Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-08-16

our home. The judge. Beulah Safds' father, is close on to 70, and l have heard mother and father say is stall wart, a Virginia stalwart. Being richl --that Is. what we virginians call rich.I . million or so-he has been very ac- tive in affairs. and knew before his daughter told me. that he was the trustee for about all the best estates in our part of the country. It seems from what she tells. that of late he has been very active in developing our coal mines and railroads. and that par ticularly he took prominent hand in the Seaboard Air Line. You know the road, for your father was director. and think the house has been prom inent in its banking affairs. Now, Jim, this poor girl, who. it seems. has re- gently been acting as the judges sec retary. has just learned that that coup of Reinhart and his crowd has com pletely ruined her father. The decline has swamped his own fortune, and, what is worse, e million to a million and half of his trust funds as we'll. and the old judge-well. you and can understand his position. Yet do not know that you just can. either. for you do not quite understand our vlr- ginia life and the kind of revered posi- tion man like Judge Sands occupies. You would have to know that to un- derstand fully his present purgatory and the terrible position of this daugh- ter. for 1t seems that since he began to get into deep water he has been relying upon her for courage and ideas. From our talk gather she has won- derful store of up-to-date business mo- tions, and I am convinced from what she lays out that the judges affairs are hopeless. and. Jim. when that old man goes down 1t will be smash that will shake our state in more ways than one.
 Up to now the girl has stood up to the blow like man and has been able to steady the judge until he presents an exterior that holds down suspicion as to his real financial condition, al. though she says ReInhart and his Bal timors lawyer. from the ruthless way they put on the screws to shake out his holdings in the Air Line. must have a line on 1t that the judge iK overheard. The old gentleman can keep things going for six months longer without jeopardizing any of the remaining trust funds, of which he has some two millions. and while his wife. who is an invalid. knows the judge is in some trouble. she does not suspect his real position. Ills daughter says that when the blow came. that day of the panic. when ReInhsrt damned the stock out of sight and scutfied her fathers bankers and partners in the road. the Wilson's of Baltimore. shf had a frightful struggle to keep her father from going insane. She told me that for three days and nights shs kept him locked In their rooms at theif hotel in Baltimore. to prevent him from hunting Relnhart and his lawyer Rettybone and killing them both. but that at last she got him ealned down and together they have been planning
 Jim. it vas tough to sit there and listen to the schemes to rscoue thzf this old gentleman and this eirf. for shs is only zi. have tried to hatch up. The tears actually rolled dovu ny cheeks as [ listsnsd: couldn't heio it; you oouldnt either. Jin- But d last out of all the plans coassdsr,t thsT fOant ouly oas that had tsnt of hops Id It a7d the ssrious mention cf sTs1 that ozes In. fr szy but prs ent ctrrunstxacss. would nxks you tklzk rs were c<sli1x Eit> lrrzflc.s