Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-11-14

| start the ball rolling. Who'll start
| her? Who? Mr.. CAM. you're sue
| cesSful business man who told me not
| ten minutes ago that my smile was
worth five thousand. Prove it. Look
! at it now. Is it still worth the money
Start the purse with that five thou
| sand. Mr.. CAM. and if she don't loop
! the double loop four times and write
each loop in fire. purse refunded Ike
j promised Start her with fve thou
sand. Mr.. GAM. Are you a gentiema n
of your word. Mr.. CAM. and game
enough to start her with five thou
! Sand?"
| Miss Della. you-you'rc only fooi-
| ing. Such little cut-up.'
| "Fooling! If I was any more IN
earnest I'd break a blood vessel
| Dots ride. Miss Gczzler, mage MN
bay"
start her with five thousand, MT.
CAM. Come in on your share. MT
| Riley. It's your enterprise, after an,
and you go him a couple of thousand
better. It's cheap at the price, MI
! Riley. Bjordstedt got twenty thou-
sand for his last flight and came
down in ten minutes with broken
, rudder. but just the same ne pu'
; Great Neck on the map. Don't be "A
bunch of pikers. You. Mr.. LobenZ IL
you're the good sport I think you are.
what's a few thousand 10 You; Come
on in it, Mr.. Chalmers. and III make
YOU forget what ails you; you, Mrs.
! Van Ritz If you're a gentleman OF
! YOUR word. Mr.. CAM, you'll start the
| ball rolling with that five thousand:
| But. Miss Della. five thousand dol
! lars for a man like me to put In arr
! ships isis a lunatic business. Miss
| Della, tell you"
! 'Lunatic business. Mr.. CAM. IL you
are helping to pull off one Of the
greatest stunts in the history of the
aeroplane? Do you think it Will 90
the ght-Cent Store any
I harm if its owner. Max CAM OF Chi-
cago. is 4 pioneer i'll the history OF
| aviation?
I'm the ten days before you're
. go home famous. We can stage ana
+! pull off this thing in weeks time.
The machine is ready now. He was
vanishing the planes when L ie1I
| Quick work 10 what we need. Ex-
cursion rates from all over the coun-
try to the springs. Mr. Riley. From
New York st. Louis - Chicago =
Louisville - Indianapofts - Kansas
! City Dubuque = everywhere. MI
Leeds. the railroad magnate VINO SITS
across from us in the dining room:
can manage that. Mr.. Lobenz over
there with his string of newspapers
! is going to be our little press agent
start her with $4,000. Mr.. CAM. start
her if you're a man Of your word:
Twenty - twenty-five - hundred.
Miss Kessler, is all I-I--
Good. Twenty-Five hundred for
starter Mr.. Max CAM of Chicago
starts the ball rolling with twenty
Ave hundred. Am I bid more? Am
| I bid more? It's your enterprise
a NJ and the net re-
suits will be yours. The proprietor
of the Hotel Cadillac must head the
! list. Am bid more? Five thousand,
| if you're good business man ana
| know good thing when you see II;
Five thousand for a hundred thousand
worth of publicity! Five thousand"
give thousand"'
"Hurrah. Five thousand from Mr..
Riley and don't let them leave you at
| the post, Nr. Hirkhimer"
"A tousand doolar. Miss Gezzier.
but I want from way up in the ar
he should drop one tousand packages
Mimic chewing gum when he reaches
two tousand feet"
mo sooner said than done! One
thousand from Mr.. Hirkimer. and now
you. Mr. Lobenz. How much?"
You can't expect a man IN the
automobile business. Miss Kessier. to
"Why not. The biggest automobile
man in the world started out manu-
featuring one-horse shays. How
Chalmers! Good. Let me put you
down for one thousand each. and now
| Won over there. Mrs. Van Ritz. Let's
have health, wealth and beauty on our
list. and it's up to you to supply Inc
last. How much Mrs. Van hi's
'Two thousand" Spoken colby as
through a vet blanket and the yellow
head still held In profile.
"Catch me, darlings, while faint:
Eleven thousand five hundred. ana
that. Ladies and gentlemen. you are
helping to make the history OF the
air. In these pioneer days every
flight is a boost. It's the fancy flyers
like this boy. Meyer. who are gong
to prove to the wo dainr .h ibe doabien
loop for you four times over Arch
Never is going to prove the fitting
power of the flying machine. IL ne
don't purse back like l promised.
Ladies and gentlemen, you're helping
to make the history OF the an anu
I'm proud of you!
She Jumped lightly down without
the nrofYered aid of Mr.. Riley and
MI, CAM and darted into the shaded
track leading up toward the hotei.
| "Rut Miss KesSler@
Pm OF to the hotel to send off
lte1egrams before you change your
minds. Hold my hat. Mr.. CAM. until
IT come back. Watt"
And she was off. her vivid face e
thrust forward and her elbows iaid
| In the bay of the veranda. plying
her placid needle and the rose grow
ing in her pattern. Mrs kessler
glanced up at the rush of her daugh-
ter's approach.
Della
Great news. mommy. dear; only
let me pass. must hurry Great
newsr'
"Della, did he
IAN exhibition flight down here.
biggest flight of the year. The big
jgest flight of the year. mommy. dear.
Let me go. Let me go" NJ
! Kessler. reseating herself and as u
iher vocal chords had suddenly rusted.
Ion the night of the exhibition
" flight of the Meyer biplane at
Cadillac Springs the air of Indian
summer hung heavy with the smooth,
ingratiating quality Of milk. Stars,
so close that each seemed to be cut
in facets to enhance its brilliancy,
tureen Of quiet which night creates
4 in lonely places.
| on the vast lowlands beyond the
Hotel Cadillac. and, like bees swarm l.
ing upward in anger. rose the hum
of mems voices and the thrum OF
mems feet moving in .quickstep to
the pace of quick pulses.
September night lay on the stubble
fields. but grilled into by series of
| white arc-lights swung from tempo
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