The evening world. Newspaper, May 28, 1913, Page 23

eevee © eee ey oA ae 4) eee A thw rl he Evening W & Daily Magazine, Wednesday, M 441g IDEA 18 Too Loon AS LITTLE LIVE A REGLAI Livep IN MAN AS PossiBia vHem The Got Their Start By Madison C. Peters. Copyright, 1013, by The Cress dublisiing Ov. (The New York Evening World), ” XI—HORACE B. CLAFLIN—From Country Store Keeper to Dry Goods King. — tom John was bern in 1750, His son John was the father of Horace Brigham Clafiin, who was born in Intl. Horace clerked in hia father's atore. When he was twenty yenrs of Morace, with his brother Aaron and their brother-in-law, Sam Dantejs, suc- seeded to the business. A year later they opéned a branch establishment at Worcester, From 18% on" the Mitiord store was managed by Horace and his brother Aaron. In ten years the poflts of the business enabled Horace to move to New ‘York, where he had Touged to establish himself, and with a young man named Bulkley a Ze aOR. ATOM 7 Be Metry goods atore was opened at No, 4 Cedar atreet under the name of Bulkley & || _ = > ‘ Pay Wiadin. Thoy soon moved to No, $3 Broadway. Bulkley withdrew from the firm | fifi { and Horace sent for his cousin, The firm became Claflin, Mellen & Co. To obtain Jarger accommodations Mr. Claflin leased the site of the old sugar house vt Ieaac Roosevelt & Son at what is now No. 111 Broadway, Clafiin became a : importer. His warehouses on Worth street, from Church to West Broad- The extension ef-time for which Ciaflin was compelled to ask was promptly granted. The 2 SE ee a Uablilities were paid with interest before the notes came to maturity. An "M gald to say you had no GMA Of unparalleled prosperity set in and the house of Ciafiin became the ot confederaty in the hangar , Kiggest ‘mercantile business in the United States, 1t was then changed to H. B. el . ‘ here,” continued Craig. afin & Co., @ title which'it still retains. Claflin's methods and integrity gave 2 ; “At Gret 1 suspected it. the concern a world-wide reputation, He invested heavily in real estate, He Anyhow, you succeeded ° + "ama man of quiet and dom His hobby was fine horses. He was i Pretty well single handed, two lives lost © @lose friend of Henry Ward Beecher and was one of the pillars of Plymouth H , and two machines wrecked. Norton flew ghureh. ah i all right yesterday Ee * The following story is characteristic of the merchant prin: He waa sitting f a bie OMe wien « pal (ae to have $1000. I came to you b a y 28, WO AR Mn An Absolutely NEW Type of Detective Story (Copyright, 1912, by Dedd, Mead & Os.) SYNOPSIM OF PRECEDING HE Clafiins are of Scotch descent. The ploneera of the name settled in é Craig Ki extras crime ‘Hopkinton, Mussachusetts, early in the eighteenth century. ji sores Peet te, = Ebencaer Claflin moved to Milford before the Revolution, where hi : P “ son. a New men (wl - 3, >| : ‘ seove etlachana Ss CHAPTER IX. (Continued) The Terror in the Air. Gyroscope and dynamo behind, but re-worn young man thnidiy knocked and entered. mi efor ghey needle treo able Tam in need of hel. Tam unable to meet pressing Pee iy oe ia ‘Se “Mr, Claflin,” sald he, § because certain parties have not done as they agreed to, and I would Name to those of Browne and Herrick.” une you were @ friend of my father, and 5 - ‘The whir of Norton's machine told us 191 Wage ee ees ne oFrFwiT Silent Bullet By Arthur B. Reeve if o when he left his 4 thought you might be a friend to m: he was approaching. We scattered to ' “Iam glad to see you. Sit down, Have a glass of wine?” i | give him space enough to choose the 4 “No, I don't drink. apot where he woulé alight. As the 4 “Have a cigar, then? fay aut Be machine to steady itae ‘No, I never smoke.” 3 y to the grou “Well,” sald, the joker, “I would Jlke to accommodate you, but I don't é f snrttherds ‘Kennedy? be usted, and ° think I ca! ! : 5 m , a “Very well," returned the caller, “I thought perhaps you might. Good] |i ANN Ks j pagel ee ates atl teva Say, alr.” q “ Tiled . by the aheet-lead shiekt in this Aight “Hold on," said Mr. Clafiln, rising, "you don’t drink?" /s 4 of ny a in the firet to-day. I hadn't risen “No.” 5 “il a e - or smoke?" a No." ened it 4 .! it was on two wi co “Nor anything of the kind?’ wes in 7 “No.” f “You shall have the money, my friend,” said Mr, Claflin, the tears coming ve you in your firet flight to-day you ar woul have atmply repeated your fall of f@8 once, and asked me the sume questions, He trusted me, so now I will | ¢ No, don’t thank me, I owe you the favor for your father’s trust." es eyen, “and three times the amount you ask, Your father let me have jaet you, Great Wars That Started Over the Silliest Trifles A aamnmnanaaaaaanamaaaaaanaaaaaaaanaaaoraaoantornanenenaeinmannad W: a certain Venetian ambas-|W2s started that devastated « tree Betty Guidebook to Gallantry. By Alma Woodward. struggle against the passion for aleo- hollo stimulants or some other degrad- ‘His Own Master. *sador was once asked by the | part of Europe. Copyrigut, 1913, by The Prem Publishing Co, (The New York Krening World), ‘Turkish grand visler to ratify Equally Say eearee have kindled UGHT &ling vice. wae pepe ok 5 popcorn in the other, don't remind her| treaty by swearing in the Moslem fash-| many other conflagations, The war be- Oo young man avie ’ Coney Island Economies. | iiitiny uscd to make you wear gloves ion upon his beard and the beard of the |tween Sweden and Poland that began to AK Blot eee tea eee ue 8 cea LL winter long your 6trl'®| when you didn't want to in the win-| Prophet, he declined, because, in 1654 arose through a fancied a! girl to marry him | 0 coy a a nog Lamar, or eather Delanne, shrank been paying: ter; and that she never allows you to|#aid, “the Venetians wear no The King of Sweden discovered when he is the vic- | Yu he back as if even the protection of nis “Oh, dear! I'm just orasy| chew gum, even inaudibiy, despatch his name and title wer tim of some Gan |e ee te eee evore: snould come) captors was safety compared to the for summer to come amein,| pon't discourage the “hot dog’ idea » lowed by only two " where: Serous habit? first. wid threatening advance of Norton toward o's L can ‘do’ Coney Inland?! or any of the thousand and one Uttle : ; meet emphatl- ba a een Caen: & t28 me,” por caused the Venetian to tear up the » hot “ ¥ » SurRing That place positively fascina edie delights whose pungent odors}! cause ‘enetian to tear up th eel, Let him | se, a.” suddenly on his heel. “What @ fool I pea be eeaties Tree. wan m! The lew will Defore he dnvites | Celves her engagement ring?’ coundrels as you. some one else to| i i# the natural thing to de. ocr llte ratind Rg share them. If he per Feally love and if he has Ge now it’s about time for you toltempt to the ilmit of a nickel, He-|tTeaty and retire from the conference. 0 she tal i The eequel was a war in which 80,00, More disastrous in its sequel was the Christiana and four times as many|small stone that a IMuguenot child make good; Joosen the elaatle band that | cause, having run the gastronomical holds your roll; and pi fe A‘ gamut in Inexpensive a la carte doses, a precaution, have at least one simoleon | ;1 "| Turks fell, way threw at the Duke of Guine, for It was hg . {11 ‘be & physical imporsbiiity te con | Sut the Turks were not the only ones; the cause of the massacre of Vassy in in @ pocket where you can't find It, | sume one of the expensive table d’hotes 18M and of the Thirty Years’ War that For, in response to her eloquently to use blows instead of arguments po" at a place where they cater to motor the slightest provocation, Some 250 yéars | followed, ples@ing exes, you will consent to g0 OP | trade, ‘The borrowing of a tobacco . " i y Pipe and| remnants of will power left he ould Gret revognise the other? crowd in @ shrill, piping voice, “Just one more thing” til the cows! Buy her a toy poodle, a tickl ago an Emperor of China began « war ic o cedaesp4 pi a | Took aaa pome home, regardicns of the fact that | gay on a cane and anything else th on account of a smashed teapot. ite retention caused civil war in the | become his own master before asl ‘The lady should be the first to bow. been awarded the Brooks see tvary of |Pamtra and Afghantatan, and the eteul-/her to marry him. ‘The first year Rikag i TN BB dion’ of | ing of « Castilian lady's lace petticoat ef married ifs ts trying enough with-| Me Did Not Write. priceleas treanure, and It aecomy the great man‘on all his jou youg face isn’t sufficient security for | jipomed “souvenir.” Bhe'l! stick them \ carfare on ANY line at alt, up in her room and drape them over Going down, on the train, tell her| her dresser mirror; and every time she this fe ONE time when she's going t0| joke at them t help but think \waye treated me ae ENNEDY happened that when he was travel- see everything og is te be seen, If! of you and the riproaring time you The Ghroweh dhe lawless ‘provinces ts 14. fut lest week he ing rather late one evening ‘Tam afraid to go ‘ ay coger gin ne way: og | eave her at the Island, CRvery time |tne northwest of China some of ls promised to write to tell me whether at Luigi's, @ little Ttallan res the reply, and the mr Rea! a n fl iike that ts» “riproaring" tn retrosped- | rotinue were intercepted by a band of he could meet me at @ certain time taurent on the lower west money,” Chelly, . tion), robbers, who found the teapot among anf he failed to do so, What shall I side, We had known the place ‘Then you come back with indulgent) When her little French heéla aro waemo, and carelessly flung it to) do? Iam in love with him,” well in our student days and hed made py. fatherly inflection: making jnroads on her brain, suggest }tho ground and broke tt, The matter | Don't condemn him without # hear-|@ point of visiting It once @ month You, But if a certain fitele girl TV) a few minutes in a woft drink foun was reported to the Emperor, who was | ing. He may have been ill, wince in order to keep in practice in the wreqnesda; Ws going to be] wherg they have movies to entertain |so indignant at his favorites lose that) fine art of gracefully handling long goes tr ane" shreds of apagnet | know {# #9 keen 0! , ‘Two men are payin) nor chink it mtram fone properly, Sei the patrons, She's bound to get inter: Phat ought to make enough ef @ hit! eyted and while away quite @ plice of to cause her to wqueeze your No, | ttinw, all for the price of @ ginger al palm. Having arrived, don't map oUt) Finally suggest @ “trot” In ene of the| Nine hundred years ago a party of & campaign of attack. No woman eyer| quieter hallv. Rhe may demur, But re- [soldiers from Modena atole a bucket, wants to “do” Coney Island py mind her that “anything goes” at the |apparently In joke, fram a public well cally—matniy, 1 suppose, because {t's Island; that phe won't see any one |in Bologn fused to remore It. much cheaper that way. she knows anyway, And when ehe| Fighting thereupon began between the Before you start ‘“seaing” adjust ®) gets started she'll keep {t up till ice [Soldiers of the rival citles and a war wrigthand to your change pocket arm, |tine to make tracks for home mca ‘t get writer's cramp from| Any little gnawing hunger may be | sis Don't suggest things that | satinfied on the way back from the} The Queerest Stable, sere! labelled “ten cents.” Inatincttvely | collection of peanuts, pulled candy and combative, she'll turn to the quarter-a-| orispettes, you've pressed upon her. | HAT 18 probably the quesrest threw lures that are scattered hereand| And just because anything goes gle wtable jn the country shee. may rest her tired litle head on your -fOm in lawia County, W eton @ rage the merry-go-round, t's| manly shoulder whilo she's munching |(on' Where the stunt of @ slant fr pee | At the least she te Ikely to impair) Velo OnirAnOn ay Omly'W riloket and {t doew consume fime,|away and tell you wiat @ GRAND | preney Out, KOABIOG'@ reer lemme E her health. |enough to haume two horses, Ht {a 16s! | upstatre.” “eventhough the spasmedio rise and | time she's had! | one = be hae the Mery stecd jou ABS Vole Fobitaiage Uikt the ered te ceetctatee meet SNe $2 enter ft tes , ¥." writes: “A young man T know, pervious to rain a roof wae added, It) =a often tells me he cares for me when) he sent out a punitive expedition, and a long war began, which resulted In the oath of 00,00 men! oF. RA" writer | mercantile life and the other an under-| table to greet us. ainoe | bered to Kennedy: life with him would be unhappy edgy ol she would be #0 constantly remin: death? That is what I tell her.” I think If a woman really loves alfa of mine?’ man abe will be happy with him what- ‘durely, Lutal. ever his occupatic ge? Lulgt glanced “WOR” writes: “What is going to|henaively and low happen to a girl who ti night at danc other fes-| your check, go out, ington @quare and 1 r re regain his self-control. girl, | "C. BR.” writes: “When o lady and] A boy from one of the bangara down ntleman meet on the street, which| the line apoke up from the back of the teq [DY 8 Moor led tom long conflet in Spain, out being further complicated by 4| 1g." writes: “A young man has CHAPTER X. been paying me attention for several The Black Hand. |imy slater attentions, one engaged in| tor himself stopped a moment at our ee = sa A Billion Dollars Lost in New York. * a y Vincent's. Ns wiceiees” higactonslon ebetreity tralght at you ali the time.” Advice to Lovers }| ivr tsigr® demanded norton. * he eald, “1 knew you you tried to infringe T didn't think you to resort to—to take care of such ‘What's the grand now?" he asked, field in an effort to and @ had been din- Therefore we di “Gennaro fumbled in his when the proprie- again, and at last drew forth written letter bearing the le Giaucing furtively Qf the Lealle Laboratdriss, taker. #he seems to prefer the latter,| around at the other diners, mostly Ital- grag, but do you not think that her future|{ans, he suddenly leaned-over and whls- "«.teer g received tha @ret | explained Gennaro, “my wife of your wonderful went ¢rom our apartments at detective work, Profemsor, Could You To "hee father'a, the Danker give a little advice in the case of & (now? who lives on Fifth at “ a Mave the letter to the Italien What '« the cane? Pa gage Mts i |amked Craig, leaning back in hin chalr. fgtherdn-law's butler noticed cenit, ‘ound agaln @ppre- thiag peculiar about red hin barely touched some of it 5 every night} “Not so loud, oir. When you pay tongue, and he hae deen: vi a walk around Wash- ever since. 1 at once ent the milk te come in at the pri- the laboratory of my frieng, Dr. 1 be waiting in the d it analyeed, ‘This lette? shows fe dining household eavaped.” (To Be Continued. im cash, Jowelg and | best writin 2 many s radaied brings back memories of “that | your pocket still boasts an elastic band, | ganda on the homestead of George ae telephone, Bien Penne trip, aod tint and | give Mero exultant little equeese And | Retrige, whe fret used the partially ho! P eet Cikent wee ie led o i on etolen trom @ vault | story @xérclee your mental acience @ Lhe ing. ow ott 45 A potato storehouse, ting: ponaily, Do you think he really loves|in New It fe @ tidy sum te mia- | John Moves, we she agiete upon walking down eye prite ef having appar: | ing in lt foe seventy-five pack? 5V—le there such a > met? ey, If “money talks,” this | Ucation to-The ‘main hfare, with an onton tently SQUANDERED coin, you'll) pe! iasep he galarwed (he interior te 5a GQROCER—Why certainly, !] Portepe, end perhaps he is ohy tr! stolen piliter Rave a strange story | Gay, June ¢. atinelihas thus as eT at REO 8 nies ae ~—