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my hands to shut the vision of the Secretrys coWardee
out of my eyes.
"'Ha-ha! told you he not good for much. It's
bound to show some time Mr.. Lebaudy said to me. An
instant later heard him calculate, We'll dOne! I'M
covered my eyes just in time to the Oneyed captain
release his hold the coat collar with which he had
dragged the secretary from the life bOat-and the man
dropped screaming into the sea.
people say Mr.. Lebaudy was irresponsible. know
as only wife know that his mind often worked with
marvellous fOresght-tha is in the old days before the
collapse of his empire"
Throughout his strange life Lebaudy always was spec
tacuar Even when he fed to New York for relief from
the worries that followed the bursting of his
he could not successfully hide himself matter what
precautions he took For several months he lived IN
elaborate apartments the fashionable Hotel Savoy in
New York During this period newspapers throughout
the world wondering what had become Of the fallen
Emperor of the Sahara and governments were anx
ious to get track of him.
At fashionable New York hotels a guest attracts no
attention because he may happen to be foreign noble
man. lord, baron marquis. Such as these frequent
the big hosteres of the metropolis Lebaudy was free
to suppose his best way of hiding himself was to be known
as the Count de Loches'' Nine. Lebaudy was the
Countess
No one suspected that the quiet rather meek appear
ing Frenchman in the elaborate de LOches suite with the
beautiful Countess Jacques Lebaudy, the whilom
emperor of the Sahara but within incredibly short
space of time all the habitues of the hotel were amusing
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A bottle of wine before him, proffered by Mr.. Lee
baudy as unexpected drinking companion this rough
looking sailor waxed lOquacious. GIVE been COM
mon sailor second mate and first mate and everything
else about ship all the way from here to Bains Bay
and there amt been ships captain that sign
for second cruisethat the kind of sailor man
/ am, ;" the One-eyed rascal boosted.
"Can you navigate1' Mr. Lebaudy asked him.
GAS straight a gull at mating time, the one
eyed sailor answered
'Then navigate along with me now-dOwn to the
docks. You're captain of my yacht the Catherine " Mr.
Lebaudy answered
''The mutinied when Mr.. Lebaudy introduced
their skipper to Them, says Mrs. Lebaudy "But they
soon quieted down The skipper, suddenly, fully
alive the requisites of his etsate amid such
roundngs batted his eye few times and then took
the scurvy looking crew. two at time and knocked their
heads together while Mr.. Lebaudy and looked on. In
thirty minutes that was, American would say
eating humble pie out of the captain s hand.
"And yacht ever sailed by more capable
skipper L knew it, Mr.. Lebaudy often said. ANY
with only has just got to keep sharp look
out on his bearings.
Another instance of his keen perception in dealing
with men, We had in party on this Mediterranean
cruise Mr. Lebaudys secretary, most capable and faith
full man. who had all the qualifications of clerical and
less executive secretary who pleasant COM
panon well informed and in all ways a most valuable
confidential person to with many affairs to look
after as Mr. LebaECA. I=5
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elm all business and social matters no matter how I'M
portant Mr. Lebaudy seemed to trust this man, Jean
Lebrun implicitly He seemed also to accept him as
close personal friend Yet there times when ne
made the secretary the butt of practical jokes which it
seemed to me always had less Of bitter sting to
them Under these gbes the secretary Squirmed dis
tressfully
81 particularly embarrassed by this habit OF Mr..
Lebaudy when day shortly after had put to sea IN
the Catherine Mr. Lebaudy sent for to come to him IN
the secrearys cabin There found the poor secretary
wrhng in the agonies of his first seasckness alternately
grooming and praying his bed while seated on cabin
table his legs dangling back and FORTH Mr. Lebaudy sat
silently watching the suffering waving his hand IN
rhythmic cadence to the roans and prayerul CALCULATIONS
Of the secretary much the as an orchestra director
beats time with his baton for orchestra
81 demonstrated with my husband. Why do you do
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Fac-Simile of an affection
ate letter from Lebaudy
to his wife, expressing
grave concern for the i'll
ness of their little baby,
Facsimile of q childish
letter from JacqueIine to
Lebaudy, as follows:
my Dear Papa:
II am very sad to be
obliged to write to you to
wish you q good Christ
mas and a Happy New
Year. / pray God that
He will give you what
you wish" etc.
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Secrets of the Extraordinary Career Of Jacques Lebauc
by His Wife, Reveal Almost Incredible Exploits sa
Which Entirely Eclipse the Imagination q. Gre

themselves with delightful stories Of the weird eccenc
ties of the Count
Although Lebaudy kept large STAFF Of financial agents
busy no matter where he might be personally with his
financial affairs he himself handled many Of the details
Of his property management entaing vast correspond
ence with almost every part of the world He utilized
many stenOgraphers all the time his preference being for
young wemen who were beginners at stenOgraphy.
Occasionally he found young woman whose work and
personality so pleased him that he continued her in his
service longer than was his won't He invariably
planned to his wife that in thus favOrng the unusually
satisfactory stenographer he acting against his best
judgment But last he always got rid Of even these
fayortes in manner peculiarly his own-a manner add
inc considerably to his fame as the Count among the
offices where senographers supplied to business
whenever called for.
When he had made up his mind to discharge girl
who had served HIM exceptionally well and long that
he feared she would begin blaekma him he would lay
the foundation of his plan by promising her handsome
present of money-sometmes hundred dollars, some
times thousand or more-sh she continued to please
him. With such an incentive the stenOgrapher inva-
riably would double her efforts to satisfy hard task
master After week Of anticipation Of her present
the stenographer suddenly would be asked by Mr. Lee
baudy to write exceptionally confidential letter Oh
a different typewriter"
typewriter bearing the name Of popular make and
to all appearances ordinary machine would then be
produced and Mr. Lebaudy would hand to the eager girl
lonRhand COPY of the letter he desired to be written
'This must be written in two mnutes-no longer and
without mistake" was the nvarabe dietum, accepted
without comment by the GIRL who accustomed to her
strange employers whims. "And if you don't finish it
in two minutes ready for my signature you are dis
charged If you do IN give you that present spoke to
you about " Mr.. Lebaudy would add
AstOnshed perhaps by this turn in her employers
pecuaritie but nevertheless knowing that Lebaudy al
ways was of his word the girl would set about the
copying of the letter. confident that two minutes would
find it ready for the signature Her fingers would fly to
the keys of the typewriter only to find when she looked
up at the sheet of paper that she had written string Of
meaningless letters instead Of the words to be copied
The machine had been especially made for Mr. Lebaudy,
with the usual arrangement of the letters the keyboard
changed into hopeless tumble. The two minutes went
by while the poor girl tried frantcaly solve the Ch
nese puzzle of the altered keyboard Mr.. Lebaudy,
watch in hand with a sardonc grin playing about his
mouth watched until the two minutes were up.
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itf How can you take such delight
in the mans sufferingsi. What has
he done that you should torture him
so-one who IS such a faithful ser
vantf' These questions / asked him.
Tine vaut pas grand chose =
He is not good for much-was Mr..
Lebaudy's surprising answer. Some
time he II turn out bad; then I'll be
glad paid him in advance for his
shortcomings ] did not believe it
but sure enough.
eve were cruising close to the
shore of the Mediterranean when,
very suddenly one night, we ran head
onto a rock, climbed it, stuck fast and
toppled over. The sea dashed around
us, and there were sounds as if the
yacht was breaking to pieces. Imme-
diately there was great confusion.
Every one rushed from their cabins
and hunks to the main deck, which
was much aslant, and made for the
life boat davits. There were several
women aboard, four or five friends
Of either Mr.. Lebaudy or myself,
whom he had invited to join our
honeymoon cruise, and their maids
and mine. The one-eyed captain
stood at the rail Of the uppermost
side of the yacht, where the life boats
were being swung free, and beloved
out repeatedly: Women frst-women
first! Men are safe on board. Wen
save the ship-but get the women
into the life boats first
Zone or two of the crew sought
to stink by the captain and get safe
hiding place in a life boat, but the
one eye detected them and, with ter
rible oaths, the big fellow picked
J these towards up and bodily flung
them over the water-washed side of
the deck into the sea. But one man
got by him-no one else but the Sec
rotary. This one made straight for
the life boats, and, brushing the
women aside with his wildly swing
ing fists, he climbed into the first
boat and sought to crawl under a
seat. Mr.. Lebaudy had drawn me
close to him and stood at the rail,
ready to drop me into a life boat
where space was reserved for me.
We saw the incident, and l threw up
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When Nine. Lebaudy first attracted the attention of
Mr. Lebaudy she was Mile Margaret Augustine Deliere
poor girl of Paris noted among her friends for her deli
cate beauty A famous artist who had known her when
both were poor and who later engaged by the EN-
peror paint portrait of his consort described her
as fra piece of the most exquisite china with the soft
ness of flesh and tinted with the hues of buoyant YOUTH
Despite his wealth. Le6audy was not generous at hrst
to the Mile Margaret whose love had attached her
him. He preferred to her. he said in the humber
garb of the poor girl unspoied by the eOunterfeng Of
wealth's adOrnments. She wanted pretty gowns and
fashionable bonnets and shoes made decorate and
dsfgure her pretty slender feet But Lebaudy would
encourage of these feminine fancies. She would
remain, he said, just she until he ready to
transform her into woman of fashion.
The young Nine. Lebaudy romantic, as almost all
French girls She felt that her husband desire to
have her only she when he learned to love her
but sign of his deep affection. So she content al
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GO nome; you re QlScndESeO9
he would say, and walk out of the
room without another word, leav-
ing the stenographer in tears.
But in every instance when the
ehagrinned stenographer reached
her home, to report to her mother,
perhaps, that she had lost the posi-
ton at the hands of the employer
who had promised her a present,
she was confronted by special de-
livery letter, mailed that morning
to her home address, which con-
tanned Mr.. Lebaudy's check for the
amount of the present he had
promised her.
Mrs. Lebaudy, who Mr.. Lee
baudy once described to a company
of his associates during his Empe-
ror days as "the most faithful and
worthy consort ever given a mortal
monarch, was quite often the butt
of Mr.. Lebaudy's strange humor.
In his latter days, the days Of "The
Lodge" on Long Island, New
York, where he was killed by Mrs.
Lebaudy, this humor took the form
of cruel torture-torture which
Mrs. Lebaudy's bullet eventually
ended. In earlier days it was more
P--A.-A.o
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1919-08-22
STREET CAR STRIKE AvERTED
Company and Men Reach Agreement
City to Have One Man Cars.

The street car men of Olympia will
not go on a strike. Olympia will
soon have one-man cars and as soon
as these are ready for operation the
car men will receive an increase in
wages. under an agreement reached
this week with the Olympia Light &
Power Company.
After the electrical workers walked
out the car men threatened a strike
asking that they be allowed higher
scale than from 33 to 43 cents an
hour.
L. B. Faulkner, manager of the
Olympia Light & Power Company
announces that one of the one-man
cars had been completed and that the
other six will be ready for operation
within GO days. All the cars of the
company are being converted into
one-man cars, automatically equip
ped. The new wage scale will run
from SO to 60 cents an hour.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1919-08-22
COUNCIL TO CALL
SPECIAL ELECTION
WANTS AUTHORITY TO ISSUE
S25,OOO BONDS FOR WEST
SIDE BRIDGE.

Residents of Olympia will vote at
a special election, probably Novem-
Der 4, on the question of issuing
$4,000 bonds or 'such sum as may
be necessary" to make the new West
Fourth street bridge an all-concrete
structure, instead of having a wooden
approach on the west end as provided
in the plan on which the county COM
missloners opened bids this week.
If the bond issue fails, the city will
advance to the county $3.50 toward
the cost Of constructing the bridge
with wooden approach, the county
having only $124,OO0 available
while the only bid received was
$132,75O.
A resolution setting forth these
alternative proposals was adopted by
the city council at its regular meet
ing Tuesday evening. The question
at issue is whether the city will
spend $3.50 and get only wooden
approach. or whether it will spend
$4,000 and get an all-concrete
structure
Councilman Forstell,s. chairman OF
the street committee, is backing the
all-concrete plan and in statement
Thursday said:
1T was the thought OF the mem
bers of the city council that this wood
structure would be expensive to the
city. in that the decking would have
to be renewed about every. three or
four years and at the end of about Is
years a new structure built
The bridge as first designed by the
commissioners was to be concrete
throughout, but the first bids opened
last May for this kind Of structure
boosted the cost 1t to about $17O.-
00Q, After Juggling plans several
different ways and calling for bids
twice. the commissioners finally d.
termined upon a Luten design bridge
with wooden approach on the west
end. as the only design cheap enough
to be built within the $124,000 avail
able
The bid OF $132,75 submitted this
week came from Contractor Charles
G. Huber OF Seattle, who built the
new Tumwater bridge. While the
contract has notteen closed, 1t is ex-
pected It will be Monday when Huber
is due to come to Olympia. as the
commissioners and council are agreed
as to policy.
The special election will not delay
construction of the bridge, as the con-
tractor will not be ready to begiR
work on the approach until next
April, Commissioner Sans says. the
main portion of the bridge across the
waterway being started first. II the
bond issue carries, the contract will
be revised to provide for. q concrete
approach.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1919-08-22
SOLONS NOT FIXED
ON EXTRA SESSION
LEGISLATURE COULD TAKE Up
OTHER QUESTIONS AS WE'LL
AS SUFFRAGE

Governor Louis F. Hart Processes
to have had no understanding with
members of the legislature that the
extraordinary session he announced
Monday will be called to ratify the
national suffrage amendment will
limit itself to that business. which
would require about Is minutes.
There is considerable surmise that
the governor is merely acting at this
time for the influence it will have Oh
the conference of governors now as
sembled at Salt Lake City. without
expectation that the Washington leg
islature will actually have to assem-.
BILE. If the federal amendment is
ratified in time to permit the women
of the nation to vote in 1920, the gov
ernor will be released from his prom
ise to the national and state suffrage
organizations, which is to the effect
that the Washington ratification will
be forthcoming if 1t is needed to
make national suffrage effective next
year.
Once assembled the Washington
legislature becomes law to itself so
far as the scope of business or length
of the special session is concerned
Whether there might be a revival of
the Lamping relief bill, additional
highway paving provisions and mat.
ters of that sort would depend upon
how the legislature felt when it got
together. Various members are un-
derstood to be not opposed to an
opportunity to remedy several mat.
ters they consider oversights of the
last regular session.
asrf-No date is yet set for the special
session. if it is actually called, but
the governor intimated that it would
be about January IL. the second Mon
day in the month, instead of the
first. on which the regular biennial
sessions convene.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1919-08-22
TELLS BEST WAY TO
TAKE CARE OF BABY
ANTI TUBERCULOSIS LING
GIVES DEMONSTRATION ON
CARE OF INFANTS.

Keep the babies away from the
movies: they ought to- be in bed
asleep" This was the admonition of
Miss E. E. Farrar, who lectured on
Infant Welfare at the Y. NJ. C. A.
before group of interested Olympia
women. The lecture was feature of
the travelling anti-tuberculosis clinic
which was in Olympia Tuesday.
Miss Farrar spoke on the care of
the baby. bathing the baby, sensible
clothing for the infant. and the en-
vironment. She urged the mothers
not to overdress the babies. She
also explained to them that by en-
vironment she meant quiet for the
baby while it is asleep. good ventila-
tion, and disturbing atmospheres such
as movies, big celebrations. and the
baby stage.
Mrs. Elizabeth Soule of Seattle and
DR.. Raymond Carey also accompanied
the clinic to Olympia. DR.. Carey
spoke at the Y. M. C. A. His lecture
was accompanied by motion pictures
relative to the fight against tuhercu-
losis. 1t is the only travelling clinic
in the United States outside of the
one in Chicago which is a city clinic.
This one is state clinic and is pat
termed after the travelling clinics of
France.
Later an attempt will be made to
establish permanent clinic in Olym-
pia and have a public health nurse
for Thurston county. There were
1000 men in the state of Washing
ton rejected during the recent war on
account of tuberculosis. OF this
number eight men came from Thurs
ton county.
Among the exhibits displayed by
the clinic was map showing the
number of men rejected on this ac.
count from each county. The exhibit
also included complete layette for a
baby, and various posters showing the
correct care of babies. open air schools
and various means of combating this
disease.
The annual meeting of the Wash
ington tuberculosis association was
held in Tacoma Wednesday and
COntfnued on Pape Sayap
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1919-08-22
TEACHER PROBLEM
SERIOUS IN COUNTY
TWELVE DISTRICTS STILL HAVE
NO INSTRUCTORS FOR TERN
STARTING NEXT MONTH.

Is the lure of the little red school.
house and the training of young
minds fast losing it's hold?
County Superintendent of schools
Fred Brown reports that this county
is still short IL teachers. Many OF
the teachers are turning down posi-
tions which offer 500 a month to
teach a one-room schoolhouse for the
commercial and industrial fields have
been opened up to them during the
war and they have failed to return to
the teaching profession.
There are ITO teachers employed
in Thurston county. OF this number
81 are on the staff of the Olympia
teaching force. City Superintendent
of Schools c. E. Beach says that they
still lack couple of teachers for the
Olympia schools. The schools in
Olympia and Thurston county open
September 2. According to Superin
tendent Brown in former years the
teachers were all signed up for the
fall term Of school by June.
Many of the districts in this county
are taxed up to the very limit and
can not levy special assessment to
raise funds with which to pay the
teachers higher salaries. One of the
solutions to the shortage of school
teachers problem has been offered by
Plainview, which is a district about
six miles west of Olympia, at Mud
Bay Plainview simply closed up its
schoolhouse. made contract with q
man to transport the children to and
from school in an auto bus and will
send its children to the Olympia
schools
The apportionment money from the
Plainview district will be turned over
to the Olympia district, while the
school money will be used to pay for
the transportation of the students.
Many of the schools all over the state
are following out this consolidation
plan as solution to the scarcity of
teachers
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1919-08-22

told Bennett, and little later ON,
while explaining that he would re-
fuse to sign the bills as long as BEN
nett did, Sans said, speaking to Ben
nett: II know the sole purpose of
your refusal--you want to stand
around on the street corner ana
peddle this sort of stuff to everybody
that comes along, and / won't stand
for 1t. You are just as much oblf-
gated to approve those bills as am -
Things were pretty warm when the
commissioners adjourned for the noon
recess, but during that time Commis-
sioner Bennett consulted an attorney.
who advised him that. inasmuch as
all three of the commissioners signed
the resolution authorizing the state
highway commissioner to handle the
paving work, each commissioner was
obligated to approve the bills.
Consequently, when they recon-
vened for the afternoon session, Ben
nett changed his position and the diff
ficulty was settled.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1919-08-22
BUY M|LROY PLACE
FOR NEW HOSPITAL
SISTERS OF CHARITY NOW OWN
HISTORIC PROPERTY-PRES-
ENT SITE GOES TO STATE.

Anticipating the purchase of their
present property by the state capitol
commission to complete the new cap
itol grounds, the Sisters of Charity OF
Providence, who conduct st. Peters
hospital, this week concluded the
purchase of the entire block on the
east side of Main street between Elev-
enth and Twelfth, familiarly known
as the "old Milroy place" The con
siderati0n totalled $4,000.
The north half of the block was
bought August S from the Ferry
Leary Land company of Seattle and
the south half from Celia NJ and
Marie Pix of Seattle, the negotiations
for the latter being closed Tuesday
The property is centrally located and
two blocks east from the site the hos
pital has occupied for years.
While no plans have yet been made
for the erection of the new hospital
building, it is expected that it will be
under construction within the next
year. giving the city first class hos
pital with all modern facilities. In
dications that the capitol commission
would want the present hospital site
were given at the time of the pur
chase of the Stevens property at
Eleventh and Main streets.
The ''old Milroy place" was named
for General Robert Houston Milroy
of Civil war fame. who came to Olym-
pia with his wife in 1869 to become
superintendent of Indian affairs for
the Territory, one of the then impor-
tant positions. He served in that ca
pacity until 1874. maintaining head
quarters in this city, and constructed
the house at Eleventh and Main
streets. in which he lived until his
death in 1890,
Two of the generals sons, County
Clerk V. A. Milroy and his deputy
Walter J.. lived in this city \ third
son, Robert Bruce Milroy, is also liv
ing