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The Elbert County tribune., 1919-03-21
CHAPTER VIII.
Under tho Veneer,

An hour later 1nnes, blinking from
the sun, stepped into the tent, which
had been partitioned with rough red
wood boards into a bed chamber on
the right, a combination dining room
and 'parlor" on the left. Her glance
Immediately segregated the three
stalks of pink geraniums In the center
of the Mexican drawn-work cloth that
covered the table. Gerty, herself, in a
fresh pink gingham frock, was dancing
around the table to the tune of forks
and spoons. 1t was just like Gerty to
dress up to her setting, even though 1t
were only pitiful water-starved bou-
quet. She had often tried to analyze
her sister-in-law's hold on her brother;
certainly they were not happy. Was 1t
because she made him comfortable?
Was 1t the little air of formallty, or
mystery. which she drew around her?
Her rooms when Innes was allowed to
enter them were always fiawless;
Gerty took deep pride in her house
keeping. Why was 1t, Innes wondered,
that she could never shake Off her sus-
picion of an underlying untidiness?
There was always n closed door on
Gerty's processes.
May help?" The sun was still
yellowing the room to her.
"Helloi" Hardin looked up from
the couch where he was lying. Innes
suspected 1t of being a frequent re-
treat. She had found it tumbled once
when she ran over early. 1t was then
that Gerty made 1t understood that she
liked more formality. Innes was rare
ly In that tent except for meals now,
or during her alternating week of
house chores.
II was afraid I was late" said the
girl.
Lunch will be ready in a few min
utes" announced Gerty Hardin. won't
you sit down? There's the new Jour-
nal. Sam came to clean this morning,
and couldn't get to the lunch until
an hour ago"
Innes. settling herself by the reading
table. caught herself observing that 1t
would not have taken her an hour to
get cold lunch. Still, 1t would never
look so inviting! If Gerty's domestic
machinery was complicated and p1-
yate. the results always were admir-
able. The early tomatoes were peeled
as well as sliced, and were lying on a
bed of cracked ice. The ripe black
olives were resting in lake of Cali
fornia olive oil. A bowl Of crisp let
tuce had been iced and carefully dried.
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CHAPTER x.
A Desert Dinner.

1nnes Hardin was completing her
simple toilet. Not even to please
Gerty would she "dress up" for the
dinner. 1t would have been easy for
her sister-in-law to postpone it. How
could she expect Tom to go through
with It'll Shs couldn't understand
Gertyi
An hour ago. hearing distinctly the
whir and splash of egg-beatlng, she
had run over to the neighboring tent.
The clinking of the cake tins had sud
denly silenced. EXCUSE me, won't
your" Gerty's voice had come from
the lean-to. the little kitchen shed.
"I'm lying down"
'Lieing, yesp' grimaced the Hardin
mouth to Its reflection in the mirror.
How many times that week had she
been repulsed by locked door, sud
den curtain of silence or a run away
for while. I'm trying to catch a
nap" Easy now to see why Gerty
had wanted to hold the reins" that
week
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CHAPTER TX.
The Rivals.

From the window of the adobe Office
building of the company, Hardin saw
Rickard jump from the rear platform
of the train as 1t slowed into the sta
ton. He noticed that the new mann-
ger carried no bag.
"Wcnder what he's decided to do
about the headgate. He didn't waste
much time out there" Hardin wns
fidgeting In his seat, his eyes on the
approaching figure.
Richard passed through the room.
nodding to his office force. The door
Of the inner office shut behind him,
Hardin stared at the blank surface. he
moved restlessly In his swivel chair,
Did the fellow think big thing like
that could hang on while he unpacked
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your Hardin addressed the stenog-
rapher In the transparent shlrtwaist.
Does he think we're going to have
another flood this season. Thinks It's
going to reach the hotel and wet his
clothes7 Take the starch out of his
shirtsf" He flung out of his chair.
throwing the papers back into the
drawer.
He stamped out Of the office, mad
clelr through. To this crisis they had
sent down dandy, bookman who
wanted to build levee. oh, helii
They'll come crawling after me to
help them nfter this fellows buried
himself under river mud, come calling
to me as they did after Maitland failed.
Please. Mr.. Hardin. won't you come
back and finish your gater I'll see
them dead first. No. I'll be fool enough
to do 1t. / can't help myself. Tn
Hardin. have to finish what I've be-
gun.%
1t was not because this was pet
enterprise. the great work of his life.
that he must eagerly eat humble pie.
take the buffets, the falls, and come
whining back when they whistled to
him. He told himself II was because of
his debt to the valley, to the ranchcrs.
The colonists were about desperate.
Who could blame them7 The last years
floods had worked havoc with their
crops; this year had been q horror.
The district they called No. was
screaming irony of ruin. The last de-
bauch of the river had made great
gashes through the ranches, had
secured deep gorges which had under
mined the canals on which the water
supply for No. depended. The suits
were pillng up against the ID. r.. dam
age suits, and they hold up his gate.
while he gets the curses of the val
ley. And Mr.. Rickard thinks he'll
build leveei
He flung himself on the couch in the
tent. Gerty was laying a careful
cloth for supper. A brave, determined
smile was arranged on her lips. The
noon storm had passed. She hupamed
gay little tune. If there was anything
Hardin hated 1t was hummlng.
you'll have your dude to dinner all
right" her husband announced. Hes
In town"
"Yes. I know" rejoined his spouse.
II had letter from him yesterday.
From Imperial"
Tom sat up glaring. "He wrote to
you from Imperial2"
His wife misplaced the accent. She
misunderstood Toms scowl. 1t was
the old story over again. Whenever
those two men came together the old
feeling of jealousy must be revived
againI 1t was unpleasant, of course,
very unpleasant. to have men care like
that. but it made life exciting. Life
had been getting little stale lately
like a book of obvious, even plot.
Richards entrance into the story gave
new interest. new twist. She
hummed an air from new opera that
had set the world waltzing.
Hardin's thoughts did not touch her
at the hem. He was at the headgate,
his gate. What the deuce had RIckard
gone to Imperial for7 II he wasn't the
darnedest ass! ImperialI And the
gate hung upi
For Gods sake stop that buzzingi"
The happy little noise wns quenched.
Innes. entering at that moment, heard
the rough order. She looked implor-
ingly ut her sister-in-law.
"Supper's on the table," cried Gerty.
the fixed, determined smile still on her
lips.
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fork. I've meant to ask you hun
dred times. Did you attend to my
commission In Los AngelesT
II forgot to tell you. ! raked the
town, really I did, Gerty." For there
was d c'oud on Gerty's pretty brow. 81
could have got you the other kind. but
you said you did not want it."
Il should think not" The childish
chin was lifted. 'Those complicated
things are always getting out of order.
Besides, If had an adjustable form.
everybody'd be borrowing It."
what are you talking about7" de-
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his trunks and settled his bureau draw
ers? He picked up pencil. Jabblng at
the paper of his report. He covered
the sheet with figures-three hundred
six hundred. Six hundred feet.
Whose fault that the intake had
widened, doubling its width, trebling
Its problem2 Whose but Marshall's,
who had sent down one of his office
clerks to see what Hardin was doing2
Wouldn't any man in his senses know
that the way Maitland would distin-
guish himself would be by discrediting
Hardin. by throwing bouquets to Mar
shall; praising his plan? They all go
at 1t the same sickening wayl Office
clerks. bahl Sure, Maitland had ad-
vised against the completion of the
gate. S2id 1t would cost more In time
and uoney than Hardin's estimates.
"Tb1nks to Maitland 1t did," growled
Hardin. scrawling figures over the
page. "By the time Maitland finished
monkeying with that toy dam of his
the river had widened the break from
three hundred to six hundred feet. Foi
that. they throw mud at me. Oh. 1t
broken pencil out of the window.
Rickard re-entered the room. The
question leaped from Hardin.
''The headgate-are you going on
with it7"
Rickard looked curiously at the
flushed antagonistic face of the man
he had supplanted. The thought
crossed his mind that perhaps Hardir
had taken to drinking. 1t. made his
answer curt.
II don't know"
"You don't knowr"
II have no report to make, Mr.. Har-
din, until see the gate"
"And you went to the Crossing with
out going down to the headgate7" Har-
din did not try to conceal his disgust.
II did not go to the Crossing"
"Didn't go-w Hardins mouth was
agape. Then he rudely swiveled his
chair. The door slammed behind Rick
ard.
Hadn't been to the Crossing? Then
where in Hades did he go? He halted
MacLean who was passing him.
"Are you going to the Crossing to-
IHOTTOWf IldTulH Knew ne S0OulQ De
too proud to betray his eagerness, but
the words ran away with him.
mot tomorrow. Mr.. Richard just
told me he might not be able to get OFF
until next week."
Hardin's anger sputtered. "Next
week. Why does he rush SO? Why
doesn't he go next year? The Colo
rado's so gentle. it'd wait for him, I'm
sure. Next weekI It's q put-up job,
that's what 1t is. oh, can see through
fence with knothole as big as your
head. He doesn't want to finish the
headgate. He wants to put of going
until It's too late to go on with It;
know him. He'd risk the whole thing.
and all the money the o. p. has
chucked Into 1t, just to start with a
clean slate; to get the glory of stop
ping the river himself. 1t turns my
stomach; it's plot" The lower lip
shot out.
MacLeap's attention was deferential.
He had always liked Hardin; all the
fellows did. But he was jumping of
wrong this time. He'd brought 1t all
on himself.
He said something about levee for
the towns. He's got to investigate that
before he goes to tho front"
"A leyee7 Well. wouldn't that jar
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STORMS HOVER OVER THE CANVAS HOUSEHOLD OF THE
HARDINS AS RICHARD TAKES THE REINs.

synopsls-K Richard engineer of the
road is called
waiting Rcard reads the
despite
In
and fancied he
Marshall Rckd in
the Imperial valley
Hardin but won Richard to Calexico
Hardin Mr.
offices him. Rickard
Mexican of
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(To BE coNTINuED.3
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-01-19
Sittenberg Gets Life Term
For Perjury in Baksa Case
Convict Who Sworc He Killed
Mrs. Hamel First to Get Such
Sentence for Minor Crime

For the first time in the history Of
New York a man will be sent to prison
to morrow for life term for commit
ting crime other than murder. The
convict is Leo Sittenberg, alias James
F. Regain, alias James Burns, CON
victed last Monday of perjury, consist
ing of false testimony when he was
called as q witness in defence Of Eliz-
abeth Baksa. nineteen years old, and
swore that he and ia pal" murdered
Mrs. Helen Hamel last February.
When he was convicted Sittenberg
insultcd Justice Weeks and Assistant
District Attorney Alfred j. Talley
and refused to reply to Clerk William
Penney when his pedigree was TO be
taken.
Sittenberg has told court officials he
intends to make speech when he is
sentenced. Fearing q rumpus Justice
Weeks has ordered Sheriff Knott to
have the prisoner surrounded by dep
uties.
Sittenberg, who is twenty eight
years old, has been convicted of three
fclonies and has served one year of a
ten-year sentence for burglary. The
New York statutes make it mandatory
to impose life term on any person
who has heretofore been convicted
three times of felony
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-01-19
Twentieth Trial a Hoodoo
Louis Cuma, Called "Mastcr
Mind" of Truck Robbers Hero

Louis CHINA, 50 Oliver street, said
by the police to be the master mind
Of the truck thieves in New York
was convicted yesterday of grand lar
ceny before Judge Mott in General
Sessions. Guma has been arrested and
tired nineteen times but each time
vas, acquitted. He escaped two trials
by being called in the draft and each
time he was rejected for service. The
evidence showed he conspired with
Louie Licardi, driver, in stealing
$4,000 worth OF blankets consigned
to John Wanamaker.
Numa's lawyer put seventeen wit
nesses on the stand to swear that
Snma had attended the wake and
funeral Of two victims of the Brook
iyn Rapid Transit Malone Stxcct tun-
ne mel wreck on the day Of TIE theft.
lheir testimony was discounted under
cross examination and the Jury was
out but a few minutes.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-01-19

committee of correspondents q. 81
Capitol, explaining that he had astn Inv
has cousin, young reporter. to on,
hlm the numbers and titles Of b;n
pertaining to food after thew had h..
introduced. He said he was tolS
mountain was being made of mol :"
MI. The reporter in question W.
Willis j. O'Brien, who at that "a
and for a short time afterward ' r'n
employed by the United Press Ass a.
citation.
Wadsworth's Name Mentioned
Mr.. Heney testified also that s4na..
house of the New York Legislafuroo" e :.
i9u9, aided IN passing a bill des;ra ~
by the packers the effect Of wh;cb , .cd
to prohibit selling coloring matte, va; a.
white oleomargarine lie said u.
pac kers made butter-colored oleor,''''lle
garine which had been taxed 10 cc Sa'S',
pound by Federal legislation paSse .is u .
1908. passed IN
Questioned as to what proofs bo l.,
OF Senator Wadsworth'S activities S IA.
Heney said he had telegram sen. NJ
Senator Wadsworth by an agent Of - -
packers urging him to hclp get ~ ine
bin out of the Rules Commit.Te0e' ms n
added that the bill was gotten ont IL. az
passed. 0"' ana
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-01-19
Baby's Mother Sought
Temporary Guardian Says She
Can't Keep Child Longer

Mrs. Jennie Nelson, OF 1871 Forty
seventh Street, Brooklyn, who said she
had visited many institutions in vain
chort to find one which would relieve
her Of the care Of fifteen months old
child, took her charge and her com
plaint to the Brooklyn Children's
Court yesterday. She SAID that tho
chiid had been left with her by Mrs.
nazcl Feiat whose husband was in
France with the 305th Infantry.
Irs. Fest, she said, was long in ar.
rears In payment for the babys main
,enancc and vas not 70 be found Mrs.
NeIson declared that shc could not af-
iord TO Keep the bnby longer. Justice
collins directed that 81 search be made
fof Mrs. Fest and asked Mrs. Nelson
10 Keep the child for another week,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-01-19

diversified industry during the war
calls for correspondence greater
municipal provision for the study
and application of industrial hygiene
in New York City, the greatest centre
Of industry in the western hemis-
phere; and
"Whereas, Under Dr.. Harris the
city Bureau of Industrial Hvgiene
has acquired a national and inter
national reputation for valuable
original work, and has contributed
materially to the increased safety
of workers employed in hazardous
occupations; therefore be it
Resolved, That the Council Of
y omen's Organizations urge upon
the Mayor and the mmissioner of
Health the restoration of the City
bureau of Industrial! Hygiene with
DR.. Harris at its head; and
''Resolved, That copies of this reso-
tuition be sent to Mayor Efylan, TO
Commissioner Copeland, and to the
press
The Women's Municipal League ha
called joint meeting of all civil,
bodies for Monday afternoon at .
o'clock in the ballroom of the Murra,
Hill Hotel, Fortieth Street and Pari
Avenue. to protest Health Commission
or COnaland's action
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-01-19
Deckhand Asserts
His Home Expenses
Are $l,778 a Year
Tcstifies Before War Board
at Harbor Wage Hearing;
Defence Council Official
Wants Profteers Jailed

New York workers, by intensive
straining, can live on $500 a year, but
not less, according to one expert.
AS an authority on the cost of liv-
ing, Ben Howe, secretary of the Com
munity Council for Defence, thus testi-
fed yesterday before the sub section
of the War Labor Board which is tax
ing evidence in the controversy be-
tween the harbor boat owners and
their employees regarding the demand
of the employees for an increase in
wages and an eight-hour day.
Mr.. Howe, who was called by Frank
P. Walsh, counsel for the unions, testi-
fed that he had made study for
years of the cost of living and at
tributed Its fight to freight charges,
carriage, cost of containers. increase in
harbor costs, profteering brokers and
sabotage by manufacturers.
When the witness was asked what he
meant by profiteering brokers he told
OF transaction in which a shipment
of cotton was sold sixteen times he
fore it finally reached the consumer
What would you recommend as
remedy for such condition ?" he was
asked by Paul Bonynge, counsel for the
owners.
"Take a lot of these very smooth
gentlemen and send them to the peni-
Tertiary" he replied THAT would be
one way"
Says 1t Is Hardheaded Fact
After Mr.. Howe had declared that tho
purchasing power of a dollar was less
than 50 cents and had declared a man
OF family could not live on less than
$500 year, Mr.. Bonynge said: "This
sounds like arrant socialism," The
lawyer also limited that the witness
was a theorist
ut is not a theory" Howe replied.
1T is an outstanding, hardheaded fact
that man cannot get enough to eat
clothes to wear and keep his family on
City" Vi \"
Mr.. Howe added that policemen and
postmen were underpaid and that there
should be no difference between the
compensation given a married and sin
gle man, providing both did the same
work.
Mark f. Calicchio, of 224 rourtb
Street, Union Hill, New York Gem e n"
trail Railrod deckhand, testified that
ms living expenses were $1,77S.04 a
year while his pay was only 81 .29O.3O
year. He said he had to borrow
money and pawn possessions to care
Tor his wife and three children.
Captain Quotes Towing Prices
An affidavit from Captain John Am
brose of the tug Joseph H. Moran.
owned By the Moran Towing Company,
was offered in evidence 1t averred
that an order from his employers d.
rected INN to TRY and take water on
their time and not on ours" The
".their,'' he said, was the government,
Tor which the company was doing some
Captain William r. Maher was re-
called as witness and asked about
the prices of towing in the harbor.
lie said that in 1915 the Moran Towing
Company was towing scows from Port
Liberty to sea for 1872 and now CHARGED
from 1925 to $50 for the same work
ne didn't know whether the distance
OF the tow was greater at this time.
The meeting was adjourned to meet
again tomorrow.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-01-19
Dirigible Breaks Record

WAsHlNGTON. Jan. 1.-two re-
rnsthablc endurance flights bv the
navy dirigible A-23e from the naval
ar station al Key West. Fla. one last
ing thirty-two hours and covering $50
miles and the other forty hours and
ll2off'y-eight minutes and covering about
COZ miies, continuing ID service record
we're described in official reports made
pubic tonight
Rising winds and threatening storm
stopped the first flight, November "a,
ht.nouYh sufficient fuel and oil re-
''1 n' 10. e'gnt more hours.
mn Igh'cned 300 pounds by cons. ~ -
ton Of gasoIenc Her crcw bronght br,
d'%" - witnin fifty feet Of The rea
and With bucket and line TOOK an
ssn1oHn "ater 10 restore her proper
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-01-19

John EVersman, former secretary of
the National Republican Congressional
committee, and included arrangements
Tor contributions By the packers for
congressional campaigns.
Letterheads Of the Republican com
mlttee, Mr.. Heney said, were used by
f.yersman in spending in behalf
OF the packers. Eversman, he added,
was employed as Washington repre-
sentative of Wilson & Co. Sena-
tor Gronna, of North Dakota. stated
ne understood Mr.. Eversman had not
been IN the employ Of the committee
for two years
Advance information Sought
Referring to sources from which the
packers obtained information Henev
SAID Eversman wrote Y. D. Skipworth.
wee president of Wilson & Co.. that
he had arranged with d representative
of one of the largest press associa-
TONS who had the privilege of the
House floor, TO get advance information
on legislation.
After to-day's hearing Mr.. Eversman
said when the charge that he had an
ranged with an employe of a press
association to get information on legis-
lation was made first year ago he
wrote to the chairman of the standing
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-01-19
1FI kP'::!ITY =
AN A|H[lhk s '>lRlEE5|

The effort of Columbia University gradu- I
ates to raise 2c00C to meet tn institu
TONS war deficit is and workers will
report Tuesdays and Fridays at Columbia
University Club. The money raising organi- !
cation reaches 10 every state and every
country.
Tie Photograph Records Recruiting Corps.
of All Madison. Avenue, needs ten phono- |
graphs AMI 600 records to meet the REQUESTS
received from soldiers in New York hospitals.
One was slightly hurt in Il rnsh to
get out OF n car Of a Second Avenue elevated
tram which caught fire from short circuit
at Fiftyninth Street. Employees cxtin4uishcd
the fire at the tl'y-scvcnth Street station.
The Knights of Columbus are distributing
thousands of miniature books, each contain
ing story by famous author, to troops
on returning transports. Each book has about
thirty-five pages. two inches by one and a
half.
he American Defence Society will tender
a dinner TINS evening at the Waldorf-Astor
T. James NJ. Beck. who viii speak ON the
problems Of the peace conference.
Rey. Dr. Wilis m r. Manning. Of Trinity.
"'il ho'd brief Roosevelt memorial service
al the home Of Mrs John H. Hammond .
East N!nety-hrst Street. this afternoon at Z
o'clock
Arthur Elliot Sprou viii speak on "Russi,
n | Saw IT, tomorrow evening al the Nnl
tional Arts Club Mr.. Sproul WINS in Rrs ss,,
when the revolution startcd.
The latest charge against Margarot Songor
ana her aid, Kitty Marion, Of circulating OBJ
jectionable matter through the Birth Central
Rcyew, was dismissed yesterday by Mavis.
trate Elpcrn. max 10
John Forrest an aniabc vagabond nrrce,ed
io' bcRGinX, tried TO convince Mayistrntc /
Ncynolds IN Brooklyn that it was his first
offence. The police proved forty-tbrnc for
mer convictions against him. and Gyn ,ni
Hte' later John was on his way to serve 81,
months on his forty-four,h.
The police are looking for the mother Of :,
biuc-cyed glrl Of two years dressed nll IN
nluc who was found lonely. but cheerful at
.hc entrance Of GA Tenth Avenue She is
~ the care OF the Chldrcn's Society.
The body Of man believed to be- T
cross. OF Boston. was found in Il tncclnv
posture beside his bed in n stntcroon of ,hn
Fall River boat Priscilln on it, arrival in
New York. He had KILLED himself with
revolver W "
The Ancient Order OF Hibcrniana of Nc,.
YORK County has requested President Wilson
by cable 20 give full confederation TO Iro
lands claim TO self Differentiation"
Major Albert d. Smith and tho o,l,r
hvihtors who flew recently from San piavo
Chl, 10 Mineola. expect TO start their ,c,n,,
trip by air Wcdncrdny or ThurtIov If fh'
weather Is favorable
about forty automobilcs were dos,ro,.,f IL,
hre which burned two garages at Nu,.
ley. n. j. ''''
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-01-19
Heney Says Packers
Sought Gard Index
On Congressman
Plan for Joint Bureau at
Washington to Scrutinize
Legislation Is Disclosed:
Campaign Gifts Charged

WASHINGTON, Jan. 1s.-Francis j.
Heney, counsel for the Federal Trade
Commission in its meat packing in
qury, told the Senate Agriculture
Committee to-day of plans which he
said the packers had discussed for
establishing a joint Office in Washing
ton, with card index on congressman
and their attitude toward legislation.
He said the scheme was outlined by