The Republican journal., 1913-05-01
May Magazines.
THERE BE LIGHT.

}ltten eyes roved cease
he corrugated horizon.
n clouds thrust constant
southwest. and were as
ed across the city by the
that had been blowing
These he marked casual
.ged in the blur of gray
whipping viciously from
the great stacks around
sck cloud thrust a ragged
iof Staten Island, twenty
lounting rapidly, it hur-
ION of the weather-bitten
is approach ere the on
rad fallen on the wrink-
he bay. simultaneously
I'd to a telephone booth
me roof ridge. His lips
the transmitter before
ased in volume, and tier
S flung out vast exhala-
. vapor as though clear
lie lungs for a coming
cain at his post, noted
nee of midday gloom.
he reached for the tele-
s first message another
a long chin and hawk
eceived it impassively,
10 a lean, nervous hand
buttons. A hundred
the chiaroscuro of the
lmber sprang into light.
tor had demanded that
rs Tor instant use. Two
Nn the concrete aisle
.N levers. In three sec
aaught was doubled. In
sharp pop of lifting
their story.
We seconds were very
TEN operator. In adj
either side, were two
-lrved switchboards.
vas controlled and dis
4rr that vitalized every
{ the whole system; and
telligence the system
e switchboards in the
nd. Swifter than from
sped his imperative call.
marble curves men
$ glued to dials whose
pulsed with the myriad
Ions of invisible clients.
them stretched viewless
ny the mysterious cur
turn itself governed the
lat produced it.
we're lords of the engine
weight and a quarter
vertical engines, they
mes the power. Theirs
# progress high note
i'm speed of six miles a
sharply into the lower
ging verticals. And it
ipes that the switch
1 the black cloud was
Island, and there was
the bay and a scamper
Battery Park.
stole swiftly north
the lower fringe of the
a thousand hands
rlousand switches, de-
They got it. The mid
pit on. In five minutes
unan hive, from Wall
Square, from the Hud-
River. Millions of men
abors only long enough
They all got it. There
they all got it. in the
turbines were success
life, their stupendous
ore and more swiftly
moment of speed and
g snored into the labor
U-chanism. Behind them
.cals-"We are coming,
e not so last, perhaps.
. r4ciprocal certainty -
trembling needles -
Dad sharply rose the
,ug the stupendous out
sand emergency horse
.Jtes
any more?'' throbbed
Was satistied-s satisfied
usual Indifference that
paid for. Alan Sulli-
Magazine.
g TRAMP SHIP?
hip is a tramp be-
The world over, carry
4utageous cargoes she
rroceeding to any port,
ilfamiliar and remote,
lest taxes her; she is
cause she goes about
f poverty. Quite the
There are great tramp
wealthy and powerful,
Lat fly these flags are
respect, equipped with
image, and most COM
led in respect to the
u.s. When his vessel lies
mp captain appears to
shore onlooker to live
agreeable sort. AS a
yer, the captain him
eupation in no such high
dom that he urges his
En profession; but the
d wilful progeny, with
N in far-off lands upon
lien than not follow in
captains may graft
. Tor romance, it is true,
nited way, after all; and
or material prosperity is
The cash return is little
Inc responsibility assum-
and lives carried
$ of anxious weather, of
at sea, of lonely and mo-
.. the wage is not much
commonplace bookkeeper
=.
d junior officer aboard a
would outrage the feel
t otfice-boy; the pay of a
q shock a bank clerk. But
ieer becomes a captain,
.cally doubled. When the
II years of ambitious ser
-'Ves, and the Well-trained
ITO command of a small