The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-08-31

oeSL years OF your lie behind prison
walls. / ask myself whether or not
would bring my influence to bear,
in that case, to keep you from going
there. I'm ashamed to say that I
would
You may wonder about that. I
would know, in my heart, that you
should go there. 1 can't accuse YOU
without also accusing myself. There.
fore 1 would try to keep you out of
pr1soa In doing that, 1 would see
IN myself further proof of nv old
Weakness weak desire to spa re
you when the prison might make a
man Of you
Ned recoiled at the words. but his
rather threw him quick smile.
Your mother and have a LOT n
answer for. Both of us were busv.
with my business, she with her
household cares and social duties
and 1t was easier to give you what
you wanted than to refuse vo,,
things for your own good. It was
easier to let you go soft than to pro
VIDE hardship for you. It was pleas
anter to give in than to hold out
and we loved you too much to put
you through what we should have
put you through
This thing we've talked over he.
lore. I've never been firm. I've let
you grow to mans years-29, 1 be-
Heve-and still be a child in ex.
perence. The work you do around
my business could be done by a IL.
yeaf-old boy. Ned, want to make
man Of you"
He paused again. and their eyes
met over the table. All too plainly
the elder Cornet saw that his appeaJ
mad failed to go home. His son was
smiling grimly, his eyes sardonic.
unmistakable contempt in the curl OF
his lips.
Ned's bitter smile had seemingly
passed to his own lips. 81 sunnose
there's no use Of going on" he said.
BY all means go on, since you are
so warmed up to your subject" Ned
answered coldly. II wouldn't like Ia
deprive you Of the pleasure. You had
something on your mind: what is it?''
TITS simply this" his father went
on Today 1 met Leo Schaffner at
luncn' and In our talk he gave me
what I consider a real business in.
SEPARATION. He tells me, in his various
Jobbing houses, he has several thou
sand silk and velvet gowns and
coats and wraps left on his hands in
the financial depression that imme
d1ately followed the war. He was
cussing his luck because he didn't
know what to do with them. of
course they were part of the surplus
that helped glut the markets when
hard times made people stop buy
ing-stock that was manufactured
during the booming days of the war
he told me that this finery was made
OF the most beautiful silks and vel
vets, but all of it was a good three
seasons out. Of style. He offered me
the lot Of two thousand for-I'm
ashamed to tell you how much"
Almost nothing" his son prompt
ell him.
yes. Almost nothing. And 7 tool
him up
His son leaned back, keeniy inter
why? You can't go into business,
selling out-of-date women's clothesr
| = Cant, Ell? Son, while he was
talking to me, it occurred to me al
at once that the least of those gowns
the poorest one in the lot, was worth
at least marten skini Think Of It
A marten skin, from northern Canad;
and Alaska, returned the trappe,
around $50 in 1920. Now let me ge
down to brass tacks.
It's true I don't intend to sell any
of those hairy old white trappers am
wonen's silk gowns. But this wa.
what l was going to have you do
first you were to hire a good auxili
airy schooner strong. sturdy, sea
worthy two-masted craft such as i.
used in northern trading. You'd fl
that craft out with a few weeks SUP
plies and fill the hold with a coupl,
OF thousand of those gowns. You'C
need two or three men to run tn,
launch-I believe the usual crew is :
pilot, a first and second engineer
and cook-and you'd have TO nav,
g. seamstress to do fitting and max,
minor alterations. Then you'd star
up for Boring Sea.
You may not know 1t, but a1onl
the coast of Alaska, and Throughout
the islands of Bering Sea there ar,
hundreds of little, scattered tribes o
Indians, all of them trappers OF tn,
finest, high-priced flIrs Nor do thei
women dress in furs and skins alto
gether, either, as popular legend woult
have you believe. Through their hot
long summer days they wear dresse
ike American women, and the gave
and prettier the dresses, the bette
they like 'em. To my knowledge
no one has ever fed them silk-sim
ply because silk was too high-bu
being women, red or white, rney'i
simply go crazy over It.
THE other factor in the combina
ton is that the Intrepid, due to the un
settled fur market, failed to do any ex
tensive buying on her last annual trad
ing trip through the islands, and as
result practically all the Indians hav
their full catch on hand. The Intre
pid is the only trader through the par
ticular chain Of islands have in min
4 the Skopin group, north and east o
the Aeutian chain-and she's no
lcountfSg on going up again till spring