The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-12-16
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| tunity os Mir. Hubby Frank. He too | habitually wore black coat, used 2 | season ticket. and sat on leather seated stool. He was employed oy 2 | hrm of accountants who held annual | audits for one of the smaller pupilc | offices; and Miss Annendale. drawing, | was therefore able to describe ner fu- | ture husband as something under GOV ernment. But you know what ens Civil Service is nowadays. Hubby and I are going to have nothing to live on but bread and cheese and love. with prospects of attaining sooner or later to welded bliss. perhaps the Hili Rise girls, if they in their turn anaiyz- ed causes and consequences. were now grateful to, rather than angry with' Mir. Crunden for setting them on tne roll downhill.
 ."Tis an i'll wind." said Mir. Selby, l "tbat blows nobody good This was when Mrs Padfeld took Number |. River View And Mrs. Padfield was foi- lowed into River View by Mrs. Page and Mrs. Chudleigh. Three of the ne- glected houses of this gloomy and un- fortunate terrace thus found tenants thanks to MT. Crunden.
 "Tis fust the other way about to | what I expected" said Selby. 'Ye've empted your own houses to fill mine. young Crunden. Twill he the mak- ing of meme a'ask, in paying inter est on the mortgages, will De hghter now, to what it was - and me poor young wife will haveNher treat once III a way with the rest of the world" Indeed. to any candid and unpre1- udiced observer, it must have been ap- parent that many people in Medford- besides old Selby and the marriageabie young ladies--had derived benents from Crunden's initiative. If. still trac- ing things back to their source. you ascribed the advent of the London anu Suburban Trust to Crunden. you found more and more people who should have thanked him instead of upbraiding him. The sleepy town seemed to have shaken off it's torpor Medford-when compar- ed with it's stagnant past--was plain ly booming. In less than three years Ii 900 pounds had been added to the rateable value of the municipal bo- rough. and the borough rate hao fallen 4d. in the one pound. Popuia- tion had been drawn to Medford: over two hundred new families had come into Medford, and not one family had gone out of 1t. Wherever you turned. you could see evidences Of prosperity from the brick and tile yards down by the river, to the new toy department at Selkirk's extended premises. Trace had never been so brisk; all the shops were thriving: the weekly circulation of The Medford Advertiser had gone up nearly a thousand; the Railway Com- pany was giving better train scrV- ice, and promised further to increase and accelerate it. Certainly the place was now overbuilt. but 1t would soon fill up; and the prosperous town couio afford to wait in patience for the hii- ing-up process, even if delay meant ruin to Mir. Crunden.,
 MT. Hope, of The Advertiser, was the
 first obseryant person who candldly confessed that there had been utflta- rian gains as well as sentimental losses from the changes on the Hill. MT. iops had come to Kings Cottage for an ai- fable business chat with Crundens clerk It distressed MT. Hope to see all the Crunden printing go to MT. Mees the statfoner These pamphlets, leaf- lets, and so forth,-"excellently writ- ten pieces, MT. Vincent 2 Why not let MT. Hope run them off at The Adver- tiser oflce? At least let MT. Hope have a fair share of the orders. And MT. Hope scoffed at Mees and his spectacled son-not printers at all-stationers who pottered about in a back room with a hand-press, like children play ing.
 Really, I doubt if Mees has advanc- ed far. either in technique or machin cry, from Cexton in Westminster Ab DGy. 1Ou hHOW tuC PlStoAC' NsAAs A.t cent,-a very beautiful thing with which used to refresh my eyes as a Iad-on the walls of the National Gal lery often and often-when studying shorthand at the Putnam School.
 Whereas in The Advertiser works we can challenge comparison with the up- to-date machinery of a big London daily Give us A chance. MT. Vim cent of showing what we can do.'
 well think about it," said Jack; "though. upon my life, don't see why we should reward you for slanging us every week for three years. Old Mees gave us more or less friendly on-dits from the first
 Then MT. Hope talked very pompous- ly about his organ, and very bitterly of his rivals sheet. You must not speak of The Bulletin in the same breath with The Advertiser. He told Mir. Vincent that an organ of public opinion. such as The Advertiser. was mighty en- gine--it needed very skillful guidance.
 We'll said lack crudely. will you reverse your mighty engine, and go full speed astern-if we make 1t worth your while by sending down few or ders?"
 But at this crudeness. MT. Hope was for q moment offended.
 Not for thousands of pounds" said MT. Hope staunchily, would l tamper with my trust or print one line that did not convey my firm conviction.
 "Of course" said Jack. laughing. "Onlv my joke"
 q do not, however, pretend to infal- libility, Mir. Vincent. Tempora mutan- tur And this I can say at once. It IS my business to gauge public opinion and for some little time have detect ed symptoms of a change in public op- inion. 1 should call it the turn or the tide" said MT. Hope, with excessive pomposity. ITO be frank--so Tar: MT: Crunden's operations have not injured the town in the manner we all anticl- pated. We are beginning to see that we were too hard on MT. Crunden.
 Jack smiling. made expressive pam tomine. with his right hand he pushed down an imaginary lever. and with ms left onened an invisible valve:
 "Half-speed astern. eh. MT Hope?
 "The turn of the tide. MT vincent Nothing else. I have here" and MT. Hope tapped his forehead. the germ germ of a series of articles. Title: The New Medford"-descriptio week by week, of the development and altered conditions of our town. Tn these ar ticles-if they are ever penned-justfce shall be done to MT. Crunden. I could not conscientiously pen this series without doing tardy justice to MT. Crunden."
 MT. Hope, ere he allowed Jack Vim cent to continue his work, promised that Miss Irene would pay call on Miss Lizzie.
 My daughter has lost sight of her favorite, but would be pleased to re- new tho old pleasant intercourse. Pray