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Highland Park Press, 10 Sep 1925, p. 18

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M * u:s \V h 0. qancad o ceeaeereeee ® . 1Â¥ PAGE SIX THEGLOB;; DEPARTMENT STORE Friday Evening, Septe 'f‘ber Nineteen Twentyâ€"five _at 7:30 o‘clock| _ The Store will be Close Until 7:30 in the Ey Genesee and Madison Ftreei ‘ Waukegan.,Illinois _ request the honor of your presence at the formal opening bf its mnizoih oo _â€" NEW STOR i _ THE HIGHLAND PARK PRESS, HIGHLAND PABK, ILLINOIS® _ [# 1 Friday ning _ ber 11th _ Aawitgen k PA stt J | Many Readers Try To Read Beâ€" "So, sure enough, pr%’ soon, this |Vin¢cent began to lcok erent, oldâ€" er; not so pink; face . fatter, but creases in it. He had his own car and his chauffeur by row; good car, too. Maybe ancther year and he hfi;:t- ter, orieâ€"one.of the best. a year more, and I noticed he‘d cut out jthe. chauffeur. / Thinks I, they‘re beâ€" uw,?’ to ‘get to him. Well, it Hmu go ‘long: before he didn‘t ‘even ‘bring ‘his own car around. I used to see him come in as often as ever, but I bardly ever saw him go sout; I wasn‘t on duty late, hayen‘t been for _ ‘"Well, sir, when I found this Vinâ€" cent was in a room crowd I thought it wasn‘t so good. You see, he was still young then; inight beâ€"35. The rooms .are mifhty convenient, . but mostly they‘re for.the older lot; the men that have come through, as you might say; have their firms or their buildings named after them, or own mgi o;:. aldermen~ They‘re in a ‘boat in deep water,‘ as you might say; the younger men have to switn for it, and it‘s kinda dangerous.‘ _ _ . "Then one day I saw his name in the paper.. First time 1 ever had:; he neser had seemed to go anywhere or do anything in particular; no reaâ€" son to mention him. But this day here ‘he wasâ€"Arthur J. Vincentâ€"" \*Shot (himself in a loop hotel," I interrupted; "I think I remember realling about it.". _ _ _ _ _ "I guess not, sir," said Jim the Doorman, "Arthur J. Vincent wasn‘t hisi'ulnhz:’e;ljmtunedhimthd. My man i ht hi If a pl4 u': the North Shore, that‘s what he‘d done. 1 found out afterwards he‘d, ‘been â€" playing the market, buy. course, but you never would have if you‘d only seen him when he first mim He was a lot older. . A lot. } .bé,looked.liishirmluli‘m as ever, but it had a silver gray streak in it, most like a t. . And his eyes looked old; not sad old, but dul} old, as <if they didn‘t see much worth Jooking at. ; "Well, time goes ¢n, and this Vinâ€" cent gets in with a. room crowd. You know those room crowds; like a little ‘club in‘ a big club; keep the same ‘room year after year; have their own Help; some of themâ€"pay their own men, Iâ€" mean, ‘sfar as the room servâ€" fjce goes. ; We‘ve had one of,. those room é?'dl since‘ before I came on the door. It changes some, of course, but ‘not so much â€" as . you‘d . think. There‘s four of the old originals in that crowd now; one of ‘em is whiteâ€" haired as Moses, and the other three havé been baldâ€"for thirty years. _ ‘ Dut anyway, they d just put up Mr. Vincent‘s name on the door, and the old man stops and tells us who he is; and this lad‘s face gets pinker ‘than ever. ‘I guess ours was the only club he‘d ever belonged to. After that for two or three years I tised to see him . maybe once a.month, when he‘d come in for lunch; wouldn‘t stay long, though. I guess he was pretty jbusy. I liked him; he was kind of friendly and yet he was shy, too. ,Lik;: girl at a dance, sort of; wants to make good, but too proud to try to put the bee on anybody. | , way, (No, he wasn‘t matrried. Never did | any business that wayâ€"with worien, I mean. Funny when you come to think of it; but he was sort of short and fat, and you know what they, sayâ€"nobody loves a fat man. That‘s why he staid fat, I guess; nothing: to worry him. "l|t was about three years, maybe four, he began coming in round 4:30 one winter;*then I knew he was playâ€" ing| squash, and I figured business was picking up. (He was in the coal businessâ€"did I say * ~, Well, he was. Used to buyâ€"and sell on commission. Never ‘seemed ‘to get any coal dust on those pink cheeks, though. ‘They kept as fresh as ever; seemed so, anyâ€" / Them Vary In Their _ _ umww i m ; $ Whmmdvflufl: o tla nernaen‘s i./ t in Lake Michigan were taken Tuesâ€" A ‘hundred different surmises as t0 | yione to Great Lakes Naval Training the: real character batk of the StOTY | orption, > f 8 wu,;w‘linthbm"hnhq \quh.ipmhthmbueof gent to Professor James Weber LinD,| ins adventures, and it is from there head ‘of the Department of English | ns men will conduct their search. at the University of Chicago and| py,oy p. Blair and James L. Martin, columnist for the Chicago Herald and m“oxquinhflnmm Examiner. : ‘When‘ Professor: Lin"| at the present time located at Wilâ€" writes his imaginary . (7) intervi@W$ | motte harbor, where they have moorâ€" inmumgrhthc’wiuomm ed their salvaging tug, Lillian Dorn. tol?adbetv the lines. â€" Followâ€" mmnmwmshflonfhe A hundred different surmises as to the: real character batk of the story told by "Jim the Doorman" have been gent to Professor James Weber Linn, head ‘of the Department of English at the University of ~Chicago and columnist for the Chicago Herald and Examiner. ‘When| Professorâ€" Linn writes his imaginary . (?) interviews "There‘s all} kinds in a club like ‘th:f' said Jim the Doorman; "and i makes. Eyu‘s be sopprized: Now, club ~*You‘d be \OW, for Anstance, ‘there was Mr. Arthur Vincent.. T remember him the first day he came in. Maybe he was 30 but he (didn‘t look it ~He ~had : pink cheeksâ€"you know the color, sir. Not ud't'm’l'pht.} and the sort. of whitâ€" ish hair that goes, with him. Handâ€" some, he was, I‘ll say so. (He was with Mr, Merrillâ€"old Mr. Merrill the banker; the one when he died everyâ€" ody said what a popular death it was. They said â€" Mr: Merrill had one glass eye,, but if he had nobody could tell which it was. â€" He wasn‘t in the habit of winking with either one, old man Merrill wasn‘t. "But anyway, they‘d just put up ing is an excerpt of the latest mysâ€" tery: which concerns one Arthur J. 100 "Well, by this time I knew him of P kinda bad.. â€"I don‘t expect he‘ll hl'wa:fif:hloohdhvmldo Non:.m‘d-b-ukhim. I Â¥ say, if you want .to make money, £0 where money is; but ‘you have to a big price; sir." Jim the shook . his head:" â€"â€" mt 46â€" ; sne men of this city may K:mhmm.n&f )‘fiki‘*-falm'nhnu The who ‘thinks his best gir] wdd%beuficfiedfith nfi Mhtdm;nuw ‘\'M?o:-c ts s s perience / that has ‘been attained by the United States in | building hard mfimfimbmm countries should of "great service to them. Should this conference bring about the building of Good Roads in all South American Republics, grest mutual benefits should accrue to all the countries interested. CÂ¥â€" with no one to feed the dog M"h:bl.!lwm This . delegation is the | moskt imâ€" out of this. country, â€" | |_On several of the trips the men will be gone for weeks. While in the northâ€" ern region headquarters will be esâ€" tablished in small fishing villages, where supplies and repairs will be forwarded. * *4 f _ The first trip which will be a short one: to test the equipment, will be made during the next two :weeks. The quest on this trip will be several wellâ€" known wrecks off the lower shores of the lawe,. Following these practice trips the expedition will go after hte bigger prizes. A 'n:d(':;lmiubapfm'm.,- pointed ‘by President Coolidge to atâ€" W&Pu-mflizhmym-v ference at Buenos Aires on Oct, 3rd ‘putbnoy':.'hiehvm‘-fitfi-b- sel is found. > "6ueotlnnudh 4 the rest of: the will be m,-emuuir‘hmdfitz The equipped with mm t?mh-â€"ihfih the su hulk with air after the holes . beenâ€" plugged up. 'l: craft will then rise to the surface « Nutlyadotllvnuhh‘fldwfl the last sixty years will be the objects of the search. One of the foremost of th¢ "prizes will be the Westmoreâ€" land, a passenger ‘boat which sunk in the northern regions of the lake with $100,000 in its strong box. Headquarters Arranged _ _â€" The men will make their headquarâ€" ters at Wilmette harbor and at Great Lakes. Froni these ‘harbors the exptâ€" dition will journey forth to the difâ€" ferent localities with which only those in charge are familiar. The hydrogirplane which Quirk will: fly ‘has proved .satisfactory â€"~to the men who have beén fiying about the lake recently. It is a new ship, having.just come from the factory, _ CONGRESSMAN HULL Is ON ROADS COMMISSION quest of the vessels and are nOW awaiting favorable weather condiâ€" tions, in which to conduct the search. Perfectly clear weather must prevail before any progtess can be made, acâ€" cording to those in charge. " Plane to Drop Markers | .. Quirk ‘will lead the search for the vessels in his plane. He plans to soar mbove the waters where his charts show the boats to have gone down and when the sunken craft is sighted he will drop especially prepared markâ€" ers. WR ~ His aids, following in the tug, will then speed to the markers and drop THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1925 gan are Expected to ‘Yield Money _ Vessels in Lake Michiâ€" TREASURE +4Â¥ Tt jA ‘, 26â€"28

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