Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-07-27
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THE AIR LANES I
By
HERBERT Quick
CHAPTER XVII.
A BATTLE FOR THE AIR.
WXWY Eat is the business, Mr..
NV Craighead, Of the Untver-
sal Nitrates and Air Prod
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CHAPTER XVII.
A BATTLE FOR THE Am.

WV Craighead, Of the Univer-
sal Nitrates and Air Prod
ucts company?"
Mr.. Craishead. looking down into
Broadway from the window of his Of
fee, turned to the group of reporters.
"Gentlemen." said he. you are Grass
Roman soldiery. l am Archimedes
making calculations, and instead Of
allowing him to eQuate his equations
you javelin him with questions. Tell
the Journalistic Marcelli who sent you
that Ark won't be disturbed!'
"But about the Universal Nitrates
and Air Products company" said tat
man with perpetually poised pencil,
'.and its connection with the aeronef
conpany?"
''Merely fortuitous." replied Craig
head. 1.-The aeronef company is an
ephemeral agency for proit-and I
scorn it!''
"But you are director?"
"Oh. yes! Oh. yes!" replied Craig
head. But the greater things had not
occurred to me when went into it.
was Ill. / was under claim. was
chemicalizing in that reaction which
results in the product known as tung-
state Of alcoholism or magalo-conver-
sation. A natural monopolist, General
Theodo' Cahson. Nj. A., took advantage
Of my weakness and got me into 1t.
Honor rooted In dishonor stands, and
faith unfaithful keeps me falsely true,
and I stay with him in his fight with
Aerostatic Power. Then I shall give
nv whole attention to the Universal
Nitrates and Air Products company,
which is to the Carson raighead aero
nef as the rings of Saturn to those OF
q faro bank. And, to originate
phrase, that's going some!'
you're really good, Mr.. Craighead,"
said girl reporter, land If the
tungstate of your alcoholic days was
worse than this you ought to have
taken something for itj''
81 tried to-" confessed Craighead,
rbut DR.. Witherspoon expelled me!'
''But here's the stua ton as we get
It. If we're wrong. we'll stay wrong
unless you set us right
"'Oh. cursed spiter" recited Craig
head.
mo more tungsta,e. If you please"
said the young woman. 1.-THE Air
Products company was wildcat look
ing W. rginia formation to"-here
she re- ep.n clipping" to extract
free mt.o.;cn FROM the air by the
Craighead method or otherwise, for
the purpose of obtaining fertilizers to
thereby increase the capacity of the
earth for supporting population'"-
els that" cried he franhcally, Sin
our articles? Then all Is lost! Let me
take ity'
With shaking hand Craighead took
down the telephone and asked for Mr..
Eilley.
..This you. Fi1leyr' he queried.
"Here's something that ruins US. A
split inhnitive In the articles. Won't
hurt anything? Won't have to be done
over? And we call ourselves civilized
Craighead handed the paper back.
! "You have shocked me-" said he.
SBut never mind, dearie! know not
whether to rejoice for the Air Products
company or weep for institutions that
allow such solecism to be legal as to
thereby increase"
.'Well." said the reporter, sit goes
on to say and for securing all rights
n the atmosphere necessary for its
the production Of nitrates, ozones and
all other atmospheric derivatives and
for the securing Of exclusive rights in
the air over lands for all purposes
whatsoever Now, that" said she.
g for all purposes Whatsoever isn't
that pretty broad?"
IA broad intellect composed it."
'.These rights happen-merely hap
pen-to gridiron every state in squares
marked by grants and leases to the
Air Products company"
my child said Craighead. "do you
understand the Craighead method of
extracting nitrates from the atmos-
phere by spontaneous discharges OF
statical electricity from electrodes sus-
pended over the earth's surface?"
NO." she said. do you"
'sIt Is one of my specialties," said he
sTf might have you all to myself for
an evening would explain. but for the
nonce by-byv'
Mr.. Craighead took much pleasure
In his position as press representative
Of the Carson raighead Aeronef COM
pany. The Virginia, her builder and
the contest with Aerostatic Power
were matters on which the great dali
lies had men at work night and day.
This visit to the neighborhood Of
Ehayne's Hold was tantalizing mys-
terry. The mountain inn where the
Virginia had been laid up for repairs
had been visited by reporters and the
impossibility OF surface communities
tion between it and Shayne's Hold
pointed out. The mysterious Craig
head had leased for the Aeronef cor
poration the vacant aerodrome on the
roof Of this very building, gone back
to the inn, whence the Virginia had
sailed to their leased roof within an
hour. and not by Shayne's Hold. after
which Craighead was the news centar
from which emanated the most as
founding medley Of scientific. psychic
logic. mystical and mysttfyinG news
ever heard.
Then some one discovered that on
the day the Carson raighead company
had been formed the Universal Nj
trptes and Air Products company was