Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1912-02-15

United Water Company, the Pied
mont Realty Company, the Fairview
and Portola Hotel Company, and half
a dozen more that I've got to refer to
a notebook to remembet. There's the
Piedmont Laundry Farm. and Red
wood Consolidated Quarries. Starting
in with our quarry, just kept a-going
till / got them all. And there's the
ship-building company l amt got
name for yet. Seeing as / had to have
terry-boats, decided to build them
myself. They'll be done by the time
the pier is ready for them"
For months Daylight was buried in
work The outlay was terrific, and
there was nothing coming'in. Beyond
general rise in land values, Oakland
had not acknowledged his Eruption
on the financial scene The city was
waiting for him to show what be was
going to do, and he lost no time about
it. The best skilled brains on the
market were hired by him for the diff
ferent branches of the work. Initial
mistakes he had no patience with, and
he was determined to start right, as
when he engaged Wilkinson, almost
doubling his big salary, and brought
him out from Chicago to take charge
of the street railway organization.
Night and day the road gangs toiled
on the streets. And night and day
pile-drivers hammered the big piles
down into the mud of San Francisco
Bay. The pier was to be three miles
long, and the Berkeley hills were de-
nuded of whole groves of mature
eucalyptus for the piling.
At the same time that his electric
roads were building out through the
hills, the hay-felds were being sur
veyed and broken up into city squares,
with here and there, according to best
modern methods, winding boulevards
and strips of park. Broad streets,
we'll graded, were made, with sewers
and water-pipes ready laid, and ma
cadamized from his own quarries. Ce-
ment sidewalks were also laid, so that
all the purchaser had to do was to
select his lot and architect and start
building. The quick service of Day
lights new electric roads into Oak
land made this big district immediate
iy accessible, and long before the fer
OF residences We're going up. The
profit on this land was enormous. In
a day, his onslaught of wealth had
turned open farming country into one
of the best residential districts of the
city.
But this money that flowed in upon
him was Immediately poured back
into his other investments The need
for electric cars was so great that he
installed his own shops for building
them. But no matter what pressure
was on Daylight, his Sundays he re-
served for his riding in the hills. 1t
was not the rainy winter weather,
however, that brought these rides
with Dede to an end. One Saturday
afternoon in the Office she told him
not to expect to meet her next day,
and, when he pressed for an explana-
ton
''I've sold Nab"
Daylight was speeches. for the mo-
ment. Her act meant one of SO many
serious things that he couldn't CLASH
fly it. 1t smacked almost of treachery.
She might have met with financial dis
aster. 1t might be her way of letting
him know she had seen enough OF
him. Or
Whats the matter?" he managed
to ask.
81 couldn't afford to keep her with
hay forty-fiye dollars ton," Dade
answered. "My brothers expenses
have been higher, as well, and was
driven to the conclusion that since
could not afford both, I'd better let
the mare go and keep the brother"
"Who bought herr" he asked.
Dede's eyes flashed in the way long
since familiar to him when she was
angry.
Don't you dare buy her back for
me-" she cried. "And don't deny that
that was what you had in mind"
81 wish you would reconsider, Miss
Mason" he said softly. "Not alone
for the mares sake, but for my sake.
Money don't cut any ice in this. For
me to buy that mare wouldn't mean
as much as it does to most men to
send bouquet of flowers or a box OF
candy to young lady. There's no.
body | feel chummy with except you,
and you know how little we've chum-
incidence a week, If it didn't rain,
on Sunday. I've grown kind of to de-
pend on you. If you'd just let me buy
her back"
mo, no; I tell you no." Dede arose
impatiently, but her eyes were moist
vita the momery of her pet. please
.CI , Hall