show Pearl in The Gas Chamber,” the third episode of the great new serial The Bi ret.” Si HIP edy and pretty girls the Ww program of which starts Bunday ted Schoolroom” fea ywne and his | schoolroom —IN— “TheNe Mayor” A FAST, FLASHY FUN AND FROLIC OFFER- ING WITH THE WEST'S FUNNIEST COMEDIANS many be . PALACE Act loom lar the Pala The tures on Hip, nex Harr brownies in « sparkling re, to which the clever antics of four boys anda threesome of peppy pretty girls give a kick like a cock tall on an empty stomach The Four Salores present thet Dare-Devil Whirl” for the first time in Seattle are artists of the Roman rings Cortelli and Rogers present a fast of Italian comedy chatter, and ne MATINEE MONDAY WASHINGTON'S BIRTHDAY NO MATINEE TUESDAY | came in for repairs, John? Were you to U. in for repairs. |able to finish work on them? | S. as Envoy Turning into the lane that led! “Not entirely. What I earned on} LONDON. Feb. 21.~The ees the street, he halted and feared/two of ‘om I lost on the others Ireewrs Newspapers said today that Sir |, ‘on Diana Larned |but | #pecial matinee will be given! that bad news awaited him. Fhe | After workin’ up what stuff there| Auckland Geddes, president of the ‘ Monday Washington's birthday. done three master was recognized as|was in the yard I run short of ma-| beard of trade, has been offered the} Florence sharp contrast to the degeneration |° by feminine sky pilots of unusual North. |0t, Wilson, in the reclamation of a| Pulchritude, ipi@turenque beach-comber and out There will be no matinee Tuesday, the Gartelle Brothers hit the audi-/ jence in the laughter solar plexts with | thelr“ sue Comiquer falto and La Mont billed as a] udevill being known But if they don’t do jug m the Breton hav atew song And there's a hi the love 40c MAT. TODAY, 27e. FE FOR ie Musterole Loosens Uj | Stiff Joints—Drives You'll know y why @ u it given Get a ¥; at once from the drug store. It is a clean, meni, made with the oll of nove as one of the actresses on the native stage, plays Luana, a role created by our| Twenty own Laurette Taylor, and the ve-| pleasur hicle of her first success. Robert | when Mins Brister takes the part of Wilson,/ singing and Drandon Evans the beach: | stage of comber who quotes Khayyam. There | Emma ¢ are a number of native Hawaila he cant MOORE they a quaint conceit, “On and Corinn: ful Irish comtumen act, The Open Door,” with Anna Lehr and Walter Miller in the principal roles, is a feature photoplay that is mystery plus minutes of unalloyed sure await vaudeville fans. mma Carus, the famous medienne. the Moore Sunday afternoon rus bas etarred in so many and light opera succ [that it would require more than a union day to enumerate them. With | WILKES |J. Walter Leopold at the piano, Mins The management of the Wilkes | Carus will ning a number of her own | FREE TO talking Ted jelight jokes and rp in the mene By ng Tuesday his March previous productions, | Aladdin,” “Robinson Crusoe and last year’s “ nderelia,”” Mr. Whyte has established a reputation among theatre-goers that has placed his of ferings in a niche of their own. ‘Thid year’s pantomime wit! include | among the mimes a number ofamen? who fought in Flanders, and who are desirous to see the land of the Yank,” who helped to put the kaiser in Holland | too in| big come cance | or Lose of Time, We have a New Method that con- troln asthma, and we want you to Anything more to Hold Two Youths for Theft of Tire! Masterele is Secommended Alleged to have stolen an auto.| Sectors and nurses. Millions of mobile tire, Melvin Olson, 20, and perk, thm mearegi, ee neck, asthma, Walter C. Lyts, 21, are being in-| Jumbago vestigated Saturday the police. | fam we back or ee eicaion, se OLDS bruises, chilblains, frosted feet,: the chest (it often prevents p 90c and 60c jars; hospital Head or chest— best treated xternally” with VICKS” * YOUR BODYGUARD” = 30F. 008. of story, 2 r Fead this is well; Belt is better. Get Hood's Sarsapariiia today. and ; cathartic nothing better than jood’s Pills. in small dowes a gentic tive: larger, an active cath by those terrible o- the story me the no FREE TRIAL COUPON FRONTIER ASTHMA CO., Room years saxophone and mystery, staged on an elaborate scale, will be} 4 by the Great Leon com an the headline feature of th week's bil at the Panta ginning Monday matinee. The Great Leon regarded as of the! world's greatest exponents of Hindu | | magic The nuttiest Nell McKinley traction on the r 2 raving nd says, a surdit remony A male ing itwolf | vide | somehow, so I paid towage to Rath Jon both schooners and they were Fevers and Other Prostrating Dls- | mission—laid aff all hamdia?” peed Theat MxBauct the Biced I let all the men go,” said the| Wa, Berve exhaustion, inactive|Of them had been given those wutt | constipation and great dan-|less checks of mine. I made seat ‘8 Sarsaparilia Spon the bicod. It is remarkable | Say to me, Dudle promptly its puritying, vital-| happened to draw ¢ ing of recent development. whether |Jane Morgan to the caat next ween (company, in “A Golf Propomal,” al After many years, Keattle will ya : : y it Ie present as occasional or chronic jin “The Woman in Room 12> «| *mashing comedy of the links. Mile.| once more hear the great light opera ‘Io in, John 7 Hation 50 t aRY explain, «yer sed, ie [thrilling dramatic offerin; ntioteticn Merve scremath and A T could. I shall have to #0 tol Tha Cuimate you live, noe matter |acte and & prologue, by Samuel Ship, /i8 & sketch with Joseph March, jr,| young. The Gallo English (Comic) ¢ ion. Nerve strength and _ — day clay pare What your age or occupation. if you| man and Max Marcin and Jack Cook, in an original produc: |Opera company, fresh from its tri or is avoided, and the glad yudley was glad to end the inter. |*! with asthma, our me ve feeling again prevails view. He went at once to the Spring | 4, 3 eS eee an aan cinch ot" hamiad: weerts | muse York, will appear at the Metropoli boyhood as Dud} , | thone ntly hopeless cases| Will be disappointed in this thrilling |, "lorense Ames and Adelaide Win | tan for one week, in a splendid list lin boy as Dudley could remem. | whe ma of inhalers, douches. i be for the first time to a Seattle ay. (travesty In @ production entitled | Mikado,” ‘The Gondoliers,” “H. M. 8 prestdent ae ay aaa | aience ught in a Jam.” Marino and| Pinafore,” “The Pirates of Pen He was neatly peeling an apple| that this new meth in his | O84 dittieuls |tempted by the Wilkes Players this a, et eee ee name. Dudley lost no time in men:| paroxyamsa at once. season, and requires the extra serv. | “TAPPY offering tioning the matter of the protested! ‘This free offer is too important to graph for ‘4 t He & weil as a number of extra people in| ®T8Ph for an advance agen e *| “Little Red Riding Hood,” the | begin the me Unc wd at once. Send no imost as well known In the phono - I was sure there must be a mis:|money. simply mail coupon below. |*¢ © fourth of a series of English panto: variety stages : the president. ‘The incident was a certain rich president of a corpora. | “Tt ® ge Duo are in per.| Stuart: Whyte 4 British au not referred to me. Personally 1 tion, who becomes infatuated with . ’ thor-manager, will be the offering at they are brother and sister, Pe could be notified. Your father was || ../RONTIER ASTHMA CO. Room happens that the wife's cman her and sist Per' i b: some 7 7 ° husha nd owed vengeance a director of this bank som: suffalo, N. ¥ husband vowed ‘veag hee ” the | Play. their violin, plano an stolen the | ; and trumpet on the stage ‘This trouble of mine was a t affections of hia wife, The general mp n ag’ understanding, Mr. Titus, It tw ws actions of his employer and hires a| PANTAGES vs the Peawick eccount. I am anx detective to protect his wife from the| Magi A LACE HIP °=" I some securities or borrow DIRECTION OF Captain Elmer Gallant's Ma ary Fen-|terial. The owners claimed damages | Post of ambasaador to the United | tinest hauled out in another yard.” There is often that extreme tired | foreman, after a long silence. “Some of still further prostration afd} good with money of my own. The . eunenes + or | theatre hy chor ath: inimitable songs about how you| ‘fy ‘t at xpense. No matter| theatre bh hosen an enthralling to « actions the president. The detec: | unus whtehover think AFTER “FLU, rT) 6 p |for delay. I had to get rid of,'om | States, and probably will accept it. q And then you went out of com lose of appetite. tendency to ye first works | talked, of course | - c | co ING TO few. Promptly its purifying. at $800 without} hether your case is of long stand-| Production for the return of Miss| Comes then Jack Kennedy and| COMING THE MET makes | tellin’ me? help secur I wish tojasthma, you should send for @ free in four | Hhea. a dainty danseuse, will appear| classics which remain eternally hat your age of occupation, if you evitably follow, f )- ete aeocaed: & 7° gia Tab pbnaeonae- tithe. dase bikidins ai. 1 dances, songs and/umphs at the Shubert theatre, New to realize it your-| Haven National Bank. As tar back| «noes “apparently hopeless” chats offering. Ita presentation here will|t®Tp cleverly combine farce and|of light operas, selected from “The ber, Ellery H. Titus had been the soplum tons, fumes, “patent J is designed to| The production i# the largest at-| Miley are character actors, singers | zance,” “The Chimes of Normandy | -, b when Dudley Fenwick sent Wheels, and al? joes of additional stage hands, as| © Morton, singer, has the phono-| COMING TO THE MET checks. neglect a single day. Write now and ‘inks umabeiesk” ‘wildly resertnd \De tF today Birt has to deal with |*T8Ph shops as is on high-class) vies brought to this country by F might have delayed action, until you | |the general manager's wife. Now, it){ct harmony, which is strange, a8) 11. sretropolitan for five days, com: ween oe they are in harmony only when they! 2 = as ago.” Send free trial of your method || ™&n who, he believes, LOEW’S |manager becomes suspicious of the * first time you hi had to que ACKERMAN & HARRIS. them, y is the] | tive turns out to be the wife's former | presen - \h usband. From then strong dramatic | situations lead up surring and a surprising ending. METROPOLITAN J 322. loacaa by the various members of the Wilkes Players in their respec Commencing Sunday Night—All Next Week roles, The management an Matinees Monday, Wednesday and Saturday pany to a elt | new be Tonight, Last Times, Lutes Brothers SMASHING DRAMATIC | big a FOR NEXT WEEK, JANE MORGAN D THE WILKES PLAYERS MONDA WASHIN SSuscees> WILKES THEATRE “POLLYANNA” WITH ARY THORNE AS THE CHARMING GLAD GIRL tive comedians will be the added at w bill. McKinley verything he climax of bis ab in a marriage he performs on the sta quartet of distinction, call The Four of Us," will pro- and harmony in gener The act is Tegarded of nut nounets that there will be an extra matinee given on Monday (Washing birthday), the regular Sunde Wednesday and Tomorrow, Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday A Lively New 8 il PDROM VAUDEVILLE ton's siden nut f does at rea 276 to She Ble to TS 220 to Ble SPECIAL MATINEE THE MOST WELCOMED PLAY IN AMERICA matinees Saturds w of Y's ORPHEUM “Th Mayor” will fering Levy Musical Comedy |company Levy's Orpheum, for! the week, with a continuous perform ah Musical treat. ance today Two beautiful Lew White, as Able, will be cast in| pianist will ap the principal fun role. He wil! act|and new dances, The young women | ag the new mayor who just been |are the Lorner Girls, with Clift Ad-! elected, Into Able's life ent ams 2 piano Wizard. at wife, who is concealing a child A story of two rubes, a a former marriage from Abte.|«teerer and an actress is told by On the other hand, Abie has a grown!ien, Lindsay and company METROPOLITAN Five Days, Commencing Tuesday, March 2 Popular Matinees Wednesday and Saturday F. Stuart-Whyte’s Imported English Bret Spectacular Musical Extravaganza pes Papa ute | ANNA LEHR A Wonderful Story Beautifully Told in Two Acts and Seven Superb Scenes A Gay, Glittering Galaxy of Girls Giggles, Gowns and Gorgeousness OLIVER MOROSCO Presents Richard Walton Tully's Pulsating Romance ow f th the of comedy The Seven Brownies —In— “The Syncopated Schoolroom” " girls and a man LAST ar inageries of songs . TIME TONIGHT Four Salores “The Dare-Devil Act of Vaudeville his | bunko A The | Rialto and La Mont “The Talkiess Boys” Gartelle Brothers Nights, 7 and 9 Grotesque Comedians Aneto 25e and 35e; Boxes and Loges, 5c BEGINNING MONDAY MATINEE THE GREAT LEON & CO. World's Greatest Wonder-Workers In Hindu Mysteries, Startling Tlusions and Magic The Four of Us ; Lorner Girls : “Quartet. of Distinction” Melody and Motion Vera & Tom Patts | “Triumph of Acrial Artistry” Allen, Lindsay & Co. ALL IN FUN. NEIL McKINLEY The King of Nut Comedians PANTAGESCOPE, Presenting “THE GAS CHAMBER" Pearl White in Third Episode of “The Black Secret” Based on Robert W. Chambers’ Story, “In Secret” Cortelli and Rogers h, My Gowsh’* Ted and Corinne AND ‘A BR LIANT CAST —Reasons Why “The Bird of Paradise” Has Lived for E THE THEME (reaknesses of mankin wrt THE PRODUCTION THE MUSIC ght Years— —In— “THE OPEN DOOR” _. Who Killed Horton? ‘The door was opened and no glue could be found the sterling virtues and pitiful the enchanting atmosphere of leces of nce the Hawaiian artintry. the plaintive songs and Keveal ane Heightens the illusion by strummed by « band of Hawalians. THE VOLCANO SCENE WILL AMAZE YOU NIGHTS—500 to $2.00 7 iAP, MAT.—50e to $1.50 Mon. and Wed. Mat., weird melodies ICES WEDNESDAY Orchestra Raleony Gallery Matinees Daily Children 10¢ Sundays, Evenings and 130 EVENINGS SATURDAY MAT. entra . 92.00 Balcony . 8150-8100 Oe Gallery Best Seats, $1.00