Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1913-11-15

complaints on the one side. his direc-
tors discreet grumbling on the other.
he paid as little attention on the one
hand as upon the other. John Rawn
bad a dream, and he knew that his
dream must come true. His dream
was one Of a wide-reachilg and relent-
/ less pOwer. shared by those few men
( destined by fate to own the sc-called
/ American republic. Let the people do
what they would all they could This
was his dream. 1t had come to him
in all its fullness one evening in the
great city of the east. He exulted
As to the industrial situation in In
ternational Power, Rawn now began
to prove himself a good business man,
and he received more and more the
( grudged confidence of his associates.
who came from almost every rank Of
big business. Through the aid and ad-
vice of these. bis private fortune be-
gan to ".o1nt up enormously. So also
did International Power make money.
/ The only sore place of the directors
overstrained nerves centered in affairs
at the gaunt building in the suburb,
/ where dozen mysterious machines.
toothed and armed, cogged and coiled.
still stood in a state of half-comple-
! ton, as inchoate and mysterious now
| as they had been at their inception.
There was something else, viii n
not the most suspicious guessed-John
Rawn himself did not know! His sue
| cess was a vast bubble Halsey was
/ the only man who ever had known the
/ full secret of mantling one of the mi
raculous receivers which they all had
/ seen and all had accepted Rawn,
| bold enough, kept this to himself, al
though he feared to go to Halsey and
make any demands. Halsey held grim
/ peace for months-indeed, for more
/ than four years in all, counting from
/ the first motor made in the Kelly row
/ woodshed. 1t was risky but for once
Rawn dared make no desperate move
Halsey talked little He was very sad
since the birth Of his hunchbacked
child Sometimes he talked to Vir-
ginia Delaware about it; never to his
/ wife, Grace
And still the seven days wonder Of
/ international Power remained to puz-
zle the Industrial world No inkling
/ Of the real intention of the company
ever got out There was, as Rawn had
| predicted. no market for the stock. for
/ the reason that it was not listed and
/ for the further reason that it was not
sold. 1t was held in a close com
munion of hard-headed and close
mouthed men, and there were no con
fidences betrayed. The thing was too
big to conform to ordinary rules In
the center Of all this stood the figure
Of John RaWn, suddenly grown large
and strong He ruled his army, Off
GERS. staff and line. cavalry. infantry
and auNiliaries as one born originally
to command lie brooked neither
parleying nor thwarting Of his will
except In one instance. He never made
any demands on Haisey. never gave
him any peremptory orders after that
one day in the Office months earlier.
/ before Halsey made his first trip to
/ New York.
These months seemed to have aged
+ John Rawn, none the less He grew
1 grimmer and grayer, more taciturn
and reserved At the clubs he was
one of the most talked-of men in town.
and one who talked least himself As
/ his hair grew grayer at the temples.
his jaw grew harder, at the corner Of
his chin coming the triangular
wrinkles which go with hard-faced
middle age. Enigmatic. self-centered.
( he could not have been called a happy
man. lie smiled but rarely, joked not
at all engaged in no badiuage. told
no stories found no lighter side OF
life. played no golf, had no vacations
Like some vast engine Of tremendous
/ driving power he went on his way. ad
| mired in a city and country full Of
able men. as one competent to hold
his own with the best and strOngesC of
them all. And still of all his traits
stood out the one of self-confideno2
He played a game of enormous AMI
continuous fundamental risk by
reason OF Halsey, Incidental by reason
Of his widely ballooned market opera
tons. yet his nerve held Moreover.
he was learning the price of success
an absolute devotion to the means Of
success When he learned that the
child of his daughter was not a son.
but a girl. and that It was a bunch
back for life. sad-faced. unsmiling
child he set his jaws for moment
but said few words OF coincidence.
either to his daughter or her husband.
In the headuuarter Offices vast.
smooth running business machine had
now been built up. RaMn was an or
sanizer The taXness and tooseress of
the old railway offices in st Louis
where he had eot his business school
ing. were missing IN tho headquarters
OF International Power. Employees had
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