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CHOSEN PRINCIPAL
FORJENTRAL RICH
Coatluurd From First I'lir.
New Jersey mun was tbe unanimous
choice of the committee, which inter
viewed thirty-five candidates in person
iu Harrisburg, in their homo cfties or
in some convenient place. The com
mittee spent parts of two weeks on a
tour which included Wilkinsburg,
Pittsburgh, Butler Titusville, Lancas
ter, West Chester, in Pennsylvania,
an<l Passaic, Jersov City, Long Branch
•nd Lambertville, in New Jersey, and
Ifew York City. The committee re
ceived between sixty and s*wnty ap
plications.
Mr. Dibble's election was for one
year and his salary was fixed at the
minimum, which is $2,500.
Best Qualified of Applicants
In recommending Mr. Dibble to the
Bbard the committee reported that
they believed him to be the best quali
fied" of nil those who have been under
consideration, reporting further:
"He is highly respected in his com
munity, is an excellent disciplinarian,
a good supervisor of teachers, a stu
dent, and is well spoken of by the
members of his Board. He also bears
personal recommendations as to his
worth and efficiency from Arthur D.
Hadley, president of Yale University;
the entire School Committee of Adams.
(Mass.; the military commandant of
the Staunton Military Aacdemy, the
• Board of Education of Berlin, N. H.,
and his county superintendent in New
Jersey.
"Mr. Dibble impressed the entire
committee so favorably that there has
been no difficulty whatever in arriving
at a unanimous decision."
Experience of New Principal
Mr. Dibble is forty years of age,
married, and a member of the Protest
ant Episcopal church. He is inter
ested in music and a friend of ath
letics. He was educated in the Albany
Academy, Wesleyan University, the Al
bany Normal College, an\l the graduate
school of Yale University. His experi
ence includes the principalsliip of the
Adams, Mass., and Berlin. N. H., high
schools for seven years; the head mas
tership of military academies at
Staunton, Va., and Mohegan Lake, N.
Y., for three years, and the supervising
principalship of the schools of Lam
bertville, N. J., for three years. He
has also been principal of the State
Summer School for Teachers, at Phil
lipsburg, N. J., for the past two v e ars
and is a member of the New Jersey
State Council of Education.
Committee That Made Selection
The committee appointed to recom
mend a man for the vacancy caused by
the death of Professor William S.
Steele included Harry A. Bover, presi
dent of the School Board; D. D. Ham
melbaugh, secretary; Professor F. E.
Downes, city superintendent; H. B.
Bretz, chairman of the Teachers' Com
mittee of the board, and Director
Adam D. Houtz.
The sense of a resolution passed by
the Board some time ago, that the prin
cipal take up his duties in Harrisburg
as soon as possible, will be lived up to
despite the fact that Mr. Dibble's
contract with the Lambertville School
Board cannot be terminated for thirty
days under the New Jersey code. The
Lambertville board will co-operate with
the Harrisburg board in allowing Mr.
Dibble to come here for a time prior
to the expiration of his contract.
HIGHWAY CHIEF TAKES OATH
Cunningham Says He Does Not Plan to
Make Any Immediate Changes
It was a bit of sentiment that im
pelled Robert J. Cunningham, the new
State Highway Commissioner, to prefer
to have the oath of office administered
. to him to-day by Secretary of the Com
monwealth Woods. The men served in
the Senate ut the same time and are
elose friends.
When Mr. Cunningham was here last
week Secretary Woods was absent at
his home in Westmoreland county, so
>Mr. Cunningham did not take the oath.
This morning he went to the State
Department, where he was "sworn in"
by Secretary Woods and tiled his bond.
Commissioner Cunningham says he
contemplates no radical changes in his
department at present, as he prefers
to await until he is better acquainted
before considering any changes of im
portance. He had a short conference
with Governor Brumbaugh after taking
the oath of office, and then took up
the active dutiet of his department.
The new Commissioner met a num
ber of old friends who were with him
in the Senate of 1907 and a number
of departmental attaches and others.
JUNIORS PLAN EXHIBIT
Sunday School Teachers of Allison
Hill Invited to Market Street Church
The Junior Department of the Sun-1
day school of the Market Street Bap- !
tißt church. Fifteenth and Market j
Streets, will give an exhibition of the j
graded Sunday school work to-morrow 1
evening at the church at 8 o'clock. j
There will be drills. duets and solos I
and a general discussion of the work I
by the Juniors. At this time the books '
of the Juniors for the last quarter will
be on exhibition. They will be sent j
next week to Los Angeles, Cal., to the
Northern Baptist Convention. Every
body is cordially invited, especially
the superintendents and Sunday school
teachers of other churches of Allison
Mill. Refreshments will be served to :
all.
PROBABLY BITTEN BY SNAKE
Believing that he was bitten by a
snake while fishing across the river
this morning, Howard Anderson, a
molder for the Pennsylvania Steel
Company, residing at 1721 Susque- [
hanna street, was admitted to the !
Harrisburg hospital where he had the j
left thumb dressed.
Anderson said he was sitting on a .
rock when he felt a stinging sensa
tion enter his thumb. As it did not i
go away he feared a poisonous snake j
bite.
Trailing Arbutus Howled Down
Another effort to have a state flower
designated for Pennsylvania failed in
tbe House this morning. Mr. Baruett,
of York, attempted to submit for the
approval of the House the trailing ar
butus. The time for the introduction !
of bills having passed it was necessary
to get unanimous consent ,to introdurq
this bill. Ther«j were howls of disap
proval when the title of the bill was
read to the House for information and
the bill was not introduced.
A Million for Good Roads
Up to date the Automobile Bureau
of the State Highway Departmedt has
issued 111,381 licenses and received
and turned into the State Treasury
11,215,241, all of which will be ap
plied to good roads.
MANY IN HJIRRISBUIIG
USE FAMOUS COMPOUND
The famous mixture of buckthorn
bark, glycerine, etc., known as Adler
i-ka, is much used here in Harrisburg.
This is the most complete bowel
cleanser ever sold, being even used suc
cessfully in appendicitis., Just ONE
SPOONFUL relieves almost ANY
CASE of constipation, sour/ or gassy
stomach. ONE MINUTE after Adler
i-k'a is taken the gasses rumble and
pass out—the INSTANT action is sur
prising. G. A.'Gorgas, druggist, 16
North Third street and Pennsylvania
Railroad Station.—Adv.
MRS. STORY READS D. A. R.
Re elected President Cteneral by 234
Majority Over Mrs. George T.
Guernsey In. Vote of 1,156
By Associated Press.
Washington. April 22.—With the
long drawn out fight for control of the
national organization of the Daughters
of the American Revolution over and
with the faction headed by Mrs. Wil
liam Cumming Story, of New York, to
direct its destinies for another two
years, delegates to the annual congress
again settled down to-day to cleaniug
up the routine business before them.
The rosults of yesterday's balloting,
announced early to-day, showed that
■Mrs. Story had been re-elected presi
dent general and her complete ticket
were elected to office by substantial
majorities. Mrs. Story "received 695
of a possible 1,156 votes, 461 going to
Mrs. George Thatcher Guernsey, of
Kansas, the opposing candidate.
When the result was announced the
congress rose en masse and cheered the
successful candidate, in which the sup
porters of Mrs. Guernsey joined. Mrs.
Guernsey was one of the first to offer
congratulations to Mrs. Story.
In an address following the an
nouncement of the outcome of the elec
tion Mrs. Story pledged herself to work
for the good of the organization, urged
the co-operation of the delegates and
expressed the hope that past differences
would be forgotten.
To-day's session was devoted to the
presentation of reports from commit
tees and by Stato regents.
FIRE DESTROYS 5 STABLES
Homes Saved By Changing Wind and
Blocking Ice House—Neighbor
ing Town Gives Assistance
(Special to the Star-Independent.)
New Germantown, April 22.—A lire
which destroyed five stables, several
out buildings as well as much smaller
property, resulted in a heavy lose here
Tuesday afternoon. The fire started in j
the stable owned by John Fry, but by j
the time a bucket brigade was formed |
the flames had already reached the ad- !
joining buildings.
At the cry of fire and the ringing
of the church bells a large force re
sponded, but already much time -was
lost, as the majority of male residents
were at work on the State road some
distance away. Excellent work on the
part of the town residents, together
with the changing of the wind and
the blocking of the flames by a number
of ice houses prevented the fire reach
ing any of the homes.
Assistance was also given to the
town people by a number of men from
Blain, who came to the scene in six
automobiles. The staibles burned were
owned by Elias Snyder, John Fry,
Mrs. O'Donnell, Verne Smith arid Jo
seph Johns.
PLAN TO INCREASE TAX
OX ANTHRACITE ABANDONED
Announcement that the plan to in
crease the tonrage'tax 011 coal from
two and one-haif per cent, ad valorem
to three and one-half per cent, had
been abandoned was made last night
by Chairman C. J. Ronev, of the Ways
and Means Committee of the House,
whep anthracite coal operators pro
tested against any increase in the tax.
Major Everett Warren, Scranton, led
in the attack on the tax generally, and
in the course of his argument declared
that the anthracite coal operators had
not increased the cost of coal beyond
the actual amount of the tax. The
average increase was six cents. He
prophesied, too, that if the workmen's
compensation law is enacted, as pro
posed. the coal companies will add
from six to ten cents a ton to cover
that expense.
COURTIiduSE
:
j Judges at Elkin Dinner
| Judges Kunkel and MeCarrell have
I gone to Philadelphia to attend a din
i ner that is to be given by Justice John
i P. Elkin of the State Supreme Court.
Will Probated
The will of Amanda Sidle, late of
Harrisburg, was probated this morning
and letters granted to Elmer D.
j Weaver.
Marriage Licenses
j Lloyd C. Grove, Lower Swatara
! township, and Sue M. Gilbert, Middle
town.
George W. Pee<lin, Pine Level, and
Beatrice M. Wilson, Highspire.
Edward F. Gotshall, Middletown, and
Amanda H. Arnold, Hershev. ,
Building Permit
Blough Brothers got a permit this
1 morning to build an addition to their
| factory building at Wyeth and Basin
I streets coating S6OO. Cveta Poporiski
j (jot papers to build a two-story brick
1 house on Christiana street, costing
| S6OO.
Love Laughs at Age
Age made no difference to ttfb Rev.
Solomon W. Hutchings when he made
up his mind to marry Mrs. Agnes Dan
gerfield. die is 70 and she is 56. and
1 they took out a license here yesterday.
The prospective bridegroom is a colored
pastor of Burlington, N. J., and hig
fiancee resides in Harrisburg. Both
■tfere married once- before.
Samuel Wolfe i Bankrupt
John T. Olmsted, referee in bank
ruptcy in this Federal district, has giv
en notice that Samuel Wolfe, a Hum
melstown merchant, had been adjudicat
ed a bankrupt. Wolfe's creditors will
meet in the office of the referee May 1
at 10 a. m. and elect a trustee to take
charge of the eßtate.
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HARRTSBIiBO STAR-INDEPENDENT, THURSDAY EVENING. APRIL 22. 1915.
FOREST FIRE SPREADS
IN CUMBERLAND
Cwtlini Frm Pint P«f*>
tector and every deputy fish and game
protector, together with all available
employes of the forestry department be
immediately called into active flre
fighting service in the districts where
fires are raging and that if necessary
even the home companies of the Na
tional Guard be called out. We also re
spectfully suggest that a proclamation
from Your Excellency asking all good
citizens to turn out and fight fires in
their home localities would bring thou
sands of volunteers into this work."
Forest Fires Extinguished
Hagerstown, Md., April 22.—Forest
fires which have been raging in Wash
ington county, Maryland, and Franklin
county, Pa., for the past ten days or
more ar® extinguished. Yesterday the
mountains looked as clear as in the
late fall when early frost clear the
atmosphere. Thi rain which swept
this section put the finishing touches on
some of the worst mountain confla
grations that have visited here in
years.
CHARGES MINORITY SEEKS
TO RUN A WATER COMPANY
C*atla»4 Km* First Fua
manent, as requested by the plaintiff.
The court's order was made on the ap
plication of Charles H. Bergner and
Jesse E. B. Cunningham, as counsel for
the plaintiffs.
Sterling Company Officers
The officers of the Sterling company
are: J. B. Whitworth, superintendent;
G. Schoffstall, president; B. W. Fees,
vice president; John Pfeiffer, treasur
er; H. T. Bressler, secretary; A. W.
Long, Pierce Maher and P. W. Shaw,
directors.
The plaintiff concern alleges that the
whole purpose of the defendants, which
the court now prohibits, at least tem
porarily, being carried out, was to take
over the plant—which the defendants
formerly controlled—since it has been
operated recently with more financial
success than before the Sterling con
cern went into control.
In the statement of the attorneys
for the plaintiff it is charged that prior
to April 27, 1910, the Williamstown
water system was operated by the Wil
liams Valley Water Company, a con
cern then in the control of the United
Water, Gas & Electric Company, of
Camden, N. J. Ninety-five shares pf
the outstanding stock of the New Jer
sey company, of par value SIOO each,
were owned by one P. B. Shaw, of Wil
liamsport and Philadelphia.
On April 27. 1910, it is charged,
the Sterling company bought 57 shares
of the United stock from Shaw, the
controlling stockholder, for 157,000
and thereupon proceeded to reorganize
the Sterling for the United companies.
The same officers and directors of the
Sterling company, who last week were
ordered to "get out" and who now are
protesting .also were elected to head
the United Water, Gas & Electric Com
pany, of Camden.
The plaintiffs' petition makes no
reference to what happened during the
next succeeding five years, but it recites
that the stockholders of the United
company, on April 8, last, reorganized
•n Camden bv electing these directors:
B. W. Fees, John Pfeiffer, H. T. Bress
ler. P. B. Shaw, W. N. Snyder and Lew
is Starr. A week later, the bill sets
forth, these directors elected the fol
lowing officers.
President, B. F. Fees; vice president,
W. N. Snyder; secretary, H. T. Bressler,
and treasurer, John Pfeiffer. A day
later„the bill recites, the defendants in
this suit acting as stockholders, held
a special meeting of the Williams Val
ley Water Company, the underlying
company in the city of Philadelphia,
"which meeting was held without no
tice to the directors and officers of the
Sterling' Company, excepting Shaw, and
which was held in contravention of the
Williams Company's by-laws, "the de
fendants elected themselves directors.
Try to Oust Superintendent
Immediately thereafter the new di
rectors elected officers as follows: B.
F. Shaw, president; George Parkman,
secretary av.d treasurer. At this meet
ing, it is charged, a resolution was
adopted directing the dismissal of J.
B. Whitworth, the superintendent of
the Williams Valley Company, and fur*-
ther giving the new president author
ity to take over the company's books,
business and money.
All the time the Williams Valley wa
ter system was being operated by the
Sterling Consolidated Electric Company
as the holding company, yet, it is allegd.
the new "president" authorized the
Williams Valley Company's moneys to
be placed to' the account of the Wil
liams Valley Water Con.pany in the
Williams Valley bank, in Williamstown.
Bhaw, it is charged, took this step on
April 19, and at the »ame time also
undertook to oust Whitworth by ap
pointing one Charles 'M. Adams as the
new superintendent. Then came the pro
tests from the heads of the Sterling
Company and they decided to resort to
legal action.
The injunction the Sterling obtained
today prevents the new "officers"
from interfering in any way with the
affairs of the company. Whether this
rule is to be made permanent will be
determined bv the Court after the hear
ing on Tuesday.
START MUNICIPAL FOREST
1,000 to Participate in Tree Planting
In Wildwood Parle
Harrisburg municipal forest will be
started to-morrow afternoon when
1,000 school children will participate
in the planting of 2,000 red pine trees
in Wildwood Park in celebration of
Arbor Day. Holes for the trees were
made by workmen to-day in readiness
for the planting to-morrow.
The Civic Club of Harrisburg is
co-operatin'g with the park department
in the success of this celebration.
Many members will be present at the
exercises to-morrow. Miss Mira Lloyd
Dock will epeak. City Supervisor J. J.
Brehm and City Forester Harry J.
Mueller will be in charge of the trje
planting.
Only the Camp Curtin school chil
dren will praticipate because of the
inability to carry the children of the
other schools to the park.
Mrs. Florence B. Guyer
Mrs. Florence Boyer Guyer, aged 27
years, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank
D. Boyer, died at her home, Seventh
and Woodbine streets, this morning at
12.15 o'clock. She is survived by two
sons, Ralph and Walter H. Guyer. Fu-*
neral services will be held to-morrow
morning at 11 o'clock.
LATE WAR NEWS SUMMARY
Cwtlaunl From First P>(«
formation from Petrograd they vers
put to rout, with large losses.
In France and Belgium yesterday
there was a continuance of the minor
operations such as have been under
way of late. Small successes are
claimed by the Germans but the French
communication gives no new details.
A Geneva dispatch says Austrian
and German subjects in Switzerland
have been recalled to their respective
| countries. It Is also reported that the
! Italian government has requisitioned all
Italian vessels engaged in trade with
the United States.
The deadlock in the negotiations be
tween Austria and Italy has been
broken, and hopes of a settlement of
the questions at issue without resort to
arms have been revived in Rome. It
is not known by persons other than
those closely concerned what change
has taken place to relieve the apparent
ly hopeless situation, but Rome assumes
that either Austria or Italy has made
some concession. Italy has been repre
sented previous as demanding in their
entirety the Trent and Istria districts
as well as the Dalmatian islands in the
Agean sea where Austria was believed
to be willing to yield only a compara
tively small part of this territory.
A strong Turkish army is preparing
to offer resistance to the land forces
with which the allies expect to attack
the Dardanelles fortifications from the
air. An Athens dispatch says the
Turks have entrenched themselves
strongly along the coast of the gulf of
Saros. It is in this vicinity, according
to unofficial advices yesterday, that
20,000 British and French troops have
landed. Turkish encampments along
the coast are being bombarded by war
ships of the allies.
The determination of the German of
fensive and the high cost to the allies
of an advance are shown again in the
fighting near Ypres, as when the Brit
ish took Ueuve Chapelle last month.
Since the capture of Hill No. BO by
the British the Germans have made one
attack after another in the attempt to
regain this important strategic posi
tion. The losses on both sides are be
lieved to run into the thousands. So
far as has been disclosed, the British
have succeeded in retaining the hill.
Petrograd reports that during the
last fortnight there has been artillery
fighting in Northern Russian Poland,
near the East Prussian frontier. The
Russians are said, to have won the ad
vantage. The check to the Russian ad
vance in the Carpathians, ascribed in
Berlin to Russian defeats, is said in
Petrograd to b« due to spring floods,
which make maneuvers difficult.
WETS JOB FROM KING GEORGE
Harrisburg Lawyer Will Act as Com
missioner at His Majesty's Request
King George V, ruler of all Great
Britian, again has called on Harris
burgers to take part in a legal action
that is pending in the Vancouver, B.
C., courts.
He to-day commissioned Frank J.
R-oth, of this city, to conduct a hearing
here in a civil suit between the United
Iron Works and the Mainland Ice &
Cold Storage Company. Charles C.
Stroh is to appear for the defense and
William if. Hargest for the plaintiff.
John T. Brady, of this city, was ap
pointed alternate commissioner.
A Vancouver engineer will arrive
here on Monday and the hearing will
be begun, probably in the Court House,
immediately thereafter.
Samuel Wilson
Samuel Wilson, aged about 65 years,
died this morning at 8.15 o'clock at
the 'Harrisburg hospital, where he was
admitted yesterday. He was an inmate
of the Dauphin county almshouse for a
a num'ber of years.
Organ Recital at Bethel A. M ,E.
Prof. William G. Braxton, organist
of Metropolitan A. M. E. church, Wash
ington, D. C., will give an organ re
cital at Bethel A. M. E. church, Briggs
and Ash streets, this evening at S
o 'clock.
NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE
QUOTATIONS
New fork, April 22.
Open. Close.
Alaska Gold Mines ... 39% 39%
Amal Copper 78% 78%
Amer Beet Sugar .... 4 7 47%
American Can 37 35%
<lo pfd 98 %98
Am Can and Found Co 53% 5414
Am Cotton Oil 50% 51%
Am Ice Securities .... 32 32
Amer Loco 53% 52% I
Amer Smelting ~. . > 73% 74%
American Sugar 110% 111 14 j
Amer Tel and Tel .... 122% 122 I
Anaconda .. . 37% 37% ;
Atchison 103% 103% j
Baltimore and Ohio ... 78 77% j
Bethlehem Steel 141 142%
Brooklyn R T ....... 92 91%
California Petroleum . . 18% 18'/,
Canadian Pacific .... 170 169%
Central Leather 41% 41 ~
Chesapeake and Ohio . . 48% 47%
Chi, Mil and St Paul . . 96% 95%
Chino Con Copper .... 46% 46%
Col Fuel and Iron .... 32% 32
Consol Gas 122% 128%
Corn Products 14% 14%
Distilling Securities ... 29% 28%
Erie, Ist pfd 44% 44% 1
General Electric Co. .. . 153 153
Goodrich B F 48% 47%
Great Nor pfd 121 " 121 ~
Great Nor Ore, subs ... 37% 37%
Interboro Met 21% 20%
Interboro Met pfd ... 74% 73%
Lehigh Valley 144 143%
Mex Petroleum 91 91
Mo Pacific '... . 14 14%'
National Lead 65 64% '
New York Cen 90% 90 I
NY, N H and H 68% 67% j
Norfolk and Western . 105 105
Northern Pacific 110% 110
Pacific Mail 19% 19%
Pennsylvania R R .... 110% 110%
Pittslnirgh Coal 23 23
do pfd 93 92
Press Steel Car 43% 45%
Ray Con. Copper 23% 24%
Reading 154% 15?
Repub. Iron and Steel . 29% 29
Southern Pacific 94% 93
Southern Rv • 18% 18
do pfd 59% 58
Tennessee Copper 33% 33%
Union Pacific 132 132
U. S. Rubber 69% 68%
U. S. Steel 58 57
do pfd 108% 108%
Utah Copper 68% 69%
Western Maryland .... 25 24%
W U Telegraph 68% 68%
Westinghouse Mfg .... 84 82%
Chicago Board of Trade Closing
Chicago, April 22.—Close:
Wheat—"May, 160%; July, 135%.
Corn—May, 77V4; July, 80%.
Oats—May, 57%; July, 55%.
Pork—July, 18.10; Sept., 18.50.
I<ar<i—July, 10.40; Sept., *10.65,
Ribs —July, 10.42; Sept- 10.80,
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The Exploits of Elaine
A Detective Novel and a Motion Picture. Drama
~71 By ARTHUR B. REEVE II "
!J TK* Well-Known Nootlhl and the ||
|| Creator if the "Craig Kennedy" Sloriet II
Praacated in Collaboration With the Pathe PUytrs and the Eclectic Film Company
Copyright, 1814. by the Star Company. All Foreign Righto Bewared
CONTINUED
"Come on," cried Kennedy, beckon
ing us on.
Quickly he rushed through the
house. There was n«t a thing in It to
change the deserted appearance of
the first floor. At last it occurred to
Craig to grope his way down cellar.
There was nothing there.
Kennedy bad been carefully going
over the place, and was at the other
Bide of the cellar from ourselves
when I saw him stop and gaze at the
floor.
'Hide," he whispered suddenly to
We waited a moment. Nothing hap
pened. Had he been seeing things or
hearing things, I wondered?
From our hidden vantage we could
now see a square piece in the floor,
perhaps five feet In diameter, slowly
open up as though on a pivot.
The weird and sinister figure of a
man appeared. Over his head he wore
a peculiar helmet with hideous glass
pieces over the eyes and tubes that
connected with a tank which he car
ried buckled to his back.
Quickly he closed down the cover of
the tube, but not before a vile effluvi
um seemed to escape, and penetrate
even to us in our hiding places. As
he moved forward, Kennedy gave a
flying leap at him, and we followed
with a regular football Interference.
It was the work of only a moment
for us to subdue and hold him, while
Craig ripped off the helmet.
IL was Dan the Dude.
"What's that thing?" I puffed, as 1
helped Craig with the headgear.
"An oxygen helmet," he replied.
"There must be air down the tube that
cannot be breathed."
He w4nt over to the tube. Carefully
he opened the top and gazed down,
starting back a second later, with his
face puckered lip at the noxious odor
"Sewer gas," he ejaculated, as he
slammed the cover down. Then he
added to the policeman: "Where do
you suppose it comes from?"
"Why," replied the officer, "the St.
James viaduct—an old sewer —Is some
where about these parts."
Kennedy puckered his face as he
gazed at our prisoner. He reached
down quickly and lifted something off
the man's coat.
"Golden hair," he muttered.
"Elaine's!"
A moment later he seized the man
and shook him roughly.
"Where is she—tell me?" he de
manded.
The man snarled some kind of a re
ply, refusing to say a word about her.
"Tell me," repeated Kennedy.
"Humph!" snorted the prisoner, more
close-mouthed than ever.
Kennedy was furious. As he sent
the man reeling away from him he
seized the oxygen helmet and began
putting It on. There was only one
thing to do—to follow the clue of the
golden strands of hair.
Down into the pest hole he went, his
head protected by the oxygen helmet.
As he cautiously took one step after
another down a series of Iron rungs
Inside the hole, he found that the wa
ter was up to his chest. At the bot
tom of the perpendicular pit was a
narrow, low passageway leading off.
It was Just about big enough to get
through, but he managed to grope
along It
The minutes passed as the police
and 1 watched our prisoner in the
by the tube. I looked anxiously
at my watch.
"Craig!" I shouted at last, unable
to control my fears for him.
No answer.
By this time Craig had come to a
open chamber, Into which the
viaduct widened On the wall he found
another series of Iron rungs, up which
he climbed. The gas was terrible.
As he neared the top of the ladder
he came to a shelf-like aperture In the
sewer chamber, and gazed about It
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Ae Craig Kennedy Turn* on the Current Elaine's Chest Slowly Begins to
Rise and Fall.
See "Exploits of Elaine," Tenth Episode,
In Motion Pictures, Victoria Theatre, Saturday, April 24
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was norribly dark. He reached out
and felt a piece of cloth. Anxiously he
pulled on it. Then' he reached further
Into the darkness.
There was Elaine, unconscious, ap
parently dead.
In desperation Craig carried her
down the ladder.
With our prisoner we could only look
helplessly around.
"By George, I'm going down after
him," I cried in desperation.
"Don't do it," advised the police
man. "You'll never out "
One whiff of the horrible gas told me
that he was right .-
"Listen," said the policeman.
There was, indeed, a faint noise from
the black depths below us. A rope
alongside the rough ladder began to
move, as though some one was pulling
It taut. He gazed down.
"Craig! Craig!" I called. "Is that
you?"
No answer. But the rope still
moved. Perhaps the helmet made It
Impossible for him to hear.
He had strugtled back in the swirl
ing current almost exhausted by his
helpless burden. Holding Elaine's
head above the surface of the water
and pulling on the rope to attract my
attention, he could neither hear nor
shout. He had taken a turn of the rope
about Elaine. I tried pulling on it.
There was something heavy on the
other end, and I kept on pulling.
At last I could make out Kennedy
dimly mounting the ladder. The
weight was the unconscious body of
Elaine which he steadied as he mount
ed the ladder. I tugged harder and he
slowly came up.
Together, at last, the policeman and
I reached down and pulled them out.
We placed Elaine on the cellar floor,
as comfortably as was possible, and
the policeman began his first aid mo
tions for resuscitation.
"No—no!" cried Kennedy. "Not
here —take her up where the air is
fresher."
With his revolver still drawn to
overawe the prisoner, the policeman
forced him to aid us In carrying her
up the rickety flight of cellar steps.
Kennedy followed quickly, unscrewing
the oxygen helmet as he went.
In the deserted living room we de
posited our scnseiesß burden, while
Kennedy, the helmet off now, bent
over her.
"Quick —quick T" he cried to the offi
cer. "An ambulance!"
"But the prisoner," the policeman
Indicated.
"Hurry—hurry; I'll take care of
him," urged Craig, seizing the police
man's pistol and thrusting It into his
pocket. "Walter, help me."
He was trying the ordinary methods
of resuscitation. Meanwhile the offi
cer had hurried out, seeking the near
est telephone, while we worked madly
to bring Elaine back.
Again and again Kennedy bent and
outstretched her arms, trying to in
duce respiration again. So busy was
I that for the moment I forgot our
prisoner.
But Dan had seen his chance.
Noiselessly he picked up the old chair
in the room and with It raised was ap
proaching Kennedy to knock him out.
Before I knew it myself« Kennedy
had heard him. With a half Instinc
tive motion he drew the revolver from
his pocket and, almost before I could
see It. had shot the man. Without a
word he returned the gun to his pock
et and again bent over Elaine, without
so much as a look at the crook, who
sank to the floor, dropping the chair
from his nerveless hands. <
Already the policeman had got an
ambulance, which was now tearing
along to us.
Frantically Kennedy was working.
A moment he paused and looked at
me—hopeless.
Just then, outside, we could hear
the ambulance, and a doctor and two
attendants hurried up to the door.
Without a word the doctor seemed to
appreciate the gravity of the case.
He finished his examination and
shook his head.
"There is no hope—no hope," he
said slowly.
Kennedy merely stared at him. But
the rest of us Instinctively removed
our hats.
Kennedy gazed at Blaine, overcome
Was this the end?
It was not many minutes later that
Kennedy had Elaine In the little tit
ting room off the laboratory, having
taken her there in the ambulance,
with the doctor and two attendants.
Elaine's body had been placed on a
couch, covered by a blanket, and the
shadeß were drawn. The light fell on
her pale face
There was something Incongruous
about death and the vast collection of
scientific apparatus, a ghastly mock
ing of humanity How futile was it
all in the presence of the great de
stroyer!
Aunt Josephine had arrived,
stunned, and a moment later Perry
Bennett. As I looked at the sorrowful
party Aunt Josephine rose slowly
from her position on her knees, where
she had been weeping silently beside
Elaine, and pressed her hands over
her eyes, with every Indication of
faintness.
Before any of us could do anything,
•she had staggered into the laboratory
itself. Bennett and I followed quick
ly. There I was busy for some time
getting restoratives
Meanwhile Kennedy, beside the
couch, with an air of desperate deter*
miuation turned away and opened a
cabinet. From It he took a large coil
and attached it to a storage battery,
dragging the peculiar apparatus near .
Elaine's couch.
To an electric light socket Craig
attached wires. The doctor watched
him in silent wonder.
"Doctor," he asked slowly as he
worked, "do you know ot Professor
Leduc of the Nantes School of Medi
cine?"
"Why—yes," answered the doctor,
"but what of him?"
"Then you know of his method of
electrical resuscitation."
"'Yes—but"—he paused, looking ap
prehensively at Kennedy.
Craig paid no attention to his fears,
but, approaching the couch on which
BJlaine lay, applied the electrodes. '
"You see," he explained, with forced
calmness, "I apply the anode here —
the cathode there."
The ambulance surgeon looked on
excitedly, as Craig turned on the cur
rent, applying it to the back of the
neck and to the spine.
For some minutes the machine
worked.
Then the young doctor's eyes began
to bulge.
"My heavens!" he cried under his
breath. "Look!"
Elaine's chest had slowly risen and
fallen. Kennedy, his attention riveted
on hia work, applied himself with re
doubled efforts. The young doctor
looked on with increased wonder.
"Look! The color in her face! Bee
het lips!" he cried.
At last her eyes slowly fluttered
open—then closed.
Would the machine succeed? Or
was it just the galvanic effect of the
current? The doctor noticed it and
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Elaine Confronts Kennedy With th«
"Poisoned Kiss" Photographs.
placed his ear quickly to her heart.
His face was a study in astonishment.
The Qiinutes sped fast.
To us outside, who had no'ldea what
was transpiring in the other room,
the minutes were leaden-footed. Aunt
Josephine, weak but now herself
again, was sitting nervously.
Just then the door opened.
I shall never forget the look on the
young ambulance surgeon's face as he
murmured under his breath, "Come
here —the age of miracles is not
passed—look!"
Raising his finger to indicate that
we were to make no nqlse, he led us
into the other room.
Kennedy was bending over the
couch.
, Elaine, her eyes open now, was gaz
ing up at him, and a wan smile flitted
over her beautiful face.
Kennedy had taken her hand, and '
as he heard us enter, turned half way
to us, while we stared in blank won
der from Elaine to the weird and
complicated electrical apparatus.
"It's the life current," he said sim
ply, patting the Leduc apparatus with
his other hand.
(TO BE CONTINUED.)