The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 18, 1921, Page 13

Phone Query Causes Cyn- thia to Dig Out Facts Relating to Chicago Fire—She Prints Them| Among a number of questions an- | @wered on the telephone yesterday as one relating to the Chicago fire Tt ocowrred to me that this informa- Bion might interest a number of Weaders also, consequently I am| Printing | The year 1871 was memoradle for Whe great fire which swept a large Part of Chicago from the earth Beginning at a little defore 9 o'clock @n Sunday evening, October 8, in a Small darn on the West Side, the Flames spread thru all the three sec ns of the city, and were not finally tinguished until Monday evening 10 o'clock, when a welcome rain | i. The main dusinees and residence Portion of the city was devastated. The total area of the durnt district was 2, the groperty destroyed was esti mated at $187,000,000. The loss of | Wife can only be conjectured—per- Raps it amounted to 300 persons The destitution which for @ time fell @pon the city was relieved with lav- “ith generosity from all parts of this country and Europe. | This appalling disaster did not S@aunt the people of Chicago. They Began at once to rebuild the city and Ro reconstruct business. While many “Masurance companies were obliged to “Puspend, stl some $56,000,000 were “Wealized from this source, and fortu- Mately the dank vaults in every in- tance but one were found to have Preserved their contents intact Within twe years the burnt. area “ess again covered with duildings _ end of @ more solid type than before the fire. Apply Pension Dear Miss Grey: of a pivil war veteran. How can I “apply for a pension? WIDOW. Write to the Commissioner of Pen- 4, Washington, D. C., giving your band’s full name, age, name and “umber of regiment in which he served, dates of his enlistment and discharge, his residence after dis | eharge, and where and when he died Mthen and where you were married to him, your own name and age. “Btate if your husband received a “pension before his death: if 20, give “the number of his pension, if poxsi- The commissioner of pensions bi then advise you if you ere ‘eligible for 2 pension o- . ‘He's Looking for an Island Dear Miss Grey: 1 an uninhabited. or partly in- habited island, not under 10 square tiles in earca, between 35 degrees N. and 35 S latitude, containing at least acres of fertile land, or enough sustain 75 people, which I could Is there such an Island? REFORM. The National Geographical society that, according to their records, is no island of this description for colontzation, eee Tam the widow I would like to To Receive harge Postage Dear Miss Grey: How may I get | an overcharge on postage paid &@ photograph? WORRIED. If ‘you find you have been over-| the money will be refunded | you on application to the local | , with proof ef the ez- postage. . pilation Dear Miss Grey: What is the ex- Bumber of Indians in the United Proper, and what is the total| Kins’ sentence ended in a gasping population of North Amer-| chuckle. i? INTERESTED. The Indian office says that there $36887 Indians in the United | sand 105,998 in Canada in 1919. There i no separate record of the| ber of Indians in Mezico, aa the! and Indians have become | intermized in Mexico that it is to distinguish them. eee | Regarding | Oil Wells # Dear Miss Grey: What is the} HMepth of the deepest hole ever dug) search of oll? AN OLD MAN. The deepest off well drilling OBE) 5.590 tect, at Slaughter Creck, West ; Y Virginia. Brazil contributes 89 per cent of | world’s total production of acres, nearly three and a} third square miles, and the value o}| The Wreckers by Francis Lynde (Copyright, 1080, by Chartes Berth ner's fons) (Continued From Yesterday) We were closing our desks to go to dinner when Fred May came in to say that a delegation of the pay-roll men was outside and wanting to have a word with Mig Mr | Norcross stopped with his desk cur | tain half drawn down “What Is it, Fred?” he asked | “I don't sald the Pitts / burger, “I should call It a griev Jance committee, if it wasn't so big | And they don’t seem to be mad about anything. Dart Hoakins is doing the | talking for them.” | “Send them In,” was the curt com mand, and a minute later the tnner | office was about three-fourths filled up with a shuffling crowd of P. 8. L. men. ‘The chief looked the crowd over. | There was a bunch of trainand en gine-men, a squad from the shops, jand a bigger one from the yards. Also, the wire service had turned out a gang of linemen and half a} dozen operators Well, men, let's have ft,” said Mr, | Norcross, not too sharply. “My din ner's getting cold.” “We'll not be keepin’ you above} the hollow half of a minute, Mister Norcross, said the big. bearded [freight conductor who acted as spokesman. About this C. 8. & W./ strike that went on today: we'd like to know, straight from you anything In the railroad pocket to have all these old men fired jout and a lot ef scabs put in on| starvation wages to ball us all up} | when we try to work with ‘em.” ‘It’s nothing to us; or rather, | should say, we are on the other sid was the short reply. “You probably | all know that C. 8. & W. has changed | hands, and the olf Red Tower syndi cate, with Mr. Rufus Hatch at its head, is now in control.” | | Hoskins nodded. “That's about! | what we allowed, and we've come up | here to say that we're almighty sorry | for these poor cusses that have been dumped out o° their ba. We ain't g0t no kick comin’ wi: you, n'r with | the company, Mister Norcross, but it | looks like it's up to us to do some | thin’, and we didn't want to do ft | without hittin’ square out from the} shoulder.” 'm listening,” said the chief, | “The union locals have |meetin’ fr tonight. There | body knows yet what's goin (done, but whatever it is, we want you 40 know that it ain't done ag’inst you n’r te railroad company The bom had handled wage earners téo long not to be able to suspect what was in the w You men don't want to let your sympathies carry you too far,” he |eautioned. “When you take up an other fellow'’s quarrel you want to be pretty sure that you're not going to hit your friends in the scrap.” \ Hoskins grinned understandingty, | and I guess the boss was a little pux | zled by the nods and winks that went! around among the silent members of | the delegation; at least, I know I was. “That's all right,” Hoskins said “Bein’ the Big Boss, you've got to talk that way. They might reach out and grab you fr'm New York if you didn't. But what I was aimin’ to say is that there'll be a train-load ‘r two of strike-breakers a-careerin’ along here in a day ‘r so, and we ain't fig rin’ on lettin’ ‘em get past Portal Cit if that far, “That's up to you.” said Mr. Nor-| cross brusquely. “If you start any-| thing in the way of a riot—" “Excuse me. There ain't goin’ to} be no riotin’, and no company proper: | ty mashed up. Mr. Van Britt, he—"| It was right here that an odd thing happened. Con Corrigan, a big two-| fisted freight engineer standing di-| rectly behind Hoskins, reached an arm around the speaker's neck and choken him so suddenly that Hos the Boss." know,” tt | When the garroting arm| wag withdrawn the conductor looked | around sort of foolishly and said “I'm thinking that’s about all we wanted to my, ain't it, boys?" and the deputation filed out as solemnly as it had come in. I guess Mr. Norcross wasn't lft wholly in the dark when the tramp ing footfalls of the committee died away in the corridor. That uninten- tional mention of Mr an Britt's name looked as if it might open up| some more possibilities, tho what} they were I couldn't imagine, and 1} don’t believe the general manager | could, either | After that, things rocked along| pretty easily until after dinner. In-| stead of going right back to the of-| fice from the club, Mr. Norcross drifted into the smoking room and filled « pipe. In the course of a few minutes, Maj. Kendrick dropped in and pulled up a chair, I don't know what they talked about, but after a little while, when the boss got up to go, 1 heard him say something ow | wave the key to the most of whdt| had gone before, I guess. “Have you seen or heard anything of Collingwood since yesterday?” The good.old major shook his head, “I haven't seen, but I have heard,”| Beauty Secret | Ker {he orsidm ele nature will not do it for nature with a nal in ae ee Caldwe' he said, sort of soberly, “They're tellin’ me that he’s oveh in his rooms at the Bullard, drinkin’ himself to death, If he wasn't altogetheh past redemption, suh, he would have had the decency to get out of town befo’ he turned loose all holts that way; he would, for a fact, Graham.” | At that, Mr. Norcross explained in just a few words why Collingwood | hadn't gone—why he couldn't gc Whereupon the old Kentuckian look- ed graver than ever. “That thah spells trouble, Graham Hatch is simply invitin’ the unde’ takeh. 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I did it; and| after the note had been glanc the chief said, kind of bitterly, to the major | “You can never fall so far that you can’t fall a little farther; ever remarked that, major then he went on to explain: “I have a note here from Perkins, our Desert Division superintendent. He | that the ‘locals’ of the various rail road labor unions have just notified him of the unanimous passage of a the strike to go into ef-| strike vote fect at midnight.” (Continued Tomorrow) OH, TOM, HOW HELEN, | BROUGHT ' LOVELY |! THANKS YOu A BOX OF CANDY! IN THE WHIKLPOOL ancy paused @ moment “The current was swift and and looked into the fire. ®I never/ strong and the men at the oars think of these days without think:| had all they could do to keep us ing of the mothers,” jin the channel she said. “You know, Peggy, bow every-| “It waa all so”new, so strange. body takes care of you, and how| Dr. Whitman lead our party when you are afraid, mother’s, or| across the plains, else we should Jaddy’s or grandmother's arma | never have found the way.” “Oh! David cried. “Not the Dr. so Whitman the Indians killed tn the many babies to shelter and 90 | wful maamere? “The very same many @angers to fact—no, I'm | Dr. Whitman, David. I remember ght sorry fdr the ehiltrem that | him well, and he was taking the were there, but I'm sorry for our/ only way to get us thru to Fort are always ‘round you tight. Well, | those ploneer mothers had mothers. This day that I was go-| Vancouver, and Fort Vancouver ing to tell you about, when we|meant food, left our wagons and were put into shelter to our travel-worn, almost and mfety and the beats on the tumbling river, I | exhausted party. can see mother’s face, tired tines| “As I was saying, we were In about her mouth and eyes, a sweet | the boat and the river was carry half smile on her lips and a gen-|ing us down. Swifter and swifter tle word of caution or encourage | it ran; great whirlpools began to ment for each of her little ones. | show, and eddys that swirled and “We huddled together tn front | foamed, and on beyond we could of her and she held the baby close | "ar the roar of the falls against her breast. Ail along the|, A) Sf once the prow of our | boat was caught and turned about shores of the big river the giant | as if by a giant hand, and in leas rocks looked like castles and bat-| time than it takes to tell it, we tlements, and as we swept down | were in the midst of that terrific the stream they seemed to shut us | whirt of seething water. in and frown on us. (To Be Continued) Raernee ADVENTURES OF THE TWINS Clive Re 's Bartan Nancy was sure the little white flower stretched out of the vase again as tho to see the Map. “Oh!” ered Nancy, pointing to the )Nick started to mniff. “Indeed I do, little white flower in a crystal vase. | Nancy. And the flower is mov. “Nick, I believe that the flower we | ing 1 believe it is trying to see our brought up here to the sky with us| Map! is the wicked old Bobadil Jinn! Don't] But the flower must have heard, you smell hyacint perfume—the | for instantly it was still, Also the ind he always uses?” |smell of hyacinth perfume disap. Nick his friend, the Star, who | peared. were looking at a ap Nick had | The Star spoke. “I don't think HAVE ANOTHER. PIECE, MRS BAILEY - WAIT AMINUTE NOW, Dan! brought along in his Box of Charm looked very much surprised nen THIRTY FATHOMS under Norway seas the cod-fish in Nature's laboratory works to help Scott's Emulsion serve human-need. An admirable form of strength-protection, Scott's Emulsion costs little but benefits much. Scott & Bowne, Bloomfield. NJ. 20-46 jthat such a lovely little mountain flower as that could do anything |wrong. I've watched it for days and ts, and It seems so sweet and in ent, that surely it cannot be the ked wizard. Come Nick | You, too, Nancy. If you wish to con tinue your journey to the South Pole, 1 will show you the way your Map. © is a secret way under the ground that T have dis- covered with my sharp eyes, and if careful and do just you will get to the end of your jour fely. In this way, you may avold the Kquator, for you can go under it. If your charms get into the sunlight at the Equator they are useless. You also will avoid the desert castle of the wicked Jinn In this way, Now follow closely the marks I shall make n r | wie now, you are very what I tell you upon your Map. Nancy sure that the white flower stretched of the vase again as the » to see the Map. But th Star went on » tell about the secret pa soon fore ‘got all about it wa out e and she little | Hélen’s Candy, But Somebody Else Ate It IT SIMPLY, Dexicious! Confessions of a Bride Prrighted, 1921, by the Newspaper THE BOOK OF MARTHA | MARTHA SHRINKS FROM | LOVE-SLUSH The goslp about Arthur Mans | field had 4 wtartling effect upon | Martha. She turned her happfeat | |smile upon ne and a ittle thrill of | joy rang in her voice: | “I've heard the story, and I guess | it's all true! Didn't 1 tell you that he is the finest man in the wide, | | wide world?” Intuitively, I surmined the secret of my friend's guyety. She wns glad becaune her recent caller had buried | his heart long ago in the grave of a! girl! She was glad because—because | Arthur Mansfield ran no danger of | failing in love with any living wo- | man! Then—why, then—she must | be In Jove with the man! Very much in love, 1 decided, but I couldn't hint | }that to her. I only stammered aim | lest | “ une the woman's test of a| man—let him be loyal in love and he! is simply perfect!” | “Man himself wrote ‘loyalty’ on love's standard, and then he handed the banner tog woman follow alone!” Martha spoke with the bit terness which can grow only in the heart of © wife whose trust has been betrayed. She seemed to address the next sentence to herself as much to me: “Loyalty! Sometimes I won is worth while to be loyal ¢, darling! You're muttering honsense, but it sounds ominous enough! My dear! Nothing—at least no man—could ever tempt you to break your marting No} man would dare to try! “Hum-um-um-aum! Martha hummed the chord of a scale, her characteris. | tie sign of impatience. “But you ought to watch some of them try! Old men desire to be fathers to me nice, respectable old men with grandchildren. And exceedingly re spectable young men need the in-| spiration which I alone can give| them. And if married, they need sympathy! ‘They tell me so! But there's no sense in stirring up that slush! Ughh They talk as if I didn’t know that they make the same kind of love to any handsome woman who happens to be handy!" “Oh lat la! 1 murmured. Never before had Martha spoken so frankly to me. I perceived that her samples of experience aa it is acquired by a pretty wor vows! very fess them, a lot more thrilling than fiction “But the man who has just left this room fs different! Oh, quite dit. | ferent from all the others!" very girl says that about some ymetime! jently I was not to confuse Arthur Mansfield with the common herd! I couldn't hysterically I don't see how even this specimen of his sex can} love to youl” It speech, but girls help giggling, rather erent’ keep from making Was an impertinent who are real friends are often as | frank “You're pretty, Marte!t/ How you manage to ward off all the tempters is a mystery to me! | “You talk just like a man! You expect me to do the absurd! ex claimed the moat by tiful girl T have ever known, “Can't a pretty girl n in the business world | would be, if I could get her to con-| jhave a will?” (To Be Continued) HILDREN'S COLDS should not be “dosed.” Treat them externally with— Vicks VAPORU Over 17 Million Jars Used Yearls | "7 TWAT'S CERTAINLY Wouperrun CANDY 1 MUST BE GOING NOW AND I'M GOING To TAKE A Piece HOME WITH Me! THE NEXT TIME You PRESENT ME WITH A Box OF CANDY AS A PERSONAL GIFT - GIVE IT ‘TO ME WHEN | \ were ALoue. To Blick SToRE-TELLM You MLAWE LITE “Too- ATK FoR R Hui i HH iit N { | \ I hs tear ! Ne WAS DISCOVERED BY HIG STARTLED PAREJTS wilo. 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