Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-05-15
U1HE stanleys were the sort OF peo


| THE stanleys were the sort OF people
J. who improve on acquaintance. Nothing
they ever said or did hammered the nerves.
Graces father had taken an uncommon
fancy to young Crispen, had put his name
up for membership at several ultra-exclu-
slve clubs and had even introduced him to q
certain very important United states Sem
ator as the proper stripe OF rich man TO
send TO Congress.
Monte got out TO the Stanleys' country
home exceedingly often. He liked them
immensely and Grace particularly. She
typed the sort of girl a man Of his position
and wealth was expected to be seen with,
oantering along the bride paths Of Fair
mount Park or lunching at any OF the
smart hotels. Then she danced like fairy
queen, and looked like one. too.
Yet Monte did not neglect his heart-to-
heart talks with Unity Marley at the Big
Four, where her brother ruled with frm,
kind authority, and had become the idol OF
the operatives. The mills were prospering
as never before in their history Unity was
n whole chest of ideas on how to bring
more sunshine into the lives Of the work.
ers practical ideas that brought results.
Monte took long walks with her, and to-
gether they laid great plans for the build
ing OF n solid block of model wortingmens
homes, the establishment Of cooperative
trading store and a Crspen farm In Mont
gomery County, where employees could spend
pense.
The Countess zeda had niche all Of
her own in the interest of the young multi
millionaire. Her presence had the tang OF
the foreign boulevards waited overseas.
She was ripping good to gaze upon and n
brilliant conversationaliBt as we'll. He FOUND
her always agreeable, and frantically glad
to see him: he never could forget that che
had proved herself his stanch ally In a
trying crisis.
Enough small-talk material for dozen
best sellers crowded hontes three months
of alienation between his three principal
| lady friends, each a delightful companion,
yet so different from the others.
Zeda's candor about the past TRANSACT
| tions of her interruptions father, In whom
| the arrogance of the king blended with the
| brutality of the peasant, might easily pack
| with exquisite thrills three fat volumes OF
THE Revelations of an International Spy"
| Grace's chatter OF the doinBs of the we'll
| bred gentlefolk she knew and lived among
would make many chapters of nice, refined
| reading AS for Unity, her simple recitals
| of Kenslngton life would fill countless pages
| with profound human interest.
But in these strenuous days of red blood,
war news on the first page and the action
| mad screen plays at the movingpicture
| houses, we have no time to bubble away in
| pure food. Besides Monte, our hero, did
| not spend all of his time with his feminine
| Il
| iron works, the textile mills and the ship
| yard. Anyhow, our tale is nearly told and
| a rafting fine serial Is waiting to get this
| most valuable space. Interesting people
never overstay their welcome
Monte's year of probation under his un-
| cle's will was up. The lid was Off for him
| he could go anywhere. However, he de-
| cded to celebrate the vent with whale
| of a banquet at the Bellaire-Blitz, given to
| his executives, where he outlined his future
| business policies in no uncertain language
| announced the gift of an extra months
salary to every name on all the Crispen
payrolls and introduced a real efficiency
expert, hired, he said ito scrap rule-of-
thumb methods wherever they cropped to
| the surface"
Men" remarked the young heir when
| the clapping of hands that inaugurated his
| rising from his seat beside Craig Andrews
the lawyer, had subsided, 81 am going to
remain in Philadelphia, right on the job
where any one of you, my friends and as.
| sociates can always find me. We are 60
| ing to show employers the country over
that the best policy toward employees is
| to -"
to give in full If you want to read it all.
| send around to the Crispen offices in the
Montgomery Bank Building, and one of the
clerks will be more than pleased to give
you a copy of 1t; the boys had 1t printed
for general distribution, they thought so
much OF 1t.
After the banquet Monte and Andrews
went up on the hotel roof for a quiet smoke,
a nightcap and a few private words. They
had the drink and walked to the very spot
on the edge of the roof where Crispen a
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