Evening star., 1931-06-21
BY BOOTH HARRINGTON

everywhere; spindle-legged sofa wasn't much
better than wrecxage; one of the pianos ap-
peared to have good deal of ice water in it,
and altogether the rioting seemed to have been
pretty severe. As for me, being chairman of
the house committee and having acquired the
sense Of proprietorship that I've spoken OF,
couldn't help feeling personally outraged,
especially by Paulie Timberake. 1 knew he'd
been the ringleader and 1 had pretty in
dignant suspicion that he had good reason
for holding his hands behind him when he
said: "Yes, SIR" to me- and also that the last
ball of soaked newspaper had not been In
tended for the steward.
"I shall ask the club secretary to send a
notice to Mr.. and Mrs. Tilnberlake" said.
I'll instruct him to inform them that If they
can't regulate the conduct of their child he
will be suspended from the club upon the
slightest repetition of this oIcnse.
But the steward shook his head. I'm afraid
not sir Mr. Allstovar wouldn't send it. You
see sir, the club used to Try. but found it
couldn't single out any child in that manner,
because it merely infuriGted influential parents,
and when it sent notices to all the parents it
reused just that mu-h more feeling against
US, sir"
1 was beginning to tel him that didn't
care how influential the Undertakes were I'd
insist on that note being sent, when terrific
pounding and banging and a sound like thunder
broke out in the direction Of the billiard room,
and young man in the CLUB Uniform came in,
looking kind Of resigned. He was supposed to
have cha.ge of The billiard room and never
did seem to enjoy his position.
"I knew it wouldn't be any use to try and
keep 'em out of there" he told the steward
and me- 'I always said it wasn't going to
be any use to get that new billiard table either.
Now they've got me locked out o. there-told
me somebody had lost dollar on the floor OF
the hall-so when came back they had both
doors bolted on the inside. They're using the
butts Of the cues to see who can knock the oalls
hardest and make them bounce over the
cushions onto the floor. 1t was the little
Timberlake boy that thought it up"
took those two men with me, went to the
door of the billiard room and demanded sAsat 1t
be opened instantly The noise going on inside
was something that can't be expressed; but
made those boys understand that 1t was the
chairman of the house committee who wanted
to come In knew they understood because,
over everything else, there was squealing
voice anybody could recognize as Paulie
Undertakes. "Chapmin o. the house com"
mittyI Chapmin o. the house committyI" he
kept squealing over and over; but that's al
the attention any Of EN- paid to me, and we
had to go around outside and jimmy one OF the
windows open with an ice pick before we could
get into that room. The boys scurried out, OF
course as we climbed in, and by that time
another riot was occurring in the reading room.
don't need to go into more details; any
body knows what whole passel OF children
in big place like the Rocky Meadow Club.
The employees were pretty nearly distracted and,
as for me- I began to feel that life wouldn't
be the same again until could do something,
personally to Paule Timberlake.
I tried to call his father on the telephone,
but he wasn't home and had to talk to Mrs.
Timberlake instead OF course, she said she
was sorry Paule was cutting up little with
the other boys, but you could what she
really felt was some irritation with myself She
wanted to know If I'd called up the other boys
mothers and when I said hadn't, told me
pretty tartly she thought I'd better have spoken
to them first, as most of the other boys were
older, while her Paulie was only nine 1T
seems rather strange you select as small
child as that to get so excited about" she said
THOSE children kept up the turmoil in the
] club house pretty much all through the
three wet days of the northeaster, with few
intervals Of any peace and quiet, and not many
adult members Of the club stayed in the place
more than about quarter of any hour. Old
Mr.. Francis and Mrs Hepburn the
grown-up people who spent most of their time
at the club. Mr.. Francis told the steward that
If didn't resign he would, and Mrs. Hepburn
hardly let me alone a minute she lodged SO
many complaints.
Once when she was talking to me in a pretty
cross voice and was answering her in the
same sort of way but more so, we started to
sit down together on a sofa in the reading
room That is to say, we did sit down but got
right up, and it took minute or so to sep
arate us, because somebody hiding behind the
sofa had reached around and put sheet of
fly paper there for us to sit on. He Scurried
out in such a jiffy that we couldn't have
sworn to which one of those child-demons it
was; but knew, because matters had reached
the point of pretty near war between me and
that boy, and he never let up straining his
powers to keep me occupied.
Even after fair weather set IN again a good
many of the children went on putting in their