The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 18, 1920, Page 7

if before he was killed. LOS ANGELES, Dec. Quished all claim to fame. Johnnie Bresnahan, and w 1920 cha! Wever ride in a race car again. em the Los Angeles speedway. of Benton -Iseaqaah Tawaqeah-| Eeumciaw-Vranklin—New concrete two Eoumelawy good gtavel from —Snow on mountain section. Snoqual- loned; road open six miles -—( nurmeiaw- nection roads le pass « above North fend. rue Green Water River)—Gravet beyond Enumclaw good. All around Enumelaw exc: Road from Vashon Heights south closed island, for paving. Other ood to fair. Renton-Kent — (Fast Side) erete pavement open for travel: erete road from Renton to Auburn. BRIDGES UNDER CONSTRUCTION Duvall bride will weeks, December 26. Novelty. eounty roads call Main 6909, local 39. Grove an eight-cylinder, miles. ly over 112 miles per hour. BATURDAT, DECEMBER ft, 1920. 17-—The heir apparent to the world’s speed crown has stepped down and relin- team mate udy to Gaston Chevrolet, pion auto racer killed in the Thanksgiving day classic, will ‘Today he is a nervous wreck-—um- strung by the ordeal he passed thru when fate snatched him from death Bresnahan was the only survivor the collision that killed Chevrolet, — New concrete pare ment, 6% miles from Resten, open; Rend Good. Redmond—Via Lake Sammam- be closed for two Use bridge at For further information regarding King A new world’s record was recently made by Tommy, Milton when he 306-inch racing car at Sheepshead Bay speed- way for one hour, traveling 113.5 The foreign record is slight Other Models at $7.75 and 5.25 Your Dealer or Stewart Products Service Station 910 E. Pike St. Phone East 629 (@ealers, Phone Us Your Orders) PU) vat Eddie O'Donnel! and Lyle Jolls, rid-| ing partner with O’Donnell. HEIR . TO CROWN Had Chevrolet and avoided the collision that cost them their lives, Bresnahan would proba- | bly have succeeded Chevrolet as a world race pilot. Gaston was trained by that vet eran of the mucer track, Louis Chev- rolet. When Gaston won the Indian apolig classic this year, Louis an, nounesd: | “I will never race again—I wit step aside for Gaston, my kid brother | who I believe is the greatest driver who ever won a race.” And Gaston was teaching Johnnie | Bresnahan what he bad learned from Louis. + O'Donnell | } ‘When the two death cara, taking | the curve at 100 miles an hour.) brushed babs and went carvening Pon JohrJ. Jy. = Bresnahar) —s —_—— Automobile News _ Pal’s Death Ends Career ‘for Heir to World’s Speed Crown ~e John Bresnahan, who was expected to be the future racing king of America, is here shown with Gaston Crevrolet, famous speedway ace, in the car in which Chevrolet was killed near Los Angeles on Thanksgiving Day and in which Bresnahan says he has taken his last racing ride. Chevrolet is shown signing release from death damages a few hours down the wooden incline, Bresnahan was hurled into the air. MOUKNS PAL “I felt myself sliding toward the bottom of the saucer,” he explained, “and I remember the thought fash ed thru my mind--"How would the grandstand people feel if one of the other cars should strike me’.” Bresnahan picked hime? up ncaled the track and picked up his partner. “He is dead—my pal is gone,” sob- bed the [little mechanician as the am- bulance orderlies arrtved. “I used to think I could never be Injured,” said Johnnie, “In fact that in the philosophy of most race men. We had so many narrow eacapes, and always went whisring away from death. Bat now I know—and I will never ride again. I would not sit in car on « single ride around a track T am done.” New York Motor enthusiasts will be delight ed with the two new Marmon cre ations shown by Frank Waterhouse company in one of the most beautl ful show windows in Seattle. These two new models were secured thru the efforts of F. E. Moskovics, vice president of Nordyke Marmon Com pany, who was recently in Seattle. He was describing to the sales force of Frank Waterhouse & Com- pany, local Marmon dealers, the ex traordinary beauty of these two carn which were being planned among others, for the coming winter auto mobile show m New York city. Autos Add >a gies Rail Incomes SaysR.R.Man WASHINGTON, D. C, Dec. 18.— Who said automobiles have taken bread from the railroads? Here are figures. given out by J. 8. Marvin, general traffic man- ager of the National Automobile Chamber af Commerce, which show that the railroads of this| country have increased their rev-| enues thru the automobile industry. | And they could have added thov-| sands more to their incomes had they had enough freight cars, Last year shipments of complete ly assembled automobiles brought a! total freight bill of $56,000,000, mys | Marvin. Add to this $10,000,000 freight charges for shipment of auto | | mobile parts and the total income) from the industry in 1919 is e timated at $66,000,000. Due to in| | creased freight rates, Marvin exti- | mates the same amount of material | would cost $88,000,000 to ship this year. | But 130,000 automobiles had to be delivered by their own power | last year, because there were no| freight cars to take them. And in | the first nine months of 1920 so | meverely did the car shortage strike the motor industry that 440,730 ma-| chines, equal to 120,000 carloads, were delivered to buyers over the! highways. “Allowing 10 per cent of thts quan- tity as nearby or local deliveries, and | $100 a carload as an average freight charge on the remainfng 117,000 car- Joads,” says Marvin, “the revenue lost to the carriers thru in-| nine months was nearly $12,000,-| 000.” | To the $100,000,000 calculated | earnings for the sailroads this yenr | from this industry alone, there should be added the revenue to be obtained from shipments in and out) of factories engaged in making! tires, engines, frames, bodies and| other automobile parts. Finally there is the transporta- tion required to supply gasoline and oll to the 8,000,000 automobile own-| ers in the United States. Farmers are considered the great est truck users in the United States and it is estimated that 78,000 trucks are now used in hauling fasm pro- ‘ae Marmon Dealers Secure Show Models “We must have duplicates,” war the request of Sales Manager Wil Mama. At first Moskevics demurred, bat finally was convipced that the sending of two «tmilarty finished, equipped and painted vehicles to such a far West point as Seattle would not detract from the big New York exhibit where everything must be different and unique. That is why a long wire went Hast in September to Nordyke & Marmon, and the result ls shown in the win- dow of Frank Waterhoure & Com- pany this week. Williams claims be has the most beautiful autome. bile show room in Seattle anyway, and that now these new cars are on the sales floor he is presenting Se- attle an exhibit in the way of unique settings and cars which is causing consternation among his conrpeti- tors in Automobile Row. "THE SEATTLE STAR ‘The Man Higher Up & Co, published by ap arrange- ment with the Wheeler Syndicate, Inc BY 0, HENRY, Acrom our two disnes of spaghett!, me the three kinds of graft. | clothing at one of the Fulton street | storen. sons he may be found further west his range is from Spokane to Tampa. In his profession he takes a pride which he «i with a serious and unique philos ophy of ethics, Iie profession is no new one, He i#an incorporated, wn pitalized, unlimited asylum for the reception of the restless and unwise dollars of his fetllowmen. In the wilderness of atone In whieh Jett seeks his annual lonely holiday he ix glad to palaver of bis many adventures, as a boy will whistle after sundown tn a wood, Where |fore, 1 mark on my calendar the time of his corning, and open a quer |tion of privilege at Provenzano's concerning the little winestained table in the corner between the rak }imh rubber plant and the framed | palazaio della something on the wall “There are sald Jeff, “that ought to be wiped out by law. I mean Wall street speculation and burglary.” Nearly everybody will agree with you an to one of them,” sald I, with & laugh “Well burgtery ought to be wiped out, too,” sald Jeff; and I won dered whether the laugh had been redundant “About three months ago,” mid Jott, “it was my privilege to become familiar with a mmple of each of the aforeanid branches of Mlegitimate art. I was sine qua grata with a member of the houssbreakers’ union and one of the John D, Napoleons of finance at the sme time.” “Interesting combination.” said I, wih a yawn, “Did I tel you I bagged a duck and a ground squir rel at one shot last week over in the Ramapos?” | knew well how to draw Jetta stories. “Let me tell you first about these barnaciea that clog the wheels of s0- ciety by poisoning the springs of rectitude with their upasilke eye,” said Jeff, with the pure gleam of the muckraker {a his own. “Aa I sald, three months ago I got into bad company. ‘There are two times in a man’s life when he dos this—when he's dead broke, and when he's rich. “Now and then the mont legitimate business runs out of luck. It was out in Arkansas I made the wrong turn at a crossroad, and drives into this town of Peavine by mistake. It seoms I had already asnautted and @infigured Peavine the spring af the lyear befora I had sold $600 worth of young fruit trees there—plums, cherries, peaches and peara The Peaviners were keeping an eye on the country road and hoping I might pass that way again, I drove down Main st as far as the Crystal Pal ace drug store before I realized I had committed ambush upon myself and my white borne Bil. “The Peaviners took me by sur. prise and Bill by the bridle and be- can a convermtion that wasen't en tirely dimocinted with the subject Jet fruit trees. A committees of ‘em |ran some trace-chains thru the arm [holes of my. vest, and encorted me |thru thelr gardens and orchards. | “Their fruit trees hadn't lived up |to their labela, Most of ‘em had |turned out to be persimmons and |dogwoods, with a grove or two of |blackjacks and poplars, The only lone that showed any signa of bear ing anything was a fine young cot- tonwood that had put forth a hor net's nest and half an old corwet- cover. “The ‘Peaviners protracted our fruitiens wtrotl to the edge of town ‘They took my watch and money en account; and they kept Bill and the wagon as hostages. ‘They maid the A. A. A. Offers Solution of Labor Difficulties WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec, 18.—~ ‘If unemployment assumes wide spread proportions, the most logical answer to the situation would be the prompt utilizing of thi excess labor in the building of highways possess. ing an interstate significance,” com ments David Jameson, president of Auto Interests Seek Federa Road Syste WASHINGTON, Dec. 17-—Auto concentrated on efforts here to bring about the passage by congress of the Townsend bill for a system of fed-| eral-built and federalmaintained highways thruout the country. The measure is expected to come up for consideration during the present Bes- sion of congress, which opened De cember 6. This bill, which is fathered by Sen- | ator Charles E. Townsend of Mich- igan, was drawn up during the war when the military importance of a federal highway system was recog- nized. With the termination of the war, the National Automobile Cham- ber of Commerce and other automo- bile organizations have continued freight| the attempt to obtain passnge of | this legistation, arguing that such ability to furnish cars during these | roads will be of great benefit to the | country from an economic stand- point, besides maintaining their mil+ tary valine. If the Townsend bill becomes law, every state will have two trunk line roads built and maintained by the state and connecting up with the highways of adjoining states to form a complete federal system. ‘The result would be a ®hecker- board system of highways over tho country, the economic importance of | which to farmers and industries is) obvious. With this as the main sys- tem, the states would build their trunk line roads to feed the national highways, the counties would con- nect their lines to the state high: ways and the whole highway sys-| tem would be complete even to the __ Pounty jthe American Automobile ansocia- tion, which organization has been prominently identified with roads betterment since its formation at Chicago In March, 1902, “It will be remembered that when congress was approached some two years ago for $200,000,000 additional | Under the provisions of the federal |aid road act,” continues Mr. Jame- son, “it was set forth that this Money, which called for an equal amount from the several states, | would serve to carry on roade batld- ing and abeorb the surplus labor | which it was artictpated would re- | sult from the abrupt conclusion of | the big struggle. Besides thin total | mobile interests of the country are) °f $40,000,000 from the national treasury and the several states, the sam of $9,000,000 was added to the $10,000,000 previously appropriated for the construction of roads in fed- eral forest reserves. “But the period of non-employment did not arrive, besides which there was difficulty in obtaining materials and their shipment and the abnormal prices cut down very substantially new road mileage. Present indica- tions, however, are that the supply of labor in the near future may con- siderably exceed the demand, and hence a recourse to important publte improvements would be a direct means of stabilizing labor conditions, Surely there can be no greater bene fit conferred upon the entire cour try than by the building of highways which will materially reduce the cost of transportation and facilitate the exchange of farm and manufactured products between the country dis- tricts and the centers of popula- tion. | “Congress could not act more wisely than to pass at this short session the Townsend bill calling for the creation of a federal commission state highways and arrange with the several states for the prosecution of this national undertaking at the very earliest moment. The butiding of roads is one thing which will unques- tionably improve conditions, and we |are all now well aware of the fact that public sentiment is overwhelm- ingly in favor of maximum activities in this regard, from nation, state and yports and defends | two kinds of grefte,”| to lay out @ great system of inter-| jin & corner of Provenzano’s restau: | raftroad. rant, Jeff Peters was explaining [© | anything ! | jit an old Indy's nephew teaches"a Bible | | five minutes befere you did. first time one of them dogwood trees put forth an Amaden’s June peach I might come back and get my things, Then they took off the trace-chaing and jerked their thumbs in the direction of the Rocky Moun: | Copyright, 1920, by Doubleday, Page | tains; and 1 struck a Lewis and Clark lope for the swollen rivers and © forents. mined tntelectuatnen yeolt walking into an up wnon the A, T, & 8. F. The Peaviners hadn't left in my pockets except a plug of chewing-—they wasn’t after tified ryery winter Jeff comes to New| my tife-—and that moved it. I bit York to eat apaghettl, to watch the | oft a chunk and sits down on a pile shipping in Bast river from the lof ties by the track to recogitate | depths of his chinchilla overcoat, and my senstatons of thought and perp! |to lay in a supply of Chicagomade | cacity “And then along comes a fast During the other three se |freight which slows up a little at the town; and off of it drops a black bundle that rofia for 20 yards In a cloud of dust and then gets up and bering to wpit soft coal and interjec ons, I wee it is a young man broad acroas the face, dressed more for Pullmans than freights, and with & cheerful kind of «mile in spite of it all that made Phoebe Snow's job jook Hike a chin ney eweep' 1 off? ways 1 / mayen be ‘Got off. Ar rived at my destination, What town ty thin? “‘Haver? looked t up on the map yet’ mys 1 ‘IT got in about iow does it strike you?’ “Hard! myn he, twisting one of his arms around. ‘I believe that ahoulder—no, it's all right.’ “He stoops over to brush the dust off hin clothes, when out of bis pocket drops a fine, nine-tnch burg lar's steel jimmy. He picks it up and looks at me sharp, and then grins and holds out his hand “Brother,” says he, ‘greetings. Didn't I see you in Southern Mis uri last summer selling colored sand at halfadollar a teaspoonful to put into lamps to keep the oil from exploding? “"O0,’ says I, “never explodes. It. the gas that forms that explodes, Hut I shakes hands with him, any way. “"My name's Bil Rasett* anys he to me, ‘and if you'll call it profes sional pride instead of conceit, I'l inform you that you have the pleas- ure of meeting the best burglar that ever set a gum shoe on ground drain ed by the Miseiantppi river.’ “Well, me and this Bill Bassett atts on the ties and exchanges brags a6 artivts In kindred lines will do. It seoma he didn't have a cent, either, and we went into close caucus, He explained why an able burgiar some- times had to travel on freights by telling me that a servant girl had played him false in Little Rock, and he was making a quick getaway. “It's part of my business,’ says Bill Bansett, ‘to play up to the ruffies when I want to make a riffic as Raffles. “Tis love that makes the bit go ‘round. Show me a house with the swag in it and a pretty parlor maid and you might as well call the silver melted down and sold. and me spilling truffies and that Chateau stuff on the napkin under my chin, while the police are calling inside job just because the clase, I first make an impression on the tri.’ enys Tull, ‘and when ahe lets me inside I make an impression on the locks, But this one in Little Rock done me,’ mys he. ‘She saw me taking a trolley ride with another girl, and when I came ‘round on the night she was to leave the door open for me it was fant. And I had keys made for the doors upstairs. But, no, «ir, She had sure cut off my jocks, She was a Delilah’ mys Bill Bannett. “It seems that Fill tried to break in anyhow with his jimmy, but the girl emitted a succession of bravura noises like the top-riders of a tally- ho, and Bill had to take al the hurdies between there and the depot. As he had no baggage they tried hard to check his departure, bat he made a train that was just pulling out. “Well, says Bill Bassett, when we had exchanged memoirs of our dead lives, ‘I couki eat. This town don't look like it was kept under a Yale lock. Suppose we commit some mild atrocity that will bring in tem- porary expense money. I don't sup- pose you've brought along any hair tonic or rolled gold watch chains, or similar awdefying swindles that you couk! sell on the plam to the pikers of the paretic populace, have youT ‘No, exys I, ‘I left an elegant line of Patagonian diamond earrings and rainyday sunbureta in my valise at Peavine. But they're to stay there ti some of them biack gum trees begin to glut the market with yellow clings and Japanese plums, I reckon we can't count on them unless we take Lather Burbank in for a partner’ “Very well? says Rassett, ‘we'll do the best we can. Maybe after dark I'll borrow a hairpin from some lady and open the Farmers and Drovers Marine bank with it” “While we were talking, up pulls @ passenger train to the depot near by. A person in a high hat gets off on the wrong side of the train and comes tripping down the track towards us. He was a little, fat man with a big nose and rat's eyes, but dressed expensive and carrying a hand satchel careful, as ff it had exes or railroad bonds in it. He passes by us and keeps on down the track, not appearing to notice the town. “‘Comdé on,’ sayn Bill me, starting after him. “Where? I asks ™Lordy? says Bill, ‘had you for- got you was in the desert? Didn't you see Colonel Manna drop down right before your eyes? Don't you hear the rustling of General Raven's wings? I'm surprised at you, Elijah! “We overtook the stranger in the edge of nome woods, and, as it was after sundown and in a quiet place, nobody saw us stop him. Bill takes the silk hat off the man's head and brushes it with his sleeve and puts it back. “What does this mean, str? sayh the man. ° “When T wore one of these,” sys Rill, ‘and felt embarrassed, I always done that. Not having one now I had to use yours. I hardly know how to begin, sir, in explaining our business with you, but I guess we'll try your pockets first.’ “Rill Baswett felt in all of them, and looked disgusted. “Not even a watch!’ he says. ‘Ain't you ashamed of yourself, you white sculpture? Going about dress: ed like a head-waiter, and financed ke a count! You haven't even got carfare. What did you do with your transfer? Bassett to} ‘AN O. HENRY STORY EVERY DAY—Humor, Pathos, Romance | hae no assets or valuables of any “I think I will endeavor to ne busing ‘round tn the locality, oe | Basett suid all towns looked allies ndrt. But Bassett tikes his hand-|cure a little lumber,’ he squeaks |matchel and opens it. Out comes|"The day has been fatiguing. Good | jsome collars and socks and a half a| night, my dear Mr. Peters,’ | |page of a newspaper clipped out “My regards to Morpheun,” says! Hill reads the clipping careful, and|I, ‘I think J’ll sit up a while,’ | holds out hia hand to the held up} “About 2 o'clock, as near as 1) party |could guess by my watch in Pea-| “ Brother,’ auyn be, ‘creetingt Ac-| vine, home comes our laboring man cept the apologies friends, [ am/and kicks up Ricks, and calle us |T2N1 Bassett, the burglar, Mr, Peters,|/to the streak of bright moontight | you must make the acquaintance of| shining in the cabin door, Then| |Mr. Alfred 1. Ticks. Shake bands.|he spreads out five packages of Mr. Peters,’ says Bill, ‘stands about|one thousand dollars each on the |halfway between me and you, Mr | floor, and begins to cackle over the Ricks, in the line of havoc and cor-| nest-org Hke a hen. ruption. He always gives something | +17] tell you a few things about for the money he gets. I'm glad tolthat town,’ anys he. ‘It's named| et you, Mr, Ricks—you and Mr.| Rocky Springs, and they're bulld-| This is the firwt time I jattonded a full gathering of the } tional Synod of Sharkse—housebreak ing, swindling, and finenclering all |represented. Please ex Mr | Bie k's credentials, Mr, Peters.’ “The piece of newspaper that Bill Bassett handed me had a good pic ture of this Ricks on it. It was er ne of Florida that lies under water into town lots and sold ‘em to alleged tn nocent investors from hin magnifi cently furnished offices in Chicago. After he had taken in a hundred | thousand or mo dollars one of these fusey purchasers that are always making trouble (I've had ‘em actually try gold Watches I've sold ‘em with acid) took a cheap excursion down to the land where it is always Just before supper to look at his lot and neo if it didn’t need a new paling or two on the fence, and market a few lemons in time for the Christmas present trade, Ho hires a surveyor to find his lot for him. They run the line out and find the flourishing town of Paradise Hollow, so adver tined, to be about 40 reds and 16 poles 8, 27 degrees E. of the middle ot Lake Okeechobee. This man's lot was under thirty-stx feet of water, land, besides, had been preempted so c by the alligators and gars that hia title looked fishy “Naturally, the man goes back to Chicago and makes it as hot for Al fred EB. Fucks as the morning after & prediction of snow by the weather bureau. Ricks defied the allegation, but he couldn’t deny the alligators. One morning the papers came out with a columm about it, and Ricks come out by the fire-escape. It seems the alleged authorities had beat him to the mafe-depoalt box where he kept his winnings, and Ricks has to west ward ho! with only feetwear and a dozen 15% English pokes in his shop- ping bag. He happened to have some mileage left in his book, and that took him as far as the town in the wilderness where he was spilled out on me and Bill Bassett as Elijah IIL with not a raven in sight for any of us. “Then this Alfred B. Ricks lets out a squeak that he is hungry, too, and denies the bypothesis that h@is good |for the value, let alone the price, of ja meal And #0, there was the three of un, representing, if we had a mind to draw syllogismns and paraboias, labor and trade and capital. Now, when trade has no capital there ian’t dicker to be made And when apital has no money there's a stag nation in steak and onions, That put ft up to the man with the jimmy. “Brother bushrangers,’ says Bill Bassett, ‘never yet, in trouble, did | desert a pal. Hard by, in yon wood, I seem to see unfurnished lodgings. Let us go there and wait till dark.’ “There was an old, deserted cabin in the grove, and we three took pos session of it After dark Bi Bas- sett tells us to wait, and goes out for half an hour. He comes back with @ armful of bread and spareribs jand ples. “*‘Panhandled ‘em at a farmhouse on Washita ave.’ says he. ‘Eat, drink and be leary.’ “The full moon was coming up bright, so we sat on the floor of the cabin and ate in the light of it And this Bill Bassett begins to brag. “‘Sometimes,’ says he, with his mouth full of country produce, ‘T lose all patience with you people that think you are higher up in the pro- |feasion than I am. Now, what could | cither of you have done in the pres lent emergency to set us on our feet again? Could you do it, Ricksy? “I must confess, Mr. Bassett,’ says Ricks, speaking nearly inaudible out of a slice of pie, ‘that at this immediate juncture I could not, per haps, promote an enterprise to re Neve the situation. Large opera tioms, such as I direct, naturally re | quire careful preparation in advance, I~ “I know, Ricksy,’ breaks in Bill | Bassett. ‘You needn't finish. You | need $500 to make the first payment |on a blond typewriter and four rooms- jful of quartered oak furniture. And you need $500 more for advertising jcontracta And you need’ two weeks’ |Ume for the fish to begin to bite. |Your line of relief would be about jas useful in an emergency as advo- |cating municipal ownership to cure la man suffocated by eighty-cent gas. And your graft ain't much swifter, Brother Peters,’ he winds up. “‘Oh,’ says I, ‘T haven't seen you turn anything into gold with your |wand yet, Mr. Good Fairy. ‘Most anybody could rub the magic ring for a little leftover victuals.’ “That was only getting the pump- kin ready,’ mys Bassett, bragcy and cheerful, “The coach and six’ll drive |up to the door before you know it, Miss Cinderella, Maybe you've got some scheme under your steeve-hold. hat will give us a start.’ ‘Son,’ says I, ‘I'm fifteen yearr older than you are, and young enough yet to take out an endow: |ment policy. I've been broke before, | We can see the lights of that town |not half a mile away. I learned under Montague Silver, the greatest street man that ever spoke from a |wagon. There are hundreds of men | walking those streets this moment |with grease spots on their clothes. | Give me a gasoline lamp, a dry-,oods |box, and a two-dollar bar of white castile soap, cut into Nttle— ‘Where's your two dollars? snick- ered Bill Basnett into my discourse. ‘There was no ase arguing with that burgla he goes on; ‘you're both | babes-in-the-wood. Finance — has | closed the mahogany desk, and trade hag put the shutters up. Both of you look to labor to start. the wheels. Tonight I'll show you what Bill Bassett can do.’ “Bassett tells me and Ricks not to leave the cabin till he comes back, even if it's daylight, and then he starts off toward town, whistling gay, "This Alfred 1B. Ricks pulls off his shoes and his coat, lays a silk hand kerchief over his hat and lays down wey “Whe man qpeaks up andsoye- on the fluor, Chicago paper, and it had obloquies | of Ricks in every paragraph. By rending it over I harvested the in telligence that said alleged Ricks had laid off all that portion of the state | | who in | |could get a siphon on the fountain | of knowledge that I was after. And |» |little sorry for him, now that looks | ing a Masonic temple, and it for} like the democratic candidate mayor is going to get soaked by a Pop, and Judge Tucker's wife, | has been down with pleurisy, nome better, I had a talk on these litputian therises before 1 the Plow bank there called Lumbermen's Fidelity and man's Savings Institution. cloned for business yesterday with | $22,000 cash on hand. It will open this morning with $18,000—all sil-| ver—that’s the reason I didn’t! bring more, There you are, trade| and capital, Now, will you there’s a be} | baa?” ‘My young friend,’ sxys Alfred | ¥. Ricks, holding up his hands ‘have you robbed this bank? Dear me, dear met “You couldn't call it that,” says Bassett. ‘“Robbing” sounds harsh. All I had 40 was to find out what street it was on. That town is so quiet that I could stand on the corner and hear the tumblers clicking in that safe lock—“right to 45; left to 80; right once to 60 left to 15"—as plain as the Yale captain giving orders in the foot ball dialect. Now, boys,’ mys Bas- nett, ‘this is an early rising town. ‘They tell me the citizens are ali ap and stirring before dayli¢ht 1 anked what for, and they said because breakfast was ready at that time. And what of merry Robin Hood? It must be Yoicks! to and away with the tinkers’ chorus. | stake you. How much do you Speak op. Capital.” “™My dear young friend,” suys this ground squirrel of a Ricks, standing on his bind legs and jug- cing nuts in his paws, ‘I have friends in Denver who would as- sist me If I had a hundred dol- lars , “Rasett unpins a package of the currency and throws five twenties to Ricks. “Trade, how much? he says to me. “Pat your money up, Labor,’ nays I. ‘I never yet drew upon honest toil for its hard-earned pit- tance. The dollars I get are sur plus ones that are burning the pockets of damfools and green- horns. When I stand on a street corner and eel a solid gold dia- mond ring to a yap for $3.00, I make just $2.60. And I know he's going to give it to a girl in returo for af the benefits accruing from a $125 ring. His profits are $122. Which of us, is the biggest fakir?’ “‘and when you sell a poor woman a pinch of sand for fifty cents to keep her lamp from ex- ploding,’ says Bassett, ‘what, do you figure her gross to be, with mand at 40 cents a Pr “Listen, says I. ‘I instruct her to keep her lamp clean and weil fed. If she does that it can't burst. And with the sand in it she knows it can’t, and she don't worry. It’s a kind of Industrial Christian Science. She pays 50 cents, and gets both Rockefeller and Mra. Eddy on the job. It ain't everybody that can let the gold: dust twins do thelr work.’ “Alfred FB. Ricks all but licks the dust off of Bill Bassett’s shoes. mn want? jin the w of a commercial shot that I intended to hit J behind the ear with. I waan’t going) to take his money while he waa asleep, but I was going to leave him | with a lottery ticket that would repr resent in experience to him $4,766— I think that was the amount he } when we got off the train, 4 the first time I hinted to him about ~ an investment, be turns of and dixencumbers himself of Gm following terms and expresdionm | such a cold proposition that nobody jt | pects. Bs — to him as he worked mainly in the dark, So we got off the train ti Lon Perron, 4 fine Uttle town im the silver region. ‘ “I had an elegant Tittle sure thing: ‘Brother Peters,’ says he, tt ain't a bad idea to go into an en kind, as you suggest. think I will, But if I do, it will Be but Robert EK. Peary and Charlie Fairbanks will be able to sit on the d of directors.’ 1 thought you might want t your money over,’ says L I do,’ says he, ‘frequently. can't sleep on one side all night. tell you, Brother Peters,’ sayy ‘I'm going to start a poker room, don’t seem to care for the hi in swindling, such as peddling beaters and working off food on Farnum & Bailey for saw turn dust to strew in their circus But the gambling business,’ says ‘from the profitable side of table, is a good compromise swiping silver spoons and penwipers at a Waldorf-Astoria cham ity bazaar. - ““Then,’ says J, ‘Mr. Bassett, Z don't care to talk over my little 4 8 proposition?” "Why,’ says he, ‘do you you can't get a Pasteur institute @ start up within 650 miles of where B- live, I bite #0 seldom." oa, “So, Bassett rents a room over saloon and looks around for furniture and chromos. The night I went to Monty Silver's and he let me have $200 on my Then I went to the only in Los Perros that sold playing ¢ and bought every deck in the The next morning, when the opened, I was there, bringing all cards back with me. I said partner. that was going to b in the game had changed his and I wanted to sell the cards Bi again, The store keeper took ‘e half price. “Yes, I was $75 loser up to time. But while I had the cards night I marked every one in deck. That was labor." And | trade and commerce had r nings, and the bread I had cast the waters began to come the form of cottage pudding wine sauce. : “Of course, I was among the | to buy chips at Bill Bassett's gam He had bought the only cards th was to be had in town; and I ken the back of every one of them be than I know the back of my i when the barber shows me my hha eut in the two mirrors. a “When the game closed I five thousand and a few odd dolla and all Bill Bassett had was the wi deriust and a black cat he bought for a mascot. Bill hands with me when I left, on “Brother Peters,” says he, po business being in busit was preordained to labor. No. 1 burgiar tries to makes a Jam out of his jimmy, he p : improfundity. You have a and efficacious system of cards,’ says he. ‘Peace go And I never afterward sees Bassett again. y ° . . ee “Well, Jeff" said I, when | Autolycan adventurer ‘ have divulged the gist of his hope you took eare of the That would be a resp c considerable working capital if should choose some day to “My dear young friend,’ says he, ‘T will never forget your generosity Heaven will reward you. But let me implore you to turn from your ways of violence and crime.’ “‘Mousie,’ says Bill, ‘the hole in the wainscoting for yours. Your dog- mas and inculeations sound to me ike the last words of a bicycle pump. What has your high moral, elevator. service system of pillage brought you to? Penuriousness and want. Even Brother Peters, who insists upon con- taminating the art of robbery with theories of commerce and trade, ad mitted he,was on the lift. Both of you live by the gilded rule, Brother Peters,’ sys BIN, ‘you'd better choose a slice of this embalmed currency. You're. welcome.’ “I told Bill Bassett once more to put his money in his pocket. I never had the respect for burglary that some people have. I always guve something for the money I took, even if It was only some little trifle for a souvenir to remind ‘em not to get caught again, “And then Alfred E. Ricks grovels at Bill's feet again, and bids us adieu. He says he will hire a team at & farmhouse, and drive to the station below, and take the train for Den ver, It salubrified the atmosphere when that lamentable boll-worm took his departure. He was a disgrace to every non4ndustrial profession in the country. With all his big schemes and fine offices he had wound up un- able even to get an honest meal ex cept by the kindness of a strange and maybe unscrupulous burglar. 1 was glad to see him go, tho I felt a he was ruined forever. What could such a man do without a big capital to work with? Why, Alfred E. Ricks, as we left him, was as helpless as a turtle on its back. He couldn't have worked a scheme to beat a lit- Ue girl, out of a slate-pencfl. “When me and Bill Bassett was left alone I did a little sleight-of- mind turn !n my head with a trade secret at the end of it. Thinks I, Ill show this Mr. Burglar Man the difference between business and labor, He had hurt some of my pro- fessional self-adulation by casting his Persians upon commerce and trade. “I won’t take amy of your money as a gift, Mr. Bassett,’ says I to him, ‘bat if you'll pay my expenses as a traveling companion until we get out of the danger zone of the immoral deficit you have caused in this town's finances tonight, I'll be obliged.” “Bill Bassett agreed to that, and we biked westward as soon as we could catch a safe train. “When we got to a town in Ari. zona called Los Perros I suggested down to some sort of regular & ness.” “Me?” said Jeff, virtuously. can bet I've taken care of that thousand.” He tapped his coat over the: on his chest exultantly, “Gold mining stock,” he “every cent of it. Shares par one dollar. Bound to go up cent within a year. o The Blue Gopher mine. Just ered a month ago. Better get yourself if you've amy spare on hand.” 4 “Oh, this one’s solid as an goose,” said Jeff. “Fifty dollars’ worth of ore in sight, 10 per cent monthly earnings anteed.” He drew a long envelope from Bi pocket and cast it on the table, | “Always carry it with me,” he. “So the burglar can’t corrupt oF the capitalist break in and water it ‘I looked at the beautifully em graved certificate of stock. 4 “In Colorado, I see,” said. by the way, Jeff, what was the of the little man who went to ver—the one you and Bill met the station?” “Alfred E. Ricks,” said Jeff, the toad's designation.” : “I see,” said I, “the president ¢ this mining company signs A. L. Fredericks, I was ing—" “Let me see that stock,” Jeff, quickly, almost snatching from me. To mitigate, even tho slightly, embarrassment, I summoned waiter and ordered another bottle the Barbera, I thought it was least I could do. 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