Imperial Valley press., 1914-03-23

dressing rooms, manicure and hair
dressing parlor and roof garden,
where tea will be served in summer.
There are 43 chambers, of which 20
are reserved for transients. The en-
tire eighth floor is big gymnasium
with shower bath and so on.
We were or the beautiful second
floor, where from balcony one may
look upon tasty mahogany furniture
and recessed windows. The effect is
grew and old rose
81 don't think this club will break
un any homes" | observed sincerely.
THAT tired wife and mother ought
to come back to father and the chill
Gren with a new bundle of sunshine
after an hour or two here.
There used to be an idea current
that the son of a very rich man could
not be good for anything. Some day
when l have an Industrious streak |
will name over for you a few of the
sons of notable men of wealth who
are taking part in the leadership of
New York activities. But right now
| will mention one example, John ID.
Rockefeller Jr.
With father so rich that he makes
men with an income of a million a
year seem only comfortably fixed,
John d. Jr. is about the farthest from
that legendary horror ''the idle rich"
that could be imagined.
Aside from what he is able to do
with his money, he personally works
hard in churches and Sunday schools
every week in his life. Any regular
preacher who could write and deliver
a sermon as we'll as John D. Jr.
would soon become famous and have
an important charge.
He personally goes outside the
church into the unsavory corners and
does sociological work which is so
utterly unlike that of the typical kid
gloved reformer that it defies rid
cule.
But John D. Jr is barred from an
opportunity which is open to you and
me. He can never be president of the
United States. His fathers money is
too great a handicap. His own sky
scraper mansion with express and
local elevators is an absolute bar
BY the way, John d. has new claim
to fame just now. He is the first of
the Rockefellers to patronize art eX-
tensively. For $350,000 he secured
20 Chinese porcelains known as
"Black Hawthornes." which were
made for the great Chinese emperor,
Kangh hi, under whom the art of cera-
mics probably reached the greatest
development in the history of civil
Zation.
That band of rufians, the New York
Stock Exchange brokers, ripped a
young mans clothes to shreds' re-
Gently and sent him flying into New
street, their back alley, with scarcely
enough apparel to conceal his naked
ness as required by law.
It happened this way. He is
brother of board member and looks
so much like his brother that a casual
glance does not distinguish them.
Thinking to have little fun by
breaking one of the Strictest rules of
the exchange and by smashing cher
ished tradition, he ran the gauntlet of
the door tenders at the New street en-
rance These men pride themselves
on knowing every member of the eX
change by his gait, shape, voice and
face But in he went. He wandered
about the big floor for many minutes.
Then somebody who knew his brother
especially well began to observe him
I closely
A whispered conference and then
the pack fell upon him. Off came his
hat, then his collar ard coat, end
when he finally emerged there was lit
tie Of the respectable in his appear
ance.
One of the wags went around to
John Connolly, the veteran on tba
main door. The intruder hadn't pass I'd
through this way but the wag told
Connolly he had. The old man was
much distressed, especially when the
joker added
"You'll let in Sam Untermyer
next"
Wood for sale Doors ranch 3
miles west Of Caleyico.-Ady. ii