Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 January 1910 — Page 3

The Quest of Betty Lancey

CHAPTER V. Everybody but Johnny Johnson followed Betty. Johnson went back to ‘the house where now remained none but Pierre Desterte and several of the older and more courageous bachelors who had lived in the house for years. Betty and her cohort numbered seven. Besides Larry Morris, long and lumbery, there s was the gentle-eyed young Philip Hartley, Hank Smith, tall and tremendously framed, Sothern, fat, blonde and phlegmatic; Frankel, a little Jew, who was autojnobile editor of the “Times,” and Tim Murphy, cartoonist, a great hulk of an Irishman. The Directory Hotel, one of the most exclusive in the town, was only two blocks from Leßoy’s. “Now E 24 is my room?’ whispered Betty. “You let me go up flrsfc Don't let the clerk in on this even, till we find out what’s what.” Five minutes later the sextette were pulled inside the door of room E 24 by such an excited Betty Delaney as the “Inquirer” office bad never seen. “Look! ,N she instructed. “Be careful, but look right across.”^ The span of the court did not exceed eighteen feeV' Betty’s side of the great building was all black and quiet Hot *• light glimpsed in any room. The room directly across the tfcuyt whose windows complimented hers had the shades thrown high, the windows opened wide and was ablaze with light. There were two occupants in the room, a man and a woman, seated side by'slde at a table covered with writing paraphernalia. The man was powerfully built, regular of feature and Very dark, with peculiarly white and nervous hands. The woman wore a tailored suit of dark cloth and even at that distance her remarkable resem- , blance to the woman they had last iegfi lyTngTn the morgue was unmistakable. There was the same soft contour of chin, the same rust-brown hair, and clear ivory pallor of the skin. The slight yet perfect., modelings of 'her figure, the slender pink-palmed hand, the curve of the forehead, were as/like as is. stamped from the same die. As they watched, breathless, Btupefled from surprise, the man drew a wallet from his pocket and pulled from it several papers. He ran rapidly through them and withdrawing two from the packet handed them to his companion. She reached across to receive them when a sudden gust of wind bellied the curtains into sails and sent them fluttering into the room and out again. The. force of the, breezecaught the papers and they werq carried out into the court where they swirled, eddied and ducked, finally ‘alighting on the fire escape that jutted not five feet from Betty’s window. The man who had run to the window, watched With eager eyes to see where the papers fell. Then he clutched his hat from the sofa and rushed from the room. The woman shrugged her shoulders and sat down again at the table. They saw her pull out the pins from her copper hair and let it fall In glory over her shoulders. Then she walked into the adjoining room as if the recovery of the lost documents was a matter of perfect indifference. “Hank,” nudged Sothern, “you’re the longest. Climb out and get those papers.’’ / “Larry isn’t as long and he’s less awkward,” commented Frankel. “And you’re worth less than the rest of us; try it yourself, Frankel,” flashed Hank. “Betty Lancey,” asked Larry, “why areiYt you fragile and willowy Instead of a Juno? Then we’d make a rope of the bed-clothes here for a guide and send you over.” Philip Hartley was already out of the window. While the others held caucus he had pulled the blanket from the bed, torn it in half and {led a slip knot firmly around his left leg. “Go easy, boys,” he suggested. “That’ll make a fair safety.” Clambering out on the-ledge he steadied himself by the top of the sash and worked plowly round to the farther end of the sill. From there he Inched his way along a ridge in the wall till he could Just touch the fire escape. The letters were white against the iron and Just the fraction of an inch out of reach. Betty Lancey saw the difficulty. “Pass him this hat-pin,” aha sAld. “He can fish them over with that.” Slowly, Very slowly. Hartley moved the precious papers over The narrow Iron shelf, Impaling them on the hatpin point. Then with cramped fingers he put them Into his inner pocket and began the return crawl. He was barely within Betty’s room .again when they heard a loud rapping at the next door. After a short wait a woman’s Voice answered shrilly, “What do you want?” The calmly suave totles of a wellordered hotel employe* repfied. “Sorry to disturb you, madam, bat the gentleman Just above you has dropped by accident some very Important papers. They have alighted on the fire escape attached to your window, and we cannot reach them except through this room.” t "Can’t you go from the room above,” argued the woman’s voice. “The idea of getting mg up at this hour because some imbecile hasn’t brains enough to keep his letters from blowing out of the Window. If he’d been asleep as he shdiild hAve been at this time he wouldn’t have lost them. Indeed, {3l not open that door. Go up a flight, or down one.” '• “Oh, madame, I assure you,” broke In the clerk again.

By MAGDA F. WEST

“What’s the row, Mary ?” growled a sleepy masculine voice. The woman on the inside and the clerk on the outside began a simultaneous explanation. In the middle of it all the sleepy voice

gave a return growl and ordered: “Unlock that door, Mary, ’and get back into bed.’'' There was the grating of the bolt, the lifting of a window, and then a cry of horror. t “They are gone! They’re not here! Somebody has stolen, them. I know they lit here. I was so careful to watch.” “Nobody in the hotel got them. Nobody round here’s got a light,” announced the'clerk. “Glad they’re gone,” sounded the voice known only to the watchers as “Mary.” “Who in the name of sense would frolic round on a fire escape at half past three in the morning picking up papers? Now, Mr. Clerk, take your man, and go a Way with him, please. Probably he’ll find what he wants In the court.”

"Frankel, you follow them,” suggested Harry Morris. Frankel, Waiting till he heard the door /close, slipped down the hall .after the two men, Sothern With him. Betty pulled down the shade, closed and locked the window. Then she locked the door, looked under the bed, “tried the handles of the doors to the adjoining rooms and spoke breathlessly. A “Now, Hartley!” - As if to guard him from unseen attack, the bob clustered round him. He drew forth the papers. One was anunmounted photograph that might have been that of Cerisse Wayne or of the woman in the room across the court. The other was a letter-in the identical writing that the envelopes found in Cerisse Wayne’s room had borne, and was dated only a week previous. “My Dear Cerisse—Check goes by to-night’s mail. Hope you will find it sufficient. Be very careful. Think we are being watched. A slight mistake would spell all, and j the struggle of years go for naught. Life for me would be death .Itself. H.” “I’m going to run across, see that woman and chat with her while the man Is gone,” said Betty, rumpling up her soft brown hair, dull and satiny as a pecan shell. She threw off her collar and belt, aqd pulled het shirtwaist from , beneath her Skirt Then, she kicked off her in this simulated negligee ran softly over the velvet-sodded hall and around through the corridor.

"Let me se§/’ she calculated. "I am the one, two, ttjree, yes, I’m the eighth door. That would make those doors eight and nine from the corner on this side." - Betty - told off the doors with care. Sure that she was unobserved, she rapped distinctly several times,. There was no response, so she knocked vigorously. This time the door flew wide with sucli celerity that Betty paled in earnest. X “Oh, pardon me!” she faltered. “But I was alone and sick, and I saw your light and thought maybe you could help me. Have you any ammonia? I am so faint—l might send., downstair#, but I am so Unused to hotels, you know.” The young women rather stiffly motioned to Betty to enter. Her thick hhi* was in two long braids; she "had changed her tailored suit for a clinging negligee of oriental patterned stuff, and a girdle of mammoth diamonds held it close at the wplst,"~ Betty had never seen such grace In a woman before and her eyes were the most wonderful the girl had ever gazed upon. They shone so brightly that their color was Indistinguishable. They were twin wells ’of unfathomable brilliancy, 'softness and power. The woman steppe* into the bedroom beyond, and Betty, from hert seat on the couch, heard her call to the clerk.* “This is E 44,” phoned the double of Mrs. Wayne. “Kindly send your housekeeper here. A young girl, evidently a guest of the house, hag become 111, and appealed to me for aid. I cannot have her In my suite. . She see/ns afraid to stop alone, so will you send a woman to look after her?’ • Betty hurried to the door, stealthily opened It and skulked down the hall. As she rounded the corner something soft was thrown over her head, and fastened'tightly around her neck. She felt the impact of a great furry body close to hers. And then Betty Lancey knew nothing more. She lay in a dead faint CHAPTER VL at the Desterle bouse Johnny Johnson was alternately pulling Us front hair and pinching his palms to keep awake. Johnny, with his usual audacity, had ensconced himself for the night in the death chamber. Two Associated press men were with him; two reporters from others papers and three detectives. The Associated Press Men wanted to smoke, but Johnny rebelled against either illumination or smoking. “If there’s anybody opinin' back here,” he contended. “If he or she smells smoke or sees lights, there’ll be no cornin'.”. , “Considering the ashes and cigarette stubs that we found on the floor,” suggested the first Associated Press Man. “the only pray to invoke the ghost of Cerisse Wayne would be through smoke.’’ “What do we want of her ghost,” sneered Johnny. “This is no seance.

What we want is tl* fellow wft* mad* the ghost” I The bivouac was nerve-racking. The Old apparently had a bounteous rodent population and the little beasts seampered back and forth in the walls with* spooky gambols. Every window In the bouse rattled, and the pall of emptiness tljat always hangs heavily In a deserted human habitation rested —u dead weight—ln the air. - Two i blocks distant- the elevatedtrains rumbled dully by, and the morning parade of the milk wagons had not yet begun—to touch the; visions of the night with the realities of the day. “This is too much for me,” cried one Of the detectives. “Let get out and take a breath.” The little gropp, all except Johnny, -arose with alacrity. He stopped alone in this old house, and tried to keep his eyes. open-- and,, falling, wondered he didn't advertise the newspaper business as a cure for irisoirihia and accrue cash thereby, when'— .mbaYS-jihat?” asked Johnny of himself. He heard with joyous ears a scraping and Sliding In the closet opposite, where he had picked up the gold and amethyst .garter. It sounded as If the baseboard were being forcibly removed, or, tather, as if someone were endeavoring to slide It back, and as if the board were sticking in an unaccustomed and stubborn fashion. Johnny looked for a convenient corner in which to duck. He couldn’t fit into the drawers of the chiffonier or the bureau, and the ted, stripped of all its coverings, even of. the mattress and billows, was flat against the wall. On a chapce Johnny crawled beneath it, with*one eye fixed steadily upon the closet door. He had not long to watt. Stealthily the door opened, and through the crack came a gleam of a pocket electrtfj flashlight The man who was holding the light whirled it hastily around the room, scanning it closely as if to make sure he was unobserved. “Oh,” groaned Johnny, and slunk closer Into the corner, rolling himself still more tightly Into a ball, and pulling his coat up over his fiery head. The intruder walked over to the bureau drawers and began to search hurriedly. They jrere empty, and at this discovery In each successive drawer the man flung them slffit with a gesture of disappointment. The voices of Johnny’s returning companions echoed through the corridors and their footsteps sounded on the stairway. The. intruder* put out his light and started for the closet. The dawn was now so far advanced that as he passed the .window. Johnny , distinguished his features clearly. If® must have been at least fifty years of age, a rather stocklly built mam of good appearance, with a tired face and dark hair, thickly streaked with gray. He hurried into the closet and shut thd'door behind him, and Johnny heard again the struggle to slide the panel into place.

“Who called, son?" asked the fat detective, jocularly, as he entered the room. “Did they leave cards for the hull of us? Say, where is that bricktop, anyway?” Johnny, with considerable wriggling and squirming, came out from beneath the bed. “Funny how thundering mutfh easier it is to get under a bed than out from underneath it,” he commented, rubbing the dust from his knees. “You didn’t get chased there, did you, now?” came the question. “Were you seeing things, or what?” “I saw enough,” retorted Johnny. "Guess I saw more than you did, and it didn’t cost anything for the vision, either. Here, Farley, let’s have a light; whereA that pocket contraption of yours?” Farley brought It out, and Johnny,* glorying In the importance of knowing something that the others did not, and reveling in the curiosity and impatience of his fellows, strode majestically into the closet. When Johnny had anything tucked away In his cranium that he was crazy to tell as other peo-. pie were to hear, he puffed Out to the* dimensions of the fabled frog. That was the time when Johnny was really funny, and more provocative of risibility than any of his ever-rldiculous yarns. Entering the closet he scanned its calclmlned sides closely, running his slender, long-nailed fingers carefully down the walL Then he hit the baseboard. The group around watched m tense silence. . “Oh, John, cut it out and open up,” snarled Gorin. Gorin was one of Johnny’s best friends. * (To be continued.)

A Sybarite.

In the gray light of early morning the traveler in Scotland faced the night clerk resolutely: “You gave me the worst bed In the inn!” he began, indignation in his voice and eyes. “If you don’t change me before to-night I shall look up other lodgings.” “There is no difference in the beds, sir,” the clerk replied respectfully. “If that is so,” he said, “perhaps you wouldn’t mind giving me the room on the left of mine?” “It Is occupied, sir.” “I know it is. By a man who snored all night, and was still at it ton minutes ago. His bed must be better than mine, or he couldn’t sleep at a maximum capacity of sound eight hours on a stretobr” “ftae beds are all alike, sir. That man has been here before, and he always sleeps on the floor, sir.”— Youth’s Companion.

Quite at Home.

Bacon —And did you feel at home traveling in Russia? Egbert—-Oh, quite at home; when the brakemen called out the stations I couldn’t understand them any better than I can over here!—Yonkers Statesman.

The Retort Sympathetic.

Amelia (with a simper)—l have such hard work to keep George from being silly when he Is with me. (tartly)—You don't expect Impossibilities of the poor fellow, do you?—Baltimore American.

DEALT IN ITALIAN COUNTS.

New York Matrimonial Korea* • ■ Disaster - to ■ . Another marriage syndicate his gone id the wall. Antonio Ferrara,, who has the grand-a case In Grand street, no longer la interested lift the -subject of international marriages. and my fren’, Garramone, the cheese-a man, we been beeg marks,” says Antonio. “We been what yoff call-a stung.” * Antonio and Garramone and half a dozen other speculatively inclined Italians framed up a syndicate to marry young Italian men of title to young American girls of fortune- “We follow-a da law of supply; an’ deman’,” says Antonio, according to the 1 Cln.-. cinnatl Timea-Star’s New York correspondent. “The yong-a mah he want-a da mon—da yong-a woman she want-a da title —we. breeng them together. Yong-a man feev us mooch mon’ when marry, and we all geet reech.” And so they Imported half a dozen or so counts and marquises and barons. ’Tonio had titles on tap just as he has pasticci down at his case. Well-to-do young women were urged to come down and look over “the stock. good titles,” said Antonio. “No flivvers in da boonch. We look-a den? all up. Da yong-a men no got more mon’ dan da flyin’ squirrel, but all good-a look, all educate,’ all got hon-est-a title. But no more-a deese counts, for ’Tonio. Dey put him on de bum.” The syndicate promised to pay the expenses of the Imported counts. The imported counts lived In the Plaza, rode In taxicabs, gave dinners after the opera and the Ferrara syndicate paid. And not one of the delicatessen showed any disposition whatever to marry. They flitted from flower to flower, but they didn’t" settle down anywhere. “An’ da reech American / glrl Is wlse-a," says Ferrara. "She is fly. No bum-a count for her. She wan-a da reech man wid da titlb, and no poor bum wld one suit of clothes and a coronet.” ' The counts and marquises lived high, but they didn’t marry. And one day the marriage syndicate shut off the supplies. The counts came down to Ferrera’s case to demand money and ’Tonio tossed ’em out, “No throw-a da good mon’ after da bad,”, he said philosophically. ”Hey«„ Vergillo! ” The big waiter, with the ferocious black mustache responded. “Watch-a da door, Vergilio,” ordered Tonio. “Eef da bum-a count come in t>ow heem in da street. Da syndicate has bus’.”

Wit of the Youngsters

Small Eva saw a man wtth onjy one arm. Remembering her expedience with one of her dolls, Eva said; “Oh, mamma, look at that poor man! The sawdust has all run out of one of his arms.” “tfbw, Johnny,” said the teacher of the juvenile class to a small pupil, “anonymous means without a name. Can you give me an example?” “Yes, ma’am,” answered Johnny, promptly. “The baby that arrived at our house yesterday is anonymous." The minister had preached on the text: "Why halt ye between two opinions?” and upon little Cora’s return home from church her grandmother askld what the text was. “1 don’t remember exactly,” answered Cora, “but it was something- about a hawk between two pigeons.”

Finding Lodgings.

His blanket the soldier takes along on the march, but usually not his tent. Usage soon makes the ground as soft a bed as he wants. The case is pretty nearly the same with the prospector and the frontiersman. In writing of the “Highways and Byways of the Pacific Coast,” Clifton Johnson tells of the practice on the ranches ot the West. He was the guest of an early Bettler. While we were chatting -a laborer passed, shouldering a roll of blankets. The butcher had come to the door, and he pointed to the passer and said, “You see that feller, don’t you? Well, when I first reached here from the East I thought a man with a bed on his back was the funniest thing I’d ever come across. “A rancher in this country won't take his hired man into the house. They’ve got to furnish their own blankets and usually sleep on the hay In the barn. “I know a fellow who, when he’d Just arrived and didn’t understand the ways they manage, got a Job harvesting on a big wheat raheh. The help usually sleep in the straw stacks then, and it’s, precious little time they get to sleep anywhere; but he didn’t know anything about that, and he was aitting around la the evening, and finally said to the rancher, ‘Where am I to sleep to-night?’ “ 'Why, I don’t care where you sleep,’ said the rancher. ’l’ve got nine hundred and sixty acres of land around here, and if you can’t find a place to sleep on that I’ll get my next neighbor to lend me a piece of his.’ ” - -

Elvira's Way.

The Teadber (reading)—“Then the girl warrior faced the mocking foe and unsheathed her deadly weapon.” What does that mean, children? Well, Elvira? ~~ —~ Elvira—Please, ma’am, I think It means she stuck out her tongue.— Cleveland Plain Dealer.

HOW HE SAVED THE CIRCUS.

Wonderful Storjr P*t by Owner . ' *"«’***» HUrh Compliment. Willis Cobb, the circus man, toM this story; Years ago he Was traveling through South, with a wagon tent' show and the press agent among other glowin* accounts of “what’s coming,” announced a “herd of twenty camels from the sandy desert of Arabia." When the show reached towk, instead of twenty, there was but one sickly camel. Some of the country newspapers paid no attention to this slight discrepancy, but when Cobb entered the office, of a Georgia country editor he was mad enough to fight. “I saw your parade, e*h,” said he, “and you lied to our people. I’ve A good mind to roast you. Where are your twenty camels you made my paper say you’ve got in'your show?” I— “I’ll tell you how it was,” explained Cobb. “When we passed the swamp on the way here it was full of alligators, and without the slightest warning they leaped upon the bank and devoured ajl but one of the camels. We put up a brave fight, but it was no use.” * The editor gazed at Willis a couple of minutes and then said: ‘You’re a good one. You ought to be a Georgia editor. Come out to my house to dinner to-day. I want to introduce my wife to the biggest liar on earth. She’ll be glad to meet you.”

QUEER STORIES

The University of Buenos Ayres has now 4,364 students. Bees were unknown to the Indians, but they were brought over from England only a few years after the landing of the Pilgrim Fathers. Researches in Germany show that a given'quantity of red hot coke will absorb four times the amount of water that will be absorbed by the same coke if cord. *, ' 1 The British government has decided to open a roads department, which will administer a fund on projected highway improvements of about $3,000,000 during the first year iof its existence. The Hebrew Standard remarks that two blazing signs in Broadway call attention to a condition. One of these bears the words, “The Man Who Owns Broadway,” while on the next corner another sign equally flaring shows the word, “Israel.”

The total value of church property in the United States reported ini.1906, for all denominations, was $1,257,575,867, of which $935,942,578 was reported for Protestant bodies, $292,638,787 for the Roman Catholic church, and $28,994,502 for all the remaining bodies. It is a matter of grave concern to the missionaries and other permanent residents of China to observe from year to year the increasing cast of living, which, pf course, includes every item of household expense. Double and treble the prices are asked that were paid ten years ago. After hearing a French menu Dr. Johnson said to Boswell: “Sir, my brain Is obfuscated with the perusal of this heterogeneous conglomeration of English ill-spelt and a foreign tongue. Bid the rascals bring me a dish ot. hog’s puddings, a slice or two from the upper cut of a well-roasted sirloin and two apple dumplings.” At present tbe highest salaried woman doing departmental work in Washington is Misw A H. Shortrldge, of New York City. The State Department recently recognized her services by promotion to a salary of $2,500 per annum, the highest pay ever given to any woman worker by Uncle Sam. Miss Shortrldge began with a position of S9OO a year and has gradually worked her spy up by efficient service.—National Magazine. It is probable that the population of the earth has doubled since 1800, says the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. No one knows within ton million of what it is in 1909, but no, doubt the figures just published by B. L. Putnam Weale are as good as any other. He gives a grand total of 1,685,000,000. Of these only about a third, or 546,000,000, are white, with 85,000,000 in North America and 453,000,000'in Europe.

Two Tests.

“Ritchey's wife had a wonderful nerve. They wgrtL walking down the street together and a mouse ran across tbe sidewalk and she didn’t even shudder." “Remarkable.” “Yes, Indeed. And Just ' a little further along, on a crosswalk, an automobile horn two blocks away suddenly honked and she jumped eleven feet.”Cleveland Plain Dealer,

Unique.

Bacon —Vienna possesses a unique orcheetra. All members from the honorary president, the acting president, the conductor to the executants are doctors of medicine. Egbert—Does seem rather unique sos doctors to have to take their own horrible medicine.—Yonkera Statesman. Because a man has been to college It does not follow that be la educated, and many an educated man Has never been to college. —* - —»- The greatest thing In the world: good habits, and good hablU are aa hard to Lreak as bad habits. *

GOOD ROADS

winter rml Work. One of the problems confronting th« farmer is the question of inaintenanc* of dirt roads. Not only should dirt roads be maintained during the spring and summer months, but the winter months as well; especially is this truo where there is not an over abundance of snow, which condition exists with: many of our readers. The King road drqg may be used with much benefit during the winter months. Just after thaws or rains. Gpod work can be done at this time of the year, because the soil is crumbly or mealy and pushes easily toward the center of the road. If the road has been properly cared for during the summer and fall It will be only a slight task to drag them during the winter when conditions are right. At this season of the year there is little, for the work teams to do and in the early spring the roads will be in shape to turn water and permit of early drying out. In tact, the winter dragged road will be dry and hard In the spring when neglected, roads will be soft, rutty and springy. Go after the work now and drag whetffiver you can during the winter, then your road will be in good shape next spring. Maks a split-log road drag and keep it going on the highway. D. Ward King, the inventor of the drag, gives the following directions for making a split road drag: Take the two halves of a split log, ten or twelve Inches thick and seven to nine feet long. Set the halves flat sides to the front, fasten thirty inches apart with strong stakes the ends of which are wedged in two-inch auger holes, bored through the slabs. Put a solid plank platform on the stakes for the driver to stand on. The hitch & made of strong wire or chain, the long end fastened to stake over the top of tbe front elab, the short end should be put through a bole made In center of the slab and near the end to prevent the back slab tilting forward. Face four or five feet of the ditch end of the front slab with Iron. An. old wagon tire, wqrn share pf road grader, or any piece' of flat steel will answer for this purpose. As a general rule, always haul the drag an angle of 45 degrees, moving the dirt to tbh center of the road.— Successful Farming.

LINERS OF 45,000 TONS.

Two MagnMnst Vessels Betiding tor the White Star Cosspamy. Despite the treasures taken to insure secrecy it la possible to give soma particulars of the two mammoth liners, the Olympic and Titanic, which are being built at Belfast by Harland A Wolff for the White Star Company. In the matter of also they will eclipse the Mauretania and Lusitania by not leas than 12,000 tons, their tonnage being 45,000, against the 33,000 of the two Cunarders. The new steamers, which are destined for the Southampton-New York Jervife, will be the finest on the water In the matter of equipment and decoration. The New York Sun’s correspondent says one of the upper decks le to be completely Inclosed to serve as a ballroom or skating rink. The boats will offer not only extended suites of rooms, but complete Hate, which will make It possible to cross the Atlantic while enjoying all the privacy of home. 4 The Olympic and Titanic will b« the first steamers to offer cabins with private shower baths attached. In" addition there will be a great swimming hath aboard both vessels large enough to permit of diving. A gymnasium will be found on each-of the new boats. A veranda case will be built on one of the upper decks far astern, looking' out over the sea and about fifty feel above the water, it will have exposed rafters entwined with vines and tbs sides will be latticed effects, to make the illusion of a case at the seaside as complete as possible. Another novelty will be a grill-room suggesting an old English chop houss, with high-backed stalls of ancient oak and broad, low tablesT A garden will be on the sua deck and In the winter will be protected by a glass root. The new vessels will have , a dl» placement of 69,000 lons. They are ts be about 840 feet long, with a beam of 90 feet, and the boat deck will he more than 60 feet above the water. Neither the Olympic nor the Titanic will be a high-power boat, nor are their lines designed for great speed, twenty-one knota being the average aimed at Their carrying capacity will exceed that of any vessel afloat today by at least one-third. Each steamer will carry under normal conditions more than 5,000 persons. A feature of the design Js that the. will each have four funnels and only one mast The funnels will be so large that two double-decked etreel cars could easily pass through each aide by aids. A combination of turbine and reciprocating engines will -propel the vessels. The total cost of the two will be something like 120/ 000,000. It 1» expected that they will be ready tor their maiden voyages 1* the wring of 16U. »