The Washington herald., 1915-09-05
THESE are the directions for finding the
office of Carteret & Carteret, Mill Sup
plies and Leather Betting:

plies and Leather Betting:
You follow the Broadway trail down until
YOU pass the Crosstown Line. the Bread Line.
and the Dead Line, and come to the Big Canons
OF the Monevg-ubber Tribe. Then you turn
TO the LETT to the right dodge push-cart and
the tongue Of two-ton. four-korse dray and
hop skip. and lump to a granite ledge on the
side of d twcntv-one- story synthetic mountain
of stone and IRON IL the twelfth story Is the
office OF Carteret & Carteret The factory where
.kev make The mill supplies and leather betting
* IN Rro0klvn Those cornmodities-to say
nothing of BrookIyn--not being OF interest to
YOU. let us hold the incidents within the con-
fines Of one-act. one-scene play, thereby less
e1ling the toi! of the reader and the expenditure
of the publisher So # YOU have the courage
to face four pages Of type and Carteret Car
terets Office boy. Percival. You shall sit on
vanished chair in the inner office and peep at
the little comedy of the Old Niger Man, the
Hunting-Case Watch. and the Oper-Faced
Oueston-mostly borrowed from the late Mr..
Frank Stockton. as vou will conclude.
First biography (but pared to the quick)
must intervene. | am for the inverted sugar
coated quinine pil-ti1e bitter on the outside.
The Cartcrets were or was Columbia COL
iege professors please r1le). old Virginia
family. Long time ago the gentlemen of the
family had worn lace r,1ffles and carried tin
less foils and owned plantations and had slaves
to burn. But the war had greatly reduced their
holdings (Of course Won can perceive at once
that this flavor has been shopfted from Mr..
F Hopkinson Smith. in spite OF the ct after
"CarterO Well. anyhow:
In digging up the Carteret history ! shall
not take YOU farther back than the year 1920.
The two original american Carterets came
over in that year but by different means Of
TRANSPORTATION One brother. ranled John. came
j.? the Nayfower and became Pilgrim Father.
You've seen hi picture on the covers Of the
Thanksgiving n1agazine~. hunting turkeys IN the
deep snow with a hIrnierbuss. Blandford Car
teret the other brother. cross >ed the pond in his
7un hrigantine landed on the Virginia coast,
and became an T. F. Y. John became dis
tnguished for petv and Shrewdness in business;
BIandiord for his pride. juleps. craftsmanship,
and vast Slave cultivated plantations.
Then came the Civil War. Il must con
dense this historical interpolationl StonewaIl
Jackson was shot: Lee surrendered; Grant
toured the world: cotton went to nine cents;
Old Crow wmskev and Jim Crow cars were in
vented: the Sevcntv-ninth Massachusetts Vol
untcers returned to the Ninety-seventh Alabama
Zouaves the battle flag OF Lundy's Lane which
thev bought At a secondhand store in Chelsea
kept bv a man named Skzchnzski Georgia sent
the President a SiNty-pound watermelon-and
tha, brings us up 10 the time when tn" story
begin N.Y. but that was sparrng fcr an open
ing! | really must brush up on my Aristotle.
The Earkee Cartcret> went into business in
New York long before the war. Their house,
a far as Leather Betting and Mill Supplies was
concerned. was as mustv and arrogant and solid
as one Of those Old East India tea-inporting
concerns that Won read about in Dickens. There
were some rr,n1ors OF a war behind its counters.
hur rot enough to affect the business.
During and after the war. Blandford Car
teret. FF.N lost his plantations, julePs, marks
manship. and lie. He bequeathed little more
than his pride TO his surviving family. SO it
came to pass that Blandford Carteret. the Fifth,
aged fifteen. was invited bv the leather and-nil
supplies branch of that name TO come North
and learn business instead of hunting foxes and
boasting OF the glory Of his fathers on the re-
duced acres OF his impoverished family. The
boy jumped at the chance: and, at the age OF
TWENTY-FIVE. sat in the office of the firm equal
partner with John, the Fifth. of the blunder-
buss-and-turkev branch. Here the story begins
again.
The Young men were about the same age.
smooth Of face alert, easy OF manner. and with
al air that promised mental and physical quick
ness They were razored, blue-edged. straw
hated. and pearl stck-pinned like other Young
New Workers who might be nionaires or bill
clerks.
One afternoon at four o'clock, in the private
office Of the firm. Blandford Carteret opened
letter that a clerk had Just brought to his desk.
After reading it. he chuckled audibly for nearly
a minute John looked around from his desk