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FELIX RIESENBERG
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6QACE P;CD
SYNOPSIS: Johnny Breen, 10
years old, who has spent all his life
aboard a Hudson'river tugboat, ply-
ing near New York Oity,'. is made
motherless by an explosion which
sinks the tug and tosses him into
the river. He swims and crawls a
shore where starts a new and strange
life. He 'is ignorant, cannot read,'
and knows nothing of life in a great
city:... Beaten and chased by toughs
he is rescued by a Jewish family
living off the Bowery in the rear •of
their second-hand clothing store. ,
Here he is openly -oourted by the
young daughter. Breen fights bul-
lies in self-defense . and soon is
picked up by an unscrupulous man-
ager who cheats him—until "Pug"
Malone at the saloon -fight' club, at-
tracted to the boy, takes Trim under
his wing, , . 0n the other side of
the picture are the• wealthy Van
Horns of Fifth Avenue. There is a
Gilbert Van Horst, last of the great
family, a bachelor, in whose life ate a
hidden chapter with his mother's
maid—who leaves the home—to be
lost in the city life—when Gilbert is
accused . . It was reported the
maid married an old captain of a riv-
er tug—rather than return home—
and was soca a mother. -.Under Mal -
one's guardianship young Breen, de-
velops fast.—"Pug" discovers the
boy cannot read—starts him to night
school and the world cotmnence> to
open for Johnny Rreen.—Malone, an
old-timer, is backed in a health -
farm venture—:taking Beeen with
him. There they meet and come to
knew Gilbert Van Horn. John at-
tracts Van Horn, who learns of
Tereen's nether, named Harriet,
Learning John's desire for an engin-
eering course at Columbia Univer
city he advances the money. Joh
omnes to know Josephine, Van Horn's
ward, and during r his school
years
fall; in love with her, Graduahne
as a Civil Engineer he gets a job
with a great contraction comaany.
working in New Vert:, Breen has a
rival for the love of esenhine, a
rich man of the world by the name
of Rantoul. Rut John wins out. 14n
proposes and Josephine accepts.
Preen Rives all his attention to t+is
jab which wert'ies Van TTm•n—Tvinally
Josenhinc groes tO Part% for bee
treussenn. And et the last moment
Rantoul axile an the same beat.. ,
At sea the gent oer+an liner orasirec
into en acetum`,• aha ri,+l-a—ail pus-
soeenrs tolcinn• to filo B"nhnai..,
NOW GO ON WITH TIIE STORY
tegeei
Boats were swinging, chocks were
being dropped, bard drumming man-
ila.falls were dropping on the deck.
Many seamen were calling far away
Into the boat. "Lowes way—lower!"
The boat began to fa 1, 'Gerrit Ran-
toul, his head swirnniing. Pitched for.
ward into the boat, lying in the dark,
Josephine, dropped unceremoniously,
sat up beside him on the bottom
boards, "Where are we, oh, where
1 are we?" .she demanded.
"Hold ala!" the boat was at the,
level of the promenade; a crowd of
�
passengers surged to the rail, meet-
ly in negligee; men wild-eyed, dos-
Iborate; women crying. After an in-
terve] of false quiet, they suddenly
Began to realize that the great liner
was actually sinking. The horror of
it! the great floating palace sinking
into the waves—it was inereclible!--.
terrible!
"Who's in that boat?" An officer
in charge of the deck had jumped
on the raiI; a pistol gleamed in hie
hand,
A. woman, sir!" The sailor failed
to see Rantoul, who lay stunned iu
the bottom. Rantoul, Conning to his
senses, tried to struggle to his feet.
people were crowding in an top of
"W''men endchildren!" The
rail wti% clear and lout). One man on
the rail was 'Earned back. O'rhers
eten"ed 'eek. Women and children
fiat! The rule of the sea!
The brat began to fill, women were
tumbled in, pell-mell. "Hold on, clo
you want to swamp that boat?" The
Erre falls began to creak as they
t^et^hod ander the weight. Rantoul,
pushing un through half-clad hys-
terical .e?rral women; tried to frame the
words. "A than here!" He ahnos'1
said this. Joscphi» e, rumpled, agit-
eted, indignant. pulled him down.
"Sit c'• 'wn, you fool!" She jerked
him with a spasmodic pull that drop-
ped him flat beside her. The k.•tt
was lowering, lowering, a black
wall of the ship's side lifting before
them. They'stopped with a sudden
splash in the sea. The water was
agitated, all about them boats were
cit'opping into the water. Far up a
banal of light marked the promenade
and yellow dots spotted the rows of !
lighted ports. Boats capsized, men
called and women cried. Then sew l
er•al women got out oars, Josephine
among them, •and they pulled awk-
stern high in the air, a towering
'black inonolith, a gravestone, pois.
ed for an instant. People in the
boats, Josephine and Rantoul, eye;
wide with horror, heard a deafening.
roar, a .rending of heavy steel. The
boilers and machinery had torn loose,
of their own weight and dashed
downward through the resounding.
coffin of the hull. Frightful reyer-
berations tumbled over the loader)
boats and the people still struggling
in the ;ice-cold water. It was a last
loud protestof the dying Titanic, a
horror heard for miles over the calm
indifferent sea.
A pool of greenish white, throw-
ing back wave rings, marked the
spot where the high stern plunger)
out of sight. A huge hand, appar-
ently, had taken it by the nose and
yanked it down.
• Only faint cries and a 'disorderly
clu%ter of overladen boats remained.
Much of confusion and very mac).
of nobility and assorted and divers')
stories, legends and myths, came
to shore with the survivors, picked
nn by a rescuing liner, called to the
disaster by the radio.
Gilbert Van Horn, last Of the Van
Horns, as the paper% all had it, stoo I
forth in stories of the survivors, a
I figure heroic and worthy. At the
very la,t be died is gentleman, a
brave gentleman, calm and unafraid,
Van Horn had placed Mrs. Went-
worth in 'a boat, so Aunt Wen was
saved. He had called along the deck
for Josephine. 5
p Some me
one assured
him she had been taken aboard 11
haat. Then he calmly helped lift
rhildren And olcl people into beats at
the roil. He stripped off his owe
Gnat and waistooat and took the out-
er garments of wren standing near,
wt.:inning y'oung'sters• helping ervinn
mothers. nn from the steerage. 'hud-
dling along the unaccustomed deck,
whin with terror.
The stories of the last moments of
"People in the boats heard a deafening roar as the boilers and
machine:'' tore loose of their own weight and dashed downward."
0
and near. "Steady there! Easy!
'Ere sir. Right ere! handsomely,
men! All right. Swing aft, swing
forward!"
Their voices rose amid the clamor
of the steam. Beats were turning
outboard over the side. The ice wall
has disappeared. It was merely a
precaution.
Had the great Titanic struck the
ice? Was she sinking? But there
had been no sh o^ a:, he kept thinking,
no shock. Perhaps -but the thought
was untena,'ale, impossible. Perhaps
h
there hr. had been a shock when—when
he was unaware of anything but
Josephine. The, thought froze his
mind, He must do something. Why
in hell did that woman keep clinging
to him? The escaping steam was
deafening, it began to moderate.
thank heaven., He must rouse him7
self; her.
"Josepliine, dear! Josephine," he
palled, •close to her ear.
"All clear, beats?" A lend rough
voice of authority was shouting ai
bove the clock, calling through a
megaphone. .
"Stand by to lower!" "Aye, aye,
sir!" A sailor was answering. He
stood near. Josephine and Rantoul.
"A woman, sir!" lie called.' The boat
had swung outboard and was at the
level of the deck on which they stood.
"Steady' now! Steady!"
"Better lift her in, sir. "The words
were addresser) to Rantoul, "Quick,
before we lower. Yes, we're sink,
ing." Rantoul staggered to hie feat.
Josephine had swooned. He held her
limp and heavy; half dragging hen
he stgagered acrnee tae mews of
ropes on deck, "This way," the
seaman pushed him. His, knees trem-
bled, the bent over, passed Josephine
wardly away from the dread shadow
of the stricken hull. '"Get an offing
before the under suction gets you."
IA cheerful roan, high on the ship in
,brass buttons, shouted through a
trumpets Everything seemed unreal, I
something that could never happen;
the things that .often happen.
I A band, high up on the deck, was
playing, unrealmusic, a tune no one
remembered. Hundreds of heads
bobbed aboutonthe
black
sea.
"For
God's sake give me a hand!" Boats
were so laden they struggled out oil
theman
hu maelstrom ofeP
<i s crate
clutching fingers and grabbing
]rands. Tho sound of the band waft-
, ed over the cries. Tho black hull,
i suddenly looming in lofty proportions
, against a sky of stars, stood hril-
, liantly alight. The graceful storm
I lifted from the Sea. Forward com-
partmcnts were filling. The sharp
proud stem of steel was dipping
slowly, out of sight.
The Master, captain of tragedy,
, after many, many years, stood high
on the tilting bridge alone. The sea
of ruina slowly s s owly coming up trf
,claim hen, He made no . effort to
gain a life belt or strike out for a
r'a:ft or boat. I
• The long rows of lights flickered,
flared up forr an instant as the 'dy-
namos took an unusual list, and then,
suddenly, the band had tumbler) a-
way, the moans continued less loud,
cries were lost, the lights went out.
The whole scene,' for a moment was
in impenetrable black. As if shak-
iing itself, dripping off cascades of
dull greenish water, tho giant hul:
rose upright on its stem, men and
:fittings, like a sudden. squall of rahn,
falling from the decks.
Al! atrcmllyle the tremendous hull
Gillbert Van horn marked him a
man utterly unselfish and brave!
hundreds of others rose to the sub-
lime in their last hour, and others
were blackened_ and cursed, and looked
upon with suspicion liecaase of their
rescue. Gerrit Rantoul, among the
survivors, had sdifficulty in explain-
ing the cause of his being in a boat.
'Some' very ugly stories were about
Men hadbeen shot, trying to crowd
into boats.
The story of the rescue preceded
the return of the survivors.
(News of the loss of Van 'Horn
had come by radio. John Breen was
at the pier when the rescuing ship
came in. Great confusion prevailed,
"Miss • Lambert left a few minutes
ago, in a taxi, with a lady and a
gentleman." The steward described
her and Rantoul. Come to think of
it Gerrit Rantoul'§ name was not
among those listed as saved. But it
could have been no one else. John
going on board with a pass, had ex-
pected her to wait for him, at least.
He felt bitterly disappointed. He
telephoned the Van Horn home,
"Miss Lambert is in bed. No, not
seriously sick, sir, just shocked and
worn out. She left no message."
out, before seeing you. It has been
a terrible shock, to her, to all of us,
Poor Gilbert." The judge 1ookec>,
about the room, at the pictures of
Van ,Horn, Harboard, Malone, and
Josephine, on the narrow mantel
shelf.
"John, I came up here to speak to
you plainly." The judge settled him-
self. Jchn lit a pipe and looked past
him, out the window. "Gilbert Van
Horn was your father." Judge Kelly.
spoke plainly.
"Yes." John kept looking; away.
His •eyes were suspiciously bright.
(Co itinued Next Week.)
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Two days later, with no news of
Josephine, his heart bursting with
the enormity of the loss of Van
Horn, John received a visit from
Judge Kelly. Pug Malone and Har -
board had just left. He was looking
out of his sitting room window over
the shaft. John then had quarters
alone. Mailing and Barrom having 1
keen transferred to another section
of the work. '
"Conte in. Judge." I•Ie was glad
to see the old gentleman.
"Whew, John, I'm in need of
something, a few dozen years taken
off, I suppose. Walk-up houses, I
think that's what they call 'em, keep
the populace in good' condition,
Well--" He looked about, puffing
and wiping his forehead.
John took his hat and stick, and
the old friend was seated. "No,
thanks, John. I'm going easy on the
weed."
"Have you heard anything from
,Tesephine?" John asked anxiously.
"Ts she all right?"
"I ohne from there, John. She's,
all right. I saw her for a moment.
privilege of an old family friend.
She has been through a hell of an
experience, John she looks it. She
said she wanted to get straightened
ay
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F
GODERIOM: Charged with as-
saulting 1ilalcolrn Beaton, Seaforth
butcher,; .Joseph Ryan appeared be-
fore Magistrate Reid ion Saturday :.
afternoon and was remanded until
Thursday next for trial. During an
altercation Ryan is alleged to have
slugged Beaton over the 'head with
a chain, the wound caused requiring,
niedifal attention. The use of the
chain is denied by accused. Hn ap-
peared in answer for a summons!,
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A young tailor complained bitterly about
.his poor business, "I make just as good clothes
EIS 's do," he said, "and I sell them for
less, yet 's get most of the business of
this district,
This young tailor felt that men ought to
Find all about him that they should search
him out. He didn't •see that it was his job to
make known to all men the fact that be made
good clothes and sold them at attractive prices.
----- s, on the other hand, advertised their
,business, and, of course, men went to them for
their clothes,
It's the same all the world over—buyers go
where they are invited to go. They buy, in
largest numbers, from those who give them in-
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prices. This is exactly as it should be.
Why shouldn't
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The world) likes to buy from keen sellers—
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Dumb retailers may be fine men, may give
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Tide wise retailer runs his business in line with what buy-
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