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The Elks MagazineFeatures for July, 1926
>rsonalities and Appreciations 5 Mod^em 3Obe Spanking ofSammy, Part I, by Henry llluslraiions by C. Le Roy BaldridgeIrving Dodge 6
Illustrations by R. L. Lambdin Editorial
Personalities and Appreciations 5
The Spanking of Sammy, Part I, byHenryIrving Dodge 6
Illustrations by R> L. Lambdin
The Ballplayer's Ballplayer, an article byBozeman Bulger 11
With Photographs
Let's Take the Car to Europe, an articlebyJohn R. Tunis 15
Drawings by R. J. Holmgren
Behind the Footlights and on the Screen 19
The Wreck of the Red Wing, Part IV—anovel of the South Seas by BeatriceGrimshaw 22
Illustrations by Douglas Duer
Rabbit Ears, a story by Norman Beasley 26Drawings by Arthur G. Dove
Down to the Sea in Books, Reviews byClaire Wallace Flynn 29
Flag Day Address by Grand Exalted Ruler 34
New Home of Los Angeles Lodge 35
Under the Spreading Antlers, News of theOrder -
The Elks National Memorial HeadquartersBuilding, an article by John Chapman .Hilder—Special rotogravure section 4i
Invitation from Elks National MemorialHeadquarters Commission
Fundamentals for Investors, a financialarticle byPaul Tomlinson 00
Cover Design by Charles Livingston Bull
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Grand Lodge Officers and Committees1925-1926
Grand Exalted Ruler—.William Hawley Atwell, Dallas, Texas, No. 71.
Grand Esteemed Leading Knight—Dr. Carroll Smith, St. Louis, Mo., No. 9.
Grand EsteemedLoyal Knight—Riley C. Bowers, Montpelier, Vt., No. 924.
Grand Esteemed Lecturing Knight—Walter F. Meier, Seattle, Wash., No. 92.
Grand Secretary—Fred C. Robinson (Dubuque, la., No. 297) Congress Hotel, Chicago, 111.
Grand Treasurer—John K. Burch, Grand Rapids, Mich., No. 48,219 Division Avenue, S.
Grand Tiler—E. W, Kelly, Salt Lake City, Utah, No. 85.
Grand Inner Guard—John McW. Ford, Shreveport, La., No. 122.
Grand Chaplain—Rev. Dr. John Dysart (Jamestown, N. Y., No.263), Flint, Mich.
Grand Esquire—William J. Sinek, Chicago, 111., No. 4.
Secretary to Grand Exalted Rider—W. R. Dudley, Jr., Dallas, Texas, No. 71, SantaFe Building.
Pardon Commissioner—Jefferson B. Browne, Key West, Fla., No. 551.
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Board of Grand Trustees—R. A. Gordon, Chairman, Atlanta, Ga., No. 78,ggS West Flagler St., Miami, Fla.Edward W. Cotter, Approving Member, Hartford,Conn., No. 19, Pilgard Bldg.Louis Boismenue, Secretary (East St. Louis, 111.,No. 664), 21 N. Main St.Robert A. Scott, Home Member, Linton, Ind.,No. 866.Clyde Jennings, Vice-Chairman, Lynchburg, Va.,No. 321.
Grand Forum—Thomas J. Lennon, Chief Justice (San Rafael, Cal.,No. 1108), San Francisco, Cal.John J. Carton, Flint, Mich., No. 222.William J. Conway (Wisconsin Rapids, Wis., No. 693),State House, Madison, Wis.Walter P. Andrews, Atlanta, Ga., No. 78.Murray Hulbert, New York, N. Y., No. i, 165Broadway.
Committee on Judiciary—John F. Malley, Chairman (Springfield, Mass.,No. 61), 15 State Street, Boston, Mass.Michael F. Shannon, Los Angeles, Cal., No. 99.John R. Coen, Sterling, Colo., No. 1336.Clarence M. Browne, Saginaw, Mich., No. 47.C. Frank Reavis, Falls City, Neb., No. 963.
Good of the Order Committee—L K. Lewis, Duluth, Minn., No. 133.Horace W. AmphletySan Mateo, Cal., No. 1112.B. W. Arnold (O^ik'^i Wis., No. 292),407 SecurityBldg., Milwaukee, Wis.
Committee on Credentials—•Joseph M. Sullivan, Chairman, Boston, Mass., No. 10.Charles C. Bradley, Portland, Ore., No. 142.Hardy C. Hutchinson, Oakland, Calif., No. 171.Garnet R. Fleming, Shellij^ville, Ind., No. 457.John E. Breau.x, Uiloxi, Miss., No. G06.
.1 ndiling Commillee—E. M. Wharton, Chairman, Greenville, S. C., No. 858.Albert L. Kavanagh, Lewiston, Me., No. 371.Thomas F. Macksey, East Orange, N. J., No. 630.
Stale Association Committee—William H. Reinhart, Sandusky, Ohio, No. 285.Philip Clancy, Niagara Falls, N. Y., No. 346.George C. Steinmiller, Reno, Nev., No. 597.
Social and Community Welfare Committee—John P. Sullivan, Chairman, New Orleans, La..No. 30, 642 Commercial Place.John C. Karel, Milwaukee, Wis., No. 46.Lloyd R. Maxwell (Marshalltown, la.. No. 312),6 N. Michigan Ave., Chicago, HI.Russell H. Dunn, Port Arthur, Texas, No. 1069.W. C. Robertson, Minneapolis, Minn., No. 44.
National Memorial Headquarters Commission—John K. Tener, Chairman (Charleroi, Pa., No. 494),Oliver Bldg., Pittsburgh, Pa.Joseph T. Fanning, Secretary-Treasurer and Executive Director (Indianapolis, Ind., No. 13), 50 East42nd St., New York, N. Y.James R. Nicholson (Springfield, Mass., No. 61),P. O. Box 2404, Boston, Mass.Edward Rightor, New Orleans, La., No.Canal Commercial Building.Fred Harper, Lynchburg, Va., No. 321.Bruce A. Campbell, East St. Louis, 111., No. 664,Murphy Bldg.William M. Abbott, San Francisco, Cal., No. 3,58 Sutter St.Rush L. Holland (Colorado Springs, Colo., No. 309),Metropolitan Bank Building, Washington, D. C.Frank L. Rain, Fairbury, Neb., No. 1203.William W. Mountain (Flint, Mich., No. 222), Tre-mainsville and Upton Avenues, West Toledo, Ohio.J. Edgar Masters (Charleroi, Pa., No. 494), Office ofCounty Treasurer, Washington, Pa.William Hawley Atwell, Grand Exalted Ruler, Member Ex-Officio, Dallas, Texas, No. 71.
Leach Memorial Committee—William J. O'Brien, Chairman, Baltimore, Md.,No. 7, 1009 Calvert Building.William T. Phillips, New York, N. Y., No. i.Albert T. Brophy, Brooklyn, N. Y., No. 22.
Allen Memorial Committee—Charles E. Pickett, Chairman, Waterloo, la., No. 290.Thomas B. Mills, Superior, Wis., No. 403.Edward J. McCrossin, Birmingham, Ala., No. 79.
Brown Memorial Committee—Raymond Benjamin, Chairman (Napa, Cal., No.832), 512 De Young Building, San Francisco.Fred O. Nuetzel, Louisville, Ky., No. 8.W. A. James, Galveston, Texas, No. 126.
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The Elks National Home at Bedford, VirginiaThe Elks National Ilome at Bedford, Va., is main
tained as a residence for aged and indigentmembers of the Order. It is neither an infirmary nor ahospital. Applications for admission to the Home mustbe made in writing, on blanks furnished by the GrandSecretary, and signed by the applicant. All applications must be approved by the Subordinate Lodge ofwhich the applicant is a member, at a regular meetingand
forwarded to the Secretary of the Board of Grand Trustees. The Board of Grand Trustees shall pass on all applications. For all laws governing the Elks National Home,see Grand Lodge Statutes, Chapter 9, Sections 62 to6ga, inclusive. For information regarding the Home,address Robert A. Scott, Home Member, Board ofGrand Trustees, B. P. O. Elks Lodge No. 866, Linton,Indiana.
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Personalities and AppreciationsThe Dedication Program
TI tHE dedication ceremonies ot the Elks NationalI Memorial Headquarters Building will be held at
four o'clock on the afternoon of Wednesday, JulyI I. Past Grand Exalted Ruler John K. Tener willopen the exercises by formally turning over the Building to the Order on behalf of the Elks National Memorial Headquarters Conmussion, of which he is Chairman. Grand Exalted Riiler William Hawley Atwellwill accept the Building, in the name of the Order ofElks and, assisted by the other Grand Lodge Ofiicers,will conduct the special ritualistic dedication service.The Grand Exalted Ruler will make an address and.Past Grand Exalted Ruler Rush L. Holland, a memberof the Commission, will deliver the dedicatory oration.An appropriate nmsical program has been arranged toaccompany the dedication features, which are to beheld on the steps in front of the Memorial Hall. AllElks and tlieir families are very cordially invited toattend.
Helping Make Chicago Beautiful"prow the Elks National Memorial Headquarters
Building is regarded by those in charge of themovement to beautify Chicago is shown in a letter,written by Charles H. Wacker, Chairman of theChicago Plan Commission, from which we quote herewith:
"... the Elks deserve great credit for erecting astructure so beautiful and so inspiring. The CWcagoPlan Commission stands for the beautiful, and wevalue things like the Elks IVFemorial not only for theirdirect result, but also for their influence toward thefiner and better Chicago of the future. Who of us isnot lifted above mere sordid industrial existence intot!ie realm of the beautiful and ennobling things of lifeby attractive surroundings.^ Fine monuments, beautiful parks, and other forms of attractive civic development, are agencies, we believe, that make not only forthe future greatness of the city but also for the happiness and prosperity of its people."
"The Spanking of Sammy"/~\UR new three-part serial, by Henry Irving Dodge,^ which begins in this issue, should give rise toconsiderable discussion between those on one side whoconsider the modern generation to be terrible and thoseon the other side who think it is perfectly normal.The Sammy of Mr. Dodge's story presents a diflicidtproblem as does his mother also. There are a numberof Sanimys at large and it is hard to know just whatto do with them. The reformatory, suggested by somepeople as the only remedy for the incorrigibly mischievous, does not seem to be the right thing in casessuch as Sammy's. And yet, what to do? Mr. Dodgeanswers the question in one way.
Aside from its interesting treatment of a verypresent question, the story is an exceptional study ofthe way children's minds work. And in addition tothat it's a good story. There's one episode in it asthrilling as anything we have ever read. See if youdon't agree.
Mr. Dodge has a faculty for writing things thatmake people talk. This is because he keeps in closetouch with what is goingon and knows what is occupying the public mind. Then, too, his long reportorialexperience taught him how to get men to talk to himIn his newspaper days, Mr. Dodge was an extremclvsuccessful mtervicwer. He had the knock of makingfnends with the men he went to see and was frequentlyable in this way to secure a story where others failedIt IS said of him that he interviewed more big men irihis day, than any other reporter.
The People's FavoriteTO-ILLIAM SLAVENS Mcnu*tT, himself a well-" known writer, told us that on a recent trip
through the West he made it a point to inquire ofeveryone he met the name of their favorite author.The answer, in a great majority of cases, was " OclavusRoy Cohen." This was no surprise to us. Cohen wasone of the first writers whose work we sought for TheElks Magazine. His negro stories have appearedin our pages almost since the start of this publication.It was our privilege, also, to publish his first seriousnovel, dealing with white characters: "The IronChalice." We received more letters in praise of thisserial than in response to any other feature we haveever published.
Just before he sailed for Europe last Fall, Cohencame to see us and outUned the theme of a new novelWe liked it so much that we commissioned him towrite it for us. And on his return to this country amonth or two ago, he reported that it was almostfinished. He said he hoped it would please us.
It did. We accepted it immediatelv and beganlaying plans for its pubUcation. The first chapterswill appear in an early issue. We won't urge you toread it. That would be unnecessary. We are 'givingyou advance notice of its coming, however, so thatyou may be on the lookout for it. The title will be"The Outer Gate."
Cover Design By—A PROMINENT ELk, whose business takes him
into many communities and brings him into contact with many members of the Order, was in ourolTice the other day. "That last cover of yours," besaid, "was a corker." (We quote him verbatim.) "Ihave had people mention it to me wherever I've been.In fact I find that nearly all The Elks Magazinecovers have been popular. They seem to ha^-e thathuman quality that gives them a wide appeal."
We were glad to hear this because we have alwavstaken particular pains, in our choice of covers, toselect .subjects that seemed to us appealing and amusing, without being oversentimental or Iwrdering onthe burlesque. Using only twelve covers a year wecan not have quite so many artists as some of theother magazines do. W^e can, however, and do havesome of the best: J. F. Kernan, Leslie Thrasher, PaulStahr, E. N. Jackson, Edmund Davenport, E. F. Witt-mack, Charles Ryan and Sam Brown, all of themamong the top-ranking cover artists.
Our cover this month departs somewhat from ourusual type of design in \iew of the rather specialnature of this issue and the event it signalizes. Thedrawing, which, as you can see, represents the AmericanEagle, surrounded by the doves of Peace, hoveringover the Elks Nation^ Memorial Headquarters Building, is the work of that well-loved artist-naturalistCharles Livingston Bull. '
We frequently receive requests from readers forspecial reprints of our covers, suitable for framingWe are always pleased to .see these evidences of theinterest the covers have aroused. But owing to thefact that we are organized very compactly for (hesole purpose of publishing the Magazine, and thatwe have no sidelines to sell—as some other publicationshave—it is not possible for us to comply with theserequests. To make a regtilar practice of supplyingspecial cover reprints would neces.'iitate the establish-ment of a separate department to handle the busines.s.This would involve extra expense, an increased personnel and other factors. And inasmuch as our function, as specified by the Grand Lodge, is to publisha montlily magazine only, we would not bo justified inenlarging our activities to include the sale of prints,even of our own cover designs.
Beginninga Novel in Three Parts
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The Spanking of Sammy"Sammy and his gang tied a long piece
of cord to the leg of Mrs. Porter's big gander,and hitched the old bird to Doc Simpson'snight emergency bell at midnight. Thecreature kicked and struggled to get awayand it rang the bell like hell bent for election.
"On his next adventure Sammy led hisgang down to Peter's saw mill on a Saturdayafternoon, when he knew the mill would beshut down, and did then and there hoistthe water gate and set the machinery inmotion. If it hadn't been for the quickarrival of one of the mill hands, who livednearby, great damage might have beendone. Peters and his men caught the boys,ducked them in the muddy pond, and bootedthem off the premises.
"Sammy's next adventure was a violation against the peace of the village. He letdown the bars at Nickerson's field and turnedloose an old bull, just for the sport of seeingpeople scatter in all directions to get out ofthe creature's way."
'^HIS would have been vicious, indeed, ifA the boys hadn't known that the old crea
ture was notoriously harmless. Nevertheless, it served their panic-creating scheme.
If reprimanded for these goings-on, theboys—one and all—retorted in justificationthat they were only expressing themselves.Nellie, too, when someone complained abouther boy's goings-on, simply commented inher maddening way: "Why didn't theyhave someone to watch that saw-mill? Ithink it was positively wicked to leave adangerous piece of machinery like that wherelittle boys could get at it. Supposing theyhad injured themselves?" Or: "Why dothey have bars in Nickerson's field that asmall boy could let down? Don't theyunderstand that it's the very thing thatwould suggest itself to a small boy?"
For Nellie, be it understood, was the highpriestess of the "express yourself" fad thatjust now had all Stanwich by the ears.
It was not until the coffee was served thatNellie opened the proceedings of the meetingofficially, so to speak.
"They've had a lawyer after me, Dick.""They? Who?""Gillespie, of course. Who else?"Nellie's pet aversion, understand, was
Mrs. Sarah Illingsworth Gillespie, like herself a widow, but a widow with a vastlylonger purse. Gillespie was a sharp-tonguedold woman, by virtue of which and hermoney she had been a social leader of Stanwich so long that the memory of manruiiticth not to the contrary. The feudbetween the two women had long been the
Part I
YOU'VE heard of the man who dreamedhe stole a planet and went saiUngthrough space on its back. That was
some enterprise, even in a dream. And theadventurer was a grown-up man, too.
Sammy—alias "Smarty"—James eventually, and as a climax to his adventurouscareer, did the next best thing to stealinga planet; did it in reality—no dream. Andhe was a boy, little more than a child. Howis that for high? But I'm getting ahead ofmy story; away ahead of it.
The story of the spanking of Sammy shallbe told in the first person, told by me,Richard Atwater, attorney.
To begin at the beginning: On a certainevening I was called to the phone. It wasJoe, brother to the beautiful Nellie James,mdow. It was a hurry call, so to speak.Nellie wanted me to come to dinner.
"Sam's gone over to Uncle John's," Joesuggested significantly. "They're havinga young folks' affair of some kind. Willyou come?"
"Tickled to death. I'll be there on theminute."
Let it be understood right here at thestart that Judge Humphrey, District Attorney Frank Morrison, and I, Dick Atwater, a corporation lawyer, had been ardentsuitors for the hand of Sam's beautifiUmother, before Will James got her. Also,wehave been continuous performance suitors forNellie's hand after Will James died. Andeven if R. S. (rejected suitor), which everyoneof the foregoing might have written after hisname in association with Nellie, meant defeated purpose, it was also a tribute to thegood taste of the man who bore it. ForNellie James certainly was a queen.
Nellie was a law unto herself and a lawunto others as well. She did everything toaccentuate the difference between herselfand others. For example, if low heels werebeing worn, Nellie went back to high heels.When other women shortened their skirtsNellie lengthened hers, which was a shamein both cases. She was the first in the community to bob her hair. No sooner didothers follow suit than she let hers grow, andwas even more fascinating that way. Andthe bewitching devil knew it.
Nellie was forever posing for the delectation of others. She had a way of enteringa room, pausing and posing just inside thedoor, her mouth slightly ajar in a brilliantgrin, her wonderful teeth gleaming, hereyesbright and laughing. Then she would turn,as if her attention had been attracted by
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some sound in the hall,and giveyoua profileview—her strong point, carefully and effectively rehearsed. She was gracious andgenerous of her charms, and was alwayssure of an adoring audience.
"Yes, Joe," I repeated, "I'll be there onthe minute."
"I say, Dick, let me give you a pomter.It's—it's about Sam."
"I get you, Joe." „"What's the little devil been up to, nowr
I wondered—the little devil for whose scalpeverybody was yelling. It seems absurd,but they were—all the gro^vn-ups of Stan-wich.
Perhaps they were justified. I ran overthe catalogue of Sam's most recent offensesagainst the respectable quiet and decorumof the community. These had beenrelatedto me by village constable Brady. I givethem in that functionary's own words, sofar as I can:
"Sammy James, trailed by hisjumped into a tinLizzie that was loaded withvegetables, pulled herwide open, and madeoff like hell bent for election, vegetablesflying in all directions, being used by theboys to pelt respectable citizens. A turniplanded on the ear of Bill Caton, furnace man,and put him out of business, for the timebeing. , .
"Sammy James and his gangplayed tick-tack on the shop-keepers, particularly onthe barber. .t. • u
"On another occasion these devilish boysshifted signs from one shop to anotl^r.Theytook thefish-dealer's sign to the barbershop and the barber's pole to the ui^der-taker's shop on the very night that old oamChase, the note-shaver, was lying there inhiscoffin—just to livenit up a bit, they said.
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talk of the town. Nellie was the only onewho dared openly to beard the old lady,flaunt her social mandates.
"What's it about?" I said."She's hitting at me through Sam, as
usual.','"What's he been doing lately?""Nothing at all. They haven't been able
to get anything on him lately. They'vetrumped up something."
"What did the lawyer say?" 1 asked.Nellie was silent for a moment, then burst
out, with much feeling: "Said he'd beendeputed by a certain element here to putSam away as a public nuisance." Shepaused and again burst out: "I don't seewhat they're kicking about. I'm half supporting this town now by the fines I'm paying squaring things, nothing but boyishpranks. They're a lot of ingrates."
"But what were the lawyer's exactwords?" I urged.
"I told him that I had paid the fines andhe said: 'That's all right but it doesn'tabate the nuisance.'"
"I get you, Nellie," I said, "but what'sthe new thing they've trumped up?"
"Dick," said Joe, "there's been a greatdeal of talk."
"Aw, I got to lick him onceun a while,to show him where he gets
"Dick's heard the talk," Nellie broke inwith a touch of impatience.
"No he hasn't," said Joe. "Dick's in hisoffice in New York all day. He doesn'tmeet the morons there."
"Quite right," I said. "You'll have totell me."
"You'll think it a fool piece of business,Dick," said Joe. "But it's about thiselopement craze that's possessing theyoungsters here."
"Elopement? Possessing children? Whatdo you mean?"
"Asinine," Joe commented.Said Nellie quietly: "This craze, as the
old busybodics call it, is only a kind ofseasonal thing like kites and marbles andplaying Indians and doesn't mean anythingmore. You know, Dick, how boys go roundwith old decayed rooster's feathers on theirheads yelling. 'Scalp them.' But you don'thear of anyone's being tomahawked." Shechuckled. "Why, Sammy doesn't evenknow how to pronounce it. He calls it ' lope-man.' I asked him what he meant. Hereally had no idea. He wanted little Billy
Watson—a boy—to 'lope' withhim. Thatshows how little he knows what it means."
"That's all right," Joe said. "But boys'fool notions being spread broadcast do leadto foolish things sometimes."
"You haven't heard of any youngstersrunning away because of it or anything tocause you worry?" I asked.
"Not mere chUdren," said Joe. "Butthere was the case of Jimmy Matthews andthe young Wilkins girl, who ran away together. Their adventure cast a romanticglamor over the elopement business and overthis place—put it on the map. The NewYork papers printed sensational reports ofit. The actors in it were lionized. I believeit lead to the elopement of Will Bronsonand Julia Kennedy."
"But how do they connect Sam up withit?" I insisted.
"Only this, so far as we know," Nelliesaid. "It's reported that Sam sent out theedict to his gang: 'Every member of thegang must steal himself a queen.'" Herej'es flashed. '"Imagine a thing like thatbeing given as evidence of Sam's responsibility for this foolishness."
"Gillespie claims Sam's been talkingelopement till he's got all the youngsters
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Nellie broke in: "It's nothing but thetalk of that old woman and her sycophantsthat has given this mere childish whim substance. She saw a chance to hit at methrough Sam and she's keeping it ^ve."
"Nevertheless," I urged, "it will die anatural death if you let it alone—takes twoto make a quarrel. That's what keeps thething going."
"Very good, Dick. But I don't wantSam to do anything or be to blame for anything the youngsters do around here if Ican help it."
" Why don't you spank him? " I suggestedmildly. "That'll drive it out of his head,won't it?"
"Drive it into his head," Joe said, "ifthey do it in the old-fashioned way."
"How very vulgar," Nellie commented."I'm serious, Nellie," I urged.At this Nellie flared up. "Imagine such
a thing! Even if I were strong enough tohandle him—which I am not, as you cansee. Imagine such a thing!"
And, truly, I couldn't imagine such athing. The mere idea was grotesque, forNellie James had always affected the poseof ineffable feminine delicacy, daintiness inevery respect. Even in her thoughts shewas aesthetic. She was one of those womenwho is the perfection of feminine detail anddaintiness even in the cloistered seclusion ofher own, most-envied boudoir.
Nellie's feet alone, slender and patent-leathered, would have made you love her;you'd have loved her for her wonderfulankles, her slender waist, her slender arms,and her slender neck, all or any one of them.If you've regarded Nellie from the groundup, a not wholly illogical proceeding whenone considers the most arresting beauty ofher feet, and have escaped, you're lucky or
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"It's reported " said Nellie, "thatSam ordered every member ofhisgang to steal himself a queen
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Said a literary wag, after observingNellie critically: "She certainly is, in theaesthetical sense, the superlative of un-utterableness."
No, I couldn't imagine Nellie engaged inthe most undignified business of the spanking of Sammy.
Nellie paused, then urged gently: "Besides,Dick, you see how'unjust it would
be to spank him—even if I were strongenough to handle him, which I'm not. He'sonly expressing himself. I've taught him toexpress himself because he wants to. Andbecause he wants to do it, it's his nature,and anything that's his nature is right."She paused, then impetuously: "Everybody's blaming Sammy. And the morethey blame him, the more it makes me lovehim—the darling boy.". I regarded Nellie for some moments insUence. "Was she hopeless," I thought.. " What's your idea of it, Joe? "
Joe puffed his cigar and pondered a bit."You see, Dick, Sam's heard a whole lotof foolish talk about girls and elopement.I asked him where he got it. He said hegot it from a 'sheep.'"
"Sheep?" I repeated. "Sheep?""He means sheik—corner loafer," said Joe."Doesn't that show how little he under
stands?" said Nellie."He told me," said Joe, "he'd heard the
sheep say—every time a pretty girl passed—' Gee,she's a queen. I'm goin' to steal her—I'm goin' to 'lope with her.'"
We smoked our cigars in silence, Joe andI, while I turned the matter over in my mind.Presently I said: "What you've told me is
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all very interesting, but it doesn't convictSam of being a public nuisance, as the lawyerclaims. Just where do I come in? That'swhat I'd like to know."
"As I told you, Dick," said Nellie, "Idon't want Sam to be a menace—in anyway—to the children."
"But what you've told me doesn't makehim a menace, so far as Xcan see. Far fromit."
"That isn't it, Dick," Nellie urged."We don't want you to take our word.We want you to find out for yourself."
"Find out what? Be definite, Nellie.""Find out who really has been spreading
this talk of eloping among children. Findout if Sammy's been doing it. I ask you,Dick, not only because you're a friend ofmine, but you're a lawyer. You'll be judicial. I want an honest report. If Sam'sreally in the wrong, I'm going to send himaway to school, for a while."
Again we three pondered in silence whileI turned the matter over in my mind.
"All right," I said presently, "I'll do it.I'll investigate and report. It rests withyou to accept it or not. Of course, if it'sadverse to Sam, you'll chuck it into thewaste basket and call me an egotistical,presumptuous old ass. If you don't, youwon't be a real normal mother and dotinguncle, and I shan't have any respect foreither of you."
I made up my mind that the only thingI could do was to investigate and reportmy findings in the case, without any recommendations of any kind. If, when Nellieshould know the facts, she should find it difficult to decide, I might lend counsel.
It's an ungrateful thing to counsel awoman, particularly a widow, as to herchild. She won't take your darned oldadvice, anyway, and if she did, and itturned out wrong, she'd hate you for it.
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Any one who puts his popularity with herabove his sense of duty to her will avoid it.That's one of the problems of social life.But I felt that if my friendship were worthanything to Nellie or to me, it must besincere and fearless.
It is a foible of human nature, but just assoon as I found that the beautiful Nellie'sfriendship for me might be in the balance,my strictly judicial attitude took on an inclining dangerously resembling the attitudeof counsel for the defense. That may nothave been honest. It may even have beencowardly. But it was pretty devilishnatural—and I'm only a human guy, atbest.
I began my investigation by interviewingSam's best girl, Sam's chum, and JakeHcinke, the station agent.
T DID not consider it particularly edifying* for a corporation lawyer, associated withmagnates and the like, handling affairs ofvast magnitude, to go nosing about amonga lot of village children, like the most veritable local snoop—but -I was doing it forfriendship's sake. And, believe me, I foundit extrendey interesting—infinitely more refreshing than the dry details of corporationcases. And I found the children no morechildish •or petty or petulant or stupid thanmost of the magnates I customarily dealtwith. This also holds good with greatlawyers, great doctors, great clergymen, andparticularly with great writers, artists, andscientists. They're a lot of blooming children—the whole kit and caboodle of them.I doubt if any one of them can see fartherahead of his nose than any normal kid.
My experience was illuminating. Itshowed me how far I had drifted away fromthe affairs of children—the most vital affairsof the day. I believe that that experienceand the wonderful thing that followed tookat least twenty years off my age. My associates in town asked me if I had been takingup some rehabilitation process—they noticedthat I was dealing with things with a freshness, a new clarity of vision—sharpened perception. But I let them guess. Now thatI've let you old lawyers into the secret, Istrongly recommend that you adopt it—train along with kiddies and Nature for a
"Let each guy have a skirt or a Jane. Ifhe can t get her any other way, steal her"
while. It will give you unalloyed pleasureand will sharpen your wits into the bargain.It will make you realize—you conceited oldjackasses—what a small difference there isbetween you and the boy.
I shall set down the testimony of thevarious ones examined, asifit weretherecordof a trial. Please to remember that I wasan investigator—neither a prosecutor nor adefender. My business was to ascertainfacts and circ*mstances, and to report. Iwas determined to be unbiased so far aswas humanly possible with me. My sentiment toward tiie boy was more—I am gladto say—than a friendly interest. The factthat my aspirations in the direction of hispaternity had not materialized, operated notone whit against the lad. Any feeling I mighthave had against Will James for winningNellie had long since been changcd by—I amproud to say—his good treatment of her.
With the aforesaid purpose in view, Isought out not only Sam's severest critics,but those whom I believed to be his sympathetic allies.
It was rather a novel job for me to interrogate children, most of whom I had no morethan a nodding acquaintance with, and aJlof whom held me in awe—a tall, dignifiedlawyer, almost sepulchral, one might say—one whose absent-mindedness was resentedas aloofness by those who didn't understandhim.
I found children were natural born andready gossips, especially where they themselves had a chance to shine, or to knock theuniversal nuisance of the place. The youngsters were prone to romanticise. And so Ihad to weigh their testimony carefully.This is easier for you to do—you who havechildren of your own—than it was for me,a bachelor. So I give my findings literally.
From the little girl, Minnie Heinke, Igot a small but interesting bit of testimony—one that threw a real light on the smallboy's conception of whateloping meant—and valuablefor that sociological qualityonly.
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Minnie, being duly interrogated, deposed:"On or about"—the technical style is myown—"the fourteenth day of June last, oneSam James met me at the corner of ouryard—behind the hedge—and made thefollowing proposal, to wit:
"Say, Minnie, let's you and me 'lope.'"It was quite abrupt, apparently—it hadn'tbeen led up to by the procedure customaryin elopement proposals. It startled her.
"What d'ye mean, 'lope'?""Let's run away together.""Sam James, ain't you awful.""Why, no—they're aU doing it.""But, we ain't old enough to get married.""Aw, whose talking about gettin' married
—we can 'lope' without gettin' married.""Why don't you ask a little boy, then?"
I did ask Billy Watson. He wouldn't—he said you got to 'lope' with a girl."
I intrigued Sam's ^um—lieutenant andgeneral right-hand man—one Billy Watson,by giving him a job at light work and extremely liberal pay, cleaning up in my backyard. Billy was not a reluctant witness. Ireport the interview with such eliminationsand elucidations as I think proper. I reportit in the third person mostly. But wheremy own form of speech has fallen downhelplessly in the matter of equivalents, Iquote Bill directly.
15ILLYhadlostan uppertoothand, throughthe aperture, punctuated his talk saliva-
rically and with marked precision—as witness a spider in the corner which, spindle-legged and spiteful, and just emerging fromits_ cloistered seclusion, turns and beats aquick retreat under fire.
From Billy's testimony I deducted aboutas follows:
Smarty was very full of ideas and schemes.He was always playing to Billy as an audience—talking aloud to him—telHng how heforgives her—her being Minnie Heinke. But
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Billy had got so that he paid small attentionto these vaporings. He said Smarty wasalways showing off. That was how he gothis nickname. He boxed, swam, rode, drovea car, or bragged that he could do all thesethings. "But can he do these things?" Iasked.
"He makes a quick stab at them," saidBilly.
According to Billy, Smarty had a way ofarranging stunts to take place in front ofMinnie's house—where she could see him dothe heroic. A certain juvenile bully, deeming himself invincible, had been tormentingthe little "right-hand" man, and it restedwith Smarty, as leader and natural protector,to administer enlightening chastisem*nt.The little opportunist, apparently certainas to results, made it a point to stage theencounter where it would be most effectivelywitnessed, as aforesaid. There was little ofthe eclat to it. For the bully was, as amatter of fact, not a bit formidable—he wasbig and fat, flabby, puffy-cheeked, andcould have been trounced by a plucky boyof half his size. I quote Billy: "One goodkick in the slats woxild have settled his hash."Smarty knew this. So he got his little chumto intrigue the bully to walk with him tothe spot in front of the little girl's house,there to engage him in an argument, awrestling match; and then he, Smarty,hidden in ambush, appeared to "chance"along, suddenly perceived the unequal combat—like a moving-picture hero—hesitateda moment then dashed in and rescued thelittle boy and trounced the bully. Billy'scooperation did credit to the little chap'sresourcefulness. For it chanced that whenthey fully appeared Minnie was absent for amoment from her accustomed place on theporch or behind the hedge. So Billy intrigued the bully back and forth severaltimes, or until the little girl appeared, whenhe halted him and the heroicrescue was effected bySmarty.
Smarty was forever visualizing himself the hero, thegirl always looking on—^andher rich and powerful father—Smarty had conferredwealth and power and ever}'aristocratic distinction onpoor old Jake Heinke thestation agent, an amiablecolorless person, for dramaticpurposes—taking him by thehand and offering hisdaughter in marriage.
Here I am constrained, obviously ofnecessity, to quote inparts literally fromBilly. And believeme, no form of speechcharacteristic of theprofession of law or ofany other form of erudition could do thenarration or recital justice. Billy was usingcirc*mstances to illustrate and prove up hisstatement that Smarty's was a very domineering nature. Smarty had intrigued hisalter ego as usual into the immediateneighborhood of Minnie's house.
I know whyyou'regoing thisway," saidBilly, "it's cause Minnie Heinke lives here."
"Naw, I ain't.""You want to show off."Here Smarty made a pass at Billy. Billy
dodged, and Smarty missed him. Theyclinched, wrestled for a few moments, thenbroke away, and, the gesture having clearedthe atmosphere, resumed friendly relations.
Prcsently,afterbroodinga bit,Smartysaid:
"You're jealous.""I ain't jealous.""You are, too. You're jealous cause
Minnie likes me better than she doesyou.'Just then Smarty became aware of a
furtive white skirt on the other side of thehedge. He couldn't have staged it better.He turned on Billy:
"Don't you dare to say anything againstthat young lady,"—and made a dash at theamazed boy.
"Watcha mean?""I'll show yer what I mean."Again they clinched, and Smarty pulled
Billy's nose so close against his shoulderthat the claret started. The hedge partedand there stood before them an angrj' littlegoddess—Minnie.
"You let him alone."Smarty released Billy's head from chan
cery.
Minnie said: "I think you're awful.""Aw, I got to lick him once in a while,
just to show him where he gets off."Billy exclaimed, with nose pinched to
check the flow of claret:"Aw, you ain't licked me neither."Smarty made a dash at. Billy and Billy
let go his nose and put up his dukes in anattitude of defense or mock defense, forjust then Minnie moved between them, asboth of them knew she would do.
"You stop that," she cried.Smarty relieved, affected disgust."Aw, that's always the way with a woman
where a man is concerned.""But you're not a man. You're only a
little boy," cried Minnie.As they moved down the road, Smarty
said: "She just wants to make mejealous. That's all."
Another thing Billy told me, Smartyhad got—apparently among the super-sophisticated sheiks and super-
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cynical. To have recognized the merit ma picture would have been to acknowledgeweakness, for in cynicism only lay strengthof intellect. With Smarty, in a word, thewhole thing was rotten. If asked to particularize, then—according to superior sheikpatter—theacting was bad, the story cheap,and incoherent—please to remember thelanguage is my own. The photography notartistic, and so on. Such strictures—alwaysdelivered audibly in the picture house—were of course "diverting" for those whowere seeking to enjoy the show.
Smart)' had a way, after a period of profound Napoleonic reflection with head bentand hands clasped behind him of abruptlyturning to Billy and hypothecalizing thus:
"What would you do if your girl wentwith a fellow you didn't like—and brokethrough the ice?"
"Aw, you're dreamin'.""Naw, I ain't dreamin'.""You're dreamin' Minnie did it, and you
pulled her out."Smarty blushed. "Naw, I ain't, either."I concluded from various observations and
comments of Billy that Smarty lived threeto the minute with what he did and what heimagined he did—in\''ented—imparted toBilly in strict chummy sentimental confidences. It is singular and much to hiscredit that notwithstanding his numerousand strenuous encounters, intellectual andphysical, he never once suffered defeat. Healways came out winner. And, by a singularcoincidence, Minnie was always present towitness and applaud his victories. Once hesaved her from tramps. Again from anangr>- bull. In each case by the exercise of
inconceivable courageand s t r e n g t h—suchcourage and strength asone sees exercised bymovie heroes—exercisedin the same spectacularway.
Smarty deVoted somuch time to rescuingMinnie and forgiving herparents that he had smalltime for anything else.And, tragically, he wasforever being misjudged,misunderstood—just hownot Ivxiown—which madehim sadly resentful. Andhe was always resolvingto "take it out" onsociety—just how notknown. But in some wayto make society fairlygrovel for his forgiveness.
But, particularly, wasSmarty's pardon continually being besought byMinnie's father andmother. He, Smarty, as
continually forgives—the girl always standing near and being affected by his magnanimity. OrMinnie'ssisterwasalwayssaying cruelthings about Smarty and Smarty was alwaysforgiving her. It is seldom that two devotedparents have the privilege of being so oftenforgiven by one so virtuous and handsome—if they only knew. Don't forget the handsome part of it. If it were not always acontinuous performance it was at leasta once-a-day matter.
Old Heinke and his wife must have beensingularly hard-hearted persons to haveheldout against so much forgiving. But they werealways won over. Curious, they saw the errorof their ways each day, yet were alwaysdoing something next day to require beingforgiven again and won over, or perhaps
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Jim Nichoh, Chief of the big "sheeps"to]wplayed pool and wore "belly pants"
aesthetical flappers—that it was the thingto be an atheist. So he went about proclaiming that there wasn't any God—allreligionswere nonsense. He felt big, heroic,brilliant, M'hen he made the little girlsshudder at his talk.
Being thus summarily and brutally deniedthe quality of prescience which he hadassumed with regard to the Deity, Smartyturned his attention to less complex subjects.He set up as a critic of things, moving-picturewise. It was the clever thing to be
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The Ballplayer's Ballplayer
^"T^HOUGH this article deals primarilyI with baseball I wonder if some of you
business men or professional menhaven't at a desk in your office an obscure,quiet, well informed man—maybe a member of your firm—who rarely takes part inloose talk and bluster but who always hasevery detail of the business at his fingertips.
Haven't you often wondered what youcould do without him?
Very likely the public doesn't know ofthis man. Even your close friends probablyregard you as the whole works. But youknow!
Am I stretching the imagination a bitwhen I describe this scene in your ofHcesome afternoon in June:
"Well, Jonesy," you are saying. "How'severything going?"
"Everj'thing's shaping up fine," saysJonesy. "Now, there is just one littlematter. Still, that can wait. What's—"
"That's great. I was thinking of goingto the ball game. Nothing like the old openair."
You may be quite unconscious of yourhaving just come in from the open air andthat Jonesy never gets a touch of it. Neitherdoes it occur to Jonesy.
"Go ahead," he says. "Hope you enjoyit. . . . By the way, I notice that Rixeywill pitch to-day. I see he has allowed butthree and a half hits to the game in his lastthree starts."
"Gee, that ought to be good for a bet!How'd you know that, Jonesy?"
"Oh, I don't get out to the games, but Ifollow the figures."
I suspect that most all of you have aJonesy in your oflice. He knows moreabout baseball or any other technical subject than you do and still he is alwayscheerfully willing to sit in the backgroundand^do the work. He even takes a pridein your prominence. The public knows youas the successful head of the firm. Thenewspapers never have heard of Jonesy.Everybody in your office, though, knowswho keeps the machine oiled.
In a newspaper office, an institution withtvhich I am more familiar, there is alwaysthat quiet, unassuming fellow who sits inday and night and makes the thing work.He gets out the paper. Star writers comeand go and, at times, there may be uncertainty about their delivering the goods.That unheard of fellow on the desk, though,quietly warps everything into shape and thepublic is none the wiser.
There ought to be a monument erectedto the Jonesy of the professional and business world, but I fear it will never be done.
Also there ought to be one erected to himin baseball. He is on every pennant-winningclub, though his name rarely reaches theheadlines. To his team mates he is thesame Jonesy of the business world, butknown by a different name. He is to themthe "Ballplayer's Ballplayer."
There are ballpla3'ers of this type whoalso get in the headlines and go down inhistory as great stars—men like WalterJohnson, Rogers Hornsby, Christy Mathew-
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Bill Killefer, late manager of the ChicagoCubst now with the St. Louis Cardinals
son, Babe Ruth, Ross Voung, Sam Rice andTy Cobb—but there are many others whodo not. When a ballplayer is a hero to histeam mates and also to the public that isthe perfect combination. Unhappily it israre. Whether he be prominent or obscurethe ballplayers know full well the man onwhom they can put dependence. Oftenthey will risk their personal fortunes on him.
A case in point was the unshakableconfidence of the Senators in Walter Johnsonduring that deciding game in Pittsburghlast fall and their insistence that he remainin the game with defeat creeping on themevery minute. His success or failure meanta matter of approximately $3,000 to each of
Louis Drucke,a picturesquepitcher ofAIcGraw's Giantsfifteen years ago
these players, but they were willing to risk'it. And they lost without complaint. Tomorrow they would do exactly the samething.
Often this dependable player is leastconsidered by the spectators. In fact, thefans and expert baseball statisticians whostew and sweat over columns of fractionalfigures and records to get at the standing ofplayers m their different classes would besurprised and, perhaps, hurt to know whatlittle value the ballplayers attach to thesepercentages in determining the real worth ofa player to his team. Ballplavers lovepublicity, of course, and that is their maininterestinwatching the columns sodiligentlystudied by the public.
There are ballplayers whose names neverappear amongthe great sluggers of the gameand they do not show brilliantly as in-fielders or outfielders—that is, to the public.Yet you may observe them, year after year,sitting quietly in a corner of the benchdrawing pretty good salaries. It is a safebet that you as a fan have railed at themanager's stupidity in keeping such an oldhas-been on the payroll.
These fellows—you can spot them on anybig league ball club—are the real Jonesys ofBaseball. They may not be physicalmarvels at executing plays but thev knowexactly the right thing to do at the righttime. They do not make mistakes. Theydo not pull "bones." They steady brilliantyoungsters playing alongside them and bycareful tutoring develop heroes, seemingly,overnight. They live a life of unselfishness.
Ask most any younger star who is beingfeatured in headlines and photographs thesecret of his success.
"If it hadn't been for that old bird alongsidemewho kept tippingme off,"he will saynine times out of ten, "I would have been asdumb as an ox. What I know about bigleague baseball I learned from him.It's kind of tough, at that, to have taken hisjob, isn't it?"
Two years ago when the New York fanswere beginning to wonder why ManagerHuggins kept Everett Scott around so longI happened to be talking with Aaron Wardon the train.
"That fellow worked me in as a secondbaseman," he said. "He knows the tricks."
TT IS interesting to know that Everett••• Scott has been called out of retirementthis season to lend his knowledge and experience to a big league infield once more.
The fan may have noticed that championships are rarely won by a club with youngplayers at second base and shortstop. Oneof them may be young, but without theexperience of an older man fo make thecombination mechanically perfect, it will failnine times out of ten. That is the pivotalposition in an infield. The attack anddefense—everything—swings about it. Theshortstop-second baseman combinationmust have speed, precision and the perfectcoordination to make double-plays, or thewhole defense becomes loose and spotty.The mere consciousness of smooth machinery
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Everett Scott, of the J^ashingtons, whohas come out of retirement this season
at that point stops the opposing baserunnersfrom taking chances.
PracticaUy every double play that is madeat second base prevents a run from scoring.That is the average estimated by themanagers. If you will recall that hundredsof games are won every season by one run itis not difficult to appreciate the value of aperfect combination around second base.
Stanley Harris, of the Senators, became agreat seconu baseman through the coachingof the veteran Roger Peckinpaugh, whoplayed alongside him. There, incidenUlly,IS another illustration of the ballplayer'sballplayer.
Roger Peckinpaugh was never regarded astar ofthefirst magmtude inthenewspapers,but to baseball players and others closelyallied with the game, he is known to be one ofthe greatest ballplayers the game everknew—the most dependable.
After the World's Series ended in Pittsburgh last fall Peckinpaugh was held up toridicule throughout the countrv for hiserrors in the last game. That didn'taffect his standing with the ballplayers,however. He is still on the Washingtonclub and drawing as big a salary as ever.Roger has been a main cog in the baseballwheel for more than fifteen years.
Should you ask most any thoughtlessfan—and, unhappily, many of them arethoughtless when it comes to hurtmg a ballplayer's feelings—who was the greatestbonehead in baseball his answer, almostmvariably, will be—Fred Merkle._Now if you ask a veteran ballplayer in
either big league to name a few of thesmartest ballplayers that ever lived one ofthe first names mentioned wiU be FredMerkle. This player, who gained nationalnotoriety by failing to touch second in thathistoric game between the Giants andCubs and was ever afterward called a bone-head, is undoubtedly one of the mostintelligent and quick-thinking players everdeveloped. Even sincehis retirement he hasbeen called back into thegame to help MillerHug-gins train the New YorkYankees.
The spring followingMerkle's unhappy mis-
Frank Snyder, a great hitter and oneof the veteran catchers of the Giants
take Manager McGraw raised his salaryand kept it raised for many years.
I have mentioned some of the moreprominent Jonesys of the game but there areothers, less prominent, who rank just as highin the estimation of the players.
A few years ago the fans of Brooklynopenly demanded that Manager Robinsonget rid of Ivy Olson, the aging shortstop.The newspapers roasted him and the fansopenly razzed Olson most everj'time heappeared on the field. They wondered whyUncle Wilbert kept such an old dodo on thepayroll.
In answer to that Manager Robinsonraised Olson's salary, gave him the regularjob at shortstop. And the Robins won thepennant!
Few fans know of the greatness of Olson
Eddie Foster,formerly oftheWashingtonSenators,
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Roger Peckinpaugh, shortstop of the Washington Senators and a mainstay of the game
as a ballplayer's ballplayer. In out-of-townnewspapers his name was seldom played up.Yet the ballplayers will tell you that Ivywas one of the smartest plaj'ers that everwore spikes. He knew the ins and. outs ofthe game thoroughly—knew exactly theright thing to do in a crisis. He steadiedthe other players by his assurance. Olsonwas the right man to balance that Brooklynteam. He was kept there for years afterhis best playing days were over.
Due to a series of misfortunes thatbrought the Chicago Cubs down to thebottom of the standing of the clubs lastyear Bill ICillefer, the manager, a formercatcher, who had just begun to construct ateam, was released. Almost immediatelyhe was picked up by the St. Louis Cardinalsas an aid to Manager Rogers Hornsby.
"I am young at this business," declaredHornsby, "and there is a bird who knows hisstuff."
Other ballplayers agreed with Hornsbythat Killefer always wa_s an unusually smartplayer. He was a ballplayer's ballplayer.He is now a ballplayer's coach.
With Killefer's quiet observations andsuggestions, Hornsby has brought theCardinals out of the ruck and made themreal contenders for the pennant. Butthe chances are that you haven't seenBill Killefer's name or photograph in thenewspapers very often this spring.
The cautious, deliberatethinker andthe brilliant
mechanical performer are the two distincttypes of great ballplayers, as the ballplayerhimself regards them. His mind is madeup from concentrated observation as hewatches the field from the dug-out—notfrom reading the newspapers. While on thebench he never pays attention to the yeUingof the spectators. In fact, this applause is soforeign to his thoughts that he rarely hears it.
The general public has an impression,gleaned from looking at cartoons andmagazine illustrations, that a baseballdug-out is often the scene of wild excitement.It is really nothing of the kind. The
players sit there, peeringthrough slit-like eyes atthe work of the players.
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and rarely speak above a low undertone ora whisper. Players on the New York Giantswill tell you that Manager John McGrawoften goesfor fiveorsix innings'without uttering a word. Usually he concentrates his attention on the opposing pitcher. No detailescapes him. All young pitchers, and oftenthe old ones, have some physical mannerismthat betrays their intention to throw to firstbase or to the plate. By discovering thisthe manager knows when to send a baserunner down for a stolen base.• For example, when Louis Drucke cameinto the league years ago he pitched good ballbut for some unaccountable reason opposingbase runners of the Pittsburgh club wereruniiing wild on him. They knew exactlywhen to take a lead and start for a steal.McGraw's keen eye soon discovered thesecret. Drucke had a habit of lifting hisheel from the ground when he intendedthrowing to first base to nab a base runner.If he kept the heel on the ground therunner would go like a shot, knowing thatDrucke would pitch to the plate. ThePirates had observed this and were makinghay while the sunshone. McGraw correctedthe faidt and Drucke became a Nemesis toPittsburgh.
Now, the player who is smart enough tonote these things on the diamond becomeswhat is known to his team-mates as a "realballplayer." His keen observation is worthmore than the brilliance of some morefamous star.
The two types of players, therefore, arethe one who anticipates every play andknows exactly what to do; the other, theplayer who is so naturally brilliant inexecution that he can make most any playwithout having to think it out in advance.The thinking player is usually the morevaluable but the brilliant one gets his namein the newspapers.
There are, of course, the rare cases of ballplayerswho do both these things. There isstill the man endowed with that marvellousfaculty of being able to think and actsimultaneously.
The most valuable man, in the ballplayer's estimation, is the one who canalways be depended upon to initiate a playproperly, whether it is completed or not,day after day and year after year. He islike Jonesy in your office.
Three years ago the Brooklyns boughtMiltonStock andheput themon theirfeet
"The feeling," one of them explains, "ismuch like sitting behind, three aces in apoker game. When a ball is hit at Jonesythere is not the slightest feeling of apprehension. He may not be a star but henever makes a mistake."
Ballplayers do not regardphysical errors, such as fumbling a grounder or droppinga fly ball, "as mistakes. Thoseare merely accidents or badbreaks. The unforgivableplayer is the one who throwsto the wrong base or fails to
Johnny Ra w-l ings, foryears tv i t hthe Giants,now utilityman for thePit tsbnrgh
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Ivy Olson, veteran shortstop, who helpedthe Robins win the pennant a few years ago
catch the "signs." The word "signal" isnever used among ballplayers. To himthese secret directions are always "signs."
A ballplayer guilty of those faults will losemore games in a week than the man whomakes physical errors will lose in a month.He is never regarded as a ballplayer's ball-plaj^er, though he ma5'' gain great prominence in the public prints.
Three years ago Manager Robinson, ofBrooklyn, went to great trouble and expenseto get Milton Stock as a third baseman.Stock had been a good player on the Cardinals, the Giants and other clubs, but wasnever regarded as a ^eat star. Besides hewas getting along in years. Also he ispartly deaf.
"That's a mighty brilliant youngsteryou've got on third now, Robbie," some oneremarked, "what do you want with Stock?"
"I've got to have a fellow there whoknows exactly what to do, no matter whatplay comes up. Stock may be slowing up,but he makes no mistakes—pulls no bones."
So, Stock came from the Cardinals to theRobins and put them on their feet. He wasthe cog that fitted. He is a ballplayer'sballplayer.
Another great player of the unheraldedand unpraised type is Johnny Rawlings,now utility man for the Pittsburgh Pirates.For a long, long time Johnny was kept on theGiants payroll without attracting attention.Somefans wonderedwhy he was kept.
His chance finally came, though, and in acritical world's series game with the Yanksthe fans saw what the plaj-ers had beenseeing for months. In this tense situationwhen a defeat meant a loss of more than twothousand dollars to each player the coolskillful Rawlings made the heartbreakingplay that killed the Yanks.
In the very last inning of the decidinggame the Yanks started a rally that grewominous. There was a runner on firstwith one out when Frank Baker, the slugger,hit a vicious ground ball between first andsecond bases. Rawlings, having studied thesituation, moved over just in time to diveheadlong for the ball. He came up with itand while still on his knees snapped a throwto George Kelly at first, getting Baker.Kelly, also having anticipated just such aplay, saw the other runner had started forthird. With a remarkable throw he nipped
this second man at third base The gamewas over. The world's championship wentto the Giants. Both these players hadanticipated the play.
To the uninitiated, perhaps, we had betterexplain what is meant by an anticipatedplay. For illustration, let us assume that PieTraynor, of the Pirates, is playing third baseand there are runners on first and second.
The next batter, we'll say, is known as aleftfield hitter, meaning that he will probablyhit the ball in the direction of third base orshortstop. Traynor sees from the catcher'ssignal that the next pitch is to be a curve,away from the batter. It can not be"pulled" so sharply. He moves overtoward short and has made up his mind thatif the ball comes to him he must throw it tothe plate to cut of? the runner or to secondfor a double play, according to the starttaken by the runners. When the ball is hithe knows exactly what to do—and does it.The fan often marvels at the lightning likethinking. In the Pittsburgh dug-out theplayers knew exactly what Traynor wasgoing to do. Their only concern was as tothe play going through as planned.
Inning after inning such plays, planned bythe different infielders, do not happen. Agood base hit breaks up everything. Justthe same they keep right on laying theirplans, knowing in advance what to do incase the ball is hit to them. Unhappily, abig percentage of the players do not work sointelligently. They are the bane of amanager's life. The ones who do, however,are ballplayer's ballplayers.
Eddie Grant, of the Phillies and theGiants and other clubs, was of the smart,quiet type. To this day Captain Grantwould probably be helping to direct a smartball club but for his untimely, heroic endwhile leading an attack in the Argonne Forest. Grant was a line captain in the 307thInfantry. He was killed by a shell just ashe had been put in command of a battalion.
In the army Captain Grant was known tohis men just as he was known to his teammates on the ball field. They would havegone to hell for him. Though neverportrayed as a great military or baseballhero until he paid the great sacrifice,Eddie was always given the tough jobs. Hissuperiors and his inferiors knew that hecould be depended upon to do the right
Eddie Grant, captain in the late war,whose baseball career was cut shortby his death in the Argonne Forest
thing at the right time. He never failed.Though a surefire, dependable third base
man and a reliable hitter,* Eddie Grant neverunderestimated the strength or cleverness ofhis opponents. That was an important factor in his success. When he first came intothe big league, with the Phillies, he wasrather curious about facing Christy Mathew-son, then in his prime. Still, young Grantwas not disturbed. In his first game againstMathewson he made five successive hits.
"There's a catch in this somewhere," hetold his fellows on the bench. "I'm notthat good and Matty can't be that bad."
"You've got the Indian sign on him,"some one remarked.
"But to prove that I didn't," Grant usedto take pleasure in relating, "I didn't getanother hit off Matty all summer. He hadstudied me more thoroughly and morequickly than I had studied him."
Just the same, Matty always handledGrant with great caution when they got ona more even basis. For ten years theplayers knew when a ball was hit to thirdbase just what Eddie Grant would do with it.
Little Eddie Foster, of the Washingtonclub a few years ago, was still anotherexample of the ballplayer's ballplayer.Foster was handicapped by his lack ofweight and physical strength. He was oneof the smallest men to play big leaguebaseball. He overcame this, however, byusing his brain, which was as far above theaverage as his weight was beneath it.Though it is not so recorded in the vitalstatistics of the game—those figures thatmean so much to mathematical experts—old ballplayers will teU you that the gamenever produced a more clever or moredependable batter in working the hit-and-run play than Eddie Foster. He also gavethe whole infield confidence on defense.
While gathering some information on thissubject of the ballplayer's ballplayer theother day, I talked with Grover Hartley,catcher for the Giants. Hartley is still a first-string catcher though he has been in thegame for more than fifteen years.
"I'd name Frank Snyder, our othercatcher, as one of those men," said Hartley."Did you ever see a pitcher who didn't liketo pitch to him? "
It is true that Snyder, himselfa veteran offourteen years, inspires that feeling ofconfidcnce. Always known as a great hitterand a great thrower, fans appear to haveoverlooked Snyder's ability as a receiver—his direct work with the pitcher. Thebench hasn't overlooked it.
InddentaUy, it was typical of Hartley tosuggest the name of Snyder. Mind you,Hartley is the other catcher—I might say afriendly rival for honors on the team.Hartley is a ballplayer's ballplayer for thevery reason that he sees greatness in theman alongside him. It is a remarkabletribute to both these men that the Giants,in starting out for'another pennant, havekept them as first-string catchers. Thebrilliant youngsters are held in reserve.
It would be easy to go down the line andname a hundred of these players who havenever received the publicacclaimthat is theirdue. These are enough, though, to illustratethe point.
The futility of official records and reams ofstatistics in determining the worth of a ballplayer has been proven so often that in thisday no manager ever thinks of signing aminor league star without personal inspection by himself or one of his scouts.
A few years ago the Brooklyn club founditself in dire straits for an infielder. Somehow, it seems that Uncle Wilbert Robinson'sdifficulties come to mind more frequently
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than the others. Anyway, Robbie, withno good tidings from his scouts, decidedto pick out an infielder from the records.It was the only thing left—a last resort.He went through the entire book whichcovered every professional baseball leaguein America. Robbie read figures andanalyzed them until he was blue in the face,as he expresses it. Finally he sifted themdown and settled on a player from a ClassD League out west. Here was a fellow whohad led his League in fielding and showed abatting average of.3 50. The assists indicatedthat he had a good throwing arm.
"I'll take a chance on this bird." Robbiedecided. "Look at those figures!"
So he bought the plaj-er whose namewas—we'll say Mulvaney.
One day a gray-haired and partly-baldgentleman showed up in the hotel lobby andannounced that he was jMulvaney. Helooked to be forty years old and as slow asRobbie himself. Anyway, he was told toput on a uniform and report to the bench.
In the first practice it w-as seen thatMulvaney was impossible. The playersnoticed that he didn't even know how toput on his uniform—the trick of invertingthe legs of the breeches after turning themwrongside outward and then pulling them soas to get the proper bag at the knees.
A few nights later Mulvaney was standingoutside the hotel alone.
"Say," he spoke to a passing ballplayer,"What's the name of this town?"
"Why, this is St. Louis," replied theastonished player. "You don't mean totell me that you've been here three days anddon't know the name of the town?"
"I hadn't noticed.""Well, let me put you wise, old man.
You'd better not let Robbie know you askedthat question."
" Who the 'ell is Robbie? " asked the hopeless Mulvaney!
The records, coldly mathematical, considerresults only. jNIulvaney could have stoodat his position in the infield for a week andlet grounder after grounder go by him without being charged with an error. If hedidn't take a chance until an easy playcame up his fielding average would readperfect in the records. But the bestmathematician in the world couldn't havemade him a real ballplayer.
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Let's Take the Car to Europe^T^HE Stedmans were in one of those
I famih" arguments which come everyyear with spring colds and the opening
of the big-league baseball season. Wherewere they going to spend the summer? Asusual each member of the family had a different idea. Ruth Stedman wanted to go*just along the coast/ chiefly because it wasnot too far from the city and everyone gotdown for the week end. In her case, 'everyone,' meant the particular boy friend of themoment. Mr. Stedman was all for touring with the car through the CanadianNorthwest. He wanted to see the Rockies.Mrs. Stedman wasn't sure where she didwant to go; but she was sure she didn'twant to go anywhere she had been before.Only Henry Stedman remained quiet. Thisat once aroused the suspicions of the family.
"Well, what about it. Hank, what's youridea for the summer?"
And then Henry came out with the remark that ruined all discussion for themoment.
"Let's take the car to Europe!" Everyone jumped at this suggestion.
"Let's buy a dirigible and see the Pole.""Must think we're made of money—""My goodness, I can't imagine where he
gets these ideas—"And so forth. Whoever heard of taking
a car to Europe and now that you've got itthere what would you do with it, and whowas to speak French and German for them,and what would be left of the car when theygot home again, and did he suppose theywere millionaires, or what? Hank Stedmansaid nothing. But the next day just beforelunch he wandered over to his father's officeand went in to see him, armed with facts andfigures.
"Look here, Dad, how much vacationdid you take in all last year?"
Mr. Stedman looked cautiously around.As there were members of the ofHce forcewithin hearing he replied discreetly:
"H'm, lemme see now—last summer wewere quite busy, think I took a week, maybeten daj-s—"
"Ten days!" Hank Stedman wasn't inthe least afraid of his old man. "Ten days!Yeah, well you were up at the cottage for
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two weeks in July, and then you went onthat fishing trip with Mr. Matthews inAugust, and you were at Hot Springs shooting golf in the fall for—"
"Now look here, Henry, if you are tryingto talk me into that silly idea of yours abouttaking the car to Europe, let me tell you itwould take three months and five thousanddollars, neither of which I happen to haveat my disposal—"
"Father, you're all wrong. And I canprove it. A third of the time and a third ofthe money would be enough to take the oldbus and the whole family abroad and giveus a good time in England and France. Seehere, six days over, six days back, six daysin England, twelve days in France. Nowabout the cost. Have you any idea what itwould cost to ferry the car over and back?"
Mr. Stedman was a little disturbed bythese facts. He hesitated. "Well, no, Ihaven't. About a thousand dollars, I suppose, with the crate for the car and theduties and all that sort of thing."
"A thousand dollars! Why a third of athousand would take the car over and backand leave us something for passage money.Besides paying all the charges getting intoEngland and France. And anyway, theydon't crate cars anj' more. They send 'eraover uncrated. You just drive them onboard and then drive them off again."
"Well that's all right, but what aboutthe duty. I always understood Americancars had to pay a big duty abroad?"
"They don't. That is not if you have atriptyque—"
"A what?""A triptyque. Trip—teek. It's easy
when you know how. That's just a guarantee that you will either take the car homeagain in six months or pay the value of thecar abroad."
"Yes, but who's going to do all the running around getting this trip-teek andall the drivers' licenses and passports andeverything else. I'm sure I haven't time toattend to it."
"No, and neither have I. The steamshipcompany does it all for j''ou. They have aspecial department that takes care of automobile tourists, and they handle the wholejob for you from start to finish. See, I havethe actual figures here—"
"Well, you convince your mother andRuth about it. If they want to go, I'llconsider it then."
N'OW the thought of a few days in Parisappeals to every woman of everj- na
tionality who ever buys clothes, and it wasn'tvery hard to sell the women of the Stedmanfamily on the plan. So Hank was left to collectfigures and present them at once. This iswhat he showed them about three days later;a complete list of all expenses in taking thecar across and into both England andFrance. This included the freight of the car—an open car of about 125-indi wheel base—across the ocean and across the Channeland home again. It paid for all taxes, papers,
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permits, driver's licenses, in fact for everything which would not have to be paid forw^ere the trip being taken within the UnitedStates. Here are the separate items:
1. Ocean Freight—round trip including Marine Insurance $215.00
2. British Driving License 1.153. Dock and Town Dues 4.654. Car License and Number Plates.. 6.505. Membership in R. A. C. including
Badge 13.926. Consular Invoice 1.077. Cross-Channel Freight 30.008. French Landing Charges 3*459. Landing Charges, Agents* Fee,
etc., at French Port 7.3610. Customs Carnet 5.7511. Name Plate .4612. International Traveling Pass 5.9813. Laissez Passer—one month 3.1514. Customs Entry upon return to
New York, Registration Certificate, Wharf Inspection 10.00
Total S308.44
"There it is, dad, three hundred dollars.I told you a third of a thousand would takethe car over and back and leave somethingover for our passage money. If the four ofus go it makes about seventy-five dollarsapiece for the use of the car in France andEngland for four weeks, about eighteendollars apiece a week. Why, you spent threehundred dollars getting up and back to thecottage the trips you made last summer—"
"C^VEN Mr. Stedman was surprised to seethe figures, but he felt obliged neverthe
less, to question some of the items. "Nowlook here, Henry, I don't understandall this. What's number, now numberfive. Membership in the R. A. C. What'sthat?"
" R. A. C.? That's the Royal AutomobileClub in England. You see here's how itworks. First of all you get the bank here toguarantee that you'll bring the car back insix months or less. Then you join this R. A,C. and they get the triptyque thing whichenables you to take the car into England andFrance without payment of duty. See?"
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St. Veran, thehighest! andprobably thewindiest c ont-mune in France»nearly 7000 feetabove sea levelin the SavoieAlps, is in inter-estingcontrast tothis quiet old English mill in low-lying Warwick,pictured below
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"Well w^hat about a driver's licenseabroad?"
"They tend to all that for you. Throughthe steamship company. You just give themyour license here and six photographs andthey arrange everything. The steamshipcompany gets the passports and the visasfor England and France, too, and theyarrange to have the car ready for us whenwe get off the boat."
That was how Henry Stedman drove thefamily car along the water front of the
North River in New Y'^ork three monthslater, and turned in at a covered pier wherehe was met by an agent of the steamshipcompany who took charge of the car forhim. It was a week before the Stedmanswere sailing; but owing to the short time attheir disposal in Europe, they wished tostart out from the boat in the car the dayof their arrival abroad, and, therefore, it wasdecided to send it on ahead and have itready when they debarked. And it wasjust two weeks later to the day when theliner carrying the family drew up to thelanding stage at Southampton, and as shewas being slowly warped into the pier HankStedman, leaning against the rail, discoveredthe car—
"There it is, father—see—just behindthose posts, with a man in uniform standingbeside it."
Sure enough, there it was. The familiarlines of the body of the car came slowlyinto view as the big boat drew closer andcloser to the dock. But who was the manin uniform standing with one arm on thewheel in such a protective way? Mr. Stedman had ordered no chauffeur—that hecould remember. For a moment he beganto wonder whether he had been let in forsomething which he didn't expect; he beganto wish he had looked into the whole thingmore carefully, that he had read those papershe had signed so hastily just a little moreattentively. However—
They clambered down the gangplank andtogether made a rush for the car. The youngman in uniform saw them coming, steppedforward and saluted them. Mr. Stedmanwas no soldier. This was the first timehe had ever been saluted, and he hardlyknew whether to take off his cap or shake
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hands. But the young man addressed himbriskly:
"Mr. Stedman? That's ri^t, sir. Allready on your car here. This is your registration number attached to the front, yousee, and your driver's license is in the backpocket. In this case is your six-day itinerarywhile you are in England. Now if you'll justcome with me a moment, sir, and sign theport declarations and the formal receipt forthe car, you'll be free to drive off as soonas ever the custom officials have examinedyour luggage."
Mr. Stefan was somewhat dazed. Hehad assured the family that in his opinionit would take at least a week before the carwas cleared and ready to be driven off thedock. Actually in twenty-six minutes fromthe time the boat touched the side of thepier all formalities with the car were over,the baggage had been examined, and theStedman family, well wedged in betweenbags and suit-cases, was riding through thesuburbs of Southampton. Riding, however,very gingerly.
Like many other Americans, Mr. Stedmanhad been worried about driving in England.He had heard that in England you drive onthe left of the road, and all his life he haddriven on the right. He speculated on what
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left-hand driving would be like. He won-dred whether he would crash a car at thefirst corner. He forgot, if, indeed, he everknew, that several hundred thousandBritish 'drivers go to France every season anddrive off on the opposite side of the road•without any trouble. "And once he actuallygot going, he discovered to his amazementthat driving on the left of the road is nothinglike as terrible as those who have never triedit imagine. It required, as Mr. Stedmanallowed', fifteen or twenty minutes slow andcareful driving: a little preliminary sensingof the situation; going quietly and carefullyat the first cross roads and points of intersection. At the end of the first two hours,when the party stopped for lunch in theold-world town of Salisbury at an ancientinn called the Royal George, Mr. Stedmanfelt as though he had driven on the left sideof the road all his life. He explained howeasy it was and admitted only with greatreluctance that he had talked of nothingelse but how hard it was going to be all theway over on the boat.
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They wandered around the close of themost beautiful cathedral in England forhalf an hour, and then left Salisbur>' behindfor Exeter, their stopping place for the nightaccording to their itinerary. This itineraryhad been worked out by the automobileclub before their arrival: it allowed them themaximum of sightseeing in the Englishcountryside and in London that their shortstay permitted. Each day's run, with theroads to take, the principal things to beseen, the hotels to stay at, and garageswhere spare parts for their special make ofcar could be found, was plainly indicated.They rolled along roads bordered withhedges in sunny green countryside, pastlittle villages with thatched roofs andcoaching inns snuggled in their midst,through towns with queer names like Yeo-vil and Honiton and Chard, and so intoExeter. The hotel at Exeter was good; thecost for two rooms, bath, dinner, and breakfast for the four was just about one-half
what it would have been in New Englandin mid-summer.
To be sure, they found some things strangeand foreign. Gasoline was called "petrol"and tires were called "tires" and written"tyres." There were many more blindcorners than at home, due partly to the highhedges and garden walls, for the Englishhighways, like those on the continent, werebuilt long before automobiles were dreamedof. But this was made up for by the absence of trafiic in any volume. On the whole,this lack of traffic was the thing that mostimpressed the Stedmans on their first day'sdriving abroad.
TT WAS during their ride the next morningthrough the heart of Devon, one of the
loveliest bits of all English countryside,that Mr. Stedman learned just exactly whathe paid nine dollars and a half to join theRoyal Automobile Club for. And also whyhe paid five dollars more for the R. A. C.sign on his radiator. They were ridingalong when suddenly Henry sitting in thefront seat with his father exclaimed:
"Dad, I think we've got a tire going flat."Now for some tune Mr. Stedman had
noticed a motorcycle policeman riding justbehind them; but as he had not been goingespecially fast he had paid no attention tohim. As Henry spoke he saw in his mirrorthe cop making signs for him to stop, sodrew up beside the road and leaned out todiscover that the man on the bicycle wasnot a cop at all but a representative of theR. A. C. in uniform. He came up with theusual salute.
"Think you have a flat tire, sir."And jumping off his motor bike he opened
up a tool bag and proceeded to jack up theirwheel before any of the Stedmans couldvoice their amazement. In ten minutes thewheel was expertly changed and the carready to go on. Ah. yes, he knew the makevery well, met quite a lot of them eachsummer. Was there anything else he coulddo? There was not. Had they plenty ofpetrol? They had. Very weU. And withthat inevitable salute, he was off again onhis motor bicycle.
Later on they began to notice theseyoung men in the most unexpected places.They gave the Stedmans the signal to pro-
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ceed at cross roads, they directed them totheir hotels on the outskirts of big towns,they were always ready with advice of allkinds, and they were never failing in thatsalute. The one time the tire was changedwas the only time they ever had to renderassistance, but the fact that they werecontinually on the job was most reassuring.Even on English roads where the Stedmanscould speak the language.
T^NGLISH roads, as they soon found out,' were the best in the world. It was not
only that there was little traffic, but thatthe surface of the road was so good. Onceor twice in England they made little detoursto explore villages off the beaten track, toget into the heart of the countryside in away impossible on the main arteries, andthey were continually astorushed by theirhijh state of perfection. Village street andGrand Trunk Road and avenue in a Londonsuburb, there was no difference. Everywhere the surface was even and comparableonly to the best of our state roads at home.
The second night they spent in the cathedral town of Gloucester, and the followingmorning a perfect ride through a landscapedotted with farms and hedges and stonechurches, with flocks of sheep grazing uponthe hillsides and arched bridges of stonerising over narrow streams, brought theminto sight of Oxford. They pulled up at theMitre, one of the most famous inns in allEngland, just in time for lunch. They spentthat afternoon sightseeing at Oxford, andset out the following morning for London.Even nearing the city they found no officiousspeed cops to mar the pleasure of the trip,and any reasonable rate along this mainhighway seemed to be permissible. Scattered up and down the road were the everlasting uniforms of the automobile clubrepresentatives with their eternal salute.One of them on a motor cycle went severalmiles toward the city with them in order toshow them just the best road to get to theirhotel. They struck the heart of London atseven, just in time for dinneron the evening of their fourthday in England. :
So far all had gone perfectly.Better than they had expected,certainly, because prices—withthe exception of gasoline whichran to thirty cents a gallon—had been low, the weathergood, the roads marvelous, the - .scener>'superb. But the nextafternoon they were leavingfor a new country; for a landwhose language none of themunderstood. Difficulties of allsorts loomed ahead. At the • • •pier at Folkestone the R. A. C. fman had reserved accoramoda- 'tion for their car. He tooktheir triptyque to be stamped ^"out" for them, and in anotherhour the coastline of Francestretched before their eyes.
"Well," Mr. Stedman remarked, "we're sure going to *•miss those boys when we get '•over there. They've certainlybeen mighty useful."
But to their surprise anotherrepresentative of the R. A. C.was on the pier at Boulogneto greet them, facilitate theirpassage through the customs,and get their car upon thewharf and ready to move on.Once they were through theformalities, which took longerthan in Engla-nd because every
thing moves more slowly in France, hehanded them a small booklet with theiritinerar>' through the country all marked out:roads, to\Mis, stopping places and hotels,just as it had been done in England. Suddenly Mr. Stedman remembered that he hadno map—
Again the R. A. C. man jumped fon^'ard,and five francs or twenty cents bought alarge road map with the main routes plainlymarked and numbered. And then once morethey started off in a foreign land, this time,however, driving on the right side of theroad.
Their first experience with French highways was not reassuring. The road out ofBoulogne to ilontreuil was terrible. It hadbeen mended many years before, but theyfound it was full of holes, pitted, and necessitated slow dri^-ing. .\t dusk they cameinto Montreuil, and seeing a small hotel Mr.Stedman drew up, wondering how he wasgoing to make the man understand what hewanted. Before he could alight the patronwas at his side, welcoming them in perfectEnglish, and a few minutes later he usheredthem into curious high-ceilinged rooms withlarge comfortable beds. When they camedown later the host inquired just what theywanted for dinner, and in half an hourthey could smell an omelette cooking in thekitchen across the hall. Their bill the nextmorning for the two rooms, breakfast anddinner, was two hundred and twentj- francs, orabout eight dollars for four people.
They reached Paris b>' the very simpleexpedient of following the map and thesigns on the road. The Routes Nationales,as the main roads are called in France, areaU plainly marked every few kilometerswith large numbers. Under the number ofthe Route there is the name of the next town,and by picking out each town just ahead andkeeping on Route 35, they had not theslightest difliculty, passing through .A.miens,touching the fringe of the war country, androlling into Paris that evening fully convinced of two things. First that it was
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twice as cheap to travel in France as inEngland, and second that the roads wereabout one-half as good.
During the two days they were in Paristhey used taxicabs for all their sightseeing,because they were cheaper and quicker.As in London the thing that surprised themwas the great number of .\merican carsaround everywhere. Indeed, they soondiscovered in traveling through Europe thatall the large American makes like Ford,Dodge. Buick, Chrysler, Packard and othersmaintained excellently equipped servicestations, with competent mechanics, in nearlyevery town of any size in France. This reassured them considerably, for there was noR. C. man to salute them at every crossroad and make sure that the car was goingas it should go.
I"*HEIR first venture out of Paris wasalong Route Nationale Number Seven.
Number Seven, chosen for them by the R.A. G. in making up their French itinerary,is one of the most famous of all roads inFrance. It bisects the entire country fromParis to the ilediterranean in the South;parts of it are reeking with history, and largeportions along the southern end near theItalian frontier, which it reaches at Mentone,were originally constructed by Ccesar for hislegionaries who marched from the Forumat Rome to conquer the unruly tribes inGaul. Yet although this was midsummerupon a main road, traffic was surprisinglylight. In fact, all through their journey inFrance they would ride for hours withoutmeeting a car. Whenever they did meet acar they found it advisable to give it plentyof room. No Frenchman considers he istraveling unless he moves at something likeeighty miles an hour, no matter how perfect—or imperfect—the surface of the road.In France, as Mr. Stedman soon discovered,there is no speed limit and every one breaksit.
So far they had found touring in Franceinexpensive with one exception. That one
exception was gasoline. Gas,or essence, as the French callit, was dear and not especiallygood at the price—which wasabout forty-two-ccnts a gallon.However, that was about theonly thing that was not cheap.Good accommodations at goodhotels along the road were reasonable. Two rooms, dinnerand breakfast with garage anda wash for the car thrown in,usually averaged between three
/ hundred and three hundredJ and fifty francs a day.^ "Three fifty francs, that's
about eleven dollars and a half.Try eleven dollars and a halfon a part}' of four in a hotel inAmerica during the summertourist rush and see how farit'll get you," said Mr. Stedman as he paid his bill atLyons.
Leaving Lyons they soonfound themselves following thevalley of the Rhone, and beforelong were penetrating into Lan-guedoc, some of the most picturesque country in all France.Red tiled roofs sheltering whitewalled houses began to appear,cypress trees lined the roads,and geraniums clambered alongthe walls and blossomed onevery side. Grape vines andolive groves ran in orderly rows
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Three Scenes
''The Volga Boatman^^^T^HE smoldering strife heitvecn Russians beaten-*• peasants and arrogant princes flaming into bloodyrevolution is the background for the love of the Princess Vera {Elinor Fair) for a Volga boatman {WilliamBoyd) whose indomitable spirit is unbroken by theyears of toiling in harness. The love story KonradBercovici has written is dramatic, but is overshadowedby the greater drama of the revolution which culminates in the scene above, in which the dandiesand dainty ladies of the court are harnessed to theboats and goaded by their former serfs—E. R. B.
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The handsome Ramon. Navarro (above) serving histinie as a Roman galley slave in the screen version of"BenHur." Lew f^allace^s novel makes a stirring picture what ivith its sea fights and chariot races, dashing Roman soldiers and alluring oriental maidens
Lillian Gish [right] 18 (1 most iudpfatisuUU' ttcireas,With "Ln nabt'iiio'' Jiiat /ininhful she IS (llrCddy (Ipppin (he task of rwreating the hproin^ -f Nuihnnieltluivtlxdjrnca "The Sciirtct Leltor," IMI'<s Hamtonwill ploy oppn/tifp her at thf Rnvcrond Dimmeadu/c
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The end of the season has produced a melodramacaUed "Kongo," the work of Chester De Vondeand Kilbourn Gordon, which has considerablemerit as a thriller. Walter Huston (left) doesexcellently with the part of a crippled and em-bittered slave-driver who is foiled in some of hisbest efforts to make the punishment Jit the crime
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The Winthrop Ames production of"lolantlie" is such a revival as loversof Gilbert and Sullivan dream of andvery rarely see. It -is a lavish production ivith a minimum of tvaste inthe department of scenic fripperiesand a discriminating extravagancein the matter of cast. There is, firstof all, Ernest Lawford, the LordChancellor (right) tvhose acting morethan atones for any vocal shortcomings; John Barclay, heretofore knownas a successful concert artist; JohnHtimbird Duffey, Lois Bennett,W'^illiam Williams and many others
In place of the pert chicness of theFrench frock Bessie Love wears inthe picture below, her next screenrelease will present her in the demuredisguise of an earlier generation.She will play the title rdle in a dramatization of "Lovey Mary," the bookivhich was the logical sequence tothe popularity of Alice Hegan Rice's"Mrs. [figgs of tho. C'tbbiige Patch"
Captions hyEsther R. Bien
n.oiiui«a VASDAMU
Dolores Del Rio (above) will havethe rGle of the French girl Charmaine,in the movie version of ''What PriceGlory" ivith Victor McLaglen andEdmund Lowe as the rival Marines
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The Wreckof the Red Wing
By Beatrice Grimshaw
Illustrated by DougUis Duer
Part IV,
I MAY as well say here as anywhere elsethat people who doubt the possibilityof such a feat as Bowen's—walking,
alone into a hostile village drawn up forwar,and carrying off the situation by a brilliant mixture of tact and bluff—may find inPapuan records an account of a deed verysimilar, performed years after by Papua'sfamous Governor, Murray, at a coastalvillage near to Goari-Bari, where Chalmersthe missionary had been killed not longbefore.
I did not wake all that afternoon andnight. It waswell on in the nextday whenI again became conscious of myself, andsaw, with a little bewilderment at first, thegliding bank and the gradually wideningestuary. A clean salt breeze blew up fromthe sea; I realized that we had made aqmck trip, down the rivep, and that theterrible Fly, with all its adventures, itshorrors, its wonders, was slipping into thepast.
I watched till the last of the nipas, thelast of the mangroves was gone; till thewnds and the wide yellow waves of theGulf took the schooner in their clutch, andsent her rolling fiercely, booms slapping,
on her long way south.Then I gotoutofBowen's bunk and went,
by slow degrees, along the deck and up onto the little poop. If1had not found Lauriethere, I should have been very much astonished. But I did find her. She was sittingon a deck chair beside Paul; they had platesm their laps, and—if I mistook not—Paulwas feedmg her with a spoon.
When they saw me, they both jumped uptogether, andoffered me everything thatwason the ship. I gathered that they feltthemselves considerably obliged by something I had doneor hadn't done. The matter was never discussed, because I wouldnothave it; I stopped them when they began.
T 1 I had dinner.1 didn t ask questions until I had fed.ihe presence of Laurie—well, cheerful, andweanng the best of the frocks she had hur-rie y packed in her bundle—answeredmost ot them in any case. But I felt thatwe were very far from being out of the wood,i.aune was technically Mrs. Herod Pascoe,and it would take a good deal to disentangleher Irom that complication. Paul, it mightbe presumed, was short ofa job, once more.All of us were more or less at the mercy ofan entirely unscrupulous man, who ownednearly every boat then running in the CoralSea, and who would undoubtedly be on the
lookout for us. To get down to "T. I." andcivilization, past the patrols that Herodwould certainly have set, was no light job.You can not sail, or steam from New Guineato Australia, at the Daru end, by simplysetting your course south-westward, andrunning ahead. There's the huge WarriorReef to reckon with right in the way, andother reefs and shallows innumerable.Ships go "cat-a-corner" from one countryto the other or they don't go at all.
Herod, of course, knew this; knew thatthere were only about two ways by whichwe could come, unless we elected to run forPort Moresby, which was more than twiceas far, and in those days, practically uninhabited. We should have done no good bygoing there; and that too he knew. Ithought it almost certain that he would beabout again, active as ever, and twice asdangerous, by now, and I was very sure—knowing what I did—that he would be prepared to make a last, gigantic effort,sparingnobody and nothing in its course, to securethe end towards which he had fought fornearly fifteen years.
"DOWEN'S plan, I found , was to run downto Thursday, leave Laurie and myself
there, and then make back to FarewellIsland, in order to deal with Herod on hisown account. I found one flaw in this; Iwas very anxious to deal with Herod myself,and did not care to be left out.
"I'U be as fit as a fiddle in a week or so,"I told him. "You can't have all the funto yourself, Bowen, any more than you'veall the grudge to yourself. I'll come backfrom T. I. with you."
"Don't know what you propose to do,"he said, striking a match sharply on therail. "Two men can't fight one, even ifyou—"
•'I daresay I could render a fair accountof myself, if necessary, and we might drawlots for the first blow," I told him, not without a touch of sarcasm. "But as a matterof fact, what I wanted to do was to have himarrested for murder."
Bowen paused, and let his match go out."If you're right in what you think aboutthat—" he said.
"If! I know I am."
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"Well then, get him ar-"restcd six times over if you
choose, but do, like a good fellow, letme have him first. I can't sleep," hetold me. "I can't rest, I can't haveany peace, till I've seen his ugly noselaid flat on his fat cheeks, and his mugsplit open up to his back teeth, andevery front tooth he has, spit out on
the ground.""Agreed," I said. "You shall have full
opportunity for everything j'ou mention."So we planned, not knowing that Fate
had been before us, and cut out the clothafter an entirely different fashion.
CHAPTER Vm
T THINK it was that night, that weanchored off the notorious spot called
Bramble Cay. All sailors south of the Lineknow Bramble Cay; if they have not hadbitter reason to curse it themselves, theyare sure to have heard many a tale of woetold by less lucky mariners.
I fancy Paul Bowen was curious about it;anyhow, the weather being unusually goodfor the time of year, and daylight favoringus, he ran much. closer to Bramble thanships, under steam or sail, commonly do,and when it became clear that we could notget comfortably away from that dangerousneighborhood before night, he found holdingground to the north side, and declared hisintention of going ashore.
There is nothing to sec on Bramble, butI, and Laurie looked at it with the interestof more-or-less sea-going folk, as Bowenbrought the Susan slowly along under power,and found his anchorage. Under the blazeof late afternoon, set in a world of blue-diamond ripples, the wicked Cay lay basking, white and bare. Its length was seemingly about a quarter of a mile, no more,but as we looked, with the aid of a glass, wecould count no less than three ship's anchorssticking up within full view, and catchglimpses of significant bits of wreckagefurther on. An ocean graveyard is Bramble,sinister and barren—yet it has its value tothe natives of the New Guinea coast. Turtlenest there; seabirds lay eggs in myriads.The Papuan, in his light canoe of next to nodraught, does not fear reefs or shoals; andhe counts Bramble, hated of white men, asone of the best larders provided for him bykindly Nature.
There was a canoe off the Cay when weanchored; a small fishing craft, such as _aman could carry. The native who owned itwas ashore, very busy sounding the sandswith a stick for turtle nests.
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'Let's go and see," criedLaurie. "I love hunting turtleeggs."
I didn't go ashore with them;even if I had been fit to do so,I was not such a fool as tothink of it. They stayed along while. It was dinner-timeby and by, and I ate, and told the boyto keep food for the Captain and thelad\'. And I lay in a long chair by therail, and watched the stars prick out intens and thousands.,
I was half sleepy when the grind of oars inrowlocks sounded at last, and the dinghycame nosing along against the ship'k side.Laurie was over the rail first, light as a sandpiper; Bowen followed her. In the glow ofthe big deck lantern, I could see their faces;they were dreamy, happy, and yet sad. . . .
"So!" I said to myselL "You play thegame, Paul. By Gad, you deserve her, andwhen Herod's hanged, I hope you have halfa hundred years with her." Aloud I said—" Well, what did you see? " I didn't want toknow; I asked only out of politeness. Itfrightens me yet, sometimes, to think whatmight have happened, had I been just a littleless polite.
"It was very beautiful," answered Laurie."The sea and the sunset and the—and everything. We walked about a lot, and we sawa turtle nest, with the young turtles justcoming out and scuttling down to the sea—and birds, screaming and flying about, andsmelly egg shells; and eggs. There wasgreen weedy stuff growing; Paul said it wasscur\'3'' cabbage, and might have savedsomeone's life, some time. It was so lonely,and so wild—and just we two there!—Icould have stayed for ever. And when themoon began coming up, it was lovelier thanbefore. But a horrible thing happened—Bert, these are horrid places. aU of them, nomatter what they look Hke!"
"New Guinea is fair-faced and blackhearted; so they say," I answered her."What side of her black heart did she showyou?"
WE WERE standing looking at themoonlight, away out at the other side
of the island, where there are lots of piecesof wreck. And there was a big stretch ofbare sand in front of us, it went a long way,and it was pale gray in the twilight. And Inoticed a shadow come across the moon,but I didn't think anything of it; it spreadacross the sand the way shadows do., andI was watching it. And then Paul said,in a funny voice. "Come away" and tookmy arm and began to pull me along. So I
said, "What for? I don't want to go yet.But he told me again "Come!" and when Iwouldn't, he said, very quick, "Laurie lookat that shadow;', and look at the moon. ' SoI looked, anrl the'moon was clear—clear as asix-pence; but there was the shadow, and itcame on. "It's rats," said Paul. "Run."0 my goodness, we ran! and the shadowdidn't stop, it kept spreading on, in a'half-curve, just as if it had really beena shadow,and getting bigger. But we got to thedinghv first and jumpedin and rowed away.So then the shadow stopped; I kept lookingback to see; and—Bert, Bert!—it all brokeup and went running awayI Ugh!" ,
"I suppose the rats cameoff the differentwrecks from time to time," I said, "and liveon eggs mostly. I daresay they wovild h^-vebeen well pleased with a change of diet.
"If we hadn't had the boat." she shivered."It would have been like Bishop Hatto inthe poem you taught me.' I never thoughtthat was true—before."
Still beingpolite, I asked her—"What elsedidvousee?"
"Only the native who was fishing. Piehadn't got anything. He must have beena signed-on bov somewhere; he was using atrade hook and line, and he talked pigeonEnglish."
"Yes?" I said, bored. Paul had comeback now, and was standing beside mychair, with his arm touching Laurie's. Helooked up at the stars, and made someprosaic remark about the latitude wewere in.1 suppose he thought I didn't see the sway ofLaurie's fluent figure toward him, the glidingof his arm round her waist. . . .
"By the way," he remarked, " the nativewe met seems to be superstitious sort of acuss; he says these islands are full of ghosts."
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"I don't wonder," was my comment."They've been violent deaths enough."
"He says there's a ghost on one of theislands—which is it?—away to the sou-west;a woman with her feet turned the wrongway—"
. "I know. It's a familiar figure in folklore. You die if you meet her. Curious,how these root-idea's persist aU overtffe^"
"CHE screams like a" banshee, or the^ Papuan equivalent, and any'canoe that
goes near enough to see or hear her getswTec^d- right away. She brought on thebig bfovv there was about sLx weeks ago, andshe sunk a launch just recently. Thefellow believed it like gospel. You "shouldhave seen him; he whispered as if he wasafraid some one'd hear him, and his faceturned that yellow color they do turii, whenthey're "properly scared. Two Brothers—that was the name of the island. . . .Why, Poison, I've scared you now; you'relooking as yellow as he did."
I^Jiad risen to my feet; I was tr3dng tofind"word^ and choking, almost, in theeffort' "I-^I—"was all that came, "What'sthe matter?" cried Laurie, eyeing me withthe sharp mtolerance that youth holds readyfor any display of emotion or weakness inits elders. "Spit it out," said Bowen,cheerfully. "Do you happen to know thelady?" He meant the query for puresarcasm; but I answered it hterally.
"I do—my God. I do!" Then, turningsharply on him—"Can you get away atonce?"
"No," was the young captain's answer,curt and unqualified.
"Not even if a life depended on it?""Several lives do—on my stopping where
I am till I can see my way by daylight.What's the row?"
But Laurie knew; she was all alight bynow. "Bert," she screapied, "is it AuntSue?"
" God forgive me," I answered. "I think
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it is—and I went past her on that devil'srock, and—"
"You coxildn't have done anything else.Do you think I would have stopped—then?" All the cmelty of young love spokein her voice. "Besides," she went on, "nobody could have known—you said yourself it: was fancy. . . . How do youthink you know now? Didn't Tom say
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Laurie outstripped me and Paul. Shescrambled up the spire of rock in lesstime than you could have counted ten
she fell overboard and was drowned?""Laurie," I cried impatiently, "is it
possible you don't realize yet that she wasmurdered by that fiend of a husband of hers—if she didn't escapc? flow do you sup
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pose he was going to clear the way for you?''"To—clear—the—way—" she repeated
slowly, as if dazed. Then suddenly, almostfiercely, came again the questions she hadput to me before—how long ago it seemed!
"Who am /? ""I don't care who you are, the Queen of
Sheba or the devil's first cousin," I answered,her. "I don't know—"
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"That's not true. You know something.""I only guess, and this isn't the time—
Do you realize that she's maybe dying whilewe talk?"
"How do you—""II fits—it fits too well. Six weeks ago
was the time she sailed for Thursday, andnever came back. If she'd escaped thatblack brute, she might have been on someone of the outer islands ever since. Thenatives up there have never seen a whitewoman; they wouldn't believe she was real—and the coincidence of the storms—why,it fits like a glove. Two Brothers is the veryplace where a lot of the bad weather brews.The turned feet? They may have justthrown that in, or she may be lame. Tothink she may be there—to-night—on thatbarren rock, dying for want of food or water,while we have everything we can need—Don't talk to me; I can't bear it."
Laurie slipped away. I think she wasglad to go. For her, there was no sorrow inthe world but sorrow that touched Paul,no love but the love that united her to him.Somebody else's love, suffering, were merelya tiresome interlude. . . .
Bowen was more sympathetic. "I knowhow you must feel," he said. ("You don't,"I thought.) "I'll have the ship off bydaybreak, and we'll run down to TwoBrothers in no time at all. Be there the dayafter with any luck." Then, suddenly, as anew idea struck his mind—"Why, Poison,old chap, this means she's free to marry me.I say—I didn't realize. I say, what rippingluck!—Laurie! Laurie!"
You may be sure I was waking early.Bowen had kept his promise; it was barelygray cat-light, when he heaved anchor andswung the Siisoii on to her southward way,engine going and all sails set. Marigold-colored, the morning broke on the Gulf,and with it came a merry breeze that sentthe water gabbling along our keel. We wentfast toward Two Brothers, but not faster—not half so fast—as my heart that flewbefore.
It was, as Paul had promised, early on thesecond day after a night at anchor when weniade the island. I had been watchingthrough a glass, and as we came near, Iswept every rock, everj-- tuft of starved palebush on the island. Two Brothers, shapedlike a gigantic cup reversed upon a colossalsaucer, stood up hard and yellow in thehard blue sky, bare of all life. There wasno one on it.
T LAID down the glass \vith a sigh. "Ofcourse," I said, "there's no certainty till
we've been all over the place.""I suppose not," agreed Bowen. "Pity
I didn't call on the way up, as Pascoe toldme to."
"What! you never called? but, of course,you didn't or you'd have seen her."
"If she was there," he qualified. "No,1 didn't call, and I didn't stop at Daru;that's where you were out. I chose to usemy own judgment. Sooner there, soonerback, I thought."
"Then—if things Jiad gone as that devilmeant them to. and he'd despatched Tom tofetch you back again—"
"Tom wouldn't have found me. Iwonder did our friend calculate on that?"
I thought it morethan probable. Thequeer kink in Herod'scharacter that heldhim back from outrightlying was a kink only.If by speaking thesimple truth—by tellingus the orders he had
given—he could lead Laurie and myself tobelieve a black lie—to suppose that by thesacrifice of all she held most dear, she wouldcertainly save her lover—then, he was theman to commit that last infamy.
Scarce able to walk yet, I insisted that Ishould join the landing party. It seemed tome that no eyes, in this search, could be sokeen as mine, and I was resolved, in the mostliteral sense of the phrase, to leave no stoneunturned. We tramped the shingly beach;we peered into every cleft, down every gully;we skirted round great yellow boulders asbig as cottages, and came, imexpectcdly,upon tiny blessed oases full of green shadeand matted, bloomy creepers. But alwaysthe hard blue sea, menacing, barren, metus at every turn, stared us out of countenance at the end of each rocky pass; alwa3'sthe opening that seemed to lead somewhere,to promise discoveries, turned out to beanother false passage closing in like a trap.Above us the rocky dome of the island rosehigh, far higher than it had looked from thesea beyond; but there was scarce cover onit for a dog; certainly, Susan, had she beenon the island, could not have hidden herself there. Bowen scrambled up, and madequite sure of that, before we turned backto the circular flat beach again, and. in thefailing light, tramped aimlessly about andabout unwilling to give up hope while theleast chance remained.
I WAS disappointed, but very far fromdespairing. I did not mean to fail in my
search."She has been here," I said to myself;
and again, as the night shut down on thebarren islands of Torres, and the lonely sea—"She has been here."
Dreams!—who that has lost does notknow the torment of them? That tormenthad been mine for many weeks. It was sono more. "She is alive," I thought. "Sheis alive." And happiness flooded throughme, as the tides through Torres Straits.
It was Paul Bowen who took command ofthe search next morning. I found himchanged; last night, he had been merely theriotous, romping youth, the gay sailorashore, enjoying with zest a colossal lark inthe company of Laurie. To-day he drew onhis sea-lore, the years of sailing-ship trainingthat had made and toughened him. _He hada wonderful stock of reminiscences in point;before he had done citing instances, I beganto think that at least half the world wasoccupied more or less continually in beingcast away, while most of the other half wentin search of it. . . .
Even on a sailing ship, even in tropic seas,time passes not altogether unnoted—-though there is no place left in a world allbut bankrupt of leisure, so leisurely as thedeck of a schooner, ketch, or brigantine,afloat between twenty-three north andtwenty-three south. Paul's tales were done;the sun was mounting higher; it became incumbent on us all to decide what should bedone next. Where were we going to look forSusan?
The sailor settled that. He took a chartand a pair of dividers, and drew a circle
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round Two Brothers. "This representsthe distance she might have traveled if she'dgot a native canoe," he explained. "We'llvisit all these islands as quickly as we can.If she's on none of them, and there's nonews from any natives we may come across,why, then we'll draw a bigger circle takingin all the places she might have got to onsome stray sailing vessel—a lugger fromT. I. running further north than usual,or maybe a goldfields schooner on the wayto Port ^Moresby. I don't think she's dead,"he added, piercing at once to the heart of thenameless fear that had begun to take hold ofme. "You see, a castaway leaves his bonesabout if he dies; 'tisn't one time in a hundredthat he goes and drowns himself or getseaten by a shark. .And a woman is evenless likely to; she keeps out of harm's way.No; I bet she's been taken off. It happensthat way mostly."
His calm way of summing up mattersappealed to me. I began to see this questionof castaways and their fate as an ordinarvaffair enough, a class of accidents fullyunderstood b\- the experts in that especialline, much as fires are understood by insurance people or breakdowns by railwayengineers. Paul Bowen knew 'all aboutwrecks and castaways and the rest; hewould see us through. The end of it I neverdoubted—I did not dare to.
We began our cruise within half an hour.For three days we raked every island in
the compass of the first circle. I will notwear>' you with the tale. We met with nosuccess.
N THE third night, the weather wasstormy, and Bowen anchored the Susan
well inside a small natural harbor at the leeside of one of the larger islands. Snuggeddown for the night, Ij'ing right under thecentral hill, the little ship was invisible,unless you came right up to the openingof the bay. It had been a ticklish piece ofwork to put her in. and Paul was ratherpleased with himself.
We had hunted the island as usual, andnow under the lee of the rocky crags thatfilled the center of the island we were ridingat anchor, in comfort; the moon just comingup over the top of the hill, and the narrowwhite beaches of the harbor beneath itslight. looking like civilized roads set roundthe bay.
It was a long time since I had seen whiteroads shine out in the moonlight; and. thoughthese were but visionary roads, they heldmy fancy I wanted to leave the ship, togo a-walking under the cool, solitary moon;to follow those pale beaches round to theback of the island, and feel myself, for thefirst time in many days, alone.
I said something to that effect, and wasanswered with a hearty acquiescence, aready desire to meet my lightest wish, thatmight have been flattering, if I had notknown its meaning. After all. a sixty-tonschooner is a small place for two lovers toexchange confidences in. unless they haveit quite to themselves—save for the "boys,"who. of course, do not count as humanbeings.
Bowen p\it me ashore with cheerfulcelerity, told me on no account to hurry,
and returned tothe ship, whistling "The Sailor's Wife theSailor's StarShall Be."
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IT WAS an insignificant paragraph shovedoff in the lower right-hand corner of aNew York morning newspaper.
It read—
FORT WORTH, Texas, June 2-Timbomerspitched hissecond no-hitgame ofthe^ason for the Fort Worth Panthers in theTexas league yesterday afternoon. Theptcher gave two bases on balls, hit onebatsman, and struck out eleven of thethirty men who faced him.
Joe ^rkett, chief of the scouting stafftor the Greys, saw the Unes. He read them
• • • ^"orted in disgust andt^hrew the newspaper to the floor beside hisoed. Ke snorted again afterstaring straightup at the ceiling for a full minute. But, hereached down, picked up the newspaper and
paragraph a third time." Joe grunted as he tore out the
offend* hfni^^" ' ways, itdidThen . . his heels hit the floor and
he went into the bathroom, doused his head
nf 1, gloriesof the bath he had promised himself after aweek of tram rides, and fumbled into his^innrff T previous night he hadeported to Larty McHune, manager of the
turned his
wif ^ left-hander he hadbeen sent out to see and—if impressed—
dining-room whenBurkett rcached downstairs. Nor was hehnS ^^customed chair in the lobby of the
clock—the hands
S-obfpm f ? minutes past seven. Theabsence immediately^ \ snatching up a desk
him with McHune's room.McHune's sleepy
^ period of incessant ringing.downstaiJs?""
idea—waking me up at thistime m the mormng? Is the place on fire? "1 want to see you."Sec me when I come down."Can t wait."
"Come upstairs, then!" Joe heard Larry
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"Whafs in a Name^^ is an Old Questionthat Tim Somers Answers in a Netv Way
Rabbit EarsBy Norman Beasley
Drawings by Arthur C. Dove
slam down the receiver. A queer, puckering smile appearedon his lips. Thin lips,they were—thin, withcriss-crossing wrinklesthat gave the mouth
- a withered appearance—Q of tightness. Years
^iIum C/h^—- before Joe had been agreat catcher andLarry McHune had
been a teammate. He had grown to under-stand his manager's tempestuous temper.With the grin still wrinkling his face Joebolted for the closing doors of an elevator.In another minute he was pounding on thedoor to McHune's room.
Come in!" he heard a voice roar. Joestepped inside to see Larry climbing back'tr'j having unlocked the door.I don'tknow what it isall about, but it hadbetter be good or I'll tear off your clothes,"threatened McHune, as he doubled hispillow under his head and waited.
Burkett answered by smoothing out thetorn piece of newspaper and holding it outfor the other to read.
Well?" questioned McHune, raising hiseyes.
"There's the bird—""Shut up! For the love of a base hit,
did you get me out of bed at this hour topull that ancient gag?"
"Listen—"Listen.' nothing. All I've heard from
youfor thelast five years is thisguySomers.Tim Somers. Old Rabbit Ears, himself!And you come up here, almost before it isdaylight, and before you've been in townten hours and begin warbling that tune.I send you out to see a rah-rah boy who'sbeen standing batters on their ears, and youget back to tell me he's worse than a deadrazzberry. Spend half the night explainingthat, and then wake me up the first thingin the morning to spread the rash about TimSomers. Get out. Go on downstairs anddrink some strong coffee. You'll feel better."
Burkett did not move.McHune turned on his side, presenting a
hunched-up back to his chief scout. Burkett, in silence, again read the newspaperclipping which he had retrieved from thefloor where Larry had flung it. He waitedthere, saying nothing, until McHune, turning and staring at him, irritably cried:
"You still here?""Further than that . . . I'm sticking."McHune ungraciously presented his back
again but Joe knew he was listening."You sent me all the way to Nebraska
to look over a Cornhusker who has nothingbut a glove and a B. A. . . . whatever
that is," argued Joe. "If that baby canget by in the big league so can I—with myputty arm. But, Tim Somers—"
"Ye Gods!" wailed iSIcHune."Tim Somers can come back," continued
the scout, unperturbed. "I know he can.Rabbit ears, or no rabbit ears, Tim Somersis one of the wisest horsehide throwers in thebusiness. Speed. Curves. Control—and anoodle to go with his stuff. I don't care ifthe Greys have given him three trials, Iknow that Somers is a pitcher—a realpitcher. A better pitcher than some ofthese bozos who arc drawing fancy salariesfrom us twice a month.
"I know what },-ou'rc thinking, Larry.You're thinking that any pitcher is luckywho turns in a no-hitter. Well, let me tellyou something . . . that style of luckdoesn't hit twice in a season, in any league.You gotta have some merchandise alongwith the prayer. I'm telling you that anypitcher who has been working as TimSomers has been working in the Texasleague is one sweet carver. Furthermore,if it was any one but Tim you would havehad me hot-footing it to Texas before this."
"Why doesn't Connie go after him? Heneeds pitchers as much as we do."
"For the same reason that you're offhim," exploded Joe. "When one of youmanagers turns down a guy after a coupleof trials you all think alike. You think hecan't be any good. You all chorus 'ifMcHune, or Connie, or whoever it is, don'twant him, I don't want him.'" Joe grimaced. "You know you say that. All ofyou say that. I've heard you."
"Yes. Yes," drawled McHune. "But,Somers has been up three times."
"What of it?""In the old daj's you didn't have to come
up three times to make good in the bigleagues."
"W^hat if I didn't. Ballplayers aren't allalike."
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'Hotv de do, Mr. Somers," they grinned
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The hatter, after the hall hadcrashcd into the catcher's mitt,dropped sprawling to the grou nd
"•Which is something to be thankful for.""Lay off that patronizing stuff, Larry.""I'm not being patronizing, Joe. I'm
just trying to set you right.""Good. Then, let me go and get Somers."McHune sat up on the side of the bed,
put his hand on Burkett's knee and inearnestness said:
'•Be reasonable, Joe. You know, just aswell as I do, what it would mean to theGreys—to me ... to all of us, to havejust one more good pitcher. A pennant—that's all. And we all can use the extra cashthat goes with a world's series. I have thatlittle piece memorized just as well as youhave. But; Somers! Would cost us plenty,now that we've cut the draft strings on him,and what would we get out of it . . .nothing! Nothing at all. Sorenson andMcGuire are still in this league—still withthe Wasps. They got Somers' goat in thebe^^inning and they never let it stop bleating.
"I know he's a good pitcher. Probablyhe could be a great one, if he'd have his earspinned back to keep them from flapping.I liked the kid. when he first came up.Fresh out of college and had a lot of stuff.Plenty of it. It was nothing against himthat he had to dish up beans in a hash houseto pay his way through school but whenSorenson and McGuire started yelling'rost beff,' 'pitch pie,' 'strawberry cake,'and that stuff at him he should have ignoredit. Paid no attention and the goat-getterswould have passed up that stuff. But, hedidn't. Every time they started he wentinto the air higher than Gilroy's kite. Igot tired sending up little paper streamersafter him to bring him down."
"Damn Sorenson and McGuire—I wishthey were both in China," snarled Bui'kett.
"So do I—-unless I had them on my ballteam," returned McHune. "A couple ofnift)' hitters. Both of them. They startedthe wolves after Somers the first time andthey never let up. afterwards. I thought Tim,after getting seasoned, would get over it.He didn't. He's a decent kid and I hate tothink it about him, but I guess he's yellow."
"You're wrong." growled the coach stubbornly. "No pitcher could do what he hasdone down in the Big Bend district and beyellow. I don't give a whoop in Hadesabout Sorenson and McGuire, either. Iwant Tim Somers back here. I want youto send me after him."
McHune got up from the bed, went mtothe bath, turned on the shower and Burkettcould hear him grunting as the cold watersprayed over him. Then, Larry came out,rubbing himself with a huge towel.
"What time can you catch a train forTexas?" he asked.
"Right after breakfast.""Wait a minute," he cautioned, as Bur
kett started for the door. "You haven'tsold me on Somers. Get me straight onthat. AVhat I'm thinking about is curingyou of a bad habit—Someritis!" McHunechuckled. "Go and get him—with thisunderstanding . . . if he doesn't make goodthis time, it's the sticks for you next yearas a small-town manager and . . . I'llsend Rabbit Ears along to keep youcompany."
Joe with his fingers on the door knob,paused, smiled "his queer puckering smile,and responded:
"All right. You've made a condition soI'll make one. When Somers comes backI'm going to have something to say abouthow he works, when he works . . . andwhy. In other words, I'm going to have thecall on him."
"Huh!""You understand me.""I sort of had the idea that I was manager
of this ball team," drawled McHune."You are. But, this time, you aren't
going to have anything to do with limSomers until he gets his feet on the ground."
McHune smiled, tolerantly. _ "Maj'be,you're figuring on taking him into grandopera, with this personal manager stuff."
Burkett displayed signs of losing histemper. "Tf I don't know my business—"
"Forget it, Joe," placated Larry. "Ifyou say you can make a big-leaguer out of
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Tim Somers I'm for it. You have my sympathy, best wishes and blessing. Only,understand, I'm in the angle, too. I'll getmine from the funny guys who write baseball for the newspapers. They'll say I'm afine manager—having a pitcher three times,letting him go three times . . . and,buying him back for a fourth trial. They'llbe right, too. I'm not going to be the goat.You are in it with me. So, remember whatI've told you about the sticks and next yearif he doesn't come through, I'll keep thatpromise, so help me Jimmy Robinson."
' i ""HE Fort Worth Panthers were playingin San Antonio, stopping at a hotel
close by the Alamo. Members of the teamwere sitting, chairs tilted back against thefront of the rambling building when BillyArnst, their manager, spied a stranger coming up the street. Arnst watched while thewide-shouldered man. lugging a suit-case,cut diagonally across and under the tallpalms in the center of the boulevard.
"Heyl Joe Burkett!" yelled Arnst,springing up and advancing with outstretched hand.
"'Lo, Billy.""Got your wire. Been expecting you,"
grinned Arnst, falling into step."Have?"
"Yep. So has Tim.""Humpf!" What's Tim got to sai' for
himself?"" Not much, excepting he won't go back to
the Greys.""Why?""Says he's cured on this big-league stuff.
Don't know as I blame him.""What's the gag? Trying to do a little
blackjacking on the price?""Nope. But I will if there's a chance.""Any one else after him?""Hardly. They're all gun shj'. Think
because McHune couldn't make a winnerout of him that no one can. Still, he hasn'tbeen so rotten for me. Lost two games sincethe beginning of the season. The Broncscaught him offstride and licked him, four to
Notfor the Greys. Nor, for Larrj^ McHuneOn the other hand, if Arnst sells you—ifhe sells you, I said, I'll pay a reasonableSim. More than the draft price. AndBilly can tell you that there are times, whenbeing reasonable, that I get downrightgenerous.
"And, on top of all of that, one otherthing—
"Isn't it worth something to vou to. . . not . . . yeUow!"
"Who said that?"
•\T thinks it . . . Sorenson andMcGuire have said it."For seconds Tim sat as though stunned,
inen, the reaction set in. His face wentwhite a pasty, colorless hue. . . . "Icould break them between my fingers " he
" ye-" he couldn't^sh the word. His teeth clashed. Hisfingers worked nervously. Perspirationstood out on his forehead and then, asthough an mvisible hand had brushedacross hisfeatures, every traceof the mentalstorm passed. He laughed quietly. Buta pecuUar expression gUttered in his eyesas he looked at Burkett, and cried:
"I'll go with you. Fix up your deal withArnst and III be waiting—packed, andready for the rattler."
"Whew!"whistIedBurkett. "I'mgladtohear you say that. I thought, for a minute,lim, that you were going to take it out onme.
TT REQUIRES cold, seasoned nerve topitch a baseball game before forty
^ousand howling, imprecating spectators.For that was the sizeof the crowd that waspacked inside the high walls on this Saturday afternoon. The Greys went throughtheir preliminary workout while Tim Somers,in a cap that didn't fit him and in a uniformthat was baggy at theknees and tightin theshoulders, worked in a practice session witha half-dozen other pitchers in front of thestands.
Larry McHune, standing on the edge ofthe Greys' dugout, watched his pitchers and,as the umpires appeared, Larry motionedthe surplus hurling talent down into deepleft field, where the bull-pen was, leavingDawson, his star, alone. Tim Somers wentwith the others while Mitchell, always
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puzzling to the Greys, was selected by thepudgy leader of the Wasps, to work for him.Mitchell retired the first three batters,pitching in easy fashion while Dawson, inturn, worked carefully, deliberately, andsucceeded m turning back the AVasps wth-out a score. So they went through thefirst four innings of the game.
In the fifth, the Gre3's worked across arun and were hilarious as they took thefield. But the W^asps stung back, fairlysmothering Dawson with ringing hits.Before the relief pitchers could get warmedup three runs were across the plate and theinfielders were crowding about Dawson,shouting encouragement and deliberatingfortime. Collins, a left-hander, came in fromthe bull-pen, to relieve Dawson. He, too,was driven back. From then, until theseventh inning, it was a holiday for theWasps and a rout for the Greys.
McHune, shrieking in anger, raced fromthe dugout, and wildly waved for TimSomers.
"Somers!" he bellowed. "Somers!"Joe Burkett, on the other end of the
Greys' bench, ran up in protest. McHunewaved him away.
"I'm running this ball team," roaredLarry.
"But—""This is the place for Rabbit Ears,
ripped McHune. "If he stops them, all yousaid about him goes . . . if he doesn't,he's all the things I said about him. Somers!Get in there!"
"But why shove him in against the teamthat chased him out of the big leaguesbefore?" demanded Burkett. "Sorensonand McGuire—can't you see them overthere . . . waiting and laying for Tim.Don't be a simp, Larry, and play into theirhands."
" Get back where you belong," shrilledLarry.
Still protesting, Burkett returned to hisseat at the far end of the bench whileSorenson and McGuire, standing in front ofthe Wasps' dugout, shrieked:
"Hey . . . Rabbit Ears! Tim! Tim!Rost Beff! Pitch Pie!"
They went into a chant, their voices shrilling above the voices of their team-mates.The umpires walked over toward the Wasps'bench and cautioned the players but immediately umpirical backs were turned theyellswent up again. Tim was nervous as heentered the diamond. Knew it. Admitted
it to himself. He knew, too,that McFIune wasn't being fair
. with him—putting him into aspot such as this. He heard the
I—yelling from the side-lines andMjMiU he gritted his teeth. Deter-
mined to baffle the batters, hetried—and failed. The Waspswelcomed his offerings, hittingthem as they had hit the fastones and the curves of hispredecessors. The game endedin a lop-sided score against theGreys and McHune, in theclubhouse, afterwards, foundan object for his wrath.
Tim offered no protest.When he had dressed he
found Joe Burkett waiting forajr him on the stepsoutside.W "Don't pay anj' attention
to that stufT of McHune's,"counseled Burkett. He's sore
J over losing, the ball game. Nopitcher—the Big Train at his
</A^ best—could have stopped those^ ^ sluggers after they got started
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one; the Steers checked in over him becausewe couldn't hit one of their crooked arms andTim finished on the short end of a one tonothing count. Not bad pitching, Joe.Not bad."
Burkett smiled. "Where is Tim?" heinquired.
"Around somewhere. I'll find him foryou."
Upstairs, in Burkett's room an hourlater, Billy Arnst and Burkett formed anarguing group around a blonde giant, whosat with his feet shoved well out in' front of'him. Burkett had just finished a feveredplea and had ended it by saying: "Youknow, Tim, you're getting old for baseball.Twenty-eight—eh? If you don't come thistime you ain't going to get another chancein the big ring."
"Don't want it." Hostility flared inSomers' eyes.
"Yes, you do.""I don't. You know that all I got in my
three trials with the Greys was a lot of hardcussing from every one. I'm satisfied downhere in the Texas league. I'm making apretty decent living. I've cut in on a coupleof minor-league championships and I'mmaking more hard dollars than the Greyswould pay me . . . and I don't have toworry about sticking to get them."
" I'll match what you've been makingwiththe Panthers."
"Nothing doing.""I'U go over it.""Joe, there's no use arguing about it.
Im not going.""We can draft you at the end of the
season," threatened Burkett."Yes, and I can quit playing baseball.""You wouldn't.""I would, if the Greys drafted me. But
. . . little cause for worry over that.Who wantsme? Tim Somers! Upwith theGreys three times. Didn't show a thing—excepting a pair of flapping ears. Talksense, Joe. I like you but big-leaguemanagers don't work on likes and dislikes."
Somers got up to leave. Burkett watchednim until he had opened the door andsnapped: "Wait a minute, Tim. I'm notthrough. ' Somers returned and sat down,obviously patient in his determination "Isaid we could draft you, at the close ofthe season. We will. That means you'Uquit baseball. That means you'dbelabeledas a quitter."
"What's the difference?""You're not labeled that
way with Billy Arnst, who'sbeen prettygood to you. BillyArnst, who took you off ourhands—when no other managerwanted you. And made youover into a winner. You're /not labeled that way with /-,your team-mates on the Pan- / /thers. And . . . you're not Vlabeled that way with mp " ^
"They-the team and Billyand you know I'm not a
quitter." ^All of us will know you /'7
are • . . if we draft you— Iand you quit." y
Somers flushed. X /A^Burkett hurried on— /
, "In addition, the draft price AIS a matter of a few thousand Adollars. Two or three thousand—out of this league. If youdon't report to us . . . well, //^maybe, Billy Arnst won't even ' v . ^get the draft price. Tbatwould be a dead loss, for Billv SoreiSorensen was driven to the ground and stayed there
July, 1926
Down to the Sea
in BooksBy Claire Wallace Flynn
m
WE BEGINthis month'stalk with a
paean of joy over"Vignettes of theSea," by Capt. FelixRicsenberg (Har-court, Brace &Company, NewYork), and this,mind you, quite independent of the
, paeans sung, as a
foreword to the"book, by Chris
topher Morley whose word we take for agood many things.
Felix Riesenberg rounded the Horn as anordinary seaman on a sailing vessel, he hasbeen officer on sailing and steam ships, hehas been commander of the Training ShipNewport, has written a standard work onnavigation and a fine book called "UnderSaU."
All of which we must honestly and humblyadmit we never knew a thing about until thisdelectable volume fell into our hands. Now,•we want to lend the "Vignettes" to everyone we know. We want to talk aboutCaptain Riesenberg to every chance visitorin those warm accents which tend to suggestthat we are an old friend of the author.
You can't possibly get along this summerwithout his book. If you are going on a seatrip here is the passport to more vivid enjoyment. If you are going to stay thesummer on bone dry land, nothing willbring you such crisp, snapping breezes andthe exhilaration of slanting decks and flyingspume and shoulder-touching with the bestfellows in the world as will Captain Riesen-berg's volume of sketches—snapshots oflife and men at sea.
They are very deceptive, these littlevignettes. They seem so simple but theytell so much. Here, indeed, is inside information from the "Bridge," that awesomeand mysterious spot on a ship where onechecks one's faith and one's life as theboat leaves the dock.
Captain Riesenberg settles questionsthat have been swirling, unformed, in ourmind for years.
What goes on, exactly, on the bridge during afog?
What kind of a life do boys on a training shiplead?
What is a real mutiny like? (Not motion-picture style.)
How would it feel to walk off a moving vesselin a fog and find oneself on a speck of an island—alone?
What kind of men are the captains of thegi-eat liners?
WTiat is it like on a sailing ship in a terrificstorm?
Is there a real career for a boy at sea?
Captain Riesenberg answers that lastone in this wise:
"Succcss, a funny word,always seems to fit theother fellow perfectly.But the garment neverquite satisfies the wearer.There is success at sea.Sometimes a man succeeds in saving himselffrom utter ruin. Not abad thing to do at times.
How can we give you,without quoting wholesale, any idea of thecharm, the deep, abiding charm to be foundin this book—this record, in snatches, of aman who writes as we all think a sailorshould write, simply,heartily, kindly, chuck-lingly, and sticking straight to his literarycourse!
If we could have done it without gettingin wrong ^ith the editor of this magazinewe would have "lifted" bodily and run onthis page, Riesenberg's essay "Books of theSea"—and, forthwith, given ourselves aholiday. It is so full of good talk and suggestions for a cruise among deep sea stories thatwe want to crawl away and hide our head.
Captain Geobge Fried op TheS. S. "Roosevelt" Adds a Word
Theman who thrilledtheworldin Januaryby hisfamous rescue of the crew of theBritish ship Anlinoe" speaks to ourreaders.
" Yes, I like to read yarns about thesea. Most of the passengers ivho travelon myship are students, editors, schoolteachers, writers, wide-awake travelers.They all read, and good stuff, too. Whenthe voyage is over Uiese fine felloivs andgirls give me their books. Why, I ve gottogether a prettybig library—all gratis--which is something to have achievedanywhere. ,
A. oood nxciTiy of these vohifties are sedbooks, for traveling folk seem always tobring these along with them—C^irad,McFee, Connolly, the jolly Cappymcks" tales, and so on. I have readthem all with the greatest enjoyment.
You see, almost invariably a sea yarnhas to deal with some unusual incident orstriking event, or is concerned tvith someextraordinary character. We sailorslike to read of these because, though theyhe so close around us, we seldom meetthem Life aboard ship can benearlyashumdrum as life in a little cottage. Why,take my own case. 1 d been years andyears at sea before wc sighted the disabled '"Anlinoe" and had a chance ofmaking a '*sea yarn" come true m ourown lives.
Whether you are ashore or afloat, myadvice to you is read stories of the sea.They are written by fine men about afine life.'^
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In rebuttal, we were rather delighted toread about the "Chain Letter" sent to theCaptain, wishing him, if he didn't carry-on with the crazy thing, the best of badluck!
On the very day we read that we were intelephone communication with Capt. GeorgeFried (of the Roosevelt, you know) about thenotes he had promised to send concerningsea books.
The Captain was more than willing to tellhow he enjoyed salty tales, but, at themoment, he was, like Captain Riesenberg,deeply concerned over a "Chain Letter"which conveyed a dire threat unless heimmediately sat down and sent forth ninecopies.
"I'm a seafaring man," groaned thefamous hero of the past winter, "and I'msuperstitious."
We tried to calm the great master mariner,feeling aU the drama of such a situation.
"We got one, too," we explained, "andwe didn't take any notice of it."
"Any bad luck?" queried the man whohad stood by the Antinoe in mid-ocean fourdays during a blizzard and managed, at last,to get her crew all off.
"You can see for yourself," we laughed."We'd given up hope of ever getting you towrite anything for our book page—and hereyou are doing it!
Last Rssays, by Joseph Conrad. (Double-day, Page & Co., New York.)The twenty pieces of priceless writing
gathered together between the covers of thislittle volume comprise, practically, thelast essays written by that human "masterof all good workmen," Joseph Conrad.
Wc defy an^'one to read the first of these,"Geography and Some Explorers" and notfeel his imagination lifted, sent flying, freewinged, over the land and the seven seas.In it, we think, lies all the glowing storyof how and why Conrad went to sea. In itis enough of fascination to send manyanother boy leaping out through the doorof his father's house in search of the long,long trail that Kipling tells about.
From the time he was a little lad the sea,to Conrad, was hallowed ground."... thanks to those books of travel and
discovery which have peopled it \\-ith unforgct-able shades of the masters in tlie calling which,
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Modern
Pipesof Pan
By Earl Cliapin May
^ I ^HE violin is the king of instruments.I But the orchestra is greater than any
one instrument and many musiciansbelieve the pipe organ is greater than anyorchestra. Twentieth century organ buildershave evolved a soul stirring combination ofsymphony orchestra, military band, drumcorps and carillon. .Americans are spendingmore than a million dollars a month forpipe organs—and it all started with amythical chap named Pan.
Pan was a versatile god who roamed thewoods and fields of ancient Greece. He wasa glutton for work. He not only acted asgod of the herdsmen and donor of fertilityto their flocks, but was also, at times, ahuntsman and the god of hunters. He wasthe first of the mythological traffic cops,guiding travelers over pathless mountains.
But Pan was particularly skilled in music.His specialty was performance on his pipes,which were a set of short, hollow reeds tiedin a row and cut in graduated lengths. Thelower ends were often closed, the upperends were open and on a level. By blowinginto these open ends and running his mouthalong the row of reeds Pan could plaj- suchtunes as set the dryads dancing. He wasmusician to the multitudes. When Greekgods went out of fashion Pan went withthem, but his pipes have come melodiouslydown the generations.
From Talmud to Twentieth CenturyIt is a long leap from the organ with 400
pipes and two players, whose efforts in thetenth-century Winchester Cathedral wereheard throughout that part of England, toa Bach fugue played on an organ withseveral thousand pipes in the Portland.Oregon, Auditorium. It is a longer leap fromthe eighth-century organ in the Church ofSaint Corneille of Compicgne. the organistof which earned the title of pidsator organumor organ beater, because he beat the heavykeys with his fists, to the four-manualorgan opened in the Washington .\uditoriumlast June with selections from Handel,Rubinstein and Wagner played with thelightest of piano touches. It is even alonger leap from the second-century organwith ten pipes, mentioned in the Talmud,to the organ with 5.060 pipes recently installed in the Church of the Blessed Sacrament, New York City.
The world has moved musically since Panpiped his sylvanlays, and the pipe
, organ has movedwith it. Pre-emi-nently designed for
public performance, its increasingpopularity furnishes convincing evidence that we like good music.
A huge new organ was installedin the Philadelphia Baptist Templeabout fifteen years ago. A series ofconcerts was announced. Seatswere sold many weeks in advance.
July, 1926
As Circus Calliopeor Cathedral Organ^They Cast a SpellNone Can Resist
Illustrated by C. LeRoy Baldridge
Police reserves were called out to handle thecrowds. The concerts were continued atintervals for two years. The profits fromthem paid for the organ, which cost about830,000. Two years ago the people ofMoiine, lUinois, paid 84,500 to hear thededicatory concert given on the new pipeorgan of the Sacred Heart Church. Eightthousand have gathered to hear a pipeorgan concert in Atlanta, Georgia. TheGrand Court Organ in Wanamaker's, Philadelphia, has been heard by an audience of10,000.
Not an Infant IndustryOrgan building is not an infant industry
even in this country. American concernshave been building organs for a century.
The large organ in the Holy FamilyChurch, Chicago, was built in 1869 anddedicated in 1870. Six strong men operatedthe bellows. The organ was rebuilt andmodernized as to power and in other waysin 1891 and again in 1923.
In 1839 Commodore Vanderbilt presenteda two-manual organ to the Mercer StreetPresbyterian Church, "The Church of theStrangers," New York. In 1898 the organwas sold and removed to St. Paul's LutheranChurch, 796 East One Hundred and Fifty-sixth Street. The organ was rebuilt threeyears ago although nearly all the old pipeswere retained. It is in daily use.
WHAT is probably the oldest organ inthe Middle West was shipped from
Philadelphia via the Atlantic, the Gulf ofMexico and the Mississippi River to Galena,Illinois, in 1838. Galena was enjoying a lead-mining boom. Fusion of tin and lead wasnot then practiced and the organ pipes weremade, appropriately enough, of pure lead.Fever Ri ver, in which the mighty MississippiRiver steamers turned in those days afterdocking at Galena, is now a puny creek. Theriver steamers have almost disappeared.Galena sleeps on its many hills. But theold pipe organ continues to function.
Few can hear the magnificent organ inthe Mormon Tabernacle at Salt Lake Citywithout being thrilled. The tabernacle is250 feet long, 150 feet wide and 80 feet inheight, without a pillar or tie-rod to marits marvelous acoustics for any of the 8,000persons who may be comfortably seatedtherein at one time. About 250,000 hearthe organ each year during the daily recitalsfrom April to October. Because of itsunique setting and history it is one of ourmost interesting organs. It is the creationof Joseph Ridges, who learned organ building in England, followed the gold rush toAustralia, became a Mormon and built asmall organ for the Mormon Church inUtah.
That organ was carefully packed in tensealed cases, sent by sailing ship fromAustralia to San Pedro, California, andhauled by mules and horses across countryto the adobe predecessor of the presenttabernacle. While the latter was takingform, Brigham Young commissioned Ridgesto build another organ suited to its magnitude. Ridges journeyed to Boston for wire,soft valve-leather, ivory keys and. other materials not obtainable in the West. Thepipes and other parts of the organ werefashioned from timber selected and sawedin the mountains and hauled nearly 400miles across the desert. Although the instrument was rebuilt in 1900 and again in 1915,some of the original pipes and casings arestill in use.
When the organ in Christ Church Cathedral at New Orleans was dismantled and rebuilt in 1923, nearly 900 pipes which hadbeen in use for seventy-five years were continued in service.
Pipe Organs Here and ThereFrom earliest times the organ has received
active endorsem*nt of artistically-mindedmen. The famous organ installed in theChurch of Saint Cornelius of Compeignewas the gift of the Byzantine Emperor,Constantine, who sent it to Pepin, Kingof the Franks. The Caliph Haroun sentan organ to Pepin's son and successor,Charlemagne. Thomas Britton the picturesque and versatile coalheaver ofClerkenwell Creen, London, was wont totransform h i Seighteenth century coal shedinto a concert
room wliereGeorge Frederick Handel, theGerman -Eng-lish mastermusician andsuccessor ofBach as premier
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organist, entertained the wit and beauty ofthe early Georgian English capital.
Emerson L. Richards of Atlantic City isa lawyer, banker and State Senator. Buthis international fame rests upon his skillas a designer of the Atlantic City MunicipalOrgan with its 250 speaking stops andnearly 10,000 pipes. In the world of organsas well as the world of politics he is " SenatorRichards." He is also an honorary memberof the Organ Builders' Association and Vice-President of the National Association ofOrganists.
'^HE $20,000 organ in St. John's Cathe-dral at Milwaukee was presented by the
family of the late Patrick Cudahy, in memoryof that industrial giant, and his daughter,Helen.
Cyrus H. K. Curtis has donated a magnificent organ to the Municipal Auditorium ofPortland, Maine. George Eastman is responsible for the presence of a dozen organsin the Eastman School of Music, and theEastman Theatre of Rochester. WilliamH. Shuey, formerly of Minneapolis, is knownas the godfather of a flock of four manualorgans in Oak Park, suburb of Chicago.
There has been a marked increase in thedemand for pipe organs during the pastfifteen years, due largely to their adoptionby movie houses.
In a musical way this put the movies indirect competition with the churches. Thechurches met the challenge by increasingthe quality of theirorgans. Universities, .public schools, lodges; •'{Conlinued on page 66)
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EDITORIALOUR NATIONAL MEMORIALIN THE. dedication of the National Memorial
Headquarters Building, so soon to be celebrated in Chicago, the Order of Elks will
present to the world its tribute to patriotism andvalor, a concrete evidence of its faithful memoryof the service and sacrifice of its members in ourcountry's cause.
It is difficult to avoid apparent extravagancein commenting upon it, even in terms of studiedrestraint. Only superlatives seem adequate, forit is the most ambitious and elaborate memorialthat has yet been erected in honor of the heroes ofthe World War. Majestic, distinctive, enduring,beautiful, it will take its place among the outstanding architectural and artistic achievements,not only of America but of the world.
Elsewhere in this issue of the Magazine willbe found a detailed description of the building,with illustrations that give some idea of itsmagnificence and beauty. But here it is desired,once more, to impress upon the membership the realsignificance of whathasbeen sosplendidlywrought.
The creation of the beauty therein embodied,the appropriation of the millions expended thereon, the assembly of the works of art therein to bedisplayed; are, of themselves, noteworthy accomplishments. Yet were that beauty designedmerely to please the eye, if the expenditure ofthose millions were intended only to gratify prideof power and wealth, if the genius of modernmasters were invoked merely to arouse admiration, the whole project would be of questionablevalue as a fraternal undertaking.
But in our Memorial all these have beencombined to crystallize into an enduring form anexpression of the Order's Patriotism, BrotherlyLove and Fidelity. The consistent purpose hasbeen that all beholders might feel inspired tohigh and noble resolves; that in this wondroustemple men might be led to reconsecrate themselves to the service of country and of humanity.
It is that our memory may be thus constantlyrefreshed, that our consciousness of duty to ourcountry may thus be constantly quickened, andour purpose more faithfully to perform it may bethus perennially renewed, that the Order of Elkshas erected the beautiful Memorial in Chicago.
Because of this lofty purpose, which has been
given such noble expression, our Memorial willendure, not only as a wonderful fraternal tribute,but also as a continuing patriotic service to ourcountry. It is a tribute and a service in which allElks have shared and in which every Elk may wellfeel a peculiar personal pride.
It is deemed appropriate to add here a word ofappreciation of the splendid service that has beenrendered by the members of the Commission whohave had this work in charge for the past fouryears. The task has been a stupendous one andmost exacting in its demands upon their time andattention; but from the beginning they haveevinced a fine conception of the important trustcommitted to them and have displayed throughout a loyal devotion to every duty involved.
With an exalted vision, yet with a rare goodjudgment and practicable common sense, theyhave exercised the broad discretion with whichthey were clothed in a manner to deserve thegrateful appreciation of the whole Order.
It is a pleasure to give this editorial expressionof that sentiment; and it is done in the confidentassurance that it will be most heartily and sincerelyapproved by the entire membership.
THE GLORIOUS FOURTH
"^HERE comes a certain thrill with the use of^ the phrase—"The Glorious Fourth." It is
born partly of our remembered history, partly ofour boyhood recollections of celebrations of theday in former years. There springs to mind thepictures of the dauntless patriots who dared theirall, and boldly signed the pledge of it, that Americashould be free. There comes to mind the LibertyBell, that tore its brazen throat apart in proclamation of the glorious news. The stately figure ofWashington rises before us and makes us veryproud, as we recall the loyalty and devotion andcourage and service that won for him his pseudonym—" Father of his Country. "
Then the glorious names of our early battlescome crowding upon our memories,—Bunker Hill,Trenton, Ticonderoga, Valley Forge, GuilfordCourt House, Yorktown; and the urge is upon usto hurrah about it all over again; to fire off thecannon; to explode the fireworks; to expand-ourchests in patriotic pride and to talk in pompousphrases of our power and grandeur as a nation.
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This is as it should be. It does us good. Itdoes the children good. It does the country good.As little as we may be conscious of it, we arealways a bit better Americans for experiencingsuch emotions even though they be somewhatflorid and all too transient.
So, let every Elk enter whole-heartedly intowhatever celebration of the day may have beenarranged for in his community. Let him attendthe exercises, take the children along, feed theiryouthful enthusiasm from his own store; and filltheir minds and hearts with patriotic devotion.Let the whole day be devoted primarily topatriotic observances, culminating in a dedicationof one's self to better citizenship.
If the day be thus observed, in such a spirit,then, not only because of what it celebrates butbecause of what it accomplishes, it will continueto be The Glorious Fourth.
WISDOM
A YOUNG man who effectively avails him-self of opportunities for scholastic training
through high school, college and university, is aneducated person. If he pursues his studies,materially enlarging his fund of informationderived from standard authorities, he becomes alearned man. If the learning be broadened by anappreciative study of the fine arts, he may betermed a cultured scholar. Let him add to thisthe lore that is to be acquired elsewhere than intext-books, and he becomes a man of knowledge.
But with all this, he may never attain to wisdom,just as he may become a truly wise man withoutany of these things; for wisdom is not merelyinformation of what others have said and done,nor the mere possession of book learning. It isthe capacity to think for one's self, the power toreason and draw correct conclusions, the abilityto apply acquired knowledge to meet humanneeds and to evolve a sound philosophy of life.And this faculty involves an understanding ofhuman nature as well as of natural laws. Aboveall, perhaps, it involves an appreciation of the truerelationship between man and his fellows and between man and his God.
The educated person is equipped for a fuller lifethan one who lacks that training. The learnedman is even better equipped to enrich his ownexperiences. The cultured scholar is yet more
independent of outward contacts for his own enjoyment of existence. But none of these, lackingwisdom, can add materially to the sum of humanknowledge or the well-being of mankind.
It is only the wise man who advances learning,who leads man to loftier heights, who enrichesthe lives of others, who really serves humanity.
MULTIPLICITY OF LAWS
|N VIEW of the multiplicity of statutes that^ have been enacted, and the legal regulationsthat have been promulgated, dealing with almostevery conceivable human activity and relationship, it has been suggested that, instead of boasting that we live under a reign .of law, we mightmore aptly deplore that we are living under arain of law.
Whatever may be the necessity for, or thewisdom of, the endless streams of legislativeprovisions that flow from our various law-makingbodies, it is an obvious fact that the average citizen is being constantly embarrassed and annoyedby legal restrictions and inhibitions, quite oftenwithout any knowledge of their existence untilhe learns he has violated them. This naturally results in a feeling of resentment whichonly a clear understanding of the reasons for theirenactment will remove. And as the resentmentis almost instinctive, while the reasons are notalways clear, the attitude of being "agin thegov'ment" is apt to become more general thanjust.
The same danger attends our fraternal legislation in the Grand Lodge. There are manymatters that properly require national control. Insome instances the enactments dealing with thosematters may seem unduly to restrain and circ*mscribe the freeaction of the Subordinate Lodgesand individual members. Wherever this is thecase, the loyal membership should seek to understand the reasons for the regulations andshould obey them with good grace.
But it is highly desirable that the Lodges andindividual Elks should be left as free as possible,consistent with our fundamental purposes andestablished policies, to enjoy their fraternalrights and privileges according to their own ideas.Legislative restrictions and prohibitions should,therefore, be adopted only where the necessitytherefor is clearly apparent.
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Flag Day Address of the Grand Exalted RulerJudge AtwelVs Speech at Home of Jefferson at Monticello^ Va.
VIRGINIA'S contribution to Americanstatesmanship has been most valuable. Informative moments there came from her
soil a Washington, a Jefferson, a Monroe, aMadison, a Marshall and a Henry.
Here, on this everlasting hill, where the fatherswalked—here, where wrought a real statesman—here, where dreamed a champion republican, the man who stood for a republic—for arepresentative form of government—here, wherewrote the outstanding democrat—the man whobelieved in man's equality before the law—it isproper {iiul fiUing that the JJcnevnU-nt and Protective Order of LClks—ajj OrdCf tljRt lOVes thert-p-iiliiJc, that chrtmpififis itti inclepcndcncp.
vn ihe cmlitV ol men. l/iat ustemples oil the evcrtastiiig v^ritjcs that
the nation, should acst-mble to celebrate thel>irth o[ the T""taj4-
The high point—the hill—the mountain, hashad a peculiar prominence in the religious andpolitical affairs of men and their associations.It was upon a mountain that the ark rested afterthe liood. ft was from a mountain that Godthundered the original laws and revealed himself to his efhrient servant. It was upon a mountain that Ivlijah conquered the false priests andpresented acceptable sacrifitc to his Lord. Itwas upon a mountain that the cross was fixedand that the crucifixion happened. Kven as thevalleys hold the waters and the richest harvests,so the hill tops—the high peaks—furnish vantage ground for vision.
Here, upon these heights, Mr. Jeffereon saw,in fancy, the people toiling in the old world, sawthem crossing the Atlantic, saw them laboringup the mountain side, as it were, hoping forshade, coolness, health, rest. He saw the curseof class and caste, the persecution of citizen by
ofQcial, the artificial differentiating of men bybirth rather than by individual value, the injustice of colonial vassalage, and he penned theDeclaration of Independence! That was thefirst rock in the foundation of Old Glory!Quickly there followed the spilling of blood—thesecond rock in the foundation! Then, out of thetravail of war, out of the clash of strong mentalindividualities, out of the political crucible, therecame the Constitution of the United Stalcss <>(Amcrica—the Anal and last adamant. Unsliak-able that ground-work! Imperlsllilble, cvcr-lastingl
Ih t»-.U ccle»,raliO/] of the flaK. n®, flag5)7ni)0lizes (Hit land, yvfi rtsUy flcclaimemanexpiation Qf JJlflf] frOIll fli^ sliacklcs thflt lltlClbf'Sn ills thfougU ttU of the agts preceding theii.undation aiid the insiitution of this greatgovernment of the western hemisphere. Heemancipated himself from the burden of politicaland legal inequality, from the injustice of government, and from the sinfulness of religiousnarrowness and bigotry,
This emancipation, this faith, this harmonyof the fiithcrs, is as resplendent in the sunshineof igiO as it was in tiic early morning hours ofa century and a half ago.
We sing no new song when we say that thisland builds individuals in preference to states.This land is jealous of every right that belongsto the individual, and there is no worship of thepower of government. This land puts ownershipin the citizen rather than in the governing body.Force may be the European conception of government, but Americanism revolted against thatsystem and has been a living, spiritual demonstration of its fallacy. Ours is the rule of themajority wthout regard to occupation, or social,or pohtical prestige. Tliere is no tj'rannization
of the unit of society in America. There is nokingly force, there is no kingly divinity, butthere is a tremendously outstanding commonright of humanitj'.
This clear headed method of governing themselves has made of this people an example forthe people of other lands and, as we pause, orithe birthday of our Hag, with filled hearts andtlirobblny brain rnntomplatinK the glory ofAmerican citizenship—its far-rt-ivcliiiig Oppo'""tunltles aiirl its thrfsliing, TCSpon-sibiiity—ive can only atk tiialw'.muii tiijoyiniJ the piivilcKe of thU citlZt'll^"-!*sliall make eucii use thereof AS IMyshow him anfl licr to have been properly (rliM'-'lwith such conritlcnicc. ]\Icn who writO,think, men who appreciate, men who pray—menwho realize that civilization is in the hollow ofthe hand of man hin^sclf, arc literally askingGodto sober this great pcoplu so as to kcep thcrnworthy and able to coiUiiiuc in the governmentof thenibclvcs. It is everlastingly true tlliit manmust begoverned. Tf he will nol govern liimpclf,then another man willperform that task for liim.
Edward Everett, in his history of Liberty,wrote that "the real history of man, rational,mortal man, is the history of the struggle to befree; the free of all climes and nations are themselves one people." Certainly, if it be true thata common aspiration spans mountains and seas,and oceans, and latitudes and longitudes, andembraces those who are distantly remote, itshould cement very closely those who are in thesame country.
In other lands they work for a living; here, wework to really live. In other lands there is aman above; here, we are all on the same level.In other lands there are luxurj' and schools for
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HTHE outstanding event of the Grand LodgeConvention in Chicago, tlie dedication of the
National Memorial Headquarters Building, willtake place at 4 o'clock on the afternoon of July14th. It is expected that every Lodge in theOrder will be represented at the ceremonies.
The parade, in which it is hoped that allLodges will participate, takes place on July 15th.The line of march will be almost entirely throughthe famous Lincoln Park. The formation \villbe at C'hicago Avenue and Michigan Boulevard,and the marchers will parade north through the
Program of the Grand Lodge Meeting at Chicagoof which will be the coronation of "Miss Fidelity," the Queen of the Con\-ention. Automobile trips, receptions, dances, and steamerexcursions on Lake Michigan are some of theother diversions which the Committee hasprepared for the record throng of delegates andvisitors who are expected. The outstandingevent on the outdoor program, which includesgolf, baseball, swimming and various athleticcontests, will be the Elks National Trapshootin which more than 600 entries have beenreceived.
park on the West Drive until within a short distance of the National Memorial HeadquartersBuilding, when they will turn west onto Lake-view Avenue and continue past the MemorialBuilding to Oakdale Avenue, then east one block,and disband.
The program of entertainment is extensiveand continuous. No moment of the day, andvery few of the night, will be without its scheduled events. Following the dedication servicethere will be a grand ball, given by the Convention Committee of Chicago Lodge, a feature
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rhe New Home of Los Angeles LodgeRemarkably Beautiful Building Is Formally Dedicated
Striking night photo ofthe neiv Home of LosAngeles, Calif., Lodge,No. 99. illuminated bypowerfid searchlights
f I "vHE new Home of LosI Angeles, Calif., Lodge,
No. 99, was recently-dedicated by Past Grand E.x-alted Ruler William M. Abbott, before one of the largestgatherings of Elks ever as-sembledj[in the city. Lodgesfrom practically every Statein the Union were represented at the ceremonies, andscorcs of distinguished members were present to congratulate Los Angeles Lodge on itsmonumental achievement.
There is, indeed, nothingquite like the new Home ofLos Angeles Lodge in theOrder. ErectedatacostofS2,-500,000, its builders proudlyclaim that it is one of the finest fraternal buildings of its kind in the United States. TheBuilding Committee, of which Michael F.Shannon of the Grand Lodge Committee onJudiciar>' is the Chairman, is to be congratulatedon the sclcction of a design that departs radically from the usual aiul gives Los Angeles
a tniildinp thut is a unique expressionof modeftJ aH-lilieoluHe.
Ttie I'diricu, ilie lip nf Us lliig-ppipal.tive liiu Struiit, a fortress nf rlHcigtlt
Babylon. Ilfs iiiyh faciides are imprcssivp'yi.lccoratcd wil.Ji ciriuvmL-nlaUons symbotic of lUt'jUKh patriotic ideals of the Orrier. It is builtin tlie linest residential section. Toweringserene and dignified above its immediate surroundings, the building overlooks WcstlakcPark, a popular public playground, giving it ubeautiful setting.
while rdifice is built on a scale of Surpassing gramUair, iind beautifully embellished.Its inspiring Grand lIiiH, at the main entrance,with its 53-foot vaulted ceiling, has the dignityand spaciousness of a cathedral. This entry,135 feet long, and 50 feet broad, terminates in aMemorial Hall.
The Lodge room of the new Home is unusually impressive, measuring 75 by 135 feet,wth a beamed ceiling 47 feet high. The largestconcert organ ever installed on the PacificCoast, costing $50,000, %vill provide music forall ceremonies.
.A. large banquet hall, with a stage for orchestraor entertainment, is located on the second floor.Dinner dances will be featured here.
On the left of the Grand Hall are the main
dining room, the spacious lounge, and a patiowhere meals may be served outdoors in the shadeof sheltering palms. There are six private diningrooms and a grill on the fourth floor.
For the recreation of members, there arebilliard, pool and game rooms, a completelyequipped gymnasium, handball courts, and sixstaiuliird bowling alleys.
A glUal:i«>>'C''Cd, siin-lighLeil switmnittB pool,one of n>e liirufst ntt )lu» I'acltlC Coa?t. I03 iCotlonfT find 40 fCGl wide-, will pn«ble the jciksiy>clulgi; in n-cjutitlc epoiis, 'I'd ihsltre piifil.v; ihk?aofi.ooo gallons ot water \\\ thepool arecontinuously circulale<! untlcr pressure thmvigh abattery of sand and gravel Jilters and thensterilized by oxygen.
For members residing in the Home, andvisiting Elks, there arc 160 guest rooms, eachwith a private tiletl bath or shower, aud allthe accommodations of the most modern hotel.
Another unique feature of the edilU'e is theaccommodations provided for tlie mothers,wives, sisters and daughters of the members—the women's section. It is practically a building within a building, with separate entrance,separate elevator, and separate equipmentthroughout for the ladies. It has private parlors, private dining rooms, a private stairway,and a private dressing and shower-room sectionfor the swimming pool, which the ladies willbe allowed to use.
The elaborate program of the dedicationwhich formally opened this truly remarkablebuilding were highly impressive. The Dedication Committee, of which Dr. Ralph Haganwas the Chairman, had left nothing undone to
assure the success of the exercises. Thej- were held inthe great Lodge room andeverj- available inch of spacewas used to accommodate thelarge gathering. Those whocould not be accommodatedthere thronged the halls, thelounges and other spaciousrooms of the building wherethey were able to follow thescr\-ice5. listening to thevoices of the speakers as theywere transmitted over themagnavox system which hadbeen installed for the occasion.
Following the opening ceremony in wliich many PastExalted Rulers and charter
members of the Lodge participated, came thededication ser\-ice. This was conducted byPast Grand Exalted Ruler William M. Abbott,who was assisted by the following; DistrictDeputy Grand Exalted Rulers Earl S. Pattereon,W. E. Varcoe. L. A. Lewis; Past District DeputyGrand Exalted Ruler Howard B. Kirtland;John W. Hftlcy, Past Exalted Ruler of Sacramento, Calif., LocIko, N^o. £>; and l^ugctieDftney, Isxalled Uuler of San Diego. Calif.,
Xi>. if)«. Tlie ad<Ircss, ?j?-lU-t-ib-r! bv Prisi Ohfitiil V'.Saltetl llulei' liavniontl
wao eloquently expressive pt the fechmg nt lliL- galiU-rihg iii lls fljljiri'dnlliih «f thebuilding and achievements of the Locl^^e.
\lr. lionjnniin was I'ullowcci bv- Richnrd H.Hilf, E.Kaltcd Ruler of the Lodge; Past ExaltedRuler Leo Voungsworth. Frederick Warde,and Past Exalted Ruler Max Horwinski of Oakland, Calif., Lodge, No. i^t.
.\n iiitereatinK moment in the services, andone charged with coiisitleniblc senliiucnt, camcwhen Past Exalted Ruler ^'o^lngsworlh escortedcharter members George McLain, Harr>- Burns,M. .v. Hamburger; and \V. F. Kennedy,Thomas J.Darmody, and Ernest W. Fleming (Past Exalt^Ruiers) to the Exalted Ruler's station and introduced them among the cheers of the assemblage.
The e.xercises were brought to a close by theEleven O'Clock Toast. beautifuUy rendered byJohn G. Mott. Past Exalted Ruler of the Lodge.
Two features added greatly to the impressive-ness of the evening; the musical numbers playedon the Lodge's S50.000 organ by Sibley G. Pease,fourteen years organist of the Lodge, and thevocal selections of Gage Christopher.
.Sew State Officers in New York and Massachusetts'^HE officers elected for 1926-1927 at the recent
Convention of the New York State ElksAssociation held in Syracuse are as follows:President, John T. Gorman of Owego; Secretary,Philip Clancy of Niagara Falls; Treasurer,Dave Farrier of Oneida; Vice-Presidents, Danie!Jones of Watervliet, Joseph Johnson of Brooklyn,Joseph F. Ibbotson of .\uburn, John F. Smith ofBuffalo and Lewis R. Dowd of Cortland. Trustees
Charles C. Ryan of Buffalo, Miles S. Hencle ofSyracuse, WilliamT. Phillipsof New\ork City,James A. Murray of Troy and Howard A.Swartwood of Binghamton. It was decided tohold the 1927 meeting in Troy.
The Massachusetts State Elks Association,meeting at Lawrence, elected the followingofficers for the ensuing year: President, PatrickJ. Garvey of Holyoke; Secretary, Jerenuah J.
Hourin of Framingham; Treasurer, Bernard E.Carbin of Lynn; Vice-Presidents, James R. Flanagan of Boston; George S. Harvey of Maiden,James R. Savery of Pittsfield; Trustees, TheodoreT. Ellis of Worcester, and Charles L. Magee ofTaunton.
Detailed accounts of these important conventions will be reported fully in the Augustnumber of The Exks M.\ga2I.vf:.
and praiseworthy. It owns a splendid Home onthe beach at the head of Dewey Boulevard andthe southern side of the Luneta Moonlight Park.This building possesses architectural beauty andpractical convenience and stands on a site thatis increasing constantly in value. ManilaLodge is a leader in the welfare work done onthe Island, its annual minstrel show being themeans by which it swells its large charity fund.
Alabama State Elks AssociationMeetsfor Annual Convention
The recent annual convention of the AlabamaState Elks Association at Opelika proved to beone of the most satisfactory yet held. Muchimportant business was transacted at the severalsessions and the entertainment and hospitalityshown the visitors by members of Opelika Lodge,No. 910, and b}' the townspeople generally,made for a thoroughly enjoyable time.
The meeting was opened by the retiring President, Dr. John W. Perkins, with practicallyevery Lodge in the State represented. Dr.Palmer, Mayor of Opehka, made an address ofwelcome which was responded to by JudgeHarvey M. Blue, Montgomery Lodge, No. 596,Past President of the Association. Walter A.Page, of Opelika Lodge, Vice-President of theAssociation, who was later elected President,welcomed the delegates on behalf of his Lodge.Other officers elected were Tom E. Martin, ofMontgomery Lodge, first Vice-President; E. J.McCrossin. of Birmingham Lodge, No. 79,second Vice-President; T. W. Morgan, of Birmingham Lodge, third Vice-President; C. L.Haley, Jr., of Florence Lodge, No. 820, Treasurer;
j W. S. Harris, of Opelika Lodge, Secretary.S. B. Israel, of Blocton Lodge, No. 710; SolMonsky, of Montgomery Lodge; J. L. SIcLane
• of Talladega Lodge, No. 603; and Arthur G.
AS WE go to press with this issue, reports_/~\ are coming in to the Magazine from all
parts of the country describing the FlagDay exercises held on June 14 throughout theOrder. We wish it were possible to print allthese accounts in detail, for they testify ina very wonderful way to the high patriotismof every Lodge. Unfortunately it is impossibleto do this, considering the number of Lodgesand the amount of space it would involve toreport the Flag Day activities of each. Wetake this occasion, however, to congratulatethe Flag Day Committees and the members ofthe various Lodges on the impressive way inwhich the Order's reverence for the Flag wasagain publicly observed in every community.
Orphans and Cripples Guests ofDetroit, Mich., Lodge
More than 1,400 boys and girls from fifteenorphanages and institutions for crippled childrenrecently attended the fifteenth annual Mayfestival of Detroit, Mich., Lodge, No. 34, heldat its Home. Next to Santa Claus on Christmas day, this annual affair is regarded by theyoungsters as one of the biggest days in the yearfor them. Funny clo%vns, funny stories, funnysongs and funny dances, interspersed with peanuts, popcorn, ice cream, cookies and numerousgifts, kept the children busy in a noisy appreciation of the efforts of many entertainers to amusethem, and made the afternoon a continuousround of laughter.
Float of Bellingham, Wash., LodgeWins Coveted Prize
To Bellingham, Wash., Lodge, Xo. 194, wentthe first prize honors for its float in the recentTulip Festival—an important event that islield every spring in Bellingham. The floatwon first prize from a field of fourteen otherfraternal entries. It was twenty-four feet long,eight feet wide and towered over fourteen feetabove the ground. On each corner was a largebasket containing purple and white tulips, andtwo large elk heads gave additional beauty to itsdesign. A large clock, the basic feature of thefloat, was trimmed with purple and white, offsetwith gold.
Bay Cities Lodges OrganizeTrapshooting Association
The Bay Cities Elks Trapshooting .-\ssocia-'tion held its first shoot last month on the groundsof the Golden Gate Gun Club at West .-Vlamcda,Calif. .\11 the Lodges in the Bay Cities district are represented in this new organization,and it is planned to hold monthly shoots at thetraps of the Gun Club. Both individual and"team trophie.s will be awarded at each meet.
Lodge in the Philippine IslandsHas Active Membership
Though Manila, P. I., Lodge, No. 761, is thousands of miles from the Mother Country, itsmembers are enthusiastic and active in perpetuating the spirit of the Order. Its membershipis made up of the most distinguished residents ofthe Island and its record of achievements is long
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This handsome three-story brick building isthe Home of Hornell, N. Y., Lodge, No. 364
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Smith, of Opelika Lodge, were elected Trustees.The new officers were then installed by DistrictDeputy Grand Exalted Ruler George P. Bell.
Blocton Lodge won the handsome silver cupoffered by Mr. Bell for the best exemplificationof the initiatory ritual, and its team was heartily complimented for its fine work. It was votedto hold the 1937 convention at Talladega, andto appoint a committee to confer with theGeorgia and Florida State Associations witha view to forming a Tri-State Association. Anouting and barbecue dinner wound up themeeting.
Ponca City, Okla., Lodge ShowsRapid Advance
Ponca City, Okla., Lodge, No. 1522, continuesto advance rapidly since its institution on March4 of this year, and is already doing splendidly inits charity and Social and Community Welfarework. Recently District Deputy Grand Exalted Ruler E. F. Rand made his official visitand after the initiation of a large class of candidates a banquet was held. Many Elks from thesurrounding Lodges were present, and plans arenow under way for similar social festivitiesamong the Lodges for the coming fall and winter.
Weehawken, N. J., Lodge HasEnthusiastic Membership
Weehawken, N. J., Lodge, No. 1456, thougha comparatively new Lodge, owns a beautifulHome. The building and grounds arc situatedon a bluff of the Palisades overlooking the Hudson and command a \new for miles up and downthat river. The membership of the Lodge hasgrown steadily since its institution and is nowclose to 500. Many of the most successfulbusiness men of the community take an activepart in its affairs. One of the excellent organizations of which the Lodgeis proud is its Band.Though only in existence a year, it ranks amongthe best in the State, each member having beena professional musician and attained a reputation before he joined the Lodge.
Dedication of New Home ofHaverstraw, N. Y., Lodge
The dedication ceremonies of the beautifulnew Home of Haverstraw, N. Y., Lodge, No.877, were attended by a distinguished gatheringof Grand Lodge and State .\ssociation officers,and by many Elks from near-by Lodges. Preceding the formal service, which was conductedby District J3eputy Grand Exalted Ruler Edward S. McGrath, assisted by visiting officials,there was a luncheon at the United States Hotelat which members and guests enjoyed a specialprogram of music. William T. Phillips, Pa_stExalted Ruler and Secretary of New York, N. "V.,Lodge, No. I, delivered the dedicatory addressand other speakers were Edward W. Cotter,Grand Trustee; Murray Hulbert, member ofthe Grand Forum; William E. Fitzsimmons,President of the New York State Elks Association, and James A. Farley of Haverstraw Lodge,Past President of the State .Association. Aninteresting incident of the ceremonies was thepresentation, by Past Exalted Ruler Ulysses G.Tompkins on behalf of Pecksldil, N. Y., Lodge,
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No. 744, of an American flag, which was accepted for Haverstraw Lodge by Exalted RulerClarence J. Seaton. In addition to those already mentioned, the following well-knownmembers of the Order took part in the exercises:Philip Clancy, of the Grand Lodge State Association Committee; Herman Engel, Past ExaltedRuler of Peekskil! Lodge; William J. Crosson,Past Exalted Ruler of Staten Island, N. Y.,Lodge, No. 841; Dr. James H. Brennan, PastExalted Ruler of New Rochelle, N. Y., Lodge,No. 756, and John F. Lantry, Past Exalted Rulerof Brooklyn, N. Y., Lodge, No. 22.
The new Home is a three-story brick andstone building of Colonial design. It is beautifully situated on a mountain-side and commandsa magnificent view of the Hudson River. Onthe ground floor are a grill, a large kitchen,billiard room, smoking room and space for threebowling alleys. The next floor contains theofTice, a large lounge, dining room and servicepantry. To the rear, and practically a separateunit, are the anterooms and two-stor>' Lodgeroom. On the third floor are fourteen livingrooms. No trouble or expense was spared tomake this one of the finest and most completebuildings of its kind and Haverstraw membersare justly proud of their new Home.
District Deputy Irvin InstitutesArcadia, Fla., Lodge
Arcadia, Fla., Lodge, No. 1524, was recentlyinstituted by District Deputy Grand ExaltedRuler W. S. Irvin of Lakeland, Fla., Lodge, No.1291,whowasassisted in the ceremony by officersand members of Fort Myers, Fla., Lodge, No.1288,andH. A. Bennett, President of the FloridaState Elks Association. Forty-three chartermembers were present and the following ofiicerswere elected: Exalted Ruler, John Treadwell,Jr.; Secretary, D. J. Thomas.
Baraboo, Wis., Lodge Celebrates25th Anniversary
Baraboo, Wis., Lodge, No. 688, recentlycelebrated its twenty-fifth anniversary with alarge banquet and entertainment. Nine chartermembers were present, including the first ExaltedRuler of the Lodge, M. H. Mould. In additionto special music, both vocal and instrumental,addresses were made by a number of the distinguished guests.
Baraboo Lodge has shown good progress during the last year in all of its departments, beingespecially successful in increasing its membership.
Salt Lake City, Utah, LodgeIn Varied Welfare Work
The annual report of the Social and Community Welfare Committee of Salt Lake City, Utah,Lodge, No. 8s, shows a wide variety of charitable and civic activities. In addition to generous distribution of clothing, food and fuelamong the needy, and Christmas gifts to morethan 3.000 children, the Committee found workfor 825 unemployed persons, returned fifteenboys to their parents in other States, providedtransportation for seventeen men to join theirfamilies, placed a number of orphans in privatehomes, and cooperated generally with the courts,hospitals and jails.
In addition, the Lodge Home was turned overto the G. A. R. for its State Convention, anda committee from the Lodge handled the Boys'Parade. This last is an annual feature in SaltLake City and this year the Lodge was againassigned the honor of organizing the march ofsome 1,500 youngsters, and awarded prizes forthe best appearance and turn-outs.
Benjamin B. Odell, MemberOf Neivburgh, N. Y., Lodge
In the passing of Honorable Benjamin B.Odell, former Governor of the State of NewYork, Newburgh, N. Y., Lodge, No. 247J haslost one of its most distinguished members.Initiated more than fourteen years ago, Governor Odell was throughout his busy careera loyal and faithful supporter of the interest ofhis Lodge and worked for its growth and prosperity. He took part in many of its functionsduring his life. In July 1925 he presided at the
Flag Day exercises of his Lodge, that observancebeing one of the largest and best ever held in the.city. On the occasion of the Tablet Ser\'iceconducted by Newburgh Lodge shortly afterhis death, Frederick W. Wilson, Past ExaltedRuler of the Lodge, delivered a eulogy to hismemory before a large gathering of his fellowmembers and friends.
Cambridge, Ohio, Lodge HonorsCharter members
Honoring a number of its charter members,Cambridge, Ohio, Lodge, No. 448, recentlygave a special entertainment and banquet.Past District Deputy Grand Exalted RulerJohn F. Sherr>', and a number of other prominent members of the Order made interestingaddresses and there was an excellent program ofboth vocal and instrumental numbers. Thepresence of a great many visitors from out oftown Lodges contributed much to the success ofthe evening.
Work on Magnificent New HomeOf Brooklyn, N. Y., Lodge Progressing
Work is progressing rapidly on the splendidnew Home of Brooklyn, N. Y., Lodge, No. 22,which is being erected at Livingston Street,Boerum Place and Schermerhom Street. NearlyS5,000,000 is being spent by the Lodge on thisnew building, which will be one of the largestand most luxurious Homes in the Order.
Galena, Kans., Lodge IncreasingIts Membership
Galena, Kans., Lodge, No. 677, is conductingan active campaign for new members under thedirection of District Deputv Grand ExaltedRuler J. J. Griffin and Exalted Ruler JudgeEdward Sapp. It is hoped that 100candidatesmil be available for initiation. The famousdegree team of lola, Kans., Lodge, No. 569,which recently initiated a large class for Chanute,Kans., Lodge, No. 806, will conduct the ceremonies, and an old-fashioned program willfollow.
Georgia State Elks AssociationHolds Ttvelfth Annual Convention
At the twelfth annual convention of theGeorgia State Elks Association held at Albany,Ga., recently, the following officers were elected:Louis Ludwig, of Brunswick Lodge, No. 691,President; E. FosterBrigham,of AugustaLodge,No. 205, .'Vnthony B. King, of Columbus Lodge,No. Ill, W. L. Morgan, of Americus Lodge,No. 752, Walter Lee of Waycross Lodge, No.369, Al. H. Martin, of Atlanta Lodge, No. 78,and B. J. Fowler, of Macon Lodge, No. 230,Vice-Presidents; B. C. Broyles, District DeputyGrand Exalted Ruler, of Atlanta Lodge, Secre-tarv-Treasurer. Past Grand Exalted Ruler John
One of the imposing buildingsof the citY is the fine Home ofTTieDalles, Ore., Lodge, No. 303
G. Price attended the meeting and at the opening ceremonies responded for the Grand Lodgeto the addresses of welcome by E. H. Kalmon,Mayor of Albany, and Past Exalted RulerH. T. Mclntosh, of .Albany Lodge, No. 713.Among the resolutions passed was one thankingMr. Price for his interest in the Association.Retiring President Gilbert Phillip Maggioni,who has served as head of the State body fortwo years, also addressed the gathering.
The business sessions were productive ofa number of interesting suggestions, amongthem being one for a joint convention next yearof the Elks Associations of Georgia, Florida,Alabama and South Carolina. At the Lodgesession held the first evening of the conventiona class of candidates was initiated by the DegreeTeam of Atlanta Lodge. Dances, a banquet inhonor of the Grand Lodge and State Association officers, a huge barbecue and a parade withmany fine floats, were among the entertainmentfeatures enjoyed by the visitors and delegates.No date or place was set for the 1927 convention,as the suggestion of a joint meeting is beingconsidered.
Monroe, La., Lodge Plans LargeNew Home
Plans are being discussed by Monroe, La.,Lodge, No. 454, for the construction of a handsome new Home to cost from 875,000 to $100,000.The building as no%v proposed will contain allusual club features, bowling alleys, billiard room,lounging and smoking rooms, reading and writingrooms, Turkish baths, grill room, reception roomfor ladies. Secretary's olTice, and a beautiful andornate Lodge room.
Monroe Lodge has made rapid strides in thepast year and is one of the most important organizations of its kind in the city. Its summerpropam calls for a number of activities, includingoutings, picnics, barbecues, etc., the net proceedsto go to some worthy charity or civic institution.
Kelso, Wash., Lodge DedicatesHandsome New Home
The handsome new Home of Kelso, Wash.,Lodge, No. 148J, was recently dedicated byDistrict Deputy Grand Exalted Ruler HollisB. Fultz, who was assisted in the ceremony bythe Exalted Rulers and Past Exalted Rulersfrom neighboring Lodges. Past District DeputyGrand Exalted Ruler W. H. Tucker deliveredthe dedicatory address and each of the visitingofficers spoke briefly, congratulating the Lodgeon its fine achievements.
The new Home of Kelso Lodge is a strikingtwo-stor>% reinforced concrete structure, thefirst floor being devoted to a number of storesand the second carefully designed for Lodgepurposes. It is situated in the heart of thebusiness district. Much thought has gone intothe design and furnishing of the large Lodgeroom. It is exceptionally well lighted and
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Bnishcd in a beautiful bronze tint. The furniture IS alldark gold, quarter-sawed oak, and thenxtures are in keeping.
After the formal dedication, a banquet wasseived m honor of the Grand Lodge officers, thebtate .-Usociation representatives, and the offi-cere from Washington and Oregon Lodges._Kelso L^dge has shown a remarkable erowth
in April, 1924. Beginningwith a charter list of less than fifty it now hasmore than 400 names on its roll.
Montana State Elks Association10Meet in Butte in August
At an informal meeting of the officers of theMontana State Llks Association, Exalted Rulersand Secretaries of Montana Lodges, held atV u J'^^^^^nection with the visit of Grand
f Ruler William Hawley Atwell, it wasdecided to hold the annual convention of thetime in August.
af nrrt b appointed and has since beenfor the meSlng"® necessary arrangemenU
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me" shouW medical treat-Shadduck ^"^ 'ries to Roy K.
SeTlodge ""wW Th^ Secr'JS^ of Roch-woS as ali S and extramrned ove^rMr'SS''"^'of the Minnesota SuteSsWiXn!"'"''"'ReynoUsville, Pa., Lodge WelcomesDistrict Deputy Sleeman
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wh^nRichHi!f,Mo"?o£them mth tickets''for f ^mc idea originated ,vS. Secretary g'tTrie"'erbe?s"w\r^^f'r^">- "P by «« S!much as thp J watching the children asmuch as the youngsters did the performance.
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members own a beautiful Home that representsan investment of over §50,000. The Lodgelays much stress on welfare work and its building is frequently used for public meetings inconnection with the local schools, civic functions,and other' public gatherings. The Lodge,instituted in 1906 with a membership of fifty,now has close to 400 on its rolls.
Owego, N. Y., Lodge PresentsUniforms to High School Band
At a recent special meeting of Owego, X. Y.,Lodge, No. 1039, the members voted to supply
' the Owego High .School Band with uniforms.There are some-forty pieces in this excellentorganization and the uniforms, consisting ofa dark blue cape lined with red silk, a dark blueoverseas cap, and white trousers, cost the Lodgeapproximately S500. The band accompaniedthe Owego Lodge delegation to the annual convention of the New York State Elks Association held at Syracuse last month.
Opelousas, La., Lodge inFlourishing Condition
Opelousas, La., Lodge, No. 1048, whose recently completed Home is one of the finest in theState, representing as it does an investment of$100,000, is in a flourishing condition and veryactive in its community. On June 3, Confederate Memorial Day, the largest class in the history of the Lodge was initialed and the ceremonies, followed by a barbecue and dance,were attended by hundreds of Elks from neighboring towns. An excellent minstrel show wasproduced in the High School .\uditorium andplans are on foot for a huge children's picnicto be held some time this month. The enthusiasm of the membere is high and the comingyear should see even greater progress by thisactive Lodge.
District Deputy Grand Exalted Ruler L. H. Kubleyof Ketchikan, Alaska,Lodge, No. 1429, and theway he visits far NorthLodges
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Batavia, N. Y., LodgeEnjoyed an Active Year. The Lodge year recently closed by Batavia,
N. Y., Lodge, No. 950, has'seen much soundprogress made. More than 100 new memberswere added to its rolls and a drill team organizedwhich made an excellent showing at NiagaraFalls in competition with long-established teamsfrom large New York State Lodges. Its Memorial and Flag Day services were attended bybig audiences and its social events were allhighly successful. The work of its Social andCommunity W'elfare Committee was excellentlyperformed, many individual cases being investigated and relieved in addition to its work withinstitutions, white plans for even wider activitythis year are being made.
Bloomfield, N. J., LodgeSponsoring Boys' Band
The newly organized Boys' Band of Bloom-field, N. J., Lodge, No. 7SS, is now holdingrehearsals. The youngsters arc receiving theirtraining under competent instructors and themembers are enthusiastic over the progressalready shown. As individual abilities becomeapparent, it is planned to^ divide tlie boys intothree groups—a marching'squad, an orchestra,and a fife and drum corps.
Corning, N. Y., Lodge PlanningAddition to Home
The progress of Corning, X. Y., Lodge, No.1071, during the past two years has made necessaryconsiderable enlargement of its Home. Ata recent meeting members examined a setplans for a one story and basem*nt brick andconcrete addition to be built on the lot ownedby theLodge at the east ofits Home. The planscall for a large hall, 45 x 6S feet, equipped witha stage and dressing rooms, to occupy most ofthe first floor. Should the basem*nt be enlarged it is planned to install an attractive grilland four bowling alleys.
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Shreveport, La., Lodge Band toAttend National Convention
The band of Shreveport, La., Lodge, No. 122,will be represented at the Grand Lodge Convention in Chicago in July by its popular band offorty pieces, which is under the direction of Prof.33. Axel Johansson, formerly of Chicago. Theband enjoyed a highly successful winterseason,plajing to large and enthusiastic audiences onevery public appearance. In line with theirpolicy of "Going About and Doing Good," theyhave always donated their services to institutionsof charity, hospitals and patriotic celebrations,giving free concerts for the less fortunate atevery available opportunity. They have alsobeen retained by the City of Shreveport forthe usual series of concerts to be given at theparks and playgrounds of the city throughoutthe summer season.
Greentvich, Conn., Lodge Has HadSuccessful Year
Greenwich, Conn., Lodge, No. 1150, haspassed through a very successful year. Itsmembership is steadily increasing and it hasbeen active in many fields, especially in Socialand Community Welfare work, it has, amongother organizations within its membership, amost efficient ritualistic team which has demonstrated its ability in a number of sister Lodgesthroughout the State.
Grand Esteemed Lecturing KnightWrites for Lodge Bulletin
"The Elkogram," the ofTicial bulletin ofSeattle, Wash., Lodge, No. 92, now carries aninspirational article every week by GrandEsteemed Lecturing Knight Walter F. Meier.Mr. Meier conducted a similar feature the yearhe was Exalted Ruler of Seattle Lodge, whichwas very successful. Due to an insistent demand by the members of his Lodge, he consentedrecently to continue the series.
Nashville, Tenn., LodgeHas Fine Library
An excellent library of approximately 4,000volumes of history, biography, science, drama,criticism, fiction and other subjects of general interest is maintained by Nashville,Tenn., Lodge,No. 72. There is a librarian in charge, andthe Lodge has recently published an attractive, well indexed catalogue of the books on itsshelves.
Report of Welfare Committee ofNew York, N. Y., Lodge
The report of the Social and CommunityWelfare Committee of NewYork, N. Y., Lodge,No. I, for 1925-26 shows a sum of more thanS2o,ooo spent in assistance to unfortunate individuals, contributions to hospitals and charitableinstitutions, gifts to inmates, and a Christmas-tree celebration enjoyed by more than 3,000children. The Committee, under the chairrnan-ship of Moses Altman, decided to discontinuethe crippled children's outing and instead toendow a bed in the Hospital for Crippled andRuptured, and contributed $2,500 for this purpose. The total expenditures for relief duringthe year, including those mentioned above, cameto more than $60,000.
Watervliet, N. Y., Lodge ActiveIn Many Fields
The crippled children's clinic conducted recently by Watervliet, N. Y., Lodge, No. 1500, inthe_Health Department of the City Hall, provedone of the most successful ever held in the city.Thirty-six crippled boys and girls brought byautos from Saratoga, Troy, Waterford, Cohoes,and Colonie, received examination and treatment.Dr. Leroy Hubbard, noted orthopedic specialist,directed the clinic and was assisted by a score ofprominent doctors and surgeons.
In addition to its crowded program of welfarework Watervhet Lodge recently initiated a largeclass of candidates and staged an elaborateproduction of a play which netted a goodlysum for its building fund.
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The Grand Lodge Memorial to Past Grand Exalted Ruler Edward Leach, erected athis grave in the Riverside Cemetery, W^aterbury, Conn. Impressive ceremoniesattended by many distinguished members of the Order marked its dedication
Claremont, N. H., Lodge WillRemodel Home
.Acceptance of new plans for the remodelingof the Home of Claremont, N. H., Lodge, No.879, was the outstanding feature of a recentmeeting of the members. The most strikingchange called for in the plans will be made onthe upper floor, the enrire area of which will beused for the Lodge room and hall. The basem*nt will be remodeled for recreation purposes,and the billiard and grill rooms will be locatedhere. On the other two floors the enlarging ofcertain rooms will be effected to make them moreadaptable to the present needs of the membership. The work wll begin at once and is expected to-cost between Si2,ooo and 815,000.
Seattle, Wash., Lodge BandPlays at Penitentiary
Accompaniedby a large delegation of membersand their wives, the fine band of Seattle, Wash.,Lodge, No. 92, journeyed to the Federal penitentiary on McNeil's Island, where they gave a concert for the 700 convicts confined there. Thisthoughtful interest in their welfare, in keepingwitli Exalted Ruler John C. Slater's motto of' "Let's make someone happier," was deeply appreciated by the prisoners and their response to themusic was unrestrainedly enthusiastic. After theconcert GrandEsteemedLecturingKnightWalterF. Meier, of Seattle Lodge, made a brief address,and gifts of cigars and tobacco were passed out.
On the return trip, the band stopped at theWestern Washington Hospital at Steilacoomwhere they gave another concert.
Garret, Ind., Lodge Acquires SiteFor New Home
Garrett, Ind., Lodge, No. 1447, recentlyacquired a site for a new Home by the purchaseof properly on Randolph Street between Kingand Quincy. The present buildings on the sitewill be razed and a modern structure will beerected, 50 x r25 feet in dimensions. Plans havenot been completed, but it is probable that atheatre will be located on the first floor, with
Elk quarters on the remaining floors. It isplanned to start work on tlie new Home nextyear.
California Elks TrapshootSets New Record for Contestants
The Elks trapshoot held a short time agoat the Golden Gate Gun Ciub at Alameda, Calif.,is believed to have set a new world's record forthe number of contestants taking part, morethan 500 registered shooters competing. Ninetraps, each accommodating a battery of fiveguns, were working from daylight to dark, and30,000 shells were fired. A number of prizeswere awarded and approximately $500 realizedfor charity.
Houston, Tex., Lodge PlanningMagnificent New Home
A building committee has been appointed inHouston, Tex., Lodge, No. 151, to go into thedetails of a new Home for the Lodge. Tentativeplans include a fifteen-or-twenty story buildingequipped with a swimming pool, gymnasium,roof garden, and Turkish bath, in addition to theusual Lodge and club features.
Newark, N. J., Lodge Makes BigDonationfor Crip^es
.\n example of the enthusiasm of its membership for charitable work was given at a recentmeeting of Newark, N. J., Lodge, No. 21. Themembers were called upon for voluntary contributions to be used in equipping a ward in theHome and Hospital for Crippled Children.Though the amount asked for was only $1,000,before the meeting was over more than $4,000had been contributed by those present—abundant evidence of the broad spirit of benevolencethat pervades Newark Lodge.
San Antonio, Tex., Lodge toSponsor Second Boy Scout Troop
Boys' work occupies a prominent place in theactivities of San Antonio, Tex., Lodge, No. 216.
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Jamestown. Long active in the Lodge andrespected throughout the community, his deathwas a loss to his fellow members and the citizensof Jamestown. The officers of the Lodge conducted the funeral and burial serx'ices whichwere attended by a large gathering who camefrom many parts of the district to pay finaltribute to their friend.
Building Plans Approved byGrand Exalted Ruler
The Board of Grand Trustees and the GrandExalted Ruler have approved the plans for thepurchase of property and the erection of newHomes for the following Lodges:
Ontario, Calif., Lodge, No. 1419. Purchase ofa Home, a two-stor>', brick building located onthe principal business street. The first flooris to be used for business purposes and the secondfor Lodge and club purposes. The purchaseprice is 836,000, alterations $5,000 and furnishings $3,000.
Santa Barbara, Calif., Lodge, No. 613. Erection of a new Home on the site of their formerHome which was destroyed during the earthquake last summer. The Home will be fourstories and basem*nt, the first floor and basem*nt to be used as stores, second floor for clubpurposes, third floor for Lodge and dance roomsand fourth floor for gymnasium. The buildingsite is valued at $160,500, the estimated cost ofthe building is $275,000 and $25,000 will bespent for furnishings.
St. Joseph, Mich., Lodge, No. 541. {Correction.) Erection of a new Home at an estimated
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cost of $150,000, instead of 815,000 as previouslyreported.
Madison, N. Lodge Has AttractiveHome on Traveled Highway
Madison, N. J., Lodge, No. 1465, has a mostattractive Home situated on the main highwayto Lake Hopatcong and Pennsylvania. Itsdoors are always open to traveling members andits hospitality is well known to many. MadisonLodge has a Sister Lodge visilini,' committeewhich is aclivc throughout the district andwhich has been the means of building up strongties with neighboring Lodges.
Oneida, N. Y., Lodge Will BuildLarge Addition to Home
A $50,coo addition to the Home of Oneida,N. Y., Lodge, No. 767, will be ready for occupancy on March 2, 1927, the twenty-fifth anni-'versary of the Lodge. Plans and specificationsare now being prepared for this addition whichwill give Oneida Lodge a larger Lodge room, agrill and other modern conveniences, making theHome one of the best in Central New York. Asplendid celebration will be arranged for thededication and anniversary observance to whichthe Grand Exalted Ruler and other officers ofthe Order will be invited.
California State Elks AssociationPublishes Fine Report
The bound copies of the proceedings of theeleventh annual meeting of the California StateElks Association are models of what such a report should be. In addition to complete stenographic notes of all speeches, committee reports,discussions and resolutions, there are excellentphotographs of the winning teams and organizations in the various contests, and portraits ofpast and present Grand Lodge and State Association ofiicers. Its 150 odd pages of excellentcoated paper are sturdily bound and the printingand typography are admirable.
Social Welfare Committee ofElizabeth, N. Lodge Reports
The annual report of the Social and Commurnity Welfare Committee of Elizabeth, N. J.,Lodge, No. 289, shows a total expenditure forthe year of nearly 817,000. In addition to cashdonations to various drives and institutions andto work with individuals, the Lodge maintainsseveral permanent agencies of relief. One ofthese is a farm of 189 acres at Bound Brook,N. J., where poor and under-nourished childrenare sent for building up. During the summermonths the farm is open to other New JerseyLodges who wish to send children there, andduring the year a total of 879 boys and girls werereceived. In its work with crippled children the
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A little more than a year ago a troop of BoyScouts was organized and sponsored by theI^dge. So successful was this undertakingthat now a second troop is being arranged for,^ be under the direction of Secretary GroverCollins as Scoutmaster, which will also enjoythe full supportof the Lodge.
^henectady, N. Y., Lodge to AidCrippled Children's Hospital
Schenectady, N". Y.,Lodge, No. 480, hasvotedthe sum of ijr.ooo toward the preliminaryexpenses for the establishment of a hospital forcrippled children in its city. The vote, taken
largely attended Mother's Day meeting,lollowed upon a report for the Social and Community Welfare Committee by Past ExaltedKuler Charles Fisher, on the excellent workbeing done in otherNew York State hospitals.
Virginia State Elks Association10 Meet in Augustp "^^^^^nnual convention of the West Virginiabtate Elks Association will be held at Martins-
'^"gust 16, 17 and 18. Thiswill be the hrst time that Martinsburg Lodge,entertained a State Convention and
orhcerS and members are all working hard tomake the event a memorable one.
Proceedings of Minnesota State ElksAssociation in Printed Form
Acomplete, illustrated copy of the proceedingsof the twenty-first annual convention of the Minnesota State Elks Association has been received°y tne Magazine. It is a handsomely boundbooklet of fifty pagesand should beoflasting interest to all who took part, and to officers andmembers of other State ."Associations as well.
Opportunity for a Lodge toSecure Elk Antlers
The Museum of Columbia College, Dubuque,fowa, owns a beautiful pair of elks antlers whichIt IS anxious to dispose of. They are said toe in excellent condition, well mounted, freerom blemish, and perfect in every detail. ."VnyOuge interested in purchasing them should
communicate with 0. W. Heitkamp, Curatorot the College Museum, who will be glad tolurnish a complete description, size, price, etc.
ic antlers are part of a collection which waspurchased last year. Although the Collegewould liketo keep them, there are so many otherarticles more essential to its needs that it hasdecided to offer them for sale,
Death Claims Dr. Laban HazeltineMember oj Jamestown, N. y.. Lodge
Dr. Laban Hazeltine, charter member andfirst Exalted Ruler of Jamestown, N. Y., Lodge,No. 263, recently passed away at his home in This attractive building is the Home of Sycamore, III., Lodge, No. 1392
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ON WEDNESDAY afternoon, July14, at four o'clock, the magnificentElks National Memorial Headquar
ters Building, situated at the intersection ofLake View Avenue and Diversey Parkway,Chicago, is to be dedicated. Exactly fiveyears from the month of its authorizationby the Grand Lodge, this unique structurewill be formally turned over to the uses ofthe Order by the Elks National MemorialHeadquarters Commission, which ha;s beenin charge of its construction.
Nowhere in the world, so far as is known;certainly nowhere in the United States,is there another such building, combining inone beautiful design the two functions of aWar Memorial and of the executive headquarters of a great national fraternity. Idevery respect, from its dual role to its unusual, circular design, the Elks NationalMemorial Headquarters Building is anoriginal production, There is nothing quitelike it anywhere.
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tions which led to its creation. To understand these, it is necessary to revert to theproceedings of the Grand Lodge Conventionof 1021, held in Los Angeles, California, inthe course of which the Order took thedefinite step of authorizing the constructionof the building. As a matter of fact, to beaccurate, the story begins prior to that.The question of the advisability of havinga national headquarters for,Grand Lodgeuse had been discussed for some' years. Itwas not until 1020, however, that any stepwas taken toward bringing this discussionto a head. In that year, at the Conventionin Chicago. Grand Exalted Ruler Frank L.Rain recommended, in his official report,that the office of the Grand Secretary belocated permanently in a National Headquarters building. "The Order," said thisreport, "has reached a stage in its historywhere it should have a permanent place forthe offices of the Grand Secretary andNational Headquarters. A centrally locatedcity should be selected and suitable headquarters leased, or better still, a buildingshould be built by the Order. '* The report
made a further recomraenclation which wasembodied in the following resolution, unanimously adopted by the Grand Lodge atthat time: "That the incoming GrandExalted Ruler be and is hereby authorizedand directed to appoint a special committeeof five, whose duty it shall be to thoroughh'investigate the advisability of the establishment in some suitably located city of apermanent National Headquarters for theOrder, and to report to the next Grand LodgeSession the conclusion and such recommendations as it may deem proper in thepremises, including the suggestion of waysand means to put into efTect such recommendations as it may make."
Accordingly the new Grand ExaltedRuler, Wilham M. Abbott, appointed themembers of the Elks War Relief Commission,whose work was tapering to a close, asmembers of the National Headq^uartersCommittee, with instructions to investigatethe matter of a permanent headquartersand to report on their findings at the Convention of 1921. Thus the first step wastaken.
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What the Committee accomplished is setforth very clearly in its report to the GrandLodge, assembled in Los Angeles the following year. It seems simpler and more satisfactory to quote freely from that report thanto try to paraphrase its contents. This Ishall do, omitting here and there portionsno longer essential to an understandingof the subject. It should be remembered,in reading this article, that in 1021 therewas no such thing as The Elks Magazineand that by reason of this lack it was moredifhcnlt then than it is to-day for the GrandLodge to learn the sentiment of the membership, and almost impossible to acquaint themembership individually with its problemsand proposed activities. The first actionof the newly appointed National Headquarters Committee back in the autumn of1920 was to address a circular letter to eachofficer of the Grand Lodge and to eachSubordinate Lodge of the Order, invitingsuggestions which might be considered helpful to it in the performance of its duty."From the several hujidred replies whichwei'e received," said the report, "yourCommittee is convinced that the suggestions and recommendations hereinafterpresented are in accord with the views anddesires of the membership generally; andthat adoption thereof by the Grand Lodgewill meet the approbation of the wholeOrder."
It had been pointed out by Grand ExaltedRuler Rain, in 1920, that the quarters atthat time occupied by the Grand Secretary
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were inadequate and that they were subjectto change in location with every change ofresidence made by that officer. TheNational Headquarters Committee, afterstudying this situation, agreed that theGrand Secretary's office certainly should bepermanently located, but that: "If the onlyconsideration involved were the properlocation and housing of the Grand Secretary's office, that purpose might well beaccomplished by establishing it in some fireproof building of adequate size in any oneof a dozen cities of the country." Of itself,the locating of the Grand Secretary's officedid not seem wholly to justify the erectionof a special building.
But there were other factors to be considered. Among these was the recognizedneed for a representative and permanentNational Headquarters. for the Order,providing space for the use of Grand LodgeOfficers and Committees and The ElksM.-^gazinte.
The most important factor, however, inconsidering reasons for embarking on solarge an enterprise, was the desire of theOrder to erect a War Memorial.
On this phase of the undertaking thereport of the Committee ran as follows:"It will be remembered that more thanseventy thousand members of the Order ofElks were in the scrvice of our countryduring the World War. More than onethousand of these Brothers made the lastsupreme sacrifice in that service and laiddown their lives in exemplification of their
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No dearer duty, nor one more inaccord with every tenet of our Order,
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definite monumental features and tablets which would fittingly commemorate the service and sacrificc. designedto be honored. And at the sametime such features would in no" wayimpair hs adaptability to the proposed use thereof for headquarterspurposes.
"Your Committee is of the opinionthat this idea should be carried out inthe construction of the HeadquartersBuilding. An,d it, therefore, recommends that the suggested building bemade definitely monumental and memorial in character; that the architecturaldesign be so stately and beautiful, thematerial of its construction so enduring,its site and setting so appropriate andcommanding, and its distinctive monumental features so artistic, that theheart of every Elk who contemplatesit will be thrilied with pride, and that itwill, for generations to comc, prove aninspiration to that loyalty and patriotism which the Order so earnestlyteaches and has so worthily exemplified."
There were, then, three considerations to be taken into account, in so faras the necessity and desirability of aheadquarters building were concerned.A fourth consideration was the determination of how large an outlay woulfl
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be required to erect a structureof suitable size and impressivc-ness to meet the nee<l. "Thisbuilding," said the Committee,"should not only be madeadequate in size and equipmentto provide for the proper andconvenient conduct of the business affairs of the Ofder; itshoukl also be of a character anddignity that would reflect thepower and prestige of the Order.Not only should it be a building occupied wholly for GrandLodge purposes, but it shouldbe a.building of such a type andof such architectural beautythat it would be distinctive andmonumental, worthy of theOrder and truly representativeof all for which the Order stands.It should be a building in whichthe members of the Order coul'lfeel a just and proper pride;and one which would compelthe respectful admiration of allpeople, as a fitting home for theconduct of the affairs of so greatan organization of patrioticAmericans. The Order is toogreat, rich and p{)werful tolonger deny itself this appropriate evidence of its wealthand prestige and this needed instrumentality of real service.''
Based on its study of costsin relation to the requirements,the Committee recommendedthe appropriation of two and ahalf million dollars for thepurpose of purchasing a site andconstructing the building, andrecommended also that the
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unexpended balance of the War Relief I'undand the assets remaining in the hands of theWar Relief Commission be api)lied lo thesame purpose. It recommended that theappropriated sum be raised by special leviesagainst the Subordinate Lodges proportionate to their respective membership, fromtime to time as needed, not to excced onedollar per capita in any calendar year.
After lengthy discussion and careful consideration of the report, which includedsuggestions for certain neccssary changes inthe Grand Lodge Constitution and Statutes,the Grand Lodge approved the severalrecommendations of the Committee, separately and as a whole, and so the ElksNational Memorial Headquorters and TheElks Magazine were brought into being.To take the place of the National Headquarters Committee, the Elks NationalMemorial Headquarters Commission wascreated. Grand Exalted Ruler WilliamWallace Mountain, on the day of his installation to ofiice, and in order that thework of the Commission might proceed atonce, appointed the following Past GrandExalted Rulers as members of the Commission: Joseph T. Fanning, John K. Teller.James R. Nicholson, Edward Rightor, FredHarper, Bruce A. Campbell, William M.Abbott, Rush L. Holland and Frank L.Rain, with the Grand Exalted Ruler amember ex-ofTicio. The Coinmission hassince been augmented by the addition ofPast Grand Exalted Rulers William W.Mountain and J. Edgar Masters. Eachsucceeding Grand Exalted Rulor has alsobeen a member e.x-ofiicio during his term oloffice. The Elks National Memorial Headquarters Commission elected Past GrandExalted Ruler John K. Tener, Chairman,and Past Grand Exalted Ruler Joseph T.Fanning, Secretary-Treasurer and ExecutiveDirector.
So much for the background, the reasonsand needs which inspired the erection of thebuilding. The next step was to acquire asite. During the year in which it had studiedthe proposition, the National HeadquartersCommittee had visited many cities whichhad requested consideration as possiblelocations for the project. The final recommendation of the Committee, which wasapproved by the Grand Lodge, was thatChicago be choscn as the HeadquartersCity. Factors influencing this choice were,briefly, as follows; It was essential that thesite beone which, to use the language of theCommittee, "for all time to come would bereasonably sure to preserve its relativeportance and desirability as a settingsuch a memorial; and not one likely t''affected by probable shifting of the center®of commercial and indxistrial activities. .
"It is apparent that such a builcli^Sshould not be located in any city whor* itwould for any reason fail to maintain 't-self as an outstanding and conspic'J®*^®monument.
"There are also considerations ofmercial and administrative importance whichmust "be taken into account. The locationshould be one from which the businessaffairs of the Order can be conducted withconvenience and dispatch and with properregard to the number and relative locationsof the Subordinate Lodges and members oftheOrder to beserved. Transportation andpostal facilities are important details to beconsidered.
"Other questions involved relate totaxation, expense and construction; cost ofsite, size of site available, street frontages,expense of maintenance, relationship tobuildings and memorials of like character,and other kindred matters, all of which
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Here you see the DiverseyParkway end of the Buildingas it appears from the northwest corner of the property
have been carefully considered by yourCommittee."
It was the unanimous opinion of theCommittee that, great as were the advantages offered by many other cities, thoseoffered by Chicago, all in all, were thegreatest. Among these is the vast plan,now under way, of beautifying the ChicagoLake front, a plan into which the ElksNational Memorial Headquarters Buildingfits most admirably.
After a thorough examination of varioussites, the Elks National Memorial Headquarters Commission, under the authorityvested in it by the Grand Lodge, selectedand purchased a plot of ground situated atthe intersection of Lake View Avenue andDiversey Parkway, fronting Lincoln Parkand Lake Michigan, a very advantageoussite located but a few minutes by motor-bus or automobile from the heart of thecity, yet far enough removed from the congested district for the building to dominateits surroundings. The property has afrontage of 393 feet on Lake View. Avenueand 250 feet on Diversey Parkway. Thisproperty, which cost ^375,000 in 1021 andwhich, a year later, had more than doubledin value, was conveyed by deed to the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks of theUnited States of America.
With the land bought and paid for, nextcame the business of securing a design forthe building. And as is usual when a semi-
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public edifice of monumental character is tobe erectcd, the choice of an architect wasmade through the medium of a competition.The Elks National Memorial HeadquartersCommission, under the advice of Col. J.HolHs Wells, of the firm of Clinton & Russell.Architects, of New York City, who had beenengaged as Professional Adviser to the Conri-mission. invited a limited number of architects, of national reputation, to participatein a competition to be t-eld under the rulesof the American Institute of Architects. Inthis competition seven of the foremostarchitects of this country competed, eachsubmitting a desigii of such exccllence thatit could well have been adopted with confident assurance that it would have met theapproval of the entire Order. But, aftercareful consideration of all the designs anddrawings, the one submitted by EgertonSwartwout, of J^evy York City, was unanimously selected and a contract wasentered into with him. Mr. Swartwoutwas the architect of thii Missouri StateCapitol, the National Victory Memorialin Washington, the Mary Baker EddyMemorial in Boston, the U. S. Post Officeand Court House in Denver, the MunicipalAuditorium at Maron, Ga.. and-other similarstructures.
One of the features of Mr. Swartwout'sdesign which led to its adoption is the veryunusual, circular shape of the Great Memorial Hall which is the central element in theplan. The requirements for the building, asset forth in the program supplied to thecompeting architects, specifically called for amemorial hall, monumental in character,containing not less than 4.000 square feet.Also specifically required were a monumental reception room for the Grand ExaltedRuler, together with an office, a conferenceroom and ante-rooms; offices for the GrandSecretary and other Grand Lodge Officersand Committees; file rooms, supply rooms.
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store rooms, vaults and so on. The dominating feiiturc. however, was to be the MemorialHall; from the standpoint of design the otherfeatures were necessarily to be secondary.
In working out the problem, Mr. Swart-wout. who has long specialized in monumental work—as contrasted to work of apurely residential or commercial nature—had strongly in mind the need to keep awayfrom the square building with stepped orpyramidal roof which had become closelyidentified with the buildings of anotherfraternity. It seemed to him that the bestway to do this would be to adopt the oneform which obviously is as far removed fromthe square as any shape can possibly be—namely, the circle. And so he designed aperfectly round memorial hall, as his centralfeature, flanked on each side by low reclangu-la.r wings containing the oflices, connectedwith the central hall by glasscd-in corridors
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at the front, and, at the back, joined by thegrand reception room and the other roomsrequired for the Grand Exalted Ruler.Thus he evolved a design striking in itsoriginality, simple in its masses, perfectlysymmetrical and immediately indicative,to even the most casual observer, of thecharacter of the building.
There have been other circular buildings,not many, but some of them well-known,such as the Pantheon in Rome and somesmaller temples. So far as we can discover,however, there is no other building anywhere having a great circular room, surrounded with an unbroken colonnade, surmounted by a relatively flat, open dome and,in relation to its rear and its sides, standingin the positionof the middle bar of the letterE. There is no building in existence justlike it.
In an a icle appearing in the September,IQ22, issue of this Magazine, Mr. Swartwoutwrote: "There will be many who will askwhat is the style of the Memorial. I mightsay it was classic, and more Roman thanGreek; I would prefer to say it wasmodern,and that it was American. It is certainlymodern in its conception, and while it isc'assic, it is not archeological. It followsalong the lines of that adaptation of theclassic which got such a noble start in thiscountry just after the Revolution; the styleused in the Capitol and other buildings inWashington. It is our national heritage."
The design chosen, several months elapsedduring which the detailed plans, specifications and working drawings were beingprepared- When these were ready, the ElksNational Memorial Headquarters Commission invited bids from a number of well-
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known contracting firms, finally awardingthe general contract to Hegeman-Harris Co.,Inc., of New York City, who have since thenerected also the Tribune Tower in Chicagoand other large modern structures. An oldresidence on the property was torn down,ground was broken and construction begunm 1Q23. The cornerstone was laid June 7,1924, with impressive ceremonies, at whichPast Grand Exalted Ruler John K. Tener,Chairman of the Commission, presided,Grand Exalted Ruler James G. McFarlandconducting the ritualistic service assistedby the other Grand Lodge Officers. PastGrand Exalted Ruler Bruce A. Campbellwas the orator of the day. In July. 1925,at the Grand Lodge Convention in Portland,Oregon, the Commission reported that thestructural portion of the building properwould be completed on the scheduled datelast September and that the dedicationwould take place in July, 1926.
The Elks National Memorial Headquarters Building may be pointed to withpride as one of the most flawless combinations of perfect materials and workmanshipever erected anywhere. From the hugeblocks of stone to the smallest hidden details,everything is of the very best. There hasbeen no skimping in material and no scamping in labor. The contractors, sub-contractors and individual workmen weregiven to understand that high quality alone
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would count and that none other would beacceptcd. Rigid inspection has been maintained ill all times and, although the buildingoperations have proccoflorl at a good paccfrom the start, speed has Jiever been theparaniuunt requisite.
Because of the circular design, construction of the Memorial Hall was particularlydifficult and called for extreme care, sinceall masonry, all brick and stone work hadto be laid on a radius. Almost evei^' pieceof stone has a curved face. The size ofeach piecc was worked out. in advance, onthe drawings, and each piecc was numberedto correspond with its number on theplans. The manufacturing plant, at Carthage, Mo., where the stone was cut andfinished, made every piece to fit into themosaic of the whole, a job requiring thestrictest accuracy.
The Indiana Limestone used in theexterior of the building is a special, hard,bluish-gray variety, taken from the bottomof the quarry. As the pictures show, it isset in heavily "rusticated" courses—thatis. the joints are deeply indented—in thelower portion of the Memorial Hall. In all,some 50,000 cubic feet, approximately 400tons of limestone, were used in the exterior.Here are a few of the dimensions, which willgive you an idea of the size of the building.From the sidewalk to the point of the domethe height is 115 feet—equal to that of aten-story building. To the floor of the greatcolonnade is 38 feet. The columns them-
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selves, four feet thick at the base, are 32feet high. There are twenty-four of them.The outside measurement of the MemorialHall is 106 feet in diameter. From wing towing, the measurement is 233 feet. Thewidth from the outside of the terraces is275 feet 8 inches. The wings are 109feet, 0 inches deep. If you will studythe pictures accompanying this articleyou will secure a better idea of the building and its imposing beauty than I couldpossibly give you in a description full ofsuperlatives.
You will see the beautiful bronze entrancedoors, flanked by decorative lanterns andsurmounted on either side of the keystone,which bears the emblem of the Order, by thisinscription: " The Triumphs of PeaceEndure—The Triumphs of War Perish." You willsee, just above these great doors, and justunder the colonnade, a strip of stone onwhich is to be carved a marvelous symbolicfrieze, the creation of the famous sculptorAdolph A. Weinman, who also will modelbronze groups for the niches in the frontends of the wings. You will see the way inwhich the building is set on terraces andapproached by two flights of semicircularsteps; and how the ground has been land-.sc '.ped. with American and English elms,flowering trees, evergreens and other shrubs
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The inside of the great Hall of the ElksNational Memorial Headquarters Buildingis without question the finest example ofinterior marble work in the world. This isa sweeping statement, but it is true. Incolor, variety, quality and perfection ofworkmanship, these marbles are withoutequal in either this countr>' or any other.The walls of the Memorial Hail and thebeautiful vaulted corridors surrounding itare faced with varieties known as Creamand Cipolin, from the Eastman quarries inEast Rutland, Vermont. Securing thisstone was one of the most difficult phases ofthe construction work. It was said thatthere did not exist enough marble, in theparticularcolor desired, to meet the requirements. But by quarrying 150,000 cubic[cel. and removing twoentire "floors" of the
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quarry, it was possible to obtain the 22,000cubic feet needed.
Marble, you see, is moreor lessa freak ofnature. It was originally limestone, agesago, and the combination of heat andpressure changed its characteristics. Whilestill in a porous state, impurities, such asiron oxide and other chemicals, seeped intoit, causing discoloration. In its pure statemarble is white. It is seldom found, however, absolutely pure. Usually it is streakedwith theseveinsof color, which, having beencaused by the haphazard infiltration ofalien substances, tend to change in hue andintensity with every foot of stone quarriedYou can understand, therefore, how difficultit is to find a large quantity of marblesufficiently uniform in color and marking toTtiake it acceptable for a building in wSchthe areas are large and the color definitelyspecified. The stone in this lovely buildingrepresents the pick of the quarry; not onlyof one quarry, in fact, but of all the quarriesin this country and Europe. For, inaddition to that in the walls, there are othermarbles as, for instance, in 44 columns onthe main floor of the hall, 8 columns flanking four niches which are to contain gildedbronze figures by James Earle Eraserrepresenting Charity, Justice. Brotherly
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Accommodations for Traveling ElksLiving accommodations are obtainableinan]j of the Lodge Homes lifted below.
Aberdeen. Wash., Lodge N'o. 593Agana, Guam, Lodge No. 1281Albany, N. Y., Lodge No. 49Albuquerque, N. M., Lodge No. 461Amsterdam, N. Y., I^dge No. lOiAnaheim. Calif., Lodge No. 134SAustin. Texas, Lodge No. 201Bakersfield, Calif., Lodge No. 266Bellingham, Wash., Lodge No. 194Bloomsburg, Pa., Lodge No. 436Boston, Mass., Lodge No. 10Bremerton. Wash., Lodge No. I181Bridgeport, Conn., Lodge No. 36Bridgeton, N. J., Lodge No. 733Butte, Mont.. Lodge No. 240Canton, IIJ.. Lodge No. 626Centralia. Wash., Lodge No. 1083Chicago. 111., Lodge No. 4Coatesville, Pa., Lodge No. 1228Cohoes, N. Y., Lodge No. 1317Concord, N. H., Lodge No. 1210Decatur, Ind., Lodge No. 993Du Hois, Pa., Lodge No. 349East Liverpool, Ohio, Lodge No. 258Eau Claire, Wis., Lodge No. 402Erie. Pa., Lodge No. 67Flagstaff, Ariz., Lodge No. 499Florence. Colo., Lodge No. 611'Fort Smith, Ark., Lodge No. 341Freeport, N. Y., Lodge No. 1253Fresno, Calif., Lodge No. 439Gloucester. Mass., Lodge No. 892Grafton, W. Va., Lodge No. 308Grass Valley. Calif., Lodge No. 538Haverhill, Mass.. Lodge No. 165Haverstraw, N. Y., Lodge No. 877Hazleton, Pa.. Lodge No. 200Hempstead, N. Y.. Lodge No. 1485Honolulu, Hawaii, Lod^ No. 616Indianapolis, Ind., Lodge No. 13Johnson City, Tenn., Lodge No. 825Johnstown, Pa.. Lodge No. 173Joplin, Mo., Lodge No. 501Kenosha. Wis., Lodge No. 750Kingston. N. Y., Lodge No. 550La Grande, Ore., Lodge No. 433Lake City, Fla., Lodge No. 893Lakeland, Fla., Lodge No. 1291Lamar, Colo., Lodge No. 13x9Lancaster. Pa., Lodge No. 134Lebanon. Pa., Lodge No. 631Litchfield, 111.. Lodge No. 654Little Falls, Minn., Lodge No. 770Lorain, Ohio, Lodge No. 1301Louisville, Ky., Lodge No. 8Los Angeles. Calif., Lodge No, 99Manila, P. L, Lodge No. 76rMcriden, Conn., Lodge No. 35Middleboro. Mass., Lodge No. 1274MiJton, Pa., Lodge No. 913Milwaukee, Wis., Lodge No. 46Minneapolis, Minn., Lodge No. 44Missoula, Mont.. Lodge No. 383Monessen, Pa„ Lodge No. 773Muncie, Ind., Lodge No. 245Newark. N. T.. Lodge No. 21New Rochelle, N. Y., Lodce No. 71:6New York, N. Y.. Lodge No. iNorth Adams, Mass., Lodge No. 487Norw-ich, N. Y., Lodge No. 1222Oakland, Calif., Lodge No 171Olynipia, Wash., Lodge No. i8iOmaha, Neb., Lodge No. 39Passaic, N. J., Lodge No. 387Paterson, N. J., Lodge No. 60Fendleton, Ore., Lodge No. 288Pensacola Fl^, Lodge No. 497Phi adclphia, Pa., Lodge No. 2Phtllipsburg N.'j,. Lodge No.395Pittsburgh, Pa., Lodge No. uPlymouth. Mass., Lodge No. 1476Pocatello, Idaho, Lodge No. 674Pomona, Calif.. Lodge No. 780Port and, Me., Lodge No. 188Portland,Ore., Lodge No. 142Poughkeepsie, N. Y., Lodge No 275Providence. R. I.. Lodge No. 14Queens Borough. N.Y..Lodge No. 878Ouincy, 111., Lodge No. 100Ouincy, Mass., Lodge No. 94?
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Committee employs a visiting nurse who, lastyear,paidmorethan r,5oo personal callsto homesand hospitals; fourteen operations were arrangedand paid for, and many appliances provided.
A completely equipped Boys' Club is alsomamtamed. An athletic field, gymnasium, andshower baths, and a good library arc open to theboys ever>- day, under the direction of a superintendent and an assistant. Last year the clubentered si.K basketball and two baseball teamsm various city leagues.
John W. Quinn Honored by FriendsAt Cambridge^ Mass., Lodge
More than 300 friends of John W. Quinn gathered m the new banquet hall of Cambridge,Mass., Lodge,_No. 839, todohonor tohimon theoccasion of his appointment as superintendentof the Inman Square Post Office. Mr. Quinnhas been a member of Cambridge Lodge formore than twenty years, during which timeaccording to the address madeby ExaltedRulerCharles F. K.irby, he has been called upon for^rviM more often than any other member.Past Exalted Ruler George F. McKellegett actedas toastmaster, andamong theguests andspeakers w^e many well known State, municipal andPost Office Department officials.
Orphans Are Given Happy Outins byQueens Borough, N. Y., Lodge
Close to 2,GOD boys and girls from orphanhomes were recently given a most enjoyableoutmg by Queens Borough, N. Y., Lodge, No.878. The youngsters were taken in largebusses to De.Kter Park, Woodhaven, where allsorts of entertainment was provided. Therewere music, ice cream, cake, sandwiches, clowns,soda pop and lollypops, and each small childwas given a sweater and the older ones "lumberjacks." The outing was one of the largest andmost successful ever conducted by the Lodge.
Bronx, N. Y., Lodge Will GiveChildren's Outing
The activities of Bronx, N. Y., Lodge, No.871, in the field of welfare work are showinga marked increase. A feature this summer willbe the annual Crippled Children's outing. Thisyear the youngsters will be taken for a sail upthe Hudson on one of the large iron steamboats.Bronx Lodge has always taken great pridein thesuccess of these outings and plans to make thisyear's event unusually attractive.
lola, Kans., Lodge HoldsTrapshoot
lola, Kans., Lodge, No. 569, recently helda^ trapshoot on the range of the lola Gun Club,lorty Elk shooters were on the grounds, besides a large number of spectators. The attendance was remarkable considering this is thefirst time an Elks' shoDt has been conducted inlola, and that a large percentage of the shooterswere novices at the game. As a result of the
The Elks Magazinesuccess of the shoot, the Lodge will enter a teamin the Elks National Trapshooting Tournamentto be held July 13-14, during the Grand LodgeConvention in Chicago.
Royal Oak, Mich., Lodge Instituted byDistjict Deputy Baxter
District Deputy Grand Exalted Ruler AldrichBaxter recently instituted Royal Oak, Mich.,Lodge, No. 1523. The Exalted Ruler is CodieR. Clark and the Secretar>' is John J. Lynch.
Rochester, N. Y., Lodge Active inHelping Crippled Youngsters
Rochester, N. Y., Lodge, No. 24, continuesto carty on the good work it has been doing forthe crippled children of its community. Recently the Home of the Lodge was the scene ofa meeting of the Welfare and Crippled Children'sCommittees from Lodges in Auburn, SenecaFalls, Lyons, Geneva and Newark. A movingpicture, showing some of the work done byRochester Lodge was shown at the meeting.The occasion was also marked by the annualbanquet given by Julius Friedrich, Chairmanof the Committee, to thirty crippled children.
Prominent Member of Raleigh,N. C., Lodge Dies
Raleigh, N. C., Lodge, No. 735, lost one ofits most devoted members in the death of J. R.Chamberlain, a Trustee and an Elk of twentyyears standing. Mr. Chamberlain, born inNew York State and going to North Carolinabut a few years after the Civil War, achieveda position of trust and affection. He was widelyknown for his splendid work while in charge ofthe Agricultural Department of the State Collegeof Agriculture and Engineering and, later, asfounder, officer and director of half a dozen largebusiness enterprises in the South. A man ofpositive character and strong convictions, hemade his influence felt in his Lodge and in hiscommunity, and his death is a genuine loss.
Red Bank, N. J., Lodge PreparesFor Annual Fair
Red Bank, N. J., Lodge, No. 233, will holdits annual fair on the Home grounds on EastFront Street from July 0 to July 21. A largecommittee, under the chairmanship of HenrySussman, is now busy perfecting the plans.All of the profits from the event will be devotedto the various branches of the charitable workconducted by Red Bank Lodge.
Radio Station to be on Grounds ofColumbus, O., Lodge Country Club
Radio Broadcasting Station WAIU, to beoperated by the American Insurance Union, isto be built on the grounds of the Country Clubof Columbus, O., Lodge, No. 37. The stationwill occupy one and a half acres at the northeast
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upon the 'sides of the hills as they swept downthe valley, while in the distance to their leftthey caught glimpses of the snow-cappedmountains ofSwitzerland. It was going througha small village in Languedoc that Mr. Sted-nian shed his first—and only—drop of bloodin France. Skimming along, bathed in sunshine Md contentment, with the motor singing quietly and the road stretching out smoothand level far ahead, they came all at once to atiny village with a dozen houses clustered besidethe highway. Just beyond was a turn, and as
I they swept around the curve Mr. Stedman founda flock of sheep extending right across the road.A grinding of brakes, the mingled shouts of theshepherd in the rear, the barking of the sheepdog and the exclamation from the back seat ofthe car—all that soon acquainted the villagerswith what had happened. In ten secondsflat theentire population had turned out to witness thefestivities.
Damage was less than e.xpccted, however, foronlyonelambwas actuallykilled, the restmerelyfrightened. A hundred franc note solved thedifliculty, the road was cleared finally after agood deal of shouting on the part of the nativesand barking on the part of the sheep dog aidedby several of his colleagues in the village, andthe Stedmans moved along. This taught Mr.Stedman a lesson, however, andhe realized whyit was that French cars continually kept theirhorns going when nearing a village. Huge cartsharnessed to oxen, farm wagons, and peasantstakingproduce to marketin clumsy vehicles tooklots of time getting to the side of the road.This was one of the exasperating things abouttraffic in the French countryside; the slownesswith which everything got off the road. Butafter his experience Mr. Stedman blew his hornand kept it blowing whenever he came near acorner or through a village.
'J^HEY spent that night at Avignon, a city asfull of Roman ruins as Chicago is of rail
roadstations. Pushing along the next day, stillfollomng Number Seven, they caught their firstglimpse of the Mediterranean about noon, adeep blue reflecting the blue of the sky. Theroad twisted and turned around rocks and cliffs,they crossed a good-sized mountain range anddipped down beside the coast to follow itscontours as far as Monte Carlo, where they wereto spend the night. Route Nationale NumberSeven went on several miles farther to theItalian frontier at Mentone,where it passed outof existence.
That night they stayed at Monte Carlo, andthe nextday also^ey remained, bathing,visitingthe world-famous Casino, wandering along thewater front and listening to the band andincidentally, gi\'ing the car a chance to receive athorough overhauling. The service station oftheir car obligingly put two mechanics on thejob, and the entire day they worked on her.When the manager presented Mr. Stedman thenext morning with a bill for a hundred and eightyfrancs, or seven dollars, that gentlemanshuddereda moment at the memory of garage charges athome, and paid hastily for fear there was somemistake. Turning the car northward he observed that the work had been done competentlyand thoroughly. There are no better mechanicsin the world than French mechanics.
Now the trip down had been along watersheds and riverbeds; but the trip back wasthrough country of an entirely different sort.It penetrated the heart of the mountains ofSavoie, the region which adjoins Switzerland.In fact the road they took is called the "RouteDes Alpes," because it goes across the FrenchAlps, and from the moment they left MonteCarlo behind they began to mount, following thegorge cut by a hillside torrent running \vildlydown to the sea. Early in the afternoon theystarted to leave behind the low, clinging housesof Provence for gray stone dwellings built likeSwiss chalets and perched on the slopes of themountains. At five they reached the little townofDigne,a smallprovincialcity tuckedawayin apeaceful valley.
Visiting Digne was an experience because itwas a city typically French and thoroughlyprovincial. Shut away from the outer world,inaccessible almost, except by auto, it was the
sort of place few strangers who come to Franceever see. The chief town of the Department ofthe Basses Alpes, or Lower Alps, it boastsof a population of about thirty thousand people,and at six at night shuts itself off from communication with the outer world when the telephoneand telegraph force goes home to cook dinner forher husband who works on the narrow gaugerailway that takes you—after an interminableride—down to Nice and the sea. The Stedmansdiscovered this when at six thirty iMr. Stedmantried to send offa telegram, and only then was itthat he realized that telegramsare not consideredof suflicient importance in France to necessitatea delivery at night.
T^HILE Mr. Stedman was vainly endeavoringto get his wire off, Ruth and Jlrs. Stedman
were wanderingaround in admiration of the hoteland their surroundings. The Boyer Mistre wasa typical example of an old, a very old Frenchcountry inn, with a wide courtyard and cobbledpavement where stage-coaches used to drive inand discharge passengers in days gone by. Asevening came on, however, a chill descended fromthe mountains, and they were glad to get intothe low-ceilinged dining-room with the soupsteaming in big bowls upon the table. It wasfilled with commercial travelers and prosperousfarmers from the surrounding countryside whohad been selling their cattle at the local market,andthemeal theyate in thesesurroundings theydid not soon forget. But it was not,_ however,the meal they rememberedmost of all in France.
That meal was their lunch the next day. Theyhad pressed on further than their morning's runcalled for, and at one o'clock they decided tostop in a little mountain village which boasted asmall inn run by an elderly madame who welcomed them into her tiny dining-room. It wascapableof seating perhaps twenty, low-ceilinged,like so many of the French country interiors,and smelly. But it was a clean smell, thesmellof good cookingand of old wine, long sinceentered into the walls and the rafters above theirheads. For lunch they had first of all freshasparagus with a thick yellow sauce. Then adish of spiced country sausage, followed by aroast chicken cooked as they had never seena chicken cooked before completely smotheredin strips of bacon. The bread was fresh, so wasthe butter; and a bottle of Chatcauneuf du Papedusty and frowsty with long years in Madame'scellar did not hurt the meal in the least. _ Totop it offshe brought in a huge plate with sue orseven kinds of country cheescs upon it, andended up with bowls of cherries from megarden behind the house. Yes, this meal Im-geredlongin the memory of the Stedmans.
On a large slate in the hall as they came outwas a series of statements made in chalk. Madame came running out after them—
"What's she want. Hank?" said Mr.Stedmar^for Henry was the only one who understoodanything.
Henrylistened, watchedher while she pointedat the blackboard and went through variousgesticulations. Then all of a sudden he guessedwhat she wanted. "She's asking how the ro^dwe came over was," he said. "See, every roadhas the latest dope on whether or not it s passable. Bon, bon, bon," he shouted at Madame. •Shegrabbed her chalk and began hastily to writedownin large letters, "BON" under the words,"ROUTE NATION/VLE 35." They went outand settled themselves in the car agam withsome difficulty.
"Well, that's a meal for about forty centsapiece. Including drinks," said Mr. Stedman.
"Yes, and you wanted to tour the CanadianRockies, too—"
" That's what we'regetting right now. Or thenext best thing to them," answered Mr. Stedmanas the car started up a longwinding incline.Theywere going up through a neck in thechainorthe .'Ups of Savoie which separates the region ofthe Dauphine from the Mediterranean seacoast.Up and up, up and up, the scenery becomingvaster ancl grander as they rose, hugecapped peaks shining in the nearsunshine, Mcksof sheep tinkling on the hillsides around them,shepherds with long sticks watching the carrumble past with astonishment. Soon they
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wound theirwayinto St. Veran, a tiny village ofwooden chalets clustered on the steep slope of
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YOU ARE NOW ENTERING ST. VERAN7,000 FEET ABOVE THE SEA. THE
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Needless tosay there was no such sign. Hankbtedman learned this from an old gaffer in abroad-bnmmed hat and corduroy trousers whenhe stopped at the village pump to get waterfor therachator of the car. They leftSt. Veranbehind and went on higher and higher, vistas ofmountam ranges all around them, until at lastthey reached the summit of the pass and wereronnmg quietly down again. The snow besidethe road disappeared, vineyards and orchardsonce_ more nppled along the hiUs, and beforeevenmg they had come down the pass into
the 'Alps' tucked away in the heart of^ day's run, they
K several days laterthey were onthe boat bound for New York, the car slungdo\TO in the hold without ascratch or mark upon
r ^ stumerchairs on deck, the Stedman?uriS ^scussed ^etnp and what had been seendunng the twenty days since they clamberedfm^oi ^ Southampton. South-ampton seemed a thousand years away to them
"Well," said Hank Stedman, "I'll tell vou afew things we didn't see. We didn't sefanvroadside advertisem*nts proclaiming the merit3rid and two Wwf'dK other advertising signs.L t? rm« f processions of ca?5 wait-throutrhS^I drawbridges, passand ^ bpsiness streets or lining up for gasand oil at service stations. We didn't see any
rattletrap cars carrying the family and thefamily furniture and' the family wash hung outto dry. We didn't seeany truckscarmngioadsthat prevented you from seeing ahead of them,wedidn't see any huge touring busses that tookup 85 per cent, of the road and refused to give7 per cent, up to let us pass. We didn't see anyfourteen-year-old bovs driving eight-cylindercars,_ and we didn't'see an\- college studentswalking from Los Angeles to Boston stopping usfor lifts. We didn't see anv one ask us to buyauto tags for the local hospital, or the policeField Day, and we never saw any real-estatesalesmen the whole trip. \\'e never had to lookat camping sites just outside the city limits on
. the morning after, and we never once saw—''"Oh, shut up, Henrv! Weknow what wedidn't
see. What we want to kno\v is what we did see."
'"T^H.A.T'S just as easy. "We saw twelve of themost beautiful counties in England, includ
ing Devon and Somerset. We saw^three cathedral towns, wesawOxfordandLondon. We sawthe north of France with a glimpse at the battlefields, and the entire vallev of the Rhone. Wesaw the best of old Provence and the Riviera,and Monte Carlo and the .\]ps and N'ormandyand the Channel ports and a lot of other things.Now what I want to know, dad, is just howmuch it cost. Not that fi\-e thousand you weretalking to meabout in your oflice that morning."
Mr. Stedman did some figuring on the back ofan envelope. "Xo, not quite," he said.
"Not quite what?" said Hank, "not quitehalfl"
"Exactly, Henr>', not quite half. Since youare so curious, the whole trip including the faresfor the four of us, and the freight for the car,,comes to something under nineteen hundred.That's not bad, not—
"Not bad," said Henrv. "Xot bad. Notquite it isn't—"
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McHunThS°'no b!?s' """game. "o '
don't mind, returnedTim. gratefully returned
lips"^ ''Younf ^he puckeredoutfit" another chance against that
fieS^ across the<-ommg toward them at an angle andMSu!re^"°''H^l"' Sorenson and
• • Hello, Rabbitchorused, mahciousiy.Lay oS this 'rabbit ears' stuff," warned Tim.
Sobers," they curtsied.diatPtvf)!ii ^prepared for what imme-frSi« S Somers catapultedhk?r.r!^ »• ^ fist and drove one of
Those two Waspsrfm / II^ ®amateur scrappers. BeforeSrVf u/ received awallop-mg right-hander directly under the ear. It sentmm tohis knees buthe was on his feet again and™ng funously before they could close^r By^IS time, Sorenson who had been knocked tothe ground in the first impact from Tim's fist,
again and was joining McGuire in rain-
W around them,Vu ® '"g ^^h^re wallops
iw j?-° damage, but the figuresbefore hun were shifting too rapidly
betScTtSip,"'''another rush of bodies—another
side-stepping, metfc 'f • • • fist for fist and &ck for
^ ^air fight. Such a fighty is FirstTim was on theground and thetwo sluggers were on top of him. Then he wasup and one of them was down. These intermis-
ons for such they were to him—ga\'e himopportunity. Relentlessly he would bore in,nai^enng and swinging his fists. Punishment
e took. His clotlies were torn. His face wasweeding, One knuckle, the first knuckle on his
left hand, wasshovedaside—sprained,or broken,he didn't care which, and lie felt it crack \yithevery punch given, but his left fist kept pounding.
With a gasping cry Sorenson was drivenhis feet to the ground and this time he stayedthere. McGuire, dodging in to miss a crusMngright-hander, crashed squarely against Tim sswinging left fist and he, too, went down . . .the lust ofa rough-and-tumblebattle fading from,his eyes and placidness taking its place.
"You—you—you . . . what do you meanby tackling the two of them?" swore Burkett, ashe gathered Tim into his arms. "Didn't youknow that those birds are two of the toughesteggs in baseball? What's the big idea? "
"I don't care who they are," returned"I'm sick of this ' rabbit ears' gag. I had to licka few tough ones down in Te.xas before they dquit it. If I've got to . . . I'H lick 'em uphere. That's all. They can pull that stuff onthe ball field—pull it as often as they find ithealthy to pull it . , . but, they've got to layoff it when the game's over. I mean that.'
Tim was brushing off his clothes and play<^3from the two teams were approaching, on therun. McGuire and Sorenson were getting totheir feet as Larry McHune appeared.
"What's the matter here?" rasped McHune,glancing swiftly around.
"Well, it amounts to this," explained Burkett."These twohard eggs—Sorenson and McGuire •picked a scrap with Tim. That's all."
"What did you do?""Nothing. Didn't get a chance," regretfully
answered Burkett."You mean to say that Somers took the two
of them to a trimming—single handed,ejacul*ted McHune.
"Not a trimming, Larry," softly returnedJoe. "A beaut of a licking."
"I'm sorry," apologized Tim, stretching outhis hand to McGuire. 1
The two victims grinned as best they couldthrough puffed and swelling features, and accepted Tim's fingers. The pitcher returned to
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the clubhouse for such repairs ascould be made,and Joe Burkett-went with him.
"Listen, Tim," he warned. "Don't pay anyattention to that' forgive me' stuff that Sorensonand JIcGuire were so quick to accept. I knowthose babies. They'll get you. But I'm gladyou mussed them up, though." Goshl What ahellcat you've turned out to be!"
JT WAS the last game ofthe series between theteams. The Gre>-s needed victory- toeven up
their series and maintain their strategical position ofa step, or two, to the rear of the pacemakers. It was on that morning that JoeBurkett had sought out Larry McHune, in hisroom.
''Tim is pitching this afternoon," Burkettquietly announced. ...
"Know any more good jokes?" returnedMcHune.
"Xo joke. Timwants to work. He's ready.""I'm sending back Dawson.""To another trimming?"Larr>''s eyes went cold. "I don't like that
spirit on my ball team," he snapped. " Dawson'sa smart enough pitcher to trim them. Furthermore, that other afternoon was his offday .he'll be good for this game."
"Somers will be better," doggedly insistedJoe. "Besides, you promised,when I went afterhim, that you'd let me pick his game. Youdidn't. Youshoved himinto an impossible spot—where he couldn't win even if he shut out theWasps the rest of the way. ilaybe you'll bebullheaded and start Dawson, but Somers willfinish up. And, I don't want him in any moreJams not of his own making. 'Tain't fair.Besides, this is his spot. The licking he gaveSorenson and McGuire the otlier day has takensome of the conceit out of those lads. Youhaven't heard them yip since."
"That doesn't mean they won't, if Somerspitches this afternoon."
"Let them—it's got to come, sometime. Letit come to-day. I gotta hunch that Tim hassomething up his sleeve besides his arm. I wantto see what it is."
McHune wavered."Tell you what I'll do," he said, after a pause.
"I'll flip you. Heads it's Dawson; tails it'sSomers."
Protesting, Joe yielded.McHune drew a quarter from his pocket,
balanced it in his fingers and repeated—"Heads it's Dawson; tails it's Somers!""Let her go," growled Burkett.The coin spun in the air, turning over and
over and dropping to the floor where it rolledbeyond the two men who were scrambling to seeit and deposited itself against tlie wall, in thecorner of the room.
Burkett leaned over, breathed deeply, andexulted—
"Tails she is. Somers pitches."Thus it was, on the flip of a coin, that Tim
was given his chance for redemption that afternoon.
'T^HE newspaper stories of that game wererather uninteresting. The baseball reporters
found it dLfTicidt to throw up highlights aroundwhich to build their stories. "Too machinelike,""Too much Somers," they wrote the followingday. A shut-out; the Greys getting six runs offMitchell, who tried to repeat his victory of theopening game, while the Wasps were strugglingto fathom the curves—the fast ones—and theslow change of pace of the "hurler from Texaswho, finally, had come into his own."
The drama was missed entirely.As a baseball game it may have been tedious to
watch. As an e.vhibition of the quality of Tim'snerve, it was not. Going into the box to openthe first inning he had been met by a verbalfire of "rabl)it ears" from the Wasps' bench.He recognized, in the clamor of human tongues,the voices of Sorenson and McGuire, and he hadgrinned, mirthlessly, to himself.
Sorenson, batting fourth, and McGuire,batting fifth, did not come to the plate unlilthe second inning. Then it was that Timmotioned to his catcher, calling him to the centcrof the diamond. He whispered, looked atSorenson—whLspered again.
' The batter, twisting his spikes in the dirt,snarled:
"Get in there and pitch, you hash-slinger."_The catcher, back in position, crouched and
signalled. Tim's right arm drew back—flashedforward. The ball, a streak of light and thrownwith terrific force, sped for the inside corner ofthe plate, leaped aside as it nearcd tlie rubberand narrowly missed one or two hairs that stoodout rather fetchingly on the end of Sorenson'snose.
The batter, after the ball had crashcd into thecatcher's nutt, dropped sprawling to the ground.
"Get on your feet, you big tramp," yelpedthe catcher, as Sorenson volleyed oaths at thepitcher.
Sorenson assumed his hitting position again.This time the ball was aimed right at his head.Terrific, blinding, speed and he dropped in thedust as he sensed the line of flight as it left
"Tim's fingers."He's tr>-ing to bean ..." he started to
yell, as he fell, but the umpire's right hand wentup and the protest was cut off before it couldbe finished. "Strike one!" roared the judge ofplay.
Sorenson got to his feet, screaming protestations; the umpire, chuckling and in a sarcasticvoice, said;
"A marvelous curve, Mr. Sorenson. Brokea foot in front of the plate. Kight over. As astrike was very successful."
Sorenson gritted his teeth, crowded the plateand swung his bat, menacingly.
Another pitch. Another fast one, chin liighand Sorenson, determined not to be outwitted,stood his ground. The ball crashed against thehandle of his bat as he held it in front of his face.
"Foul , . . Strike two!" sang the umpire.The next pitch was high and inside . . .
very fast. It came so close to the letter onSorenson's shirt that he tried to protest that hehad been hit but the umpire shook his head andwaved him back into the batter's box.
"This one will be a bit wide," figured Sorenson, tr>'ing to collect his thoughts, and with thecount of two and two.
It wasn't. The ball shot across the plate andinto the big mitt before Sorenson could lift hisbat. Venomously, he threw the stick to theground and walked away.
McGuire was next. He, from his waitingposition, had watched . . . but had not learned.The baiting tactics of Sorenson were repeated—intensified. Tim's fast one came cutting through,narrowly missing the batter on three occasionsand being called, each time, a ball. With thecount of three and nothing, McGuire was defiant—outspoken—brutal. His confidence was premature. The next three pitches went past himlike bullets; the first one he did not offer at - •the next two he swung at viciously and missedcompletely.
That was the way of this ball game.Through the succeeding innings the Wasps
tried by every known means—and bj' somemethods that were invented on tlie spur of themoment and the stress of the occasion—toshatter the poise of the man in the box. Always,they failed. It was in the last half of the eighththat Sorenson, purposely, released his grip onhis bat, while swinging futily at a curve ballthat fairly sizzled as it broke. The heavy clubflew directly at Tim, and he jumped aside justin time to miss its crushing impact.
White with anger but completely in control mhimself, he ran back, picked up the bat andstrode slowly toward the plate.
"I'm warning you," he snapped, as he tossedthe weapon to Sorenson. "Warning you—forthe last time."
Sorenson spat a stream of tobacco juice atTim's feet.
Sorenson thought he had looked at some fastpitching that afternoon. And he had. But tliisone was even faster. So fast that he did not seethe ball. He heard it as it whipped by him . . .that was all. The little catcher, receiving it, washurled back from his haunches and into asprawling heap, but he clung to the ball. Theumpire, in a choking, bewildered voice—chokingand bewildered because it was a faster pitchthan he had seen in many a day shouted:
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^HSuphisfingersto-indicate"strikeone- tlieball one," but Sorenson wasn't looking. In- The nurl from his face.stead of crowding the plate, he had stepped back to manager grun ed mdisgust, turnedFear crept into his eyes and he slouched a„ ordetd ' ' understudy, andimpotent figure, _watching two more pitched "Get'mtf "bails cut across in front of him, finishing the Mrrn- ^ 4. u ^ +Vipcount and retiring the side u from second base, watched the
In a daze he%raU:Sl awav to i,: V^^^mg up of his partner. He swallowed hard,position in the field. slapped the glove on his left hand, and croaked
"Sorenson . come here'" he hpirH hie shortstop; _manager's voice. ' Comeon,oldboy,let'sgetthisgameoverwatli.
Headdropped, he went toward the bench t;»v. c 1 , . t »l uSorenson!" ^ Somers,hunched up on the Greys bench,
"Yes,sir." hear the words of praise that McHune"Hold outyour hands." • 1. i.- 1. ^Dumbly, he did so. k' ew he was again on the high road
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The Modern Pipes of Pan{Continuedfrom page j/)
Lrit'v^V'the^^mo(?pm manuals, on the older organs, or a row of tabletsinty of the modem pipes of or stop keys above the keyboard manuals, onmuniHnal the newer instruments. The organist pulls and
o?SSfca! stop knobs with his rapidly moving3of orcans in frfi-orn->l K^xf' Or he presses the tablets or stop keysexLEt OJanfn ari? fingers. In either case he iscarters; anofher larae Me fn the stops." What he actually does
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labor union headquarters: another arlre one in actually does,a Buffalo catalogue house; another in a DnJfnn ^ stop, is to admit compressedOhio, factory. From Florida tn the reservoir or wind chest—which isfrom Oregon to :Maine pipe organs are plavedln by motor power—into a chromaticprivatehomes. P y ^ senes of pipes, called a rank. Each rank is so
As the linpnl • . , . voiced as to pive a nnrtirnlar aualitv of sound
- auuse another m a Dayton.Oh^, factory From Florida to California andr private' of descendants of the original pipes
Soufn especially fitting that pipe organsone There is
t A special trainSt IrvT huge organ from a factory in theWi ^®°sevelt Memorial Park, near LosnJa^Iv A 1°''® concerts are given an-Sn nP open-air organ at Balboa Park,IXSToro^e 'orra?.
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b one in f? Chicago. ThereOklahoma cfty ' ' ' ' ^orMriQ 'ilf there are about 16,000 genuine pipechurches, about 6,000 inrftn^c V ^ homes, schools, lodge
commercial houses. Two thousandAll P installed each year,
anv P^P® reproduce almostI VlffT by a symphony orchestra orLm ^ of the organs inhomes and theatres are called orchestral organsdm™ V ''y brasses,\ndother instruments of percussion—sotheJtrP^ o"" vaudevilleSean tonp ^he pureDefforateH ;r.ll playable mthpianos P' y°^
species is theSt nf m ®P'P® There is alongHrL • names which means much towomen organists play most offr,,,,. organs in Texas. There were nearlyour times as many women as men in the lastgraduating class of a New York organ school
twice as many women as men in a similarChicago class. Two-thirds of those attendingn.t , annualmeeting of the AmericanUrgan Players Cluband nearly half of those atcne fourth general convention of the Americanuuucl ot Organists were women. The Women•% . layers Club of Boston is a young butnourishing organization. The romantic background as well as the musical possibilities of themodern pipes of Pan appeal to women as muchas to men.
Swells and Stops and Other ThingsA^henever an organist speaks of his or any
otlier organ he refers to it as having a certainnumber of stops. Terminology is a terrifying
^ pipe organ. Organists have a languageai their own. And when an organist mentionsa stop he is dealing in the delicate doublemeaning.
The audience at a pipe-organ concert can seea rowof stop knobson eachside of the keyboard
voiced as to give a particular quality of soundand is called a "stop." So there are stops and"stops on a pipe organ.
AN ORGAN pipe, whether it bethirty-two ferflong and three or more feet in diameter oir
three-eighths of an inch long and no wider than aleadpencil,generatesonly one quality of tone atone pitch and at one degree of loudness. Thelargest and lowest pitched pipe in the AtlanticCity Municipal Organ weighs about 600 poundsand vibrates sixteen times per second; thesmallest and most acute pipe weighs about twoounces and vibrates 4,032 times per sccond.This organ is divided into smaller organs, each,played by its own set of keys, called a manual.The individual organs are designated as Great,Swell, Choir Solo, Bombard or Echo' andPedal. Each manual has sixty-one keys or a"compass" of five octaves. The Pedal isplayed by the feet from large wooden keysplaced on the floor under the organist's bench.The individual organs can be united by meansof couplers, so that all the divisions may beplayed at once. Since there are sixty-one keyson a manual, there must be sixty-one correspondingpipes in each stop in the organ. Thusif there are ten stops on the Great Organ, theremust be 610 pipes and if all ten stops are drawnthere will be ten pipes of various qualities ofsound playing from each key.
Certain classes of organ pipes generate whatis known as the "organ tone" or "cathedraltone"—a tone peculiar to the pipe organ. Thechief of these organ-toned pipes is the "diapason," the foundation of all pipe organs. Inaddition to these there are also a great varietyof flute tones made by pipes that are eithermagnified or miniature flutes; a chorus of reedsthat produce tones by the vibration of brasstongues against the pipe bottoms; and varioussets of pipes that imitate the woodwind instm-ments such as piccolo, oboe, clarinet, Englishhorn and bassoon, and others that imitate thetrombone, tuba, trumpet and other brass instruments. There is also a large family of pipesdesigned to imitate stringed instruments suchas the violin, viola, cello and bass viol. Steelbars reproduce the harp tone and there arefrequently concealed in the back of the organthe marimba, xylophone, and divers other percussion instruments connected with the keyboard.
The bellows are tlie lungs of the organ. _Ifthe lungs are not fed with air the organ remainssilent and the organist feels very much out ofplace.
One does not have to be very old to rememberwhen all pipe organs were pumped by hand.The First Presbyterian Church of Rochelle,
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Illinois, had such an organ long before theSpanish-American War. Partly because I, asthe village band leader, pumped air into a cometfrom my bellows-lungs, and partly becauseCousin Ida was official church organist, the jobof organ pumping was wished on me.
When the mixed choir was about to burst into"Work, for the Night is Coming," "Onward,Christian Soldiers," or "There is Rest Beyondthe River," a nod or a nudge from Cousin Idaaroused me to five minutes' hectic pumping.With the supply of air thus accumulated theorgan opened up and the choir followed suit.The game was to try to catch up with thepumper. I'm proud to say they seldom caughtme, though now and then, when weary withwell doing, I would effect a diminuendo on theorganwhena crescendo wasdue, and vice versa.
"The Committee Thinks—"Many a church, theatre, municipality and
fraternal orgaiiization is wrestling with theproblem of bu^ng a new pipe organ. Like theinstrument, this problem is not so easy as itsounds. Many members of committees ap-pomted to selecta neworgan are from the laity.
Few of them know that many of the brightgiltpipes adorning the organs in ourgatheringplaces are dumb Doras and do not yield a note.Fewer, still, of these laymen know that theaverage big organ is really an assemblage ofseveral organs, known as the Great organ, theSwell organ and so on. In modern organs allthe working pipes are contained in "Swell-boxes or chambers which control the volumeofsound. These Swell-boxes are equipped with\ enetian shutters that open and close to modifythe tone. The Choir organ, of soft-speakingpipes for accompan>-ing the human voice, isgenerally found below the Swell organ pipes.
back or at the sides one usually findsthe_ Pedal organ; while an Echo organ and a
i"? be located at the oppositeendof the auditorium or in some remote portionof the building, so that their music will seem tocome from a distance. Recent developments inelectrical connecticftis and operations permit theorganist to operate when the console is 200 ormore feet from the pipes.
There is a classic joke in pipe organ circlesabout Deacon Smith, church treasurer andmember of the new pipe organ committee, whoarose to remark, "Mr. Chairman, I don't seewhy we should have a great, a swell and achoir organ. I think one organ quite enoughfor our church."
It happened that Deacon Smith was a tailoron weekdays, so the musical man of the committee replied, "Surely, Deacon Smith, youwould not say that a man was well" dressed whowore only a coat. You would try to sell him acoat' vest and trousers." Whereupon, DeaconSmithvotedfor a three-manual organ.
.Competition is keen among the sixty or morepipe organ manufacturers in this country, and^e pipe organ salesman is abroad in the land.Hence, committees and pipe organ producershave their hours of uncertainty. But the approved method of selection seems to be thatfounded on deep study,muchtravel to factories,many attentive hours before different kinds oforgans, much correspondence and interviewing
and a final decision based on elimination.After that comes the vexed question of where
to put the new organ. Sometimes an organarchitect is called in to advise the organ builderwhere and how to place the instrument. Sometimes the committee depends upon the organbuilder's knowledge of acoustics and the practical side of the question. Whatever happens,any convention of organists can get a good kickout of hearing an organ buildeir tell what hethinks of an organ architect. For the mostpart the organ business is a serious business,although it has its lighter side.
Some of the Lighter SidesVery old alumni of Beloit College will recall
one morning in chapel when a fish-horn sounded"its discordant note as soon and as long as theorgan was in action. The wideawake boy whohand-pumped the organon that day was namedSleeper. In later life he became Prof. HenryDyke Sleeper, head of the music department of
Beloit College, and served his Alma Plater well.But he treasured one secret many years. Thesecret was that during the particular chapelexercises to which I refer he, the boy who filledthe organ bellows behind the organ pipes, hadstuck a fish-horn into said bellows and left itthere during the chapel hour.
There may be alumni of Harvard who remember that a group of undergrads, filled wth thejoy of life, spent the greater part of one Saturdaynight, so re-arranging' the pipes of the chapelorgan that when the organist began his Sundaymorning program and tried for a plaintive oboetone he got a flute instead—and so on adnauseam. And in the annals of Amhcrst occurssome slight reference to the Swell-box and thecats. The particular Swell-box then in use onthe college pipe organ had horizontal shutters.One night two inspired students captured tworeluctant cats, tied them tail to tail and leftthem roosting on the flat surface of an openshutter. The organist began chapel the follo^^^ing morn with a heavy fortissimo passage, andthe Swell-bos open. A very soft passage followed. The organist closed the shutters in tlieSwell-box. The unwilling cats slid into view ofthe assemblage and hung heads do'wn, suspended by a string. Their tails were tied butnot their tongues. Chapel exercises tho t morning were not a success.
Happily, college students no lonper playpranks. They have all gone in for higher education I am told. But if they do have foolish moments let them turn from the direct descendantof the pipe of Pan to some of the Pan-pipe sprogeny several times removed. Let tliem turn,for example, to the calliope.
Calliope's Callin' YonAccording to Noah Webster, "calliope"—
with the accent on the second syllable—was theMuse of eloquence and poetry. According tothe troupers- on the circus lots, and the smallboys who follow the grand, glittering, free streetparade, the calliope—pronounced " kally-opeis the prize ballyhooer around the big tops.
The player of a steam calliope gets a freeTurkish bath every time he goes on parade.Fletcher Smith has probably had more of thesebaths than any other living artist. I sat withFletcher and his circus pipes of Pan one day atElgin, Illinois, seeking local color. Fletcherwould wait until the steam gauge on the rustyupright boiler registered 120 pounds. Then hewould openup with "Silver Threads Among theGold" or some such sprightly ditty—at the conclusion of which the steam gauge would registerforty pounds and Fletcher and I would bedripping with heat and moisture and suffocatingin clouds of steam. After we had dried off andthe boiler had steamed up my host would renderanother selection. I went home with incipientpneumonia. Yet Fletcher, in spite of fortyyears of this rapid alternation of heat and cold,has never had a cold in the head. Perhaps Panis protecting him.
So long as circus parades persist, we will havethe steam calliope with us. But the air calliopeis superceding the steam-energized disseminatorof harmony in many places. Like its moredignified prototype, the pipe organ, the aircalliope is''_made eloquent by columns of slightlycompressed air driven through graduated pipes.This air is compressed, as with most pipe organs,by a blower driven by an electric or some othermotor.
You will find an air calliope attached tonearly every circus, amusem*nt park, medicineshow and carnival outfit. It is particularly valuable to outdoor showmen because, •-mounted onan automobile chassis and concealed in a gaudyred and gold box, it traverses the streets andeven invades distant highways, carrj'ing themessage of good cheer to the hinterland. Theold horse-drawn steam calliope can ballyhoofor blocks. The new-fangled air calliope canballyhoo throughout the county, and does. To
, make it easier for the operator, it is 'equipped.with a mechanical player, like a player piano.
A more blatant version of tlie' twentieth-century pipes of Pan is the band-oj-gan. This isa pipe organ rampant. With brass tonguesvibrating in hofn-like pipes of brass, a set of
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The Modern Pipes of Pan{Continued from page 68)
player rolls and a powerful electric motor, theband-organ is built to replace a brass band offifteen pieces—and more than fills the bill. Itcan be heard a mile If the wind is right.
In churches, universities, theatres, schools,Lodges, open-air auditoriums and municipalauditoriums about 15,000,000 Americans listento the modern pipes of Pan each week. Buttlie radio is rapidly increasing this audience.From an Iowa hill o\'erlooking the Mississippithe call of the calliope reaches thousands ofreceiving sets in distant states. From AtlanticCity and a dozen other cities the potent pipeorgan rumbles, rolls and thunders for the entertainment of the listeners-in. A rancher in theblizzard-swept Canadian Northwest encoresShubert's " Serenade." A devout old lady on anisolated Kansas farm closes her eyes to the tune
of "Old Hundred." A crippled kid in a NewYork hospital claps his whitened hands at abit of jazz. A blind girl in Nova Scotia smilesat the strains of Wagner's "Evening Star."Some English fan sits up until four o'clock inthe morning to get the melody of an Americansong. The manager of a Cuban sugar plantationapplauds Handel's "Largo." An ofliccr on oneof Uncle Sam's battleships maneuvering, offHawaii, visions a symphony concert in CarnegieHall as he catches a Bach fugue, played on apipe organ.
So Pan is not dead. He wanders over hill anddale. He flits across river, lake and sea. Greekgod he may have been. He ma>' have goneout of fashion with mythologj'. But he livesagain in the organ and other modern pipes ofPan.
Down to the Sea in Books{Continued from page 2g)
in a humble way, was to be mine, too; men great intheir endeavor and in hard-won successes of militantKcography; men who went forth each according to hislights and with varied motives, laudable and sinfulbut each bearing in his breast a spark of the sacredfire."
In the sketch "Christmas Day at Sea" wthave the heart-stirring picture of Conrad'sship passing in the Southern Ocean a Yankeewhaler, two years out from New York, and twohundred and fifteen days on the cruising ground.On Conrad's ship a keg was got ready, containingthe latest available newspapers and two boxesof figs—these, in honor of the day. It was flungfar over the rail and the British ship, slidingdown the slope of a great swell, left it far behind.The Southern Sea, says Conrad, went on tossingthe two ships like a juggler his gilt balls, but alittle white boat shot out from the whaler in amoment and the Yankees picked up their Christmas present from the deep. A wonderful andlonely glimpse of those ships that pass eachother on the endless wastes, isn't it!
Endearing chapters are there, of life on sailingvessels, not alone of the seaman, but of travelerswhen wise folk went about under sail, and when acow was hoisted aboard for the children and oldmaiden ladies developed, during a passage, "anice discrimination in steering."
Then those essays of fine literary import:Stephen Crane, John Galsxvorthy, A Glance atTwo Books, and so on.
Not a word should be missed, for here, in alltruth, is the finest kind of reading.
You know how, when listening to some greatman spinning yarns, you dread to speak—toeven clear your throat—for fear of deflectinghim, stopping his gorgeous talk! Well, readingthis book of Conrad's is like that. You don'tdare sneeze. You turn the pages softly, softly,so as not to make even the slightest rattle—or thething might vanish from your hands, the magicvoice cease.
Salt Water Poons a}id Ballads, by John Masefield.(The Macmillan Co., New York.)Masefield sings his sea songs with a deep,
gusty roar. Biting wind is in the rhythms, andsailor life in the themes. Tenderness fantasy,heroism, all are in the poems, each of which is asea story in itself.
In speaking of Masefield's mastery of his artno words are superlative—he just knows how towrite this sort of poetry, that's all, a little betterthan anyone else.
In this volume are many of our old favorites.There's A Wa?iderer's Song, which goes:
A wind's in the heart of me, a fire's in my heels,I'm tired of brick and stone and rumbling wagon-
wheels;I hunger for the sea's edge, the limits of the land,Where the wild old Atlantic is shouting on the sand.
.\nd the one about Bill, the seaman, who wasburied at sea but whose spirit came back to talkto his mates:
"I'm a-weary of them mermaids,"Says old Bill's gho-st to mc;"It ain't no place for a ChristianBelow there—under sea.
For it's all blown sand and shipwrecks,And old bones eaten bare,And them cold fishy femalesWith long green weeds for hair."
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Now Mr. Connolly breaks forth into his firstfull-length novel which has plot, atmosphere,stout sea jargon, honest characterization and,surprisingly delicate and astute observations.What more does a good story need?
The author gives us the record of an oil-,tanker's trip from New York to Tampico. We.'see, first, the politics and corruption in the homeoffice of the Maritime Transportation Company;then comes some highly interesting "dirty,work" on the bridge; we enter the inner shrines-of two girls' hearts and make a pleasing acquain- ••tance with an adventurous hero.
That exhausted phrase, Not a Dull Moment,must, in sheer honesty, be set upon its tired little •feet for a minute and urged to do its bit for Mr.Connolly. This tale of intrigue and hazard isdashing stuff, and love and wind-swept days are,,always nice to read about. Mr. C. writesauthoritatively of the sea, and his views onhumanity are vivid and compassionate.
Above all this, however, he has a vision, abright hope, that his stoty may in time bringabout better conditions on such "hell ships"as the Rapldan, as doubtless it will if the rightpeople read "Steel Decks."
Red Hair and Blue Sea, by Stanley R. Osborn.(Chas. Scribner's Sons, New York.)A wild tale, if ever there was one! But we.
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Down to the Sea in Books{Continuedfrom page 70)
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In the first of these compilations we comeacross chaptersT-cIear cut as entire tales—from"Westward Ho!" by Kingsley; "The RedRover" by James Fenimore Cooper; "An Iceland Fisherman" by Pierre Loti; "In BlueWaters" by H. de Vere Stackpoole; "SpunYams" by Morgan Robertson; "South SeaTales" by Jack London, and many, manyothers.
Here, indeed, is the cream of deep sea literature. No one who has not at least a bowngacquamtance with these is quite in a positionto pass judgment on the sea stories now "beingwritten. The}-- are the grandfathers of the youngand robust romances that appear in all themagazines and are to be found on all book stallsto-day.
The second book holds just as honorable andmagnificent a list of authors and titles. Thesebooks cannot be recommended too highly.They are equivalent to a whole little librar\' inthemselves.
Nowfor Some Pirate StuffPorto Bella Cold, by A. D. Howden Smith
(Brentano's, New York.)Small boys, of aU ages up to eighty, read
pirate stones; grownmen \vrite them; and moviestars act them-|-thus proving that civilizedman keeps in his heart an unregenerate spotwherein, if you could put your ear against it,you could hear the pleasant sound of swashbuckling, the" whip of cutlasses through the air,the drip, drip of gore upon piratical decks, andgood, round, healthy swearing. In other words,your ear would be up against the pirate comple.Kwhich appears to be part of the make-up of ailthe kincfly, polite peopleyou know.
Banking on this universal instinct, Mr.Howden Smith has provided as good a piratetale as anyone could demand.
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Well, throw yourself, some hot summer day,head first into Mr. Howden Smith's romance,and pretend you're Master Robert.
Those who are ever faithful to their RobertLouis Stevenson will find an added joj' in thisvolume, for here again they will meet LongJohn Silver, Ben Gunn and others of the "Treasure Island" company. Here they are as theymust have roamed abroad before Stevensoncaptured them with liis pen, and as HowdenSmith imagines them going about the importantbusiness of bur\-ing the famous treasure on the
Dead Man's Chest—in whichaffair Captain RipRap and his nephewhave a part. A good taleof rogues and gentlemen, love and loot and asparkling sea.
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With these little whale-catchers goes themothership, like a big hen with her chicks. Themotherehip is a floating factory and the base ofoperations, but even under such a business-likesystem whaling remains a great sea adventure.
Mr. Chatterton's book, the histor>' of theindustry', develops into an absorbing narrative.It could not help but do that, for here is thequest which for hundreds of years has called forall of the science, daring and fortitude of whichmen have been capable.
Whah'ng it; lJu; Frozen South, by A. J. Villiers.(Bobbs-ilerrill Co., Indianapolis.)With Mr. Chatterton's volume taken as an
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Here, with no reservations, is a stor>' worthreading by anyone in whom the blood warms tothe vision of daring deeds, and daring menfighting against unimaginable odds.
Through Mr. Villiers' most observant eyeswe see the birth of icebergs; the uncanny politeness of Emperor penguins, bowing, and addressing the ship's company in long guttural speeches;we hear the stor>' of the exiled princess on Campbell Island and weep for the young boy helpersof the whalers when they are tossed into the icywaters. And always, we are on the lookout forwhales and more whales.
We particularly thank the author for his maps.About every other page we found ourself turningto these, so fascinated did we become in following the course of the dauntless little fleet.
Argonauts of the South, by Capt. Frank Hurley.(G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York.)Being, the author tells us, a narrative of
voyagings and polar seas and adventures in theAntarctic with Sir Douglas Maxvson and Sir''Ernest Shackleton.
Captain Hurley was attached to both of theseexpeditions as official photographer, so his recordis pictorial—gloriously pictorial—as well aslitera^. The motion-picture reels and thenegatives of his wonderful stills (of the Shackle-ton Expedition) were saved, after their ship wassmashed to pieces in the ice, at the sacrifice ofprecious food and at the risk of life.
A strange, silent, cruel part of the world do\TOthere in the frozen Antarctic! The terror anddreadful beauty of it creeps into every page ofth!s"remarkable record. Read it.
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The Wreck of the Red Wing{Contimicd from page 25)
rolling under my feet, I had gone round half theisland, while thoughts of Susan Pascoe wentthrough my mind, and reached the windwardbeach. It was very bright there; the moonshone on a terrace of white coral with a littlestream trickling through; on green bushes grow- 'ing by the stream; on white-maned breakers,tossing short and wide, as they toss, in thoseshallow, perilous seas of Torres; on—
Yes, it was a ship; a lugger of twenty ortwenty-five tons, rolling at anchor out in the\vind and sea. Who had anchored her on thatside of the island, and why? It must be someone who knew the islands either very well, ornot at all. In any case, the maneuver was dangerous.
I stood, puzzled, looking about me. It wasvery noisy that night, as I have said; the -windamong the rocks, and the sea on the stonesrunning high tide, between them made such aracket that one could hardly hear oneself think.I wondered, vaguely. The boat was a pearlinglugger; that I knew, being familiar with thetj^pe—but what she was doing there late at night,on a stretch of sea poor in shell, anchored towindward of an island where no one ever livedor went, I could not guess.
"^HERE was a pile of cream-colored rocks infront of me. I climbed up one of them, and
stood on the top looking about. I don't knowwhat I expected-to see—I don't know that I expected to see anything. But when I had donelooking before me and about, I looked down; andthere, with his back to me, leaning against arock not ten feet away, sat Herod Pascoe.
There was no mistaking the man, his bulk,his wide shoulders, even the red hair burstingout from under the helmet that—uselesslyenough—he wore. It was Herod without doubt.He was not dead, he was not even seriouslyinjured. He was there before me, safe, strongand wicked as ever, with one of his pearUngluggers lying at hand, and—I did not doubt—a crowd of the worst brutes on Farewell manningher. Indeed, as I looked, with eyes sharpenednow by knowledge, I could see many figures,far more than were necessary for the working ofthe craft, moving about on her, small as pins.
"I wonder what arms he has?" I thought; andI remembered the all but weaponless, undermanned schooner at the other side of the island,with Paul and Laurie, unsuspicious, makinglove, almost in sight of the man who had latelytried to kill one of them so that he might forcemarriage on the other.
Like a fool, I kept on standing on the top ofthe rock, making myself a conspicuous, not-to-be-missed figure, if anything should induceHerod to turn his head. He did not turn it,however. He remained where he was, staringout to sea, moveless, buried in thought. I wouldhave given moich to peer for a moment under theskull of that red head, as the devil is said to havepeeped under the roofsof a certain town—just tosee what might be going on within. If he hadfound us—
But had he found us? That was what I wasbeginning to wonder. He could not haveknown that we were thereabouts, else he, andhis lugger full of black.-and-tan villains, wouldhave been round at the other side before this.Was it possible that he had called at the islandfor some other reason, unconnected with us?Now that I looked at him again, it seemed as ifhe were awaiting something. Now that I listenedhard, through the battering of the wind and seaI thought that I could hear some noise that wasneither—a sound as of men carr>'ing iron, bumping it against rocks as they went.
In a minute or two I saw that I had guessedright. Herod was ashore for the purpose of seeing his portable water-tanks filled; nothing butthat. From that spot, men were coming down,four to a tank, staggering over the lumpy coral.There were twelve men in all; three tanks.Others followed the tank men, one, two, three,four—ten of them. . . . Twenty-two menashore, and another dozen, at least, on the ship.
"This looks as like good old-fashioned piracyas anything I ever saw in my life," I reflected."They could walk all over us and cat us up...." It occurred to me that I was cuttingmuch too notable a figure, there on the top of arock in the full moonlight. I slid down, makingas little noise as I could.
It was too much, however. Herod Pascoe hadalways been as sharp-eared as any cat. Iremembered that, when I saw him, slowly, raisehis big, panther-colored head, and become asimmobile as a statue. He had heard; he didnot understand the noise, but he meant to.
Standing behind the rock, which was barelyshort of my own height, I peered over, myheart thrumming like an engine. I wonderedif he wouldn't hear that too. If so, it was all up•svith me. He might have supposed the scrabblingnoise I made in descending, to be produced by acrab or a rat, but crabs don't have throbbingpulses, and rats do not sn—sn! No, it was not asneeze. I succeeded—just—in stifling it, with avicious pinch across the bridge of the nose."That was pure nervousriess," I chid myself.Then I bent down a little, and waited. Thewind had dropped—just when one would havemost wished it to keep on blowing—and I couldhave heard any noise, any least movement fromHerod's side. None came.
I don't know what obscure comer of my mindit was that warned me to take off my shoes. Idid take them off," however, with infinite precaution, and stood, socked only, holding myshoes, in the muddy pool that some recent overflow left about the base of the big rock. Thewind had gone down, but the sea still roared;the moon was bright with a wicked sort of brightness, that seemed, somehow, to be a part ofthe anger and tumult of the waters. Theplace didn't feel wholesome. I cannot describethe impression that had hold of me; but Iknow I wished myself safe back again on theSusan.
It was just then that I smelt Herod.I do not suggest that Pascoe's personal habits
were other than decent; but I had always beenable to smell him when he came near my cottage,in the old days when we had been friends.Perhaps my sense of smell is unusually welldeveloped. Perhaps he used a stronger brandof tobacco, a shaving paste of sharper scent,than most men do. At all events, I caught theodor of bothi with^them too, the indescribablesalty sea-smell that I have often noticed aboutthe clothes of men who have been some daysaboard ship; and the combination of odors wascoming round the corner of the rock. Barely intime, I realized that he was stealthily slipping tothe back of the boulder, in order to see if anyone was hidden there. "Lord!" somethingticked in my mind, as quick as a watch., "It waslucky I thought of the shoes." And then Ihadn't lime to think, any more, for I was busilyengaged in slipping round the rock, just farenough ahead of Herod not to be seen.
We circled the boulder all round, Herod and Iand then paused, each in the place where we hadbegun; I at the back, peering through a tuft ofsea-grass, Herod at the front, where he stoodwith his arms folded, staring out at the lugger,
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and trying to make up his mind that he hadn'theard anything at all.
I only hoped none of the men had seen us;I trusted they were too busy struggling alongunder the heavy loads of water, to notice anything else.
With a great sigh, Pascoe seemed to makeup his mind. He relaxed his listening attitude,sat down again, and let out a curse or two—Iheard him distinctly—against the slowness ofthe men. He was impatient; that was clear.About what? Well, I could guess. Some onehad seen us during the past day or two, andreported our whereabouts to Herod. Probablyhe supposed us to be somewhere near TwoBrothers since it was there that we had stayed thelongest. If he could get away quickly, he mighthope to surprise us at anchor.
What then? Knowing all I knew—or thoughtI knew—I realized that he would stop at nothing.That was how I put it to myself. Tlie nextfew minutes were to show me that if anything,I understated the case. . . .
IIJEROD seemed to be amusing himself byturning out the contents of his pockcts—
or at least, he took a small bright object fromone pocket, and looked at it, with somethinglike a chuckle, for a good while, tossing it aboutand caressing it between his huge fingers. 1could not sec what it was, but I thought itlooked like a very small bottle.
By and by a long hail came across the water.The boat was ready,
Herod got to his feet, slipped the small brighttoy into his pocket, and stalked away down thebeach, swinging arms and legs like a %vindmill. Iwatched him go; I watched the boat pull off,the men in her scramble aboard, saw the sailshoisted, the little engine set a-going, all in thebright, crude, strangely sinister moonlight. Isaw the lugger swng round abreast the seasagain tossing wildly on her way to Two BrothersIsland. I saw her at last grow small and meltaway among the breakers. Not till then did Ifeel that Bowen, Laurie and I—were safe.
I came out f/om behind the boulder. If Idid a dance of mockery and triumph, under themoon, there alone on the beach of the desertedisland, I think I may be e.\cused.
In the midst of it, my foot hit somethingslipper>', and I almost fell. I bent down to seewhat the thing was. A bottle, a small brightbottle, lay winking at the moon upon the sand.
"Aha," I said, "men who murder their wivesdon't get their buttons sewn on, or the holes intheir pockets mended, any more. I wonder whatelse you've dropped to-day?"
I picked up the bottle, held it in the brightestof the mounting moonlight, recognized the shapeof it, and read the label, then my fingers relaxed,and I let it faU on the ground.
"My God!" was what I said.I must go back here for a moment. Among
the studies that had helped to pass away mytime on Farewell Island, was that of savageweapons and their significance. I have theorieson the subject that would probably bore you. . . •
Poisoned spears and arrows interested me agood deal. I did not collect the weapons, butI had a pretty complete set of the spccial poisonsused by various tribes of savages. The poisonswere kept locked up in my room. Among themwas a small quantity of the notorious drugcurare, which is better known in the histor>' ofexperiments on animals, than in any otlierconnection. It was said, I remember, that theearly vivisectionists used it to paralyse theirvictims, leaving them at "the same time in fullpossession of every sense. It has not been usedin that way, I suppose, for at least a generation;in fact, it has, to-day, practicallj'' no use at all,save among the savages I have mentioned; theydaub their arrows with it, in order to bring downbig game with safety and ccrtainty.
This was the drug that Herod had stolenfrom my locked press; this I had seen him handling and caressing, chuckling over, while hewaited for the lugger to carry him away agaiiiin search of Paul, the stealer of his bride. . . .
Perhaps, under ordinary* circ*mstances, Imight not have understood. But I had beeninto hell, and seen human beings turned to thelikeness of fiends, only a few days before. I did
July. 1926understand. I knew that between Herod Pascoe,and the human fiends of the Fly River, there wasbrotherhood closer than between him and thechildren of his mother. I knew that he had takenthe definite step back, which we of the lone!}*places know too well; that step which carries aman across thousands of years, and setshim down where his forebears of the Stone Agelived.
I took the little bottle in my hand, and, walk-mg to the verge of the moonlit breakers, tossedit far away into their striving crests. Then Iwent back to the Susan.
Going back, I had decided to say nothing.It would have been rather too easy for Paul tocatch up the lugger, had he wished, and I wasnot at all sure that he would not wish, if heknew that it, and Herod, were so near. "'Whatyou don't know will do >-ou no harm, mj- rufflj-young co*ck-o'-the-walk," I thought, as I wentinto my cabin, after greeting tlae two lover?, andmaking an indefinite answer to their carelessquestions about m.v walk.-
I went to bed. I was tired, and slept well, buta seabird, cr^-ing far oil among the hills of theisland, troubled me a little from time to time.It kept on intermittently; each time I heard itas in a dream, half-waked, and sank back almostat once to depths of sleep again.
Next morning it seemed that Paul had heardit too. He told me so, as we were getting underway for the next island marked within the circle,"If we don't find her there ..." he said, andbroke off I knew what he meant.
"Queer," he added while he stood watclxing,with a sailorly eye, the native A. B.'s hoist therattling sail. "Queer, the way tliat bird kepton last night. And I could almost fancy I heardit again this morning, once or t%vice."
"I didn't," I said."I did," contributed Laurie. "Sometimes it
seemed a long way off, and sometimes quite near,when the wind got up strong for a minute. I—there it is again!"
We stood in listening attitudes for a moment.In the silence, the bird's call sounded, once,twice, and stopped.
"Do you" think it is a bird?" I asked, feelingmy lips stiffen strangely as I spoke. Xobodyanswered for a moment.
"We'll go and see," said the captain."Where do you think it came from?" asked
Paul, as we landed."Somewhere among those great piles of
rocks," I ventured doubtfully. "'At least Ifancy so."
"We looked well over the island yesterday,"he said. "Did anyone hear anything?"
No one had.
pTE STOOD listening for a minute, his feet^ ^ plantedapart, as if wewere all pitching in aheavy sea; his mouth hard set, between the linesof the odd, half-smiling parentheses that markthe faces of those who know and have enduredhardship. Wind and waves were down; it wasanother of the blue days of Torres. You wouldhave thought the islands, where they rearedthemselves from the scilla-colored sea, sheer bitsof heaven or fair^'land atloat; homes of incredible,exquisite beings, remote'from common earth.That is, if you had not spent the past days aswe had spent them—tramping painfully, withblistered feet and burned faces, over those veryislands; seeing their cruel barrenness; sensingwithout words—for how can one put it intowords?—their insolvent carelessness, that tooknot so much thought of us and our lives anddeaths, as we took of the wanderings of an antamong the corals on the beach.
Paul IJowen relaxed his listening attitude."I daresay it was nothing," he said. 'In fact,
I'm practically sure it was; but there's only onething to satisfy us all, and. that is, look again."
We looked.About ten o'clock in the forenoon, as we were
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I knew something of the Australian crow,whom to name, on the continent of Australia,is to draw down tales of woe and bitter cursings.Here, among the Australian islands, it was the
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same bird, with the same cruel, clever, vulturousways. I watched the black v's winging throughthe blue above; watched them nearing the placewhere we stood; hovering and retreating baffled,with angry, long-drawn "Ha-haa's."
"Let's go a bit back, out of the way," Isuggested.
"You look sick," remarked Laurie. "You'vebeen walking too far."
"On the contrary," I said. "I have notwalked enough."
As we retreated, the crows came on. Beforelong there were eight or ten of them, planingabout in the blue over one spot—the entranceto the blind, empty gully.
At that, we began to run back again; at least,the two others ran, and I came behind as quicklyas I could. We all got to the gully within a fewseconds of each other. We all stood staring.There it was, just a blind opening into the rocks;you could walk all round it—we did, withoutseeing anything, save small boulders, piecrust colored, and Uttle tufts of grasses andtangles of mermaid-hair.
But stiU, the crows kept about, evidently waiting for us to go. . . .
"There's only one thing," said Paul. "Wemust let them show us the way."
"Let them settle? Do you know what they doto lambs and sheep, that are down and can't getup?"
"Yes, I know. Pick out their eyes. We won'tgive them time. Get o5 again—no, a goodway.... I daresay that'll do. Let's stay here andkeep quiet. Stand by to go with a run."
I don't know how long I could have waited—not very long, I fear; the suspense of the momenthad almost unnerved me—but there was no greattrial of our patience, after all. Barely had theparty withdrawn itself from the gully, and gonea little way off, when the crows were down, oneafter another, flying to a point a little behind thegully, and dropping. . . .
"Climb the rocks up to the top," panted Paul,running hard, and dragging me by the hand.Laurie needed no help; she flew along like abird; she outstripped me, and Paul, handicappedas the latter was; she reached the spire of rockthut overhung the gully, and scrambled up itwliile you might have counted ten. Then shetook one good look about her, bent down, seizeda stone in each hand, and iiung them, hard, atthe level rock below. I heard them strike witha hollow sound, saw them vanish, saw a crow flyup and speed away, cawing—"Ha-ha-ha—!"Then I was up on the top looking down, and I^w, as Laurie and Paul saw, a sort of pot-holein the rocks, utterly concealed from any point of
view save that directly above. And lying atthe bottom of the pot-hole, quite still, was thefigure of a woman.
When we reached her, I thought that she wasdead. She lay with her face turned to the sky,her eyes half closed, and her white teeth showing through lips that had fallen apart. She wasdressed in indescribable rags; a mass of plaitedgrass, lying beside her, had apparently been usedfor a hat. She was as thin as a broom handle,her skin was bright yellow, with red sun blistersall over it; her sleeves were torn almost off, andher stockings gone from her feet. One foot wastied up in a rough bandage. The sides of the pothole were marked as if by clutching hands; inone part there was a long, sliding smear.
"It was no bird," I said, and hot irons wentthrough my heart as I thought of myself lyingall the night in my bunk on board the schooner,with that feeble cry sounding, sounding on. . . .I lifted her dead hand, to press it to my lips,with what feelings I cannot say. And my lips,lingering, met with a living pulse. And so theworld that had stopped, went on again for me.
"We'll have the devil's delight, getting her outof this," commented Bowen. "Stand by till Ifetch a rope from the ship."
Laurie climbed up out of the pot-hole again,to stay on top, and help with the rope when itcame; also, incidentally to watch Paul Bowenall the way there, and all the way back. I satbeside the wreck of what had been Susan Pascoe,and to me she was lovelier, far, than Laurie inall the shining splendor of her youth.
"What should one do for her?" I wondered,looking at the closed eyes, the barely heavingchest. "If I had water—or brandy—in booksthey always give brandy."
But there was no brandy nearer than theschooner, and no water on that side of theisland. On tiie other—
"Thank God," I thought, "that she did meetwith this accident—whatever brought her here.If she hadn't, she might have run across thatdevil last night, and then, I reckon, Ihere'd havebeen a dead woman who'd have told no tales.. . . Why doesn't Bowen come back?"
I looked again, anxiously, at the uiiconsciousfeatures. And as I looked, life and consciousness came back to them. The brown eyesopened. The lipsparted, and Susan Pascoe said,almost in her ordinar>* tone of voice—
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And I realized, with an unspeakable shock,that she knew nothing; nothing at all.
{To be concludcd)
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Perhaps the most interesting feature of thebuilding, from.the standpoint of construction,is the dome, AVhich has a span of 67 feet. Incommon airchitectural practice a dome is veryheavy and thick and must have ribs, trusses, orvaults beneath to support it. In this case thedome, which is double—one inner and oneouter—is little more than a shell, so far asrelative weight and thickness of masonry areconcerned. It was built on the Guastavinoprinciple by the firm of that name, which usesseveral layers of tough tiles laid one over theother in cement. By this proccss the tiles arelaid from the outside of the dome opening, thatis, from the rim of the drum from which thedome springs toward the center. The greatestthickness of tiles comes at this outer circumference, gradually tapering off until at the center thethickness is only a matter of a few inches. Thismethod of construction makes it possible to useless massive side walls, inasmuch as the e.xtremelightness of the dome itself reduces the outwardthrust and is consequently an inexpensivesolution to what has alwaj's been a costly andtroublesome architectural form. At the* sametime, though unusually light, a dome built inthis way is exceedingly strong.
Aside from the problems presented by thedifliculty. of securing the desired marbles andby the circular shape of the central portion, noserious obstacles confronted the builders. Suchproblems as arose were mainly questions ofarchitectural detail occasioned by the unusualnature of the basic design. In the first drawings,for instance, the dome was considerablj' flatterthan it is now. The necessity of changing itbecame apparent upon careful study of a smallscale model which was made from those firstdrawings. By looking at the model from whatwould be the level of the eye, it was seen that atclose quarters the curve of the dome would beinvisible to a person standing on the sidewalk.Other changes of similar nature, changes inproportion, in the height of the outer stepsand terraces, in the width of the side wings,were also made after studying the model.
'T'HE north wing, devoted to the GrandSecretary's quarters, contains five offices on
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As was pointed out earlier in this article, tlieElks National Memorial Headquarters is verysimple in design. Its outline is decorative butat present its appearance, boi.h outsitle and in,is a good deal more austere than it will be later
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on. At present, you see, it is virtually withoutcarving or ornament of anj* sort. Each winghas an urn on the forward end of its roof; thereare urns at the entries of the low curb surrounding the property; and rams at the corners ofthe side tcrraces of the wings, with a light Greekscroll breaking the se\'erit}'' of the line of theseterraces. The important decorative features,however, features which will greatly cnrich andvivify both exterior and interior, are not yetready. Chief of these is the great frieze, whichwill be cars'cd on the outside of the ^MemorialHall, just below the colonnade, half on one sideof the main doors and half on the other. It washoped that this frieze, already modeled and cast,^vould be already partly carved by the time ofthe dedication. For reasons which need not bee.\plained here, however, this was not possible,though the carving operations will be begun soon.
To design this frieze, the Commission chose thefamous sculptor Adolph Alexander "Weinman,former pupil of Martin, and of Augustus Si.Gaudens, and winner of many prizes and medals,among them the Silver iledal awarded at tlieSt. Louis Exposition in 1904, the Silver lledal atthe Brussels International Exposition in 1910and the Gold iledal of Honor of the Architectural League of New York. Mr. Weinman'sworks are too numerous to mention in toto, butthey include the monumental sphinxes flankingthe Scottish Rite Temple in Washington; thedime and half-dollar minted in 1916; the LincolnMemorials in Hodgenville, Ky., and Madison,Wis.; the Lincoln statue in the State Capitol atFrankfort, Ky.; sculptures for the fa*gade ofthe New York Municipal Building and manyothers.
Mr. Weinman's own description of the friezefollows:
"The themes represented in the compositionof the frieze encircling the building below thecolonnade, are at the right hand, The Terror ofWar, at the left, The Glorj' of Pcace.
"The introductory' motive in The Terror ofWar, reading from right to left, shows The Swayof Might, symbolized in the figure of a man ofpowerful proportions, enthroned, with crownand scepter and clad in the accoutrements ofwar, surrounded by the figures of Force, Avarice,Suspicion, Fear, Rumor and the Sower of theSeeds of Strife.
"Following to the left is the fly^ing figure ofAlarm with plunging horses, and men in battlearray obeying the Call to Arms while the Dogsof War strain furiously at their leash; Thefollowing group to the left shows The Terror ofWar, a figure of gigantic proportions in fullarmor, bearing a two-handed sword and burningtorch, accompanied by the Fury of Hatredmounted upon a blind nag and the Fury ofRevenge on fiery steed, both rushing headlonginto the fray. Following the Terror of War tothe right is the heavily draped figure of Death,with cup uplifted and beckoning his followersto the bloody feast.
"Following this group is the Battle, sho^\ing ahand-to-hand conflict of helmeted and armoredwarriors hurling the javelin, wielding the battleax and sword or speeding the deadly arrow.The intensity of action and display of furiouspassion and masculine power are tlie noteworthyfeatures of this group.
"i'ollowing is The Human Wreckage, a groupof dead and dying warriors over which hovers aVulture, as sjTnbol of Destruction, while in thelap of a lamenting Mother rests her dead son,her sacrifice to her country's cause.
"The climax is reached in the heroic figure ofthe Mourning Victory, arm resting wearily upona sheathed sword, her laurel-crowned head bowedlow in deep contemplation of the scene of miser>'and desolation before her, while a sprightlyyouth with -wings of frail fibre holds out to her abranch of evergreen, syTnbol of Hope."
"The introductory motive in the Glory ofPeace is the heroic winged figure of The Spirit ofPeace giving blessing to the group of mother andchildren about to lay floral offerings upon heraltar, while in her shadow repose Virtue andContentment, hovered over by chanting angels.Following to the right is the Sower, the Reaper,and the Husbandman with his ox and plow.
"Now follows a scries of themes sjinbolizing
July, 1926the four Principles of the Order of Elks; Charity,offering food and shelter to Life's unfortunatesand warding off Hunger and Despair.
"Justice is symbolized in the enthronedfigure of Justice before whom Innocence pleadsher cause, while Nemesis %v-ith fier>' sword laysher avenging hand upon the evil-doer.
"Brotherly Love is sjTnbolized in the twopowerful men who are relieving their heavilj-burdened brother, while another is giving succorto him whom illness has afflicted.
"Fidelity is depicted in the group by a vigorousman standing steadfast by his mate, spurningTemptation, shown in the siren holding aloftthe brimming cup that cheers, and warding offAdversity and gaunt Poverty.
"Following this allegory of the four Principlesof the Order of Elks is Pegasus, the symbol ofcreative inspiration, surrounded by the Bearerof the Sacred Fire and the Singers of the ladenhorn of plenty.
"The climax is reached in the group of theHuman family surging onward to the seif-re%-caling figure of Truth and the Higher Life."
The frieze is remarkable not alone in itsbreadth of conception and high symbolicquality, but also in execution. It presented adifficult problem in design because of thenecessity of making figures of heroic size in aheight of less than five feet. !Mr. Weinman'ssolution was to bend his figures so that while thechildren in his allegories arc standing erect, theadults are stooped, thus giving the impression ofgreat size. Another interesting feature of tliefrieze is the way the sculptor has made a quitelow relief seem like full relief, by cutting back,sha^ly, behind the contours of his figures, producing deep shadows which contrast stronglywith the lights on the surfaces.
The same sculptor has been commissioned todesign groups to be set in the niches on the frontwalls of the wings. These groups, one representing Fraternity and the other Patriotism, willbe cast in bronze and will serve to give color tothe walls in question which, with the nichesempty, at present seem a trifle bare.
At the Lake View Avenue entry, opposite themiddle of the Memorial Hall, two pedestalsflank the opening in the low stone curb. Forthese pedestals, two reclining elk, in bronze, arebeing modelled by Laura Gardin Fraser. Mrs.Eraser, who is best known, perhaps, for hermedals and coins, is also a noted sculptor ofanimals. Among her works arc the GrantMemorial half-dollar; a half-dollar commemorating the centennial of the State of Alabama; theMorgan Horse Club medal; the Polo Ponymedal; the Irish Setter Club medal and otherbeautiful things.
When these works of art, the Weinman friezeand niche groups and Mrs. Eraser's bronze elkare in place, and the panels beneath the colonnade are carved, the decoration of the e.xterior ofthe building will be complete. Car\-ing of thefrieze will take several months, as will also themodelling and casting of the statuary. Verybeautiful bronzes are already in place: the greatfront doors and the lanterns beside them, theflag-pole bases and the candelabra at the rearof the terraces. These objects were designedby Raflaello Menconi, Inc., under the supervision of Mr. Swartwout, the architect of thebuilding, and were cast by the Gorham Company. The main doors, of exquisite design, arenearly 20 feet high and, as you can see fromsome of the photographs, are particularly beautiful when viewed from inside the building.
The decorative scheme for the interior of theMemorial Hall and the Grand Reception Room isextremely colorful and elaborate and its effect,when finished, will be describable only throughthe use of so banal a word as "gorgeous."Three of America's greatest artists, two paintersand one sculptor, have been commissioned tocarry out the program. James Earle Eraser isthe sculptor chosen to design figures for the fourniches in the great Hall, representing Charity,Justice, Brotherly Love and Fidelity. Mr.Fraser was the winner of two gold medalsawarded in 1915 at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco, at wloich wasexhibited his very well-known statue, "TheEnd of the Trail," the figure of a mountedIndian on his pony. He studied at tlie ArtInstitute in Chicago, at the Beaux Arts, Colorossiand Julien schools in Paris and was at one timeassistant to Augustus St. Gaudens, to whose
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tutelage many of our best sculptors have owedso much. Mr. Fraser is represented, amongother works, by the bust of Theodore Rooseveltin the Senate Chamber in Washington, the JohnHay Memorial in Cleveland, tiie statue ofBishop Potter in the Cathedral of St. John the.Divine, New York, the new U. S. five centpieces, and a number of other importantsculptures.
The dean of American mural painters, EdwinHowland Blashfield, is working on three paintings which will be mounted in the west lobbyleading from the Memorial Hall to the GrandReception Room. One of these will be a largepanel s3Tnbolizing Charity in the form of acentral \vinged figure supported on either side byflying figures, one of which brings food, the otherclotliing, to a group of the needy, represented bywomen and children. Another panel of thesame size will contain a composition in whichPeace and Harmony are shown in the guise of afemale figure holding up an olive branch; oneither side of her stand children holding theemblem of strcnRth in harmony—the bundle ofrods bound together—while below four men aredepicted taking the oath of Brotherly Love.The third painting, a lunette over the doonvay,is to portray Justice in the centre, enthronedwith sword and scales. At her feet \vill beFidelitj", caressing a hound, the sjTnbol of thatvirtue. On either side will be children, eachbearing a scroll inscribed, respectively, Justitiaand Fidelitas. Throughout the compositionmil be a profusion of oak leaves, signifyingstaunchness and fidelity.
j\'Ir. Blashfield's murals appear in clubs,libraries, churches, large homes and publicbuildings all over the coimtry. He studied inParis under Leon Bonnat and, as a young man,spent much time abroad, e.Khibiting regularly formany years at the Paris Salon and at the RoyalAcademy in London. Some of his most important murals are in the Central Dome of theLibrary of Congress, the High Appellate Courtof New York, the Court House in Baltimore,Senate Chamber of the State Capitol of Minnesota, the Court House of Newark, N. J., theState Capitol of Wisconsin and others toonumerous to mention.
The largest portion of the paintings whichwill embellish the Memorial Hall and the GrandReception Room are to be the work of EugeneSavage, recognized as one of the very best of theyounger American decorative painters. Mr.Savage, who was left an orphan at an early age,studied when he could, between the odd jobswith which he supported himself. He studiedat the Corcoran School, Washington, at the ArtInstitute, Chicago and finally, winning the Prixde Rome, went to study further in Rome,Florence and Munich. He has since won manyprizes.
The program laid out for him is literally hugeand will require several years of the closestapplication before it can be finished. First of allthere are twelve large panels to go in the spacesbetween the windows of the Memorial Hall. Atthe time this article is written tliese panels areonly in the sketch stage and to attempt todescribe them one by one without picturing themwould result only in confusion. The generalplan for this series is to represent, in allegoricalcompositions, the Beatitudes. Mr. Savage'swork is noted for its purity of color, grace ofline and vigor. His strength is in the warmlyglowing quality of his color and the very highorder of imagination he brings to the de\'elop-ment of his themes. Though far from a copyistof the ancient masters of mural painting, he hasabsorbed their spirit and may be said to resemble them in his ability to produce compositionseminently fitted for use in architectural settings.There is a vast difference between a picture, suitable for framing and hanging on a wall as anentity in itself, and a picture designed to becomean integral part of a wall. The art of the muralpainter is to produce the latter and that issomething Mr. Savage does instinctively. Allart forms impose certain limitations on the artist.Sometimes these limitations bear in on a man soforcibly as to have an obviously cramping effecton his work. With Savage one feels that he has
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In addition to the twelve panels aforesaid,this artist is to do decorations for tJie pen-dentives, the spaces above the archcs in theMemorial Hall. The great ceiling in the GrandReception Room will be his also, containing threelarge ovoid panels and numerous smallerdecorations. In the same room are spaces fortwo lunettes, panels with arched tops, wliich milbe e.Kecuted by Jlr. Savage too. These paintings will be symbolic, their subjects expressingideas and passages in the Rituals of the Order.
The same care and good taste which characterize tlie building and its decorations have beenexercised in the choice of hardware, fixtures andfittings, furniture and every other detail.
It is interesting to note, at this point, that thecost of the construction of the building fell witliinthe original appropriation of the Grand Lodge.It is also interesting to note that the extra cost ofthe sculpture, decoration and furnishing of thebuilding are being entirely defrayed by TheElks Magazine, out of its earnings, thus obviating any additional levy upon the membershipand the Subordinate Lodges for this purpose.
And so we come to the end of this descriptionof the lilks National Memorial HeadquartersBuilding. It is offered in the hope that it will atleast convey to those of its readers who cannotsee the building in person some idea of themagnificence of the structure and imbue themwith the wish to behold it with their own eyes assoon as they can. There is always a certainvirtue in understatement; and it is very surethat no one who reads this article first and seesthe building afterwards will feel that the description exaggerated the merits of its subject.
To the officers and members of the ElksNational Memorial Headquarters Comnussiongreat credit is due for their devotion to the dutyassigned them of erecting the building. Theygave themselves unsparingly in the effort to seeto it that the problems arising in the course of itsconstruction should be solved in the bestinterests of the Order.
One fact should be emphasized and cannotbe brought out too strongly: that there is in thismonument no hint of the atmosphere of amausoleum. Though erected in honor of menwho gave their lives for their country, thebuilding is devoid of any funereal taint, in whichrespect it is wholly in keeping 'with the traditionalprecepts of Elks toward their absent Brothers;precepts which hold that an Elk is never forgotten, never forsaken.
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the next hour, according to the varying fecundity of Smarty's invention.
Once Minnie's father, after having abusedSmarty, stepped from a train and slipped andhis feet were almost under the wheels, whenSmarty pulled him out. Old man begs forgiveness. Shortly afterward the unregenerate oldcuss again scorns Smarty. He's thrown from ahorse, a foot caught in the stirrup, and wouldhave been dragged along on the back of his neckploughing furrows in the dust, his head bimipingover the " thank-you-mams"'—shallow hollows,if Smarty hadn't jumped out from ambush,caught the fiery steed by the bridle, and Hercu-leanly brought him to a standstill. Again paterfamilias craves pardon. Then, if Smarty's invention is sufficiently fecund, Heinke staggers tothe edge of a precipice in a conveniently createddaze or dizziness and is jerked back just in thenick of time. Follows the inevitable beseechingand forgi\'ing.
^^GAIN she—Smarty always thought of heras"she"—never as Minnie Heinke—was skat
ing with Jimmy Banks, against whom she hadoften been warned by Smarty as a dangerousjunior sheep. But she would do it. The icc brokeand she went through. Jimmy ran away, or stoodwringing his hands. Smarty simply dived intothe hole, swam under the ice wth the currentthat was carrying ilinnie toward the cataract,grabbed her and brought her up at the opening.
Or Smarty sees himself rescuing her in a snowstorm or from a train or from bad-man abductors.He follows themand takesher awayfromfrowsy,toothless old hag—just why female companionto abductors is always frowsy and tootliless notknown—who smokes a short black clay pipeand holds her a prisoner in a frowsy old hag of ahouse, that smokes a vile chimney, in a hollow,somewhere—exact location not known—and notmaterial. On such an occasion Smarty climbstree and springs from swaying branch intoroom—k la Doug or Harold—on upper story,and takes her in his arms. He always times therescue when ruffians and hag are drinking andquarreling over the swag—in another room. Asto the improbability of these schemesof heroism,he shunned that—only the highlights interestedhim. Just how a boy of nine could catch anenraged, onrushing bull by the horns, twist hisneck and throw him on his—the bull's, notSmarty's—shoulder, a thing he did repeatedly,or how he could overtake an abducting auto,grab it by the tail and swing himself aboard orhow he could, even with the Australian stroke,catch a running speedster in which Minnie wasbeing abducted for purpose of ransom or howhis strength was enough to halt a maddenedhorse—very properly did not concern Smarty.
Smarty was forever pausing and leaning upagainst a post—or something else—and dreaming adventures—dreaming them out loud in thehearing ofBilly—theirtrue meaningalwaysbeingconveyed to the astute alter ego by means ofhypothetical questions or statements whichwere designed to disguise them—throw Billy offhis guard.
Smarty was always in heroic attitudes—whileshe was always in attitudes of adoration. Hewas always very athletic, masterful—like theyoung men in the advertising sections of maga-zines in their undershirts and marcelled hair andwith great out-thrust chins, who are foreverbragging that they always get what they set outto get.
Said Billy: "Smarty's got 'lope on the brain.He's given it to the rest of the bunch. If hesees a queen or a Jane or even a skirt, it's always,'I'll steal her' or 'I'd like to kidnap her.'"
"Hold on a minute, Billy. Elucidate.""Yes, sir," said Billy, vaguely."Tell me what those things are—queen and
the rest of it.""A queen's a girl that puts on airs—like Milly
Penrose."Millicent Penrose, a young Greek and Latip
prodigy, a girl of infinite delicacy and refinement,was the daughter of my friend Penrose, the poet.
"Goon, Billy. A Jane?""A. Jane? Oh, she's just a nice girl.""What's a skirt, Billy?""A skirt? Say, a skirt's a regular she-guy.
She plays with the boys—no airs."
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"I get you," said I."Smarty's orders to the gang are," Billy
proceeded, "'Let each guy have a skirt or aJane. If he can't get her any other way, stealher.'"
According to Billy, many a village girl hadbeen singled out, if she but knew it, for abduc-tional honors, and was greatly imperiled—so theminor sheeps flattered themselves.
" But where does Smarty get the idea, Billy? ""He gets it from the big sheeps. Don't you
see, we gotter do what the big sheeps do? Forain't the big sheeps got more sense than wegot?"
I shrugged my shoulders, suggesting dubiety."Smarty asked me to 'lope with him. When
I told him you gotter 'lope with a girl, he said:'Wonder if I could get Minnie Heinke?'"
"Naw, you couldn't," I told him."Cause why?""Cause you trew her down that time when
you wouldn't take her to the party.""And Smarty, he said; 'At's all right. But
Jim Nichols says the harder you trow a womandown, the better she likes you."
Billy elucidated: "Jim Nichols is the chief ofthe big sheeps; he hangs round Hanon's poolroom, an' he wears belly pants."
"Belled trousers?" I said after a moment ofperplexity.
" We call 'em 'belly pants.' You know, regularsheep's pants that bulge out at the feet likesailors.'"
"Why don't you say trousers, Billy?""Say, Mister, how long do you s'pose you'd
last with the guys I travel \vith if you calledpants 'trousers?'"
Station-agent Heinke's deposition was briefbut significant: "Smarty James has been banging around here—asking questions. He wantedto know the fare to Niagara Falls or Washington, and seemed much discouraged when I toldhim the amount. I said: 'You'd want a sleeper,of course?' He said: 'Why, no, wc can sit up.''We,' I said, 'going to get married?'—joking like.That rattled him a little. 'What makes youthink so?' 'Cause no one but new marriedcouples'go to Washington or Niagara Falls fromthis place.' 'Me get married? You're kiddin,'he said. When I asked him what he wantedto know for, he said: 'That's all right—I'monly e.vpressing myself.'"
Heinke, too, uttered the phrase—expressingmyself—as if it were some devil-made, weirdand esoteric incantation and quite beyond thecomprehension of the benighted adults of thecommunity.
On other occasions, Sammy broached the subject of the cost of transportation to variouspoints less distant tlian Washington to thestation agent, hoping, I reckon, to find something within the scope of his pocket, but eachtime appearing to be depressed at the amountStated.
"What d'ye suppose he's up to?" Heinkeasked.
"Nothing," I said, "it's only boyish fancy."This brief testimony is unimportant except
that it corroborates the testimony of Billy Watson and Minnie Heinke as to the utter lack ofculpable intent in Smarty's elopement enterprise.
I handed the report of the foregoing interviews to Nellie—just as I have given it here.
T DID not include, however, tlie consensus ofopinion that Sam was a Smart Aleck and a
nuisance; that instead of being the corrupted,he was in a sense the corrupter; that he was thelink between the lounge lizards and the minorsheeps; that the name Smarty James stood forall kinds of deviltry—most recently, the juvenileelopement talk, the stealing of little girls, stuffhe had learned from the asinine talk of poolroom sheiks, lounge lizards.
I did include, however, the following epitome:The whole elopement craze, movement, or
foolishness, had been brought about by themachinations of a half dozen "lounge lizzies".or "senior sheeps," who were determined toput their community in general, and themselvesin particular, on the map. The superior sheikshad determined that they would make Stanwichthe most up-to-date community in the countp';that they would not wait for the big city of whichthey were a suburb, to set the pace; that tliey
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The Spanking of Sammy(Coitliniiedfrom page Sg)
would do something-to bring upon them themetropolitan newspaper spotlight. - ,
The invention of eccentric jazz steps, thehome brew and hip-pocket scandal that had.brought youths and lassies into undue prominence'had passed the period of its usefulness forspotlightisma. purposes. No, the •communitymust be dosed wth a stronger medicine thanthat in order to make it sit up and take notice.It was clear that the most intriguing subjectwas girls. But just how to go about getting' anew angel on se.\: relations was what puzzled thesuperior sheiks.
.\t this point a succession of elopements in thecommunity occurred—the self-same elopementsmentioned b^- Joe in our first interview. Theseelopements had created a positive sensation.Ever>-one talked about them. The principalactors therein were pinnacled. It may havebeen coincidental or possibly one elopementsuggested or superinduced the other. .\t any.rate, the metropolitan papers had taken thematter up.
This had given the sheiks the cue: modifiedcave-man methods. Marriage brought aboutin the regular way was too prosy.
It was decided tliat the stealing of girls wasto be made the scheme. Of course, no stealing\vas contemplated—for abduction was highlyrisky. But the talking about it, the putting outof dark threats and sinister innuendoes in thehearing of the girls, not only of flapperistictendencies but of all girls—for ever>' girl hassomething of the flapper in her—would makethem, the sheiks, and their cave-man methods,objects of delightful terror, and consequently,objects of clandestine adoration.
That's the way the movement started. Itspread beyond the sheiks' calculations. Forthej' were really a harmless lot—were the seniorsheiks. The threats and innuendoes designedfor the ears of ^rls alone found their way byobvious means into the home circle. Parentsbegan to take notice. The talk developed frommere suggestion into something definite, concrete. Mothers admonished their daughters tobe careful. Fathers of young men of thesenior-sheik age and variety warned their offspring that if they lent themselves to anyscheme remotely approaching abduction, orotherwise involving paterfamilias in financialresponsibility, they, the fathers, would act in amanner to indicate that they considered such athing highly reprehensible.
This stuff—I can think of no better word—coming from the envied, the adored senior sheiks,naturally impre;:nated and imbued or infectedthe minor sheiks of the community,
I found that there was almost none—if any—sex impulse or interest in the aspirations ofthe younger sheiks. It was merely a matterof adventure—imitation—emulation.
I told Nellie that my opinion was that Sammywas nothing more than a regular boy; that hewas neither worse nor belter than other boys;that he was leader because of physical andmental superiority. Do not imagine that thiswas said just to placate Nellie. It was a simple fact.
I suggested to Nellie, thefore, that there wasno occasion for sending Sam away—that if theyonly kept their eyes open nothing would occur.
I urged, however, that the thing be not takentoo lightly. For I was convinced that therewas a real childish sentiment of elopement inthe air—a sentiment that might at anj' momentbe translated into action.
I recommended that live parents of the community should not openly oppose any expressionof the sentiment of the children on the subject, butrather ignore it, or treat it with indulgence. Forit was clear that the foolishness would pass awaygradually unless it should get some vary discouraging bump or jolt which would pass itaway in a hurrj'. Nevertheless, they were tokeep their eyes and ears open.
I urged Nellie and Joe that it was up to themto discourage any abductional enterprise on thepart of Sam. For the other youngsters alllooked up to him and were prepared to followhis example or carry out his instructions.
I was convinced, though I did not tell Nellie,that if Sammy, the idol, could be shown to havefeet of clay, another leader would be chosen.
In a word, I strongly urged Nellie to let matters take their course. I offered to take fullresponsibility in the matter, for I was nevermore convinced in any case that I was right.But the most carefully reached conclusions orconvictions of mice and men sorr^ctimes developa. stratum of sand in their foundation.• One night Billy came to me and warned methat things were drawing to a climax; the boy?had been twitting Smarty, and he. Billy, feltthat Sammy would do something desperate ifhe weren't watched.
Billy said that Smarty had preached steala queen so much and done nothing, that rivalsfor leadership began to demand that he makegood.
"What makes you think so, Billy?" I said."Smarty and Minnie are scheming to 'lope.
Smarty's been saving up money. Don't youtell, cause Smarty'd beat me up."
"How much has he saved?" I asked."Dollar eighty.""That's serious," I said.I gave Billy the customary' half dollar, with
the injunction to keep both it and the facts inthe case to himself. .\nd he winked significantlyat me and made off through the hole in our backfence, through which he was accustomed toappear and disappear nocturnally since hiselevation to the post of spj' extraordinary.
My next step was to acquaint Nellie with theunderground—hole in the fence—communication that I had received, carefully guarding theidentity of my agent, however.
Nellie affected the contemptuous, but withknitted brows, which convinced me that shewas troubled. Joe was serious.
"Do you think we'd better warn Minnie'sparents?" he suggested.
"Ridiculous," said Nellie. "The woman isan incorrigible old blab."
"Besides," she urged, "it takes two to do thetrick. If we can manage Sam, who is, of course,the master mind"—get the proper maternalattitude—"that's enough." She paused; then:"Sam hasn't any money and no one would lendhim a car."
"He's got a dollar eighty and a good stoutpair of legs," I said.
"Who told you he's got a dollar eighty?""A little bird.""How do you suppose he got the money?"
Nellie said.Joe shrugged his shoulders. "Odd jobs.""I see," Nellie said, "I see." She knitted
her brows and pondered, "I see."And Joe nodded: "t get you, Nellie, I'll
drop a hint here and there."The result of our little confab was brought
to me a few days later by my diminutive hole-in-the-fence mercenary.
OAMMY had come to Billy in a state of greatperplexity, trouble even. He had suddenly
found himself without pecuniary resources overand above the dollar eighty which he had cachedfor aforesaid clandestine purpose. No one wouldemploy him to do odd jobs about the place.He didn't know why, for his capacity for efH-cient service had never fallen below par, sofar as he could see. Furthermore, everybody seemed to be guarding their 'un lizzies.Smarty couldn't steal one for a joy ride. Heavowed that he was getting more and moredesperate.
But Nellie had reckoned without her host,which sometimes happens even with a womanso astute as Sammy's beautiful mother. But itwas all for the best, it seems. For, paradoxically, the very maternal restraint which was calculated to defeat any abductional or elopementalenterprise on Sammy's part actually broughtabout a mental and moral condition in the ladwhich precipitated an act which had the effectof not only defeating the individual ambitionof the boy, but of throwing the whole elopementmovement into utter disrepute.
Forit was theaforesaid restraint—Sammy'sin-'ability to make any money and buy a railroadticket, or steal a tin lizzie—that made him dosomething which, in the beginning of this story,I characterized as " the next best thing to stealinga planet."
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corner of the golf links. In addition to two2oo-foot towers, there will be a bungalow of thesame architecture as the club house, which willhouse the transmitting apparatus and proxddeliving quarters for the operator. With the newtransmitter working the excellent entertainmentorganizations of the Lodge will be able to go onthe air at regular periods.
Reno, Nev., Lodge EstablishesCountry Club
Reno, Xev., Lod?e, Xo. 597, launched a project some time ago for the establishment of aCountry Club on the shores of Lake Tahoe.."Ml members of Nevada Lodges can become entitled to its privileges and will have the rightto build on the grounds if they so desire. RenoLodge is already planning to take a prominentpart in the Trans-Continental Highways E.Kpo-sition to be held at Reno in 1927. The exposition is to commemorate the completion of twointer-mountain roads connecting San Franciscoand Coast points with the East.
Wohum, Mass., Lodge to Give OutingFor City Home
The Social and Community Welfare Committee of Woburn, Mass., Lodge, No. 908, plan togive the inmates of the city Home an outingsometime during July or August. The programof the day will include an automobile trip alongthe North Shorewhichwillbe followed by a shoredinner at one of the seaside hotels.
Gift of Historic Gavel MadeTo New Bedford, Mass., Lodge
On the occasion of the installation of itsofficers by Taunton, Mass., Lodge, No. 150,New Bedford, Mass., Lodge, No. 73, was presented with a handsome gavel. The gavel,the gift of William Lyons, Past ExaltedRuler of Taunton Lodge, was made from thetimbers of the old historic Faneuil Hall of Bostonand is highly prized as a patriotic relic.
Camden, N. J., Lodge DedicatesNew Home with Weeh of Festivity
The week of festivities which marked the^dicationofthesplendid new half-million dollarHome of Camden, N. J., Lodge, No. 293, wasopened with the initiation of a class of morethan 200 candidates in the spacious auditoriumof the new building, .\mong the delightfulsocial occasions of the following days were thegala banquet at which the charter members ofthe Lodgeand a number of prominent Elks wereguests of honor, and the Ladies Night, whenmembers of the Lodge and their guests gatheredlor an evening of entertainment and dancing,r i> . dedication service was in chargeof Past leaked Ruler James H. Long, assisted
bv other PastExalted Rulers of Camden Lodge,While the dedicatory address was made by Hon.ihoma.s S.Mooney, of Burlington, N. J., Lodge^o. 996, a past Vice-President of the NewJersey State Elks Association. At the close ofthe sersnces, a street parade which was routed
held^^^ former Homes of the Lodge, wasn -^"'Iding, which is of modifiedColomal design and constructed of brick andstone, has a frontage of 70feet on Cooper Street
Seventh Street. The lobby.Which IS 24 X35 feet, opens into the large clubparlor, 56x 65 feet, and into the paneled, 45xloot dmmg-room. The parlor is beautifullywainscoated with American walnut' and isequipped with a handsome fireplace.
I . stairway between the first and^cond floors is of marble and ornamental iron,^olumns and pilasters with arches extend fromthe stair-landing well up through the second^ory, forming a loggia at the second floor level,i he secondfloor lobby is of the same dimensionsas that on the first floor, and from it open thesplendid billiard room, 55 x66 feet, and theLodge
41 X58 feet, with its ante rooms and organchamber. The auditorium on the third floor is66 X100 feet, with a largestage and two tiers ofdressing-rooms. On the mezzanine are the pro
jection room for the moving-picture machine,and the band and marcliing club rooms.
In addition to the kitchen, heating plant, andso on, the basem*nt contains shuffle boards,four splendid bowling alle>^, shower and lockerrooms, and a small grill. The high speed electricelevator, mth which the building is equipped, isindicative of the thoroughly modem construction employed throughout the entire Home—aHome in which Camden Elks may not only findcomfort and convenience, but reason for prideas well.
Kalispell, Mont., Lodge to EstablishPermanent Rodeo
Kalispell,Mont., Lodge,No. 725, is sponsoringa "Frontier Day Celebration" to be held in itscity July 5-6. The event gives promise ofrivaling anything of its kind ever staged inNorthwest Montana. Business and professionalmen of the^ city and various civic organizationsare enthusiastic and are cooperating with theLodge in the undertaking. It is planned tomake the event an annual celebration whichwill become known as thebestofits kindthroughout the region.
Miami, Fla., Lodge, and Cincinnati,Ohio, Lodge, JVant 1927 Convention
At the Grant Lodge Convention in Chicagothis month, a committee from Miami, Fla.,Lodge, No. 948, will invite the 1927 Conventionto meet in its city.
Miami Lodge, in cooperationwith the GreaterMiami Hotel .Association and the Miami Chamber of Commerce, has gone into the matterthoroughly and formulated plans that it believesshould prove interesting to the Convention.Unsurpassed _surf-bathing, fishing, motoring,and the proximity of Miami to such interestingplaccs as Nassau, Bimini, and Havana, areamong the attractions that Miami Lodge willoffer in its appeal. Excellent hotel accommodations are claimed for the city, and the fact thatspecial rates will hold for the Convention willbe presented by the Committee as anothermducement.
Cincinnati, Ohio, Lodge, No. 5, as previouslyreported in this department, will also invite the1927 Grand Lodge Convention to meet in its
This Lodge has had the close cooperationof the city's Chamber of Commerce in workingout the plans which it will present to the Convention. Claiming unusually fine hotel accommodations and entertainment facilities for its cityand stressing the geographic position of Cincinnati, the Lodge hopes to interest the Convention seriously in its invitation. The invitation committee will emphasize the success whichattended the three Grand Lodge Reunionsheld there in the past, and will lay a preliminary program before the Convention said tocall for the e.xpression of even greater hospitality.
New Jersey Lodges in WidespreadWork Wilh Crippled Children
Printed copies of the report of the CrippledKiddies Committee of the New Jersey StateElks -Association read at last year's convention,have been received by the Magazine. Illustrated with photographs and containing the fullaccount of the work of New Jersey Lodgesamongthese unfortunate cliildren during the periodcovered, the pamphlet bears interesting andinspiring testimony to the spirit of the Order.In 1924-25 New Jersey Elks were responsiblefor some 400 operations, and more than 20,000treatments. They provided 319 children withbraces, found employment commensurate withtheir physical condition for 37 cripples, andemployed 16 welfare nurses and 6 masseurs.Joseph G. Buch, Past President of the StateAssociation, signed the report as Chairman ofthe Committee.
Work Begun on New, Home of-Sheffield, Ala., Lodge
Work on the new Home being built by Sheffield, Ala., Lodge, No. 1375, is progressing
The Elks Magazinerapidly. The building, which will be located onthe Jackson Highwaj", between Sheflield andFlorence, will be one of the outstanding structures of the Muscle Shoals district. It will havea roof garden, ballroom, "billiard parlor andspacious quarters for the convenience of members and for special functions.
Frostburg, Md., Lodge Host toNeighboring Lodges
Frostburg, Md., Lodge, No. 470, makes apointof keeping in close fraternal relations with all itsneighboring Lodges and its- out-of-town members. Recently the officers of Cumberland, Md.,Lodge, No. 63, were guests of the Lodge andinitiated a class of candidates for their host.The meeting was the occasion of a special entertainment which included a supper, and musicby a well known orchestra.
Muskogee, Okla., Lodge HoldsFirst "Civic Club" Night
Many men and women representing theLions, Rotary, Kiwanis, Civitan and OptimistClubs of the city, were recently guests of >Ius-kogee, Okla., Lodge, No. 517. An elaborateprogram was arranged in which the variousclubs took part. The event, which was held in theHome of Muskogee Lodge, will be made anannual affair on the social calendar of the Lodge.
Grand Exalted Ruler at MeetingOf Texas State Elks Association
Ihe second convention of the reorganiz'edTexas State Elks Association attracted to Dallasmore than 2,000 Elks whose enthusiastic participation promised a brilliant future for the Orderin the Lone Star State. -
The convention was called to order by Chairman Charles A. Mangold, Past Exalted Rulerof Dallas Lodge, No. 71, who welcomed; thevisitors and delegates on behalf of his Lodge.The principal addresses at this first meetingwere made by retiring State Association President Jack R. Burke, of San Antonio Lodge, No.216, and by Col. P. L. Downs, Past ExaltedRuler of Temple Lodge, No. 138, and a Trusteeof the Association, who was later elected President for the coming year. Following thespeeches the assemblage paid tribute to thememory of Gen. W. H. Patterson, Past E.xaltedRuler of Dallas Lodge, a member of the Ordersince 18S8. GeneralPatterson, whowas to haveoccupied a prominent position on the program,died a short time before the meeting.
At the afternoon session the following officerswere elected: Col. P. L. Downs, of TeijipleLodge, President; Otto Fullen, of Waco Lodge,No. 166; Reagan R. Huffman, of MarshallLodge, No. 683; Martin Kindle, of McKinneyLodge, No. 828; W. G. Bering, of BurkburnettLodge, No. 1489; A. A. Moody, of HoustonLodge, No. 151; L. T. Hoyt, of Mercedes Lodge,No. 1467, and N. J. Nanny, of BreckenridgeLodge, No. 14S0, Vice-Presidents. Grover G.Collins, of San Antonio Lodge, was re-electedSecretary, and L. J. Schneider, of Austin Lodge,Treasurer. Named to serve as Trustees wereI'red O. Grimes, of Hillsboro Lodge, No. 903;Charles A. Mangold, of Dallas Lodge; L. P.McSween, of Seguin Lodge, No. 1229; J. WillEmbrey, of Waxahachie Lodge, No. 280; M. H.Frank, of Lufkin Lodge, No. 1027, and A. C.Estes, of Eastland Lodge, No. 1372. Houstonwas selected as the meeting-place of the 1927convention. Social features that evening included a stag party for the visiting members,and theatre parties for the women guests.
At the meeting on the following morningColonel Downs offered a resolution lamentingthe death of General Patterson, which wasunanimously adopted and entered upon tHeminutes. A mammoth parade with bands,drum corps and drill teams, then preceded abarbecue picnic at the Fair park. GrandExalted Ruler William Hawley Atwell delivereda characteristically inspiring talk to the greatcrowd at the park, reviewing the work of theorder and emphasizing the importance of thecoming Grand Lodge Reunion in Chicago.Judge .Atwell later presented a beautiful silvercup to the band of San .Antonio Lodge, whichwon the annual band contest held that afternoon. A grand ball wound up one of the most
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enthusiastic and successful gatherings TexasElks have ever held.
Nebraska State Elks AssociationHolds Splendid Convention
The three-day convention of the NebraskaState Elks Association, to which Falls CityLodge, No. 963, played host, was one of the mostactive and enjoyable meetings which the Association has ever held. Formally opened wth anaddress of welcome by Mayor Roy O. Castle, towhich Exalted Ruler Joseph C. Reavis of FallsCity Lodge replied, the program included,besides the business sessions, social and sportingevents of all kinds. Delegates and visitors fromLodges all over Nebraska were entertained atdances and card parties, and many took partin the trapshooting and golf and bowlingtournaments and baseball games which hadbeen arranged. An event of much interestattended by many Elks was the Air Circus, whichmarked the christening of the new airport, onemile east of Falls City.
The following ofiicers were elected for thecoming year: A. B. Hoagland, of North PlatteLodge, No. 985, President; Thomas B. Dysart,of Omaha Lodge, No. 39, E. C. Mudge, ofBeatrice Lodge, No. 619, and Charles A. Laugh-lin, of Grand Island Lodge, No. 604, Vice-Presidents; Frank Real, of McCook Lodge, No.1434, Treasurer; Otto Nielsen, of Omaha Lodge,Secretary; Charles A. McCloud, of York Lodge,No. 1024, W. W. Jenne, of Falls City Lodge,and Walter Nelson, of Omaha Lodge, Trustees.
It was voted to hold the 1927 convention atGrand Island.
At the moment of going to press word wasreceived of the tragic death of Otto Nielsen, thenewly elected Secretary of the Nebraska StateElks Association. Mr. Nielsen was fatallyinjured when the automobile in which he wasreturning home from the convention swervedinto a ditch and turned over twice, seven milesfrom Falls City. He died before reaching ahospital.
Otto Nielsen, for many years Secretary ofOmaha Lodge, was one of the most hard workingand best loved members of the Order in theMiddle West, and his sudden death, just as hewas entering upon even wider activities, was ashock to his many friends and a deep loss to theOrdfer.
Friends Honor William T. Phillips^At Testimonial Banquet
More than 1,000 Elks crowded the banquetroom of the Hotel Commodore on the occasionof the testimonial dinner given by his friends toWilliam T. Phillips, Past Exalted Ruler andSecretary of New York, N. Y., Lodge, No. i, onhis completion of twenty-five years of continuousservice as an ofBcer. Many past and presentGrand Lodge and State Association oiTicers, aswell as oOicers and members from New York andNew Jersey Lodges, gathered to pay tribute toMr. Phillips' unselfish devotion to the bestinterests of the Order, not only as an officer ofthe Mother Lodge, but in the councils of theGrand Lodge and the New York State ElksAssociation as well. Thomas F. Brogan, PastExalted Ruler of New York Lodge, acted astoastmaster, and Henry Kohl, Past ExaltedRuler of Newburgh, N. Y., Lodge, No. 247,and Secretary of the Associated Past ExaltedRulers of New York Southeast, delivered theEleven O'CIock Toast. Other speakers wereJohn Edwin Dearden, Past Exalted Ruler ofNo. I, who made a presentation speech on behalfof Mr. Phillips' friends; John J. Martin, Exalted Ruler of No. r; William E. Fitzsimmons,President of the New York State Elks Association; Hon. Aaron J. Le\^, a member of No. i,and Justice of the Supreme Court of New York,and Hon. Maurice Blumenthal.
Pennsylvania Southwest ElksAssociation Elects Officers
At a recent meeting of the PennsylvaniaSouthwest Elks Association, held at AlleghenyLodge, No. 339, officers were elected for the
coming year. The new officials are Ralph C.Robinson, Past Exalted Ruler of WilkinsburgLodge, No. 577, President; William D. Hancher,Washington Lodge, No. 776, Vice-President;C. H. Roberts, Homestead Lodge, No. 650,Treasurer, and C. S. Brown, Allegheny Lodge.Secretary. After the meeting, dinner was servedin the dining room of Allegheny Lodge and inthe evening more than 200 Elks attended aspecial service held in his church by Rev.Martin F. Bierbaum, chaplain of the Pennsylvania State Elks Association.
Blind Ward of Dallas, Tex., LodgeTakes High Scholastic Honors
Miss Alloah Dallas Elks, an adopted daughterof Dallas, Tex., Lodge, No. 71, graduated thisSpring from the High School Department of theUrsidirie Academy in Dallas with second highesthonors in the class. Miss Elks, who is now nineteen years old, has been blind since infancy, andwas adopted by Dallas Lodgewhilestill a baby.In addition to her fine record in academic work,she is an accomplished musician and is planningan intensive study of the piano with a view tomaking music her career.
East Stroudsburg, Pa., LodgeBuilding Beautiful New Home
Work is now under way on the beautiful new$100,000 Home which East Stroudsburg, Pa.,Lodge, No. 319, is building. The plans callfor athree-story and basem*nt brick building, with afloor area of 42 x 85 feet. The top floor hasbeen given over entirely to the Lodge and anterooms. The Lodge room is beautifully planned,with a vaulted ceiling and delicate columns andpilasters decorating the walls. The anteroomsare shut off by removable partitions so that thewhole floor may be thrown together for largegatherings.
Stamford, Conn., Lodge HasActive Membership
Stamford, Conn., Lodge, No. 899, has anenthusiastic and active membership. The ElksFrolic which they produced a short time ago wasa great success, and the recent carnival, held ontheir lawn, netted a considerable sura of money.In addition to these activities the Lodge maintains an excellent baseball team.
Fellotv Members Pay TributeTo Dr. J. C. Hunter
At a recent meeting of Apollo, Pa., Lodge,No. 380, a resolution was unanimously adoptedexpressing the membership's appreciation of thelong and faithful service rendered the Lodge byDr. J. C. Hunter. For more than twenty-fiveyears, Dr. Hunter has been Esquire of the Lodge.He also served at one time as its Exalted Ruler,and has held the office of District Deputy GrandExalted Ruler. He has been most enthusiastic inthe activities of Apollo Lodge and in everythingpertaining to the Order.
News of the OrderFrom Par and Near
Charles R. Gould, of 12 South Idaho Street,Walla Walla, Wash., is anxious to recover anelk's tooth which Hale B. Gould, shortly beforehis death last December, is believed to have leftwith a jeweler, a friend, to be remounted. Thisoccurred in Portland, Ore., or betvveen Portlandand Harrisburg, Ore., and any one having knowledge of the whereabouts of this tooth will confera favor upon Mr.. Gould by communicating\vith him.
Jackson, Tenn., Lodge celebrated its 35thanniversarj' by initiating a large class of newmembers.
Natchez, Miss., Lodge presented a silver cupto Mayor Luther A. Whittington as Ihe citizenwho had done the most for Natchez during thepast year.
In the annual band tournament of the easterndivision of the Texas Association of Bandmasters
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the bands of Dallas and Temple Lodges, respectively, took first and second place in the"B" Fraternal Class.
Washington, D. C., Lodge will hold its annualouting for the orphans of the city early thismonth.
Franklin, Pa., Lodge entertained a recentmeeting of the Pennsylvania Northwest ElksAssociation.
The Homecoming celebration of Grand Forks,X. D., was a great success and was attended byElks from many northwestern Lodges.
\ class of more than loo candidates wasinitiated recently by Louisville, Ky., Lodge.This was the first of monthly classes of loowhich the Lodge hopes to initiate during thecoming year.
Millville, N. J., Lodge has received a letterfrom Gov. A. Harry Moore of NewJersey, congratulating it on its e.xcellent work amongcrippled children.
Freeport, N. Y., Lodge will hold its annualouting next month.
A group of entertainers, accompanied by alarge delegation from Santa Monica, Calif.,I^dgeputona show for thedisabled veterans ofthe Soldiers Home at Sawtelle.
Eugene F. Kohler, Secretary for eight yearsof Pasadena, Calif., Lodge has been forced toresign on account of ill heath.
Bergenfield, N. J., Lodge will hold its thirdannual carnival from July 3 to July 10.
Brazil, Ind., Lodge was bequeathed the sumof S5,ooo _m the will of Mrs. Samuel M. McGregor, widow ofa late member of the Lodge.
• fund committee has beenappointedm. McCook, Neb., Lodge to arrange plans forraismg money for a new Home.
Braddock, Pa., Lodge marked its 500thsession mth a number of special events.
Orange, N. J., Lodge is planning a series ofoutmgs for children from the various institutions of the neighborhood._Moscow, Ida., Lodge has purchased addi
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The Social and Community Welfare Com-mittee of New York, N._Y., Lodge is planningto add to the accommodations for members whichthe Lodge maintains in hospitals.
Washington, Pa., Lodge celebrated its twenty-fourth anniversary witha reception and banquetfollowed by danciiig.
Cedar Rapids, la.. Lodge isplanning extensiveimprovements on its Home.
Secretary Fred Parker of the Ohio State Elks-•^^^^P^tion, who was forced toresign on accountof ul health, has been succeeded in ofTice byHarryHale of Newark, O., Lodge.
Alexander J. McConnell, Trustee of Cordova,Alaska, Lodge, visited the offices of the Elks-Mag^ine and reported his Lodge in flourishingcondition, witha membership of more than 200.
Bronx, N. Y., Lodge played a very prominentpart m the large parade which celebrated BronxBorough Day.
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_ Orange, N. J., Lodge has accepted plans forIts new Home and it is expected that construction work will shortly be under way.
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