The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1914-03-05

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They looked at hin silently. haso
sad there . gray bead shaking IN -
CATION Ravns eye lighted
That's the idss!" said hs: -vs1l
sit tight"
He turned to catch the eye Of the
lsts objector. I'm going" said the
latter importantly.
And good riddancs!" said Joha
Rava calmly.
TN take care Of you for that. oss
OF thess days. Mr.. Ravn!-
Why not now!"
You'll see what IN do 70 you u
the market"
The market be -" said John
Ravn evenly. There isn't any mar
ket There isnt anything to buy or
sell II there il any stock offered.
I'm the market. right here and nov.
Go on and do what you can"
halsey rose and placed on the table
the little model which he took from
the case At his side. In principle. II
Was the same which had been shown
In the original denomination at st.
, Louis. long before. although in work
manship 1t was in this instance . tribe
more finished. showing more OF shin
ing brass and steel Halsey looked
| about hesitatingly.
Shall we use the fan again!" hs
inquired Of Mr.. Rawn.
Not on your life!" cut in Acker-
man. mo more fan bursting goes.
mt hn
on the table. a. you were showing me
the other day"
You gentlemen all know the gen
eral theory Of the invention" Halsey
went on. again assuming the post Of
lecturer. which Rawn once more Gra.
ciously surrendered to him. waving .
hand largely in his direction as though
In explanation to the others. Its
simply the attuning Of a motor to the
free electrical current in the air-the
wireless idea. Of course. You're post
ed on all this. Now. I've got some
little things here which will show
some Of the applications of our idea.
Well make . little track. for 4 rail
way train. and we'll run its motor
here with current OF our own, simply
by our receiver for the free current"
The thing was there to show for It.
self. As to the breadth of its applica-
tion, these men needed NO advice.
They were accustomed to the look
ahead. to the weighing Of wide possi-
bilities.
That's the travel OF the future, gen.
tlemen," said John Rawn soberly. at
length. They can take or leave It.
So can you"
Silence fell on that group Of gray.
grave men. The thing seemed to them
uncanny. although 30 simple. They
looked about. one at the other. A sort
of sigh passed about the room. There
sat at the table men who represented
untold millions Of capital. They were
looking upon q device which in the be-
lief of all was about to multiply these
millions many-fold.
Rawn was the first to break the
silence.
Gentlemen" said he. ."of course
this IL the big part Of our company
patents. and 1t 10 over this that we've
met today. You've been doubling my
executive ability. have shown you
what the prize is that we're working
for-there It is on the table. As to
the difficulties of pulling OF . thing
as big as this. they are bigger In this
case than could be expected or fig
ured out in advance. Our superin-
tendent. Mr.. Halsey here, tells me that
he Is having a great deal of trouble
In labor matters. The men are dis
contented. and what ia worse. they're
curious. all the time. We can't employ
Just any sort Of irresponsible labor,
and We can't complete one machine
we've got to bring them all through at
once. together-and indeed. got pretty
near to finish them all ourselves. We
can't take any people In on this Sc
cret, of course. 1t all takes time, and
1t all takes money. What do you want,
gentlemen? l can't do much more
than l have done"
And it's enough!" cried the beard.
ed man. his voice harsh, strident with
his emotion. We've got to have 1t!
Let's stick, let's stick. fellows! They'll
never shake US on. There is abso-
lutely no limit to this thing"
is that still the way you feel. Jim ?"
asked Standley from his end OF the
table.
Yes. it is: how about it. gentle
men?" answered Ackerman's deep
voice.
His eyes turned from one to the
other, and found no dissent. although
the air of each man was earnest, al
most somber