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A TALE OF
RED ROSES
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By
GEORGE
RANDOLPH
CHESTER
Copyright, 1914, by the Bobbs-
Merrill cs:
SYNOPSIS
edge, a typical politician, becomes in-
oss with Molly Marley, daughter of
a street car company president. He sends
her red roses.
. party. Before the crowd disperses Molly
thanks Sledge for his kindness, and then
olly attends the ‘governor's ball, and
her attractiveness results in her climbing
table respect accorded Sledge, however,
perplexes her.
Sledge moves for the car company’s re-
| organization. He asks Marley for Molly's
hand, but is refused. Having financially
ruined Bert Glider, Sledge threatens to do
the same to Marley.
Marley's loans are ordered called by
Sledge. Feeder, who receives a salary for
dal, confesses during Sledge’s questioning
and is roughly handled.
Molly becomes angry at her father’s ob-
vious fear of Sledge.
ry him, but she refuses and suggests a
fight on Sledge, which encourages Marley.
CHAPTER VII
Marley and Bozzam Plan to Outwit
Sledge.
RESIDENT MARLEY smiled as
he met Bozzam. The two gen-
tlemen agreed the weather was
fine.
“I'm afraid you're too late, Marley,”
laughed Bozzam. ‘Our subscription
list is ready to close.”
“I have all the street railway stock
1 care for,” laughed Marley in return
“l only came up to take your meas
ure for the battle.”
“It ‘ought not to be so fierce,” re-
plied Bozzam, in the usually friendly
manner of men who are about to
cut each other’s commercial throats.
“There should be room for two good
car systems in this town.”
“Not on the same streets,” objected
Marley. “Don’t you think it rather
foolish to parallel our lines, Mr. Boz-
The route. as published, looks
like malice to me.”
“I have no voice in
declared Mr. Bozzam, eying his caller
narrowly. ‘You should see our ma-
i Jority stockholder about that.”
“T see, mused Mr. Marley.
is your principal stockholder?”
“I believe the gentleman's name is
that matter,”
“Who
1 Siedge—Benjamin F. Sledge,” Bozzam
informed him, with a smile.
you’ve heard of him."
“Yes, 1 have’ admitted * Marley,
whose smile was more or less strained.
{i ¥Friend of yours, I believe,” suggest-
et’ Bozzam, still smiling,
studying Mr. Marley’s countenance
terestedly.
“Not offensively 80,” denied Marley.
“Indeed!” exclaimed Bozzam, with
a splendid assumption of perplexity.
rou know, I find it' very difficult to
yaravel the personal, political and
commercial relationships of all you
fellows. Frankly, T have believed un-
til now that you were in on the game.”
“Game?” repeated Marley.
“I mean that I thought you were to
, benefit by the formation of this new
*company,” exclaimed Bozzam with an
apparent trace of confusion.
“Benefit!” exploded Marley. “Why,
it has all but broke me. Do you think
it’s any benefit to a man to have his
only valuable holdings reduced from
par to thirty-five?”
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thized Bozzam. “Why, I thought you
and Sledge were in perfect understand-
ing.”
“I don’t know where you acquired
that absurd impression, but it is en-
tirely wrong,” asserted Mr. Marley,
with much vehemence. “Mr. Sledge
would do everything in his power to
hurt me.”
“And 1 presume that you would do
| him a like favor if you had the op-
portunity,” grinned Bozzam.
turned Marley, feeling that he had
enough trouble on his hands.
-ed Bozzam.
Mr. Marley flushed slightly, but kept
discreetly silent.
up thought so,” Bozzam chuckled.
““Mr. Marley, how much of the stock
| of the reorganized company do you
.own?”
“Two thousand six hundred" and
twenty-five shares.”
“A, little over a fourth,” commented
‘Bozzam and drew a sheet of writing
paper toward him, on which he figured
‘for a moment. “To gain control you
‘Would need 2,376 shares additional,”
“How many of the
RNISHERS # stockholders would vote with you in an
; : | - emergency?”
ar to Attic “Not very many,” confessed Marley.
: ' “Naturally a share of our trouble is
Ieyersdale : ¢ blamed to me, and I am not very pop-
ular at present.”
“Certainly not,” agreed Bozzam.
HI “Fussing with pikers isn’t safe, any-
CHI SCRATCH
tch, the worse
Oictment. For
ing. 50c a Box,
how. You’d better buy the stock.”
“Buy it!” protested Marley. “Great
Bcott, man, what do I want with
more of it?”
| the dizzy heights of popularity. The no- |
"out.
“Would you like to win out on this
kttle game of Sledge’s?”
“Show me how,” demanded Marley.
“How active are you willing to be?”
Inquired Bozzam. *Are you willing to
Jump through a hoop?”
“I'll do anything that is lawful.”
“Then you'll go the limit,” smiled
Bozzam. “Your first step will be to
buy those two thousand odd shares at
thirty-five. Let's see.” He figured it
“They will cost you a little over
$83,000.”
“lI haven't the money,” confessed
Marley. “Sledge has cleaned me out
of both cash and credit.”
“Borrow it on your stock.”
*“1 can’t borrow over twenty on ft. 1
couldn’t raise enough on jgmny total an-
encumbered stock.”
Bozzam walked to the window und
looked down into the street for some
little time. during which Marley watch-
ed him in silent wonder, struggling
against his rising hope.
“I think I can raise a loan for you
_ at twenty,” Rozzam reported as the
On Molly's invitation Sledge attends a |
proposes marriage. Her refusal is
ted as only temporary by Sledge. i
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keeping quiet about the public fund scan- |
He tells her to mar- '
result of his deliberation. “If that is
not enough I might have it arranged
to buy the balance needed and vote it
with you.”
“But what is the plan?” dgmanded
Marley. “I don't see what good con-
trol of a ruined company is going to do
me nor why I should break myself
buying worthless stock.”
“Because Sledge isn’t liberal enough
with me,” returned Bozzam. “Why,
Marley, don’t you see that this com-
pany of ours is a fake?”
“You don’t mean it!” gasped Marley.
“Did Sledge have you start this com-
pany in order to break me?” ’
“Oh, hush!” scorned Bozzam. “He
did it to sell the old company our fran-
chises, for the nice little quarter of a
million dollars the public has just put
up for stock in your reorganized com-
pany. Our stock is phony, strictly.
The public has been allowed to buy
fifty thousand of it, we get two hun-
dred thousand and Sledge seven hun-
dred and fifty. The public id the only
person who has put up any money, and
he gets his back. The only business
we'll do is to sell our franchises and
disband, with a 25 per cent dividend.
The public gets twelve and a half
thousand, we get fifty, and Sledge gets
the balance of your quarter of a mil-
ion.”
He paused to let all the beauty of
that logical little plan sink into Mr.
. Marley's inner being.
ana still |
“Great Scott!” murmured Mr. Mars
ley and wiped his brow “But how can
we stop him?"
“Get control of the company. Call a
special meeting. When we .offer to
sell you our franchises stand pat and
refuse to pay more than $50,000 for
the franchises. You can defy us to
build and make a fine grand stand play
out of it when you know that we
won't. We'll accept fifty thousand,
and then you juggle it to slip Moodson
and Timbers and me a hundred thou-
sand on the side. You've saved your
company a hundred thousand, we've
dragged down what we ought to have
for our work, Sledge gets the hook, |
and your stock bounces up to par.
Why, man, you'll not only be where
you were before, but you’ll clean up
close to a hundred thousand profit on
the stunt.”
“Order some whisky,” Marley sug-
gested to his host. ©
* * #® * * *
Sledge, in the luxurious little room
which he occupied for an hour each
*
i day as president of the First National,
“I would not say. that,” hastily re-
“You're thinking it. though,” laugh- :
gazed stonily at Bendix as he punched
the button on his desk.
~ “Chamberlain's house,” he speculat-
ed. “Hunh!"
“Of course Marley gave notes for it.
Thirty, sixty and ninety days and four
months; four payments, of $7,000
each.”
In answer to the bell Cashier Davis
came in with the pomposity of the
owner of the mint mingled with the
obsequiousness of a messenger boy.
“Frank Marley,” rumbled Sledge ac-
cusingly. “He's got money. Where
did he get 1t?”
“Not here, sir,” smiled Mr. Davis,
rubbing his fish fat hands together.
“Find out,” directed Sledge, and Da-
vis took his sleek white sideburns and
his white waistcoat out of the room.
“He's using cash, even in the pay-
ment of his grocery bills,” supplement-
ed Bendix. “Young Keene tells me
that he saw into Marley's pocketbook,
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quired Bozzam.
and it was stuffed with big bills, thou-
sands and five hundreds. Keene esti-
mates that he must have had $30,000
with him.” :
“Why don’t the stock go down?’ de-
manded Sledge, the accusing look this
time boring into Bendix.
“] pass.” declared Bendix. turning
both palms upward. *I've had stuff in
the papers every day about the new
equipment and better schedules and
the general crippling of the old line,
but in place of going down to twenty-
five the stock’s around thirty-seven
now. and at that I can only find a lit-
tle of it. "After a hard day's work
chasing it down yesterday I picked up
less than 100 shares. We started after
the control too late.”
“Who's buying it?*
“Cheap young brokers and has beens
whom we haven't kept in line. They
won't say who it's for, except that it's
scattering orders. The general impres-
sion seems to be gaining ground that,
no matter what happens, the stock is
bound to be worth more than thirty-
five. Speculators have grabbed it, I
guess.” :
“They'd make .a noise,” objected
Sledge, glaring down at the cuspidor,
which, in this room, took the: place of
the hand hole in the gate as a source of
inspiration.
“How about Bozzam ?”
“I've tried my best to trace some-
thing back to his crowd, but I can’t
find a connection any place.”
Sledge was silent for a moment.
“Bozzam'’s in it,” he said decisively.
“I don’t like to think so,” defended
Bendix. “He seems to work clean.”
“You found him,” explained Sledge.
“He’s in it. He's a crook.”
Even Bendix grinned.
“I don’t deny that, but he’s too wise
to start anything with you. That's
what I bank on.”
“He thinks I’m on the pan,” judged
Sledge. “He's a stranger.”
Davis came in.
“We have telephoned all the banks,”
he reported. “None qf them has made
any recent loans to Mr. Marley nor
have any checks been drawn in his fa-
vor:
“Hunh!" grunted Sledge.
ly walked out of the office, followed
by Bendix, and climbed into his wait- -
ing runabout, over which the crossing
policeman stood guard.
any more stock,”
and drove of. ‘Sell it.”
He strode into the offices of the trac-
tion company and stopped at Hunt's
desk.
“Marley drawn any money here?” he
wanted to know.
“His salary.” replied Hunt, fawning
servilely on the big man who stood at
his side.
“Is he selling any stock?”
“Not that I know of, sir?”
“Making any flash?”
‘Not particularly. He has been whis-
tling.”
“Making any threats?”
{ “Not that I heard.” :
desk. ‘*Anybody in with him?”
“I think his daughter, sir,” smirked
Hunt, ‘‘and Mr. Glider, unless they
have gone out the other way.”
Sledge looked down at his lapel. The
red rose was an excellent specimen ex
cept that it had one straggling petal in
which was a worm hole. He jerked off
that petal and walked unannounced
into Marley’s office, pausing just inside
the door, struck dumb by a tableau be-
ing enacted at the opposite entrance.
Bert Glider, in the act of departing,
was kissing Molly goodby, and Marley,
at his desk, was looking on uncon-
cernedly. Bert grinned impudently at
Sledge and departed. Molly grinned
tantalizingly at him and sat in the big
leather chair opposite her father. Mar-
ley grinned cheerfully and offered him
a cigar.
“Fine weather,” he observed.
“Who give out the dope about extend-
ing the Ridgewood avenue line?"
Sledge grufily wanted to know.
“I did,” returned Marley calmly. “1
thought it might help the price of my
stock. It's been going down of late.”
“Who gave you the word?”
“I didn’t need it,” Marley reminded
him. “I'm still president of the road.
you know.”
“I've called it off,” Sledge informed
him. “You got no franchise.”
“TI beg your pardon,” Marley smiling-
ly interrupted. ‘The original fran-
chise granted a line to the end of Grace
street. When it was cut through to
connect with Ridgewood avenue the
authorization of the cut and all the
condemnation proceedings were for an
extension of Grace street.”
“May 1 tell Mr. Sledge what we in-
tend to do out there?’ Molly pleasantly
inquired.
“1 don‘t mind,” granted Mr. Mar-
ley, beaming upon his child. :
“We plan to carry out the original
idea of building an amusement park
on the Porson property and to drop
the Lincoln road project if the stock-
holders don’t object at their meeting
tomorrow,” she happily told him. “Mr.
Glider thinks it a much better loca-
tion. Shall you be at the meeting, Mr.
Sledge?”
In reply he chuckled at her.
“You're a corker!” he complimented
her. -
“You don’t own much stock any
more, do you?” she went on, delighted
with her catechism.
“Enough to stick around,” he re-
minded her. “Marley, are you figur-
ing to put something over at this meet-
ing?”
“Are you?’ returned Marley blandly.
“Hunh!” Sledge half laughed. ‘Mol-
ly, my Bob is matched against the
champion forty pound bull of Chicago
tomorrow night. 1 can arrarge for
you to see the scrap without these
roughnecks getting a peek at you.”
“Thank you,” she replied. “I’m sure
I ean’t come, however. I've never seen
a real dog ficht, and I don’t want to
He stolid- .
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he directed Bendix ,
“Hunh!” and Sledge turned from the |
see one. Buf I hope Bob wins.”
“He'll win,” declared Sledge confi-
dently. “He’s never been licked yet.”
“Everybody gets it some time, don’t
they?” Molly dimpled up at him.
“Uh-hunh!” he gruffly assented.
Full of thought, he went over to se~
Bozzam, who now had an office in the
newest palace of commerce.
“Ready for the meeting tomorrow?"
he inquired.
“Quite.” replied Bozzam. who. when
with Sledge. was sparing of words
“Is the ne fixed ?"
“Sure! ozzam. I got your record.”
“Yes?” returned Bgzzam carelessly.
*You served two bits before you got
educated. a one year and a two
stretch.”
“Yes.” agreed Bozzam, still care-
lessly.
“well, if you «ry to pull anything
here it'll be ten.”
Mr. Bozzam laid down the pencil
with which he had been tapping light-
ly on his desk and leaned slightly for-
ward. :
“Look here, you big slob.” he gently
observed, ‘‘you can’t bully me, and
you can’t bluff me. When you get the
goods on me is the time for you to get
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“Everybody gets it some time, don't
they ?” Molly dimpled up at him.
busy, but until then you keep your
trap closed. I'm not one of your vil-
lage pikers.”
Sledge regarded him fixedly for a
mom esi, a> wn
WOULD PENSION THE JOBLESS
Meyer London Offers Measure For
Social Insurance.
Representative London, Socialist, of
New York, has introduced a measure
in the house proposing the appoint-
ment of a committee to formulate a
plen for the establishment of a sys-
tem of social insurance in the United
States. :
The resolution proposes that a fund
be established “to secure to workers
adequate means of substitence while
involuntarily unemployed, whether the
unemployment be caused by lack of
work, sickness or old age.” It pro-
vides for the appointment of a com-
mission, two members of which are
to be employers of labor, two repre-
sentatives of organized labor and the
fifth, the secretary of labor, as chair-
man ex officio.
To minimize the burden placed
upon the insurance fund Mr. London
proposes that employment be provid-
ed by the development and exploita-
tion of public lands. He puts forth
his measure as an avowedly socialistic
scheme.
REDS PLAN REVOLUTION
In Case “They” Declare War, “We”
Will Bring Freedom, Says Circular.
Anarchists are being incited to start
a revolution in America should the
country go to war. A circular has
been circulated from the arnachistic
headquarters in Philadelphia, which
says:
“In case they declare war and call
on the majority of the people to de
fend things they haven’s got, then
we urge the workers to start the
revolution, which is the only thing
that will bring absolute freedom,
where all who live shall have all they
peed and enjoy life instead of haying
to live in slavery, fear, misery, and
want.”
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substance.
and allays Feverishness.
Flatulency, Wind Colic,
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ASSOCIATIONS TAX
BREWERS HEAVILY
One Pittsburgh Goncern Paid
$25,000 Yearly
USED IN POLITICS, CHARGE
Brewers Use Legal Technicalities to
Ward Off Investigation of Alleged
Political Activities, But Meet Defeat.
That the Independent Brewing com-
pany of Pittsburgh contributed nearly
| $74,000 in three years to the several
brewers’ associations was the sig-
nificant admission contained in a pa-
per submitted by attornéys for that
concern to the United States court in
Pittsburgh.
About $20,000 of the contribution
went to the United States Brewers as-
sociation, the balance to associations
in Pennsylvania. :
Facts and figures contained in a pe-
tition filed by Attorney Neeper for
the Independent Brewing company
showed that this one corporation
alone since 1911 has been averaging
$25,000 a year In its donations to
brewers’ associations. It is this money
United States Attorney Humes al-
leges was used for political purposes
in violation of the federal corrupi
practices act.
Mr. Neeper’s petition, along with a
similar one filed by Attorney Fagan
for the Pittsburgh Brewing company.
sought to have quashed subpenas
duces tecum for officers of the two
companies and for the production of
certain bo-ks and records. Judg-
Thomson dismissed the petitions.
It is evident now to those who hav~
been watching the probe that the
brewers are fighting desperately for
delay, but every move made to block
United States Attorney Humes has
failed miserably.
It had been planned by Mr. Humes
to have the books of the Independent
and Pittsburgh Brewing companies
brought before the inquisitorial body,
but the filing of the petitions prevent-
ed this.
B. A. Mason, secretary of the Brew-
ers’ Association of Western Pennsyl-
vania, was called for re-examination
when the grand jury reconvened. Mr.
Mason was only in the grand jury
room a few minutes. John A. Kelly,
office manager for the same associa
tion, was called, but before he could
be examined Mr. Humes was called
out of the grand jury room to take up
the matter of the petitions which were
filed later.
Germar Spy Caught In New York.
Ignatius Timothy Trebitsch Lin-
caped from the federal authorities on
Jan. 16 last and then wrote letters to
a newspaper, chafing the department
of justice, has been caught in New
York.
Harsh physics react, weaken th
bowels, will lead to chroaie comstipe
tion. Doan’s regulets operate easily
S$ c¢ 2 box at all stores.
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mrs
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coln, self-vaunted German spy who es-
BONES SENT AS THREAT
Woman Receives Mys-
Charleston
terious Death Warning.
, United States District Attorney
{ Barnhart, at Charleston, W. Va., has
in his possession the skeleton of a
{ human hand which was sent through
the mails to a Charleston woman by
way of a threat.
The matter has been placed in the
hands of the postal authorities for in-
vestigation and an effort to find the
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THE CENTAUR COMPANY, NEW YORK CITY,
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The Kind You Have Always Bought, and which has been
has borne the sicnature of
and has been made under his per-
sonal supervision since its infancy.
A 4 Allow no one to deceive you in this.
All Counterfeits, Imitations and ¢¢ Just-as-good ’’ are but
Experiments that trifle with and endanger the health of
Infants and Children—Experience against Experiment
What is CASTORIA
Castoria is a harmless substitute for Castor C.., Pare
Syrups. It is pleasant. It
contains meither Opium, Morphine nor other Narcotic
Its age is its guarantee.
It destroys Worms
For more than thirty years it
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all Teething Troubles and
It regulates the Stomach and Bowels,
assimilates the Food, giving healthy and natural sleep.
The Children’s Panacea—The Mother’s Friend.
GENUINE CASTORIA ALways
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BREWERS’ BOOKS
NOT DESTROYED
FoZeral Agents Reported to
Have Found Wanted Papers
NORE SUBPENAS ISSUED
Contempt Proceedings Expected to Be
Begun Against C. F. Ettla for Re-
fusal to Give Wanted Information.
Government agents have uncovered
witnesses who are ready to testify
that not all the records of the United
States Brewers’ and Pennsylvania
Brewers’ associations have been de-
stroyed. i
The fact was learned from a rell-
able source that special agents of the
department of justice in the east have
found places where records are hid-
den.
Evidence and not arguments, it is
said, will be presented by United
States Attorney E. Lowry Humas on
Friday morning in Pittsburgh when
it will be determined by Judge Thom-
son whether Edwin A. Schu.idt, presi-
dent; John P. Gardiner, third vice
president, and Gustav W. Lembeck,
treasurer, of the United States Brew-
ers’ association will be adjudged in
contempt of court for refusing to pro-
duce records of the association before
the grand jury.
Subpenas for at least a dozen new
witnesses have been given into the
hands of United States Marshal
Joseph Howley. Deputy marshals
started out at once to serve them.
Other subpenas were mailed to Unit-
ed States marshals in other districts
for service.
Among those expected to be sub-
penaed are a number of employees
and former employees of the United
States and Pennsylvania Brewers’ as-
sociations. Some of them, it is report-
ed, will be willing witnesses.
It is believed contempt proceedings
will be begun against Charles F.
Ettla, secretary of the Pennsylvania
Brewers’ association. Bttla is report-
ed to have been just as reticent about
‘disclosing the business methods of
brewers’ associations as the officials
who preceded him and against whom
contempt proceedings are pending.
At least one arrest for tampering
with a government witness will be
made. Whether this arrest will be
made upon a federal warrant or by a
grand jury presentment had not been
determined.
. The contempt proceedings against
Walter J. Damm were quashed at the
request of Mr. Humes, who informed
Judge Thomson that Damm had con-
sented to appear before the grand
jury, tell what he knows and produce
a letter which is said to contain evi-
dence of the use of brewery money
in politics. The letter Damm has in
his possession’ is said to contain a
$5,000 cancelled check signed by
James P. Mulvihill, vice president of
the Independent Brewing company.
Attorney H. J. McAllister of McKees-
port, who appeared in court with
gender will be made. The woman who
received the hand has received sev-
| eral threatening letters.
Dr. Bowers Struck by Train.
Damm, is reported to have advised
him to give up the letter and tell the
| grand jury all he knows.
!
Dr. H. R. Bowers of Lancaster, Pa.,
killed instantly by a Pennsylvania |
erento traip at Hdgewood station.
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regulated families keep Dr. Thomas oleh va a iri al
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