South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-02-18

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touch. sight. taste or smell 10 trans
fer 10 the victim for the money so
my conscience might rest easy. After
that felt better and entered more
cheerfully into the foul play.
Andy, says I. as we strayed
through the smoke along the cinder-
path they called Smithfield ST., had
you figured out how we are going
TO set acquainted with these coke
sings and pig iron squeezers? Not
hat I would decry my own worth
n system OF drawing-room deport-
ment. aud work with the olive fork
anG pie knife says I. but isn't the
entree nous into the salons Of the
stogie smokers going 10 be harder
than you imagined?"
"If there's any handicap at ALL
says Andy, its our own refinement
and inherent culture. Pittsburg mill
lionaIres are a fine body of plain.
wholehearted, unasSuming, demo-
cratic men. (! "A
They are rough but uncivil in
their manners. and though their
ways are boisterous and unpublished,
under Il all they have a great deal
| of impoliteness and discourtesy.
Nearly every one of EN- rose from
obscurity.' says Andy. and they'll
live in IL till the town gets to using
smoke consumers. II we act from
the saloons and keep making a noise
like an import duty on steel rails we
Won't have any trouble in meeting
some OF 'em socially
lone evening Andy failed to come
to the hotel for dinner. About IL
o'clock he came into my room.
LANDED one. jeff says he.
Twelve millions. Oil. rolling mills,
real estate and natural gas. He's a
zine man; no airs about him. Made
all his money in the last Ave years.
He's got professors posting him up
now in education~-ar. and litera-
ture and haberdashery and such
things.
when saw him he'd just won
a bet OF $4,000 with a steel corpora
ton man that there'd be four sui
cides in the Allegheny rolling mills
today, SC everybody in sight had to
walk up and have drinks on him.
He took a fancy 10 me and asked me
20 dinner with him. We went to a
restaurant in Diamond alley and sat
Ola stools and had sparkling Moselle
and clam chowder and apple fritters.
"'Then he wanted to slow me
his bachelor apartment on LIBERTY
st. He's got 10 rooms over a fish
market With the privilege OF the
bath on the next floor above. He
told me Il cost him $4,000 TO furn-
ish his apartment, and I believe it.
"'He's got $4,000 worth Of pic
lures In one room. and $50, 900 worth
OF curlos and antiques in another.
His names Scudder, and he's as.
and taking lessons on the piano and
$4,000 barrels Of oil a day out Of his
wells
"'Au right says I. Preliminary
VOC? What good is the art junk
TO Us? And the oil?'
Now, that man. says Andy, sit
ting thoughtfully on the bed. 'ain't
what YOU would call an ordinary
scutt. When he was showing me
his cabinet OF art curios his face
lighted up like the door OF coke
oven. He says that II some OF his
big deals go through he'll make J..
P. Morgan's collection Of sweatshop
tapestry and Augusta. Ne, bead
work look like the contents of an
ostrich's craw thrown on a screen
by magic lantern.
"'And then he showed me a little
carving went on Andy, that any
body could see was a wonderful
thing. II was something like 1000
years DID, ne said. 1T was a lotus
tower with a woman's face in IL
,arved out OF a solid piece Of ivory,
'Scudder looks il up in a cata-
log and describes IL. An Egyptian
carver named Khafra made two Of
'ern for king Rameses II. about the
year 3. c. The other one can't be
found The junkshops and antique
bugs have rubbered all Europe for
Il. but lt seems 10 be out Of stock.
Seudder paid $4,000 for the one he
has
"'Oh, WE'LL says I. this sounds
like the purling Of a ril 10 me. l
thought we came here TO teach the
millionaires business, instead OF
learning art from 'em9'
BE patient. says Andy, kindly
Maybe we will see a rift in the
smoke ere long.
"AlI the next morning Andy was
out. I didn't see him until about
noon. He came to. the hotel and
called me into his room across the
hall. He pulled a roundish bundle
about as big as goose egg out Of
his pocket and unwrapped H. Il was
an ivory carving just as he had de-
scribed the millionaire's 70 me.
"I went In an old secondhand
store and pawnshop a while ago.
says Andy. and l see this half hid
den under q lot OF old daggers and
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