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} 4 We eee ey DRE A NIE A PL Here Are $225 in Cash Awards for Women WHO CAN DESIGN AN APARTMENT A Competition in Which Good Ideas Will Pay Big Dividends There is a blank ERE'S a great opportunity for the housewife with ideas, S plan of a four-room apartment on this page. bs The woman who takes this blank and a pencil, the record of her past Stexperience, her knowledge of housekeeping and her appreciation of household ef- ‘Belency and sets down the sum of them in a plan for a four-room apartment |s headed toward one of the liberal prizes in The Evening World's Apartment Plan ‘THE EVENING WORLD, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 22, Fino Manca eae ane Tes RY ty ae — 1922. GLED TRAILS @utnor ef “THe Yunon Trait? “THe Bic Town Rounp-Up” ere. ® @WILLIAN MACLEOD RAINE °* “ DEVELOPMENTS IN THE STORY. KIRBY LANE, rough rider, of Wyoming has come to Denver to see his CHAPTER XXtI. . “I was asking her,"’ he said, his voice JAMES LOSES HIS TEMPER. low and even, “‘about that visit you Competition. It sounds easy and it looks easy, and no woman's eyes or ears will deceive her if siw gets busy in this most interes! sting and highly useful competition. The woman who furnishes the plan found most acceptable by a jury of practical experts will receive an award of plans will receive $25 each. The women of those remaining after these four awar for their plans, $50. The makers of the three mext best who make the ten plans considered best ‘ds have been made will receive $10 each The plans will be examined and prizes awarded by a committee made up of rchitect, No. 248 East 34th Street. Miss Martha P. Sanford, Household Editor of the Women’s Home Companion. Mrs. Christine Frederick, household efficiency expert. All plans for the competition must be mailed or delivered to the Apartment Pian Editor, The Evening World, on or before Friday, March 34, 1922. the woman who has been think- ing for years of what she would do if she had the designing of her own apartment The Evening ‘World is bringing an unusual oppor- tunity. Ghe can realize that dream of hers om the blank printed on this page, put in all her fine ideas of arrange- ment of ventilation and conveniences, and if it appeals to three other prac- tical women as being better than others, she will be awarded $50, or $25, or $10, according to the way the Judges rate its merit. ‘The judges are women also, and no Professionals will be allowed to com- pete. That is why the conditions are 0 free of complications. It is all a simple matter of pencil and ruler, and @ good idea covering the work in hand, Mt will be good work for the day- time when the folks are away and the housekeeper can concentrate on her plan. It will be good for evening @iversion and perhaps other members ef the family will have lots of helpful suggestions. ‘The rule is just this On the blank printed on this page fill in wall lines for rooms, indicate doors and windows and closets. Indicate the approximate dimensions of all rooms laid out. In kitchen and bathroom spaces indicate the placing of all fixtures. Make your plan ae easily under- stood as you can and mai Apartment Plan Editor, The Eve- ning World, on or before March 81, 1922, _ ‘The blanks to be printed this week will be of floor plans of apartments of different shapes. They are typical of the more popular forms of apart- ment buildings in New York City. Each plan will be for four rooms and bath, and it is to that size that all competitors should confine their plans. ‘The judges of this competition -~e ‘women, practical women—one of them ap architect. ‘The object of the competition is to ja @ popular expression of the “Reeds and tastes of practical house- keepers re ~ ling the plane of apn-t- ments. Nearly all apartments are de- Seigned by men, since there are few woman architects, Most new ideas pressed in the plans of the architects Wear the earmarks of some woman's opinion as to her needs or desires. Architects, however, have not the @vantage of the advice of scores und Wandreds, even thor + af prectical housekeepers who will make known thelr ideas through The Evening World's competition. Tm + - ‘ng themselves these women will be doing good work for themselves and their sister house- wives. They will be doing a good turn for the architects and b , who will certainly want to build hor: 3 with apartr-*> that will con- form to the highest standards of con- venience as fixed by those who insist upon effictency in their homes. ‘The competition ts wide open, Any woman has an opportunity to win an award if she has good, practical ideas on the subject. In nearly every case her plan will be an expression of her own needs, an overcoming of the de- ficiencies with which she has met in apartments she Has occupied. Some of the questions asked by women in letters coming to The Evo- ning World as @ result of the publl- cation Monday of the preliminary an- nouncement of the competition indi- cate that the new ideas are going to represent the whole fitid of house- keeping activities, “I never saw an apartment with - too much Closet room,” speaks up one woman. “I believe it is as im- portant as enough windows or enough floor space. And I don't believe in too many corners where sweeping and cleaning are difficult. I have lived in apartments the greater part of my life and have found this closet room problem the biggest of them all and more frequently met with than any other." Another woman is delighted at the opportunity of showing what she thinks {s the best arrangement for an efficient kitchen. “I have spent a good part of my life walking between ice box and gas range and between gas range and sink, and I know there are thousands of women in New York who have lived the same monotonous, tiresome existence during the hours they are forced to put in at the preparation of meals. I know a dozen women with Ideas as strong as mine on this subject, and I am going to ask as many of them as I meet to send their apartment plans to The Evening World's competition. We will surely be able to help somebody else and I hope we will be able to deliver ourselves from 31 The Evening World is going to For the second best plan For the third best plan For the fourth best plan Plana may be drawn to any on her plan the dimensions and of doors and windows and th utilized to be not | ing firms may submit plans in the family may submit a some of our kitchen drudgery.”’ One woman is in doubt as to the work she has to do on the plan. She $225 FOR WOMEN WHO CAN LAY OUT AN APARTMENT To the woman who sends the best floor plan for a four- room apartment to The Evening World on or before March For each of the ten next best plans, é cash awards, but there will be noon. It was still in the hin- plans, each. . many others which will furnish | rerjand of his thoughts when he re- CONDITIONS. material for innovations in the _All the plans must be mailed or delivered to the Apartment Plan Editor, The Evening World, on or before March 31, 1922. locations. Each plan is to be for a four-room apartment, the total floor space No architect or builder and no employ: edition of The New York World and no member of any employe: OLE grinned whimsically at his friend. “Do we light out now or walt for the cops?” he asked. “We walt. They'd probably find out, anyhow, that we'd been here.” Five minutes later a patrol wagon clanged up to the Paradox. A ser- geant heading the party stopped in the doorway of the apartment and let a bard, hostile eye travel up and down Lane's six feet. “Oh, {t's you,"’ he said suspiciously. Kirby smiled. ‘That's right, officer. We've met before, haven't we?"’ They had. The sergeant was the man who had arrested him. It had annoyed him that the prisoner had been released on bond, “Who's your friend sergeant superciliously. “His name is Cole Sanborn."’ “The champion bronco buster?’" “Yes. The sergeant looked at Sanborn with increased respect. His eyes went back to Kirby sullenly. “What you doing here?’ “We were in my uncle's apartment lookin’ things over. We stepped out on the fire escape an’ happened to notice this window here was open a little. It just came over me that mebbe wé might discover some evi- dence here. So I got in by the window, baw the body of the Jap, an’ called my friend." “Some one hire you to hunt up evidence?"’ the officer wanted to know with heavy sarcasm. +» “I hired myself. My good name ts involved. I'm goin’ to see the mur- derer is brought to justice.” “You are, eh?" * asked the ---1176%---- WINOCOWS Mia INDICATED “y Oe GC SSs= INDICATED “Yes.” small pink ear was in the open to An Idea, 52 Wyomihe men walked across take in the swift sentences passing between the men. $ this Blank, | De Seventrentney cuece pana “I'm intendin’ to make it my buel- 2 . down to the Equitable Build- hess," Lane said, his voice ominously = a Pencil ing. James Cunningham was in his quiet. Zz office. “You're laying up trouble for your- | 2u and a Kirby told him of his discovery. In- self," Jack warned biackly. “If you fi] Rul stantly James became grave. want me for an enemy you're going ater “We'll get the writing translated. at this the right way.” 4 F You have it with you?" he said. “Last call for you to show down = Equip You His eyes ran over the pages Lane your cards, Jack. Are you with me 1@-- |2'F 67-—-> Begi handed him. “I know a Jap we can or against me?" asked Kirby. to Begin get to read this for us, a reliable man, “Against you, you meddling fool! HERE 1S ONE WAY TO INDKATE a Plan. one who won't talk if we ask him not Cunningham burst out in a gust of WINDOWS. to." The broker's desk buzzer rang. He talked for a moment over the tele- phone, then hung up again. Cunningham said, “I'm going to be buay for an hour or two. Going to lunch with Miss Phyllis Harriman. She was Uncle James's; flancee, perhaps you know. There are some affairs of the estate to be ar- ranged. I wonder if you could come back later this afternoon. Say about wy i ‘ ¥ out your ideal four-room and bath apartment on this blank or L another that will be printed in The Evening World this week, Mark down with pencil just how you would divide the space for rooms and the uses you would assign for each room and give approximate dimen- sions, Indicate where you would have windows and closets, and in your bathroom and kitchen floor plans indicate the position of each fixture—re+ frigerator, gas range, sink, pantry, cupboards, tubs, bathtub, la atory, 4 o'clock.” n for a few days the threads toilet. Leave open spaces in walls to indicate doors, “Suits me. Shall I leave the writ- that ue bas begun to untangle from Other blanks for four-room apartments of different shapes will be|ing here?” . the snarl known as the Cunningham printed this week. Choose the one you prefer to use, fill it In with pencil) peg Me Nahas Dosen pmeter mystery would again be ensnarled. and send it to Apartment Plan Editor, The Evening World, on or before put it in the safe." March 81, 1922, They walked together as far as the outer office. slender, dark young woman, beautifully gowne waiting therg. James introduced her to his cousin and Sanborn as Miss Harriman, She was, Kirby knew at once, the original of the photograph he had seen in his uncle's rooms. Kirby said the proper things, but he said them with a mind divided. For his nostrils were inhaling again the violet perfume that associated itself with his first visit to his uncle's apartment. I ANE carried this preoccupation in the blank plan printed on this page. She takes that as a starter and with u pencil and ruler sets down her idea in the blank white space. A few lines and a few letters and a few figures will fill in the blank, and if they rep- resent a good idea she has done all that is necessary to qualify her plan for consideration by the three women judges of the competition. There will be no question of the warm reception to be accorded any really good idea, There are going to be lots of them. Of course only the very best ure going to gain $50 pay an award of. with him throughout the after- turned to his cousin's office, His entrance was upon a scene of agitated storm. His cousin was in the outer office facing a clerk, In his eyes there was a cold fury of anger planning and building of the upartment house of the future. In bringing their ideas to the atten- tion of the builders and planners the winners of the awards are helping but the maker should indicate ch room and closet and widths competition. No employee of any an hour longer. A man I have trusted printed for their aasistance and guid- ve and found wholly unworthy ance. Not all the competitors will Fraternities in High Schools? It May Be Evander Childs Principal Holds Up Election of a Student Body President. Have Fraternities any place in the public high schools of this city? That is the question that threatens to precipitate a legal battle, with Gil- bert S. Blakely, principal of Evander Childs High School, Creston Avenue and 184th Street, the Bronx, arrayed against six “frat societies, The matter came to a head this week. Albert Neave, seventeen, a student im the 6-5 class at Evander High, was recently elected President of the General Organization and Benjamin Harrison was elected Vice President. ‘The G. O, is comprised of about 4,000 bey and girl puplls of the school, Nearly 3,800 ballots were cast in the election. Principal Blakely, as head of the ‘Meecutive Council, served notice upon Settled in Courts the G. ©. that it desired the newly elected officers to refain from assum- ing office pending an investigation of their eligibility. It then developed that their fitness was challenged on the ground that they belonged to fraternal societies. “I have investigated,’ sald Mr. Blakely, to an Evening World porter, to-day, are students in the school who are enrolled in six fraternal orders, The societies the Phi Nu Epsilon, Omega Gama Delta, Phi Alpha Si ma, Phi Delta Sigma, Sigma Pht Delta and Mu Sigma “Neave is a member of the first ond Harrison of the last named ‘Frat.’ are My action at present ts entirely inde-| to diminish his interest in Ewander Eesex and pendent of any orders from the Board High. _ Fee: Soustien al) 7 6 care to do this. All plane submitted| ‘I'm sorry, Mr. Cunningham,” the} discovered that Miss Phyllis did not|eyes, Then, resolutely, she banished Lace Eee he ean Rec will have an equal showing in the| clerk said humbly, regulate her actions by her|fear and called to her aid hauteur. |Papere Wiel fot) ot vas shown wonders whether or not she can make] competition. no matter what the mode} ‘But you lost it, Nobody else could “There was not, though I quite fail) TON TY ade casually: ‘I found tt ~ an acceptable drawing. The answers] of preparation. The good tdea, prac-|have done it. f don't want excuses.| “Take him into the red room and|to see how this can concern you, Mr. auite ‘amusing to look over the mar- to her problem and her questions are| tically expressed, is what is wanted. You can go, sir.’ Cunningham turned }iel) him I'll be down {n a minute,’'| Lane.” sore conse of the last month or. ———¥ abruptly to his cousin. |The shests | Miss Harriman decided. staf en Re” aid you Iaat see my uncle] Pk? ound the names there of some of Education, There is a committe > cf paper With (the Japenedy WHUIE | “Attar # few minutes Ais: EBe iM allyee” of our prominent citizens, Well, I'll ruling made by the board coommmiing| The sera renignnt oe pas have been lost. This man took them} gauntered into the room and gave her] “What a dreadful question! It} | ema Renan TCAREW a bOEe with a bundie of other documents to ago opposing such Now they can't high schools. “Personally, 1 think they are un- Sumocratic, They i nd to the forma-| Mrs. Neave sald she knew the s0- tion of cliques in the schools. Few] cieties had en e - can join them because of the fact that | posed posited ad vauenigt ee tee membership comes,about only through} the ban on fraternities in high Invitation, They have no place in the] schools of this city. Nigh schools of this city, though they] ‘The time for which Principal may be perfectly proper in the col-| Blakely asked the new. officers to leges. step aside ends Thursday night, Just “This controversy is a re-echo of] what steps will be taken at that time the trouble in 1914 when the commit- | neither side will say, although societies in the] ber, and the highest court of Missour: recently sustained « high schoo! student in the same discussion. my lawyer's office. be found anywhere. Kirby took his cousin by the arm jy to blame,” he said. must have laid the writing very close in the safe to the other papers. Hadn't you better give Hudson another chance before you fire him?" In the end he persuaded Cunning- ham to withdraw his discharge of the uncle, JAMES CUNNINGHAM, a wealthy promoter, to tell Cunninghi for whom he has a violent dislike, what he thinks of him for having wreoged ESTHER McLEAN, his stenographer, a sister of “WILD ROSE” McLEAN, Lane’s closest friend, also a rough rider, who has come to Denver on the same errand, after leaving Cheyenne with a broken arm, sustained in a riding contest, Lane calls on his cousins, JACK CUNNINGHAM, a bond salesman, and JAMES CUNNINGHAM, an oil promoter, and tells them of his intended visit to his uncle in his apartment and his errand, Going to the heuse he is Surprised at the intense excitement of CASS HULL and his wife, in directing him to his uncle’s rooms. He finds the apartment dark, hears some one move, grasps a woman by the band and struck on the chin and knocked out. Recovering, he finds a glove belong- ing to “Wild Rose” McLean and a nute from Cunningham's valet, HORIKAWA, saying the Hulls had called and said they would return later. In an {nner room Lane finds Cunningham's dead body, bound to a chair, a bullet hole in the head. There is a ring at the door, he leaves the room by the fire escape and is seen by CHUCK ELLIS, a reporter. Lane phones the police of the murder. The man described by the Hulls and Ellis comes first under suspicion as Cun- ningham’s slayer. The Hulls lie.about the time at which Lane passed their door, but identify him and he is arrested for murder. A woman in black faints at the hearing. Lane identifies her as the original of a portrait signed “Always Phyllis” found in his uncle's rooms, Lane's cousins secure his re- lease on bond and join him in his efforts to solve the mystery. Rose Mc- Lean joins Lane and his cousins in their efforts to clear up the mystery and tells her story to the Cunninghams. Her reference to the odor of violet perfume she detects in Cunningham's apartment appears to have much interest to the nephew. Lane confronts OSCAR OLSON, a farnver, with the charge that he threatened Cunning- pee life in a letter and finds Olson was in Denver when Cunningham was led. by COLE SANBORN, a rough rider friend, joins Lane and Rose McLean in tlve search for Cunningham's slayer. While making investigations Lane and Sanborn find the dead body of Horikawa bound to a bed in the apartment next to that in which Cunningham's body was found. PHYLLIS HARRIMAN HAD FLUNG HERSELF DOWN TO SO8 WITH HER HEAD IN THE PILLOWS. ter in her throat. “How can I help you?"’ she asked. f you would answer a few ques- wear. The business of her life was to make an effective carnal appeal, and she had a very sure sense of how to accomplish this. A maid entered with a card at which Miss Harriman glanced indolently. smile twitched at the corners of her mouth. Her pulses beat with a little What questions?" All the soft- ness had gone from her voice. It had become tense and sharp. ‘Personal ones, About you and my et ‘ gaged to him, themselves and helping others, that surprised, Kirby. glow of triumph. uncle.” You were engages 7A Pes tent spot." 330 square feet, the legal minimum plan Some plans aireany submitted in the| ‘Gross incompetence and negli-] "Good gracious!" she murmured,|were you not?” Meee knew that he was being given . competition are drawn by the senders | &*nc® Hudson You are discharged, ‘does he usually call in the middle of “Yer a hint of architectural or build- | without recourse to the blank plans|#ir, I'll not have you in my employ (ihe night, I wonder? And does he) '*There wasn't any quarrel between |® oe an't take you long to run really expect me to see him now?" ue The maid waited. She had long ago you recently, was there A flash of apprehension filled her rose at her] was—iet me think—in the afternoon— the day before’—— “And you parted from him on the best of terms?" hand to the man who entrance, i “I'm so glad you came to see me, she said, just as though she were in I ham s t eet and led him into whe Inner office. the habit of recelving young men at] “of course."” wet rice Canning am rose to m “Frankly, James, I think you were| eleven in the morning. ‘Of course| He leaned toward her ever so littl ei : ee Tames| hip eyes level witts here and steaaly|. Kirby. Rrudhed through sny, en I want to know you better. thinks so much of you.” “And Jack," added Lane, smilingly. “On, yes, Jack, too,” she sald, and laughed outright when their eyes met. “['m sure Jack is very fond of me. He can't help showing it occa- fastened upon her, ‘*That's the last time you saw him—until you went to his rooms at the Paradox the night he was killed?” - She had lifted her hand to pat into place an escaping tendril of hair. The and she paid to Uncle James's rooms the night he was killed. Kirby knew instantly he bad scored a hit. ‘What do you mean? It's a damned lte."’ tering rapier probing for the K weakness of his opponent's defense. “I say that she and you were in the rooms of Uncle James at 9.50 the evening he was killed. I say that you concealed the fact at the inquest. Why?" Cunningham's lip twitched, his eye wavered. ‘Who told you we were there? How do you know it? I don’t propose te What visit? answer every wild accusation nor te ~ let Miss Harriman be insulted by you. Who are you, anyhow? A man ac- cused of killing my uncle, the man who found his valet dead and is sus- pected of that crime, too. A fellow who would be lying behind the bars now if my brother hadn't put up the money to save the family from dis- grace, I've a good mind to ‘phone for the police right now.” “Do, suggested Kirby, It was bluff pure and simple. couldn't tell what he knew any more than his cousin could, “T didn’t say I was going to ‘phon I said I'd a jolly good mind to,’ Cunningham replied sulkily. “Can you prove an alibi for the whole evtning—both of you?" the range rider asked curtly. ~ “None of your business. We're not in the prisoner's dock. It's you that is Hkely to be there," Jack tossed out petulantly. Phyllis Harriman had flung herself down to sob with her head in the pil- lows. But Kirby noticed that one smiling. fury. The man from Twin Buttes bowed toward the black hair and pink ear of his hostess. He turned on his heel and walked from the room. CHAPTER XXIII. COUSINS DISAGREE. T was essential to Kirby's plane that he should be at liberty. If he should be locked up in prison He was, ten mmutes later, in the law offices of Irwin, Foster & War- ren, attorneys who represented the cattle interests in Wyoming with which Kirby was identified. Foster, a stout, middle-aged man with only a few locks of gray hair left, heard what the rough rider had to say. I'll wire to Caldwell and to Nor- man as you suggest, Mr. Lane," he said. ‘If they give me instructions to stand back of you, I'll arrange = new bond as soon as possible.” Kirby rose. He had finished his busines: “Just a moment, Mr. Lane. Foster leaned back tn his swivel-chair and looked out of the window. “Ever been to Golden?" he asked at last abruptly, swinging back to his seat and looking at his client. “No, Why?" * “Golden is the Gretna Green of Denver, you know. When young peo- ple elope they go to Golden, When a couple gets married and doesn't want it known they choose Golden. over on the interurban,"’ The lawyer the bond.’’ He walked across to the Equitable Building and dropped in on his cousin barrassment there might be and told frankly why he had come. “T’'ve had a sort of row with Jack. Under the circumstances I don't feet that I ought to let you stay on my bond. It might create Ill-feelin’ be- tween you an’ him, So I'm arrangin’ i Ve] cterk. sionally." hand remained lifted. The dark eyes ’ B Jamaica High Schoo! was carried to is le quietly. "We ey Ls - Heciknaa | But he's amenable to influence, was going to faint. A low moan of| ‘What's the trouble between you the Corporation Counsel and he ruled | MOSQUITO SUPPRESSION. | "26° {2% yin out to us with min] yi {he THERE sort: Tim sure he) | tus, ate ood trom the ashen lips, [about?”" asked James with the student, holding that the can't point him ut 1 ni8} would be."” despair escaped from Pe to ten ie “Pye found out that he an’ Mise ruling was one of a committee and not| BOOSTS JERSEY VALUES] tcad band. ; ound himself the object of THe lifted arm fell heavily to her Iap.} |) 7 TE DUN OM Mi ncle James's Rbaing on: Suture ‘haards;’? re aa re nae de 4 scrutiny HEN Kirby discovered that the} rooms the night he was killed. 1 Mrs, Ralph B, Neaye, mother of perty Inores so7| won't,” the oil broker zones a piyuant, amuses 4 i two in the red room had be-| want them to come through an’ tet! the newly elected O. President, From 1899 to 1021, sive odds that he 9s. bead free.” : under her long lashes. It come three, Jack Cunning-]| What they know.” No. 2028 Grand Con.| TRENTON, March 22.—Mosquito ex “Then xou'e lose," Kirby answered, | come to him that this Paris-gowned, ham was standing in the door-| «t4w did you find that out?’ the highest regard for Seminar Work conducted in New wmiling easily, long-limbed young sylph was more] way. : ‘The eyes of the ol! broker were aces Plsealye Dut she propores eerie ter te. ety erat CHAPTER XXII. than willing to let him become in- Eis eines Dashes te ene aus hard ns fate, They inoked straight o fight to a finis ingly 2 p * YOU} into those of his \* “L think the fraternities tend to wir in ‘is Btate. tron hep to 1931 WARE MOINS MEI" os trigued hy her charms. But Kirby | doing here?” he demanded abrupt); “T can’t tell you that exactly, Put blend @ proud spirit in the boys in|according to the State Department o ISS PHYLLIS HARKINS had not ealled so early in the) ‘phe Wyoming man rose Uveltwo an’ two together. the high schools,” rhe said hey {Conservation and Development rf iw uve heen asking Miss Harriman a ques-| you mean you guess they were give them scmething to atrive for y ieads with the lars M had breaks willy ith i to meaeyoy Mick tion." there. You don’t know it." 1 know Albert's connection with x Fr eent. Union Count usual. Her lux iae fas Pacuay A question, What business have (To Be Continued.) Phi Nu Epsilon has in no way tended | imide doe por Lente Canna Mine black hair had been dressed! naane ii involved. Lest you to ask her questions?" demanded acleod Raine third, 49¢ per cent,; Middle and she was debating the importhnt question as to what gown she would He has the schoo) at heart. show over §00 per cent, Jack hotly. ant pou to heip me ba dt Homi His cousin tried a shot in the dark, He saw @ pulse of excitement fut- Copyright, 1031, oy, Sviitian ed by ‘easement TRBY'S syes were like a gilt, @®