Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-12-26
"IN the Prov
ince of Shansi
They Have a Ri
diculous Custom.
w h i ch Is to
NJ a Try D e a d
Folks to E a c h
Other. . Marco
Polo.

upon which stood the hrSt Fort
Dearborn. The south end of the Rush
street bridge rests upon this old site.
River street, one block long. ends up
on it from the southwest Michigan
avenue directs it's traffic over it,
That first Dearborn passed away
with the massacre of 1872. 1t was
succeeded. as shown on the earlier
maps. by another Fort Dearborn, with
near it, to the west, barn, and near
the barn to the south garden, and
near the garden to the east well,
and southwest of the we'll a grave.
The grave stood in the middle of the
diagonal road known as Hubbard's
Trail, which started at B. Beaubien's
store and led southwest to Danville.
The old mouth Of the river lay well
south Of this store. opposite the later
Madison street The village grave
yard rose a few rods inland. under
what is now the busiest street corner
in the world.
In many American cities the older
streets have become particularly the
home of the coffee trade. This has
been true of Chicago. The Fort Dear
L.,
ton of it which lies adjacent to the
barn, the garden. the we'll and the
grave. long ago became used to the
rumble of coffee trucks and tea vans.
= Even today tho. ventilators piercing
tAe upper walls pour forth pencils OF
v4por so pungently penetrating that
the sAvor of their essence. when the
wind does not forbid. carries through
the scanons OF the Loop, in spite OF the
intervening smokessacks.
The firm Of David Bellew & Co, teas.
in this district of fragrances.
At the time OF this story the hrn
consisted of David Bellew alone.
There had been q partner, but Bellew
had long ago bought cut his interest.
and now the latter portion of the firm
name was merely an outgrown appen-
dix, retained because OF Its advertise
ing value. The offices OF the firm had
likewise been outgrown. Bellew. how
ever, had never felt quite at ease in
the huge factorypn the west side. and
tie quarters near the grave and the
well long after they were silted shall
low with browned papers.
David Bel1ew had become during the
years of his strength a wealthy man.
His merchandising had been profita-
Ole; fortunate, Investments had paid
him fabulous returns: SO much was
known. He waSfeputed to be worth
between ten and twenty millions of
dollars. some placing still higher
value upon his holdings. He had NO
living brothers or sisters. but there
was an oid-fashioned niece. Emily
Bellew, daughter OF his younger
brother. Emily lived with her mother
In Cincinnati.
The report of Bellows death had
been like q thunderclap from clear
sky. For NO reason at all he had been
seised with . whim to visit the Pacific
coasA. The next word WAS that he
was dead. Following this, AIhlost be-
fore the newspsRers tsss .n a,s,9;nas
came word that his wife was on her
way to Chica9o,.to assume charge of
his Affairs. GdicAgg had not known
that there war zN544 The newspa-
pers also contat1t1 hints or will In
posed that. the <niecA-s would inherit
THERE was 8 man named Har-
rington WIG lived in a town
named Eden. Center. in Illinois.
And there was also an attorney
named Bretts who. lived on Sheri-
dan road. Upon the Thursday morn
ing Of the second week following the
news of David Bellows death this
ES0en SeuteI man tcII uIS uOte4 IN SnI-
cago for journey along the city
streets toward this Sheridan road
mans offices. Brett had been David
Bellows attorney. Harrington had an
appointment with the attorney for
half past eleven, He was carrying a
small hand camera.
Harrington was not a stranger in
Chicago. nor was this his first call
upon Brett. He knew he could reach
his building in Ave minutes. The hour
was scarce half past ten. He there
fore was in no hurry. but tarried now
to feed his imagination with pictures.
He proceeded leisurely along the
street to Lake street. and along the
left side Of Lake to the corner of
Dearborn. Here he turned south
After little he arrived before the
window Of a camera shop in which
was exhibited huge German airplane
o camera, together with its awe-inspir-
ing war accessories. such as set of
miracle-working light-ilters for Ill
tie: batter Of plates. ruled for map
ping purposes. in tempered Jena glass
the automatic magazines for the
plates. and a spare focal-plane shut
ter in case the camera shutter
should become jammed. He. had
The great lens. of the focal length of
twenty-eight inches and the almost
startling aperture Of one-fifth that. or
F 5, as expressed in terms OF optics.
fascinated him. He had not dreamed
that an anasti0matic lens could be
constructed 30 large.
As he stood before the window mar
yelling at the local length and the
speed OF the huge anastigma-. he re-
hected idly upon the optical principles
involved He wondered whsther a
mirror lens, such as astronomers use.
could not be designed to do the same
work. Perhaps it could not: ne did
not know. A mirror lens would not
require the five corrections and it
could be constructed just as easily
eye tn tire reflected imlse Of the
stree. uror the surface Of me plate
glass window. The glass constituted
only an imperfect mirror. but with its
black background of cameras, the i'm
age upon the surface was exceedingly
could not be done.
1t was az he stood thus before the
display Of cameras in the window. Ap-
parsnily looking at the fast anastig-
mat but in reality watching the
changing image upon the plate glass,
that a surprising thing occurred. He
was idly watching the strangers who
walked past behind him. Suddenly he
found himself watching a face that
was familiar-that Of woman he had
Lissie was alone: but although Har-
rington knew that she saw him. she
walked past with quickly averted
eyes, as II fearing he would turn,
which was as he wished He had no
desire to speak to her.
After gazing at the lens a little
longer he went inside to ask ques-
lions. One Of the filters in the window
was a so-called gold-filt What was
a gold-flter? The lens was marked
ID 1Afs ~ H
II was on the order Of a Cooke triplet
Or was it one of Rudolph's or Hartig's