The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1920-07-15


powder trade was maintained. This
memorandum had been dictated by
Lamont to his stenographer, Imogen
Leonard, and by her Transcribed and
mailed unsigned to the smaller, fear
ridden manufacturers of powder.
Wherefore Miss Leonard could give
testimony that would convict J. Pierce
Lamont-1and a trust magnate behind
the bars.
Unfortunately, Miss Leonard's vaca-
ton, comprehending a sea trip at the
expense of her employers, was so
t1med-owing to a leak in the United
States attorneys off1c@that she was
beyond the three-mile limit before the
secret service knew it. Nothing re-
manned, therefore. but to engage the
cooperation of some foreign power in
the enterprise of OBTAINING the vitality
important witness and effecting her
return home-to. the wftness-box.
Italy's fight with the Powder trust
dovetailed into this scheme Miss
Leonard was to be detained by the
Italian authorities and pumped, but
with the American ambassador stand
ing by, ready to offer a refuge-and
safe return home!
On the part OF the administration at
Washington it was Machiavellian, on
Italy's part, the execution Of Amer
ica's third degree" At best it
wouldn't look well in print-at worst
it would defeat the presidents party
at the next election. Wisely, the
White House kept silent. But the
no RI FOL h0
stirred himself
Less than twelve hours after the
storm broke in the United States,
Imogen Leonard, under the courteous
escort Of his excellency John Bismer,
started for Rome to rejoin her mother.
Out Of the horde Of Americans who
have invaded Europe, three are re-
membered: General Grant, Colonel
Roosevelt and Pitcher Larkin. Each
made his impress, but Of these impress
sfOnists Barney LaEkin contributed by
far the most color. He said when he
got back to the Giant-killers' ball park
that he might forget his trip abroad,
but he didn't think Europe would!
Naples, where the globe-running
baseball players landed, was the one
place where Barney devoted himself
strictly and whole heartedly to sight
seeing. Accompanied by Ernest Stead
man, his guide, custodian, and friend,
he Jared forth, with the best intentions
to behold every treasure that the city
and it's environs advertised. But he
was first conducted to the Neapolitan
aquarium-and never left 1t. Here
Damon and Piscatorius" were enrap-
tured with the curious marine Won
ders~of the Mediterranean-cuttl fish,
crested blubbers, fmpossible-looking
crabs, crayfish, and pipefish, the cleo
trio rays, which Barney, after expert
encing a shock, pronounced, Five
wires, all right"
Above all, the eccentric twirler was
delighted with the octopus! At home
Barney had seen pictures of it in the
papers, usually labeled STANDARD Oil"
or Sugar or "Steel,'' but in for
eign land he saw it in the original
mother of the trusts! He had to be
dragged away to the train.
At Rome he announced that he was
tired of ''lookin' round" But some
one told him of the CatacOmbs-cel-
lars where the early Christians were
laid on the shelf. He apparently be-
came fascinated with the subter-
ranean phenomenon, and devoured all
of the literature he could find on the |
subject. The reason he gave for visit
ing the Pantheon was that twenty |
eight wagon loads of the best bones"
had been carried there from the Cata-
combs and planted beneath the altar.
When he made his excursion to the
Roman Catacombs he took Ernest
Steadman with him. Apparently he |
wandered through the galleries alb |
sorbed in what he saw. But there |
was malice aforethought in his wan
derings. He succeeded in losing his |
keeper!
ITO RE CONTINIIEDl