The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-02-07

"And no place TO run it," Sam took
off his hat and thrust his fingers through
his red pompadour. lie drew Charlie
impulsively to a chair beside him. "Oh.
youll like dhis!" and then and there he
painted that auto speedway, every inch.
He not only painted it; he built it,
And you may be one of the incorpor-
ators, my boy" concluded Sam, grip
ping the wrist of Charlie with enthusi-
asm. Understand, one of the incor-
porators!"
'When-when would you want the
money!" gasped Charlie. The speed
had made him GREATNESS.
Now" and Sam jumped up. you
bank at THE Winburg National, don't
you? l nave ore OF their cil,vk blanks
in my pocket If you haven't your book
with you. Here's fountain pen"
Half an hour later Sam was uncov-
ering his red hair in Frazier's office
and Illuminating the dingy old room
with his cheerful grin. Frazier began
polishing his spectacles as soon as he
saw Sam.
Il suppose you've brought your stock
subscription list" he observed with an
attempt at banter.
Not for your signature. You're too
late to get in on the ground floor. I've
| another proposition for you. Next week
we open the books of the Speedway I'm
prov ment Company to popular sub
| sCrption, in $40 shares. VIII the Mer-
| chants and Manufacturers Bank be
come the custodian of the funds re-
ceived for the stock, these funds tc
remain on deposit, at interest. until the
company is completed and the speed
way appropriation is voted?"
| President Frazier put on his spec
| tacles and pondered deeply, and as he
pondered his thin lips puckered into a
| wrnked smile.
There seems to be no flaw in that
proposition" he admitted.
Flaw" and Sam Gagged his hair with
his nat. IF it was an apple you'd
eat it,"
The new speedway! Placid old Win
burg awoke with shock 10 the con-
sderation of thar mighty project. and
the awakening was distressing Win
burg did not want anything. 1t did
not want TO want anything. 1t had
dwelt in fat content for a hundred
years amid it's gray stones and its moss
its oaks and its elms. Young Winburg
had been active, ambitious. aggressive;
middle aged Winburg had been pros
porous, thrifty, proud; old Winburg,
heavy with its goods and chattels, and
sleek with it's honors, wished for MOTH
ing but to sit in the sun. Now all at
once, ii was asked No get up and dance
and be young again. to start life all
. over.
Who wanted the new speedway? And
what was It? broad, maCadamizcd
roadway to stretch straight out Maple
avenue, with expensive electric lights
blazing, ten miles into the country,
Why, 1t was proposed to have those big
pearl like globes glow all night long!
Who'd use them after o'clock? Who?
That matter of the electric lights was
the one thing which Wlnburg could not
, comprehend; but 1t was the one thing
which kept the topic alive to agitated
discussion. The Powered and shrub
beried parkway the monuments the
fountains, the beautiful views, all these
fell within the reach of the Imagination
: though in an unreal sort of way; but
Winburg could not grasp the amazing
thought of those thousands of electric
q lights blazing all night away out there
in the country!
Alas for the peace of Winburg! Sh,
had within her ctizenry one class OF
5 indictments of whose existence she had
never been aware. All Winburg's bright
and ambitious young men had moved
away shortly after they began to shave
: but Winburgs bright and ambition.
u young women had been compelled t.
stay at home. 1t was these whom Ruth
Arnold with fully as much sympathy
7 as calculation, gathered into the Win.
burg Civic Art League, and it was these
e who saw Immediately and with almost
u fearful gratitude the JOY of those thou
=. sands of electric lights burning all
through the night away out in tn,
t country. They saw at once that tn,
e retiring hour of Winburg would chang,
:, from . r. NJ. to l A. NJ,
IL With the eye of romance they fash
n toned new programmes for the evening
which were now 90 dul--a smooth spi,
i in the cool night air, over roads so ever
% that II was like being waited in swift
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