The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1916-07-07

iiolu iIeSiutHt roTu. Inc entire west
tern division will hustle the business
OF emptying the town. and the quicker
II is done the sooner IL will be over"
For tumultuous week the flight
from the doomed city went on. and the
overtaxed single-track railroad wrought
miracles OF transportation. Not until
the second week did the idea OF mate
rial salvage take root. but once start.
ed. IL grew like Jonahs gourd. Hun.
dreds OF wrecking crews were formed.
1T begins 10 look little better"
said Anson on the day I'm the third
week when the army OF government
laborers began 10 strip the final forms
from the top OF the great wall which
now united the two mountain shout
ders and completely overshadowed
and dominated tho dismantled town.
IF the avenue would only take its
hunch and go, tho agony would bo
over"
1T will be worse before II Is better"
was the young chiefs prediction, and
the foreboding verified itself that
night. Looting OF moro or less brazen
sort had been going on from the first
and by nine o'clock OF tho night OF
prediction loosely organized mob OF
drink-maddened terrorists was drifting
from street TO street, and there were
violence and incendiarism TO follow.
Though the property destruction
mattered little. the anarchy IL was
breeding had 10 be controlled. Brouil.
lard and Leshington got out their re-
serve force and did what they could TO
restore some semblanco OF order. II
was little enough and by ten o'clock
the amateur policing OF the city had
reduced itself to a double guarding OF
the dam and tho machinery. and n
cordoning OF tho Metropole. the re-
clamation service buildings, and tho
Spotlight Office For Harlan, tho dash
OF sporting blood I'm his veins assert
ing itself, still stayed on and continued
to issue his paper.
IL said | wanted 10 be In at tho
death. and for few minutes tonight
thought ! was going TO be-" he told
| Brouillard when the engineer had
posted his guards and had climbed the
stair TO the editorial Office. Then he
asked n question: when is this little
hell-on-earth going TO be finally cxtin-
guishcd. Victor?"
Instead OF answering. Brouillard put
question OF his own: did you know
that Cartwright and Schermerhorn and
Judge Williams came back this eve.
ming, Harlan?"
IL did" said tho newspaper man.
"They are registered at the Metropole
as large as life."
whats up?"
THAT is what I'd like 10 know.
| There's a bunch OF strangers at the
! Metropole, too, sheriff's posse,
Poodles thinks; at least. there is
deputy from Red Butte with the
crowd"
Harlan tilted back I'm his chair and
scanned the ceiling re6ectively. This
thing is getting on my nerve, old man.
| wish we could clean the slate and all
go home"
1T is going TO be cleaned. Notices
will be posted tomorrow warning
everybody that the waste-gates will be
closed promptly on the date adver-
tised."
when is Il? Things have been re-
volving too rapidly TO let me remember
such a trivial item as a date"
1T is the day after tomorrow. at
noon"
The owner OF the Spotlight nodded.
Let her go Gallagher. I've got every.
thing on skids. even the presses. An
revoir--or perhaps one should say. Au
reservoir"
Fresh shoutings and cracking OF
| pistols arose I'm the direction OF the
/ plaza, and Brouillard got up and went
/ TO a window. The red glow OF other
house burnings loomed against the
somber background OF Jacks noun
| tain.
"Senseless savages!" no muttered.
| and then went back 10 tho editor. II
don't like this CortwrIght reappear.
ance, Harlan. wish knew what IT
means"
Lets see" said the newsman
| thoughtfully, what is there worth
taxing tnat tney uldDt take IN the
sauve qui peut? BY Joye-say! Did
old David Masslngale get out OF J.
Wesley's clutches before the lightning
struck"
II wish ] could say Yes. and be sure
Of It," was the sober reply you knew
about the thieving stock deal or what
you didn't know I told you. Well I
had Massingale, as president. call
meeting OF directors-whlch never
met. Afterward. acting under legal
advice. he went on working the mine.
and he's been working Il ever since.
shipping a good bit Of ore now and
then. when be could squeeze II I'm be-
tween the getaway trains. OF course.
there Is bound 20 be a future OF some
sort. but that is the present condition
OF affairs"
How about those notes I'm the bank?
Wasn't Massingale personally involved
IN some way?'
Brouillard bounded out OF his chair
as ~ the question had been a point
blank pistol shot