Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 304, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 April 1928 — Page 14
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JUDGE GARY'S ART TREASURE WILLBE SOLD $5,000,000 Collection Must Be Auctioned by Will’s Provision. Ell NEA Service NEW YORK, April 17.—When Judge Elbert H. Gary died eight months ago he had acquired the finest privately owned art collection in the United States. In money, it was worth $5,000,000; in intrinsic value, it represented a lifetime of selection, study and travel. But now that the celebrated lawyer and financier is dead, his collection, as the magnificent esthetic entity that it is, must die, too. Every picture, every bronze, every rug and marble and priceless carv-
ing is to be laid upon the auction block. In planning the disposition of his estate Judge Gary had and e cided that was the better way. To divide those treasures equally among his wife and two daughters would have been i m possible. None would have received all the objects for which she cared most; each would have r e ceived some
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pieces which she would not greatly, value. So, in his will, Judge Gary said: “I think it better to furnish them (his wife and children) with money and thus give them the opportunity to buy what they may deem suitable to their respective tastes, convenience and happiness.” Home Will Be Sold Even the home on Fifth Ave. in New York City will be sold. Because of the great value of the are collections, the sale, starting Thursday and continuing through Saturday, is regarded as the most notable one in the past twenty years. It represents a dazzling wealth of choice selections in the world’s art marts of bronzes, rugs, statuary and paintings. For a quarter of a century, while Judge Gary distinguished himself in the commercial world ’as chairman of the board of directors of the United States Steel Corporation, he was reading about art and traveling in search of additions to his collection. Nearly every year until his death he visited the chief galleries of Europe. He I-oved Rural Scenes "As an evidence of the direction of Judge Gary’s taste in pictures, twenty-three of the thirty-nine paintings he owned are rural scenes —perhaps reminders of his life on a farm near Wheaton, 111. There are no religious or historical subjects, and only three of the number are modern works. Included in the thirty-nine are the names of Gainsborough, Frans Hals, Corot, Fragonard, Millett, Reynolds, Raeburn, Lawrence, Rembrandt, Romney and Ribera. The pre-sale estimated value of the paintings is $3,000,000. The other art treasures are expected to bring about $2,000,000. The latter included many almost priceless bronzes and marbles, such as Houdon’s bust of his daughter, Sabine. There are Chinese porcelains, sixteenth century Polish rugs and Louis XV furniture covered with Beauvais and old English needlepoint rivaled only by specimens in the Louvre. But when the crowd of millionaire art collectors gather to bid on the Gary collection, three valuable items will be missing. One of these is the 18-carat gold table service of 422 pieces which the financier used in his most elaborate entertainments. This is valued at $200,000. Another item is a Georgian silver set; the third is a French Sevres porcelain set of unexcelled beauty. \
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THIS HAS HAPPENED The summer she Is 16, SALLY FORD, ward of the Sttae orphanage from the time she is 4, is “farmed out” to CLEM CARSON. She meets DAVID NASH, athlete and student, who is working on the farm for the summer. Carson makes remarks about David’s Innocent friendship with Sally and the student strikes him a crushing blow. Sally and David lie and join a carnival, David as cook’s helper and Sally in a sideshow disguised as “Princess Lalla,” a crystal gazer. NITA, Hula dancer, who knows the police are after David and Sally and who is infatuated with David, threatens to expose Sally if she doesn’t keep “hands off” the young: student. . _ In Capital City, Sally successfully escapes detection under the disguise of Lalla until one afternoon when the orphange wards troop in with a beautiful woman, who is plaving “Lady Bountiful” to them. One little girl recognizes Sally and shouts her name. GUS. the barker, comes to Sally’s rescue and diverts attention from her and Rets the children out of the tent. Sally is surprised to see the beautiful “Lady Bountiful” stop and talk with a dark-eyed, well-dressed easterner, who earlier in go to supper with him. Sally dislikes him and refuses. She hears these two speak of New York and call each other Enid and Van. A terrible storm comes up, and the tent blows down. Sally finds herself in the strong: arms of the easterner, who tells her he knows who she is. When they arc rescued, Sally looks about and finds David and Nita missing:. That night BYBEE’S safe Is robbed. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY CHAPTER XXIX “17'VEkYBODY tumble out! Pop " Bybee wants us all In the privilege car,” a carnival employe shouted, running down the sleeping car and pausing only to thrust a hand into each berth, like a Pullman porter awakening his passengers. But Sally was* already dressing, getting her dress on backward and sobbing with futile rage at the time lost in reversing it. When she was scrambling out of her upper berth, a ti#y hand reached out of the lower and tugged at her foot. ‘‘Don’t forget me, Sally,” the midget commanded sharply. “And for heaven’s sake, don't take on so! You’ll make yourself sick, crying like that. Os course your David didn’t rob the safe. I'm all dressed.” Sally parted the green curtains and stretched out her arms for the midget, who was so short that she could stajid upright upon her bed without her head touching the rounded support of the upper berth. Little Miss Tanner ran into Sally's arms and clambered to her shoulder. “It’s that Nita.” She nodded her miniature head emphatically. “I always did have my suspicions about her. Always turning white as a sheet when a policeman hove into sight.” “But David’s missing, too,” Sally sobbed, as she harried down the aisle, which was becoming choked with frowsy-headed women in all stages of dress and undress. “Os course he didn't do it—” "Hurry up, everybody! Don’t take time to primp, girls!” a man bawled at them from the door. They found most of the men employes and performers of the carnival already assembled with the Bybees in the privilege car. Pop Bybee’s usually lobster-colored face was as white as putty, but his arm was gallantly about his wife's shoulder. Mrs. Bybee still wore the black sateen petticoat and red sweater in which she had hurried from the show train to the carnival immediately after the storm. Her reddened eyes showed that she had been crying bitterly, but as the carnival famLy crowded into the privilege car she searched each face with fury and suspicion. “Come here to me, Sally Ford!” she shrilled, when Sally entered the car with “Pitty Sing” riding on her shoulder. “Now, honey, go easy!” Pop Bybee cautioned her futilely. “Better let me do the talking—” “You shut up!” his wife commanded angrily. “Sally, you knew where I kept the money! You saw the safe! Oh, I was a fool, all right, but I wanted to show that I trusted you! Huh! Thought I’d wronged you by accusing you of taking presents from my husband! Tell him you saw the safe! Tell him!” And she seized Sally’s wrist and shook her so that the midget had to cling tightly to the girl’s neck to keep from being catapulted to the floor. “Yes, Mrs. Bybee,” Sally answered, her voice almost dying in her throat with fright. “I saw the safe. But I didn’t tell anybody—” “You"re a liar!” Mrs. Bybee screamed. “You told that David boy that very night! Sneaked off and went walking with him and cooked up this robbery so you two could make your getaway. Thought it was a grand way to get out of the State so the cops couldn’t pinch you, didn’t you? Didn’t you?” she repeated, beside herself with an-
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ger, her fingers clamped like a vise on Sally’s wrist. “Oh, please!” Sally moaned, writhing with a pain of which she was scarcely conscious, so great was her fear and bewilderment at this unexpected charge. “Sally certainly didn’t go with him,” Pop Bybee interposed reasonably. * “Sure she didn’t!” his wife shrilled with angry triumph. "She couldn’t! She was buried under the tent! If it hadn’t been for the storm she wouldn’t be here now, working on your sympathies with them dying-calf eyes of hers—” “Better let me handle this, honey,” Pop Bybee interrupted again, this time more firmly. “Turn the child loose. Ain’t a bit of use breaking her arm. Now, folks, I might as well tell you all just what happened, and then try to get to the bottom of this matter. When the worst of the storm was over Mrs. Bybee left the show train to look for me, to see if I was hurt or if she could do anything for anyone who was. She hadn’t been out of the stateroom all evening till then—not since she'd put some money into the safe right after supper. She found the boy Dave starting out to look for Sally, and she ordered him to stay on the train to keep an eye on it, in case tramps or crooks tried to board it. There wasn’t anybody else on the train. That right, Mother?” He turned to Mrs. Bybee, who nodded angrily. “She told him she’d look after Sally, but he’d have to stand guard on the train. She didn’t say anything to him about the safe—just told him to patrol the train while she was gone. The safe is under a seat in our stateroom, and far as we knew, nobody knew where it was, except Sally here, who happened to come into the stateroom when my wife was counting a day’s receipts.” “Please, Mr. Bybee,” Sally interrupted, memory struggling with the panic in her brain. “Someone else did know! Nita knew! When I left the stateroom that last day in Stanton I saw Nita disappearing into the women’s dressing room, and I thought she’d been listening. She—” “Hold on a minute!” Bybee cutin sternly. “How do you know she’d been listening? Any proof?” “Yes. sir!” Sally cried eagerly. “Mrs. Bybee had been telling me that she’d found out that Ford isn’t my real name, that the woman I always thought was my mother wasn’t really my mother at all. She said she guessed I—that my mofner was ashamed I’d ever been born. And that same day Nita called me a—a —bad name that means—” She could not go on. Sobs began to shake her small body again and her face was scarlet with shame. “That’s right!” Gus, the barker edged toward Bybee through the crowd. “I found Sally lighting into Nita for calling her that name. And Nita didn’t deny she’d done it. Reckon that proves she was eavesdropping. all right. And if she was listening in, she was probably peeping in, too, or heard Mrs. Bybee talking about the safe. Was the door open, ma’am?” J'l don’t know!” Mrs. By bee snapped. “Yes, it may have been. It was awful hot. And I didn’t know anybody was on the train.” “It was open a little way,” Sally cried. “I remember distinctly. Because I worried about whether Nita had overheard what Mrs. Bybee had been telling me. And there’s something else—something that happened that night, when David and I were walking.” Memory of that blessed hour in the moonlight brought tears to her eyes, but she dashed them away with the wrist which bore the marks of Mrs. Bybee’s rage. “What was it, Sally? Pop Bybee asked gently. "All we want is to get at the truth of this thing. Don’t be afraid to speak up.” “I hate being a tattle-tale,” Sally whimpered. “I never told on any one before in all my life! But David and I were sitting under a tree, not talking, when we suddenly heard Nita’s voice. She couldn’t see us for the tree, but we peeped around the trunk of it and we saw Nita and
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a man walking awfully close together, and Nita was talking. We just heard a few words. She said: ‘No monkey business now, Steve. If you double-cross me I’ll cut your heart out! Fifty-fifty or nothing—’ ” Unconsciously her voice had Mimicked Nita’s, so that to the startled carnival family it seemed that Nita, the Hula dancer, had appeared suddenly in the car. “Sounds like Nita, all right.” Gus, the barker, nodded with satisfaction. “Steve, huh? Who the devil is this Steve?” “What did he look like, Sally?” Bybee asked. “I don’t know,” she answered, her big blue eyes imploring him to believe her. “We couldn’t see their faces. We just recognized Nita’s voice and her yellow hair that looked almost white in the moonlight. He wasn’t tall, not any taller than Nita, and I guess he wasn’t very big either, because they were so close together that they looked almost like one person. We didn’t hear the man say a word. Nita was doing all the talking—” “Nita would!” a voice from the crowd growled. “Reckon I can tell you something about this, Pop. I was just ready to ballyhoo the last performance of the ‘girlie’ show when Nita come slouching up to me, pulling a long face and a song-and-dance about being knocked out with the heat. Bessie had fainted at the last show and I thought Nita might really be all in, so I told her she could cut the last performance and go to the dress tent. I never seen hair nor hide of her again, and—” he paused significantly, “I don’t reckon I ever will.” “No, I reckon you won’t, not unless the cops nab her,” Mrs. Bybee cut in bitterly. “I always said she was a snake in the grass! And that David, too! Them goody-goody kind ain’t ever worth the powder and lead it’d take to blow out their brains! I told you, Winfield Bybee, that there was something phony about that hussy and Dave! ’Taint like a star performer like Nita thought she was to trail around after a cook’s helper, like she done with Dave. They didn’t pull the wool over my eyes, even if they did double-cross the kid here—if they did double-cross her! Mind you, Bybee, I ain’t saying I believe a word she’s been saying! She knew' where the safe w'as, and she tipped off the boy. “I ain’t forgot they w r as both wanted by the police when they joined up with us! As I said before, if it hadn’t been that she was buried under the freak tent, she’d have skipped with Nita and Dave. You roped Nita in on your little scheme, didn’t you, because she’d had more experience cracking safes than you or the boy? That’s right, ain’t it?” the old lady demanded fiercely of Sally. Sally shrank from her In horror, but the midget, still perched on her shoulder, patted her cheeks reassuringly. “No, no! I didn’t even tell David where the safe was! I didn’t! David didn’t do it! He couldn’t! David’s good! He’s the best man in the world!”
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“Then where is he?” Mrs. Bybee screamed. “Why did he blow? I left him to guard the train, didn’t I? And he ain’t here, is he? He wasn’t here when we got back from the carnival lot after the tents was raised. If he’s so damned good, why did he blow with Nita and this Steve you’ve made up out of your head?” “Now, now, mother,” Pop Bybee soothed her, but his eyes were troubled and suspicious. “Reckon we’d better notify the police, folks, I hate to call in the law. I’ve always said I was the law of this outfit, but I suppose if I’ve been harboring thieves I’ll have to get the help of the law to track ’em down. Ben, you and Chuck beat it down the tracks to the police station and give ’em a description ol Nita and Dave and this Steve person, as much as Sally’s been able to tell us anyway—” “Please, Mr. Bybee!” Sally ran to the showman and seized both his hands in hers. “Please don’t set the police on David! I know he’s innocent! There’s some reason why he isn’t here—a good reason! But he didn’t have anything to do with the robbery. I know that! But if you tell the police he’s been with the carnival they’ll find him somehow and put him in jail on those other charges—and me, too! It doesn’t matter about me, but I couldn’t live if David was put in jail cn my account! Oh, please! You’ve been so good to us!” And she went suddenly on her knees to him, her face upraised in an agony of appeal. (To Be Continued) Where Is David! In the next chapter Sallv finds him. CAN WALK FIVE MILES A DAY After Taking Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound “It is two years ago since I first took Lyia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable
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