The evening world. Newspaper, July 31, 1908, Page 9

a ne. a a — ee Madison 9 aia aoe oan @) 8 & By Seward W. Hopkins, @ 8 Author of “Nightstick and Nozzle." GYNOPSIS OF PRECEDING CHAPTERS. Bessie W. |. women, one ter of a taining severa jon avenue hor his Ww oney on Wall street and 1 suicide, sie's mong the po: yz Patrolman He 3 gui endrick Maple, a man While looking for work. sta: tel, L one night discovers the fotel. Late hotel te atire, (ee CHAPTER V, | “Fire!”’ HE wild cry of Besste Winthrop rang through the halls of the sixth floor of the Woman's Own Hotel, end from each door there rushed @ woman, screaming end lightly clad. | Once in the hall they were so biinded | and confused by the smoke that they Pushed pel! mell into one another, fometimes in the fury of thetr terror | knocking some ‘one dowa | From the front windows a sheet of | are was lighting up al! Twenty-first | street, adjacent blocks, and making the from the hotel had managed | the pollceman on post turned !n an alarm. The first company fo reach the scene was truck No, $4. As the biz three-horse team came swinging around from Twentleth street {nto Sixth avenue, and pounded their way along, the tru ayed as if tt would hurl the men from their places @gainst the curb. Taen when it veer Otreet there was an eer. Batta ¢ Hugh Gorman had Teached the block and barely escaped feath as his own horse clattered into the team, He saw the danger of wholesale loss of life, and a er alarm eixes, was turned in t time than it takes to record every direction came clatter! Tinging and whistling trucks, hose wagons, su wag Anhabitants for a Cary one leg to walk on. Heroes of Truck and tiose. And the reserves came jn run d into Twenty-fir ther scene of dan- ns an und leaps the fire lines were ished, But the fre had not been neglected, Gorman was in the building, and Bur- ton, of Engine Company 1, and smoke and dark: hey and bf daring smoke eaters were taking out ®osnen, Police who could be spared trom the ‘Work Outside were fire fighters, for weil as mobs, these fe Men with axes were o doors that were locked, Ladders were Pun up outside the building. Wate: towers were hurling thei 8 into the windows. Great serpents of he were being dragged Into the building, @nd up to the tops of the adjacent buildings, and the floods from combined with the rush of water from the standpipes in the hotel. And above the screams of the women and tho roar of the flames came the hoarse shouts of orders from the com- any officers. The horror of the scene } h the ight tire as can ows, ing down these ry a the Im- | mense crowd spellbound. pushed as near to the flaming building as the| Police Ines would permit, . “Look! went up a ery from the mul- | tude as they saw a woman In white waving from a cornice, She had drop-| ped from the window above, and In some miraculous way her clothing had caught on the c e. in an instant | three men were scen redching from the roof, which seemed impervious to tla A Human Chain, And then the crowd stood with} hushed tongues as one fireman was seen to lower himself hands down, while another grasped his legs third Brasped the legs of the second, holding the weight of both. This living chain Was just sufficient to ble the lowest one to reach her. They saw him grasp her by her own upstretched arms, and then slowly, with a steadiness that spoke well of the nerves of steel possessed by | the firemen, the long line began to as. cend, | Fear selzed the crowd that the grip of the man on the root would weaken and let two men and a woman drop to), certain death, But another fireman had seized from behind, where he could not be seen In the crowd, and nothing gave way. But she wasn't. Rescues of that kind were going on (To be Continued.) —— — a= oe = oe lcontinuatly, A polfceman carrying two Avenue Mystery OOO ODO tucked under each arm. leaped from the roof of the hotel just fs a tongue of flame seemed to stop his progress. Ambulances were standing ready for those who had been injured or over- come by smoke, Buddenly Chief Gorman shouted: “How many more are tn there?’ \ “None,” was shouted by twenty pairs of lips. “Order your men out; the walls are going to give way They were swaying now, but those who beard the reply to the Chief sent up a cheer that might almost have been heard in Jersey. Some of the walls did fall, and then, even as they were still crumbling, a young fireman grabbed his chiet’s arm, To the Rescue! ‘What's the matter, Gaffney? asked Gorman, Gaffney pointed to a pecullar cornice that had overhung a portion of the roof that had not been burned. “Tha & woman up there, Chief, and I'm gotng to get her!” Gorman did not answer, It was al- most certain death for a man to make his way there, even {f It proved to de possible, What Gaffney had seen was a huddled mass of something white, He plunged into the building, brush- ing aside all the remonstrances, if they were remonstrances, that were shouted in his ear, “He's not going in alone!” shouted another voung fellow from No, 34, And then enother, til Gorman's a dozen were at it again, Gaffney was the first to reach her. hen amid the dripping water and black ooze they started down, “Keep together!” came an order, | But the fire was pretty well under | control by this time, and followed by his equally brave companions Gaffney | ca danger. The ambulances were all in use “Dake her to the nearest drug store,” said somebody. san all night store on Sixth | The girl was carried there. | In the crowd there were plenty of doc- | 1 the unconscious figure out of | no " said the physician who had ken the girl in charge, “Is the cle that has been performed me you found in- dressed e is not dead. And is n than any I have seen ; After working some time longer the} girl opened her eyes. “Let Me Die!” she ‘gasped hysterically. didn't I die?" e all right.” sald the phys-| fully “am has long as vou found me} insensible vou Would let me die. I ran at first and couldn't eet down the stairs so I climbed un to the roof with some other ef and when the water came from the roofs a stream struck me and) ed my senses from ine,| ye had so many terrible, terr!- gs happen to me that I don't| e to live. I haven't a cent In the now. It $s burned up, And 1! no work. | “What Is your name?” some one asked. 3essie Winthrop." “How did it happen that you were dressed “IT had not gone to bed. My search for work had made me so nervous andj} excited that I could not rest.” | ‘And have you no home?” | "No," she said, “I have no home; my father died the other day and every- | 5. thing went." Wh th George Winthrop's hter,”’ said some one in crowd you will permit me to take you home,” sald a well-dressed man who had be looking at her during the con- versation, "I will provide for you till have w mobile near at least save you from th iT a | T wit embarra to; ng no place to} This is a bad time In the morning go. for a young girl to have no home.” “That's good, kind," said a} number of yoices | “Take his offer, Miss Winthrop,” sald the physician, "May I ask your name, My name {s Kendrick Maple.” replied B “LT thank you, | but if you w ke me to your] mobile your chauffeur will help me, sa friend of mine. ‘s better yet,” sald the doctor, be !n good\hands,” | The Million Dollar Kid -- - Come on Bite! tae SURF! 11m JUST THIS FICHT 1S YUL TAKE YoU To CRAZY ABOUT FOR THE WORLD'S \A PRIZE FIGHT! FicHTS! LET'S CHAMPION SHIP ! — HURRY | Vwish THEY'D a \ Hurry 17 ok WELL, Dis 15 SURE DE PLACE 15 PINCHED HARD Luck ! AND THERE'LL BE No FIGHT! PASS OUT QuierLy ! 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Taylor \ LOVE To See A Qoob scrap! THERE ARE THE, FIGHTERS Now! 1VE GOT AN By Margaret '} Hubbard Ayer, Short Ends of Halr, N.—If your scalp is in good condi- | B, tlon and you take proper care of your hair there is no reason why it should not grow out even and long. Give {t fifty strokes with the brush J every day, orassage your ecalp unttl tt | feel in a glow from renewed circula- tion, shampoo every ten days or 30, and 2 & few months you will be surprised 0 © how much yeur hair has grown, Dark Circles Under Eyes, | HE, H.-There {# alwaye, in my R opinion, some internal cause * for the black clrcles under the ‘eyes, The tendenoy {s sometimes he- reditary, but dark lines are usually due to some congestion of the veins of the part, and are rarely, !f ever, found ex- cepting under one or more of the fol- lowing circumstances: When the sub- j Ject 1s anaemic and there ts an Im. pairment of the chemtcal constitution of the diood, or when the system {sg being drained, as tt would in prolong. study, lack of Sleep or diseipation of any description, The external treat- ment {s sometimes effective temporarily, but cannot be permanent while the | cause exists, Bathe frequently with cold water and use friction. A little turpentine IIniment or weak ammonia, one part of diluted ammonia to four of water may de rubbed into the skin daily (once), but great care must be taken that It does not reach the eye proper. | i “GOSH, HOW LONG BEFORE WE HAVE TO WEAR 'EM, TOO” 10) ) wis ete a No, 9—Let’s All Play a Betting System and Get the Money. | that wart D that just voaed out—the one with the = rain- warped, ten-nights- on - Staten - Island bonnet and the moss on hfs collar and that looked as if he'd make Mat- teawan movements in the alr with his mitts If he were to lamp a lamb stew all of a suddsn? Well, he just dropped in a while ago) to unravel me a new way he'd doped out to beat the gee-gees. System, you know. Y'see, you take the favorite as far back as you can get 1 to 6, and then you swirl out to the paddock to wee whether that one ts wearing bilnk- ers or bar plates, and then you put Sol Lichtenstein in good humor ty agking him what time he thinks It 13,/ just as Billy Dubois ts Inquiring of Bol what odds he'll lay that there'll| be @ Bennings meeting this autumn, | |and then you nudge over to ex-Ring- caster John Cavanaugh and make @ j hit with him by asking him if he's | gay over things as he was this time | last year, and then you get down your | two bucks on the one that doesn’t be- jong in Bull Daly's shed and isn't, ridden by Miller, and then you cough a dime, if you're there, for a homesick little Delaware peach the size of @ | moss-agate, and then you stand on lone leg and then the other and wait for your oral bet with the remembrance brokist to fetch you something. I think that’s the way the gook with the system told me he played it. He looked {t. I eased him a couple of malts for the trouble he took to tell me about It, Out when he leaned over and told me that with four bits to play his system he could make Bill Cowan look Mke a frisked wheat biscult I gave him the Spltwerbergen wick, and that's when | you saw him on his way out. Systems to beat ‘em gave me a good |start toward Barrelhouse Boulevard, and I'd be patrolling that beat now If ID you notice CLARENCE L CULLEN “Git Off!” IT hadn't heen out down at the top of the stretch. I stayed with a lot of the| systems until I looked like the reclin- ing figure in the foreground of one of those flashlight pictures of the famine {n Beloochistan. One of them was that Consensus system. It's a really-and-truly can't-lose sys- tem, that Consensus thing, You can’t lose at it—I mean when you play it! with a pad and pencil, | But when you topple for ft with the | T8g carpet and the kitchen ofl cloth bes jcause you need the gathered increment to keep your landwoman trom hanging, a combination lock on your roof door while you're eround the corner staking! yourself to three cents’ worth of ginger; snaps for dinner, why. the consensus 1908. NOONAN ECAIDOCOOTOOOS DOO COGOCOOOTOOSS, Monologues of -- By Clarence L. Cullen, Author of “Tales of Fa-Tanks," bo Bik | that h Mixologist system {ts fust as good and game @ loser as any of the rest of ‘em. And If vou don't belleve that ask old Doctor Consensus himself, He'll tell vou. In playing the consensus all you've got to do is to pick out the etingaree that the newspaper pickers have put tho ring around. Then vou wrap up a plece of gampipe tn an abandoned un- dershirt and go out and get the awed dones to play it. After you've trudged along with the consensus system for @ couple of months you'll know how te write a series of trances for a 10-cent magazine about “How to Annex the Mats Without Earning Anything,” with photographs taken from life. After I'd ed it for only a pair of weoks I stepped on one of those welghe Poking a Hatpin In Her Programme ing machines that tells you vour welght through a nhonograph, and the best the machine would stake me to was "Git off! We don't register anything that weighs less than twenty-seven pounds. I suppose that Jockey system {s per- teotly wretched, with a pad and pencil, too, The smudge that worked the Jockey system out on paper for me had fringe on the bottoms of his pajamas Uke lambrequin tassels, but he could make tt sound so good that I fell into | tho habit, Ietening to him, of feeling around for a palr of coupon shears. | But when I began to play the jockey |system the boys that had been trund- jIimg in four wins and two seconds @ |day would fetch elght-six consecutive ran-alsos under the tape, and then when | T'd cut such a boy off my list the next time out he'd drag a 60 to 1 bacon-buyer home in a polonaise, As soon as I'd get het up over a boy just signed by Keene or Whitney or |Diamond Jim at whatever salary the |turt writers happened to think of, the new swell kid would tum Into a rum battler or @ stretch sulker, or they'd get to him from the outaide, and there jT was. All I ever got out of the jockey ‘aystem was a working knowledge of quintuple entry bookkeeping, and Mac- | Aleenan would write me any kind of @ tioket on that. Then I fell up agninst the Zotlow-the- money system. I'd just keep the duff anchored at the bottom of the kick | untit I saw how the Rajahs and Guek- wars that shove In thousands to @ | sprint got down. If I saw Davy John- son romping up and down the line eat- ing up the price against something an outside chance, I'd shut} my wicks to my own gope and go to the plunger's pick as enthusiastic os w pe- rlodical souse getting an absolute light up for the first time in a year. Then, right @way, the newspapers would be- gin to print front page stories ebout how all the plungers were gotting cleaned up so bad that they had been caught in the act of taking their meals at Dolan's, The systems ere al! right when you're Just frivolling around and don't nee@ the change. But when vou're sending along the blood coin, and it's a case where you've got to get something back or move to Rahway, then Tamle Tami- cab's system of shutting her eyes and pokiog a hatpin into the programme has got every system I ever flirted with ted in the cellar until the dogy catcher’s wagon gets by. i Betty Vince The Bridegroom’s Attire, | Dear Ratty: | ILL you please let me know what W ig the proper dress for a brida groom at an afternoon wedding? Ww. H. by at an | frock coat, gray trousers, patent lea jshoes, gray ascot tle and high standing | collar | How to Propose, correct att ternoon weiing ¢ | Dear Betty ! |] AM twenty-fve and love a young ady one y inger than myselt c I have been going with her for two years and would like t wife, but IT do no I would like t of the ordinary ne know what t to say Teil e young lady simply that you love > and wi t ke r you wife. ri Impress her more orably ana fine speech An Apology Necessa’y years im sen ry. Recentl we ad a quarrel and | ste and told she was too old for I now regre writing that letter very much, as I thiok her feelings were hurt Yor she Gid not answer it. I Jove her Juet the on Courtship «nd Marriage GDPGOGHOOHOWIOQDOOGO DOO GODDSGOSOQDOOSOSOOS nt’s Advice 3} game and would like to make up with her again. I am willing to apologize, | Kindly advise me if I ought to oad! on her or write to her asking if T can call J. 8. Ke You were extremely rude and heart- less In referring to the young lady's age. Write her an apology saying that in your anger you safd things you now regret forgtve you her you are she will She may not be Inclined to but I think if you show sincerely sorry for your eventually make up —————— ————— Meat for Hot Weather. SETRATING this hot weather E should be made a careful consideration by every- body.” said a well known physician, ‘It is a known fact, but fat neat, especially salt pork. ls one of the best things to eat during hot weather. The stomach will digest Da n it will not digest any- sise, Negro mammies ware is thelr generation when they salt pork to eat or suck dure e hot days. When one fs e ocean the ariably prescribes bacon ny seasick patrons. One 's urged all the fat meat he can before he goes on board."—Des Moines Register. didn't look good enough to me te - ee