The evening world. Newspaper, October 30, 1922, Page 24

Dy ot a abe GRINS & THE EVENING WORLD, MONDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1922. e@ Secre BY. him, for $10,000 th more Importance to COPY RIGHT BY Li SYNDICATE. in that ihe READ THIS, THEN BE OBERT FORRESTER, note demanding that he place $10,000 in a 3IN THE STORY. young Cl had demanded was of icago engineer, receives a hollow tree in them at this time than his life, and as they had give Jasper Lane, an unfrequented suburban road He deter- him until midnight Saturday to pay i t non t did t apm v mines not to be blackmailed. he money, ppear y would harm him before that He has a talk with Frederick Frentice, a fellow clubman, and from him learns that Prentice has been one among a score of prom- iment men who have responded to similar notes by paying the sums demanded. Others who have refused have met mysterious deaths the latest being Ge a leading alist, to whose son Portester's sister is engaged. he vealized that pecially active that ¢ them. 1 that an ore ull haye wu ind methods of gaining Infe Prentice str advises that Forrester pay the money, but the siereiors qliwhte be Furni young mz aves his intention of hunting down ihe “Friends of wiu yth had done, Fort Forrester engages Benjamin F. Green, a private detective, to assist cm fence ep es at ranted 4 ze ee : +e Might if not be sible that ifurr in running down the criminals and promises him a fee of $10,000 if pUPey NAA onety: best wey nent 'ts he is successful iscertain his attitude? As he recalled Humphrey, a newspaper reporter, calls upon Forrester and ad- the young man's discourse it <eemei vises him to apply the engineering practice of triangulation to the strangely fanciful and might have solution of the mystery. Forrester fails to see how the mathematical °e" Planned ats ee ee process may be applied, but he agrees with Humphrey that it is best jo 4, rank that he become a detective on his own account for the sake of the solu- iurnpnre supposed re tion of the mystery ould have a very comprehensiv ‘ CHAPTER IV to unfold-to his associates. Informed The Car in the Fog event interviews with detectives and chat Forrester planned to go f ORRESTER glanced at his watch. ‘2¢ reporter from the Times, had jn pix fight against them than a Te wan just nine o'clock, not ™Mde Forrester more alert than usual. previous victim they had selected, wa {oo late to make his promised /1¢ Was keenly on the watch for any- i not posaible that they had cecided call on the Nevins sani edie ee vise uA = to disregard his money, which night ‘The Nevins's residence was on Dea: . pe) SERIE Crer.) HORE USs ‘ne ly Teplaced by a demand upon continued at the same pace without come one else, and make away with bern way, only a fifteen-minute ake looking back. Forrester listened at mt i “fore he had an opportunity + walle he saunterod een Foreepiar, (So NAVERUOETET cl te us| soda of thia wiolbe Alntane inal mace? Pee vest after leaving the house, Abeayy ‘it at ; ro vilst was gathering on Lake Michigan |, ier : Sg ccal oy ae a : ; nd relttng through the streets before so) tonowed itm. THe was convincer Sioned: IAD onco eackwtaaca Rimmrae WISER Toots the ERS. COD pe tic under surveillance, and the blurred but unmistakable outline i Dlstely shutting from view all but the os detectives were not lkely to keep of a motor cur without light ri 4 iearest street lights and any pedes- gugid over him from a motor car, it though the speed of the car had beer ] irians who might be abroad at this wag clear that the persons who fol- ishitly beeen bias he hastencd FORRESTER’S THOUGHTS REVERTED TO THE CAR WHICH HAD 4 e his steps, the distance between them i hour, Always a quiet neighborhood, towed him had some other motive. Was biblatalieoana molrester's tonne FOLLOWED HIM THROUGH THE FOG, | ‘he mist-hidden streets now seemed Forrester was well aware that auto grew easier as he became convinced - = i somber and dewerted, and s® still were handits were active at all times in th» thut the sole purpose of the cur be- Picion of everybody and everything. greetings young Nevins led Forrester ! ’ f v0 wate n the future, so ly red himself, to a {n a corner and said, ‘I i ils surroundings that Forrester’s at- ty ve 6) nar, Hind him was to wate his move- In the future, he ured hi ; H oe city streets, and It wos more than vette, Very probably, he refiected, he would bo more guarded in his con- stippove you've heard about ‘father, | tention was prenently attracted to the jikely that a fowgy night would prove 44, “Friends of the Poor” kept track Versation, not only with new acquain- Bk | soft chug-chug of a motor somewhere espectally inviting. Still, he could no: of their vietima so that they could not tances but with his friends os we replied Morrester, “and I'm Hy in the fog vshind him collect over having heard of a hold- orcabe by leaving the city or conceal. Al this moment a-acrvant opencd the ni orry, old It must hav i When the sound first cahght hie up of this cler in his Immediate!" Cerna von ttc PCO as SO Er bs cna feat Blow" ates way pince om ) jautly Nehted hallway with a ter was a dreac hock to mothe i var it had inade } impression, but nelehborhoa As he deliberated on gate for t moment. Porrester real- tru eft You know, when u person is fll and ! the purring of engine contin- the matier, the suspicion w slrol ized more f now the dang As lie was well known in this home, death is momentari xpected you i ued, apparently always at the same er that the car which now follow ture of the task he lutd set lim: he went Immediately to library sort of prepared for the tinal end ’ By the time Forrester reached the without being announced. ‘There he but when you find your father dead f eoullar him through the for was connected in 5 ’ — - ligtance, 1¢ idsvag! RUE pepaliey him Ee oo re » = ee att Nevins home and rang the doorbell found his mother and sister with the on the front steps and you know thai | that the car did not catch up with some way with the riends of the the lesson t had its effect. He had Nevins family Eyider of grief he has been murdered, it ts an awful os ind pass him, The threat which now Poor."’ If that were so, there seemel acquired part of the attributes of a were apparent on all their faces and stroke." } humg over his head, as well as his little risk in allowing them to follow good detecttve—caution and a sus, after a general exchange of subdued ‘‘If you don't mind talking about it, ThePicturesqueLifeStory of ‘AI'Smith P itaving Three Days at Syracu utr. tan Vand the He Stood His Ground, Despite —° 0 visi» 0 sw veo « convention there appeared in a Syre couse Newspaper a page advertisement in which Mr, Hearst, for the fir Reports That He Had Backed Down. Beat tivergd a coca meee Governor, Before that he had ex pressed himself as for Mayor Hyla The feature of the advertiscme: LURING the three-day struggle at Syracuse Al Smith did not was a photograph of Mr. Hearst. Su have any communication with Charles F. Murphy. He saw rounding it was a recital of his pul and talked to all callers. On Thursday the report was all over lie *ervices In which he me cred { for about every bit of beneficial legi Syracuse, and Tammany men were the most active in distributing it that Smith had capitulated and would stand for the nomination Hearst for Senator. | went to see him “Have you backed down?” I asked tion that has bec Ked since n pas came to New York in 180) HIS JOKES ON THE FAMILY. Because of the attacks made by t “Not an inch,” he replied Hearst newspapers on her husband k “Are you going to bach, vn when he was Governor Mrs, Smith ii ud @ woman of spirit, entertains an in "Not an inch. Tie be rae : tense slike for r earst er The Tammany delegates were outspoken in their disappointmen! ¢eeiings can be imawined when, on e { at Smith’s uncompromising attitude. “He had a right to take Hearst,” tering ir room, she found the He } was heard on every hand. Under the influence of Syracuse good chee ive ment pinned to the 4 ‘several Tammany men undey great obligations to the ex-Govern or hee voiced their disapproval of his course in terms that were resente | Fhe have | his friends you,’ suid his wife, And it was ce On the way home a man “ent into his car and said ainly he who had cut out the a nm Vv WALTER J SMITH t seme a ") t to the ARTHU! wv a Al, you ougit to know about the way some of the men who hav “ a aid: Pd i wes : = * °. * On Frida morniy ut 9 o'clock ey been professing to be’ your friends for years talked about vou up in Mise Emit! iat ed to the tele THE THREE \OUNGER MEMB.RS OF THE SMITH FAMILY, Syracuse. For instance, there was’ phone im her poom, That was the WHO GREW INTO GREAT POPULARITY WITH THE PEOPLE OF “Hold on,” shouted Al. “Stop right there big day of the situation. It woul enANY AND ARE NOW THE BEST LIKED BY THEIR EAGT SIDE “1 don't want to know the names of men who criticised me, | mark At Smith's victory or defeat. FRIENDS. . * id a * , thi Everybody in his entourage was ex don’t want to hear what they said about me. | don’t want anything Ve said to me that would tend fo spoil a single friendship J have ever her mother and her aunt, had at fait and sa their mother de.” Miss Emily went to the telepur ed 1 telephoned t's g0 ove > Uncle Al's. He'll om \ volce inquired if she was M vr 1. day go ¢ te aahow SAW MURPHY THE DAY AFTER Smith, When she replied in the af me." Mrs, Smith told om 1 he would give them u show Al Smith did not see Charles Ff. The meeling was cordial. The boss tirmative the voice continued t Ines perpetra ne would imitate ante ind te Murphy in Syracuse unti] Saturday Pétted the cx Governor on the hack rig M Vie y of the Ios nd ‘ k ni H tories and sing songs untt! they morning--the day after he was nom- “"4 congratulated him and advised im Compar We want to tak t ‘ , ‘ " nV ul * inated. He was on his way in the tm to taxe good care of himnelf noving re of you this mom He ves a xont Ax marke = elevator from the eighth floor to the Bwir have not met since. An eplied the Lis, Gy * ‘ ground t> take a car to the station During the stress and st 28 rl, “but yo! st do ne r Except w : With the remark “I must stop off racusc Al Smith found time to ente ten i mn f i aad ece C. F."’ he ordered the oper- tain hb family and fr de with fun t fT o ry ent) ater to stop the car at the second stories and jokes, HM 1 1 ; ant ae figer and went to Mr. Murphy's room. panied to the convention by lis wife hat he» father, in the presence of gether ia ap evening net sc uled Wheo we were ready to go lode Rte taps ‘YO Paul and Mabel Thorne, Illustrated by Will B. Johnstone. Charlie, I should like to hear some of the details.’ “IT don’t mind, Bob. The fact is that ie about all we have becn able to k about ever. There {s very little to tell It seems that father received a tice about two weeks ago from this mnable blackmailing society which calls Itself the ‘Friends of the Poor.’ About that notice and what happened subsequently we know practically nothing outside of the few details wa reall in the nowspepers, and a little that the police were willing to teil us. Father ne word to eithe: mother or myself a it. | believe he lid not even tell his business associ- ates, simply putting the matter into he hands of the police and going on about his business as usual. The Chief of Detective wailed in person this morning and during his visit told me that he had offered father a police guard but that father refused it. “Last night father attended a din- ner of the Midland Bankers’ Associa- tion, and as we naturally did not ex pect him home until quite a late hour, mother and 1 retired at our usua time. The first we knew, therefore, that father had not been home all night was when we missed him at breakfast. When a maid went up to call him she found his bedroom door open and saw the bed had not been occupied ag just about to call up the police when the patrolman on our street rang the doorbell and asked the maid who answered the oor if she knew the man who was ying on our steps. Of course, she imnredintely rgcognized father, and when we heafd ter seream we all hurried to the do The patrolman helped me carry him in. This man waited’ until the doctor came, as he aid he would have to make a repo nd he nted to Know if foul play re suspected. ur doctor lives just across the street. He was here in five minutes, but there was nothing that he could do. He said that father had un- questionably been dead for many hours."* tould he tell the cause of deat nquired Forrester. “Yes,"" hat it was el Father, of cours returned Nevins, “he ~d a case of asphysii had been murdere hy the same method as all the ott victims of the ‘Friends of the sut.’? protested could th set was my imp went about in ¢ eur drivt “That is a right,’ answered Nevins, “but Mate was with these people been t night. ‘Th watehing for y had evidently just such an op- mysteriou another 4 ind hold a eon dential cony jon. ‘The, child come buck with the right fist closed, Not until we were outfids Would the fists be opened und clasped in each there would be half a dollar Al Smith's love for his children. ts ntense and undisguised. He is ne happy when they ure away from him and on oc when they are arated the chile n write eve John F. Gilebr Hed th day an occasio: 1 was Sherif show tight sio! that ow his mind {son family. Tn the is first year ottice Mra, sent daughter, Catherine, to a school jn the Bronx. 7 1ome on Monday morning, She was to spend Saturdays.and Suedays On Wednesday of. t ek t Sheriff fidgeted in his office the ater part of the day. Along in the afternoon he announced his intention taking a ride. Mp. Gilchrist, then nder Sheriff, discovered the nex day that Al hed gone up to the board ing school in the Bronx to see his ner HIS FIRST MEETING WITH MURPHY AL smith had been, ios se years before jie‘ met hy. Th Foley enough to pick his own and did net consult the Boss in F teenth Street. Al was booming n the Assembly t) attract attention Nanna, Deputy Clerk General Sessions, took him out to pod Ground one Sunday and intro. duced him to the chief Murphy, 1 jovial, fun-loving man in his 1 environment, wus greatly at to the east sider pd mmodiate him n $ # favor lon und just veginning When Willian of the Court of youn till Jives Al's ders, s¢ Jud not als, and o aut Murphy w e Jobu Hoyer, who ‘det wad was one of th War 5 Ampreased, per ly boosted fim in Tam Alter Murphy got vid of obs vas Al Smith Judge nal the was ty rn for belief ul frieudly, despite no re anylaing are but portunity. When our chauffeur drove the car up at 9 o'clock this morning. which was his custom to take fathe: down to the bank, I called him in and questioned him about last night had called for father “He said he at 11 o'clock, as he had been in- structed to do, and they started for home. Just as they reached Oak Street something went wrong with the motor, The chauffeur spent a half hour trying to discover the trouble and he says that father grow very impatient hér, it wems, trled to get t nb, but all the cabs that passed wer north and had people it is not Street up to chauffeur him to toke and he would chauffeur saw Lake Shore last any one saw until he morning.” Forr car whieh the fog. There the elder Nevins, portunity to strike question that the were in that car moment they might side fe ‘orrester to ple matter it notify the when he st Mothe rte I suppose time now How did we son,’ * explained plen William he the as such a After have be good for “It ts not at all nice out now, Worrester. up. icab."* in them, ¥ much of the said that his time in fixing the car walk him start Drive and Por nker's would you plan to need excitement been through I thought it would us to walk home." Forrester went to the hom off that w. ard of hi up nt know walk from Oak house, and the fath® finally told The the 4 the father was found on our steps this ter's thoughts reverted to the had followed him through was little doubt in | mind that this same At this very waiting out- reappear, It flashed through his mind what he Forrester, soon do you expect to go home could leave replied Mrs. outside evening not for him police and have them read: 1 out, id at home when | a sim- to now any Vor- rester, ‘it that L return worry we * sald “A heavy fog has come I think I would better call a telephone and ordered a icab, Then he whi pered to Nevins, May T use a phone upstairs where { can talk witho heing overheard vy informed Nevins, ‘you wiil find a pli in rs room Forrester w spstairs and Mee headquarters. He bri plained who he was, what curred on his wall over, and s sted Leave the’ minute Al's recent demonstration eally the S te Mr. Murph do a yellow trick, at they watch for t as le returned home, house in es that stran, does leadershi ctly fifteen nstructed the man at head- The fourth Ward Boy Who Became Governor by Martin Green. win Avery Letter a Personal Message Is the Belief and Practice of the Former Governor : in Business. he knows that Al would not that he etal not vman, and las no desigis or anization Ty politics and business Al Smith is temperamentally sunny and optim iste. He posse the faculty ot passing out tasks do not require bs personal attention to subordinates and forgetting all about them unless it should become necessary to check up on accomplishment, But there is one job that he attends to personally no matter how onerous it may be, and that is the handling of his mail His correspondence, especially in campaign times, is enormous and to keep it cleared up is his one worry n Iife, His secretaries are under in’ struction to give him every letter 0: wdvice or congratulation carryin offers of assistance or requests fo assistance EVERY LFTTER IS A PERSONAL MESSAGE, 1 never wa. form leer i \l Smith's office dictates all } personal mail gmd his efficient stenog- rapher, Miss Rose Petrick, says that no two letters are alike, His wonder- ful memory enables him to give per: sonal touches to correspondence with peop! himself of the onal attention to ters “Hf thes nd write yme y commendiia lon of Willa Ra: A he has not met for Often he has been responsibility uch is reply is along th luke the trouble t Tecan take » to them mt a mass well t of per of let line: sit down the trout T¢ cou elimina ph Hearst from + dent had followed waiting for the op ester did net murder P sce quarters, “and we'll be ready tor you.” After returning to the Itbrary For- rester took an occasional surreptitious Jook at his watch and was pleased to hear the taxi driver ring the door bell just as the fifteen minutes, ex- pired. As Forrester’ assisted his mother down the steps he glanced hastily, around. The fog was still heavy, He could make out nothing save the taxi< cab at the curb, but just as he was iving the address to the tax! driver he noticed a small man of alight builé appear out of the fog. This mag. siepped quite near him and tit cigarette. Aside from noting the man's, build and the fact that he were ‘cap and had very dark hair, Forres- ter could make out no other details, tor the man stood with his back to Forrester and the lighted match really served only to throw him out in alle houette, Forrester entered the eab and it started off. As he leaned back he reflected that the man he had esen Was of too small a stature to be a de- tective. His act of stopping so clése te them might have been mere aget: but to Forrester the thing Naa a significance which could not® be overlooked. He was confident that this was one of the men they wanted. He hoped that the police, although not visible in the fog, had arrived as promised, If so, he felt that ¢hei problems were pretty close to @ final lution, They reached Bellevue Place with- out incident. The whir of the taxi- cab'g engine had effectually drowned any sound of pursuit and, though ho had glanced back several times, Fot- rester had been able to see no’ save a will of fog back of the ate Yet somewhere in that fog-draped street he was sure the murderer’s ear Was lurking There appeared to be no one around as they left the cab, but Forrester, « after his mother and sister had gone into the house, ngered for a moment in the dark doorwi He could hear the hum of the taxicab's engine as {t passed down the street towant the Lake Shore Drive. Otherwise the night was silent. Suddenly Forrester heard the reat of opened mufflers in the other direc- tion, and the next instant two bladl shapes passed swiftly by througly ¢he fog. Red flashes leaped out of the darkness and sharp reports resounded Mirough the street as they passed the door. “The police are ulted Forrester. Tle lastily stepped inside and closéa the door, for his army experience Rad shown him the danger of stray w- lets. on the jobi!! ex (Continued To-Morrow.) ‘ re ¢ ticklish situation at Syracuse last nth. A large proportion of letters dealing with this subject are from men and most of them carry Nedges of votes. Reports trom Al's compantohs ‘te * r of the up-State cities, say t uw quick and clever at rep nd at seizing a situation or a phre 8 ever, despite his two years abs from politics. His gutckness in retort 1s tllustrated in a story told by James J. Hoey, former Commissioner of Insurance, a lifelong friend of the ex-Governor, Mr. Hoey called on Al at Sea Gate one night last summer and they went for a walk, Al had on an elaborate yachting cap presented to him by the Hoe Assoctation, whieh meets ar and sings all the old Has und Hart songs. Al et- tends ail thi called upe © aftuirn and Invariably - “Paddy Dufty’e iad on his yasht- a cane with @ took exception rea fine specimen of a politi- clan," he said to Al. ‘1 am glad we are in this eloistered spot where mo- body can see you, Did you ever see jlor carry a cane?” Why, you landlubbert'* hack, reversing the bing it by the eng, @ boathook 2” Alfred Smith jr. sized up his father as well as anybody has ever done when he remarked, In 1916, after the Yourth Ward had celebrated Al's elece Al came cane and grab- “Didn't you ever tion as Sheriff ‘Geet’ remarked young Smith, “but it's great to have a dad like Al. Everybouy ALWAYS glad to eee him." This concludes Martin Grepa's . sketch of the East Side boy whe ber came Governor, a