The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1920-08-19
The City Of
Purple Dreams


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of the gorgeous plumage-his wife OF
| the month.
Then more wine was ordered 10
toast the bride, and Artie e2tolled &C.
! statically the bliss of connubial lie,
touching in particular upon his own,
| which to him, of course, was unparal-
leled and paramount Gradually the
talk turned upon other topics, with the
benedict easily leading.
II read all about it in Lunnon, dean
| fellow" This to Daniel. 'Frightfully
clevah of you, / must say, getting all
that grain and freezing out the othah
chaps. :. And poor old Otis; saw
him in Carlsbad last week. He looks
dreadfully done for. | feah the poor
fellow won't last long"
Always the mention Of Otis name
spelled bad moments for Daniel. Since
that Indian summer day when millions
/ had hung upon the toss of a coin the
aged Spectator, as Daniel knew. had
| been touchdown man. He never
!, visited the pit again. He never went
near it. The memory of its roaring
sent a shudder through him. he was
care-worn, listless, comfortless He
had lost his nerve" Grain gambling
topics were taboo in his household,
and those who valued his good Will
| found it polite not to breach such in
his hearing. When in October he had
left for the German bad" cures he
was broken in health as well as In
spirit.
His quest was fruitless.
One May morning in Florence Dan
iel read at his breakfast table of OTIS
death. He had died in mid-ocean en-
route to New York.
He put down his newspaper, beck
oned the waiter, ordered some cable
gram forms. Leaving his breakfast
untouched, and Hunts questions I'M
answered. he wrote a lengthy message
to Chicago trust company that spe-
cialized in mortgages. He fretted
with impatience until he received an
answer; and then, having read it, he
tore it up and sighed hopelessiy.
Daniel heard atterward that Otis
had left nothing beyond his life insur-
ance. The house on the drive had
gone, and with it all the pomp of cir
cumstances. Mrs. Otis was residing
temporarily in Oconomowoc. Kathleen
was with her.
Early in June Of that year two
wealthy Americans, who had made
their piles in July wheat, booked
first-class transportation from Rome to
Chicago. When they boarded the liner
at Naples there embarked with them a
quarter of q million dollars worth of
European art treasures. When they
left the liner at New York the name
of the tall, notwithstanding one,
of the black Vandyke beard and white
ducks, was not Daniel Randolph Fitz-
hugh. 1t was his own, Hugh Daniel
Fitzrandolph.
This name juggling had heralded
their coming, and they were surround
ed at the pier by phalanx of sharp
eyed men armed with cameras.
Daniel greeted them warmly, shook
hands, gave them cigars, and waxed so
iovially humorous about his malleable
patronymic that he was voted a shin
ing member OF the Good Fellows club
and lauded as a thoroughgoing, fine
sort. Nothing derogatory was printed
of him in the New York newspapers
and the eccentricity of ones using
ones family name for a "komical kut-
OUT was made to appear very nat
ural thing for one to do.
His arrival in Chicago received a
similar reception.
The thing he had long been plan
ming. the thing that had prompted his
trip abroad, which had necessitated
the proper rearranging of his name,
was made public. With a fanfare of
trumpets, a sounding Of cymbals, a
beating of tom-toms, Hugh Daniel Fitz-
randolph inaugurated his campaign for
the Chicago lnayoralty.
In the primary election these were
nominated: Hugh Daniel Fitzran-
dolph, advocating pure politics; Sam
Burlington, fat and puffy and tool of
the trusts; John Dinwoody, lean and
lank and q patron of vice, and Ivan
Skimkus, skinny and erratic and a
champion of the working man.
Before the primaries, Daniels chief
rivals, Burlington and Dinwoody, took
scant notice of him, shelving him in a
category with SkimkuS, the Socialist, |
who had no chance whatever. After
his nomination they changed their
views. They suddenly realized many
things; realized he had been working
hours to their minutes; that his enor-
nous volume of advertising was not
.unproductive of results; that he had
a happy faculty of making friends
wherever he went: that his popularity
was booming daily; and that he con-
trolled nearly as many votes as they.
This would never do, decided Buff
fington and Dinwoody. They immedi-
ately set about to crush the intruder
who presumed to enter a domain al.
ways exclusively their own. Thus,
when the papers supporting the NAL
contents were not casting their har
poons at each other, they took time to
shy a concerted volley at the interlo-
per.
CTO BE CONTINUED.)
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