The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-04-29

tie of life down on Park Row. The ceaseless turmoil that Is always a skirmish, the picket line always busy. and the scouts doing more than a gen. eral of a mere fighting brigade of mere soldiers with gun and bayonet. Billy Woods portrait full length, all most looks like this: Young Woods could not only talk on every topic un- der the sun with an intelligent ra- pidity that made slow thinking men blink-and with Illuminating facial expression which made women look for them-but, what was far more import ant to himself and made him more en- tertaining to others. he could make others talk whether they wanted to or not"
 It is well to have an adoring biogra- pher. and 1t Is but fair in a creator having made hero to stand up to him.
 Billy not only made bank presidents and sphinx-like foreign ministers open up to him. but also tne heart of the girl whom he worshipped.
 Even Mrs Metcalfe. argus eyed aunt of the beloved. who called Billy "noth- ing but reporter" could not. with all her machinations. win Frances heart from Billy for a mere millionaire" As contract to the reporter. here is the portrait full length. almost, of young Townsend. his rival In love: with men he was seldom so much I at ease. Most of them looked upon him | at a homeless millionaire of the less prevalent type. who cherished honest if visionary ideals of bettering the | world and spoke rather too frequently | of Wealth as a Sacred Trust. and said nothing about the unsacredness of the | tenet by which his wealth had been 1 acquired"
 I Francis and Mrs. Metcalfe do some FAu
 two lovers Now, my dear. no doubt this hand some young Bohemian-seems very romantic and fascinating to a girl of your age
 Do you know I never think of him as exactly fascinating?'
 Dear dear is 1t as bad as that? My child you were left motherless at very critical age' You were left
 husbandless at rather critical age | When young man squanders all
 his patience in one year | Isn't that intimatingY
 Tn folly and wickedness- | "A dark past! that makes such a
 fine background for brilliant fu- ture.'
 MT. Williams masses his courtship-
 scores as brilliantly as guardian
 masses his colcas. He gives us a
 mere millionaire' declaring he will | fight to win his hearts desire, and
 a reporter missing his train and all
 for love on the selfsame evening, in
 the selfsame lawn, for love of the self
 same girl.
 1 Park Row is the stage of the most
 of the story. All can guess the identi-
 ty of the great bright sheet whereon
 Billy Woods worked: 'The closely
 printed pages of the sprightly paper of
 which they were all so proud" He sketches with startling truth and | fine enjoyment the office and the staff from Day till Dark and from Dark
 till Day. He gives us peep into the | immortal Amen Corner" All the
 plot and all the plotters. as well as
 the innocent victims and the lion in
 the tolls are massed at the opera. The | Big Steal Is in and no man but Billy
 Woods nothing but a reporter can
 stop it.
 ', The old generals bill has been by the omission of just "a comma
 changed from a great and beneficient l move for the city's good to a vast
 opportunity to graft, and Billy is the
 only man to crush the bill, expose the
 gang and right the general.
 How Billy does 1t the reader Will
 want to learn for himself.
 Billy not only won the fight, but the girl and the appointment as London correspondent The mere millionaire grew a nobleman and heartily shook
 Bllly's hand, while Frances's Yes proved that dreams had come true. The immense possibilities of romance m the great newspaper world have been crystalized with a brilliant story lDy Jesse Lynch Williams.