The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-10-27

~--~if>e't ttONii. Tie DdQ fOJkeu Will
some satisfaction at the reelection CIV
en- back by his hall mirror before he
left the house. In some vague undo
nned way he thought of himself q a
triumphant warrior setting out to re-
ceiye the victor's final need.
AS ne approached the turn IN the
road that gave upon the old Blair
place, he was conscious of a sort of
dizziness. Beneath his ribs his heart
thumped loudly. He threw back his
overcoat and told himself that driving
heated man. Then he wondered i
AIRS. Downs would regard him as in
sane II he should call upon her.
He rounded the curye-and there she
was, determined figure in a short
skirt and a wooden REFER jacket. \
red muffler enveloped her head and
throat. and crisp little ringlets blew
from beneath its close folds about her
animated face. Two men worked bust
ly under her directions, piling rocks
along the bank. The mayor pulled up
sharply. Mrs. Downs looked askance
until she recognized him. Then she
advanced with outstretched mittened
hand.
"Oh, Mr.. Hennessey" she cried Then
she laughed. You see, I'm building
my own breakwater."
'But-but," sputtered the mayor,
1--WE can't allow that, Mrs. Downs.
When a lady does us the honor to set
tie with US, she shouldn't have to-
have to-"
$50 I think myself, Mr. Hennessey.
hut l can't have the storms and the
river eat away any more of my land.
There's a foot gone in places since
came. So I contracted for these rocks
and I'm making a temporary wall.
Next summer"
Next summer. ma'am," declared The
mayor. with sudden decision. "theren
be two miles of as fine breakwater as
you'd want to see along this road.
And the city'll build it."
I'm sure ! hope So" said Mrs.
Downs with skeptical dryness of in
tCnation.
You have my word for ii, ma'am, ="
said the mayor at a summer tempeca-
ture of embarrassment. Then awk-
wardly enough he persuaded the lady
to permit him to drive her along the
road for a way and he felt thrlil
of pride when, looking doubtfully from
her shabbiness to his seal-lined Gle
gance, she averred that ''she WASH
fit
Back in the city hall by-and-by, be
sent for young DOnahue and for young
Wilson. Young Donahue learned that
he was 10 introduce a bill providing
for a breakwater along the River Way,
for a two-mile stretch of macadam
road. for the planting of new shrub
berry and for the cutting through of a
street behind the few dwellings, that
fronted on the river. Nothing but the
houndlessness of his belief in his boss
saved him from panic.
"Do-do you-think it'll go through -
he asked.
'Ttn go through" answered the
mayor shortly.
Young Wilson, tall, slim. blond md
indolent, had, for his uncies sake, to
draw a salary But he was a foolish
youth, scarcely fit even for the orna-
mental secretaryship created for him
in the office of the commissioner Of
docks. Today Mayor Hennessey de-
cided that he should earn his keep"
Where are you Twin, Wilson," he
demanded abruptly.
up at Mrs. Snyder's," replied the as
tonished Wilson.
The mayor considered how TO make it
up to Snyder.
Like it there2"
"First-rate place." replied Wilson,
reported in city hall circles to be ad-
dicte6 to the manicure habit.
Gould you mOve-tO oblige me?"
said the mayor. Mr.. Wilson bestowed
a sharper glance than usual on his
chief
shouldn't care to-" he drawled. Then
he explained. you see, I've been
there two years and it's homelike and
-er-" he finished with a shipper.
Making up TO Snyder's girl, Ell?
Well, what I've in mind would do you
no harm there You'll get her all the
quicker for not bein' under her feet
the whole time, and I'll square it with
the missus. Now Il want'-and he
scheduled what he wanted.
Of course he had his own way. Will
son might sigh and grumble and de-
clare that it was too far out for per-
son who liked TO see a little life of an
evening, but Wilson knew that he must
be persuaded or lose the easy secre-
tarpship, and he was persuaded.
All that week the mayors obscure
agents were busy searching the titles
of the River Way estates and bargain
ing with the g-disgusted holders of
them. Had Daniel Hennessey appeared
as a purchaser the owners would have
suspected expensive schemes and would
have held their land dear. But only a
few poor fellows, not even real estate
spectators, wanted to buy. They had
to buy on small mortgages. The es-
tates went very cheaply, and the mort
cages were cleared with astonishing
speed after the transfers had been
made to Mr.. Daniel Hennessey.
Then MIR. Hennessey worked with his
aldermen, his common council and his
board of public works. They did not
see at first, Just what was in it, but
under the guidance of their astute
ciieftain their vision gradually cleared.
Nearly two miles of river-front land
in his possession; a breakwater and a
macadam roadway in front; a street
opened through in the rear; a branch
of the main trolley line running along
that new street; what more natural
than the formation of the River Way
Real Estate company, the erection Of
villas-aI chocolate-colOred gables and
crushed strawberry porticos and shall
low cream-colored bay windows? A
great light began to break in upon the
municipal brains. Then there was the
Point, three miles further on, where
the river made it's deep dip and the
land was a wooded promontory. There
was a bear;i there-a fine sand beach.
Picture the macadem road and the
buttress against the water continued
to this point on one side and the troll
ley buzzing through to it on the other!
Was there anything the matter the
mayor would like to know, with organ