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The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-11-24

poets. What ROb's wife could not reconcile herself to was the fact that all those days Of hard work. all those days and nights of strain and re spOnsibility, were all for nothing. Profits had long since been drowned in the foundation work; Roberts would actually have to pay several thousand dollars for the privilege of putting up that building! When the girl could not keep back one wall over this detail her husband looked at her in genuine surprise.
 '''Why, it's beeQ worth the money to me what I've learned" he said. I've got an education out of that old hCOdoO that some men go through Tech and work twenty years without getting; I've learned a new wrinkle in every one Of the building trades I've learned men and I've learned law, and I've delivered the goods. It's been hell, but 1 wouldn't have missed iti'''
 Mrs. Trask looked eagerly and a little wistfulIy at the three faces in front of her. Her own face was aIight. Don't you see-that's the way a real man looks at his work; but that mans wife would never have understood it if she hadn't been interested enougl 10 watch his job She saw him grow older and harder under that job; she saw him often
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the lawyer appeared. The conpres- sor plant was hard at work forcing the water back in the caissons, the puIsorneter pumps were sucking up streams of water that flowed with out teasing into the settling tank and off into the city sewers, the men in the caIssons were sending up buck cts full of silt-Iilze gruel. The lawyer watched operations for a few min utes, then he asked for the owners boring plan. When he had examined this he grunted twice, twitched his lower lip humorousIy, and said: I'll pull you out of this. If the owners wanted a deep-water lighthouse they should have specified one-not a bank building
 "So the battle of legal wits began. Before the building was done Joshua Kent had succeeded in making the owners meet part of the additional cost of the foundation. and Robert had developed an acumen that stood by him the rest of his life. But there was sornet hing for him in this job bigger than financial gain or loss Week after week as he OVercame one difficulty after another he was learn ing, learning, just as he had done at Well & Streets His hazel eyes grew keener, his face thinner For the job began to develop every freak and whinsy possible to a growing building. The owner of the depart ment store next door refused to per init access through his basement, and that added many hundred dollars to the cost of building the party walls
 the fire and telephone companies
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! that he could sink the fount'at oLls without compressed air. which would i be an immense expense he had not | figured on in his estimate, of course So he devised a certain kind or con crete crib. the first one was drlFeIl- and when they got it down beneath quicksand and water about twenty five feet, it hung up on b01lter !: You see. below the stratum o. s1nd like saturated oatmeal, below the water and quicksand, they had come upon something like New England pasture, as thick with bCuldera as a bun with currantsi If he had spent weeks hunting for trouble he cou dn
 have found more than was offered him right there. It was at this polnt that he went out and wired a big New York engineer, who happened to be a friend of his, to come up. Tn a day or two the engineer arr4Ved, took a look at the job and then ad- vised Rob to quit.
 ''It's d nasty job he told him. Tt will swallow every penny of your profits and probably set you back q few thousands It's one of the worst playground propositions ever looked over
 Well, that night young Robert went home with q sIeep-walking ex- pression in his eyes He and the partner at home had moved up to Rockford to be near the job while the foundatfon work was going on. so the girl saw exactly what he was up against and what he had to decide between.
 @ T could quit he said that n Eht. after the engineer had taken his train back to New York, throw up the job, and the owners couldn't hold rne because of their defective boring plans. But if quit theren be twenty competitors to say I've bit of more than l can chew. And if I go on I lose money: probably go into the hole So deep I'll be a long time getting out
 You see. where his estimates had covered only the expense Of normal foundation work he now found him self up against the most q Hicult con- ditions a builder can face. When the girl asked him if the owners would not make up the additional cost he grinned ruefuliy. The owners were going to hold him to his orig nal es- innate: they knew that with his name to make he would hate to give up; and they were inclined to be al most as nasty as the job.
 Then youU have all this work and difficulty for nothing?' the girl asked. You may actually lose money on the job
 Looks that way he admitted.
 Then why do you go on?' she cried.
 His answer taught the girl lot about the way man looks at his job. If I take up the cards I can't be quitter,' he said. It would hurt my record, And my record is the equivalent of credit and capital I can't afford to have any weak spots ir it. I'll take the gaff rather than have it said about me that I've lain down on the job. I'm going on with this thing to the end.
 Well, Rob went on with the con tract. With the first crib hung up on a boulder and the water coming in so fast they couldn't pump it out fast enough to dynamite. he was driven to use compressed air, and
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were continually fussfng around and demanding indemnity because their poles and hydrantS got knocked out of plumb; the thousands of gallons of dirty water pumped from the job into the city sewers clOgged them up. and the city sued for several thousand dollars damages; one day the car-tracks in front of the lot settled and valuable time was lost while the men shOred them up: now and then the puIsOmeter engines broke down; the sand-hOEs all got drunk and lost much time; an un- timely frost spoiled a thousand dol lars worth of concrete one night
 But the detaI that required the most handling was the psychological effect on ROb's subcontractOrs. These
 men. observing the expensive pre- Emiuary operations. and knowing that Rob was losing money every day the foundation work lasted, be gan to seek one another if the young boss would be able to put the job through. If he failed. of course they who had signed up with him for vari- Ous stages of the work would lose heavily. Panic began to spread among all the little army that goes to the making of a big building. The terra -cotta floor men, the steel men, electricians and painters began to hang about the job with gloom in their eyes: they wore a path to the architects door. and he, never hav- ing quite approved of so young a man being given the contract. did
 little to alIay their apprahensiOns
 Rob knew that if this kept up they'd hurt his credit, so he promptly served notice on the architect that if his credit was impaired by false rumors he'd hold him responsible;
 and he gave each subcontractor five minutes in which to make up his
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secretary of the Y. w. =. A- next door attempted to have the superin-
 tendent arrested for profanity. Rob said that when this happened he and
 his superintendent soIemnly debated
 whether they should go and get drunk or start a fight with the sand hogs; it did seem as if they were en-
 titled to some emotional outlet, all
 the circumstances considered?
 ssSo after months of q faculties the foundation work was at last finished I've forgotten to mention that there
 was some little difficulty with the eccentricities of the reimbursement floor. The wet clay ruined the first concrete poured in, and little springs
 had a way Of gushing up in the boiler room Also. one night a con- crete shell for the elevator pit com
 pIetely disappeared-sank out or sIght in the soft bottom But by digging the trench again and jack ing down the bottom and putting
 hay under the concrete, the floor was finished; and that detail was settled. The remainder Of the job was by comparison uneventful. The things
 that happened were all more or less
 fp the days work, such as q carload
 oL SLOIi6 1OI' ti-5 AJtAi --- N2t~A y 0 ~
 ing when what the masons desper- ateIy needed was the carload for the second. and the carload for the third getting lost and being discovered after three days search among the crippIes in a Buffalo freight yard And there was a strike of structural steel workers which snarled up every
 thing for a while: and always, Of course, there was the small obstacles and differences owners and archi- tecrs are in the habit of matching up
 to keep a builder from getting indif- ferent. But these things were what
 every builder encounters and ex-
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that meant the hiring of compress sOr, locks, shaftinS-a terribly costly ausiness-as well as bringing up to the job q gang of the high pr ced labor that works under air. But this
 was done, and the first crib for the foundation piers went down slowly, with the hOgs-men that work in the caissons-drHling and blast ing their way week after week through that underground New Eng land pasture. Then, below this boul- der-strewn stratum, instead of the ledge they expected they struck four feet of rotten rock, so porous that
 when air was put on it to force the
 water back great air bubbles blew up all through the lot, fore ng the men out of the other ca1ssOns and trenches. But this was a mere dull detail, to be met by care and ingenu-
 ity like the others. And at last. forty feet below street level. they reached bedrock. F'Orty-six piers had to be
 driven to this ledge.
 Rob knew how exactly what kind of a job was cut out for him He knew he had not only the natural difficulties to overcome. but he was going to have to fight the owners for additional compensation. So one day
 he went into Boston and interviewed a famous old lawyer
 Would you object he asked the lawyer, to taking a case aga -nst per soual friends of yours. the owners Of the Rockford hank buud-ng?'
 Not at au-and if you're right, I'll lick 'en, Whats your case?' Rob told him the whole story. When he finished the famous man refused to commit himself one way
 or the other: but he said that he
 would be in Rockford in a few days. and perhaps he'd look at Roberts
 little job. So one day. unauncunced.
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haggard from the strain and sleep less because Of a dozen intricate problems; but she never heard him complain and she never saw him any way but courteous and often boyishIy gay when he'd got the best of some difficulty. And furthermore,
 she knew that if she had been the kind of a woman wbo is not inter ested in her husbands work he would have kept it to himself. as most American husbands do. If he had. she would have missed a chance to learn a lot of things that winter, and
 she probably wouldn't have known anything about the final chapter in
 the history of the job that the two of them had fallen into the habit of referring to as the White Elephant. They had moved back to New York then, and the Rockford bank build
 ing was within two weeks of it's completion when at seven o'clock one morning their telephone rang. Rob answered it, and his wife heard him say sharply Well, what are you doing about it?' And then: Keep it up. I'll catch the next train
 '' What is it?' she asked. as he turned away from the telephone and she saw his face
 The department store next to the Elephant is burning he told her 'F~ireproOf? We'll, I'm supposed to
 have built a hreproof bujIding-but
 you never can tell
 His Vife's next thought vva4a of
 insurance, for she knew that Robert had to insure the building himself
 up to the time he turned 1t over to
 the owners. The insurance is all right?' she. asked.
 But she knew by the way he
 turned away from her that the worst of all their bad luck with the EIe-
 plant had happened. and she made
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"Fron1 the first they were all watching him, and he knew it, which put a fine edge to his de- ternination."
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-04-12
WINNER CARRIED
nine OUT OF The
TWELVE PRECINCTS
Total of 1881 Ballots Are Cast.
Giving BayIiss 2.245 For Ma
jority of 400 Votes
BIG DEMONSTRATION
WAS HELD LAST NIGHT
Both Candidates Express Their
Appreciation To Those Who
Supported Them at Polls

Carving nine out 81 twelve precincts
IN the city OF PensacaIa ]. Harvey Bay
nss was nominated by q majority of faa
votes yesterday ia the city Democratic
primary as a candidate fer city cofnusls-
sioner, which virtually means that Pc
viii succeed George Hinrichs at the eS-
piration OF Mr. Hinriehs' term in June
The vote, although not as heavy ~ some
predicted. was one Of the LARGEST, poss3-
bly, the largest. ever potled in pensacdl8-
A total or 1881 ballots was east 6eYipE
the day. 2.si5 of this number being FOR
Mr.. RsyIiss, and the remaining ,sSG for
Mr.. Hlnrichs.
The biggest demonstration accorded
successful candidate IN many "a dag in
this city was given Afr BaylIss hy hiS
friends and supporters after the election
last night. A band was secured ana be
fore the parade started PalafoN street
from Romano 20 Government was q sel5d
mass % people. beth women and men.
who assembled 20 celebrate their victory
and 70 greet the sucesssfal candidate,
The parade assembled near the inter
section of palaF1N and TntAndeneia street
went up PalsfoN to Chase. back down
again, thence TO Mr.. Bayliss' bone Cu
East Gregory street where many HstE
shouts greeted Mr., Bayiiss' ears The
of the ardent Bayiiss supporters where
like demonstrations were staged. Owing
20 the fact that ko1nmissfcBer Po8 lives
eeift -. IRE BRssiaones across Little Bayou
they aid not eaH a. his henae- However,
Re was sefenadea and expressions OF
good VIII were exchanged
The entire day. election and celebra-
ton, passed without a single nais6ap-
There was no fights. nor did supporter
Of either side fall out and settle their
differences by personalities. as has been
I known in previous primaries and elee-
tons. Il seemed 70 be contest Of best
man win" with the losers bearing their
defeat good naturedly,
/ ''You can tell the people that am
grateful 20 them and appreciate the mas
nifieant vote and support given me .
! said Mr. Bayliss 20 a Journal representa-
tive last night. and that 1 assure them
( that viii represent all the people 70 the
( best OF my ability as one OF the city
/ commissioners
Mr.. Hinrlchs said that II wish % thank
my friends for the gallant support given
me at the polls. 7 bow 20 the VIII of
/ the ma 5orffy and accept my defeat with
kindly spirit. and wish TO congratulate
| Mr.. Rayilss on the result OF the election
and assure him that he has my best
wishes
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-04-12
HARVEY BAss1ss9 NOMINATED FOR CITY COMMISSIONED
FRENCH CANADIAN DECLARES ]
SILLMAN AGENTS MADE OFFER
TO BRIBE HIM FOR TESTIMONY
Offer, Which Was Overheard
BY Pages Wife, Was In
Conversation With
Station Agent
1au The As.oalated Pre,.l

MONTREAL. April IL Armand
Page French Canadian. today testified
In the trial OF the Stllman divorce
case that he was offered So 900 to testi-
fy that he witnessed misconduct be-
tween Mrs Anne u. Stillman and Fred
Beauvals. One of his neighbors, Shef
Simand, testified that he overheard an
offer OF $4,000 for such testimony by
two men who later testified In behalf
of Mr.. Stillman.
Page declared that he spurned the
offer, and his wife, Mrs Mary Page,
who said she overheard conversation
between her husband and j. Albert
LaFontaine, station agent at La Tuqne.
Quebec, in either june or July 1920.
corroborated the testimony. The de-
Tense charged that LaFontaine acted
as agent for Mr.. Stillman.
Beauvais father. a full-blooded In
dian. and his mother. who was born In
Kentucky of an Irish father and an
English mother, came TO the defense
OF their son and Mrs StIllman today.
Their testimony was Offered to contro-
vert the statements OF George Adams
and Ferdinand Page who previously
had said that they looked through
windows at the Stillman summer lodge
near Grand Anse. Quebec, and saw
Mrs Stiilman and Beauvais In campro-
missing positions.
The two witnesses previously testi-
fled they saw such misconduct every
morning for fifteen days during June
and July, 1919. Todayss witnesses said
/ a,,J r.
three days during that period They
also testified that there were no cur.
tains on the windows and no soaffold
ings at the front of the hslIaa. Adaflfs
rand Ferdinand Page said they had
stood upon the scaffolding and lifted
the curtains IN the guides bedroom
Their testimony regarding the cur
tains and the scaffolding was similar
TO that Of Pierre Grenier and Raoul
Dupere. carpenters. who also were
summoned to the stand today
The fact that Mr.. Stillman accom-
panied Mrs. Stillman on one Of her va
cations in the Quebec woods was re-
corded while Mrs. Beauvais was testi-
flying. She recalled that she and her
husband had gone to Grand Anse in
October, 1917, and had visited Mr.. and
| Mrs. Stillman.
Armand Page and his wife testified,
! 1t was said, that their restaurant at
! La Tuque was the place where La
Fontalne offered them money to sup-
i port the bankers allegations. They said
l LaFonraine came In one night and
asked the milf Beauyais and Mrs Still
man had ever stopped there They
answered they had done SO three times.
Then, they testified. LaFontaine In
quired If the guide and Mrs. Stillman
/ had remained overnight on any of
these occasions, and they said that
Mrs. Stillman had done so. but that
Beauvais always procured a room at
| a hotel
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-04-12
ASKS DEMOCRATS TO
SHOW THEIR COLORS
Senator Mccormick Wants To
Know Whether Party Sane
ton League Stand Of Cox
toy the Assoelatsd Prsss)

WASHINGTON, April Il.-Demo-
cratic leaders IN the senate and else
where were challenged By Senator Nc
e,ornaieiS, republican. Illinois. caairma 50
OF the republican senatorial campaign
committee, today TO show coloEs' on
The stand taken By their paTtys
.tftular head. former Governor foz
OF Ohio, for continuation os tae cam
paign to have the United States Join
tbs league of nations.
speaking in the senate with refer
enee 10 the New YORK address II esoN-
error Cox. Senator AIcCorm3EaS said.
Il want To know whetaee the views
OF the candidate Ter the presidency Al
the last slection are the views 90 his
partv here ara certain that soon
they Viii have to taiss q stand before
the public
senator Bogah. republican, tdahe. aa
lrreeoneIllaEle ~ the IsaKue 9f na-
lions controversy Of two years ago.
interrupted the speaker % inquire
whether there were not some repup-
lkcans who were growing more friend
ya to the league, Air, MccornlicS re-
plied thst there was only "an Invisible
remrant" on the republican side of
the senate.
Il 81 n AFRAID the senator IS wr9ng
returned Mr., Borah And fugthee
thiaa the number q pro-1eag8efs -
lnegeasiHg
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-04-12
ENCOURAGE Use OF
AMERICAN VESSELS
Counsel For Shipping Talks Fav-
oring Passage of The Mer-
chant Marine Bill
tex The As.esIa,sa pressl

WASHINGTON, April 11.--Ineentivo
would be given importers and export
ers through passage of the administra-
tton merchant marine blii to have their
goods carried in American vessels.
with the result that snip owners
would be assured OF full cargOss, Nor
man B. Beecher, counsel for the ship
ping board. declared AZ today's session
or the Joint congressional hearings on
the measure,
one section OF the bin would permit
any person To deduct from his income
taxes 5 per cent Of the amount or
ocean freight money paid by him dur
Ing the year for the transportation OF
goods between the United States and
foreign countries IN American bottoms.
While no direct benefit would ae-
crue 10 the ship owner under this pro-
vision. Mr.. Beecher said, It was hoped
hy proponents of the legislation that
the section would prove OF more bene-
fit to the owner than the receipt OF ar
equal amount OF money.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-04-12
ANO Their DEATH
FROM EXPLOSION
Back Fire of Faulty Rocket
Causes Explosion That Takes
Toll of Four Lives
fsy rhe Assoelated Pressl

SAN ANTONIO. Tex. April IL
The death today Of another soldier
increased to four the toll from the ex-
plosIon Of pyrotechnics set OFF by the
haclS-ffre Of q faulty rocket In a target
pit at Camp Bulls last night. Nine
others or the so soldiers who We're as
afstIrg in staging night denonstra-
tion We're severely burned Five of
the injured may die.
The tragedy occurred in the last
minute Of a night maneuver which was
conducted by the 18th infantry OF Fort
sam Houston on the rifle range at the
camp. 25 miles northwest of San An
tonic.
The dead are:
PRIVATE JOHN A BENNER. Bal
timore, Nd.
PRIVATE JOSEPH w. MILLER,
Reading, Pa.
PRIVATE ADoLPH ANLrs, San
Antonio.
PRIVATE FELIX CATcHINGs,
San Antonio.
Many officers of the regular army
and more than SO officers OF the orga-
nized sereves attending a ten-day
conference at Fort sam Houston, stood
on lookout hill 1900 yards from the
blazing trench at the time of the ex-
plosion. The woodwork OF the trench,
saturated with oil, quickly caught fire
and burned for q half-hour before be-
ing extingulshed by soldiers who
fought the flames with dirt. Water
was not available.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-04-12
WADSWORTH DECLARES UNITED STATES
OWES % TIMES AS MUCH AS IN 1917

equalled our revenues Next year
there will be some deficit because OF
shrinking business. loss Of foreign
trade and suspension OF activities that
came into being during the war.
without any surplus OF revenue
over expenses we cannot decrease our
public debt OF s22.5 100000. Govern
ment operations must come down, Al.
though the clvil war is 50 years behind
us yet the annual bill for pensions il
$3.50, ,000, 900 Only Is per cent OF our
public expenditures goes for peaceful
purposes. as Il were. The remainder.
So per cent. goes to pay for debts and
activities based on the war 7
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-04-12
WATTERSONrS WILL
LEAVES GOOD sum
Income From 100000 Is Left
To Mrs. WattersOn During
Her Life Time
(sy The AsaocIated Pressl

LOUISVILLE. Ky. April i1.--Henry
watterson former editor OF the Louis
Vile Courier Journal. left an estate OF
s22s 500. mostly In government secalri-
ties. according TO the terms OF his will
probated IN county court hero today
The income from 100000 il left to
Mrs. watterson during her lifetime
and then descenda to Mr. Wattsrson's
son. daughter and grandson The re-
saalnter OF the estate Is disposed Of
In special beQuests. Mr.. WatterHon's
library, curios. pictures and other per-
sonai belongings. are left to tbs Louis
vile public library 70 which was be-
aueaAher s5. 900 for the construction for
q place TO keen Them IN be known
as the Henry Watterson alcoyes