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The Washington herald., 1916-06-12

Ten years ago automobiles, "one-
stepping and the movies were hard
ly known-they did not interfere
with newspaper reading. Nowadays
the only time one gets to read a
newspaper carefully is in the morn
ing.
The Washington herald., 1916-06-12

Washington movie managers claim
an average daily attendance Of
10000, in the afternoons and even
ings Of course. There is plenty of
time, however, for the careful read
ing of the morning paper.
Evening star., 1916-12-24

part of the country he has steadily refused
to have anything to do. Wall Street has
made many advances, all of which he has
repealed. Several years ago, when he was
already looming as the great motor-maker,
certain captains of industry approached
him with the usual plan of campaign-a
combination, trust, huge stock issues.
and the rest. The suggestion was made
that Mr.. Ford might occasionally stand
in need of cash: in which ease the Wall
Street Golfers stood at his disposal
In Il short time MIR. Ford sent request
for Il moderate sum-say S5000OO. The
money came, and with it request ::
wouldn't Mr. Ford like to talk over that
combination now? MIR. Ford replied that
he was not so disposed, but that he would
like to borrow another half million. In a
few months he requested another loan. 1t
was made, and at the same time MIR. Ford
was invited to discuss combinations. Still
he declined again asking another loan.
But the financial magnates had grown
weary. They not only declined to adj
vance additional money, but said that,
when the money already advanced came
due, they would have to insist on pay
Evening star., 1916-12-24

railroad history of IA great railroad wrecker.
Practically everything he touched suf-
fered from a devastating hand, and the
Erie Railroad and the Missouri Pacific
are still suffering from his outrageous
administration. Hissuccessors havelacked
his speculative genius-and have wofully
failed to qualify as railroad managers,
with the result that they, like the Van
derbilts, have lost control of their inher-
tance. There is not Gould to-day
whose total fortune is as large as Henry
Ford's earnings in single year.
The Rockefellers, of course, are enor-
mously rich though even John DIS in
come probably is not half that of Henry
Ford. Here we have a fortune based upon
control of a large industrial necessity.
Railroad rebates, in connection with the
great organizing and constructive genius
OF its founders, made it possible 1t stands
upon much higher plane than the specu-
lative accumulations already described:
For its possessors, after all, are primarily
business men,
But the Henry Ford fortune, already
larger than any of its predecessors,
represents product of an entirely differ
Evening star., 1916-12-24
MAGAZINE SECTION for December "a, 1916

ment. By return mail came a check for
the full amount, and note.
Il have ten million dollars in the bank3
MIR. Ford's reply was in just about these
words-"and have no need to negotiate
loans. | have merely done this because
| really wanted to learn on what basis
Wall Street did business | now know"
So here we have monstrous fortune
heaped up independently of Wall Street.
1t has not depended upon railroad rebates,
upon monopolizing its market, upon grind
ing the life out of its employees, upon ex-
acting Shylock prices from the consuming
public or upon stock speculation. 1t
represents legitimate business in the same
sense that the honest grocery represents
legitimate business. Mr. Ford has had
only one occupations: he has purchased
raw materials put them through his fac
tories, and turned out highly useful
article. He has succeeded simply because
he has devised business and manufacture
ing methods that are far better than those
of his competitors.
The greatest fortune the world has
ever known is apparently without the
slightest taint.
Evening star., 1916-12-24

ent kind. Mr.. Shearman anticipated that
the first Millionaire would bring million
paupers in his train and that his political
power might end the American republic
But Mr.. Ford is already famous, among
other things, for his successful attempts
to improve the condition of working
men. His $4,000 men get higher wages,
have better working conditions and live
in better houses than any similar class
of workingmen in the world. The ten
dency of the Ford fortune seems to be, not
to increase pauperism, but to diminish it
on an enormous scale.
Evening star., 1916-12-24

hadn't expected anybody-he wasn't a
novice at this business, to need delega-
ton of friends around every time he was
locked up or let out.
But, all the same, it took the bloom off
his freedom to find, when he reached his
lodgng-house, that his girl Nell and his
good friends the Cazique and Charlie
Hook, had flown.
He put on his cowboy suit, the one he
usually wore when he was selling snake
oil for the Cazique, and went over to the
little park across the way for a sight of
faces and sound of voices.
But summer storm had wet the
benches and driven the people off. He
smoked four cigarettes to remind him
self that he was free, and swore aloud
Just to hear the sound of his own voice.
1t was relief when, at midnight, a
messenger boy came whistling down the
path, paused before a bush of sweet
Syringa, and broke off a well laden branch.
"Cut it. kid" called the man on the
bench as the boys eager hand went out
for another branch. Don't you know
it's against the law to take the flowers?
I'll have yez pinched.
The boy turned suddenly.
"Who are you?" he asked, his hand
gone quickly to his hip pocket
The cowboy person laughed aloud at
the bravado of the boys tone and gesture.
Nobody, he answered good-naturedly,
which was approximately true. 81 was
just trying you out
The night messenger sank into seat.
"I thought it was that guard again,
he said, as he shook the rain-drops out of
his white blossoms. I've had Il run-in
with that guy over the flowers almost
every night this summer. But he's made
himself more scarcer since I've let it be
known I'd reported to the night manager
l had some dangerous calls to make and
he give me a gun"
The man on the bench regarded the
boy narrowly in the dim light. He was
Evening star., 1916-12-24

The little messenger edged away in
alarm.
whats up" he asked. His foot was
on the path, ready for the fight.
Nothing, kid, nothing. Don't be
scary. They amt no call to light out
Only. for Gods sake, boy. chuck this job.
It'll break you sure, if you don't"
He had hold of the boys arm, looking
at him with mporng eyes.
Chuck it! What you giving me,
Mister"
Rush shook off the mans hand.
Maybe this amt no Sunday school
work I'm doing, but who are you to tell
me to quit He glanced askance at his
dubious companion. Besides" he con-
tinued proudly, "I'm going to learn
telegraphy. | told you. That's honor
able enough profession, amt it?"
It'll break you, kid, it'll break you.
Chuck it before it does, interrupted the
man excitedly. Il knew kid once started
out with ideas just like yourn; only there
was a girl in his thoughts-a yellow
haired, brown-eyed girl he'd went to
school with-that he was going to save
from a train wreck or something like that,
and marry when he'd become operator.
But there in town they put him to work
at night. when honest business shuts up
shop and the devils Office hours begin.
1t was against the law, but he was smarter
and cheaper than the down-and-out men
they could get. He stood up under it for
a while; then, when he was just at the
age when he could have begun to make
something of hisself and maybe in few
years marry the girl, he got to drinking
and gambling. They put him in Jail, and
when he come out he had chance to go
straight. But he couldn't-it had hold
on him, that life: he couldn't shake it off"
The boy looked at his companion with
II precocous little smile.
so that's your story, he said. "Gee,
it amt Il very pretty one!" Then he
drew himself up with all of the superiority
of fourteen. well. guess there's some
guys would go to the dogs anyway even
ii they was working for Il Sunday school"
He gathered his flowers together as if
he had wasted quite enough time on this
sniveling derelict. and rose to go.
wait minute, Rush-just minute;
| want to tell you something else about
that little kid. | amt talked to no one
about him for fifteen years.
The man clutched pleadingly at the
messengers coat.
But his long. nervous fingers only caught
the empty air-the boy had flown.
FOR an hour, two hours, the occupant
of the bench sat staring down the dim
path where the sweet syringa stood out,
white and heavily fragrant. and the pop
lars rose straight and tall and sent few
rain-drops pattering down on his head
whenever Il breeze shook them. And
always down that path. framed between
Continued on page 10
Evening star., 1916-12-24
Mr.. Ford and Wall Street

NElTHE Err is Mr.. Ford attempting to I'M
dermine the republic, unless his cam
paign against preparedness and in favor of
peace can beinterpreteda as having that ten
dency. At any rate, the first billonaire-
or the first man with the income of a
billionaire-is hardly the destructive ogre
with which the prophets twenty-five years
ago tortured their imaginations.
Nor is Mr.. Fords fortune in any sense
the product of Wall Street. With that
Evening star., 1916-12-24

fourteen at most, with the ROSY freshness
of the country still in his cheeks contrast
ing strangely with the hard little look of
worldly wisdom dawning in his eyes.
so you got a gun, kid" There was no
surprise in the exclamation. Fifteen
years ago-or was it a hundred?-he.
Sanders, had been in this child's place
the licensed errand boy of the night, with
a pistol in his pocket and the pride of Il
man in his face.
The boy paused in the act of adjusting
a sprig of flowers in his cap.
Sure got gun" He tossed his head
proudly. This amt no child's business
I'm in, y know.
Amt it?"
"You bet it amt. Most States has got
laws making this a mans job. But this
State don't care. Anyway, they need me
here. because I'm wise one, spite of me
tender years. Say, you stranger in
town."
The man on the bench twisted an I'M
smoked cigarette back and forth between
his long. nervous fingers.
What if am?'
"Oh, nothing! was just going to offer
to show you this little Connecticut burg,
that's all.
The cowboy person leaned back on his
bench, much relieved.
so that's it. kid. You want to show
me the town, do you? Whatll you give
me this time of night-the library and
the churches, maybe?'
Sure said the messenger, with
nudge; and even in the fiickering light
his companion caught his broad wink,
They laughed.
"Come on, them know some swell
places
But Sanders shook his head.
IL guess not tonight, kid" he said. Il
Just come from a quiet place, and amt
up to this gay city life yet a while.
The boy looked at his companion in
surprise Then he turned to the decora-
ton of his cap in a polite endeavor to
hide his thoughts.
"Say. how you like them flowers in my
lido" He held the cap off at arms length.
Evening star., 1916-12-24

"They remind me of the country, said
Sanders.
Me, too. We got some growing in
our yard at hOme-a great big bush
twice the size of that one over yonder
My ma calls EN- mock-orange blossoms,
because she says they're like what brides
wear. I'm glad | stole these.
THE man chuckled sympathetically. He
liked this boy.
whats your name, kid" he asked.
Rush" The boy did not volunteer a
surname came from stratum of So
ciety where Surnames were not much used.
How'd you come to go into the work.
kid-the night part of it, mean"
There was more than the passing in
terest of park-bench acquaintance in
the question.
"The night work? That's simple.
Rush clapped his cap on his head at the
approved tilt, and settled back impor-
family. First of all. there's better
chance to pick up telegraphy than there
is in the day. if you must know the insides
of my business. Then you ought to see
the size of the tips | get for buying my
calls drinks when the saloons are supposed
to be closed. and getting 'em food from
the swell restaurants and chop suey from
the Chinamans when they're hungry.
Moneys flowing like water in this war
boom town, you know"
is it, kid? wish it'd come my way
"Oh. there's plenty here that's down
on their luck, too, for all the prosperity.
And China amt going out of the dope
business yet Il while. Say, you want to
see the latest style way of putting up hop?
got some here for half-crazy call of
mine that's sunk his fortune trying to get
out new kind of machine gun
He put his hand in his pocket and drew
out half dozen innocent-looking little
Chinese nuts.
Sanders shuddered at the sight.
kid. that hell of work for you to
be in!" he exclaimed. in voice that
trembled. "Why don, you get out of it,
boy? It'll put YOU clean ON the bum in
less than three months, it you don't.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1916-06-29
ARREST A BUSH MURDER
SUSPECT IN KANSAS CITY

In connection with the murder OF
John Bush, wealthy former eight
miles west of salina, Kan, January
25, Godfrey Johnson, so years Old
was arrested in Kansas City and
will be taken back to Salina by A
v. Anderson, sheriff of Salina coun'
ty. John P. Glynn, a Leavenworth
detective, located Johnson and tele'
graphed Anderson. Johnson was
arrested at the city market where
he worked for farmers bring pro
duce to the city
At the time of the murder posses
secured the district about salina
and bloodhounds ran different trails
for several days. Bush was sitting IN
the dining room of his home when
a charge of buckshot, fired through
the window, killed him.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1916-06-29
UNEARTH HISTORICAL TDIBERs
Logs of Hershey Tavern Found In
SterI Barn

Six cottonwood timbers, IS and
20 feet long and 10 inches thick,
unearthed with the razing of the
brick barn on the G. G. Sterl prop
erty are evidently logs that were
used in the Hershey tavern, log
cabin that stood on the site of the
present Sterl residence and served
as a hosiery for the travellers who
crossed the prairies in the early
sixties and seventies. The logs are
niched, as for cabins, and one has
window sill marks. This cabin was
erected in the early sixties and a
move is under way for the pre-
servation of one of them for its his
torical significance and have 1t
placed in the city library. The cabin
was one of the landmarks OF the
Texas cattle trail, being located
at the Mud Creek ford. Horace
Greeley stopped over night at this
cabin when he was on his western
trip.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1916-06-29
HISTORICAL NOVELS
PRESENTED LIBRARY

H. Lynn Covert has kindly given
to the public library set of Null
bach's historical novels which IN
cludes the following: Andreas Hot
er, Berlin and San souci the
Daughter of an Empress, Empress
Josephine. Frederick the Great and
His Court, Frederick the Great and
His Family, Goethe and Schiller
Henry the Eighth and His Court
Joseph the Second and His Court
Louisa Of Prussia, Marie Antoin-
cite and Her Son, the Merchant OF
Berlin, Mohammed Ali and His
House, Napoleon and Butcher Ma
poleon and the Queen Of Prussia
Queen Hortense, Old Fritz and the
New Era, Prince Tugene and His
Times.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1916-06-29
U. p. SPEND ONE MIL
LION ON KANSAS DIVISION

Officers of the Union Pacific sys-
TEN have just agreed on an expendi-
ture of approximately 100000
for improving the Kansas City-Den-
yer line. There has been much work
on this road for several years and
when that which has just been
authorized is finished the line will
be on a par with the Omaha-Ogden
route of the Union Pacific.
One of the items just authorized
is the ballasting with Sherman
granite of the line between Oakley
and Ellis, seventy-four miles. This
will complete the ballasting of the
line between Kansas City and Ii
mon. Colo, $50 miles. This will
cost about 100000. The entire
system from Kansas City to the
Colorado terminals will be relaid
with 9O-pound steel. This will cost
about 100000. There will be new
steel bridges put in costing $125'-
600.
Electric block signals will be in
stalled between salina and Ellis at
an estimated cost Of $4,000. This
will complete the electrical block
signals between Kansas City and
Ellis. about S03 miles.
This is one of the biggest expen-
ditures made by any western road
this season and the work is to be
pushed as fast as men and money
will do it.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1916-06-29
STYLES TO INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL
Youth Charged with Felonious AS
sault Found Incorrigible

After Probate Judge Tappen had
heard the witnesses in the final
hearing for Harry Styles in juve-
nile court late yesterday afternoon,
he adjudged the boy incorrigible
and sentenced him to the boys in
dustrial school at Topeka where he
can obtain his parole after two
years Of good behavior. Harry Is
accused of the shooting of Roy APP
pleberry, a playmate at Harrington
but on the stand yesterday he
bravely choked down his sobs and
with clear cut, ready answers to
THE attorneys questions, persistent
" denied Intentionally shooting the
boy and showed with the gun how
it was held when 1t was discharged
and killed the Appleberry youth.
The position was very awkward.
Harry's mother testified as how
the boy, like all others, was mis-
chievous and full of fun, while
Others from Herington told OF
pranks that had been accredited to
Harry. At the most the case was a
tedious one and how boy of IL
years of age could be punished for
murder, if found guilty, is a SER
ious question.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1916-06-29

work in china painting evoked the
admiration Of all who saw 1t, and
in literary lines she made an en-
viable place for herself as is at
tested by the membership of the
Columbian club to which she be-
longed. But the browning part of
her life was not so much in the
achievement of hand and intellect
as in the gentle disposition, and
kindly nature that attracted to her
host of friends, and that made
her home a delightful meeting place
and her hospitality thing greatly
to be desired. She entered so
heartily into her husbands plans
and work that their domestic life
was ideal, and the desolation caus-
ed by her untimely taking off is be-
yond the powers of words to express
or of thought to imagine.
The consoling thought at this
time of separation is that her sweet
influences shall never perish, that
her friends shall always live on
higher plane because they knew
her, and that her continued life In
the spirit world is flaming beacon
that shall light the path Of those
who called her friend, and drew
them on with a gentle insistence to
that city which hath foundations,
whose builder and whose maker is
God.
The funeral service was held at
the home on Wednesday afternoon,
June 81, at $3.50 o'clock. Rev. H. F.
Martin spoke from I John 4:l6,
"God is love and he that abideth in
love abideth in God, and God abld-
eth in him." Burial was made in the
Abilene cemetery.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1916-06-29
SOLOMONITS HERE BOOSTING
FOR CELEBRATION JULY

Sixteen automobiles carrying 40
Solomon residents and the band
were here today advertising and
boosting for that towns big Fourth
of July celebration. Abilene is in
vited to come en- masse and a good
time is promised. All the towns in
this vicinity that have no celebra-
ton planned for the Fourth are be-
ing visited and receiving an invita-
ton from Solomon to come and
celebrate with her. Many will likely
go from here.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1916-06-29

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Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1916-06-29
DICKINSON RANKS SEVENTH
IN STATE WITH 1883 AUTOS

A few more years of good wheat
crops and automobiles will have be-
come disgraoefully common in Kan
sas, according to the records in the
office of Curt Myers, in charge OF
the motor vehicle registration de-
partment of the secretary OF states
office, Topeka. A compilation OF
the number registered from all the
counties shows $3.50 autos in the
state, or rather more than $75,000,-
600 invested in buzz wagons.
This means one auto to every
eighteen persons in the state, where
year ago there was one to twenty
two, and two years ago one to
twenty-six SedgwicA county still
leads with 4758.
Dickinson with 1858 ranks sew
enth in the state and leads all bor-
dering counties. The showing is re-
markable considering that all the
counties having more than this
county have some of the states
largest cities within their boundar-
les.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1916-06-29
ROADSTER INTO CURB
SPILLING AGED DRIVER

An automobile roadster driven
and owned by H. H. Tobias, SO1
East Sixth street, went into the
curb at Tenth and Olive streets
Friday afternoon, turned over and
threw the driver out. Mr.. Tobias
who is 10 years old, received minor
bruises and injuries and a badly
sprained wrist. The top, seat, fen
ders, wheel, lamps and wind shield
on the car were damaged. A defec-
tive radius rod in the steering ap'
paratus caused the accident.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1916-06-29
FOURTH OF JULY RACES
To- START AT 1880 p. NJ.

Differing from the announcement
in last nights edition there will be
an admission charged for the racing
matinee at the city park the after
noon July 4. The horsemen are at
considerable expense in promoting
the affair and the charge of ID and
25 cents is justified. The program
will start at 1880. The events are
being advertised over the county
and a good crowd is expected.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1916-06-29

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