The Huron Expositor, 1920-08-06, Page 6THIRD OF VANDERBILT
DYNASTy IS DEAD
William Kissam Vanderbilt,- who
'died in Par's last week, was the
gratulsen of Cornelius, and Cornelius
was the old Commoiore. the founder
Of 'the Vanderbilt fortunes. Re made
his Start by operating a ferry from
his home in Staten Island to New
ork City. He saved his profits and
investedin ro.ilroads. Since then
railroads have been the depository -of
the Vanderbilt fortunes just as real
estate has been the favorite of the
Asters, and in developing these rail-
road properties William K. Vander-
bilt did his full 'share. • It is admitted
that neither the sons nor the grand-
sons of the old Commodore drsplaye
ed the remarkable inoneyemaking
gifts of the founder of the family,
but that was hardly to have been
expected, for Cornelius Vanderbilt
was one of the most remarkable men
of his generation. Yet both William
H. Vanderbilt, the son of Cornelius,
and William K. and Cornelius, grand-
sons, were business men of high
atanding, and it is probable that had
they not started with the Cornelius
fortune and prestige they still would
have achiev'ed success.
William' K. was of the third Van-
derbilt 'generation., Long before he
was born it was plain that ift Van-
derbilt would have to work for his
living if he did not wish to do so.
His grandfather had left one of the
largest fortunes in the United States
when, he passed out, and his son
William H. greatly added to it. Yet
William IL Vanderbilt had no idea
that his sons should be brought up
in idleness. Neither did he have any
particular reverence for the higher
education. He trained his boys with
the sole object of having them cap-
able of looking after themselves when
the time came that they should be
the heads of the tar -flung Vander-
bilt interests. His son William had
his primary education in the United
States then was given a trip, abroad
l'ORTUNFIS Wttilt MADE. a eke:, aa.e. eeeeeeeeaeleeeelake:
.itrafters of -United States Deasy Duro t attomai Orudg3
ing the War.
Astounding revelations of graft, I Attacked by Owen Wider.
mounting into the ‘millions, In the
supplies shipped to the United StateS "
Expeditionary Force during the war
have just been made in the codrse of
,taking an inventory on army Stocks
carried from the United States to
Prance last year. The French auth-
orities terho „went over the goods have
mete kitiown the sordid. story. • is not unusual for a noVelist or a
At one American Expeditionary poet to be e moulder of public oi}in-
Force depot there were found to be ion, but on this continent only an
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and studiedfor awhile in Switzer-
land. Thence he returned to learn
the railroad business from the point
of view of the man who is destined
to own railroads. He worked first
in the office of the treasurer of the
Hudson River road as a bookkeeper
and was advanced from time to time
as he mastered his work, until at
' length he became the chief director
of the Vanderbilt interests.
When he came into this position
he had clearly-defined ideas about
the relations between railroads and
the public. He believed that only in
a vast territory 'producing diversified
goods could cheap and efficient rail-
road, service be given. He held that
a. railroad sheukl not have to de -
Vend upon another road for traffic
and that winter and eummer it
should have no procession of
empty freight cars going or coming.
This meant a ,programme of buying
into ether systems that served ter-
ritory untouchedi by the Vanderbilt
lines, and which could, supply them
with all -the -year-round traffic. Un-
der W: K. Vanderbilt the system had
some of its greatest expansion. W.
R. did much to develop freight for
his lines by becoming a shareholder
in numerous business concerns that
needed capital. In his relations with
employees he had the reputation of
being fair and honorable, though he
eiever aspired to set an example that
..man like Henry Ford might follow.
For 'many years past W. K. Van-
derbilt lived in France, where he
devoted himself to the sport ofehorse
racing. It was a source of regret
to American footmen that he did
not take so much interest in the
sport in the United States, for, apart
from unlimited wealth, he was par-
ticularly keen on racing, and a man
well calculated to improve both the
sport and the type of thoroughbred
in the United States. He was a
charter member of both the Jockey
Club and the Coney Island Jockey
'Club, and the largest shareholder in
-the latter organization from 1900 to
1910' It is supposed that he was
the owner of George McCullough
-when that horse ran second to
'Greenland in the Grand Metropoli-
tan Stakes at Jerome Park in the
early 80's, but that the ownership
was kept secret for fear of eiziting
the wrath of Vanderbilt, senior, who
was well content that he should him-
self display all the horsiness for the
faMily. Twenty years ago he paid
the late C. F. Fleischmann, the yeast
king, $25,000 for Halma, end at the
same time bought a number of
mares from Pierre Lorillard.
These he sent abroad, and: it is
-from them and from a number of
first-class mares that he bought from
James R. Keene that the many fine
horses bred at the Hams du Ques-
nay stud descended. At one time
,er another Mr. Vanderbilt won prac-
tically every French classic. Twice
he won the Grand Prix, once with
Northeast and once with Brumelli.
From 1900 until 1910 he dominated
the list of winners on the Frenoh
turf, and at the time of his ,death
yanked third. Mr, yanderbilt was
more than once a member ef the
syndicate to build an America's Cup
defender, and he also gave the prize
money that made the Vanderbilt
Cup race the Derby of automobile
racing in the United States. It was
in sport that he found his chief plea-
sure in life. Inherited wealth, he
said on' one :occasion, was no benefit
to anybody, since it is as certain
death to ambition as cocaine is to
encrality.r Yet a year ago he is re-
ported to have given to his daughter
Consuelo, Duchess of Marlborough,
$15,000,000. In the war Mr. Van-
derbilt gave generously, and for his
benefactions was made honorary
president of the Lafayette Escadrille,
and presented with the rosette of
the Legion of Honor.
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NEWEST NOTES OF SCIENCE
A New York inventor has patented
a child's muff formed like a doll.
More than seventy-five per cent, of
the pictures shown in British motion
theaters are „American productions,
Great Britain having imported more
than 81,000,000 feet of film from the
United States last year.
Milk can be kept cool without ice
by the use of a new porous earthen-
ware cover that will hold a quart hot,
tie and keep its temperature down by
evaporation, the cover first being sat -
vested with water.
Einaking to Americans
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WEN WISTER has taken a
tbatique place among. the lit-
erary men of the 'United
States. Over in England it
piled up a full mile of eases marked
"bottles of ink," or "canned food.
occasional man becomes a force in
Only the top layer of each box con-. I the national life. Owen Wister is
s'..sted of full bottles or cans; the rest one of the few. He madeeliis repute. -
of the bottles and cans were empty. tam that almost a generation agO
Hundreds of thousands of pairs of with his stirring Western novel ."The
"woollen" undereloths were found to
be cotton of the poorest quality, . Virginian,".and for many years he
while a vast number of 'cases delg- was known merely as a virile teller
of stories. It was after the outbreak
of the war that he made his reputa-
tion as somewhat of a prophet, He
attracted attention with an article
afterwards publiehed in book form,
entitled "The Pentecost of Calamity:"
In it he interpreted the meaning of
the struggle between the autocratic
idea and the democratic ideal. He
told the people of the United States
in plain language that the Allies were
'fighting their battles, and that while
his country might be waxing fat and
prosperous in a material way, other
nations were finding their souls. It
Was a daring book to publish at a
time when the atatesmen( ?) of his
country were preaching the doctrine
natea. as containing clothing w re
either empty or refilled with a jum-:
ble of material in the worst possible
eoridition.
Investigation showed that at an-
other depot there was five miles of
supplieS, including beds, munitions,
jam. shaving soap, gasoline - and
oven more than 50,000 cases of baby
underwear, baby stockings and baby
bonnets.
The French are frankly puzzled by
these remarkable discoveries, and are
wondering what possible use the
Americans could have intended these
things for.
The cltpot at Gievres, which covers
a space more than one-third the area'
of Paris, is chuckful of this kind of
"army supplies." It is estimated it
will take not less than 'five years to
sell all the stocks piled up there.
Meanwhile, due to the insufficiency
of staffs to handle the stocks, mile
lions of dollars' worth of supplies are
rusting and spoiling.
The First Agriculturist.
"Long before the -Advent of man
on this old world of- ours; the worm
was the first agriculturist," writes
Mr. Leo Walmley in John o' London's
Weekly. "It was he who tilled the
ground so that the great 'coal' for-
ests mtght grow in,such luxuriance;
it was he who mined and tunnelled
under the first Eitars and grass -lands,
cast up the hard lifeless earth so
that.it might drink the invigorating
air and sunshine and charge itself
with vital plant foods. It is he who,
since time immemorial, has been the
faithful- slave and untiring assistant
of mankind and civilization. He is
nature's own ploughman, but he has
done more real hard graft in his time
than all the ploughshares ever
forged.
"What he is after when he bores
his way through the ground, natural-
ly enbugh, is food, particles of which
are extracted !rem the earth. He
does not possess any 'special boring
apparatus, but he can make the skin
that surrounds the front part of his
mouth so thin that it easily nioves
along through the grotind. The body
of the animal is literally a tube, and
as the earth passes' through the lat-
ter is twisted about and chewed by
various.7orga.ns; it is treated with a
special juice to neutralize the strong
organic acid it contains; the food par-
ticles are absorbed, `a,nd then it is ex -
yelled, in the shape of a worm -like
casting, at the surface of the ground.
This process goes on -day and night
without ceasing, and in- time the
whole layer of earth that was origin-
ally a. foot or more below the sur-
face is brought to the top and exposed
to the beneficient action of air, frost,
and sunshine.
"The belief that the worm is of the
very lowest orde of animals is total-
lyrk erroneous. e earth --worm pos-
sesses not only a heart and blood
circulation, but also a complicated
nervous system and a primitive type
of brain." , t
Choldng in Alligator.
"In the spring of 1889, when I was
'learning how to grow and cure coffee
and pepper in the sultanate of Jo-
hore," writes a contributor to the
Wide World Magazine, "the planta-
tion manager and I one evening row-
ed across the river to a new clearing
to see how.the work progressed. We
wore our swimming clothes, and as
we drew -into the beach I dropped
overboard.
"I had been swimming for a short
time when suddenly I was grasped
by the waist and flung into the air.
The next moment I discovered that I
was the prey, of an alligator that had
misjudged its grip. When I fell back
into the water, the brute closed his
jaws on my right leg and shook it,
as if trying to wrench it off.
"The manager and the coolies cams
running to the edge of the water, but
the manager dared not use his rifle,
let he should shoot me, or launch
the boat, lest my captor should carry
me off.
"Suddenly an idea came to me.
Bending forward, I pushed my right
hand into the alligator's throatand
groped among the hot, soft folds of
flesh. Managing to get a grip on
them, I pulled with all ray strength.
The flesh in my hand hardened, then
the brute choked, gave a cough like
I a blast from an air valve, and liter-
ally blew me out of his mouth. Need-
less to say, I lost no time in reaching
the shore. My right leg was so badly
injured that I could not stand, and
the coolies had to carry me to the
manager's bungalow,"
A Nautical Superstition.
A curioui exemplification of an old
nautical superstition occurred recent-
ly in the Calcutta river, when the
Port Commissioners' tug Retriever
was sunk by colliding with a vessel
she was towing to sea. Sailors affect
to believe that it is particularly un-
lucky to name any vessel after one
which has been sunk. In 1887 an-
other Retriever, after which the pres-
ent one had been named, was sunk
in the same river, and curiously
enough, under very similar circum-
stances. The first Retriever was also
towing a sailing ship to sea, and in
her case, too, collided with it and
went down, while the ship as in the
present instance escaped.
Watches small enongh to be M01111t-
"ed on finger rings are being made by
a Paris jeweler.,
_ OWEN WISTER.
of neutrality; And appealing to all
the worst forces of greed and smug-
ness and vanity to be found in the
nation. But Wister proved to be
right and the others were wrong, In
the end his countrymen accepted his
point of view.
Once again Owen Wister has come
forward to take the unpopular side
in a great controversy. Novi that a
presidential election is looming up in
the offing, the American politicians
are feturning to their favorite game
of twisting the lion's tail and throw-
ing dirt over the fence into the
backyard of' their, Canadian neigh-
bors. This vilifying of the British
Empire is part of a deliberate cam-
paign, led by men of the Hearst type
and other trouble -makers of equal
notoriety. Wister has =Written a book
entitled "A Straight Deal, or the An-
cient Grudge," in which he attacks
his opponents boldly. He shows how
ignorant the masses of his country-
men have always been regarding the
ideals of the British, and the con-
tribution of the British people to
civilization and the progress of the
world. Probably no American has
ever written such a fair-minded book
concerned with the relations of the
British Empire' and the American re-
public. It is *a manly and straight-
forward effort to bring about peace
and friendship between the two Eng-
lish-speaking nations. He traces the
ancient -grudge against England to
three causes, the school text hooka of
the United States, the various Poli-
tical controversies from the Revolu-
tion to the Alaskan boundary dispute
and certain differences in manners
and'customs. He points out at length
that the grudge has been largely:one-
sided, and that England has been to
the United States, on the whole, -more
friendlyi than unfriend1y1 He urges
better relations because they will
make for the sa!ety of the civilized
world. Of course it goes without say-
ing that Owen Wister has the support
of the best element in the United
States, and it is to be hoped that he
will once more prove to be a pro-
phet and that the bulk 'of his country-
men will read and'digest what he has
told them in his book, as they did
when he wrote the much discussed
"Pentecost of Calamity."
A Famous Bridge.
Hell Gate Bridge represents a mass
of 19,000 tons of steel alone. From
pier to pier the arch spans an inter-
val of 1,017 feet, making it the long-
est steel arch in the world, and the
heaviest bridge of any description
ever built across an obstacle. Two
siaSsive towers support the enormous
weight. They rise to a height of 250
feet on each side of the river. The
end of the bridge rest upon four pon-
derous shoes of cast steel, each
weighing 500,000 pounds, the largest
castings ever made.
e Rider of .the
King Log
. Continued from Page 7
lcins,of the directors' board. "When
I failed with her Itin afraid you
suspected that I had not used my best
efforts, Colilonel. I'm sorry because
you have been insulted, but Pm glad
that you are having an opportunity
to see. for yourself."
"There's no doubt about the atti-
tude she has taken! And she will
come swaggering here like an Irish
bully starting for Donnybrook. There's
no place on thie river for that kind) of
a spirit," declared the colonel. "Our
interests are too- big to be imperiled
by the antics of a foolish girl, puffed
by importance?
"This new -woman notion is run-
ning mighty close to hysteria," said
Mr. Deakins. "We must deal with
her on that basis. It's kindness to
take a _loaded gun away from a reck-
less childe—it's for the child's safety,
most of all." ,
In that frame of mind the gentle-
man oft the Temiscouata, waited for
Clare Katanagh!
Colonel Marthorn, 'from what he
had heard and what he had experienc-
ed, had excellent foundation for his
belief that the Kavanagh heiress was
a rude, • self-willed, obstreperous
Amazon in her new role. He walke
to the window and looked out into the
night. Across the river the Kava-
nagh camp -fires flared. ,They were
like banners that proclaimed' her in-
dependence. It was arrogant declara-
tion, from his viewpoint, that 'she
preferred her rude shelter to his well
housed hospitality.
Clare had her own viewpoint, too,
but it was sadly racked by doubts at
that moment. Motherly Elisiane
had tucked the blankets about the
girl and' had laid herself down on
her own cot in the little tent. The
fire which Dumphy tended radiated
warmth which breathed *upon Clare's
cheeks, and the curling flames made
pictures for • her eyes. She lay there
and stared at the fire for along time,
seeming more child than woman in
her swathings of . blankets.
-"Are you' awake, Elisiane?" •
whispered,
"Oui, manitselle?
"But don't get up. I don't want
anything!" A pause: "Elisiane!"
"Oui, mam'selle!" •
"I am ashamed." . There was
mourning in the tone. Elisiane,
astonished, sat up on her cot.
"I ought to have told somebody
abbut it long ,ago, Elisiane. I am
speaking out so that my own ears
rimy hear and burn. Haven't you been
feeling—now be honest—be my friend,
—haven't you felt that I ought to be
ashamed?"
- "Pouiquoi; maneselle?"
"I 'have swaggered about! have!
Perhaps you wouldn't notice it in my
gait—but I was' swaggering in my
heart! I have ,bragged. All cow-
ards brag. When the Temiscouata
men came to me I bragged about
what I would do and what I would
not do. They must know how to
read character,. They must know that
I'm a coward'. I am suspicious of
most folks. - I. have poisoned my own
mind right along.. I was a wretch at
school. I ..1*ve insulted persons over
-and over, just as if I didn't know any
better. I thought I'd be propping up
my pride by coming here and camp-
ing like this. But I'm only ashamed
—more 'and more ashamed, They're
looking over here through those big
windows and saying that I'm vulgar,
discourteous, insulting. It's all true.
I allow My ugly temper to rule me.
I won't consider *hat the demands
of good -breeding, are. I have cheap-
ened myself by coming down here in
this fashion.* I didn't even explain to
Colonel Marthorn why refused his
invitation.' I'm ashamed, Elisiane!"
"Pshaw! Wit' all you! money!
Phut! You, be so good as he is!"
"No, Elisiane!"
Mining Under the Sea.
The Leva,ne Mine, near St. Just,
„the scene of the recent disaster, is
one of the richest metal mines ever
opened in England, and has the pe-
culiarity, that most of its -forty
leries lie under the sea. The lowest
gallery but one, indeed, runs straight
out below the water for a mile. Once,
many years ago, the sea broke ill and
wrought havoc, and only by the most
unremitting watchfulness can the
mine be safeguarded from flooding.
For mixing liquids a wooden rod
with four loops of wood at one end
has -been invented.
•
she
overshaelewe'd everybOdy else, in, sight
on that memorable day of encounter.
"From what you have heard them
,say about her up in this section:—
men who really know her—how had
I best handle her, Kenneth?"
"As ,a human being."
"The advice is flippant, sir."
"Not when it's construed on the
broad basis of a square deal. But I
really have no adviee to give you, dad,
Furthermore, I have no special hank-
ering to remain during the confer-.
ence,"
"You must stay. In case she dis-
plays enough intelligence to have the
storage plans explained, we shall have
to eefer to you for information. But
this talking to a girl! Why hasn't
sh-6 brought some of het bosses with
her -2"
The colonel's irritability, still sha-
dowed him when Clare entered, the
th
big room, and e girl hesitated when
she saw his face. He owned up to
himself that he had expected leer to
come in with head thrown back and
nostrils dilated, picturing thus in his
mind the crass Kavanagh spirit of
grudge. But Clare had come in
chastened mood from the Gethsemane
of her self-reproach. She was exact-
ly what she seemed to be—a trembl-
ing slip' of a girl, now really fright-
ened at her daring to meet men of
affairs and of finance on matters 'of
business which, 'without dubt, they
understood, much better than she.
The pause etas rather awkward.
Colonel Marthorn was decidedlydis-
composed. by her demeanor of appeal-
ing humility and felt that some sort
of amenity ought to preface blunt
business.
"I am sorry you did not care to
accept the hospitality of Sebomuk
Farm, Miss Kavanagh."
"I think I have more reason for
sorrow, sir! I apologize for what
must seem to you an inexcusable at-
titude; Will you pardon me if I ask
you to. let the matter rest without
further words?",
The colonel bowed. "My- daugther
Cora is with me. Perhaps before we
sit down to our discussion of busi-
ness you may like a little talk with
her."
"I thank you, Colonel Marthorn,
but,' please, may we not attend to the
business at once?" '
He gave her a seat at the big
table in. the Middle of the room and
the gentlemen of the Temiscouata
directorate tooketheir seats. In spite
or some very natural reflections re-
garding the nature of her courage and
her grit, Kenneth-Marthorn, standing
apart beside the window, found in
the situation a tableau which suggest-
ed a maiden martyr...in the presence
of the judges of the Inquisition.
The colonel, from the head of the
table, explained why he had come into
,the north country. He tactfully a-
voided all refereieces to past; troubles.
"I'll tell you ffankly what the Great
'
Temiseouata wants Miss Kavanagh,"
he went on, "even though feel that
the gentlemen who have interviewed
you in the past have explained the
thing well." -'
,- "I think I understand, sir."
"But a thorough understanding
should have produced better results,
in my opinion. All interests will be
better, served if one company controls
the Toban: Our company needs more
land, more timber. We have millions
invested in mills and must not run
the risk of any hold-up of the drives.
My son Kenneth—I'M glad you have
already met him—is making a gen-
eral survey of the section's hydraulic
problems."
• Clare did not turn, her head to fole
low the colonel's gesture indicating
the young* man.
"We have secured, many of the old
charters for darn privileges—we ex-
'‘Go snap you' finger to bees nose
—like as you snap your whip in the
face of Marthorn jeune!"
"Don't! Don't!" She shivered in
her blankets. "Don't reminds me of
that face. I have tried so hard to
forget it. I hate it. When I shut
my eyes I see it and am ashamed." .
Elisiane snuggled down on her cot;
she did not understand clearly and
felt incapable of offering sympathy in
a case of this sort where her advice
had been so promptly rejected. When
drowsiness overcame the dame her
last look showed her that the 'girl's
eyes were wide open and were fixed
on the ,fire which was framed in the
tent's opening.
f
Colonel Marthorn, waiting the nexorenoon for "the swaggerer," saw ik
canoe put off from the river -bank op-
posite the Sebomuk Farm. Clare
came up the hill alone. The man who
had ferried her remained at the shore.
Kenneth stood beside his father in
the broad window.' The skies were
gray and an occasional rain -shaft
smeared cold moisture across the
glass. 'On the wide expanse of the
windeswept slope the Ellin' figure,
bending against the blast from the
north, seemed pathetic in its loneli-
ness.
"By the way, have you met that
'girl there since you have been in this
section?" the colonel asked' his son.
"Merely in a casual way—once."
The president of the Temiscouata
scowled and tapped rim of eye -glasses
against his teeth;' he had the air of a
man who had had his predetermined
calculations upset and was called' on
suddenly to make new plans. It was
certainly difficult to reconcile what he
was looking on with what he had been
expecting. "As I remembered her
she was husky—a bold -looking young
hussy," he muttered, his very vivid
prejudices digging into an extremely
oozy and slippery memory; John
Kavanagh's personality had quite
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pect 'legislation to give us new and
a4ditional rights. It all points, to a
si.n'gle-headed control of the river
and its tribIttaries. And that's the
reason, Miss Kavanagh, why the
Temiscouata wants to buy out the
X. K., 'as your company is called, I
belinve. We want all rights and titles
and we are willing to pay the price
the. appraisers agree on. Pardon the
comment, but I should think 'you'd be
glad to be relieired of the responsi-
bility you have assumed."
She replied gravely and in low
tones. "Colonel Marthorn, I feel that
if we discuss this matter any further
we shall come to arguments, and
arguments may stir fresh: quarrels.
Argument, ftirthermore, will not pre-
vail with me. I have definitely ma'de
up my mind. I say this respectfully,
but I mean what I say: I will not sell
the X.' K." *
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equipment and. supplies."
"Mr.. Deakins is better acquainted
with that phase than I am. What do
you say, Mr. Deakins?"
"Independent operating in these
days is wasteful and slipshod. The
Great Temiscouata has a forestry pro-
gram which must be developed by
strict following of policy. °thee -
,wise we won't be protecting our in,'
vestment in mills. It is absolutely
impossible to aMev- independent oper-
ating if tive are to carry out our
policy." \
The girl at straighter in her
chair, color touched' her cheeks. "I
suppose I am talking like a mere
woman instead of like a person deal-
ing with straight business," she ade
milted. "But there is something in
the X. K. that doesn't belong with
straight business, It is a big thing
for me just as it was for my father.
It is the soul of the X. K."
Colonel Marthorn smile&
.. "That sounds trite, but I don't
know how to put it any stronger.
The X. K. has a soul, gentlemen. Its
the spirit of the men who work it.
I know what sort your men are—I
have watched them come and go! They
are always coming and going. They
are mostly vagabonds whom city em-
ployment agents haire scraped up for
you."
"It is not always possible to hire
a full complement of nature's noble-
men for thirty dollars a month and
board!" said one of the directors.
"What I said does n'ot call for sar-
casm, sir! I'm trying to avoid lit on
my own - part. I might suggest,
otherwise, that when your company
hires men who run away from their
jobs up here and forfeit their pay
the Temiscouata gets considerable
labor for nothing. And they go
-straggling south from the Toban and
turn into thieves and vagrants who
raid farms and terrorize honest folks.
Most of the X. K. men own homes
and have families. Against what
sort of competition am I putting those
men if I sell out?"
"We are traveling far afield, -Miss
Kavanagh," objected the president,
"If we should sit here and assure
you that we can settle the labor prole=
lems of the world we should be mis-
leading you with. falsehood."
"I don't know much about the labor
i3roblents of the world. I ant deal-
ing with a labor problem right here at
home, Colonel Marthorn!"
"The men will naturally adjust
themselves to new conditions. But I
can neither predict nor promise what
the new conditions will be."
"I understand that perfectly, sir.
That's 'Strictly business talk. Busi-
ness can't afford to dream. You can't
predict what will become of the homes
in Sainte Agathe, in Sobois Settle-
ment, and in the other little avillagee
the men of the X. K. have built up.
Nor can I predict if you have set out
to have your way in these parts. But
I can promise, sir. I promise my men
that the X. K. will not sell out.
(Continued next week.)'
There was a long silence. Clare
broke it. I suppose there is nothing
further to be said.I realize that this
seems like folly to gentlemen who
understand business. So not take
up your time eeith explanations of my
folly."
"Just a moment, Miss Kavanagh,"
interposed Colonel Marthorn, a grim
set to his jaws. "Your decision to
carry on this warfare along the To -
ban does need some kind of explana-
tion!'
"I do not *propose to eerier on any
warfare, sir. I only want to keep'
my father's business together because
he gave his life to it, loved' it, and
died believing that I would carry it
on. He was on the river before you
came here. Isn't there room for all
of us?" she asked, plaintively.
, "The question must be survey from
another viewpoint, Miss Kavanagh.
We propose to invest ,large sums in
permanent dams. We admit frankly
that the matter of -riparian rights and
ownership along the river is so badly
tangled that endless litigation is in
sight unless one, faction gets out of
the way as gracefully as possible.
I would' not have put the things as
bluntly as you have—that there is
not room for' all of us on the Toban.
Let us say that good business sug-
gests that the Temiscouata should
have full control."
"What becomes of the independent
operators, sir? There are more than
fifty of them who have done business
through the X. K., and they have all
of their Money tied me in camps,
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