The evening world. Newspaper, January 13, 1917, Page 6

om co o ? $ ALASS OF THE LUMBERLANDS “Quick,” gasped Helen. ‘This is Holmes’s work. We've got to get to that bank. If the doors close we are ruined.” : And, boarding an engine, she sped away to ¢ balk the head of the lumber trust. $ READ IT HERE-—SEE IT ON THE FILM 4 PELPEEOE EOS IDEEE SNEED OEE IE OIG HEED EEG By &. Alexander Powell. * Somyright, 1016 by BA v Protuced by the stentl Par Goevorstion, *hAea Mutual Film Krohonewe, BYNOVSIS OF PRECEDING CHAPTERS, ‘of the North Woods, disappointed ‘th t becoming the father of a con, sbandone thie wife and chit by the Fiver ‘thinking them o i jumber trust head. who ter bg marries, Wut the. {immer ‘pert esis ag Tedeomntea itr eon, et Sam, Eleventh Episode. OLMES'S determination to prevent the building of the lumber road extension had in no wise been lessened by the defeat of his pluns for making trouble among the men working on the grade, or fail- ure of the attempt to run off Helen's relief gang which had been secured at Capitol City. “Dollar” Holmes knew that his notes, aggregating several hundred thou- wand dollars, were deposited in the Dawson bank by Dawson and his asso- ‘The franchise granted Holmen for the building of the railway con- tained @ distinct clause compelling him to put the road through to Horden's station, and the only way to evade its provisions was by some such trickery as now simmered tn the mind of the magnate, It was a plan to depoait an ‘account at the Dawaon bank, induce @ number of his employees to do the game, and then start a run upon the institution, When Bohrens entered Holmes's of- ~ : fice in response to a summons the day | re after the failure of the Shady Creek | hold-up, he expected to be subjected to a tirade of abuse from his sharp ongued employ aut to his aston- fshmont Holmes was suave and smil- ns'a men, who were scattering into the timber near the rallway, Dawson rushed for the switch. A bullet Wwhizzed past his ear With one determined effort he closed the switch, giving Helen a clear track, Just as two of the men stepped out from behind a tangle of timber and began firing at close range. “Good enough!" yelled Dawson. “I'l do a Iittle shooting on my own ac. count now," and turning loose a pair of automatics he drove his assailants to cover. Round the curve swept No. 40, “hite ting only the high spots,” as Dawson afterward observed Despite tho succession of shots fired by Dawson at the ren hiding in the timber, they auce d in putting sev. eral bullets into the cab of the en- ging as Helen sped by. The plan of Hebre: been to waylay the engine on tts way to Merced, but now they had @ better {dea from their point o2 view, It was to topple the engine over on its way ke to Dawson and seize th king away with it befo or Holmes could int I think we can sew ‘om up this time if we lay our plans weil,” he re- marked, waving Behrens to a seat, “in fact the men on Dawson's contracts! aid in checks on the local . If we can make that concern stick up ite shutters it will tle up their capi and knock out apy chance of their finishing the road. Pay day was always a day of anxicty to the Dawsons, The new ang of men brought in from Capitol Site was made up of better material | than the rest of the crew, but a cer- | tain percentage of the men drank too much after cashing their pay checks, | and failed to show up on the grade for days. i There was more than that prospect | to worry about this pay day, as Daw- ! fon was soon to realize, Like a wireless message caught out of the, air a rumor had reached camp that the Dawson bank was about to sus- 4 payment or had already done tke Maguire, head of one of the! : per ganar, demanded to know of Dawson whether there was any pros- pect of ‘the bank's failing, and was assured by the contractor in all sin- cerity, that the Institution wan solid. | Hardly had the words left his lps | than word was brought by arrivals on the noon train from the south that) ® ran had been started on the bank | and hundreds of the depositors were | congregated in line waiting for their moraui gasped Helen, “the big ie Holmes’ work. We've} to that bank and see what If the doors close we ns'a gang had hrens associates. and life, o 506. * Banker Scott at Merced was all ready with the cash, It was contained in a leather bag. As soon as Helen rolled into the station the specie was rushed to her from an automobile that stood walting. When the bi watered and ¢ young fireman way station crowd and, stowed under th for Dawson, Helen felt somehow that she was to “She's a good game kid ought to get a chance for her machine had heen up, Helen and her d farewell to the he bag of money cab seat, pulled out ee do: ean be done, encounter treachery on the return aro ruined.” j trip, but placing her faith in Dawson When the automobile reached the/ she determined ty keep running at dank a mob was congregated before! high speed, LEE RSet > nen ES its doors th reached for half 4/ But what had happened to Dawson block. What had happened was plain) was Just what might have been an- as day. Holmes and his employees to ticipated. ite had fired all but (wo the number of several hundred had! of the cartridges in his platela and drawn out all their deposits and the} had no reserve supply ¢ nition. specie reserve of the bank had been) Facing this situation tue woodsinan depleted to the vanishng point knew that he must be overpowered Helen and Tom Dawson made their | in case the band cl in on him way into the Institution through a] In this dilemma Dawson deter r entrance. Mooney, the Pre mined to lure the band ay from f dent, sat in his office, the pletur despair “What is to be done?” demanded Helen, when the situation had been de plain to her, “Haven't you any the switch so far as lay In his pe With this idea he broke cove vf dodging from stump to stump, made his way toward the steep banks of the river, about a quarter of a mile jan which the run may be | away, checked At the point for which Dawson was “Well, there's plenty of cash In the| steering, the banks of the Onawa ether bank at Merced,” groaned the] were seventy feet high and the awift sh, | banker, “but I can't get an engine to Ko after it—that's Holmes's doing, too. 7 can’t understand why he wants to break us.” “It jan't you he's after—!t's the inde- Pendent lumbermen,” said Helen, | “He proposes to tie up our cash so| that we can't finish the lumber road, | How much money is there in cash at river ran here at express train speed, especially in the spring of the year, when the water was high, Seeing their ass they Imanigend, Be mined to run him down, and ao the chase began, Dawaon ‘running in short dashes and then taking cover, doubling and twisting like a rabbit | ant in retreat, as hrens's men doiore pursued by dogs But Behrens's men were game, ‘They struggled through the thick growths, ng and perspiring, only to find Merced?” “Something Mke $200, Mooney; “plenty if we had it “Write me an order on the Me re} h Bank for as much cash as you d Dawson had emerged into « snapped Helen. “I'll get it here. Tom,” | clearing and was running like a grey- she added, “go out and talk to those| hound for the bank of tho river, people.” On her way into town Helen had! Noticed a light engine standing near he junction. Her plan was to eolae | this and make the run Helen left the bank by the One instant the pursuers saw Daw. #on poised on the edre of the cliff and the next he » nward Into the rushing current, Only then did the meaning of the ruse dawn on them, War in their rear made her way swiftly to the jun they ard four short, sharp blasts ‘To her delight, (he engine was aiready | of @ whistle and then’ the pounding tired up. » siid the big ne | of locomotive wheels, out on th rack—slowly s Helen Holmes had passed the dan- wnd then, asx it gathered momen ger point on her homeward journey opened the throttle wide. | and was safe | ape gnsine hadn't gone a mile be- 1% ® fiuonce. “ehrews cursed tong und |¢ The Twelfth Episode of fee A few minutes later he “e| i Menchimons Ant at nr sng’? "14 A Lass of the Lumberlands “Throw tue lower switch and ditch Will Be Published Saturday, Jan, 20 No. 4, running wild northbound," | jy Was the message that Annis picked . off the wire. | ——- Dawson had figured out ke a flash| Motor Boat for Mr. Pulltser that the ewisen wonld be He { Sabmarine ger point. Wat! i rAMFOR Yonn, an. The pty i ; ‘ “ar ~ a ¢ ‘ Ri, 13 Th uders ompany of this place has i é “4 ann i Feselved an order from Ralph Pulitzer eg ergle | ef the World for a motor boat bulit The lumberman arri only just in} 08 the lines of the rament time. Two of Be men were| 1 of the submarine chasing mo- throwing the switch as he re ed a at bullt by Luders, Br. Pulit- dense patch of timber beside the main track, from which point the switen. | from 1 track ran into pine forest | MEMBERSHIP APPLICATION * zer'som r boat will be 71 feet tong With 13 feet beam, It was stated at the Luders plant. It will b epeed boat. +s hae ; Cut out this coupon, fill out and mail to the Housewives’ Protective Association, Evening World, Post Office Box 1354. j 1917, ' Daaat se fan's A ATCO ARAN f I desire to enroll my name as a member of The Evening World's Inclose 2-cent stamp and membership token will be mailed. Housewives’ Protective Association. “JOAN THE WOMAN” TURNEDINTO STORY FOREVENING WORLD — | Tale of Maid of Orleans Itlus- trated by Scenes From | Great Photo-Play. “Joon the Woman a@ story based bi4lon the big photo-play production tn | which Geraldine Farrar te appearing | a8 Joan of Arc at the Forty-fourth Street Theatre, will appear tn alx in- stalments in The Evening World, | beginning Monday. | No motion picture in the history of | the screen has aroused #0 much {n- terest as “Joan the Woman,” which is a graphic and thrilling recital of }the adventures of the Maid of Or- leans from her girlhood tn the Village of Domremy to that eventful morn- ing in 1481 when sho was sacrificed 4s a martyr to iiberty in the square of the Town of Rouen, Joan of Arc, according to best au thorities, was about sixteen years old when tho first revelations came to her in the form of told her ehe was to lead the armies of France into battle, save the nation and crown the King, Charles VIL. At seventeen years she set forth from | Domremy to seek audience with the Governor of the province who was to send her to Charles, according to the advice of her “voices.” ‘The road to | the King, then at Chinon, was beset with diMculties and dangers, but de- | spite rebuff and derision, Joan of Are persisted and won the confidence of the weakling ruler, | Tho novelization of “Joan the | Woman" will recount picturesquely tho subsequent adventures of the Maid, who since has been deemed a saint and ta worshipped as auch. Her victorious battles and her extraor- dinary powers over men and women leod to the day of her capture by the ener |; story The of Joan of Are ts the only Ife history. on ord in which every incident from birth to death ts a matter of the are copy of the minutes Trial of 1431, during which Joan withstood the questions of the most brilliant men of her times during an examination lasting 100 days, Geraldine Farrar, when a student of music, travelled through the provinces of Loraine tn France and studied the Ife and times of Joan of Are, Her enthusiasm over the clar- of the peasant girl who stood besides Kings, of the child of the people whe could netther read nor write yet who ruled a nation by her power of personallty, always had i pealed to Miss Farrar as @ characte fon she wished to portray on the stage. The novellz: hy scenes specially posed jon will be illustrated by Miss B De Mille, —_——-— |U, S. WOULD SPEED TRAINS TO AID EIGHT-HOUR PLAN Suggests Substitution of 12 Miles an Hour for the 100 Miles a Day Idea. WASHINGTON, Jan, 13.—In a sup- plemental brief in the Adamson law test case, received to-day at the Su- preme Court for formal filing next Monday, the Department ofsJustice makes suggestions for machinery to put the law Into effect, Under existing railroad wage con- tracts the brief declares the phrases “day's work” and “day's wage" & well recognized meaning in most freight service contracts to be “100 miles or less at ten miles an hour.” By substituting a 12 1-2 mile per hour “speed basis” for existing 100-mile ten-hour day scale, the brief assert. ed, the Adamson eight-hour stand- ard can be generally put into prac- tical operation, The following proposed indorse ment on existing ten-hour contracts Was submitted to the court: than eight hours constitutes a day's - LOUISE HGF AND AC Vows STRAND CELEBRATE, SOLOISTS ees __ PATENTS. | Fares, ‘2Fede-marks, Copyrigiity, sour ideas, Ture valuable bovks Tio Yentions wanted veut true chard Bh. Owen, Ratent, Jawrer, THE EVENING WORLD, Farrar under the direction of Cectl! have | “Whenever by this schedule move | BROADWAY AT 4:7 STREET, ALL NEXT WEEK ‘Boris’ at Opera; Philharmonic to Have a Jubile | By Sylvester Rawling. | 66PQORIS GODUNOFK,” that fas- B cinating opera of Moussorg- | | thrilling tmpersonation of Bors, [the superbly tragic dpath ecene, In | the cast were Margarete Ober, 1 | Mattfeld, Paul Althouse, Leon foth- jer, De Segurola, Bada, Schlegel, |Rosst and Bloch, all familar, and |Kathieen Howard, a new comer, as {the nurse, Mr. Polacco conducted. Eva Liminana, a young planist from the Argentine Republic, gav recital at Aeolian Hall yesterday withhold comment upon her playing until she makes another appearance. |In the evening, at the aame hall, the Rubel Trio gave a concert divided jinto Formal Music,” | Music” and “Informal Musto,” the lat- lter devoted to folk-songs, and ending | with Perey Grainger 'Strand." The pleyers were Edith jand Brenda Putnam, piano, a trio of jyoung women who gave pleasure tc those who heard them. At Carnegie |Hall tn the afternoon the Philhar- monle Orchestra, under Josef Stran- ) aky, repeated the programme of Thurs- day night aughter of Francis Finlay, member of Canadian Parliament, and widow of Melville Stowart, of tle Square | Opera fame, as “Columbia” sang last fight at the Civic Ball at the Hot | Diltmore, |. The Jubilee Festival of the Phil- 1 harmonte Soctety, Josef Stransky, nductor, begins on Wednend: evening at Carnegie | priv concert for members of the | soclety. it will open with Beethoven's | fifth symphony, which was the in- |troductory number of the first Phil- harmonte programme seventy-five years ago. Oswald Garrison Villard, | the President, will deliver an address on “The Philharmonte Society.” The concerts of the Jubliee—all of aré open to the public—are for ay evening, Friday afternoon, 1 Sunday after- f nein g th | noon, repre: tlon werles 0 of importan pearance in Chotr of Bethichem, Pa.—its three hundred singers to be brought here by the courtesy of Charles L. Schwab, The Thursday evening programme has been arrange to honor the mem- Jory of Joseph P ", the benefactor of the Philharmonic’ Soctety, The | programme will be devoted éntirely to his favorite composers, Beethoven, Wagner s2t, and will include ac will be the latt ‘wust” symphony. Mendelssohn Glee Club will nd will sing Beethoven's Nature's Praise of God. 14 jon of tts own conductor, L jKoemmenich. The Friday programme will feature American and French composers. At the final ‘on: on Sunday afternoon, the programme will be American, French and Slavic, the principal number the |"Irom the New World” symphony of | Dvorak’s, dedicated to the Philhar- monic Soclety. The final number will be the American fantasy of Victor Herbert, who conducted several of Philharmonic Soclety's concerts |during the three years when Its con- CONCERTS AND MUSIC. ___ PHILHARMONIC JOSEPH STRANSKY, Conductor, | Jubilee Festival Concerts CARNEGIE HALL | Thurwtay ‘Evenings, Jan, 19, af 8.30 | Beethoven—Wagner—Liszt Friday Afternoon, Jan, 19, at 2.30, American-French Program | Saturday Evening, Jan, 2 8.30, | Bach-Beethoven Program Sunday Afternoon, Jan, 21, at 3, | American-——French—Slavic |Ticketa at Box Office, Felix F, Lelfele, Mer. | NEW YORK Crry. ORC ESTRA | MBTROPOLITAN ARTISTS | CARRIE BRIDEWELL —and— ALFRED NEW MAN T, CHORNS 01 ‘ i ys Ave PIANO RECITAL ENTON work, the same is hereby reduced to | Tickets 60c to $2. Met. Haensel & Jones. elght hours, whether herein stated In | Gomedy Thea, Tuees Atte June d terms of hours or in terms reducible} Eva, Gaut ier | thereto, and all overtime shall he Rosh 3 9 aid i Oshanara pe ian pane pald pro rata | Ticknta now on aalna: How "Ofte PHOTOPLAYS. t _PHOTOPLAYS, { \ \ F *° PiékForD COREA EXPECTATIONS" aus Snue ITH GENERAL ’ | KE S * Y IN ROU ISEN PROEPLS |) VV ROG f f-425%2 8] Weekly (OPEN Daity B Fd 022 TLL 7 RM, (ROY DIAMONDS binEct | Ay taped Mek Wuey 2 ASTLE z 3 K Py) 6 vouT, | : ; = <0 ‘tien nam ch Fi Soon SaS7%, | 81 REDE ue POLN APLEa D | e been It held @ large audience fascinated to phon: the end, Adamo Didur repeating his in N with Subscription series, certs were under the direction of suest conductors, The Philharmonte ts the third old- est organization of ita kind in the world, only the London Philharmonic and the Vienna Philharmonic having organized previously, A remarkable ge concert is an- Rounced for the Metropolitan Opera House on Tuesday evening in ald of the Vacation Association, It will en- list the services of the Boston Sym- phony Orchestra, under Dr, Karl sky's, got its turn at the Muck, Mr, Paderewski and Mr. Krois- | Metropolitan Opera House last night. /¢* It will bo tho first time in twon- hree years that the Boston Sym- 'y Orchestra has given a concert ew York outside of its regular In the spring of 1893, with Mr, Paderewski as soloist, the Orchestra, under Arthur Nikisch, enora gave @ special concert in the Metro- | Sparkes, Raymonde Delaunots, Marie polltan pera House in aid of the fund to build the Washington Arch, Incidentally, Mr, Paderewski played then, aa he will on Tuesday night, the Schumann concerto, and, curiously enough, ho had not played this con- certo with the Boston Symphony Or- chestra since that time until the | Christmas concerts of the Orchestra al “Romantic | Rurme visions” which ;/tubel, violin; Marte Roemet, ‘cello, | Genevieve Finlay Stewart, | Hall with a) New York of the Bach) The, | | | his season, The Musio League, in which Mrs. afternoon, She was extremely nery-|Otto Kahn ts a moving spirit, will ous and, perhaps, It were kindness to|‘*tUre @ dancer in its concerts on Jun. 28 at the Comedy Theatre, Roshanara, the Ortental dancer, will {appear in & musteal medley composed the songs and dances of Burma, Hindustan, Java of the Far Kast, "6 dances to the singing of New York a collection of Javanese, “Handel on the | “lay and other Oriental songs. Organ recitals at high schools to- Albert Reeves Norton: Rrooktyn, and Miles 1'A: the Eastern District, Brooklyn Maurice Halperson, music critic 6 the Now Yorker Staats-Zeitung, an- & series of twelve lectures in ish on th ., 23, College of Music. Prominent pianists and vocalists will fllustrate the lec- | tures. The People's Music League will sive free concerts this week at these pub- Ne schools: Tuesday, No. 116; Wedne: day, No. 63; Thursda: i day, Nos. 21 and 11 The New York City Orchestra, as- | sisted by Carrie Rridewell and Alfred | Newman as soloists and by a chor of 1,000, will give a free concert the City College to-night. Oliver Denton, a young American Planist, will give his first New York recital at Aeolian Hall afternoon, Samuel A. Baldwin will give a freo organ recital at City College to-mor- row afternoon, John Cushing will give a free organ recital at Calvary Church Monday afternoon. 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Schuits, “when theses gangsters began to shoot. I wasn't afraid but I just dropped right down flat on the sidewalk. I know how the gangsters shoot. PHOTOPLAYS, 20000 Most Amazing Fim Achievement of the Age, tion | Fy \gnta and Beenee enkod. Th Theatre at dist St, Stanter V. Masthavm, Mi EXTRA--$10,000 mt any were tak elsewh hottom of the nea. rx Rothantel SUNDAY, | Direstion of 8. I COMMENCING The Metro Mic MISS ETHEL BARRYMOR in “THE WHITE RAVEN” By CHARLES A. LOGUE SIDNEY | demestic Bialte Topteal 1 “Spote of Interest in Amerie: Shutnont Brent Art Feattre, Hugo Riesenfeld, Cond, Rendering Veapers”™ Overture, be Gliseppe No Advance tn Prica, Always W LEAGUES UNDER THE Man. Director, Will Be Bs DREW Thrilltng—Spectacular—Dramatic. NOTHING LIKE IT ON EARTH med at the sare id ates Corporation Presenta E Ww life, History’ Incomparable Rialto Orchestra nineteen birds ate from herhandasthough they were tame—at seventeen she led an army to battle—at burned at she was | TH ST. THEATRE Just West of Broadway Her devotion the greatest Photo Maste 25c to $1.00 “ the stake by the people she loved, who did not understand. and self-sacrifi¢e form epoch ever recorded in the life of a nation. A Story now told for the first time by the most mar- velous Motion Picture of the present day. ! JESSE L. LASKY presents GeraldineFarrar ’ in CECIL B. DE MILLE’S rpiece ‘JOAN THE WOMAN’ The Story of Joan the Woman’ will be published complete in six instalments in The Evening World, commencing NEXT MONDAY--READ IT! WICE TO-DAY AMD» 2.10 & EVERY @* DAY 8.10 Few Choice Seats $1.50 and $2.00 They ehut their « eyes and fire high. One bullet struc poor Strauss and he went alongside me, dead.” The witness said he didn't see Gor- don fire the fatal shot, but Identified him as a man he saw in the crowd after the shooting. “<=