The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 27, 1920, Page 13

. MONDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1999. ar Goattle * & —_—_——— Page 244 DAVID AND PEGGY TAKE A MOTOR TRIP Tr" WAS PRETTY COLD, but, whole families struggted Motherdear decided to let them | after selling farms and houses: fo, ft seemed such a wonderful | ¢verybody was after gold—dold. trip to mim, all the way to Ta-| “That was tn 1849, and most of coma, out across the beautiful | the people who came had to live prairie, thru the great tall tim, | in tents because nobety would ber and on to Yetm. take time to build houses. Daddy pooh.poced the idea of| “Grandmother lived in one of thetr’ catching cold, and Grand. | hese tents and helped with the mother thought they might be all | “imple housework. One day right if they were bundied up| “*PPed to the door to empty her warm and snug, #0 that's how | *ishwater, carefully wiped out her and | ning tin pan, and started into the tent, when she heard a borse galloping down the road. “To her horror she saw that it was a runaway, with a saddie on | ita back, and a man who had been was a Uttle girl? she answered their questions as fast as she! rider was dragging by his foot j whieh was caught in the stirrup. could (you know David can ask) «Phe horse waa coming at a ter about 40 questions to the minute. | rifle pace and ahe was only a lit Weat ashe they came to be in Yelm that’s how they met Mra. R.. who told them some brand new Indian stories, “Did I live right here when I Bo, I lived in Olympia, and most! tle girl, with no strength to bold of my Uttlegtr! memories are|* FUNAWaY, even if she could reac! ing brik about that part of the country bytes dere 4 “ baits “No strength had she. and my Grandmother has Califor-| quick mind, and she realized in pia memories, because that was | stantly what she could do. | “Catehing up the gleaming pan her home. | sg Ontehing wy “ pan. od she turned it in such a way ths ‘She told me about one time! i, inrew the glare of the sun when she was only 13 years-old, straight into the eyes of the when she was quite a heroine. | frightened horse, Surprised and | shocked and blinded, he stopped “Tt was the year when people | cock till, and the loosened stir from all over the country were) rup gtipped from the foot of the crowding into California, because | ma: news had gone North and East! “ . noes - oes ae paete ore the only one smart enough to stop “Men left their homes and fam-| that horse!” Then he called her ities and rushed after the gold: ! pis tittle heroine. Rakeke O][ ADVENTURES - OF One Bnet: Bet you men? be fou're a great lot A little fat roly-poly figure came into view and made a gerky little bow to the newcomers. “Now what?” asked Nancy as the;ha Oh hum! That was funny! Not Green Shoes set them down on the burt are you, kiddies? You really a San him. | Must excuse me for laughing, but ed ae Char ie |you look so f(-funny.” And who ney 9 ever it was, started to laugh all over “Wish ourselves down inside San-| again. ta's house,” nodded Nick | ‘Then a little fat roly-poly figure “Please Gr—," began Nancy, but) came into view out of a shadowy the Shoes didn’t wait for her to fin-| corner, and made a jerky little bow feh. Down dropped the twins.ito the newcomers. “Santa Claus!” bumpity, bang, crash, bump right | cried the twins together. “Is it real- into a big fireplace, bringing down |i, your They could say no more, car loads of soot and stones and bits |/for jt suddenly dawned upon them of brick along with them. ‘There | that thie was the wonderful person was a roaring fire on the hearth.!o¢ all their dreama—the fairy who but altho they landed in such 4&/ einded the gaze of earth children @angerous place, they were not hurt/ang who visited only those who had a bit more than if they had fallen been very. very good during the Into Goosey Gander’s bed. The lit-| year. te Shoes saw to that. “Yes,” nodded the fat little man Up they jumped and began to| with a twinkle in his blue eyes. “I brush the grime off their clothes, for | helleve I'm really I. And who, pray altho they were not hurt in the ieaat jare you?" they were very dirty indeed [we're your helpers." answered Suddenty they heard someone! Nick quickly. “The Fairy Queen r “Ha, ba, ha, haf went sent us.” Bn one. “ho, ho, ho, ho, ha, ha, ha, ! (Copyright, 1920, N. FE. A) THE WRECKERS By FRANCIS LYNDE (Copyright, 190, by Charles Scribner's Sons) — START HERE TODAY |ters with a wire saying that the “Jimmy” Dodds, secretary private car could go east as a ape} the story), and hie bows Gre cial at 2230, if Mr. Chadwick were) cross, having compieted ready; and he put his O. K message and sent it back ‘Now for a few unofficial things, Graham, and we'll call it a go,” he said, after the boy had gone. Midland cago via the desert water work on the Oregon route trom Portland to Chi: Pioneer Short Line At tank the train slows do and a youn girl, Maisie Ann, loses her muff trom the back platform, and jumps off to grt It. followed by the cor with whom she ts traveling, Mra, Sheila Macrae. Noreross mie jamp off to help them get the train, and that instant off it the four behind. They inder the water tank and dup of a special train of Ten, who approach in ear and engine are run aA \eading up into the car Is recom! owned by John not only in the management and the operating, but also in dictating the policy of the company. What you jSay goes as it lies, and Dunton has promised me that there shall be no appeal, not even to him. ‘I imagine he didn't say that will start ised a6 the icone wheat king. The ingly,” the bows put in, which was audits drive away, and the watchers by the first intimation I had had that the tank walk up the mine road, coming tw the locomotive, which bas been dis- abled. he wasn't present at the directors’ meeting in the Bullard. The locomotive is soon repaired. and) wx indeed; nothing was done ware © . th Chadwick . the privere cer ic eee SS for| willingly. I bad to «wing the in it, uninjured, unable to aecount nia kidnaping. Chadwick greets Mrs rae as an old friend. ROW GO ON WITH THE STORY |wtick and swing it bard. jthem where they couldn't | They had to swallow were eating, the hurry being that/|lot of dummies and placehunters| Burgh Mr. Chadwick wanted to start back|and relatives. I'll have to clean for Chicago the minute he could | house.” find out if our connecting line east! “Go to it; that is a part of your on the| You! are to have an absolutely free hand,| big | the b But 1 had| the printing of his appointment cir wiggle. | cular, oy whole orlin the ry the con-| vacated by Mr jtake him on my aay #0; ® young fel CARQE TG V4 WANNA SEE Soave? Look! WEY! - WROA “THERE YOUNG FELLER! DE SEE Ts SIGNAL UU try it, Then there, order, and both is Charlie Hornack, who is the best New ‘ork for m time after I left siharound traffic man this of Harvard. he drawled, a goad deal the Mimourl-only his present em-|as if the question bored him. ployers don't seem to have discor And how’ long have you ered it. Tocan get Hornack. The | pero > one man I can't place at sight is a good corporation counsel I'm! obliged to have a good lawyer, Uncie| Hm; only ax months’ actual ex John.” perience, eh? I'm sorry, but you! “LT have the man for you, tf you'll can't learn operative railroading at | the expense of this management on) low named Ripley who has done the Pioneer Short Lina Your some corking good work for me in, Tesignation, to take effect at once Chicago. I'll wire him, if you tke | will be accepted. Goodday.” Now a word or two about this local! Van Burgh turned red in the face side been 1 came out lawat October.” Mr. Van Britt and) BETTY AND HER BEAU— graft we touched upon last night. but people here will tell you that a sort of holding corporation, called Red Tower Consolidated, has «& strangle grip on this entire region. Ite wubsidiary companies control the grain elevators, the fruit packerien, the coal mines and distributing yards, the timber supp:y and the lumber yarda and even have a finger on the so-called independent smelt ora.” The bows nodded Red Tower. Also, | have heard that the railroad stand# in with it to pinch the producers and consumers A road engine was backing down the spur to take the Alexa in tow for the eastward run, and what was maid had to be said in a hurry “Dig it out.” barked the wheat king. “If you find that we are in on it, It's your privilege to cut loone. The two men who will give you the most trouble are right here in Portal City: Hatch, the president of Red Tower, and Henckel, ite vice president. They say either of them |would commit murder for a tendol- “I've heard of lar bill, and they stamd in with Pete Clanahan, the city boss, and his gang of political thugn That's all, Graham; all but one thing. Write after you've climbed into the e and have found out just what pu're in for makerit go, I'll back you, if it takes half of hext year's wheat crop.” A minute or #0 later the bos and I stood out in the dd and watched |the Alexa roll away toward the sun rise country, and perhaps we both second or two. At least, I know I did. Hut when the special had be come a black smudge of coal mm in the distance, Mr. Norcross turned on me with the grim little smile that goes with his fighting mood. “You are private mecretary to the new general manager of the Pio neer Short Line, Jimmie, and your y begins today,” he #ajd, brisk let's go up to the hotel ow ly and get our fighting clothes on. CHAPTER VII “Heats Off, Gentlemen” Gosh all Friday—say but the next days did see a tearup to beat nd on the old Short Line! With fe Mr headquarters building lafbly Norcross took the offices 7 take the conrequences Shaffer, and it was CRAP FEE NE sequences were going to™cost them | something awful to see the way the : The Alexa Goes Kast. |money. Dunton got down when he|heads went into the basket, One by 1 chased ‘like the dickens on the had to, and he pulled the others into|one he called the Duntontter in; the printing job, because, apart from line, You are to set your own pace, |traffic manager, the general super wanting to absorb all the dope I|and you are to have some money for|intendent, the roadmaster, the mas ould as I went along on the new |betterments. I offered to float a new|ter mechanic—clear on down to fob, I knew I would be needed every |loan on short-time notes with the|the roundhouse foreman and the Minute right at Mr. Norcross’ el Chicago banks, and the board au- |division heads bow, now that the actual work was | thorized it.” Some few of them were allowed to beginning The bows pushed that part of it| take the oath of allegiance and stay, He and Mr. Chadwick were deep | aside abruptly, as he always doea!but the place-fillers and payroll fm reports and figures and plans of|when he haa got hold of the gist|parasites, the cousins and the all sorts when I got back to the/of a thing nephews and the brothersindaw, Alexa. Luncheon was served in the} “Now, about my staff,” he said.|every last man of them had to walk ear, and they kept the business talk| “It's open gomsip all over the West| under the ax. One instance will be going like a house afire while they|that the P. 8. L. is officered by alenough to s how it went. Van kr eat-grandnephew of some Revolutionary big-wig and our figurehead general superintendent 4 in, and Mr. | Was the first man call would run him special ‘tree hand.’ Have you the material! Norcross shot him dead in halt a I could tell by the way the boss’ |to draw from?’ minute eyes were snapping that he was} “I know @ few good men, if I can “Mr. Van Burgh, what rallroad ex soaking up the details at the rate|get them.” anid the boss thought-|perience did you have before you of a mile a minute; not that he could|fully. “There is Upton Van Britt;|came to the P. 8.1.7" was the first go much deeper than the totals into|he was the only millionaire in my bullet anything, of course, in such a gal-|college, and he te simply born| Mr. Van Burgh, a heavy-faced, lop, but these were enough to give| operating chief. If I can persuade|youngish man with sort of world autos and lay off his poto ponies At 2 o'clock alhim to store his his yacht and sell him his hand-holds. tev came down from the headquar up| Ured eyes looked at hie finger nails, “I wae in the president's office in I don’t know the ins and outs of it, | If you say you can/ felt a little bit lonesome, just for a} but he had his nerve, “You're an entirely new kind of ja brute,” be reenarked calmly. | wag appointed by President Dunton and 1 don't reaign until he tell me to.” “Then you're fired! «napped ti bom, whirling his chair back to h deak to it | Three days tater, when the wholr jtown wna talking about the new Jack, the ripper,” an they. called }him, Kirgan, who had been our head machinery man on the Midland construction, tumbled in ing answer to a wire, Mr. Norcross slammed him into place ten minutes after he hit the town. | “Your office is acrows the tracks, Kirgan,” he told him. “T've begun | the housecleaning over@there by fir jing your predecessor and three or }four of his pet foremen. Get in the jhole and dig to the bottom. You |have a lot of soreheade to handle here and at the division shops, and [it isn’t all their fault, not by a lone | hot. I'll give you six montha in| |which to make good as a model) uperintendent of motive power. Get busy | “That's me.” said Kirgan, who knew the boar up one side and down | the other You give me the en |gines, and I'l keep shop.” And with that he went across the yard and took hold, be jfore he had even hunted up a place to aleep in. And that was all there wa Mr. Van Britt was the next man| to show up. He was fine: « square built, stocky little gentleman who looked as if he'd always had the j world by the ear and never meant} to fo. Tho it wae a time when |most men went clean-shaven, he} | wore a stubby little mustache, clone: | | ly clipped, and while his jaw looked as if he cous! bite a nail In two, he had a pair of twinkling, good natured eyes that sort of took the edge off the hard jaw “Well, I'm here,” he said, drop ping into a chair and sitting with his legs wide apart. And then,| ignoring me as if I hadn't been there: “Graham, what the devil} have you got against me, that you should drag me out here on the edge of nowhere and make me go to work for a living?” The bows just grinned at him and said It's for the good of your soul, | |Upton. You've too much money Your office is up at the end of th corridor and your chair is empty and | waiting for you. Your appointment | circular has already been mailed | out.” Mr. Hornack was the last of tho| new office staff to fall in, tho he| didn't have nearly as far to come as | some of the others. He was red:| headed and wore glasses. They used | to say of hi on the Overland Cen tral that he fired his chief clerk) regularly twice a week, and then| hired him over again, which waa! merely a roundabout way of saying | | that he had a@ sort of meat-ax tem-| per to go with his red hair. But| they almo used to say that he could | make business grow where none ever | ferew before, and that’s what a traf. fie man lives for. | When the new staff was made up, | Mr. Norcross gathered all the de- partment heads together in his loffice and laid down the lines of the | new policy. He put it in just eight | lwords; “Clean house, and make} |friends for the company.” Then h jgave them a little talk on the con ditions ag he had found them, and told them that he wanted all these ‘em out of the}; | the send-off 4 The House of Mystery Dow'r open “THAT | Capiwer, DANHY { You musty oped ‘Thar - rents By ALLMAN | a ee we, You CAN PLAY Ser QUT- DOORS FoR 4 > A bitTLe WHILE Sora li AA-HAA- AMDT MSO SEE YoU STAND A CHANCE OF BY PARKS comed, as you might say, with open|by the former members of - arms ond division to the wateh informal ball to be held ff mory on New Year's eve. Hold Open House for |- Blue Lodge Masons Ancient and Accept#d Scottish Rite Masons will hold open house for all Biue Lodge Masons on New Year's day from 2 to 5 p. m at the Masonic Temple, Harvard aves and Pine st. The principal address of the afternoon will be made by James H. Begg, grand master of the Grand Lodge of Washington. Veterans Invited to 32" a Armory Watch Party |*/p!z, or prevesias All members of the American| Wash. or to the Bureau Legion and Veterans of Foreign #24 Accounts. SAMUEL Wars and their friends are invited "*¥™*ster General of the On 1M SOGLAD YOUVE Continued Tomorrow) COME TORECITE SOME OF YOUR POEMS MINUTE SHE MY FOUND! WAS A POET SHE ASKED ME TO CAL ‘The mont for your money. the best for your mouth, the mafest for ‘health, is the guaxs antee given by DR. EDWIN &% nown ital Office 06 Columbia St. Proposals will Baron of Suppines vy iment, until conditions reversed. It was a large for the new management The . Mr. Hornack said as much, but the Herald, which waa the other morn Now in Pregres. bows sald it had to go just that way.|ing paper, took up for the down There would be a litte money for and-outs, and there wasn't anything Offers tterments, but it must be spent as if every dollar were ten. Naturally, the big turnover brought all sorts of disturbances at Some of the relieved cousins and nephews stayed in town and jumped in to stir up trouble too mean for it to say about the boss and his new appointeea Then the employes got busy and the griev ance committees began to pour in Mr. Norcross never denied himself to anybody. The office door stood wide open and the kickers were wel DECISIVE — REDUCTIONS. HIS event involves — our entire beautiful stocks of fashionable apparel for women without reserve. Choose from— : All Coats All Suits All Gowns All Blouses All Sweaters All Petticoats cast Hardware nm Corrugated Garbage Cans Special $3.95 18-inch diameter with raised bot- tom, drop handles and well fitted cover. Very strong. Regular 0 value, BROOMS Special 60c A good qual- ity corn broom, 16x27-inch; made of four sewed. excellent quality fiber. Regular $1.00 This is a good sized mat. oh vali. Regular $1.75 value. No Phone or C. O. D. 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