Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 95, Indianapolis, Marion County, 31 August 1923 — Page 8
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BEGIN HERE TODAY Ned Cornet, son of wealthy Godfrey Comet, celebrates with his friend Rodney Coburn, the return of the latter from Canada. Ned leaves the Totem Club in a happy frame of mind and drives homeward in the drizzliny rain. Ned's car goes into a perilous skid, knocking down Bess Gilbert, a shopgirl, on her way home. A policeman tells Comet to report to Judge Rossman in the morning and advises Ned to settle for damage done to a passing jitney. Ned is allowed to continue cn his way when the g;rl is found to be uninjured. He asks her to ride to her home in his car. Ned returns home to tell his father of the accident. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY Godfrey had fought upward from Utter poverty to the presidency and ownership of one of the greatest fur houses of his country, partly through the exercise of the principle of absolute business integrity, mostly through the sheer dynamic force of the man. His competitors knew him as a fair but remorseless fighter; but his fame carried far beyond the confines of his resident city. Bearded trappers, running their lines through the desolate wastes of the North, were used to seeing him come venturing up their gray rivers in the spring, furclad and wind-tanned—finding his relaxation and keeping fit by personally attending to the buying of some of his furs. Thus it was hard for a soft roan to feel easy in his presence. Ned Comet was somewhat downcast and sullen as he entered the cheerfullly lighted hallway of his father's house.
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THEIR EYES MET OVER THE TABLE.
In the soft light it was immediately evident that he was his father's son, yet there were certain marked differences between them. Warrior blood had some way failed to come down to Ned. For all his stalwart body, he gave no particular image of strength. He took his place at the stately table so gravely and quietly that his parent’s interest was at once wakened. His father smiled quietly at him across the board. “Well, Ned,” he asked at last. "What is it today?” “Nothing very much. Avery close call, though, to real tragedy. I might as we]’ tell you about it. as likely enough it’ll be in the papers tomorrow. I went into a bad skid at Fourth and Madison, hit a jitney, and before we got quite stopped managed to knock a girl over on the pavement. Didn’t hurt her a particle. But there’s a hundred dollars’ damage to the Jit — and a pretty severe scare for your young son.” As he talked, his eyes met those of his father, almost as if he were afraid to look away. The older man made little comment. He went on with his dessert, and soon the talk veered to other matters. The older man finished his coffee, slowly lighted a long, sleek cigar, and for a moment rested with elbows on the table.
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“Well, Ned, I suppose I might as well get this off my chest,” he began at last. “Now is as auspicious a time as any. You say you got a good scare today. I’m hoping that It put you in a mood so that at least you can give me a good hearing.” The man spoke rather humbly. The air was electric when he paused. Ned leaned forward. "You’ve been a very attentive son.” Godfrey Cornet paused again. “The trouble, I’m afraid, is that I haven’t been a very attentive father. I’ve attended to my business —and little else —and now I’m paying the piper. “Please bear with me. It was only a little accident, as you say. The trouble of it is that it points the way that things are going. It could very easily have been a terrible accident —a dead girl under your speeding wheels, a charge of manslaughter instead of the good joke of being arrested for speeding, a term' in the penitentiary instead of a fine. Ned. if you had Mlled the girl it would have been fully right and just for you to spend a good many of the best years of your life behind prison walls. I ask myself whether or not I 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. I can't 'accuse you without also accusing myself. Therefore I would try to keep you out of prison, in doing that, I would see j in myself further proof of my old weakness—a weak desire to spare ! you when the prison might make a man of you.” . Ned recoiled at the words, hut his father threw him a quick smile. lour mother and I have a lot to answer for. Both of us were busy, I with my business, she with her household cares and social duties, and it was easier to give you what >ou wanted than to refuse you things for your own good. It was ! easier to let you go soft than to pro ride hardship for you. It was pleasanter 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 before. I’ve never been firm. I’ve let you grow to man’s years—29, I be- j Heve—and still be a child In experience. The work you do around j my business could be done by a 17- i year-old boy. Ned, I want to make a man of you." He paused again, and their eyes met over the table. All too plainly the elder Cornet saw that his appeal had 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. "I suppose 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. ”1 wouldn’t like to j deprive you of the pleasure. You had ! something on your mind: what is it?” ! "It’s simply this,” his father went ! on. "Today I met Leo Schaffner at | lunch, and in our talk he gave me what I consider a real business Inspiration. He tells me. In his various jobbing houses, he has several thousand silk and velvet gowns and coats and wraps left qn his hands In the financial depression that immediately followed the war. He was cussing his luck because he didn’t know what to do with them. Os course they were part of the surplus that helped glut the markets when hard times made people stop buyluSf 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 velvets, but all of it was a good three seasons out. of style. He offered me the lot of two thousand for—l’m ashamed to tell you how much.” Almost nothing!” his son prompted him. “Yes. Almost nothing. And I took him up.” His son leaned back, keenly interested for the first time. “Good Lord, why? You can’t go into business selling out-of-date women’s clothes!" Can t, eh? Son, while he was talking to me, it occurred to me all at once that the least of those gowns, the poorest one In the lot, was worth at least a marten skin! Think of it! A marten skin, from northern Canada and Alaska, returned the trapper around S6O in 1920. Now let me get down to brass tacks. “It’s true I don’t intend to sell any of those hairy old white trappers any women’s sijk gowns. But this was what I was going to have you do; first you were to hire a good auxiliary schooner—a strong, sturdy, seaworthy two-masted craft such as is used in northern trading. You’d fit that craft out with a few weeks' supplies and fill the hold with a couple of thousand of those gowns. You’d need two or three men to run the launch—l believe the usual crew Is a pilot, a first and 'Second engineer, and a cook—and you’d have to nave a seamstress to do fitting and make minor alterations. Then you’d start up for Bering Sea. “You may not know it, but along the coast of Alaska, and throughout the islands of Bering Sea there are hundreds of little, scattered tribes of Indians, all of them trappers of the finest, high-priced furs. Nor do their women dress in furs and skins altogether, either, as popular legend would have you believe. Through their hot, long summer days they wear dresses like American women, and the gayer and prettier the dresses, the better they like ’em. . To my knowledge, no one has ever fed them silk—simply because silk was too high—but being women, red or white, tney’d simply go crazy over it. “The other factor in the combination is that the Intrepid, due to the unsettled fur market, failed to do any extensive buying on her last annual trading trip through the islands, and as a result practically all the Indians have their full catch on hand. The Intrepid is the only trader through the particular chain of islands I have in mind —the Skopin group, north and east of the Aleutian chain—and she’s not on going up again till spring.
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less you get there first. “The Skopin Islands are charted — any that are Inhabited at all—easy to find, easy to get to with a seaworthy launch. Every one of those Indians
you’ll find there will buy a dress for his squaw or his daughter to show off in, during the summer, and pay for it with a fine piece of fur. “This is August. I’m already arranging for a license. You’d have to get going in a week. Hit as far north as you want—the farther you go the better you will do--and then work south. Making a big chain that cuts off the currents and the tides, the Skopin group is surrounded by an unbroken ice sheet in mid-winter, so you have to count on rounding the Aleu tian Peninsula lhto Pacific waters some time in November. If you wait much longer you’re apt not to go out before spring.” “That’s the whole story. The cargo of furs you should bring out should be worth close to a hundred thousand. Expenses won’t be fifteen thousand in all. It would mean work; dealing with a bunch of crafty redskins Isn’t play for boys May!be there’d be cold and rough weather, for Bering Sea deserves no map’s trust. _ But it would be the finest sport in the world, an opportunity to take Alaskan bear and tundra caribou —plenty of adventure and excitement and tremendous profits to boot. It would be a man’s Job, Ned —but you’d get a kick out of it you never got out of a booze party in your life. And we split the profits 76-26 -the lion's share to you.” (Continued in Our Next Issue)
OUR BOARDING HOUSE—By AHERN
THE OLD HOME TOWN—By STANLEY
Organization of a Junior Humane Society will bo undertaken by the Ft. Wayne Humane Society after the opening of the school term. Delinquents are threatened with a stay In the Anderson jail if they do not pay fines owed In the city court. The Tipton County birth rqcord for the year 1907 to 1912, has been lost and health officials are unable to issue certificates to persons born in that period. — T Edmund Carman, former Purdue football player and athlete has been engaged as supervisor of physical training in the Anderson schools. The American Legion at Kokomo has just raised a fund of SI,OOO to back an amateur football team there this fall. Nathaniel Foltz, 93, of Sims township, was the oldest man in attendance at the twenty-first annual reunion of the Octogenarian club of Grant County. A bronze tablet is to be placed in Riverside park, Marion, by the local chapter of War Mothers, as a memorial to the twenty-seven Marion soldiers who were killed in the world war. The Markle Journal, one of the oldest weekly publications In Huntingdon and Wells Counties has not been Is-
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sued for several weeks and will probably entirely suspend publication. Francis Ketch of Hartford City has donated SIOO to the American Legion post as a memorial to his brother, Joseph Knecht, killed during the world war. Jess Kellmer, 17, Evansville, arrested on a charge of speeding, was fined $lO and costs and told not to drive again for sixty days. Approximately sixty automobiles, new or used, are bought in Monroe County every week. There are 4,200 motor cars recorded for the county. That he refused to permit the plain tiff to go to the grocery or to church, is the allegation of lone Pattison, Ma rion, who asks a divorce from her husband. Warsaw, Huntington and Marion high school football squads are camped on the shores of Tippecanoe Lake and are being conditioned for the coming gridiron season. A shroud factory, to be operated in connection with the Batesvllle Coffin Works, is to be opened in Greensburg. Turners’ School to Open The Indianapolis Turners’ Association will open its school of physical education. Sept. 10, at the Athenaeum. Registration will begin Sept. 5. Alvin Romelser, 41S E. Michigan St.,' Is physical director. '.-it- ■ ■. - - ■
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MORE POLICE FOR FAIR Anti-Crime Plan Is Ordered by Chief Rikhoff. In an effort to control completely the possibilities of crime that accompanies a gathering such as the State Fair, Police Chief Herman Rikhoff issued an order today with provisions that all day officers will add three houre on their regular hours, starting Sunday. The night men will come to work four hours sooner and quit one hour sooner. • * By this plan all distriots will run two to each shift and the men from the one shift will be made available for work on the grounds and at the street corners of the main highways to the fairground.
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