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person in London I know

person in London I know
 It was the first of many things he had not intended to tell. As it was the first of many afternoons when they sat before the fire in her pretty wing-room-that gallant little blaze that did it's best to com bat the gloom and chill of London's late winter rains-and drank their tea and talked, the comfortable, scattering talk of old friends; all though it was not because of the past that they were friends, but be- cause of the present and their mutual need They did not speak Of loneliness; it was a word, per haps, of which they were both afraid.
 When they talked of her husband of the old house, the old days, she felt herself coming back, material izing gradually again, out of the past. Ay1ing said to himself that he could talk to Bessie Lonsdale of things he had never been able to speak of to any one else, because they had had so much common ex- perience. For from the beginning AyIing had had the illusion that Bessie Lonsda1e, as well as he, had been away all those years, and had just come back to London again. He had said this to her as he was leav- ing on that first afternoon, and she had smiled and said, 'tSo have, just that-Pve been away and come back, and I hardly know where to begin.'' Later he understood. For
 once or twice he met there a few of her friends. people who dropped in to inquire what she had heard
 from Peggy; people who talked ot how they were missing Peggy, of the time when she would be coming
 home Of her approaching wedding. and one and all they commented
 upon the emptiness of the fiat with out Peggy there, and how lonely ii must be for dear Mrs. Lonsdale with Peggy away.
 T seem to be the only person ir
 London not missing Peggy" he sai1 to her one day. Her brown fecke6
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than I-the age Harry would have been--
 50 you've come home" she said, '-to stay?"
 E'Yes, we all do. It's what we look forward to out there"
 'I know" With a little hospitable gesture, and a step backward she brought him in.
 They had not mentioned tiIe major who was gone, nor had tkey men toned the years that had passed since their last meeting, yet sud denly, without any premonition, those two turned their eyes away from each other. to avoid bursting senselessly into tears An almost inconcefvable disaster, yet one for the moment perilously imminent
 Yet neither of them was thinking of Major Lonsdale, nor of anything so grievous as death; they were thinking of those terrifying little wrinkles round their eyes, and of the little -and-down lines that would never disappear, and some thing inside them both gave sud- denly away, melted, flooding them inside with tears that must not be shed.
 She held out her hand for his hat and stick. For an instant they both felt a deep constraint. and as he was getting out of his coat each wondered if the other had noticed it,
 AyHng turned about and stumbled awkwardly over a small hassock on the floor. and they both laughed, which helped them recover them selves.
 How long has it really been ?'' she asked, as she faced him beside the fire.
 Twenty five years" He smiled at her, shaking his head. Twenty five yearsi'
 You must feel the prodigal soni"
 Not until I came in your door just now, didn't at all" And then, without in the least intending to say it. he added. "You were the only
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eyes looked at him straight for an instant, and then slowly trey smiled for she knew that he understood She had not needed to tell him, for he had divined it for himself. Just as he had not needed to tell he- how much her being in London hal meant to him.
 As it was, the incessant chill and dampness of the weather had done his health no good. His blood was thin from long. years of Indian sun, and he found it a constant effort to resist. The gloom seemed even W orse than the cold, and, although he had thought that he should never wish for sun again, after India, he d-d wish for it now, wished for Il until it became a sheer physical need For the first time in his life he began to feel that he was get ting old. Or was it, he asked him self, only that he had time now to think of such things? Bessie Lons- dale saw it, for her eyes were quick and keen, and she had long been in the habit of mothering. Its this beastly London,'' she said 'I knowi' And it was she who made him promise to go away for a week in the country, where he might have a glimpse. at least of the sun He remembered an inn at Homebury St. Mary, where he had spent a summer as a child, and it was there, for no reason except the memory Of so much sun, that he planned to go, ''by the middle of next week" !" he said, when Peggy will be com ing home"
 They had been talking of her re- turn. and he had confessed to the notion that he would feel himself superhuous, out of place, somehow, when Peggy came home. His con- fession had pleased her. she hardly knew why As for herself, she had had something of the same thought, that when Peggy came there would be-wel. a different atmosphere.
 She was looking forward daily
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wreck of her husbands affairs, but she had set her course, and, with an air of sailing in circles for pleasures sake, stood clear of the rocks and shoals. She had never borrowed; she had never apologized; had never been considered a poor relation, or spoken of as pathetic or brave. Her little flat was an achievement It was astonishing how she had managed at once so much simplicity, so much downright comfort and so charming an atmosphere. She had done so much with so little, yet hers were not anxious rooms, like the rooms of so many women of small means. They had space, repose, good sheer, even an air of luxury. It was the home of gentlewoman who could make a little better than the best of things" She had even entertained a little. now and then more of late, now that Peggy's education was complete-but this at the cost of many economies in the right quarter, and many exuava- gancies also rightly placed
 Call this climbing" if you will, and a stress upon false values Bessie Lonsdale gave herself to no such futile speculations as that. She was too busy at her task She was neither so young nor so hypocritical as to pretend that these things were to be despised. She had done only what every mother in the world wishes to do-to guide and protect her child and see her future pro- vided for; only she had done it more efficiently than most; had brought, perhaps, a greater fitness or a greater conservation to the task. And the success of her achievement lay in the art with which she had concealed all trace of effort and strain. Peggy herself would have been first to laugh at the notion that her mother had had anything whatever to do with her falling in love with Andrew McCrae- She be- lieved that it was by the sheer prodigality Of the Fates that. be-
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consciousness of having arrived at exactly the place where hundreds before her must have arrived had only added to the strangeneSs of her experience.
 A week ago she had seen her twenty-year- daughter off to the north of Scotland for months visit to the family which she was soon to enter as bride. 1t seemed to her that Peggy had never been so lovely as when she said good-by to her at the station that day, slim, fragrant, shining eyed, and looking very patrician indeed in her smart sable jacket (cut from the luxurious sable cape that had been part Of her mothers trousseau), with the violets pinned into the buttonhole- And Bessie Lonsdale had seen with pride and no twinge of jealousy the admiration in the eyes of that aris- tocratic, if somewhat stern-faced, old lady who was to be Peggy S mother-in-law, and who, with true Scotch propriety, had come all the way down to London to take her home with her.
 T don't like leaving you alone, Peggy had said, as they kissed each other good-by. You're going to let yourself be dull"
 And her mother had patted the soft cheek. and replied: I'm going to enjoy every minute of it. I mean to have a good rest and get ac- quainted with myself"
 When, a few moments later, she waved them good-by as the train moved slowly out of the station, Bessie Lonsdale had turned away with a long drawn. and involuntary sigh-a sigh of thanksgiving and re- lief
 Peggy at last was safe! Her hap piness and her future assured All those years of hoping and holding steady had come now to this happy end. Ever since her husbands s early death Bessie Lonsdale had centered herself upon the future of her child. She had had only her few hundred a year saved from the
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At forty five Bessie Lonsdale had encountered one of those universal experiences which invariably give US, as individuals. so strong a sense of surprise. She had discovered suddenly, upon completion of the task to which she had so long given
 her energies. that she had become the task: that she no longer had any identity apart from it And her
New-York tribune., 1922-10-26

, charge that paymeits were being mad
which should not be made. Mayo
Hylan assured him that he would hay
| Commissioner of Accounts HirEhfis 81
investigate.
Tbs first half-hour of the hearin
was devoted by the Board OF Estinat
to lcarnad dissertations and discussion
of the part played by vermouth IN tn
preparation Of cocktail, to which tn
civics students listened with rapt at
tention. This yelled reference to til,
liquors sold by Schieffelin & CO., whole
sale druggists, was continuation o.
Mayor Hylan's answer to the attacl
on the budget recently made by tht
Citizens Union, Of which William Jas
Schieffelin is president.
Mr.. McAncny, chairman of the Transit
! Commission. had this to say last night
on tho Mayors newest denunciation oi
1 the commission:
II find it necessary to correct another
| Of the Mayors Misrepresentation. In
! giving out this morning his version
of the millions of increase to be car
| ried In the city budget he attributed
the advance in part to mandatory leg
i islation passed at Albany putting
| $2,500.000 in the budget which the
Board Of Estimate had been forced
TO appropriate for the expenses Of the
ranSlt Commission.
"'rhe cost of the transit work has
been carried in the city budget Tor
years. In the budget for 1921, the
for the department Of the Transit Con-
struction Commissioner. The Transit
Commission herited this department
without change of function of any sort
1t also inherited the regulatory work
within the city Of the former Public
Service Commission for the 1st Dis
trict, which cost, in 1921, S450o00. Dur
ing the present year, the commission
is carrying the work Of both THE pre-
vious bodies, as we'll as all of the ex-
pcnses OF it's general investigation of
the affairs Of the railroads, for $2,400,-
900, a considerable decrease beneath
the composite 1921 figures.
The appropriations for the Transit
Commission, in short, do not affect in
any material way the total of the pres
ent budget, as compared with that for
1921.
Fewer Employees Now
when the Mayor speaks of unneces-
sary positions and salaries and SO on
in the commissions department. he
is again in the wrong place. When
the commission tooff Office at the end
of April, 1921, sthere were 945 en-
p!oyees upon it's pay roll. To-day, not
withstanding material expansion in its
field Of work, there arc 913.'
Mayor Hylan characterized Chair
man McAneny's statement concerning
the Mayors city-owncd and city
operated proposed subways as false
hoods. He said that the Board of
Estimate will act on the city's new
plan and that at that time he will
have supplemental report for the
boards consideration.
During the last few weeks the
traction newspapers have gone the
limit in aiding McAneny to befuddle
the public mind on traction" says the
Mayor He also criticises the cost of
the two Public Service Commissions.
New-York tribune., 1922-10-26
State Rule Must Be
Human, Miller's TieiO

JAMESTOWN, Oct. 25.--The
following were among the miller
maxims" in the Governors speech
here to-day:
Government, If 1t serves Its
purpose, serves human needs;
and government, to be what the
people desire, must be human
government
''It is the peculiar function of
the state, by good business man
agement Of the states affairs, to
encourage industry SO that peo-
pie can get jobs at good wages"
"Social welfare is an easy sub
ject to paint glowing pictures
about, to appeal to your emotions
with, but it takes practical work
to promote ii"
"The state cannot permit tho
disabled eX-service men to be neg
lected; if the Federal government
fails to take care Of them, the
state will undertake to do it,"
New-York tribune., 1922-10-26
'Hyla1l Sr1laslles
Another Gavel
On City Budget
Angered by Realtor, Mayor
Breaks Ivory Male, AT
Hearing as Fifty High
School Girls Look Orr
Office Expenses Rising
Executive Is in Need OF
More Supplies; Welfare
Payments Probe Ordered

Splintered ivory again Uttered the
Board of Estimate chamber in City
Hall yesterday at public hearing or
the proposed $361 100000 budget for
1923, with it's millions in payroll in
creases for the members Of the Hylan
administration. The ivory splinters
came from gavel. The Mayor smashed
another Of his nice, shiny, white NAL
lets in denouncins the predatory in
terests."
This is the second eavel Mayor
Hylan has ruined in tho last few
weeks in his effort to keep the budget
within bounds.
No one knows just how many gavels
the Mayor has used up in his FIVE years
in officee. With each succeeding year
of Hylan rule the breaking of a gavel
at public hearing or Board OF
Estimate meeting has become less and
less an outstanding event, although in
previous administrations such an occa-
sion was little short Of epochal Those
who follow such events at the City
Hall say the Mayor prepares for one
of these sessions much as Babe Ruth
prepares to go to the plate--by swing
ing several gavels of various styles
and weights, and his secretaries always
have reserve supply Immediately
available for just such an emergency
as occurred yesterday.
His Office Expenses Rise
Whether or nor this literally true.
the fact remains that there has been
voted an increase of $500 over 1922 in
the item of supplies for the Mayors
office. in last years budget, Mayor
Hylan was allowed $500 for supplies.
and in the tentative budget for 1923
this was increased to $1,000. Then the
Mayor broke his first budget gavel and
the item was increased to $500. In
dications are that he will need the
extra allowance.
If taxes are increased as result real
estate owners can thank their own
representative before the Board of Es-
innate for it. Stewart Browne, of
the United Real Estate Owners Asso-
citation, was the direct cause of the
Mayors outbu.st yesterday. The ses-
sion had started pleasantly enough,
with the Mayor reading for the benefit
of all present his daily attack on the
Transit Commission, its chairman.
George McAneny; the "traction ring"
and the Rockefeller Gary school politi-
clans, and reaffirmed, as he has done
each day since the attempted salary
grab for his cabinet members was ex.
posed, that the S11 100000 increase in
the, budget was due to mandatory legis-
lation passed at Albany.
Mr.. Browne refused to be awed and
told the Mayor that the increase in the
cost Of running the city government
was not $11,000,000, ,as would appear
from comparison of the totals far
1929 and 1923, but $4,000. 600 He
charged that deductions in the amount
of state and other taxes accounted for
this difference and that it was impos-
sible actually to compare this budget
New-York tribune., 1922-10-26
Smith Tarred With Trust
Brush, Charges Donoua',
Democrat Has Little Ground
TO Talk Of Corporations.
Saws Miller Lieutenant
pectal Dispatch to The Tubun

Special DfSpHfCh TO Ine JTohHo
SYRACUSE, Oct. 25.-Colonel Will
liam J. Donovan defended Governor
Miller's former connection as counsel
to several corporations at three meet
ings here tonight and charged former
Governor Smith with being head of
what is probably the largest trucking
corporation in the United States. The
people of this city, the home of Gov
ernor Miller, gave Colonel Donovan an
ovation.
In his speeches tonight Colonel
Donovan said:
"Mr. Smith has talked about the ne
ccssity of bringing government close.
to the people. The government in it's
to the people. A man or woman deter
mines his state in government by the
value he receives for his investment.
III business corporation a sherehold-
or receives his dividend in money, but
in the government the only way we get
our dividend is in the service we re-
ceive from the government.
"Mr. Smith has asked where the al
legged saving in taxes has gone. The
answer is, this money has gone back
into the pockets of the men and women
VI tiiS tGtS-SSV,VOOfUUO saved III
taxes. That means So for each man,
woman and child. To man with
family of five it would mean $40 for
the year. When we compare that with
the Smith administration it can be
easily determined that, instead of that
family Of five saving $40 for the year,
it would be spending $50 additional in
taxes, and this total saving of $50 in
the budget Of the average family
means just that additional amount TO
pay for the coal and to keep the chill
dren in school.
"Mr. Smith talks about corporation
interest, forgetting that he is the head
Of probably the biggest truck corpora
ton in the United States. That cor
poration hires lawyers to do it's bust
ness. Mr.. Smith makes his living out
of that, not by himself handling trucks
or horses, but by sitting in nice Of
flee and passing upon the contracts for
the trucking business that comes In to
him, There is nothing wrong about
that. tits O. Legitimate business. Bat
he cannot, in view of his position. cast
any aspersions upon the man who hon
estly. practices his profession and who
has before the view of all the people
OF the state shown that he practices
honestly" G
New-York tribune., 1922-10-26

with last years anyway, because of
arrangement of the tabulation
which separated the comparable items
Policeman to Keep Him Quiet
This didn't please the Mayor. He
cautioned Mr.. Browne several times
not TO interrupt the proceedings, and
when this proved unavailing stationed
policeman at the real estate repre-
scntative's side with instructions to
keep him quiet.
Nothing daunted, Browne continued
TO point out for the Mayors benefit
where the city had been remiss. This
mandatory Legislation against which
the Mayor so frequently proclaimed
was passed at Albany under the very
noses of the representatives of the
Corporation Counscls office, he de.
cared.
81 know your representatives did
nothing openly to oppose mandatory
legislation," he said 81 don't know
what they did sub rosa"
The Mayors answer was his usual
speech assailing the traction interests,
Governor Miller and the "subsidized
press" TO which Browne replied that
both sides. Up to this time the Mayor
had held himself pretty we'll in check;
the gavel had only waved uncertainty
back and forth in emphasizing certain
points. When Browne indicated that
he believed the Mayor guilty OF exag-
gerating the facts in his fight with the
Transit Commission the storm broke.
There Goes the Gavel
What do you mean?" thundered
Mayor Hylan, while class Of ffty
schoolgirls from Wadleigh High School,
bent on learning civics at the board
meeting, Uttered.
II mean that statements which have
been made right here arc grossly ex.
aygerated," responded Browne, entirely
una Dashed.
Whatever else Mr.. Browne intended
saying was cut off by the smashing
impact of an ivory gavcl on the desk
top in front of the Mayor. Bits Of
gavel fell IN the press we'll in front
of the rostrum. The Mayor stopped
laundering and Mr.. Browne maintained
a discreet silence, while the little
civics students from Wadleigh detied
every attempt of their teacher to halt
their giggling.
After clerks and secretaries had
picked up the bits Of demolished gayel
and had supplied the Mayor with a new
one, the meeting continued, giving Mr..
Browne an opportunity to question the
$l,5oo,oo0 increase in the appropriation
Tor the Child Welfare Department and
New-York tribune., 1922-10-26

with last years anyway, because of
a arrangement of the tabulation
which separated the comparable items.
New-York tribune., 1922-10-26

he said. "The workmcns compensa-
tion law has been improved to such an
extent that representatives of the
workers have declared it to be the most
humane and progressive piece of legis-
lation of its kind on the statute books
in this country. 1t has been adminis-
tered for the benefit Of the '.orkers.
and not of the burcaucrats and lnsur-
ance carriers. as Il was in the previous
administration. in the cese OF Helen
Doyle. by Thomas j Curtis.
"The laws for the protection Of
women and children in industry and
for the safeguarding of the workers,
have been more efficiently enforced"
New-York tribune., 1922-10-26
sos, ,OOOfo $50, 600 on
Miller to Beat Smith

e. B. de Chadendes & CO., 20
Broad Street, at the close of busi-
ness yesterday were offering $685.
900 against $4,000 on Governor
Miller, and $4,000 against $24,-
900 on Governor Smith. The
same firm had $1,000 to place
against $4,000 that Governor Ed
wards of New Jersey will defeat
Senator Frelinghuysen for United
States Senator.
New-York tribune., 1922-10-26
Woman's Party to Hold
Anniversary Convention
Will Commemorate First Meet
ing in l848 at Seneca Falls;
Demand FuuaIitv

From The Tribano's Washington, Eureaa
WASHINGTON, Oct. 25.-A great
woman's rights convention. to be held
at Seneca Falls, N. Y, next July, on
the seventy-ifth anniversary OF the
f y woman's rights convention. held
there in 184S. was announced follow
ing the meeting of the national coun-
Gil Of the woman's party here to-day.
The council meeting was attended
BY women from eight states and the
District of Columbia, composing the
New-York tribune., 1922-10-26

law laws % the United States. \.
mite date was set for the ;n.-o No def
Of this amendment. e ihtroductio
A fiye-foid campaign ,r e..
was mapped out by the eo,a aouF state
purpose Of obtaining nslI enra, tor Til
legislation in all states gsai ~ tight
latures meet this winter Nnefe legis
New-York tribune., 1922-10-26

executive board of the woman's party.
BY unanimous vote the council de-
cided to recommend to the November
II. conference ri the wonien's party
officers continued work in drafting and
preparing a national equal rights
amendment to do away with all dis
abilities, on the ground Of sex in the
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-05-02
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