The evening world. Newspaper, March 6, 1920, Page 7

er r > ee NEEDED BY —_—~_— Operation Now Is Only Up to 10 Per Cent. of Capacily —-People Are Losers, MUST BE FULLY USED. A Plea for Grain Elevators and Other Port Facilities, By Sophie Irene Loeb. One of the bills scheduled to go through the present Legislature and Become law is a referendum to the voters, this year, to appropriate $25,- 000,000 to the State Barge Canal, In round figures this waterway has already cost the State $165,000,000. Although the best year it ever had hes just been prssed, it !s only run- ning 10 per cent. of its capacity. This contemplated appropriation of $35,000,000 is for the purpose, mainly, of building terminal grain elevators and such equipment. While the fact remains that there are no grain elevators, and that they are a necessity so that grain may be properly carried on the canal, yet up to this writing there is no assut- ance that railroads, now under their own control, will not continue to fur- ther undermine the canal as a carrier. competition as between the railroads and the canal, which in the past hai nm the real Nemesis in the development of this most valuable waterway. Also there no assurance that such a differential lished as between the railroads and the water carrie courage t! get to work in any kind of return People for its $155,000,000 expen- diture. ‘The following facts are significant: The canal transportation is much faster than the railroads as traffic is handled to-day. A handsome profit can be readily realized, according to all authorities, if the operating basi: There is conclusive evidence of ab- normally low cost of transportation on the canal. CANAL OUGHT TO CUT THE COST OF GRAIN, For example, as to grain: steamer and consort carrying cargo from New York to Buffalo accom- plished the trip in a little more than four days at an operating cost of but 141 mille per ton mile, or about 45 cents per ton. The cargo carried paid a rate of $1.50 per ton. Thus the net earning for the trip was more than $1 per ton. of gtain, such operating costs would be less than 1% cents per bushel of wheat. The wheat rate at present is 97 cents per bushel, showing even ® greater percentage of profit on the grain trafiic Everybody who understands the transportation of freight points to the fact that the cheapest way to transport it is to float it. And the finest_medium in the country is the New York State Canal. Splendid facilities are available at practically all ports for the reception und delivery of package freight and the lower grade bulk commodities but, strange to say, no provision has been made for the accommodation of the grain traffic, which normally con- stitutes at least 50 per cent. of the east bound tonnage. As a contrast to how the canal has actually deteriorated in carrying value of grain, in 1830 the canals carried over 30,000,000 bushels of wheat from Buffalo and over 10,000 bi gaged in the business. During the 1919 season of navigation but §00,000 bushels were transported and than 400 barges w: mployved. The operation of the Barge Canal by the Government was a failure and every effort is being made to have the Government return it to the State, so that independent operators may be encouraged to build up the traffic. ac- cording to the Superintendent of Pub- lic Works, b es CAPITAL IS SLOW IN FIN- NCING THE CANAL. Hoy / there is legislation pend- ing in hington, that according to the 8S. authorities, seriously threatens the yelfare of the canal, One of these, hk °t. 4378, known as Esch-Pomerene =, proposed as an amendment to the Federal Act to Regulate Commerce, to extend the control and jurisdiction of the Inter- state Commerce Commission over car- riers on the inland waterways, in- eluding the New York canals. Until these matters are settled in- ividual investors in canal transpor- tation are unwilling to provide capl- tal for development, if, as they say, they are to enter ‘into competition with subsidized Government control, On the other hand, some of the larger concerns that have been using the canal have increased their operations. Among these are the General Electric Company, the Standard Oil Company and the Ore Carrying Corporation, ‘As to the Standard Oil Compaly, their tank barges, carrying 190,000 gallons or more each trip, were sent as far West as Syracuse on the Erie Division and northerly to Whitehall on the Champlain Division, The ton- mage carried, consisting mostly of gasoline and kerosene, aggregated 46,151 tons, an increase of more than 30,000 tons over 1918. It is believed the canal operitions of this corpora- thon have proved highly satisfactory and economical and large de Pp ments are expected in future years, *BITUATION IN NEW YORK 18 INTOLERABLE.” In his recommendation for the $25,- 00,000 appropriation, Edward 8. Walsh, Superintendent of ft ublic Works, sets forth the situation as nn confitent the acquisition or 1 and operation by the a part of its terminal me, of grain elevators at the lake of Buffalo Oswego, and at nal can be put on a full b Al Measured in terms |‘ NEW YORK CITY _ = : : TA tow tet Om MA toe tet Ces > Ajax Robber = Me 1% + Tet Ma M. of mm o-% Aimein Gold 2250. 2% — ML Be et sn 8 — % Aleta Junrea s 2 2 Mm Poe .. 7 * m%— % Am, Bet Soe s 4% @ +23 | ine Petes “a 2 ae-% Am Ce. on a Kay Goes “| 6K I + Am. Cor & Féry.. 12% 11% or — ©) Kamerce . | ed cd Amn, Bumacre = Ketone Thee Pa ee) An, Eqres Sal Sd Kanme Chy Go. u% of ™ am, Hide = + Bi ieome Ine. mS SS N+ SS am. HL sad 4+) lite & Te. WS BD UN + OD ; am oe = igs Veney a. of 4 sd sit sje m... + 2% DS Wh + & aA Am, ae es pi a — = ues 106 + 2) asee Gud ccs eon we an a = Meow Pa, 2. B Zh LH— % yr -“ Liked 4 : Nat. Aniline ae we ae Twenty-Six of Them Pay Pen- a= 118% Kee Mons Scams us anew See 4 1% + Se] Nat . ally for Extortion in am “ — &[x ene 5 Pa 2 -& a. Sa + *) Nett o oid Storm Period. Am. 6 +2 | Nene Pee, = i oe 4 *» Sera Seetia Steal. Ot ~™ ‘Taxi drivers who preyed upon a +” |e el oe stranded public during the recent Tie + %| Pan der. Pousl.. 67% «= ¢@ blizzard while the street car lines e° ola eee bod were at a standstill, and whose > tina eee = profiteering was exposed by The Eve. te = Spun gine on 2% ning World, have been brought to 10% Putce 08 1° +3 book at last and twenty-six of them band Pitts, Ona... +% have been suspended by Deputy Com- peg | nll I Hoes of Licenses James F. 1% + % | att Sent toring ee All the cases were heard in the Find [mdr anall = License Bureau at No. $7 Centre = Mop. Tron & Soest Street, where John Drennan, Ch 11% — %| Rove Deen &. x8 the Bureau of Licensed Vehicle 61% + 2 |Sexon Soto 3 | sented the individual complaints. The rt Seuboant Ate Line eee Evening World's expose of the goug- on te Sisttate ing hackmen was augmented by t leeem aan Pe. | numerous individual charges by citi- a lean Pacific ides zens, = % | Southern Ry .. The case against John Prendergast, Stekteter a chauffeur, of No. 215 East 89th hy ‘Stuts Motor, ia Street, aroused the ire of Commis- bal Aras i sioner Geraghty when Mrs. Eb Guerin Biot re Clements of No. 2731 Broadway ap-| Co Fut LBs x Seu T. & Be peared and testified that Prendergast, |Co Grumovtone. bd feta aa after conveying her from one or two, O™* Cole las on = department stores, abandoned her, bl bang = compelling her to engage another taxi, bell emery cq and next day appeared at her home, bff fe er insisted upon seeing her and demanded by fees 73 $10, which was paid him through fear. i ‘Tress. zy Prendergast denied threatening Mra. served rae Clements. He admitted receiving $10, | © ped ae but denied that it was more than what 51: was due him. He said he turned the bog money over to his employer, John J. be (Se Bc +* Kelly of No. 921 Amsterdam Avenur. oS ae me | A refund of the overcharge was or- gag be Tie dered and Prendergast lost his 1 . bpd FY ls Henry M. Kennedy of No. 50 Am- et ein sterdam Avenue overcharged a man 1 a 8 Ete oe who was hurrying to Flower Hospital deine ed with his child, who was critically in, |G a: panats $4 Chester Travers of No. 234 East| Ge Motors Hae pa 113th Street, owner of a tax! operated | Gem, Motors De. 1% TI TIM — & Le oma James Di Maggio of 45th Street, uo oR Fe pha |Edgemere, L. 1, against whom The 3 8 & x,‘ at-ee ° | Evening World specifically com- plained, suffered the suspension of his| wens can. 12% 12% — % operating license for his failure to ap- 10° we m0 4a aE ee pear before the License Commissioner when ordered t eee We WR — 10 ae SAFE BREAKERS GET $2,000. Po! Supp News of Robbery of Broome Street Silk Merchant. Burglars jimmied the safe of Adolph A. Bezoz!, No. 429 Broome Street, silk manufacturer, Thursday night and got Jaway with $1,500 worth of silk and $500 lin Liberty Bonds. The police suppressed the news, but it was learned to-day. This is the second burglary in the same building within The Jearlier one netted about New York City, will do more toward placing transportation conditions on @ sound permanent basis than any other factor. “The situation in New York Harbor as to the handling of grain reaching hat port by water, canal or intolerable. In the who! harbor of New York, through which, since the Civil War days, 50 per cent. of the foreign and domestic com- merce of all of the ports of the United 200 Nat 100 Nor h its elim. wiped out and w ination wi 100 Carbo Hydro . 200 Cleveland Aut 200 Cuban Am 900 General Asphal 200 Indian Packing 900 Orpheum Circuit 200 Perfection Tire 200 Rep Tire Rub . 100 Root Vandervort 900 Submarine Bost 300 Sweets Co .. 200 U 8 High Speed Tool .. 2200 U 8 Steam 400 Suprior OU Shares, Hig. Low. MISCELLANEOUS. 1000 Acme Coal .. 1% 1% 200 American Candy ” © 100 British Am Tob coup... 18 2000 British Am Tob coup rta 6% Fireproof pt Am Paper .. States has been handled, there are| ‘? United Pict Pra... 18H but five or six grain elevators. IADB RNDENE OILS, “Only two of these elevators are go | 7700 Allied OU 4 situated as to receive can! borne | #7100 *Amal Royalty Lae grain and these two are owned and| 420 Boone OW Pod operated by railroad companies com-| 100 Carib Bynd bd peting with, the canal route for the | 200 Citles Ser “BY att = grain traffic. It is unreasonable to| $0 Costa & Co 4 8% that these elevators would be | 35¢@ Dominion OU . A 238% lable for canal grain, and barges| 400 Deauesne .-- on teaching New York with grain car- | 1000 Bik Basia Pet bd] goes are therefore obliged to wait the | $00 Ertel ou . 1% arrival of the ocean vessel to which | 50¢ Emeralds * the grain will be transferred for ex- 4 port before they may discharge. 2% “More often than not, this practice Le takes the barge out of service one, | 1200 Island OU 1% two, ree weeks, sometimes | 500 Kay County Ges. 2 Tengery crues, the oper- | 2000 Livingston 1% ator lc g yalue of the 1 ase heh ed by barge, and the shipper {s compelled etrope to assume expenses that make che] 100 Produqrs & Refine % { of canal transportation prohibi- | 1700 Ryan Ou ... 3% tive. No matter how many barges| 2¢ Salt Creck Prod. oe ice or how much grain} 500 Sequoyek OU. * may b9 available for shipment, if the] 1) Simms Petroleum bad e ew York is not reme-| 100 Skelly Ou uk 1% | died, the canal grain business will be | 198 Socncer Petroleum w+. 38% 1% 18 Last. Shares High. Low. Lan. m% 1% 1% 1% 0% ° a 8 rr] 1% 1% % » Ey 6 | 1900 Alas Br Cot iW 2% % $8 | 1500 atlanta 2 5 14% | 3000. *Melcher Divide . 3 om 4M 15 | 1000 *Retcher xt. “ 5%} 1000 Booth .... 5 51% | 3500 *caled Mining 35 4%! 300 Canada Copper . Mw 4%) 110 Con Virginia *% bi 200 Crescent Mod * 16%) 100 DeBeers Minas “a an | 100 52 Balador 3 fy | 1000 *Gold Kewane . 20 8 Lin} 2700 Gold Merger. a 88 2000 "Gold Silver Pick. i .5 8 ay | 2000 *Gold tone... 308 gs] 7% Honduras 87a 1 18) (a 1% | 2000 ‘Jumbo Rxtension ™ ™% ™% 2p | 2000 *Knox Divide tote. of 30% | 100 Louisiana Co. aA ot tx | 1000 *MeKin Dar a a reg | 8900 MeNamare % oA 6 | 2000 *Rex Cons mm 8% Roper Group . * * K * % 5 ET; aA ow 3% | 1809 oh OM 3 | 2000 “Tonopah Metmont a it 1000 *Tonopeh Cash Boy..,, 8 8 8 1600 *Tono-dim B u “ 1500 *Tonopah Midway 1 SB 1000 Tonopab Min % 2% 2% 1090 *Tonopah Reswwe Bula. 19 19 19 200 United Fastern . 3% 3% «3% 1000 *White Cape ou 150 *White Caps Ext 4°35 200 *Wilbert .....6 tosis at 1500 *Yerrington aio ee nw 21% | 3000 Russian Gov 6%. Mm a 1s | 3900 Russian Gor 6% 3% 88 go the very foundation of canal traffic WANTS ELEVATOR WITH A CA- PACITY OF 5,000,000 BUSHELS. “I urge, therefore, that necessary appropriation be made for the imme- diate construction of a modern grain elevator at Now York with a storag capacity of from three to five mil- lon bushels of erain. “Aside from the export grain traffic there is another feature that should |be considered in connection with the “While this country has hereto- fore produced a surplus of cereal with our rapidly increasing popu the time may come when tic consumntion exceeds preduction and we must look to the great undeveloped areas of South America and of Central Europe for our cereal. supply. opened charges ported approximately 25 per cent. of the total wheat exports of the prin- Buffalo out of a total of 168,000,000 | Harria on a charge of stealing $3,000 of rings after smashing the show bushels shipped from the head of the | Worth Great Lakes.” ROBBERS GET $2,000 IN SILKS AND BONDS Negro Rescued From Angry Crowd Accusing Him of Stealing $3,000 Worth of Rings, When Adolph A, Bezoz!, silk manu- away their loot when the building was in the morning. Three silk jobbers at No, 159 West of the West 30th Street Station say they found tn the shop $5,000 worth of goods whose ownership the arrested men could A negro giving the name of Thadeus Harris, no address, was rescued from an cipal Gulf and Atlantic ports. Its|angry crowd near Herbert 8. Serison’s percentage tn 1880 was but 7 per cent. | jewelry ‘ In 1915 over 100,000,000 bushels of emery bie! + Rigen bed are Canadian wheat came to the port of | treet: ari pore abtyrs window with @ Drick, IN NEW YORK TO-DAY. St. Vincent de Paul Ladies’ Auxiliary Fresh Air Fund, euchre, Hotel Com- modore, evening. Cloth Examiners and Shrinkers, ner, Hotel Pennsylvania, 7 P. M. Western Electric Company, luncheon, Hotel Pennsylvania, meeting. Queensboro League of Mothers’ Clubs, meeting, Hotel Pennsylvania. din- Jelevator project. At present there is | ‘acturer, reached his plant at No. 429) “neice Upsilon Fraternity, luncheon, Imported through New Yori consid-| Broome street yesterday, he found the] Motel Mt Alpin, 129 Pt erable quantities of Argent: Jax ; erprise) Music Supply, entertain- seed. The waterway handled during | {or strewn with cigarette butts and| ment and dance, Hotel BcAipin, 8 P.M, the 1919 season over 1.325.464 bushels |.ne safe jimmied. Sitks worth $1600] qioinnatys jpetitute, dinner, Hoel Me of this commodity. Also some corn] jnd $500 in Liberty Bonds had been|~ Women's Law. C ‘ iétel is imported ana it ia'not Improbable | unt the pollee believe the wungtara| Medina, ix Akac ny” HeCune Mole pet tho futee wiEn cgeverem lepent the night in the place end carried| gMgie © MMiee Hotel MoMbn, § Delta Pi Sigma, dinner, Hotel McAl- pin, 7 P. M.; dance. 8 P. M. No. 158, luncheon, Hotel McAlpin, 1 P, M. 39d Street, were arrested last night on Aerial Rowing Club, dance, Hotel of grand larceny. Detectives| McAlpin, § b. M Washington Chapter D. A. it, meeting, Hotel Astor, 2 P. M, Maryland College Club, Hotel Astor, 2 P.M. Ly eum Societ: musicale, L . fi SHehe such caddie ation’ sie: [not show. ‘The priacnere are Loula| Waactateria SEM em Titel vator facilities at New York at- | Marshall, Noo, 821 East 69th Street;] Audubon Lodge, No. #0, I". and A. M., tracting such commerce for canal | terman Samuels, No. 1121 West Farms| dinner, and ‘dance, Hotel Waldort-As- A as ora, P. movement would be an invaluable | poaa; and Harry Goldberg, No. 14 West| Phi Beta Delta Fraternity, dance “During the year 1918 Montreal ex- | !!4th Street. Hote weisneeietera, 0 Academy, meeting, Hotel Waldorf-Astoria, 3 P. M. Intercollegiate Assoctation of Amateu> Athletics of America Convention at Columbia University Club, 2 P. M. Manufacturers’ Aircraft “Association, aeronautical exposition, 7lst Regiment Armory, Mth Steet and Park Avenue, tithe Wholesale Coal, Trade oleaale Coal Golf Asso dimmer. Hotel Biltmore. even “Only I don't like fabricating fibs!” Her hostess had intended that evening tete-a-tete. But such a wish was doomed to disappointment. For Shirley, aft amazing circumstances of the afternoon, when her rendezvous with Jim Dalton out in Kensington Gardens had been so abruptly terminated by the arrival of Burke and the cable, decided that she wasn't in a fit frame of mind to hear Burke's praises sung—particularly by his adoring, match- making sister! Hence her excuse of frends. “But you'll come back and stay the night?” Mrs. Arnold had suggested. “Oh, no; I must get home,” Shirley had said, decidedly. “Grandmamma hasn't been so awfully well of late, and she worries when I stay away.” “You're a good little creature, Shir- ley!” came the patronizing comment. “David'll be a lucky man if he wins you!” Mrs. Arnold had insisted on know- ing the whereabouts of this ren- dezvous with “friends.” In desperation, Shirley had named the first hotel that sprang to her mind. “Yhe Carlton? I hardly like yau going to such a big place all alone I'd better go with you!” Poor Shirley felt the net closing about her again, Those hypothetical friends . it wouki be too awful if Mra, A>aold should discover that meeting 1%| she had had recourse to fibs in order 1%} to escape. “Please don't bother!” Through her raised lorgnette Mrs. Arnoki stared critically at Shirley. Was it not possible that, after all, this young woman was becouilng much too independent? Where was David, anyhow, to-night? And why wasn't he looking after her? “Oh, very well—I'll send you in the car, James can drop you at the Carl- ton and take your luggage on to Wa- tertoo.” At 6.30 that night, then—just as David Burke was leading Luctile De- range into the Cafe del Ricardo— Shirley found herscif alone in the foyer of the Carlton, without a thing to do, Her conscience—hyper-sensitive— began to trouble her over the smatl deception she had carried through. “But I couldn't ha’ jtood any more of Mrs, Arnold's good advice—kind and well meaning as she is!” Shirley glimpsed her own chic reflection in a mirror in the lounge, “‘All dressed up and no place to go!'’" she added, smiling rather bitterly. If only she had some friends in Lon- don! How extraordinarily lonely this great town could be! The train for Surrey didn't leave til nearly 9 o'clock, How on earth could she fill in the intervening time! She covid go to a “movie,” anyhow. She furnbled in her vanity bag to find her purse. It was then that Luoilie's letter caught her eye—the short note writ- ten from the village inn, Lucille had kiyen Shirley her London address and asked that damsel to come and eee her any time she was in town—a ouri- ous, rather misspelt letter, yet with a genuine ring about it. Shirley read the note through twice. In spite of all that had oc- ocurred she couldn't hate Lucille. In 9 worfd of ups-and-downs Lucille had ome off badly, getting the hardest deals. She was alone in the world— without any friends—or talent to make a eer for herself, Last night's “show” had proved the latter fact. Of course, a meeting with Lacille would reopen Shirley's trouble. For, naturally, they would talk of Jim A . Shirley hesitated. She hated pain. And yet the little flat in Soho seemed to draw her, irresistibly. She decide! she would go. She stopped before a mirror in the vestibule, fixed her becoming little hat at amore jaunty angle, fluffed a curl or two coquettishly in place then stepped out into Regent Street and set off resolutely towards Pic- cudilly. She wasn't going to let fate worst her . . that was foolish , . . and, after all, the world held other things than love! Granted she had been let down badly, why, she must rimply face the thin, She would face tt siiling, too! With pretty head held up and pink cheeks fushod io & wld rose cols, She gave her heart to him the day they met. it a hidden past? Was it a dual personality ? | Thrills and excitement, suspense and surprise blend in each fascinating instalment. Miss May Christie has woven with rare skill this ALONE IN LONDON EANWHILE, on the plea of meeting friends—devised in order to escape the lynx-eyed chaperonage of Mrs. Arnoli—Miss Shirley Marsh was deposited at the entrance to the Cariton, and her modest hand luggage borne away in Mrs. arnold’s car to Waterloo. “Whew! Glad that visit's over!” Miss Shirley drew a long, deep breath of sheer relief. She stepped into the foyer of the big hotel. Was aes the two of them should spend an the Miss Shirley presented a most be- witching picture to the passersby, On this warm June evening the London streets were crowded. Pretty girls, with their attendant cavaliers, (were entering the restaurants, Happy ccuples skidded by in taxis, In a large private limousine a big, adoring cfficer was holding hands, quite ob. viously, with a fluffy little matden, who Was making goo-goo eyes at him. It seemed to Shirley as though she, out of all the world, was solitary and unattended. . . . The whirl of traMc centring round Piccadilly stopped her progress for a moment. Then she cut across to Shaftes- bury Avenue, turned to the right and entered Soho, Lueill abode was located tn a shabby, noisy street. French and Italian children played and shouted on the pavements, or danced hilar- tously to the raucous music of the organ grinders. Fragments of de. caying vegetables marked the de parture of the Soho market. And dark-eyed, voluble Southern women chattered interminably to each other in their own particular patoi “What a noisy place!” Shirley, rather taken aback. suppose she ft it conveniently near the theatre,” she added, stepping itiously up the narrow wooden Stairs that wound aloft. LUCILLE’S FLAT. N the second floor the door of No. 8 was open, revealing a dark, narrow little hall. Shirley drew closer. On the centre of the door was tacked a similar card to the one that she herself had got: Mile. Lucille Derange, variety artiste.” Shirley walked bodly in. In the tiny kitchenette, an anti- quated “char"—beshawled’ and bon- neted—was stowing away some pac- kets in a large string bag. It was evident she was purloining some of her mistress’ provisions, She started guiltily on seeing Shirley, with a couple of eggs polsed perilously in her right hand. came t she at home? ee Mile, Derange—ia Shirley inquired, af- fecting not to notice the charwo- man’s confusion, “Yes—no—come In, miss!" The re- doubtable Mrs. Pitts was equal to the occasion, “I just stepped in to get a bit of supper ready for her against the time she returns from the theayter!” She bustled forward, flinging open the door of the little sitting room, “She's out. She's gone out to dinner with a gentleman. But sit down and rest yourself. She pushed forward a hospitable looking chair, and Shirley sank down into it, you look dead beat—out of a ‘shop’ are you, mi Mrs, Pitts was an “old pro” herself and frequently lapsed into stage vernacular, partic- ularly after u glass or two of beer, She eyed Miss Shirley sympathet- feally. The latter, naturally, mistook the meaning of the term. She shook her head. “You're lucky, for it's hard to get engagements in the off scason.” pro- | ceeded Mrs, Pitts, expansively, "I was ‘principal boy’ myself for three seasons on tour before I lost my figure. Shirley had to smile, For Mrs. Pitts's proportions were, to say the least of it, immense, around the sarish little sitting room. L ight still percolated through the beadwork window shades, | And daylight didn't show the apart- ment at its best. The bamboo “suite” looked old and gimcrack. Dust had gathered on the various knicknacks on the mantelpiece. And the Jap- anese prints and scrolls had a faded ta wdriness. . Mrs, Pitty stooped and picked up a scrap of pasteboard from the carpet, wuzing at the name thereon with in- nis ts th ntleman she's gone out with—a real toff, too—'Mr, David Burke." She glanced at Shirley to} an impression had been made. | came to ‘er this morning. d to take ‘er out to dinner to- . Iwas listening at the crack of the door. All the gentlemen like Miss le—she's got a bit of style about | Here Mrs. Pitts flung a dis- ng glance at Shirley's slinple little sult and lack of “make-up.” “Trust ‘er to get on!" she added, knowingly, Shirley rose to her feet. “L must be going,” she sald; “and By MAY CHRISTIE ===~ PPPSSSSIITOs FSSTTH: | please tell Mile, Derange that I calied.” ‘ Before Mrs. Pitts could say a word she nad traversed the narrow littie passage to the door, was down the stairs and gone. “Kum litde creature!” reflected the echarwoman. “Why, she didn't even leave ‘er name! Once out in the street, Shirley felt doubly lonely. It seemed as though she hadn't any one in all the world that really cared for her. Even David Burke—her faithful friend—was interested another woman—paying her attentions. Twice to-day he hadeseen Lucille Derange. somea he was taking her out to ne. ‘Bo begin with, Shirley had imagined that his interest in Lucille was en- vm my ph been, too, about these meetings! “I suppose he thought that I'd be jealous!" Shirley's pretty lip curled contempt y. But tears of loneli- ese had crep: into her eyes. She hi a passing omnibus in Shaftesbury Avenue and climbed up to the roof. It was going toward the Park. The roof wae crowded. There was only one seat vacant, right at the back, beside an old. old man with an asthmatic cough. The other seats were occupied by loving couples. ‘Pheir voices—low- pitched, romantic—held a positively cooing note! Shirley had selected one of London's principal mating-grounds the roof of a London omnibus on a summer’s evening—and the sight of so much romance all about her made her awn forlorn condition doubly hard to bear! The very scats—in all their cosy in- timacy—were surely specially de- signed for tet tete. Shirley could bear it all no longer. Gingerly clinging to the railing, she descended, pulled the bell-cord, the bus stopped—and she found herself once more on terra firma. Here garish posters caught her eye. The soft notes of an orchestra were wafted to her ear, Bright lights beckoned from a hos- pitable-looking building. Fate had or dained that the bus should deposit Shirley outside a moving picture palace, For half a crown she purchased a tall” and went inside But here, alas! romance once more was all too rife aes the screen a buxom damsel i uh nt le! ti it I protuberant black eyes lan- guished and “vamped.” The violins and the ‘cellos of the orchestra were wailing out a popular song hit of the moment—saccharinely sweet. And all about were—apparently— love-sick couples, holding hands, or, franker atill, with arms entwined in charming abandon, cooing in the sympathetic dusk. Shirley could only stand the place for half an hour. Then an attendant found @ taxi for her, and she sped off to Waterloo, An idea against which she had been fighting for the last two hours con- solidated in her mind. It wasn't dig- nified—it wasn't right—nay, even more, it was deplorable—but she o1 h pi if u a extraordinary that I can't ser him alone for a good half-hour's talk!" Shirley's pretty mouth set in firmer mould. “I'l fust drop him @ line and ask him for a definite ap-> pointment, without any other inter- fering person hanging round!” This with a little pout at the memory of David Burke. “Maybe he's really got an explanation of some kind. . .” ‘Thus did Miss Shirley defend her own line of action. In the waiting-room she got some paper. particularly want to see you, Jim,” she wrote, “I am going back to the White Cottage, after a wretched time in town. Won't you come down and call on me—even if it's only a flying visit? I'll take good care that we shall be quite uninterrupted, and talk things out together. shall be at home all day to-mor- row—and the next day, too, And I'll be waiting for you, Jim. “Do come—I want so terribly much to nee you!—Shirley.” She placed this missive in an en- velope, hurriediy, for fear that she should change her mind. She addressed it to the Bath Club, found a stamp and posted it, H “Thank heaven, that’s over!" she said, softly. Then she walked | restaurant, for she wi i WW fe 10 the station hungry, now on the Thames Embankment last night? An incredulous Lovered arcund the corner of smooth-shaven lps. waiking?” incredulous role. glad shown up. ma‘! had just come in and snatched up Shirley's to_see you! Thi: see ing! indefatigably. * Man ills, be told himself. He bei beam miserably blue of late. work, with sunlight filigreeing t nodding beech the Srenee . girl was young, dainty, very Marsh, terpretation of her. He hadn't the elusive charm that Tene See instance . . . wisp : couldn't transmute it into terms paint and oils without, at any rate, another “sitting” from his subject, :: recently seemed far remote! cr the studio floor. on barges and the fussy little tags ail the pharaphernalia of a busy wae terway. must be nearly and sallied f ingly aguinst his face, His gan to lift a little The after all, rather a cheery sort Love and work—these were things that vitally counted. again—things would be out. ear all tr :ble satisfactorily You say you picked this “Are you 4 weren't dreaming, Daltoa? Jim Dalton scowled. He felt easuravly A tool, Why bed Javed Ube slightest conndence money Jim had given bim om drunken revelry . . 1 tll you once igain the oi ims to be the husband of that ¥ ress woman. His name's Jim —s0 he told me—and ere’s aR ing resembiance bet- cen the tee @f 55 us—though i'm scarcely flattered 4 the relationship!” Burke smiled again—unplensamdly, . He rose to his feet. Well, 'm a busy man—I baves® ime to waste, waiting for the aja terious reiative—1 must be He nod casually te Dalton. reality he quite believed the tale. It coir’ **4 with Locilie’s suited him to affect this He was im the down-and-outer He strolled out into the hall, ttera were lying on a near-by With a little start of he saw that one—addressed to wi in Shirley's well known He glanced about him At that precise moment this par tion of the hall was empty. Obeying a sudden impulse letter ipped It Into his pocket. . . « Half an hour later, in his own cular club, he opened it. He s contents with a litte jealous e. ; Do come—I want so terribly must sink her pride like that Shirley, he won't come &® ou—not if I can prevent a meee Burke assured hi He tore ber letter into a Gomme fragments and flung them in the fire? THE PICTURE, N his big Chelsea studio facing the river one could find Jim Daltes om most summer mornings, working Work was the panacea for all Bue And so he drucged himself with — ‘The particular canvas i was ii nm wasn't, however, s is Satisfaction He took ains with it, But something | i. ad escaped him. He knew It was the picture of a very irl, seated beside a fern f: live. In short, she was Miss Shirtey But he was dissatisfied with his fm er. The expression in her eyes, Sor that eager. will-o'-the- tantalizing look And—considering all that had Bat occurred—such am @¥eBt — He rose to his feet and strode Se The sun was the river, lighting up the “Believe Til go out for a lunch-time!® fted his coat and hat, adjusted hh. The soft river breeses blew He is work~-and love would sus Wrapt in reflection, then, Fe babs srther than he had originally ime ; tended. Tt was with a start that he heag@ some on say: this weight was off her mind. Pcl dara edi thee : - realized that he had ‘vained 4 THE STOLEN LETTER, Thames Embankment near the Strand N the smoking room of the Bath Club bat David Burke and Jim Dalton, awaiting the arrival of the mystic jouble,” who was to and that his down-and-out acquaint. ance of a few days previous was standing before him, (Do Not Miss Monday's Thrilling Chapter.) No more jam raids. No more teeth full of premature —when youngsters know there's a full cookie atop the pantry shelf. more penny-~ aches from And (sh!)—as a 4 o'clock there’s nothing quite like a of cookies made with Preste. Presto, cut, even, Handle geotly. ‘Try ittoday. Other recipes im and on every package. The H-O Company, Buffalo.N.Y? *-vamestens-cnstmn el essntsiaatiments cup ol cm ~ ‘ (eS a a ee ee ee es eee ee ee