The Savannah morning news., 1904-06-05

Ten miles o. electric railway sepa-
rated Arthur BRENT from AliSe Lathro7
and happiness.
They haG been engaged with the
fll consent Of Mr.. Lathro3, cashier Of
the san Sarat5s Bank. until the pro
seq 81 connecting the town with the
Park Hotel had arisen. and on this pro-
,c.>t. 4 vet.y ten miles II iron track,
has thcsr happiness been wrecked.
Larhrop had never believed IN the
PARK Hotel scheme. and he had been
5. lacking in public spirit as % rejoice
oIenly when IL failed 70 draw the eN-
Dacte6 patronage from California tour
ISIS. who declined, in this day and age
OF progress, to make the thoGsand-faot
grade on The backs OF patient but not
over-rapid burros,
II was at this junCture that Arthur
Brent. superintendent and manager Of
the municipal electric light plant, had
suggested -he electric road TO the
mountain peak. and had tried TO in
corporate a company TO install the road.
The matter had come before the direC-
tors OF the San Baratos Bank, and the
loan had boon secured in the face n
its cashiers most strenuous objections.
which added fresh fuel to his anger
against the young man. And the en-
gagement had beer broken of, for Alice
was the only daughter of her father,
and he a Wido0er.
Rrent. certain of her love, and com
fcrted by her assurance that II he could
win her father ) consent the engage
ment should be renewed, threw him.
self body and soul into the new project.
and now the great day had come-the
car was to make its trial trip up the
irCline. with hall a dozen prominent
citizens. including Mr.. Hail. president
OF the bank, and the Mayor, as Arthur's
guests
All the town was al the foot of the
ircline to see the start-all save Alice
and her father Grieving that she could
rot accept her lovers invitation to
share in his hour of triumph. she stood
i'll the vine- powered window of her own
room watching the interesting scene
through a pair of strong fieldglasses.
She saw the crowd sway about the car.
gay with flags and flowers: she saw the
crowd part and the car start forward
scross the level tract beyond the town,
then un the mountain side. until 1t
looked like a vari-hued fly creeping to-
ward the Park Hotel among the clouds.
Then a mist came before her eyes. and
she wondered why a girl Of twenty,
very much in love and very fond of
life and the good things thereof, should
be forced 10 choose between duty and 4
newer stronger love that was very,
very sweet indeed.
And all the while, in the narrow
bank Henry Lathrop bent over his
papers and scowled, because of a town
gone mad over a foolish fancy of a
foolish youth.
But the car made its trip without
incident and plunged down for an
other load. Back and forth it ran like
a Jerry shuttle, all through the beau
tiful spring day, each time taking a
fresh party of merrymakers to the
mountains summit for the manage
ment of the Park Hotel was Celebrat-
ing the innovation and the promise of
big patronage during the tourist sea-
SON. There was to be a dinner at
night, followed by dancing, TO which
everybody who was anybody had been
hidden. without money and without
price
And on each trip Arthur stood at
the right hand of his motorneer, with
keen eye on the roadbed, the brakes,
the slightest variation in the schedule
time of their running.
At four o'clock he announced that