New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-09-13


am though It's this philanthropc executor work that
I've been dragged into doing by that whimsical Will OF
your friend the late Pyramid Gordon, OF course
must admit that at first 1t came little AWKWARD not
being used to thinking much about others; but now
WHY I'm getting so can tell almost at glance what
people want and how to help them.
"Iuh!" says l. "Thcn you some wizard. IL oI'en
bo,icrs me to dope ont jus, what | need myself; and
when it comes TO dcclin' for other folks Say, have
YOU tackled envelope No. I on Pyramids list YETI
Il have" says J. Bayard, smin confident. "Pe-
culiar case too. month ago should have been
puzzled Now it very simple. I've done all my
investigating made my plans and il you will ruin down
town to lawyers office with me after luncheon we shall
meet the OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES and fix up the details OF
nice little deed of kindness Of which am the proud
author
Fat commission in it for you, eh!' says l.
l. Bayard looks panied and hurt. Really says he,
81 hadn't thought of that No, the outlay will be
slight. In fact, it's merely matter OF Launching
young in society
"Wcl. WE'LL" says l. "That's husky job for
couple Of grown men like us, amt it? Who's the young
gcnt--Clarcncc WHAT!
Ever hear Of Hungry Jim Hammond" says he.
r HAD. but couldn't quite place HIM; SO j. bayard
supplies the description He'd started out a railroad
man. Hammond had, back in the days when Pyramid
Gordon was first bcginnn to discover that Swappn
hot air for votin shares perfectly good business 50
long as YOU could get away with the goods Only Ham
mond was the real thing. He construction expert
Mr. Gordon had found him on the payroll Of a line
he'd annexed by a midnight deal; concluded he knew
too much about the job be safe man to have around;
so he transfers him to the Far West and sets him to
work ON scheme lay road paralcln the South
,rn Pacific Hammond couldn't tell it was a stall. Tie
hlazcs mcrrilv ahead survcyin right OF way across
three States and had got far Death Valley when
the r,,nor comes to camp that this line is all fake
thtrf,
with him. and his weekly pay check hadn't shown up
for about a month But he couldn't believe that
Pyramid had laid down him. He'd got mighty IN
trcs,cd in budin that road across the desert and had
dreamed some rosy dreams about it. But his men lclt
diff rent They wanted action the cashiers part,
or they'd quit Hammond begged EN- to stay. He
even blew in his own bank account scttn part Of the
back wages But inside Of three days his crew had
clwindcd a Chinese cook and Grcascr mule driver
Took him couple oi weeks to get wise to the fact
that he was stranded there in the sand six miles from
Il water hole with few cases OF canned beet and sack
If corn meal
Even then he didn't give up for good. He made his
wav back to a stage station and through wire
Pyramid askin for instructions. More than month
he waited, with word from Gordon. Seems that by
then Pyramid was too busy with other things. He'd
cishcl in on his bluff and Sortn new hand. And
maybe he want anxious To have Hammond come East
again. Anyway. he let him shift
THAT was when Hammond came near staryin.
But he lidnt-quitc. For year or mere he man
aged to live somehow. Then one day he drove team
Of boncvard mules into Blue Dog with wagonoad Of
stuff that the natives stared at 1t white shiny
stuff Hammond said it borax. He'd discovered
a big deposit Of it there in the blStcrn sand He
was goin ship back Last and sell it. They thought
he was nutty. He wasn't, though On East they was
usin "A lot Of borax and dcmanlin more.
With a few thousand back Of him Hammond might
have got to be the Borax King right them but as it
he held onto an interest big enough to make him
quite a pluto and inside Of a year he was located in