davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Evening star., 1919-04-20

corner. just where Schroeder's house
threatened to hide him from view, he
would stop, drop the sample case,
wave his hand just once, pick up the
sample case and go on, proceeding
backward for step or two, until
Schroeder's house made good it's
threat.
This morning Orville Platt did not
even falter when he reached Schroe-
der's corner. He marched straight on,
looking steadily ahead, the heavy bags
swinging from either hand. Even If
he had stopped-though she knew he
wouldn't-Terry Platt would not have
seen him. She remained seated at the
disordered breakfast table, dread
fully still figure, and sinister; a fig
ure of stone and fire; of ice and fame.
Over and over in her mind she was
milling the things she might have said
to him, and had not. She was too
angry to 'cry-a dangerous state in
a woman. She was what is known as
cold mad, SO that her mind was work.
ing clearly and with amazing swift
ness, and yet as though it were a
thing detached.
She sat thus for the better part of an
hour, motionless except for one fore
finger that was, quite unconsciously.
tapping out a popular and cheap little
air that she had been strumming at
the piano the evening before, having
bought it down town that same after
noon. 1t had struck Orvilles fancy,
and she had played 1t over and over
for him.
laugh, pushed plate away contemp-
tuously with her hand, and walked
into the sitting room. On the piano was
the piece of music (Bennie Gott-
schalk's great song hit, "Hicky Bloo')
which she had been playing the night
before. She picked it up. tore it
straight across once, placed the pieces
back to back and tore it across again.
Then she dropped the pieces to the
floor.
You bet I'm going" she said as
though concluding a train of thought.
You just bet I'm going. Right now"
When Mrs. Orville Platt had been
Terry Sheehan she had played the
piano, afternoons and evenings in the
orchestra of the Bijou Theater, on
Cass street. Wetona, Wis. Any one
with name like Terry Sheehan
would, perforce, do well anything she
might set out to do. There was moth
ing Of genius i'm Terry, but there was
something of fire. and much that was
Irish. The combination makes for
what is known as Imagination in
playing. She could play any tune by
ear. once heard She got the spirit of
a thing. and transmitted 1t.
At that time motion pictures had
not attained their present virulence.
Vaudeville, polite or otherwise, had
not yet been crowded out by the
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ubiquitous film. The Bijou offered
entertainment of the cigar-box tramp
variety. interspersed with trick BIZ
cyclists, soubrettes in slightly soiled
pink, trained seals and Family Fours
with lurhpy legs, who tossed each
other about and struck Goldbergian
attitudes.
Terrys mother died when the girl
was eight, and Terry's father had
been what is known as easy-going.
x good-natured, lovable,. shiftless
chap in the contracting business. He
drove around Wetona in sagging,
one-seated cart and never made any
money, because he did honest work
and charged as little for it as men
who did not. Ed Sheehan and his
daughter were great friends. When
he died (she was nineteen) they say
she screamed once, like a banshee,
and dropped to the floor.
After they had straighten I'd out the
muddle Of books. in Ed Sheehan's
gritty dusty little office Terry turned
her piano playing talent to practical
playing at the Bijou.
Terry craved excitement. There was
little chance to satisfy such craving
in Wetone, but she managed to find
certain means. The travelling men
from the Burke House just across
the street used to drop in at the
Bijou for an evenings entertainments. :.
Il H.
front, and Terry's expert playing.
and the gloss of her black hair, and
; her piquant profile as she sometimes.
looked up toward the stage for
signal from one of the performers,
caught their fancy, and held it.
Terry did not accept their atten-
tions promiscuously. She was too
decent a girl for that. But she found
herself, at the end of year or two,
with rather large acquaintance
among these peripatetic gentlemen.
You occasionally saw one of them
strolling home with her. Sometimes
she went driving with one of them
on a Sunday afternoon. And she
rather enjoyed taking Sunday dinner
at the Burke Hotel with favored
friend.
Terry was twenty-five when Or
vile Plat, making his initial Wis
consin trip for the wholesale grocery
house he represented. first beheld
Tcrry's piquant Irish profile and heard
her deft manipulation of the keys.
Orville had the fat mans sense of
rhythm and love of music. He had a
buttery tenor voice, too, of which he
was rather proud.
He spent three days in Wetona that
first trip, and every evening saw him
at the Bijou, first row, center He
stayed through two shows each time.
and before he had been there fifteen
minutes Terry was conscious of him
through the back Of her head. In fact,
think that, in all innocence. she
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rather played up to him. Orville Platt
paid no more heed to the stage and
what was occurring thereon>than IL 1t
had not been. He sat looking at
to the music. Not that Terry was
beauty. But she was one of those
Immediately clean types. That look
Of fragrant cleanliness was her chief
charm.
At the end of the last performance
on the second night of his visit to the
Bijou, Orville waited until the audi
ence had begun to file out. Then he
leaned forward over the rail that sep
arated orchestra from audience.
Gould you" he said, his tones dull
Get, could you oblige me with the
name of that last piece you played?"
Terry was stacking her music.
GEORGE" she called to the drum
"Gentleman wants to know the name
of that last piece" And prepared to
leave.
my Georgia Crackerjack,' said
the laconic drum.
Orville Platt took a hasty sidestep
in the direction of the' door toward
which Terry was headed. Its pref
ty thing" he said, fervently. AN aw-
full pretty thing. Thanks. It's beau
tiful."
Terry flung last insult at him over
her shoulder: Don't thank me for it.
/ didn't write it,"
Orville Platt did not go across the
street to the hotel. He wandered up
Cass street and into the 10 O'Clock
quiet Of Main street, and down as far
as the park and back. pretty as a
pink! And play! - And good. too
Good"
fat man in love.
At the end Of six months they were
married. Terry was surprised into it.
Not that she was not fond of him. she
was; and grateful to him, as we'll. For.
pretty as she was, no man had ever
before asked Terry to be his wife.
Orville's headquarters were Wetona.
They rented a comfortable seven
room house in a middle class neigh
borhood Orville bought her a piano
whose tone was SO good that to her
ear, accustomed to the metallic dis.
cords of the Bijou instrument, 1t
sounded out of tune. She played a
great deal at first. but unconsciously
she missed the sharp spat of applause
that used to follow her public per-
formances. She would play a piece,
brilliantly, and then her hands would
drop to her lap. \And the silence of
her own sitting room would fall fat
on her ears. 1t was better on the even
ings when Orville was home. He sang.
In his throaty. fat mans tenor. to
Terry's expert accompaniment.
But after the first year she became
accustomed to what she termed pri.
vate life. She Joined an afternoon sew
ing club, and was active In the ladies'
branch of the U. c. T. She developed
a knack of cooking. too. and Orville
after week or ten days of hotel fare
in small Wisconsin towns would come
home to sea-foam biscuits, and real
soup, and honest pies and cake. Some
times in the midst of an appetizine
meal he would lay down his knife and
fork and lean back in his chair. and
regard the cool and unruffied Terry
with a sort Of reverence in his eyes.
One year. two, three, four. Rou-
tine. A little bedroom. Some impa-
tience. She began to find fault with
the very things she had liked in him.
his 'superneatness; his fondness for
dashing suit patterns: his throaty
tenor; his worship of her. And the
flap. Oh, above all. that flap! That
little innocent, meaningless manner-
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-03-31
MAYOR WILL SUGGEST
CITY BE CLEANED UP

Mayor w. W. Zimmerman said Mon
day that the matter of cleanup cam
paign will be brought up at the next
council meeting. This campaign has
been carried on by the city for the
last three years. Before that time
women's clubs in Richmond handled it.
Should the city council decide to
conduct special cleanup campaign,
the various city departments probably
would be asked to aid. A special
week would be set apart for the move
ment. Schools, clubs, churches and
other organizations would be urged to
assist.
This campaign would be advisable
this year, it is thought, because of the
unusual amount Of dirt and coal SCOT
about the city Richmond has been
dirtier this winter than ever before
and there has been more disease, say
advocates of cleanup campaign.
The campaign would involve flush
ing of streets, the cleaning of all va
cant lots and the removal Of all de-
bris from vacant premises.
Last year no attention was paid to
this matter because the citizens were
devoting all energy and time to war
work.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-03-31
OFFICERS may LOSE
GRADE IN new ARMY
fRy Associated Press,

WASHINGTON, March 31-War
army officers who are applying for
commissions in the permanent estab-
lishment were warned in war depart
ment circular today that because of
lack of legislation or any immediate
prospect of legislation, they should
consuder carefully before placing
themselves in that classification. APP
plications for reclassifications which
they view to discharge when the SER
vices of the officer can be spared
would be considered.
1t is pointed out that general re-
duction in grade of temporary offer
ings upon entering the permanent es-
tablishment appears probable, and
that regulations governing the grade
to which officers are to be appointed
and their relative rank cannot be
formulated until legislation authoriz-
ing appointment is enacted.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-03-31
SEARCH GRAVES OF
AMERICAN HEROES
(By Associated Press)

IN THE AMERICAN BATTLE
AREA, March 31.-Four thousand men
of the American Expeditionary Forces
are now engaged in the registration OF
and search for the graves Of Ameri-
cans who died In battle.
The work of seeking the resting
places of American heroes is being un-
dertaken by the section OF graves
registration, which is directing its
efforts so as to be able to designate
the grave of every American should
congress authorize the return of the
bodies of the fallen.
Tireless seeking for Identification
tags marks the daily task of the men
of the graves registration section.
They set out on their solemn mission
equipped with pick, shovel and gas
mask. Sometimes they pry down into
the ground for the identity of the
dead warrior, sometimes they ferret
into the recesses of discarded dugouts
and sometimes they clear away the
brush of the forest to find some trace
of the victims of battle.
Each cemetery where Americans
have been buried is fully plotted on
maps. The graves registration service
is now extending every energy to COM
plete the burying, marking, recording
and classifying of the heroic Ameri-
cans.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-03-31
Claims Understanding Is
Reached With Russians
(By Associated Press)

LONDON, March 31-George Lans-
bury, editor OF the new labor news
paper the Daily Herald, declares that
the allies have received a proposal for
an understanding with the present
rulers of Russia and intimates that
the conditions OF that understand
ing are the withdrawal Of allied
troops from Russia and the abandon
ment Of the policies of interference
in Russian affairs
Russia, on her part, would be will
ling not to interfere with the affairs
OF other nations; allow Finland, Es-
thonia, Ukraine and other republics
formed from the by gone Russian en-
pire, to choose their own forms Of
government and to pay Russia's in
ternational debts.
The writer minimizes stories Of out
rage by Russian revolutionaries, de-
claring that such happenings have
been less frequent than in other revo-
lutions on similar scale. He AYERS
that Nikolai Lenine, the Bolshevik
premier, and Leon Trotzky, the Boil
shevik minister of war and marine,
have been "outrageously slandered"
and described the present admins
trat1on of Russia as "clean and uncor-
rupt." The reorganization of indus
tries is proceeding everywhere in
Russia, Mr.. Lansbury says.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-03-31

appear August %. The FIorentine
Musicians will appear again on August
20. On this date. Davis. celebrated
snasictans who is always a far6tates
will perform
Davies Opera Company
The one musical feature that is al
ways looked forward to by a great
many Chautauqua goers is the opera
company. For many years the Chica-
go opera company has come to Rich
mond Chautauqua. This year the Da-
vies opera company, which compares
with the Chicago company, and in
many minds is far superior, will ap-
pear August 80 and 81, the last two
days of the Chautauqua season. The
company is made up of well-known
artists.
The last Sunday is always the big
day This year it will be bigger than
ever. Besides the Davies opera COM
pany, the program committee has OBJ
tanned DR.. Herbert L. Willett of the
University of Chicago DIR. Willett was
headlines last year when he discuss
ed phases of the war. He is a man
Of briliiance and oratorical ability.
The lecturer for the teachers meet
ings to be held in the morning, has
not been determined.
The complete program will be out
within the next month.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-03-31

The Richmond chautauqua season
of 1919 will open August II and con-
tinue until August 81.
4 A large part of the spfosrafA shRs
been completed, Charles w. Jordan,
chairman of the program committee,
said Monday The committee has sew
eral lecturers in view but definite ar
rangements have not been made. The
program this year will be exceptional.
The musical numbers are particularly
good. Since the war many chautau-
qua lecturers and performers have re-
turned to the platform.
The old officers are serving at
present. Charles Jordan is chairman
of the program committee and presi-
dent Of the chautauqua organization.
A meeting will be held in the near fu-
ture to elect new officers.
Mr.. Jordan said that he expects this
to be the best chautauqua season ever
held in Richmond.
J. Frank Hanly. indianapolis attor-
ney, and former governor of Indiana.
will open the program Sunday after
noon, August II. Mr.. Hanly is a well
known speaker. On August 18, the
Dixie Jubilee will furnish the musical
program. Edward A. OFT, noted lee
turer, is the speaker for that date.
The Demille quartette has been OBJ
tanned for August 19 and 20. This is
a splendid musical organization. The
Bostonia sextette will render musical
programs August 81 and %.
Sullivan is Big Feature
A big feature of the Chautauqua pro-
gram will be Mark Sullivan, editor of
Golfers Weekly Mr.. Sullivan went
abroad in the interests of Golfers
recently with party of editors. He
Is a well known writer.
Pitt Parker, famous cartoonist, is
the headliner for August %. The
Lillian Johnston company. a musical
organization of note, has been Sc
cured for August 23 The Swiss
Yodlers is one of the big musical
features for this season. They will
perform August "a and %. Cyrus B.
DeVry, custodian of the Zoo at Chi
cago, will lecture August 26 on "Ani-
mails and Their Ways. This promises
to be an interesting feature. On that
date the Old Home Singers will give
their first performance. They will
appear twice on the twenty sixth and
twice on August q. Bishop T. S.
Henderson. a prominent Methodist
bishop, will lecture August 81.
The F1orentine Musicians and J..
Adam Bede, famous humorist, will
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-03-31
final EFFORT MADE
BY CANDIDATES IN
CHICAGO CAMPAIGN
(By Associated Press)

CHICAGO, March 31.-The cam
paign for mayor which has been the
most exciting political contest this
city has experienced in many years,
continued up to the eve of the elec-
tion. Dozens of mass meetings
throughout the city were held today
and many others arranged for to-
night, while in the downtown district
and in outlying sections where crowds
congregate, scores of speakers in au-
tomobiles addressed the people.
Political managers of all candidates
were united in the prediction that the
vote would break all records for mu-
nicipal election. Out of a total regis
tration of $4,000 men and women.
managers estimated that a vote close
to 100000 would be cast tomorrow.
There are six candidates: William
Hale Thompson (Republican) incum-
bent.
Robert M. Sweitzer, (Democrat)
county clerk.
Maclay Hoyne, Independent Demo-
craft states attorney.
John Fitzpatrick labor Party
president Chicago Federation Of La
Dor.
John NJ. Collins, (Socialist.)
Adolph S. Carm, Socialist Labor)
In his campaign, Mayor Thompson
devoted much Of his time to discus
sion of national issues and his record
in administering the affairs of the
city during the last four years. Hoyne
attacked the mayors attitude in the
war as well as his conduct of munich
pal affairs and Sweitzer's campaign
was largely confined to criticism Of
the present city administration.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-03-31
U. s. IS STIRRED
BY mexico LAND
GRANTS TO JAPS
Formation of Little Japan
on Border of United States
Feared by Officials.
(Ry Associated Pressl

WASHINGTON, March 31-The
American embassy at Mexico City was
instructed today to make inquiries
concerning the report that the Mex
lean government has granted agricul-
stural concession to Japanese in low
er California and to report the facts
as quickly as possible.
SAN FRANCISCO, March 31-Di-
rect diplomatic representation to
Mexico and Japan to prevent the es-
tablishment of land grants to Japa-
nese within Mexican borders "beca use
of their military and industrial men
ace" are to be urged on the floor Of
congress by United States Senator
James D. Phelan, according to an an
nouncement by the senator here to-
day. He will take direct plea to the
state department also. he announced.
Fears Little Japan"
while Mexico is well within her
constitutional rights in granting this
land, it will form little Japan right
on our border" Senator Phelan said.
"This will increase the danger of 2
Japanese invasion of California,
which is a very attractive country for
them. 1t would create base of sup
ply and would be propaganding
ground.
Already we know that the Japa-
nese are coming over the border from
Mexico. The Japanese fishermen at
San Pedro and San Diego. maintain a
large fleet of high powered motor
boats and it is expected that the
Japanese are coming in also by that
means.
$50 a large Japanese colony in
Mexico would be military and indus
trial menace and l believe that the
policy of the government is to pre-
vent such settlement near our
DOORS
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-03-31
VESSEL WITH
U. s. CASUALS
ON BOARD IS
IN DISTRESS
Naval Supply Ship Carrying
104 Troops Sends Call for
Helps Caught in Rough
Sea.
$500 men REACH PORT
(By Associated Press)

HALIFAX, N. S., March 31.-The
United States naval supply ship, Gull
goa, with 104 returning troops on
board, all casuals, is reported in dis
tress off New York. according to a
wireless message picked up here.
The message said the vessel was
hove to in a strong northeast wind
the rough sea. 1t stated further the
ship is capable of making six knots if
the weather moderated. The Culgoa
sailed from Brest for New York on
March and put in at Azores, from
which she departed on March 10.
The Culgoa's position was given
as 33 degrees north latitude, 66.3S de-
grees west longitude. Her circulating
pump was said to be out of commits
sion
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-03-31
Today's Temperature
Yesterday

For Wayne County by w. e. Moore
Fair and continued cold tonight and
Tuesday. Temperature below freezing
tonight
General Conditions-A cold wave
from Hudson bay moved rapidly south
ward instead of eastward as usual,
and as result an abrupt fall in tenn
perature has been general east of the
Mississippi river while temperatures
are decidedly above normal in the
west. 1t is 6S above at Helena, Mont.
This cold wave will move slowly DUR
ing the next twenty-four hours, calls-
ing temperatures below freezing as
far south as Kentucky and Tennessee
but reaction to milder weather will
take place by the middle of the week.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-03-31
WILSON TERMS
INSISTED UPON
BY HUNS FOR
PEACE BASIS
Decision Reached by German
Foreign Office as to Action
on Peace Negotiations =
Want Wilson S Terms.
FINANCIAL CONFERENCE
fRy Associated Press,


PARIS, March 31-Premier Lloyd
George and President Wilson con-
ferred privately for an hour this fore
noon before the council of four met
at the presidents residence. 1t is un-
derstood that the purpose of the con-
ference was to expedite the peace pro-
ceedings.
LONDON, March 31-The depart
ment of the German foreign office
having charge of the peace negotia-
tions has reached decision as to its
attitude toward the negotiations,
German wireless says. The depart
ment has decided the German gov
ernment should act only in accordance
with President Wilson's fourteen prin-
ciples.
The German financial subcommis-
sion which is to discuss pending fl
nancial questions with representatives
of the allies, has arrived at Spa
Daumio Arrested.
The financial conference between
German and allied representatives,
according to the first announcement,
was to be held at Paris. Later ad
vices said the meeting was likely to
be held at Versailles, although other
places, including Compigne, have been
mentioned as the seat of the confer
ences. A Berlin dispatch on Satur-
day said the German commission
would stop at Spa on its way to Yer
sailles, there to await developments"
Ernest Daumig, president of the ex-
ecutive committee of the soldiers and
workers council, of greater Berline.
was arrested yesterday. He is suspecR
ted of having been leader of the
January disturbances with George
Ledebour, who has been in Jail for
several weeks. Daumig is an indie
pendent socialist.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-03-31
CASUALS REACH PORT

NEW YORK, March 31.-With 2S7
troops, all casuals, the French line
steamship La Lorraine arrived here
today from Harve. Units included
casual companies of officers and men
Of South Carolina, Nebraska and Of
the regular army.
National army men of Arkansas,
Louisiana and Mississippi returned on
the steamship Alaskan, originally
destined for Newport News, but di-
verted TO New York. These troops
comprised the. field and staff. second
and 11ffd b4tfaHon, headduarter
company, supply and medical detach-
ments and companies e to M inc!us-
i've, AZ officers and 1881 men, of the
346th infantry, S7th division. After
going to Camp Merritt, New Jersey,
these arrivals will be distributed
among Camps Dix, Grant, Dodge, Up
ton,, Taylor and Pike.
The Alaskan brought altogether
2,216 troops, of whom about 200 were
casuals of various branches of the
service.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-03-31
French Profiteer Ordered
Discharged by u. S. Court
INDUSTRY AT srANpsrILL
lBy Associated Press)

WASHINGTON, March 31.-The de-
cision of the District of Columbia su-
preme court ordering discharge from
custody Of habeas corpus proceedings
OF Frank j. Godsal. French citizen
whose extradition was sought by the
French government on charge of
making several millions in unauthor-
ized profits on motor truck contracts,
was upheld today by the district court
of appeals-