The San Francisco call., 1909-11-21

"The Cash Intrigue"

Price 81 80.
Phillip Kelvin, whose father had been
ruined by "the street" has nursed
scheme for revenge for years. He
has saved a little money and made
few safe investments and is ready to
suring his traps His scheme lis to
corner the cash of the United States,
and the details of his scheme he lays
before Henry Breed, the richest man
in the world Henry Breed is the
most trenchant characterization of John
d Rockefeller which has been intro
duced into fiction, and the illustrations
impress the fact on one throughout the
reading.
With Breeds unnumbered billions
back of him Kelvin can accomplish his
ends. Breed is the head of the bread
and cereal trust and he demands cash
for every loaf sof bread sold, and by
withdrawing this money from circula-
ton it is a comparatively short time
until he has almost all but that in the
United States treasury at Washing
ton.
Breed has a magnificent country
place at Fouse Lakes, aud under ms
palace there he has had vault con-
structed. when he built 1t he cal
culated how much money there was In
the I3nIted states and built in enough
drawers 10 hold 1T all.
..rThe vault was absolutely impreg-
nabIe Armies could not get through
II unless they knew how. The walls
u,ere six feet thick, of alternate layers
of steel plate and cellulose, which dy-
Mantle could not destroy.
The mower of money is shown In an
absolutely terrifying manner. Kelvin
and Breed wipe the New York stock ex-
change out of existence and then re-
establish it to suit themselves. When
the money question is solved TO their
act .1s I'm
tion. They have altered the entire
railroad map Of the United States and
hv series of the most remarkable
noana,,vers Kelvin is elected president
of the United States. The tale OF his
brief administration, abolishing the
government, proclaiming an empire
with Kelvin as its head. is wildly ex-
citing. and it is a tribute TO the author
to find oneself convinced Oh the plooa
bility of the tale.
The author pays tribute to the
American press which must be quoted.
It Is spoken by Kelvin enemy, one VINO
has been able to see through MIN ahq
read his ambition Alright:
.eISaIvin had one enemy he could not
throttle, and that was the american
nress, which. after all, is the stanch
Translation llpon which our liberty has
baan founded and upheld. Upon the in
slant of his proclamation Kelvin nad 4
censor ready to take ostensible charge
of every newspaper office In the united
states. He might as well nave put IN
fants there In some cases the censors
were intimidated, in others they were,
hoodwinked. In others they were bound
ana ospred and in some places Killed.
The naners the majority of them, came
ont with precisely the things any goou
American would expect them 10 say
under the circumstances.
THE soldiers were kept busy conHs-
eating papers and closing up newspaper
rIar+s hut as fast as they closed one
Tho naner was issued from some otaer
sonrce on borrowed presses and In Dor
rowed offices Several papers that os-
+ansihly oheved Kelvins proclamation
and issued censored Journals thor
oughly acceptable to him were at tue
same time printing the incendlary OF
cans of their rivals for them and AID
mo in their distribution. The eastern
newsnaners on the very first day issued
NV cali to arms. and. though the tele-s
graph was closed to u.s. wllnin Two
days the appeal was being printed IN
Chicago and at St Louis spreaolng
farther west every day since the ploc-
Iamation ."
So the press of the country, much
malipned was the only thing the ambi-
tious dictator was unable to control
with any surety.
Wireless te1egraphy plays an impor-
tant part In the book and is finally the
means of starting the opposition party,
anarchistic revolutionists, of course,
and riot and general havoc much blood
shed and other horror result
Two women figure in the book, one
wholesome and sweet, but the other
painted with too coarse brush. Lii
lian Breed, the granddaughter of the
Millionaire, is not like anything human.
With her training 1t is impossible to
conceive of such reversion
This book by far the most ambitious
by the genial creator OF Get Rich-
Ouick- allingford," a story of existing
American conditions. emphasized but
not exaggerated, and 1T should be read
seriously by American businessmen.
The book is decidedly melodramatic, but
II demands attention and is sure to
get It,
The Illustrations by M. Leone Bracker
are well done. and the book is artisti-
cally printed and bound.
A certain little fair haired Sylvia Is
the heroine of Grace Duffie Boylan's
wanna Yama Land" and a rare lot of
adventures she has. The book is the
outcome of the Yama Yama song. whose
grotesuue suggestions are to the Yama
Yama man. unseen, unknown, but
known to have a weird abiding place.
The author has traced him to. his home,
and every child of the fairy tale age
will follow. him there with wild de-
light. 1t is a fantastic tale but well
told and bids fair to be a close second
in popularity to the famous Wizard of
o. (Rei1ly & Britton company. Chi