New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1910-08-31
"But you are a director ~

was i'll. was under a 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, M. A., took advantage
| of my weakness and got me into it.
! Honor rooted in dishonor stands, and
| faith unfaithful keeps me falsely true,
and l stay with him in his fight with
Aerostatic Power. Then shall give
my whole attention to the Universal
Nitrates and Air Products company,
which is to the Garson-C rafghead aero
nef as the rings Of Saturn to those Of
a faro bank. And, to originate a
phrase, that's going somer'
you're really good, Mr. Craighead,"
said a girl reporter, land if the
tungstate of your alcoholic days was
worse than this you ought to have
taken something for it."
81 tried to-" confessed Craighead,
"but DR.. Witherspoon expelled mev'
"But here's the situation as we get
it. If we're wrong, We'll stay wrong
unless you set us right"
"'oh, cursed spiteH" recited Craig
| head.
mo more tungstate, if you please"
said the young woman. ''The Air
Products company was wildcat look
ing West Virginia formation to''-here
she read from clipping to extract
free nitrogen 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
us that" cried he frantically, 'in
our articles? Then all is~Iost! Let me
take it!''
| With shaking hand Craighead took
down the telephone and asked for Mr.
Filley.
'"This you, Filley?" he queried.
Here's something that ruins u.s. A
| split infnitive in the articles. Won't
| hurt anything? Won't have to be done
over? And we call ourselves civilizedp'
Craighead handed the paper back.
"You have shocked me-" said he.
"But never mind, dearie! l know not
| whether to rejoice for the Air Products
company or weep for institutions that
allow such a solecism to be legal as to
thereby increase.'"
"Well," said the reporter, ut goes
on to say and for securing all rights
in the atmosphere necessary for it's
complete reduction to possession for
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,
"'for all purposes whatsoever isn't
that pretty broad?"
"a 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?
mo-" she said. do your
"It is one of my specialties,' said he
IF might have you all to myself for
an evening would explain, but for the
| nonce by-by"
Mr.. Craighead took much pleasure
| in his position as press representative
| of the Carson-Craighead 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
| Shayne'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 communica-
ton 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 center
from which emanated the most as
founding medley of scientific, psyche
logic, mystical and mystifying news
ever heard.
Then some one discovered that on
the day the Carson-Craighead company
had been formed the Universal Nj
trates and Air Products company was
| born, with directors and stockholders
identical with those of the Aeronef
company, and that they had spent a
great campaign fund in getting leases
and grants for the extraction from the
atmosphere Of nitrates and the like in
lines like those of Scotch plaid all over
the continent. The air over almost
every highway had been granted away
by the owners of the fee-the very
streets of New York being covered
so far as to cut the city into nearly a
hundred irregular blocks. The other