The Huttig news., 1914-01-31

CHAPTER I-Jackson Jones, nIcknamed Broadway" because of his continual i oughfare, is anxious to get away from his home town of Jonesvile. Abner Jones, his uncle is very angry because Broad way refuses to settle down and take a place in the gum factory in which he sue ceeded to his fathers interest.
 CHAPTER TI-Judge spotswood informs Broadway that $250.0a0 Jeff him by his father is at his disposal. Broadway mal-es record time in heading for his fav- orite street in New York.
 CHAPTER III-With his New York friend Robert Wallace, Broadway creates sensation by his extravagance on the White Way. Four years pass and Broad 1 way suddenly discovers that he is not l only broke. but heavily in debt He ap- 1 plies to his uncle for a loan and receives package of chewing gum with the ad- 1 vice to chew it Gnd forget his troubles He quietly seeks work without success
 He had no profession, knew no trade. Half crazed with the obsession that he must no longer rn in debt he decided to sell out the flat, dis charge the servants and do menial labor. Running through the list of his abilities he decided. with frank self-contempt, that about the best which he could do was help in a hotel l as bellboy He knew too little about mathematics to keep books he never would succeed as desl1clerk. But he could not bring himself to try to get job of that sort--it would too often bring him into contact with the folk he knew
 One afternoon. while wandering in | O ojp atr ha saw card in front of an apartment house announcing that an elevator boy was wanted He rushed in with alac- rity and deterruination-and at the very threshold net Mrs. Gerard. who had been calling oa friend there. In. stead of asking for the job he took drive with her.
 It was while this drive progressed that the sordid, vicious tempter def nitely seized him in his tolls. The an- eient but viFacious dame was very affahle-most agreeable indeed Shp was not notherly: she was hirtatioas And she accompanied her coquetry by shrewd exposition of the magnitude Q of her unauestionably enormous wealth. It staggered him.
 If he had not at the moment had a simple little Josie Richards letter in his pocket he might have been swept under A thousand times he had dis covered the necessity of assuring him self, as he travelled up and down Broadway. that he did not care for Josie Richards. She was not the sort of girl who captivated one who knew life as he knew 1t; she was dear, but she was simple, unsophisticated ana what he most admired was wide so phistication; he thought as little of her as he could. but now she popped into his mind and made him edge away from the aged. wealthy widow
 When he went back to the fiat he found awaiting him new sheafs of bills, none pressing him-mere state ments. The runner had not started that he was not good pay Broadway still delighted in him, still endeavored to induce him to accept it's credit This gave him new distress: he knew him self-he know he would go out tha; night and run more debts.
 Suddenly he knew what to do. It came to him without an effort of the brain. It was tragic inspiration.
 Without word to Rankin, stealthily and secretly he went forth into the afternoon in his smart runabout. still driven by the taxi-cabman, who now regarded him with something akin to worship. and sought a gunshop and a chemists
 In the former he made purchase of a large, grim. blued-steel automatic Dis tol of the largest ealiber they had n stock, and secured one box of cart ridges. It seemed waste of money. which by rights was definitely the property of creditors, to buy so many cartridges, for he should need but one. However he feared that to ask for one would pin attention to him and frus- trate what he had in mind, so he put the heavy box into his pocket. It made it sag outrageously, which very much annoyed him. No man Oh Broadway was more careful of his clothes. But what, after all, did a sagged pocket matter now?
 At the chemists he secured an ounce of bichloride of mercury, which had been fashionable of late among smart suicides. He had no difficulty in ob- fainiag it. This eased him and fur ther satisfaction grew oIt of the fact that though it held potentialities as deadly as the automatic gun and cart ridges could hold it made a little paclt- age, not heavy in the least, and so did not sag the other pocket, where lie placed it very carefully.
 As he whirled uptown in the run- about he frequently felt of the deadly things.
 He liked the feel of neither of thenl. The revolver was so hard and bust ness-like, the pill bottle was so slip pery. so cold and heartless! What an end was this for Broadway Jones!
 Again seated in the little study he l solemnly reviewed his life. He saw no