Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1916-06-30

mSuI at tue moment. An 6afly-4OEH-
ing mob is proverbially incoherent and
incohesive; and. besides, loaded Win
chesters in the hands of five deter
mined men are apt to have an elo-
quence which is more or less con-
vincing.
But with the opening of business the
geyser spouted again. The exchanges
were mobbed by eager sellers, each
frenzied struggler hoping against hope
that he might find someone simple
enough to buy At ten o'clock the bank
d-"Temporarily," the placard no
tice said. But there were plenty to be-
lieve that it would never open again.
BY noon the trading panic had ex-
hausted itself little, though the lobby
and cafe of the Metropole were crowd
ed, and anxious groups quickly formed
around any nucleus of rumor or gossip
in the streets.
Between one and two o'clock, while
Brouillard, Leshington and Arson were
hastily eating luncheon sent over to
the mapping room from Bongras', Har-
Ian drifted in.
Spill your news" commanded Lesh.
ilgton gruffly Whats doing. and
who's doing it?"
Nobody, and nothing much" said
Harlan, answering the two queries as
| one. The town is falling apart like
bunch of sand and the getaway has
! set in. Two full trains went east this
forenoon, and two more are scheduled
for this afternoon if the railroad peo-
pie can get the cars here"
'Good-by, little girl, good-by ="
hummed Grislow, entering in time to
hear the report of the fight.
But Leshington was shaking his big
head modify. Laugh about it if you
can, but it's no joke" he growled.
when the froth is blown away and
| the bubbles quit rising, there are going
to be some mighty bitter settings left
in the bottom of the stein"
You're right, Leshington," said
Harlan, gravely. What we're seeing
now is only the shocked surprise of it
as when a man says 'Ouch! before
he realizes that the dog which has bit
| ten him has well-developed case of
rabies. Well come to the hydrophobic
stage later on"
By nightfall of this first day the edi-
tors ominous prophecy seemed about
to reach it's fulfillment. The avenue
was crowded again and the din ard
clamor was the roar of a mob infuri-
ated Brouillard and Leshington had
| just returned from posting a company
| of the workmen guard at the mixers
and crushers, when Grislow. who had
been scouting on the avenue, came IN
| Harmless enough yet" he reported
TITS only some more of the getaway
that Harlan was describing. Just the
same, it's something awful. People
| are fairly climbing over one another
on the road up the hill to the station
with no possible hope of getting a
train before some time tomorrow.
Transfers are charging twenty-five
dollars a load for moving stuff that
won't find cars for week. and they're
scarce at the price"
Leshington, who was not normally a
profane man. opened his mouth and
said things.
IF the Cartwright crowd had one
man in it with a single idea beyond
saving his own miserable stake!" he
stormed What are the spell-binders
doing, Grizzy?"
The photographer grinned "Cort.
wright and a chosen few left this aft
ernoon, hotfoot, for Washington, to get
the government to interfere. That's
the story they'd like to have the people
believe. But the fact is. they ran
away from Judge Lynch"
yes; think | see 'em coming back
mott" snorted the first assistant
Then to Brouillard: THAT puts it I'D
to us from this out Is there anything
we can do?'
Brouillard shook his head. 81 don't
want to stop the retreat I've heard
from President Ford The entire west
tern division will hustle the business
of emptying the town. and the quicker
it is done the sooner it will be over"
For a 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, it grew like Jonah's gourd Hun
dreds of wrecking crews were formed.
ut begins to look little better"
said Arson on the day in the third
week when the army of government
laborers began to strip the final forms
from the top Of the great wall which
now united the two mountain shoul-
ders and completely overshadowed
and dominated the dismantled town
III the avenue would only take it's |
bunch and go, the agony would be
over
ct will be worse before It is better" |
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